Chapter 44: The City of Puppets
The sensitive horses felt the strange aura coming from inside the city, and they stepped uneasily, as if they wanted to flee.
"There's something wrong with this borderland." Fu Tian calmed the horse, and felt a faint danger in his heart, "Your Excellency the Demon Doctor, are we going to enter the city?" ”
Kwai Fan'er looked at the wide open city gate, the cold wind blew out from the city, blowing people to the point that their flesh and bones were tingling, and she could also feel the danger and strangeness coming from this deserted city.
She turned her head slightly to look at Kwai Jingyue, only to see that he was looking up at the name carved on the high city gate, the city could vaguely see the shadow of the once prosperous, but the name of Yin Yang City had never been heard of, and it seemed that this name had suddenly been erased from everyone's memory.
The next moment, Kwai Jingyue seemed to notice that Kwai Fan'er was looking at him, so she turned her head and looked at her as well, "Fan'er, what are you looking at me, is the master becoming handsome again?" ”
"......" Kwai Fan'er only felt that the current atmosphere was not weird at all, "Since you are here, how can you return empty-handed in this borderless land." The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and I want to see what this so-called dead city is so famous for. ”
"Okay." Fu Tian nodded, rode a horse and walked to the city gate, Le Zhengxuan followed, Kwai Fan'er walked side by side with her, and Kwai Jingyue broke behind.
"You haven't answered me yet, is Master handsome again?" Kwai Jingyue followed behind, and continued to ask Kwai Fan'er to the bottom of the matter, and there was a momentum of not giving up without answers.
Kwai Fan'er was speechless, Le Zhengxuan and Fu Tian couldn't help laughing, but they didn't expect Kwai Jingyue to be like a stubborn child in front of Kwai Fen'er, and his trouble resolved most of their tension.
But in such a dangerous place, a proper sense of tension is necessary, and their vigilance is raised.
Kwai Jingyue made a fuss for a while, and when she saw that Kwai Fan'er ignored him, she stopped talking stupidly and pursed her lips in disappointment. However, he also knew that in this dangerous city, he could no longer take it lightly, so he also took care and carefully observed the surroundings.
It is not at all wrong to say that this city is a dead city, for there is no breath of living creature in the empty streets, and the leaves cover the ground, and the wind blows with the dust.
Walking and walking, Aoi Fen'er always felt that something was wrong, according to the news of the Eagle Gate, this borderless land was burned to ruins by a fire back then, and no one was left behind, let alone rebuilt.
But when you look around, you don't see broken walls, but neat and solid houses, and you don't see half of the scorched earth.
This scene is supposed to be a scene after man-made reconstruction, but who built it, and why did it become uninhabited after reconstruction, leaving the land to be deserted?
It was difficult for Aoi to determine if there were still people in this city, there was something unusual everywhere, and it seemed that anything could happen, even if a person suddenly appeared in front of them, she would not think it was impossible.
As if to confirm her thoughts, they marched forward for a short time, when suddenly a figure slowly walked out of the alley at the corner in front of them, and they immediately stopped their horses and looked at the figure defensively.
Walking from the shadows to the sun, she was gradually able to see the true face of the figure, and Kwai Fan'er was shocked.
She was very familiar, her body was as shriveled as dead wood, her body exuded a dead air, and although she had no blade in her hand, she still made people feel dangerous.
"Puppet corpse!" Yes, even on the South Styx Mountain, and the puppet corpse they saw on the day they returned to the palace, why did they appear here, could it be that the person behind it was still not dead?
"Everyone, be careful, this is a puppet, very dangerous!" Kwai Fan'er immediately reminded him, and glanced at Kwai Jingyue with some concern, but saw that he didn't seem to care about the puppet corpse, and was still very calm.
Then he turned over and dismounted, and walked straight to the puppet, but the puppet was different from before, just standing there quietly, watching them, and doing nothing.
"This puppet is different from the previous ones," Kwai Jingyue stood in front of the puppet corpse, but saw that it still didn't move, thinking back to the way she saw it coming out of the alley, she understood a little, "Although this puppet looks the same as the previous puppet, I just saw that when it moved, its limbs were stiff, and now it doesn't attack me at all, it should be a puppet with no one to control." ”
Thinking back to Fang Cai, it was indeed the same as what Kwai Jingyue said, but Kwai Fan'er was still a little annoyed, "Master, have you forgotten what you promised me before you left the valley?" ”
"Hmm......" Kwai Jingyue choked, and her eyes opened unconsciously, "I forgot." ”
Kwai Fan'er was so angry that she gritted her teeth, but she was helpless, "I really believe in your evil!" ”
Looking at this scene, Fu Tian and Le Zhengxuan looked at each other and smiled tacitly.
"Your Excellency has seen this puppet before?" Fu Tian looked the puppet up and down, always feeling familiar, he suddenly remembered something, so he asked.
Kwai Fan'er remembered that Fu Tian had never seen this puppet, and judging by his reaction, Jun Yue should not have had time to tell him about the puppet they met on the day they returned to the palace.
