Chapter 1: Beginner Paper Puppets

Shang Shulang is actually very eye-catching for Mr. Boy's rag dolls and puppet Caton. He had recently studied the art of puppetry, and knew that Caton was not a puppet, but a puppet related to alchemy, a kind of man-made object that used various materials as its body and the runic formation as its bloodline and command center, and it was nothing more than a human form.

Shang Shulang was embarrassed because he actually exchanged martial arts with Caton and had a good chat with a puppet. It's obviously a guy like a robot, and he deceived me so hard, and even he didn't reach the level of AI, and his intelligence was not outstanding.

Of course, this is also the factor behind Mr. Tong's answer for Caton, Mr. Tong seems to be indifferent and even ruthless, but he is not bored with himself, but helps himself. Could it be that my popularity is good, and my EQ is higher than my IQ?

Alchemy is no worse than puppetry, and even better than puppetry in terms of convenience, weirdness, etc. Although the puppet technique also pays attention to the rune array and also needs energy cores, it relies more on "hardware". The materials required for alchemy are limited, relying more on runes and spells, emphasizing "software", and when it comes to the level of dolls, it is simply to take corpses or even big living people as objects, and directly refine them into puppets, which is very strong and unreasonable at all.

Paper puppets are a skill that must be mastered at the beginning of alchemy, and the materials it requires are very simple, a piece of paper, a ball of metal wire, a pen to draw runes, and the only special thing is that it needs celestial trace liquid. The configuration of the Heavenly Scar Liquid requires demon beast eggs, evil spirit grass, snow lotus seeds, hundred-eyed fish eyes, and your own blood, and the five ingredients are mixed and boiled to be successful.

Once he was able to refine paper dolls, Shang Shulang was able to master a special skill. Paper puppets can do a lot of things, such as putting them in a designated place in advance, and they can achieve a similar effect of teleportation with the help of paper puppets, and for example, refining a stand-in paper puppet can replace themselves to explore, go to dangerous areas, monitor and detect, secretly plan sneak attacks, etc., which is extremely practical.

What's even more powerful is to refine the paper puppet for the dead, and it can even be automatically launched when it is attacked by a fatal attack, and I can avoid the damage of the seventh to ninth layers and save my life. Therefore, the dead paper puppet is priceless, and very few people can refine it, and it is said that the relevant skills have been lost, and the ones that are currently flowing in the world are the relics of the predecessors, and they can't be bought.

He had already obtained the evil spirit grass and snow lotus seeds in the depths of the underground mine, and the demon beast eggs were also easy to obtain, and the only missing hundred eye fish eyes had not heard of.

"Hundred Milk?" Harry was well-informed, and when he heard Shang Shulang's inquiry, he asked in surprise, "That's a strange beast, you'd better not provoke them." ”

"Tell me where it is, honorable chief. ”

"Milkfish are found in the streams of the Black Pine Mountains, and they are extremely rare, small in size, but they live in groups, they are very ferocious, and they are very difficult to catch. ”

Harry wondered how Trull could know about the flounder, he had also heard the old people mention it, but he had never seen this kind of beast.

Shang Shulang didn't explain much, and the next day he hurried into the Black Pine Mountains to the north.

The Black Pine Mountains are too big, too long, too majestic, stretching for I don't know how long, the northwest reaches the border between the Futu Empire and the Yongan Empire where it is located, and the northeast extends to the territory of the Holy Dragon Empire, spanning tens of thousands of miles from east to west.

Shang Shulang went deep for hundreds of miles, walked through countless streams, and searched for places with horns, but did not see a hundred milkfish.

In the past few days, I have mastered a lot of runes for refining puppets, and I can already draw more than 30 kinds of runes, and I have also found things such as wolf hair and dazzling gold stones that make rune pens, and I can make them when I go back to buy a pen holder.

At the same time, he has also fought many battles with the demon beasts and monsters in the cottage, and his body protection and sword skills have improved greatly.

But the flounder has not been found for a long time, Shang Shulang is a little anxious, it can't go on like this, and he doesn't know when he will find the flounder.

