The rising sun shatters the darkness!

Chapter 345: As agile as a rabbit Jiang Chengzi, as steady as Xu Shusheng Longxiang (asking for monthly tickets)
"Hee hee hee……"

"Jie Jie Jie..."

A strange laugh came out of Xiaoya's mouth. Apart from that, the entire basement was deathly silent, and even time seemed to have stopped.

Xiaoya's eyes were like bright sapphires, flickering as she stared at Xu Shu quietly, with scattered gears spinning around.

Xu Shu's expression froze, the corners of his mouth twitched several times, and his expression became extremely stiff.

Although I don't know what this thing is, I can be sure that she is at least not a human...

After a moment of confrontation, Xiaoya spoke first and broke the silence.

"Wuqiqiqiqi! Brother Xiaorenxia, ​​what's wrong with you? Why are your eyes red? No way, no way, are you going to cry?
“Wow, is it because you saw Xiaoya was killed that brother was sad and cried? Kuqiqiqi!!!”

She rolled on the ground, turned her head, and made strange chirping sounds.

"?"

"Fuck! There's a ghost!"

Xu Shu kicked Xiaoya's head as if it were a ball.

Boom!
Xiaoya's head hit the wall not far away, and the machine broke apart with a clang, with all kinds of messy parts falling to the ground.

“Wuwu~Ahhh~”

"Pochi~Pochi~Gulu!"

She struggled and twisted, her eyes sticking out like snail tentacles, picking up the various gears and parts that had fallen and installing them with great effort, including a snail-shaped nostril, metallic teeth, a tape with a small fan, and a tiny sound channel.

Afterwards, Xiaoya rolled and crawled back to Xu Shu, making a dissatisfied voice: "Kukuku! Brother, what's wrong with you? Xiaoya is so good, why is brother so mean to Xiaoya? Brother doesn't like Xiaoya anymore? Wuuwuwu~ crying~"

"..."

Are you selling your mother's cuteness?
You have a robot head and look scary, but you still talk like an elder brother and a younger brother. Don't you think you are cute?

Xu Shu got hard just by looking at it

Fist, didn't know what to say for a moment, finally uttered one word:

"Grass!"

It's really hard to stretch.

I was just lamenting the misfortune of a slum girl, and was touched by her misery...

As a result, all the sadness was completely washed away by the girl's strange giggles, leaving nothing behind.

However, judging from the current situation, it is clear that "Xiao Ya" has no ill intentions, and she and Zhang Zifeng do not seem to be in the same group...

After a while, Xu Shu took a deep breath and calmed himself down.

The Xiaoya in front of him reminded him of the "artificially retarded train man" he met on the train before.

After a moment's silence, Xu Shu asked speculatively, "Are you a robot?"

Because of the lack of a neck, Xiaoya followed inertia, shaking her head and said, "Yeah, it's almost the same to call it a robot. It's usually called a mechanical puppet, but the correct scientific name is actually an imaginary structure! Hehehe, brother, do you know what an imaginary number is?"

amount……

Can I say that not only do I know it, but that I myself am called "xushu"?

It seems that this guy is actually a transcendent, and his strength is not weak. He is definitely at the same level as Zhang Zifeng.

Mechanical puppet...Level 3...

So she is a "mechanical expert"?
Mechanical Expert is the third stage of the "Mogong" profession. The name of the first stage of this profession is also very strange, called "Prodigy"!
...Xu Shu did not answer the other party, but complained in his heart and thought quickly.

Seeing this, Xiaoya spread out her tentacles out of boredom, then rolled her body, using her two tentacles as hands and feet to search among the dead lambs on the ground.

Blood, bones, walking human heads, wriggling tentacles, various internal organs, intestines, tissue fluid, gallbladders...

It can be said without exaggeration that any single scene here is a terrifying scene that is enough to stop a child from crying at night.

However, Xiaoya had a lovely smile on her face and walked around happily as if she was swimming in it.

When the horrific and disgusting murder scene is combined with the girl's innocent and bright smile, it creates an inexplicable sense of absurdity.

Xu Shu saw that her behavior was really strange, and asked hesitantly: "So, you actually let yourself be arrested on purpose? What was your purpose?"

Xiaoya's two tentacles did not stop when she heard that, but she turned her head to stare at him and laughed, "Brother Xiaorenxia is such an idiot. You only realized it now. Oh, it's all your fault. You ruined my good thing. You are such a hateful Xiaorenxia~"

"What good news?" Xu Shu asked with a frown, not paying attention to her pretense.

