Artisans in Tunli

Chapter 56 Poisonous Insects and Zombies

Hearing Old Wu's shout, Jiang Nianqing in front ran up without hesitation.

I hunched over and couldn't run fast at all, so I directly pulled Yin Mei who was behind me to the front and let her go first.Then he ran and asked, "Old Wu, what's going on?"

"I don't know, it feels like, like"

"Is there the sound of a lot of insects crawling?" At this time, Jiang Nianqing in front spoke.

Old Wu was a little puzzled and hurriedly asked her how she knew. The front stopped suddenly, and we bumped into each other one by one.

"Don't go, the ground ahead is full of bugs." Jiang Nianqing began to back away slowly.

My mind turned quickly. It stands to reason that when we came in, we didn't touch any mechanism, so why did the bugs come out suddenly?
Looking back at Old Wu with a frightened face, he was staring eagerly at the swarm of insects crawling over from afar.

At this time, Jiang Nianqing had already retreated, and we stood close together like this.

"Hey!"

Xia Juanjuan suddenly screamed. Yin Mei looked over and saw an insect biting on Juanjuan's ankle.She reacted very quickly and picked out the insect with a dagger. Then she raised the knife and cut the insect into two pieces.

"Oh no, it's a red flame centipede, a poisonous insect!" Jiang Nianqing said sharply when he saw the two insects on the ground.

"Ah? Then what should we do?" Xia Juanjuan was so frightened by Jiang Nianqing's words that she almost burst into tears.

"Let's find a way to get there first. Can you still leave now?" Juanjuan nodded when she heard Jiang Nianqing's question.

"There is actually someone refining Gu in this place! It's outrageous." Yin Mei seemed to be very taboo about Gu techniques, and there was only atmosphere in her eyes.

Jiang Nianqing looked at the surrounding situation, and quickly said to the frowning Xiao Qi, "Hurry up, use your ability to open a way!"

Xiaoqi didn't realize it until he heard it, and immediately stretched out his hands. The group of gnats in front of him directly parted ways, and crawled in place.

Without any hesitation, we broke through quickly. When passing by these gnats, I couldn't help stepping on them a few times. When their bodies exploded, blood-like juice flowed out, accompanied by an unpleasant smell.

After walking more than 20 meters, the swarm gradually disappeared.We also walked out of the long and narrow passage, and there was an open space right in front of us.

"It seems like the bugs won't come in here!" Lao Wu gasped and scratched the ground with his hand. "There should be lime on the ground, the same as was found on the ground outside the cave."

It seems that this group of bugs still have many weaknesses.

Jiang Nianqing checked the part where Juanjuan had been bitten by the bug, and quickly took out a red rope from the bag, put it under her knees, and wrapped it tightly.

After wrapping it up, she said: "Although this red flame gnat is highly poisonous, it spreads slowly. But let me say something harsh first, you may not be able to keep your calf."

After hearing Jiang Nianqing's words, Juanjuan burst into tears with a "wow".Everyone also lowered their heads one by one, and the morale of the army was slackened for a while.

"I'll help you get rid of the poison first, and then I'll tell you what to do next."

Jiang Nianqing took out a small bottle, and poured out a tiny worm that looked like a leech, that is, a leech.Then put it on Juanjuan's calf. As soon as the worm was placed on it, it stretched and contracted to suck blood. In less than 1 minute, it becomes a fat, black and red big guy.

Borrowing a knife from Yin Mei, Jiang Nianqing took out a fire talisman and put it on the insect. After chanting the mantra, the insect immediately burned.

The sound of "crackling", accompanied by a smell of burning sulfur, spread.

Jiang Nianqing pinched Juanjuan's calf and asked, "Can you feel the pain?"

Xia Juanjuan, who was still in tears, shook her head, Jiang Nianqing sighed, walked up to Old Wu and whispered something, Old Wu was taken aback for a moment, then sighed, and said to us: "You all come here , Keep an eye out for any insects that have slipped through the net."

Everyone obediently walked over, Xia Juanjuan also stopped crying, looking puzzled at Old Wu who was walking towards her.Old Wu knelt down and said something to her, but she immediately started crying again after it stopped.

I wanted to go over to have a look, but was stopped by Jiang Nianqing, "Don't go past Thirteen, even the bones in Juanjuan's leg are rotten, if she doesn't amputate her leg, she might get infected." I sighed, not knowing what to do. .

Jiang Nianqing is an expert in using Gu, so I have to believe her words.

Watching Old Wu quickly get angry, he then took out two knives and sterilized them.

