Global Card Master: Start Awakening the Classic of Mountains and Seas

Chapter 234: Mountain Spider, Get Rich! (8K12)

Jiang Ming's heartbeat gradually accelerated again.

An invisible pressure enveloped the entire space.

When a person comes to a strange and dangerous world, he can ignore these environmental factors with his strong psychological qualities.

But once you encounter such a strange scene.

When you feel that your own strength is not enough to cope with all situations, fear will naturally arise in your heart.

Of course, for Jiang Ming, it was only a little bit.

Just when it was about to be infinitely amplified, the roar of thunder and lightning directly resounded throughout the entire street and was contained by Jiang Ming.

"A city in the ghost country?"

Recalling the one-eyed people he had seen in the city before, Jiang Ming frowned and recalled a piece of information.

The term "ghost country" first appeared in "The Book of Changes·Jiji".

It records, "Nine Three, Emperor Gaozong attacked Guifang and conquered it in three years."

It means that it took King Wu Ding of the Shang Dynasty three years to conquer the Gui Kingdom.

However, the records in the Shan Hai Jing say that the people of Gui State are surnamed Wei and are descendants of Shaohao. They only have one eye. The book also says that this eye is located in the center of the face, so Gui State is also called Yimu State.

However, in the previous life, people removed the supernatural elements and guessed that the real Guifang people should cover their faces with helmets or masks, leaving only a small hole for observation. Dressing like this could scare the enemy.

This is the only information Jiang Ming could think of for now about this strange city.

Of course, other possibilities are not ruled out.

There are so many things recorded in the Shan Hai Jing. It is impossible to determine what it is just by looking at the appearance of a street.

Jiang Ming walked forward slowly and looked around. He was not in a hurry to go into the surrounding houses to see what was going on. With all the white silks hanging there, even a fool would know that there was a problem.

And he was the one who just walked in. After waking up, Jiang Ming knew it very well.

That is a behavior that suddenly changes one's cognition.

He originally thought that this place was very strange and there were few exotic beasts, so it was not worth coming in.

After hearing the human voice, the first thing that came to my mind was that I must come in and take a look.

It's like mind manipulation.

As far as Jiang Ming knows, there are only two options for this kind of ability.

Either it's some kind of ghost or some kind of strange beast.

However, there are actually very few records about ghosts and monsters in the Shan Hai Jing.

The first one mentioned is that, looking northwards at Zhupi, there lived the Huai ghost Lilun, the abode of eagles and falcons. Looking eastwards at the four-tenths of Hengshan, there lived the poor ghost.

Meaning, looking north, it looks like a place with many umbilical cords, where the locust ghost Li Lun lives, and the eagle lives in his house. Looking east, Hengshan is surrounded on all sides, where the poor ghost lives.

There are two ghosts here.

Huaigui is a type of ghost, and Lilun is his name. Youqiong is also a type of ghost, but it is not mentioned here what this ghost is called.

From this record, we can see that these two ghosts are not illusory, but real. They live in a fixed place and can even be seen. They are completely different from the invisible and intangible ghosts in the legend. They also do not live in a world called the underworld.

So it’s not surprising that it appears here.

There is another sentence in "The Three Classics of the Western Regions".

"The gods and ghosts of heaven and earth are food and entertainment."

The four words "heaven, earth, ghosts and gods" here are not in a completely parallel relationship, but an interlaced relationship, which is called intertextuality in grammar.

If we break them down, they are heavenly ghost, earthly ghost, heavenly god and earthly god.

From this we can see that ghosts and gods are actually parallel creatures.

Therefore, the ghosts in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are completely different from what people imagine them to be.

For example, some creatures in the Classic of Mountains and Seas also have the character "鬼" (ghost) next to them, indicating that they are also related to ghosts.

For example (chi), a strange beast with a human face and a beast body, only one foot and one hand.

There is another one that is quite telling.

The records mentioned: "Wuluo Sizhi, he has a human face with leopard patterns, a small nose and white teeth, and his ears are pierced with bells. His cry is like a sound of jade."

In fact, it is what later generations called Wu Luo.

This means that Wu Luo is in charge of this place. He has a human face, leopard spots on his body, a slim waist, and white teeth. He has his ears pierced with gold. The sound he makes is as clear as the sound of jade.

