Chapter 9: Echo Bugs
"Senior sister, am I trying to exert myself so hard, right?"
"Senior sister, you didn't seem to say that last time, the angle of my backhand is obviously correct!
"Eh, senior sister, I take a bath every day, why are you always so far away from me?"
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I don't know if he misunderstood Lei Luo's motives, and every time Qi Wei refused his request, she would have a smile on her face, as if she was watching some fool who thought he was clever play a trick.
"Could it be that the little tigress is coming in her menstrual period and affecting her brain circuits?" Lei Luo was furious, but he was helpless.
The taste of guarding the sweet spring but dying of thirst is not pleasant, and Lei Luo has repeatedly failed to "hook up", so he can't help but be very frustrated. At the same time, I also understand that mentioning the necklace again may backfire and arouse the suspicion of the other party. I only thought hard about countermeasures all day long, and I was so worried that even my cheeks were aching.
Now Lei Luo's academy timetable is basically divided into three parts, except for soaking in the martial arts club and the dense forest cultivation ground, he is mixed with the history teacher.
Studying history is not like learning secret martial arts, there are only eight styles of Broken Palms, and history alone is enough to fill an entire library of records and documents related to the Dark Moon Continent.
Lei Luo was stammering, and when he got along in private, as long as the history teacher yawned, he would turn around and take the cigarette and match, and respectfully hand it forward. I usually serve tea and pour water, help clean the dormitory, and even wash and dry quilts. The old widower's original stinky temper was polished a little bit, and when he saw Lei Luo, he smiled and called him "a rare Puyu", but he had long forgotten the scene when he pointed at his nose and scolded the rotten wood.
From the history teacher, "Puyu" did learn a lot. Now that I have the picture of the ordinary Shadow Soul Relic, I can roughly tell whether the characters on it are from the Far Eastern Dynasty of the Sunken Continent or the Northern Barbarians who are the opposite. In terms of the grade of relics, Lei Luo also has a preliminary understanding, and Zhilu Dao can be divided into six levels: ordinary-excellent-sophisticated-epic-legend-holy weapon, and the epic and above are often dynasty items.
Although this level of progress is not worth mentioning in the eyes of history teachers, Lei Luo's rolling sycophants are one after another, repeatedly emphasizing that if he had not been saved by his mentor, he would have degenerated into a gangster a long time ago, and where would he have his current academic achievements?
Although the history teacher is old, he has not yet reached the point of confusion. If it was other students who were so brazen and careless, I was afraid that I would have been slapped a long time ago, but it was Lei Luo who was standing in front of him, which was naturally very different.
"It's not as exaggerated as you say, teacher, I'm just educating people, and the main thing is that you fight for yourself. In fact, I like students like you who have flexible brains, who are good at drawing inferences from one case to another in the learning process, and their thinking turns quickly, and this alone has the potential to be a good talent and beautiful jade!" The old man looked at Lei Luo with satisfaction, touched his beard and said, "It's like the shadow soul relic collected by the dean, once you see the real thing, I'm afraid you will immediately find a few questions to ask me......"
"What?!" Lei Luo shouted, so frightened that the old man almost had a heart attack.
"Stinky boy, I'm talking about the Shadow Soul Relic that you're most interested in, do you want to kill me in a flash?" The history teacher clutched his chest and took a few deep breaths, unaware of what he had mentioned that had caused a fire in Lei Luo's heart.
"Teacher, can you take me to see it?" begged Lei Luoyang.
When Leng Buding learned that there was another relic by his side, he couldn't help but be ecstatic, and his mind became active.
"Not now, Lady Martha personally sent the relics to the royal capital to participate in the exhibition, and when she comes back, I will take you to open your eyes! The history teacher mentioned the female dean of the academy who still had charm, and couldn't help but pour another glass of wine.
"If you send it to the exhibition, it should be a high-grade relic, right?" Lei Luo did not show disappointment, but instead seemed more concerned.
"It was a voodoo statue, something left behind by the barbarians. The history teacher smacked his lips, not knowing whether he was tasting wine or imagining the aroma of Madame Martha's meat, "In my opinion, at least above the level of finesse!"
