Lin Chu suddenly recalled that when he received a call from Xu Minghao last night, when he took the phone out of his pocket, he inadvertently revealed the small piece of gloomy wood.

It must have been this move that made the murderer in Ma Xiaoxiao's human skin let himself go.

The murderer was afraid of that gloomy wood?

Lin Chu felt that the possibility of her being a "person" was getting lower and lower.

"Looks like I'm really going to have to make that gloomy piece of wood into a weapon soon......"

Lin Chu was now in no mood to eat breakfast at all.

Ever since the horror headlines app was added to his phone, he has encountered these bizarre things every day.

No, I almost got skinned last night.

So you have to have a self-defense weapon to deal with demons and monsters!

At this time, Xu Minghao's call came.

He asked Lin Chu to pick him up at his apartment on the phone, and then went to the provincial city to play.

Lin Chu's stomach was on fire, and it was because he rented this luxury car that he almost lost his life last night.

"What other provincial capital are you going to? Hurry up and return this car for me!" The car keys and parking card are on the table in my house, you can get it yourself! ”

After Lin Chu finished yelling, he hung up the phone.

Then I called the old handmade processing shop that I saw on the Internet yesterday, but there was still no answer.

"Why is there still no answer? Could it be a change of phone? ”

Since he couldn't get through to this store for two days in a row, Lin Chu decided to come to the door in person.

He returned home, turned on his computer, copied down the address of the store, and then took the gloomy piece of wood and rode directly to it on an electric motorcycle.

In a crowded old street in the old city, Lin Chu found this handicraft shop.

The overall style of this street and this store is very similar to the flavor of the Republic of China in the TV series.

The sign of the shop is "斫宝轩", which translates into the vernacular, which means that it is a place where treasures are processed.

The small red letters on the window describe the scope of the shop: gold, silver, jade, wood, pearl, ivory, rhino horn......

As long as the owner provides the raw materials, the shop is responsible for handcrafting various utensils and decorations according to the owner's ideas.

Lin Chu lifted the quaint gray-blue curtain and walked into the store.

There was no one in the store.

Finished products are placed everywhere.

There are bronze incense burners, wood carvings, ivory carvings and other dazzling exquisite handicrafts.

But what made Lin Chu strange was that all of these things were wrapped in plastic film.

Even the wood on the ground was wrapped in it.

"Excuse me, is anyone there?"

Lin Chu stretched his neck and shouted twice towards an inner door behind him.

"It's coming, it's coming."

The curtain was lifted, and an old man in his sixties hurriedly trotted out.

He wore an apron and sleeves on his arms, and he looked like a craftsman.

The old man is very kind-faced, wears a pair of reading glasses, and has a bit of an intellectual taste.

While patting the white fine powdery object left on his body, he asked kindly: "Young man, do you have anything to order?" ”

"I'm going to make a dagger."

"Golden? Silver? Steel? Or ivory? ”

Lin Chu shook his head: "No, I'm going to make wood, and I've already brought the materials." ”

With that, he took out the gloomy piece of wood that he had brought with him.

The old man was taken aback, but he didn't dare to judge casually.

He carefully held up the gloomy piece of wood with a white silk cloth and looked at it with a magnifying glass.

Finally, he looked at Lin Chu excitedly: "Young man, you ...... You're a 10,000-year-old ebony! And this color, it is definitely the top 10,000-year-old ebony! ”

Lin Chu said indifferently: "I know." ”

After all, this is a gloomy wood used to seal the emperor zombies, how can it be mortal.

The old man said incredulously, "Why make a dagger when you know its value?" According to the natural shape of this piece of ebony, it is best to make a black Ruyi. ”

Lin Chu said persistently: "I don't want anything else, I just want to make a dagger, and a short sword can also be used." ”

Seeing Lin Chu insisting so much, the old man felt a little pity in his heart, but he still agreed, after all, in their business, the customer's request is the truth.