What this passage describes is actually a standard image of a beautiful woman, which is very inconsistent with the green-faced and fang-toothed ghosts in folk legends.

Thinking back to this, the fear that had originally arisen in Jiang Ming's heart had disappeared.

Since they are all the same creatures, what is there for him to be afraid of?

He should ask those ghosts whether they are afraid of him, the King of Thunder and Lightning.

There was lightning on the street just now, but there was no reaction at that time.

Jiang Ming first came to the next room.

My fingers gently slid across the white silk, and I felt a biting chill.

This white silk is not an ordinary cloth. It looks more like it is carved from some kind of cold stone. The texture on the surface is clearly visible, but it is extremely hard.

He pushed open a half-open wooden door, and the door panel creaked, as if it had not been opened for a long time.

The light in the room was dim, with only a few weak rays of sunlight shining through the cracks in the window, and dust dancing in the light.

The furnishings in the house were simple, with a worn wooden table, a few chairs, and some daily necessities.

But all the items were covered with a thick layer of dust, indicating that no one had lived here for a long time.

The same as the two cities Jiang Ming had entered before.

All are shabby without exception.

Is this the characteristic of Guixu, or has it always been like this?
Jiang Ming's doubts returned to the time when he first came in.

Because there are many kinds of dilapidated.

All the cities look like this, so it's obviously not just a coincidence.

The houses here are very well preserved.

Those strange beasts are not human, how could they leave such a beautiful building without destroying it at all?
Jiang Ming searched the room.

I saw a lot of ancient instruments that I had only seen in books, but they were useless, as you can see from the pictures above.

If it were from the past, these would be precious historical materials.

But in this era, what the Federation needs is information that can help the development of technology, or information about card masters.

Such books have lost their value.

In fact, when you enter this secret realm, or the mechanical city in the copy, you can confirm one thing with a high probability.

That is, the humans currently on the Blue Planet are most likely not the only group of Card Masters.

Of course, there is also a possibility that the memories in the copy, or the secret places that existed in the past, are all fabricated by the game.

But the possibility of this happening is very small.

The map is really too big.
If the exclusive secret realm that Jiang Ming entered is really Guixu, then the terrifying power of this game will far exceed human imagination.

However, there are currently no real card players.

Those resurrected characters are definitely not, they are more like a new faction created by the game.

People like Xidai in the copy may be, but due to various reasons, they cannot directly confront the human camp. It seems that the game is restricting these beta players for various reasons in order to take care of humans.

Of course, it is also possible that he is already dead.

At least Jiang Ming didn’t see a single living person in this secret realm.

After closing the book and putting it into his backpack, Jiang Ming walked out of the house.

After taking a quick look at the houses on both sides, he found that the layout of the houses on this street was similar, and even the facilities were similar. The first problem Jiang Ming encountered was this road that seemed to have no end.

"Ghost hits the wall?"

Jiang Ming touched his chin.

After regaining consciousness, he had already walked to this street. But the ghost wall didn't seem to be of much use to him, right?

Jiang Ming looked up at the sky. This was not an enclosed space. He could fly.

The next second, Jiang Ming's figure instantly soared into the sky.

Clouds kept appearing nearby.

The city below was getting smaller and smaller. After a certain limit, the small black dot was still as big as before, which meant that Jiang Ming had flown to the maximum height of this world, just like before.

But it should have rushed out, right?

Jiang Ming's figure quickly descended, and he chose a new street and dived straight in. This time he chose the street in the center of the city.

The result is still the same street.

Jiang Ming's scalp exploded a little, and he flew into the air again, this time flying directly out of the city, but the familiar feeling came again.

No matter how Jiang Ming flies.
The little black spot below is still there.

It seems that there is no way to escape
Standing in the middle of the familiar street again, Jiang Ming looked at the familiar environment around him thoughtfully.

Recalling the previous experiences.

The color of the eyes changed at this moment.

One black and one white.

Represents night and day.

The shadow of Zhulong seemed to begin to shatter as the scene of the ancient city in front of Jiang Ming appeared.

Jiang Ming seemed to have fallen into an abyss, falling continuously.

