"Old village chief, do you know this thing?"
After a while, Chen Yao took out a rattle, the one he got from the basement before.
"Well...there's not much to tell about this thing just based on its appearance."
Jiang Qingshan took the rattle from Chen Yao and looked around for a few times but found nothing, so he tried to shake it.
"No sound? There is obviously a collision between metal, um..."
"Yes, Grandpa Village Chief, it hasn't been shaking since we got it. It's so strange..."
Jiang Qingshan fell into deep thought, then got up and fetched an old book from the study.
"Xieyi... historical records?"
"Yes, this book records all kinds of evil items. Regarding the bell that cannot ring, I remember one article...ah, I found it."
Chen Yao stretched his head and leaned over.
"It doesn't look like it."
"Although the shape is not consistent, one description is consistent. Look here: it cannot make any sound when shaken normally."
"show me."
Chen Yao took the book from Jiang Qingshan's hand and began to check the detailed information about this object...
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Item name: Soul-inducing (wonderful object)
Related information: This object was forged by the magic craftsman family. It cannot make any sound when shaken normally. The forging method is unknown.
How to use: Sing "ehye orr'e" in a rising tone in the ancient Kru language, and activate this object by sacrificing part of your own energy. After this object is activated, it will add up to three seconds to the surrounding creatures (except itself) within a five-meter range. [Lost Soul] state (the effect decays with distance), after use, the strange object will fall into silence for one star. Each soul attractor can be used up to ten times, (the erased section)
Annotated information: This information was recorded in the 97th year of the Ancient Wasteland. The magic craftsman clan and (erased) have basically disappeared.
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"The description is consistent. It seems to be a soul-inducing thing. But old village chief, where did you get this book? Why haven't I seen it before?"
Chen Yao asked tentatively, but he had no intention of returning the book in his hand.
"This thing is called a magic picture book. It's a coincidence that its maker is also a magic craftsman. This book is one of the relics left by our ancestors. Ahem, Chen Yao, you've finished reading this..."
"Old village chief! I, Chen Yao, haven't asked you for anything, have I?"
Chen Yao patted his chest, looking like he had a clear conscience.
"What nonsense are you talking about! How many things have you asked me for since you were a kid?!"
Jiang Qingshan was so angry at Chen Yao's shameless appearance that he slapped his thigh.
"Then it's not too much to ask for one more thing. Will you give me this book?!"
"Well, you Chen Yao, you are such a white-eyed wolf, is this how you talk to my father?"
Jiang Qingyan was so angry that he blew his beard and stared. Chen Yao was getting more and more shameless.
"Okay, you won't give it to me, right? Raya, you will bite whoever dares to snatch this book! See who dares to take it away!"
Chen Yao held the book in his arms, looking as if he was ready to die. Little Raya on his shoulders also assumed a posture that he thought was fierce, but was actually cute, and the atmosphere gradually became tense.
"Brother, do you really want this?"
"Yes! I'm going to order this."
"Grandpa, how about you..."
"Xiaohu! Let the Qingshan Village Chief make his own decision."
Qiu Yunxi said coldly that she was the calmest person in the whole process. She also knew that this was a farce, but she could see that Chen Yao really wanted the book, so she was too lazy to get involved.
"Oh! That's all, take it if you want, but you must make good use of it and keep it well. After all, this is the relic of the ancestors. It is a big deal if it is lost..."
Jiang Qingshan waved his hand as if he had made up his mind.
"Hear it, hear it, hear it with both ears!"
Chen Yao seemed a little impatient.
"Don't you want to hear how to use it?"
"I want it! Thank you, old village chief~ Please tell me~"
The impatience on Chen Yao's face immediately turned into a sweet smile, while Jiang Hu and his son beside him were trembling with disgust.
"You first sprinkle a drop of blood on the surface of the book. Then, if you want to record or erase, you only need to apply a drop of blood on the selected blank page, and then press the selected page with your palm for a thought. However, you can only Modify what you have recorded, that’s all.”
"Hey hey hey, remember, remember, old village chief, you are thirsty, come and drink water, I will rub your shoulders again."
Chen Yao kept trying to please him.
"Oh, okay, okay! If you have something to say, say it quickly, and if you have something to say, let it go!"
"Old village chief, you still understand me, hehehe, village chief, look."
Chen Yao summoned the Rubik's Cube form of the Tianji Box, and then brought up the main interface light screen, and various states began to appear on the light screen.
