For several days.

Wei Tao didn't even take a step out of the hospital.

In addition to recuperating from the body every day, studying martial arts is trying to forget.

Forgetting is not the goal, just a process.

The ultimate goal is to get rid of the influence of Sun Xiyue's abstract paintings and return to a normal mental state.

Although the ethereal female voice only appeared occasionally, it did not have much impact on daily life.

But the embankment of a thousand miles was destroyed in an anthill, and the hundred-foot room was burned with smoke from a crack.

If you can't prevent it from happening at the beginning, it may not help you to try to control the situation when the situation is really bad.

Forgetting didn't go well.

The more he tried to forget, the more tenacious the twisted lines became.

From time to time, it will flash in front of your eyes, dance wildly, and disturb your mind.

Over time, though.

Especially when Wei Tao no longer deliberately tries to forget.

Instead, after immersing yourself in the practice and distracting your attention, the effect is quickly realized.

Those lines, far from decreasing, appeared.

On the contrary, it flashed more and more frequently in my mind.

And in addition to the wire network related to the red line fist and the pangolin leg, there was actually a new twisted line, which began to appear strangely in my mind from time to time.

Wei Tao thought about it again and again, and finally discovered the root cause of this situation.

It doesn't have much to do with the abstract painting, but with himself.

Lotus herring, and lotus lotus.

These two killing moves are inseparable from the intractable double line of step-by-step lotus and red practice.

While he deduced his cultivation again and again and mastered these two killer moves, the corresponding lines had taken root in his body.

It is transformed into qi and blood running veins, and intertwined with each other to generate corresponding nodes.

Do you have to dissect yourself and extract all the corresponding "blood lines" in order to really get rid of the influence of that thing?

Wei Tao exhaled heavily.

The mood suddenly turned a little bad.

Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated.

To defeat the enemy, you must first understand the enemy.

Even more deeply than the enemy himself.

Thinking of this, he took out the box again and opened the scroll again.

Sit in the room and meditate.

Even forgot about the passage of time.

Sunrise and sunset, clouds roll up.

Except for eating and drinking, he did not leave the room for several days and nights.

His face was visibly haggard, and his eyes were no longer as bright as before.

Dangdangdang.

A rhythmic knock sounded at the door.

Wake Wei Tao up from his contemplation.

He touched the teapot, which was already empty, and tossed it aside.

Walked quickly out of the room and approached the courtyard door.

"Sir, it's me."

Shang Bian's voice was very low, and it came from outside the door.

Wei Tao opened the door and was immediately startled.

"Sir, you haven't slept in a few days?"

He looked left and right, dodged in, and closed the courtyard door tightly.

"I don't know."

Wei Tao yawned, scooped up a scoop of cold water and drank it.

Until this time, sleepiness and tiredness suddenly swept over like a tide, and he didn't even want to open his eyes.

"Master Shang came in such a hurry, is there something wrong?"

Wei Tao returned to the room and sat down, slowly closing his eyes.

Shang Bian said, "Mr. asked his subordinates to find something, and they have found it!" ”

"Oh!?"

"What's it, is it something I'm asking you to look for against that scroll?"

Wei Tao straightened up suddenly, and his spirit suddenly lifted up.

Shang Bian nodded, and carefully took out a cloth bag from his arms.

When opened, it contained a rather worn tortoiseshell fragment and a slightly mutilated halfling statue.

The halfling statue is surrounded by arms.

Joy, anger and sorrow, the expression of each face is different, and there is a faint feeling of strangeness when you look closely.

Wei Tao slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity, took the armor piece and the statue in his hand, and smiled with joy on his face.

"Master Shang, you're doing a good job."

He rubbed on two things, and exhaled softly.

"Thanks to Zhang Juren from that grocery store."

Shang Bian smiled and said, "The tortoise shell piece was found by him from the mezzanine of the salute, and he also wanted this statue, which Zhang Juren also found at a thrift stall, thinking that Mr. was very interested in them, so he directly bought them and sent them over." ”

"The money that should be given must be given enough."

"Sir, don't worry, we will definitely not let Zhang Juren suffer, even the business and safety of his small grocery store are also protected by those little cubs below."

Wei Tao nodded, and suddenly remembered something, "Since he is a lifter, why didn't he wait for the imperial court to select officials?" ”

"Even if you don't have the money to donate to officials, just by virtue of the identity of lifting people, it will not be to the point of making a living by watching the store."