He suggested, "If you don't have enough short swords, let's make a dagger." ”

Then ask if there are any requirements for the style pattern.

Lin Chu said: "I don't have a request for the style, please look at the old man, as for the pattern, one side of the dagger is carved Tai Chi Yin and Yang fish, and one side is carved with the Big Dipper." Taiji should be convex and Beidou should be concave. ”

The old man's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked in surprise, "Young man, are you going to make magic weapons?" Could it be that you know the Yin and Yang Dao technique? ”

Lin Chu shook his head and said with a smile: "How do I know any yin and yang spells, I built this ebony dagger to take back to the town house." ”

The first half of this sentence is true, and the second half of the sentence is nonsense later, and he can't just see a random person, just say that he wants to take it to prevent ghosts, right?

The old man's gaze suddenly dimmed, as if he learned that Lin Chu did not understand the Yin Yang Dao Technique, which made him very disappointed.

Lin Chu then asked with concern: "Old man, I don't know how you charge for this?" ”

The old man replied: "The rule of our industry is to charge a processing fee of three percent of the value of raw materials. ”

Lin Chuxin suddenly chuckled.

It turns out that the processing fee is not fixed, but floating.

He asked a little nervously, "Then how much is my piece of ebony worth?" ”

The old man said, "This piece of ebony of yours is not an ordinary ebony, but an extremely rare 10,000-year-old ebony. A few years ago, a piece of 10,000-year-old ebony of similar size was sold on the market for 1 million. Your piece of ebony is better than that one, like a piece of black jade, the best of the best......"

The more Lin Chu listened, the more he felt bad, this old man praised such a big pass, I'm afraid the final price is not going to heaven, right?

Sure enough, the number that the old man said at the end startled Lin Chu.

"So I concluded that this piece of ebony of yours is worth at least 5 million!"

5 million! The processing fee of three percent is not 150,000 yuan!

Black! It's so dark!

Just when Lin Chu suspected that the old man was deliberately raising the price to trick himself, the old man suddenly changed his words:

"Old man, I have been a craftsman all my life, and there are thousands of processed pieces of ebony alone, but none of the ebony raw materials can compare to yours. It's an honor for the old man to be able to forge such top-notch ebony raw materials, so I won't take your money! ”

"Really?"

As soon as Lin Chu spoke, he felt that he was too happy, and hurriedly remedied: "I can't let you work hard, at least you have to symbolically receive some red envelopes, right?" ”

The old man waved his hand: "No need. Sit down, young man, and I'll sketch a design for you. ”

Lin Chu did not sit down, but continued to observe in the store while the old man was sketching at the counter.

Suddenly, he stopped and asked curiously, "Old man, why do all the things in your store have to be covered with plastic film?" ”

The old man said without raising his head: "Recently, many slugs have come out of nowhere in our house, and they crawl all over my store every morning, so I have to wrap them all in plastic film." ”

Hearing the word "slug", Lin Chuchu was suddenly startled.

Because he remembered that after "Ma Xiaoxiao" got off the bus last night, this creature also appeared in the seat she was sitting on.

"Boy, the drawing is done, can you see if there is anything that needs to be improved?"

The old man handed over the design drawings to Lin Chu.

Lin Chu was very satisfied with it, and praised: "Old man, you are really ingenious, you look so good at any drawing, you can make it according to this drawing." ”

The old man put away the drawings, wrote a receipt, and took a picture of the receipt with the gloomy piece of wood before handing the receipt to Lin Chu: "Young man, I will need about three days, you can pick it up in three days." ”

"Thank you."

Lin Chu put away the receipt and was about to leave, when suddenly a man's cry and scream came from the inner door.

"Not good! My grandson is sick again! ”

The old man came out of the counter in a panic, opened the curtain of the inner door and ran in.

Lin Chuxin thought that the old man had just helped him make knives for free, and now he seemed to be in trouble, and he might just need a helper, so he couldn't just leave.

So he also lifted the curtain of the door and followed in.

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