Chapter 37: Transfiguration

Relying on the dry food brought back by the non-returnee, he and Wu Mian stayed in the cave for more than two months. It wasn't until Wu Mian completely recovered that the two of them came down from the mountain.

Before going down the mountain, I went around the cave by myself, and when I came back, I grabbed a live rabbit and some messy herbs.

In front of Wu Mian, the old guy soaked the herbs in water, and then slaughtered the rabbit with his own hands, don't look at how many hundred years he has lived, when he was in power before, he was waiting for his disciples and grandchildren, and he didn't expect this set of bloodletting and skinning to do it, it was also decent. After cleaning up, the rabbit meat was roasted at that time and it was cheap for Wu Mian. What is really needed is rabbit skin.

The old guy first carefully shaved the hair on the rabbit skin with a dagger, washed it, and then exposed it to the sun for two days, and then continued to soak it in water. After soaking it through this time, he used a dagger to peel off a thin layer of skin on it.

Seeing this method of no return, Wu Mian was also very surprised, he didn't understand what this was going to do, but Wu Mian was not a talkative person by nature, and waited until the old guy was almost the same, and then asked: "I don't see how your magic is, but this skill is not bad." When you can't get along in the Fangshi Gate in the future. Opening a cobbler's shop won't necessarily starve you."

Whether to return or not, he has long adapted to Wu Mian's way of speaking, and he doesn't think so at the moment. As if he didn't understand the meaning of his words, after laughing without embarrassment, the old guy said, "This is really an ancestral craft. Before becoming alchemists, we were all leathermakers for three generations. At the beginning, if they didn't collect a few pieces of leather goods in the palace, they would be embarrassed to call themselves kings."

When you can't return, put the newly peeled rabbit skin into the water again. Then take out the herbs that have been soaked for a few days, put them on the stone table and mash them, and finally put the mashed herbs into a stone bowl, mix them with water and feel that they are about the same, and then walk in front of Wu Mian with the stone bowl.

"Close your eyes, this potion won't hurt your eyes. But if it is not small enough to get into the eyes, it can hurt for a day and a half" Talking kung fu, Gui Gui dipped his fingers in herbal juice, and he had to apply it to Wu Mian's face. Just when he was about to touch the skin on his face, several arcs of electricity suddenly appeared on Wu Mian's body. Although he didn't slash at the old guy for the time being, just listening to the crackling arc sparks could already make people tremble.

Returning to the point where he had long expected this, he stepped back and shouted, "Wait a minute! I'm giving you a disguise!" Wu Mian seemed to be waiting for his words, and as soon as these words came out, the arc on his body disappeared immediately.

Wu Mian squinted at the stone bowl in his hand, and after snorting, he said, "Or for the volcano-"

Gui Wugui let out a sigh of relief, and said to Wu Mian: "I grew up seeing the volcano, and my temperament is the same as his unlucky master, who is suspicious by nature. He chased you all the way here with your portrait, and although he didn't find you in this cave, he was sure that you were hiding in the mountains. Since I can't find you on the mountain, I can only block you at the bottom of the mountain. There is such a road down the mountain, you also know, as long as you sit on the side of the road, no one can escape. It's impossible to get out without a little preparation."

As he spoke, he carefully dipped the herbal juice and applied it to Wu Mian's face again. Seeing that Wu Mian didn't dodge and resist this time, the old guy had the courage to smear it on his face. Wu Mian didn't say a word, his face was calm, and he let it be smeared on his face and neck. After applying it, he also applied this herbal juice to Wu Mian's hands. Strange to say, the grass-green medicinal juice turned into a faint yellow color after being dried, which is very close to the color of human skin.

After applying, he poured out half of the remaining herbal juice and applied it to his face, and soaked the remaining herbal juice in the rabbit skin that had just been peeled off. Although Wu Mian couldn't see what had become, he looked at the sickly white skin that had turned into an ordinary person's pale yellow complexion in an instant, and through the changes of this old guy, he could roughly judge what he had become.

After holding himself upside down, he found the rabbit blood that had been left a few days ago and had dried up and turned solid. He stirred the rabbit's blood with the rest of the herbal juice, and as he stirred, the color of the herb juice became thicker and thicker, and finally it turned into an ink-like color.

The ink-like herbal juice was applied to Wu Mian's hair, and when the herbal juice was dried, the thin layer of rabbit skin soaked in the herbal juice was taken over, and the dagger was divided into several sections, and the rabbit skin was pasted on the bridge of Wu Mian's nose, cheeks, and eyelids. Then he used his dagger to carve and draw on Wu Mian's face with a few pieces of rabbit skin, and from time to time he used the remaining herbal juice that was already a little sticky to tinker with Wu Mian's face.

After tossing for two or three hours, I was satisfied with my work if I didn't return. He actually found a bronze mirror in this cave, wiped off the patina on it, and placed it in front of Wu Mian. Inside the bronze mirror appeared a man in his forties, with gray hair and wrinkles on his face. Whoever identifies it, this man has nothing to do with Wu Mian at all.

Seeing that Wu barely endured it, he didn't show his surprised expression. The old guy smiled and said, "How is it, the craftsmanship is good, right?"

Wu Mian's gaze shifted from the bronze mirror to the body of the returnee, and said: "I can't see this, you are doing it."

Unexpectedly, this time the old guy didn't show off, but after smiling bitterly, he put the remaining rabbit skin on the wrinkled place on his face in front of the bronze mirror, and after a while, the old guy was dozens of years younger, and his appearance had changed significantly. He moved his hands, and at the same time said in his mouth: "When I was kicked out of the Fang Shi Gate Wall by Xu Fu, I was heard by the previous enemy. Normally, they don't dare to touch me, and they only wait for the debilitating period once every three years to kill me, if it weren't for the miscellaneous books I read a lot and know a little about the art of disguise, I still don't know who will accompany you to suffer."

After saying that he would not return, he removed the silk silk that recorded the Siping Sutra from the scroll, crumpled it into a ball and put it on Wu Mian's back, and in a blink of an eye, Wu Mian became a hunchbacked middle-aged man again.

After everything was cleaned up, he taught Wu Mian a set of methods for restraining his breath. This does not belong to the art of Fangshu, and it does not require much advanced practice. Wu Mian tried a few times, and after getting acquainted with it, he coped with it easily.

Looking at Wu Mian's current appearance, he bared his teeth and said, "Okay, let's go down the mountain."

It was almost exactly the same as what he thought about returning to him, and he and Wu Mian had just come down the mountain. I saw that the only intersection in the village below the mountain that could go out had been erected a pergola, and there were four or five people sitting in it, looking at the faces of passers-by, led by a red-haired man, who was the volcano who was facing Wu Mian not long ago.

Returning or not, he walked towards the position of the volcano people like Wu Mian was fine. Seeing that there was still a distance of more than ten zhang, the old guy suddenly said to Wu Mian: "Dog, remember to tell your mother when you go back, your father and I will sleep at your second uncle's house tonight, and if you don't go back at night, you don't need to leave the door for me."