"This is the Tianji Box! It's such a magical thing! Can I take a closer look?"
Jiang Qingshan's eyes lit up when he saw the suspended Tianji body, and the original sullenness on his face disappeared.
"sure."
Chen Yao nodded, picked up the Tianji box body and stuffed it into Jiang Qingshan's arms.
"Oh? This pattern! Oh?! It will also change! Tsk tsk, yes, yes, this is a divine object. Chen Yao, tell me what it can do?"
"Contracts, various transformations, storage, and some hazard warnings. These functions will consume energy to a certain extent. There seems to be some kind of database. I actually don't know most of the functions."
"Tianji, change!"
Chen Yao chanted the ancient Xia mantra and at the same time conveyed what he was thinking about.
[This transformation type is: long sword (ordinary)
The estimated energy consumption is 0.1%/h. Each hit increases energy consumption. Are you sure? 】
"confirm."
"Click click click, clang clang clang!"
The body of the Tianji box began to rapidly change combinations. Two seconds later, it transformed into a silver long sword in Jiang Qingshan's hands. The blade was sharp and the sword was slender. Jiang Qingshan raised the sword with one hand and slowly wiped his fingers across the sword. .
"Yes, a good sword! But what's going on with this energy consumption?" Jiang Qingshan obviously also saw the contents of the light screen.
"This is actually what I want to say, old village chief, is, do you have any energy-related items? For example, batteries or something? If the energy in the Tianji box is exhausted, irreversible things will happen. This is to be handed over to My senior from Tian Ji Ji told me.”
Chen Yao frowned, obviously this matter troubled him.
"Well, let me think about it...there really is!"
Jiang Qingshan stroked the blade of the sword for a moment, then put down the sword, turned around and went to the bedroom, and came back after a while holding a large black square object.
"Boom!"
Jiang Qingshan put it down, and the object made a dull sound when it touched the ground.
"This is a high-energy battery pack. Chenxing sent someone to it about ten stars ago. He also gave me a blueprint and told us to build something called a lifting platform to go to the outside world."
"I led everyone to try to build it several times, but all failed. The vertical height here is thousands of meters away from the outside world. It was impossible to complete it based on the conditions of the village, so it was shelved."
The village chief sighed and continued.
"In the past ten years, I have connected the battery pack to the pedal power generation device at the entrance of the village every half a year to ensure that the battery can be used normally. You can see if it can be used. Anyway, with such a large battery, the village cannot use it. Come on, what a pity.”
"Thank you, village chief."
"The secret of heaven is revealed!"
Chen Yao called up the status panel of the Tianji box and looked at the energy column.
[Remaining energy: 7.1%]
Chen Yao was about to issue an order to replenish energy when the old village chief's exclamation suddenly came from the side.
"Old Xia language?! I said it felt familiar just now!"
"Yes, this is what the senior said. All instructions given to the Tianji box need to be in the ancient Xia language. If you don't teach me, I may not be able to get it, hehe."
Chen Yao scratched his head in embarrassment.
"This reminds me of a strange man from the ancient Xia period. I have to talk about this..."
"Knock knock knock!"
A knock on the door suddenly interrupted Jiang Qingshan's thoughts.
"Grandpa Village Chief! Everyone is waiting in the square! When will we start celebrating?"
Chen Yao took back the Tianji case and stood up to open the door. The person who came was one of the children he had met at the entrance of the village before.
"Oh, it's Ruirui, village chief? Shall we eat first? I'm hungry anyway."
Chen Yao turned around and said, in fact, it was not him who was hungry, but the little guy on his shoulder who was hungry and kept making trouble.
"Okay, let's go eat after everyone unloads their equipment and packs up. We'll talk after eating."
"Yeah! It's delicious! It's delicious! Wuhu~Nana, the food cooked by my mother is delicious!"
Li happily spun around in circles.
"Well, I'm hungry too..."
After hearing this, Yina lowered her head blankly and touched her flat belly.
The square is not far from the village chief's house. As soon as the group opened the door and walked out, they felt the lively atmosphere like a festival.
The small square of less than 300 square meters was crowded with people from various households. Several torches surrounded the square and illuminated it. Especially in the center of the square, dozens of stoves and fires were set up.
Women who are good at cooking are cooking hard. The aroma of various foods is wafting in the square, and even Chen Yao's stomach is growling as if infected.
