By the way, almost every praying mantis has a parasite called iron worm inside its body. There is no sign of being parasitized from the host's appearance. This strange insect makes the mantis lose its sense of pain and becomes fearless. It also allows the mantis to maintain quick reactions and everlasting strength.
For insect-like creatures, being able to maintain optimal body function at all times is tantamount to immortality.
However, after the iron worm loses interest in the host, the mantis will be unable to help but move closer to the water source, so that it can dive in at any time.
I even felt that the entire expedition team had already followed the footsteps of the praying mantis.
There is a classic saying in the Huangdi Nei Jing: When righteousness exists within, evil cannot be done! Where evil comes in contact with you, your energy will be weak!
In this scenario, our inner aura is at an absolute disadvantage.
There is no escape now. Now that we have been entangled by this bug, if we want to decipher its secrets, we must face its source.
As the saying goes, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't catch the tiger's cubs, since this kind of bug comes from this strange water. There are hundreds of corpses inside, and the method to crack it may be in them, but all this requires us to understand and understand the secrets of these corpses.
Although Professor Yin has not yet shown any unique skills, for the underwater world. It is the first time for everyone to search, so experience is particularly important at this time. Professor Yin is over sixty years old and has experienced strong winds and waves. He must have seen all kinds of strange things.
He also understood that the reason why the corpses of hundreds of boys and girls were soaked in the water must be inseparable from the three generations of end bugs. Maybe they were not experimental subjects at all, and there must be a bigger secret hidden in them. .
Strange bugs like the III bug gave us the ability to temporarily dive for a long time. It was good that the few remaining scuba lungs could be used for it, so we returned to the water and dived back to the bottom.
Under water, I consciously experienced the difference brought by the third generation bug. I counted sixty seconds silently in my mind. The most obvious difference was that I no longer had the desire to breathe. For the average person, one minute of underwater activity is enough to cause anxiety.
This time I saw the boys and girls in the water very clearly. Their eyes were closed.
After being soaked in water for thousands of years, there is no trace of decay or even swelling.
Their lips are purple, but looking at the entire shape, no matter what angle you look at it, it doesn't look like a body that has been soaked for thousands of years.
You must know that anything can be soaked in water for thousands of years. Even if it is not soaked to pieces, if it is soaked, it will still swell several times. What is the secret in this? Is this also the effect of the third-generation insect?
The fat man and I were both suspicious of the underwater scene. The fat man pointed at the child corpse closest to him. We walked around this group of corpses for a few times, the fear and courage in our hearts almost disappeared, and we had to go around to the back to touch them. Not everyone has the courage to touch a corpse underwater. I stretched out my hand and touched it, and immediately noticed something was wrong.
Something is wrong, something is so wrong! I asked why it was so strange when I was soaking in the water. Corpses can remain incorruptible for thousands of years. It turns out that when I touched them, I found that these hundreds of corpses were just skin bags, that is, empty shells. The skin bags were wrapped with rigid copper frames.
The frame made of bronze is covered with traces of patina and green, emitting a soul-stirring light under the water.
The human skin is wrapped in a bronze frame. Hundreds of such human skin bronze armors are wrapped in endless chains that run through the entire bottom of the water. No wonder the human skin is indestructible. It turns out that it is just a piece of human skin. As long as special medicine is brewed in advance, it is not impossible to achieve such miraculous effects.
There was no time to communicate with others to alert us to this matter. Fatty and I immediately tore off a corpse, which was a bronze frame wrapped in human skin. We pulled it up and returned to the shore, and the others followed.
The rest of the team members showed surprised expressions when they saw the true appearance of the human skin bronze armor. Awell said in surprise: This, why does this not look like it was peeled off, but more like shed skin!
Lin Qi was horrified and said: "This man is not an insect. How can he shed his skin if he can't become feathers?"
I asked Professor Yin, he is very experienced. He is very well-read about ancient books. Has he ever seen some kind of mysterious magic, which is a ritual performed by wrapping human skin in bronze armor. But it can be guaranteed that this ritual must be very evil.
This matter is related to whether everyone can solve the mystery of the third-generation insect in their body. It seems that this heavy burden has been shouldered by Professor Yin.
Professor Jin recalled carefully that there seemed to be such a record. Come and listen, let’s discuss and analyze together.
What Professor Jin described is definitely a rare and unique book, and it is a matter that can be described in the Qi Dynasty.
Qi was a big country during the Warring States Period. There was a general among them. He had three sons, the eldest son and the second son. They all died in battles on the battlefield, and the youngest son also died suddenly due to illness.
The bodies of the first two sons could not be saved, and the younger son died tragically at home.
