4.42 The Twelve Hairpins of the Southern Kingdom (continued).
"Grandma is well." Wu Chen recognized the mysterious guest who came uninvited at a glance.
"It's a good tree." Grandma is a thousand-year-old tree demon, although she has lost her body, but with her strength, she has already become one god.
"Grandma Xie praised." Wu Chen cooperated with her and said.
"I heard that it was the poison ivy woman who cast the spell?" Grandma Mu Ji asked directly.
Wu Chen decided not to hide it in an instant: "Yes." ”
"What else did she tell you?" Sure enough, grandma's words are waiting here.
"She said something she wanted to say, and I didn't object." Wu Chen said a rough idea.
However, Grandma Mu Ji understood: "Okay. I heard you can make soap? ”
"Hmm." Wu Chen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Make me a piece when you have time." Grandma Mu Ji finally set her eyes on Wu Chen: "Say, what do you want." "Grandma means the conditions for Wu Chen to make soap.
"Grandma, can you take me with you next time you let the wind out?" Wu Chen took the opportunity to say his request.
"You want to get out of town too?" Grandma asked with a smile.
"Yes."
"Whatever. Find a time, I'll take you out. Grandma Muji turned and left.
"There's Grandma Lao." Wu Chen hurriedly saluted behind him.
Seeing off his grandmother, Wu Chen rushed to a teahouse and took Murong Yan to the Forget Worry Restaurant. This time, without waiting for a knock on the door, the tower-like strong man had already opened a door quickly. Let two people in.
It is true that Guiyun Brew is a good wine, but Wu Chen does not dare to drink one bowl at a time. Taste it slowly, so you don't get drunk too quickly.
Waiting for Murong Yan to put down the wine bowl, Wu Chen said his future purpose.
"Sister Xiang'er. You are a connoisseur of the five elements. I want to know. Which of the five elements is the 'blood crystal' of this human flesh and blood? ”
"Blood crystals are beyond the Five Elements." The proprietress said in a word.
"I see." Wu Chen was slightly disappointed.
The proprietress said, "Although it is outside the Five Elements, there are some talented people who can still draw energy from it. ”
Wu Chen nodded, he thought of the Nocturnal Dragon Queen. She will be able to draw energy from the blood crystals. There is no need to eat or drink at all.
"So what exactly is Blood Crystal?" Wu Chen asked.
"Blood crystals are blood essences. The essence of the blood is condensed in it. However, it jumps out of the five elements, which is beautiful and useless. The energy contained in it cannot be mobilized. It's like gangue mixed in coal, although it looks like coal. But it didn't work. ”
"Coal gangue. Or 'crystal gangue'. Wu Chen understood.
"Exactly." Xiang'er's proprietress nodded with a smile.
Smelling the Buddhist incense she hid under the rouge gouache, Wu Chen became more and more fascinated by the identity of the proprietress. In other words, even the Shaw Brothers Twelve Golden Hairpins are like a few treasured technical houses, but they can't find the origin of the boss lady in front of them, which is not scientific......
I don't know the value system in the prison city, anyway, every time Wu Chen comes, he puts a small soap as a drink. Xiang'er's proprietress should be satisfied.
Promising Wu Chen that he would have time to go to his incense shop to set up a five-element guardian array, Wu Chen immediately said goodbye to Murong Yan and left.
When he was sent back to Xiangfang, he heard that Wu Chen was going to go outside the city with his grandmother, and Murong Yan's worries were all on his face: "Brother Wu, that Grandma Mu Ji is famously moody. Good and evil. There is no iron law outside the city that you must not kill, if she has evil intentions. Brother will be in danger. ”
"That's right......" Wu Chen nodded. Recently, he was called by the master on the left and the master on the other, and he was a little fluttering. I almost forgot that when I first met Grandma Muji, she wanted to kill herself! If it weren't for the white-haired witch blocking it, it is estimated that he would have turned into a red crystal pillar by now and was planted outside.
Well, I have to guard against it.
After thinking about it, Wu Chen just stepped into the incense shop with his front foot, and went to the Dream Thorn Life Hall with his back foot.
The living hall, which is full of thorns and dreams, can actually achieve 'memory reproduction'!
This made Wu Chen surprised.
The so-called memory reproduction is like playing a somatosensory game. Through special potions and instruments, certain fragments of a person's memory that interest him are reactivated and recreated through dreams. There are many similar movies, and "Reborn Man" and "Total Recall" have related plots.
Why do so many people want to live in dreams. The reason is because the reality is too cruel. So I want to find the beauty of living in the memories of the past.
Apparently Poison Ivy is using a special plant-based neurotoxin to achieve all this.
It's very simple, when Wu Chen walked in, all he saw were withered vines, as if he had walked into a huge tree hole. There is no high-tech equipment in there that virtual reality technology requires. Therefore, the method that can achieve memory reproduction must be a nerve agent.
Wu Chen's arrival surprised the Poison Ivy Girl. It can even be said to be a surprise.
Wu Chen also took a closer look at the method of reproducing dreams.
Leaving a customer lying on a couch, Poison Ivy first urged her to sleep in a low, melodious voice, and then gently dropped a drop of emerald green 'eye drops' on each of her eyes. The moment the potion drops onto the eyeball, the customer's pupils suddenly turn into a strange color.
The whole body tensed, and then gradually relaxed. Entered the dream with a smile.
"How?" Wu Chen was full of curiosity.
