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Chapter 455 Gu Book
"Huh? This seems to be a kind of Gu? What you showed me is a Gu book?" After staring at the picture for a while, Shangguan Qing raised her head and asked Xu Xiaoyuan.

The Gu book is the name of this method of recording Gu with pictures. As the younger sister of a Gu master, it is not surprising that Shangguan Qing can name the ancient book, but this gave Chen Ziyang and Xu Xiaoyuan a glimmer of hope .

"Since you know this is a Gu book, do you know what kind of Gu this is? And what does it represent?"

"This...you have to ask my brother to know about this. Although I have a certain understanding of Gu and helped my brother raise a lot of Gu, but the Gu book is very old, and I don't know it at all. " Shangguan Qing said with some embarrassment.

After seeing the disappointed expressions on the faces of Chen Ziyang and Xu Xiaoyuan, Shangguan Qing continued: "Don't be too disappointed, my brother has a Gu book, which he has collected over the years. There are many types of Gu, I can compare this picture with the pictures in the Gu book, maybe they will be the same."

Shangguan Qing's statement was immediately agreed by the two people. After all, a large group of people came here just to find out the origin of this Gu on the map. It would be great to have a Gu book for comparison.

"Come with me." After Shangguan Qing finished speaking, she led a few people to another room.

The moment the door was opened, Chen Ziyang looked at the things in the house and nodded. "That's right, that's right, that's how I imagined it to be."

The room behind the door is not big, and there is no furniture. The four walls are covered with various shelves, making the whole room look more crowded.

On these shelves, rows of glass bottles are neatly placed. These glass bottles are big or small, thick or thin, and of different shapes, and they are filled with various creatures.

Vipers, scorpions, centipedes, spiders, toads, and various other worms were bottled individually and in groups, but all of these creatures All have one thing in common, they are all alive.

The beetles in some glass bottles crawled around the walls of the bottles, densely packed, making people feel very uncomfortable.Seeing the scene in the room at first glance, everyone else gasped. The scene was really shocking, only Chen Ziyang was not surprised.

The creatures in these bottles should be all kinds of Gu insects, which are quite different from the decorations in the Gu master's home he imagined before, which is expected, if there are no such things in the house, he will feel Come to the wrong place.

Just when Shangguan Qing led five people into the room, a strange thing happened.The Gu worms in these glass bottles suddenly became restless.

First, the Gu worms in the bottle closest to the door moved violently, and then like a wave, the restlessness spread throughout the room in an instant, and all the Gu worms in the bottles fell into madness.

The toad kept jumping in the bottle, the centipede and the snake kept crawling in the bottle, and some other Gu insects were all restless, and even in some bottles filled with many Gu insects, there were Gu insects interacting with each other. Bite situation.

Due to the violent movement of the Gu worms in the bottles, some bottles shook, and the caps and bodies of the bottles collided non-stop, making bursts of noise.As more and more bottles were shaken, even some wooden shelves trembled.

"What... what's wrong with this? Is there an earthquake?" Looking at the image in front of her eyes, Xu Xiaoyuan asked incomprehensibly.

"No... It's not an earthquake... It seems... It seems that all these Gu worms want to break out of the bottle, what's wrong? I have raised Gu for my brother for so many years, and I have never seen such a situation." Shangguan Qing stared at her big eyes and said in surprise.Her eyes were so wide that they were almost bigger than glasses due to the excessive surprise.

It took a while for Shangguan Qing to react. "It seems... It seems that these Gu worms really want to get something from you, maybe it is what you are carrying that attracts them. You all get out first."

A few people looked at me and I looked at you, but they couldn't figure out what caused these Gu insects to change, so everyone had to quickly exit the door and stay away from this room.

After a while, Shangguan Qing came out of the room with a tired face, holding a red sandalwood box in his hand.

"Those Gu insects have finally calmed down. This is really strange. Have any of you been exposed to Gu insects before? Or have you gotten some weird things, maybe these things attracted the Gu insects.

I have been raising Gu for so many years, and I know these Gu worms very well. Their state just now is like a tiger that has been extremely hungry, and suddenly saw food, and felt an abnormal desire for something on your body.

Weird, really weird.There are nearly a hundred kinds of Gu worms raised in it. These Gu worms have completely different living habits, and their requirements for food are also varied. I have never seen one thing that can attract so many kinds of Gu worms at the same time.

Now my curiosity is on the contrary, sister Xu, you must help me, help me find out what makes these Gu worms so obsessed. "

Even if Shangguan Qing didn't make this request, everyone would have wanted to do it a long time ago. After all, everyone has curiosity, and they were all surprised, and they had already put it into action.

When Shangguan Qing appeased those Gu worms, the five people took out all their belongings, but the five people did not take out many things together. These things are also very common, and it is impossible to hide anything weird thing.

Shangguan Qing looked puzzled at the things everyone took out.The other people all touched their pockets, indicating that everything had been taken out, and Yang Lei even turned out all his pockets, even finding out the melon seeds that had been stored for an unknown number of years.

"Could it be...it's not something that attracts these Gu worms, but one of you?" Shangguan Qing suddenly thought of this, and asked the five people again.

The five people moved their gazes back and forth between each other, but no one could think of any special features in any of them, so the five looked at Shangguan Qing together and shook their heads at the same time.

"I don't understand these things either. When I see my brother, I will tell him what happened today. He will be very interested.

Sister Xu, I'm really sorry, look at me, I forgot everything when I got excited, let's get down to business first. After Shangguan Qing finished speaking, he put the red sandalwood box on the table.