Xiaoya said, "I finally managed to sneak in, and I've been busy until now. I was just one step away from success, but in the end, you..."

Halfway through her speech, she suddenly stopped talking, looked into Xu Shu's eyes, and puffed out her cheeks.

Then, she curled her lips and changed the subject, saying, "If a corpse with such a deep sin were to be sold by a corpse driver, the price would definitely be sky-high.

“Now look what has happened. He was beaten to pieces by my brother. All his flesh and blood was wasted, and his soul was torn apart. He has completely lost his value! Xiaoya’s many puppets were wasted in vain. Xiaoya suffered a huge loss! My brother is a big bad guy. It’s all your fault! Wuuwuwu!”

While crying and pretending to be pitiful, she kept rummaging through the pile of mutton, and from time to time she found a small round bead the size of a baby's finger, grayish-white in color, and made of neither gold nor wood from a bowl of mutton brain soup.

"Heh." Xu Shu had a heart of stone and was not moved at all. He narrowed his eyes and became suspicious.

What was she talking about? Wasting a lot of puppets? These small balls were puppets? Or, were they the core parts of the puppets?

In fact, if Xiaoya hadn't gone to look for it, Xu Shu would never have noticed the abnormality in the sheep's brain, and would not have discovered that there was a strange ball hidden inside.

These things were inconspicuous at all and had no special smell. They were mixed in with the corpses on the ground and could not be distinguished at all.

Even under "spiritual perception", the problem of the sphere cannot be seen.

Because this thing, like other bone fragments, is completely dead and has no spirituality or characteristics of life.

But just by looking carefully with his eyes at this moment, Xu Shu discovered that each of these small round beads actually contained a mystery.

They actually have many layers inside and outside, like one hollowed-out sphere after another.

After some fuss, Xiaoya found a dozen of them, wiped them, and inhaled them into her nostrils.

The more Xu Shu looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong. Finally, he couldn't help but ask, "What did you just say? Puppet?"

Xiaoya rolled her eyes at him and said, "Brother Xiaorenxia, ​​haven't you figured it out yet? These are my mechanical puppets."

"You mean, these sheep are your puppets? Aren't they lambs herded by Zhang Zifeng?" Xu Shu asked with an idea in his mind.

Xiaoya smiled and said, "As for those kids that brother mentioned being caught by him? Hehe, Xiaoya rescued them a long time ago."

"Rescued? Really?" Xu Shu's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Really~" Xiaoya said.

"That's good." Xu Shu felt relieved for some reason, but he was a little suspicious: "That's not right. Don't the lives herded by the cardinal have a special connection with the herder? Moreover, when I was fighting with Zhang Zifeng just now, these lambs did die for him. This can't be fake..."

Xiaoya chuckled after hearing this and said, "Brother is really stupid. When the cardinal herds people, he uses red clothes to wrap the soul and flesh of the herders. Once the herders are hurt, the red clothes will bear the damage. This seems really unsolvable, right?"

"so what?"

"So the key to the problem lies in the red coat. As long as we get rid of this layer of red coat, the problem will be solved!"

"Then how to solve it?"

"Brother, you are so mean. This is a professional secret, how can I tell you? However, considering that you are a good person, Xiaoya will still tell you. Look what this is?" Xiaoya smiled and snapped her fingers, put a hollow ball in her eye socket, and looked at Xu Shu.

Xu Shu said: "It's your eyeball."

"..."

The smile on Xiaoya's face froze visibly.

She tried hard to hold back her smile and said coquettishly, "You're an idiot, right? You must be, right? This is the core of the puppet! With this 'imaginary core', I can devour Red Clothes, and Red Clothes will turn my puppet into a lamb to be herded, making me lose control of the puppet. But in this way, the original lamb can be released."

"Can we still do this? But won't the owner of the clothes find out?" Xu Shu asked.

Xiaoya said, "If you have dozens of hamsters in a cage, would you think that one hamster was swapped out because it didn't eat today?"

"It's true that we can't find it...but can this be the same?" Xu Shu said.

"Brother, you used foul language, it's very uncivilized! Anyway, if a large number of replacements were made, they would definitely be discovered. But I only replaced one child every day. Zhang Zifeng, that damn bastard, was so focused on refining the human pill that he didn't even notice that the red-clothed people were being replaced one by one by me. If it weren't for today..."

