Chapter 310 There is a ghost in Xiling
“Pioneering pioneer, please!”
Chen Ziyan smiled helplessly and made a ‘please’ gesture.
This fat man really makes people laugh and cry sometimes.
Because there is no ready-made road here, Wang Kaixuan relied entirely on overcoming obstacles to open a passage, so the speed of travel was also greatly reduced.
And because of what Chen Ziyan said just now, everyone was paying attention to their surroundings along the way to see if there was a suitable place to camp, which made it even harder to speed up.
But what they didn’t expect was that the structure of the insect valley actually became wider
wider as they went deeper, and as they went deeper, the crowded trees gradually turned into rattan plants. , even the mountain walls on both sides have changed from vines to various small plants, giving people the feeling of being in a colorful and fragrant hanging garden.
It's a pity that the terrain here is restricted, which makes the competition for survival extremely fierce. There is nothing at the bottom of the valley where they are, but the higher they go up, the more intense it gets.
In order to get more light, all kinds of sun-facing plants are trying their best to grow upward. In this case, you can imagine the lighting situation at the bottom of the valley.
"Ha...ha..." After walking in the humid and hot valley for a while, Wang Kaixuan couldn't help but gasped and said: "Let's take a rest first. It was fine in the front, but I don't know about this section now. What’s going on? It’s so green that it’s blinding.”
Now that they have arrived in the Worm Valley, the surrounding vegetation has changed again. There is no trace of color as far as the eye can see, which makes people feel dazzled.
Chen Ziyan did not refuse his proposal: "Then let's take a rest first, but it's best not to touch things here."
Considering that Wang Kaixuan has been responsible for opening the road, the physical exertion is far away than anyone else, so it makes sense to take a break.
As for the reminder behind it, it is naturally to nip it in the bud.
Although they carry insect repellent sachets with them, and he himself has a domain weapon with him, which can effectively drive away poisonous insects and beasts nearby, no one knows whether the vegetation here is poisonous, so it is better to avoid unnecessary contact.
After stopping, Hu Bayi glanced at the poisonous mosquitoes lingering in the jungle not far away, and couldn't help but sigh: "Thanks for having the insect repellent sachet nearby, otherwise these things They are the most difficult ones to deal with.”
Having experience in jungle survival, he knows very well that in such a dark and humid place, these jungle vampires are the most difficult to deal with.
Especially these poisonous mosquitoes move in groups. If they attack people regardless of life or death, they will really kill them.
Hearing this, Shirley Yang said: "Actually, the mosquitoes here are pretty good, the size is not exaggerated, and the toxicity is not that violent. I have encountered a poisonous mosquito in the Amazon before, and that was He is a true vampire demon. Not to mention the many germs he carries, his own poison alone is enough to kill him. ”
"Yes, if there is no way to restrain this thing, sometimes it can really kill you." Hu Bayi nodded with deep understanding.
He has personally seen cases of people losing their lives due to poisonous mosquito bites.
“Hey, by the way, I heard that garlic can repel mosquitoes. Is this true?” At this moment, Wang Kaixuan suddenly asked.
Chen Ziyan answered him: "This is a way, but it can't completely expel it."
He also knows this method. Rub the juice of garlic or airplane grass on your body. It can prevent mosquito bites to a large extent, but it is not as effective as insect repellent sachets.
Shirley Yang also knew about this and said: "This is just like the vampires in European legends. They are also blood-sucking creatures, but they are also afraid of garlic. Their weaknesses are exactly the same."
When Shirley Yang mentioned vampires, Chen Ziyan suddenly asked: "Since we mentioned vampires, do you know why we don't have such a thing here?"
Wang Kaixuan was the first to respond: "Why don't we? It's just that they have different names. Aren't those blood-sucking rice dumplings vampires?"
Chen Ziyan shook his head gently: "Fat man, you are wrong. Zongzi are rice dumplings, although some rice dumplings also suck blood. But it has nothing to do with vampires.”
Hu Bayi felt as if he had seen the answer somewhere, but his memory was too blurry because of the time, so he couldn’t remember the specific answer at the moment.
After Shirley Yang and Ding Sitian thought for a while, they both shook their heads gently at Chen Ziyan.
Obviously, they failed to think of the answer.
