Chapter 14: The Old Ghost Forge
"Are you kidding my subordinates again!" Huang Zhong's voice came from the main hall, and the master of Huoyuan City slowly walked out of the hall gate.
"Yo old ghost, you're still so visionless when you take your subordinates!"
"Either go back and cool off, or get in and talk about something!"
Ghost forging is short and sturdy, and has dark skin, and at first glance it looks like a dwarf in some fantasy works. The peculiar thing is that he is wearing the Taoist robe, and he is wearing a Zhuangzi scarf on his head. If it weren't for the fact that he was holding a hammer in his hand instead of whisking the dust, he would be a Taoist who practiced in seclusion.
"Boss, this ...... the hell"
"Silence! The old ghost hates being called a ghost the most!"
"What are you talking about? Why don't you come in and drink tea!"
The ghost forging is loud and rough, but the hospitality is quite thoughtful. Stir-fried peanuts, lotus seed cake, popcorn, and a small pot of hot tea on the side.
"There's nothing to entertain in a broken place, what to eat!"
Ye Qiansi looked at the messy things on the table, obviously not prepared temporarily, but these things that the host's family usually eats.
"Your Highness Ghost Forging, are you alone?"
"How can this kid talk? Chen Li, you teach juniors like this?" Oni Forging was a little angry, and a slap shook the table made of wrought iron to a loud buzz.
"Old ghost, who are you scaring about? Do you still look like a ghost?" Chen Li was not false, and his waist board kept pushing back.
"Hmph! The upper beam is not right, and the lower beam is crooked!"
Little Black Ball jumped onto the table, walked over to Oni Forge and bowed.
"Your Highness, I didn't mean to offend you! Please forgive me! Don't quarrel between you two!"
"Don't worry, he can't kill me, otherwise I would dare to enter this door. ”
"You're embarrassed to say!" Ghost Forging flicked his sleeves, and the little black ball was sent back to Chen Li's arms by a soft force: "This kid has a lot more conscience than you! Lao Dao has been building an unprecedented weapon recently, and when the weapon is born, I will go to you again to try whether it is your head iron or Lao Dao's blade!"
"Don't, Da Da complains all day long that the net is broken here and there, and he is changing the way to pick money from me for maintenance, you bring the guy over and fix a fart!" Chen Li touched the head of the little black ball and said, "Speaking of weapons, have the old ghosts ever heard of knives with consciousness or ghosts that look like knives?"
"Soul Martial Arts, I have seen a lot of conscious weapons in the past, and almost every slightly famous immortal has one, what kind of knife do you mean?" Speaking of weapons, Ghost Forging's expression was much more serious. "There are also more than a dozen soul martial arts flowing out of Lao Dao's hands, but the number of knives is only two, and they are all begged by the ghost king to be used as swords, so it stands to reason that you shouldn't see them. ”
"Long, pointy, sharp on one side......"
"Are you looking for a knife like this?"
"Don't worry, old ghost. I haven't actually seen what it looks like, and it hasn't come out of the sheath!"
"Lao Dao, I'm going to open the armory and fight with you!"
"Oh, aren't you a master forger? You have to see what a weapon looks like? You see that many people know that I have arrived just by talking!"
"That's because I want to beat you up when I hear you talk!"
"Okay, without further ado, I haven't seen a knife before, but that knife has a rotten murderous aura through the scabbard, and it seems that it will affect the knife bearer to make her more and more murderous, and finally become a tool man or something. In short, it's the kind of uncontrollable knife that keeps chopping all the time, do you have any impression?"
"The weapon counters the master, this kind of weapon created by the evil crooked way Lao Dao won't even look at it!" "Ghost Forging said in a shocking voice: "If this knife appears in front of Lao Dao, Lao Dao will immediately melt it!"
"Okay, Your Highness Gao Yi, have you ever heard of a similar knife?" Chen Li raised his hand to block the saliva that came from the ghost forging and asked.
"A person holding a knife can kill, can be royal, can be made, no matter what the purpose, the knife is only an extension of a part of the human body. You can't kill the enemy with your bare hands, but you can't kill with a knife, you can't kill the enemy with your empty fist, you can't kill the enemy with your sword, you can't cut down a tree with your ten fingers, you can't cut down a tree with your knife. Heaven does not create a tool but man makes it, this is the right way in the world!"
"Old ghost, you're an old ghost!"
Ghost Forging choked, glared at Chen Licai and continued: "The kind of evil knife like you said, using people to devour people's hearts, is obviously a troublesome thing created with ulterior motives!
"What do you mean...... The extension of human functions with the knife is progress, and the knife using human beings as a means of transportation is reactionary."
"You know a fart! All in all, it is absolutely impossible for such an evil thing to be born in the Netherworld! At least there is no one who has studied this kind of crooked evil way among the forging masters known to the old Dao!"
"It seems that it is really a special product of the world!" Chen Li sighed meaninglessly, as if he was not surprised by the old ghost's conclusion: "So, is there any way to save it?"
"Then it depends on how deeply the knife wielder is affected!" Oni Forging frowned, "It's okay if you just got the evil knife and were only occasionally affected by the killing intent, as long as you don't touch the evil knife from now on, supplemented by the elixir that clears the heart and calms the mind, you can get rid of the trouble." ”
"Uh, is it still saved?"
