Mantra

Chapter 241 One of the Eight Treasures
Parasites are disgusting things.

They burrow into the host's body, eat meat and drink blood, and multiply until the host dies. The whole process is horrifying. Most importantly, they will make the host extremely abnormal, and even change the host's living habits and appearance. From causing the host to produce unpredictable morphological and behavioral mutations.

Therefore, people generally hate these worms crawling in the body, and list them as dangerous and terrifying animals like snakes, spiders, scorpions, etc., but you must stay away when you encounter them.

But some parasites are not as scary as generally recognized.When used well, they are often beneficial, and even become a famous "delicacy" when handled properly.

And the "carp monster" in my mouth is such an edible "parasite". Not only can it be eaten, it is even comparable to bear paws and deer ears. It is even listed as the "Eight Treasures of Ghosts" one.

After listening to my words, not surprisingly, Xian Hongye and Lin Shaosong expressed great shock and bewilderment,

Young Master Lin said to me with [-] points of horror and contempt: "Oh, you sell cakes! You actually said that parasites can be eaten! Are you Chinese people out of order? How can you eat such a disgusting big bug! Aren't you afraid of multiplying in your stomach?"

Facing Lin Shaosong's provocation, I replied very annoyedly: "Fuck off! Don't you French people still eat snails? That stuff is like snot, why don't you say it's disgusting? Don't make a fool of yourself! You can eat it if you can eat it." Can eat, in Huogong language, this is called "Heroes don't ask where they come from, eat and eat without asking where they came from!" Do you understand?!~"

Lin Shaosong was very unconvinced by my words, and maybe he felt that eating "snot" was superior to eating "parasites". Anyway, he had unwilling eyes and wanted to continue to argue with me.

When our swords were on the verge of breaking out, Xian Hongye interrupted rudely: "Don't talk about it! Can you discuss something useful! Is it fun to fight?"

Facing the heroine's utterance, Lin Shaosong and I fell silent. After glancing at each other, we brought the topic back to the discussion about the two "monsters" in front of us.

After looking at it for a while, Xian Hongye pointed to these two things that looked like "turtles" and "rat women" and asked me: "You just said that these things can be eaten, it seems that you know them well? Tell me, this What exactly is a carp monster, why didn't it recognize it at first, and why can it be eaten?"

After thinking about it for a while, I told everyone: "The carp monster, the carp monster, as the name suggests, is the monster in the body of the carp, but why this pair of carp monsters parasitized in the body of the black urn and the golden snake, I don't know. Got it, of course, this will not change my basic judgment on this bug."

According to what I know, carp monsters and other parasitic organisms are very different. They often only parasitize a "pair" of male and female in a host individual. Once this pair enters the host's body, it will produce a stimulus The "hormone" of body variation, the host stimulated by the hormone will secrete a "protein" for the carp monster, and the pair of male and female carp monsters will use this special protein to make a sac in the host body as a "house", forming a similar Lychee-like inclusions.

After that, the male and female carps will pair up in the inclusion, mate, and then reproduce. As this process continues, the host will gradually lose weight and die.When the host is completely dead, the carps emerge from their pouches to continue their disgusting reproductive process.

Although the carp monster behaves disgustingly, it only parasitizes freshwater fish, and this thing absorbs the "essence" of fish as it grows. The meat tastes more delicious and juicy than fish, and this thing is a rare medicinal material. It can detoxify, reduce inflammation, and even fight cancer. Its efficacy is comparable to that of ginseng, so the Wu Zang Temple calls this thing "water ginseng" and "fish among turtles"!
After hearing what I said, Amao and Agou moved their index fingers and said with trembling eyes: "Wow! Isn't this thing very valuable?! It's delicious!"

I nodded and continued to tell them: "Because of the limited conditions of the carp monster's parasitic life, it grows very small, and the big carp monster is even more rare to meet. It is a rare delicacy."

How precious is it? It is said that in the Song Dynasty, when fish was the most popular, this thing was called "fish treasure", and it was regarded as a treasure as precious as pearls. If more than three taels were found, the children of rich families would even pay thousands of dollars to buy them. , and invited famous chefs to cook.

Also because of this preciousness, the carp monster is listed as one of the "Eight Treasures of Ghosts", and "Pi Ling, Human Milk, Jin Zhuyi, Zihe Che, Taisui Meat, Ruanxiangyu, and Blood Leech" in the Temple of the Five Zang organs Together, it's a weirdly "dark" delicacy.

What I said was very detailed, which also made Master Lin's face greener the more he listened. From his point of view, it seems that Chinese people eat garbage and grow up. He couldn't even think about such a weird "garbage". After finishing those few words, Young Master Lin couldn't hold on any longer. He immediately turned around and ran away, throwing up into the woods.

Seeing Young Master Lin's distressed look, I felt a little joy in my heart, and at the same time I didn't forget to remind: "Master! Don't go too far, there are booby-trapped mines in the woods! Be careful of accidental injury!"

After seeing Young Master Lin away, I turned around, looked at Agou and Mao in Thailand, and quickly dissuaded them: "And you two, don't think about this carp monster, it's too weird, maybe Can eat!"

Xian Hongye nodded, agreeing to my idea with [-]% approval.

In fact, the reason is very simple, this carp monster obviously only grows on freshwater fish, how could it escape into the body of the golden boa constrictor?Moreover, this boa constrictor exudes a "variation" all over its body, from the inexplicable golden scales to the extremely large "sparganum" in its body, and now it has discovered a "carp monster" that should not have appeared on it at all. .All this is a sign of something abnormal about us.

I can't even help thinking, if this carp monster is really an "indigenous person" in "Sie Weng", does that mean that the ancients in Helanbo City have mastered some method to kill the parasites that originally grew on fish? , "transplanted" into other species? !
If this is the case, it is too scary.

Following this thought, I thought of those "human shells" that were hung on the "stalactite cave wall" in the secret passage.Each of them has such a clay pot in their body. Does this mean that they are also some kind of container, and their bodies are transplanted into this "carp monster" before they are alive or after death, and then suck their nourishment?

And that snake just happened to devour such a jar many years ago, so it had a series of body mutations, and even the sparganosis in its own body became a very aggressive worm!

This idea is very terrifying, but it seems that this is the only way to conform to the weird legend in Helanbo City!

If the Helambers somehow mastered the power to mutate creatures, they would indeed be comparable to an army of hundreds of thousands!

Suddenly, I thought why Old Nineteen was staring at Heilanbo City!
(End of this chapter)