Chapter 23 - ⑤
The old man was really angry, and the resentful gaze seemed to materialize, and even affected the surrounding environment.
At this time, it was noon, when the sun was supposed to be bright, but a thin layer of mist quietly floated up and spread out in the dungeon world, surrounding the mountains and rivers.
Xiang Nu looked up at the sky, then looked at the old man, and asked, “Master, besides you want to accept us as your teacher, is there any other ceremony? If not, can we leave?”
The old man smiled grimly: “Disperse? You can’t disperse now, and there is still a ceremony to complete. Disciples, you are still too young, so you don’t know the past. Just ten years ago, there was still a famine in our village, and every household was suffering from famine. They are so hungry all year round that their faces are yellow and skinny, and they are poor. They all respect their teachers and cherish them for their teachers. Every year, when recruiting apprentices, they will kill a ‘goat’ to share food with the villagers. It’s just a pity that there are not enough materials this year. But this project has been going on for many years, it has become the practice of the village, and it cannot be abandoned this year.”
The old man glanced at Shu Jian abruptly, the plain young man’s face turned pale, although the old man didn’t say anything, he suddenly realized what the old man meant.
If it’s true, the ‘sheep’ in the old man’s mouth…is him?
Xiangnu nodded clearly and smiled slightly, but the smile was not as deep as his eyes, and his narrow eyes were full of coolness: “Since the materials are insufficient, then Master, hurry up and prepare the materials, and the disciples will not disturb you.”
The old man looked at him blankly, with deep wrinkles like the root bark of an old tree, rigid and gloomy: “As the most talented disciple of a teacher, you will inherit the mantle of a master in the future, won’t you help to be a teacher?”
Xiang Nu said softly, “But this is Master’s intention for the villagers. Is it okay for the disciples to cook for the villagers?”
The old man twisted his face and smiled viciously, stood up and patted the shoulders of the servant who was not broad: “Okay, why not! You are the most proud disciple of the master, and for the master, I want everyone to believe in you as much as you believe in me. In general, the preparation of the ‘sheep’ is left to you, your disciple, you have to work hard, the whole sheep feast starts at Xu Shi, it is now, and there are still four hours for your disciple to prepare.”
“Little Yaoer, the Quanyang Banquet is only held once a year. Everyone has been looking forward to it for a long time. You must let the villagers eat the delicious Quanyang Banquet in memory. If everyone can’t taste the taste in memory…”
The old man smiled coldly, and before he finished speaking, the maliciousness in his eyes was obvious.
The worst result is that the slave will be replaced by the ‘sheep’ and let everyone taste it.
Xiang Nu looked at him blankly, and said to the taskers: “Master, don’t worry, the disciples will make good preparations. The brothers just have nothing to do, so the master will lend them to me, and the brothers have no opinion. Bar?”
Everyone shook their heads, and Xiangnu deliberately said to the old man: “Master, then I will take the brothers away, don’t worry, I will bring the brothers to the Quanyang Banquet on time before the time of Xu.”
The old man’s face became even more gloomy, his chest heaved violently, and it seemed that he was out of breath.
The old man said lightly: “Okay… By the way, for lunch, don’t delay outside for a long time, and remember to come back on time.”
Xiangnu smiled and refused: “No, Master, we still want to save our stomachs to eat roast whole lamb at night, so let’s not eat it at noon.”
The old man’s face sank, and just as he was about to say something, he saw Xiangnu’s head tilted and his face innocently said: “And he didn’t complete the task assigned by the master, and the disciple has no intention of doing other things. The master only gave me Four hours, my disciple may not be able to find a ‘sheep’ in these four hours, it’s a waste of half an hour to eat, so forget it.”
The old man smiled mischievously: “Don’t be afraid, Master is just testing your other abilities, eat lunch obediently, if you really can’t find a ‘sheep’, then Master, I will take out my kiln for the villagers to use. “
“You are Master’s proud disciple,” the old man said with gritted teeth, “If you starve yourself out, Master will feel distressed, and Master will not help you deal with the aftermath.”
