Chapter 208: Funeral Palace in Suburban Beijing (40)

"Ahem, of course, he's not scolding you!"

Yu Hehui was so happy that he immediately came over to look inside. But when he came over, he first saw Wei Xun's raised mouth, and this half-smile made Yu Hehui's heart skip a beat.

"His soul is too unstable, I think he's lost his mind."

"Did he lose his mind?"

Wei Xun made way for Yu Hehui to see, and asked with a smile.

"Yes, yes, that's right. Tong Hege is a man who values ​​loyalty and kindness, and he's slow to react. He blushed and thought for a long time, but he could only curse this one sentence."

Yu Hehui took a look inside and saw only a burning fire. But he was still satisfied, and suggested sensibly: "Hey, I think the Phoenix Fire is a little too little, how about adding some more?"

"Add more? Aren't you afraid of hurting him?"

Wei Xun raised his eyebrows and asked: "Besides, the flame ratio is almost stable now. Adding Phoenix Fire will only make the space inside his golden elixir bigger."

"Isn't it good to have a bigger space?"

Yu Hehui blinked innocently: "At most, I can only swallow these spirit snake bones and snake skulls. When I go to Tianshou Mountain the day after tomorrow, if there are any coffins, dragon bones, tombs, etc. to swallow, Tong Hege can help."

He cursed before he came out, and Wei Xun was a petty person. Yu Hehui secretly sweated for Tong Hege in his heart.

"Didn't you say before, 'You are enough for the storage space'?"

Wei Xun joked, urging the Phoenix Fire to increase its firepower, and then closed the corn shoots tentacle again, and continued to smolder the Tai Sui Golden Elixir.

When it comes to the resurrection of old teammates, Yu Hehui is a little worried and has a more reserved attitude towards Wei Xun. But he adjusted quickly and soon became normal. He also joked: "After all, I am still an assassin exploring the way, and it is not easy to show up more often. But Tong Hege is different."

Tong Hege mainly assists in medical treatment and basically stays in the rear with the team. He is most suitable to be a storage space for Wei Xun.

Yu Hehui is serious and responsible. He first finds the right position for Tong Hege. At least he will be a useful person to Wei Xun at that time.

We can take it slowly later.

"The fire is almost ready now, just keep an eye on it."

Wei Xun wanted to go out and take a look after controlling the fire for so long.

"You're going out alone?"

Yu Hehui frowned first, looked at Wei Xun in embarrassment, then looked at the corn shoots, and made up her mind: "I'll go with you, the corn shoots are fine here."

"You let a little silly worm watch the fire? Aren't you afraid that it will swallow Tong Hege?"

Wei Xun laughed dumbly, patted the corn shoot's big mouth, and rubbed its tentacles with a mud ball. When the corn shoots opened their tentacles again in high spirits, he took out a half-human-high portable alchemy furnace - this was one of the rewards given by the half-life Taoist.

Wei Xun instructed Yu Hehui to mix the mud ball with honey water, and then brush the mud on the alchemy furnace, brushing a thin layer. The tentacles of the corn shoots here were almost sore, and they were anxious to wrap their tentacles around Wei Xun's arm, eager to try and eat.

Wei Xun trained the obedience of the corn shoots like training a dog, and counted a hundred times before feeding it the alchemy furnace covered with mud.

The corn shoots swallowed it impatiently, and then--

Corn shoots:? ?

Ah, this seems a little wrong.

The corn shoots tasted wrong after chewing, and Yu and Hui could sense the corn shoots' confusion just by looking at its tentacles that stopped swaying. It felt like eating a sugar-coated pill.

"Corn shoots, the tentacles left on the ground will become the shape of the food you just ate."

Wei Xun ordered, and this was the purpose of the alchemy furnace he had taken from the Taoist who had half his life.

The tentacles of the corn shoots can be transformed to imitate the shape of the food it swallowed, and the "false mouth" wrapped with the spirit snake bones is composed of countless corn shoots tentacles.

