Chapter 55: The Lost Man
Buddha jumping over the wall is a famous dish.
The first time Chen Qing knew the name of this dish was in an old movie. The actor who is the god of food in the movie once made this dish, which looks quite delicious and impressive.
And this strange name also deepened Chen Qing's memory of this dish.
And Chen Qing felt that he was probably not the only one who found this name strange.
As for why the name was chosen, the specific origin is varied and varied.
But, when he knew that Qi Lu wanted this recipe in the mirror.
Two questions suddenly popped up in Chen Qing's mind.
The first question is, what do they want this recipe for?
Or to be more accurate - does the dish made with this recipe have any special powers?
Otherwise, it was hard to imagine that Qi Lu would exchange a precious elixir for this recipe.
And the second question in addition is.
Can the ingredients used in the Buddha jumping over the wall still be found in the wasteland?
Like those abalones, old hens, clams......
Chen Qingke still remembers.
Pollution not only pollutes knowledge and objects, but also causes some animals to mutate. The "Wasteland Black Snake" that made the elixir material is a mutated animal.
It is safe to speculate that some of the ingredients used to make the Buddha jumping over the wall may have been contaminated and turned into new things.
So here's the problem.
Can a contaminated and distorted creature still be called a "food"?!
With such a question in his arms, Chen Qing fell into deep thought.
"But maybe it's because of the contamination of the ingredients that we can make extraordinary food."
Of course, as forbidden knowledge, recipes must also have extraordinary powers. If you follow the recipe, there is a high probability that you will be able to get strange results.
Wait a minute.
Something suddenly came to mind.
Chen Qing's eyes lit up slightly.
Although I don't know.
But that doesn't mean you can't ask?
"Wouldn't it be nice to choose a way that won't lose your identity and ask?"
Thinking so, he cleared his throat.
Then he said slowly in the mirror: "'Buddha jumps over the wall'? It's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Where did you hear that? ”
Hear this.
Qi Lu was stunned for a moment.
For this was the first time that the Lord of Truth had asked him about anything other than "trading"!
All the conversations up to that point to that have been basically transaction-based. Either the Lord of Truth asks Qi Lu what he wants, or what price he can pay.
This time, however, it was the first time he had left the deal behind and shown his interest in something......
At this moment, Qi Lu realized that this could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
An opportunity to get closer to the Lord of Truth!
He did not hesitate to reveal everything he knew: "This secret also comes from the 'Zenya Federation' thousands of years ago. ”
"During the excavation of the Thorn Mask, we unearthed a lot of documents and records about the Zenya Federation. And in those records, we learn of the item 'Buddha jumping over the wall'. ”
Qi Lu said quickly: "Before the demise of the Zenya Federation, it had always regarded itself as the 'food capital'. The 'Buddha jumping over the wall' is a dish they admire, and it is said that those who master this recipe may be qualified to become a high-level transcendent - the 'God of Food'. ”
"I don't expect to be able to get a transcendent sequence, I just want to be able to make a Buddha jumping over the wall. Because ......"
Looking at the mirror, Qi Lu's voice was soft: "I have a friend, a friend I met in the 'Zenya Federation', and it dreamed of eating that dish. ”
Yes.
Qi Lu didn't ask for himself.
It's for a friend I know from the ruins of the "Zenya Federation".
It was an ancient puppet.
The puppet looks like a maiden, and has long been sleeping in the relics of the past of the Zenya Federation. A heavy layer of earth pressed against its body, leaving it in eternal darkness.
It wasn't until Qi Lu and the others, relying on the treasure map in their hands, that they excavated the ruins that the light of a thousand years later shone on the puppet's body again.
And when the light shines into the ruins.
The puppet woke up and almost attacked Qilu and them.
Because it's an auto-guardian golem.
Any intruder who tries to enter the ruins will be subjected to the deadliest attack of the puppets!
Fortunately, because thousands of years have passed, the energy to support the puppets has basically been exhausted. So in the end, it could only stand in awkward place, unable to move.
In the end, it could only stare at Qi Lu and them.
…… Who knows how embarrassing the picture really was.
But.
Fortunately, Qi Lu and they are not pure intruders.
And now, thousands of years have passed, and the Federation that the puppets need to protect is long gone.
After a brief negotiation, the puppet understood this.
The place where it lived in the past is now only a handful of loess, and a record of history that is not light or heavy.
And when you understand that.
The puppet nearly collapsed.
It let down its guard in despair, and didn't say anything, just covered its face, as if it was sobbing, but it couldn't shed tears because of its anatomy.
If it weren't for knowing its true identity, just looking at its back, Qi Lu really thought that it was a girl who had lost her psychological support and was crying in a low voice.
This made him feel a little compassion in his heart.
That's not a liking for the opposite sex - Qi Lu hasn't been perverted enough to estrus over the wooden bumps he met for the first time.
That's pure sympathy and pity.
It is the empathy of a lost person who has been struggling for thousands of years, but finally finds that his hometown has collapsed.
Because he's pretty much the same.
The Qi family is also homeless after losing their hometown.
So he quickly resonated with the puppet.
After learning about it, Qi Lu learned from the puppet that its greatest wish was to eat the Buddha and jump over the wall.
"It's an ancient recipe that my master once dreamed of reproducing."
The puppet's voice was cold: "In the first half of my life as a guard puppet, I was closely associated with this recipe. My master worked so this recipe that he never gave up on reproducing it, even when he was dying. ”
And the same is true of her offspring, and the owner's daughter has always carried on her mother's legacy, always trying to reproduce that dish. And then the daughter's daughter, the granddaughter's son......"
That's a long history of just one man left.
And in that history, the prayers and desires of the whole family have now become similar attachments, imprinted on the puppet's body.
Before you know it, it's ...... In other words, "she" has also become an existence similar to her master, and regards that dreamlike past as her highest pursuit.
At the same time, it is also the last thing that can be left to her by the "Zenya Federation" thousands of years ago!
After all that is said and done.
Qi Lu looked behind him.
Behind him, a dark-haired, dark-eyed girl wearing a strange set of ornaments, with her hands folded in front of her, was silently watching him.
In Qi Lu's gaze, the girl-like puppet stepped forward and stood in front of the mirror.
And inside the mirror.
The figure is distorted like a flickering lamp.
After a long time.
"Yes."
The Lord of Truth in the mirror made a decision in a grand and solemn voice: "Heaven is equal, and the deal is established." ”
A moment later.
The voice of the Lord of Truth came again.
Only this time, his tone seemed to soften a little.
"Maybe it's fate."
"Now that you've got it, pass on this dusty recipe."
He said to Zilu and the puppet.