Chapter Eighty-Three: A Trial in the Forest!
"Ahh......h
I don't know how long it took to fly, the fan ball finally fell to the ground, and with a "bang", it set off a burst of sand and dust, startling countless branch birds.
The fan ball slowly retracted, Zhuo Nan pinched his throat hard, and slowly crawled out.
Even if your face is already the color of pork liver, it is better than spitting out all the things you just eat.
Jiang Huo was lying on the side foaming at the mouth, and his eyes rolled under the inky black lenses, obviously he wanted to do it himself, but his ability to bear it seemed to be weak.
After a while, the fan ball retracted back to its original size and returned to Jiang Huo's hands.
"If I had known that I would have been killed, I wouldn't have come out with ......"
Finally relieved himself, Zhuo Nan lay on a rock, breathing in the fresh air, where the oxygen concentration seemed to be very high, and there was green vegetation all around.
"Is this a forest......
Trees can be seen everywhere, mottled points of light sprinkled on the ground through the shadow of the tree, and a small insect exposed to the light seems to be unwilling to bask in the sun, flutters its little wings a few times, and flies away quickly.
"That's right, this is the back garden of the college, the artificially cultivated primeval forest......"
Jiang Huo staggered to his feet, and wiped the white foam from the corners of his mouth with a pale face.
"Then can't we come over? How far away do you think it is! I have to come like this!" Zhuo Nan raised his inverted triangular eyes.
Jiang Huo smiled and waved his hand, with an apologetic look on his face.
......
After a moment's pause, the two walked deeper.
The forest was quite large, but there was not a single person in the past, perhaps because it was still early, and the cries of insects and birds were incessant, and the soft earth and lawn under your feet made your breath much fresher.
"It's the first time I've been in the forest. ”
Zhuo Nan couldn't help but sigh.
Along the way, the two talked and chatted, and when they mentioned the task of descending people, Jiang Huo explained to him:
"This mission is to collect twenty plants of chicken blood, which is an edible wild grass, mostly purple or red, resembling a cockscomb, which has the effect of invigorating blood and aphrodisiac, refreshing the mind, and is often used as a raw material for stimulants because of its strong nature......"
"And this herb is tenacious, and they can be seen in all kinds of places, so the back garden of the academy must be ...... That, are you listening?"
Seeing Zhuo Nan staring intently to the side, seemingly not noticing what he said, Jiang Huo had to remind.
But Zhuo Nan did not answer him, but pointed to a tree and said:
"Is that what you're talking about?"
Jiang Huo looked in the direction he pointed, and his eyes lit up instantly.
Beneath the tree, there was a bunch of red cockscomb-like vegetation.
"That's right, it's bloodgrass!"
Jiang Huo was a little pleased, he walked over and squatted down next to him to observe, Zhuo Nan also followed, squatting down with him, his arms on his knees, and he already held the equipment in his hands.
"I recognized it at once, it's really amazing, you see, this red color is like blood, the shape is like a cockscomb, and it has a stimulant effect, isn't the name of Bloodgrass particularly good?"
Jiang Huo pointed to the pile, tilted his head and looked at him with a smile.
"Uh-huh!" Zhuo Nan nodded, his heart full of anticipation: "Then how should this plant be collected?"
What he thinks in his heart is that the task of descending people is naturally related to descending people.
Even if it is a simple collection of plants, there must be some special method to be used.
He had been looking forward to it for a long time, and he was slightly nervous when he held the utensils in his hand.
But Jiang Huo grabbed the rhizome of the chicken blood grass, lifted it slightly, and pulled it out even by the roots.
"It's just picked, it's very simple. Jiang Huo said.
The red rhizome was still sticking to the soil, and Zhuo Nan looked at it with a confused expression.
"Finished?"
"It's over. ”
"Is this a pull-out?"
"Uh-huh. Jiang Huo smiled and said, "Come, you can try it too, pull it out like me, twenty plants will do." ”
"That's too hasty, isn't it?"
Zhuo Nan frowned, and a sense of loss arose in his heart.
"Hmm, what's wrong?" Jiang Huo asked, puzzled.
"Is it that simple? Don't you need to use ...... Anything like that?"
Zhuo Nan looked at the utensils in his hand and said.
"Whew, this is picking plants, you don't need to drop it. Jiang Huo looked at him and said with a smile:
"Alright, let's hurry up and pick it, as long as twenty can be paid two hundred copper coins. ”
He didn't seem to understand, there was no way, Zhuo Nan had to follow him to collect chicken blood grass first.
This plant is very brightly colored, and it has a large area and a large number of branches, so it is easy to collect them all.
In a short time, there were twenty more bright red cockscombs in the hands of the two of them.
"The person who posted this kind of task must be a lazy nouveau riche...... I like it though. ”
Jianghuo meets the authentic:
"I really didn't expect it to be so easy, okay, let's go and hand over the things to the client first, and then go back to the museum to hand over an errand, and my task is complete. ”
The dappled sunlight shone down and skipped over his head.
"Wait a minute!"
Zhuo Nan said suddenly.
Jiang Huo stopped and turned his head to look at him.
"Sorry, though suddenly...... But in fact, the purpose of my coming with you this time is to ask you to teach me how to descend!"
Looking into his eyes, Zhuo Nan said seriously.
"What's wrong all of a sudden......"
Jiang Huo wondered.
"Brother Jiang, I have just been a subjugation master for a week, and I have only experienced one battle, but I didn't win it on my own...... I don't know anything about this profession yet, I don't know why it exists yet, I think a lot ......"
