Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 321 Insect Insect Gu

How the Earth Ghost King obtained these seven lamps is not recorded in the silk book. According to Zhuan Rui's own guess, he believes that the seven lamps probably came from the Han culture, because the data show that the Earth Ghost Clan is a self-enclosed nation , using the 'mirror world' created by the yin and yang fox to block outsiders.

Therefore, it is impossible for the local ghost king to find the seven lamps by himself. It is more likely that they came from some Han people who wanted to get close to this place. Of course, the Han people are only a relatively high possibility. Some ethnic minorities may also come from them. After all, it is not stated in the silk script, and it is difficult to verify after a long time.

The ghost king got seven lamps, but only used the last one, which is the magic lamp.The silk script did not specify the method of using the magic lamp, which seemed to be intentionally ignored, but the Earth Ghost King died suddenly after using the magic lamp.At that time, no one knew what was going on, so they could only build an underground palace for the ghost king in confusion, and buried him at the end of the group tomb, which was the most honorable position in the representative clan.

But on the night of loading the coffin, a strange noise suddenly appeared in the coffin. Immediately afterwards, the lid of the coffin was suddenly pushed open, and the Earth Ghost King crawled out of the coffin.

I saw the Earth Ghost King at this time, with seven heads congested and purple, muscles bulging all over his body, crawling out of the coffin little by little, wherever he went, everyone who approached was torn to pieces, and everyone fled in all directions. Seeing dark clouds covering the sun, lightning flashing and thundering, like the god of thunder descending into the world, heavy rain pouring down without stopping, landslides, mudslides, landslides, trees collapsing, and rocks rolling down. Amidst all kinds of disasters, the earth ghosts are almost at the point of no return. , and in this desperate situation, there is a bigger devil fighting, he climbed out of the coffin, drank blood, killed wantonly, invulnerable, with seven heads staring at the people around him, making strange laughter.

This self-styled and autistic nation, under the circumstances that no one knew, almost ushered in a catastrophe.

At this time, a prestigious elder in the family said: "It is said that there was a Duke Bao in the Song Dynasty who was able to visit ghost houses at night and drive ghosts and gods. help each other." So they sent people to move Baogong to help.

This record is exactly the same as the origin of the soul-suppressing dream knife mentioned by Zhuan Rui.But they said back and forth, when the rescuers returned to this place, the local ghost clan had already been wiped out in the natural disasters and killings, only the local ghost king was still wandering in the underground palace, smelling the breath of the living, and came out to make trouble.

At this time, Bao Gong had obtained the Soul-Suppressing Dream Sword, so he suppressed it with the knife, and re-enclosed the Earth Ghost King and put it in the coffin.He also said: There is a ghost king who knew that the seven lamps are not gods, but demon lamps. If the demon lamps are in this world, they are afraid of endless troubles, so they are also buried with them.

As for the countless zongzi in the sacrificial pit that grandpa saw back then, as well as the mummies in white cloth outside, they were all members of the local ghost clan who were killed by the local ghost king.

Immediately afterwards, they put in insect incense stones. These insects are a kind of Gu. The world only knows that Miao people are good at Gu. In fact, there are many miasmas in Gui land, and it is also a place where the technique of raising Gu is prevalent, but it is not as famous as Miao Gu.There are not many burial objects in the entire underground palace, and these organs and poisonous poisons are naturally used to deal with tomb robbers, but the purpose is different.Others deal with tomb robbers in order to guard the mausoleum of the owner of the tomb and protect the corpses and funerary objects inside, but the organs set up in this place are all to prevent tomb robbers from entering the underground palace and opening the coffin.

Because, once the coffin is opened, or the soul-suppressing dream knife is taken away, the ghost king inside will immediately wake up.

And this silk book is the last layer of barrier for the Earth Ghost King. Its purpose is to hope that those capable tomb robbers will give up opening the coffin if they really enter the coffin chamber and open the coffin. , leave quickly.

When everyone heard this, their eyes were already dumbfounded, and Tofu was even more surprised. He stammered and said, "That is to say... the zongzi in this coffin, is he a live zongzi?"

Gu Wenmin was sitting next to me at the moment, she looked a little weak from the gunshot wound, and said: "The coffin inside is still sealed, it seems that Mr. Chen and the others didn't open the coffin after reading the silk script."