All I could see was darkness.

A foul odor came from my nose.

When Jiang Ming opened his eyes again, he saw countless rustling spiders in front of him, which had piled up on his face.

The next second, the spider as big as a human head was about to pounce on him.

But it was frozen in the air.

The spider's mouth was open, and Jiang Ming could clearly see the slime on its fangs.

But Jiang Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out to be false.

Jiang Ming was now entangled in spider silk and hanging in the air. When he was flying or walking on the street just now, he was actually struggling in the air.

The few books that were put into the backpack also disappeared.

The flames completely covered Jiang Ming.

The spider silk melted instantly.

When Jiang Ming came down from the air, he found that there were some spider corpses piled up around him.

It should be caused by the lightning I released at the beginning.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ming couldn't help but feel a little scared.

There are too many ghosts in Guixu.

Jiang Ming first looked around. This was an underground cave with no bottom in sight.

Spiders kept coming out from the holes in the surrounding walls, covering the entire ground with dense spiders. Jiang Ming could no longer stand on the ground.

Too much.
If people with trypophobia see this scene, they can only say they are blessed.

But what is this place?
The Southern New Book records that "mountain spiders, giant spiders, as big as wheels, their silk can stop bleeding."

These are probably what it refers to, but there is no mention of effects like illusions here.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ming couldn't help feeling helpless.

In the book Shan Hai Jing, the records of some strange beasts are so vague that even if Jiang Ming is familiar with Shan Hai Jing, he cannot understand them all clearly.

Some of the big spiders here are actually the size of wheels.

Jiang Ming's expression slowly changed from fear to excitement.

Because he saw the number under the cover of Shan Hai Jing
[Shan Hai Jing summoning point: 148]

[Classic of Mountains and Seas Fragments: 56]

And the seemingly endless mountain spiders in front of me.

Just before the five seconds were up, the entire top of the hole was covered with red clouds.

Jiang Ming was suspended at the top.

When... the time stop ends.

Thousands of thunders roared simultaneously in this small space.

The mountain spiders that were originally piled up like a mountain were instantly annihilated by thunder, and Jiang Ming missed Fan Huai a little at this moment.

Because even if the thunder struck at the same time, many mountain spiders were still missed, jumping up from the ground and rushing towards him.

Then Jiang Ming would have to activate the Monitoring Storm at the same time and deploy them around himself.

Harvest the missed mountain spiders.

Moreover, the mountain spiders in the surrounding holes seemed not to hear the thunder and continued to pour out. This resulted in the number of spiders on the ground in the entire cave increasing instead of decreasing amid the constant roar of thunder.

If Fan Huai was here, he would just need to attract some hatred.

You can pull all the spiders to a corner, and you just need to attack as much as you can.

Faced with such a situation, Jiang Ming could only start a time stop when the mountain spiders accumulated to a certain number, clear out a wave, and then continue.

But in this situation, Jiang Ming's spiritual energy was consumed very quickly.

And the number of mountain spiders seemed endless.

Jiang Ming frowned.

It seems that the situation is somewhat out of my control.

But there is also good news. That is, the numbers on the cover of Shan Hai Jing are rising wildly.

But before Jiang Ming could wait, the summoning points would be enough.

A sharp "hissing" sound was heard in a nearby passage.

It was so obvious among the dense footsteps that one could imagine how loud the sound was. It directly attracted Jiang Ming's attention.

Just as he turned his head, a spider web that covered the sky shot out from the passage and quickly grew larger in the air.

In the blink of an eye, he appeared in front of Jiang Ming.

At this moment, Jiang Ming really missed Fan Huai and the others.

"Yawn~"

Fan Huai was standing outside the city wall and suddenly yawned.

"Still no reply?"

Xiang Yao asked with a frown on his face.

Sixteen hours have passed since Jiang Ming entered the secret realm.

It will take another 8 hours to come out of the dream.

Every two hours, Jiang Ming would take the initiative to chat with Fan Huai and the others.

Now is the time.

Seeing that Jiang Ming didn't send a message, Fan Huai took the initiative to ask.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Jiang Ming still didn't reply.

"No. But don't worry, with Brother Ming's strength, it is easy to survive." Fan Huai touched his head and said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)