Chapter 33 Chapter Sixteen The Man Emerging from the Lotus Leaf

Wu Huan mixed in the crowd and saw this astonishing scene, but felt more doubts than panic in her heart. Although the old man's action of removing the flesh and bones from Nezha's body was shocking, but in Wu Huan's eyes, there was a little bit of context to be found, which was not as unbelievable as ordinary people saw. Wu Huan believes that if his guess is correct, then the old man's technique must be closely related to a "surgery" technique recorded by Master Di. "The technique of 'surgery' was popular about two hundred years before I was born. At that time, because 'molecular science' (this is another term that Wu Huan could not understand) had not yet been fully developed, when the human body was sick, if necessary, It can cut open the human body with a sharp blade and perform necessary medical treatment.”

This is the part in Di Shi's records that mentions "the technique of opening a knife". Di Shi also said that this technique can be pushed back thousands of years, dating back to a doctor named "Hua Tuo" in ancient times. "... There is a genius doctor named Hua Tuo, who wants a patient to have a headache, he can cut the head with a sharp axe, take out the wind saliva, and the headache can be relieved..." The records also mentioned that a general named Guan Gong was hit by a poisoned arrow in his arm, and he was cured only by asking this "Hua Tuo" to cut his muscles and scrape the poison off his bones.

In the process of delving into Di Shi's knowledge, Wu Huan already had a vague idea of ​​Di Shi's way of recording the age.He knew that the "twenty-fourth century A.D." mentioned by Di Shi often referred to more than three thousand years after Wu Huan's era. It will not appear until another thousand or two thousand years. And Di Shi and others will go back to three thousand years ago, or even more distant times, and it seems that they have experienced a magic method called "traveling through time and space", so that such a situation will happen. Now, Nezha's professional master Taiyi has resorted to such a strange technique as "sword surgery", which makes Wuhuan even more curious. On the one hand, he is worried about the bones of his brother Nezha, and on the other hand, he also wants to know what "Taiyi" is. doing something.Wu Huan rolled her eyes, then quietly passed through the crowd, chasing after Taiyi in the direction where she left.

Although Na Zha's whereabouts were weird, his walking speed was not too fast. Wu Huan only took a detour and saw him carrying Nezha's skeleton on his back. Wuhuan deliberately kept a little distance from him, so as not to be noticed by him.This kind of tracking is quite easy in Chaoge City, but after a short walk, he found that Taiyi had already left the city through the side door and was walking up the nearby mountain. It's just that Wu Huan cares about hiding his own figure in the street and among the crowd, but he doesn't notice that Tai Yi occasionally stops to breathe as if he was tired, and during this gap of breathing, he has already seen Wu Huan.

Moreover, Taiyi still showed an intriguing smile on his face... Walking out of Chaoge City, Taiyi circled left and right, and walked in the mountains for a while, Wuhuan hid in the forest, and didn't want Taiyi to find out, it was quite hard to follow, but when he followed a small stream , detoured a mountain road, but still lost the trace of Taiyi. Wu Huan looked around desperately, hoping to find some clues, but after looking for a while, she still gave up.Because looking out, the mountains and forests are green, but where can you see Taiyi? After chasing for a while, Wu Huan was sweating profusely from the running, seeing that the water in the mountain stream was still clear, so she went to the side of the mountain stream, scooped up the cold water, and washed her face happily.

In the cool and satisfying touch of the splash, Wu Huan shook her head to shake off the water droplets on her head and face. When she opened her eyes, she saw a reflection of a person floating on the water. "Scared!" He stepped back vigilantly, took a closer look, only to find that Nezha's professional teacher Taiyi was sitting cross-legged on the opposite bank at the moment, looking at him with a half-smile. Wuhuan stared at him in surprise, and also looked him up and down by the way. Nezha's teacher "Taiyi" is a lean old man with shiny silver hair and beard.But his eyes look very young, and sometimes there is a hint of urchin-like look in his eyes.

