I collect cultural relics in the human world

Chapter 11: Strange Plants in Mountains and Seas
"Because, I want to attract your attention and delay time." He Si breathed heavily. She was obviously forced into a desperate situation, but a smile appeared on her bloody cheeks.

Yuan Yuan was surprised. Her face without features looked towards the focus of He Si's eyes. A little light flew out from the laboratory of the Department of Architecture and was hanging above her head. Under the light, there was a cold metal plate.

"what is that?"

Yuan Yuan instinctively retreated, but the dim light did not give her a chance. The metal plate fell at the same moment, penetrating from the top of her head to the tips of her toes. Even without any facial features, He Si could feel the deep hatred from Yuan Yuan's twisted skin. This was followed by a desperate and shrill scream.

"Yuan Yuan, is that you?" He Si asked tentatively. The person in front of her seemed to have regained her senses. Her fair face, almond-shaped eyes, cocked nose, and small cherry mouth were all flawless.

But she didn't speak, just looked at He Si blankly.He Si heard the sound of "rustling", and when she looked closer, she saw a layer of transparent silkworms covering Yuan Yuan's body, gnawing at the flesh and blood under his feet without stopping.

Yuan Yuan seemed to feel no pain. She just stood, her body gradually becoming transparent like those silkworms, and her skeleton becoming clearer and clearer. When her face completely melted into the night, her skeleton also fell to the ground and became... It turned into powder, and when a gust of wind blew by, no trace could be found.

After the farewell visit, Liuqiao was unfaithful, and the matter went to the flower committee. The jade was buried in incense, and there were many storms.

In the blink of an eye, the thrill of chasing after her just now was like a dream, and it gradually passed away in front of her.

Dream……

He Si murmured, and her tense heartstrings suddenly relaxed. She could no longer support her injured body and collapsed to the ground.It should be a dream, it will be fine when I wake up, it will be fine when I wake up...

He Si closed her eyes in her dream, and vaguely saw the handsome villain who appeared in her visions several times, dressed in white like snow, running towards her. For some reason, that figure actually made her feel a little... Peace of mind.

Wait, I can't sleep yet!Can't sleep yet!What else is important? What important thing have I missed?

"It's silkworm!" He Si suddenly sat up from the bed, finally shouting out the mystery that lingered in her heart, "It's silkworm!"

"what?"

He Si couldn't care less about the pain in her body, so she didn't have time to ask why Lao Chaofeng appeared here. She was so anxious that she danced with excitement: "The cultural relics causing trouble this time are related to silkworms!"

"You lie down first."

"I remembered it all. The first time I saw Gao Lan's white bones, I felt densely packed insects and ants squirming. At that time, I just thought it was a hallucination caused by nausea. The second time after the white bones appeared, I felt I saw white larvae wriggling in the rain, but I didn’t remember them because of the emergency. But just now I saw with my own eyes those silkworms eating up all the flesh and blood of Yuan Yuan, leaving only a skeleton."

Qin Jian didn't speak, nor was he excited about her discovery. He just looked at her quietly with a bowl of reddish-brown liquid.

He Si shook her hand and felt the familiar warmth of the little monkey, and her heart relaxed.

Her energy faded and the pain all over her body became more intense. She sighed very lightly and quickly and took the bowl from Qin Jian's hand.

"what is this?"

"White juice."

"Oh." He Si nodded in confusion. Qin Jian answered her question, but seemed not to answer. But for some reason, she didn't dare to get to the bottom of it. She just lowered her head and took a tentative sip of the drink in front of her. Strange liquid.

As if comforted by He Si's careful look, Qin Jian's hard aura softened and he asked in a low voice: "How does it taste?"

"It's quite sweet." He Si said and raised her head, unconsciously sticking out her tongue to lick away the bright red color from the corner of her mouth. She remembered that Qin Jian was still there and felt something was wrong, so she wiped the corner of her mouth again with the back of her hand as if to hide it.I don't know whether it was due to excessive force or the color of the liquid, but the soft lips became brighter and brighter, and the pale face gained a touch of color, showing a bit of charm. Qin Jian lowered his eyes.

"Bai, grows in Yu Lun Zhe Mountain. It is the earliest strange tree seen in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. It is shaped like paper mulberry tree and has red texture. The juice flowing out of the tree is very sweet, which can relieve fatigue and heal injuries."

