Chapter 849 Chapter 849: Taoyuan, Garden of Eden? 【Ask monthly ticket】
"Mama, why are you in such a hurry?" Gong Xiqiu was grabbed and dragged in by one hand as soon as he lifted the curtain. His body subconsciously wanted to fight back, but judging from the strength of his identity, he forcibly suppressed his instinct, " Did you come to play with me today?"
Alas, his bones are going stiff from idleness.
If it weren't for Mama's endless affairs, he would have packed up his bags and gone to find his brother and eldest nephew, which would be more meaningful than wasting time here. As soon as he finished speaking, he hit Shen Tang on the back of his hand. Gong Xiqiu reached out his hand like lightning: "Hiss, you hit someone!"
Shen Tang said seriously: "Speak the business."
Gong Xiqiu responded with an "oh" in his mouth, but acted lazily. He chose a place to sit down: "Say it."
Shen Tang pointed to the pattern on the ground and asked him if he had any impression.
Blindfolded Gong Xiqiu: "..."
He pointed to his eyes, indicating to the other party that he was still injured and could not see the patterns on the ground. Shen Tang had no choice but to grab his hand and draw on his palm with his fingers. Gong Xiqiu tilted his head, with a few braids hanging down, watching very intently.
"The first picture has an impression."
Gong Xiqiu was talking about nuclear radiation warning signs.
Shen Tang asked him: "Where did you meet?"
Gong Xiqiu made a posture of thinking seriously, and said: "I have seen so many places! There is one place, Mama, you know it too! It is on Xian Yujian's back! If it wasn't for this pattern back then, I wouldn't have bothered to care about this kid. Nosy business. There are also some documents in the family, but the origin of this pattern is related to a force called the Gods Association. Have they contacted Mama?"
"...you are also a member of the Gods Society, right?"
She is the only co-author who is an outsider? ? ?
Gongxi Qiu held back his frivolous smile and shook his head: "How is this possible? The gods will have a deep hatred for the ancestors of the Gongxi clan. Although there are not many people left, and the ancestors are buried underground, as a member of the Gongxi clan, I I can’t do anything against my ancestors. Gai Ming’er died, my soul went to the gods, and I’m still surrounded by my tribe and beaten violently? It’s not worth it!”
Shen Tang and Gu Chi looked at each other.
"...Deep hatred? What hatred? What hatred?"
Gong Xichou hooked her.
"It's a long story, I'm thirsty."
Shen Tang threw the unused water bag into his arms, and Gong Xiqiu didn't let it go, he moistened his throat and continued to talk.
"Because the Gongxi clan migrated several times in history, the earliest ethnography was originally lost during this process, and the subsequent ethnography was patched up based on memory by later generations. The memory should have been revised eight or nine times, and many contents are contradictory. Some are simply judged as fabricated legends... There is a saying that the history of the Gongxi clan can be traced back one or two thousand years ago. At that time, all the clansmen lived in an isolated world with abundant crops. Here, there is no need to worry about food and drink. , don’t worry about wearing…”
Shen Tang couldn't help complaining.
"Is this place called 'Eden'?"
Hearing these three words, Gong Xiqiu turned his face: "Hey, how did Mama know? Could it be that you recovered some memory?"
Shen Tang: "..."
Gong Xiqiu continued: "However, 'Garden of Eden' is just one of its other names, and the mainstream name recognized by the ethnography is 'Taoyuan'! According to the mythological ethnographic records, at that time the heaven and earth changed, and the Yin and Yang realms were out of balance. The ghostly death energy belonging to the underworld permeates the world, and the living people will become ghost puppets if they are polluted by the ghost energy. They feed on the living people, causing countless deaths and injuries..."
Shen Tang frowned and said, "Ghostly?"
Gong Xiqiu nodded: "Well, that's what the clan records say. It also said that ghosts and cholera have been in the human world for twelve years. The world's creatures are almost extinct, and there are very few people, animals and plants that are not infected. Seeing that the world of the underworld is about to become the underworld, the ancestors I prayed to the heavens and finally touched the heavens. The gods took all the survivors to a place isolated from the world. This place is the "Taoyuan". The gods planted another sacred tree as the core of the "Taoyuan". This tree can isolate the outside world Ghost energy infestation. If the ancestors have something to pray devoutly under the sacred tree, the gods will hear it..."
Gu Chi listened with gusto.
"And then?"
Shen Tang interrupted Gong Xiqiu's words: "No, I remember you said a few years ago that your family met a benefactor on the way to exile more than two hundred years ago, and the benefactor gave you a coffin, and I will put it in this coffin Inside. In order to thank your benefactor, your ancestors carved statues of benefactors after living in seclusion?"
This is the origin of the gods worshiped by the Gongxi clan, right?
