Chapter 155: The Tree of Heaven
Company Commander Pi saw the corpses in the tomb. He knew they were late. He held up a torch and saw four corpses lying on the ground! Two of the corpses near the door were bitten by something, and they could no longer see the human form! There was also a mummy lying on the niche table, which had been broken into several sections! Only one corpse under the niche table was still preserved in a relatively complete manner!
Company Commander Pi waved his hand and called a soldier and ordered him to turn the body over.
The soldier turned over the body under the niche as he said. Company Commander Pi used a torch to look at the man with a scattered look. He saw that the man had a scattered eyebrow and looked like he was not a good person. He thought to himself: "This time he came out, he had already issued a military order with the commander. He thought that this matter was easy to take advantage, but he didn't expect that these thieves would take the lead! It was still second to find the thing, but how could he explain to the commander this time?" Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be angry, so he kicked the dead body on the ground hard!
Company Commander Pi kicked the dead body, and felt that the body was soft. He felt his heart moved and said, "Isn't this man dead yet? If so, wouldn't I be able to follow the clues, find their nests, and recover the sky worms? Thinking of this, Company Commander Pi hurriedly asked his subordinates to check if the man was still alive!
The soldiers surrounded the man and listened to the heart. After a while, they reported that although the breath of the man lying on the ground was broken, his heart was still beating! Commander Pi was surprised when he heard this and thought, "This man was not breathing anymore, wouldn't he be suffocated to death? Why would he still have a heartbeat? This is so strange!" Company Pi was not old, but he was a veteran. He had seen more dead people than others had eaten! This is so, he had never seen such a way of death. He was curious, just as he was about to lean over to explore the man's breath, he suddenly heard the sick old man roar! Commander Pi was full of his body and mind at this time, how could he withstand his fright? He immediately "snarled", jumped up, and pulled out his pistol!
At this moment, a white light flashed in the mouth of the dead corpse, and a fat insect suddenly rushed to a soldier! The soldier saw the monster insect flying over, so he hurriedly dodged to the side and raised his gun to shoot! But the monster insect was too fast, and everyone felt a flash in front of him, and the monster insect penetrated into the soldier's flesh!
The soldiers screamed and cried, and fell to the ground in an instant! Everyone was shocked. No one had seen a bug that could kill people! Although these soldiers were brave, they were all rough people who could not read big words. How could they recognize the mystery of this strange insect? Naturally, they were in horror and raised their guns to shoot at the dead soldiers! For a moment, the gunshots made the soldier full of holes, like a sieve!
Seeing this, the sick old man hurriedly shouted: "Don't shoot, don't shoot! Be careful to hurt the Tianzhe!"
When Company Commander Pi heard that the strange insect just now was the Tianworm they were looking for this time, he quickly shouted orders not to fire! However, because the gunshots were too loud, Company Commander Pi's order had long been drowned by the gunshots. Seeing that Tianworm's life was in danger, Company Commander Pi couldn't help but get angry, kicked a soldier over, and cursed: "Stop shooting! Stop shooting! Are you all the ears of your turtle grandsons stuffed with donkey hair?"
The soldiers stopped shooting, but they no longer dared to get close to the dead soldier. Company Commander Pi turned his face and immediately changed into a flattering expression, nodded and bowed to the sick old man, "Old immortal, thanks to you just now! Otherwise, this heavenly insect would be destroyed in the hands of these turtle bastards!"
The sick old man looked arrogant and snorted coldly, saying, "What do they know? Tell them to not move around. If you want to catch the worm alive, I will have to do something!"
Company Commander Pi naturally thanked him a lot and turned around and ordered all the soldiers to stand at attention. No orders are allowed to move around. Those who violate the order will be shot! Although Company Commander Pi did not know the origin of the celestial insect, he could take a person's life in a flash, which was a little more powerful than the gun! Fortunately, there was only one celestial insect in this tomb, otherwise who would have killed him today would be sure!
After giving the order, Company Commander Pi tightened his pistol and made a decision. Then he respectfully said to the sick old man: "Old god, you can do it!"
The sick old man nodded and reached out to Laodao Jia, "Give me the wooden tripod!".
Jia Laodao pouted unwillingly and said, "Uncle Master, do you really want to help them catch insects?"
Company Pi raised his eyebrows and said, "Hey, how did you stinky Taoist priest speak? Haven't we all agreed? Why, do you still want to regret it?"
The sick old man smiled slightly and said, "Company Commander Pi, don't worry! I keep my word! My nephew has been unruly since he was a child. Since his master died, he has become even more lawless!"
Company Commander Pi laughed dryly, gave Lao Dao a fierce look, and said, "Maybe, I like this kind of straightforward person the most!" Then he became nervous in his heart and said, "You stinky old Taoist, if it weren't for your uncle's face, I would have shot you with one shot!"
Lao Dao Jia had no choice but to take out a small square cauldron from his arms! The square cauldron was only the size of a hand, with bright wood grain all over his body, Kui's ears and square feet, and a monster with a fox-faced and snake-body carved on the belly of the cauldron!