"It turned out to be a legendary divine item," He Si's eyes lit up, and she took another sip with joy before asking, "How long have I been asleep?"

Qin Jian did not answer, but walked to the window and opened the curtains. The midday sun shone in, and the floating dust outlined traces of sunlight, sweeping away the haze in the room. He Si blinked several times before adapting to the dazzling light. .

"It's been so long," she murmured, and looked out the window again. Several dragon-claw-shaped chrysanthemums were dotted in the corners of the green bricks and white tiles. The unfamiliar Jiangnan style made her wonder, "What kind of place is this? Should it be right?" Will it be Lunzhe Mountain?"

"This is my home." Qin Jian opened the closed window, and a fresh and elegant fragrance blew into the room with the breeze, making it peaceful and pleasant.

He Si looked at the green garden that was so out of place with autumn, and frowned slightly: "Why am I here?"

"Mirror Gate." Qin Jian answered concisely and to the point.

Not far away, a cluster of chrysanthemums stretched in the wind, and the slender petals seemed to disturb He Si's heartstrings. She drank up the liquid in the bowl. After holding it for a long time, she still had to say: "Then my senior brother and the others should find Am I done?"

"I used your mobile phone to send a message to your senior brother, saying that you had gone back to the dormitory to rest. I thought they wouldn't notice anything unusual for a while."

"Oh." He Si felt relieved.

The white juice began to take effect, and the aches and pains all over the body were swept away. The fingertips that were throbbing and aching were now itchy. He Si looked down and found that new pink flesh was growing on the fingertips, and there were wounds all over her body. They are all healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"awesome."

She sincerely praised her, a little joy stained the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, her raised face was full of admiration and trust, and the evil spirit that had been stuck in Qin Jian's chest since he saw her disappeared.

"If you hadn't thought of using that name tag to save yourself in a critical moment, my white juice wouldn't be of use no matter how powerful it is."

He Si glanced at Qin Jian's still expressionless face. For a moment, she felt as if she had been praised, and for a moment, she felt that there was more criticism. She thought about it for a long time and was about to respond when there was a knock on the door.

Then, without waiting for the owner of the house to answer, a furry head poked in.

"Miss He, I heard that you were injured?" The head that poked in said words of concern, but He Si could only read the meaning of gloating on his face.

"Next time you knock on the door, you have to wait until the owner agrees before you can come in." He Si retorted for the first time, but it obviously had no effect on Fan Yu.

"I haven't fully come in yet," he pointed to his feet that were still outside the door frame, retracted his neck, and asked in a long tone, "Can I come in?"

He Si felt like humiliating herself, but Qin Jian was used to Fan Yu's shamelessness. He looked at He Si's deflated look, a smile flashed at the corner of his mouth, and he immediately said calmly. He opened the door and said, "No."

"Uncle Qin, stop making trouble," Fan Yu pushed open the door and walked into the house helplessly, and complained to He Si, "You see, this is why I didn't wait for his consent, which affects work efficiency."

"Speaking of work," Qin Jian said seriously, "This time the cultural relics are going to be searched for silkworms."

"Any clues?" Fan Yu raised his eyebrows, with curiosity in his tone.

Qin Jian didn't answer, but looked in the direction of He Si.

"I didn't expect that Miss He sacrificed herself this time in exchange for such great information. I admire her," Fan Yu said while looking up and down at He Si. "Did the thing you met tell you?"

He Si was too lazy to pay attention to him, but Fan Yu was not afraid of playing a one-man show at all. He tilted his head and looked at it for a while, then asked doubtfully: "I heard that you dealt with it alone, and you didn't seem to be injured. Ah, I understand, Miss He must be hiding some skills that she has not let me know."

"I just drank Bai."

"White wine? What do you mean?" Fan Yu was really confused at this time, and his two rough eyebrows twisted into a curve, "Can you still drink when you are injured?"

"Bai, the sacred tree in the Classic of Mountains and Seas." He Si was learning and selling it, but she didn't expect that even the expert Fan Yu in front of her had never heard of this thing. She wanted to keep a low profile but couldn't hide the pride on her face.

"Bai Bai Bai Bai!" Fan Yu stuttered for a long time before repeating it. He looked at Qin Jian and then at He Si. After all, he couldn't swallow the words that were already on his lips. "There is something I don't know whether to say or not."

