Between mountains and seas

Chapter 119 Petri Dish

Climbing down from the bone bone pillar, the more you climb, the dimmer the light becomes, and even the eyes of the supernatural beings can't see clearly.Fortunately, the bones were large, so the work persisted.

"It's the end." Huo Qing glanced down, "The bottom is the last bone."

The light here is too dark to describe. When you look up, it kind of means "looking up at the light in the abyss", and the light is not very bright, that is, if you stretch your hand out in front of your eyes, you can see that you have five fingers. head only.

So fortunately, these corpses have turned into bones, which look particularly conspicuous in the dark, otherwise it would be really troublesome.

Looking down now, the whiteness of the bone pillars has come to an end, so it can be seen that it is at the end.And under their feet is the skeleton of a member of the Gonggong clan, and the rest is darkness.

"Oh, it's finally over." Shao Jingxing looked down and suddenly thought, "I'll throw a fireball down to take a picture."

Huo Qing glanced at him: "Aren't you tired now?"

Along the way, from time to time, Shao Jingxing needed to light a fire to take a picture, and when he climbed two-thirds of the way, he would cry out that he was tired, but at this moment he thought of throwing a fireball down again.

Shao Jingxing giggled.In fact, it is easy for him to shoot a small fireball to illuminate the light. Why is it so easy to get tired?It's just that Huo Qing is here, he's just acting like a baby.

"Then I threw one away?" Also look at the bone structure of the giant turtle's feet, whether it is the same as that of ordinary sea turtles.

Huo Qing couldn't help him: "Throw a small one, don't burn anything." If there is some corrupt gas in the bottom, and a fireball is thrown down and exploded, that would be wonderful... But this I don't know how many years have passed, anyway, they climbed all the way down, and they didn't smell the slightest rotten smell. If there was anything, it would have been dispersed long ago.

Sure enough, Shao Jingxing made a small fireball and threw it down.

He also has a little bit of knowledge about the different fireballs now.For example, if it is used for lighting, it does not need to be compressed, as long as it looks brighter, it is better to be hollow inside, so as not to be too powerful and they cannot withstand it when it really blows up.

A small fireball the size of a ping-pong ball fell down lightly. Shao Jingxing first saw a few phalanxes protruding from the bottom of the bone pillar, and then found that there seemed to be something shining slightly between the phalanges: "What is that?" !"

After more than ten minutes, they knew the answer - there were hundreds of Jiuqu beads scattered between the toe bones.

The color of these nine-curved beads was black, and they were not conspicuous at all when they fell on the dark brown leather base. If Shao Jingxing hadn't thrown a fireball on a whim, they would have missed it!

"Why are there so many?" Shao Jingxing picked up more than a dozen beads and looked at them one by one. Although the patterns and colors were slightly different, each bead had two small holes. If you look at it in the light of the fire, you will find that the beads are worn. The channels through which the beads pass are tortuous, and the shape of the pores of each bead may not be exactly the same, but all of them are qualified to be called "nine-curved beads".

Thinking of his speculation in the cave of Guanti Mountain, Shao Jingxing only felt a little hairy on his back, and looked around in horror—these beads all over the floor—no, there might be unhatched ones among the suspected insect eggs?

"Huo Qing, be careful!"

"What?" Huo Qing was also picking up beads on the ground to observe, but was pulled back by Shao Jingxing's collar, bewildered.He had already observed it just now, and the head could be seen at a glance here. Apart from the two of them, there were no other living creatures.

Shao Jingxing couldn't help slapping himself on the forehead.He just remembered it now, and he just confessed his love. He even forgot to tell Huo Qing about the huge skeleton he saw in the cave before!

Forgetting to mention such an important matter, but only focusing on crying about how he was caught by the hapless mercenaries hired by He Maochuan, what a brain drain!In case he was attacked by some bugs, he would not be able to find a place to cry even if he wanted to cry!

"Let's go up first!" Who knows where the bugs will come out.

"Don't be nervous." Huo Qing pressed his hand, freed his collar, and said calmly, "We have been down for a long time, we can attack if we want to, don't get confused."

That's right... Shao Jingxing couldn't help being afraid for a while: "No, you don't know that bug, it's too fast, and it's very hidden..." For example, here, in such a dimly lit space, it's not possible for the bug to crawl in front of his feet. I can find out.

The two of them climbed another whole joint along the Aozu pillar, and Shao Jingxing felt a little more at ease in his heart.Seeing that he was finally not as flustered as before, Huo Qing asked, "What on earth did you think of?" Worm eggs.To be honest, thinking of the beads all over his head, even though Huo Qing has always been calm, what he said made him feel a little nervous.

Shao Jingxing took a breath, sat down between the joints, and then told what happened in the cave in detail.This time he didn't dare to miss any details, and he finished all the details carefully, without even reducing his own guess: "... I can't say whether that is a pupa, but a worm, I think I really saw it. Already!"

The more Huo Qing listened, the more dignified his expression became: "Fangfeng's bones?"

