Ten minutes later, the two found the father Ta Tao whom the hungry brats called him on the south side of the street.
The so-called "Ta Tao" refers to the bellows installed next to the earth furnace used for iron-making in Lingdao in ancient times. It later evolved into the name for the entire steel-making technology. This iron-making technology has long been eliminated in modern times due to its low efficiency, and it is a very rare craft.
In this festival of the hidden gods, there is such a craftsman who seems to have traveled from hundreds of years ago. To others, he looked like an old man with a white beard wearing a turban. He stood on wooden shoes and sat in front of the iron-making furnace. He forged the knife blank with one arm and a hammer, making a long and distant sound.
In Gongsun Ce's eyes, this godless appearance was particularly horrifying: he had only one arm and one leg, wearing dirty iron armor, and his head was covered with a scorched iron face, and the eyes flowing out from the gaps were like It's as hot as fire, almost like a product of alchemy in a comic book.
Gongsun Ce stepped forward and asked: "Hello, old gentleman, are you here to accept business? I don't have time to take anything, and I want to make a deal with you."
"Oh, the troubled son of a foreign god." As soon as Dad Tao spoke, white steam spewed out from under his mask, "Your connection is still golden, don't you even want to accept a gift from the gods?"
"I haven't done anything practical, so how can I accept the gift?" Gongsun Ce said with a smile, "I have always had bad luck. Finally, I got good luck tonight. I will keep it for a while."
The one-armed blacksmith didn't even raise his head, he was concentrating on forging iron and didn't say anything else. The superpower person gave his companion a look, and Shigurei took out the black arrow without any hope: "Old sir, do you think this arrow of mine can be used to strengthen it?"
Father Ta Tao put down his hammer, took a black arrow, placed it in front of his mask and looked at it intently. He stretched out his finger and pricked the tip of the arrow, and blood immediately appeared on his fingertip.
"Good craftsmanship." His voice sounded like bellows. "The core of black walnut is used as the arrow shaft, the mithril arrowhead is fixed to break the demon, and the blood of the shadow creature is used to match your temperament. This is something tailor-made for you."
The old blacksmith wiped his fingers and changed the topic: "But the feathers of the winged horse are all over the head and tail, and it took so much effort to fix a slow launch, which is far unable to keep up with the speed of a ninja throwing shuriken. This The craftsmen are highly skilled and would never do something stupid like this. I think it was your own bad idea."
Shigure Rei said angrily: "I am a weak woman and have never practiced karate. Is it weird to add a launch?!"
Dad Ta Tao threw the arrow back and said with a puff of steam: "You can fix your mind again and see what materials you can get. The excess will be my processing fee."
The superpower hurriedly stopped his partner who was still arguing: "Old sir, how much does it cost to just build a weapon?"
"I'm not sure, it depends on what you want to fixate on."
Mind... is probably his other name for the concept?
"I want protection against mental attacks and other unconventional means...in other words, protection against the soul."
He had a reason for saying this. Since arriving at Zero Island, various unconventional attacks have been staged in front of him: Crazy Fire's Crazy Fire, Shigure Seventeen's mirror control, and the ninja he met this morning also used poison as a medium. Impact, and all-round cursed sludge... Gongsun Ce thinks that he has no problem with his strength, but no matter how strong his hard power is, he will overturn sooner or later with so many insidious methods. If he didn't take some targeted protection, he might not be able to withstand the bad luck one day.
After hearing this, the old blacksmith put down the hammer in his hand for the first time.
"You want peace of mind? This is a difficult object to make!"
Gongsun Ce scratched his head and said, "Is this difficult to make?"
"It's so difficult! You need a helmet to protect your head, and soft armor to protect your body, but what can make you feel at ease? Look at the millions of people in this world, how many of them can say that they live at peace of mind?" The old blacksmith gasped.
"...is it expensive?"
“It’s not that it’s expensive, you can’t find the materials!”
As soon as the old blacksmith talked about his professional field, he immediately started talking, patting his thigh and preaching.
"The weapon that fixes the mind requires the material of the mind. The mind is either given by people or innate to things. The foreigners in the north use mithril weapons to drive away evil and filth. Everyone believes that it is sacred and can eliminate evil spirits, and it has the power to break through. The mind of the devil; the winged horses in the West shoot feathers to hunt, and the feathers are born with the intention of shooting. If you want to protect your soul from being forced by threats, what you want is peace of mind. Let me ask you, what can represent peace of mind? ?”
Gongsun Ce thought about it for a long time and said, "Is the family happy?"
Dad Ta Tao said: "You kid sacrificed blood to the whole family to make materials. Do you feel at ease?"
Shigurei laughed heartily, and Gongsun Ce coughed twice in embarrassment: "Ahem. Is there any kind of creature that is born with peace of mind like a winged horse..."
"Yes! I have been forging iron for more than a thousand years, and I know how to do it." The old blacksmith nodded. "Across the sea in the east, to the Yongguang Imperial Capital, there is an ancient Qin clan. The people in this clan are naturally at ease and not afraid of evil spirits. Two thousand At the end of the year, no matter what insidious tricks or tricks, you can't even do a somersault in front of the Qin people!"
