Curse of the Burial Scripture

Chapter 125 Miasma Forest

The light of the compass condenses the direction, which means that if Li Youlan's body is located, you can definitely find it by following the line. The Bagua Compass, also known as the Fuxi Card, is mainly used to identify the true location of evil objects and see through their disguises. Before setting off, I rechecked the equipment I was carrying. There is no harm in being cautious. Although the possibility of the White Mist Banshee appearing is not high, there is still a possibility of encountering another enemy - Samur. The White Mist Banshee itself will not linger around where its body is, and its whereabouts are not fixed. This is also the most difficult part of dealing with the White Mist Banshee. Samuel is an unknown factor. I don’t know if Samuel is still around Nanhe Village. But if he was still there, things would be relatively more troublesome. I drove all the way south, passed through the jungle shrubs, and found a path that wound upwards. When I climbed to the top, I discovered an unusual phenomenon. What I saw was a muddy land similar to a swamp. The vegetation here was almost in a semi-rotted state, but it was not exhausted and dead. Logically speaking, vegetation that has rotted to this point cannot continue to grow. This place should have become a wasteland by now, but instead of turning into a wasteland, it has turned into a swamp. I stopped and it became difficult to walk, because if I took another step forward, I would step on a big smoke bubble and die. I had to tense up and observe what was going on around me. There was a faint purple mist wandering in the air. I immediately withdrew from this area, then took out my handkerchief, put the unprocessed blind leaves into my mouth and chewed them. A sour taste lingered in my mouth. It spreads in the mouth, but it has to be done. After I chewed the blinding leaf completely, I laid it flat on a handkerchief, tied it tightly as a mask, and completely covered my mouth and nose. A strong pungent smell unique to the blind leaves began to sweep through my mouth and nose, and even I felt like I was swaying twice because of this smell. Another function of the blinding leaves is to resist the miasma in the air - in front of me is a forest of miasma that has already formed. If I walk in without precautions, even if I can avoid the big smoke bubbles, I will probably never come back. fate. I thought to myself that my judgment was correct. Fortunately, I let that boy Wang Ermazi take Lang Jin back first. Otherwise, if the two of them had come here with me, the difficulties they would have encountered would have been twice as difficult. Looking forward, there are some yellowed and cracked animal carcasses under many trees. Some are slender and have small hip bones. These should be the carcasses of animals such as ocelots or hyenas.But there were some animal carcasses that caught my attention - first of all, their skulls were incredibly large. When I saw the huge outline, my first reaction was that I thought of elephants. However, this is where things get puzzling. The miasma forest is very toxic, and it has a rising phase and a calming phase. Just like its name, Miasma Forest refers to a jungle spread with miasma. Miasma is not a mysterious and terrifying poisonous gas. The principle is that after most of the animal corpses rot, due to the increase in humidity and temperature in the virgin forest, the corpse gas stored in the animals' bodies begins to spread and heat up, eventually forming toxic gases. However, it does not mean that people will definitely be poisoned if they are in a place with miasma. In fact, many times, people do not know that they are in a miasma environment, but they will still not be poisoned if they are in an environment filled with miasma for a long time. any damage. Just like the old saying in the medical field - any drug that ignores the dosage and talks about toxicity is a hooligan. In fact, the same principle applies to miasma. It is true that miasma is poisonous, but the human body contains antibodies to the poison. Especially the toxins contained in corpse gas. If people can be poisoned if they smell even a little bit, then the forensic doctors in the forensic identification center will not have to work, and everyone will have to wear a gas mask. Therefore, whether one can safely stay in the miasma forest and travel through this environment needs to be judged according to the two periods of the miasma forest. When the miasma forest is in a calm period, people can safely pass through the miasma forest without any problems. In the miasma forest during the calm period, the wind speed will generally be greater than Level 3. There is sufficient sunshine but the temperature hovers between 10 and 20 degrees. At the same time, the humidity is low and the air does not contain much moisture. In this environment, the corpse gas on animals will not emit too much toxicity, and the human body can fully resist it. But in the opposite period - the rising period, you must not break into the miasma forest without permission, otherwise nine out of ten people will not be able to come back. If the miasma forest in the rising stage has been completely formed, then the air will be filled with lavender poisonous mist, which can be discovered by careful observation. In most cases, people can distinguish the two states of the miasma forest in the rising phase and the calming phase with the naked eye, but there are still some situations where it is difficult for people to distinguish. Such as rainy days and dark nights. On rainy days, due to the increase in moisture in the air and the absorption capacity of rainwater, all the miasma poisons in the miasma forest will be temporarily absorbed into it, so it is difficult to tell with the naked eye whether the miasma forest is in the rising phase or subdued. Expect. The same goes for the dark night. The poisonous fog in the miasma forest will refract