Chapter 8 Bashu Divine Beasts
Jiang Chen's fingers were still touching the Qiankun ring, and he slowly opened his eyes.
It was an amazing experience. Although the scene in front of me is still the living room, but a part of the consciousness is still in the space of the Qiankun circle, this consciousness is divided into two parts is very special, if you want to convert into a picture, it is as if you can see the light and dark space, each has its own figure. If the brain wants to control two consciousnesses to do different actions at the same time, it will be very difficult.
For example, when Jiang Chen tried to put Lei Erye's moxibustion stick into the space, he first needed to pick up the moxibustion stick in his real body in the real world and hand it to the part of consciousness in the Qiankun ring. And when he imagined this action, he also made the same action in the Qiankun Ring, causing both parties to try to "deliver" the action, but no one received it. It seems that the use of the space magic weapon is not as he imagined, as long as he gets it, he can use it at will without a teacher, and he still needs more practice.
Jiang Chen remembered a hand-brain coordination game that was very popular before: put a piece of paper on the table, then hold a pen in both hands and try to draw a circle with his left hand and a square with his right hand on the paper. Whenever he tried to draw both patterns, Jiang Chen would always draw the circle with edges and corners, and the squares would also look a little rounded, which was probably the same feeling.
He simply closed his eyes again, entered the Qiankun Ring with all his consciousness, and carefully observed the space again.
The difference between the Qiankun Ring and his imagination was not an ethereal space, but a room carved out of a natural cave. Three of the walls were visible to have been hammered flat by some kind of rough tool on the walls of the cave, and the pits and bumps could be felt when you touched your fingers. The fourth wall, however, is not a "wall" in the standard sense, but a boulder that fell from the entrance of the cave, sealing the entire cave tightly. Inside the cave is a cast-iron tall lamp, but instead of the usual cedar grease or pine oil, the bowl is a stone that glows softly, and it is this stone that provides a slightly dim light source for the whole room. In addition, there are stone tables, stone chairs, and a stone bed with straw in the cave. Jiang Chen stretched out his hand to touch it, but he touched his hands full of dust, and the grass powder on the tentacles looked like it should have been some years. Deeper in the cavern lay several wooden chests and cabinets, all of which looked crumbling from the long shelving and dampness. Jiang Chen was a little clean, but he still forcibly opened it and looked at it, most of them were empty, but only one of them really scared Jiang Chen.
The box contained a skeleton.
Although there was no special smell due to perennial decay and weathering, the creepy feeling of seeing the corpses of the same kind was innate, Jiang Chen looked away very uncomfortably and closed the box.
What is the way to die, and the body is the same as the mountain.
Take a deep breath and let out a long sigh.
The sound of the wind rustling through the leaves could be heard from the cracks in the boulders at the entrance of the cave, and even there seemed to be one or two faint wolf howls in the distance, but the cave seemed more silent.
Whether it was the overly real rock texture, the humid air, the old and musty sense of age, or the sound coming from outside the cave, Jiang Chen had a bold idea in his heart: maybe the space magic weapon was not a virtual space or a space built out of thin air using spells as he imagined, but could be connected through his mind and lead to a real place. If this is the case, then the maker of this Qiankun ring should have found a cave in a deep mountain and old forest, and after setting up a consciousness connection with the Qiankun ring in some way, he smashed the boulder at the entrance of the cave and completely sealed it.
I have to say that this practice is really safe for storing items.
Wrong...... If that's the case, there's no need to set up a bed in a cave...... For this, Jiang Chen was puzzled.
Withdrawing his consciousness from the Qiankun Ring, Jiang Chen opened his eyes, only to find that his hands were actually covered with dust, which turned out to be the same as the consciousness body in the Qiankun Ring.
Belch...... Isn't it to take out the dust in the Qiankun ring......
Washing his hands with a wry smile, he studied the remaining magic tools on the list again, most of them are relatively easy to understand, but a few of them need "spirits" to mobilize, and he has failed after a few attempts, and it seems that he can only study systematically after the start of school.
