After a moment of silence, Ma Xiaoyu poked Yin Xiu with her elbow.
So Yin Xiu could only smile and asked her: "How did you know we were going to Qianfo Temple?"
The white peacock pointed to his head proudly, "I guessed it."
"Guess?"
"That's right."
At this time, she was no longer nervous as before, and only felt proud, as if she was the one who had subdued the big snake just now.
"You said you have no intention of going to the Taoist temple, but you are interested in Gu insects instead of being afraid or surprised. Obviously you have seen them before. Then, only Thousand Buddha Temple is the place you want to go.< br>
Because there is a descendant of that wizard there, it is very likely that he brought the Gu insects to Jiaozhi, and you came here just to find him, so I said we are fellow travelers. ”
[It turns out that this girl is a blind cat who encountered a dead mouse...]
Although it was a coincidence, two completely unrelated things collided, Yin Xiu still had to admit that Bai Peacock had indeed become their "fellow traveler" to a certain extent.
"Let's go then?"
Yin Xiu spread her hands to Ma Xiaoyu, indicating that she was also confused.
Ma Xiaoyu glared at him and nodded helplessly, "Don't let her hold us back."
"It's not necessarily who is holding you back. It's true that you are a Taoist priest, but this is Jiaozhi, which is further south than southern Xinjiang. What you did in the Central Plains may not work here."
"It doesn't work? Do you want to try it?" Ma Xiaoyu stretched out her hand from her sleeve.
The white peacock was indignant and just about to reply, what happened to the white phoenix suddenly flashed in his mind.
She remembered that this woman was actually not easy to mess with, and could easily make Bai Fenghuang become like that, so she could only put away her anger and turn around with her hands behind her back.
"How about we set off?"
Yin Xiu was sandwiched between the two women, and her head felt heavy.
"Can't leave yet!"
The white peacock suddenly said: "The matter here is not over yet!"
"What's not settled yet?" Yin Xiu asked doubtfully.
"They are the villagers here."
A sneer appeared on the white peacock's face, "These people tied me here and almost caused me to be eaten by a big snake. Shouldn't I pay the price for committing such an evil act?"
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"Then what do you want to do?"
Yin Xiu folded his hands and looked at her.
"Of course, kill all these bastards!"
The white peacock grinded its white teeth, "We can't let anyone go. What do you think?"
Ma Xiaoyu turned around and said, "I have no objection."
"I have no objection either."
Yin Xiu handed over a short knife.
"No, I've taken care of myself."
Bai Peacock took out the short knife from the package and shook it at Yin Xiu.
"Okay."
Yin Xiu took the knife back and said, "Then do your best."
"Well..."
The white peacock nodded and was about to leave, when he suddenly felt something bad.
"No, are you planning on asking me to kill the entire village single-handedly?"
"We didn't call you, it was your original plan, wasn't it?"
Yin Xiu spread her hands, "Since you have such determination, then we will definitely support you silently."
"Just watching?" Bai Peacock confirmed to him again.
"Yeah, just watching."
Yin Xiu smiled and said: "After all, we are not comrades who love each other, so we can only watch."
"Okay!"
The white peacock nodded heavily, "Okay, okay! In that case..."
She put the knife back into the package, "Then I'll spare their lives."
"You are really a rich man."
Yin Xiu clapped her hands, "Can we leave now? Let's hit the road?"
"Any time."
The white peacock still said angrily: "It's a pity that I gave them an advantage and continued to do evil here."
"It won't last long."
Ma Xiaoyu was walking in front and suddenly turned around and said: "Maybe in a few years, it won't even be certain whether this village is still there."
"Why?" Bai Peacock asked puzzledly.
"Have you only learned about the poison, not to mention the scriptures, and not much about the rituals?" Ma Xiaoyu asked in return.
"Uh..."
The white peacock's ears turned red and he scratched his face, "Our master doesn't teach that thing either."
"That's no wonder."
Ma Xiaoyu glanced at her, "There are temples and memorial tablets enshrined in this village, but the villagers did not realize that the so-called Lingquan King they worshiped was actually dead, and they continued to offer incense.
If the main god card is absent, a wild god from elsewhere will naturally take its place.
These wild gods were originally lonely ghosts, full of hostility, and were different from the local gods who were supported by incense.
