Volume 3 Volume 26 Chapter 26 Chi Gu

The eyes of the mummy had completely shrunk, leaving only two black holes. The mouth was incredibly wide open, revealing broken teeth. The entire face was deformed by dehydration, showing a rather hideous expression that made people afraid to look directly at it. From his teeth, it could be seen that this mummy was not a monkey, but a real human being!

Lao Yan paused for a moment and said, “What’s going on? Lao Wu, didn’t you just say it was a monkey? This… … this… is obviously a human being.”

I stammered, ‘I… I don’t know either. Just now when I broke the mask, I saw that it was indeed a monkey, or a big yellow-haired monkey. This… this… really confused me.’ I wanted to stick my head over to see if it was because of the light that I had misjudged.

The cool master Master Liang suddenly waved his hand, telling me not to touch the corpse, and carefully stood up straight, turning the mask in his hand over. I saw a fist-sized spiral bulge on the back of the mask, like a snail shell, with a small hole on it. Master Liang held the mask up to his face and turned to us, saying, “It seems that this mask can only be worn with the mouth open.”

Lao Yao was surprised and said, “With the mouth open? Wouldn’t that be like having a breathing apparatus in your mouth, and how uncomfortable would that be?”

I saw I saw the mummy’s mouth was wide open, and said to Master Liang, “Could it be that there is something strange in this snail shell? You smash it and take a look. These masks are all grown into the flesh of these monkeys, covering their mouths and eyes. They must have other ways to eat and see things.”

Master Liang inserted his pen into the hole and pried hard. The “snail shell” cracked open, revealing something inside that resembled a crab’s leg. Master Liang pulled it out and found it was a bug he had never seen before, which had turned into a fossil. If he applied a little force, it would break into several pieces.

“It seems that the mask was not worn voluntarily,” said the cool master with a frown. “But this thing is indeed man-made. Look at the lines inside the mask, which are roughly the same as the double-bodied snake on the tree. It must be related to the person who cast this copper tree.”

Old Itch He took the mask and looked at it for a long time with interest, saying, “This must be an old bug from the Western Zhou Dynasty. Maybe it’s already extinct now, no wonder we don’t recognize it. Hey, look, this bug seems to be only half.”

After that, he looked at us and asked, “Where did the other half go?”

This The bug was curled up in the protruding cavity of the mouth of the mask. According to this, there was only one place where the other half of the bug was located. I thought of this and subconsciously looked into the mouth of the mummy. Sure enough, I saw that in the big black mouth, another half of the bug was attached to the tongue. The dried-up bug body had been inserted into the corpse’s throat, and I didn’t know what organ it had entered. Because The shriveled muscles of the mummy looked very similar to the fossilized insect, so if you didn’t look closely, you might think that the insect was the dried tongue.

When the cold-blooded advisor saw this, his face changed and he cried out, “Throw it away! Throw it away! My goodness, throw it away! This mask might be alive!” He then slapped his hand out and knocked the mask out of Lao Yang’s hand. The mask fell rapidly into the darkness, hit a branch, and crashed to the ground in a loud crash.

Lao Yang He was so startled that he almost lost his grip and fell. He asked him what was wrong with him and what he meant by a living mask.

The cool and learned master coughed, looked very remorseful, and said, “I am truly ashamed. How could I be so stupid? Why didn’t I think of it earlier? This… copper tree, this sacrificial method, is clearly not something that belongs to us Han people.

”What What the hell are you talking about?” Lao Yang was furious. ‘What kind of idiot are you? What does this have to do with masks? Just say what you want to say!’

Liang Shiyu waved his hand and said, ”No, you have to listen to me patiently. I have to start from the beginning. But how should I put it? it has to start with the blood sacrifice we just talked about…”

It turns out that the blood sacrifice was mainly used in the sacrificial activities of the ethnic minorities during the Western Zhou Dynasty. Large-scale blood sacrifices are not recorded in the official history of the Han people, but they have been sporadically discovered in some ethnic minority ruins. Unfortunately, due to the loss of the language and writing, there is no more detailed information.

