Chapter 26 Prosthetic

Still far away from the puppet house, Yun Jisang saw that slender figure, standing tall and straight in the wind.Feeling hot in his heart, he quickened his pace. "Are you back?" A plain greeting. "Yeah." His answer was equally flat. However, the warmth between this ordinary question and answer is enough to melt all the chills in the world. "By the way, Senior Sister, Ms. Gu has finished the prosthesis, and I will try to put it on later, and you can also help me to see if it fits." "Okay? That's great!" Joy flashed between his brows, Zhuo Anjie stepped forward to hold Gu Yinglan's arm, and said with a smile, "Your sister still has her heart, otherwise our visit this time will be in vain."

Gu Yinglan's pretty face was flushed, and she smiled shyly. In the study, Gu Yinglan opened the black wooden box.On the apricot white silk lining, a black prosthetic limb was quietly placed. "Let me see..." Zhuo Anjie took the prosthetic limb in her hand first, and studied it over and over again. The prosthesis is two feet long, and there is a cloth cover on it for fixing, which can just be connected to Yunjisang's severed arm.The elbow, wrist and even the joints of the ten fingers of the prosthetic can be flexed freely and are extremely dexterous. "What's this made of? Why is it so heavy?" Zhuo Anjie asked after studying for a while.

"This is made of iron and wood. The wood is as strong as iron and will not deform when exposed to water. It is most suitable for prosthetic limbs." Gu Yinglan explained softly on the side. "Then how should the younger brother move his finger joints?" This was what Zhuo Anjie was most concerned about. "Each finger and joint has a retractable puller. Yun Shaoxia only needs to push and pull the prosthetic limb with his true energy. It's just that it requires skill, and it takes a few days to practice slowly before he can use it freely." , Gu Yinglan opened the forearm of the prosthetic limb, pointed to the pivot inside and explained to Yun Jisang one by one.With Yun Jisang's wisdom and memory, he quickly figured out the key.

"That's all, Yun Shaoxia is really enlightened, and he understands everything." Gu Yinglan praised sincerely. "Put it on and try it!" Zhuo Anjie urged from the side. Yun Jisang had no choice but to take off her coat, and with Zhuo Anjie's help, she put on a prosthesis. "How is it? Can you move?" Zhuo Anjie asked eagerly. Yun Jisang didn't answer, and slowly channeled his true energy, trying to pull those tiny levers. Under the gaze of the three of them, the five fingers of the prosthetic limb moved slightly.Then, it turned its elbow stiffly, slowly raised it, and stretched it in front of Zhuo Anjie.It can be seen that Yun Jisang is still a little uncomfortable with this prosthetic limb. He obviously wanted to reach out to touch her face, but finally touched her nose.

With tears in her eyes, Zhuo Anjie reached out and grabbed the icy prosthetic limb, rubbed it gently on her cheek, and murmured: "That's great... Junior Brother... that's great..." Yun Jisang smiled lightly, with such warmth: "Yeah, that's great, if you wrestle arms with senior sister in the future, you will definitely not lose." Zhuo Anjie couldn't help but let out a burst of laughter: "You can't beat me with one hand." Then she turned to Gu Yinglan and said, "Anjie has made a note of this kindness. If there is any embarrassment in the future, just send a letter and it will be settled." .”

Gu Yinglan smiled and nodded in agreement.Everyone in the Jianghu knows that Bie Yuejian has always kept promises, and getting this promise is like getting a talisman that can ward off all evil.Suddenly she remembered something, and said again: "By the way, Yun Shaoxia, although this prosthetic limb is hard and wear-resistant, it also needs maintenance. There are some things that need to be paid more attention to. For example, it should not be exposed to the sun, and it should not be near fire..." "Wait a minute! I'm going to get a pen and paper..." Zhuo Anjie turned around in a hurry.Yun Jisang and Gu Yinglan looked at each other and smiled.

