Chapter 20: Gu worms (Part 2)

March 28, 2023Ai Hrist

The village head mother said: “So we don’t welcome you outsiders, and you better not gossip in front of the children in the village to encourage them. If I find out, I won’t let you off lightly!”

At this time, the woman in blue who was still sobbing also showed hatred, looked at the program crew team and said: “Hurry up and leave, don’t disturb the peace of our village anymore, and don’t drag our children to death!”

[God, these villagers are ignorant. In this era where knowledge can change destiny, there are still people who have this kind of thinking?]

[It’s rare to see upstairs, the more backward the mountain, the more useless it is to study! They think that they can live by relying on the materials in the mountains and rivers, and reading is a waste of time. There are many places like this.]

[Even if you don’t go out for a lifetime, it’s not normal for people in the village to only live to be fifty years old?]

[… …]

Gu Zhisang suddenly raised an eyebrow: “Grandma, don’t you want to solve the problem?”

The village head mother paused and narrowed her cloudy eyes: “Then tell me, what can you do to solve it?”

“The reason why the village is located in a treasured place but manifested as a poor place, does Grandma really doesn’t know what’s going on?” Gu Zhisang said coldly:

“One acupoint has two uses to cover the mystery of heaven, and the living gives the dead a foundation. This is a big taboo in Feng Shui! These people in the village are your fellow villagers, descendants, or even relatives. Would you rather watch them die one by one, Grandma? Are you that unwilling to completely break the shackles that imprison your ethnic group?”

What she said was three points clear, so the villagers present and the audience in the live broadcast room couldn’t understand at all. But from the sudden change of expression of the village head mother and the weird atmosphere between the two, one can vaguely understand what she meant:

The village head mother seems to know how to break the “curse” of Poshi Village.

Seeing the eyes of several villagers looking over, the village head mother looked gloomy. She stared at Gu Zhisang for a long time, and then said slowly:

“This lady, I don’t understand what you’re talking about.”

After finishing speaking, she supported her crutches and stood up with the support of her apprentice, “I don’t care what you guys want to shoot. I’m tired. The sun is setting today, Juanzi will clean up some unoccupied yards for you in the back mountain. You rest overnight and leave quickly tomorrow.”

After the village head mother left, there were only a few villagers left in the place and the people from the program team looked at each other in blank dismay.

Host Liu conscientiously read the closing words:

“Dear viewers, the second half of this group competition is over. According to the directors’ team and online real-time voting, the top four contestants are No. 7 Gu Zhisang, No. 2 Bai Ci, No. 1 Xun Yiqing, and No. 9 He Mitu. These contestants are the top four contestants of this issue of “Ling Shi”, let us congratulate them!”

“As for the list of eliminations, according to the public vote, there have been three candidates.”

There was no doubt that the candidates for the elimination of this issue will be selected from the three contestants who didn’t find Poshi Village. The person who was finally voted out was Contestant No. #5, the rich second generation.

Host Liu said: “Does player No. 5 have anything to say about this result?”

Contestant No. #5 bitterly said: “There’s nothing to say, I’m here to play tricks. I can only say that everyone behind the screen doesn’t come to die if you don’t have the guts, these mysterious things exist!!”

The barrage was all laughing and joking:

[Contestant No. 35 is simply a funny person, he left and my enjoyment of watching the show was halved.]

[He looks the same as when I went to the haunted house and came out, he is a foodie and loves to play!]

[Contestant No. #5 is the babysitter invited by the program group, hahaha, the acting is very good, don’t act next time.]

[Are the contestants and the director going down the mountain now? You don’t want to live in this village, do you? Everyone pay attention to safety!]

After the announcement of the end of this program, the staff of the program group turned off the camera and began to dismantle other temporary facilities in the auditorium.

The young woman named Juanzi who was beside the village head mother looked indifferent and said: “Come with me.”

It was already after eight or nine o’clock, and the mountain was very dark at night. It was neither safe nor realistic to go down the mountain immediately. Although everyone always felt that it was awkward to live in this village, they still stayed temporarily.