"Cough cough cough cough!" Gongsun Ce coughed violently.
Really, Miss, I have known you for three years and this is the first time I know that you have mental attack resistance. Why haven't you shown it in battles before... Well, it seems like we have never fought against spiritual opponents together...
I imagined someone's expressionless but smug face in my mind. It seemed like she didn't want to show off her family's ability. When I thought about the way she said this, I felt inexplicably angry! What kind of bloodline does your old Qin family have? Not only are you a super soldier per capita, but you also have such magical abilities? !
Rei Shigure laughed even louder: "Haha! Don't you have any materials? Why don't you kidnap the little girl and beat her up?"
"Shut up, please!"
The old blacksmith waited for them to finish arguing and then continued slowly: "You see, if you use the materials to make people feel at ease, you will not be able to feel at peace yourself. After all, the most difficult thing to find in the world is a person with a peaceful mind who can make things even if you want to. Let’s change it to something practical.”
The superpower awkwardly resigned. Shigure Rei laughed for a while and said, "Finally gave up?"
"It's not that it's not that, it's just a question anyway, I didn't have high expectations."
"Good luck today!" Shigure Rei imitated what he just said vividly, "Do you know what feudal superstition is and it hurts people?"
"Miss Shigure, let's not talk about feudal superstition since we are at the god's ceremony..." Gongsun Ce sighed as he walked away.
Rei Shigure originally thought that the superpower was going to find the "sea power god" to inquire about the news, but unexpectedly, he found an open space at the end of the street alone and built a white table next to the fish stall that no one was patronizing.
"...?" The huntress looked as curious as the fish-headed man next door. They saw Gongsun Ce making two more chairs, then he took out four big flags and took out his pen to write on them.
"What are you going to do again?"
"You can also tell their intentions from the name of this festival, right? Quite a few of the hidden gods who come here to participate in the festival want to fulfill their wishes, but the gods are well-informed, but they just don't know Whatever you want, you can only try your luck on such an occasion to be satisfied." Gongsun Ce wrote enthusiastically, "Remember the mirror girl's room? She is a typical example. What she wants is her own face, but Because I don't know my wish, I have been staying in the mirror. Even if I receive so many offerings, I can't be completely liberated if I don't follow the right path."
The huntress remembered what someone had done to the mirror girl's room, and opened her mouth unconsciously: "Hey, are you trying to—"
"You guessed it right, Miss Shigure."
While talking, Gongsun Ce finished writing the words and placed the flag on a tree beside the table. But I saw four big flags fluttering, and wrote a letter: "Iron mouth cuts straight through", "Magic plan", "Not taking a penny", "Those who are destined to come".
The gray-haired young man finally made himself a white melon-skin hat and leaned back on the chair, looking like a fortune-telling charlatan on the street. He yelled at the top of his voice: "Let's take a walk and have a look! Master Morton directly teaches Western divination techniques. He can find out your wish in three minutes and give you a solution in five minutes. Just do good deeds and don't take any money. Give it a try You can’t afford to suffer, let’s see if you can’t be fooled!”
The fish-headed man at the next stall was eating meatballs. When he heard this, his hands shook, and the takoyaki on the bamboo stick fell to the ground with a "pop"; the bald kappa opposite was sumo wrestling with a rock-shaped monster, and his legs trembled on the spot. He fell down; the customer at the boomerang stand turned his head just as he was about to accept the bid, and the boomerang hit his face. But seeing the bustling street suddenly quiet, and all the monsters and monsters on the street turning their heads, Shigure Rei felt dozens of horrifying glances and wished he could eat this gray-haired bastard alive.
"I just want to come to the festival, not to cause trouble, do you understand?!"
"Don't worry, think about it carefully, why is going to a stall as interesting as setting up a stall?"
Shigurei grabbed someone by the collar and said, "I'm going to lose my mind before I believe your nonsense!"
Gongsun Ce raised his hands with a smile. Just as he was about to continue arguing, his nose smelled the salty smell of the sea breeze. He turned his head and took a look, and sure enough, a pirate dressed as a pirate squeezed out of the crowd of ghosts. The soul fire in its eyes was burning, and it looked extremely annoyed.
The skeleton pirate roared like thunder: "You violated everyone's taboo at the festival. Do you really want to cause trouble?! It's just a day of good luck. Don't think that no one can cure you!!"
Gongsun Ce put his hands on the table and smiled: "I kindly want to help everyone, why are you so angry? This is a gathering to realize your wishes, but the gods don't know what they want, so you are like headless flies. If you just wander around like this, you won’t be satisfied even if you participate ten or a hundred times.”
Ichigo hit the table, furious: "Do you still need to explain such a simple truth?! The modern gods and humans have been studying for thousands of years and can't explain it. What can you, a foreign god of disaster, understand?!"
"Too arrogant!" "I don't understand the rules..." "Go and call the shrine maiden." "Don't let him cause trouble here!"
