Peach Blossom Button

"Linglongxin?"

Tao Mo didn't understand why at first, but the next moment, he thought of the strange puppet core described by Ji Liang, the great mechanism master in "A Thousand Machines Record".

An exquisite core that can make a puppet feel like a living person...

"The Linglong Heart you're talking about..." Unfolding the white fan, Bai Wangyan stared at the expression on the girl's puppet's face thoughtfully.

But the look of fear on Mo Bin's face still hadn't dissipated. He took a few steps back, slumped on the chair, stared blankly at the slightly raised red lips of the puppet, and suddenly punched the table with his fist, shaking the delicate puppet. The precious dragon jade carvings trembled.

"Why can't the old man forget this woman!" Mo Bin roared angrily, "Is this the destination of his life's painstaking efforts! Why is it for her, why, does he just want to bring that woman back to life!" The furious roar It exploded suddenly, and Third Young Master Mo waved his hand vigorously. The hot tea just now was thrown out like this, and exploded into a porcelain flower on the ground, but Third Young Master Mo didn't seem to calm down. The enraged fighting cock paced back and forth in the room, eager to peck at something before he would be content.

Come back to life?Bai Wangyan squinted his eyes, and suddenly, his eyes turned to Tao Mo. Just casting a questioning look, the taciturn young man was so shocked that he didn't dare to look at him. At this moment, Bai Wangyan I feel even more displeased.Sure enough, Tao Mo knew something, as he thought so, the white fan in his hand shook more vigorously, fanning the hairband hanging between his hair and half floating on his shoulders.

As a person who is not stupid, even very smart, Bai Wangyan still can't understand why Tao Mo always treats him so distantly.He knew that Tao Mo had entered the Heavenly Pavilion privately, that Tao Mo left the jade pendant there, and even knew more about Tao Mo, but he only wanted this person to tell him personally, but this was already extremely Disaster.

He has experienced too many things, but he has never found anything more difficult than this.

Just when Bai Wangyan was confused, he only heard a crisp sound of "click", and the third young master Mo had even pulled out the sword hanging on the wall of the secret room, rushed to the jade box, and made a gesture to chop the female puppet, Tao Mo With sharp eyes and quick hands, he hurriedly reached out his hand to stop the crazy Third Young Master Mo, but at this moment, the puppet woman in red suddenly stood up, her eyes staring blankly at Third Young Master Mo who was holding a sharp sword.It was this move that made Tao Mo quickly give up blocking Mo Bin, and aimed his sword at the freely moving puppet.Mo Bin looked at the puppet who sat down again in shock, loosened his hand, and the long sword fell to the ground suddenly.Then, he laughed.

"Hahaha... Is this the Linglong Heart? It can make a puppet speak and move like a living Linglong Heart?" Mo Bin, who became more and more crazy, was completely different from the previous third young master of Senluo Villa. Tao Mo saw him crying and crying. Laughing, I thought the third young master was going crazy.But at this time, Mo Bin suddenly stopped his miserable laughter and calmed down his excitement. Mo Sanshao stood in front of the puppet and spoke to the silent scholar in white.

"Wang Yan, since you want to know who this puppet is and what Linglong Heart is, I'll tell you." Mo Sanshao suddenly seemed to be discouraged, he sighed, but his eyes drifted to the puppet body, "Although I guess, you already know..."

Seeing Mo Bin, who was emotionally violent and crazy, finally calmed down, but Tao Mo, who was standing by the side, couldn't bear to see Mo Bin finally calmed down. He was a little disgusted with the hostility of the Eldest Young Master, and now, he began to feel sorry for what happened to the Third Young Master.Mo Bin is not a bad person, Tao Mo thought so, he is now burdened with the suspicion of killing the owner of the villa, but the third young master Mo is still willing to believe in him, it is really rare.

Bai Wangyan glanced at Tao Mo, then shook his fan: "But it's okay to say."

Mo Bin opened his mouth, but still seemed a little apprehensive. He looked around again, and then slowly explained to the two of them: "Actually, this Xianhu Yard was not originally intended to distribute the puppets that were made. It’s Mo Yang, my second brother’s other courtyard, and Mo Yang and eldest sister Mo Liu...” He glanced at the female puppet with extremely disgusting eyes, “It’s not the same as me and Mo Li. Born of one mother."

"The prototype of this puppet is that woman, the biological mother of Mo Yang and Mo Liu. She was originally a woman who was living in the rivers and lakes. She was kindly taken in by my mother and taken in as a maid. Unexpectedly, she confuses my father in every possible way. It is not enough to win the concubine. I want to replace my mother and become the justifiable wife of the owner of Senluo. When I was five or six years old, my mother fell out of favor, became depressed and eventually died of illness. For some reason, she suddenly fell into the lake and drowned. This is probably God’s will. I can’t wait for her to die early. It’s a pity...my second brother Mo Yang was originally talented and a puppet wizard even stronger than me. Mentally frustrated by the sudden death of his mother, he unfortunately died young."