"Master Yin! Master Yin! So much food! So many people! Are they all food? Can I eat it? Suck! Hey hey hey hey I want to eat, I want to eat!"
"collapse!"
Chen Yao bounced it onto Little Raya's smooth little head in a flash. Not to mention, the feel was surprisingly good.
"Ugh! Bullying, bullying! Just now you told me to give me delicious food! Lie, lie, lie! I will never listen to the liar again!"
"You can eat whatever I tell you to eat later. You are not allowed to run around! You are not allowed to eat randomly! And you are not allowed to eat people! Otherwise, I will lock you up and starve you!"
Chen Yaoti slipped up Laya's short round tentacles and warned.
"Then...okay..."
While Little Raya responded pitifully, she also glanced at the villagers in the square with suspicion. This guy, alas... has a big head. When will he change this weird recipe?
The group of people walked to the central location, and everyone moved out of the way automatically, and the noise became much quieter unconsciously. Jiang Qingshan looked around, stretched out his palm and pressed it down, then coughed, and suddenly everyone Everyone stopped what they were doing, and the surroundings became silent.
"Let me just say a few words. Everyone is gathered here today to celebrate the successful return of the children and to celebrate the bumper harvest of food. Thank God Binding for his blessing! Thank God Binding for his gift! Thank you..."
The old village chief recited the prayer in a loud voice, and most of the surrounding villagers also chanted in a low voice. After all, faith is also a habit.
"Okay! Everyone! The celebration begins!"
"Oh oh oh!"
"Great! I can finally eat something delicious!"
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It was rare that tonight was such a rich meal. Chen Yao took a total of two roasted chicken legs, a small piece of air-dried pork, a large bowl of meat and vegetable chowder, a baked rye cake, and a bowl of wild vegetable rye porridge, all of which were placed in front of him. .
Chen Yao and his party gathered around Qiu Mu's cooking stove. Apart from them, there were other people coming here to get food from time to time. Qiu Mu was sweating profusely by herself.
"Old man! Why don't you come over and help me! I'm almost exhausted!"
Qiu Mu turned around and shouted while waving the spoon.
"Come on, come on, oh, I just took a hot bite..."
"I haven't eaten a bite yet! As an elder, can you eat later?"
"Okay, okay..."
The couple were bickering and busy at the same time. This heartwarming scene made Chen Yao feel happy.
"Why are you laughing? Is it funny? Eat yours!"
Qiu Yunxi pinched the soft flesh of Chen Yao's waist, making him tremble with fright, and then he gnawed on the chicken legs bitterly.
"Here, here's this for you to eat."
Qiu Yueli picked out a few pieces of stewed soft meat from the broth and put them into Yina's bowl. She looked at Yina again, raised her head and finished a bowl of rye porridge with a few slurps.
"Sister, it's delicious... I want more."
"Okay! Sister will serve it for you, eat slowly, there is more!"
"Lili is becoming more and more like a sister, haha."
Before Chen Yao could finish his emotion, Xiao Laya's shouts came like a bombardment.
"Master Yin, master Yin, master Yin! That, that, that! Give it to me, give it to me! Come on! It's the fragrant one!"
"This one?" Chen Yao picked up a chicken leg.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah! Come on, come on!"
Little Raya's tentacles on her shoulders were almost stretched and couldn't reach the chicken legs held up by Chen Yao.
"Then answer my question first."
"Ouch! Hurry up! I'm starving to death!"
"You said you can absorb genetic energy from living things to evolve, then... can you choose not to absorb it, like this?"
Chen Yao shook the chicken leg.
"Yeah, okay, okay! Give it to me quickly! Woo..."
"Then it's agreed? You can absorb it when I allow you to, but don't absorb anything you eat today, eh?"
"I know, I know!"
"Here you go, look at you in a hurry, little greedy pig!" Chen Yao handed the chicken drumstick to little Raya.
"Oh~ Such a big one! Hey hey hey! Ammu ammu... ho ho! Tai ho is so spicy! Oh ho! Ammu ammu~"
Chen Yao also began to immerse himself in eating, but in the end it was obvious that the other chicken leg did not escape Xiao Laya's mouth. Although the meat is not enough, after all, there are more than a thousand people in the village, so it is good to have it. He drank two bowls of broth. This meal tonight was enough to make him unable to walk...
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