They only seek, not build, and do not cherish local resources and believers. Some of them just vomit people's incense and longevity here.
Some rely on the good fortune and luck here to practice evil arts and violate the laws of nature.
Therefore, it is only a matter of time that this place is disturbed and never has peace, causing all kinds of disasters. ”
"Worship the wrong god?"
The white peacock felt a cold air drifting down his neck, "It's so scary, let's leave quickly."
She no longer had any thoughts of punishing these people, she just wanted to leave quickly.
……
"What are you squirming about all the time?"
Ma Xiaoyu was riding on a camel horse and was very dissatisfied with the white peacock sitting in front who kept twisting and sitting unsteadily.
"Is there a nail under your butt?"
"Then switch me to my brother's side."
The white peacock turned his head and muttered: "Maybe after sitting in front of him, I won't feel the pain in my butt."
"I'm afraid you will be hit even more." Yin Xiu whispered.
"What did you say?"
Ma Xiaoyu has surprisingly good hearing.
"Oh, it's nothing." Yin Xiu kicked the horse's belly and pulled it farther away.
Seeing Yin Xiu ducking away knowingly, Ma Xiaoyu turned her eyes back.
She stared at the white peacock and said: "I will give you two options now. Either I go over there and ride a horse with him, or you go down, walk, and use two legs to go to Qianfo Temple."< br>
"Hey, we are in the same boat!" the white peacock said angrily.
Ma Xiaoyu smiled and said, "We are on the ground, not on the water."
She smiled, and the white peacock also laughed easily, "How about I choose the third way? How about I still sit here and say nothing?"
"This is the best policy, I agree."
As Ma Xiaoyu nodded in agreement, the little friction between the two girls finally dissipated and disappeared.
Yin Xiu didn't know whether to feel regretful or grateful. Anyway, he was temporarily freed from the vortex of the dispute.
In order to adjust the atmosphere, he asked the white peacock again: "By the way, how much do you know about the ragdoll insect, except that it was cultivated in Miao territory?"
"That's a lot."
White Peacock folded his hands and said confidently: "When it comes to understanding Gu insects, I am an expert.
Gu is actually a type of spell. It is a medium and a carrier. It can also be said to be the medium required for casting spells.
The people in Nanyang also call it lowering the head. In fact, it is very different from the Gu technique. They are the same thing.
There are insect voodoos, animal voodoos, plant voodoos, human voodoos, and even strange ghost voodoos. Have you ever understood them, brother? ”
Seeing the white peacock blinking at him, Yin Xiu could only pretend to be serious and said: "I have seen a kind of poison in martial arts novels before. It is said that after swallowing it, you can turn back time and swim against the long river of time."
"Nervous!"
White Peacock rolled his eyes.
"Where can there be such a powerful voodoo? But I want to say that voodoo is not used to harm people.
In other words, most of the Gu are used to cure diseases and save people, and treat difficult and complicated diseases, such as who was bitten by a snake in the mountains, who ate the wrong thing and was poisoned.
At this time, the wizards fed a worm into the patient's mouth and let the worm crawl along the esophagus and into the stomach, eating up all the toxins without damaging the patient's intestines.
Once the toxins have been eaten away, the voodoo insects will be almost dead. This is the best.
Unfortunately, most people only know how it harms people, but don't know how it can save people. Therefore, they stay away from wizards and voodoos, and their demeanor changes after talking about them. ”
Ma Xiaoyu nodded and said: "Most mortals just seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and cannot bear the risks.
As long as they hear that something is harmful, most of them will run away without even looking at it.
For example, the mushrooms in the rainforest are poisonous. Although not all mushrooms are poisonous, when many people hear this, they already have the stereotype that all unknown mushrooms are poisonous.
Therefore, they only eat mushrooms and flower mushrooms, and nothing else. ”
"Well, that's the truth."
Bai Peacock's impression of Ma Xiaoyu changed slightly.
"In fact, the ragdoll bug is probably a type of bug in nature. It lives in the body of an insect or animal. It has no ability to make the corpse stand up again and become extremely powerful.
However, wizards are so good at cultivating and making Gu insects that they can make such amazing works. ”
Not sure whether it was admiration or a bitter smile, Bai Peacock shook his head.