Tofu said: "But...but we don't seem to be able to get out if we don't open the coffin... Hey, wait, there is another important thing..." Tofu's expression changed suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he quickly asked Zhuan Rui, said: "Tuhao, take a closer look, is there anything else recorded on it?"

Zhuan Rui said lukewarmly: "What else do you want to record?"

Tofu swallowed his saliva, pointed to me and himself, and said, "Poison Gu! Lao Chen and I both ate it. This, what kind of Gu is this? Will I be like the one in the TV series? Was it eaten up, or bleeding from the seven holes? Oh my god, that's too scary." I also felt a little bit in my heart, thinking that although I don't know whether the poisonous Gu technique is as magical as it is in the legend, but these little bugs alone It is not easy to be able to reproduce in a piece of insect incense stone for more than 1000 years. If it is true, what should we do?

Thinking about it this way, I couldn't help but look at Zhuan Rui. The thing had already happened, and it was useless to worry about it. I sat where I was, and didn't jump as fast as Tofu, so I heard Zhuan Rui say: "It is said that it is called 'Insect Insect Gu', There will be no effect here, but those things that are eaten will emit a smell, which will attract many other bugs to enter, and eventually, the body will be occupied by all kinds of bugs."

Tofu shuddered, and stammered, "If I keep my mouth shut, those insects can still get in?" Zhuan Rui didn't speak, and Zhong Gong was Zhuan Rui's mouthpiece, so he continued, "For example, there are many insect eggs. It is invisible to the naked eye. When you eat, maybe your rice is already covered with insect eggs... Or when you take a bath, there will be many invisible insects in the water. They are attracted by the smell and will Gathering towards you, there will always be a way to enter your body, and then multiply until it eats your insides... This is an extreme punishment."

After Zhong Gong finished speaking, Tofu sat down on the ground in fright, unable to say a word.

Although I felt scared in my heart, I was calmer than Tofu. I quickly thought of a clue and said, "Since you know it so clearly, is there a way to deal with it?"

Zhong Gong pointed to the silk book and said: "Yes, there is a record on it that when the coffin lid is closed, within half an hour, the Insect Gu will secrete a substance that will block the fine seams of the coffin lid. Mixing cinnabar in a bath can relieve Gu. But the nemesis of this substance is corpse oil, and the person who carries this substance will undergo a mutation once they come into contact with corpse oil, making the insect-inducing Gu attack faster."

I immediately understood that in this way, if we want to undo the insect Gu, we cannot touch the corpse of the Earth Ghost King.But we are not interested in the corpse of the Earth Ghost King. If it weren't for the purpose of getting Grandpa back to normal and leaving this place, I would have given up on my subsequent actions when I met Grandpa.

Tofu immediately said: "Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and close the coffin lid."

Miss Gu didn't speak until now, but at this moment, she suddenly opened her mouth and said softly: "You said, could he be the one who closed the coffin for the corpse that was lying on the coffin? Maybe he was also planning to take that kind of substance?" ?”

Tofu immediately nodded in agreement, and said: "There is no wound on the body, so it just died. I wondered why before, but now it seems that this is probably the case. However, this person seems to be unlucky, he didn't succeed, and he died."

Before, we saw the tight seams of the coffin and thought it was sealed. When the coffin was opened, some fine substances similar to cinnabar could be seen in the thin seams. Now it seems that those substances are probably what the corpse wanted to collect at that time. Later, some accident happened, and he died here.

Everyone worked together to close the coffin lid. The moment I closed the coffin lid, I felt a gust of wind blowing from the back of my neck, but when I turned around sharply, there was nothing behind me.

My heart skipped a beat, and I suddenly thought of that invisible thing that exists here.

It is not mentioned in the silk script, so what exactly is it?
It could have killed us all before, but at the last moment, it suddenly asked me to look behind and found the coffin in front of me. After thinking about it, I suddenly came up with a guess: Could it be that the thing that has been controlling us is The ghost king himself?As soon as I told this conjecture to everyone, Tofu swallowed his tongue and said, "You mean...he is already awake? Want to use our strength to come out?"

"Very likely." Gu Wenmin said softly.

Tofu asked, "Then what should we do now?"

I said: "Collect those things first, and then plan 36. Going forward is the best plan."

Tofu looked at the open vermilion tomb door. Although he didn't speak, I could still see his thoughts. His eyes said: Can we still get out?

That thing can control us to commit suicide at any time, and even do various things. Once we stop opening the coffin, will everything return to the previous state?
(End of this chapter)