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Chapter 105: Gu is Gu, and Bug is Bug

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A twist of the wrist.

Wu Wen retracted the dagger.

"Chang'an is thousands of miles away from Shuzhong. You said you came from the Miao village in Qianzhu Mountain in Shuzhong. Then how did you know that I was the one who made the cowpox vaccine?" Wu Wen asked puzzledly.

"Then I have to thank Tangjiabao!"

Ge Mi Po smiled and replied: "If they had not committed a serious crime and were arrested by the court, how would we know that someone in Chang'an, a thousand miles away, actually refined the cowpox vaccine."

"Tangjiabao? How are they now?" Wu Wen asked.

"Under the government's pursuit, Tangjiabao has been destroyed, most of the people have been arrested, and the rest have fled into the mountains." said Ge Mi Po.

Hearing this, Wu Wen couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The power of the imperial court was indeed strong. With just one imperial edict, the Tang Family Fortress thousands of miles away was directly destroyed.

"If you want to learn how to make cowpox vaccine, I can teach you, but you have to pay for it." Wu Wen put forward the conditions.

"What do you want?" asked Ge Mi Po.

Wu Wen stared at her closely and said, "I want to know how you are not affected by my psychedelic technique!"

Ge Mi Po smiled slightly: "We Miao people have lived in the mountains for generations. What kind of poisonous insects and poisons have we not come into contact with? How can a mere psychedelic technique affect me?"

However, Wu Wen was not satisfied with her answer.

Although poisonous insects and poisons can also cause hallucinations, their hallucinogenicity is a reaction produced after drugs or neurotoxins enter the human body.

His hypnosis works directly on the mind.

Facing Wu Wen's unbelieving look, Ge Mi Po knew that she couldn't hide it from him, so she explained again: "This is a secret technique of our Miao people. I can't tell you."

"Secret technique? Then I can't possibly teach you how to make the cowpox vaccine. Please go back!" Wu Wen gestured to see him off.

Ge Mi Po stood still for a moment, and then she spoke again: "This is the secret technique of my Miao people. Even if I tell you, you will never be able to learn it."

"You speak first!" Wu Wen insisted.

"Then you have to promise first that after I tell you, no matter what, you must teach me the method of making cowpox vaccine!" Ge Mi Po put forward the condition.

"Okay!" Wu Wen agreed immediately.

Then, Ge Mi Po began to explain: "The reason why your magic tricks don't work on me is because I have the 'birth Gu' in my body."

Hearing this, Wu Wen immediately listened carefully.

“Before learning Gu techniques, the Miao people would first choose a Gu as their natal Gu.

Once the natal Gu is integrated into the body, it will share the same fate with the body.

Regardless of whether it is physical or spiritual means, if anyone wants to harm me, my destiny Gu will help me resist it."

"So, the reason why your illusion technique doesn't work on me is because my life-definition Gu is helping me resist it."

"What is your natal Gu?" Wu Wen asked curiously.

Hearing this question, Ge Mi Po suddenly became serious: "The natal Gu is the biggest secret of every Miao people. Even the closest people cannot reveal it."

Seeing this, Wu Wen immediately changed the question: "Then I want to ask, what do you Miao people choose as your natal Gu?"

Ge Mi Po thought for a moment, then took out an extremely transparent crystal bead from her arms, spread it on the palm of her hand, and let Wu Wen look at it.

"This is the most common white Gu. If someone chooses it, they can integrate it into their body and refine it into their life Gu."

Wu Wen lowered his head and observed carefully, only to see that the crystal bead was hollow inside, with some crystal filaments distributed inside, like a spider web. He immediately understood that the so-called natal Gu was actually a special kind of fungus!

Then, he looked up and smiled at Ge Mi Po and asked, "Gu worms, Gu worms, shouldn't Gu be all insects? Just like the ones you released just now, either they were crawling all over their bodies or they were small insects flying in the sky."

Ge Mi Po said disdainfully: "Only ignorant people would confuse poisonous insects with the same thing."

"You mean, Gu is Gu and insects are insects? Since insects are not Gu, how do you control insects?" Wu Wen asked curiously.

"The secret of the poisonous insect belongs to the secret of my Miao people's poison technique. I cannot tell you." Ge Mi Po flatly refused.

However, to Wu Wen, her words were the best answer. He couldn't help but smile.

"Okay, I have answered your question. You should keep your promise and hand over the method of refining cowpox vaccine to me!" Ge Mi Po said seriously.

"Of course!"

Wu Wen smiled and replied, "It's just that it's getting late now. Come back tomorrow and I'll teach you the method."

"Okay, I'll come again tomorrow. I hope you won't go back on your word, otherwise you will know how terrible the consequences of deceiving a Miao person are." With that, Ge Mi Po turned and left.

Wu Wen watched her leave until she was some distance away. Then, in the darkness, seven or eight people walked out from the surrounding corners, slowly approached her, and then the group left together.

Wu Wen did not return to his mansion until they all disappeared from his sight.

inside the room.

sit on the chair.

Wu Wen closed his eyes slightly, put his arms on the table, and tapped the tabletop rhythmically with one finger.

"Insect!" he whispered to himself.

Gu is a kind of fungus, which Wu Wen had seen in the human body in Tangjiabao.

Although Gu and insects are two different things, the fact that they are put together shows that there is a particularly close connection between Gu and insects.

This connection is the secret of how the Miao people can control insects through Gu.

Wu Wen continued to ponder, the rhythm of his fingers tapping on the table gradually becoming slow and deep.

"Snake, wasp!"

Wu Wen has also had experience with manipulation techniques, such as controlling snakes and wasps.

Fundamentally, whether it is controlling snakes or wasps, it starts with their living habits and reactions to things, and then uses various methods and means to achieve control over them.

From this, Wu Wen inferred that the principle of controlling insects through Gu should be the same.

The connection between Gu and insects!

Thinking of this, Wu Wen couldn't help but think of the fact that in nature, there are many fungi and insects that have a symbiotic relationship.

There are even some fungi that reproduce by parasitizing and manipulating insects.

For example, Cordyceps sinensis.

Cordyceps sinensis is a cordyceps fungus that invades the bodies of insect larvae, slowly absorbs the larvae's nutrients and manipulates their behavior.

The controlled larvae will crawl to a place suitable for the growth of Cordyceps fungi according to the will of the Cordyceps fungi, and then tightly grasp the grass and plants there and stop moving.

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(End of this chapter)