"The secret record of Chang'an?"

Although the cover is missing two words.

But when Zheng Xiu read the record about "Cotton Sloughing", he blinked and completed the words on the cover.

"Huh? The strong man actually knows the secret of 'Eternal Darkness'?"

The old man said in surprise.

Zheng Xiu shook his head and did not answer. After reading the record about "Cotton Sloughing" with a strange look on his face, he turned to the first page and read the outline.

After reading it in one breath, Zheng Xiu roughly understood it.

The person who wrote this book does not really know that there is eternal darkness, or has faced it directly.

Just as primitive people were afraid of the dark night in the ancient times without fire, so the ancient people were in awe of the unknown.

All fear comes from the "unknown" and from lack of firepower.

Mian was depressed from then on, but ten days later, Mian heard the sound of a baby crying at home, and finally found the baby in a sealed box.

They looked at Zheng Xiu and Ruchen as if they were looking at two monsters.

Zheng Xiu pulled out one, and there was nothing strange about the baby. It still didn't cry or fuss. Speaking of which, Zheng Xiu's initial feeling was not wrong. The baby's "cry" didn't sound like crying, but more like a kind of cry. "Scream" is not a sound that human babies can make at all.

Human beings are not human beings.

Such horrifying "stories" are recorded in ancient books in obscure words.

Zheng Xiu's brows jumped: "Twenty years ago?"

Zheng Xiu shook his head: "I didn't plan to delay for too long. In fact, I roughly thought of a solution when I checked the baby just now. Now that I have read the "Eternal Secret Record" preserved by Jingwu, I am even more sure. If everything goes well, it should be there tomorrow. This matter can be solved before it gets dark. The worst result is that they will miss the mark and follow their own native methods. Furthermore, when I was looking for cotton sloughs, they collected supplies for me, which also saved me a lot of time. Less time, two birds with one stone.”

"steamed stuffed bun?"

The more Zheng Xiu read, the more frightened he became.

He made a list and stated his requirements.

leave.

I don’t know how many years ago, the ancients imagined that the world is divided into two sides, one is the "eternal world" and the other is the "eternal darkness". The two sides are not connected with each other. But once strange things happen in the ordinary world, they speculate that there are evil things running out of the eternal darkness. Come out and cause harm to the world.

After sitting down, the old man's back gradually became straighter and straighter, and his cloudy eyes became brighter, as if he had changed into a different person in just a few seconds.

"Human antler" only looks like a baby, but in fact, it is a kind of insect called "cotton slough".

Great Success Vision.

Cotton slough is one of them.

"Follow the clue and follow the clue."

Zheng Xiu knew that time was tight and didn't want to waste time. He didn't talk nonsense at the moment and let Ruchen catch up.

Zheng Xiuyi said something as if he was pointing, and then walked towards the woman.

This ancient book also writes about many strange creatures, called demons and monsters, such as a carp with a human face, a tiger with an eight-legged spider body, a fish that wanders the world, and a sun chaser.

There was a voice in his heart that kept telling him that all this had nothing to do with him. But Zheng Xiu could not explain this unique time point as "coincidence" anyway.

Following the "silk" left by the cotton slough, you should be able to feel the nest of the cotton slough.

It can grow to the size of a child in three months in one month.

The old man was overjoyed when he heard this: "Seriously?" But after the joy, the old man looked sad: "However, ancient books record that the alchemists of that time were still burned."

Grass!

Why on earth!

If he first came into contact with this matter because of Ruchen's persistence and conscience, when Zheng Xiu learned that Mianshe had reappeared after twenty years, his mentality was slightly different.

When he looked down, Zheng Xiu found that the "human antler" held in the woman's arms had "silk threads" attached to it.

"I will solve the problem for you. Zheng is a psychic like the alchemists back then."

Zheng Xiu never explained. Ruchen was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot and kept scratching his head. When he saw Zheng Xiu raising his middle finger towards him, he stretched out his hand and shook it on Zheng Xiu's finger: "Brother Zheng, what are you pointing at me for?"

Under his spiritual vision, Zheng Xiu discovered that there was a green light spot floating in the sky above Jingtang Town. Countless light spots danced with the wind, sometimes upwards and sometimes downwards.

"So that's it." Zheng Xiu wondered if the alchemist who was the first to discover Mianshe had also seen the same scene, and then he came up with the idea of ​​burning Mianshe to death with fierce fire.

In other words, it is due to human beings' "ignorance" and "weakness".

Ruchen looked at Zheng Xiu's weird actions, but he couldn't see Zheng Xiu's weird things. He was wondering if Brother Zheng had an itchy scalp. He was about to pay attention to it, but saw Zheng Xiu's eyes were firm and did not look like he was playing, so he obeyed. Close your mouth and watch what happens.

Mian and her husband were shocked. The mud seemed to have a spirit, slipped into the crack of the door and disappeared into the night.

