After locking the target, Zhong Chengshuo began to desperately reduce his size. Humans are tiny, and human pups are even smaller. If you wait until you get somewhere and then shrink, you will definitely attract attention.
This is a big project, Zhong Cheng said, patiently shrinking his body and finally shrinking from the size of a sea area to the size of a suitcase. After shrinking, he still felt uneasy and picked up the most intact bones next to him, rubbed them, and compared them.
The bones were clean and complete. They belonged to that person.
The bones emitted weak ripples, only slightly stronger than the broken bones next to them, without any change. Zhong Cheng said he "looked" at the corpse with regret for a while, and then instinctively stretched out the space and created gaps.
After getting into the gap, he slid to the place near the wisher.
So many ripples.
Living and dead animals will emit unique ripples. Zhong Cheng said that he has never come into contact with such a large number at close range. He had no choice but to get closer and feel the offering that exuded a friendly atmosphere.
The ripples of the offering are somewhat similar to the ripples of the person.
Near the offerings, two humans were still praying. During the prayer breaks, they would occasionally exchange a few words. Unfortunately, Zhong Cheng said that he could only barely "understand" a small part of it.
[The child's facial features are seriously misaligned. Are you sure your transformation is OK?]
"Wei Huaxian!" About half a minute later, the woman used her hand that wasn't holding the beer to do something out of thin air and shouted loudly, "Wei Huaxian, come here and see, what did you do?!"
A haggard woman walked in with her slippers on. Her face was extremely haggard, but her once beautiful face could be seen. The woman walked crookedly to the refrigerator and dug out a can of beer. There was still blood dripping between her legs.
[It’s almost done today, let’s rest first.]
At this moment, the lights in the house suddenly turned on.
[The brain is missing and all five internal organs are incomplete... It won't live long at all. We kill it, but we don’t know if it counts with God...]
Sounds—vague conversations behind the door, the patter of rain outside the window, the thump of wheels running down the street, the shrill whistle. The advertising music of the snack bar was mixed with the laughter and curses of the diners. They mixed into a pot of porridge and hit Zhong Chengshuo's head directly.
This is the "human world" he is about to explore.
Zhong Cheng said that he was stunned for a few hours before he remembered that after he had finished merging, he still had to take back the cub's internal organs that were pulled out of the body - they were still connected to his body, which was easier than the other ones. many.
It seemed that these two had no other wishes...well, any other wishes that would make him understand.
At that moment, he still didn't care.
Zhong Cheng said that he turned his head with difficulty again and looked at the ceiling dyed indigo by the night. A spider was crawling leisurely across the ceiling, and the movements of its long legs seemed so fresh and unpredictable.
Sight, hearing, smell... He couldn't complete it with pure imagination, so he might as well simply absorb and fuse this body.
Zhong Cheng said that he hadn't had time to put down the intestines in his hands. When things got urgent, he couldn't move his head naturally, so he had to try his best to move his eyes. This directly caused the baby's two round black pupils to drill deeply into the corner of one eye, making it look particularly horrifying.
He reached out the baby's stubby hands, grabbed the internal organs near the belly, and began to stuff them into the abdominal cavity.
Sticky cloth soaked with blood, a hard surface beneath the cloth.
While sealed underground, Zhong Cheng said that he had touched so many corpses at close range, and at least he had some idea of the physical structure of human beings. It's just that the parts are in the wrong position, it can still be used if modified, he thought slowly.
Zhong Cheng said that he got into the cavity of the corpse without hesitation, and his body completely merged with the corpse's body. Zhong Cheng said that the body spreads through the nerves, blends into the blood vessels, interprets the subtle information in every place, and assimilates with every cell.
The degree of integration deepens, and the ripples around it gradually become weaker. The void was quickly filled, and countless new perceptions rushed in like a tsunami.
For a moment, the woman and the baby froze in place, and only the clock in the room kept ticking.
