Chapter 37: A mystery within a mystery, a game within a game
Gu Changan asked, "Then have you ever seen this so-called human puppet Gu?" ”
Yan Shidao's face was solemn and said, "Of course I have seen it!" Once, I found out that he had secretly killed a dog and then fed the dead dog an unknown elixir.
In less than a stick of incense, the dead dog came back to life, got up from the ground slowly, and waged its tail at people as before. For seven days, the dead dog was no different from when he was alive, and he continued to eat and drink Lazar.
"I was very confused, so I took advantage of his absence, and asked my apprentice Qiao'er to kill the dog, and when I opened its head, I found that the skull was all densely packed with Gu worms, and the dog's brain had already been eaten up by these Gu worms!
"It was these Gu worms that replaced the dog's brain and regained control of the dead dog's body. I have reason to suspect that after these Gu worms eat the dog's brain, they will gain all the memories of this dog during his lifetime! ”
Gu Changan shuddered when he heard this.
Corpse claw is a bug, he is the first time he has encountered a living body on the periphery of the ancient battlefield of Youquan Sea.
There is also a clear record in the "Kyushu Chronicle" that this kind of insect has penetrated into the mouth of a person who has just died, and has been burrowing into the brain, regaining control of the brain of the deceased, allowing it to briefly "regenerate" and resurrect for three or five days.
Unexpectedly, Cui Shutong, an anthropomorphic puppet, actually used the corpse claw as the body to refine an even more terrifying Gu worm......
Gu Changan endured the picture of Gu worms in the dog's brain, endured his dense phobia, and then asked, "What happened later?" ”
Yan Shidao's eyes were empty, immersed in the unbearable memories of looking back, and his face was sad: "After he came back that day, he had a showdown with me about this matter, he said that he was refining human puppet Gu, and this dog was just his first experimental living body.
"In the future, he will use more human puppets to infect more people, so that they will all become his living puppets and become playthings in his hands!
"He was unwilling to be just a puppet, and he even told me cruel words - saying that one day, he would turn all the living people in the world into his puppets!"
The causal logic behind this story is not simple.
On the one hand, it is possible that Cui Shutong, an anthropomorphic puppet, gave birth to Lingzhi and rebelled against Yan Shidao, the puppet master, and even against human beings.
On the other hand, it is also possible that Cui Shutong has always regarded himself as a real person, but he has hit walls everywhere in the human society and is regarded as a puppet plaything by others......
Gu Changan didn't delve any further, and continued to ask, "What is the appearance of the human puppet Gu he refined?" ”
Master Yan replied, "It is a reddish-brown elixir in appearance, but the core of the elixir is mixed with the larvae of a human puppet Gu. Once a living body is given this elixir, the larvae of these puppet Gu will quickly invade the brain of the living body, eat the brain marrow in large quantities, and multiply in large quantities until they completely replace the host's brain.
"That's right! When he refined this extremely poisonous human puppet Gu, he seemed to use a special ingredient, which was women's blood, and it seemed that the best medicinal effect was the blood of a woman with a pure yin physique. ”
Gu Changan suddenly realized in an instant, and the previous scenes came into mind......
Two days ago, that is, in the early morning of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, when Zhao Sishui was about to start practicing "Sitting and Forgetting the Sutra", he proposed to let Cui Bo "behead the three corpses of the brain divine pill".
Now that I think about it, this so-called "Three Corpse Brain Divine Pills" is just a disguise, but there are human puppet Gu larvae hidden in the Dan core.
And it seems that this Zhao Sishui has taken the "Three Corpses Brain Divine Pill" more than once.
Gu Chang'an took a boat from Ningzhou to Beijing, a total of only ten days, could it be that during this time, Zhao Sishui had been unknowingly refined into a living puppet by Cui Shutong?
So, Gu Changan was just chatting, drinking, and playing chess with a living puppet at that time?
More precisely, he was just chatting, drinking, and playing chess with a bunch of human puppets?
It's just ...... Crazy, right?!
Gu Changan's face turned pale, his scalp was numb, and the eardrums on both sides were constantly buzzing.
Yan Shidao saw that his expression was different, and he just smiled bitterly: "It is normal for the son to be surprised, the old man learned the truth at that time, and he couldn't sleep for three days and three nights, and couldn't eat." ”
Gu Changan didn't reply, and continued to think deeply......
Based on the above judgments, Zhao Sishui has been completely reduced to a living puppet on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month at the latest.
At that time, the Bone Demon Corpse Mountain came to attack the Cao boat, and then there was a violent explosion, and Zhao Sishui was burned half of his body, which was very likely to be the direct cause of his loss of control, making him desperately yearn for the woman's yin blood to nourish his body.
After all, Zhao Sishui at this time was no longer Zhao Sishui, just a puppet controlled by a group of puppet worms......
So he dived all the way along the White River, straight through the water gate in the east of the city, and lurked outside the Tianxiang Pavilion on Sweet Water Street that night, and finally broke through the inscription wall, killing a small boy who ran away from the hall without eating his blood, and killing the Cuicui girl but sucking blood like crazy......
Until the appearance of the mysterious black-robed man.
Therefore, that mysterious black-robed man is Cui Shutong?
However, there was another suspicion in front of Gu Changan, that is, when the black-robed man appeared, the majestic aura released by himself made Gu Changan feel a strong sense of palpitations for a while, and it also made Chen Xuanzong's Liyuan Sword have a buzz.
Chen Xuanzong's cultivation has reached the seventh realm of sword cultivation - Yang Shen - that is, his physical body is not moving, but the Yuan Shen can swim in the North Sea and the twilight sky, and has already reached the level of Taoism's "little leisure".
Since that black-robed man appeared in a good manner, his cultivation realm should be on par with Chen Xuanzong, right?
With this question, Gu Changan then asked: "Senior Yan, which realm of Cui Shutong's anthropomorphic puppet is equivalent to a human cultivator?" ”
Yan Shidao replied: "When I created him, the Shenshu Box simulated the Daomen Dan Dao system, and his realm at that time was roughly equivalent to the four realms of the Jindan of the Dan Dao monks. But he is extremely intelligent by nature, and in just one year, it is not yet known that he has broken through to the Yuanying Five Realms on his own.
"However, it is impossible for any puppet to surpass its master in his abilities. The old man has been practicing puppet art for more than fifty years, and so far he has only been in the Six Realms of Heavenly Destiny, no matter how smart he is, he will never surpass me, the puppet master, unless he ......"
Gu Changan hurriedly asked, "Unless what?" ”
A hint of worry appeared between Yan Shidao's eyebrows: "Unless he personally kills me, the puppet master, and breaks the shackles of the Mandate of Heaven." ”
Gu Changan couldn't help but fall into a deep thought again......
A year ago, Cui Shutong was equivalent to the Jindan Four Realms of Dan Dao Monks, even if he advanced by leaps and bounds within a year, he would probably break through to the Yuanying Five Realms.
But Chen Xuanzong is a real Yang God Seven Realms.
The breath released by one of his Yuanying Five Realm anthropomorphic puppets when he appeared could really cause Chen Xuanzong's Liyuan Sword to beep?
Therefore, is that mysterious black-robed man the anthropomorphic puppet Cui Shutong?
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