"Generally don't talk about this kind of situation..."

Before He Si could finish speaking, Fan Yu took over the topic: "I have to tell you, Uncle Qin, if one day I am also seriously injured, will you..."

"No." This time, it was Qin Jian's turn to interrupt him bluntly.

"Uncle Qin, you have a problem."

Fan Yu looked distressed, and He Si couldn't help but licked her lips again. Her lips and teeth seemed to be still stained with the sweet scent of grass and trees just now.She knew that she had just eaten something very precious, but she was not sure how precious it was, so she asked softly: "What's the matter? Is it difficult to get the white juice?"

"It's not a question of whether it's difficult or not."

"What's the problem?"

"This tree is extinct."

"Ah?" He Si thought that maybe the place where the white tree grows is difficult to reach, the refining conditions are very harsh, or maybe there are savage beasts guarding it, but she never expected this result. At this moment, she only felt that the bowl in her hand was empty. It weighs a thousand pounds.

Fan Yu obviously also noticed the bowl. He leaned over and looked at the remaining red color at the bottom of the bowl, eager to try: "Would you like me to try it?"

When He Si instinctively retracted her hand, Qin Jian's voice also sounded at the right time: "How is the cultural relic investigation I just mentioned going on?"

"It has been arranged for a long time. Let me take a look," Fan Yu said, taking out his mobile phone. "Don't tell me, there are quite a lot. I will let Sister Liu tell you directly."

He Si didn't expect that Fan Yu still completed the task as usual during the break of gags and jokes, and her impression of him changed for a while. Although this person seemed unreliable in every aspect, he was still very capable at work.

Just as she was thinking about it, a charming voice came from the other end of the phone. Even He Si felt that her bones were half numb, but Qin Jian and Fan Yu were no different. On the contrary, Qin Jian's brows gradually grew as the words continued. Wrinkled.

"what are you saying?"

"Didn't Lao Fan ask me to search in the database for information about cicadas that can match this series of cases?" The person on the other end of the phone seemed to frown, and there was complaint in his weak and boneless voice, "In In the Liangzhu Culture and Hongshan Culture in the prehistoric period, there were items suspected of being jade cicadas as funerary objects. In the Han Dynasty, these jade cicadas began to be held in the mouths of the deceased. I think the protagonist of this case should be this type of jade cicada . During the Han Dynasty, the concept of separation of form and spirit was popular. They expected that when a person dies, the body is buried underground, but the spirit can swim in the sky. Like a cicada, it flies from the soil to the top of the tree, sheds its shell and grows wings, as if in reincarnation. obtain eternal life.”

"The cicada casts off the snake, swims in Taiqing, walks alone, and suddenly enters the underworld," Fan Yu said, nodding in agreement, "It does fit the characteristics of this case, shedding the body and leaving the skeleton, just like the cicada It's like shedding her shell. Uncle Qin, what do you think?"

"It does fit, but I'm talking about silkworms, not cicadas."

The bedroom where I just exchanged words with you fell into an eerie silence. Three seconds later, the trickle on the other end of the phone turned into a frantic tsunami.

"Fan Yu, you bastard!"

"Oh my god... Then go and check for silkworms, the one with flat tongue sound." Fan Yu said and hung up the phone in a hurry. He Si finally couldn't help laughing.

"However, cicadas and silkworms are quite similar in biological characteristics. One sheds its shell and the other breaks out of the cocoon. Could it be the same idea?"

"Miss He has such a quick mind, I agree. Uncle Qin, what do you think this time?"

"Unlike, cicadas have a stronger religious significance in reincarnation, but silkworms more represent the silk weaving industry, with men farming and women weaving." Qin Jian shook his head, but did not finish his words: "Let's check again , it’s best to have your hearing checked as well.”

"Hey, I'm getting older. It's also my fault that the bureau has been slacking off in the past two years. I've been out in the field alone for several years," Fan Yu sighed, but every time he was frustrated, he could quickly recover. This time, he turned his target to He Si, "Miss He, I see that you are very talented. Are you interested in taking the public examination?"

"I still owe you some heat, but you can ask Uncle Qin to say a word and arrange a partner for you first."

"Okay, I want someone like Miss He who doesn't say many harsh things."

(End of this chapter)