Between mountains and seas

After coming out of the world of mountains and seas, Shao Jingxing was sent directly to the hospital. As for Raoshan, the second team organized people to check it according to the previous plan.

Gangzhen, Shao Jingxing has no objection to this way of handling, because this way he doesn't have to go to Rao Mountain by himself, and he can live in the same ward with Huo Qing, which is really the best.

Of course, his injury was not very serious, mainly because the place where the red ants bit him was a bit festered—according to the research of the Special Affairs Department, there are several types of red ants, and the functions of formic acid are not the same. This kind of toxicity is relatively strong, so even a person with supernatural powers cannot heal himself quickly, and he still has to receive treatment to remove the toxin in the wound in order to heal smoothly.

Speaking of which, this kind of treatment is really not worth being hospitalized, but Shao Jingxing strongly requested to live in it, and the ward was empty—of course, the most important thing is that this time he was kidnapped innocently, and because of this, he obtained a lot of information. Satisfied his request, the right should be compensated.

There is another thing that makes him happy, Gu Sheng and Ji Xiaojiu came to visit him, still confused.

"Ah, it's still silly and cute." Shao Jingxing stroked the cat, feeling a lot better.Looking at its big sad face, I feel that the trauma of my heart has been healed.

Ji Xiaojiu took a plate of lychees and peeled them beside her: "As for the trauma?"

"That's right!" Shao Jingxing rubbed his confused face, "I understand it too much now." If he had to face so many terrifying strange beasts all the time, no one would be so depressed.From this point of view, Mu Mu is really a weak, pitiful and helpless kitten, which is so sympathetic.

"Liuwu——" As if to thank him for his understanding, he put a paw on his hand and rubbed his head against him.

Ji Xiaojiu took a lychee and stuffed it into his mouth: "Really? But how do I see that you are full of energy, and you don't look like ptsd at all? And you even burned a new bride, amazing!"

"Ugh—" Shao Jingxing swallowed the lychee with great difficulty, "No. Huo Qing killed that bridal later, so I just burned it so I could take the opportunity to escape."

"That's pretty good too." Ji Xiaojiu stuffed another lychee into her mouth, "I remember that time when you saw a sparrow, your legs were so frightened that you couldn't even dodge. The bride can still resist with her neck strangled, and she has grown a lot. After all, the bride is a relatively high-level shikigami, and it looks disgusting..."

When she said this, Shao Jingxing seemed to smell the charred corpse of the new bride again: "Stop talking, it's really disgusting! The face looks pretty good, who knew it was dragging a spider's belly, it's just too scary Huo Qing stabbed it through with a single knife, and it was still alive. When He Maochuan left, the twisted space cut off a piece of his stomach, my God, that flowed all over the ground—"

"Stop!" Ji Xiaojiu's lychee choked on her chest, "You just stop talking!" Telling others not to say it, she described it so vividly: "I don't think you're afraid at all, are you?"

"Indeed, he's very courageous now." Huo Qing interjected leisurely, "He can still pick things out of the stomach of the mutated salmon..."

"Hey——" Ji Xiaojiu's expression collapsed, "Schools should be admired in three days."

"They were all forced..." Shao Jingxing had a vicissitudes on his face, "A dog jumps over a wall in a hurry, a rabbit bites a person in a hurry, and a person can do anything in a hurry..."

Ji Xiaojiu laughed: "But to be honest, you really did something good this time. That bead, and the living stone, any information is very valuable!"

Speaking of this, Shao Jingxing was a little embarrassed: "It's also a coincidence..." That's true, if it wasn't for Chen Xiang, that stupid and bad luck guy who regarded him as an expert, how could he have obtained so much information.

"However, is the living stone that He Maochuan said true?" Anyway, Huo Qing said, he has never read such a record.

"Well..." Ji Xiaojiu rubbed his forehead, "There is no such record in the "Shan Hai Jing". It can be said that there is no such record in official books, but in foreign fairy tales, there are stones. heart story."