Perhaps because they were too tired, the program team fell asleep unconsciously.

In his sleep, Li Chenghe felt slapped a few times and woke up suddenly. When he opened his eyes, he saw a slender person standing on the wooden bed, which made his heart tremble with fright.

“Gu…Master Gu?” He looked bewildered. “What are you doing next to my bed?”

For some reason, Gu Zhisang didn’t go to sleep, she was neatly dressed, and she looked a little strange, “How did you negotiate with the village head mother before you came here?”

Li Chenghe: “I just, I just tell her that we want to film some programs in their villages, and she agrees, what’s the matter, is there any problem?”

“Didn’t you tell them it was a live broadcast?”

“I think not…”

Gu Zhisang was a little speechless, she clasped her hands together and muttered in her mouth: “Because of the prestige and holiness, the infinite supreme lord, after a long time of seventeen, the words will soar. Tens of millions…”

“Master Gu, what are you doing?” Li Chenghe panicked.

However, in the next second, Gu Zhisang’s knuckles pricked several acupuncture points on his chest quickly, and the voice chanting the mantra suddenly became louder, “…great compassion and great wish, the great sage and great mercy, limitless people. I honor Shang Laojun is in a hurry like a law!”

Li Chenghe felt a stabbing pain in his chest, and as his abdomen was poked, he opened his mouth to cry out in pain;

Before the sound came out, nausea surged up in his stomach, his throat constricted twice, and he vomited out a puddle of foul-smelling acid water with a ‘bleurgh’ sound.

Li Chenghe felt bitter and astringent in his mouth, but the drowsy feeling in his head disappeared. He looked and saw a fat and soft worm as thick as a little finger in the bitter water in the vomit on the ground under the moonlight, twisting creepily!

This thing came out of his stomach?!

At that moment, nausea, fear, horror, and other emotions rushed into his heart. He got goosebumps all over his body and looked away. Before he could speak, he stumbled and leaned against the corner of the wall, holding his stomach and retching.

After a while, Li Chenghe’s eyes stared straight, and when he turned his head, he saw Gu Zhisang pick up the bug with a thin branch, and put it into the glass jar he found somewhere;

He didn’t dare to look at it at all, and suppressed his nausea and trembled:

“Master Gu, what is this thing? Why is it in…my stomach?!”

Gu Zhisang’s eyes were cold, “This is a ‘Gu’.”

Gu worms were the most abundant in Xiangcheng, but not only there, this kind of worms often choose different types of five poisons and put them in urns according to different purposes, so that they cannibalize each other;

The one that survived, in the end, became a ‘Gu’.

And then this ‘gu’ will be put in the same container with its kind and let them kill each other. The one that repeatedly survive was the “King Gu”. This kind of insect often needs to be fed with blood, Yin spiritual energy, live insects, etc. These small gu worms have killed people since ancient times.

“Gu?!” Li Chenghe suddenly thought of what He Mitu said in the afternoon. The village head mother who was a “wizard” can hang her apprentice’s life with Gu insects. But there was another Gu insect in his stomach for no reason. This matter was very clear!

“Why did she do this? People in the village smashed my camera, but I didn’t ask them to pay for it. If they don’t want us to shoot here, then she shouldn’t have agreed!”

Li Chenghe was aggrieved and collapsed, he just felt that this episode of the program was thankless for him, and he almost lost his life!

Gu Zhisang coughed lightly: “It should be aimed at me. I revealed the secret that the old witch wanted to hide. She was afraid that I would reveal it.”

For the secret that she worked so hard to cover up, the old witch chose to kill people to silence her. She used cruel and vicious methods to directly put a spell on everyone in the program team!

Gu Zhisang’s body was protected by the ‘Qi’ from practice. The moment the Gu worm tried to get close to her, she sensed it. When she got up and saw that the other staff members were drowsy, she knew that they had all been tricked.