My impression of Liushi can be summed up as "a gloomy person".
I've heard a lot of rumors about him, some of which I think are more reliable, and some of which I don't believe.
The most difficult thing to guess in this world is the human heart. It's not that it can't be done, but it's very troublesome. A person's external performance, including personality, speaking style, acting style, etc., can indeed be used as a basis to infer his inner activities and way of thinking. But it would be too arrogant to judge a person based on these things alone.
Everyone does a lot of things that they don't even understand why they do it, and everyone has had dizziness many times. If you really want to test a person, at least you have to put him in the environment at that time and speculate together with external factors.
So I need to make Flowstone go crazy first.
Not long after we met, when he showed me his forging ability, he once cut his arm with a knife and sprinkled blood on the sword to complete the forging. But it was not enough, at that time he could still retain his sanity to a certain extent, which meant that this level of forging was not enough to drive him completely crazy.
Then test it with what Liushi has been working on.
When Carissa died, what he was doing was researching on [Universal Weapon], wasn't he
Now I will restore this scene and give him another hope of breakthrough. See how far he can go in order to complete his research.
At the beginning, Liushi behaved fairly normally. He just focused on the research on this piece of high-quality steel that he had never seen before, using tools including hammers, files, chainsaws, chisels and other tools to test the properties of the steel, and began to carefully select some of the other materials for forging alternative material.
This time, I didn't mean anything, and found all the high-quality materials accumulated in Yuxi City. Many of the materials were originally collected by me to help Felita make a wand. I didn't expect that these materials would be left idle after I went to the capital this time. But there is one thing to say, most of the materials, Liushi's current salary is simply unaffordable, so it is my investment in him.
After gradually understanding the various properties of this piece of steel, Liushi lowered his hand and fell into long thoughts.
This process lasted so long that I became drowsy watching it.
When he was about to fall asleep in a daze, he was awakened instantly by a thunderous crash.
I looked at Liushi, he had just hit the iron block heavily with the hammer in his hand, and the red hot iron block was deformed by the impact. Liu Shi stared at the steel on the chopping board without blinking, and raised the hammer with his hand and dropped it, striking quickly like a gust of wind and rain.
The percussion was extremely weighty, and the strength contained in it even made people doubt whether it came from the thin Liushi.
here we go.
On Liu Shi's face, the sadness, gloom and despair all disappeared, but what was replaced was not a normal expression, but another extreme.
He blushed and was breathing rapidly. The wind brought by the swing of the hammer blew away his bangs, and his messy hair danced in the firelight. The movement of opening and closing is like some kind of weird dance. At this moment, it seemed that even his inside had been replaced, the original flowstone was gone, replaced by some kind of evil existence that dominated his body.
The materials were thrown into the anvil one by one, and melted into the steel at just the right temperature, turning into a part of the weapon.
Those high-level materials are full of resistance to forging, just like the souls of those monsters are making their final struggle. Every material is like a dangerous explosive at high temperature, and the flesh and blood may be splashed if you are not careful.
But from Liu Shi's fanatical expression, it can be seen that he is not afraid at all.
It's like he has a blueprint in his chest, just waiting to be completed. What material to use to restrain what material, what material to use to activate what material, these questions have already been answered by him. If what he showed me last time was the basic skills of a blacksmith, then at this moment he is using his ability to climb the mountain of his dreams.
There are so many high-level materials in the world, and there are so few famous weapons in the world.
The souls of those alien races that have been conquered live in these materials that once constituted their bodies. If they want to refine them and take them as their own, the difficulty may not be as easy as conquering them alive. This is something that cannot be solved by fists, and it is also one of the reasons why I think humans are nobler than other races—
We can use them, they can only use what they are born with!
Sweat dripped continuously on the anvil, evaporated and turned into fine powder. Sweat also flowed into his eyes, staining his eyes that refused to close red.
Really looks like a monster.
Especially when there is a smile on the corner of his mouth, exactly like the villain who sold his soul to the devil. Black smoke billowed from the anvil, and blood gurgled from his jaws. His chest rose and fell, and every time he inhaled he wanted to fill his lungs, and there was a long time interval between every exhalation and the next inhalation.
In this state, it is indeed normal to faint anytime.
I can see the brilliance in his eyes, similar to the crazy artist who left all the mundane things behind to get so pure, with a wave of reckless heat. The weapon took shape in his hands, the tools in the toolbox were scattered all over the place, the materials had bottomed out, and this symphony of the soul was coming to an end.
Suddenly, Liu Shi's hands stopped.
He was a little puzzled at first, and then his eyes quickly flicked over the things in front of him, as if he was eager to find some kind of material.
I can also see that he used various materials to maintain the chaotic state of the core of the weapon, but he lacked several balanced props.
Don't blame him, I deliberately manipulated the material, just for this moment to lure him into the bait.
Liu Shi drew out the knife again, this time, he first looked at his wrist, made a gesture with the knife on it, and then shook his head. Ordinary fresh blood can't suppress this complicated change, it needs to be purer.
Liu Shi also realized this.
He lowered his head and looked at his chest.
Apex blood.
Take your own life as material. Use the three souls and seven souls as the bargaining chip for refining.
That's enough.
Realizing this, Liushi calmly raised his knife.
Without the slightest hesitation, he stabbed at his heart so neatly.
Although the movement was fast, it was still within my acceptance range. I stood up abruptly and grabbed his wrist when his knife was less than one centimeter away from my chest. Liu Shi raised his head and looked at me coldly, his eyes were that of an irrational beast. He can't recognize me, it's better to say that he can't think about anything other than forging.
I showed a ferocious smile like his, bared my teeth, and smiled at him:
"If your life is gone, you can't forge it. Don't you want to complete this work? I'll teach you, just use other people's lives to fill it. Take your merry-go-round outside. I don't know how many times I've worn it for you. Just fill in the life of the cuckold's wife!"