Between mountains and seas

Chapter 29 The Internet Bride

Shao Jingxing had to admit that talking to Ji Yan was quite interesting.At this time, it was clear that he and Ji Xiaojiu belonged to the same family, and they could talk about everything. Although sometimes the words they said were too polite to understand, but they were not lonely along the way.

"Cold rhinoceros, as the name suggests, can ward off cold air. Besides, there are water rhinoceros, summer rhinoceros, wrathful rhinoceros, dusty rhinoceros, and chicken rhinoceroses—also called Tongtian rhinoceros. There is also a white rhinoceros, which is similar to the white rhinoceros. The previous ones are not the same, they belong to auspicious things, that is, luck bonuses. This kind is rather special, and although it can be grouped together with Pihanxi and the like, it is actually a completely different attribute from a fundamental point of view.”

Shao Jingxing was very interested in this lucky bonus: "What is the principle?"

"I don't know." Ji Yan readily admitted his ignorance, "Luck value has always been mysterious and mysterious. Although there is a so-called theory of luck and feng shui, most people actually follow cats and tigers. They know it but don't know it. That's why." He spread his hands, "Of course, so do I."

"Didn't your Ji family study it?" Shao Jingxing asked curiously, "Didn't it be said that the 800 years of the Zhou Dynasty were all due to the luck of King Wen of Zhou?"

The black line on Ji Yan's forehead hangs down to a length of three feet: "Who did you hear that..." The length of an era mainly depends on whether the monarchs of the past are wise or not. If you want to add luck, how much will you add!

Shao Jingxing laughed dryly: "I heard it from someone before." Who knows which novel I read it in...

"It's all based on rumors." Ji Yan waved his hand, "How many people are in that country, how can we increase our luck?" He now feels that talking to Shao Jingxing is not so pleasant, the main question asked by this person is laymen He is also a layman, but because of the layman, sometimes he is tricky, and he really can't answer without thinking carefully, so he can only cut the mess quickly and quickly end this topic.

Shao Jingxing didn't know that he was going to talk to death again, and he was still asking with great interest: "Then what about water and rhinoceros?"

Ji Yan sighed weakly, and continued to explain: "Actually, you can tell by the name. The Pishui rhinoceros is a water-dividing rhinoceros, which belongs to the water-type animal. The Pishu rhinoceros belongs to the water-type ice type, which can reduce heat. Touching the wrath rhinoceros is very Rarely seen, holding its rhinoceros horn can calm the mind and eliminate anger, sadness and other emotions. This may belong to some kind of plant-based healing power - but this thing is only mentioned in Guo Pu's "Shan Hai Jing Zhu", so far No one has seen the real thing yet, so it's hard to say whether it's true or not.

To ward off the dust rhinoceros, you can carry ornaments made of rhinoceros horns to avoid dust.But in fact, this is an earth-type supernatural ability. A living Pichenxi can pass through stones to escape from the ground. In some books before, it was recorded that "a rat in the ground can weigh a thousand catties". The body was not easy to identify, it was just misidentified. "

"Can I admit my mistake?" Shao Jingxing listened with gusto, "A mouse should have a long tail, besides, there are no mice with horns, right?"

Ji Yan shrugged: "What if the corpse starts to decompose?"

After thinking for a while, Shao Jingxing realized that what he meant by decomposing was actually rotting. He felt a little disgusted, and quickly asked, "What about scaring chickens? Could it be to scare chickens?" What's the use of that?

Ji Yan felt very tired talking to an illiterate, but he had to answer: "No." What kind of skill is it to scare chickens? The reason for frightening chickens and rhinos is that when they were first discovered, someone fed them with rice from rhino horns. The chicken, because the chickens looked away and retreated, and then found the abnormality, so it got its name.Speaking of which, using rhino horns as chicken troughs is a waste of money.

"The rhinoceros horn of the terrified chicken has a texture that goes straight to the top, so it is also called the Tongtian rhinoceros. This kind of rhinoceros horn is the nemesis of ghosts. Su Shi wrote in a poem: "I have no time to burn the rhinoceros to illuminate the strange ghosts, but I will burn the swallows out of the hidden qiu. The used is The allusion of warming and burning the rhinoceros."