When it comes to fairy tales, Shao Jingxing knows much better than history: "Ah, you mean that "Peter with a Heart of Stone"? But that's just a fairy tale..." The so-called heart of stone doesn't really refer to it, but refers to the lost only the capacity for love and kindness.

"Fairy tales also have certain reference value." Ji Xiaojiu said solemnly, "We are not the only ones who know the world of mountains and seas. Although the enchantment was established by Pangu, cracks do not only appear in our country. For example, the famous Japanese The "Hyakki Yaxing" is a phenomenon in which a large rift opens and many strange beasts emerge. Including Japanese monsters and shikigami, they all appear because of the power of mountains and seas. Similarly, there are similar creatures in other places."

"For example, the devil?" Shao Jingxing felt that his mind was about to expand again, "How about those monsters in Greek mythology?"

"Yes." Ji Xiaojiu nodded, "We can basically be sure that the mermaid and the mermaid in fairy tales are the same kind of creature. And the hydra Hydra in Greek mythology is most likely the Jiuying we are familiar with."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Shao Jingxing was so excited that he almost pulled his hair out, "One of the missions of Hercules is to capture the huge wild boar that caused harm to one side. Didn't Hou Yi kill the same thing before? There is also the one called What the hell, Athena turned it into a monster whose upper body is a woman and the lower body is a spider——Mom, isn’t this a bridal woman!”

"It's Alcmene." Ji Xiaojiu added and corrected him, "Not only monsters, but also people who have mutated because of it. The witches hunted and killed in the Middle Ages—if it's true—are supernatural beings. There are Titans in Greek mythology, who are giants supporting the sky with their shoulders, and we also have the god of giant spirits. After the transformation, the body shape and strength are also huge. Another example is the headless horseman. From origin to image, they are all similar to Xingtian. Very similar."

The two of them were chattering, they were already far away from the original topic, and Ji Xiaojiu was still unsatisfied: "There are quite a few strange beasts in Greek mythology that can find the same kind here, such as the Cypriot who sings on the sea." Ren, they are half man, half bird, and sailors who hear their singing will involuntarily approach them until they are eaten. This kind of bird is very similar to the melody."

"Miaoyinniao?" This Shao Jingxing really didn't know.

"Miaoyinbird is a creature in ancient Indian mythology. Its Sanskrit name is Galupinga. It makes music and dance offerings in front of the Buddha. There are portraits of them in the murals of the Tang Dynasty in the Dunhuang Grottoes. They are half-human, half-bird beauties. It is said that their voice He Ya, the listener will never get tired of', it's just fascinated by it. It's just that the Miaoyin bird comes from the snow-capped mountains, and it belongs to a different origin from the same kind in the sea."

Seeing that the conversation between these two people slid into other directions completely uncontrollably, Huo Qing even started to discuss the influence of climate and culture in different regions on alien beasts or supernatural beings, so he could only cough: "I'm not saying Is it a living stone?"

As for the living stone, he didn't expect any related records, and he really had to pin his hopes on Ji Xiaojiu.

"Oh, that's right—" Ji Xiaojiu then remembered to get down to business, "If we talk about the records of living stones in our history, I can only think of one for the time being, and that is Lizhu."

"Li Zhu? It's that Jiuzhong..."

Shao Jingxing had only spoken halfway, and Huo Qing already knew that he was thinking wrong again: "No. It's not the Nine Layers Abyss, the Lizhu under Lilong's chin is the power of power."

"Ah? Haha, is that right?" Shao Jingxing was used to it, and asked without blushing at all, "What is that power bead? A very powerful bead?"

Ji Xiaojiu rolled his eyes at him: "It's a bead that can give people a lot of strength. According to the records in "Shuo Yu": "The bead of strength is as big as a longan and contains a lot of strength. It can pull the tail of an elephant to make it Go backwards. Liu Lei got a piece of Yu Ningfeng, which can subdue tigers, leopards and flood dragons. He tried to lift the tail of a tiger and set up a city of thousands of pheasants hanging on it. The tiger roared angrily, and the sound was heard for several miles. He also sandwiched a piece of raw cowhide with his middle finger and ring finger, and the emperor sent strong men to press it , From one person to ten people, the skin is broken and the hands are not removed."

