Mystery Leaks

Chapter 76

Without further ado, we prepared immediately, tidied up and went to Cao Nan immediately.

Because we found that Cao Nan has the resources to deal with people, ghosts, or formations.There are blunderbusses for people, pillars for formations, ghosts, and corpses, all of which are available.

Cao Nan simply opened the timber warehouse in his home and let us choose.

Hu Lai made some small peach wood, jujube wood, pagoda tree, willow and other stakes, and Huang Mao cut out three peach wood swords and three jujube wood swords, and gave Cao Nan and me two of them.

He said that although this thing has not been opened, it is still useful for dealing with ordinary ghosts.

Cao Nan carried a rooster and a few catties of glutinous rice, while I brought a handful of fire peach pits and a slingshot. The slingshot is Meng Shuisheng's toy. With the peach pits, it can shoot far away, which is much better than throwing it with hands. .

As for other daily necessities such as dry food, water, and floor mats, they must be indispensable. Useful and useless things are all prepared, and each of them carries a large rucksack.

After all the preparations, it was noon, we had something to eat and set off.

Cao Nan drove a three-wheeled motorcycle straight to the south field, where Hu Lai lost the tiger.

Nanchang is the closest to the village, and it is not too remote. After we got off the car, we kept going along the forest trail.

On the way, Hu Lai taught me and Cao Nan a lot of knowledge about insects.

Only then did I realize that the worms we talk about in modern times are completely different from the worms that Fashixing talks about.

Fashixing is a very traditional and closed business, so the insects mentioned in Fashixing are insects in the broad sense of ancient times, not just insects today.

When modern people hear insects, they instinctively think that they are some small insects or beetles, but they are not. The scope of insects is very wide, and it is a very large class.

Birds are feather worms, beasts are caterpillars, turtles and shells are beetles, fish and snakes are scale worms, and humans, frogs, and earthworms are worms.

Even humans are a kind of worm!
Now, this is simply appalling.

There is an example where we can get a glimpse of the signs, that is, the tiger in the Water Margin. In the section where Wu Song fights the tiger, there is no word for tiger in the whole text, only the tiger.

The reason is simple. Li Yuan, the founder of the Tang Dynasty, was nicknamed Li Hu. Hu was a taboo word at that time and could not be used.So literati writers can only use an older word instead, worm.Originally, this title was only temporary, and it should be changed back after Tang destroyed the country, but Tang was a powerful and long-lasting dynasty, which had such a profound influence on later generations that it was not able to be completely changed back until the Ming Dynasty.

The tiger, with long hair all over its body, is the head of the caterpillar, and the head is the big one, so the tiger is called a big bug.In fact, strictly speaking, it should be called a big caterpillar to be the most accurate, which means the largest and most ferocious of the "caterpillars".

The python that Hu Lai chased after was a kind of scale insect.

Of course, although Fashixing is conservative, it will still change in any way. Caterpillars, worms, and feather worms can't bark anymore.

The worms in the mouth of the worm exorcist are now of one kind - the alien species that shuttle back and forth deep underground!

Basically, they all belong to the two categories of beetles and scale insects.

Take the python as an example, the origin of its name is because it looks like a python, but it is definitely not a python, it is a different species, and there is no such thing on the surface of the earth.

They multiply, are born, grow, and die in underground rivers and gushes into them all the year round.

Everything is underground, without any intersection with the light outside, without anyone noticing, it is impossible for ordinary people to encounter it.

Occasionally, there are some news pictures, saying that the corpses of some monsters floated out of the sea. In fact, some of those are the corpses of the big worms that died after entering the sea.

The giant worm evolved towards the form of a flood dragon, and would often leave the land and go into the sea.

Only humans, the primates of all things, will study them and find ways to benefit from them.

This is the worm catcher!

Otherwise, it would be two completely irrelevant worlds, with no contact between old age and death.

"Is Chong Bao very precious?" After talking nonsense, I asked curiously.

Insect hunters often drive tens of thousands of kilometers of underground worms, and the time is measured in years. They travel over mountains and mountains, eat and sleep in the open. If there is not enough sweetness, it is impossible to persevere.

The ultimate goal of the insect repellent master is to drive the big insects into a desperate situation, killing insects and obtaining treasures.

Chongbao is their dream.

