Xie Mao, who was walking on the road, reflected the light of the setting sun in his eyes, and he lowered his eyes a little unbearably, and his mood sank.

Wrong!

Definitely there is a problem!

Xie Mao slowly recalled what Yimu Kui said, he could be sure that there was something in Yimu Kui's words, and there must be hidden malice, but what kind of malice was it?

Xie Mao is not good at guessing riddles, nor is he good at pondering the words of riddlers.

But after becoming a "soothsayer", he can rely on extraordinary means to figure it out little by little.

You'd better be the hero of the village...... After thinking for a long time, Xie Mao thought to himself, and suddenly heard a very loud noise of children.

He looked sideways and found himself passing by the ninja school.

The little ones are out of school.

Xie Mao ignored it and continued to walk in the direction of home - he was very cold, and he couldn't play with the children.

Click!

There was a clear sound of running coming from the front, getting closer and closer.

"Scorpion!"

A little boy about the same size as Xie Mao rushed to the front, with the unique smell of wind and sand, and shouted, "Are you here to pick me up?" ”

Xie Mao raised his eyes and found that it was actually an acquaintance insect of the original body, and he said in the usual tone of "scorpion": "I just happened to pass by here." ”

The little insect has nearly black blue hair, some thick eyebrows, and his facial features are not good-looking, but they are not too ugly, just a little rough.

After hearing Xie Mao's voice, Xiao Worm let out a hearty laugh and said, "Then we really happened to meet!" ”

Worm is not a genius like "Scorpion", and he is still studying at the ninja school, working hard to become a real ninja.

As a rare playmate of the "Scorpion", Xie Mao didn't show his face, and said indifferently: "Sort of." ”

"Are you going to my house for dinner tonight? In the evenings we can play some games together. Xiao Worm didn't care about Xie Mao's cold tone, and invited warmly.

Xie Mao shook his head slightly, noticing the slight disappointment on Xiao Mo's face, Xie Mao thought for a moment and said, "Xiao Mo, becoming a ninja is just the beginning, not the end. ”

"Huh?" The worm was stunned in confusion.

"Do you become a shinobi and you will be satisfied?"

The little worm immediately said, "Of course not, I want to be the hero of the village!" ”

"Me too, so you and I need to work harder." Xie Mao said lightly.

"Eh, do geniuses need to work hard?" The worm was surprised.

"Of course, let's also hurry up practicing at night and strive to graduate as soon as possible."

Xie Mao was about to leave, and Xiao Worm suddenly said happily: "Scorpion, you seem to be a little more cheerful today." ”

Xie Mao glanced at the worm and felt a little weird in his heart.

So easy to see?

"It's just that I want to do something else." Xie Mao picked up the book in his hand and gestured.

"Well, what is it?" Only then did Xiao Worm notice the book in Xie Mao's hand and asked curiously.

"Related to divination."

"What is divination?"

It's a question that makes people think about it.

"Extrapolating future blessings and misfortunes, gaining revelations, or searching for people and things, and so on." Xie Mao explained briefly according to his ability to be a "soothsayer".

"It's amazing." The worm is unconscious.

Xie Mao ignored the child's worship, and he said calmly, "I'll go back first." ”

"Oh, good!"

Xiao Worm looked at Xie Mao's distant back, clenched his fists and cheered himself up: "I have to work harder!" ”

Call!

Xie Mao exhaled lightly, in a short period of time, he didn't have the idea of finding a companion, striving to be promoted to a higher sequence as soon as possible, and being able to protect himself was his first goal.

When he said this today, presumably before graduation, the little worm would seize the time to work hard.

Come on, roll it up!

Before the sun went down, Xie Mao returned to his home, at this time Chiyo and Ebizo were still at work, and the old maid was the only one in the house.

The old maid breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Xie Mao who had returned safely, and was about to prepare dinner when Xie Mao stopped him.

"Uncle Sen."

Xie Mao called the old servant, and when the other party looked at him suspiciously, he showed the book in his hand: "Please prepare some materials and props mentioned in this book." ”

Uncle Sen took the book, glanced at the title, and although there was still confusion in his eyes, he nodded his head without saying anything, and then went to prepare dinner as usual.

After settling the matter about the divination props, Xie Mao went to the backyard before eating and continued to familiarize himself with and practice his chakra, but just over an hour was not enough time for him to improve the level of the skills on the panel.

After dinner, Xie Mao went to the workshop where the puppets were made.

"Scorpion", as a puppeteer, of course, has his own workshop at home.

The original "Father" and "Mother" were born in this workshop, and they are now placed here.

Entering the workshop, Xie Mao glanced at it and overlapped what he saw with his memory.