Now the corn shoots tentacles all over the ground are too conspicuous, but if they are completely hidden underground, it is impossible to observe the refining of the golden elixir in time. Simply let the corn shoots tentacles become the alchemy furnace, even if outsiders come in, they are not afraid at all.

"It can even change this?"

Seeing that the tentacles of the corn shoots exposed in the house actually obeyed Wei Xun's order and turned into the alchemy furnace it just swallowed, Yu and Hui were surprised.

I originally thought it could only imitate living things. If it could imitate even non-living things, then, there would be so many places where it could be used!

"If I cut off the worm, can it grow into two?"

Looking at a golden "alchemy furnace" standing in the middle of the room, Wei Xun's eyes flickered with a subtle light.

"No, the worm is not a magic earthworm."

"What a pity... can it fuse some genes of the magic earthworm?"

Wei Xun patted the alchemy furnace, and then took out a spare mountaineering knife from the storage space and stabbed it in. Corn shoots don't like to eat metal, but they still try to swallow it.

Wei Xun ordered its edge tentacles to turn into the long knife that had just been swallowed, and then Wei Xun cut off the "long knife" and chopped it tentatively. The worm has a very strong vitality, and the tentacles separated from the body are not completely dead, but after all, they have left the main body and have no "brain". Wei Xun threw out the "long knife", and it could no longer obey Wei Xun's orders to turn back into tentacles and entangle the enemy.

Half an hour later, the ‘long knife’ finally stopped moving and turned back into a tentacle.

“Unfortunately, the corn shoots grow too fast.”

Wei Xun regretted and threw the dead tentacle to the corn shoots. The corn shoots accepted it and ate it happily, shouting “It smells so good!”

The fusion of corn shoots* * * and Wei Xun's genes was in its infancy. Now it has entered a period of rapid growth. It is difficult to add some characteristics of other abyss creatures to it genetically, but Wei Xun has not given up.

Xiao Cui may have a way, let's see when the time comes.

"Tsk, it's almost twelve o'clock."

Liu Yu and Hui looked at the alchemy furnace, Wei Xun went out for a walk, and he first went to Mei Keer to take a look. In the morning, their shadow puppets should have taken shape.

However, a strange thing happened this afternoon.

The old housekeeper of the Zhi family disappeared strangely.

* *

"Each of them is so fucking independent."

When this incident came out, Wei Xun was staying in Mei Keer's "territory", watching him "carve shadows". Carving shadows means carving shadow puppets.

After selecting and preparing the leather, the pattern is traced on the leather surface with a steel needle pen, which is called a draft. After the draft, the shadow puppet can be carved. Mekel moved lightly, first carving the most important head, chest and abdomen. When carving the hands of the shadow puppet, he was already skilled enough to chat with Wei Xun while carving.

"No one wants to cooperate, everyone has their own little ideas."

Mekel was talking about Yun Tianhe and October 10th. He saw Mia and Augustus, two wolves, gathered together to choose leather sculptures and shadow puppets, and he also wanted to find a companion, but the three people in the East District of the monster camp felt that they were fighting on their own.

"Don't worry, my king, you still have us."

Qing Qi said earnestly, handing Mekel the newly carved shadow puppet legs with both hands: "Please take a look, my king."

A complete shadow puppet has eleven parts from head to toe, namely the head, chest, abdomen, legs, arms, elbows and hands*. These parts are cut and carved separately, and finally they are connected together after applying color and ironing to form a complete shadow puppet.

Mekel did it very quickly. He not only did it himself, but also asked the clever Qing Qi to help.

"Hey, ancestor, can you give me some advice?"

Mekel was checking the finished product of Qingqi, and here the monster Qiqi Aiai came to Wei Xun.

Little Hu San had really opened his eyes along the way. He had seen countless scenes that he had only heard of from the elders of the clan, like legendary stories. Before, he was considered a grandfather in the clan, and he thought he was extraordinary. He felt that the new generation of Hu San Taiye must be him. After this trip, he realized that there are always people better than you.

