Wucheng, Dongcheng Bazaar.
Humans and horses neighing, beasts roaring and birds singing, the originally wide market street was almost squeezed to the brim, and various small vendors set up their stalls, shouting loudly, or Jiang Taigong fishing.
People who entered the market were busy looking at all kinds of creatures for a while, and for a while looking at the large and small stalls in the market, their eyes were too busy.
Among the many large and small stalls, there is an extremely inconspicuous small stall mixed in a small corner. The stall owner does not know how to shout, so he sits on the animal skin and talks to his family. If it is not for this family to form a comparison Special, many people may ignore them directly.
After Hou Rong sorted out the goods of his tribe, he couldn't help but look at the small stall across the street again.
I saw a young man sitting on the fur behind the stall. The young man was molding something in his hands, and there was a small basin on his lap. There are two dolls beside him, one big and one small. The big one is at most three or four years old, and the little one is only a few months old. The big doll put the little doll on his lap and sat on top of each other, with his small arms around the little doll's chubby belly.
The two dolls, one big and one small, did not cry or make trouble. The little doll put her soft arms on the big doll's arm, babbling from time to time, pointing her fat and tender little fingers at the young man occasionally, and the big doll echoed from time to time. The two children looked up at the young man with their heads up. Their little heads turned around from time to time following the young man's movements, which looked very interesting.
Hou Rong couldn't help smiling.
He likes this family, but he doesn't know if the handsome young man with a gentle expression is the father or the elder brother of the two children? where are they from? When you come to Wucheng, do you go for refuge or pass by? Is there a place to stay
Hou Rong hoped that the young man was the elder brother of the two dolls. It would be fine if he was the father, but he wondered if the dolls' mothers were still there? if not there...
"Hey, what are you looking at? You can't even turn your eyes." The companion patted him, followed his gaze and saw the small booth and the family behind the booth.
Slapping his companion was originally a very relaxed and joking tone, but after seeing that family, his tone changed suddenly, but he insisted on pretending to be a joke, "What? Did you like that person? Do you want me to help you there? Ask if he is with you?"
Hou Rong shook his head and smiled, "Stop talking nonsense, it's not easy for him to see what he likes or not, I think it's not easy for him to bring two such small cubs by himself, and if he needs help, we will take care of it." Be careful, it's just across from him anyway."
"Actually, it doesn't seem to matter to you. Although we didn't come from the upper city and the middle city, our spirit monkey tribe is also a big tribe nearby. The young man took his two cubs to defect to Wucheng. Why not come to our tribe. You say Isn't it?"
Hou Rong didn't say anything, he actually thought so in his heart. Their tribe is not close to the desert, and there is a huge valley forest behind them. As long as they are diligent and brave, they will not be afraid of starvation. Although there are more wars than other tribes in order to compete for territory, food, and women, they are still richer than many nearby tribes.
The companion licked his lips, looked at the family of three on the opposite side, and said words with some comfort: "Are you really not going to ask? Maybe they are back? Didn't the big witch say that they just returned to the mother god temporarily?" Will I come to meet you in the future? Do you think the age of that young man and those two cubs are very similar... "
"Don't talk about it!" Hou Rong was really touched when he saw the big couple, but it just made him want to take care of the family a little bit, and he didn't mean to take over, unless the other party wanted to live with him. Same as that person back then.
"Jiangzi, I know what you mean, so stop mentioning it if you are a brother."
"Uh, sorry."
"No, I'm sorry, I know you're doing it for my own good." Hou Rong patted his companion on the shoulder, picked up a water bottle from the ground and planned to send it there, but he stopped just as he took a step.
On the opposite side, a tall, short-haired man with only a short sarong casually wrapped around his lower body came to the booth, threw a basket from his shoulder, bowed his head and kissed the young man on the forehead.
The young man raised his head, and very naturally showed a warm smile to the tall man.
The two dolls squealed with joy.
The tall man rubbed the young man's equally short short hair, found a large bunch of dark purple grass dragon balls from the basket, rinsed them briefly with clean water, and handed them to the two dolls.
Hou Rong's eyes froze. Is it the blood-sacred warrior of the water control system? This is the most popular divine blood ability among desert forces.