Now he can no longer feel the ripples. His body was deeply integrated into the cub's body, and his human senses completely replaced those ripples.
Zhong Cheng said, staring blankly at the window.
Compared with nothingness, darkness is a thick and rich "scenery".
His position was not far from the window. It was dark outside the window, and the colorful neon lights in the city were so brilliant that it was difficult to describe through the dirty glass. The raindrops pitter-pattered on the glass, gathering into streaks of water and reflecting countless bright fragments of light.
With the entire process, the dead cub becomes "whole" again.
The child's corpse had not yet opened its eyes, and could only feel darkness. After hearing what the man said about "color", Zhong Cheng said that he thought there was something wrong with his eyes. He hesitated to grow an extra pair, but there was still only darkness in front of his eyes.
She opened the beer can with a pop and glanced subconsciously at the altar on the table.
The pollution in the corpse is no longer an obstacle. The damaged brain is replaced by activated cells, and the dislocated limbs gradually return to their original positions along with the bones. The facial features that were originally scattered throughout the body withered and peeled off, and regular, normal facial features gradually appeared on the cub's head.
As for what will happen after the fusion and what his physique will become, Zhong Cheng said he has no idea. It's just that he only has curiosity and no fear - failure and death are just an ending.
He saw a whole new world.
This cub's facial features are all on the body surface, and its hands and feet are chaotic and misplaced. Now it seems that it is a typical characteristic of high pollution caused by evil forces.
He struggled to adapt to this body, turned his head slightly, and raised his eyelids a little harder.
Zhong Cheng continued to freeze. At that time, he couldn't understand what the woman was saying. He just clutched his gut, not knowing what to do next.
Then he realized that there was a thin layer of flesh on the eyeballs that could be lifted.
As for other physiological details…
After the two ripples moved away, Zhong Cheng said that he carefully tore the gap. He leaned out a little and touched the cub's body. He quickly reached into the abdominal cavity of the corpse - the body of the cub had been cut open, the internal organs were roughly pulled out, and there was only an empty nothingness in the torso.
[I used the best pollution source, this is normal.]
And darkness.
This is different from that rabbit. The appearance can be simulated, but the perception cannot be fooled. He had to do it more perfectly, and he definitely needed to gain true human senses.
The cold air, the choking incense, and the strong smell of blood.
He used to not like raindrops very much. In the past, they would hit his body tirelessly, creating continuous small ripples, which always made him feel irritated.
"It's too much trouble for me. I need to find a better clinic to deal with it." The woman muttered irritably, "If someone named Wei is so good at transformation, why don't he install a uterus for himself..."
I was exposed too quickly!
What's even more unfortunate is that he is completely unfamiliar with this new form. After the fusion, Zhong Cheng said that it was impossible to separate smoothly. At the moment, he can't use his original strength, and he doesn't know what he can do in his current state.
"Ah... ah..." In desperation, Zhong Cheng said he subconsciously made a sound, but he had no idea what these sounds meant.
The woman took a breath, used magic to block her body, and approached cautiously.
The next moment, the beer can clattered to the ground, white foam overflowed from the mouth of the can, and the air was filled with the unique bitter taste of beer.
The woman looked directly into Zhong Chengshuo's eyes, and her technique suddenly shattered. Under the dim lighting, the woman collapsed on the ground, her face twisted, her orifices bleeding, and her whole body shaking like a leaf in the wind.
Zhong Cheng said that he just remembered that when he had eyes, he was confused by the "eyelids" and the process was too confusing and not handled properly - his eyeballs still retained the simple structure of the original body.
The woman saw part of his body through his pupils.
I was careless, but luckily I hit it right.
"Ah..." The woman curled up her limbs on the floor, her body twitching.
At this moment, a handsome man arrived belatedly. The first thing he saw was the woman twitching and moaning on the ground, but he had no intention of going to help. I saw the man named "Wei Huaxian" activating the spiritual weapon in his hand and looking around warily.
