Human fear comes from the unknown.
Jin An explained.
Ari translated.
After everyone learned the truth, the fear on their faces faded a lot. Instead, they put on angry expressions, cursing that Gu Chi was really not a thing. He must have done many evil things and was punished by the desert gods, and the whole country was punished by the desert.
Devoured.
"These people from Guchi are really not human beings! They have done so many cruel things!" Yali couldn't help but cursed after he finished translating.
Seeing that Jin An had been staring at the evil human-faced tree on the altar in the center of the cave, he bowed slightly and said, "Why does Taoist Jin An keep staring at the evil human-faced tree? If Taoist Jin An wants to burn it with fire,
This human-faced tree does not require Taoist Master Jin'an to take action, it is up to us brothers to personally avenge the resentful souls in this cave."
Jin An muttered: "The human-faced tree has long since withered and is no longer a problem. What I'm worried about is not the human-faced tree. I'm wondering if there are any extremely dangerous human-faced bugs in those human-faced pots full of branches.
Yin worms exist... Our ancient ship is too big. If we try to get around the human-faced tree, we will inevitably scratch the tree crowns, or the human-faced painted pots on the tree crowns. Ari, take the others to hide in the ship building, don't get caught.
If you are being targeted by bugs, I will go to the altar and check it myself."
Seeing that Taoist Jin'an was about to get close to the tree with a human face, which looked scary at first glance, Yali said worriedly: "Taoist Jin'an asked me to take a few people to accompany you."
Just as Jin An was about to refuse, suddenly, strange noises came from the deep and quiet cave. Soon, everyone noticed that these strange noises came from underwater.
Gudong
Gudong
A lot of bubbles appeared under the water, as if something was floating.
Those things come up very quickly.
suddenly!
Several large blue-scaled fish with flat heads, wide mouths and knife-toothed fish jumped out of the water with tails flicking. Fortunately, the crew members remembered Jin An's instructions and stayed away from the side of the ship. No one was attacked by these vicious fish.
Bite.
Snap.
snap
Two big fish with blue scales fell onto the deck of the boat. They were jumping around with great strength. Someone cut off the fish's head with a knife. It turned out that the big fish with blue scales were still very vicious. The fish's head was like a snake's head and it could still live without the body.
Come down and bite.
"What kind of fish is this? Why is it so ferocious! We even chopped off the head of the fish, and it's so ferocious that it almost bit off my toes just now!"
The man said in surprise and wanted to smash the fish head with a knife, but found that the fish head was harder than a camel's leg bone and could not be flattened with a knife. Everyone was so frightened that they all retreated and hid far away.
But soon several people were shocked and shouted: "Strange, have you noticed that these fish don't have eyes?"
The two fish heads were considered completely dead after being separated from the body for a while. At this time, Jin An had already walked over. He squatted down and looked at the fish heads on the deck and said: "This is a blind fish. It only lives in darkness all year round."
Caves only exist in places where there is no access to light. Their ancestors may not have been blind fish, because they could not see light in the darkness all year round, so their eyes slowly degenerated. Thinking that it has been thousands of years since the Guchi country was destroyed, and it has been silent here for thousands of years,
It’s normal to have these blind fish without eyes.”
"You should be careful next and don't get too close to the side of the ship. This Corpse Hidden Ridge is the great tomb of the Guchi Kingdom. According to the brutality of the Guchi Kingdom, there are probably a large number of dead bodies buried in this tomb. These fish bite so fiercely as soon as they come up.
Humans should be like those corpse crickets. They are used to eating dead human flesh and have developed a ferocious nature. These are blind piranhas."
Perhaps to verify Jin An's words, the underwater movement became louder and louder at this time, and hundreds of large fish with blue scales surfaced, vying to eat other floating corpses floating on the water.
In the blink of an eye, those floating corpses were eaten to the point where no bones or dregs were left, which made the Yueqiang national guards gasp in cold air.
"Jin, Taoist Master Jin'an... you said these fish are piranhas. After they eat all the corpses... will they turn around and bite through our boat... wait for us to fall into the water and then eat us?" Adan was nervous.
said Baba.
Adan was one of the few people in the team who could speak Chinese, so Jin An was deeply impressed by him.
"As long as we don't get too close to the side of the ship or risk our lives to leave the ship, we can rest assured that the ancient ship under our feet will protect us all the way." Jin An said with some meaning.
After eating all the floating corpses, those blind piranhas disappeared again and disappeared as quickly as they came.
"It seems that we can't touch the corpses on the roof of the cave to prevent more corpses from falling and attracting more piranhas." Jin An said with a slight frown.
