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Chapter 472 The Source of Food

"Feeding Gu worms? Is this Shangguan Kangning crazy? This thing doesn't look like feeding Gu worms." Chen Ziyang thought strangely in his heart.

No matter how you look at it, the stone millstone in front of you is an instrument of torture. Otherwise, why would there be a skeleton under the stone millstone and crushed to pieces?
Could it be that Shangguan Kang Ning meant that after using this instrument of torture to kill people, he then used human flesh to feed Gu worms?But what's the point?This is simply taking off your pants and farting. It’s unnecessary to kill people directly. Why do you have to use this stone mill.

Seeing Chen Ziyang's puzzled expression, Shangguan Kangning said seriously: "If you raise this stone mill by 20 centimeters and support it with a horizontal wooden stick, you should understand what I mean. "

After listening to Shangguan Kangning's words, Chen Ziyang looked up.There is a hole through the center of this huge stone millstone, as if it could really be supported by wooden sticks.As long as the wooden stick is thick enough, and then supported on the ground with a wooden frame, if the wooden stick passing through the stone millstone is supported, it can indeed support the weight of the stone millstone.

"If it is erected by more than 20 centimeters...the instrument of torture? Feeding Gu worms? Ah!" Chen Ziyang slowly sketched in his mind the picture of the stone mill in front of him after it was erected.

There is a skeleton under the stone millstone, and there is still a large piece of coagulated blood on the side of the stone millstone. If the stone millstone is raised with a wooden stand according to what Shangguan Kangning said, then the stone millstone and the base below The distance between the seats is almost just enough to accommodate a person, so if you think about it...

Chen Ziyang's eyes widened violently, a creepy feeling filled his heart, and he felt his stomach churning.If the usage of this stone mill was really as he imagined, it would be too cruel.

Seeing Chen Ziyang's reaction, Shangguan Kangning knew that Chen Ziyang had understood what he meant, and after showing a very weird look full of passion, he said:

"You're right. The usage of this stone millstone is to tie a person to the foundation stone below, and then use the stone millstone to slowly rotate behind the person's back, using the uneven and small stones around the stone millstone. , Rub the flesh and blood off this person little by little, and use it to feed the Gu worms.

The vast majority of Gu worms only like fresh flesh, and those who like carrion only account for a very small part.In the eyes of the previous Gu masters, only the flesh and blood torn from a living person is considered fresh.

However, too large pieces of meat cannot be directly fed to Gu worms, only pureed meat is the most suitable.If the meat is first cut from the human body and then chopped into pieces, it will take a short period of time. During this time, the human soul absorbed in the flesh and blood will dissipate.

It is precisely for this reason that the early gu arts were classified as witchcraft.All Gu masters are actually a kind of wizards. They think that only the meat that contains the soul is spiritual, and only after feeding the Gu insects with such meat, will the Gu insects be full of spirituality.

There is no difference between the flesh and blood of a person without a soul and carrion, and feeding Gu worms with such flesh has little effect.So in order to ensure the freshness of the meat, they invented this special method of feeding Gu worms.

Although this stone millstone is no different from a torture instrument, it is actually not a torture instrument, but people who are pressed under the stone millstone will still suffer unimaginable pain.

With the rotation of the stone mill, the minced meat and blood are rubbed off the human body alive, and are directly swallowed by the Gu worms surrounding them. This kind of human flesh is the freshest, but for the person whose flesh and blood has been torn off Speaking of it, it was a bit too cruel. "

When he said these words, Shangguan Kangning's eyes were full of a strange light, as if what he said was not a very cruel thing, but a high-tech method that could change the future of mankind, which made Chen Ziyang feel that Some can't understand.

He can accept that Shangguan Kangning is obsessed with Gu worms. He can also accept that Shangguan Kangning can go to uninhabited mountainous areas for ten years to catch ground caterpillars. After all, everyone has something they are obsessed with, but this kind of food that feeds Gu worms The method was unacceptable to Chen Ziyang.

However, in Shangguan Kangning's view, such a method seemed to be a matter of course. Chen Ziyang even felt that if killing people was not illegal, maybe Shangguan Kangning would use this method to feed its Gu worms.

Then several people checked the surrounding area again, and Shangguan Kangning kept pointing to one weird container after another to introduce the usage of those things to other people.

Without exception, all these utensils, which seem to be very cruel instruments of torture in the eyes of outsiders, are all used to cultivate Gu worms, and there are many utensils that even Shangguan Kangning doesn't know what they are for, and he can't say no. Find out why.

Many corpses were scattered around these vessels, and a large amount of blood that had solidified into black lumps stuck to these vessels. In one place, Chen Ziyang even accidentally discovered a dozen human skulls piled together.

There is a hole with regular edges on the top of these skulls. Obviously, the brains of these people should have been used as food and fed to those Gu insects.

This voodoo tribe is located in a very remote place, and it is very likely that it survived hundreds of years ago, or even 1000 years ago. Many methods of cultivating Gu worms have been lost, and it is impossible for Shangguan Kangning to know all of them.

Now Shangguan Kangning seems to have discovered a paradise, he lingers on all these containers for feeding Gu worms, he is reluctant to leave, he has completely forgotten that the purpose of several people coming here is to find Yuan Tiangang's treasure, he now All the thoughts are put on these utensils, wanting to get a breakthrough from them, and see if they can learn some methods to cultivate their own Gu worms.

After staring at these utensils for a while, Chen Ziyang called the other people to his side, and said in a low voice: "Do you think there is something wrong with this place?"

"Something's wrong? Are you talking nonsense? You can smell the same kind of bugs from dozens of kilometers away, and the bone-eating insects that can drill a hole in a stone, this thing is wrong from the beginning." Yang Lei said to Chen. Zi Yang glanced at it and said bitterly.