Gong Xiqiu said very naturally: "I have said that the ethnography was lost and damaged several times during the migration, and the content was supplemented and revised by later generations. It is inevitable that some personal interpretations and speculations will be mixed... It may be true, or it may be all False, there may be half-truths and half-false... Regarding the records of 'Taoyuan', the clansmen don't really believe it, they all read it as a story."
Shen Tang: "..."
This reason is too real.
"How did your ancestors become enemies with the ancestors of the Gods Association?" Gu Chi brought back the topic of running away, and hoped that this pair of wonderful confidants would chat, who knows where the topic would go?
"This is a longer story. God rescued the ancestors for a few days. They said they were going to go out to deal with the ghosts, and they never came back after leaving. But too many survivors were saved by God. The ancestors and the ancestors of the gods were the leaders, and they lived in peace for many years. It's just that during this period, people were born, animals were animals, and the "Taoyuan" was limited. In addition, the seeds brought to the "Taoyuan" by the ancestors were invaded by ghosts. Infection, production reduction from generation to generation, food shortage in 'Taoyuan', conflicts broke out soon."
"The ancestors of the Gods Association gathered a group of people by force, and tried to use force to raise other people as food, but the ancestors strongly opposed it. A big battle broke out between the two sides. The ancestors were defeated and escaped from the 'Taoyuan' with the survivors who were not raised. '."
Shen Tang: "Didn't it mean that the ghost atmosphere outside is not suitable for living?"
Gong Xiqiu said: "The ancestors were not stupid. They quietly took away a lot of branches of the sacred tree. Compared with the beginning, the ghost energy of the outside world was much thinner, and they could barely survive. But it was also affected by the ghost energy. After a while, The babies born either died or were deformed, with two heads, a half head and three hands, and the ancestors prayed to the gods, and managed to survive."
Gu Chi asked: "What about the people who stayed in 'Taoyuan'?"
Gong Xiqiu carefully recalled: "There are not many records about this in the clan annals, but it was said that after a hundred years, 'Taoyuan' could not sustain in the end, and people escaped one after another. These people were scattered all over the mainland, and they multiplied and became today's people."
Gu Chi jokingly said: "According to this myth and legend, we were still a family thousands of years ago? Do you have any chronicles describing what society looked like before the catastrophe?"
Regarding this, Gong Xiqiu just shook his head: "If this part of the ethnographic record is true, the relevant documents should all be in 'Taoyuan', and the ancestors escaped from poverty, so it is not easy to keep so many records. "
Shen Tang made a decision.
"Turn back, you accompany me to the Gongxi tribe."
She wanted to see the ethnography for herself.
Gong Xiqiu knew her plan, but couldn't help but pour a basin of cold water: "Mama, it's not that I don't want to, it's just that the contents of the remaining books in the clan land are not as much as I can remember. On the night of the clan extermination, ninety percent of them were killed Ninety percent of them were taken away by the Geng Kingdom. Among the ninety percent, fifty percent were records after the last migration of the Gongxi people. They were all recorded within two hundred years. I don’t know how many of them were fabricated and modified by later generations... I’m afraid it’s useless.”
Shen Tang said sadly: "Then I have to go and see."
Gong Xiqiu asked her: "Mama is in trouble?"
Shen Tang concealed the details of his time travel, only saying that the three patterns existed in the wrong era, and Gong Xichou didn't get to the bottom of it: "So, according to Mama, that myth and legend may not be a legend, but a reality? The ancestors didn't Lie? However, the Gods will not have the so-called 'nuclear weapons' in their hands, what can exist for thousands of years and still be used..."
Gong Xiqiu's complaints are very accurate.
But Shen Tang was still worried.
"Maybe it was created later?"
Shen Tang: "Ah, this is also..."
Although the mythology of the Gongxi people is consistent in all aspects, it is not empirical and authoritative after all. Shen Tang wanted to find the ruins or find related unearthed cultural relics. Even if there is only one piece, it can testify that there was indeed a modern civilization.
Maybe we can also figure out the reason for the collapse of civilization.
Ghosts, puppets, feed on living people?
Good guy, it can’t really be the zombie apocalypse, can it?
Shen Tang scratched his head, with a somewhat embarrassing expression.
Gu Chi was very curious about the new vocabulary that popped up suddenly.
"What is a zombie?"
Shen Tang said: "It's the living dead."
She looked at Gu Chi with a strange light in her eyes: "You don't want to write a zombie-themed story book, do you? Stop it, you don't know where the words you owe are arranged."
Regardless of digging or burying, it is simply the chief eunuch.
Gu Chi is a bachelor: "As long as you live long enough."
He originally scoffed at the myths of the Gongxi people, but when he confirmed that such a civilization might really exist, he became very interested instead. However, until iron evidence is found, these are only speculations. The most urgent thing is that the gods will...
