Lord, he is not a man [infrastructure]

"You're fine. There shouldn't be a demon attached to the puppet." Tang Bo let go of Yan Ren's hand.

Yan Ren breathed a sigh of relief, and vowed secretly that he would never touch such a weird thing again in the future.

"Show me." Gu Ding was very interested in this simple puppet.

Tang Bo felt harmless, so he threw the puppet to Gu Ding.

Gu Ding took the puppet and played with it back and forth. He also turned the puppet's limbs back and forth, and untied the cloth strips wrapped around them, to see the runes carved on the puppet.

Tang Bo asked Piglet some more questions about golems, but unfortunately Piglet didn't know much, so he could only tell all the legends about the Demon Slayer Cult that he knew.

In the evening, the group camped in place.

Tang Bo's space has doubled, and more things can be carried. It is luxurious enough to sleep at night. Adults have a carriage for one person, and children have a carriage for two.

Gu Ding claimed to be an adult, and because of his special status, he also occupied a carriage alone.

Before going to sleep, Tang Bo led Baidou and the others to set up a ring of bells and traps around the camp, including the sky above the camp.Bells will alert them whenever something is approaching, and traps can slow raiders down.

With these arrangements, there is no need to arrange special night watchmen, and everyone can lie in the carriage and sleep peacefully.

Tang Bo is a sleepy god, he falls asleep when he lies down, and he is still very sound asleep, there is no special event that can wake him up.

Gu Ding was still playing with the puppet before going to bed, he didn't know why, but he was full of affection for this puppet.

In the haze, the Demon God's Eye on Gu Ding's chest glowed slightly.

Gu Ding heard someone calling him.

"Awaken, my child, don't let humble human blood hinder your awakening, open your eyes, grow into a complete body, you can get everything you want..."

"Who?" Gu Ding only felt that he was floating in a strange place.

Gu Ding looked up, and there was a gray sky above.Looking down, there are endless black mountains and crimson magma below.

"Wake up, my child..."

"I lost my third eye, I can't awaken it." Gu Ding subconsciously said.

The voice sighed: "Your eyes are on your chest."

"No, it's not mine, it just absorbed my third eye." Gu Ding touched the Demon God's Eye.

The voice let out a surprise.

The Demon God's Eye floated up, and the dim light turned into a strong light.

Gu Ding narrowed his eyes.

After a while, the strong light from the Demon God's Eye disappeared and fell back to Gu Ding's chest.

"It's a bit troublesome, it has already produced a separate consciousness, and it doesn't want to merge with you, and it also carries the mission of @&￥."

"Who?"

The voice repeated again, but Gu Ding still didn't understand.

"Child, your luck is not too bad, but it's not too bad. It is willing to make up for you and give you a chance to become stronger."

"What chance?" Gu Ding asked hurriedly, he wanted to become stronger too much.

"It issued a task for you. As long as you complete this task, you can get a more powerful substitute than the previous third eye. Absorb it and fuse it, and you can have a more powerful magic body."

"Demon body? Are you a demon?"

"I am your mother, real mother, my child." The voice sighed softly.

"Mother? Impossible, my mother is Ma Ai, and I was born by her." Gu Ding frowned.

"She was just lucky enough to give you human flesh and blood, but you are actually my child. I released so many seeds to Double Moon Star, but you are the only one who can really germinate and grow. But cruel human beings dig Losing the source of your demon seed made you unable to awaken and grow up. Fortunately, you found your demon seed and found a way to contact me, so I can contact you."

"How to contact you?" Gu Ding thought of the puppet that is said to be able to possess the demons, "That puppet?"

"That's right. That's the magic text handed down by our family on Double Moon Star. We taught humans to make that golem. It can be used to contact us, ask us to do something, and they exchange something for us. It's part of the transaction." kind."

"Then do you know what happened in that village? Why are there so many puppets?"

The voice said with a smile: "Child, that's a human thing, don't worry about it so much. What you need to focus on now is your own awakening. Do you think that you won't grow up even if you die? And not only will you not grow up like this, if you If you can't awaken before the age of 20, your body will collapse because it can't bear the power of your demon soul. And the demon soul without body protection will also collapse."

Gu Ding: "...You just said that the Eye of the Demon God issued a mission for me? Why can't I hear its voice?"