The dignified General Seven Feet was in mourning, so he invited an evil man who was good at witchcraft. The evil man claimed that he could preserve the human fire of the general's youngest son. The so-called human fire is to give the general a feeling that he still exists. In this case, the whole human skin of the youngest son must be peeled off and then wrapped in a bronze frame.
This bronze shelf was not made randomly. The shape and carved patterns are secret techniques that have not been passed down.
The entire human skin was wrapped on a shelf and placed in the mourning hall. At night, there was a strong wind in the unguarded mourning hall. It was strange that the human skin was wrapped well, and the tributes in the mourning hall fell into the belly of the human skin shelf one after another. Let the general think that his son continues to live in the world in this form.
Seeing that something strange had happened, the wizard told the general. The human skin and bronze armor should be tied up with wooden ropes twisted from peach branches. And the other end must be fixed in a dark water-drawing house and never see the sun.
Fighting on the battlefield, the enemy and we are bound to cut each other's bodies into thousands of pieces, because the bodies of the general's eldest and second sons can no longer be found, not even the whole body is left, so the younger son's human skin bronze armor became his The only spiritual sustenance, he naturally did not dare to let down his guard.
When the general was preparing everything, the evil wizard finally reminded him that it would be best to transplant your young master into a huge water urn, as water belongs to Yin. It means preservation more than never seeing the sun, but another step needs to be added, which is to apply a secret medicine on the human skin, and to keep applying it at regular intervals.
In this way, in order for the human skin bronze armor to exist forever in the world, the general believed in the wizard's suggestion and specially trained several dead soldiers who applied the medicine, because this secret could not be known to outsiders. Cultivating these dead soldiers who apply mysterious drugs has destined their fate, and they will definitely not be left alive in the end.
But the good times did not last long, because of the battles and wars between various countries, the general became a victim of politics due to his defeat on the battlefield. A general fell out of favor and lost power, just like a down-and-out phoenix is inferior to a chicken. Naturally, the dead soldiers he trained were also Escaped. In this way, his youngest son who has been soaking in the urn all day long, that is, the human skin bronze armor, has lost the maintenance of the special medicine and is about to collapse.
Under such circumstances, the general had no choice but to find a way to move his younger son's human-skinned bronze craftsman elsewhere.
But that night, the general sneaked into his secret room, only to find that there was nothing in the jar, and he felt that the room was extremely gloomy. The general who was commanding thousands of troops to fight on the battlefield was full of yang energy, but he was also shivering from the sinister wind. He secretly felt that something was not good, because the human skin frame was gone. This was not just the only thought of losing his son. It is more likely that this evil spirit has already formed and is going to cause trouble.
But at this moment, those witchcraft evil spirits could no longer find him. The generals had no choice but to summon their cronies around them to find traces of the little son.
Unexpectedly, when the general and his party were finally discovered, the general had already died tragically in the water. The cronies also died tragically on the ground. There was no water on them and their clothes were all dry, but some of them drowned. The illusion is very puzzling.
After listening to Professor Yin's analysis, I roughly understood that after special cultivation, this human skin bronze armor would become a sinister thing that could not be suppressed even by the power of a general. So there are hundreds of human-skinned bronze craftsmen under the water? So this place is simply a human skin cemetery, a huge underwater human skin cemetery, and can only a few of us break it?
At this time, the fat man also expressed his analysis: Generally, people in high positions will encounter various mishaps after losing power. They are often persecuted and the victims are not from the enemy, but from people close to them. Trust people. It was probably because the general fell out of favor. After he fell from power, there were people around him who didn't want to be implicated, so they used his son's secrets to make a big fuss, leaving a big mystery unsolved.
Its purpose is nothing more than to divert attention and avoid causing harm to the fish in the pond.
What the fat man said is true. I have to say that this is a very possible existence, and his analysis is very reasonable. After all, this kind of thing has happened often throughout the ages, and every seemingly bizarre unsolved case is always committed by someone close to you.
In other words, if it is true, as Professor Yin said, that a human-skin bronze armor can kill a general and his cronies in weird ways, then how can we do that if there are hundreds of human-skin bronze armors in this human-skin cemetery? Escape? I think this attention should be shifted to this third-generation insect, and explore the mystery of why this third-generation insect attacks people.
Avril didn't say a word just now. He was carefully observing the human skin bronze armor that was so close at hand. Avril was bold and careful. She is the only trustworthy woman in our team. Of course, there is only such a woman. He found that the third-generation insect was hanging on the head of the human-skin bronze armor, and there was a small hole for the third-generation insect to enter and exit.
At this time, Avril raised a question: "Do you think they were invaded by the third generation bug first and then skinned, or were they skinned and then invaded?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked. There was a huge disparity between the results of the two. If we were first invaded by the third-generation insect and then skinned, wouldn't we have entered the prelude to this weird ritual at this moment?
