I asked Cai Yan on the phone what insect-eating graves are.
Cai Yan said: "As the name suggests, it is insects that have eaten the graves by silkworms. Countless graves near the ant ditch have all turned into a honeycomb shape. The scene is very strange. This matter is definitely not the work of simple insects and ants, so it is necessary to
You go and check it out."
I said "Okay", and then Cai Yan said: "You don't have to come to Sichuan. I don't have any information for you here. I will send the address to your mobile phone now, and then you can go directly to northern Shaanxi."
go."
After hanging up the phone, Cai Yan sent me an address.
Nangong Fancong and I did not go back to Cuidi Chunxiao, but went directly to the airport to buy plane tickets to Xi'an, and we arrived in Xi'an that night.
We rested here for a night, and found a car to take us to Antgou in northern Shaanxi early the next morning.
By the time we arrived here, it was already around four o'clock in the afternoon. After we paid the taxi driver, he asked us if he wanted to wait for us here.
We didn’t know how many days our case would take, so I told the master no, and he drove away directly.
After the taxi left, Nangong Fan and I went into the village together. Our identities this time were insect research experts. We had used this identity when we followed Tian Sihan on a case in western Hunan, so the terminology matter,
We are familiar with the road.
We went directly to the village chief. As soon as he heard that we were here to study "insects eating graves", he immediately said happily: "The superiors have sent people here. Not long ago, those insects just went to ruin the graves. Now,
Those bugs have become more serious and have begun to bite some old houses that are unoccupied. Several old yards in the village have turned into honeycombs."
The village chief’s surname is Pan, Pan Jinliang. We call him Village Chief Pan directly.
While introducing the situation in the village, Village Chief Pan took us to see the dilapidated houses that were bitten by insects.
On the way there, I asked Village Chief Pan what those bugs looked like and if anyone had seen them.
Village Chief Pan shook his head and said: "This is really not the case. Those houses turned into honeycombs overnight. No one saw how the bugs bit them. Moreover, the bugs left after biting them, leaving nothing behind.
Traces, sometimes I think they are haunted rather than bitten by bugs. By the way, aren't you two experts on bugs? Tell me, what bugs can make holes in rocks? This is amazing!"
I said: "There are probably more than 10 million species of insects in the world, and there are some insects that can dig holes in rocks. However, I can't remember all the names of more than 10 million species of insects.
I need to check the information before I can tell you. Now we must first look at the things that have been bitten by insects, and then collect some samples for analysis."
Village Chief Pan also nodded and said: "Anyway, you are experts, and you have the final say on things here. Recently, those bugs have begun to eat the houses. People in the village are panic-stricken. They are afraid that bugs that can even break stones will bite people."
But what should we do, so you'd better find out quickly, otherwise many people in this village will have to flee."
As we talked, we arrived in front of an old stone house. The main body of the house was made of stone, and the courtyard walls were made of adobe. This kind of adobe is very weak. When it encounters water, the adobe will slow down.
It slowly turned into mud, so the remaining section of the wall became a low mound.
Even the mound has countless holes as thick as a little finger. Each hole is round and very neat, as if someone had poked it out one by one with a round stick.
Even if there are wormholes on this mound, the houses built of stone are also covered with those pores, and many holes go directly through the middle of the stone.
Seeing that these dilapidated houses were covered with small holes, I suddenly felt that these houses had a bit of science fiction flavor.
Looking at these houses, I realized that these holes were definitely not caused by simple insects, because there was a lingering yin energy in each wormhole. These insects carried such heavy yin energy, and it seemed that they were not clean things.
Then I think about the fact that they went to the grave of silkworms before, so I think they are evil things even more.
Seeing that Nangong Fan and I didn't speak, Village Chief Pan said, "You must be scared. I was also scared when I first saw the situation here. I even went to the town to buy a lot of pesticides to kill them."
Our house was sprayed with insecticides and the like. We just built a new house last year and we don’t want to be bitten like this.”
"In addition, some people in the village have taken their children to live with relatives because they are afraid of being bitten by insects they have never seen before."
"That's why I said, if we don't figure it out anymore, everyone in the village will run away."
Then I said: "Don't worry, since we have come to investigate, we will definitely find out the problem and then solve the problem of those bugs."
Next, Village Chief Pan led us around the village again, and several houses also turned into honeycomb shapes. But strangely enough, the stones were chewed out one after another, but there was no one.