Seeing this, Chen Zi recited a passage in a slow voice: "It is recorded in the Western Classic of Hai Nei that there is a ghost in Xiling, which looks like a human, with red eyes and fangs. It lies dormant during the day and eats people at night. Blood, eating it can prolong life!"
When Chen Ziyan said the last word, everyone looked dull.
They thought about it a lot, but they really didn’t expect such an answer.
"I'm sorry we don't have vampires here, is it because we ate all these things?" Wang Kaixuan said in disbelief.
Forgive him for his lack of knowledge, but this is the first time I have heard of such a thing.
When he is talking, he subconsciously licks his lips, which can easily lead to misunderstanding.
For example, it will make people mistakenly think that he also wants to try it.
Hu Bayi smiled bitterly, but didn't say much.
No wonder it felt familiar to him, as if he had seen it somewhere before. It turned out to be recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Of course he knew this book, but he didn’t remember some of the irrelevant content well, so he didn’t think of it right away.
However, Hu Bayi knew that this was probably not Chen Ziyan’s nonsense, because according to his understanding of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it was quite consistent with the style of that book.
After all, as we all know, the Book of Mountains and Seas is also called the Ancient Ingredients List, and there is basically nothing inedible in it.
Shirley Yang, however, found it difficult to accept this. After successfully understanding the meaning of Chen Ziyan's words, she frowned and said, "This is really unbelievable. You must know that vampires are humanoid. Creature!”
Chen Ziyan agreed with her view.
If you say it is a beast-shaped creature, you will eat it if you eat it, but vampires are human-shaped, and in many cases they are even similar to humans, which makes it difficult to accept it.
But at this moment, Wang Kaixuan suddenly said: "I think we have to understand our ancestors. They had never seen any foreigners before, maybe they regarded vampires as vampires." Something like a monkey.”
Although this is a bit rude, it is surprisingly reasonable.
If vampires really originated in the West, then what the ancients encountered at that time was most likely migrating. In this case, it is not surprising that the ancients regarded them as a strange animal.
In such a situation, the two parties are likely to conflict for various reasons, and it is understandable that they would like to try out novel species ideas afterwards.
After all, the weirder things in the Classic of Mountains and Seas have all been put into my mouth. After thinking of some related scenes, Chen Ziyan couldn't help but feel a chill and quickly dismissed the unwanted thoughts from his mind.
This picture is too sexual!
He has a rather bland taste and cannot accept it.
The others also had similar expressions. While deliberately not thinking about this, they cast an angry look at Wang Kaixuan, the culprit.
This guy really doesn’t want to pick up the pot!
After Wang Kaixuan finished speaking, he also felt that his words were a bit inappropriate. At this moment, seeing everyone looking at him, he subconsciously shrank his neck.
Although he is usually very courageous, he does not want to offend the public.
But he immediately thought that it seemed that Chen Ziyan caused this topic.
If you really want to blame him, he, the fat man, is not the first one!
But after taking a sneak peek at Chen Ziyan, Wang Kaixuan felt that the most important thing between brothers is loyalty. Since everyone has misunderstood him, there is no point in talking more at this time. It is better to let everyone be like this. The misunderstanding continues.
He, Wang Kaixuan, dared to promise God that he thought so not because when he glanced at Chen Ziyan, he caught the other person's warning and threatening gaze.
Not only Wang Kaixuan thought of this, but Chen Ziyan, who was involved, naturally also thought of it.
So when their eyes met, he gave Wang Kaixuan a veiled look, and then gestured to Hu Bayi.
Then, under the tacit banter between the three of them, the crooked building completely went astray, which finally put an end to the problem.
After taking a short rest, everyone continued to move deeper into the Worm Valley.
As they continued to go deeper, they saw more traces of human beings along the way, and from time to time they could see some collapsed stone statues, stone figures and other objects.
It can be seen from these scattered Shinto stone carvings that the basic system of King Xian's tomb is the same as that of other royal tombs. Shinto was specially built in front of the tomb for future generations to go to Minglou to worship and worship.
“King Xian may not have thought that not long after his death, his territorial subjects, including his hometown of the ancient Dian Kingdom, would be included in the territory of the Han Dynasty, which also led to him spending huge manpower and material resources. , the royal tomb that was built with great effort can only be buried in the depths of this deep valley." Looking at these stone carvings, Hu Bayi said with some regret.
