Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 397

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Yellow Creeper 2

-Wow!

“No, it’s incomprehensible to make silver from poison. Fire, making yellow insects?”

“Is that true!?”

The two of them stood up from their seats at the same time with expressions of disbelief.

A chair was thrown behind the two of them and was rolling around.

He answered in a voice that was slightly hoarse from the intense reaction.

“Yes, it’s not that difficult···.”

Then a slight fear spread across both of their faces.

I swallowed without realizing it.

This was because, unlike before, the two people’s reactions went beyond curiosity or disbelief and included a hint of fear.

Even when I showed him the silver plating, he didn’t react like this.

No, come to think of it, I’ve never had a reaction like this before, even with the various strange things I’ve shown you so far, like catching spirits.

It was the most violent reaction so far.

‘What? Something is a bit strange… Ah!’

A thought occurred to me after briefly thinking about why the two of you would react that way.

Come to think of it, the Yellow Turban was one of those serious disasters from ancient times.

I’m talking about unprecedented disasters that humans cannot do anything about, such as epidemics, floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes.

In my past life, it would have been a big problem if swarms of locusts appeared here and there in the world.

Book blindness.

In the Central Plains, locusts are called blind people, but why are locusts called locusts separately as locusts or locusts?

Because it was a very serious disaster that deserved to be given a proper noun.

It is a disaster that covers the sky yellow.

When locusts appear in large numbers, their appetites become extremely high and their numbers continue to increase. As they move, they eat food equivalent to their own weight in a day.

So it was natural that they were surprised when I said that I could create a disaster that would sweep away all the food that people had to eat as I moved.

It was an enormous event that was directly related to people’s survival and would have terrified everyone living in ancient times.

‘I think I said this wrong?’

Even though he said it wasn’t that difficult.

It was at that time that the thought crossed my mind that I might be labeled a really dangerous person and put under house arrest.

Making silver out of poison is like being an alchemist, but creating a disaster is another story altogether.

As expected, the two voices that heard my answer quickly followed.

“You little punk, you’ll have to take what you just heard to your grave!”

“Of course. I will never give up even if it means cutting off this little bastard’s tongue. I swear by the martial arts I have learned!”

“You go out for now.”

“Yes, sir.”

The old man, Geulhwang, opened his eyes wide and spoke to the man named Sogeulgui who had been brought in as a threat, and then the father-in-law shouted outside.

“Come outside and take a look.”

“Have you found it?”

“Did you hear the words that came out from inside?”

“It is an unwritten rule that what is said in the family register cannot be seen or heard···.”

“No, I was asking if you really didn’t hear it.”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t hear you···.”

“I didn’t hear it either.”

“Really? Then go and bring Hwa-eun and Tae-sang-ga-ju. It’s urgent.”

“Yes, sir!”

The father-in-law asks the warriors who were standing guard what they heard and immediately calls Hwa-eun and Man-dok-shin-gun’s grandfather.

After a while, Hwa-eun and Man-dok-shin-gun’s grandfather arrived at the same time with anxious looks on their faces.

“Did you find it? I heard it was urgent.”

“What’s the matter with you and Hwa-eun? We came here in a hurry after checking the poison of the newly acquired children. Huh? Even the old man Geul-hwang is shocked?”

Mandokshin-gun’s grandfather looks surprised as he looks at Hwa-eun and Geol-hwang, who ask him why he came all of a sudden inside the house.

There is a technique called Gimak that surrounds the area with a barrier of energy to prevent sound from leaking out, and it seems that Elder Geulhwang was probably using that.

“Please sit down, Mandokshin-kun. It looks like the story will be long.”

“All right.”

“Hwaeun, sit down too.”

“Yes, father.”

Once the two arrived and sat down, Elder Geulhwang spoke.

“The reason I called you two here so urgently is because I heard that Soryong knows how to make yellow insects.”

“yes!?”

“What!? You made a yellow bug!?”

As expected, Hwa-eun and Man-dok-shin-gun’s grandfather also had terrified expressions on their faces.

The two of them look at me with wide eyes.

Hwa-eun said with an expression of disbelief.

“Me, really?”

