Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 61 The Black Beetle and the Land God

Listening to Tong Tong's answer, I couldn't help but feel a bit disappointed. Is the disappearance of the fish below related to the bugs Tong Tong said, or are these bugs eating up all the underwater fish like a plague of locusts?

Without the blood of the crystal fish, how would Xiao Jianzaki's mute disease be cured? When I thought about it, I couldn't bear to give up, and asked Tongtong to go down and catch a few more bugs for me to see.

Tong Tong told me that the springs lead directly to the underground water caves and extend in all directions. She didn’t know how far she went down there just now, and now she forgot where she encountered those bugs.

I've made a mistake this time, so it doesn't matter if I return empty-handed and lose face, but at least I need to know something about the situation!What would you say if you were asked why?Whether to tell Ye Feiji and her cousin the truth, or to say that he was bragging and just trying his luck, and didn't even think that he would have any chance of catching the crystal fish.

But being smart, I still figured out a way to let Tongtong catch a large eel in the stream that was still in the end of hibernation. Tongtong caught it and brought it into the spring. Follow this eel.

So I waited for more than half an hour, and Tongtong came out of the spring again, and then jumped onto the bank and told me that the eel was burrowing everywhere in the water, and finally came to a stone cave, and Tongtong followed in, and found The stone walls in the cave are full of that kind of worms, black and dense like tadpoles.

When these bugs found a rice field eel coming in, they immediately swarmed over, and there were countless bugs crawling on the rice field eel, layer upon layer.After the worms dispersed, the fat eel didn't even have any bones left.

I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. I felt that these insects were more terrifying than the meat-eating river sand in Dao County. At least the river sand left bones after eating all the meat. These insects would not give face like river sand.The flesh-eating river sand ate the drowned and sunk to the bottom of the river, but the worms ate the living things that lived in the water. Fortunately, Tongtong has a spirit body without a body.

It can already be guessed by now that there are no fish under the groundwater because of the infestation of those terrible insects, which have eaten up all the fish big and small.

I asked Tong Tong if he had caught a few bugs, Tong Tong said yes, and then he stretched out his palm, only to see a few black dots on it, which were small beetles, only the size of mung beans.But it's a pity that these insects are all dead. They are so fierce and terrifying at the bottom of the water, and they can't survive for a few minutes on the ground.

What is the origin of these black bugs, and is there any connection with the flesh-eating sand in the river of Xinche Township, Dao County?These weird things are really curious and resist from the bottom of my heart!

Now that the underwater has been occupied by these disgusting insects, it is impossible to have fish, let alone the rare crystal fish. I let Tongtong return to the bead, and he can only carry the snakeskin bag to go.When I returned to Ye Feiji's cousin's house, they ignored me. I asked them why they didn't ask me if I was caught or not.

They all said they knew I hadn't caught it without asking!And I haven't even seen it!
I asked them how they knew I hadn't caught them, and they answered that crystal fishes are so rare and live in deep underground water, so how could they catch them unless the Dragon Lord kindly sent you one.

I ignored them. The real reason why I couldn't catch fish was not like this, but it was inconvenient for me to tell them.I went back to the hall and lay down along a wooden plank. I couldn't help but shout that I was exhausted. Seeing that I was tired, Xiao Jianzaki came over to help me beat my back.

Xiao Jianzaki is so cute, he is a child who can't speak, and the last medicinal ingredient is missing. I feel very uncomfortable, and secretly vowed to find the crystal fish no matter what.

Ye Feiji pulled me up and asked me to help light the fire and make dinner. I was out for so long, so they didn't even eat because they were waiting for me.The dishes for dinner include the leftovers from noon and the king cobra meat caught in the evening.The snake tail is stir-fried with chili, while the snake meat is deep-fried. The raging fire at the bottom of the pot makes the snake meat golden and golden, and the taste is really good.

But such a big snake, and two of them lived together, and made their home in the grave, I was too spiritual to let Xiao Jianzaki eat it, and I was afraid that the child would be entangled and revenged by the dead snake's ghost.As for Ye Feiji, she was so frightened today that she didn't even dare to touch the snake meat on the plate with chopsticks.

My cousin would not be afraid of this, and I would not be afraid of it. I am not afraid of a dead snake, even if it has become a monster. I will still eat it as long as it is delicious.

After the meal, I asked my cousin Ye Feiji whether there had been any insect infestation in your place, for example, the fish in the fish pond were eaten up by insects overnight.

Uncle Ye Feiji thought about it and said yes, it was still in the era of big pot meals, and one of the pigs raised in the pigpen of the production team was eaten by something overnight and turned into a pig bone.The next day, the eldest sister who fed the pigs was scared and fainted on the spot. Another pig was eaten into bones in the same night, causing panic in the entire production team.

