Explore Changbai Mountain

Chapter 459 Alternative Method
Knowing the origin of the bugs in the picture, Chen Ziyang felt very happy, but suddenly, the smile on his face froze because he found two problems.

Now it seems that after Yuan Tiangang hid the location of the treasure, he left behind a way to find it, which is to put a few female insects in the treasure, and then use the very keen sense of smell of the male sun and moon nose insects to find the treasure. where.But in this way, he had to find at least one male worm of the sun and moon worm.

However, according to Shangguan Kangning, the sun and moon nose worms have been extinct since the Song Dynasty.Let alone wanting to find a living male, it is even impossible to find a specimen.

The second question, if Yuan Tiangang really put one or several female insects of the sun and moon nose worm into the treasure to guide the location of the treasure, it has been 1000 years now, these insects may It's already dead, and even the ashes it turned into don't exist anymore, so how can it emit a smell?

If these two problems cannot be solved, it will be even more difficult to find the treasure left by Yuan Tiangang, which is tantamount to talking on paper.

"Brother Shangguan, I want to ask, if you want to find a male sun and moon worm now, is it possible to find it?" Chen Ziyang asked a little nervously, although he felt that the question he asked was a bit strange. Stupid, but I have to ask.

Hearing Chen Ziyang's question, Shangguan Kangning frowned, and looked at Chen Ziyang with a very strange look. He didn't understand why the man in front of him was looking for this kind of bug that had been extinct for hundreds of years.

After thinking for a while, Shangguan Kangning slowly shook his head and said: "I can't say that there is no such possibility, I can only say that the possibility of finding this kind of bug is very small, at least, in the past 20 years I have been looking for strange bugs In the time I have spent, I have never seen or heard of this kind of bug.

The number of insects such as sun and moon nose worms is very small, and they have very strict requirements on the growth environment. Only a few small areas are suitable for the growth of this insect.

In addition, the ratio of male to female of this kind of insect is very different, and the group is easily disturbed and destroyed. Therefore, as long as this kind of insect suffers from strong interference from the outside world, resulting in a decrease in the number of females, it is easy to fall into the crisis of group collapse among.

Previously, this kind of insect only grew in the border areas of Yunnan. Although the number was not large, the population was very stable.

It is said that the Miao people are good at Gu and are the best Gu people, this is not wrong at all, it is the Miao people who first refined this kind of bug into Gu.Since then, only a small number of documents have begun to record this kind of bug.

When the Miao people caught this kind of insects, they found that the population of this kind of insects was very unstable, so they were very careful when catching them, and they would not catch a large number of females at once.

The Gu worm made by the sun and moon nose worm has been passed down for hundreds of years, which is inseparable from the careful care of the Miao people.In these hundreds of years, the group of sun and moon nose insects has not suffered from extinction.But in the Ming Dynasty, the situation was different. "

Chen Ziyang remembered that Shangguan Kang Ning had said before that since the Ming Dynasty, insects such as sun and moon nose bugs had disappeared. It seems that the problem still appeared in the Ming Dynasty.

"Dongchang was established in the Ming Dynasty. As a secret service agency, the people in Dongchang will naturally try to find some means to track others. A eunuch in Dongchang accidentally learned the characteristics of the sun and moon nose bug, so he put The Gu worms refined by the sun and moon nose worms were used as a tracking method for them.

The people in the East Factory put the female worms into the stomachs of the people they want to track, and then release the males to track them by smell. Because of this, the people in the East Factory have a very high demand for the Gu worms refined by the sun and moon nose worms. Therefore, they began to frantically capture protozoa and asked the Miao people to help them refine Gu.

The number of female insects is very rare, and the female insects are also the key to the continuation of the population. After the wanton capture, the balance of the sun and moon nose insect population was destroyed. There are fewer and fewer records.

It has been at least 600 years since the Ming Dynasty. Five,600 years, as a group of insects whose population balance has been disrupted, is enough time for them to become extinct.So I think it is impossible to find another sun and moon worm now. "

Hearing this, Chen Ziyang showed a hint of disappointment on his face.Although he had guessed this result long ago, after these words came out of Shangguan Kangning's mouth, his last sliver of fantasy was also shattered.

Yang Lei, who was sitting on the side, no longer had the energy to tease Shangguan Kangning before, but instead had a bitter expression on his face, and he was about to cry. If he couldn't find the male, that means there was a great possibility , everyone is getting farther and farther away from Yuan Tiangang's treasure.

"Let me ask you two more questions. Suppose, before the sun and moon nose worms completely disappeared, the Gu worms refined from female worms were placed in a closed environment. Until now, it has been such a long time , Hundreds of years, thousands of years, will these Gu insects still emit smell?

The second question is, if there is no male insect of the sun and moon nose worm, is there any way to capture the smell emitted by the female insect, for example, through some scientific means, or other methods that can be done now. "

Now that things have come to an end, Chen Ziyang thinks about it instead. Some things depend on fate. It is fate that he can get the treasure map left by Yuan Tiangang. If there is no way to find this treasure, it is his fate. .

Even if there are no male sun and moon worms to find, there is still a certain possibility that the female Gu worms can be located in other ways.At worst, he would go on foot to find the treasure left by Yuan Tiangang. It is not time to completely give up, so he must search for all possibilities and try various methods.

"Hmm..." Shangguan Kangning frowned, looked at Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei, and he probably guessed what they were going to do.It seems that these two people should be looking for something or a place, and this thing or place should have placed the female Gu worm of the sun and moon nose worm a long time ago.