By the way, I'll have to pick up the admission letter that I threw away. Thinking of this, Jiang Chen couldn't help but sigh, if it is really feng shui in turn, the day before yesterday was abandoned, and now he is going to go through the trash can.
But when he moved his gaze to the trash can, he was stunned - the trash can, empty.
Soon he calmed down, according to Xia Mai's statement, no one should easily enter his house, not to mention that his admission letter is almost equivalent to a reminder, and there is no need for others to steal at all. The great detective Sherlock Holmes once said: First of all, all impossible conclusions must be ruled out, and the rest, no matter how bizarre and unbelievable, must be irrefutable facts. So if you think about it...... There's only one possibility......
A phone call was broadcast, and soon the voice of Wang Ziteng was half-asleep and half-awake came from the mobile phone:
"Hey!
"Have you ever touched my trash can?" Jiang Chen went straight to the point.
"Damn...... That's it, I saw it full this morning, so I poured it for you......."
โ......โ
"Okay, don't be moved, do you want to thank me for picking a daytime walk, what about sleeping......"
Hung up......
......
Should...... It doesn't matter much, after all, I was going to use someone else's identity to enroll. Jiang Chen held his chest and comforted himself: calm down, calm down, the four are empty, the four are empty......
Look at the clock, it's already past one o'clock in the morning. Putting down the things in his hand, Jiang Chen decided to rest earlier. After all, the days ahead are still long, no matter what, the dog's life is important, don't stay up all night and die suddenly.
Constantly skipping everything that had happened in the past few days in his mind, Jiang Chen quickly fell asleep.
......
The next day, he got up early in the morning, went out to the bank, and first withdrew the remaining pocket money from the ATM and deposited it into the debit card he had applied for with his new identity. Jiang Chen was a little trembling during the whole process, but fortunately, everything went well, and no one seemed to have any doubts about his new ID card.
Next up is the supermarket.
Jiang Chen is a person who loves cleanliness very much, and since he touched the dust in his hand in the Qiankun ring yesterday, he has always been unable to forget the overall environment in this Qiankun ring. So I bought a broom, a mop, floor cleaner, a basin, two pairs of sticky night lights, an air conditioning quilt, a four-piece bed set, and a dozen moisture-proof storage boxes of all sizes in the supermarket, plus a whole box of dehumidifier......
It took a lot of effort for a man to carry these things home, and it was already past noon. After a brief meal, Jiang Chen decided to do a diligent cleaning of Qiankunhuan.
It's a pity that the internal environment is relatively primitive, and there is no power supply at all, otherwise it will be much faster with a dehumidifier and vacuum cleaner...... I don't know if there is a need to move a diesel generator in the future......
After thinking about it for a while, I still honestly picked up my things and did it myself. He sat down patiently, figuring out how he could move what was in front of him more skillfully into the Qiankun Ring.
According to the manual, as long as you use your conscious imagination to move the object, it will automatically appear in the space, but the actual situation is really completely different, and I don't know if his mental strength is not strong enough or what, no matter how he practices or concentrates, he can't achieve the desired effect.
Maybe it's something too big? Jiang Chen decided to start experimenting with small objects. Sure enough, after the rubbing of fingers and the concentration of thoughts, a coin quickly entered the space.
After much trial and error, he found that it seemed that the more proficient he was at the appearance of the object he wanted to move, the better his chances of success. For example, if you try to put away a mop just by touching or looking at it, you will hardly succeed. However, if you touch and feel the shape and feel of the mop with your hand, the probability of success is much higher.
If you open the perspective of passers-by at this time, Jiang Chen will undoubtedly behave a little obscenely, only to see him close his eyes and caress mops, detergents and other items affectionately like stroking his lover's hair...... Until they disappear from the room......
Relying on this slow and stupid method, he finally moved all his items into the Qiankun Ring.
But at this time, he had a bolder idea: can he move his whole person into space? According to the method just now, it may really work, after all, he knows his body best, and theoretically speaking, it should be fine.
I was almost taken aback by my own thoughts, and two or two questions quickly arose:
1. If you go in with the Qiankun Ring, is you inside or outside the Qiankun Ring? This seems to be an unsolvable paradox, or an infinite loop of ending.