“Yes, it’s not that difficult… No, that’s because of that.”

I almost answered without realizing it that it wasn’t that difficult, but Hwa-eun and Man-dok-shin-gun’s grandfather’s eyes widened.

Hwa-eun asked again with an expression of disbelief.

“So, are you saying that you can make a yellow worm if you just have the ingredients?”

“yes?”

When I turned my gaze to the old man, the craftsman, and the old man, Geulhwang, who were inside the Gajujeon, because of the strange question, they all nodded their heads.

He tilted his head and asked again.

“ingredient?”

“Yes, materials. Like dust or rotten grass.”

‘ah.’

I wondered what it meant to say that if you just have the ingredients, you can make it happen, and it seemed that the people gathered here, including Hwa-eun, thought that if you just had the ingredients, you could make a yellow insect appear, just like I do with silver plating.

‘Oh, so most people in this era believed in spontaneous generation?’

Spontaneous generation is the theory that all living things must have a mother to be born, but that small insects and other microscopic creatures are created from dark, moist air.

If I tell this story to people from my past life, they’ll all say, “What the heck are you talking about?” But until the early 19th century, the theory of spontaneous generation was widely accepted.

It was believed that fleas were born from dust, maggots from rotting corpses, and ticks and other insects were born naturally from dew or muddy water.

As we live, a mosquito may appear in a closed room, or ants may appear out of nowhere, so we understand these phenomena in that way.

Ants are just queen ants that fly into houses in the spring and establish their kingdom inside, and mosquitoes are just people that come into houses by attaching themselves to their backs.

So, it was clear that the Tang dynasty, which dealt with poisons, did not know about the poisons they handled, such as snakes, spiders, and scorpions, but they thought that bugs such as flies, cicadas, and grasshoppers came from dirty places.

First of all, in order to clear up the misunderstanding about Hwang Chung, we need to explain the basics.

I organized the content in my head and began to explain.

“I think I should tell you this story first. Not all insects are born from damp and dirty air. Hwaeun.”

“Yes? You’re saying that they’re not born alone? They need a mother who is exactly like them to be born, but isn’t it also possible for them to be born from a mother who is damp and dirty?”

The elders nodded their heads at Hwa-eun’s words.

It’s a little different from what I expected, but it’s true.

Dangga, who has dealt with many insects and poisons, may be able to raise her young as a mother insect, but she seems to think that insects also come into existence on their own in nature.

“Yes, it is not a matter of energy, but of being born with a mother and father who are exactly like you.”

“Really?”

“Yes, the reason why the maggots seem to suddenly appear in dirty places is because their mothers lay their eggs there, away from human eyes.”

“It doesn’t just come from the spirit?”

“Yes, Grandpa.”

“When the Tang family put something dirty in a jar and sealed it, maggot-like things started to appear inside?”

It seems like the party has at least tried an experiment. What if they bring in dirty things from outside and put them in a jar?

When explaining the theory of spontaneous generation, an experiment by a Belgian alchemist is sometimes cited as an example, and it was just like that.

This is the experiment where a jar was filled with wheat grains and a cloth soaked in oil and milk, and then left in a warehouse. If a mouse got inside, it must have occurred naturally.

Well, in this day and age, things like sterility and external disturbances wouldn’t have occurred to me, so I explained why.

“That’s probably because there were already eggs inside the dirty stuff. Maybe if they had all been boiled and sealed, nothing would have come out?”

Grandfather Mandokshin-gun held his chin for a moment, thought about my explanation, and then nodded.

If it weren’t for the party, he would probably have argued that what I said would never be true, but perhaps because his trust in me and his basic common sense were higher than the average for this era, he responded by understanding what I said.

“I really have to try it. But anyway. So you’re not creating yellow bugs, but raising them? Like crickets?”

When I saw that you were even asking if I was raising them like crickets, I thought that perhaps the explanation would be easy.

The following question from Elder Geulhwang.

“Then, instead of creating locusts, aren’t we just increasing their numbers? If there are no locusts, we can’t create locusts, so it wouldn’t be that dangerous, right? It probably wouldn’t have much meaning either.

By the time the yellow worms were discovered, they had already formed in swarms.