"Do you want to hear its voice? Silly boy, it is not a good thing. It is the devil that most tempts the soul to fall. Devils and demons are two different species, but stupid humans always confuse us. "

"Is there a devil in the eyes of the demon god?" Gu Ding became vigilant.

"That's a deal between it and humans. We can't control too much, and the deal has already started, and we can't stop it."

"What deal?"

"It's up to the human beings who trade with it. Well, boy, don't waste time on others, it's time for you to carry out your mission."

Gu Ding couldn't help but said: "Since you say it is a devil, how can you guarantee that the tasks it sends to me will be beneficial to me?"

The voice laughed again: "Because it doesn't dare to offend me? Don't worry, my child. I am your mother. If I harm anyone, I will not harm you. I only hope that you can wake up early and grow into a complete body early. Become a powerful demon. Go, go and complete that mission, get your reward, and you will get everything you want."

A vine of Haloxylon protrudes from the magma, winding up little by little until it reaches Gu Ding's hand.

Gu Ding involuntarily grabbed the black vine.

The black vine shrank abruptly, bringing the ancient tripod down to the ground at high speed.

Gu Ding watched him getting closer and closer to the ground and the magma, but he seemed to have forgotten to let go of the black vines.

boom!Gu Ding's entire body fell into the crimson magma.

Bubbles, a few bubbles appeared on the surface of the magma.

Under the magma, the ancient tripod was still descending rapidly.

He didn't feel the hotness of the magma, but he felt as if he had passed through an invisible membrane, and then his body sank, and he fell into a pool of water.

The water pool is not deep, and the ancient tripod is naturally good in water. It scratched out of the water like a dog and climbed ashore.

The black vine that had brought him down was gone.

Gu Ding suddenly looked down at his chest, and the Demon God's Eye he wore around his neck was gone.

Did he leave camp?

Gu Ding should feel uneasy, but he felt that this place made him very friendly, even if it was the sulfur smell in the air.

Walking along the path by the pool, he soon saw a small but strange city.

This city has uneven walls like the teeth of wild beasts, and the gates are like the mouths of wild beasts, which are dark.

There are no guards at the gate of the city. Entering through the gate, you can see all kinds of houses with strange shapes, as well as winding and smooth roads of different widths and narrows.

No one, not a single living thing he saw.

call out!A black ball flew past him.

Gu Ding immediately tilted his head back.

The black ball flew around him, stopped, flew a little further, and stopped again.

Does this mean to lead him the way?

Gu Ding followed the black ball.

Seeing Gu Ding, the black ball understood its meaning, and flew up in front of it at a leisurely pace.

Gu Ding followed the black ball to a giant tree with vines entangled together to form a diameter of at least two meters.

Snapped!Countless eyes appeared on the giant vine tree, they blinked and rolled their eyes at the same time.

Gu Ding's goosebumps rose.

One eye gradually grew bigger, Gu Ding slowly approached that eye as if being tempted.

With a click, Gu Ding was sucked into that eye.

The ancient tripod disappeared, all the eyes on the giant vine tree were closed, and everything seemed to return to the original state.

Tang Bo turned over and pressed against something hard.

Tang Bo felt uncomfortable. He touched the thing and wanted to remove it, but after moving it a few times, it would slide down as long as he turned over.

After several times, Tang Bo opened his eyes impatiently, and finally found out what was blocking his sleep.

The Devil's Eye is back.

Tang Bo grabbed the Demon God's Eye and stared at it for a second, then sat up abruptly.

He got up and opened the car and jumped out.

Gu Ding's carriage is next to him.

Tang Bo walked to the window of the carriage and looked in.

Gu Ding did not put down the curtains, and the mosquitoes that bothered others never bit him. He was the only one who dared to sleep with the windows open in summer.

Through the window, a little guy could be vaguely seen sleeping in the compartment.

Tang Bo was worried, and lightly tapped on the car window.

With Gu Ding's alertness, such a small sound was enough to wake him up.

But the little guy seemed to be sleeping very deeply tonight. He was covered with a summer quilt, his stomach was rising and falling, and he didn't show any signs of waking up.

Tang Bo walked around to the car door, took out a piece of iron, inserted it into the crack of the door, and turned the latch inside.