Zhong Cheng said that he had an idea and repeated his old trick: "Yeah..."
Sure enough, the man's eyes were immediately attracted to him. However, just when the man was about to step forward and take a closer look, there was a sudden knock on the door.
The knocking on the door was loud and urgent, with full impatience.
The man subconsciously hid the spiritual weapon and turned around: "Who is it?"
"How long will you guys be living here?" A shrewd female voice sounded outside the door, "I said I would increase my salary once a week, but you haven't paid me yet!"
The man cursed secretly but did not open the door: "My wife just married you yesterday!"
"They said it would go up, but the price she gave me was still last week's price. Give me the difference quickly, give me the money! If you don't give it to me, I'll call the police—"
Upon hearing "call the police", the man's expression changed. He glanced sideways at the woman who was still twitching on the ground and spat hard.
"Stop yelling, it's coming!" The man took out his wallet and counted out some cash.
But as soon as the door opened, a series of dull sounds exploded. The man was instantly pushed to the ground by several big men: "Don't move, police!"
The remaining officers rushed into the room and searched. The middle-aged man in the lead was the first to spot the woman in the living room: "The suspect Kong Miao was found, Xiao Li, 120! Xiao Wang, let the people who know him come in!"
The middle-aged man knelt down and rolled the woman's eyelids. Two female police officers immediately arrived and guarded the woman's side.
"I fainted, but I'm still alive." The man stood up.
At this time, the middle-aged man finally noticed Zhong Cheng on the table and said that the newborn was too small and motionless while holding the intestines. It really looked like some kind of weird ornament.
Zhong Cheng said that he quickly closed his eyes and hid the remaining body in his pupils.
Immediately afterwards, the middle-aged man's roar resounded throughout the room: "Where's the 120? Hurry up and call me again, there's a child here!"
"Captain Bell, Xiao Li just finished fighting..."
"Hit me again!" the man shouted anxiously.
Then he moved closer to Zhong Chengshuo. Whether it was because of nervousness or exhaustion, he was panting heavily. The heat and sweat on his body radiated through the fabric, and Zhong Chengshuo could clearly feel it.
He hid the remaining body in his eyes deep down, then opened his eyes and looked at the person coming.
"Shh... It's okay, it's okay, don't be afraid."
The man was unshaven, his eyes were blood red, and the veins on his forehead were twitching. He was lying next to the table, afraid to touch the child with "external internal organs", his eyes filled with worry.
"Damn, those cult scum are not human things..." Although Zhong Cheng said he couldn't understand what the man was talking about, he knew that he might be safe.
So he tried to swing his arms, and his fingertips brushed the tip of the man's nose, which was moistened with sweat. Warm and moist skin is what humans originally felt like, Zhong Cheng said, thinking about it seriously.
The "Team Bell"'s eyes turned red.
"It's okay." His throat moved, and his voice was a little hoarse, "It's okay..."
He repeated it over and over again, as if he wanted Zhong Cheng to understand.
Zhong Cheng said he didn't understand, but he had a vague premonition that he might never see this couple again.
It's not his fault, it was them who were taken away first, and they didn't make their wishes clear before. Now that he has merged with a human body, he can no longer sense ripples or travel through space. Zhong Cheng thought seriously that it was not his fault.
If we really can meet again, let’s talk about it then.
In the next memory, four or five-year-old Zhong Cheng said he was observing bean caterpillars in a farmyard. He held the plump bug in his palm and carefully felt the bug's body contracting as it twisted.
"Tell me, do you want some candied fruits?" an old man greeted with a smile.
"Eat, thank you, grandpa." Zhong Cheng said it very eloquently.
"Would you like to go with grandpa to worship your ancestors this afternoon? There is a party outside where people can draw sugar paintings, make dough, and perform tricks! How about it? Do you want to go?"
"Sacrifice to ancestors?"