"Taoist Master Jin'an, which one is more ferocious compared to the corpse cricket or the blind piranha? They both make a living by eating dead human flesh. Will they, in order to snatch the dead human flesh, follow the example of others in grabbing territory and kill them?"
Jin An actually started to think seriously, and then answered seriously: "This is also my first time to come to the Holy Mountain of Guchi Country. I have to ask my sisters, aunts, grandmothers and grandparents in this cave to know about this."
Looking at the dead people hanging upside down above his head, Ari shivered inexplicably.
Taoist priest Jin'an has such a broad path, and he has recognized so many relatives so quickly just after he came here, Yali muttered in his heart.
At this time, Jin An straddled his waist with a long sword and strode to the bow of the ship. Before Yali could react, he jumped up and his feet were so strong that even the merchant ship was slightly pressed down. He had already easily jumped onto the altar.
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"Yari, please guard the Five Blessings Emperor's Plague Dispelling Talisman that I posted on the boat. Steady the boat and don't let it get close to the altar. I'll check if it's safe here first." After hearing Jin An's words, everyone started talking.
Only then did I notice that a yellow talisman had been posted on the mast of the ship at some point.
The yellow talisman looked like it was no ordinary common object, it seemed to have cinnabar divine inscriptions glowing faintly.
After persuading him to return to Yali, Jin An turned his head again and looked at the human face tree in front of him. Only then did he have time to look at this evil tree carefully.
The human-faced tree is four to five feet tall, with a thick trunk, like an old tree with a crooked neck, and twisted branches like ghost claws, with teeth and claws spread out, making it very ugly.
It is four to five feet high, at least five or six stories high. Even so, it does not reach the top, which shows how huge this cave is. It is enough to build a stone tower here.
To be treated so grandly by the Guchi clan, this human-faced tree is obviously very important to the Guchi nation. However, these are no longer important. The Guchi nation has been destroyed for a thousand years, and this human-faced tree has also withered for a thousand years.
.No matter how prosperous the Guchi Kingdom was a thousand years ago, it is still a dead thing now.
Jin An didn't pay too much attention to the dead tree. He looked up at the painted pottery pots with human faces hanging on the tree crown.
After so many years of desolation, most of the painted clay pots with human faces hanging on the trees were in tatters. Jin An jumped lightly, and before the naked eyes of ordinary people could see his movements clearly, he had already jumped up to the top of the tree in an instant.
He stood on the strongest branch and picked off a tattered painted clay pot with a human face. The stink bug in the pot was dead.
He took off several clay pots one after another, and the bugs inside were either dead or gone.
Count it in a circle.
There are still thirteen complete human-faced painted pots in total.
Jin An took off a complete clay pot and opened the mud seal. A foul smell of corpses hit his face. There was no corpse liquid in the pot as expected, but it was empty. He looked closely at the pottery pot.
The contents of the jar turned out to be the dead stink bug again.
However, this stink bug is a bit strange. It seems that it has not grown up yet and died in the middle of molting.
Adhering to the principle that he would rather dismember the corpse than let it go, Jin An crushed the body of the bug and scattered it into ashes. There was no way to sense it, so he was convinced that the bug had really been dead for a long time.
Replace with a second complete clay pot.
Clay pots are very light.
When he opened the mud seal and took a look, he was still dead.
It wasn't until he picked up the third complete clay pot that Jin An clearly felt its weight. He opened the sealing mud, and the smell of corpses immediately rose to the sky. The pot was filled with most of the corpse liquid, and a woman's face with some wrinkles floated on it.
The surface of dark, foul-smelling corpse liquid.
Don't know why.
Jin An always felt that this woman's face looked familiar.
It was like an acquaintance was kidnapped by Gu Chi and sacrificed, and his face was cut off as a sacrifice.
"A Yinworm is worthy of playing tricks in front of me! The five-thunder evil-killing talisman! Break it for me!"
With a loud shout like a thunderbolt from the blue, Jin An looked stern, picked up the Five Thunder Evil-Destroying Talisman in his arms and slapped it on the mouth of the pottery jar. In an instant, all the false illusions in front of him were shattered. The five thunders pure yang sorted out the yang path of heaven and earth, suppressing the yin.
gas.
There was no woman's skin left in the clay pot. There was only half a pot of black stinky corpse liquid and a human-faced stink bug that was suppressed by the pure Yang aura on the Five Thunder Evil-Slaying Talisman.
It's like the suppression of Mount Tai.
As heavy as a thousand pieces.
When he was in the Yue Qiang Kingdom, he was accidentally poisoned by the corpse poisonous miasma of the human-faced stink bug and the worm. He would not have fallen twice in the same pit. He had already been prepared for the worm inside.
Poof! Kunwu's sword came out of his body and stabbed the human-faced painted pottery jar through both sides.
To be continued...