Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 8: Worms of Death in the Western Regions
Just when I was out of breath, I suddenly saw a flash of cold light, and the warrior from the Western Regions swung the Lengyue Dao in his hand and slashed at me.I was shocked, and hurriedly raised the kitchen knife to block the top of my head.With a crisp ding, the kitchen knife was split in two.I was terrified, threw away the kitchen knife and retreated to a place five meters away.

Hearing the swishing sound of the blade, the Leng Yuedao drew white circles of light one after another in the air, chopping the six-toothed rake in Grandpa's hand into several pieces.

I said anxiously: "It would be great if there were black dog blood or black donkey hooves now, and it would be fine if it didn't become glutinous rice!"

Gu Meidi said: "Do you really believe that these things can restrain the corpse change?"

I said, "I don't know either! But I can't think of any other way now, so go back to the kitchen and see if there is any glutinous rice in the kitchen?"

Gu Meidi stomped his feet, turned around and was about to leave.

At this time, grandpa shouted: "Daughter-in-law, quickly take out those yellow talismans on the table in the back room!"

Gu Meidi quickly ran into the back room, and after a while, ran out with a few yellow talismans in his hand.

When I saw it, I immediately understood that grandpa was going to use corpse-fixing charms to deal with this Western Region warrior. These corpse-fixing charms were drawn by my grandfather a few days ago when he was out on a boat to retrieve corpses.

The warriors from the Western Regions, holding the Lengyue Dao in their hands, approached us step by step.

Grandpa shouted to us: "Tuobagu, Gumeidi, come behind me!"

Although grandpa is old and his body is a little rickety, but at this moment, I found that grandpa has become extremely tall and mighty.

When the warrior from the Western Regions was less than three meters away from us, Grandpa rushed up suddenly, and slapped a mortal talisman on the warrior from the Western Regions in the middle of his forehead.Who knew that the corpse-fixing charm was useless to the warriors of the Western Regions. The warriors of the Western Regions raised the Lengyue Dao high and slashed at Grandpa. Fortunately, Grandpa dodged quickly and managed to avoid the knife.

"Grandfather! Are you okay? Are you hurt?" I rushed over to support Grandpa in two or three steps.

"Impossible! How could the mortal talisman not work?" Grandpa's face was full of confusion.

boom--

Gunshots rang out, and the air was filled with a thick smell of gunpowder smoke.

The head of the warrior from the Western Regions exploded in an instant, and the shattered skulls scattered in all directions, and the corpse fell straight down.

I turned my head and saw that Gu Meidi was holding a shiny old shotgun, and the muzzle was still emitting green smoke.

Gu Meidi put down the shotgun and wiped the sweat from his face: "Just now when I went in to get the yellow talisman, I saw this shotgun hanging on the wall!"

Grandpa nodded approvingly: "Well done! Well done!" Then he glanced at the dead body on the ground, and said with some regret: "His grandma's! I thought I picked up a treasure, but it turned out to be What an evil thing! My daughter-in-law, I am so sorry that I surprised you!"

Gu Meidi smiled: "I'm a student of archaeology, so I'm not afraid of these things!"

Grandpa leaned over to pick up the kerosene lamp, and suddenly exclaimed in a low voice: "Huh? What is this?"

I saw an extremely weird bug crawling out of the shattered head of a warrior from the Western Regions. This is the weirdest and ugliest bug I have ever seen.The worm was about an inch long, dark red all over, and looked like a wriggling cow intestine.It has no feet, and slowly crawls on the ground in the form of waves.

This strange insect has no obvious facial features. It has four soft tentacles growing on its head. The tentacles are usually closed together. Whenever it crawls a step, the tentacles will open, revealing the cross-shaped mouth inside.As it crawled, it spit out streams of dark green viscous liquid from its mouth. The dark green liquid seemed to be terribly corrosive, and the ground sizzled as it burned.

I couldn't help frowning: "What kind of strange insect is this, it looks really disgusting!"

Grandpa raised his right foot and wanted to trample the strange bug to death, but Gu Meidi hurriedly dissuaded him: "Grandpa, don't! If you trample the bug to death, the corrosive liquid in its body will splash out. If it accidentally touches the skin Come on, it will be troublesome!"

Grandpa withdrew his right foot: "It makes sense! Then how do we deal with this disgusting thing?"

Gu Meidi took the kerosene lamp from grandpa's hand: "Burn it with fire!" As he said, Gu Meidi raised the kerosene lamp and smashed it hard at the strange insect.

The kerosene lamp shattered, and all the kerosene inside was spilled on the strange insect.The flames spread rapidly along the kerosene, and soon surrounded the strange insects in the middle of the flames.The strange insects rolled and struggled in the flames, burning and crackling, and a foul smell of burning wafted in the air.

We held our noses and backed away until the flames burned out, and the strange insect was almost burned to ashes.

Grandpa asked: "What kind of weird bug is this? Why did it crawl out of the head of the ancient corpse?"

