Chapter Seventy-Seven: Child Labor (I)
Yu Xiu had never seen the Fire Boy before, but he had read the account in the Ghost City newspaper Persona.
"The boy who burns the fire is easy to appear on the fire, and the good fire can be put into the furnace to watch the fire. Yu Xiu pondered the record in the newspaper, and his heart was even more joyful.
The fire boy is a low-grade spirit, without much magic, and its strength is like a ghost, and it is difficult to hurt people, but it is a spirit born in mountain fires, fire kilns and other places.
If the Taoist priest obtains it, he can use it to control the fire and manipulate the fire, increasing the success rate of the alchemy refiner, especially for the lower third-grade Taoist priests who cannot touch the Yin God.
And the biggest difficulty that Yu Xiu encountered in refining medicine was that he could not control the heat proficiently.
"If you subdue this fire boy in front of you, wouldn't it be just around the corner to refine gunpowder!" he stared at the palm-sized spirit, his eyes lit up.
Yu Xiu looked at the burning boy intently, thought in his heart, and quickly took out the corpse talisman.
The Fire Boy is a spirit that belongs to the category of ghosts, although it is not afraid of fire and can control the flames, but it has no body and is easy to transform into a red fire and escape.
The fire boy in the cave was still lying on top of the fire pit, shaking his head and devouring the incense in the talisman money, and he didn't find Yu Xiu at all. When Yu Xiu walked behind it, it still looked dazed.
Yu Xiu looked at the scene in front of him and was slightly surprised.
According to the newspaper records, this kind of spirit has no means of self-protection, and its form is weak, so it is extremely alert, not like a ghost, but like a rabbit frightened by a bird, quite afraid of the living.
"Could it be that you are drunk by smoking incense?" Yu Xiu was surprised. Whatever the reason, though, he didn't hesitate.
Yu Xiu immediately threw out the talisman paper in his hand and pasted it to the fire boy. When the rune paper fell on the top of the fire boy and spontaneously combusted, the boy did not react.
A puff of gray smoke swayed, and the body of the burning boy suddenly froze in place.
After the corpse talisman was burned into flying ashes, the black gas inside it gushed out, and instantly wrapped around the burning boy's body, forming a shackle-like black gas, tying the boy upright.
The fire boy was restrained by the corpse talisman, and his eyes were blank, and he looked confused. When Yu Xiu took the long knife and copied it from the fire, panic appeared in its eyes.
This boy is a ghost, the real thing is difficult to touch, and Yu Xiu does not escape from the contact of the yin god, so he can only infuse the blood and qi into the long knife and indirectly contact the other party.
Yu Xiu picked up the long knife and glanced at the place where the boy was staying, but he didn't find anything wrong, and the inside and outside of the cave were normal.
He relieved himself and turned his long knife so that the fire boy faced him.
The boy woke up in shock, and when he saw the behemoth-like Yu Xiu, his eyes were very frightened, his palm-sized body kept trembling, and the red light on his body flashed continuously, wanting to turn into fire and escape.
But the chain of black qi from the corpse talisman was firmly tied to its body, so that it could not move even an inch.
Yu Xiu squinted at the other party, thinking about what he had seen and heard in the ghost market, thinking about how to subdue this spirit and let the other party use it for himself.
Before Yu Xiu could come up with a way, the fire boy suddenly calmed down, the horror in his eyes disappeared, and a frightened and pitiful look appeared instead, looking at Yu Xiu like a dog.
Yu Xiu saw that the boy was no longer struggling, his eyes were slightly stunned, and he thought in his heart, so he was surprised: "Isn't this boy wild?"
The spirits in the world are extraordinary things, with all kinds of dispositions, and the spirit of the fire boy, which has been transformed from a ghost, is born at odds with the living.
"According to the newspaper, this thing is mostly changed by the souls of people who died tragically in the fire, and they like to set fires, and they haunt more places where there are many people who are prone to mountain fires and there are many dead......" Yu Xiu thought carefully, and looked up at the outside of the cave.
Not far from here, there is a mine, there are dozens of blast furnaces in the mine, burning day and night, black smoke billowing constantly, and there are many people in the mine, and there are Taoist priests.
"Most of this thing was born in the mine, could it be that it was raised by the Taoist priest in the mine?"
Yu Xiu looked down at the poor fire boy in front of him, and in his heart, he immediately half-closed his eyes and escaped from the Yin God.
When the fire boy saw Yu Xiu escape from the Yin God, his eyes were even more afraid, and he didn't even dare to struggle, and he froze completely.
Yu Xiu escaped from the yin god and sat cross-legged in front of the fire boy, with a smile on his face.
He pointed at the other party and said, "Panic, and ask you a few questions, if you are willing to answer, you will blink three times, and this will untie you." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the boy quickly blinked three times, and then stared, not daring to move.
Yu Xiu chuckled lightly and stretched out his fingers, and the corpse qi wrapped around the boy's body began to collapse from head to toe, and dissipated after a while.
The fire boy noticed that he could move, and immediately jumped up, and at the same time his body changed, as if he wanted to turn into a ball of flame and escape. But as soon as it raised its head, it saw Yu Xiu's smiling and groaning expression.
Yu Xiu stretched out his hand, grabbed the other party's body, and carried it to his lap.
He grabbed this thing with the Yin God, and his hand felt hot, as if it had been stretched into the fire, but fortunately, he was already a Yin God who had completed the night tour realm, and he was not afraid.
"You're from the mines?" Yu Xiu began.
When the fire boy heard this, he nodded hurriedly.
Seeing that the boy was very cooperative, Yu Xiu asked again, "Why is this here?"
The fire boy glanced at the talisman in the fire pit, like a puppet pulled by a rope. Yu Xiu watched it carefully for a long time before he understood.
It turned out that this spirit was attracted by Yu Xiu's alchemy, but it was afraid of Yu Xiu's refining, and it didn't dare to show its face until Yu Xiu left, and it stole into the cave and took the remaining talisman money from Yu Xiu's alchemy.
Hearing this, Yu Xiu frowned slightly.
Although he wants to burn talisman money when refining medicine, it may attract spirits and ghosts, but there is a considerable distance between the mine and the cave, how can the boy detect that he is burning money here?
Yu Xiu asked carefully, only to know that it was the last time when there was a fugitive slave in the mine, the fire boy happened to be around the place, and he smelled the smell of gunpowder burning here, and there were no fireworks in the air, so he found this place.
Hearing this answer, Yu Xiu thought secretly: "In this way, the Duanjia mine's ability to produce gunpowder should have something to do with this thing, otherwise how could it be lured?"
Yu Xiu asked questions again and again, and tempted him with the money in his hand, and it took him half a day to finally figure out the heel of the fire boy.
This thing was made from the soul of a miserable mine slave, and it was not small in intelligence, and it could pity the mine slave and cause the mine slave to escape. And the relationship between the Taoist priest in the mine and it is not small, and the gunpowder in the other party's hand is what it helps to refine.
After sorting out the reason and discovering that the fire boy had already refined gunpowder, Yu Xiu suddenly looked at each other with blazing eyes.
The boy can help the Taoist priest in the mine refine gunpowder, why can't he help him refine gunpowder?