The two looked at each other for a long time before Taiyi said, "Hey! Boy." Wu Huan looked at him again, and then reluctantly said: "Yes." "Boy," Taiyi stood up and patted the dust on his knees: "Why do you follow me?" Wu Huan didn't lie to him, and said honestly: "Just because Nezha and I are good friends, good brothers, this time he suffered a misfortune, and such a strange thing happened to his bones, I think it's not right, so I followed up to take a look. " Taiyi opened his eyes, as if he heard something interesting: "Strange thing? You are a bit weird, you little brat, but tell me, what's so strange about this?"

"I've seen the way you carve up Nezha's bones and arrange them in ancient books, but because I've never seen it with my own eyes, I find it strange." "Okay, okay, tell me, what is this method?" "If the classics are correct, this should be called 'Sword Surgery', right?" Taiyi laughed and clapped his hands, he was very happy like a child: "It's really wonderful! It's really wonderful!" He laughed and said: "I always thought that in this era, no one can talk to me about these things, but I never thought it would be true. Somebody will know what 'surgery' is!"

"Surgery?" Wu Huan wondered, "Why is it called 'surgery'?" Taiyi jumped up and down for a while, then carried Nezha's corpse wrapped in lotus leaves, waded across the water, and came to Wuhuan. "Why is it called 'surgery', we don't care about it, but who are you kid? How do you know these things? Who taught you?" "I grew up in a grotto, and there was a master Di in the grotto, who once left an unbelievable super-epoch-making knowledge in it, and I just learned a thing or two from it." "Super Era? Very good, very good," Taiyi said with a smile: "I never imagined that you, a kid from the Shang Dynasty, could also use this saying. It's good! It's good!" After admiring for a while, he asked curiously : "What's the name of your Master Di?"

"Master Di's full name is Di Menghun." When Taiyi heard this, a look of sudden realization appeared on his face: "It turned out to be him, it turned out to be him, no wonder, no wonder." "Senior knows Master Di?" Wu Huan asked curiously. "I know, I know," Taiyi nodded, but shook his head again: "But it can't be regarded as knowing him, because I only met him a few times, but I didn't really talk to him... Hey! Boy!" "Yes." Wuhuan replied. "How much do you know about your Master Di?" He pondered, "I mean, do you know where he came from and how he came to this place?"