Even though he wasn't sure how much potential "fine" meant, Lei Luo couldn't help but swallow. After the female dean returns to the academy with the relics, shouldn't she turn her attention......?
"A woman, it's like a cat! If you want her not to run away, you have to have something to attract her to. The drunken history teacher was filled with emotion at the portrait of Lady Martha in his private collection.
Lei Luo was stunned, like a stick.
That night, more than a dozen friends in the neighborhood were called out and followed Lei Luo to the abandoned mining area.
Exploration of black crystal veins is the most difficult, but often when one is found, multiple deposits can be found in the surrounding area. The abandonment of the mining area means that the underground labyrinth has been exhausted, and the surface of the land within a radius of tens of miles has become a dangerous subsidence area, and few people dare to approach it in normal times.
Traces of echo bugs can only be found in such abandoned mining areas. They lie dormant in rock crevices, feed on the residue of black crystal, and are extremely sensitive to light. Only the children of real miners know how to use phosphorescent stone moss as a lighting tool, and deftly navigate the intricate underground mines, harvesting these ghostly creatures one by one.
Out of a hundred echo worms, the number of female worms is basically only one or two. Their magic is that no matter what the captor says, as long as it lasts for a minute, the male insect can imitate it vividly, just like an echo. What's even more interesting is that unless the male insect senses the presence of a female insect nearby, he will repeat the imitation over and over again.
Lei Luo used to catch the Echo Bug, which was nothing more than a prank. But today, the situation seems to be a little different, and after mobilizing the small partners to catch hundreds, they are finally satisfied.
"Why are you catching so much? you can't eat ......," Big Tooth wondered.
Lei Luo was silent, opened the sack of linen he brought with him, and poured out dozens of flower-backed spiders the size of wine cups. Big Tooth was taken aback, and hurriedly jumped to the side, his voice trembling with fright: "Bird-eating spider?"
Found only in the misty swamps outside the city, the bird-eating spider is the most ferocious of the carnivorous insects, with an unusually large appetite and a swift movement, which can hunt small and medium-sized birds with only one physical strength. Right now, these dozens of bird-eating spiders are enough to turn the entire abandoned mining area into a dead area in a few days, not to mention insects, not even half of the rats left.
Big Tooth, Aaron and the others couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in Lei Luo's gourd, until he took the initiative to uncover the mystery.
"I'm going to sell these echo bugs for money, and by the way, I'm going to pay Aaron's entry fee. Lei Luo said.
Aaron was stunned, moved to tears.
"Echo bugs are not a rare thing, will anyone buy them?" A few friends next to him still didn't turn the corner.
Lei Luo pointed to the place where the bird-eating spider disappeared and said with a smile: "With the help of these guys, I guarantee that the echo worms in our hands are the last batch we can catch this year." ”
Back at the pet store where the bird-eating spider came on credit, Lei Luo offered to use 5 echo bugs to pay off all the bird-eating spiders' debts.
"Are you crazy?" the boss was taken aback by his proposal, "If it weren't for your father's sake, Lao Tzu wouldn't even give you credit! It's been decades since the store opened, and it's the first time I've heard of how rare echo worms are, and you can trample a few of them to death with your eyes closed under the mining area, right? You might as well go to the swamp and catch a bird-eating spider for me! Don't talk nonsense, you said that you would give money for a week, and if you don't give it, you will go to your house!"
Lei Luo was not angry, and waited for the thunderous boss to finally calm down, and then said slowly: "I won't give you 5 so many tomorrow, you think about it." ”
The boss didn't even bother to answer, and compared a middle finger.
Early the next morning, the owner of the pet store rushed into Lei Luo's house, almost crawled to the side of his bed, and raised his trembling right hand while panting, "5! I agreed, 5 echo worms to pay!"
Lei Luo sat up sleepily, pulled back the five fingers that were still held high, only the middle finger remained, and then pointed the fingertips towards the pet shop owner himself.
"You're too ruthless!" the pet shop owner glared at his fingers, grieved and angry.