Legend has it that the Yami clan has three eyes, and the third eye on the forehead has the ability to see at night, so even if there is no sunlight, it can still live in the darkness underground. However, after investigation, Li Tianwen's ancestors found that the statement that the third eye of the Yemu clan was Yemu was not true. The reason why their tribe could survive underground was mainly because they dug up underground fire, and the tattoo on their foreheads Not only was that eye useless, it even caused the entire tribe to bear a thousand-year curse.
What caused Yami to have a third eye was a kind of bug called "Iron Wire Worm". It originally lived in water and was so tiny that the individual could hardly be seen with the naked eye. However, the number was so huge that the underground river at the bottom of the valley was full of it. As long as any living creature falls into the water, it will be besieged and eaten clean by hundreds of millions of wire bugs.
However, later this kind of bug also began to slowly evolve, and it was actually able to parasitize into living objects, survive and grow by sucking the blood of living objects, in order to achieve the purpose of symbiosis with the host.
At that time, the Yemu clan did not appear at the bottom of the valley, and the largest hosts of the iron wire bugs were still those huge ghost heads.
The ghost head is like a demon and a beast. It is a very strange evil beast. It is recorded in the ancient legends that it survives by eating human souls and is the "road clearer" of the underworld. This is why the Taoist priest with a grimace has a dragon ring. The reason why the knife buzzes and vibrates after encountering the ghost head.
After the iron thread bugs parasitize into Guitou Tuan's body, they will gather along the meridians toward the forehead, and then build nests and reproduce, relying on the blood of Guitou Tuan to survive. As the number of iron thread bugs continues to increase, their nests will also It gradually changes into the shape of an eye, but if the host's blood supply is insufficient, the wireworm will corrode through the skull, eat the host's brain and internal organs, kill it, and then look for the next host.
Such a symbiotic relationship was not bad for Kitotsu, because there was a huge blood sac on his back, which could continuously supply blood to save his life. However, the Yami family who came here later were very unfortunate.
The ancients were already short of food. Long-term malnutrition and the infestation of parasites made these people as thin as mummies when they were alive. When the lamp died, they had to endure severe pain in their skulls. In order to relieve this pain, Yemu The clan members would even hang their bodies upside down for a long time to fill their brains with blood, but even so, the Tiexian Zhao still showed no mercy. They should eat and walk when they were undernourished, leaving only the Yemu clan members hanging upside down. body, and even when he died, he did not close his eyes.
After the people of the Yemu clan died, their bodies were cleaned out by iron wires. The corpses without internal organs and blood were more likely to turn into zombies. There may be some reasons for this due to the special environment at the bottom of the valley. Therefore, among the many corpses in the city, the last ten Eighty-nine of them ended up with bodies that were not rotten.
The wireworm has a very strong reproductive capacity and will continue to evolve over the long years. Therefore, to this day, not only the water and animals in the valley, but also the air are filled with this strange insect.
The grimace Taoist frowned more and more when he heard this, and couldn't help asking: "Are you saying that all of us have been infected by this strange insect?"
Li Tianwen nodded.
"Why should I believe you? Maybe you just made up all this to scare us?"
"Taoist, you haven't figured out the situation yet. I didn't make any demands. I just told you the whole story so that you can die in peace. After all, you have been chasing me for so long, but you ended up being buried with me. It's really funny to think about it, hahaha. !" Li Tianwen laughed loudly for a few times, then tore off the scarf on his head, raised his head and stared coldly at the grim-faced Taoist priest.
Everyone gasped when they saw this, and saw that Li Tianwen took off his scarf, revealing a forehead that had never been shown to anyone, and there was an eye on it!
Li Tianwen sighed and murmured: "This 'eye' has become a curse of my Li family. It has been passed down for five generations from my great-grandfather, Taoist Jianghua, to me, and I don't want my descendants to suffer like this again, so I took the risk to find the antidote, but I didn’t want to end up in vain, only to see seven empty coffins of the clan leader.”
When the grim-faced Taoist priest heard this, a flash of lightning flashed through his mind, and many unanswered questions were immediately answered.
No wonder Li Tianwen has been wearing a thick and long scarf since he first met him in Jinling. It turned out to be to cover the eyes on his forehead. And the reason why he looks so old and abnormal is probably not because of revealing the number of days, but actually because he was tortured by the iron wire. To.
At that time, Taoist Ghostface had another doubt, and that was why Li Tianwen gave up his job as an alchemist in Wangfu Youzhai and chose to be a school captain in the Juezi Camp. You must know that the job of a school captain is not easy to make. The following is not only responsible for the applicants. There are all kinds of people in the world, and they have to endure a little emperor with a volatile personality. There are countless unknown tombs waiting for him in front of him. The living environment is much worse than that of the eunuch accompanying the tiger. But now that I think about it, I understand that the only things that can override power and money are friendship and life. Li Tianwen definitely doesn’t have the former. So he can give up the enviable job in the palace and choose to take risks and fight, it must be for His own life is at risk.
It's just that the grimace Taoist priest guessed wrong before, thinking that Li Tianwen came here for immortality and other things.
The matter is basically clear at this point. The Jianghua Taoist who built the mausoleum of Shi Zhou and Zhu was Li Tianwen's great-great-grandfather. During the process of building the mausoleum, he accidentally dug up this deep underground valley and discovered the structure built by the extinct Yemu clan. The cave country.
At first, Taoist Jianghua thought that the cave country was a miraculous place and built a coffin on a high platform to arrange his funeral arrangements. However, Taoist Jianghua soon discovered that he was wrong. This cave country was not only terrifying and abnormal, but also unknowingly... He planted a "curse" on himself.
After being cursed, Jianghua Taoist became more and more strange. He would often sneak into Qingle Mausoleum to hang himself upside down from the beams, and stay there for several days. This also directly led to the guard who was transporting Shi Le's corpse in the tomb on the rainy night. After bumping into Jianghua Taoist priest, he left the words "This guy's behavior is very strange".
The past is about to come to an end. On the verge of death, Taoist priest Jianghua left a manuscript to his descendants, which recorded all the affairs of the deep underground valley and the cave country. He also said that there was a solution to the curse in the coffin of the patriarch deep in the hall.
This sentence can be said to give all hope to Li Tianwen later. At that time, he was suffering from the iron thread bug. He tried almost all kinds of methods, and even found many kinds of medicine to relieve the poison, but the iron thread bug actually belonged to A parasite that is completely different from a poisonous insect. Even the antidote to the poisonous poison has no effect at all.
So Li Tianwen put all his hopes on the coffins in the Cave Kingdom Temple, and began to arrange a series of tricks that would allow him to enter the temple smoothly.