After the box was opened, a thick and somewhat weird booklet appeared in front of everyone.What's weird is not the shape of the book, but the weirdness of the paper that bound the book.

It can be seen from the side of the book that some of these papers are new, some are old, some are yellow and blackened, and some are still a piece of white paper.The whole book gives people the feeling that it is made of many pages of different ages stapled together. It seems that this book should be collected by Shangguan Qing's brother from different places, and then put together. finished booklet.

Putting the pictures brought by Chen Ziyang and others aside, Shangguan Qing opened the first page of the book, and then compared the patterns on the two pictures, and then she turned down one page after another. , wanting to find the same Gu insect painting page as the one brought by Chen Ziyang and others.

As Shangguan Qing flipped the pages, the five people focused their gazes on this weird picture book at the same time. They found that besides the various pictures of Gu insects drawn in the middle of the picture book, in some blank places, there were also There are notes on these Gu insects.

These annotations are of various types, including all kinds of categories, some are about the food that the Gu worms like, some are about the environment where the Gu worms are raised, and some are about the breeding methods of the Gu worms. Very few of them also record the usage of some Gu worms. But because Shangguan Qing flipped it a little fast, everyone didn't understand it too well.

On most of the pages of the book, the annotations written are not Chinese characters, but some characters that people can't understand at all. There are also many types of these characters. Obviously these books were recorded by people of different races, very old.

Chen Ziyang noticed that he couldn't understand all the words on the old pages, and only some things on modern paper were described in Chinese characters.

It is estimated that these old papers were collected by Shangguan Qing's elder brother, and the things drawn on the white paper were copied by him. This Gu book has been collected for a long time. The booklet took a lot of effort.

Although this Gu book looks relatively thick, it is because the paper is relatively old and the gaps between each other are relatively large. There are actually not many pages in the Gu book, and there are only about 200 kinds of Gu recorded on it. Insect drawing.In a short while, Shangguan Qing flipped through the booklet from beginning to end.

"Sister Xu, I'm really sorry, I didn't see the exact same picture as your Gu book in the Gu book, I think the picture of the Gu you brought was not recorded in the Gu book. "

"Is this the only Gu book you have here? Is there anything else?" Xu Xiaoyuan asked unwillingly.

"Gu books are very rare, and this one was collected by my brother for more than 20 years. We only have this one in our family."

"Sister Shangguan, could it be that you flipped the page too fast just now and didn't see it clearly, or...you read it again?" Although Xu Xiaoyuan said so, she knew that what Shangguan Qing said was not wrong No, none of the pictures in the Gu book is the same as the ones brought by everyone, and there are not even any similar ones.

Because when Shangguan Qing was flipping through the Gu booklet, none of the five people's eyes left the booklet, but if there was a Gu book that was similar to the picture, everyone would have discovered it.

"Okay." Shangguan Qing started to flip through the Gu book again from the first page. This time she flipped more slowly. Every time she turned a page, she would raise her head and see five people shaking their heads at the same time, then Turn to the next page.In this way, after about half an hour, all five people shook their heads in disappointment.

After putting the Gu book back into the box, Shangguan Qing looked at the five people and said: "Don't be too disappointed, this Gu book only has less than 200 pages, and there are very few types of Gu recorded. As far as I know, my Brother has been in contact with at least 500 kinds of Gu worms. If you find him, you may be able to get some hints.

Even if my elder brother has never seen this kind of Gu drawn by you, he may be able to help you analyze something from the shape of this Gu and the picture on it.

After all, there are very few such things as Gu books, so the people who can draw Gu books are all in the same line, and the methods of painting are similar. From the shape of this bug and the pattern on its body, we should be able to get some clues. "

Things went back to the original point, and everyone still wanted to find Shangguan Qing's brother. Although they didn't get any clues here, the hope in everyone's hearts had not completely disappeared, and there were still opportunities.

"Well, how are we going to find your brother?"

"Every year at this season, my elder brother will go home, and then set off from here to a mountain range to find a rare bug.

This kind of bug is very rare, and it is almost completely extinct. Only a small amount of it exists in that mountain range.That kind of bug only appears every year during this season to mate.

And the mating period of this kind of bug is very short, only 7 to 10 days in a year, if you miss this time period, if you want to find it again, you have to wait until the next year. .

My brother has always wanted to find this kind of worm, and then bring it back for cultivation, and turn this kind of worm into a Gu worm, but he has never found it, only the carapace that the worm has shed.

I have accompanied him to that place twice. Although it is not very far from here, it is very difficult to walk.I will tell you where and how to go. "

After listening to Shangguan Qing's talk for a while, everyone finally figured out the route to get there. It's not that everyone's ability to accept it is poor, but that going to that place is really too strenuous.

According to Shangguan Qing, to reach that mountain range, everyone needs to drive for a day first, and then transfer to an ox cart. After two days of ox cart ride, they will arrive at a small village, and there will be no road from there. , Even the bullock carts couldn't move forward, so they could only walk slowly on two legs, over the mountains and over the mountains.

From here to that mountain range, the straight-line distance is only a few hundred kilometers, but it is very time-consuming to cover this distance. The last time Shangguan Qing went with her brother, it took more than half a month on the road .

Most of the way there needs to climb mountains, and the mountains are steep and very dangerous.There are only a few sparsely populated and isolated small villages on the road, so you must bring a lot of supplies, and it is best to bring some medical supplies, maybe you will be bitten by some poisonous insects on the road.

For the people who have trekked through the Qinling Mountains, this is equivalent to crossing the Qinling Mountains again, so they immediately started to prepare.

(End of this chapter)