“Thank you master for your kindness, but the disciple wants to prove his ability.” Xiangnu was impatient and continued to talk nonsense with the old man, and said coldly: “Senior brothers and sisters, what are you still doing, go.”
After Xiangnu finished speaking, he turned around and left. Miao Dong looked at the gloomy old man and did not dare to speak, but honestly followed Xiangnu and left.
Xiangnu went to Xishan. When we went to cut yarrow before, everyone discussed what would happen in Xishan, so I just went to Xishan to see it.
After leaving the old man’s field of vision, Shu Jian immediately showed a grateful expression, looking like he was about to cry: “Little Junior Brother, thank you, thank you so much, if you didn’t stop me just now, I feel like I might not have been there now. already.”
Xiangnu showed a gentle smile and said softly: “Third Senior Brother, you are polite, we are companions, and we should help each other.”
It’s just that he was not a kind person by nature, and Shu Jian didn’t want him to devote himself to acting. Therefore, although he smiled, the smile was not as deep as his eyes. His glamorous face and narrow eyes always gave people a lot of attention. A feeling of contempt.
But Shu Jian didn’t care either, it didn’t matter how the slave’s nature was, whether it was hot or cold, he only needed to know that the slave would save him and save his life at the critical moment.
Ding Zeming couldn’t help but sigh at this moment: “Actually, I also thought of stuffing things for Master and then making my divination foolproof, but I didn’t dare to do it, Junior Brother, you are not afraid of Master at that time. Did you turn around suddenly?”
Xiangnu is not afraid, and he is not afraid of death when he comes back. The last dungeon was thinking that he wanted to pass the dungeon and survive because he wanted to exchange rewards to restore the light and take a serious look at the world.
His bones are full of madness.
But this doesn’t mean that Xiang Slave is really messed up, and he will be tough with the dungeon boss because he is not afraid of death.
Xiang Slave is confident, he asked calmly: “The purpose of our mission is to find the weakness of monsters and seal them, not really to let us be the food for monsters. If that’s the case, no It takes so much effort to package and reward us. After we enter the dungeon, the dungeon or the central hall has restrictions on monsters, and monsters cannot directly kill us. If they want to kill us, they must meet certain requirements. conditions, am I right?”
Ding Zeming was silent for a moment, then nodded in recognition.
Xiangnu raised his lips slightly and continued to ask: “Then let me ask you, Brother Six, what do you think the conditions for Master to kill us just now?”
Ding Zeming was silent for two seconds and sighed: “The divination is wrong. Master’s words are very clear. He heard that our talent is comparable to that of our uncle, so he accepted us as apprentices. And he was defeated by uncle. , so he took a small problem to try our divination skills. If we fail even this small problem and prove that we are a false name, he will kill us…”
Xiangnu nodded and affirmed: “Yes, his killing conditions should be that our divination result was wrong, and our final result was correct, does it matter what method we use? We forced him to drink porridge, he must hate us very much, But we haven’t touched his killing conditions. No matter how much he hates us, he can’t do it directly. There is no doubt about this. After confirming this, what else is there to dare to do?”
Several people thought about it, and they all sighed. Although they could understand it, at that time, not everyone could really make the determination to do it.
Perhaps because of stuttering, Jiang Chao seldom speaks, but he speaks to the point, and the question is very sharp: “Just now, why, say, don’t eat, lunch?”
Xiangnu tilted his head on purpose, blinked slyly, and teased: “Guess?”
The crowd really had no clue. They could see that the old man’s proposal was malicious, but for a while, they couldn’t figure out what the malicious intention was.
Xiang Nu looked at a few people, and saw that their expressions were all blank and sincere without being pretentious. He raised his lips with a slight smile and said only one sentence: “Have you forgotten the Mongolian sweat medicine treasured by Senior Brother…”
If the old man sprinkled the Mongolian sweat medicine into the pot at noon, it would really be unlucky after a few people fell asleep.
