Between mountains and seas

Chapter 28 Ji Yan

Another pile of fire was lit on the bank of the pool, on which a severed snake tail was roasting, and a few tattered wet clothes were supported by branches beside it.

"I'm starving to death. But is this hooked snake meat really edible?" Ji Yan wore only a pair of underwear, with his silver-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, looking like a gentle scum, staring at the fire. Snake meat that squeaks and begins to smell.

Huo Qing sat opposite him.After entering the water again, the pants on his body finally couldn't hold on and turned into a beggar's outfit.Huo Qing simply cut it short with a saber and wore it as shorts, and now they are hanging there to dry together with Ji Yan's trousers.

But the same is not covered with clothes, Huo Qing still looks upright and sharp, as if he is wearing a formal uniform, which is quite different from Ji Yan.Hearing Ji Yan's question, he simply replied: "It can be eaten."

"Is it really edible?" Ji Yan responded suspiciously, "As far as I know, hooked snake meat is also poisonous. It belongs to anesthesia effect and is not very friendly to the heart."

"Then you don't have to eat it." Shao Jingxing turned the meat on the fire, snorted at Ji Yan, picked up a cooked snake tail and handed it to Huo Qing, "It's cooked, eat it quickly." A few more injuries were added.He himself was almost kicked by Pi Hanxi, which was also thrilling. Only Ji Yan hid far away to play with the slingshot, without even scratching the oily skin, and even made sarcastic remarks.

"Don't be like this—" Ji Yan came over rascally, "Aren't you still holding grudges? Because I said just now that your Special Affairs Department is not doing things well? Actually, I just asked. The toxin of this snake meat is still published by your Special Affairs Department It is marked in the illustrated book of strange beasts. Now it suddenly says that it can be eaten, am I curious?"

Huo Qing didn't speak, just took the meat from Shao Jingxing's hand and took a bite.Shao Jingxing's ability is so special that only a few people know about it.Before he officially became a member of the special affairs department, he did not intend to announce it.

Although there is no answer, but eating directly like this is enough to prove everything.Ji Yan brazenly did it himself, took a snake tail, bit it hard, and immediately burst into tears: "Sure enough, poisonous snakes are delicious!" He glanced at Shao Jingxing, and quickly added, "Of course, it's also delicious!" Brother, you are good at cooking! This meat is roasted just right, it is fragrant and tender, if it is too raw, if it is too small, it is too old..."

It's really a skill for him to praise endlessly without delaying the big mouthful of meat.

Shao Jingxing is not a person who will be angry for a long time, he usually comes and goes quickly, and most of them are 3-minute heat - being angry for a long time is not good for his health.So after Ji Yan complimented him a few words, he put aside the matter just now, and instead asked him a curious question: "What is that rhinoceros?" To avoid the cold, does it mean that it can generate heat?

Ji Yan was surprised: "You don't know?" The special affairs department didn't know about Pihanxi?If Shao Jingxing hadn't shown the burning cow's butt just now, he really would have suspected that this person was not from the special affairs department at all.

However, using the fire of supernatural powers to burn spells is an operation that has never been seen before.

Don't think that the spell is a piece of paper, the paper is just a carrier, what really works is the spiritual power injected into the paper through the drawing of the spell—well, according to the "science" of the special affairs department, it is the supernatural power.So, do you think the spell says that it can be burned by burning it?For those who don't know how to do it, I will give you a spell and give you a lighter, and you won't even be able to light it!

While nibbling on the meat, Ji Yan sized up Shao Jingxing unobtrusively.He had heard of Huo Qing's name, and originally thought that he would destroy the spell on Pi Hanxi's body, but who knew that Huo Qing arranged for Shao Jingxing instead.But just now he saw clearly from the side, Shao Jingxing was clumsy, a complete novice, even when using supernatural powers, he threw a fireball in it simply and rudely, and he didn't even know how to control it!

However, such a rookie actually burned that spell!If there is no skill, then it should be strength, but he also saw that the fireball is not very powerful, and strength is a bit out of place.The most important thing is to look at Shao Jingxing's cowardice, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like what a high-level supernatural person should be.