"I did, more than once." Kwai Fan'er replied, "A few months ago, I went to the Southern Styx Mountain to rescue people, and after the death of Le Zheng Ancestor, three puppets appeared and attacked us. A few days later, when we returned to the palace from the Valley of Baikui, we also encountered the same puppet, which was exactly the same as the puppet in front of us. ”
"Attack?" Fu Tian couldn't help frowning when he heard this, he thought about something, but he shook his head and felt that it was impossible.
"But why is this puppet corpse here?" Aoi Fan'er was puzzled, "And it's also an uncontrolled puppet, what does it have to do with the plague?" ”
Kwai Jingyue circled around the puppet corpse, looking it up and down, left and right, "Although I can't conclude that this puppet has anything to do with the plague, I see that the flesh and blood of this puppet are dry, but it is similar to the symptoms of people infected with the plague. ”
"Having similar symptoms and appearing in the Borderlands at the source of this plague means that there is no connection between the two, and I am afraid that it is also unlikely, it must not be such a coincidental coincidence?" Le Zhengxuan was quiet for a long time, and finally expressed his opinion.
Fu Tian nodded in agreement, "That makes sense, why don't we start with this puppet and start investigating?" ”
"Then let's find a room and carry it in and tear it down?" Kwai Jingyue reached out and poked the puppet in disgust, her dry skin as hard as a stone, "Guard, this task is up to you." ”
After Kwai Jingyue finished speaking, she ran back to her horse and rubbed her hand clean on the horse's buttocks, causing the horse to snort dissatisfied.
Fu Tian had no choice but to dismount and walk in front of the puppet, although the puppet still did not move, he still waved it cautiously, and reached out to touch it, and found that there was indeed no reaction, and he still carried it up.
At the same time, Le Zhengxuan had already dismounted by tacit understanding, pushed open the door of a room on the side, and after entering to check, he beckoned them to enter the house together.
Aoi also dismounted, and went into the house with them, and Fu Tian put the puppet down, and the puppet turned its head stiffly, and then fell silent again, and stopped moving.
Reaching out and knocking on the puppet's body, Kwai Fan'er also felt the hardness like a stone, "It's obviously flesh and blood, but it can be as hard as rock, gold and iron, how did the person who made this puppet do it?" ”
Kwai Jingyue didn't think so, "There are more than 10 million herbs, medicines, poisons, and Gu in the world, and the effects are already strange, if they are combined with each other, they will be even more unpredictable, and it will take more time to inadvertently develop a drug to make such a puppet, but it is not impossible." The plague was also discovered by accident, and it was accidentally infected, and it spread. ”
"I've been learning Gu poison from my father since I was a child, but I've heard of similar poison Gu, the toxin secreted will make people's skin tough, but that thing is obviously used on living people, mostly on Deadpool, although I have never seen it, but I have never heard of it, and I have never heard of a poisonous Gu that can also be used on dead people." Le Zhengxuan, as the heir of the witch family, naturally has the most say in this kind of thing.
"Gu worm babies, but they are all very squeamish, and they can't live unless they are alive." She raised an eyebrow at the puppet, "But this thing was obviously made by a dead man." ”
"Not really, maybe someone has cultivated a Gu that can survive in the corpse, after all, you can't completely guarantee that there will be no such Gu." Kwai Fan'er disagreed, shook her head and said.
"Then let's see if it's poisonous." Out of nowhere, Kwai Jingyue took out a long silver needle and stabbed it into the hard flesh of the puppet with a burst of force.
Then he pulled it out again, but he saw that the long needle was still silver-white, and there was no dirt, and the puppet was not poisonous.
"It seems that this puppet is not made with poison Gu." Kwai Fan'er took the long needle from Kwai Jingyue's hand, looked at it carefully, and sniffed the smell on it, only a slight fishy smell.
"Do you know any herbs that have such an effect?" Le Zhengxuan asked suspiciously.
Kwai Jingyue glanced at her, "You let the dead man open his mouth and drink a medicine." ”
"I ......" Le Zhengxuan suddenly choked.
"Master." Kwai Fan'er raised her hand and gave him a chestnut, "Don't make trouble." ”
"If it is a herb, if it wants to act on the dead corpse, the only way to do it is to smoke the medicine and brew the medicine to force the medicinal properties into the flesh and blood of the dead corpse, but it will take a long time, and it will ensure that the corpse will not decay." Kwai Jingyue naturally covered her wounds, hung her head in disdain, and raised her eyes to look at Kwai Fan'er aggrievedly, "But I can't say what kind of medicinal herb it is, but I have some clues, maybe I can give it a try." ”
After speaking, Kwai Jingyue fumbled and took out two small medicine bottles from her sleeve, one green jade and one white porcelain.
Just as he was about to use the medicine on the puppet to see how it reacted, the cold wind outside the door suddenly howled, and the horses neighed uneasily and kept trying to break free from the reins.
The puppet in the house also suddenly moved, and walked towards the door, but was blocked by the closed door.
"Get it out!" Kwai Jingyue suddenly shouted alertly.
Hearing this, Fu Tian quickly opened the door, and the puppet walked out of the room, and then the sound of footsteps rang out, and they saw the true face of this borderland, a prosperous city belonging to puppets, through the cracks and windows of the door.