“Isn’t it rare to find one or two yellow worms?”

The family members all nodded in agreement to Elder Geulhwang’s words.

The Yellow Corruption was a great disaster, and Elder Geulhwang was a person who handled information, so he knew quite a lot even though he was not from our party.

As Elder Geulhwang said, yellow insects do not appear one or two at a time.

It is common for things to appear in large quantities and then disappear in large quantities.

‘This isn’t something that can be explained with just an explanation.’

I thought it would be best to show him directly in order to answer Geulhwang’s question, so I smiled and asked.

“I think it’s best to show you this. Well, let’s make just a little bit. I’ll make just a little bit without making it dangerous. It’s really not dangerous.”

People simultaneously flinched at my suggestion and looked at each other.

I was curious, but when it came to making a yellow worm, I felt scared.

***

“Oh, so you had a yellow fever when you were little?”

“Yes, it was really terrible back then.”

“We were lucky that we had food stored up, but there were many people in Sacheon who starved to death.”

A road to find a fairy tale with adults.

I wondered why they had such terrified faces, and it turned out they had already been through a swarm of locusts once.

If it’s a fear that’s definitely imprinted on you, then it’s only natural that you’d feel fear.

After a while, he shouted towards the house of the demon above the well where he arrived.

“Hey, Yo-hwa!”

As I shouted towards the fairy’s house made of spider webs, the fairy quickly began to descend backwards through the spider webs.

However, when she came down backwards, the skirt of the fairy in the shape of Hwa-eun had no choice but to flip upside down to her thighs, and Hwa-eun was terrified at the sight.

“Hey, you! I said not to do that.”

-Kissit.

From Hwa-eun’s perspective, it probably felt like looking in a mirror?

However, Yohwa quickly turns around, perhaps because she received several copyright educations from Hwa-eun.

As the elders looked at the distant mountains and Hwa-eun stroked her chest, Yo-hwa approached me, linked arms with me, and tilted her head, asking why I had called her.

-Kissit?

“Oh, I have a favor to ask. I would like you to make a square house out of spider webs for me.”

-Kishishi.

A demon who moves her buttocks as if trying to pull out the thread from my words.

I quickly stopped the evil spirit.

Because it wasn’t here.

“No, not here, over there.”

The place he took the fairy was a backyard with a pond, and he asked the fairy to make something like a mosquito net in a grassy area.

“You can make it here. It should look like this.”

“Kissit!”

I showed him a rough shape by drawing it with a stick on the nearby dirt floor, and the demon quickly began making something like a mosquito net.

As the thread that came out of the buttocks split the trees, lines and surfaces were created based on it.

“Your Majesty, have you found us?”

“Yes, Lord Gupae. I have a favor to ask.”

“Just give the order!”

It’s been a while since we’ve called our Dokmuldae.

I ran into the nearby grass and after rummaging around for a while, I found the guy I was targeting.

“Got you, you punk.”

He was a quick guy, but he was no match for me, who had learned martial arts, so I caught him and showed him to the old master and said.

“Could you please hold this for me?”

“Oh, is this a flying locust?”

In the Central Plains, it seems to be called a bihwang, but the one I caught was a pulmuchi.

As we nodded, our poison corps dispersed in all directions to catch the locusts, and soon the inside of the mosquito net made by the demon was filled with green locusts.

***

After breakfast, I headed to the backyard to see the mosquito nets filled with seaweed that Yohwa had made.

Following were Hwa-eun and the adults.

Elder Geulhwang was asleep in his room to see this.

“Little Dragon, is it real?”

“yes.”

“That is truly unbelievable.”

“That’s true.”

Adults looking incredulous at an explanation as they move.

Upon arriving at the shelter, I noticed the mosquito net that Yohwa had made yesterday, but it was made so thick that I couldn’t see the inside yet.

“Okay, then let’s check it out?”

He opened the pre-made entrance with a smile, put his hand in, took out a single loach he could catch, and held it in his hand.

And he took it out and held it out in front of people.

“How is it?”

Between my fingers, instead of the green locust I had put in yesterday, there was a yellow locust that people were so afraid of.