"Yes, our ancestor is the famous Mr. Yin Yang. Everyone in the nearby villages knows Master Zhong Ma..."
"How to sacrifice?" Zhong Cheng said, his attention obviously elsewhere.
"Burn incense and offer fruits, preserves, and some meat to the ancestors if they are rich."
"Offer an offering?" Zhong Cheng said, putting down the bean worm, opening his mouth to take a candied fruit, and chewing hard, "But our ancestors are all gone."
Most of the dead humans are unable to fulfill their wishes. Zhong Cheng said that he should analyze it carefully in his heart.
"It's just for the ancestors to have a taste." Grandpa Zhong stuffed a candied fruit for Zhong Cheng, "This is our intention. The ancestors have spirits in the sky, so they can eat two good bites."
Zhong Cheng said as he chewed the candied fruit and looked at the apples on the fruit tree not far away.
"Well, I'll go..."
"Dad! What are you talking about? Didn't you say that you won't bring your children to worship your ancestors?" Zhong Youde, who was in his fifties, rushed over with a bag of snacks. "Lai Cheng said, we don't engage in these feudal superstitions."
"Zhong Youde, are you done with your wings?" Grandpa Zhong smiled and raised his cane, as if he was about to hit him.
"Okay, okay, the wings are losing their hair. Now, I'll take Cheng Shui with me. When the time comes, you and Mom will worship your ancestors, and I'll take Cheng Shui for a walk outside."
"That's pretty much it."
Zhong Cheng said he was picked up by Zhong Youde, his eyes still resting on the apple tree not far away. The apple tree in the yard is very short, with a few green fruits dangling on it.
"'The dead can eat' is a common perception." He muttered something.
That night, Zhong Cheng said he took the apple he got from acting like a spoiled child at the market. He found a plate, stood up on tiptoes, and placed the apple on the table.
"I don't know who the human being is. I have not forgotten your wish to give you an apple. I will also help you guard the descendants of those children."
He put his hands on the edge of the table and muttered softly.
"You are right, this world is indeed worth coming to. Everything is interesting, but there are still many things I don't understand and I need to learn slowly. I will definitely study hard."
In the darkness of the night, Zhong Chengshuo raised his head and smelled the aroma of apples. Then he took out another one from the plastic bag under the table, washed it with water, and chewed it very fragrantly.
"It's so troublesome to fulfill wishes." He muttered to himself, "I won't accept so many in the future."
The memory ends.
Yin Ren floated quietly in the darkness, looking at Zhong Cheng who was close at hand and said.
Why did Zhong Cheng say he would do his best to investigate his sister's death, even going so far as to step into the dark side of the metaphysical world
Why did Zhong Cheng say he would do such a thankless job as hunting down vicious murderers
Why did Zhong Cheng say he would put a new bright red apple every day
Things were much simpler than he thought. There's no intrigue, no quirks. It's just a once-powerful elemental object that merges itself with the human body and clumsily fulfills three wishes made by accident.
Yin Ren let out a long breath.
Thousands of years ago, perhaps they were just passers-by who accompanied each other for a while and almost passed by each other.
He should have died on that rainy day a thousand years ago, in the Valley of Bones... No, the children living in the Valley of the Sea might also be able to grow up healthily and gradually build a beautiful city next to the mountains.
The Great Heavenly Master Zhong Yi will only exist on paper until he is buried in the depths of time.
Who would have thought that his ending would become the beginning, and everything just started from that simple altar and that weird black rabbit.
It was hard for Yin Ren to tell whether he was feeling bitter or happy at the moment.
The exchange of thoughts is only fleeting. Zhong Cheng said that the next second after falling off the cliff, Yin Ren could not suppress his emotions after all, and the darkness completely boiled.
"What are you thinking about?" Zhong Cheng asked sincerely while thinking.
"Get out of here." Yin Ren said, "Then eat all the apples in the refrigerator. I can buy them myself in the future."