"Young Xia Yun, your senior sister treats you really well..." Gu Yinglan sighed faintly, obviously thinking of Linghu Tiangong again. "Having her by my side...is a blessing in my life." Yun Jisang said flatly. At this time, Zhuo Anjie had already taken a pen and paper, and wrote down the precautions that Gu Yinglan said. Yun Jisang went to the window and saw Ming Huan playing with the bubbling goldfish by the pool. The little girl giggled and mischievously cut off the bubbles spit out by the goldfish with a yellow and tender willow branch, scaring the goldfish into hiding at the bottom of the pool and refusing to come out.When Ming Huan saw it, he sprinkled the broken steamed buns on the water and coaxed them out softly.

Yun Jisang smiled, shook his head, took out the "Record of Transforming Figurines" and read it.He even flipped through a few pages, all of which were incantations using Taoist techniques to reincarnate and eliminate sins.Obviously, Li Wuxin was also anxious about the sins he committed during his lifetime, so he tried to use Taoist techniques to alleviate the guilt in his heart.It's a pity that the sins he has borne are too serious, and he may never be able to be reborn as a human again in the next life. He turned another page, and a piece of letter paper fell from the folder.

Yun Jisang leaned over to pick it up, but saw a series of inexplicable phrases on it: The water of Liangyang in Youzhaotan Beach; The ugly and cloudy soil of Youzhao Beach; Strong Wu as the gold of Meng Yang; Strong as a tree of evil and Yin; Strong Wu as the fire of evil Maoyang; ... "This is..." Yun Jisang's face changed slightly, and he carefully recognized the writing on it, feeling secretly startled, "It's exactly the same as the writing on the last page of Li Wuxin's notes. Could this be the evidence collected by Luo Jiankong?" After frowning for a while, he already knew it in his heart.With a slight smile, he carefully put away the letter paper and continued to read.

Suddenly, a line of small words flashed into his eyes: "On October 11th of the Dingyou year, the figurines were formed. Yanshi counted and tested, and all of them should be. Set up the wires, and a tune. You should be able to laugh at Jiuquan." Made of figurines?Could it be that this figurine refers to Mahakala?Yanshi's counting test, this Yanshi must be the murderer's pseudonym, and the counting test shows that this puppet is indeed satisfactory.Could it be that Li Wuxin really created Daheitian? !Could it be that what I and my senior sister met that night was not a murderer, but an invincible puppet created by Li Wuxin?If not, how could the opponent have such weird martial arts?

