Chapter 53: The First Mystery
Isn't it strange that a corner cone has an extra motorcycle pedal for no reason? Anyway, the Governor and I both thought it was strange.
"Stand up and try it?" Zhou Yu asked tentatively.
"It's useless, I've tried many times." Nika said and jumped on it, jumping on it twice, both in front and back.
"Shall I try?" After speaking, Zhou Yu took her next and stood up by himself. Tiptoeing? It's okay! Stepping on it? It's okay too.
At first, it was nothing.
Suddenly, there was a click as if some machinery had buckled the spring, and then there was a continuous machine sound, which frightened Zhou Yu and squatted down.
", who shot?" He looked around, and it wasn't gunshots. Instead, the pyramid is ringing. The whole tower was shaking, and for some reason, Zhou Yu felt his heart beating violently, as if something was vibrating at an incredible speed, driving the surrounding resonance.
"Look!" Zhou Yu looked in the direction of Nika's finger with an O-shaped mouth, and he was so frightened that he jumped back a small step.
The corner cone was disintegrating, cracking through the impermeable stone wall at a rapid speed, from large to small, and then from small to slag, and all of them fell down. Zhou Yu heard the sound of these stones hitting the ground more than ten meters below him.
Soon, the stone house was shattered to powder, and there was nothing left.
"W-What is that?"
"Why do you see everything, I'm blind?" Zhou Yu took a sip and looked at the fingers of others.
After the stone chamber disappeared, only the angle iron that carried the stone chamber remained, crossed horizontally and vertically. In the center of the horn iron lies a small golden toad-like animal.
"Toad?" Zhou Yu's eyes were about to come out.
"What is a toad?" Nika asked, walking along the skeleton and crouching down to take a closer look at the creature in detail.
Zhou Yu also staggered over, he still had to hold the suspension above his head in his hands, and he had never practiced tightrope walking.
"It's really a toad, it can't be alive, right?" Zhou Yu doesn't care whether it is poisonous or not, whether there are traps or not. Pick up a long stone and poke the golden toad a little away.
"Don't move! Maybe it's an ornament, I've seen it a lot before. Many people who do business and open restaurants worship this and have a good fortune. Actually, it's nothing more than psychological comfort. ”
Nika doesn't believe that the whole thing is so simple? She leaned in and picked up the toad and placed it in the palm of her hand. Looking east and west, it seems that I like it tightly.
"Well, but this one, the carver is really good, it may be Su Gong." Zhou Yukou was full of flowers.
"Well, you see?" Nika flipped the toad over.
"It looks like it has words on its belly!" Nika held it up in front of Zhou Yu's eyes.
"Oh, don't, don't, don't, I'm allergic to this thing!" Zhou Yu hurriedly blocked her hand.
Between a push and a block, Nika's hand slipped, and the little toad fell, Zhou Yu's eyes were quick, and he pulled out the sword of atonement from his back, and pulled a sword flower to catch the little toad with the sword body.
"How? I'm the Dugu Nine Swords, I'll tell you... Before he could finish speaking, the eyes of both men straightened.
The little toad sat on the sword body, the purple qi came out, getting thicker and thicker, and finally tightly wrapped around it, the color of the toad also changed from gold to purple, and the spinning qi turned faster and faster, like a super small tornado, Zhou Yu even heard the sound of lightning and thunder inside.
"Wouldn't it? So weird? Zhou Yu held the handle of the sword and didn't dare to move.
"Here, help me!"
"What can I help you?" Nika was stupefied.
"Pull the glove off my hand!" Zhou Yu held the Sword of Atonement in his right hand, and he needed someone to help reveal the cursed pupil on the little finger of his left hand.
As soon as the cursed pupil came out, the vision was even worse. The two wisps of purple qi were like two swimming dragons, spinning, tumbling, and even shooting into the mouth of the little toad one after another.
Wait, mouth? Zhou Yu rubbed his eyes. Actually, the toad moved and opened its mouth. is greedily sucking on the purple cloud.
"No... It's, it moves. Do you see that? Zhou Yu's two hands and two legs put on a posture of letting you pick, and he didn't dare to breathe.
"You?" Nika frowned, didn't speak again, and continued to stare nervously at the toad on Zhou Yujian's sword.
Just as the two of them wanted to get closer and see more clearly, a cluster of white light shot out from the toad's body, illuminating the entire wheel of fate as if it were day. Zhou Yu felt as if he had exploded a flare one meter in front of him, his eyes turned white, his brain stopped, and he was blinded in an instant.
"Ahh
"I'm blind, I'm really blind this time. O God! Zhou Yu rubbed and wailed.