He was unwilling to maintain the status quo and wanted to improve himself! But the old ancestor of the Sky Fox basically ignored him. Little Hu San was very smart. He never missed paying respects every day, but he never forgot to observe carefully - he observed not only Yu and Hui, but also Bing Erwuling's personality and preferences.

The ancestor of the Sky Fox actually recognized him as the master. This person is definitely extraordinary!

Little Hu San had been observing silently, and finally found an opportunity today. Wei Xun was watching Meikel carving shadow puppets on his side. When he felt itchy, little Hu San came over.

He pretended to be completely clueless and took out a piece of fine blue cowhide to ask Bing 250 for guidance. Although it was called guidance, it was almost the same as asking Bing 250 to do it himself, which was just right for him to satisfy his addiction to making shadow puppets by himself.

Sure enough, Wei Xun was very interested and enjoyed the "guidance". He did not make a shadow puppet, but cut a fire bird with the cowhide, which was divided into five parts: head, wings, body and legs.

If you want to do it yourself, do it yourself. If you are too lazy to do it, Xiao Hu San will do it for you. Wei Xun had a very happy half afternoon.

"Didn't you meet them when you stole the paper man this morning?"

Give the wings of the fire bird to Xiao Hu San and let him continue. Wei Xun looked at Mei Keer and saw that he had carved the hands and had begun to carve the arms of the shadow puppet. However, the "shadow puppet" in his hand was not the normal color, but the pale paper color.

That's right, Mei Keer's "shadow puppet" was not made of cowhide or donkey skin, but paper man!

The project of making shadow puppets by yourself is indeed more difficult for the monster camp in the brigade, and the difficulty lies in the requirement to make human shadow puppets.

Normally, shadow puppets are referred to as "donkey shadow puppets" or "cow shadow puppets", and human shadow puppets can be understood as human-shaped shadow puppets or shadow puppets made with human skin - but Bing 250 said when reading the scenic spots, "As we all know, human shadow puppets are shadow puppets made of human skin. '

Obviously, the hotel wants them to do the latter. Kill the travelers from the opposing camp and peel off their skins to make shadow puppets.

The problem is that it is really difficult to choose. Indeed, the white werewolves Orian and Yun Lianghan from the Taoist camp can both be killed (Yun Lianghan:??), but Orian is a werewolf. If he is peeled, should it be considered human skin or wolf skin?

And Yun Lianghan at least hates the West District and will never cooperate with the West District. If he is killed, the monster camp will have an advantage. In the case of suspected confrontation tasks, Meikel basically will not kill people from the East District.

Except for the brigade, there are no "people" in this underground palace.

The quality of the shadow puppet affects the score of one's own camp. Meikel had an idea and chose to use paper figures to make shadow puppets.

This paper figure also has the word "人" on it, and it is a human shape without cutting. Just remove the bamboo strips that serve as the skeleton in its body and then flatten the paper figure, cut each part, and it will be a natural "shadow puppet".

That's why Meikel moved so quickly.

The best thing is that there is a soul in this paper figure, and it is a natural soul shadow puppet. After it is made, it can directly bring extra points to the camp.

"I didn't see them, maybe I went too early-A-choo!"

As he was talking, Meikel suddenly sneezed loudly. He wrinkled his nose, his expression was subtle, and he fell into a moment of thought.

"Tsk, I don't think it's good-Director Bing, I'm leaving first!"

Mekel was in a hurry. He quickly put away his shadow puppets, said hello and immediately ran away with Qing Qi and the others. It only takes five seconds from sneezing to when the cat dies. But just two seconds after Mekel left, his door was violently kicked open.

"Escape, within five seconds."

The person who led people into the room turned out to be Zhou Xiyang! He nodded to Wei Xun, then seriously put on a pair of explosion-proof glasses, casually scanned the ground, and then reported the accurate time.

"Can't run far, chase."

"yes!"

The voice that answered him was messy and high-pitched. Wei Xun took a quick look and found that the people standing behind Zhou Xiyang were actually paper figures. These paper figures stared at him with deep eyes and hostility. It seems like it will swoop over if you don't pay attention.