Speaking of the Association of the Gods, Gu Chi wants to give Shen Tang a vaccination, lest she develop a grudge because of Qishan being an executive in the Association of the Gods, and then shake her trust in Qishan. No matter how hard the horoscope of my lord is, I can't stand that Qi Shan is the lord's killer.
"My lord, as far as I know, the Gods Association has also come into contact with Qi Yuanliang..." Gu Chi did not dare to say where he and Qi Shan met for the first time, "Do you want to write and ask?"
Shen Tang was not surprised by this.
These wonderful tricks under her tent belong to tricking people, but there is nothing to say about their talents and aptitudes. If the feat of praying for goodness to kill seven masters in a row can't attract the gods to cast olive branches, then the gods will be blind: "I won't write letters, Letters also have the risk of being exposed. Now that we are making it clear that the enemy is in the dark, any risk must be eliminated. When we meet later, I will ask him personally...don’t tell me.”
Although Gu Chi's scholarly way allows him to know a lot of gossip, he is not a talker. He says what should be said, and what should not be said will be killed. There must be more than one person staying behind, Qi Yuanliang, but he is the only one mentioned. There must be special circumstances.
Shen Tang knew it well.
Gu Chi crossed his hands and saluted, "Wei."
Before leaving, Gong Xiqiu suddenly remembered something. "Little Mama Lin under Mama's tent, she has a letter written by the high priest in her hand. There is a detail in the letter. On the way the high priest was looking for [Corpse Vine], he came across a strange mass grave in an old forest deep in the mountains , the pit is full of bones that have been aged for a while... Speculating on the time, it may be a relic of that era..."
Hearing that there was a clue, Shen Tang borrowed the letter from Lin Feng.
Transcribe the records related to the mass grave.
He also ordered her to find Captain Mojin, who was good at fighting.
Lin Feng's expression was horrified: "My lord wants to dig people's graves?"
Pinch your fingers and do the math, and in the battle of guarding the pass, Master Xun showed great power, and the lord's private treasury owed a lot. Taking advantage of the chaos of the war, find some Mojin school captains to steal graves to make money. Although the method is wicked, it can't hold a lot of money. In this regard, Lin Feng did not have much resistance.
The living are always more important than the dead.
Shen Tang said: "Ahem, no."
She also does it, but she does it quietly. Whether it is Heyin County or Longwu County, the ancestral graves of the local rich and squires are very generous. Shen Tang was really too difficult at that time, and it was not enough to just search the house, so he had to borrow some from their ancestors.
She explained: "I just want to collect something from them. After thinking about it, they have a lot of contact with this profession."
This excuse convinced Lin Feng.
She has always trusted the lord, she believes whatever Shen Tang says.
After Lin Feng left, Shen Tang looked at the map for a long time.
My eyes were turning red, and I couldn't find the approximate location of the "mass grave", so I couldn't help but mutter that the high priest was not rigorous.
Such an important discovery, why not mark the coordinates?
Because the influence of Kang Jishou's bad luck was still there, Shen Tang didn't even dare to close his eyes for too long in the past few days, for fear that he would find that he was buried alive when he woke up. After changing seven or eight footholds, after experiencing a series of tortures such as choking on water, stuffing teeth, biting tongue, falling on the ground, and justice from heaven... Shen Tang paid a tragic price with both feet sprained. Get over it.
At this time, she was in a trance.
The mental outlook is completely different from the last meeting.
Qin Li was shocked at first glance.
"My lord, what's wrong?"
Although Shen Tang's eye sockets were bloodshot and she carried a cane under her armpit, she was agile and could use the cane as if walking on the ground. Seeing that it was Qin Li who came over, he grinned at him: "Gong Su!"
Qin Li cupped his hands and saluted: "I have seen the Lord."
Seeing his perfect hands wearing the ring she carefully selected, Shen Tang, who was "released after serving his sentence", felt better again: "Don't be too polite, have you gotten used to it these few days?"
"Thank you, my lord, for your concern, I am very used to it."
Qin Li was a little restrained and couldn't let go, Shen Tang didn't force him, and let him walk around with him when he had nothing to do.
Qin Li: "..."
His eyes fell on Shen Tang's legs.
Shen Tang coughed: "Ahem, I accidentally sprained my ankle while walking, and it will recover in two days..."
Qin Li: "...was sprained while walking?"
Should the word appear on the 16th class Shang Zao?
"Hehe, horses stumble, and people also stumble... I'm only one Kang Jishou away from sprained feet... If I don't mention him, my eyes will hurt..." Only she knows how she survived the past few days, " Don't look at my feet wrapped like this, I still walk like flying, I—"
The gravel where the crutch landed suddenly collapsed, and Shen Tang fell towards the city uncontrollably: "I'm so—"
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I quietly ask you guys, how about the next book with more than one hero?
PS: Although it is unlikely, because some women do not allow that _(:з」∠)_
(end of this chapter)