For the first time, when everyone didn’t know that it was Menghan medicine, the old man couldn’t kill people directly.
Now the taskers have clearly learned from Qingfengkou that there is the existence of Mongolian sweat medicine, and they are not prepared for eating.
It was only then that everyone remembered the existence of Menghan Medicine, and they were suddenly scared into a cold sweat.
It’s no wonder that everyone didn’t expect that it was really incongruous and out of place after the thing like Menghan Medicine appeared in the ghost dungeon.
“Then, sheep, what, get ready?” Jiang Chao asked.
Xiangnu kicked the soil under his feet and said lightly: “If you’re not ready, just branch off to find clues, and go straight through the customs after finding the clues.”
A few people’s hearts tightened, Miao Dong raised his eyebrows: “Just continue to search for clues separately according to the previous assignment?”
Xiangnu nodded and said to Shu Jian, “Third Senior Brother, let’s go to Qiuyuan first.”
Several other people looked at each other and asked each other, “Where do you decide to start looking for clues?”
Zhong Liyun hesitantly called to the slave: “Little Junior Brother, if we go to the villagers to inquire about the news, will the villagers pay attention to us?”
Xiangnu blinked his eyes and smiled: “Does the fifth sister really think that I am omnipotent? Although I can make guesses, I can’t be sure that the villagers will do what I think. After all, I didn’t fight with them. Crossed.”
“You ask boldly, just be careful not to touch the killing conditions of the villagers.”
Several people scratched their heads, still a little tangled, but Xiang Nu had already taken Shu Jian along the mountain to the north.
Walking on the top of the mountain, Xiangnu did not forget to observe the environment on the west side of the mountain. The environment on the west side is similar to that on the east side and south side, but it is not as steep as there, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the river.
The ground on the west side is very flat, the ground is dry and hard, and then the soil is not very clean, and there are several sheets of paper whose color can no longer be seen scattered in the ground.
Xiangnu was walking, just happened to have a paper under his feet, so he squatted down and scraped the surrounding soil carefully, and dug the paper out of the ground.
Because the soil was too dry and hard, Xiangnu’s nails hurt a little bit, and there was a lot of dust mixed in it. Xiangnu blew lightly on his hand, and the dry pain disappeared a little.
Shu Jian scratched his head and whispered: “Little Junior Brother, you can just ask me to do it in the future.”
Xiang Nu looked at the paper in his hand intently and didn’t answer. The paper was a little white, and there were some very strange patterns on it. Those patterns were drawn by some dark red things. Xiang Nu took the paper to the tip of his nose and sniffed it. He smelled the smell, thought about it, showed it to Shu Jian, and asked him: “Third Senior Brother, I used to have a problem with my eyes. I couldn’t see many things, and I didn’t know what they were. Help me to see this. Paper, what do you think it looks like?”
Shu Jian hesitantly whispered: “It seems to be a talisman…”
“Fuzhi…” Xiangnu murmured, recalling the strangeness of Qingfeng, and said to himself: “By the way, does Master know Taoism? If so, will he have any other way to curse us? What? And his room, we haven’t even been in it…”
Xiangnu came to Qiuyuan with Shu Jian with many questions. Before going down, Xiangnu looked back at the direction of the old man’s house, and the villagers at the door dispersed one after another.
Xiang Nu retracted his gaze and walked slowly down the mountain with Shu Jian, stepping on the bulging hills.
Some of the hills had holes in them, which were the hills where Xiangnu and Shu Jian had dug out the souls of the earth before.
Xiang Nu looked at his ten fingers. After scraping a layer of soil before, his fingers had been very painful, so he had to say to Shu Jian: “Third Senior Brother, my hand seems to have been scratched when scratching the soil just now, the next thing may be I’m going to trouble you again.”
Shu Jian hurriedly said: “Leave it all to me, little junior brother! This is not a trouble, I would also like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute my value.”
Xiangnu pursed his lips and smiled lightly, thinking of the first copy, and suddenly felt that the existence of that copy really makes sense.