He felt that he had already explained it very carefully, but he saw that Shao Jingxing just looked at him in bewilderment and asked, "Where is Wenqiao?" Is Shaoyan the one he thought of?What is a diving ball?

Ji Yan was about to cry: "Wen Qiao——Wen Qiao is a man! From the Jin Dynasty! He once went to Niuzhuji, heard the sound of music in the water, lit a rhinoceros horn to take a picture, and found that there were all strange-shaped water monsters underneath. , and then died!"

When he said this, he was gnashing his teeth.

Huo Qing watched the surroundings while listening to the two talking, and now the corners of his mouth curled up slightly imperceptibly.Hearing that Ji Yan stopped talking, he pointed to the front: "Is it almost there?"

Ji Yan was afraid that Shao Jingxing would ask some strange questions again, so he hurriedly looked forward after hearing the words: "That's right, just go forward from here, the trap is set in the woods over there. It should be the Pihan Rhinoceros It is the only way to drink water every day, but I don’t know if it has come back now or has chosen another place to live.”

Huo Qing observed the ground: "There is no trace of returning, most likely they have given up on this place." It is common sense for beasts to find another lair after being disturbed, and Pihanxi seems to have followed this rule, looking for another safe place to live up.

After walking for a while, Shao Jingxing saw a mess.

The entire forest seemed to have been ravaged by a crazy excavator. The trees fell sideways, the grass was turned up, and the ground was full of gullies, so that even the two corpses were not very conspicuous.

Shao Jingxing didn't recognize that it was a person at first glance, but when he took a closer look, the hooked snake meat that he had eaten immediately turned up - the corpse was split in half from the back, and broken pieces could still be seen in the rolled up flesh. The vertebrae in pieces looked like fish that had been chopped up with knives.

"This, this is Pihanxi..." According to Ji Yan, it was picked from behind by Pihanxi's horn.

Ji Yan nodded and pointed to the side: "There's that one. Four people came, two died, and the other two ran away."

Shao Jingxing suppressed his nausea and looked in the direction of his fingers. He saw another corpse lying on its back with its stomach crushed...

Although I saw Pi Hanxi smashing the ground and rubble with my own eyes before, no matter how powerful it was, it felt different from seeing two bloody corpses.Only now did Shao Jingxing really feel scared - if Ji Yan hadn't hit Pi Hanxi's leg with the red stone when he went to burn Pi Hanxi's butt, wouldn't he be similar to this corpse now?

However, Huo Qing seemed to be used to such bloody scenes, and went over to observe: "It seems that there is no resistance at all."

"Not an expert." Ji Yan picked up a gun from the grass, "Bringing a gun to hunt Pihan rhinoceros, this level..."

Shao Jingxing looked at the gun: "This is a shotgun, it's powerful enough."

"It's not power." Ji Yan casually knocked the gun on the nearby stone, and only heard a slap, and the gun body broke from it!

Shao Jingxing was dumbfounded: "What is this—" Then he suddenly remembered what Huo Qing had said to him, "Is this being eroded by the power of mountains and seas?" My God, Huo Qing told him that his car was in the world of mountains and seas It won't last long and he still doesn't have any specific impressions. Now it seems that his Porsche may have rotted into a pile of scrap copper and iron - a million dollars, it's just gone...

"Yes." Ji Yan threw the broken gun, "Ordinary metals in this world will age and corrode within 4-8 hours after entering the world of mountains and seas. This special steel can last for 12 hours, and some alloys can last for 48 hours. But in general, it doesn't take long. I saw that the four people who set the trap were all carrying similar ordinary weapons. If it weren't for that spell, they wouldn't be able to get close to the Pihanxi, let alone hunt gone."

Shao Jingxing asked in a daze: "So what?" What do you mean by saying this?Are these people stupid?

Ji Yan looked helpless.Huo Qing smiled imperceptibly, and explained: "Ji Yan means that this kind of equipment is actually not suitable for poaching in the world of mountains and seas. Professional poachers don't just carry this kind of thing."

Shao Jingxing suddenly realized: "Just say that these people are not professional? Do you dare to catch such a powerful thing like this?"