"Your first question is not easy to answer. Because I only have a little understanding of the Gu worm of the sun and moon nose worm, I don't know the characteristics of the insect, and I don't know the characteristics of this insect after it is refined into a Gu worm. So I can't answer this question.

However, there are indeed many Gu worms that can be kept in a specific environment for a long time without dying. Even without oxygen, food, and water, they can still survive.

Most of these bugs have entered a state similar to hibernation. The most amazing thing is that after these bugs are awakened, they are still alive and can recover quickly. There are many such examples.

I once saw a Gu worm, which was found in an ancient tomb, and that ancient tomb was more than 1000 years ago.

Those who excavated the ancient tomb at that time found a sealed jar. After opening the jar, they found things similar to stone carvings one by one.

These stone-like things were carved into the shapes of bugs.The person who excavated such a thing originally thought it was a stone carving left over from ancient times, so he didn't think much about it and put the jar aside.

But unexpectedly, after a while, these "stone carvings" cracked little by little.The crackling sound of the stone carvings attracted the attention of others, and the excavators found that worms broke out of the stones and bit several of them.

I heard this incident from a person who was bitten, and he also brought the Gu worm to me.That kind of Gu worm is like the sun and moon nose worm, it has been extinct long ago, if it hadn't been placed in a sealed jar, it might not have been preserved until now.Fortunately, I knew how to detoxify, so I saved his life.

But not all Gu worms are like this.Different Gu worms have different characteristics. I don't know if the sun and moon nose worms have such characteristics after being refined into Gu worms.

The original Gu worm was a kind of flying insect that turned into the skin of the millet after the millet was stored for a long time.This initial Gu worm should be non-toxic.

The poisonous Gu insects that are used to harm people are cultivated artificially.People who select insects put hundreds of kinds of poisonous insects in a container, let them eat each other without feeding them, and the last one left is poisonous insects, which is also the beginning of artificial gu refining.

But the Gu worms refined in this way are more than brave, but very difficult to control and tame.Therefore, most of the subsequent methods of refining Gu were to select suitable bugs and cultivate them with various secret methods, so as to amplify the characteristics of the bugs.

Bugs can only be called bugs, but Gu worms can be called Gu worms, the difference is here.The purpose of cultivating Gu worms is to infinitely magnify the characteristics of the worms and make use of them.Therefore, compared with the former protozoa, the cultivated Gu worms will have more obvious characteristics.

Take the sun and moon nose worm as an example. Females only emit odors that attract males when they are mating.I guess, after the female worm is refined into a Gu worm, it will always emit this smell, otherwise, it would not be used by Dongchang as a means of tracking people.

If the vitality of the sun and moon nose worms is very tenacious, after they are refined into Gu worms, even if they have not eaten for a long time, they may survive with their own tenacious vitality, but whether this is the case, I don’t know .

If the female Gu worms can also enter the hibernation state, maybe they can really survive for thousands of years, but it's hard to say whether they will emit odor during this time.

As for the second question you mentioned, is there any other way to identify and find the smell emitted from the female, I think the answer should be yes, but it is very difficult to do this. Disaster. "

"There is hope!" Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei's eyes lit up.They did not expect that Shangguan Kangning would be so sure of the answer to this question. It seems that Shangguan Kangning is very confident in this method.

"Since it was my sister Shangguan Qing who asked you to come here to find me, then you should know that I come here at this time of year just to find a rare bug.

It's been ten years, and I've been looking for it for ten years. I come every year at this time, but in ten years, I've only found the carapace that this kind of insect has shed three times.

This kind of bug is called ground green, and it is a very rare beetle.The reason why I am looking for this bug is because this bug's sense of smell is also extremely keen, but it is not as exaggerated as the sun and moon nose bug can sense the distance of hundreds of kilometers, but I guess there are tens of kilometers.

Unlike the yin and yang worms, which can only recognize the scents of their companions, the worms of Diqing are very sensitive to the smells of other insects, especially some pheromones that only insects can secrete during mating.

The bug's favorite food during mating is other beetles that secrete large amounts of pheromones.Those pheromones that are eaten will be transformed into nutrients for their offspring in the Diqing's body.

The sun and moon worms can smell the smell from their companions hundreds of kilometers away, which means that the sun and moon nose worms secrete a lot of pheromones and the smell is very strong, but it is difficult for other insects to detect it. .

Such a large amount of pheromone is a rare delicacy for the earth green, they will definitely be interested in this smell, so as long as you find a land green and refine it into Gu, you should be able to find the sun moon nose The smell of the female insects. "

"This..." Chen Ziyang did not expect that the alternative method mentioned by Shangguan Kangning would be like this.Leaving aside whether the ground caterpillar can feel the smell emitted by the female sun and moon nose worm, it is already very difficult to just catch a ground caterpillar. Shangguan Kangning has been looking for it for ten years without success. turn up.

"You didn't say this method. You haven't found it after searching for so long. It's only a few days now. It's very difficult to find this kind of bug."

"Before you appeared, it was indeed very difficult to find this kind of bug, but now that you have appeared, the difficulty has been greatly reduced. As long as you are willing to help me, I am fully sure that I can catch a bug." Only ground green."

"Me?" Chen Ziyang frowned and thought for a while, and then he understood that what Shangguan Kangning said probably had something to do with his ability to make Gu worms mutate.

"If I catch the ground green for you, how sure are you that you will be able to catch the scent emitted by the female?"

"The sun-moon nose bug has disappeared for hundreds of years. I don't know much about its characteristics, but based on what I know about bugs, I guess I'm still five or six percent sure."

"This thing... can be done!"

(End of this chapter)