Hu Lai nodded solemnly, and said: "Chongbao is one of the few things in the world that still contains spiritual energy. It has infinite uses. If it is sold on the market, it will be enough to waste three generations."

I gasped in shock and squandered three generations, what kind of sky-high price is that?
"In ancient times, the sky was clear and the earth was spiritual, and there was spiritual energy between the heaven and the earth. That's why there were immortals and gods in ancient legends. Slowly depleted and disappeared, only a little bit remains in the deep underground. The big insect lives underground all year round, and it will be contaminated with some insect treasures in the body, and the insect treasure is also the core of its power, which is very precious." Huangmao explained.

"Fairy, fairy?"

I was speechless for a while, and said, "Isn't it a little too ridiculous?" If there are gods and immortals in this world, how can there be a dwelling place for evil spirits?

"Hahaha, that's just a saying, just listen to it, don't take it seriously." Huang Mao laughed.

"Get out!" I gave him a blank look, and it was more reliable to talk nonsense, so I asked, "Then have you ever taken Chong Bao?"

"I took one, it was five years ago." Hu Lai smiled, and said, "It's a beetle, it looks a bit like a soft-shelled turtle, it's a small bug, about eight or ninety years old."

"Eighty or ninety or a bug?" Cao Nan was shocked, and asked again: "Then what is a big bug?"

"Big worms are generally more than 120 years old. The python we chased is about 200 years old. It is in its prime and quite powerful." Hu Lai said.

Cao Nan and I were shocked and speechless for a long time. Taking a hundred years as a unit, it is unbelievable that we are worthy of a foreign species, and we can live for such a long time.

The average life expectancy is only seventy, which is too far away.

"Then did you use that insect treasure yourself, or did you sell it?" I asked curiously again.

"Of course I use it myself." Hu Lai's face flashed a smug, and said: "The average time for us to get a worm treasure in the worm hunting industry is 11 years, and the benefits that the worm treasure can bring can't be bought with money, so Few people are willing to sell their worm treasures, most of them are for themselves and close people."

Cao Nan and I were shocked again speechless.

11 years of eating and sleeping, climbing mountains and ridges, that kind of state is at least 20 years older than ordinary people, it is not easy, no wonder it is said that one can feed three generations.

"Then what is the effect after you use it?" Cao Nan asked in amazement, his eyes sparkled, and he looked at Hu Lai with admiration.

Hu Lai smiled and said, "I will have no illness or calamity in my life. If there are no accidents, my lifespan will exceed [-], and I will be old and not old. I will be light and healthy until the end of my life."

"Wow!!"

Cao Nan and I opened our mouths, and couldn't help but marvel.

Live a hundred years, be free from disease and disaster, and be light and healthy. How many people who maintain their health and eat supplements dream of this?Real money is hard to exchange for a healthy and strong body, and it would be refreshing to live a lifetime without illness or disaster.

Even the richest man in the world can't do this, no matter how developed the hospital is, there are incurable diseases.

As far as this effect is concerned, it is still a small bug. What about a big bug?

I no longer dare to think about it.

No wonder the insect repellent can persevere, the temptation is too great, and once encountering a big insect, he can't walk.

It would be the same for anyone.

Outsiders are puzzled, but they just don't know the huge temptation.No wonder Huang Mao said that the python was Hu Lai's current "wife", and it was precious.

"That's why there are many bug hunters who spend half of their lives looking for bug treasures, enjoying it all the time. Only those in the industry can appreciate the reason for this." Huang Mao laughed, as if he would also pick up bug treasures Same.

"Master Hu, please accept me as your apprentice!" Cao Nan, who was tempted, screamed, and couldn't wait to grab Hu Lai's arm and begged.

My heart was moved, good stuff, it’s not money or status that can be measured.

The unknown loss is frightening, but the unknown gain is exciting. This kind of expectation and longing is probably more attractive than drugs.

It turns out that money is not everything. There are many things in Fashixing, which cannot be measured by money at all.

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At this point, I finally have a clearer understanding of the profession of insect repellent.

They eat and sleep in the open, all of them are tanned, their bodies are dirty and smelly, they are worse than beggars, and they look as embarrassed as they want.

But they enjoy the best things in this world!

Something money can't buy!

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(End of this chapter)