The big baby took the grass dragon ball, grabbed one and tasted it first, probably thought it was delicious, spat out the seeds, grabbed another one, and stuffed it into the little baby's mouth without peeling the skin.
The little baby pulled out the grass dragon ball from his mouth, looked at it, seemed very disdainful, but stuffed it into his own mouth after a while.
The youth seemed to say something to the big baby.
The big doll looked down at the little doll.
The little baby opened its mouth to him, and the big baby chuckled, then grabbed another grass dragon ball and fed it into his younger brother's mouth.
The young man seemed surprised that such a small doll could eat grass dragon balls, the tall man washed another bunch, peeled one and stuffed it into his mouth.
The young man ate the grass dragon ball, spit out the seeds and received it on a leaf. He probably saw that the two dolls were fine, and said something to the tall man with a smile.
It turned out that he already had a partner, which was good, very good. Hou Rong felt sore. If he had been nicer to that person and cared about him and his children, would they have been so happy today
His companion also saw this scene, and gave a low "Ah" very regrettably, and then he let out another surprise: "Arong, look at that young man's belly, he...isn't it a woman?"
Hou Rong also saw it. The young man put down the things he had molded and stretched, and the belly covered by the clothes became obvious at once.
Uh, he got it wrong? This is not actually a man, but a woman like a man
Hou Rong and his companions were all confused.
After seeing the tall man behind them, both of them thought that he and the young man were a couple. As for the two children, maybe one of them gave birth to a woman, or each gave birth to a child with a woman. This is very common in various tribes. Women will disappear for various reasons, and in tribes that lack women, there will often be two men living together with their children, which can be regarded as taking care of each other.
Hou Rong's former partner was the son of the chief of a weak tribe. His woman was snatched away in a war with other tribes. Later, their tribe joined the Spirit Monkey tribe. Seeing that the man was good-looking, he wanted him. He took two children and started to live with him, but he didn't pay much attention to this person at that time, and he was not rare when he got it. Later, he didn't realize how important they were to him until he completely lost him and the children, but at that time already late.
"Arong! Stake! Be careful, the Dongcheng Market has changed hands again, and those greedy jackals in the name of Kuipa will definitely come to sweep it up later, put away all the valuable goods!" Some clansmen got the news and rushed to warn them.
Hou Rong didn't think about it anymore, put down the kettle, and Zhuang Zhu and others hid the sorted goods again.
Zhuangzi was cursing, and Hou Rong comforted him: "After the Nine City Gathering, Wucheng should stabilize. There are only a few days left, so please bear with it."
"It's just that there are not many days left, so the trouble is even worse. How long have we been here? How many times has the owner of the Dongcheng Market changed?"
The people of the Spirit Monkey Tribe complained, but they had no choice but to speed up their movements to avoid losses as much as possible.
People who have been in the market for many days can clearly see that there is a little commotion in the market, and this commotion is still slowly expanding.
Take two grams of liquid metal, and then take some bone meal of various types, grind into powder and make several parts of liquid medicinal materials.
Yan Mo muttered, while experimenting, he recorded the names and quantities of the materials used in milligrams.
"That dwarf on the other side is still peeking at you." Someone expressed his opinion very unhappy.
Yan Mo laughed softly, the man opposite was not short, at most he was half a head shorter than Yuan Zhan, but Yuan Zhan was nearly two meters tall.
"Let him see it, and there will be no loss of meat."
"Yes! If he looks again, I'll go dig out his eyes!"
Yan Mo didn't hear it, "The goods sold by their tribe are quite interesting, let's pick some later?"
"Don't go!" Yuan Zhan began to mess around in order to prevent Yan Mo from continuing to pay attention to the men and goods opposite him, "What have you been working on since you left Fire City? Let me see."
"Don't move, it's not finished yet. This is a bit of an idea I had a long time ago. It's just that there is a problem that can't be solved until I saw the composition of fire ants, which finally made it possible for me to realize this idea. But at present It's just a test."
"What is it?"