Jiang Nianqing said that fortunately, she was well prepared to go out this time, with morphine anesthesia and antibiotics, so Juanjuan could hardly suffer any crimes.

Hearing Juanjuan crying and shouting behind me, we stared and couldn't bear to listen.Yinmei put away her dagger, pinched her rosary and recited scriptures silently.Xiaoqi frowned, praying for Juanjuan.Only Jiang Nianqing and I stood at a loss, clenching our teeth.

It's not a problem to be pestered like this. The evil spirit I saw was not from these insects.Could it be that there is something more powerful waiting for us inside?

"Gu refiners regard Gu insects as treasures, so why put them here like this? And judging by the quantity, they should not be refined through normal methods." Jiang Nianqing squatted on the ground, carefully observing the front of the limestone field, wandering around Poisonous gnats.

I also leaned over to look at it, and it turned out that this "Red Flame Snake" looks no different from an ordinary scorpion, with tentacles all over its body, which is extremely disgusting.It's just that they are dark red in color and smell bad.

"Is this a Gu worm refined with money strings?" I asked Jiang Nianqing.

"Not only this kind of bugs, but also spiders. Look carefully at the places where they crawled." After listening to her words, I shone the ground with a flashlight and found that there seemed to be reflective threads.

"This is? Spider silk?"

"That's right, they should have discovered us through the spider silk. This kind of voodoo technique is purely for harming people. The Soul Sect should have mastered a lot of black witch voodoo techniques." Jiang Nianqing said with a sigh.

"How long will it take to practice so much?"

Jiang Nianqing thought for a while and said, "Actually, it's very difficult to refine one Gu worm. You need the bile of gnats, poisonous spiders, and five-step snakes, use corpse oil as a primer, and put them in a jar. Then use dark wood to light a fire, Sprinkle sulfur every half an hour. Gu worms can be refined in 24 hours. Leaving aside whether the corpse oil is good or not, the dark wood alone is a priceless thing. If there is no big financial group behind it, it is impossible to refine these things Yes. I guess, these Gu worms must have improved their methods so that the Gu worms can reproduce on their own."

After hearing these words, I got goosebumps all over the place.But why did they protect this cave with these monsters?When I came in, I searched for a long time but didn't find anything valuable.

Thinking of this, I quickly got up and looked around to see if there was anything I had overlooked.

After the amputation, Xia Juanjuan had already passed out, and I didn't find any danger around me, so I told Jiang Nianqing, "Let's move on until Juanjuan gets better."

She hesitated for a while and said to me: "Why don't you let Lao Wu accompany her, let's continue to walk forward, Juanjuan's current physical condition is really not suitable for continuing to perform tasks."

I nodded too, and started wandering around, hoping to find something.But apart from stones, that is, lime, there is not even a trace of other things.

"Thirteen, come here and see if you recognize this thing?" I searched and walked over, and saw Jiang Nianqing squatting in front of a black stone and looking at it.

"This! Isn't this the material of Shimen?"

"That's right, I also want to say that there are still incomplete Hades on it." After speaking, she reached out and groped on the Hades.

I squatted down, grabbed the black stone with both hands and began to pull it out vigorously. Just as I was about to exert force, I pulled out the stone easily.

I thought that this might be a corner of Shimen, maybe Shimen was buried.Unexpectedly, it is just a stone.

"Why did this thing appear here? It's strange." In the Qi refining mode, I could feel the black mist emanating from the stone, but it was not strong.

Jiang Nianqing put the stone in a sealed bag, handed it to Old Wu, and told him to stay with Juanjuan right now.And then say to us, keep going.

In this way, only me, Xiao Qi, Jiang Nianqing and Yin Mei are left.This time it was me who took the lead, and I felt a little bit drummed. I hope that the next encounter will not be some super mutated bug, it's too numb.

After walking not far, the cave seemed to extend to the right. When I turned the corner, I tried to walk as close to the left side as possible, and kept paying attention to whether there were any bugs on the wall.

"What's going on?" I expressed difficulty in understanding the situation in front of me.After turning the corner, it turned out to be a dead end.

Jiang Nianqing heard me mutter something, and hurried over to look at the situation ahead.Seeing that there is no way, I also feel abnormal.

"Come and take a look." After entering the cave, Yin Mei has not spoken.Her sudden utterance aroused my curiosity.

Yin Mei was looking at something on the ground. I leaned over and saw that it was an artificially carved stone.

"I've seen this symbol before!" I couldn't help but burst out.

"What symbol?" Jiang Nianqing asked me, and Yin Mei also cast a curious look.