The compartment door bolt has a simple structure, and the iron plate is lifted upward to lift the door bolt, and the door is opened.

Tang Bo got into the car and turned on the lights.

With such a big movement, Gu Ding didn't even wake up.

This was not the particularly alert little thing he had imagined.

Tang Bo felt something was wrong when he returned to himself from the Demon God's Eye, and now he is even more cautious.

Tang Bo lifted the quilt, the little guy sleeping there was Gu Ding, yes, it was fine, and the breath was normal, like a child sleeping soundly.

Tang Bo originally wanted to wake up Gu Ding, but his inexplicable heart palpitations made him stop patting Gu Ding's hand.

His intuition told him that waking up Gu Ding at this time would not do Gu Ding any good, maybe it would surprise Gu Ding.

Tang Bo sat cross-legged in the carriage, staring at the child to see the changes in his appearance.

After half an hour, Gu Ding didn't change anything, but he slept so soundly that he didn't even turn over.

Tang Bo simply moved the child aside, closed the car door, and lay down on the side.

Fortunately, the carriage is relatively spacious, Gu Ding is small and does not take up space, and Tang Bo is not crowded when he sleeps.

"System, did something happen to Gu Ding?" Tang Bo asked nao.

The system did not answer him.

"His body is here, but you come back to me, does it mean that Gu Ding's soul is not in his body?" Tang Bo asked again.

The system still refused to answer him.

Tang Bo sneered, "If you let me know what bad things you did to Gu Ding, I promise you will regret it."

Probably the system that didn't want to be soaked in the toilet anymore finally said: "He's fine, he's just awakening with the help of this system."

"You will be so kind?"

"This system has absorbed his third eye. As long as he wears this system for a long time, it will be affected. From now on, it's just that his accumulated strength is almost the same, and he has begun the initial awakening."

"Then why did you come back to me?"

"His awakening is quite special, his soul has left temporarily."

"Leave? Where did you go?"

"I don't know. This is the awakening that belongs to Gu Ding alone. This system does not belong to him, so naturally it is impossible to leave with his soul." The implication of the system is that it has been bound to Tang Bo's soul. Where is Tang Bo? , where it is.

Tang Bo thought that Goudan hadn't told the truth, at least he hadn't told the whole thing, but no matter how hard he asked, no matter how much he asked around corners, Goudan refused to say anything more, and there was nothing he could do.

"Is Guding in danger?"

"I don't know." The system added: "Any form of self-awakening is dangerous."

"Can I help him?"

"No, this is Gu Ding's awakening, and no one else can help him."

Tang Bo didn't talk anymore, and basically didn't sleep for the rest of the night, and he had to check if the child was still alive after a while.

In the morning, Ah Shu quietly crawled out of the carriage. She thought she was the first to get up, but found the lord sitting by the iron stove.

Tang Bo gently waved his hand at her, "Morning."

"Good morning, my lord." Ah Shu saluted.

"You woke up too early, didn't it prevent you from getting up so early in the morning?" Tang Bo yawned and whispered to the little girl.

Ah Shu shyly said: "Thank you Sir for your kindness, I... have no use other than cooking, I just want to get up early and cook some hot porridge for everyone."

Tang Bo wanted to pat the little girl on the head, but thought that she was old enough to get married in this era, so he took his hand back, "You are fine, you can be busy."

Ah Shu saluted again, and took out the rice grains in the wooden box for preparation.

These are commonly used items that Tang Bo put directly in the carriage, and they are taken out when resting, which is also convenient for Ahshu and the others to access.

After everyone got up, Gu Ding also climbed out of the carriage.

Tang Bo glanced at Gu Ding seemingly unintentionally, and smiled when he saw Gu Ding immediately rushing to pee at the newly dug nearby hole.Being so lively means that there should be nothing wrong.

When it comes to solving physical problems all the way, the two girls, Ah Shu and Bai Mingzhu, refused to ask for special care. Like everyone else, they also solved it in the wild.This saves them the trouble of cleaning the toilet.

At present, Tang Bo has not invented paper, and the big guys use weeds, leaves, and smooth wood chips to wipe their butts, even Tang Bo is the same.

Gu Ding washed his hands, ran back to the stove, and kept asking, "What's for breakfast this morning?"

The kid looks like he's starving.