No, no, there is no such thing as a human-like puppet in this world, unless... He jolted violently, grabbed "The Record of Transforming Warriors" and read it again. However, what is recorded on the next few pages are no longer Taoist incantations, but some weird prescriptions, most of which are medicines for severe cold and severe heat such as cinnabar, amethyst, and stone sulfur. will get sick and die.Rao Yunjisang is knowledgeable and talented, and he has never seen such a weird prescription. What does Li Wuxin want these medicines for?Did you use it yourself?No, no, if ordinary people take these medicines, they may become seriously ill immediately, or even die. No one can take such medicine, except ghosts and gods.Ghosts and gods... Isn't Daheitian just ghosts and gods?Is this medicine for Daheitian?But why does the puppet need to take medicine?However, if it is a big black sky... Yun Jisang suddenly remembered the record in "Shen Kai Ji": "...to the east of the city of Ushini Kingdom, there is a forest named Shama Shena, this cloud corpse forest. The forest spans a yojana, and there is a great black god , is the changing body of Mashoura, with countless retinues of ghosts and gods. Often wanders in the forest at night, has great divine power, many treasures, has invisible medicines, long-term medicines, travels and flies in the air, and various illusion medicines Trade with people. Only take the flesh and blood of a living person, first make an agreement to trade medicine, etc. If a person wants to go, bless his body with Dharani, and then go to trade. To reduce the catty by two. That is to take the flesh and blood of the other person, and use it as you like, without fulfilling the previous agreement. Even if you take all the flesh and blood of a person, you can’t get the catty without filling the medicine. If the person who supports you trades in treasures and various medicines, you can achieve success in whatever you do .If you go to worshipers, only human flesh and blood." Judging from this record, Daheitian is an extremely cruel demon god.If it is required to fulfill its wish, it must offer the flesh and blood of a living person. If the wisher does not bless, then Dahetian will cut the flesh and blood from the wish-breaker in exchange. Wait, in exchange for the flesh and blood of living people... Could it be that those clay pots on the wooden frame are not experimental products, but prepared for Dahetian? Yun Jisang shivered, and the hand holding "The Record of Transforming Warriors" trembled slightly. Outside the window, there is Ming Huan's cheerful laughter like silver bells. On the last page, Li Wuxin commented a few short sentences: "Nature is human; human heart is machine; nature determines man, man desires to have heart, heart secrets out machine, machine lies deep and kills. If you are a ghost, you will become a god when you are born. The terma uses life and death as a puppet." A feeling of chill came rushing up, Yun Jisang closed the book abruptly.But that last sentence still lingers in front of my eyes. Fu Zang used life and death as a puppet technique... Fu Zang used life and death as a puppet technique... The more he recited silently, the more uneasy he felt.All the doubts that have been lingering in my heart for a long time, as if the undercurrent that had been simmering for a long time was suddenly unplugged and rushed out! Something is wrong... the whole case, it seems that something is wrong... from the very beginning... Luo Jiankong's private investigation, Zhang Chun's murder, the assassination at the dinner party, Linghu Tiangong's murder, the discovery of the secret room, Luo Jiankong's death and Hong Kuangji's suicide...all of these are like A step-by-step ritual led me to the final answer... I observed it, but I couldn't stop it.I was blinded by the visions that presented themselves to me.Those puppets, ancient houses, secret rooms, lonely tombs, spells, all of these are just illusions, illusions that confuse me! So what about the truth?Where is the truth?Maybe, I was thinking too much, everything was just my imagination.There were no tricks or tricks, no ghosts lurking, and it was just as I had surmised. Such self-comfort did not calm him down, he was still walking around the room agitatedly, his thumbnail almost scratched his middle finger. "Junior brother, what's wrong?" Zhuo Anjie instinctively sensed his uneasiness, and stopped writing to ask. Yun Jisang shook his head, then hesitated for a moment, then nodded slowly: "I think there seems to be something wrong with the speculation about the case, but I can't think of what's wrong..." "Why do you think so much? Let me tell you, no one in this puppet sect is innocent..." At this point, she smiled at Gu Yinglan again, "Of course, sister Yinglan is an exception." Gu Yinglan said timidly: "Young Xia Yun, I want to ask, Senior Brother Linghu...has he done anything bad?" Yun Jisang was noncommittal, and asked instead: "Why did the girl think of asking this?" Gu Yinglan bit her lips lightly, lowered her head: "I don't know, it's Brother Linghu...he often talks to himself recently, Say things that no one can understand. I heard him say some horrible