My head felt dizzy as if it was soaked in a water tank.
As if I heard someone calling my name, I slowly opened my eyes and saw the bearded face of my master Zhang Chu.
I rubbed my head and called out, "Master!"
My master Zhang Chuze reached out and helped me sit up from the ground, and said anxiously: "Tianyi, you finally woke up! Something happened, we were kidnapped."
The word "kidnapping" entered my ears, and my heart suddenly started beating wildly.
I thought about the white smoke in the van. It seemed that the smoke was a kind of decoy.
With the help of my master's hand, I slowly sat up. But my brain still seemed to be insufficient and heavy.
I subconsciously looked around and found myself in a dark place. There should be a shed above my head with wooden beams. Dim light was shining through the gaps.
The ground where I was was sunken, a little damp, and filled with a foul smell.
In a far corner, a woman in blue clothes was squatting there crying with her hands around her legs and feet. The cry seemed to float from far away.
The young couple leaned against each other, the boy put his arm around the girl's shoulders, and the girl leaned against the boy's arms, seeming to be asleep.
There was another person standing with his back to me, who was tall and strong. I thought that person might be the man in the van.
Yuquan has a bald head and is easy to recognize.
Seeing me wake up, Yuquan came over and said with a sad face: "Brother Yang, something is wrong. It seems that we were tricked by that fat guy. You still remember what happened yesterday, it must be the white smoke that made us faint."
I didn't know how to explain for a moment, and could only stare blankly ahead.
At this time, a "wooooooo" sound came from behind me. I quickly turned my head to look and found that behind me was a row of horizontal beams of a wooden fence, and opposite to the horizontal beams, there was also a wooden fence.
This reminds me of the prison cells where prisoners were held in ancient times.
There was a corridor in the middle that was neither wide nor narrow. The place I was in could be called a prison cell. On the left-hand door, there was an iron chain hanging. The chain was very thick, and a large red copper lock was hung on it.
And in the cell opposite, there was actually someone there.
I counted them and found that there were about five or six people there, but due to the lack of light, I could only vaguely see their silhouettes.
They were unkempt, their clothes were tattered, and they looked like beggars.
"Don't look at it, those people must have been tricked by that fat guy!"
My master Zhang Chu muttered unhappily.
I just recalled what happened yesterday. But even if the fat guy wanted to rob us, he wouldn't have locked us up in such a shabby place.
Could it be that the fat driver is still planning to extort money from our family
I felt suspicious.
My strength slowly returned, and I held Yuquan's hand and stood up from the ground.
Only then did I see clearly that the person with his back to me was the man who had been in the car with us earlier. However, the man glanced at me and said nothing.
And the "wooooo" sound came from the opposite side.
I turned my head to look at my master Zhang Chu and asked, "Master, when did you wake up? Did you find anything?"
But my master shook his head helplessly and said, "Nothing has been found yet. But the fact that we are locked up is a fact now. You see those people inside the fence over there, they may have come in a long time ago."
I nodded, then walked over to the wooden fence and shouted to the people on the other side: "Hey!
! Who are you? How did you get in? "
But the people on the other side just ignored us.
A person whom I could still see clearly, his eyes were dark, he looked at me and then looked away.
But when I saw the man's face, I realized something was wrong, because there were a lot of pustules on his face. The pustules seemed to be alive, and they kept expanding and then began to shrink.
"Hey! Why aren't you talking? My brother Yang is asking you a question." Yuquan stood aside and raised his voice.
But the people over there still ignored us.
I waved my hand at Yuquan and said, "Forget it, don't ask them. They might be mute."
Just as I was about to look away, I noticed that the man with the pustules on his face actually opened his mouth towards us.
But inside his mouth, I didn't see any tongue at all!
This scene made me feel a chill on my back and goose bumps appeared on my arms.
Something is wrong, something is wrong! I kept muttering to myself.
Then without any hesitation, I directly opened the third eye on my right hand in the wooden prison.
The energy of hidden virtue is injected, the eye mantra is chanted, and the third eye opens.
Maybe she noticed something unusual happening on my side, the crying woman in blue stopped crying and looked towards me with an expression of disbelief.
The boy in the couple shrank back in fear.
The man in his thirties also stared at me in surprise.
I was afraid they might misunderstand me, so I explained: "Don't worry, this is just one of my tricks. I am a Taoist ghost catcher, and what I have opened now is my third eye."
But they obviously didn't know what kind of profession a ghost-catching Taoist priest was, and the man in his thirties also stood a little further away.
I curled my lips and thought, since it can't be explained clearly, I think there is no need to explain it.
