Chapter 342 Dong Ruis demon puppets and Zhu Erniangs army
"Come here." Dong Rui and He Lingchuan looked at each other and walked back.
"Hello?" Huang Mao was puzzled. What else do these two people do? Just now everyone was drinking and eating fish together. These two people seemed to blend in, but in fact they didn't say anything.
What on earth are they doing here?
In the blink of an eye, He Lingchuan and the two disappeared into the jungle.
Huang Mao had no choice but to go back and report.
Tu Zhongli looked at the sky and saw that the moon was beginning to set in the west. He said decisively: "Ignore them!" and then winked at Huang Mao.
Huang Mao understood and threw a few bags of medicinal powder into the bonfire while adding firewood.
Firewood crackles and a few sparks occasionally burst out, nothing unusual.
But unconsciously, there was a faint fragrance of vegetation permeating the jungle.
This aroma was so harmonious with the smell of the swamp that even the Spider Guard stationed not far away didn't notice anything wrong.
After about a quarter of an hour, the nearby spiders stopped moving very much, as if they were in a state of confusion.
Huang Mao stretched out his hand in front of a spider guard and shook it.
It's really hard to confirm these things with your eyes open whether you're asleep or not.
He even scratched the spider guard with a branch. When he saw that it didn't respond, he gave Tu Zhongli a thumbs up.
Tu Zhongli ordered one of his men to swim to the other side, find a good position and tear open a wind-calling talisman.
Suddenly, gusts of breeze blew by, from west to east, sending the incense from the bonfire in the direction of the Demon's Nest.
About a quarter of an hour later, even the spiders around the caravan slowed down, as if they were drowsy, but they themselves were not awake yet.
Tu Zhongli took out another packet of medicinal powder and threw it into the fire without any concealment this time in full view of everyone.
There was a "boom" sound, and the bonfire soared four feet high, emitting thick smoke, like a fire scene, and it was a strange bright yellow color.
In the dark night, such thick yellow smoke billowing into the sky is particularly eye-catching.
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Returning to the workshop of the Demon Nest, He Lingchuan saw that there were no spider guards outside, and then said to Dong Rui: "They will take action tonight, please take out the things."
Dong Rui was surprised: "What are you getting?"
"No need to pretend." He Lingchuan scorned, "You have been tinkering here for more than half a month, and you have already destroyed forty or fifty spiders, so you haven't assembled a new monster yet?"
"What kind of monster?" Dong Rui glared, "This is called a demon puppet!" After that, he walked to the deepest part of the grotto.
There are a lot of bits and pieces of materials piled up here, but in Dong Rui's words, he keeps them "very orderly" and has a strange order in it, so he will scold others if they touch the things here. After more than half a month,
The Spider Guards stayed away from this place and did not even lift the black cloth covering it.
Now Dong Rui lifted the black cloth to reveal what was underneath. He Lingchuan lowered his head and looked: "Nothing has changed. Are you sure this is a demon puppet?"
There was only one intact spider under the black cloth. It was huge, pure black, and four feet tall with its legs shrunk.
But it looks no different from other burrowing spiders. It also has twelve eyes and eight legs, and its legs are also covered with bristles.
Compared with ghost apes and werewolves, it is really simple and unpretentious.
"Use your brain. If I make it into an alien shape, how can it take us out?" Dong Rui hates that iron cannot be transformed into steel. "Besides, I can make a demon puppet in just ten days."
, you should be grateful! Normally, a demon puppet takes at least two years from production to debugging to training, two years!"
"Then can this thing obey your orders?" He Lingchuan had new worries, "It won't leave us halfway, right?"
"It also understands basic commands, but it can't participate in too complicated battles." If you want this spider to fight with open arms like a ghost ape, it will definitely not work. It will require years of careful debugging. Dong Rui
Pat the spider and say, "Stand up and take two steps."
Sure enough, the spider stood up and ran around the room. Its steps seemed to be more agile than ordinary spider guards.
In fact, this was the one with the highest strength value and the largest size among the experimental objects sent by Zhu Erniang. Dong Rui reported on the surface that it had been lost during the experiment, but secretly transformed it into this appearance.
Doesn't he have the final say on laboratory consumables, how much and how they are consumed?
This is bullying outsiders.
After building this thing, they waited for an opportunity.
He Lingchuan circled around the spider demon puppet, feeling a little envious: "Can you listen to me? Just in case there is a chance later."
"Put your hand on its head and let it get familiar with your scent."
He Lingchuan did as he was told, and Dong Rui whispered a few words into the demon puppet's ear. He Lingchuan could hear it but not understand it. This was probably a unique communication method between Dong Rui and the demon puppet.
The spider demon actually smelled and rubbed under He Lingchuan's hand.
Dong Rui breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, it recognizes you." He then said to He Lingchuan, "The demon puppets I created usually only serve me as their master."
He Lingchuan rolled his eyes: "How can I persuade it to rebel? By the way, you said 'usually', what's unusual about that?"