"I know a thing or two," Wuhuan said, "but because of my aptitude Luton, I haven't been able to learn all of Master Di's unique skills." "Then..." Taiyi tilted his head and asked him suspiciously: "Do you know what the 'twenty-fourth century' is? Do you know what the 'Bionicle Men' mean?" "I know." Wu Huan said with a smile, this is something he only comprehended after several years of poor spirit, but after Wu Kui's father-in-law passed away, no one can talk about it in the contemporary era, and now there is a person who can speak these terms eloquently , is indeed extremely exciting. "That's really great," the old man Taiyi laughed loudly, "I'm from the twenty-fourth century A.D. just like that Di Menghun, except that he's an ordinary person, while I'm a The Cyborg in the 'wind' form, after years of life, death, and resurrection, has become what it is now!" Wu Huan was surprised and delighted, at first he thought he just wanted to save the bones of his sworn brother, but he never expected that he would meet a real "Bioman" in this forest! The "wind" type biochemical policeman, as the name suggests, is a strange person who can come and go between the human form and the wind configuration! Like a child seeing a dream toy, Wuhuan stared at Taiyi with wide eyes, afraid that he would disappear in the blink of an eye.In the surprised eyes, Taiyi can still hear his background fluently. "In the 24th century, I belonged to the 'Feng' detachment of the 'Pandora Nucleic Acid Bureau'. My real name was Situ Taiyi. Later, I came to the Shang Dynasty. For convenience, I simply called it 'Taiyi' .” "Then... have you been to the Age of Mythology?" "Yes, I didn't have very strong mana at that time. I just came out when the sky was sunny. When people saw me, they called me the god of joy 'Taifeng'." Taiyi said: "After the battle of Zhuolu, I Fortunately, I didn't die on the battlefield, but I also died in the wilderness later, and then I came back to life a few times, and it became what I am now." While talking, I don't know why Taiyi became impatient again: "Let's stop rambling about the past, let's take care of Nezha first." "He..." Wu Huan pointed to the packs of corpses wrapped in lotus leaves: "Can he really come back to life?" "Others can't do it, but Nezha can," Taiyi said with a smile, "Because I 'made' him." "Did it come out?" Wu Huan wondered. "Didn't your Di Menghun teach you anything?" Taiyi frowned and said, "Do you know what 'genetic engineering' is?" "Gene... I know a little bit, but genetic engineering..." "Okay, okay," Taiyi shrugged: "I know that it is difficult for you Shang Dynasty people to understand this kind of thing, I will try to tell you what you know, okay?" "yes." Taiyi led Wuhuan, went upstream along the mountain stream, and found an open place. "It should be fine here." He put down the many bags of Nezha's bones on his back: "Get me some water." According to Wuhuan's words, she picked many big leaves nearby, made them into water ladles, and then filled them with a lot of stream water. And Taiyi took advantage of this time to spread out Nezha's bones and arrange them according to the arrangement of the human body. "You just wanted to know why Nezha was 'made' by me, didn't you?" Wu Huan nodded quickly: "Yes." "I'm impatient. I just say everything once. I only say it once. Whether you can understand it or not is a matter for your family, you know?" "Know." "There are many different energy sources between the heaven and the earth. Of course, this is just a saying in our era. Your saying is more like 'the essence of the sun and the moon' and 'the essence of the primordial spirit'. Since the age of mythology, I don't know why. , There are a lot of these 'sun essence and moonlight' remaining in the sky and the earth, such things, if they are birds and beasts, or even lifeless stubborn rocks and rotten wood, if they encounter them, they will probably form intelligent creatures, right?" "Yes," Wu Huan nodded, "We call it 'becoming a genius and becoming a monster'." Taiyi nodded approvingly: "The boy really has some knowledge, so you may have a chance to understand what I say." "And this kind of 'day essence and moonlight', what if a mortal encounters it? It may increase some abilities, and some smarter people find that there are some cultivation methods that can attract this kind of 'day essence and moonlight', so ascetics pass time. , it will become mana, you know?" Wu Huan simply nodded and didn't reply anymore. "I'm in the 24th century! I'm studying 'genetic engineering'. In essence, this kind of knowledge is very similar to these processes of 'becoming a human being' and 'practicing becoming a fairy'. They all work on genes. , to increase the ability or intelligence of a person or a beast. Do you know what a 'gene' is?" Wu Huan was afraid of being teased by him, so she nodded quickly: "I know, it is something that governs the appearance and nature of people or animals." "Good guy, I even understand this," Taiyi said in admiration, "Since the age of mythology, we guys who used to be 'great gods' have different perceptions, chances of encounters, and chances of mutation, so after so long Each of them has more or less their own comprehension and ability, like your Di Menghun may know different things from me, some things he is good at, maybe I don’t understand them at all; I don’t know anything, do you understand me when you say that?” "clear." "I don't know what or how much your Di Menghun knows, but I still have a lot of interest in my field of 'genetic engineering', it's just that the times are different. In the 24th century, I used equipment. Now I use my energy, or 'mana'. Therefore, when I have the opportunity, I will