Shang Bian said, "My subordinates have drunk two meals with him, and they have also talked a lot, Zhang Zhiqing was born in the Central Plains, and there is no doubt about it."

His father was also a Beijing official who returned to his hometown, and he was still an influential wealthy family in the local area.

It was only later that he inadvertently offended the royal relatives who traveled, causing the family to fall apart in a short period of time and decay. ”

Zhang Zhiqing himself saw the opportunity quickly, and fled all the way north to Qizhou with the maid Xiaoqing.

Now I can only take refuge in Xiaoqing's relatives to eat, and as for being an official, I am afraid that I will not think about it in this life. ”

"I see."

Wei Tao was silent for a moment, "Zhang Zhiqing has a deep study of ancient scrolls and tortoiseshell inscriptions, and it is really overkill for someone like him to guard a grocery store, so he should be hired to do more professional things." ”

"Understood, please rest assured, sir, my subordinates will do it."

"The money that should be given must be given in place."

Wei Tao thought about it and said slowly, "But you can't give too much, so as not to change people's hearts." ”

"On top of that, you have to be careful about secrecy, and you can't make the search for these little objects known to everyone, do you understand?"

"My subordinates understand."

Shang Bian got up as he spoke, "Without further ado, I'll go back to him." ”

"Go ahead." Wei Tao waved his hand, looked down at the tortoiseshell piece and bust in his hand, and his spirit quickly sank in.

Silently, the status bar came to mind.

He entered the top-up center with a familiar way.

"Whether to top up or not."

Without any hesitation, Wei Tao pointed directly at the "yes" and nodded.

Swish!

The hand suddenly emptied, and the tortoiseshell piece disappeared.

There was a crisp sound in my ears, and the available gold coins in the status bar interface became 1 again.

Wei Tao frowned slightly, staring at the halfling figure still in his palm, and was a little puzzled for a while.

Why isn't it swallowed and absorbed by the status bar?

Obviously, the happy side of the statue is exactly the same as the smiling face that the status bar absorbed last time, and there is almost no difference between them.

But why can a smiling face turn into a gold coin, but a statue of four cheeks that combines joy, anger and sorrow cannot?

If that's the case.

In the future, relying on that tortoiseshell scroll to find gold coins is not as accurate as imagined.

"One is better than none."

"It's better to have a general direction than to have a black eye."

Wei Tao gathered his thoughts and was about to close the status bar.

His gaze suddenly froze, falling on a line of small words that he had ignored in the interface.

"If you find a bust remnant, do you choose to complete it?"

There are two more yes and no options below.

Wei Tao naturally chose to complete.

The status bar is motionless and has not changed at all.

His brow furrowed, and he thought for a long time.

Only then did he finally understand that if he chose to complete it, he had to find a way to complete it himself.

It's not the status bar that does it all by yourself.

It's just empty joy.

That line of small print has always been there, and Wei Tao directly chose no this time.

Anyway, this sculpture can't be converted into gold coins, so it's better to study what the new interface means.

Swish!

The status bar flashes.

Something new then appeared.

"Half-length remnants (incomplete), whether to absorb or not."

Wei Tao's heart moved, and he chose to absorb.

Swish!

The status bar suddenly blurred.

The palm of his hand slammed into the air.

He was slightly stunned, and then he was attracted by the two crisp sounds.

The number of available gold coins has increased by two at a time.

From 1 to 3.

In other words, this incomplete half-length remnant, the pattern that appeared in the tortoiseshell scroll, can not only be converted into status bar gold coins, but also double the exchange rate!

Wei Tao took a deep breath to calm himself.

Recall the small print that just appeared.

What if he completed the bust?

Is it possible to get more than two coins, to reach an even more exaggerated amount?

After all, from the perspective of goods, once the goods are damaged, even if they can be sold, they can only be discounted below the waist.

Especially for handicrafts, once damaged, wouldn't it be a fracture on the spot?

However, he has no regrets about his choice.

Rice is not counted until it reaches the mouth.

At least for the foreseeable time, he didn't have the ability to complete the statue at all, so he still settled in the bag first and turned the foreign object into his own strength.

When the strength is sufficient and the horizon is broadened, we will consider further issues.

(End of chapter)