At that time, I didn't dare to talk about gods, gods and ghosts, even if I thought so in my heart, I didn't dare to talk nonsense. The brigade only divided several groups of people to watch the night in the pigsty.Ye Feiji’s cousin was just in his early 30s at the time, and one night it happened to be his turn and a man named Agou to watch the pigpen.

Uncle Biao and Ah Gou privately believed that it must be counter-revolutionaries who created panic and used Gu insects to sabotage the cause of revolutionary construction.

The cousin and Agou took turns to watch the night. Agou's wife had just given birth not long ago, so he was asked to keep watch for the first half of the night, and the cousin kept watch for the second half of the night.Not long after Ye Feiji's cousin changed his shift, at about three in the middle of the night, he saw a black round monster the size of a buffalo flying over the roof of the pigsty, making a buzzing sound.

After the monster flew down from the roof of the pigsty, it turned into a long black snake and slipped into the pigsty along the window. My uncle didn't dare to go in and see, so he hurriedly called for someone.The pigsty was built in the village, so more than 20 people were quickly called, lit torches and rushed into the pigsty to see a pig whose whole body was wrapped in a black quilt. A closer look turned out to be this pig The body is covered with dense black beetles.

The strange thing is that the pig is still sleeping soundly, unaware of the many bugs crawling on its body, which frightened the people who rushed into the pigsty, and no one dared to get close to it.

In the end, I don’t know who took a torch and walked to the pig to burn the bugs. The little beetles immediately scattered and flew around. Many people were bitten when they flew, and many bugs were burned to death. flew away.The pig was bitten bloody, with bones exposed in many places, and died not long after, but it never woke up until it died.

People who were bitten were as if they were drunk, staggered when walking, the wounds were packed, and finally festered, and it took two or three months to recover.But since then, I haven't seen these bugs again, and the higher-ups have issued a gag order, and no one in the village has mentioned it again on the surface, only a few people talked about it in private.

My uncle told me about this strange incident, but the village is two kilometers away from here. He hadn’t lived in the mountains at that time, and he had lived in the mountains for less than five years.

I connected this pig-eating worm with the worm in the water. It looks very similar to what my uncle said, except that one is a flying worm and the other is a worm that lives in water.

I showed my uncle the worms that Tongtong had caught. His eyes widened immediately, and he was very surprised and asked me where I caught them.

I said that it was fished in the spring water, and my uncle said that if he remembered correctly, it was this kind of worm that ate pigs back then. I asked him if he remembered correctly!This worm is caught in the water.

Uncle Ye Feiji immediately returned to the room, took out a small bottle, and poured the contents of the bottle on the stool.Although the kerosene lamp was not bright enough, I could see clearly that what he poured out were also small beetles, exactly the same as the one I caught.Ye Feiji's cousin said that he picked up a few dead bugs back then, and wanted to research whether they were human-raised Gu worms, but because the bugs were already dead, he couldn't figure it out, so he kept them as a souvenir.

If this is the same kind of beetle, why can it fly before, but now it lives in water in just a few decades, and dies immediately after it comes out of the ground!What on earth are these bugs coming from!Could it be that the Gu worm raised by a certain expert escaped and reproduced in large numbers?

Ye Feiji was terrified, and quickly took Xiao Jianqi to sleep, but her uncle's family only had one room and one bed.Reluctantly, her cousin stopped talking with me, and started to make a bed with benches and wooden planks in the hall, and after a while, a simple small bed was made out, and Ye Feiji made it up.I can only spread a few snakeskin bags on the ground tonight, which made cousin Ye Feiji feel very embarrassed, and kept saying that next time I go to play at his house in the town, I won’t have no bed to sleep .

I couldn't sleep at night, and my mind was full of random thoughts, thinking about the process of catching snakes today, the meat-eating sand in the Daoxian River, the pig-eating bugs that my uncle said, and the fish-eating bugs in the water that Tongtong said. It was almost dawn before falling asleep.

After I fell asleep, I had a dream. I dreamed that I was walking on a country road in a rice field. When I passed a single-plank bridge, there was a hunched old woman standing in the middle of the bridge.When I was about to give way, the old woman turned around and bowed to me three times. I didn't know the reason, so I asked the old woman why you didn't even know me. How could you do such a big ceremony? of.

The old woman smiled and said that she lived by the loquat forest, and two snakes occupied her house as a nest the year before last, thanks to us killing those two snakes today.But those two snakes are the descendants of the local land lord, let us be careful, I asked the old lady, why the land lord's descendants are two snakes?
The old woman didn't answer me, she just shook her head and disappeared, which made me depressed for a while. Could it be that a snake became a sperm and became a land lord after death?

(End of this chapter)