"call--"
A strange gust of wind came from nowhere and rolled along the wall, extinguishing all the remaining candlelights swinging violently.
The stone room was so dark that I couldn't see my fingers, only the sound of sharpening the knife echoed.
The already dead little chameleon demon stood up slowly. His eyes were pale, covered with blood lines, and had no pupils.
Ma Liu didn't seem to notice anything unusual and was just sharpening his knife.
Silently, the dark chameleon demon came behind him, put its head on his shoulder, and licked his face with its long tongue.
If it were a new pickpocket, he would have been frightened crazy, but Ma Liu just said calmly:
"Isn't it fun to pretend to be a ghost?"
With the help of the Great Sun Tathagata, his whole body radiated golden light, and his fiery aura erupted like a torrent of steel, burning the Chameleon Demon until black smoke erupted from his body.
"ah!!"
The shrill screams of the night owls resounded through the stone chamber, and then stopped abruptly under the bombardment of Tathagata's large hand seal.
"boom--"
The chameleon demon fell straight to the ground, his resentment gone.
The three lit incense sticks happened to be burned out.
The monsters are different. They have human blood. Almost every one of them has a restless death. They are very evil.
However, Ma Liu is no longer what he used to be, and the little devil no longer takes him seriously.
He put a piece of cloth on it, put his hand on the head of the chameleon devil, and sucked hard.
In an instant, bursts of energy and memories flooded into his mind.
…
There was a wealthy businessman in the capital who had a daughter named Li Lian.
This girl's name is like the person she is, she is born with a delicate and pity character, she is from a small family, she is inexperienced in the world, and she is very famous in the ten miles and eight squares.
It is common for a girl to be pregnant.
But Li Lian fell in love with his servant, and under his coaxing, he became pregnant, became pregnant, and became so angry that his old father couldn't afford to fall ill.
If such a scandal spreads, what will happen to the family tradition? How will the daughter get married in the future?
The old father had no choice but to secretly send Li Lian to the countryside.
Being pregnant is not scary, the scary thing is giving birth to a monster.
Li Lian collapsed, and at the instigation of the midwife, he personally took the child into the woods and hanged him, abandoning the body in the wilderness.
Two years passed in the blink of an eye.
Li Lian got out of depression and married a wealthy family in the capital. She soon became pregnant again and gave birth to a cute and well-behaved little boy.
When the child was three years old, the couple took him out to play.
The husband met a fellow villager by chance and started chatting familiarly. Suddenly, without noticing, the child ran into the dense woods.
Li Lian found out early and ran into the forest anxiously to pick up the child, but saw the little guy turned to her and said:
"Mom, don't hang me this time."
…
The villagers reported to the authorities that monsters were eating people.
When the police arrived, Li Lian and the little boy in the woods had been eaten away, leaving only two human skins.
My husband and fellow villagers were also killed, their hearts and lungs were ripped out, and their brains were sucked dry.
The Yamen Ji Yamen was dispatched, and soon the chameleon demon lurking in the woods was picked out, beaten to death, and sent to be skinned.
Right or wrong, Ma Liu will not comment.
The union between humans and monsters is inherently against the laws of nature, and it is bound to lead to tragedy.
Light a few extinguished lamps to illuminate the stone chamber.
Use a stone awl to crack open the Chameleon Demon's head, take out the brains, put them into a porcelain bottle and leave them to Lei Peng.
He poured mercury into the top of his head and peeled off the entire lizard skin that could change color. This was considered the most valuable thing on the Chameleon Demon's body.
After a lot of work and completing the task, Ma Liu glanced at the hourglass in the corner.
It's still early, so let's just start studying what we got today.
The skin color of a chameleon will change with mood, temperature, and surrounding environment. Ma Liu put his hand above the residual lamp to keep warm, and the skin on his hand immediately turned into the color of flame and glowed.
Then he stood against the wall again, letting his entire face turn bluestone color, as if blending with the ancient stone carvings on the wall.
If you look closely with the naked eye, not only his skin color has changed, but his face has also become an image on the wall, completely matching the stone carvings.
The next moment, several clear faces flashed through his mind, and the faces began to squirm, turning into Wang Goudan, Lei Peng, the miracle doctor Lao Liu, other pickpockets...
"sharp!"
When he obtained the Great Sun Tathagata Technique, Ma Liudu did not even utter an exclamation, but now he could not help but sigh at the magic of the chameleon.
With this face-changing ability in hand, the world is as vast as being in a deserted place.
However, after he was happy, he soon discovered that this skill was a bit useless.
Everyone's height and shape, walking posture, speaking habits, etc. are completely different.
The only thing he can change is his skin color and face. It is almost impossible to completely transform into another person.
At most, you can only deceive someone you haven't seen for a long time and don't have a close friendship with you.
If you want to pass it off as real, you must take off the other person's clothes, wear them on yourself, make your hairstyle similar, do not speak, and do not have close contact with acquaintances.
After thinking carefully, Ma Liu was about to call Lei Peng to collect the materials. Then he pushed the stone door open a crack and heard someone talking in the corridor. He couldn't help but pricked up his ears.
"Captain Lei, please leave me with my son's affairs."
"This is impossible."
Lei Peng seriously refused:
"As long as Old Liu is in the skin-picking department, I will not allow anyone to touch him, let alone force him to treat your Mr. Liang. I, Lei Peng, can clearly distinguish between public and private matters. Killing demons is a business matter. , I should whip him if he can't handle it, but if he makes things difficult for him due to personal matters and makes the pickpockets dissatisfied, how can I still be a captain in the future?"
"I'm really making things difficult for you, Captain Lei. How about this..."
The children of the Liang family murmured for a while, saying that there was a way to control the miracle doctor Liu, but they just needed to let his young master see Old Liu. They also came up with a bad idea, which made Lei Peng look embarrassed and said:
"There is no precedent for two pickpockets sharing a room in the Pickpocket Department. Pickpocket Room No. 9 is not a joke. If the demon leaks a little bit of evil energy, your young master will die."
Pickpockets do not all advance from the bottom of the pickpocket room. It all depends on Lei Peng's arrangements. He usually follows the rules and ranks the pickpockets according to their strength.
The children of the Liang family also knew that demons were vicious, so they stepped back and said:
"My young master has a treasure to protect his body. As long as he does not directly face the demon corpse, he should be fine. However, to be on the safe side, let him try steakhouse No. 10 first. If he can withstand the evil, it will not be too late to go to No. 9. "
"This is difficult to handle."
Lei Peng shook his head and said:
"If your young master dies in the Skin Picking Company, your Liang family and I will become enemies despite having no enmity."
"Don't worry, Lieutenant Lei." The Liang family son patted his chest and promised, "My master has something to say. As long as this matter is completed, no matter whether my son lives or dies, the Liang family will owe you a favor."
"this……"
Lei Peng was moved.
Demons roam the world, and any high-ranking court official will recruit monks at home to avoid being harmed by demons.
The Liang family is not weak in strength and has deep roots in the court. One more friend and one more path. If someone covets the position of the captain in the future and wants to seize his rich fortune, the Liang family can be of great use.
Seeing his hesitation, the visitor took out another letter from his arms.
Lei Peng opened it and saw that the letter was written by his close friend in life and death. He wanted him to help the Liang family for the sake of their friendship, so he had no choice but to agree:
"Give your son some thick clothes to keep him warm, and take him to Grill No. 10 early tomorrow morning."