The house collapsed. It seems that those bugs are very particular when it comes to their mouths. They know where they can bite and where they must not bite.
After walking around the village, we went to look at the graves in the countryside outside the village. All the graves in the village had turned into honeycomb shapes, and no one was spared. Some people tried to find new graves for their ancestors.
, but as soon as the new grave was repaired, it would be infested by insects again the next day, so everyone felt that it was better not to waste their efforts until the insect problem was solved.
After going around for a while, we didn't find much except for the strong Yin Qi.
When I returned to the village in the evening, I asked the village chief if he could arrange a place for us, and the village chief arranged for us to live in his home directly.
There are only him and his wife at home. They have a child who just went to the south to attend college this year and will not be back until winter vacation.
So Nangong Fan and I temporarily stayed at the village chief’s house.
After dinner, Nangong Fan and I went out with flashlights to investigate. Village Chief Pan was probably worried about something happening at night, so he didn't follow us. When we went there, he also advised us: "I think you should go investigate during the day."
Safety, those houses are all infested by insects at night, which means that those insects are active at night. If you encounter those insects in the past, what should you do if you are bitten by those insects!"
Nangong Fancong said: "It is precisely because bugs are active at night that we have to go there at night, otherwise we will not be able to catch them."
I also said: "Village Chief Pan, don't worry, we are experts."
After leaving here, we first went to see some old houses in the village that were infested by insects. We also met a few villagers along the way. When the village chief led us around during the day, the villagers also saw Nangong Fan and I.
We were exhausted, so after saying hello, no one doubted us.
Soon we arrived at the first house we went to during the day. At night, the Yin Qi here was even stronger, and the Yin Qi was "whooshing" out of the wormholes, as if it was a spray of Yin Qi.
of.
I used a flashlight to shine on those wormholes, and I found that many of the holes were connected. The beam of the flashlight passed through the holes in the wall and illuminated the room one after another. The scene became even more sci-fi.
But I gradually discovered that when all the light beams intertwined in the room, the merged light beams slowly formed a huge light-shaped bug.
The insect looked like a silkworm chrysalis.
But our flashlight beam is limited after all, and we only saw part of the insect.
What's happening here.
At this time, the sky that was originally full of dark clouds suddenly became clear, and those dark clouds were blown away by the cold wind!
The moon slowly appeared in the sky. It is now November 14th. The moon is already very round and very bright. The moonlight shines into the house through the hole in the roof, and the huge light-shaped silkworm chrysalis becomes extraordinarily bright.
clear.
It is in a transparent beam cocoon, and it seems to be sleeping.
When I was a child, I saw others raising silkworms. After the silkworms spin cocoons, they turn into pupae with a slightly harder shell. After a while, the pupae will turn into silkworm moths, and then they will begin to mate and lay eggs.
Under the moonlight, the silkworm chrysalis made of intertwined beams of light seems to be alive. As the moon moves in the sky, the pointed head of the silkworm chrysalis will twist a few times.
They seem to be alive, rather than just images formed by the interweaving of light beams.
At this time, Nangong Fanxong also said from the side: "The insect seems to be alive..."
It seems that I am not the only one who feels this way, Nangong Fancong also feels it.
I was a little surprised and said: "Have you ever seen this kind of bug that exists in the form of intertwined light in the books of the upper world?"
Nangong Fancong shook his head and said: "I have never seen this before. We have to investigate all situations ourselves."
I nodded "Yes" and Nangong Fan continued: "Let's take advantage of the moonlight to go to other houses and some graves to see if there will be similar cocoons and pupae there."
I nodded.
Then, we discovered that silkworm cocoons also appeared in several other abandoned houses in the village, but those silkworm cocoons were much smaller, only about one-fifth of the first silkworm chrysalis we saw.
Why do houses of the same size reflect different sizes of silkworm chrysalises?
I asked Nangong Fan, and she said: "It must be because the structure is different when you bite those holes."
I said: "I didn't mean that. What I meant was, could it be like this? Could the giant silkworm chrysalis we saw be the king of these small silkworm chrysalises? These are all its subordinates. If that's the case...
"
Nangong Fanxong took my words and said: "Can those image silkworm chrysalis refracted by the light beam really hatch into silkworm moths?" (To be continued)