Kela ~ Kela ~

An altar with candlesticks and incense burners, smoke swirling in the candlelight.

The place behind the statue was replaced by a shrine with a dozen dolls, and the sound just now was made by the puppet of an obese woman on the second floor.

On the futon in front of the altar, an old man in a black and yellow robe suddenly opened his eyes, which were covered with a layer of withered ash, but the eyeballs in them were still turning, and he quickly stared at a puppet in the shrine.

"Fetch it. ”

The dust in his hand swayed lightly, and a figure wearing a thick black and purple robe and a copper curtain made of copper coins on his head immediately took a step forward, and when he walked to the altar, he reached out and took out the fat woman's doll, turned around and handed it to the old man on the futon.

The whole process is very stiff, as if the joints do not move.

"The sky is bright and the clouds are open...... Against the sky......

A low incantation came out of his mouth, and in an instant the darkness of the room twisted as if something was crowded, and the air gradually whispered, and the servants beside him let out uncontrollable animalistic howls.

In the next second, I saw that the puppet in my hand suddenly expanded, and tentacles extended out of the waist and abdomen, and in just a few seconds, it completely lost its human form, and then a crack opened in the middle, and finally turned into a blurry pool of broken flesh and blood that slipped from between the knuckles.

"Waste!

With an angry reprimand, the old man's voice grew higher.

"Captain, what do you command?"

There was a voice outside the door.

"The ghost was killed, and she still has a doll on her, I want you to find out who did it and bring the doll back...... Pick two retinues, be quick!"

Raising his palm high, the servant's figure was tilted down at forty-five degrees, and several scarlet and slender tongues protruded from the copper coin's eyes, sweeping away the stenching flesh.

"Understood!"

The voice fell, and the figure outside the door disappeared in an instant.

......

In the wheelhouse of the Tide, foldable bamboo chairs are placed in the corners, and the beige glow cast by gas lamps on the ceiling illuminates the room.

Lu Jing fiddled with the trembling compass in his hand, and brought it close to the suitcase that Zhou Qing handed over to him before the table, while Xu Jing counted the gold leaves and silver dollars in the tray next to him, picked up the charcoal pen from time to time to write something down in the book, and at the same time set aside some coins and put them in the extra bag.

After lying on the deck for a while, waiting for the prostration after his tidal alienation to subside, and after getting familiar with his newly acquired strength, Lu Jing naturally wanted to take stock of the harvest on the sea flower boat this time.

"In the end, it is a sea flower boat, Zheng shopkeeper's hand is very generous, there are 5 gold leaves plus 88 silver dollars here, and when we get to Huashu Island, we can completely carry out some basic modifications for the tide, buy a speedboat with medium performance and the field camping equipment that may be used after boarding the Treasure Beast Island. ”

While speaking, Xu Xi's eyes fell on the delicate compass in Lu Jing's hand, and he was stunned, and suddenly stepped forward to stare at the silver-gray number "76" on the lid of the compass box.

"Captain, you ...... It can't be the legendary unknown curiosity, right?"

"What is an unknown curiosity?"

Lu Jing, who had just opened the suitcase, had not had time to look at the items inside, and when he heard Xu Xi's words, he asked in surprise.

There is no way, Lu Jing has been circling in the circle of fishing boats before, if you ask him what sea fish are more common, it must be a few treasures, and when he encounters this kind of special news on the boundless sea, his eyes are naturally black.

In fact, this was also the main reason why Lu Jing recruited Xu Chu before, and the latter's extensive knowledge really helped him a lot.

"It is rumored that all over the Infinite Sea are scattered unknown strange objects from the Ember Era, all of which come in a variety of forms and possess a myriad of abilities, the only thing they have in common is that some part of them must have a tag, or a serial number...... Does this compass of yours also have special abilities?"

Xu Chu noticed the tremor of the compass and couldn't help asking.

"Yes, it seems to point me to something valuable, but I haven't figured out exactly how far it can go. ”

Closing and opening the compass in his hand, rubbing his thumb against the numbers, his eyes finally turned to the contents of the suitcase,

"Leave this compass alone, anyway, I won't be able to study it for a while, and it's not easy to mark something out of it. ”

There were not many things in the suitcase, and some scattered coins and clothes were removed, and two things caught Lu Jing's attention:

A brown-red leather-wrapped scroll, when opened, reads "Secret Arts: Iron Sand Puppet Drill" on the far left, and inside is a description of the making and operation of a puppet.

"What the hell?"

Lu Jing looked at it for a while, his head was full of confusion, not to mention the extremely complicated puppet production, he couldn't understand the method of manipulating the puppet alone.

"This is obviously a secret art scroll exclusive to the puppeteer, if you can understand it on the premise of zero foundation, then you are a genius puppeteer who is rare to see in a hundred years...... In short, we will definitely not use it, and then find a place to sell it, this kind of secret art scroll, the price will definitely not be cheap. ”

Xu Chu glanced at the scroll twice, and suddenly seemed to think of something, and said,

"I know why the members of the Nightmare Pirates appeared on the Sea Flower Boat, there is a sand blowing city specializing in sand and iron in the route of that ship, and it is rumored that it is also a very famous refining city, he probably wants to go there to build this puppet. ”

"Tsk, it doesn't have anything to do with us anyway, let's take a look at this second piece. ”

Believing that he was accustomed to holding the whaling spear, the rough palm of the hand could not be beaten with the puppet technique, Lu Jing quickly lost interest in the scroll, and instead looked at the contents of the suitcase that was wrapped in a layer of red cloth.

A palm-sized, unknown material, the shape of which is roughly a miniature version of a child in his early tens, but the forehead and torso are depicted with dark red spells, which looks extremely evil.

"The people of the Nightmare Pirates shouldn't be so naïve as to carry a doll with them, even if it's a girl's heart, they can get a little pink skirt or something. ”

Lu Jing put the doll under the light, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong, perhaps because he had been injured by the statue of the human head before, he was extremely sensitive to this kind of thing, and he reached out to get the kerosene lamp that was turned off next to him, he didn't want to leave such a strange thing on his boat.

"Don't, don't rush to burn it yet, I seem to have seen a similar picture somewhere, you wait......"

Guessing what Lu Jing wanted to do, Xu Chu hurriedly stopped him, trotted out of the wheelhouse, and after a while, he returned with a book, placing it on the table and flipping it.

"Is there anything else to say about this puppet?"

Lu Jing stepped forward, and it happened that Xu Chu turned to one of the pages, and there was a doll about the size of his hand drawn on it!

"This is a book I bought in Ki Hwang Island in Ta Ninh Province, and it contains some local anecdotes...... I found it, and the book said that the puppet manufacturing process in Qihuangdao was extremely special, and it was rumored that someone made a puppet that could host people's souls...... Why is it gone?"

Turning the page, Xu Chu found that the book was only mentioned, and there was no more content, so he closed the book with some disappointment.

"In short, this doll is extraordinary, although I don't know what the purpose is, but let's save it first, wait for the treasure on the treasure island, and then go to Qihuang Island to find the puppeteer to ask a question, maybe it can be sold for a lot of money like that scroll." ”

"This can also sell for a lot of money?"

As soon as he mentioned this, Lu Jing immediately put down the kerosene lamp.