"Alright, alright, it's okay." Nika closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them, and everything was back to normal, and she grabbed him.
"What about toads, toads?" Zhou Yu gradually focused his scattered eyes on the sword, and even if he was instantly blinded just now, he didn't let go of the hand holding the sword.
"Gone?" Nika jumped over, looking up and down with her sword in hand.
"Huh? The toad is gone, but there are words left on the sword, you see? Nika waved Zhou Yu over.
"Just read it, I can hear it." Zhou Yu was still rubbing his eyelids.
"I'll look at it, it's a little small, a little hard to see. Wait! Nika grabbed her sword and stood outside, the moonlight shining brighter near the tower.
"It is written: the northwest of the sea, the Feifei of the sky, the difference of one thought, the disobedience of serenity, the sage of the boat, the son from the evil ghost, the island is thin and the suburbs are cold, and the good is like water." Because the handwriting was not very clear and the words were old, Nika took a lot of time to recognize, so it took several times to read it completely.
"It's messy, it's obscure." Zhou Yu ignored her, turned his head and walked down.
"Why are you running so fast? Beware and the Gubaka, swallowing you. Nika stomped her foot and ran in circles with him briskly.
"You say, why don't I open the secret room when I stand at that door?" Nika took a few quick steps and followed Zhou Yu.
"How do I know?" The Metropolitan Governor blew his beard and glared.
"Then what's so strange about your sword?" Nika jumped with her hands behind her back and jumped in front of Zhou Yu to block his way.
"Oops, get out of the way, what's so weird? Isn't it just a sword? Zhou Yu swept her away. Obviously, this tossed for most of the night, and finally watched a big flower night, which made him very unhappy.
"You're not going to say your ring is a stall, are you?" Nika tugged at the corner of his coat but didn't catch it.
"Hey, you're right. This ring was a gift brought back to me by a comrade-in-arms of my brother-in-law's brother-in-law next door to Lao Wang, who traveled to Laos. What's wrong, can't it? Zhou Yu also turned his head and raised his chin as if demonstrating.
"Lie to the ghosts, the cursed pupil will curse the pupil, make up so many lies, are you tired?"
With a swipe, the sword burst into the air, and it was on Nika's neck with lightning speed. One more point would have severed her arteries.
"Say, Who are you? What the hell are you going to do? The Duke's face changed from intimate to smiling, and then from smiling to sneering.
"I'm who I am, no, whatever." Nika's eyes were a little evasive, and she didn't dare to look directly at him.
"You tricked me into coming here, knowing full well that the Foot of Promise on my feet could open the mechanism. You know the Cursed Pupil and the Sword of Atonement, but you pretend to know nothing. Say, what the hell are your plots? The Grand Governor pushed his sword forward a few more millimeters.
"I, I, I didn't hurt you anyway!"
"Yes, you didn't hurt me, and you saved me several times. But why do I smell deception in my dealings with you? ”
"That's, that's your self-deception, I, I have some secrets that I can't tell outsiders."
"Oh, I see. Well, then I can't pass on the secret of these divine artifacts. I'm going to kill you! ”
"You dare?"
"Oh, by the way, you reminded me. Before I kill you, I'm going to hey, hey, hey! Zhou Yu said with a lewd smile and pounced.
"Get out of here, whore!" Nika scolded angrily, kicked and beat indiscriminately, and happened to kick the crotch of the Metropolitan Governor, so painful that he couldn't hold his sword steadily, and bent down to rub it hard. Oops, no, you have to jump. The Governor threw away his shuriken and clutched it on the ground, jumping hard.
"Oh my god, if you fight, you fight. Don't kick the crotch and miss? The Governor was in a hurry, and the dialects came out with tears.
When he raised his head again, there was still Nika's shadow. This Nizi is really a headache. Originally, Zhou Yu just wanted to scare and scare her, but he didn't expect that he would fall into the road. Alas, what a thing!
Although he was suspicious, there was one thing he trusted his own judgment against. That is, although Nika has a lot of secrets that no one knows, she didn't have the intention of harming him, otherwise she doesn't know how many times she has died. I wanted to force her to pay the bottom today, but I didn't expect to pay the "bottom" first.
Fortunately, Nika had just taught him how to recognize the Gubaka formation, and in addition to the fact that he needed to recover from the bounce, he was already familiar with entering and exiting this wheel of fate.
It was already the moon to the heart of heaven when he returned to the palace city, and his military attachés and generals were lying in all directions inside and outside the palace gate. This is really the Mother of Heaven and Earth, and you guys are not too cold, are you? I'm going to give you a stroke.