"There are some." Dong Rui said smoothly, "I was wanted by the Bejia Kingdom. Before I made No. 34, there was one time when I couldn't fly, so I had to make a custom-made demon puppet in exchange for help to escape from Bejia.
Jia."
Since then, he has learned the hard way and understood that no matter how fast four legs are, it is better to have wings, so he created the strange bird demon puppet No. 34.
"Huh? This isn't your first time here with Zhu Erniang? Who did you order the demon puppet for last time?" He Lingchuan was curious, "You still accept this kind of order, can I also...?"
"No!" Dong Rui really wanted to smack him, "Do you think this is just a random trick? I've told you so many times that it's extremely difficult to make a demon puppet, and whatever it looks like is up to chance!"
It's rare for him to share the secrets of demon puppets with outsiders. Does this guy always go in one ear and out the other?
"Then don't you also make it for others?"
"I was lucky that time. I happened to have a ready-made demon puppet embryo in my hand that met the requirements. I could use it with some modifications. And the things that were made in a hurry were flawed. The demon puppet had to be replenished every few days.
Take prunella vulgaris or you won’t be able to keep it up.”
"What number did you give it?"
"thirty-one."
"Is it still alive?"
"Of course, as long as it is properly maintained!" Dong Rui was afraid that he would ask further questions, so he quickly changed the subject, "Okay, let's get back to business! What do you think they will do?"
He paused for a moment: "Zhu Erniang accepts the thief as a guest, which is an opportunity for us."
Zhu Erniang has not interacted with humans for a long time. Even if a living person accidentally enters the Demon Nest Swamp, they will be eaten by it and its descendants. The only exception in these years is probably that caravan.
He Lingchuan and Dong Rui can see through the disguises of their kind, but the spiders cannot.
This is their small advantage at the moment.
"It depends on what their target is. It can't be Zhu Erniang. With their little manpower and ability, they can't deal with the prehistoric monster." What the bandits want is nothing more than wealth. "If they care about the things in the monster's nest, they will
We have to find a way to lure Zhu Erniang away."
When he said this, he suddenly moved his nose and sniffed everywhere: "Did you smell anything?"
Because there are fungi and aphids in the Magic Nest, it is already very humid, and the air has always been full of the smell of rotten wood. Now there is a faint aroma of grass, flowers and fruits, thinking of the subtle external environment, He Lingchuan is a little wary, and from his arms
He took out two pills, swallowed one himself, and handed the other to Dong Rui:
"The anti-toxic pill is specially designed to eliminate incense."
Dong Rui glanced at him and shook his head: "No, the medicine won't kill me." He wallowed in the medicine bottle all day long. Unless it was highly toxic like ambergris, ordinary poisons couldn't kill him.
He brought up the soul question again: "Which side are we on?"
"Of course it's the side that has a greater chance of winning." If you don't take the right side, the consequences will be dire. Although Zhu Erniang is not a kind person, these bandits are not good people, not to mention that there may be a mastermind behind them.
"Which side..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a sharp howl that tore through the sky from outside.
Who can make such a roar? It’s not like a tiger, wolf, or bear, it’s heartbreaking to hear—
But loud enough.
Even the two people in the complex maze heard it clearly.
Dong Rui thought for a while: "Why does it seem like..."
"Pig squealing?"
It sounds like a slaughtered pig, nothing more than this kind of noise.
"Yes!" Just as Dong Rui was about to speak, the spider demon puppet suddenly moved and was about to walk out. He gave it two commands in a row, and the demon puppet staggered two steps, as if it had experienced a fierce ideological struggle, and finally stopped in place.
But the claws kept tapping the ground.
"Alas, it's still a half-finished product." Dong Rui was very dissatisfied, "It received an order from the Spider Queen, requesting its mid- to high-level offspring to immediately go to the Jiana ruins for support."
The instructions of the ancestors and the new master were fighting in the demon puppet's mind, and of course, Dong Rui's methods prevailed in the end.
Sure enough, within a few breaths, there was a rustling sound outside.
He Lingchuan leaned against the door and saw the spiders passing by outside the workshop. They were so densely packed that they could hardly even see the passage itself. There were swaying round heads, round heads, round bodies, and afterimages everywhere.
Spider legs.
This scene is really creepy. Who would have thought that a magic nest could hold so many spiders!
He Lingchuan waited patiently for a long time before the spider army was almost finished.
After a while, a huge figure appeared in the passage, giving people a heavy sense of oppression.
Zhu Erniang is here.
This passage is the only way to the ground.
At the critical moment, it passed by the two humans without even looking at them.
Thanks to the powerful lighting of fluorescent spores in the passage, He Lingchuan had good eyesight and noticed something was wrong with Zhu Erniang's eyes.
It has twelve eyes, surrounding both sides of its head. But from He Lingchuan's perspective, it seems...how many are missing?
Where have Zhu Erniang's eyes gone?
Several more spider guards came from behind, spraying out layers of spider webs, blocking the door of the workshop tightly.
Zhu Erniang was rough and thin, and she didn't miss the two miscellaneous fish.