The sick old man took the wooden Ding, groped for a while, and said to himself: "Brother Ding, Brother Ding! After so many years, I will catch the sky insects with you again!" After that, he was about to step forward, but suddenly he was stopped by Laodao Jia!
Company Captain Pi was very angry and pointed his gun at Laodao Jia and shouted: "What are you going to do? If you dare to ruin my good things, don't blame me for being rude to you!"
Laodao Jia ignored Company Commander Pi and said to the sick old man: "Uncle Master, you are old and have many inconveniences in your hands and feet. Why don't you let me catch the worms on your behalf?"
The sick old man was very pleased when he saw that Jia Laodao's filial piety was commendable, and he said to him back: "Your ability is no longer inferior to me. Come on, come on, come on, take this wooden cauldron and lead the insect out of that day to me!"
Lao Dao Jia looked solemn and bowed to take the wooden tripod! The sick old man then held his ear and gave this order. Lao Dao Jia stopped nodding and secretly wrote it down!
Han Sanbian lay on the ground outside the door, not daring to move. When he saw the disease, the old man whispered to Laodao Jia and muttered, he couldn't help but be curious, and said to himself: "This time I want to see what method did you Laodao Jia use to catch the extremely vicious worm?"
The sick old man gave Jia Laodao a face-to-face instruction. Jia Laodao couldn't help but suddenly realize. He held the wooden tripod in both hands and walked forward a few steps. Suddenly, he lowered his body and placed the wooden tripod on the ground. Then he took out half a piece of rotten wood the size of a fingernail from the sleeve of the robe and put it into the wooden tripod! Just when everyone was amazed, Jia Laodao lit the piece of wood chips again!
After the wood chips were lit, a wisp of blue smoke rose from the wooden cauldron and reached the top of the tomb chamber. Then, Han Sanbian smelled a strange fragrance! Han Sanbian couldn't help but wonder and said to himself: "What exactly is the one that Jia Laodao pointed? How could it smell so good?"
Before he could finish his thoughts, he heard the old man asking about the sick man: "Old immortal, what is he like? Why is it sweeter than the rouge powder on the little girl?"
The sick old man coughed and said, "Company Commander Pi doesn't know anything. The debris of the sacred tree that I have collected over the years is burning in this wooden cauldron!"
Company Captain Pi's eyebrows and eyes squinted, and he said curiously: "Tongtian Divine Tree? What is that?"
The sick old man frowned and said, "It's not surprising that the officials are the ones who know this divine tree of heaven, let alone use it to catch the worms!" Han Sanbian was quite conceited when he heard the sick old man's words, and couldn't help but feel dissatisfied, "Isn't it just to catch a broken worm? What's so great about it? Is it worth swearing like this?"
As soon as he thought of this, he heard the company commander Pi ask the sick old man, "Oh" and say, "Old immortal, since you have such good means, why don't you be willing to serve the commander? Why should you be trapped in the countryside and suffer such pain?"
The sick old man laughed and said, "I am old and old, and I am already half buried in the loess. What should I ask for from fame, wealth and wealth?"
Company Commander Pi beat him and said, "I don't understand this. Since you know that this heavenly insect can live forever, why don't you catch it and take it yourself? Why are you trapped and waited for death?"
The sick old man laughed and said, "Company Commander Pi, do you also believe in those nerd words about immortality?"
Company Commander Pi said in surprise: "Are those legends about the immortality of taking the worms all spread rumors?"
The sick old man smiled slightly and said, "Company Commander Pi, you must have seen it just now. After the insect entered the human body that day, it immediately cut off people's breathing and numb the body. How could it make people live forever?"
Captain Pi was shocked and said, "So, this heavenly insect not only cannot make people live forever, but can it harm people's lives?"
The sick old man nodded and sighed, "Company Commander Pi said so much. Unfortunately, there are not many people as wise as Company Commander Pi in this world!"
When Company Commander Pi heard the old god's praise, he couldn't help but feel happy and said to himself: "Don't look at this old man's ill-fated appearance, his vision is quite accurate!"
The sick old man stroked his beard and asked the company commander Pi, "Where did we just talk about?"
Company Commander Pi quickly woke up from his intoxication and said, "It seems... by the way, you always talk about the Tongtian Divine Tree!"
The sick old man nodded and continued to say. It turned out that there was a legend in ancient times that there was a divine tree that spreads to the sky in this mountain. The divine tree was extremely vast and towering into the clouds! Whenever the world was in chaos, there were always gods coming down from the divine tree to save all people from water and fire! Later, people living under the divine tree knew that as long as they could climb into the heavenly palace through the divine tree, they could get rid of the reincarnation of birth, old age, sickness and death! So people climbed onto the divine tree in groups!
But the sacred tree is too high. With the power of mortals, they can't climb to the top of the sacred tree at all, so people fell and died from the trees! The gods and men pity these mortals and hated the greed of mortals, so they cut off the sacred tree and cut off the connection between God and man! And the extremely vicious celestial insect came from the sacred tree...!
Chapter completed!