No skill, no strength, that means his ability is exceptionally special.Ji Yan glanced at the tail of the hooked snake that had been gnawed down to the bone in his hand—things in the world of mountains and seas must not be eaten indiscriminately, and of course he knew exactly what the consequences would be if he ate the hooked snake's meat.But now he has eaten at least half a catty of meat, but he doesn't feel the slightest discomfort—well, he just thinks it's delicious.

If he remembered correctly, the fire was not lit with a lighter or anything else, but was lit by the rookie in front of him with a supernatural power.If there is any variable, it should be here, right?

Ji Yan was thinking about it, when Huo Qing said: "There is a book called "Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy", in which there is a record of Pihan rhinoceros. It was in the winter of the second year of Kaiyuan that Jiaozhi Kingdom paid tribute to a rhinoceros horn. Inside the palace, the whole palace is well heated. Jiaozhi is the area around Vietnam.”

uh-huh?This is even more strange.

Ji Yan is not from the special affairs department, but there is a cousin in the special affairs department, and she is still in the same group as Huo Qing.Although Ji Xiaojiu has always been tight-lipped about things that shouldn't be said, those things that don't need to be kept secret can always be said - such as everyone's temper and so on.

Therefore, even though Ji Yan met Huo Qing for the first time, she already knew that he was a man of few words and cherished words like gold.So, who was the one who explained that "Jozhi is Vietnam" just now, who sounded more old than his cousin?

Was it because his cousin misjudged Huo Qing, or was this rookie surnamed Shao special?Maybe he should make a fortune... Ji Yan stroked his chin, thinking with great interest.

Shao Jingxing didn't know that Ji Yan had figured him out by now, and he was still asking Huo Qing, "Then what are you doing poaching?" It sounds like it's just for warming, nothing else.

Huo Qing said flatly: "Ivory has no other use." It's just a decoration, and it's not that it has been poached to the point of extinction.

Moreover, the horns of the Pihan Rhinoceros are naturally much more precious than ivory, and most importantly, even if the Pihan Rhinoceros dies, its horns are still alive, which is very important.

"But that's just for heating..." Shao Jingxing still couldn't figure it out.

Ji Yan came back to his senses, smiled and pushed his glasses: "Of course there are many purposes for poaching. For example, Pihan rhinoceros has strong fighting power. If they are domesticated and controlled for their own use, then if they are released at that time, the bulldozers will It's like a rush..."

"Can this still be domesticated?" Shao Jingxing listened with great interest, and forgot to be angry with Ji Yan.Ordinary rhinos have a very bad temper, such as the Pihan rhinoceros—you can tell from the performance just now, it is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

"Of course it can." Ji Yan took the opportunity to bite another snake tail, "It's a common method to drive beasts."

"How can this be domesticated?" Shao Jingxing thought of the talisman that Ji Yan used to stop the Pihan rhino just now.

Ji Yan quickly waved his hand: "Mine is a gossip talisman, which is a gossip array set up with amulets. If you can't find the door, you can't get out. You can only get out of the cold rhinoceros. When it comes to taming animals, the Fei family compares Good at. Their ancestors practiced with the Earth Immortal Hugong, and the spell they learned was to arrest all ghosts. Although Pihanxi is not a ghost, it is essentially a creature alienated by the power of mountains and seas, so it has achieved good results in this regard.

The other is the teacher's family.Their family started with music, the so-called hitting stones and smashing stones, beasts lead the dance, and taming animals with music can be regarded as their family tradition.

If there is any more, they are the descendants of Chi You.Their own abilities are somewhat animalistic, so they are born to communicate with these strange beasts, and naturally they will get twice the result with half the effort in taming them.Back then when Chi You caused chaos, there were hundreds of different kinds of strange beasts alone.When fighting with the Yellow Emperor, the demons and monsters that deceive people's hearts were released, forcing the Yellow Emperor into chaos. He still made the Kui Niu Drum and the Thunder Beast Hammer, which shook for five hundred miles and lasted for three thousand and eight hundred miles. Things scare away. "

He spoke so well, but Shao Jingxing's eyes began to turn from the mosquito coils, and he said blankly for a long time: "Didn't you say—playing the piano to a cow?"