"Who's on duty?" He asked a guard standing guard.
"Back to the Metropolitan Governor, the leader of the shift tonight is Lord Bang Shuai, and the patrol post is the general of the Black Tooth Changzhi."
"Oh, what about people?"
"I see that you haven't returned for a long time, and I've been looking for you all over the city."
"Well, it's strange to find it. Hurry up and send a few men to the city and tell them both that I'm back. Let them stop looking for it and return to the team quickly. Zhou Yu waved his hand.
Back in the bedroom, Zhou Yu opened the window and stood there looking out. The moonlight shines in, reflecting a black-and-white photograph of a thinker on the ground. Who are you? Why are there so many secrets?
By the way, what's the point of those lines? The northwest of the sea, the Fei Fei of the sky, the difference of one thought, the disobedience of the serenity, the sage Bian Zhou, the son from the evil ghost, the island is thin and the suburbs are cold, and the good is like water.
The sea, the sky...
The Holy One, the Son of the Son...
Wait, isn't this a hidden head? These old glasses also play this tune? Zhou Yu suddenly slapped his head and connected the first words of these sentences, isn't it "the sea and the sky are the same, on the Holy Son Island"?
Others don't know about Shengzi Island, and Zhou Yu can't know it. Because of the legend about the Holy Son Island, Borada once told him in great detail.
But what is there on this island of the Son? Didn't Borada say that the island of the Holy Child had been cursed? No one can get close. Besides, even if you know the meaning, what is the color of the sea and the sky? It's impossible to have four more words here for no reason. Perhaps, in order to understand the method of this, there are two things that must be done: one is to go to the Holy Son Island in person; The second is to find the dead girl and force her to confess everything she knows. Oops, when he thought of Nika, Zhou Yu hurriedly bent down and rubbed his crotch. Okay! The first meeting was slapped, and the second meeting was slapped. The next time we meet, I think this enemy is really going to kill me.
Within a few days, the sergeants in charge of emergency procurement had replenished the daily needs of the residents, and five or six grain stores in the East and West Bazaars had reopened.
The work of selling cigarettes in Humen was personally supervised and carried out by General Lan Yu, and tens of thousands of dangaba were concentrated in the central square and burned for a whole day and night. General Lan said in a beaming manner: "The heavens will send a great task, and we must first get rid of the evil people." This is called Gaba's thing, which robs people's souls, causes hallucinations, persecutes the body, and hurts the heart and lungs. This burn is for the heavenly herding and hunting, saving the people from fire and water. If you don't comply, you will be punished on the spot. ”
The onlookers were full of hatred in their eyes, eager to tear the blue jade to pieces, but there were many swords and axes in front of them, and the fierce soldiers were punching and kicking those who approached, mercilessly.
When the people who heard the news heard that they would no longer be able to smoke Gaba, they wept and the scene was out of control, and Lan Yu had to send a battalion of sergeants to reinforce the defensive line before the cigarette sales work could be successfully completed. Although in the process, more than 130 people were broken in their legs and more than 400 people were arrested.
On the other hand, the substitution of the attributes of the Gaba currency is also in full swing. Lai Junchen and Hugh Jack worked tirelessly, and in line with the idea of getting the Metropolitan Governor bankrupt with overtime pay, they smelted 200,000 FD coins two days in advance. When Zhou Yu saw the sample, he nodded with great satisfaction. Sure enough, a tea jar should be sent to Lai Junchen, which reads: You do things, I can rest assured.
The work of redeeming coins was carried out at the same time as the work of counting household registration, and was carried out by several pioneer officials, including Valtu. Residents of the city go to the four offices set up in the southeast and northwest of the city to register, such as date of birth, address, job, family members, etc., and each person is given a wooden sign with a lifetime number engraved on it. At the same time, each family member is given two coins.
Inside and outside the city walls, coins can be used to buy food and clothing, and they can also trade on their own, and those who don't want to trade on their own can exchange them at the quartermaster office at any time. Each coin is exchanged for a bag of flour or a piece of linen cloth. For a while, the use of new coins became a fashionable event among ordinary people, and if you went out without holding an FD coin in your hand, you would be embarrassed to greet people.
In fact, it is true that for those who do not smoke gaba, the coins are practical and easy to carry. Cracking down on bad industrial chains and quickly making up for blind spots through scientific and civilized means is a move by the Metropolitan Governor that benefits the country and the people.
However, a force in the darkness is trying to swallow up the glimmer of light that has just been born. As for these new victors, they naturally racked their brains to get rid of them as quickly as possible.