For the relatives, eating and waiting to die is not a big deal, but it is very annoying to have to raise the bar to find fault. Now in the dungeon, everyone is consciously exerting their own strength and finding their own position, and the combination of civil and military is just right.
Xiangnu instructed Shu Jian to dig out the small hills where the earth’s soul should have been dug out. He wanted to see what was under the hills.
Shu Jian was shocked when he heard the words, and said worriedly: “Little Junior Brother, the origin of the earth soul is unknown, and you can see that this hill looks very similar, very similar…”
Xiangnu listened carefully to Shu Jian’s opinions, and when he saw that he was unable to speak, he was not in a hurry, and patiently asked: “Third Senior Brother, you also know that I have problems with my eyes before, so I can observe many things with my eyes. I will ignore some important points, and at this time, I need you to remind me.”
Shu Jian said dryly: “Little Junior Brother, these hills are like shrunken tombs. If the hills are regarded as tombs, then the earth souls buried inside are…”
Xiangnu pondered for a few seconds, then clapped his hands gently: “Then we have to dig more, maybe we can get some important information from it.”
Shu Jian wanted to cry but had no tears: “Little Junior Brother, aren’t you afraid of disturbing the peace of the dead…”
Xiangnu’s expression remained unchanged, and he was always calm: “How can it be, this is not the real world, where can you say it quietly?”
“Third Senior Brother, you think this hill is like a tomb, and the souls in the tomb are like corpses. I also think that the hill is a poison technique arranged by the master to suppress the people who died in vain. Now we have dug this small hill. Qiu is doing them a favor.”
Shu Jian smiled bitterly: “I can’t say enough about you, Junior Brother.”
The man honestly crouched in front of a small hill with a small hole, thinking about where to start.
Although he feels that his actions are not very good, Shu Jian believes that Xiangnu is better than himself, so he will still do it seriously.
Xiangnu comforted: “It’s okay, we dug up these hills to find the secret of this copy, and then dedicated it to the holy city to seal the master who has done many evils, no matter the meaning of the hills’ existence is good or bad, but we What we do is also beneficial to earth souls, and they won’t blame us.”
Shu Jian whispered: “What if the earth soul and the master are in the same group? Or another batch of ghosts.”
Xiangnu smiled and said, “So dig those hills that have no earth souls first, the safety factor should be higher.”
Shu Jian scratched his head, and after studying for a while, he started to attack Xiaoqiu.
However, it was easy for them to poke a hole directly on the hill, but when they were carefully digging the hill, they found that they couldn’t dig it.
Shu Jian told Xiangnu about this discovery. Xiangnu leaned over and poked at the small mound, and then changed several mounds with holes and no holes to try it out, and found that the ones whose souls were dug out. A mound is hard as hell.
Then he chose a new hillock to poke a hole in the tip with his fingers, and after drawing out the earth soul inside, let Shu Jian plan the hillside directly.
A pile of soft soil was scattered aside, and the short phalanx was lying quietly in it.
After Xiaoqiu was planed open, the finger bones were exposed, and the earth soul who wanted to run towards Xiaoqiu suddenly stopped moving.
Xiangnu pinched the phalanx and looked at it for a few seconds, then asked, “Third Senior Brother, is it really impossible to dig that hard mound?”
Shu Jian showed a distressed look, thought for a while, and said, “Yes, but I have to go back and get the tools…”
Xiang Nu smiled and asked, “But Master is still at home, do you dare to go back?”
Shu Jian’s face suddenly stiffened, and Xiangnu kindly reminded: “The stem of yarrow is very hard, can I use it?”
Shu Jian nodded quickly and said, “It’s alright, little junior brother, wait for me here for a while, I’ll come when I go.”
Xiangnu watched Shu Jian run away in a hurry, and seeing that he was the only one left, he opened his left hand and blew lightly against the dark red mole on his palm, and called sweetly, “Mr. Yu~”
Yu Su didn’t respond, and Xiang slave repeated his old tricks, walked up the mountain, sat down, lifted his trouser legs, and blew lightly on the patterned tips of his knees.