Emma Ji Xiaojiu is good at everything, but this long paragraph is really unbearable, and I don’t think about whether others can understand it or not.

Shao Jingxing slandered endlessly.Speaking of which, this paragraph is not bad, even if he gulped it down, he can get a general idea, that is, the force beads can make people increase their strength, dozens of times more than ordinary people or something.But this, isn't it the ability to awaken people?

"No." Ji Xiaojiu denied him authoritatively, "If it's an awakening ability, then generally speaking, a power bead can only be used once or twice, and after leaving the power bead, the person should continue to use it. Maintain the state of supernatural powers. But it is said in the records that the power beads contain more power, and the special emphasis is on containing it, because if it does not contain it, people will no longer have "more power."

Eh, can you still interpret it like this? Is there any difference between "containing a lot of power" and "getting a lot of power"?

"Of course there are." Ji Xiaojiu said affirmatively, "The words used in ancient Chinese are concise, so we must pay more attention to accuracy. Different words express different meanings."

"If you say this—" Huo Qing said thoughtfully, "it fits He Maochuan's description of the living stone—in his opinion, the living stone is something that can enhance abilities, not awakening abilities."

"Hmm - anyway, according to my understanding, there is only Li Zhu." Ji Xiaojiu is quite objective about the unknown situation, "My understanding is the same as yours, that is, the living stone is to increase the ability, so Emperor Murakami used the living stone Replacing the heart-in fact, it should increase the energy to maintain life, rather than awakening a certain ability. In other words, apart from Xing Tian, ​​I have never heard of any ability that can survive without vital organs Even Xing Tian, ​​I suspect that it is only because his brain and sensory organs are not in the head, or in other words, he does not have a head in the first place, and the nerve center grows elsewhere."

"Then what about Leng Chuan?" Shao Jingxing didn't care about Xing Tian, ​​"If there is such a place, we have to find it first!" At that time, everyone would be able to improve their abilities with one hand, and it would be more secure against the strange beasts in the world of Shangshanhai.

Ji Xiaojiu frowned: "In Leng Chuan's words, the "Water of Cold and Heat" is recorded in the "Da Huang Xi Jing", but it is very vague, just saying that "there is water called water of cold and heat", as for this water, how is it cold? , and what kind of summer method, there is no mention at all. If it is understood literally, it should refer to very cold water and very hot water, but there is no mention of any living stones."

"But He Maochuan didn't mention hot water." Shao Jingxing felt that this might be wrong, "If there is, the hot and cold water should be very iconic, and his grandfather would definitely mention it."

"Maybe his grandfather was frozen half to death in the cold water, so he didn't bother to look around, so he didn't find any hot water." Ji Xiaojiu shrugged, "Of course it might not be there, but It’s in other places, such as some extremely cold place, the water in that kind of place is probably very cold.”

"Ah!" Shao Jingxing felt very regretful, "Why didn't I ask He Maochuan again at that time, where is Lengchuan!" If I had known earlier, I would have been less angry with him and asked for more information.

"You have already heard a lot." Huo Qing said lightly, "He Maochuan may not know the specific place name, otherwise his grandfather would not have named the river himself. It is very likely that they did not know that it corresponds to the ancient records Where in the book, just leave a sign or a map for future generations to find."

"That's right—" After Huo Qing said that, Shao Jingxing felt much better. "Otherwise he was so complacent at the time, maybe he would have told me where it was."

Ji Xiaojiu agreed: "Brother Shao, you are already very powerful, and you have coaxed him to talk so much! Speaking of which, when Emperor Murakami died, was the five-colored moth that appeared on his chest real or fake? This story is quite good. Well, like turning into a butterfly, could it be that Ashiya Aoi really came back to die for Emperor Murakami?"

As she spoke, her eyes lit up, as if she had made up [-] words.