At this moment, he again met several adventurers, who were hurrying along the way, and there seemed to be something urgent with their expressions. This is the third time I have encountered adventurers in the last four or five days, and they seem to be traveling in the western direction......

Everyone hurried to the west, was something going on?

Shang Shulang followed the footsteps of the adventurers in front of him and chased them all the way, their feet were not particularly fast, and the strength of most of them was average, probably to the extent of nine layers of skin, and there were one or two adventurers in a group whose strength was not clear, and they belonged to the category of the strong.

Strangely, though, half of them were carrying a large package, and the others were very vigilant, as if there was something great in the package.

Finally, under the guidance of the adventurers, Shang Shulang arrived at a valley, and he was surprised to find that many adventurers had gathered here, many of whom were also carrying large bags and small bags.

Selling goods, setting up a stall, or delivering goods? Shang Shulang was confused, carefully observed, listened to their conversation, and finally understood what they were waiting for here.

Mystery Merchant, a very special profession, they are elusive, appearing in random places and trading with the people around them. There are only those you can't think of, there are almost no shops that the mysterious merchant can't come up with, as long as he can afford it, he will provide it to you.

After a long time, it was almost dark, and the mysterious merchant finally appeared out of nowhere in a clearing. Shang Shulang looked at the mysterious merchant curiously. He looks very ordinary, has an obese body, holds this big belly, and smiles and is happy.

"I was invited to come today, do you have anything decent to take out quickly, this merchant has limited time, and I have to rush to the forbidden place to trade." ”

What kind of place is the forbidden land, Shang Shulang still knows a little, it is a large vast swamp and dense forest dangerous place in the west of the abandoned city. The danger of the forbidden land is beyond the underground of the ruined city, and there are monsters and monsters everywhere at the level of demon generals or above, and there are even top existences in the other world lurking in it. Anyone who can break through there is a character with strong skills, and ordinary people can't get out at all.

Everyone lined up in order of cultivation according to their cultivation, but Shang Shulang stood alone on the mountain rock, which looked very special.

The mysterious merchant glanced at him and muttered, "It's really rare for someone to watch a play." ”

Everyone trades with the mysterious merchant in turn, and outsiders can only see the adventurer hand over the things and then get the items he wants, but they don't know where the things have gone and where the mysterious merchant has taken them out.

Shang Shulang watched and thought at the same time, the mysterious merchant must have some kind of space treasure, otherwise, how could he hold so many goods? Another question bothered Shang Shulang, why did no one attack him and snatch the space treasure? What way did the mysterious merchant ensure his own safety?

The transaction was orderly and extremely fast, and in less than an hour, only seven or eight adventurers were left, and the others quickly withdrew under protection and returned to the station in high spirits.

Shang Shulang finally stepped forward: "Do you have a hundred eyes of fish?"

The mysterious merchant smiled, "Of course, how much does the little brother want?"

Shang Shulang was overjoyed: "What is the price? I want to buy as many as I can." ”

"1,000 gold coins a piece, it's very cheap, you know, halibut is hard to find, and you can't catch them without special means. ”

"Twenty of them. Shang Shulang nodded, took out the golden ticket, the transaction was successfully completed, and finally had a hundred eyes of fish, which could refine the Tianji liquid and test the paper puppet, and he was a little desperate to wait for this day.

The mysterious merchant is really a good profession, he can earn unimaginable wealth, just the transaction just now, Shang Shulang believes that he has made a lot of money.

In fact, the mysterious merchant was also interested in Shang Shulang, and he watched Shang Shulang quickly disappear into the distance, and muttered again.

"I've never seen such a weird guy, and foreknowledge doesn't work for him. Outsiders? no, strange! Oh, how did I forget to buy his body protection, it's a top-notch skill!"

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Shang Shulang, who returned to the homeless stronghold, got busy, made foreshadowing, equipped the heavenly trace liquid, tried the paper puppet, and in the midst of repeated failures, he was distressed, cheered up, meditated, rejoiced, went through all kinds of tribulations, and finally made his own paper puppet.

Looking at the few paper puppets on the table, Shang Shulang's heart was surging, he grew so big, he suddenly found that the moment when he studied something, failed and finally succeeded, was so wonderful and comfortable.