Ichimoku's words were clearly recognized by the demons and monsters, and there was an uproar all around. But Rei Shigure keenly noticed that there were still quite a few silent eyes flickering, as if they were expecting something. She sat on the white stool and observed with interest how Gongsun Ce would respond.
The superpower was not annoyed at all. He raised his index finger and shook it. His confident look made people angry.
"Mr. Ichimoku Dao doesn't know something. I am the son of a misfortune, and I am born with all kinds of incredible magical powers. I can clearly see where your crux is after looking at it..." He rolled his eyes, "I know you want to What are you talking about? It’s empty talk, seeing is believing! Whether it’s accurate or not, you’ll know just by looking at it!”
By chance, the hungry little guys who had begged for food not long ago were passing by with their mouths drooling. Gongsun Ce raised his finger forward and said, "Come on, come on, let me show you?"
The bruised little devils glanced at the big flag and laughed shyly: "Haha! We know our wishes!"
Yi Mian smiled angrily: "Boy, you missed the mark in the first sentence! Who doesn't know that what the hungry kid wants is to eat!"
Gongsun Ce stood up from the chair, walked to the hungry little ghosts, and said leisurely: "I don't think so. If what they want is really food, why are they still not relieved after eating it now?"
The hungry little guys were stunned and shouted: "Not enough!" "It doesn't taste good!" "Too little..."
"Isn't it enough to eat until your belly is bloated? Food shortage is of course your obsession, but you only know one and not the other." Gongsun Ce put his hands behind his back and walked in circles around the little ghosts. , "Being hungry and cold, with short clothes and little food, is a nightmare for children in times of poverty. You have no clothes to cover your body, no shoes and socks, and you are dressed so shabbily. How can you survive the cold winter? That blue-purple skin is what you once had Proof of severe frostbite!”
"——Ah!" After hearing this, the hungry little devils seemed to have been struck by a bolt from the blue, and they even forgot to eat for a while. The leader of the kid murmured: "Cold...cold!!"
Gongsun Ce raised his hand and made several pure white cotton-padded jackets. He knelt down and handed the thick clothes to the little ghosts.
"Food can ward off hunger, but it cannot dispel the cold. If you want to be satisfied, wear thick clothes."
The hungry kids grabbed the cotton-padded jackets and scrambled to put them on themselves. They wrapped themselves in clothes and said inarticulately: "Clothes..." "Comfortable..." "Full!!"
Just like the faceless and black-toothed woman in the mirror, their bodies became transparent at this moment and gradually turned into points of light. The dim eyes of the little ghosts became clear, and childlike smiles appeared on their terrifying faces.
"Thank you..." "Thank you very much!" "Thank you, brother!"
Gongsun Ce sighed. "It's easy, you're welcome." He walked back to the table and sat down, putting his hands on his chin: "How about it, does anyone want to try it?"
There was a bang, and the crowd of ghosts and monsters was as noisy as a pot exploding. The skeleton's chin almost dropped at first sight. It stretched out its hand to support its chin. Before it could speak, the fish-headed man setting up the stall next to him couldn't sit still for the first time. He hurried to the table and danced: "Ah, Ulala, oooh! !!”
The superpower observed carefully for a while and asked: "Mr. Fish, do you know sign language or other means of communication? If you can, just nod, not shake your head."
The fish-headed man almost shook his fish head off.
"You are conscious and decisive. You sell fish and shrimps at the stall. You should be an experienced fisherman. You have no limbs and do not know sign language, which means you do not have communication difficulties. Let's talk about the most obvious weirdness. , naturally it’s this big fish head…”
Shigurei frowned and said: "Fish head? I think he is a local man in his 40s."
When Gongsun Ce heard this, he understood most of it. He smiled and said: "Miss Shigure, please use your impermanence method."
Shigurei thought for a few seconds and said with a strange expression: "...Speak in human terms."
The fish-headed man's words immediately became clear: "...Master, can you help me find out what's wrong with me? I've been talking to them for a long time and they still can't understand - ah!"
Gongsun Ce patted the fish-headed man on the shoulder: "You can speak human language with a fox face, but why can't you speak human language with a fish head? Your communication disorder is a mental illness rather than a problem of ability. It can be solved by taking the right medicine. How do you feel now? "
The fish-headed man burst into tears and gave him a hug full of fishy smell.
"Master! You two are truly masters!! Great kindness, great kindness!!"
It ran to the pile of hidden gods and chatted happily for a few words, then peacefully turned into a point of light and disappeared.
The monsters and monsters almost had their eyes popping out of their sockets. Ichimoku stood in front of the table, clasped his hands and said, "Sir! Can you help our family take a look!!"
This sentence was like throwing a lit firecracker into the fire, and all kinds of non-human beings swarmed up, crying and howling. The darkness was enough to leave a psychological shadow that every child will never forget. "Master, please help me take a look!" "Sir, help me!" "Master, I'll pay more, but give me a look first!!!"
Gongsun Ce hurriedly stood up: "There is no charge for voluntary labor! There is no need to rush one by one, queue up first, queue up first!!"
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