"It was Chongming's guess." Shao Jingxing said hastily, "but it sounds quite reasonable. The bone is really big, and it only has one eye socket. And they said that except for the skull, the rest of it is the same as a human .”

Huo Qing bowed his head and pondered: "But the Fangfeng clan, most of them have metal-type abilities..."

"That chrysalis is white!" Shao Jingxing had a flash of inspiration, "If it is a metal-type ability..." The five elements correspond to the five colors, and the gold element corresponds to white.

"But if it's a gold-type pupa..." Huo Qing slowly sorted out his thoughts, "It should be that the pupa hatched into an adult, and then laid an egg—unless the egg wasn't laid by the adult hatched from that pupa Otherwise, why would the worm that came out of that egg absorb wood-type abilities?"

"It's impossible that Fangfeng brought a pupa and another egg, right?" Shao Jingxing had a different opinion, "Maybe the first eggs were not classified, what kind of abilities did they acquire, and what kind of abilities did they hatch?" Which category does the bug belong to? For example, the pupa in the cave may be of the gold type, but the eggs it laid were initially hatched by absorbing the wood-type ability of the monkey, so they belong to the wood type. Therefore, the nine-curved bead It's the green ones—"

He held up the eggshells he picked up just now: "People of the Gonggong clan all have water-type abilities, so these eggshells are black, because the bugs inside have absorbed the water-type abilities and hatched, becoming water-type bugs. "

Speaking of this, Shao Jingxing patted his thigh: "By the way, let's see if there are any pupae in these bones!" If there are black pupae, wouldn't it prove his deduction?

However, after working for a long time, Shao Jingxing was disappointed again.The bones of these Gonggong clan members were all empty, and no chrysalis was found.

"Am I wrong again?" Shao Jingxing squatted down on a joint in frustration.

"Not necessarily." Huo Qing was still carefully observing a corpse next to him, "Look here..."

Shao Jingxing crawled over without much energy, looked at the place where Huo Qing pointed, and suddenly lifted his spirits: "Yes! The white pupa at that time seemed to be fixed in the skull with this kind of thing! This is like an insect knot. It’s like the mucus spit out by pupae!”

Huo Qing nodded: "That's right. There are at least three corpses with such marks on their spines or ribs." Not a slime trail anymore.

But as long as one trace can be found, it is enough to prove that Shao Jingxing's guess is not impossible.

"So..." Shao Jingxing looked down at the corpses below, feeling horrified, "These people were all... eaten by these bugs?" In fact, he hadn't said anything more terrifying—this Aozuzhu, is it just a petri dish?

"However..." Shao Jingxing wanted to overthrow his own thoughts, "The monkey's liver was shrunken at that time..." The bugs didn't eat his body either.Maybe he was mistaken, these people were just executed.

But Huo Qing ruthlessly broke his hope: "There are two possibilities. First, the larvae don't eat people, and these corpses are rotten and dried."

Shao Jingxing looked at the bones around him.If it was rotten and dried, it seemed impossible for every bone to be so clean.And if you don't eat people, you can't obliterate the horror of "raising insects with people".

However, Huo Qing still said: "The second possibility is that in the cave at that time, the larvae did not have time to eat people slowly." He pointed to the mucus marks left on the spine of the corpse, "If you want to wait for the flesh to rot naturally Light……"

Shao Jingxing understood what he meant.If the flesh does not disappear, the chrysalis will not leave fixation marks on the bones.If the larvae don't eat people, then they have to wait until all the muscle tissue has rotted before they can pupate?

"Nuwa uses humans to raise these bugs?" Shao Jingxing felt unacceptable, "Why! Even if the Gonggong clan is guilty, wouldn't it be over if they were killed?"

Huo Qing pondered and said: "You said that the white chrysalis shell is very hard and feels like a stone?"

"Yes." Shao Jingxing suddenly remembered the words he made up for He Maochuan in order to delay time, "No, you don't think..."

However, Huo Qing has already said it: "Nu Wa smelts five-color stones to mend the sky. Maybe these pupae are five-color stones."

"Why, why do you think so?"

"What if the five-color stone is a living stone?" Huo Qing looked at him, "Emperor Murakami's heart is a fire-type chrysalis, and the energy contained in it can even make a mortal person live for many years. "

"Do you think so too?" Shao Jingxing blurted out.

"Huh?" Huo Qing raised his eyebrows, "Have you thought about it too?"

"I—" Shao Jingxing grinned, "I told He Maochuan that..." But he really just wanted to make a fool of himself and delay the time. Could it be that he accidentally told the truth?

The two climbed on the bone pillar, supplementing each other sentence by sentence about this matter, and sorted out a content that both of them thought was reasonable.

Soon the mountain fell, and the enchantment created by Pangu with all his abilities was destroyed.However, there is no second Pangu in this world, so Nuwa can only use another method to re-seal the world of mountains and seas.

Either way, energy is needed.Pangu is a super powerful user with an extremely special space-type ability, so he sacrificed himself—not only energy, but also his body—what he could do, but Nuwa couldn't.

So Nuwa refined five-color stones.And this five-color stone is a kind of chrysalis. As for the energy in the chrysalis, it is absorbed from other supernatural beings.