under the light, thus forming a lavender poisonous fog that people can distinguish. But at night it's a different story. The dark night in the primeval forest and the dark night in the city are completely different concepts. If the night sky is cloudy and misty, and even the moonlight cannot reach the earth, it will be really dark and terrible. Therefore, it is definitely not recommended to travel through the miasma forest on rainy days and dark nights. However, wild animals are different from humans in that they have special abilities to identify miasma. Like canine and feline beasts, their sense of smell is naturally very sensitive. They can distinguish the existence of the miasma forest from several miles away and whether they can travel through it. And large beasts have their own ways of identifying them. Therefore, the reason why most small beasts died in the miasma forest happened during the dark night and rainy days. At this time, even they could not distinguish the danger of the miasma forest. But large beasts are different, which is why I was puzzled by the bones in front of me. First of all, the resistance of large beasts to poison is different from that of humans and small beasts. The larger the body, the stronger the resistance to poison. This is a general consensus. Especially for large beasts such as elephants, porcupines, man-bears, Siberian tigers, etc., the threat posed by the miasma forest to them is limited. Even if they accidentally enter the miasma forest, they can quickly realize the danger here and escape from it. Therefore, if a large beast will die in the miasma forest, there is almost only one possibility - falling into a large smoke bubble. But if they fell into the big smoke bubble, their bones would not appear in front of me like this. I think these beasts probably died here due to some man-made reasons. Then I remembered what happened to Samuel. If Samuel is really the bat demon, then the corpse of the beast that appears in the miasma forest is probably caused by him. "You have to pay more attention..." After taking protective measures, I watched the big smoke bubbles pass through the huge miasma forest, and I successfully left the miasma forest in the evening. But there was no special discovery on this day, so after finding a place to rest late at night, I continued my journey during the day. I have given the map that Ojiang gave me before I set off, because the area marked on that map does not include the place where I am traveling now. But today is different from yesterday. Obviously, the changes in the terrain have become more complicated after going deep into the jungle. At noon, I was walking along the light on the compass to look for it. I saw a glimmer of light through a birch forest. I hurried over to take a look and found that it was a sparkling inland lake - but when I took the Bagua compass When placed above the lake, the light still did not converge. The light on the Bagua compass still points to the south, indicating that this lake is not the place where Li Youlan is buried. However, the light on the compass is obviously much stronger now than at the beginning, indicating that the distance is much closer. I opened the kettle I carried with me and poured out the water in the kettle - since my water bag was made of cowhide, the confidentiality was not very good. I had traveled through the miasma forest before, so the water in the water bag had probably penetrated. A lot of corpse poison has gone bad. When I poured the water out, the water turned slightly yellow, which was a sign of absorbing the miasma poison. I turned the cowhide water bag over and cleaned it carefully. I took out Tianhui grass, platycodon, and jade lotus seeds from the package, crushed them thoroughly with a grinder and put them in the cowhide water bag. Then he took out the gauze, lit the bonfire last night and put the remaining charcoal and sand into the double-sided open bottle. Finally, he wrapped it in a handkerchief, introduced the lake water into the bottle, and started filtering. It is right to put safety first in the wild, because in a place like this, you can still deal with monsters and ghosts, but if there is something wrong with your body, you really can only wait for death. I'm not a doctor, and I don't have any medicine with me, so I have no way to deal with it. After filling up the water, I continued to set off, and as the Bagua Compass chased for longer, the light became brighter, and I felt that the surrounding temperature seemed to be gradually decreasing, and there was a vague mist filling the air. I gradually became nervous, thinking that I was probably not far from my target location. Sure enough, after driving for another ten minutes or so, I found a lake with "bubbles" coming out of it. The area of the lake here is several times smaller than before, and its shape is irregular, but its longest diameter is estimated to be only about seven or eight meters. "Did Li Youlan actually die in a place like this?" Although there is bubbling water in the lake, I can't feel how high the temperature of the lake is, so I have temporarily ruled out the possibility that it is a natural hot spring water in the mountains. I have not heard from the villagers in Nanhe Village that there is an extinct volcano on Fulian Mountain, so the possibility of hot springs is unlikely.The most important thing is that there is no special sulfur smell near hot spring water. Once you smell the special smell of hot springs, you will never forget it. I picked up a medium-sized stone and threw it into the lake. There was a soft pop without even a splash. My heart skipped a beat, thinking that from the surface of this lake, the color of the water is too dark, so I can't tell the depth at all, but now it seems that this lake may be terrifyingly deep. It's more like a pool than a lake. I roughly estimate that the water in this pool is at least ten meters deep.

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