Wang Kaixuan answered: "What you said is wrong. Aren't there still warm-hearted and good young people like us in the new era who come to visit us despite all the hardships and dangers?"
Hu Bayi said in his heart after hearing this, why? It's almost known to everyone passing by, and what the hell are you talking about visiting.
But he didn't say this, because strictly speaking, everyone is the same, and the boss has no reason to make things difficult for the second child.
After walking for three or four hours, they came to a dilapidated ruins. Not surprisingly, this was the legendary first embankment wall.
But now all that is left of the so-called embankment wall is a rammed earth stone platform no more than three meters wide and two meters high. It is still covered with overgrown weeds. It doesn’t look like there is any city wall at all. It looks more like a green mound.
The ruins of the ruins were mixed among the green fields of the deep valley. If they hadn't been careful enough, they might have passed by them.
In order to further confirm that this was the embankment wall, Hu Bayi stepped forward and swept it twice with an engineer shovel, trying to clear away the weeds and green moss on it so that he could see it more clearly.
But I didn’t expect that this sweep would not matter, but hundreds of small tree lizards the size of fingers would emerge from the cracks in the ruins.
The body surface of these little guys is green. If you don't look at the blood-red eyes and tongues, they are exactly the same as the surrounding plants.
So many tree lizards popped out, startling everyone. The two closest ones, Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan, subconsciously picked up the things in their hands and slapped them, directly hitting many little ones. The tree lizard was photographed and turned into a meat pie.
Upon seeing this, Chen Ziyan quickly stepped forward and held the two of them down, saying, "Okay, these little guys don't hurt anyone, so there's no need to fight with them."
This thing is probably at the bottom of the food chain in this valley. There is no need to pay too much attention to it, and the strong smell of blood may cause unnecessary trouble.
“Look!”
Chen Ziyan had just comforted the two of them when he turned around and heard Shirley Yang’s voice.
Following Shirley Yang's line of sight, Chen Ziyan discovered the problem immediately. The escape route of these little tree lizards was very strange.
It stands to reason that for someone to flee in panic under such circumstances, their course of action must be extremely confusing.
But the actual result is that, centered on their location, almost all the small tree lizards fled towards the outside of the valley, and the remaining ones climbed up the rock walls on both sides. But none of them went deeper into the valley.
It is as if there is some terrifying existence there, which prevents these creatures living in the valley from taking a step beyond the realm of possibility.
Ding Sitian thought for a while and said: "This gives me the feeling...as if the depths of the valley are a place of death. The perception of animals is far more sensitive than that of humans. I think there must be something in it. It’s very dangerous.”
Hu Bayi climbed up to the rammed earth stone platform in front of him, stood on it and looked into the valley, hoping to observe the situation inside.
Wang Kaixuan guessed: "Could it be the poisonous miasma here?"
He felt that it must be the type that can make animals so afraid, denying all relatives and attacking indiscriminately.
Chen Ziyan recalled for a while, and felt that it was almost time to arrive, and then said: "What the fat man said is very possible. Looking at the situation here, we know that even insects are very few. It is estimated that there will be more animals inside. It’s rare, or maybe even absent, which means it’s probably the area where the poisonous miasma is. I think for the sake of safety, we should be prepared for the rest of the way.”
He didn’t say anything about being prepared at any time. If so, facing this situation, Chen Ziyan would be more inclined to take preventive measures in advance.
After all, no matter how thorough the preparations are in advance, it may not be too late to face unexpected situations.
No one has any objection to this. Although everyone is not afraid of death, who would not cherish their own life.
So after Chen Ziyan finished speaking, everyone checked their protection again.
After the inspection was completed, several people looked at Hu Bayi who was standing on the stone platform.
As the Feng Shui expert in the team, he took the initiative to take on the role of guide at this time.
So you have to listen to his opinion on what to do next.
"Follow me, everyone. Let's go this way next."
Feeling the gazes of the people behind him, Hu Bayi retracted his gaze from the distance, took out his compass and made some calculations, then called to everyone to look towards Go to the left side of the remaining wall.
(End of this chapter)