"The Gonggong clan was originally a sinner, so adult supernatural beings were sent here to make water-type pupae, which is the black stone among the five-color stones." Huo Qing looked at the piles of corpses below, "If this is the case, There are probably other corpses in the rest of the Aozu pillars."

Nuwa cut off four claw feet, so there may be at least four such "petri dishes".And the clay puppets outside are obviously preventing these "fodder" from escaping.

Shao Jingxing suddenly thought of one thing: "The Fangfeng man in the cave, could it be—" Could it be the "feed" in another scorpion pillar?It's just that he escaped, but was eventually eaten by the hatched larvae, and formed a pupa in his body, emerged again, and laid new eggs.

Because there are no high-level alien beasts in Guanti Mountain—both the father and Songsi are very low-level alien beasts, and they don't even have any abilities to absorb, so this egg has not been hatched until Shao Jingxing and the others into the cave...

Thinking about it this way, Shao Jingxing couldn't help feeling scared again.At that time, he fell into the cave, hoping that the monkeys would not find him.But if the monkeys really didn't find him, then he might be the one feeding the bugs!I'm afraid I won't know how to die when the time comes, and I won't see Huo Qing again...

Woohoo, it's just too scary, so are there any unhatched eggs here?

"If this is the five-color stone refined by Nu Wa, then there should be no unhatched eggs." Huo Qing said softly, "One egg corresponds to a person, and it was taken away after it pupated."

Shao Jingxing patted his chest: "That's good. Where did the pupa get taken?"

"It is very likely that it is Leng Chuan that He Maochuan mentioned." Huo Qing pressed his forehead, "But where is Leng Chuan..."

"I think we'll take it step by step." Shao Jingxing suggested, "That Fangfeng died on Guanti Mountain, does that mean that the other Aozu Pillar is not far from Guanti Mountain? If we can find the second Aozu Pillar , then theoretically, it is also possible for us to analyze the positions of the remaining two scorpions."

If you have the positions of the four poles, you might be able to analyze where the formation eyes are.

"Accordingly, there should be five pillars..." Shao Jingxing touched his chin, "If the Gonggong clan is water and the Fangfeng clan is gold, then adding water, fire, and earth, there should be five pillars. ah."

"But the mountain of Guanti belongs to the Beishanjing, and the north should be water..." Shao Jingxing said, and then he became puzzled, "This direction doesn't feel quite right..." Jiayimu in the east, Bingdinghuo in the south, and Geng in the west Xinjin, Renguishui in the north, Guanti Mountain is in the north...

"It's not too far from west to north." Huo Qing didn't know what he was thinking, but now he came back to his senses and added, "If Fangfeng persists long enough, it is possible to escape to the north."

"So we are still in the north?" Shao Jingxing's eyes lit up, "Is it not far from Guanti Mountain?"

No one can answer this question. After all, there are 88 mountains in the Beishan series. Who knows which one they are closest to now.

Moreover, Huo Qing had another idea.Perhaps the maps drawn in the "Shan Hai Jing" are not exactly the same as the actual ones.In other words, what is recorded in the "Shan Hai Jing" is the world of mountains and seas in the array set up by Nuwa. This world may not be the same as what the eyes see.

In fact, the special affairs department once wanted to make a map corresponding to the two worlds, but in the end it failed.That is to say, in terms of the fixed gates that have been set up now, these gates generally correspond to each other in the "Shan Hai Jing". For example, the fixed gates in the north correspond to the mountains in the Beishanjing series; , which almost belong to the Nanshan Jing family.

However, if we study it carefully, this corresponding method is not completely correct.For example, Gate 1 and Gate 2 both correspond to the North Mountain Classic, but Gate 1 is further north, and the corresponding location in the world of mountains and seas may be more south than the location corresponding to Gate 2.Not to mention that there are at least two-thirds of the mountains, and the corresponding locations cannot be confirmed on the map of this world.

This is also the reason why the special affairs department thinks that the world of mountains and seas is a multi-layered sphere, because this can explain why many mountains cannot find their corresponding positions, because they overlap, and maybe several mountains correspond to the same world in this world. One location, but when passing through the barriers on both sides, because the depth is different, the location you reach is also different.

However, if one thinks that the world of mountains and seas is hidden by the talisman array, this can also be explained, because the world of mountains and seas we see is not the original appearance of the real world of mountains and seas.Many mountains are hidden by the talisman array and cannot be reached through normal methods, so the corresponding locations cannot be found.

Huo Qing's head hurt from thinking about it, so he sighed and put it down for the time being.He doesn't study talismans deeply, so don't embarrass yourself, submit a report to Corey after you get out, and let professional people study it.

"Submit to Corey?" Shao Jingxing hesitated for a while, but said, "I think it's better not to report to Corey yet?"

Huo Qing's hand rested on his temple, and he turned his gaze to Shao Jingxing: "You suspect..."

"The Jiuqu Bead of Rao Mountain." Shao Jingxing said in a low voice, "What if someone already knew the secret of the five-color stone and is still using this kind of insect eggs?"