enlighten a few spirits, or accept a few apprentices, like Nezha, that's how it came, you know?" "But," Wu Huan asked suspiciously, "You said that Nezha was 'made' by you, so what's going on?" Taiyi thought for a while, as if thinking about what kind of vocabulary to use to make him understand. "A large part of Nezha's primordial spirit comes from the so-called 'day essence and moonlight', and this part of energy was discovered by accident when I visited Chentangguan, because I think this It would be a pity to share the 'Sun Essence and Moon Blossom' with beasts. By chance, Madam Li Jing was pregnant at that time, so I introduced it into Madam Li's body, allowing it to combine with the fetal energy of ordinary people, and give birth to a baby with extraordinary abilities. People." Such a statement is understandable for Wu Huan, and in theory there are many similarities with Di Shi's records. "All in all, all in all," Taiyi said, he didn't know why he became impatient again: "Nezha was born in this way, but I didn't consider that such a strong energy may have side effects..." "Side effects?" Wu Huan asked in confusion. "That's something you don't need to know." Taiyi didn't bother to explain, and said cunningly: "To put it simply, Nezha's fetus has many unusual things because of it, like he was pregnant for three years and six months. Born, and his personality also has a very strong cruel and murderous nature." Wu Huan thought about Nezha's usual behavior and the many troubles he caused, and nodded. "Therefore, it's a good thing that he returned the kiss this time. I can take this opportunity to fix some of his problems. Do you understand this?" "understood." "If you understand," Taiyi said with a smile, "let's start working!" As soon as he started to do business, the smile disappeared from his face, and he became serious. Quietly, a lavender light glowed from Taiyi's body, and Wu Huan knew that in the twenty-fourth century, it was something called a "force field". Then, astonishingly, it seemed that the purple light had tentacles, and gradually penetrated into Nezha's bones. After a while, a light and shadow in the shape of Nezha floated out in a trance, standing aside, as if he didn't know himself. Where are you. Taiyi nodded slightly, then picked three large lotus leaves and spread them on the ground, folded off 216 lotus stems, and arranged them on the lotus leaves according to the structure of the human body. "The three lotus leaves represent the three energy fields of the human body, heaven, earth, and man," Taiyi whispered to Wu Huan, "What I'm doing now is a kind of work similar to 'replicating genes'. This kind of thing Not to mention you, even the people of my era would be terrified to death when they saw it, and would definitely say that this is impossible, and no one would believe it." After a pause, he laughed again: "The people of our era People... are not very wise, they only believe in something called 'science', but insist on not believing in what really appears in front of them." To be honest, Wu Huan didn't quite understand what "science" is, but he didn't want to interrupt this rare spectacle, so he nodded obediently. "My force field follows Nezha's flesh and blood structure, with the lotus leaf as the foundation, and now I'm going to start building Nezha's new body..." Sure enough, on the three lotus leaves, the shape of a human body has gradually appeared at this moment, but that human body seems to be "woven", starting from the internal organs, then the bones, and then the outer skin. After the human body was "knitted", Taiyi said gently to Nezha's soul beside him: "Okay, now you can go in." Nezha's soul seemed at a loss, and obediently entered the newly created human body. After a while, the new body sat up. At this point, Nezha's resurrection procedure is complete. And Taiyi even called this process "lotus incarnation". "His mind will still be in a trance for a while, let me take care of him," Taiyi helped Nezha up, and Wuhuan noticed that his appearance was not much different from before, but he seemed to be older . "There will be fate in the future, and you will see each other again." "Reverend Taiyi," Wu Huan called out, "I have something to ask you." "Say it!" "If you really have such a spell, aren't you the master of creation?" Wu Huan asked in confusion, "Then you can create a person like Nezha at will?" Taiyi smiled approvingly: "Son, you really have some insight, but let me tell you, my technique can only create a body, but not a soul or soul. Do you understand? If I suddenly change my mind today, but You can't create people, you can only create a bunch of dolls, do you understand that?" Wu Huan nodded, suddenly realized. "But the world is so big, there are other people who can create souls. As for what kind of creator is that, it is beyond our ability to see, understand?" "Understand." "Very good!" Taiyi laughed and said, "I also feel very happy talking with you today. We will meet again someday, and then we will have another drink!" "Have a drink!" Wu Huan smiled at Taiyi, and suddenly found that his farewell words were exactly the same as what Nezha said back then. However, compared to King Li, perhaps Taiyi knows Nezha better! Between the mountains and forests, it was almost dusk at this time, the branches and leaves shone like foggy sunlight, and the faint sound of gurgling water came from the nearby mountain stream, which made people feel refreshed. At this time, the figures of Taiyi and Nezha had also gone away, Wuhuan looked at them from afar, thinking of the wonderful encounter of this day, couldn't help shaking his head and smiling.Then he walked down the mountain slowly along the way he came.