Natural black penetrates into infinite flow

There are three people living in Xia Mingchi's dormitory, but there are only two quilts.

Zhou Zheng snatched one, and the rest could only be with Lu Qi.

But just finished kissing him...

Xia Mingchi's mind was full of the scene just now, he felt awkward and didn't want to sleep.

Lu Qihuai urged: "Be good, rest early, so that you can have the energy to pass the level."

That's right, Xia Mingchi was lying beside Lu Qihuai.Lu Qihuai took off the white windbreaker, covered Xia Mingchi, and then covered him with a quilt.

"My windbreaker is cleaner than the quilt, don't hold it against me."

"I, I don't think so."

Lu Qihuai pillowed her arm, holding Xia Mingchi in her arms, his breath was like a net, covering Xia Mingchi.

"Sleep well."

Lu Qihuai quickly fell asleep, her eyelashes casting a shadow on her eyelids.Xia Mingchi's sense of security suddenly doubled. This feeling is very familiar, as if he was hugged by Lu Renyuan when he was a kitten.

In the middle of the night, Xia Mingchi vaguely heard a small sound, like two hard objects rubbing against each other.

He just wanted to get up when he felt his head being stroked twice by Lu Qihuai's big hand.

Lu Qihuai kissed him on the cheek, "Don't be afraid, I just checked the door, there is no problem."

Xia Mingchi is a cautious person. He used to help his grandparents look after the store, and he would carefully close the doors and windows, and would check himself if there was any abnormal noise.But at this time, he replied in a daze, "Hmm..."

He fell asleep again, the kind of relaxing sleep, not like in a thriller game, like on vacation.

After an unknown amount of time, Xia Mingchi opened his eyes again, and there were only him and Lu Qihuai left in the room.

"Where's Zhou Zheng?"

Lu Qihuai said: "Go out first, let's go too."

The other players had already assembled in the shadow puppet production workshop in advance. Seeing Lu Qihuai and Xia Mingchi walking in, Shen Jiming's expression was sour and his tone teasing.

"Aren't you exhausted in the middle of the night, waking up so late? You wouldn't be in front of Zhou Zheng..."

Xia Mingchi was only shy towards Lu Qihuai, and he was merciless in his mouth against others.

"Yeah, what's the matter, do you want to watch from the side too?"

"you……"

"Okay," Chen Yan interrupted them, "I heard the sound of grinding an ax in the middle of the night, did you hear that?"

It turned out that the sound was grinding an ax...

Everyone said they heard it.

Shen Jiming curled his lips, "It should be Aunt Yun, the two times we saw her she was using an axe."

"There is a sufficient and unnecessary relationship between Aunt Yun and the axe," Xia Mingchi corrected. "Aunt Yun's use of an ax does not mean that the person who uses the ax is Aunt Yun."

correct answer.

Shen Jiming's conclusion was too simple and crude.

Chen Yan asked: "Have you checked your room and things? Is there anything unusual?"

Hearing this, Xia Mingchi put his hand into his pocket and felt the cuff button before heaved a sigh of relief.

Xia Mingchi: "No."

Others also shook their heads.

Zhou Zheng: "What do they want to do..."

"It may be some kind of signal, or it may create panic. You know, what the Lord God likes most is to trick people into applauding." Lu Qihuai said.

Having just been teased by Xia Mingchi, Shen Jiming didn't take a good look at Lu Qihuai either, "You understand so well."

"Because I live a long time and see a lot."

Shen Jiming finally shut up, he has passed six dungeons, and knows that some players will hide their strength.What's more, Lu Qihuai doesn't look like a person who only relies on appearance.

Tribo walked in and made a fuss at the players.

"Yo, you guys came earlier than I expected! Did you sleep well last night?"

Xia Mingchi said, "Very good."

Tribo said slyly: "Then I can rest assured."

"Now let's assign tasks: Xia Mingchi and Chen Yan will follow me to fish for cowhide; Zhou Zheng, Fu Qingchou and Lu Qihuai will get the skin scraping tools; Shen Jiming, help Aunt Yun move the last batch of shadow puppets to the Let the ventilation room dry."

When Lu Qihuai crossed Xia Mingchi's body, she whispered to him: "Be careful."

"You too."

Shen Jiming is not satisfied with the work arrangement: "Why do others have helpers, but I don't?"

The implication is that he doesn't want to be alone.

Tribo: "What do you mean? Aunt Yun is not your helper?"

Shen Jiming smiled flatteringly, "Cui Bo, you see that there are three people who are holding tools, but actually there are not too many scraping tools, right? Two people are enough, why don't you take out one...?"

Lu Qihuai said: "Then Shen Jiming and I will help Aunt Yun dry the shadow puppets."

Tribo doesn't care too much about this, because his focus is on skinning.

"Everyone, be quick with your hands and feet, and act separately."

Xia Mingchi and Chen Yan followed Cui Bo to the workshop where the raw materials were soaked.

In the center of the workshop is a square cement pool half a meter high and five or six meters long and wide, with black water overflowing from the side of the pool from time to time.

Next to the wall was a white plastic bucket containing medicinal powder, and several long bamboo poles with a large rusty iron hook on the other end.

The pungent taste makes the mouth, eyes, and throat tingle, as if being repeatedly burned by fire.