"Hey, Aunt Jiang, you've seen it too!"

"Why don't I remember?"

I quickly wiped the dust off the stone with my hands, turned around and said to her, "This is the symbol of the Candle Dragon Sword!"

After hearing what I said, Jiang Nianqing suddenly realized.But I don’t know why this symbol appears here. Could it be some kind of keyhole? But when I shined a flashlight on it, I found that the symbol was very shallow.

Yin Mei squatted down again, and carefully cleaned the dust on the edge of the stone with a dagger. "Look, this stone might be a button!"

Sure enough, after Mei Yin cleaned up the surroundings, there were large gaps around the stone, which looked like a square button no matter how you looked at it.

Jiang Nianqing wanted to press down in the past, so I hurriedly reminded her to be careful of traps.However, several people pressed it, but none of them pressed down.

"It's weird, why can't we press it, did we think wrong?" Jiang Nianqing stood up and said to us.

I suddenly thought of something, bit off my right middle finger, and drew the Vajra Body Breaking Talisman on the stone.

"In a hurry, like the law, open!"

I saw the stone starting to sink by itself, and there was a rumbling sound behind me.Everyone quickly became alert and looked behind them.

In the place that was blocked just now, a stone door has been opened.What is behind this, you will know immediately.

As soon as the door opened, Xiao Qi hurriedly used her mobile phone to find out what was going on inside.I reminded him to lower his phone so that he could see if there were bugs on the ground.After what happened to Xia Juanjuan, now my attention is basically on the bug.

I checked the video on my phone, and there was nothing unusual.I walked in quickly and looked around, and it was different from the places I had walked before.It can be clearly found that this is no longer like a cave, but a bit like a stone chamber in Heigouzi.

However, although the ground is artificially paved with stone bricks, the stone bricks are not flat. Some of the stone bricks have some raised stalactites on them, like a big awl.

"I think we might be in the same tomb." Jiang Nianqing's words reminded me.

Whether it is the Heigouzi at home or the stone chamber in front of us, they are very similar to ancient tombs, except that the ceiling is a little higher.However, there is no coffin in Heigouzi, only a large incense cauldron.

The space here is still open and clear. I walked along the wall for a long time before I circled around.

"There is an intersection that can go forward, just opposite here. For the time being, no danger has been found." I said to Jiang Nianqing who was standing at the entrance.

"It seems that there is something in the middle." Yin Mei was standing five or six meters in front of the entrance at this time, and she turned to tell us.

After hearing this, everyone hurried over, and there was a coffin parked in the middle.

I really come up with whatever I want, sometimes I wonder if those weird enemies all come from my fantasy.

"No, the coffin has been opened, look!" Jiang Nianqing said.

Maybe the coffin was already open when we came in.The coffin lid on top had already been turned outside.Judging from the coffin, it should be a modern product, not an antique.

Because in each dynasty, there were different funeral systems. Judging from the material of this coffin, it was definitely not something ordinary people could afford.

Rich people use golden silk nan, and poor people use thin-skinned coffins.No matter how poor you are, you can just roll up a straw mat and throw it into a mass grave.However, what normal family would bury their ancestors here?

After careful study, I found that the coffin was made of fragrant cedar.This kind of longevity wood has extremely negative energy, second only to locust wood, and is not used to make coffins at all.

However, look at the four corners of the coffin. They are all made of copper.Thinking about this in my mind, I seem to have heard somewhere that copper-horned coffins are generally used to suppress corpse energy and prevent corpses from transforming.

Touching the black mark on the coffin, he said slowly: "This is the thread of the ink fountain bullet, which is also used to suppress corpses." At the foot of the coffin, I found a talisman that had no mana.

"It can't really be a zombie inside, right?" I said as I squatted down to inspect the soil on the ground, which was still covered with a layer of lime.

Since it is a place where corpses are raised, why should we suppress the corpse energy?

Jiang Nianqing pondered for a long time before he said, "I think this zombie may also be a trap, just to prevent us from going any further. Then the question arises, who opened the heavily sealed 'zombie trap'?" After Jiang Nianqing finished speaking, he frowned again.

I continued to squat on the ground to see if there were any clues such as footprints.After going around for a few times, I realized that all this was in vain. Except for the footprints of us, no one else was found on this ground.

Standing up, supporting the coffin, thinking about where the zombies went.After that, he raised his head in a strange way, and shone a flashlight on the roof of the cave.

On the high ceiling, there is a person standing upside down on the roof of the cave.

(End of this chapter)