"Xiao Zhao, do you still remember the 'Sun Chaser's Theory'?"

The book says that "cotton slough" is invisible and colorless and difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

Since ancient times, to solve the problem of "cotton slough", the only way to prevent further reproduction of cotton slough is to burn all "human velvet" and pregnant women with cotton slough with fire.

Before the founding of Daqian, on a starless night, it is said that there was a young and beautiful woman named "Mian" in an unknown village. She was pregnant for ten months, but during her labor, she gave birth to a "child" that looked like mud. .

Farewell to the Jingwu family, the doors and windows of the houses in Jingtang Town are still closed.

Xiaozhao helped his grandfather back into the house.

Another day, Mian heard a baby crying again in another room at home. When he opened it, he saw another baby.

"Don't worry, Zheng has no ill intentions." Zheng Xiu showed a charming smile to Cuihua and reached out his hand at lightning speed.

Twenty years ago.

The frightened man opened his hands to block Zheng Xiu and Ruchen.

Zheng Xiu rolled his eyes, but soon he discovered something. Ruchen's fingers passed through the cotton thread without any hindrance.

The appearance of the slough looks like that of a normal child, except that it is exceptionally quiet, does not cry or fuss, and grows very quickly.

The baby's eyebrows were like cotton, and the woman missed her baby so much that she thought it was her baby's transformation and rebirth, so she named her baby "Sheo".

But on second thought, Zheng Xiu denied this possibility. If the alchemist could really see the "silk thread", he would naturally be able to follow the clues and find Mianshe's hiding place. How could he use such cruelty to kill one thousand enemies and damage himself eight hundred? Method. Psychics and psychics cannot be generalized. Zheng Xiu had to achieve great success to see deeply. Presumably, the alchemist's level of psychics back then was not as deep as Zheng Xiu's now.

Maybe Brother Zheng’s rule for performing surgery is to scratch his forehead? While thinking about it, Ruchen touched his bald head out of habit.

The old man didn't answer and asked suddenly.

Ordinary successful [Inspiration] cannot be seen clearly, but under "concentration", Zheng Xiu's vision suddenly changed, and the outlines of the characters and the eaves on the ground were simultaneously dyed with a layer of gorgeous ink light and shadow.

"It doesn't matter, if it can't be solved, you can burn it again." Zheng Xiu said in a neither happy nor sad tone: "In exchange, Zheng hopes to receive compensation for this matter."

Zheng Xiu touched his eyebrows with his fingers, and a dice moistened with a faint black air came out of his eyebrows.

The old man was overjoyed when he heard Zheng Xiu's request. They had no money, but they needed supplies. As the fifteenth generation of pure witches, he had a certain prestige in the town, so he could easily get what Zheng Xiu needed.

Therefore, this phenomenon was later called "cotton sloughing".

But a door or window secretly opened many gaps. Zheng Xiu and Ruchen were walking on the road. The eyes coming from inside made Zheng Xiu feel uncomfortable.

The invisible "silk thread" was like a spider's thread. After Zheng Xiu pulled it out, the thread actually stuck to Zheng Xiu's finger and extended downward.

"Step aside."

It wasn't until the third time that Zheng Xiu finally triggered [Opportunism] and achieved great success.

Now you have to believe it even if you don’t believe it.

Xiaozhao answered: "I remember. Legend has it that in ancient times there was a man named 'Zhu' who worshiped the scorching sun. One day he ran and ran towards the scorching sun, running through thousands of mountains and crossing thousands of rivers. Finally, he stood on a very high mountain.

, I caught the sun on such a high mountain."

The old man nodded and said with a smile: "Well, just remember, what happens next?"

"Don't make any noise."

The woman only thought that the baby had caught a cold when he was born, but the husband looked more and more strange because the baby looked like cotton and not like him.

The creature that looks like a baby on the surface has actually been replaced by "cotton slough".

"This is?"

Zheng Xiu had seen the baby with his own eyes. If he hadn't used [Inspiration], superficially, the baby would have looked the same as a normal baby and would have been difficult to distinguish.

Two cotton-padded jackets to keep out the cold, firewood, dry firewood, and some coarse grains.

"No..." Zheng Xiu's pupils shrank and he subconsciously held his breath: "It's spores."

Cotton slough, which occurs once every hundred years, appears again after 20 years.

Until the sixth strange baby appeared in the village, someone invited a magician who claimed to be a natural psychic. The magician said that the child was evil, and after a fire burned all the children and the pregnant woman, the baby was finally born.

Ended this matter.

Zheng Xiu and Ruchen returned to the open space where the "purification ceremony" was held. The flames burned out, leaving only a mess.

Shortly after Zheng Xiu and Ruchen left.

Ruchen burst into laughter: "You are really weird! It was you who wanted to burn your wife, and now it's you who jumped out! Since you can watch your wife being burned to death, aren't you making people laugh by being so hypocritical now?

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To be continued...