Cui Bo introduced: "The materials used to make shadow puppets are soaked in the pool beforehand, and the meat and fat on the skin are decomposed with chemicals. However, these things cannot be completely decomposed, so after soaking, tools are needed to scrape the minced meat. Lose."

"Now there is only a piece of skin soaked in it. You two hooked it up with bamboo poles."

Tribo found a crowbar from the corner and held it in his hand, his eyes were shining brightly, and he wanted to hit his mouth.

Xia Mingchi looked at the pool, and there was indeed something waxy yellow floating.

"Without two people, I can fish it myself."

Xia Mingchi winked at Chen Yan, and Chen Yan understood what he meant, and took the iron hook to block Cui Bo.

If two players were on the pool at the same time, Tribble would probably use the crowbar to push them into the pool.

Xia Mingchi reached the edge of the pool through the concrete steps.

Although the wall of the pool is half a meter higher than the floor of the room, when you really stand by the pool, you can only see the black liquid swaying with the ripples, and you can't see the bottom of the pool at all.

The water doesn't reflect light, and you can't see the reflection, just like the huge black mouth of a monster.

It is impossible to judge its depth, and it is not known whether there is anything else in it.

For example, a monster suddenly sprang out of the black water, biting off a person's head and so on.

"Eh?"

Suddenly, several shiny objects were pushed over by the water pattern, floating up and down with the liquid.

Xia Mingchi put away his imagination and recognized that they were human nails.

There is another lump, which looks like waterweed, but its color is brown.

hair.

"Hurry up and work!" Under the steps, Cui Bo urged behind Chen Yan.

Chen Yan stared very closely, never giving him a chance to get close to Xia Mingchi.

The end with the metal hook grabbed the skin, and Xia Mingchi easily dragged the skin to the edge of the pool, but when he pulled it out, the skin seemed to be stuck to the water and remained motionless.

Tribo said eagerly: "Drag it out! Drag it out!"

Xia Mingchi exerted his strength again, the hand holding the bamboo pole turned white, but it still didn't work.

It seems that the setting of the game here requires two people.

Cui Bo's eyes flicked on Chen Yan's body, he grinned and showed his yellow teeth, and said in a smoky voice: "Look, someone still needs help."

"Little girl, you go up and help him, you two are together."

"Come up," Xia Mingchi said to Cui Bo, "We both fish, and Sister Yan stands outside and watches."

"Or just wait for the others to come back."

Anyway, it only said to fish out the skin, but didn't say how to fish it.

Tribo stomped his feet, "They will start working when they come back, and it must be too late."

He was about to climb up the pool when Chen Yan stopped him.

"You use this."

Chen Yan handed over the bamboo pole tied with an iron hook, and replaced the crowbar that Cui Bo was holding into her hand.

Cui Bo glanced at Chen Yan quietly, and walked to Xia Mingchi's side.

Chen Yan stood behind Cui Bo, holding the crowbar tightly. If Cui Bo dared to do something dangerous to Xia Mingchi, she would definitely smash Cui Bo into the pool like a golfer.

Cui Bo sensed the nervousness of the player. Now that his back was facing Chen Yan again, he could only hook the skin with the hook honestly.

Cui Bo and Xia Mingchi dragged the waxy yellow thing out.

Tribble put on thick rubber gloves, put the hide on the iron rack, and rinsed it with the hose.

Chen Yan asked softly, "What did you see?"

"There are hair and nails inside." Xia Mingchi lowered his voice.

Chen Yan glanced at the white bucket in the corner. The smell of chemical reagents made her breathless. "Although hair and nails are made of protein, they are not easy to hydrolyze..."

Xia Mingchi: "The player will be disassembled if he falls in, that's why he is so eager to let the two of us stand by the pool at the same time."

"How is the work going...ah, what's the smell?" Shen Jiming was choked to tears as soon as he walked in.

Lu Qihuai came to Xia Mingchi's side, held his hand and asked, "Are you all right?"

Now he is getting more and more proficient at touching Xia Mingchi's hand, and he doesn't need so much foreshadowing, like a boy in love who cares about his boyfriend.

"It's okay." Xia Mingchi was a little shy, "How is your progress?"

Lu Qihuai: "It's going well."

Xia Mingchi whispered to Lu Qihuai and Shen Jiming what happened just now.Shen Jiming rolled up his sleeves, picked up the rubber gloves from the workbench and put them on, "Cui Bo, let me help you."

Cui Bo handed Shen Jiming the hose for flushing the leather, with a sly expression on his dry old face.

Shen Jiming turned down the water and carefully pressed the cortex with his hands. The sallow cortex showed centripetal lines along with Shen Jiming's fingers.Lu Qihuai also stood by to identify.

After rinsing the skin twice casually, Shen Jiming said, "It's ready."

Tribo: "I'll take the things outside first, and when Xiao Zhou and the others get back the tools, I'll start scraping the skin."

While Cui Bo walked out of the workshop, Shen Jiming said to his partner, "It's cowhide, not human."

Xia Mingchi frowned: "It's strange, I clearly saw nails and hair in the pool..."

Shen Jiming didn't like others to question him, so his tone was a bit aggressive.

"Are you doubting me? I'm a lawyer! The computer bag, belt, and gloves I use are all leather, and my Maybach still has a full set of leather seats!"

"Nobody knows real leather better than I do."

Lu Qihuai said: "I also looked at it just now. It is cowhide. Maybe the pool soaks animal skins and people at the same time."

Chen Yan: "In short, everyone should be vigilant."