Tang Bo took out the [delicious] food.

He was lucky this morning, the food he conjured up was Silong Tangbao and Silong Siu Mai, as well as braised beef for four people and pork head meat for four people.

The aroma of carefully marinated and steaming pork head is very tempting to salivate.

Tang Bo shared half of the pig's head meat as an extra meal for everyone, and the rest belonged to him and Gu Ding.

He is eccentric and fair, but everyone is used to it. Whoever makes everyone recognize that Gu Ding's identity is different, and his relationship with Tang Bo is also different.

Gu Ding imitated white beans, sandwiched pork head meat and stewed beef in steamed buns, ahhhhhhhh he gnawed, it was delicious.

Tang Bo noticed that Gu Ding ate more than twice as much food this morning as he usually does.

Just like this, this kid is still enjoying himself.

In the past, Baidou was responsible for scraping the bottom of the pot and emptying out all the leftover food, but today Gu Ding and Baidou rushed to share this task.

The two people who eat the most are also responsible for cleaning the pots and dishes.

Ashu, Bai Mingzhu, and Aji Alang helped pack the luggage.

Piglet and Yan Ren were tending to the horses and mules, getting them ready to go.

Tang Bo put away all the carriages, and the group set off again.

Tang Bo looked at the little guy hiccupping in his arms, and asked him in a low voice: "Last night you..."

"What happened to me last night?" Gu Ding covered his mouth, he felt a little ashamed to hiccup.

Tang Bo thought for a while, and changed his way of asking: "Last night, the Demon God's Eye returned to me. I was afraid that something might happen to you, so I went to check on you, but you are still sleeping in the carriage."

Gu Ding blinked, "Did I lose my breath last night?"

Tang Bo laughed, "No, you are still angry, I suspect that your soul may have left your body."

Gu Ding exhaled: "Fortunately, it's good that I didn't become a dead person."

"You last night..."

"Don't ask, I can't tell, it's not a bad thing anyway." Gu Ding interrupted Tang Bo's questioning.

Tang Bo nodded, and patted the child on the head: "It's good that you know it in your heart."

Gu Ding himself still doesn't understand some things, but he doesn't want to tell Tang Bo too much.No matter what the voice said was true or not, he didn't want others to know that he was related to the demons, including Tang Bo.

Gu Ding also considered whether it might be the temptation of the demons, related to the puppet.The final purpose of the demons tempting him is to take his body.

But Gu Ding is too eager to become stronger, especially after he sees the people around him growing up.When he first met little Aji, little Aji was not as tall as him, but half a year later, little Aji was three centimeters taller than him!

Gu Ding doesn't want everyone to see him as a child all the time, let alone a monster who can't grow up.

Tang Bo attaches great importance to him and trains him so hard. If he knows that he will never grow up and can only live to be 20 years old, he will be very disappointed, right?

Gu Ding didn't want to see Tang Bo's disappointed eyes, not at all!

He wanted to see Tang Bo's surprised gaze, his proud and honored expression.

Gu Ding put his little hand on Tang Bo's arm, and he also wanted to ask Tang Bo: Did you make a deal with the devil?What kind of deal is it?

But he didn't ask in the end.

He was afraid that Tang Bo would alienate him and even kill him if he knew his secret, and he was even more afraid that Tang Bo would change his face.

He... finally found someone who was willing to treat him well, to teach him with all his heart, and to pamper him. He didn't want all of this to disappear soon.

"Where's the puppet?" Tang Bo asked suddenly.

"Ah? Oh! Here." Gu Ding took out the puppet and handed it to Tang Bo.

Tang Bo held the puppet, palm hard.

The puppet's limbs were broken and its body turned into pieces.

Tang Bo threw the debris on the side of the road.

Piglet wanted to remind Tang Bo that these puppets should not be destroyed casually, but he thought that Tang Bo was protected by the White Deer Spirit and could detect whether there were demons possessing the puppets, so he didn't say much.

The group left for about an hour.

"My lord, be careful!" Baidou said abruptly.

They saw the golem again.

Those wooden puppets hang on the trees and shrubs on the side of the road. They have different shapes and you will come across them accidentally.

Yan Ren, who was in charge of exploring the road, frowned: "Additionally, I passed this road yesterday, and there were no such puppets."