2. If you don't bring the Qiankun ring to go in together, then how can you get out of the cave? If you don't have a way, I'm afraid you will only starve to death inside.
He thought back to the white bones in the cave, and finally gave up the idea of taking a risk.
Gently close your eyes, touch the fingers of your right hand to the Qiankun ring, and your mind will come to the inside of the Qiankun ring again. Cleaning utensils and other items bought at the supermarket have been sent in. Taking a deep breath, Jiang Chen rolled up his sleeves and began to clean.
The good wife and mother Jiang wiped the floor, walls, tables and chairs, replaced the stone bed with a sheet, placed a dehumidifier, and a moisture-proof storage box...... Finally, the environment in the cave became much more refreshing and clean, and I picked a few relatively smooth stone walls and pasted them with a long night light, and even had a little bit of a home feeling.
After this labor, I don't know how long the outside world has passed, but fortunately, the intensity of consciousness is much higher than that of the physical body, and I don't feel tired.
Good. Next...... It's the last big task.
Standing by the box containing the bones, he hesitated to do it. The location of this box was too conspicuous, and Jiang Chen didn't want to realize that there was a corpse here every time his consciousness entered the restricted space...... But he couldn't move the box out, and if he did, it wouldn't be just a matter of discomfort, and it wouldn't have been a matter of asking the police......
Forget it, let's move it to a corner...... Jiang Chen clasped his hands together and said silently in his heart: This fellow Daoist, may you rest in peace...... Then he reached out and pushed it.
Just as his hand was about to touch the box, a terrible cry rang out!
Almost instantly, a creature jumped out of the gap behind the box, only to see it stand in front of the box, arching its back, the hair on its body exploding, revealing its fangs and making a threatening sound.
It was originally a very lethal demeanor, but it was a bit out of harmony. Because the creature seems to ...... A little small?
The creature's tail was raised high, with two rings of black hair on the tip of the tail, and other than that, it was white and very fluffy and soft, and the pupils of its eyes were erected into two thin lines, and the tips of its ears were stretched out vigilantly.
It seems to be ...... A cat?
Except for the ears are a little big and the tail is a little long, how do you look at it, how do you think this creature is a little milk cat that is just two months old. Although it tried very hard to appear ferocious, it was not threatening.
He was so frightened by this thing just now that he took a few steps back? Jiang Chen couldn't cry or laugh, and stepped forward again. But as he approached, the little creature became more and more fangs and claws, making a louder threatening sound.
"Alright, little one, don't be afraid......" He crouched down, trying to temper the hostility. But where did this little thing come from? It wasn't here the last time I was here, so it probably didn't appear out of nowhere.
Jiang Chen moved his eyes to the box, the little animal just now came out of the back of the box...... So there must be something there.
Despite the objections, he approached the animal again, this time simply putting his two hands under the kitten's armpit and lifting him up.
"Meow โโ!" With a miserable cry, his arm was grabbed by the other party with two claws. It's just that Jiang Chen is now in the state of the mind body, and this kitten didn't really hurt him. After discovering this, he simply forcibly held the little guy in his arms and touched his head.
The kitten struggled desperately, extremely reluctantly, but could not help him.
So he held the little beast in his arms and looked at the back of the box.
Sure enough, the back of the box didn't completely lean against the wall, but left a slight gap. If you look closely, there seems to be a palm-sized shadow. He wanted to put down the little one in his hand and move the box away to see what was going on, but he found that the little thing was indomitable, and as long as it relaxed a little, it struggled to run out......
This will not work. Jiang Chen could only maintain the posture of holding the kitten and slowly opened his eyes.
Sure enough, this little guy followed the transfer of his consciousness and came to Jiang Chen's arms in reality. In his brightly lit room, the appearance of the little animal was clearer, and a pair of large green eyes stared at him angrily, kicking and kicking.
"Hmm...... I'll deal with your problem later. "Pull open the glass door of the balcony and stuff the kitten in and shut it shut. Seeing that it was anxiously scratching and grasping with its paws, the meat pad slapped on the glass and printed clearly visible cat paw prints.