"I heard something from the wizard that ragdolls cannot actually create so-called [zombies].
Because it uses the time when the animal is still alive or dead but not stiff, and the meridians and blood vessels have not completely shrunk to develop its own veins.
So this is actually a kind of parasite, just more powerful. ”
"It's not that it's more powerful, it's that it's too powerful." Yin Xiu sighed.
Suddenly another possibility occurred to him, although this possibility made him feel quite frightened.
"Can ragdoll bugs live in the human body? Turn people into such powerful monsters?"
When asked this question, White Peacock was stunned for a moment, "Are you talking about zombies or puppets? Don't you think that this wave of zombies is caused by ragdolls?"
"Of course not."
Ma Xiaoyu denied: "Zombies and walking dead are actually two different things, although the lowest zombies are also called walking zombies.
However, it was still a human body with some energy left, which was completely different from a pile of rotten flesh and bones that were just moving. ”
Ma Xiaoyu said something different. In fact, he was referring to the former, that is, zombies, which can be dealt with using spells. Whether it is damaging the body or breaking up the soul, this is a way to eliminate them.
The latter are truly soulless, just rotten flesh in action. Even if they are bitten by them, they will only be injured and will not be affected by the corpse poison.
Therefore, to deal with the former, use charms, glutinous rice, and chicken blood, while to deal with the latter, use swords, guns, and sticks, nothing more.
Although Ma Xiaoyu believed that the zombies in Jiaozhi were real zombies with corpse poison and were definitely not parasitized by bugs, she was also very curious about whether Gu bugs could turn people into such monsters.
"So, can ragdoll bugs really be used on humans?" she asked.
The white peacock put away his smile and became serious.
"I know that there are some voodoo insects that, combined with silver needles and other voodoo techniques, can make dead people live with bones and flesh, and turn into living people at night.
Those wizards often use this kind of poison on female corpses in order to use them to haunt men.
There are also some people who use poisonous insects to control corpses, making them extremely powerful and capable of killing people.
But just like you said, it's not a [zombie], it's just a pile of rotten meat.
But when the ragdoll parasitizes a dead body, it is actually alive, which means that it actually has a symbiotic relationship with the host, even though the host is dead.
The spells I mentioned above are actually mainly about refining the corpse itself, rather than just cultivating bugs. ”
Listening to Bai Peacock's description, Yin Xiu fell into deep thought for a moment.
If the wizard who brought the bug was really still in Qianfo Temple, then Ren Qi and Liu Banxian might really meet him.
Is the crisis between the two of them also related to the wizard?
In this case, are they, White Peacock, the leader behind her, and the Miao village not friends but enemies?
Yin Xiu was so absorbed in thought that she didn't realize that she had been staring at the white peacock.
The white peacock's face turned red when he saw it, and his waist softened and he started to sway again.
"Oh brother, don't keep staring at me."
"Huh?"
Ma Xiaoyu's eyes shot out a cold light, and then she pulled Yin Xiu back.
"I was thinking about something." Yin Xiu explained.
"You better be!"
Although Ma Xiaoyu is very confident in her appearance and figure.
However, her aunt also told her that men are fond of the new and dislike the old. If you are not careful and make him too full or unable to eat, he will easily change direction and pursue other goals.
This made Ma Xiaoyu confused for a moment. What kind of state was Yin Xiu in?
Although the two of them sometimes sleep together now, it's not to the extent that it would make people's ears red.
If this is the case, is it also a kind of depression for a passionate young man like Yin Xiu?
So when he sees a woman, his eyes turn green?
Yin Xiu didn't know that Ma Xiaoyu was thinking about so many problems, but she felt that her back was still a little cold under the scorching sun.
In fact, Bai Peacock is said to be an expert in raising and using voodoos, but she is not an encyclopedia. She only has a rough understanding of the voodoos that she has never used before, and she cannot be said to be proficient.
So after chatting for a few more words, the three people's conversation about the puppet bugs came to an abrupt end.
After all, it was just a coincidental discovery. Yin Xiu and the others did not come for the puppet insects, but the wizard who raised the puppet insects happened to be at Qianfo Temple.
Everything is just a coincidence!
Is everything just a coincidence? (End of chapter)