A gust of wind rustled and blew, and Zhuo Nan's eyes became firm.
"Although it was all like a dream, I wanted to know, I wanted to know more deeply because I had a man's ambition,"
"Hey, ambition......"
Zhuo Nan raised his head, and Jiang Huozheng looked at him with interest.
"What are your ambitions?"
"I want to be strong! I want to realize my own value and protect the people I want to protect!"
He didn't shy away from saying it directly.
The atmosphere paused for a few seconds, and only the chirping of birds surrounded me.
Jiang Huo looked at him, then at the bunch of plants in his arms, with a playful smile on his face, and asked:
"Do you really want to learn?"
Zhuo Nan nodded.
Seeing this, Jiang Huo turned around and turned his back to him.
"But it's a pity that there are rules in the museum that the law of surrender cannot be passed on......"
Zhuo Nan lowered his head, and the hand holding the instrument tightened.
"Is that so......"
Jiang Huo suddenly turned his head and looked at him with a wicked smile.
"Of course I lied to you!"
"What do you mean......"
"The Descending Pavilion has the obligation to teach the method of descending to any descending master, not to mention, you are still your own person. ”
Jiang Huo slowly walked towards him.
"I've had that idea for a while, and now I know you want to learn, and that's great. Come, I'll teach you now!"
He put the bloodgrass in his arms on the ground and clapped his hands.
"Really!"
"I'll teach you now, but be warned, you have to be mentally prepared. ”
Jiang Huo's expression suddenly became serious.
"What mental preparation?"
"If you lose your life for any of the rest of the day, I won't be responsible. ”
He smiled wickedly.
"What, is it possible that the life of the descending person is in danger?" Zhuo Nan exclaimed.
"Of course, you're in control of the game?"
Jiang Huo took out the folding fan from his arms, then sat down cross-legged, pointed to the pile of chicken blood grass in front of him and said:
"Your first goal, that's it. ”
Zhuo Nan also sat down cross-legged, and he continued:
"Actually, it's quite a coincidence, the chicken blood grass is irritable by nature, it is masculine, its spirit is tangible, calm down, you can feel its internal operation, for the first lesson of the descending teacher, this is the simplest, but also the best material. ”
"Are you saying that plants also have souls?" asked Zhuo Nan.
"That's right, it seems that you know that the descending master can complete the surrender through soul power ingestion, so it's much simpler. ”
Jiang Huo looked at him with a smile and said:
"Then I'll give you a demonstration. ”
With that, he picked up a chicken blood grass, held it in front of the two of them, and then gently touched it with the folding fan under Zhuo Nan's gaze.
Gently pinch and squeeze the bloodweed, so that its skin breaks open, and a little juice flows out, but when it touches the folding fan, it suddenly bursts into a bright white light.
"Oh oh oh! this is the ......"
Zhuo Nan recalled that when he was still in that basement teahouse, he tried to cover the utensils with a soul for the first time, and this milky white light was the same as at that time.
"That's right, cover the appliance with soul power, and then touch the soul of the thing to descend, and your appliance will absorb the soul of the other party to you. ”
Jiang Huo said, gesturing while Nunu.
Zhuo Nan immediately leaned over to take a closer look, only to see that the juice oozing out of the chicken blood grass was slowly sucked clean by the handle folding fan, and the milky white light gradually flowed into the fan, and disappeared after a while.
"Alright, done!"
Jiang Huo retracted the folding fan and said.
"Is that done?
Zhuo Nan hadn't even seen it clearly, he had thought it should be a complicated process.
"It's very simple, as long as you feel its soul being sucked back by you, even if you control it, plants and people are the same. ”
Only then did Zhuo Nan see that a mark had grown on the grass.
He suddenly remembered that Xingli's forehead seemed to have a mark left by the last time she descended on her.
"The mark is ......," he asked.
"This mark means that it is now under your control. Jiang Huo said: "Look at it." ”
He placed the bloodweed in the open space in front of him, swaying his fan slightly, and the bright red cockscomb moved in the direction he had indicated without warning.
"Oh oh oh, it's moving!"
Jiang Huo smiled, when he turned the fan to the left, the bloodgrass also moved to the left, and vice versa, just when Zhuo Nan couldn't take his eyes off it, the bloodgrass that was still alive just now suddenly seemed to wilt, lying motionless on the ground, the epidermis quickly wrinkled, turned dark red, and finally turned black, and with a light blow, it turned into crumbs and flew away with the wind.
Looking at Zhuo Nan's surprised gaze, Jiang Huo smiled:
"I absorbed all the essence of this leaf, including its life force and soul power, but the energy of this plant was very small, so I basically didn't feel it. ”
"You can really draw life ......"
"Each subjugation device will display a different mark, and you know what it means to be controlled, right?"
Zhuo Nan nodded, he had controlled Xingli to move according to his consciousness, although he almost made a big mistake. I have also absorbed the vital energy of poison dart frogs, although I may not be conscious.
"Let me explain this profession to you. ”
"I don't know when I was born, I don't know how I was born, I just heard Director Ding Yi once said that this is a profession born for peace. ”
"They hide in the shadows, and use their powerful magic weapons to execute judgments on the wicked, and they are the embodiment of justice and the protectors of people. ”
"But not many people know about this profession, so not many people know about the power of this profession. ”
"No one knows how powerful? what...... What do you mean?"
Zhuo Nan swallowed.