"Then what?" Zhong Cheng said with a sad expression on his face.
"Then tell you your wish for 'peace' and we can do it together."
"Then what?" Zhong Cheng said, and the sadness on his face slowly disappeared.
"Then...then find out what all this is about."
Yin Ren had a vague feeling that among the clues scattered all over the ground, there was a faint thread.
The capital is Huajisi.
Fu Xingchuan stood at the headquarters of Huajisi with extremely realistic details and sniffed at the base of the wall. Ge Tingting stood in front of Zhong Yi's giant statue, his mouth wide open, and was shocked to the spot. Huang Jin had already found a corner, his "face" was slumped inward, and he ignored anyone's calls.
Fortunately, this is considered to be the sphere of influence of "Fu Shangliu" and "Li Heyan". Everyone in Shi'an paid special attention to the fact that there was no suspicious person following Hua Jisi. I wonder if the sneaky follower gave up.
"It's weird, isn't it?"
Lu Xiaohe glanced at the bustling interior of Huajisi with a complicated expression. She was in a daze for a while, and then began to read through the letters that "Li Heyan" needed to process: "The scenes here are too clear. I still haven't figured out where these memories came from."
"Uncle, you said this technique was adapted from the 'Archives' technique?"
Fu Tianyi was thinking hard, and Fu Shangliu's beard was almost bald by him.
"It's strange, there shouldn't be a problem. It must be said that the archives is a personal memory stand-alone machine, this one is just connected to the Internet..."
Fu Xingchuan's tail was hanging down, his face was wrinkled, he didn't know what he was thinking.
Fu Tianyi didn't wait for Fu Xingchuan's answer, only a suppressed exclamation. In an instant, everyone's eyes turned to the source of the exclamation - Lu Xiaohe, holding a page with a very ugly expression on his face.
"Sister Xiaohe, what's wrong?" Ge Tingting finally looked away from the statue of Zhong Yi.
Lu Xiaohe read the text on the letter again and closed his eyes.
"It said that the 150,000-strong Yiluo army was completely destroyed in the mountains."
Fu Tianyi and Fu Xingchuan looked at each other: "Did the flesh figurine do it, or...?"
"I don't know. The problem is that the emperor firmly believes that it was the work of the Great Heavenly Master Zhong Yi. I think in Yin Ren's memory, the 150,000-strong army was destroyed, and the emperor probably mentioned similar things."
Lu Xiaohe thought about his words.
"He wants his trusted practitioners to go to the Skeleton Valley and invite the Great Heavenly Master to help defend against the Yi Luo army."
"...What the hell?" Huang Jin in the corner finally couldn't help but interrupt, "Wasn't Yin Ren dead at the time? And he didn't have any contact with people outside Yin Village."
A sneer gradually appeared on Lu Xiaohe's face.
"Yes, only Huajisi maintained communication with the Great Heavenly Master Zhong Yi. This time the Great Heavenly Master wiped out the main force of Yi Luo by himself. The emperor believed that Huajisi did not report the knowledge and deliberately concealed the strength of the Great Heavenly Master, leaving the Yi alone. Luo Jun invaded. That’s why he sent his cultivators to the Bone Valley instead of sending Hua Jisi... The king of the Gong Dynasty is really a genuine person. "
Ge Tingting listened with half-understanding: "But at that time, Yin Ren had already..."
Yin Ren had already slept deep underground, and had left a seal on the place where he rested, for fear that his "evil object" would have any additional impact.
"Just breaking the seal and digging up the stone can be done by top practitioners. And even if you get the body of the Great Heavenly Master, there are many... many ways to use it."
Lu Xiaohe looked away.
Wherever she looked, it was the wall covered with rows of corpses.
The author has something to say:
Xiao Zhong: Xiao Zhong takes orders on the spot...no matter what, it can't be realized immediately.
Xiao Yin: ...because that is not a wish at all!
(End of chapter)