Then I aimed my Sky Eye at the cell opposite, but after seeing the situation inside the cell, my scalp started to go numb. My heart, which had just slowed down, started beating faster again, as if I could hear the sound of my heart beating "Boom boom boom!"
I found that there were six people in the cell opposite.
There were actually a lot of pustules on the bodies of those six people.
They were called pustules, but through my Heavenly Eyes, I discovered that the pustules on their bodies were actually transparent. And there were worm-like things wriggling inside the pustules.
The six men were in poor health, and none of them had much life left in them. They looked dead. And I saw clearly that the man who opened his mouth actually had no tongue.
How could this happen? Why were they locked up here, and why were their tongues missing? And what about those pustules on their bodies
All kinds of confusion seemed to spread in my heart like mist.
"Tianyi, how is it? What's the situation over there?"
My master Zhang Chu asked me in a deep voice.
I slowly turned around, sat down against the wooden fence on our side, and said to my master Zhang Chu: "Master, I don't know what's going on. The people across the street have pustules all over their bodies, and worms are growing in those pustules. And their tongues are also broken. They must have been cut off intentionally."
My voice was not loud, but it was very real in this not-so-big cell.
On our side, everyone except the sleeping girl heard my voice.
My master Zhang Chu's face suddenly darkened, and he cursed: "Damn it, it seems that fat guy did it. He actually cut off those people's tongues!"
But when I shouted here, my master seemed
He seemed to have thought of something and suddenly stopped talking.
Seeing that my master Zhang Chu had stopped talking and looked strange, I asked him in surprise: "Master, what's wrong with you?"
My master Zhang Chu frowned and said to me, "Tianyi, I think I know what's going on. I've been to Miaojiang before and know some things about the Gu breeders. I think those people on the other side may have become tools for the Gu breeders to raise Gu insects."
I couldn't understand what my master said at once, so I asked, "Master, what do you mean by this?"
My master pondered for a moment and explained, "When I came to Miaojiang several decades ago, I heard some old news that some people used living people to raise Gu worms, and then used the grass ghost woman to turn the Gu worms into a kind of medicinal material, and then used the medicinal material to treat diseases."
Gu insects, medicinal herbs, and treatments!
These words are jumping around in my head.
I understood immediately, "Master, what you mean is that we were captured here because someone wanted to raise the Gu worms and turn us into hosts for them so that they could parasitize us. Is that what you mean?"
My master sighed, nodded, and said, "That should be the case! ... The pustules you saw on the people opposite should be the ones left by the poisonous insects that just parasitized those living people. When the pustules subside, the poisonous insects will enter the bodies of those people, and they will be close to death."
"A normal Gu-raising person can only raise one Gu worm in his body. But the Grass Ghost Po can use other people's bodies to raise many Gu worms."
These words surprised me greatly.
At the same time, I cursed the unscrupulous ghost breeder and his ancestors in my heart. But is the fat driver really a Miaojiang Gu breeder? But he doesn't look like one.
Oh, and that grass witch, who is she? I don't know either.
After that I expressed my doubts. Naturally my master had no idea what was going on with the fat driver.
But he did know about the "Grass Ghost".
Grass ghost women are actually the earliest type of Gu breeders in the Miao area, or Gu insect masters. The Miao people here simply call them "grass ghosts." However, this type of Gu insect master is different from the Black Miao and White Miao because they not only breed Gu, but also know how to extract the souls of Gu insects and use them as medicine.
But at the beginning, the grass ghost ladies did not harm people, but used their methods to save people.
However, this situation changed more than a hundred years ago at the end of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, a strange grass ghost woman appeared in Miaojiang. The grass ghost woman initially used jars to raise Gu, but later because the Gu insects were not very effective, she changed her method and began to raise Gu in living people's bodies.
When she first started using living people to raise Gu, the grass ghost woman had not been discovered. But not long after, her deeds were exposed. This incident also caused panic in the Miao area at that time.
Later, when the imperial court investigated, many grass ghost ladies were thrown into prison and killed.
Gradually, the profession of Grass Ghost Po, or rather, those people, ceased to exist. As for the method of using living people to raise Gu, it has been lost for a long time. The Black Miao and White Miao were developed later.
After listening to my master Zhang Chu's introduction, I felt uneasy again. If he was right, then the pustules on the people opposite should be caused by someone raising Gu in them, which means that the grass ghost woman appeared again.
This is a bit scary!
Not long after my master Zhang Chu finished speaking, there was a sudden "rustling" sound from the distance, which should be the sound of the iron chain being opened.
Immediately afterwards, there was a long "creak!" sound, and enough light came in where we were.
Someone is coming.
(to be continued)
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