Ji Yan's eloquent words immediately choked in his throat together with the hooked snake meat, and he almost choked him to death. He stretched his neck and swallowed hard, before he could speak: "You—" He dared to talk for a long time, this Just reacted and played the piano against the cow?It's all in vain to co-author him.Besides, can the animal taming music of Shijia be the same as ordinary music?

Huo Qing lowered his head slightly, coughed lightly to flatten the corners of his slightly raised mouth, and then said to Shao Jingxing, "In short, there are many ways to tame animals. As for playing the piano with cows—doesn't the Indians still play the flute when playing snakes?"

"Oh——" Shao Jingxing understood when he said this, and couldn't help but glance at Ji Yan. He couldn't understand after talking for a long time. .

Depressedly, Ji Yan bit the snake tail in his hand, decided not to tell Shao Jingxing any more, and turned to Huo Qing: "But I don't think these poachers want to tame the cold rhino." He doesn't have the ability to tame the Pihan Rhinoceros, it just depends on setting traps and that spell.As a result, as soon as he interfered, the spell was stuck crookedly, and several people who set up the trap were immediately killed by Pi Hanxi, which shows that the level is limited.

Taming a live Pihan rhinoceros is of course much more difficult than killing it for its horns.

But what do you want rhino horns for?Is it really used as a luxury hand warmer?

Huo Qing pondered for a moment, then asked Shao Jingxing, "Do you remember what that spell looks like?"

How could it be possible to remember?The patterns were fine and complicated, and Shao Jingxing was in a panic at the time, fearing that Pi Hanxi would break free from the shackles of the hook snake and give him a hoof, let alone observe carefully.Ask him now, he only remembers a five-pointed star in the middle.

Ji Yan waved his hand: "It doesn't matter if you didn't see clearly, let's go back there later, and I'll do the math again to find clues."

Shao Jingxing was at a loss when he heard it: "Look for clues by fortune-telling?" What's the matter?

Ji Yan was left speechless by his question.In fact, he had never encountered such a layman, and he really wanted to explain but found that the explanation was not clear.Huo Qing glanced at him, and replied on his behalf: "The technique of divination, one can know the future, one can know the past, this is calculating the past. For example, he can calculate who will hunt the Pihan rhinoceros."

"Oh oh oh——" this Shao Jingxing understood, "This is not like—lost something, and then go to test the word to find the whereabouts of the thing..." This seems to be written in "Dream of Red Mansions", when he was in high school time to read.

Ji Yan didn't know why he suddenly thought of character testing, but the principle was similar, so he nodded depressedly and said to Huo Qing, "There should be a door over there. If those poachers didn't close the door, We can still go out from there." He should talk to Huo Qing, but as for Shao Jingxing - let Huo Qing deal with it himself.

After another meal, the clothes hung by the fire were almost dry.Pi Hanxi trampled on Ji Yan's coat and urinated, and now he can only wear a pair of trousers: "It's getting late, let's go there quickly, and it's best to arrive before dark. When Pi Hanchen waded over, something was also scared away, but it is still safer to act during the day. In addition, we have to be careful whether Pi Hanxi will go back, if it bumps into it at night, it will be too bad for us."

Shao Jingxing was startled: "It will go back?"

"Of course." Ji Yan said casually, "That's where Pihan rhinoceros often haunts, so those poachers set traps there."

Shao Jingxing couldn't help being a little dumbfounded: "It will retaliate against us?" Then why didn't you kill it just now when it was entangled by the hooked snake?

He didn't say this, but Huo Qing already understood what he meant: "Not necessarily. Although the Pihanxi clan has a bad temper, they are generally not harmful, as long as they don't provoke them." Although the mutant creatures in the mountain and sea world There are many, but not all of them cannibalize, and it is not necessary to kill them all.Even if it is like a mountain spider or a hooked snake, as long as they are confined within a safe range and cannot hurt people, it will be fine.

