Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

Chapter 607 Outlaws

The human sacrifice Gu is a type of Gu with a strong sense of ritual. The limbs of a living person need to be chopped off more than a month in advance. During this month, the person is not allowed to eat or have secular food and can only take special medicines to stay alive. This step is somewhat similar to fasting and bowel cleansing.

The reason is very simple. Low-class human sacrifices are unclean, dirty and lowly. To make them clean, they must be raised again.

After all the dirt in the human body is emptied, the eyes, ears and mouth are sealed with needle and thread, and the same insect is placed in a large jar and cooked over low heat.

The lid of this large jar can be completely closed, leaving only a few extremely small air vents.

Excessively high temperatures will cause the poisonous insects to desperately seek a place to hide temporarily, and the body of a living person in the same pot is the best hiding place.

Because the inside of the pot is extremely smooth, the poisonous insects that cannot climb up smoothly often enter from the human body. As the temperature rises, they swim madly upward in the human body, destroying the muscle tissue and organs.

This destructive power is limited by the size of the poisonous insects and because the human sacrifice is fed secret medicine more than a month in advance, which often causes people to survive after enduring great internal and external torture. The person will not die until the poisonous insect eats the heart.

This produced extremely strong resentment, and when the two combined, the human sacrifice Gu was born.

Legend has it that a successful human sacrifice Gu can survive for a thousand years in human oil, but once it leaves the oil, it will wake up...

This method of refining poison is so cruel that the specific drugs and operations have never been passed down. It is unexpected that La Yao can figure it out by himself.

Qi Qige had to admit again: "She is really too talented."

This method of refining poison on living people made everyone present shudder with fear. The torture that people who were caught to make poison had to go through was enough to make people terrified just thinking about it.

Zhao Shan even said bluntly: "This method of killing people is really against the principles of heaven."

Even if the emperor buried living people in his tomb, such cruel means would not be used.

Jiang Shangxian admitted that from the perspective of torturing people, the outlaw Layao was indeed very talented, but was this the time to argue about this?

"What happens if you bite this thing?"

"not so good."

Qiqige said lightly: "Human sacrifice Gu likes to eat human fat and human hearts. Once it touches the human body, it will drill into the human body."

Once it drills into you, you'll die.

"Why did you move that jar for no reason?" Jiang Shangxian was so angry that she almost retreated to the back of the tomb door.

Yingzi was afraid but still stood in front of her bravely: "Don't be afraid, my lady, it's okay. I've caught insects before. Such a small insect can be killed with just one step."

Jiang Shangxian felt that this statement was not very reliable. This thing did not look like it could be killed by being easily stepped on.

Qiqige was also a little embarrassed: "I didn't think of it as this at first."

The Gu Po has a certain sensitivity to Gu worms. She just noticed that there were Gu worms in the bronze jar. Thinking that La Yao was a powerful person, she became curious and wanted to see what the Gu worms she refined looked like. Who knew it was this thing.

Jiang Shangxian could understand this explanation, but she still felt that people should not be too curious. Xiao Jiang stamped her feet, rubbed her hands nervously on the doorstone, and said, "If you have any tricks, you'd better use them quickly. Otherwise, there are so many of us that these bugs won't be able to share them."

Assuming one poisonous insect is assigned to each person, there are only eleven of them, but thirty or forty black round beads have already appeared, which is not enough to share.

Qi Qi Ge also knew that no one except her could come up with a solution at this time, so she grabbed the gourd at her waist and poured out three big green insects. The insects looked quite domineering, with their bodies composed of different triangles. The two front claws were twice as big as the middle part of the body, and their hind limbs were thick and powerful.

"This insect is so good-looking!" Zhao Shan couldn't help but get excited when he looked at the three insects. They were children from aristocratic families, and they always liked to pick the ones with better appearance. Now that they saw that the green poisonous insect was so special and good-looking, they naturally thought that this insect must be powerful.

Jiang Shangxian felt that the number gap of three against thirty or forty was too great. He couldn't help but pull the mother Gu off from the head and stared at her with wide eyes: "Can you do it?"

This question was actually a bit silly. If the mother Gu could work, Qi Qi Ge would not be unsure: "Go see if the Gu God has woken up first."

The main business of this couple is actually to predict good and bad luck. They can do it for fighting, but it is a bit dangerous to deal with these evil Gu, especially when there is only one of them.

There was no telepathic connection between the mother Gu and her. She just blinked her big eyes and staggered back to her head to lie down.

Jiang Shangxian casually put the female Gu back on his head, took out the box from his arms and took a look. The color of the male Gu had faded, but for some reason, it still didn't wake up.

She was a little anxious: "Didn't the snake king just get bitten and run away?"

If it can scare away that big snake, why can't these bugs that are not even as big as snake poop be scared away?

Of course not. The Snake King retreated because the Gu God, as the creature that has survived the longest in this forest, has a certain deterrent effect on it. But if they really fight, the Gu God is not very capable, unless there are two Gu Gods together.

Qiqige commanded three green Gu worms, waving their large claws and charging towards the human sacrifice Gu. This duel between Gu worms separated by hundreds of years attracted everyone's attention...

In a tomb less than a hundred meters away from Jiang Shangxian and his group, Cui Bianxu and his guards were on guard against something in the dark.

"Jiulang, that thing doesn't seem to be chasing us." Jian Ming stared but still couldn't see clearly where this place was.

Cui Bianxu did not answer. He was trying his best to steady his chest which kept rising and falling due to the intense exercise. Although the mixed sounds of his breathing and heartbeat were too noisy, in the darkness, he only had a pair of ears to rely on.

Jian Ming wanted to say something else, but Li Sheng covered his mouth with his hand.

Can't this idiot see that Jiulang is listening? !

Jian Ming was speechless and felt a little annoyed. If he had known earlier, he should have spoken faster and gotten straight to the point.

What he actually wanted to say was that he seemed to have touched something cold and hard, like a coffin or something.

Maybe in their haste they got lucky and ended up in the main tomb chamber!

Cui Bianxu listened quietly for a long time, and when he was sure that those things were not chasing him, he took out a tinder and looked for the lamp in the faint light.

The sudden light of fire made Jian Ming close his eyes subconsciously, and then he happily slapped Li Sheng's hand away, and couldn't wait to take out the fire starter to light the lamp.

There is a difference between different kinds of darkness. Even when it is dark on ordinary days, there is still moonlight, but the darkness in the tomb is boundless, dark enough to make people feel scared. This environment makes him very uncomfortable.