"It's hopeless, wait for death!"
"Ghost Master Help!"
Ghost Forging watched Chen Li's five bodies bow with satisfaction, and then said slowly: "If you want to say that there is no way to save your life, it is not difficult to get the necessary medicinal materials, it is on you!"
"Okay, I don't sell my body!"
"Phew! You're only a few decades old boy, and you're a fart! Lao Dao peeing is medicine, do you believe it?" Ghost Forging took a sip of Chen Li with disdain, and said in the tone of an elder: "Lao Dao has an altar of thousand-year-old gold juice here, if you are dizzy from heat, you can try it?"
"Hey, I thought what Monkey said was true!"
"This thing is white and turbid, like glue and water, and it will turn into ...... when it encounters wind"
"You still say no! Good old ghost, dare to covet the treasure I have worked so hard to keep for decades!"
"I'm talking about snot!" Ghost Forging slapped Chen Li on the head, and said hatefully: "You fool, more than two hundred years have passed since the scientific and technological revolution, and you still believe in Tong Yang Yuan Yin?"
"This ...... The culture passed down by the ancestors will still be believed!" Chen Cheng smiled and said, "Ghost master, what is the saying for snot? Isn't that thing useless!"
"His poison is my honey, so you are short-sighted. Ghost Forging pointed his nose at Chen Li and sneered: "Whales salivate, mussel shells produce pearls, which of these is not the body's lesion pus, and when it comes to human hands, it becomes difficult to find." The same goes for your snot. ”
"But I've never caught a cold!" Chen Li said embarrassedly.
"That's your question, don't come and ask me!" Ghost Forging waved his hand and said, "A spoonful of snot and ambergris rhinoceros tears, put it into the soup and take it directly." Ambergris rhinoceros tears are here, take them and get out, the old way has no time to talk to you!"
"Wait!
When Chen Li left, he carried a long box, which was promoted level by level with a hanging basket. Originally, the ghost forging planned to ask Changyi to send Chen Li back the same way, but Chen Li just said cheaply, "The previous helper is hairy, the current master is hairy, and if you haven't touched a woman, it doesn't count" was blasted out by the ghost forging, and even the return ticket was confiscated.
There was no way, Chen Li and Xiao Heiqiu had to sit in the hanging basket and slowly rise layer by layer, just in time to take a look at the current situation of Huoyuan City.
Fire Abyss City is built around a natural fire pit. It's a pothole, and whether you look from the top down or from the bottom up, you won't feel narrow. At the bottom of the cave is a lake of hot magma, and the surging magma has a chance to produce excellent iron ore after the lake cools down, and at this time, residents will row special fireproof boats to collect the iron ore.
From the lowest level, Fire Abyss City can probably be divided into three urban areas, the gathering area, the smelting area, and the forging area. Because Huoyuan City does not produce coal, a large amount of raw materials needed for forging must be purchased from outside, and there are some places on the ground for outsiders to live and trade. However, most of the buildings were carved directly into the rock walls of the pit holes, and they have been operating for thousands of years to achieve today's prosperity.
The little black ball sat on Chen Li's head, and as far as the eye could see, a furnace fire was rising, and the sound of striking iron echoed throughout Huoyuan City.
"This is the best place in the entire Netherworld to produce weapons, and it is frequented by the King of Inspiration. Ghost forging doesn't like to fight for hegemony and only likes to strike iron, whoever orders are accepted but no one's orders are all accepted, the ghost king outside wants to dominate Huoyuan City and has to face the interference of other ghost kings, plus the old ghost still has a little pound and two pounds in his hands, Huoyuan City is the safest these years!" Chen Li looked at the plausible blast furnace converter, and said with a smile: "The old ghost is a ghost who has come back from the human world, and he has always attached importance to the news of the human world, and it has a bit of a topic with the King of Inspiration." It's a pity that the water and soil are not adaptable, hahaha! Want to engage in science and technology? Have you asked the big ghost's fist?"
That's right, human technology is not applicable in the netherworld. Formal imitation is certainly possible, but the cheapest labor ghost is not driven by wisdom at all. Those big ghosts are either flying or retreating, each with their own magical powers, and their ability to play well is better than anything else. Except for a very small number of ghosts like the old ghost Inspiration King, who are deeply involved in the human world, ordinary ghosts and ghosts can't look down on the technology of the human world at all.
"This assembly line operation is still a bit interesting, but where did the old ghost get so many big ghosts to help it work, it seems to be quite conscious?" Chen Li threw a piece of chewing gum into his mouth, and said while chewing: "Hell, the old ghost wants to be a capitalist?" No, the soil emperor is not much more comfortable than the capitalist, how can there be a saying that he is defeated by himself!"
The hanging basket out of the city does not stop all the way, and it seems to be a slow walk, but it is actually only ten minutes away. When he returned to the ground, Chen Li found that an important problem had not been solved.
"Boss, where are you going next?"
"Where else can I go, go home!"
"And how do you get back?"
“...... You look around to see if there are any sleeping dragons and birds or something, and I'll do another push-back massage. ”