Chapter 16 Win the Fish
After seeing the strange fish in the stone trough, Wu Mian was stunned for a moment. Gui Bugui thought he didn't know the source of the strange fish. He was about to sell his mouth for knowledge, but Wu Mian turned around and looked at him, and two words popped out of his mouth: "Ying Yu"
"Hmm? You can recognize Yingyu." Gui Bugui looked at Wu Mian in surprise, and then continued to say with some conscientiousness: "I can't tell that you are young and have some knowledge..."
Wu Mian glanced at Gui Bugui, the old guy was shocked, subconsciously took a step back, changed his mouth, and said, "...I have a wide range of knowledge."
Wu Mian ignored him and continued to look at the winning fish hiding in a corner of the stone trough. These feathered strange fish were originally grown in the ocean waters of Mount Wei, and were not products of the Central Plains. They only appeared in the magical and monster scriptures such as the Shanhai Jing. Wu Mian had seen that when the First Emperor had just unified the seven kingdoms a few years ago, there were two pairs of winning fish in the rare treasures that North Korea paid. At that time, the alchemist general said that there was a method of making the elixir of immortality in ancient prescriptions, which was used as medicine. The First Emperor did not say anything.
The winning fish was given to the alchemist general manager, but there was a little twists and turns when the slave tried the medicine. After taking the pill made of the winning fish bone marrow, the slave bleeded and died on the spot. Naturally, he did not dare to take such pills to the First Emperor. Fortunately, there were too many recipes for the immortal earthly immortals that were circulated at that time. It was not rare to try the medicine and kill the slave. It was just that in the heart of the alchemist general manager, it was much more pity to waste two winning fish than to die two slaves.
For the next thirteen days, Wu Mian and Gui Bugui stayed in the cave. Because they were afraid that Wu Zu would take people up the mountain again to find Wu Mian's whereabouts, Gui Bugui got several formations that confused people's minds at the entrance of the cave. Although his ability to use magic was sealed, it was not a problem to set up a few small formations. As long as Wu Zu had not come here in person, it would be impossible to discover the situation in the cave.
The rest was the problem of food and drink. The food he brought with him was taken away by Lin Huo. Just when Gui Bugui was setting up the formation, Wu Mian looked for some wild fruits nearby. He originally wanted to catch some wild game like rabbits and roast them as dry food, but he was worried that the Wu Zu would organize local Miao people to search the mountains, and the smoke from cooking would expose their hiding place. In the end, it would be fine. However, this alone would not last for a few days. Although he could not starve to death, the feeling of being hungry was no different from that of ordinary people. He had to grit his teeth and hold on for the rest of his life.
Gui Bugui Zheng has practiced fasting, otherwise he would not have been able to survive for more than a hundred years. On the third day after eating wild fruits, Wu Mian was so hungry that he was almost scratching the wall. Gui Bugui Hao was dying and talking about his most glorious time before: "Tell you a story to relieve hunger. When the old man was invited by the king of Chu to pray for the new prince. During the dinner, the king of Chu personally brought a hundred and ten princes to accompany him. The wine that night was pretty good, and it was mellow and fragrant. The hundred and ten big and small princes came to toast, but I was not drunk. The vegetables were as follows: Bear paws were simmered in fish soup, and the mouth was so crispy and fragrant that it was called fish and bear paws. There was also roasted venison, and the whole venison was roasted with charcoal fire, and it was full of oil. It bite and oil flowed along the corner of his mouth. And that fish... Hum? What are you going to do?"
The more Gui Bugui said, Wu Mian's hunger became more and more intense. In the end, he couldn't stand it. He slowly walked to Gui Bugui. Before he could react, he slapped the old guy in the face. Gui Bugui was beaten around and touched the tip of the stone that appeared on the cave wall. His eyes fainted.
After four or five hours, Gui Bugui woke up slowly. He looked at Wu Mian in a daze, and after a while, he remembered something: "Why are you hitting me again?"
Wu Mian was so hungry that he couldn't straighten his waist. He held the cave wall and said viciously: "If you talk about the past history of eating and drinking, I will bite the flesh on your arms and thighs and eat it. Anyway, you will never live forever, and the lost flesh will grow soon!"