Hearing Shangguan Kangning's previous explanation, Yang Lei felt very uncomfortable. The food he ate before has not been fully digested, and now he is rebelling in the stomachs of several people, trying to escape from his mouth Come out and be reborn.

"I'm not talking about those Gu worms, but this village. There are dozens of people, if not 100, in the bones around here. Have you ever wondered where these people who were used as food for the Gu worms came from? ?

It is located in a remote area with inconvenient transportation, and you can only walk here if you want to get here.Even now, it takes a lot of effort for us to get here, let alone in the era of inconvenient transportation hundreds of years ago.

Nanzhao is just a small country in the Yunnan area. Even after the unification of the Six Zhaozhao, Nanzhao only occupies the Erhai Lake area, and the area is not very large. There are not many residents in Nanzhao, and there are even more people who know how to refine Gu. less.

So I estimate that the number of isolated witches and Gu tribes like this must not be very large. Shangguan Kangning also said this before.

Along the way, there are many places I can't figure out.It's not far from the Erhai Lake area, but it's not close. Why is this witch tribe hiding here?It is still hidden so deep that even the place where they live is hidden underground.

After much deliberation, I can only think of one answer, that is, these people fled here after the fall of Nanzhao, and their purpose was to avoid being hunted down.

It may be that the Gu worms raised by this Wu Gu tribe played a great role in the war, so they were not tolerated by the enemy, and they had to hide here because they were hunted down by the hostile forces.

Then the question goes back to what I said just now. This tribe has escaped so far through mountains and rivers. How many people can escape?Along the way, there must be hostile forces hunting them down and hunting them down. The old, the weak, the sick and the disabled will definitely not be able to escape here. Only some young and middle-aged people can escape here after escaping from being hunted down.

After adding all these factors together, it can be guessed that there is no other people living in this place except the people of this Witch Gu tribe, so how can these people who died here be explained? Where did this voodoo tribe find someone to feed the voodoo insects? "

"My God, you don't mean to say that the people who died here are all from this witch tribe, are they so cruel to themselves? Use people from their own tribe to feed Gu insects?" Yang Lei was surprised shouted.

"It's not impossible, but the possibility is very small. As I said before, there won't be too many people in this witchcraft tribe. Everyone is a Gu master. For this kind of tribe, every lost one The clansmen are all very big losses, they probably wouldn't use their own people to feed Gu worms, I thought of another possibility.

Zi Yang, do you want to say that someone is sending people who feed Gu worms to this witch Gu tribe?This should have something to do with the treasure.Could it be that Yuan Tiangang has been providing food to these Gu worms? "Xu Xiaoyuan said with her eyes wide open in surprise, her idea shocked even herself.

"Yes, this is exactly what I guessed before. Why did Yuan Tiangang hide his treasure in this place? As far as Yuan Tiangang is concerned, there are eight hundred or not a thousand places he can find as treasures , Why did you choose such an inaccessible place.

Although we don't know what Yuan Tiangang is hiding here, there must be a lot of treasures that he can hide with such painstaking efforts.What a waste of time and effort it takes to get so much stuff here.

So I think, there must be a reason why Yuan Tiangang had to choose this place. Apart from being a witch tribe, there must be other reasons, and this reason is very likely to be related to the things Yuan Tiangang hid here .

Anyway, I think something is not right here, although we have not seen any living Gu worms here, nor have we found anything that could threaten our safety, but I think it must not be simple here, we still Be careful. "

After saying these words, Chen Ziyang turned his eyes to the distance, and looked at the large piece of ruined walls.It should be the place where the former Wugu tribe lived, and if there is any secret, it might be hidden there.

It took a lot of effort for several people to pull Shangguan Kangning away from the strangely shaped vessels.Shangguan Kangning seemed to be possessed by a demon, and he was unwilling to follow other people to search for other places. Later, under Xu Xiaoyuan's hard and soft tactics, he reluctantly joined the team again.

Because this place is underground, there is no sunlight all year round, and there are a lot of moss growing on the ruined walls, and the outlines of these houses are also blurred. Several people searched here for a long time, but they couldn't find anything. something of value.

"It's been a waste of time. Just now you talked so much, I thought Yuan Tiangang would hide a lot of amazing things here, but now it seems that there is not even a hair here.

Er Yang, I have decided, I will never come out with you again to rob tombs or find any treasures. You kid did not commit an offense against the Lone Star of the Heavenly Fiend, but offended the Gods of Decline and God of Poverty. It is not rare for gods to come, it is a corner that even poor gods will forget. "

After almost exploring this underground space, Yang Lei was disappointed.His current mood can no longer be simply described as a disappointment, it is simply extremely depressed, and he really wants to cry but has no tears.

"It's not right..." Chen Ziyang thought while touching his nose.

Judging from the surrounding environment, there is no trace of excavation here, that is to say, the things hidden here by Yuan Tiangang back then should still be here, but why there is no clue at all.

Whether it is the treasure map left by Yuan Tiangang, or the unique way of hiding the route of this treasure map, Chen Ziyang feels that this treasure is not simple, it is the treasure left by Yuan Tiangang with all his strength, and it must be worth looking for , but why nothing.

After thinking about it, he realized that there was only one place that hadn't been carefully explored, and that was the nine armors standing at the entrance.

The nine armors are incompatible with the environment here, and one can tell at a glance that the armors are not belongings of the Wugu tribe at all, but should have been placed there by others, and the person who placed the armors can only be Yuan Tiangang!Could the clue be on the nine armors?
Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang returned to the entrance of the underground space again, his eyes moved back and forth on the nine armors.

(End of this chapter)