"As for Linglong Xin, my father was instructed by an expert in his early years. The expert saw that he was born in the Mohist school and had studied puppet mechanisms for many years, so he gave him the third volume of the wonderful book "Thousand Machine Records". There are five volumes of painstaking work, but it is a pity that it has long been scattered in the world and has become a legend among the puppet masters. After my father got this book, he hid "Thousands of Machines" in the Tiange as if he had found a treasure. It was also a coincidence Only then did I catch a glimpse of the contents of the book, which mentioned the number one key in the world, the Peach Blossom Button, but most of the pages are about Linglong Heart. And this Linglong Heart, once it can be made, will completely subvert the ordinary puppet art, and can make the puppet look like a real person , move freely, and even be able to speak, I only know that my father has studied this Linglong Heart for many years, but never thought that he would put Linglong Heart in that woman's puppet!"

Speaking of this, Mo Bin was extremely emotional. He stared at the puppet viciously, and shouted: "Why this woman! Is that why he wants this woman to come back to life!"

The puppet master has a pair of skillful hands, he can turn ordinary wood and stone into puppets that look like real people, but puppets are just puppets made of wood and stone, and it is absolutely impossible to look like a living person.Tao Mo stared at the female puppet whose smile had disappeared, and his heart was stirred for a moment. This female puppet with the legendary "exquisite heart" was indeed no different from a real person, but the one described in the book could speak, move and move freely. , but still did not get any performance.Maybe that Linglong heart is just a hypothesis, Tao Mo thought.

After listening to what he most wanted to know, Bai Wangyan reached out and patted Mo Bin's shoulder, and said in a low voice, "Sorry."

Mo Bin waved his hand, and he forced a smile: "But from this point of view, my father's attempts have stopped here. As the core of the puppet, Linglongxin can only make simple expressions and movements like a human being."

"Ziwen, can I check this puppet?" Bai Wangyan's eyes fell on the puppet's hands hidden in the long red sleeves.Mo Bin frowned: "Could it be that you suspect..."

"It's not impossible," Bai Wangyan stepped up to the jade box, and fanned the woman's long sleeves, "Since the core is Linglong's heart, it will naturally do something unusual."

Recalling the hideous blood hole on the chest of Zhuang Zhuang, Tao Mo once guessed all the weapons he knew, but he couldn't think of the sharp blade that could cause such a wound.Now, after Bai Wangyan reminded him, he suddenly realized that the wound was probably caused by the puppet's arm!If it was a puppet, everything would make sense, but why did the pendant fall into it?

But when the fan opened the long sleeves, only a pair of overlapping slender hands appeared from the long sleeves.

The light in Bai Wangyan's eyes dimmed in an instant, and he walked closer. Tao Mo followed beside him nervously, with his hands on the hilt of his sword, for fear that the puppet would explode and hurt others. The white-clothed scholar obviously understood With his kindness, he turned his head slightly and showed him a shallow smile. Afterwards, Bai Wangyan turned his head away, stretched out his hand to hold the puppet's jade hand, and examined the plump fingertips and gaps between her fingers.Although it was made of wood and stone, Tao Mo always had the illusion that there was warmth in his hands. Those hands were just held by Bai Wangyan, white as jade, without blood.Suddenly, that hand moved, like a clam closing suddenly, it just pulled the white-clothed scholar's hand backwards, and pulled it into the jade box.

Bai Wangyan withdrew his hand in horror, and stepped back. At the same time, Tao Mo's sword also came up to meet him. Just when the sharp silver light was about to touch the puppet's hand, Bai Wangyan shouted : "Don't hurt it!"

The silver light stopped suddenly, and the long sword in the black-clothed swordsman's hand was hanging in front of the puppet. He looked at Bai Wangyan in astonishment. At the same time, the puppet withdrew his hand and sat back in the original position.

Mo Bin rushed over in a hurry, but when he got in front of the puppet, the puppet sat in the jade box as if nothing had happened, with a faint smile on his face.

"This... this puppet can actually pull people in?" Third Young Master Mo looked at the puppet in disbelief, and then he quickly turned his head to check Bai Wangyan's grabbed wrist, "Are you all right?" Bar?"

Different from martial arts practitioners like Tao Mo, the weak-handed scholar had thinner wrists, but the puppet seemed to have great strength, leaving five red marks on the slender and white wrists, which were really conspicuous.But Bai Wangyan didn't even snort. He casually pulled down his sleeve to cover the red seal, and looked up at Mo Bin: "This puppet is really interesting. Your father is in this jade box." It's not by chance."

"You mean..."