Huo Qing nodded: "This is the strange place." He glanced at Ji Yan, "You can do divination now, right?"

"En." Ji Yan took out a small pocket, poured out six copper coins, whispered a few words to one of the corpses, and threw the copper coins down.

Shao Jingxing stared curiously, but when the copper coin was thrown down, there was no golden light shining like a thousand streaks of aura as he had imagined, it just rolled all over the ground, which greatly disappointed him.

"How is it?" Huo Qing also stared at the copper coins.

Ji Yan carefully looked at the copper coins that were either positive or negative, and suddenly frowned, and quickly picked up the copper coins: "Quick, go to the south!"

Shao Jingxing was still at a loss, but Huo Qing was the first to leave, not forgetting to tell Shao Jingxing: "Be careful."

What the hell to be careful about?Shao Jingxing was puzzled, but he could only follow along in a daze.But it didn't take long for him to understand what Huo Qing meant - there were two more corpses ahead.

"Mountain, mountain spider!" When Shao Jingxing saw the two corpses wrapped in white silk, he couldn't help but look around.Didn't it mean that this is not the territory of mountain spiders?

Huo Qing frowned: "There shouldn't be mountain spiders on the territory of Pihan rhinoceros." Rhinoceros have bad tempers, and it's good to have some docile birds and beasts around, but mountain spiders and other huge strange beasts, they is intolerable.After all, particularly huge mountain spiders can also use their webs to prey on rhinos.

"But there are also spider threads over there—" Ji Yan looked around, "It also looks like traces of mountain spiders." Mountain spiders are used to building bridges with spider silk when traveling. Even if the spider silk is taken back after passing by, there will inevitably be residue Glues the branches of the plant together, and such marks are easily found by those familiar with the situation.

Shao Jingxing tremblingly said, "I see that there are a lot of spider threads left on the ground... No, it's not still nearby, is it?" It looked like he had just finished his meal, and he didn't know if he had gone far away.

His words made Huo Qing raise his eyebrows slightly, he suddenly reached out and picked up a dead body, and then sneered: "It's not a mountain spider."

"How do you know?" Ji Yan imitated him and lifted the other corpse and weighed it, "Hey, it seems a bit too heavy, right?"

"What do you mean?" Although the spider silk wrapped around the corpse was thick, it was translucent. Through their slightly thinner parts, Shao Jingxing seemed to be able to vaguely see the horrified expression on the dead man's face, and then thought of the spider's eating. way, I just feel the hairs on my back.

Ji Yan threw the corpse down and explained kindly: "The corpses eaten by mountain spiders are only skin and bones, which should be much lighter than this."

Shao Jingxing once again felt that the snake meat in his stomach was about to turn upwards.But Huo Qing had already pulled out his knife, and quickly cut open a silk sac, and suddenly a round object rolled out of it, and went straight to Shao Jingxing's feet - it was the head of the corpse.

"Oh——" Shao Jingxing jumped up, wishing to jump on Huo Qing—the head rolled out unexpectedly, and without the spider silk to cover it, Shao Jingxing clearly saw the skin on the head and face shrunk, as if dehydrated It seems that the facial features are a bit shifted because of the involvement, no wonder he saw the expression of horror just now.

Huo Qing stepped on the rolling head, and sneered: "Mountain spiders hunt, and the corpses are all intact." Because spiders always inject venom into the living prey to anesthetize, and then inject digestive juice and then suck it. , does not need to bite off the head to kill the prey.

"Interesting." Ji Yan pushed his glasses, squatted down and carefully observed the broken neck of the corpse, "This is a fake mountain spider hunting scene."

Shao Jingxing hid behind Huo Qing, and asked tremblingly: "Why, why?" Killing is killing, what does it mean to fake?Afraid of being found out that he killed him?

"Of course." Ji Yan reached out and twirled the spider silk on the corpse, "This spider silk is real spider silk, not an illusion. And this head—" He looked at the fractured part of the head and neck: " The inside of the head has indeed been eaten, but the inside of the corpse is complete." Flesh, flesh, internal organs, and blood are all there, so it is much heavier than the corpses eaten by mountain spiders.