Gui Bugui was stunned for a moment, blinked his eyes, and said with a bitter face: "You don't know. I also suffered back then. When I was a child, my arms and thighs were injured and pus were melted, and I was bitten by flies. My wounds were covered with maggots..."
"Shut up!"
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On the eighth and nine days, Wu Mian slowly adapted to the feeling of hunger. During this period, a group of Miao people entered the cave and walked around. Wu Mian held the dagger left by Lin Huo on his body in his hand. When he was about to fight his life, Gui Bugui Zheng, who was on the other side, gestured to him. What he meant was that the people coming in could not see them and would not let Wu Mian take action.
Sure enough, several Miao people walked up to Wu Mian and treated him as air. After looking around, the leader said a few words and then took the people out of the cave. Wu Mian stayed in Miao Village for a few months, and half-heard and half-guessed it to understand the general meaning: If the white-haired man is not here, how could he dare to stay here if he offended Wu Zu?
After the Miao people left, no one else came in. Wu Mian lived like a year in the cave until the thirteenth day. Although he was still hungry, he had clearly felt that the power he had lost not long ago had recovered.
Gui Bugui, who was not far away, was looking at him with a strange look. At this time, Wu Mian was also turning his head to look at him. When the two met, an electric arc suddenly flashed in Wu Mian's hand. Gui Bugui's face changed drastically. He turned around and ran towards the entrance of the cave. But just now his body turned around, and before he could move his legs, he heard a "sting" behind his back. A lightning came and hit Gui Bugui's back. The old guy fell to the ground and trembled for a while before he got up from the ground again, and said to Wu Mian with a bitter face: "You must do this to know that your ability has returned?"
Wu Mian let out a long sigh, walked to Gui Bugui's side, smiled rare, and said, "Look at whether you dare to show off in front of me in the future." After that, he stepped over Gui Bugui and walked staggeringly towards the entrance of the cave.
Looking at Wu Mian's back, Gui Bugui silently made a "Ph!" lip, and then said to the air: "Did you calculate the old guy named Xu?"
After Wu Mian got out of the cave, his eyebrows suddenly raised, his thumb and index finger were pinched, and an electric spark came out from the gap between his fingers. In the blink of an eye, the electric spark turned into an electric arc and hit the bushes not far away. A hare poured out of the bushes, twitched a few times, and then fell straight to the ground without moving.
Wu Mian walked over and threw the dead rabbit to Gui Bugui who walked out of the cave from behind him, and said, "Bring a torch to roast the rabbit. Remember, it's time to roast it to the smell of bear's paw."
Four days later, an old man and a white-haired young man appeared on the edge of the big pool below the waterfall. The old man was wandering back and forth around the pool, as if he was looking for something. The white-haired young man not far from him was holding a stone trough in his hand, which was full of strange fish swimming around. If there were experts on the spot, you could see that the strange fish in the stone trough was the Ying fish recorded in the Shanhai Jing. Even the hairtail fish and the stone trough weighed almost hundreds of kilograms, but the young man was like holding a paper box and could not see any effort. The two of them had been wandering around the nearby Miao village in the morning, but strangely, there was not even a single person in the dozen nearby Miao villages.
These two were Gui Bugui and Wu Mian. They should have gone down the mountain the night before. But when they were almost at the foot of the mountain, Gui Bugui suddenly stopped Wu Mian. He tilted his head, as if he had not figured out something. He stood in front of Wu Mian and said, "No, I have been down for so long, and I am thinking that I can meet several waves of Miao people who set up gears. No one has ever encountered it, it doesn't look like the style of this Wu Zu."
At this time, Wu Mian also tasted it. He followed Gui Bugui's words and said, "What do you mean they have set up an ambush below?"
"It may not be necessary." Gui Bugui narrowed his eyes, looked at the direction of the big pool, and then said: "It may be that there has been some changes on the Wu Zu, and he can no longer care about our side."
Wu Mian couldn't stand his scheming expression, and said to Gui Bugui with his eyes slanted, "Tell me, what do you mean?"
Chapter completed!