Under normal circumstances, a large family would make a partition at the entrance to prevent visitors from seeing the overall layout of the compound at a glance. As a result, the Luo family's entrance was a large pond, so Liu Xing could see the distance at a glance.
's living room.
"The layout of this Luo Mansion is quite interesting. You can clearly see who is in the living room from here." Yin En said in a low voice: "And with such a big pond, aren't you afraid that there will be many mosquitoes in the summer?"
Liu Xing nodded sympathetically, because once Liu Xing had nothing to do and raised a tank of fish in his bedroom. As a result, in the summer, he found that there seemed to be a lot of mosquitoes in the bedroom. More importantly, because of the fish
The reason is that mosquito-repellent incense cannot be used, because some of the ingredients in mosquito-repellent incense are not only limited to mosquitoes, but are also extremely effective against fish...
So Liu Xing had no choice but to move the fish tank out of the bedroom. As a result, the fish tank with water was really heavy and Liu Xing almost broke it to pieces.
"And there doesn't seem to be anything growing in this pond."
Shi Zixuan, who was walking by the pond, whispered: "Except for some lotus flowers, I didn't see any fish, and these lotus flowers also looked stunted, so the Luo family doesn't seem to care about this pond.
Don’t care...Then the question is, why do they want to build such a big pond.”
Liu Xing glanced at Luo Yun, who was walking in front, shook his head and said: "Maybe the first generation of the Luo family liked this pond, but the newcomers thought it was too troublesome to take care of, so it was abandoned over time.
, just like it takes me a lot of time to take care of a fish tank that is about the same size as a computer host."
"Yes, if this pond is not connected to the Heshan River outside, then changing the water will be a big problem."
Just when Liu Xing and others were discussing the fish pond, Luo Yun suddenly turned around and said: "In order to explain the situation to you, please go directly to the Luo family's ancestral hall with me. There is an important thing needed there.
Everyone, take a look."
After speaking, Luo Yun turned around and entered a side road.
After hesitating for a moment, Liu Xing and others decided to follow Luo Yun into the path. Soon, a slightly dilapidated old house suddenly opened up in front of them.
"This is the ancestral hall of our Luo family. It is also a house that our Luo family built after coming to Heshan County. Therefore, we have not been willing to demolish it for so many years, so we left it as the ancestral hall of our Luo family.
"
As Luo Yun walked, he introduced: "The reason why our Luo family contacted various families to drive away the Huang family is actually that the Huang family wanted to take away the land where our ancestral hall is located, because this land
From the perspective of Feng Shui, the land is considered a blessed land, so I have always felt that the reason why our Luo family has become what it is now has something to do with this land."
Although Liu Xing's grandfather once left a lot of books on Feng Shui, Liu Xing only read and played with them, so now he really can't say anything about the Feng Shui of this land.
"After the Rat King in Gray was invited back by us, he has been enshrining it in my family's ancestral hall because the Rat King in Gray would be unhappy if it was placed elsewhere."
Luo Yun pushed open the door of the ancestral hall, and Liu Xing and others saw a wooden sculpture as tall as one person placed in the ancestral hall. It looked very...fuzzy?
Although this wood carving is angular, it gives people a vague feeling, like a humanoid creature shrouded in black mist.
However, after looking directly at the wooden sculpture for a while, Liu Xing felt that his eyes were a little uncomfortable, as if he had been looking at a mobile phone for a long time, so he had to look away.
"It's easy to ask the gods but hard to send them away. If you want to send away the rat king in gray, you have to send away all his disciples. But you all know that rats are everywhere, and you can always find them in strange places.
Suddenly one or two were found, so there is no way for us to get all the rats out of Heshan County. Therefore, even if we have a way to solve the curse left by the Huang family, we cannot really lift these curses because we are worried
After the snake group is gone, the rat group will be the only one, and it will be even more troublesome." Luo Yun said seriously.
This is indeed a big problem.
This suddenly reminded Liu Xing of a classic case of biological control, that is, there were many wolves in a certain place in America, so the locals organized manpower to kill the wolves. As a result, the local deer herd
It expanded several times in just a few years, eating up all the local vegetation, and even ran into human communities to eat lawns. Therefore, the locals had to introduce wolves to deal with these deer.
The herd... As a result, these deer herds had lived a comfortable life without natural predators for several years, so when they faced the wolves again, they were overwhelmed and soon became a buffet for the wolves, so the size of the wolf pack continued to grow.
expansion.
Well, now the locals have to deal with the wolf problem again.
So sometimes Liu Xing admires the invisible hands of nature, which can balance the food chain in an area to an almost perfect position. As long as there are no natural or man-made disasters, the creatures in this area can live "loving each other".
Go down.
"By the way, Master Luo, didn't you say that Liu Xing would come to treat the injured person?" Yin En asked suddenly: "But now you say that you already know how to remove the curse, so it means that you already know how to remove the poison.
?"
"No, we haven't been able to completely solve the problem of snake venom, but we have found the source of the curse, which is located on a hill in the east of Heshan County. In fact, there is a huge black snake hidden there, and this black snake is
Brought by the Huang family, it seems to be able to control all snakes within a hundred miles, so as long as we get rid of it, the curse of the Huang family will be broken."
Luo Yun shook his head and said: "But that black snake is huge and can run rampant on that mountain. It will definitely take us a while to catch it, and we don't know the snake's attack method yet, so
Even if we can get rid of it, we will still pay a huge loss... But last night I was asked in a dream by the gray rat king. It said that the big snake was called Guoshanfeng, and it could move its own body when it moved quickly.
The body turns into a shadow, ignoring all surrounding obstacles, and more importantly, the mountain wind can also release colorless and odorless toxins to the surroundings at this time, which can instantly make those around them lose their ability to move."