It was a rather open room, surrounded by unfolded scrolls of strange symbols on the walls of loess, the main body of the room was a rough model of a humanoid puppet suspended from the ceiling, and near the window, there was a small stone workbench filled with various parts and tools.

It's quite like a secret puppet master...... Xie Mao looked at the hanging puppet with appreciation, and then walked to the workbench.

"That's where the scorpion gets acquainted with the puppet."

Xie Mao stretched out his hand and stroked the stone platform, then picked up the human hand model on the table and turned around, showing a little smile: "It's good to make a figure, it would be nice to be able to fight a 1:1 Gundam." ”

In the memory of the "Scorpion", the puppet technique occupies the most important weight, and the experience of making and using puppets is also exaggerated, plus the elder Chiyo can be called the pinnacle of puppet skills, no matter how Xie Mao thinks, he feels that he should make good use of these resources and not waste them.

Even if the threshold of puppetry is very high, but with the talent of the original body of "Scorpion", there is no reason why Xie Mao should not give it a try.

Turning around, he looked at the puppets that were lifted one by one, and said softly, "Just start here." ”

Xie Mao, who has the complete memory of "Scorpion", does not need any books to start learning puppetry, although the control of chakra is not up to standard, some content can be learned earlier, and some work can be prepared early.

"Just right, the materials in front of me are enough." Xie Mao swept the circle, and various puppet drawings quickly appeared in his mind, and those were the accumulation of "scorpions".

Try it out.

When Chiyo and Ebizo returned home, Xie Mao was still immersed in his own world in the workshop, and he didn't wake up until he heard a knock on the door.

"Please come in." Xie Mao, who was still busy, opened his mouth and continued to assemble his hand.

"Squeak~"

The door to the workshop was pushed open, and Chiyo said softly, "Are you still making puppets?" ”

"Hmm." Xie Mao replied, twisted a puppet finger into the palm of his hand, and moved briefly to make sure that it was tightened before moving on to the next finger.

Chiyo stepped forward and saw the puppet on the workbench.

The puppet's torso has been completed, and Xie Mao is now working on the limbs, and it has reached the finishing part.

Xie Mao had never made a full-length puppet, but he had experience in fighting Gundam, and with clear drawings and enough tools, it was not difficult to build a puppet.

However, Xie Mao has not yet equipped this puppet with various weapons, all he has to do today is to put the knowledge in his memory into practice and experience the body structure of a puppet.

Soon, Xie Mao finished assembling his arms, and the limbs and torso of the puppet were all fully assembled, and the head was the cavity head that Xie Mao had prepared a long time ago.

Not bad...... Xie Mao stood up and looked down at his work, looked at every detail, and nodded in his heart.

Chiyo, who was observing from the sidelines, smiled a little and said slowly: "Scorpion, your craftsmanship is delicate. ”

The original "Scorpion" paid more attention to the practicality of the puppet, and did not care about the details of the corners and corners, as long as the expected effect could be achieved, but Xie Mao, who had experience as a glue guy, couldn't stand such roughness.

Many puppet parts were polished back and forth by him with tools to become smooth, and the parts were more carefully fitted when assembling them, and the final result was a more delicate and improved appearance of the puppet.

"Perhaps." Xie Mao's face was noncommittal, and he was quite sure of Chiyo's vision in his heart.

"If you make your face more detailed, and then you can disguise it as a real person." Chiyo kindly suggested.

While this may seem biased, most ninjas do choose to go straight to the Yellow Dragon and attack the relatively vulnerable puppeteer himself when confronted with a puppeteer.

The biggest weakness of the puppeteer is that he is himself (Kankuro nods)!

As a result, puppeteers need to pay more attention to their own protection and disguise than other ninjas.

Among the various disguises, changing the puppet into a real person and playing the puppeteer is quite a classic and useful method.

It's just that the chakra line is a necessary thing that the puppeteer can't hide after all, and in high-level battles, the strong can easily capture the movement of the chakra line to lock the puppeteer's true body, and most of the camouflage methods are ineffective.

Chiyo's guidance and suggestions just hoped that Xie Mao could disguise and save his life at the middle and low level.

"Hmm." Xie Mao bowed his head with a flat face, "Let's get here here first tonight." ”

"It's okay, rest early." Chiyo nodded slightly, she just came to persuade Xie Mao to rest early.

Xie Mao, who replaced the body, didn't want to have more contact with acquaintances, especially Chiyo, who was the most familiar, so he immediately prepared to say goodnight and leave after hearing Chiyo's words.

"That's right." Chiyo suddenly interrupted Xie Mao's "good night" as if he remembered something, and Xie Mao's body couldn't help but stiffen in fright.

I saw Chiyo grab it from his arms and pull out a small stack of silver cards.

The cards reflect a warm glow in the light of the lamp.