Do not die

This was Meng Zhou's second time practicing the Water Nourishment Technique. The first time was on the day he just completed the technique in Baiyue Bay. He didn't even have time to understand it carefully and had to leave quickly.

After running around in the wilderness for many days, I finally found a place to stay again today.

Feeling the wonderful aftertaste of just finishing the training, Meng Zhou didn't feel tired. Instead, he was in high spirits and had an unusually high spirit.

He left the quiet room, passed through the living room, and entered the study.

Remove a package from the storage bag and carefully unwrap it.

In order to avoid ink smearing when he had just completed the rubbings and not to waste time, Meng Zhou deliberately separated two pieces of white paper between each rubbing stone carving, carefully wrapped them and never unwrapped them in the middle.

Therefore, Meng Zhou felt extremely uneasy at the moment.

After removing the top white paper, a clear rubbing stone engraving came into view, and a faint fragrance of ink entered my nose.

Facing this messy stone carving picture, Meng Zhou stared at it for a long time before continuing to arrange the second, third, and more stone carving pictures on the desk.

Meng Zhou, who thought he had some clues, became increasingly dizzy the more he looked at it.

When Meng Zhou was dazed, he did not choose to continue fighting. He looked away and suddenly there was an emerald green grasshopper in his hand.

As soon as it appeared on the hand, its pair of tentacles were like a pair of probes, rotating curiously above its head, looking left and right.

Meng Zhou even felt a vague feeling of depression and grievance, as if he was complaining about being in confinement these days.

Feeling this unreasonable emotion in his heart, and looking at the grasshopper body with traces of straw weaving still visible on his hands, Meng Zhou felt a strange emotion in his heart.

He leaned closer and said to the grasshopper in his palm: "Can you understand what I'm saying?"

The straw grasshopper was still lying motionless, and its pair of tentacles were still spinning leisurely, as if his words had no impact on it at all.

Meng Zhou continued: "If you can help me unlock the secret of this stone rubbing, I will never put you in a storage bag again."

As soon as these words were spoken, the grasshopper's rotating tentacles suddenly stopped.

A vague idea came into Meng Zhou's heart.

Meng Zhouyi was startled, and then he quickly carefully took out the rubbing stone carvings that were still stacked together one by one.

One hundred stone rubbings were too many to fit on the desk, so Meng Zhou spread them flat on the ground.

Finally, he repeatedly checked and compared the one hundred stone rubbings and selected the one with the least number of lines and the simplest one.

Meng Zhou came to the desk with this stone rubbing, moved the other stone rubbings on the desk to one side, laid them flat in the center of the table, and placed the grasshopper on it.

Meng Zhou took back his hand and just stared at it with wide eyes.

Then, I saw that the lifelike grasshopper suddenly softened, as if it had lost all the support of its skeleton, and turned into an emerald green, thin straw rope that was crumpled into a ball.

The straw rope seemed to turn into an earthworm, and it seemed as if there was an invisible force stretching at both ends of the thread. The originally messy straw rope turned into a long thin rope.

Seeing such a magical scene, Meng Zhou didn't even blink his eyelids, but stared at every detail of it.

He knew that for this "rope spirit", what he was doing now was a huge overdraft. If he didn't see clearly and remember clearly this time, it would be difficult to expect a second chance in a short time.

After returning to the original state, the string is bent into a long "U" shape, with the left thread passing under the right thread, forming an "α" structure, and the thread passing through goes around the immobile right The lateral thread passes through the loop.

Then, rotate the ring 180 degrees, and insert the thread on the right side that has been stationary in the same way as the left thread.

After the double threads were threaded, the two thread ends were gently moved to both sides. Meng Zhou was surprised to find that except for the difference in size, the shape of the straw rope at this moment was exactly the same as the picture on the rubbing stone.

Meng Zhouchang sighed: "It's really just a rope knotting method!"

"So, these one hundred stone carvings record one hundred ways of knotting ropes!"

Meng Zhou was not happy about cracking the secret, but fell into deep distress.

