Chapter 36: Infiltrating the City Lord's Mansion (Part I)

Hearing Chen Yuan's speechless shout, the old man showed an intriguing smile. And behind the smile is a constant worry. Because Chen Yuan has already met with the city lord, the normal infiltration should be when the other party does not know his own infiltrator, and he can only blend into the enemy forces with his own ability. And Chen Yuan had already met the city lord, which caused the difficulty of this exam to double on the original basis. However, the test questions of the Daoist Academy exam were set in advance by the Daoist Academy, and the old man had no way to change them. All he could do was to hope for the boy to perform another miracle.

On the other hand, Chen Yuan went around the major markets in Weiqing City, bought a lot of things, and returned to the hotel where he stayed. After saying hello to my father, I rushed into my room.

Chen Yuan, who returned to the room, first picked out a wooden human head from the large package he carried back, but only the outline had no facial features. This is in the wood carving market to buy, because there is no carving of facial features, so the price is very cheap, only Chen Yuan ten copper yuan. This amount of money is nothing to Chen Yuan, who is now the main force of the hunting team.

Then Chen Yuan took out another animal skin, this is a snow spirit rabbit skin, because the skin of this snow spirit rabbit is soft and thin, it is very easy to damage, so it is difficult to peel off completely, naturally it is more expensive, this rabbit skin cost Chen Yuan five silver dollars.

Chen Yuan lightly covered the rabbit skin on the human head mold, carefully cut off the excess with a dagger, leaving the eyes, nostrils and mouth vacant, and began to smear some liquid on the rabbit skin, and from time to time used a wooden stick as a pen, dipped in some different pigments on the rabbit skin and carefully traced. Two hours later, when the liquid on the animal skin was dry, a human skin mask was born in Chen Yuan's hand.

Yes, Chen Yuan was already aware of this problem when the old man finished telling the specific content of the third test, Xiao Lie had already seen himself, since it was a latent infiltration, it was impossible to swagger to visit. To solve this problem, you can only change your appearance, change to another identity, and then sneak into the city lord's mansion, waiting for the opportunity to complete the task.

As Yan Changsheng's close disciple, in addition to calligraphy, the master's best skill in making human skin masks, Chen Yuan naturally also learned seven or eight percent of the fire. When I was on Earth, I was in a hurry and didn't have time to make it myself, so I had to be cheeky and ask the teacher for help. Now that I have come to this strange world, of course, I have to rely on myself.

Fortunately, Chen Yuan used to have a great interest in making masks, and he made a lot of them by himself, and he was already familiar with the selection of masks, tracing and other steps. Only then can we select suitable materials from the major markets. Fortunately, there are materials in this world that can be used to make masks, otherwise Chen Yuan really doesn't know what to do.

The sun rises and the moon sets, and the time of the night passes quickly. When the sun shone on Xiaoqing City again, Chen Yuan's third test officially began. On the first day, Chen Yuan walked around the city with the phonograph stone, and for the whole morning, Chen Yuan didn't do anything, just walked around the city like a tourist who came to play. The old man in charge of the invigilator couldn't help but praise secretly as he looked at the image transmitted from the Void Eye. First of all, reconnoitering the terrain where the enemy camp is located, the division of troops, and the characteristics of the building are necessary for an excellent intelligence officer and lurker, because the terrain and buildings are related to the back road of the lurkers, whether it is to retreat when the mission is completed, or to escape when the mission fails, the surrounding terrain and environment are particularly important.

After dinner in the afternoon, Chen Yuan came to the largest restaurant in Xiaoqing City, and chose a window seat to sit down. I asked for a pot of tea, and while watching the crowd coming and going on the street, I pricked up my ears to listen to the gossip and gossip of the people in the restaurant.

"Alas, do you know that Xiao Wanqing, the pearl of the City Lord's Mansion at this year's Talent Awakening Ceremony, broke through the sixth-level brightness of the so-called attribute cliff and reached the terrifying seventh-level brightness. ”

"There must be one of the Daoist Academy's guaranteed places that is hers, this doesn't need to be tested to know, the talent has already been shown. The most surprising thing to me is the little young master of the Wang family, I heard that he has awakened a rare wind attribute talent, and I heard that he is still level five brightness!