It was Zhou Xiyang's order that these paper people continued to track Mekel before leaving.

"Director Cui, please go back to your room first. It's not safe here."

"What happened?"

Wei Xun asked.

"The old housekeeper of the Zhi family disappeared, and the mourners were shocked and angry. Zhi Kuikui discovered that the only person who stole the paper people today was Mekel."

Zhou Xiyang said briefly. Zhi Kuikui is the granddaughter of the Zhi family.

"oh?"

Wei Xun raised his eyebrows. He had not received any notification from the hotel. Obviously, the disappearance of the old housekeeper of the Zhi family should be an unexpected mission for tourists. It did not involve tour guides and would not affect the attraction projects.

But the only suspect was Mekel, which gave him an unusual feeling.

"The entire underground palace is going to be searched?"

Wei Xun seemed to see a few bat monsters in the paper man team.

"right."

Zhou Xiyang said calmly: "Old Mrs. Bai used the excuse to help the paper man find the missing people, and took the opportunity to search the rooms where the passengers were temporarily staying."

Old lady Bai and her demon diggers couldn't find the monster that stole half of the spirit snake bone. The only ones they haven't checked now are the rooms of the tourists and the tour guide. It was normal for her to think this way. After all, everything was normal before the brigade came. Once the brigade came, she, the old lady, was in bad luck.

No matter how it seems, it has something to do with the brigade!

When Zhou Xiyang spoke, he paid attention to Bing250's expression as a professional habit. Even though all the evidence seemed to point to the monster being the Devourer's slime, he somehow still suspected that the monster was related to Bing250.

"They haven't faced off against the Devourer for so long?"

But Wei Xun's expression didn't show any abnormality, and his tone was a bit regretful: "It's really useless."

It's really useless, I can't even find any corn shoots.

Of course, the corn shoots, which are more than ten meters long, cannot be hidden only in Wei Xun's house. Its huge body extends from the underground palace to Xiaotang Mountain outside the underground palace. But the abyss worm is a natural master of hiding, and it can sense even weak vibrations like falling snow flakes through rock formations and soil.

There were not enough demons under Old Madam Bai to search the entire Xiaotang Mountain, nor could they explore the room of the tourist guide, so they actually let the corn shoots hide.

But Wei Xun still felt that Mrs. Bai's reaction was a bit strange - she just announced on October 10 last night that she would track down the monster, and no one should interfere with her. Old Mrs. Bai is happy to see the results and has expressed a close attitude towards October 10th. So she should at least wait patiently and see if October 10th has any results.

We shouldn't be in such a hurry. We would rather offend the entire brigade than risk exploring everyone's rooms this afternoon.

There was definitely some information that he didn't know.

"When did the old housekeeper of the Zhi family disappear? Didn't he leave any clues at the scene?"

"Bai Xiaotian was the first to find out that he disappeared during the wake at noon today."

Zhou Xiyang knew that Bing 250 was keen and was not surprised that he directly asked the key points.

Now that the camps are completely divided, the vigil for the coffin cannot stop. Zhou Xiyang rearranged the group, and the five travelers and the Zhi family's old housekeeper were divided into three groups, a total of six people, to work in three shifts.

It was Bai Xiaotian who was keeping vigil with the old housekeeper of the Zhi family.

In fact, this coordination is a bit top-heavy. Zhou Xiyang and O'Lian are paired together, and Taoist Half Life and Yun Lianghan are paired together. One is strong and the other is weak. Only Bai Xiaotian and the old housekeeper of the Zhi family are not strong, so they are considered a weak group.

But the underground monster was the first to attack Bai Xiaotian, which made Zhou Xiyang suspect that Bai Xiaotian was the person who came in with hidden strength, and it was temporarily impossible to tell who was behind it. But no matter what, Bai Xiaotian's strength should not be bad.

This time during the shift change at noon, Bai Xiaotian discovered that the old housekeeper of the Zhi family did not arrive on time, so he discovered that he was missing.