Shao Jingxing grasped the wrong point in his daily life: "The cold rhinoceros family?" Does it mean that there are other rhinoceros?

Ji Yan became more and more sure that Shao Jingxing must be a special existence: "Brother, did you just enter the special affairs department yesterday?" Why don't you know anything about this.Obviously the special affairs department also has training in this area.

Shao Jingxing was a little ashamed, but he refused to admit cowardice in front of Ji Yan, so he said bravely, "I, I first learn from those who can eat people... After all, we protect the safety of people's lives and property, and the first thing to do is to fight against these things, right? Is it? If you don’t eat people, of course, let’s put it away first.”

In fact, Ji Xiaojiu's Illustrated Book of Alien Beasts was not arranged in this order - he didn't know in what order - but he was exhausted from physical training these days, so it was inevitable that he was a little lazy in culture class.And he didn't expect that he would fall into the world of mountains and seas so soon, so he only read a little in the illustration book, and didn't see Pihanxi at all.

Ji Yan's eyes were very sharp, and of course he could see that Shao Jingxing was stern, and he smiled: "That's right. What have you learned, brother?"

Shao Jingxing tried his best not to fall down: "I combine theory with practice. For example, how to deal with mountain spiders, actual combat against sparrows, and alienated humans from spiders..."

Ji Yan was trying to squeeze him, but he didn't expect Shao Jingxing to say one, two, three.The mountain spider is a low-level beast, but it wins in size and quantity, so it's not worth mentioning; but the sparrow is a bit tricky, so it's not easy to deal with.There was also that alienated spider, he hadn't seen it before, so he couldn't help but look at Shao Jingxing with admiration: "Brother, have you ever fought in actual combat? Then what is the alienated spider, can you tell me about it?"

If he didn't go deeper, Shao Jingxing was relieved.Besides, he had seen this spider-like alienated person before. He immediately told about the situation of the third brother, and Ji Yan touched his chin: "It was eaten by a mountain spider, so it mutated? It's a pity that I didn't catch it. alive."

Thinking of the third brother's appearance, Shao Jingxing still felt hairy in his heart: "Why do you catch the work?"

"Research. One more sample is always good." Ji Yan said as a matter of course, "There is no shortage of foreign objects that are half-human and half-beast in the world of mountains and seas, such as mermaids, weiwei, and mandrills. Maybe they all mutate like this. .”

Shao Jingxing suddenly had a chill: "What's the use of studying this?" Studying how to mutate people into monsters?

"Of course not." Ji Yan laughed, "It's about studying the circumstances under which people will mutate, and how to prevent this kind of mutation. In fact, this is also a direction in which the power of mountains and seas erodes the human body and causes mutations. If we can stop the mutation in this direction, it will be a great advancement in medicine. After all, no matter how we separate the two worlds, the power of mountains and seas cannot be completely isolated, and it will always affect us."

Shao Jingxing didn't expect that he could say such lofty words with an unscrupulous face, so he couldn't help but admire him: "Is there such a variation in normal times?"

"Yes." Both of them changed their views on each other quite a bit, and suddenly they chatted happily, "To give a simple example, do you know the phenomenon of atavism?"

"I know." Didn't there have been some hairy people in the news?But this also has something to do with the power of mountains and seas?

Ji Yan waved his hand: "The common atavism phenomenon is of course nothing. The news is reported casually, but it just looks a little more hairy, but it doesn't have a big impact. But some things are different—for example, the atavism comes out of the skin to breathe, What about webbed membranes growing between the fingers and toes? For another example, what about returning to the ancestors to have animal habits? Cough, these will definitely not be announced to the public, but brother, you always read "Zi Bu Yu", "Yuewei Thatched Cottage" Books like "Notes"? There are stories about people turning into tigers and people turning into wolves. There are not just one or two such stories."

Shao Jingxing hadn't read it, but of course he couldn't admit it: "It seems——you mean it's actually..."

Ji Yan slapped his thigh: "That's right! That's an atavistic phenomenon!"