Mountain breeze?
When Liu Xing was in the real world, he had heard of a kind of venomous snake called mountain wind. It was one of the most venomous snakes in the world, and it moved very fast, but the mountain wind in the real world was not too bad.
big.
"Then it's hard to deal with this mountain wind. We have to immobilize it as soon as possible. If not, we have to slow it down to the speed of turning into a phantom."
Liu Xing thought for a while, looked at the wooden carving of the Rat King in Gray and said: "So should we try to bring the statue of the Rat King in Gray and use it to block the movement of the mountain wind? If the mountain wind destroys it,
If the statue of the Rat King in Gray is removed, then the Rat King in Gray should take action to deal with Shanfeng, so both problems are solved?"
"Well, Mr. Liu Xing, you are a bit too simplistic. If the gray rat king knows that we are using its statue in this way, then it may come to us in person to cause trouble." Luo Yun was worried.
said.
"Wait a minute, I have a question for Patriarch Luo, that is, when you invited the Rat King in Gray back, what kind of consensus did you reach with the Rat King in Gray? Patriarch Luo, please make it clear and
To be more precise, you should also know that one word may affect the meaning of a sentence." Zhang Jingxu asked quickly.
After Luo Yun recalled for a moment, he said with certainty: "When my grandfather invited back the Rat King in Gray, he paid 10,000 stones of food to bring back this statue, and this statue can make the rats around him come back."
To stand up and deal with those snakes, of course every January we have to send people to the Gray Rat King's lair to deliver a thousand stones of food, so as to ensure that those rats continue to fight for us."
Shi is a unit of measurement in the Han Dynasty. It can be either a mass unit or a capacity unit. If it is the former, it is approximately equivalent to one hundred kilograms today. However, there is also a saying that it refers to sixty kilograms, and if it is
If it was the latter, it would be equivalent to about thirty kilograms today.
Therefore, the 10,000 shi of grain sent by Heshan County at the beginning was at least 300,000 kilograms of grain, and at most one million kilograms of grain. This is not a small amount. After all, the grain output in ancient times was only two to three hundred kilograms per acre.
It’s only a kilogram, and these are some grains and beans. If it were replaced by rice, it would be good to have more than a hundred kilograms per acre of land.
Liu Xing estimated the available arable land area in Heshan County and found that the annual grain output in Heshan County may be less than one thousand dan. After all, Heshan County is also a mountainous area, and there are too few flat lands.
, so the annual grain output in Heshan County may not be enough to pay the "protection fee" to the Gray Rat King, not to mention that part of the grain must be handed over to other people.
"As you can see, the food we grow in Heshan County every year is not enough for the Gray Rat King, so we had to choose to transform. We made a lot of money by relying on this road, and we barely covered the gap.
We have made up for it, but this is not a solution, so we are eager to solve these problems."
Luo Yunchang sighed and continued: "Mr. Liu Xing, the reason why I brought you here is because there is something that only you can open."
After Luo Yun finished speaking, he took out a suitcase from the cabinet on the side... Wait, why does this suitcase have a combination lock?
Liu Xing took a closer look and found that although the suitcase looked like a very old-fashioned suitcase, it had a very delicate combination lock on it, and the combination lock was covered by a glass cover.
"The prophecy says that only you can open this box, and once you start entering the password, which means opening the glass cover, you must open the box within a quarter of an hour, otherwise the contents of the box will disappear directly.
Luo Yun said seriously.
Liu Xing took the box and took a look. The number of digits in the combination lock was quite special. It was actually a seven-digit number instead of the common three-digit and four-digit numbers.
Seven-digit password?
Liu Xing thought about it carefully and felt that this seven-digit password could only be his previous landline number.
First of all, this password must be related to himself, and Turner's understanding of himself must be very limited, or in other words, Turner only knows the character card "Liu Xing".
Although the character card "Liu Xing" is an almost perfect reproduction of Liu Xing, a lot of information has been blurred by the Cthulhu Game Hall. For example, Liu Xing has not played in Cthulhu until now.
I have seen my parents in the running group game lobby, and have never returned to my home, and the phone number I used was also randomly selected.
Therefore, a lot of information about "Liu Xing" is inconsistent with Liu Xing himself, and this should be the purpose of the Cthulhu Run Game Hall to protect the safety of players, so as to prevent some uneasy and well-meaning players from using the information in the game to mislead the real world.
Find other players in the world.
However, some of Liu Xing's habits still cannot be changed. For example, Liu Xing has registered many APP accounts in the Cthulhu Run game lobby. After all, in the module, besides completing the plot, he also has a lot of free time, so
He also needs to read some novels or videos to pass the time, and when registering these apps, Liu Xing also subconsciously used some of his own passwords in the real world.
Among these passwords, the most commonly used number combination is Liu Xing's previous landline password. Although this landline has been shelved after entering the mobile phone era, Liu Xing can still remember his home landline number.
After all, the first string of numbers that most people come into contact with and memorize when they are young is most likely their own landline number, because at that time, the first safety education for children was to remember their own landline number, and then
When in danger, call home.
Of course, after the popularity of mobile phones, the number of phone numbers that children need to memorize has changed from seven to eleven, which can be regarded as a disguised increase in difficulty.
However, if you memorize some things, you can remember them immediately even after more than ten years. For example, Liu Xing can not only remember his own landline number, but also his first name.
social account.
Therefore, Liu Xing felt that the seven-digit password set by Turner should be the landline number that he had used many times in the module.
Sure enough, when Liu Xing fixed the last digit of the combination lock at 1, the box made a "click" sound, indicating that he had wanted to open it.