"There were clues, but they were put away by Zhi Kui Kui."

Zhou Xiyang frowned: "Bai Xiaotian said that it was the index finger of the old housekeeper of the Zhi family."

"It is densely covered with black threads like spider webs."

* *

"Is there chaos outside?"

When Wei Xun returned to the house, Yu Hehui came over and wrote lightly: "There were a few little demons who tried to break into the house, but I ate them."

These little monsters who are wandering around are probably here to test Tianhu's attitude. If he shows the slightest bit of soft-heartedness, then the ones who come next may not be little monsters. "

"The old housekeeper of the Zhi family disappeared, and Mrs. Bai took the opportunity to thoroughly investigate the entire underground palace."

Wei Xun briefly talked about this matter with Yu Hehui, then walked to the 'alchemy furnace' to observe. The originally golden alchemy furnace had turned into a low-key and simple 'bronze' alchemy furnace under Yu Hehui's hard work. Seeing Wei Xun return at this moment, the entire 'alchemy furnace' almost stood up from the ground with joy and touched the ground. There is a golden edge that has not been dyed.

"Go down."

Wei Xun pressed the corn shoots back.

"It's half past four now, and the golden elixir will be ready in half an hour."

Yu Hehui is full of expectations: "By then you will be able to collect the corn shoots into the magic insect ball."

For such a large-scale search, it would be safest to hide the corn shoots in the Devil's Insect Ball.

"Is Mrs. Bai really looking for corn shoots?"

Wei Xun said thoughtfully: "I don't think so."

As he had speculated before, if she was just looking for corn shoots, Mrs. Bai would be too hasty.

"Perhaps Zhikuikui and Mrs. Bai reached some agreement?"

Yu Hehui thought about it carefully. As an experienced traveler, he was accustomed to digging deeper from the journey itself and important NPCs.

"The old housekeeper of the Zhi family is serving Zhi Kuikui in addition to keeping vigil. But his disappearance was discovered by Bai Xiaotian first, which is very abnormal."

Especially when Zhi Kuikui put away the severed finger of the old housekeeper of the Zhi family, only Bai Xiaotian had seen it before.

"The old housekeeper of the Zhi family is the least defensive about Zhi Kuikui. If it was Zhi Kuikui who took action, it would make sense."

Yu Hehui said softly: "And do you remember, the puppet master is very likely to have sneaked into this journey."

Yun Tianhe was suddenly controlled, and the puppet strings on his body might have been secretly buried in his body by the puppet master. But if you want to activate and control them, the puppet master or her puppet strings are definitely hidden in this journey.

"You think that thin black thread might be a puppet thread?"

"right."

Yu Hehui was talking about the black silk thread wrapped around the severed finger.

"Zhi Kuikui may have been parasitized by the puppet master's puppet thread, and she was the one who made the old housekeeper of the Zhi family disappear. The purpose is to make the entire journey chaotic, and by cooperating with Mrs. Bai, the goal must be greater interests-"

Yu Hehui murmured and suddenly frowned: "Do you think she wanted to weaken the devil merchant by disrupting this attraction?"

A thorough search of the rooms of all tour guides and tourists may not be to target Bing 250, but to target the devil merchant. During the chaos last night, the devil merchant took advantage of the chaos and collected many corpses and even live monsters, including many of Old Lady Bai's men. Mr. Skinner's influence will cause him to skin all these monsters.

If the skinning scene is discovered by Old Lady Bai and others, it will definitely arouse the disgust and hostility of these old demons.

"Maybe she also wants a share of the pie..."

Whether it is to enhance the influence of the Shepherd Alliance or strengthen his own power in the East District, the Puppet Master must be in a hurry at the moment. The new star tour guide is from the Butcher Alliance, and her 'ally' Dream Chaser is very close to the little tour guide. The puppet master will definitely do something when he sees this.

Yun Tianhe was her first step of testing, and now it may be her second step of testing.

"After all, she is also the tour guide of this ten-year cycle, and she also has to go to the battlefield after the year-end celebrations."