sleep talk once "Oh, what did he say?" Yun Jisang suddenly became interested. "They're all weird words, don't you think...the three-year period, the immortal body, also mentioned a person named Mahakala, the second senior brother seems to be very afraid of that person, and begged him not to kill the teacher... " "Maha Gala? Who is that?" Zhuo Anjie asked strangely. "In Sanskrit, Jialuo is Heitian, the god of war who subdues demons. And Mahakala is Mahakala." Yun Jisang paused every word. He opened the "Records of Transforming Figurines", pointed to the small words and said: "From the records above, Li Wuxin finally completed the invincible puppet he dreamed of—Daheitian丨 before his death." "Junior Brother, you mean that faceless puppet is Da Hei Tian?" Zhuo Anjie thoughtfully asked. Yun Jisang nodded, distracted for a moment.Since Li Wuxin created Daheitian, why did the murderer ask Linghu Tiangong to cooperate?Is there any flaw in this Daheitian?There is no doubt that Linghu Tiangong knew about all this, but unfortunately he was silenced by the murderer, and the hints left by him before his death were so simple and dark... Faceless puppet... Faceless puppet... Faceless...Suddenly, he remembered something, raised his head and said to Gu Yinglan: "Miss Gu, do you often go to Linghu Tiangong's place?" Gu Yinglan nodded and said: "Sometimes I will go, but Brother Linghu doesn't seem to like others knowing that I go to his place. He wants me to greet him in advance every time I go, and I can't be seen." "Then have you ever been into his study?" Seeing Gu Yinglan nodding, Yun Jisang said anxiously, "Wait a minute..." Then he got up and took out a wooden box, and opened the puppet set in front of her, "Have you seen it before?" ?” Inside the wooden box were the dozen puppets with broken heads in Linghu Tiangong's study.Gu Yinglan's eyes were gloomy, she picked up a puppet, and gently stroked it: "This set of puppets was carved by Brother Linghu for several days, and he was in a bad mood during that time, so he carved this set of puppets." The puppet plays with it every day. Only then does he have a smile on his face..." Yun Jisang took a deep breath and calmed down his mood: "Since you have seen this set of puppets, you must know that these puppets have their own characteristics. Just like the puppet of the young sect master is a clown, brother Luo's puppet is a double-faced demon, Hong Kuoji's puppet is a laughing arhat with a sweet belly and a sword. After killing Brother Linghu, for some reason, the murderer crushed the heads of these puppets. And I know, if Miss Gu has seen it, can you recall it..." "Is there something special about other people..." Gu Yinglan bit her lower lip and recalled earnestly, "My puppet was made very rustic, and it looked like a silly girl at first glance; Teacher's wife's puppet is the most beautiful, like Guanyin Bodhisattva The same, but a hole was dug in the chest: the little master is also very beautiful, but there is an extra tail behind her; the master is covered in patches, looks funny, and his sleeves are raised high to cover his face; Xiaoquan and Elder Ouyang is nothing special, but Xiaoquan is barefoot, Elder Ouyang looks a bit gloomy; Father Peter has a halo on his head, Brother Li does not, but his face is carved into a clock; Young Hero Yun, you..." "I don't need to talk about mine." Yun Jisang interrupted her, for fear that she would say something to make herself laughed at by her senior sister. Strange, from the features mentioned by Gu Yinglan, no one can be seen to be related to Daheitian or the faceless puppet? Did I think wrong?Or, is there something missing? He looked down at the puppets carefully.Suddenly, his eyes fell on one of the puppets. There was nothing special about the puppet. It clenched a fist in its right hand and seemed to be holding something in its left hand.Obviously there was nothing abnormal about this puppet, but Yun Jisang instinctively felt that something was wrong with it, held it in his hand, and looked at it over and over again. "What's the matter, isn't it just an ordinary puppet?" Zhuo Anjie leaned over to look at it for a while, and said casually. Yun Jisang's heart was shocked, he held the puppet in front of his eyes for a while, and murmured: "That's right... so it's like this... If this is the case, that means..." He put the puppet down and took it out again. He picked up a puppet and observed carefully: "Yes, there was a bronze mirror on the alcove at that time... No wonder, no wonder the murderer wanted to crush the head of the puppet representing himself..." "You mean, this guy is a murderer? No way?" Zhuo Anjie looked surprised. "Let's talk later, I'll go to the secret room first to find evidence!" Before the words finished, Yun Jisang flashed and rushed out. "Hello..." Zhuo Anjie hurriedly stood up, and when she came to the door, she saw him flying into the mysterious warehouse.She instinctively wanted to follow, hesitated for a moment, turned around and sat down again, and smiled slightly at Gu Yinglan: "My junior brother is like this, but don't worry, this is a sign that he will solve the case. Tonight is the last act of its great drama!"