After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 1342 Demon Puppet Masters

"Yes, very good." He Lingchuan affirmed.

"Ah Hui said she was a widow, but Xiao An mentioned her 'father' more than once, saying that he was very powerful and had done terrible things to many people and animals." Mirror added, "A peddler can't be considered powerful and terrible, right? I think she was talking about the masked man tonight?"

He Lingchuan hummed: "Dong Rui often does terrible things to people and animals."

Isn’t this the daily life of a demon puppeteer?

Including the ghost ape and the bat, the appearance of any demon puppet is full of absurdity and weirdness.

Isn’t this scary enough for a child?

"The little girl being chased by the demon puppet master believes that she is from Xingyun Village, which disappeared 20 years ago. Tong Xuan always kills people in places where she has appeared, and then Xiao An disappears." Each element is a fragment, gradually forming a bizarre pattern in He Lingchuan's mind. "This may be another sad story."

"Ah, what do you say?"

He Lingchuan looked up at the swallow's nest under the eaves again: "You should be familiar with the situation of dwelling on the vanishing past, right?"

"Me?" The Soul Mirror was surprised. "What does it have to do with me?"

How can I still get around it?
"Isn't that what your world in the mirror looks like?"

The mirror let out a long sigh: "Where are they?"

When He Lingchuan entered the mirror world for the first time, those medieval ghosts and resentments were obsessed with the past, unable to extricate themselves.

A figure flashed outside and Dong Rui came back.

He had dark circles under his eyes and couldn't help yawning as soon as he entered the door: "Give me a bowl of braised rice noodles, quickly! I'm starving."

"Get away!" He Lingchuan dodged three feet away and waved his hand in front of his nose a few times, "You haven't slept for a few days, your breath is so bad!"

"About two, three, four...seven days."

"You haven't slept since we separated at location number three?"

"I took a few naps during the trip." Dong Rui yawned again. "You know, in the dark underground, how can we care about the passage of time?"

After he and He Lingchuan parted ways at location No. 3, he drove the Snail Toad directly to the Howling Forest with the Dragon Pillar.

The Ghost King's Underground Palace is his secret testing ground, no one is allowed to approach.

Reminded by He Lingchuan, he specially dived into the underwater cave of Minghui Zhenren and used the deep pool of water to isolate the tracking spells on the three demon puppets, just in case.

It was a rare opportunity to get a new toy, and it was the work of another puppeteer. He was a little excited and didn't sleep for seven or eight days.

The food in the back kitchen of Yangshan Chamber of Commerce is always kept warm in case guests want to order food at any time.

So a quarter of an hour later, Dong Rui sat down at the table and slurped the pork intestines and braised rice noodles that had just come out of the pot.

This stew is fresh, fragrant, wild, smooth, spicy and hot, which is exactly what his stomach desires most at the moment.

He raised the bowl and gulped down a few sips, then let out a long "ah". The flavor of the fresh pepper rushed straight to his head, making him feel relaxed all over.

He Lingchuan sat down and asked, "Any new discoveries?"

"The manufacturing method of the three demon puppets is very crude. They are all semi-finished products, and they are all stitched together." Dong Rui chewed food and spoke vaguely. If someone else were to speak, they might not understand. "Incoordinated, understand? Incoordinated!"

"I understand." When He Lingchuan first saw the tiger with a hinge tail, he felt that its head was light and its tail was heavy. In order to prevent the hinge tail from slowing down its speed, it even had to push it forward when running. On the other hand, Dong Rui's demon puppets usually did not have this problem.

His works have strong coordination and consistency. This is not only a matter of aesthetics, but also actually affects the performance of the demon puppet's abilities.

"In other words, the other party's method is clumsy?"

"No, no, that's not right." Dong Rui's attitude towards scientific research has always been to seek truth from facts. "Insects have the most characteristics, but it is very difficult to mix insects with other monsters. They are not very, not very... You know, even if you can barely make it, it will not be stable, and the muscles will repel each other."

Not very compatible. He Lingchuan could only think of this word.

"So what are these guys good at?"

"More stable than I thought." Dong Rui murmured, "In fact, when I first created the demon puppet, I also thought about mixing insects with other demons, but after trying twice, the demon puppets collapsed quickly, so I decisively gave up this direction. Now that I think about it, if it succeeds, insects are very suitable."

"You know, if an earthworm is cut in half, it can grow into two; some worms can still live for seven or eight days after their heads are cut off." The tenacity of insect life is hard to match by other species.

"So what?" He Lingchuan still couldn't get the point.

"The technique is crude, but the core is solid." Dong Rui said, "Either this guy is really a genius, and he used his own clumsy methods to find a unique path, or -"

"Or?" This was too professional, and He Lingchuan could only listen attentively.

Dong Rui took enough advantage of Qiao before he smiled: "Or maybe he learned it from someone else. In other words, someone taught him!"

"Demon puppet masters?" He Lingchuan looked at him, "Are not all demon puppet masters lone rangers?"

Before he met him, Dong Rui was alone, and even worked as a killer to earn money for his research. He Lingchuan always thought that all demon puppet masters were like this.

It turns out there is an organization and that there can be mentoring and guidance?
"How should I know?" Dong Rui said unhappily, "If there really is a group studying this, I would also be very surprised, okay?"

"What else did you find? You haven't slept for seven or eight days, you can't have only taken apart this much, right?"

"This job is very difficult. If another demon puppet master were to dismantle my work, they wouldn't be able to dismantle much even after seventy or eighty days, let alone seven or eighty days!" Dong Rui gave him a look that said "you newbie, you don't understand" and let him slowly understand. "Why should I say that there may be more than one demon puppet master on the other side? Look at Tong Xuan, who was discovered by the sentinels of Green Villa. He is not a low-level stitched monster at all!"

"Yeah, that's right." Although Tong Xuan's body shape has changed from the normal version, it is definitely not a simple patchwork of two or three monsters. "It can even absorb souls."

"So, there must be a master among them!" Dong Rui clapped his hands and sighed, "My way is not alone, my way is not alone."

You said, it's not a good idea. He Lingchuan looked at him and held back the words.

"However, I still don't agree with using insects to make demon puppets, unless it is absolutely necessary." Dong Rui shook his head, "These things act blindly on instinct. Although they can be induced by various methods, their controllability is too poor, and they often mutate excessively. Think about the seventy-year cicada we saw in Rongshan."

He Lingchuan thought of the seventy-year-old cicadas that once wreaked havoc on Rongshan. It was the cicadas that mutated on a large scale after coming into contact with the divine blood, leading to a disaster.

Dong Rui was right, the mutation of insects was difficult to control.

(End of this chapter)