After the immortal disappeared

"Come here." Dong Rui and He Lingchuan looked at each other and walked back.

"Hello?" Huang Mao was stunned. What else do these two people do? Everyone was drinking and eating fish together just now. These two people seemed to be blending 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. The moon began to set in the west. He said decisively: "Ignore them!" and then winked at Huang Mao.

Huang Mao understood and threw a few packets of powder into the bonfire while adding firewood.

The firewood crackled, and a few sparks occasionally burst out, but there was nothing unusual about it.

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 guards stationed not far away didn't notice anything wrong.

After about a quarter of an hour, the nearby spiders stopped moving, as if they were in a state of confusion.

Huang Mao stretched out his hand and shook it in front of a spider guard.

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 were still unconscious.

Tu Zhongli took out another packet of medicinal powder, and this time without concealing it, he threw it into the fire 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.

…

Returning to the workshop of the Demon Nest, He Lingchuan saw that there were no spider guards outside, and 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 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 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. For more than half a month, the Spider Guards stayed away from this place and did not lift the black cloth at all.

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 so 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 take years of careful debugging. Dong Rui patted the spider and said, "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 is also the one with the highest strength value and the largest size among the experimental subjects sent by Zhu Erniang. Dong Rui reported on the surface that it had been lost during the experiment, but secretly 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 but not understand. This was probably the 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: "Why 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 and 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. Ga."

From then on, he learned the hard way and understood that no matter how fast four legs were, it was better to have wings, so he created the strange bird demon No. 34.

"Huh? This isn't your first time 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 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 secret of a demon puppet with outsiders. Does this guy always go in with one ear and out with the other?

"Then didn'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 people's requirements. It can be used if I modify it. And the things that were made in a hurry were flawed. The demon puppet had to be reused in large quantities every few days. Take prunella vulgaris or you won’t last.”

"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 hasn't 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 the 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 great prehistoric demon." What the bandits want is nothing more than wealth. "If they care about the things in the demon 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 the magic nest has fungi and aphid cows, it is already very humid, and the air is always filled with the smell of rotten wood. Now there was a faint aroma of grass, flowers and fruits. Thinking of the subtle external environment, He Lingchuan was a little wary. He took out two pills from his arms, 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, I'll help the side with a greater chance of winning." If you don't take your side correctly, you'll end up worrying. Zhu Erniang is certainly not a kind person, but these bandits are even less good, 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 could make such a roar? Unlike Tiger, Wolf and Bear, it is hard to hear heartbreaking——

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 noise?"

It screams like a slaughtered pig, nothing more than this kind of noise.

"Yes!" Just as Dong Rui was about to speak, the spider demon 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 its 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 and requested its mid- to high-level descendants to immediately go to the Jana ruins for support."

The instructions of the ancestor and the new master were fighting in the demon puppet's mind. Of course, in the end, Dong Rui's methods prevailed.

Sure enough, within a few breaths, there was a rustling sound outside.

He Lingchuan leaned against the door and saw spiders passing by outside the workshop. They were so dense and numerous that he could hardly 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 surface.

At the critical moment, it passed by the two humans without even looking at them.

Thanks to the powerful lighting of the 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 the sides of its head. But from He Lingchuan's perspective, it seemed like... how many were 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 fine, so she didn't miss the two miscellaneous fish.