Yu Hehui thinks this makes sense.

"Maybe there's a puppet master here who's adding fuel to the fire."

Wei Xun was noncommittal. He stood thoughtfully beside the alchemy furnace: "Did Bai Lu say before that if he finds the mountain man, he can send a message to the ginseng spirit to make the ginseng nest appear?"

"right."

"That is to say, the spirits and Polygonum multiflorum are related to each other - that is to say, the three spirits scattered by Tong Hege can communicate with each other?"

"This should be."

Yu Hehui is more optimistic: "After refining the Tai Sui Golden Pill, we can go through it to find Ginseng Jing and Shan Weng."

Wei Xun's expression was a bit subtle. He curled up his index finger, tapped the alchemy furnace lightly, and listened attentively. The corn shoots immediately lifted up a tentacle. Wei Xun heard Tai Sui, who had been burned by the fire, still muttering feebly, such as "little deflated calf" and "little fool", "Hey, if you can't burn him to death, you can't burn him to death, cow or cow?" ’.

"He talks a lot, and his IQ is not high. He might have been sorted out."

Wei Xun said harshly and raised his eyebrows: "Do you think it would be frightened and scream when it was first burned, shouting 'I'm going to be burned to death!!' and then say some last words to other good brothers. ”

"Haha, probably not."

Yu Hehui smiled a little awkwardly.

"You said that Tong Hege is the most loyal person, so Lingshen and Polygonum multiflorum must also be very loyal. They will definitely come to save their brothers."

Wei Xun smiled slowly, but Yu Hehui felt that his smile was full of evil. Even the corn shoots shivered, and the entire alchemy furnace shrank down to the ground, squatting down in an orderly manner.

"Is the black thread wrapped around the severed finger of the old housekeeper of the Zhi family really puppet thread?"

Wei Xun said thoughtfully: "Tell me, could it be the hair?"

* *

The Polygonum multiflorum spirit she imprisoned actually escaped and even captured an old paper man as a hostage! !

Old Mrs. Bai almost went crazy. She led a group of little demons through the underground palace in a menacing manner, holding half of a dark-brown humanoid tuber tightly in her hand. Black liquid like blood dripped from the broken part of the tuber - the mountain man broke his original body cruelly in order to escape!

Old Mrs. Bai captured this mountain old man just to use the induction between it and the spiritual ginseng to find the spiritual ginseng. She even deliberately reduced the number of guards, just to let the mountain man escape and follow him to find the whereabouts of the spiritual ginseng - but the mountain man was extremely cunning and made no movement at all.

When it escaped today, it cruelly broke off its original body. The part secretly marked by Mrs. Bai still remained, and only the other half escaped. This was why Mrs. Bai didn't notice it for a while!

And what was wrapped around the severed finger of the missing paper man was the hair of the mountain man! This is a bright mark!

The thorough investigation of the underground palace was not only to find the monster, but also to capture Mei Keer, the only one who had stolen the paper figurine, and to recover Shan Weng. It was a pity that Mei Keer, the tabby cat monster, escaped too quickly, and Old Lady Bai did not catch any clues. At this moment, she was anxious and annoyed. Not only was she anxious about He Shouwu's escape, but she also thought that He Shouwu's behavior was absolutely abnormal.

Shan Weng and Ling Shen had a mutual induction, and it was very likely that it escaped because Ling Shen was in danger!

Could it be that Ling Shen was hidden in the spirit snake bone? Although the possibility was extremely low, Old Lady Bai was not ready to let go of any possibility now!

"Why is there so much blood here? Search for me!"

If you can't find Mei Keer, you can find the monster! The monster was injured last night. Even though it didn't seem to have any blood, Old Lady Bai was so angry that she didn't let go of any clues. She was so aggressive that she couldn't listen to anything. She didn't retreat at all, and even threatened Zhou Xiyang, completely ignoring his dissuasion.

After a few breaths, Old Lady Bai followed the blood and blasted open the door of a side hall.

The devil merchant who was secretly skinning the monster:?