Wang Ergou spent several months in a dark cell.
He couldn't tell the difference between day and night. He only slept. Even if he could fill his stomach, it was just rotten food. He couldn't even see the slightest hope.
Wang Ergou knew that he was destined to die.
If it was petty theft, he would be imprisoned for ten days and a half at most. If the crime was serious, he would be sent to serve in an iron mine outside the city.
A person like Wang Ergou who has no deadline usually has only one end, which is to be dragged out on the street and beheaded.
So he had given up long ago and was waiting for the meal to come.
But on this day, the sound of sticks hitting the railings was heard, and a jailer shouted loudly: "Don't sleep, Wang Ergou, Mr. Li is here to see you."
Wang Ergou opened his eyes drowsily and couldn't help but mutter a few words.
"I don't know how many fat sheep I have slaughtered, sir? I'm afraid Mr. Li will take me to Caishikou."
Pooh! !
The footsteps gradually approached, and there was a little more light in the dark cell corridor.
Wang Ergou subconsciously looked intently, and saw a tall figure walking slowly, with a terrifying and oppressive force.
The figure stopped at the corner when he was about to reach the cell.
"Wang Ergou, right?"
Wang Ergou didn't speak. He was really frightened because the shadow on the ground was too scary.
Mr. Li's neck was several times thicker than usual, and his head hung on it like a lantern, like a rumored evil ghost escaping from the underworld.
Master Li continued to speak: "Let me ask you, do you want to live or die?"
Wang Ergou was slightly dazed, and the figure asked again, which made him feel itchy, so he answered.
"Sir...of course I want to live, no one wants to die."
Master Li laughed strangely a few times, and then continued towards the cell.
Seeing that the other party was getting closer and closer, Wang Ergou couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and looked at the strange shadow with fear.
Master Li came to the door of the cell, and only then did Wang Ergou see clearly.
On top of his tall body was a head that was much larger than an ordinary person's. His forehead was covered with veins, making his facial features unusually unnatural.
"Uh, help..."
Wang Ergou was about to say something when he heard Master Li say calmly: "Go to sleep."
boom.
He fell to the ground neatly, and soon he was snoring heavily, and his chest was rising and falling regularly.
The cell door was opened, Master Li walked in and squatted down next to Wang Ergou.
He stretched out his palm and placed it on Wang Ergou's face, causing the latter's skin to gradually change. The wrinkles were erased, and the texture was like an old and yellowed book.
Master Li opened the book that Wang Ergou's head had transformed into, and saw that the pages were filled with words, representing his memory.
He turned it over at will and made changes with a brush.
As the words were added and subtracted, Wang Ergou's body also changed accordingly.
His height shortened slightly, and his originally rough appearance became more delicate. He was just a strong man a moment ago, but he turned into a woman in the blink of an eye.
Although the original appearance can still be vaguely seen from the face, the gender transformation makes it impossible to be recognized by acquaintances.
After a while, Wang Ergou's head returned to normal.
Master Li took out the glass bottle from his arms, which contained a black-gray substance that was twisting and squirming.
If you examine it carefully, you can find that the substance is composed of fine insects, and its core is a piece of purple-red flesh the size of a fingernail.
Master Li stared at the glass bottle for a long time, then poured it into the man's mouth, and the gray-black substance blended into his flesh and blood.
"That should be enough."
He nodded slightly and left the prison.
When Wang Ergou woke up, he only felt a splitting headache, his expression became extremely dazed, and he didn't even know why he was here.
At this time, the two jailers opened the cell door, and without saying anything, they took him directly to the outside world.
When Wang Ergou came to his senses, he had already changed into ordinary cotton and linen clothes and was standing on the crowded street.
He walked like a zombie, as if there was a voice in his head guiding him.
I don’t know why, but Wang Ergou was walking in the direction of the temple fair, but he was walking very slowly, staggering with every step.
………
In the fire hall inside the Yamen.
Ren Qing crossed her legs and swallowed a stone eye, and the warmth in her stomach spread throughout her body.
With the help of the stone eyes to restore his physical strength, he summoned the dragon and snake spine in the side room, and controlled the movements with his mind.
The dragon-snake spine would occasionally bump into furniture, and the sharp bone blade would easily cut through it, but there was no other place to practice.
Unless it's dark night.
After several days of gestation, he discovered that the dragon-snake spine was transforming all the time, nourishing all the bones in the body.
Ren Qing also figured out a new way to use the Dragon Snake Spine.
As soon as he thought about it, his whole spine made a sound of bones colliding.
The gaps between the joints closed together, forming a ferocious bone knife.
The most important thing is that this bone knife can be extended without limit and can be turned into a chain at any time, greatly increasing its flexibility.
Even though Dragon Snake Spine is still focused on physics, Ren Qing is still confident that he can change the world after just three changes.
Ren Qing retracted the Dragon Snake Spine back to his spine, and then prepared to visualize the Invisible Dharma.
Perhaps because the Taotie method has been promoted to the ghost realm, the progress of the Wumu method is gratifying.
Even if the flow of information does not consume his life span, he is still confident that he can break through within two or three months.
However, Ren Qing's other techniques did not improve significantly due to various reasons.
Shenzu Jing is still better, mainly because it is stagnant without the support of wolf blood. Just replenish the resources in the next ghost market.
There is nothing you can do about a masochistic technique like the Human Skin Book unless you practice it in a cave to help counteract the earthquake.
After Ren Qing practiced until night, he was going to eat something and rest for a while.
Then the crow sounded.
The paper window was broken open, and the Hades crow flew in from the outside world and spat out the note.
boom! !
Ming Ya's self-explosion was even more unprepared than before, but fortunately Ren Qing was prepared.
The strange mouth in the palm opened in advance, and the repulsive force enveloped the room in the wing, and all the flesh and blood was absorbed by the prison in the belly.
Ren Qing opened the paper and looked at it.
The location of the mission is at the Temple of the Empress Dowager. Next is the last day of the temple fair, which involves the festival.
The main purpose of the festival is to open the altar and parade, and to bring the statue of the God from the Temple of the Empress Dowager in the west of the city to the south of the city. Only in this way can it be considered a successful conclusion.
The Jailor Hall asked to stay around the temple, and the contents of the paper did not reveal much.
Ren Qing guessed that the Jailer Hall was preparing to close the net, and he should be absolutely sure that the land would not form a restricted area after its death.
Naturally, he couldn't let go of the opportunity to earn blood crystals.
Ren Qing heard from Bo Feng that the annual celebration of the Empress Dowager Temple was a big day, and it was almost more lively than the Chinese New Year.
However, he did not rush to check out the location. Instead, he went to warn Xiao Wu and others first, so as not to accidentally get involved in the mission of the Jailer Hall.