"Well... I haven't come up with a name yet. It's similar to a biological weapon. You can also call it a magic weapon or a witch weapon. The main body is made of metal and bones, and the bone powder refined with medicine is used to outline the runes. Finally, life energy is used to Activate the device to turn it into an energy construct similar to fire ants. This kind of thing... let’s call it a witch tool. In my conception, it has no soul, but it has the characteristics of a living object. As long as the energy is sufficient, it can adapt to Any object can be transformed into any shape according to the needs of the user, and weapons made from it can increase the user's own abilities. For example... "
Yan Mo demonstrated, the lump in his hand suddenly turned into a long thorn, "For example, a person can grow wooden thorns from his body, and after using this witch tool, it can be transformed into various kinds of thorns in an instant. All kinds of wooden thorns, wooden sticks, even daggers, long swords, broadswords, etc. And if the warrior’s wooden thorns carry poison, it will also carry poison, or even more poisonous. If it is you, it can change more things , if you're going to shoot a fireball, use it, it will make the fireball go faster, harder, hotter, and you'll lose a lot less energy than usual."
Yuan Zhan understood a little bit, "Is its power equivalent to the custom-made bone tool you mentioned? But this witch tool can be turned into a custom-made bone tool of any shape the user wants?"
"Not just the shape. To put it simply, when your soul power is bound to it, it can be absorbed into your body and assimilated with your cells. When you want to use it later, it can be summoned according to your will Come out, if you need it to be a sword, it is a sword. You need it to be armor, it will be armor. You need it to shoot fireballs, it will be a musket. You need it to make a big hole in the ground , it will become a drill bit. If you want to fly, it will become your wings. Of course, its changes also need to be done according to your ability, otherwise you need to add functions to it from the beginning.”
Yuan Zhan finally understood, "That means I can't fly, but as long as I can master the power of the wind, I can use it to generate wings and fly into the sky, which is much easier than riding the wind by myself, right?"
"right."
The Jiufeng kid also joined in the fun, leaving the baby Wuguo crawling around, and asked curiously: "Then if I have it, can I fly faster?"
"Yes, in the past it took you a long time to cross the ocean, and you needed to rest often, but with it, you can theoretically save at least half of the time, and as long as you can continue to provide witchcraft energy, theoretically you can travel without rest. Fly forever."
"Wow!" Jiufeng's eyes were hot, "Momo, I want one, you make one for me!"
Yuan Zhan stretched out his feet, and shamelessly confused Jiufeng kid, "Mo, if I don't know how to use wind power and want to fly, then I need you to add it to the witch weapon when refining it." The ability to fly, so even if I can't fly, it can turn into wings and take me to the sky, isn't it?"
"That's right." Yan Mo wanted to reach out to pull Jiu Feng, but was held down by Yuan Zhan.
Jiufeng got up by himself, and a wind blade smashed towards him.
Yuan Zhan flipped his hand, and the wind blade disappeared without a trace. At the same time, his eyes were sharp and he said: "Good stuff! Give this to me first!"
"Don't worry, this is just a trial product, and I put in very few functions." Yan Mo watched Jiufeng's attention being attracted by the Wuguo, and laughed, "The more troublesome thing is that this kind of witchcraft must be powered by life energy. Activate it, in other words, apart from me, I am afraid that only Wuguo can be refined in the future. At the same time, it also requires soul power manipulation, and people with insufficient soul power will not be able to use it. Of course, this is not too much trouble, and I will improve it in the future It is trying to be used by ordinary people with insufficient soul power. It is annoying that this kind of witchcraft requires life energy to be activated. I still need to study and study it if I want to make it popular."
"You don't need to popularize it so quickly, you study it slowly." Yuan Zhan wished that this kind of weapon that should only exist in imagination can only be refined by his priests, and in the future it will only be used by Jiuyuan people, so that other forces can only watch be envious.
Yan Mo smiled, and began to add bone patterns to the newly refined witchcraft. He is not a generous person either, but in order to deal with the demon gods outside the sky and reduce the scum value, and in order to make the Nine Plains civilization not weaker than other civilizations in the future, he needs to establish a broader spectrum of weapon refining knowledge.
Yuan Zhan suddenly raised his head, "Something happened."
Yan Mo, "Huh?"
"The atmosphere is wrong."