He said, seeing Shao Jingxing's expressionless face, he couldn't help laughing: "Didn't you deal with the mountain spider, what are you afraid of?"

Shao Jingxing really wanted to turn his head to vomit, but he didn't want to be too embarrassed in front of Ji Yan, so he said bravely, "Although I have dealt with it, I still feel disgusting when I think about it. This is a physiological reaction." He was afraid of Ji Yan. Yan asked again, and quickly said, "If it's not a mountain spider, what is it? Why kill them?"

"The latter question is easy to answer." Ji Yan pondered, "I guess it's the people who hired these poachers."

He rummaged through the silk sac and pulled out another gun: "Look, this team of poachers are all using this kind of thing, and it doesn't match that spell at all. I guess that spell was given to them by someone else." , most of them were given by their employers so that they could use them to hunt Pihan rhinoceros. Being able to use this kind of spell is also an expert, and he probably guessed my identity—I mean, he should have guessed me too He is in this business, so he is afraid that we will find these poachers, follow the clues to catch him, and kill him. If you disguise the scene like this, if you are careless, you may really think it was eaten by a mountain spider."

If it hadn't been for Huo Qing's sudden thought of picking up the corpse and weighing it, he would have been deceived, and he would never have thought of opening the silk sac to observe the corpse.Ji Yan glanced at Huo Qing: "How did you think of it?"

Huo Qing simply said: "There are too many spider threads left."

It was also Shao Jingxing who reminded him.The silk fluid of spiders is secreted by the body, and it does not fall from the sky, so it should be used sparingly.Therefore, many spiders have the habit of swallowing the old web and producing new silk in the body.Mountain spiders also retain this habit. After hunting, they will eat most of the spider silk spit out for recycling.

Therefore, there will be spider silk in the place where the mountain spider lives - such as a bridge built between two trees - but it will not leave too many useless spider silk, because it is a waste.

However, these two corpses were not only wrapped in excessively thick spider silk, but also left a large piece of spider silk around them. It seemed that there had been a fierce battle, but when you think about it carefully, it was left behind. There was a flaw.

"Cunning." Ji Yan murmured, "It's a pity that I did it too thoroughly and showed my feet instead. This is really superfluous. But in this way, the clues will really be broken."

"It's not completely broken." Huo Qing kicked the head in front of Ji Yan with a light kick, "As long as you know what killed them, this is also a clue. Look at this man's expression."

Shao Jingxing was frightened and curious at the same time. He stuck his head out from behind Huo Qing, suppressed his nausea and took a look, and said in a low voice, "This expression is quite strange, why does it look like—" I don't know if it was because his eyes were dazzled, or the skin on his head was dehydrated. Because of the shrinkage, from his angle, the corners of the man's head and mouth are slightly raised, as if he is smiling.

"Yes." Huo Qing said simply, "This man was not afraid before he was killed."

"An acquaintance committed the crime?" Shao Jingxing had a flash of inspiration.

Huo Qing gave him a helpless look: "There are spider threads, the head was taken off and sucked dry, but it didn't make people frightened—"

"Network bride!" Ji Yan blurted out, "Damn, are you Japanese?"

"Yes, is that girl Spider, also called Shinwura?" Shao Jingxing also blurted out.Emma knows this!He played "Onmyoji"!

The net bride is a Japanese monster. To put it bluntly, it is a spider spirit, similar to a pansidong female fairy.They are turned into beauties, and the seduced men are decapitated.

"Yes, that's what it is." Huo Qing said in a deep voice, "From this point of view, the five-pointed star-shaped charm you saw may be the Seimei Kikyo Seal."

Ahhhhh!Shao Jingxing wanted to slap himself on the forehead—fortunately, he still watched "Onmyoji", so why didn't he remember that it was the seal of Qingming Kikyo?

"It's not just poaching, it's crossing the border." Ji Yan grinned without a smile on his face, "If we're afraid that we will pursue it, we'll just kill people to silence them. These little Japanese have never been honest."

"It seems that there should be a door nearby." Huo Qing shook the knife in his hand in disgust, and a few spider threads floated down from the blade, "This is also a clue, wait for us to go out and look it up slowly."