"I heard that the head of the Li family in the north of the city has taken a concubine again, and this is the eighth room, I really don't know if he is old and strong, or ······ However, I heard that this house is from a woman from the countryside, what is Zhao Ya, it seems that she was favored by the head of the Li family and bought it from a village called Daxi. ”

At this time in the afternoon, people who have worked all day can be regarded as resting, and most of them choose to bring three or five friends to the restaurant for a drink to relax the nerves that have been tense for a day. So at this time, it is the time when there are many people talking. About half an hour later, Tatsumoto finished his last cup of tea and turned back to the hotel.

The old man in the Awakening Hall was a little puzzled, although the restaurant was the place where news circulated most frequently, and it was also a good place to gather intelligence. But the goal of this mission, the Blue Fire Seal, was bought by the city lord from an auction in a certain place for the purpose of collecting, and the people in the city know very little about this matter, and it has been a long time, so they should not mention it. And it can also be heard from the gramophone stone, the most discussed thing is the topic of the talent awakening ceremony and the guaranteed quota of the Taoist Academy, and then there are some short and trivial things in the parents. Wasting an afternoon here is completely pointless in the eyes of the old man. However, he was an invigilator, and he couldn't interfere with the candidate's actions, so he had to look at the projection of the Void Eye and frown secretly.

Early the next morning, Chen Yuan put on the mask he had made last night, looked at himself in the bronze mirror with satisfaction, and couldn't help but nod. Chen Yuan in the bronze mirror has become a different look, his face is slightly yellow, his cheekbones are prominent, the original sword eyebrows have now become short and thick, the distance between the eyebrows is nearly a centimeter longer than the original, and the originally smooth cheeks are even more a little bit but quilted, plus the eyes that Chen Yuan deliberately disguised. This is a yellow-skinned, homeless teenager.

Putting on patched clothes specially bought from a down-and-out family, Chen Yuan tucked a wooden board under his armpit, messed up his hair, walked out of the inn, and came to the side door of the City Lord's Mansion. The location of the Lord's Mansion is in the center of the city, this area belongs to the most prosperous area of the city, and not far from the side gate of the Lord's Mansion there is an alley famous for snacks. Chen Yuan found a place with shade, put the plank on the ground, and sat on the ground. I saw that the wooden board read: I am Tiansheng, from the countryside, make a good dish, and the characteristics of our hometown, such as called flower chicken, smoked bacon, etc., I want to find a chef career, bear hardships and stand hard work, and the craftsmanship is guaranteed, I hope that someone can hire it, and the price is negotiable.

In Xiaoqing City, like the one played by Chen Yuan, there are many people from the countryside who make a living. People in the city are generally wealthy and have high consumption, so they earn much more money in the city than in the village. But skilled countrymen don't know how to package and advertise themselves, and they are ashamed to shout at themselves. So you can only find a wooden board or white cloth, write something on it, and then go to some industry-intensive places and wait for the employer to come to your door.

Because it is very common, there are almost no people stopping here in Chenyuan. At this time, the side door of the City Lord's Mansion opened, and a familiar figure of Chen Yuan walked out. "What should I eat today? It's all to blame on that guy Chenyuan, after eating the flower chicken he made, I don't even have the desire to eat snacks. I don't know where that guy went, he said it was an assessment, but he couldn't even see a shadow, and he said that he would call me the production method of the flower chicken. The girl who came out of the city lord's mansion muttered dissatisfiedly.

Isn't this Xiao Wanqing, the granddaughter of the city lord, Xiao Wanqing is still followed by Yang Xuan, and they are all old acquaintances of Chen Yuan. Chen Yuan not only visited the entire Weiqing City yesterday, but in this snack alley, he also learned a very important information, that is, Xiao Wanqing would come to pick out some snacks almost every morning at this time and bring them back to the City Lord's Mansion to eat.

That's why Chen Yuan came to this place to squat today, with Xiao Wanqing's foodie attributes, Chen Yuan was sure to let her enter the City Lord's Mansion with her disguised self. This is the ultimate purpose of Chen Yuan's coming here today.