Jiang Chen: "......"
Retracting his attention, he touched the Qiankun Ring again and returned to the space.
This time, there were no more creatures to stop him, and he managed to push the box with the bones to the corner of the cave. After moving to open the box, a small hole was revealed in the mountain wall, but the small hole was too small, almost only one circle larger than his palm.
Looking at the obvious traces of artificial carving, I don't know who dug the hole here...... Is it the man in the box? Unfortunately, the dead man will not answer his question, and may never get the answer.
He lay on the ground and looked inside. But everywhere you look, it's dark, and you can't see anything.
Take out your phone with your consciousness and shine it in with a flash. It seems that the rock wall is thick, but it has been punched through. On the other side was a large space, too far away to see clearly, except for some unknown objects reflecting a faint light under the flash.
Looks like that's where the little guy got in and out.
Forget it, it seems that I can't figure out what the other side of the stone wall is for a short time, but fortunately, if it was only used for storage, this cave is enough. You can't leave that little guy out for too long, you have to deal with it in time.
Consciousness turned back to reality and looked at the balcony.
When the cat saw that he had opened his eyes and looked like he had become a sperm, he immediately stood up on his two hind feet and slapped it all over the glass.
A shrill voice sounded, and the guy behind the glass was barking with his mouth open, and then it screamedโ
"Let Lao Tzu go out and meow~!!"
Jiang Chen: "......?"
He approached the glass, crouched down, and also stuck to the glass, looking at the creature with a face full of disbelief that was a small milk cat: "You...... Can you speak?"
Bang bang bang!
When the little animal saw him approaching, it couldn't help but be even more excited, and slapped the glass with its paws: "Stupid mortal!!Let Lao Tzu go out and meow!!Don't let me move my master!!"
Master?
Could it be the bones in that box...... Judging by the age of the cave, it is impossible to imagine that the man himself was not born when he died. This little guy looks like he is only two or three months old, so it is impossible for him to be connected with the white bones in the box...... No, no, no, it's me who is looking at the world with the concept of a mortal again, this cat has spoken, even if it lives for hundreds of eighty years or something, it's not impossible...... Could it be a spirit beast that has cultivated to become an immortal or something? Jiang Chen actually had no concept of the mysterious creatures in the cultivation realm, and he relied entirely on his own brain. Thinking of this, Jiang Chen's eyes turned into awe when he looked at the kitten, the so-called real person doesn't show his face, this is the kind of guy......
With reverence, Jiang Chen opened the balcony door a crack, and was about to ask the other party's origin, but the little thing actually "shook" and got under the sofa.
Jiang Chen: "......, please give me a little bit of the majesty of a spirit beast."
Leaning down and looking at the little guy under the sofa who was leaning against the wall and looking at him vigilantly, Jiang Chen called softly: "That...... Spirit beast senior?"
"Phew! What do you call meow! People are mythical beasts!"
"Uh...... Dare to ask the seniors of the cat god beast ......"
"Phew! You're a cat! You're a cat!"
...... Jiang Chen has 10,000 grievances in his heart, turtle turtle, you have meowed with every word, right......
"Ahem, dare to ask, what do you call the predecessors of the divine beasts?"
"Meow...... Bensen...... Benxian forgot to meow!"
...... What kind of ghosts and beasts are these! It doesn't matter! Jiang Chen really didn't serve the cat, oh no, it was the experience of serving the beasts, so he simply took a shoehorn and poked it under the sofa, and shouted in his mouth: "Divine beast senior, you come out!"
The cat spirit who claimed to be a divine beast under the sofa was driven out with a shoehorn, and he was very cowardly and shouted while running: "Ge Laozi meow!! You wait for meow!!"
Tsk, it's still a Bashu cat.
A man and a cat started a chase in the room.
It's just that the Divine Beast Senior was too petite and not familiar enough with the terrain, so he was defeated by Jiang Chen's men in a few rounds.
Grabbing the back of the neck of this Bashu cat, Jiang Chen lifted the other party up entirely, and smiled sadly: "The tiger is not powerful, you treat me as a Bashu divine beast!"