I have no way of answering this question, so I have to turn my attention to Gu Mei Di for advice. Gu Mei Di is a famous encyclopedia.Since she knew how to deal with the strange insects, she should also know the origin of the strange insects.

Gu Meidi pondered for a while and said: "If I'm not mistaken, this strange insect is very likely to be the death insect from the Western Regions that has disappeared for thousands of years!"

Worm of death from the Western Regions? !
I pouted, just hearing the name was scary.

Gu Meidi told us: "The records about the death insects in the Western Regions can be traced back more than a thousand years ago, and it has been difficult to find the death insects in recent years. According to historical records, there are There is a kind of terrible bug that can live in the human body and make the host crazy. People call it the bug of death. Later, some wizards used the bug of death in the tomb. They put the bug of death If it enters the brain of a living person, the worm of death will lodge in the brain and enter a dormant state, and the living person will die accordingly. Once certain conditions are ripe, the worm of death will wake up, and the dead person will also be resurrected But the resurrected corpse is no longer a human being, because his brain has been eroded by the worms of death, and he has lost his self-awareness, just like a living puppet, completely manipulated by the worms of death, becoming a living zombie! "

"No wonder!" Grandpa murmured to himself with a dazed look on his face, "No wonder my mortal talisman won't work!"

I asked Gu Meidi: "Then what do you think is the condition for the Worm of Death to wake up?"

Gu Meidi thought for a while: "Maybe it's the temperature! The temperature has been high these two days, and the tortoise coffin has been placed in the sun for a long time. When the temperature inside the coffin rises, the insects of death will start to wake up!"

I nodded, thinking that Gu Meidi's speculation was very reasonable.

Gu Meidi said: "Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you that this insect of death is just a larva. According to folklore, most adult insects of death are as thick as pythons, and the most terrifying insect of death The worm may be as long as a train. The last record about the worm of death was in 1926. An American professor went deep into the Western Regions and recorded a legend about the worm of death in his expedition diary. In the early 90s, there was There was once an expedition team that entered the desert of the Western Regions in an attempt to find the Death Worm, but no one knows whether that expedition team came out of the desert alive!"

I broke out in a cold sweat, and couldn't help but say, "This thing is not a mutant creature or an extraterrestrial life form, is it?"

After tossing around for most of the night, we also burned the headless ancient corpse to avoid future troubles.

This trip back to my hometown was really scary and dangerous. In just one day, we experienced two strange things, which made me tired and sleepy, and quite depressed.The next day, I didn’t get up lazily from the bed until sunset, and opened the window. It was getting dark outside, and the smoke from the picnic in the countryside was rising, which was like a farm scene.

I stretched myself, looked at the setting sun in the sky, and was about to recite a poem when I suddenly saw Gu Meidi standing in the courtyard downstairs with his hands on his hips, shouting at the window: "Tuobagu, you just fell asleep!" Yet?"

I trembled all over, and waved at her awkwardly: "I... I'm here!"

"Come down quickly, dinner is ready!" Gu Meidi said.

When Gu Meidi yelled like this, I really felt hungry, so I answered "Come on" and ran downstairs happily.

A generous table was set up in the yard, and all kinds of dishes competed for beauty, and the fragrance filled the yard, which made my mouth water.

Gu Meidi was wearing an apron, busy in and out of the kitchen.

Grandpa smiled and said to me while sucking on the dry tobacco: "Usually, I see you are always stupid. Grandpa is worried every day, worrying about when you will find me a granddaughter-in-law. I didn't expect you The boy really has two talents, and he actually brought back such an excellent granddaughter-in-law, who is beautiful and virtuous, you have to take good care of it, this is really a blessing you cultivated in your previous life!"

While I gnawed on the duck leg, I responded vaguely. If Grandpa knew that Gu Meidi and I were just ordinary colleagues, he would be so anxious that he would lose his breath.

Gu Meidi sat down beside me: "Try it, these are all Northeast dishes that I am good at!"

"Beer is great!" I gave her a thumbs up and exclaimed: "I didn't expect you to be able to go to the hall and go to the kitchen!"

Gu Meidi proudly said: "That's right! Whoever marries me as his wife in this life will be really lucky for three lifetimes!"

Grandpa put down his chopsticks, sipped his white wine and asked Gu Meidi, "Xiaodi, how long have you been with Tuobagu?"

"Ah?" Gu Meidi thought for a while, and said casually: "Oh, we have known each other since college, maybe two or three years!"

Grandpa glared at me: "You brat, I asked you if you had a girlfriend when you came back from the Chinese New Year, and you still said no, so you have been hiding it from grandpa!"

"I..." I really wanted to say that I didn't hide it from you, I really don't have a girlfriend, but the words came to my mouth and became: "I didn't mean to hide it from you, the main reason is that I want to wait for our relationship to stabilize I'll tell you later!"

Grandpa narrowed his eyes and said, "It seems that your relationship is stable now?"

Gu Meidi and I looked at each other: "It's okay!"

(End of this chapter)