22. Puppets
The prince puppet struggled in agony in the fire, and his cries echoed in my head. The puppets in the living room all fell to the ground, their limbs twisted together as if they were going to weave themselves into puppet twists.
The shouting in my head had finally stopped after a minute, the puppets on the floor had stopped, and the room had fallen silent, except for the crackling of burning wood from the campfire in front of my bedroom.
Regardless of the process, that box god should be finished by now.
I let out a long sigh of relief, then looked at Mao Xiankang next to me and said, "Thank you just now, you saved my life." ”
But Mao Xiankang didn't answer me, he still stood there motionless, his eyes were completely dull, and he felt like he had become a vegetative person in an instant. I tried to touch him lightly on the shoulder, and he shook his body for a moment, and then he fell straight to the ground.
I quickly reached out to hold him up, and slowly sat him down on the ground.
At this time, my mobile phone also rang, and the caller turned out to be Zhu Yue.
"You're finally willing to turn it on, aren't you? Are you Zhu Yue? Or is it a god of good fortune? I asked as soon as I picked up the phone.
"I'm the god of good fortune, and congratulations on another difficult challenge." Zhu Yue's voice came from the phone, but this disgusting tone was definitely not Zhu Yue's.
"I don't need you to congratulate, tell me what's going on!" I asked politely.
"You should already know very well that there is a lucky god who threatens me a lot in Hangzhou, and I need you to help me deal with him. Now that you have successfully completed this task, I am now a blessed god in the world, so you are already in an absolutely safe environment. ”
"Absolutely safe? I almost got turned into a puppet by that guy! You call this absolute security?! I said angrily.
"Everything is under my control, how do you think Mao Xiankang regained his humanity? Do you think that an empty shell without a soul will suddenly regain its memory and will suddenly come to your rescue? The god of good fortune asked me questions continuously.
"You've already met Mao Xiankang? Are you in Hangzhou now? ”
"Yes, I've been to Hangzhou, but I didn't come here as Zhu Yue, otherwise my actions would have been discovered."
"Well, I probably see what you mean. You found out that there was another god of good fortune in Hangzhou, and you wanted to get him, so you went out of the sheath to Hangzhou. Then you found the two brothers, Mao Xiankang and Mao Xiansheng, although these two people seem to be living people, but in fact their souls have been taken away, they are just two soulless shells. You used the shell of Mao Xiansheng to lure me over, and then killed that lucky god while he was about to attack me, that's probably it, right? I asked.
"That's right, that's exactly what it's all about."
"What is the situation with Mao Xiankang now? Qiao Wei and Li Xiang, what should they do? I asked again.
"Rest assured, the Wish God is dead, and no one will threaten them, but their souls are still in the box, you just need to return their souls to them. The method I tell you, very simple ......"
The wishing box is still with me, and the god of fortune has told me two spells, and I need to recite the first spell while thinking about Qiao Wei's appearance in my head, and then poke my finger into the box, so that Qiao Wei's soul will be attached to my hand. Then I recited the second incantation and pressed my finger on the top of Qiao Wei's head, so that Qiao Wei's soul was returned.
I actually operated according to the method that Zhu Yue told me, and Qiao Wei recovered immediately, but it really took me a long time to wake up Li Xiang, after all, he was knocked unconscious.
Everything that should be killed has been killed, and everything that should be saved has been saved, and the next time is Zhu Yue...... No, it's time for the gods of good fortune to explain the ins and outs of the matter.
Actually, I've already guessed most of the content, Fukujin just added some details that I don't know.
The first thing to talk about is naturally the wishing box.
In any myth and legend, the gods will have their own weapons or magic weapons, treasures, such as Zeus's lightning spear, Poseidon's trident, Hades' chain scythe, and so on. This wishing box is also a weapon of the gods, except that its purpose is not to kill, but to deceive people's souls.
According to the god of good fortune, the most favorite thing that gods do when they come to the world is to obtain a large number of human souls, which are an important source of energy, and the large amount of surplus souls can also be used as something like currency to make some transactions with other gods. Although this kind of trade is almost invisible in modern times, in ancient times, that is, in the age of myths and legends, there were many cases of gods and divine ideas being traded through human souls.
It is not clear to the god of Xifu when this wishing box appeared in the human world, but she can be sure of one thing, that is, the box and its owner have never left the world.
In short, the puppet god in the wishing box has never returned to the god's shijie, it has always existed in the human world as a puppet, and has been hoarding people's souls with the box.
Some time ago, the Xifu God disappeared from Zhu Yue for a while, and she didn't go to play, but she got a very important news: the fallen gods have been tracking down my whereabouts, but there has been no progress, so they had a meeting, intending to start working on the soul reserve.
Loki once told me that the gods would eventually get tired of looking for the one who opened the door, and that then it would be inevitable to go to war to collect souls. According to the information found by the god of Sipho, this meeting of the gods did not mention the start of war, but let the gods who had been divided into two factions engage in a large-scale soul trade.
The two factions of the gods are those who want to return to the divine realm and those who are accustomed to staying in the human world, and the gods who have remained in the human world have also carried out a long period of soul collection, and it will be much easier to get the souls from their hands than to start a large-scale war.
The god of Xifu did not want this transaction to go smoothly, because once it was successful and the gods began to return to the divine realm, then Jihua, who became the lord of the gods, would be stillborn. So she chose the tactic of killing two birds with one stone, first to get the wish blessing god who has been staying in the world, first, to eliminate the hidden danger to prevent me from being found by this lucky god, and secondly, to make some preparations for the future to disrupt the soul trade of the gods.
After talking about the dynamics of the gods, Xifu God talked about the wishing box and the Mao family.
When the Eight-Nation Alliance was in Beijing, an old artist who performed tricks in the palace gave the box to Mao Xiankang's grandfather before he died......