"What?" Poison ivy asked with a smile. It seems that there is no camp judgment between good and evil, and Poison Ivy shows her good side in the prison city.
"I mean, how do you know which memory she wants to get into?" This is Wu Chen's question. According to his idea, without a high-tech terminal capable of flipping through the 'memory folders' stored in neurons, how could Poison Ivy Woman 'choose' the memory archive that the guest wanted to activate with the potion alone?
"It's her own choice." Poison ivy unravels the mystery: "When she comes to me, I'll talk to her first." This is a very important part. In this way, she can't help but recall that good memory. It's just that many details have been blurred because of the passage of time, so be careful to think about it, and then drip into my potion, it will naturally enter her dusty good memory. ”
"Understood." Wu Chen nodded happily.
"Speaking of which, what did you come to me for?" Poison ivy asked with a smile.
"That's ......," Wu Chenxuan told Poison Ivy Girl the news that he was about to go out of the city with Grandma Mu Ji.
"From what I know of her, this kind of backsliding. She won't do it. Since she decided to take you with her. Nature will take care of you. If you go together, you can't go back together. Her reputation in the prison city was ruined. In a prison full of felons, the hardest thing to build is trust. Losing her trust, her good days in the city are over. ”
"Because there is no law, morality is the only criterion." Wu Chen understood.
"That's right. In your words, 'the rivers and lakes are in trouble, the rivers and lakes are over'. That's the rule of the prison. If anyone breaks the rules, they will not be far from death. Since there is a rule: words must be believed, deeds must be fruitful. Then she promised to take you out. It will bring you back in good condition. Poison ivy laughed.
"I'm a villain in vain." Wu Chen smiled self-deprecatingly.
"You're a newcomer, so it's normal not to know these rules." The poison ivy girl handed Wu Chen a bottle of fluorescent green potion that had been prepared: "However, the rules also say: the heart of guarding against others is indispensable. So, take it with you and use it for self-protection when you need it. ”
"Thank you." Wu Chen handed her a piece of white jade lotus soap that had been newly refined from the Night Wandering Dragon Queen.
"Wow, what a fresh scent." The poison ivy girl seemed to like it very much, and immediately put it on the tip of her nose and sniffed it again: "I heard that you made a special soap for Malgin, which is much bigger than this, isn't it?" ”
"That's right." There is nothing to hide from this.
"So, can you make me a secret piece when you have time?"
"No problem. Wait for me to come back from outside the city. Wu Chen agreed with her on an approximate time and left.
Bring the witch. Wu Chen rushed to the location where the second hairpin often places orders-Paramount Nightclub.
The signboard of colored light bulbs and neon tubes is full of the immediacy of Shanghai at night. Both sides of the stairs are filled with flower baskets given by distinguished guests who come to hold the horns. The name of the star is written on the flower sign just outside the gate. Wu Chen looked at it, and there was no name he was familiar with. In other words, he didn't watch many song and dance films similar to Shanghai. I am not familiar with the names of these big Shanghai singers. The ones I remember the most are Jinbao in "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge", Nicole in "Moulin Rouge", and Velma in "Chicago".
As with all night clubs, admission is free of charge. It doesn't cost money to watch a show, but it costs a lot to sit down and spend.
The drinks here are much worse than those of Paradise Nightclubs. Wu Chen ordered a glass of water with the generic 'prison city ticket', and sat quietly in the corner with the witch, watching the performance on the stage.
It's a pity that they are all ordinary corners, and there are no surprises that can make his eyes shine.
After listening to the last song, I was about to leave, when a crisp voice suddenly sounded from the side: "Uncle, buy a pack of cigarettes?" ”
The cigarette seller holding the cigarette case is wearing two braids. It instantly coincided with the situation in Wu Chen's memory. It's just that...... Where does the tobacco come from in a prison city without plants?
The Dead Dog aura is about to open. Wu Chen smiled and bent down: "Little girl, how can you sell this cigarette?" ”
"Three pieces in a pack." The little girl replied crisply.
"Okay." Wu Chen took out three prison city gold coupons and handed them to the little girl.
The little girl stared nervously at the three golden coupons, then looked at Wu Chen, and finally mustered up the courage to speak, "Uncle, can you give me a piece of soap?" ”
"Huh?" Reaching out to hold the witch's suddenly tense wrist, Wu Chen asked with a smile, "Little girl, why do you want soap?" ”
"Because Sister Xueling ...... Because Sister Xueling ......, "The little girl who didn't know how to speak was about to cry."
Wu Chen's heart suddenly softened, and he took out a piece of his own pine-scented soap and put it in his sister-in-law's cigarette case. Then he pointed to the cigarette in the cigarette case, "Can I choose?" ”
"Yes, yes!" The little girl nodded again and again, very happy.
Wu Chen carefully selected a pack. This kind of seriousness is for the little girl to see. In fact, tobacco is the same for him, anyway, it's all choking.
When I turned around, I found that the back of the cigarette box was actually printed with the bewitching and boundless head of Grandma Mu Ji. The avatar is also the kind of exaggerated and charming poster unique to Greater Shanghai.
Wu Chen immediately bowed.
With a move in his heart, he motioned to the girl not to go first, and exchanged a piece of soap for a pack of cigarettes of another brand.
When I turned it over and looked at it again, it was suddenly clear.
On the back of this pack of cigarettes is a large portrait of a woman with the graceful appearance of Poison Ivy.
No wonder the two are intriguing and endless, this is the vicious competition between national brands! (To be continued.) )