This time, Mr. Yu’s reaction was very fast, and the pattern instantly soared several centimeters, and it didn’t reach his thigh.
The red mole on the palm also became hot, and the blood-red screen jumped out.
? ? ? :…what are you doing?
Xiangnu asked curiously: Mr. Yu, what exactly is the pattern you left on me? It is so sensitive, I blew lightly on it, Mr. Yu, you appeared directly.
? ? ? :…
Xiangnu blinked his eyes, but his gorgeous face had an innocent look. He perfectly integrated innocence and temptation.
Mr. Yu avoided answering, but replied reservedly: You can just call my name directly in the future, no need to do that
Xiangnu smiled lightly, and Yoyo wrote: Really?
? ? ? :…
? ? ? :up to you
It seems that I still like it, if it is, I will reject it directly.
Xiangnu smiled slightly, no longer teasing Yu Su, and instead asked: Mr. Yu, if you are not in the copy, can you see me?
? ? ? : ?
Xiangnu carefully held his right finger, lowered his eyebrows in discomfort, and wrote: My hand just dug the soil, the soil in this copy is so hard, it broke my hand, and there are several more fingers on it. Small wound, it hurts.
? ? ? : You are too careless
Xiangnu couldn’t help frowning when he saw this, and then wrote on the screen: The evil spirit in the copy is very heavy. If you get a wound on your body, it will be fine for a short time, but it may be affected in the long run. mental state
? ? ? : I’ll visit you when you come out of the dungeon
Xiangnu raised his eyebrows when he saw the words behind.
Then, Mr. Yu added: That’s all.
Xiangnu couldn’t hold back, and chuckled softly.
Mr. Yu’s additions are really full of the taste of concealment, are you still uncomfortable?
Xiangnu continued to reply: Mr. Yu, I’m really happy and looking forward to seeing you after the dungeon is out. I really want to clear the dungeon to see you right away.
Xiangnu: It’s a pity that it may take several hours to clear the customs. If you don’t see you in one day, it’s like every three autumns. In other words, it will take me more than 6,000 hours to see you.
Xiangnu: Compared with the meeting that is still far away, can you comfort me now?
Xiangnu: The injured people are very fragile, and what they need most at this time is the embrace of love and comfort
So, next time, don’t make fun of me directly, please comfort me first?
Xiang Nu really sighed deeply, and then waited for Mr. Yu’s reply.
? ? ? : Which finger?
Xiang slave is at a loss: right index finger
Xiangnu didn’t understand Yu Su’s question and thought nothing of it. The strange thing was that Mr. Yu didn’t speak for a long time after Xiangnu answered. After waiting for a while, Xiangnu tentatively sent a question mark over, but Yu Su never said anything. reaction.
Xiangnu gradually frowned and looked at his chat records, where did he say something wrong?
Xiangnu was in a bad mood. At this time, Shu Jian also came back. Although Xiangnu knew that Shu Jian couldn’t see his personal panel, the blood-red screen dangling naked there was also annoying, but he couldn’t turn it off. .
Just when Xiangnu was irritated, Yu Su finally got a reply.
Yu Su posted a picture of two colorful Q-version villains, one in a white military uniform, and the other in a stone-yellow shirt. Obviously, these two Q-version villains were Yu Su and Xiangnu.
In the picture, the villain Yu Su hugged the villain Xiangnu tightly in his arms from behind, and that’s not even counting, he also held the fingers of the villain in the stone yellow shirt.
Such a cute picture, it’s hard to be taken seriously by this action.
Mr. Yu’s reply followed closely: only hugs, no ‘love hugs’
Slave: …
Xiangnu is really going to be amused by Mr. Yu. It turns out that you disappeared for so long just to paint.
He also specially emphasized that there is no ‘love hug’, which is really vengeful.
Xiang Nu Qing tsk, a strong intention to make a copy rose in his heart.
He thought Mr. Yu was cute.