The sacred places of the The holy places of the minority peoples were very sacred, not only were they guarded by people, but also by priests who used some kind of strange magic to protect their gods from being disturbed. In the legends of the minority peoples, the process of casting spells was very mysterious. This strange magic has been passed down to the present day, and the gods have become omnipotent in novels.

Liangshi Master Liang said that the art of witchcraft was divided into two parts, one during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the other during the Song Dynasty. The art of witchcraft before the Qin Dynasty was very powerful, almost like the superpowers of today, but all the witches were made from insects, and the art of witchcraft was called the art of insects at that time. These masked monkeys and mummies are mysterious and mysterious, and may be the product of this ancient witchcraft.

He heard of a kind of ancient witchcraft called Chi Gu, which can make people very aggressive. The bugs that are now hidden in the cavity behind the mask and in the mouth, which go deep into the throat, may be the original form of the ancient Chi Gu. This kind of bug may affect the nervous system of animals or people and attack strangers. So when I smashed their masks, the monkey returned to its natural state and instinctively began to move away from us.

Chi Gu can multiply in the body of the host. After the host dies, they will attach to a place, such as the cavity of this mask, waiting for the next host to approach, and then parasitize in some way.

This mummy may have been a hunter hunting here at the time, who unfortunately encountered the dormant Chi Gu and was infected by this ancient evil.

Of course , there is no record of this kind of thing, and it is not known whether it is true or not, but the fact that there are bugs hidden in the mask and deep in the throat is indisputable. This is definitely not an ordinary thing, so be careful.

Hearing When I heard the old man say this, I got goosebumps. In fact, before I came, the information the old man gave me also mentioned something similar, but at the time I just glanced at it and thought, “This is just like a scene from an American movie.” I never thought it was real. I never thought that the American science fiction film would have to learn from our ancestors’ technology. I really don’t know whether to say it’s glorious or ashamed.

I turned I looked over and saw that the strange mummy was still hanging there motionless, its pale mask half smiling, as if waiting for us to approach.

Lao Yi looked a bit uncomfortable and muttered, asking Master Liang, “You’re being too scary. If the Chi Gu is attached, it’s okay to tear it off immediately, right? Will there be any hidden dangers?”

Master Liang said, “I’ve never been bitten either. The bite is very difficult to treat. If I were bitten, I would never be able to simply pull it off. For this kind of thing, we should take precautions. These mummies, we should try not to get too close to them. Uncle Tai also fell from here. He’s an old hand, so I don’t think he would have fallen by accident. We should be careful.”

Lao Yang frowned, wanting to say something, but he didn’t. I I asked him how long it would take to climb like this. If there were branches as dense as these, he would probably die of exhaustion before reaching the top. Lao Yang told me that it would be sparser up there. At the time he was climbing, he only had a small flashlight, so the lighting was poor. He didn’t notice the mummies or the monkeys attacking him, so now he doesn’t know where he is. But anyway, since ancient times, Huashan has always been a pillar, so you can’t climb up to anywhere else.

I felt I felt that it was not a good place to stay for a long time, so I told them to get past this section first. There was also a fat boss with the cool master, and this person was very likely above us. If he got to the top first, it would be trouble. If we were ambushed, the three of us might die without knowing why.

Lao Yang said, “That makes sense. Wait a minute, I’ll shoot a flare to see if there are any ambushes up there.” He took out a signal gun and fired a straight shot at the top.

The signal The signal flares flew to the top and did not hit the head. I thought to myself, this kind of bullet can at least hit a height of more than 200 meters.

The signal flares burned up, and looking up, it was true that not far from the top, the branches became sparse again. I couldn’t figure out why it was designed this way, and from below, the 200-meter range was not impossible to see.

The signal The signal flares fell, and Lao Yi watched for a while, saying, “It seems that the fat Cantonese boss didn’t ambush him. Maybe Uncle Tai is the only one who survived and got here. After all, the coffin array outside is not that good… Hey, what are those things?”

When the signal flares fell sixty or so meters away from us, we saw that there were many protrusions on the bronze trunk of that section. Upon I felt a tingling in the back of my head, and cold sweat trickled down to the soles of my feet. The entire distance of ten meters was covered with bronze tree trunks, each one with a face on it. No! It should be said that it was a strange mask.