"It's probably a fake." Huo Qing poured cold water on it, "It's just unofficial history. Ashiya Aoi's ability is ice-type, and how did she control the five-color moth? It might just happen to have a butterfly or moth, and because Ashiya Aoi Before I was born, there were five-color moths in my house, so I knew it."

Ji Xiaojiu and Shao Jingxing glanced at each other, and they both saw a line of imaginative pornography in each other's eyes, but they had to admit that Huo Qing was right, the car was not being driven carefully.

"Forget it." Ji Xiaojiu said listlessly, "If I really want to find this living rock, I'll either grab He Maochuan, or we'll explore places where we can—this is a big project. "

"That's right. I think we should study the Jiuqu Bead first, it seems easier." Shao Jingxing agreed with her opinion, "I don't know if they can find any clues in Rao Mountain."

"Well, I'll find out when they come back. The higher-ups also attach great importance to this matter. Otherwise, Uncle Gu was called—Uncle Gu?" Be lost in there.

After being called out by Ji Xiaojiu, Gu Sheng seemed to wake up suddenly, and looked at Shao Jingxing: "Xiao Shao, you have indeed made another contribution this time."

"Ah—" Shao Jingxing felt a little coy at what he said, "I've said it all, it's just a coincidence..."

Gu Sheng smiled: "It is indeed a coincidence, but you were not afraid of danger when you were hijacked. Not only did you escape safely, but you also collected important information. This is your credit."

Mom, this is too much praise, right?Don't be afraid in the face of danger - he was almost scared to pee at the beginning, but then he was forced to die, and he didn't want to lose face in front of He Maochuan, so he had to bite the bullet and fight him.

Besides, if he escaped safely, Huo Qing came to rescue him in time, otherwise he would be taken to Rao Mountain, what better?When He Maochuan found out that he had been lying to him from beginning to end, he would have to chop him up immediately!

It's just collecting information, and it's still a fact.Although it was what He Maochuan himself was willing to say, it was considered intelligence.

Gu Sheng's smile deepened, and he did not refute his statement: "Anyway, the credit is real. Although it cannot be announced, the Special Affairs Division will reward you. But—" He turned slightly, "These secrets After all, it is not something that ordinary people can know, so Xiao Shao, are you willing to join the special affairs department?"

What?Is the reward for him to join the special affairs department?This, isn't this reward too...

"Of course the reward is not this." Gu Sheng said with a smile, "The special affairs department wants you to join because you have special abilities, the ability to survive, and—a brave and kind heart."

I'm not, I'm not, I——Shao ​​Jingxing is almost habitually about to say no three times in a row, but when he saw Huo Qing looking at him gently, Ji Xiaojiu nodded vigorously with an expression of approval, and suddenly came to his lips I can't speak the words.

In the end, he could only murmur: "I, I'm actually not that good... You say that, it's strange, it's disgusting..."

Gu Sheng laughed and patted him on the shoulder: "Since you took the place of that sick child as a hostage, it actually proved your quality. Huo Qing was right. Although you are afraid, you should do what you should do. You have done a lot. Huo Qing told me that it was thanks to your assistance that Fengtan Town hooked the snake back then. There is also the matter of the cemetery, without you, the consequences would have been quite serious."

"Then, then I paid back, and ran away..."

"It's normal to be afraid." Gu Sheng didn't take it seriously, "Who wouldn't be afraid of the unknown and danger? Do you think we're not afraid?"

I really can't see that you are afraid... Shao Jingxing thought secretly.Don't talk about others, just talk about Huo Qing, does he know how to write the word fear?And that Su Zheng, who went to such a dangerous place as Rao Mountain, still robbed him.

"When I entered the world of mountains and seas for the first time, I was also scared." Huo Qing said suddenly, "But by understanding knowledge and improving my abilities, I can gradually stabilize my emotions."

That's you.You are no ordinary person.Shao Jingxing rubbed his nose: "I, I, let me think about it..."

Huo Qing stared at him: "I hope to fight with you in the world of mountains and seas."

No, don't say such a scary word like fighting...

Huo Qing pondered for a while, and said kindly: "Then—I hope to eat your cooking in the world of mountains and seas."