Even if there are clear steps for him to follow step by step, he is not confident that he will get it right.

Now, each stone carving is equivalent to a final answer, and all the intermediate steps are omitted. He needs to deduce and figure it out by himself, which is already very, very difficult.

But that's not the most troublesome thing.

Rubbing stone carvings are two-dimensional pictures, and three-dimensional changes cannot be reflected at all.

The most obvious point is that when two lines intersect, he doesn't know which one is up and which one is down.

If he tried one by one using the trial and error method, Meng Zhou's scalp went numb after he carefully looked at the intersections of lines in these stone carvings.

What's more, the intersection points at many locations are not two lines, but three, four or even more.

Similarly, whether rotation occurred during the knotting process cannot be seen from this stone rubbing.

Perhaps, for some craftsmen who can easily weave a bracelet for their deskmate, some of these problems can be determined through intuition or reasoning.

But for him, this is just like a math problem. If he doesn't know it, he just doesn't know it. Even if he suffocates him to death, he still won't know it.

And as the string completed the reproduction of the stone rubbings, the string, which seemed to be a living thing a moment ago, lay limply on the desk, without any spirituality at all, and was in the same state as an ordinary string.

Meng Zhou had also put aside all distracting thoughts in his mind, and only the movement and changes of the two threads of the string could be seen in his mind.

The nimble fingers given to him by the Grandmaster Thousand Hands allowed him to follow the "original path" to restore the string to its original appearance.

Then, while the memory is still fresh, the two ends of the thread move strictly according to the trajectory in the memory.

Finally, he held both ends of the thread and pulled gently. The knot was still loose and not completely pulled. However, as he slowly exerted force with his hands, at a certain moment, the pattern formed by the knotted string once again matched the rubbings on the table. The stone carvings are overlapped.

And just when Meng Zhou completed the knot with his own hands, a flashing red dot appeared again next to the light gray portrait icon in his field of vision.

Meng Zhou thought about it and unfolded his personal information.

It was found that a new item appeared again under [Contract Oath].

[Occupation: Knot Master Level 1: 1/100]

In the [Skills] category, a new skill also appeared, "Introduction to the Hundreds of Knots: 1/100".

[Contract Oath: Rope Spirit Level 1] has also changed from "0/100" to "1/100".

Meng Zhou's eyes moved back and forth between these three items, and various thoughts came to him one after another.

And just when the progress of the "Rope Spirit Level 1" was improving and breaking the boundary from zero to something, Meng Zhou, who was holding the string in his hand, once again had a vague feeling.

It was a hunger, a desire to eat.

Meng Zhou tried to use the mana of the Water Nourishing and Moisturizing Technique, but it didn't work, so he simply took out all the items in the storage bag. Based on his final feedback, Meng Zhou looked at a small wooden box.

Its name is the Spirit-Sealing Box, which was used by the previous owner of this bag to store talismans. Storing the talismans in the Spirit-Sealing Box can avoid the decline in power caused by the gradual dissipation of its spirituality, and ensure that the talismans can be kept in the best condition for future generations. Long-lasting, extending shelf life.

At the same time, it can also be used to hold spiritual herbs and elixirs.

Because of these properties, the wood used to create the spirit sealing box itself is a spiritual material.

When he looked at the box, Meng Zhou could keenly feel that the hunger coming from the string was obviously stronger.

After thinking about it, Meng Zhou opened the spirit-sealing box, took out all the talismans inside, put them into the storage bag, and then placed the string on the surface of the spirit-sealing box.

At this moment, it was like hot copper wire placed on the ice, and like a highly corrosive liquid pouring out a "wound" on the surface of the spirit sealing box.

A deep scar was "gnawed" on the surface of the spirit-sealing box, and with the rapid passage of the wood spirituality, its "spirit-sealing" properties almost completely disappeared.

Meng Zhou looked at the harmless-looking string lying on the "remnant body" of the spirit sealing box for a long time, then he picked it up with his magic hand and came closer to look at it carefully. After a while.

Meng Zhou was sure it was not an illusion. The string was a little longer than before.