She paused, pursed her lips and continued, "If you hadn't barged in today, Xiaoya would have turned him into a puppet! How abominable!

"Forget it, brother, you are a good person, Xiaoya will not bother with you.

"It's just that you came too late. Even without you, the people here would have been saved. Xiaoya is the hero. Kukuku~ Isn't Xiaoya awesome?"

So that’s how the cardinal’s red robe can be cracked this way!

Xu Shu was shocked when he heard this, and he said in unison, "Great, so great, you are a f*cking genius, how did you come up with this idea?"

Xiaoya laughed with great enjoyment: "Haha, of course it's because I'm a 'child prodigy'!"

"admire!"

Xu Shu gave a thumbs up, feeling relieved and suddenly realizing.

When you think about it this way, it makes perfect sense.

No wonder the “little lambs” here couldn’t speak, because they were first herded and then replaced by puppets.

They are not real "sheep-men" at all, but "puppets in human skins in sheep's clothing."

As expected, Xiaoya is truly a “mechanical expert” and is at stage three of the profession of “child prodigy”!
So, she was acting from the very beginning.

The low IQ is just acting.

Identities such as the child being raised by a laid-off widow living alone are also fabricated.

The purpose of her doing this was to make herself "weak" enough to attract Zhang Zifeng to attack her.

It was obvious that Zhang Zifeng was hiding here, arresting children, practicing "human elixir", and herding lambs, and he was afraid of being discovered.

In order to conceal his tracks, he relied on his position as the principal to select those vulnerable children who would not be discovered even if they disappeared.

So Xiaoya deliberately put herself in the game, and after being caught as she wished, she began to secretly implement the plan, transporting the original child sheep away and replacing it with her "puppet".

These puppets put on red clothes, replaced the original lambs, and rescued the children who were being herded.

It seems that there is some mutual restraint between the two professions of "Mechanical Expert" and "Cardinal"...

Xu Shu nodded thoughtfully, and suddenly asked, "What is Rendan?"

Xiaoya sighed, and finally said in a serious tone: "Zhang Zifeng is a living cultivator, but his potential is not enough. He has been refining three evil servants, the Skunk, the Mountain Man, and the Sly Sheep, but he is still stuck at the beginning of the third stage and can't go any further.

"Now that his life span is almost over, he has finally gone astray, using young children to make elixirs and raising strange servants in an attempt to break through... I don't know who spread this evil method. Sigh! Although the living cultivators advance quickly, most of them do not have a good ending."

Xu Shu nodded, agreeing with this statement.

The people in Xinglong Village who were wiped out by him felt the same way.

At this moment, Xiaoya's head began to emit a series of beeping alarm sounds, and her head tilted and fell to the ground.

Xu Shu squatted down and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Xiaoya's eyeballs slowly returned to their sockets along with the tentacles, and she said with a rustling sound like a cassette tape:

"Brother Xiaorenxia, ​​I can't chat with you anymore. This puppet is about to fail. I have to... I have to... Zizizizi... I can't take it anymore... I have to go..."

As she spoke, she whistled.

Only two soft "pop" sounds were heard.

In the corner of the wall not far away, the bodies of the red-haired pig and the black goat exploded at the same time, and two inhuman figures emerged from them.

A fat yellow dog crawled out of the pig carcass. It was the one Xiaoya called "Xiaopang".

A huge black bird fluttered out from the sheep's belly.

It turned out that they had been hiding in the bodies of the two monsters. Perhaps they were about to take action, but because Xu Shu came, it was of no use and they were beaten by him for nothing.

But the big bird fluttered onto the yellow dog's back and grabbed the dog's neck with its claws. The yellow dog took a step and ran quickly to Xiaoya's head.

"Paji!"

The bird pecked at Xiaoya's head with its beak and held it firmly.

"Oh my god, such a big black chicken?" Xu Shu said in surprise. He felt that the chicken looked familiar, with a middle-parted head, shiny and glossy, and eyes as sharp and bright as a hawk. He thought it was an old friend.

"What black chicken?"

Xiaoya almost fell out of the bird's mouth. She couldn't care less about playing the role of a delicate little girl. She rolled her eyes in annoyance and said, "It's not about whether you are cultured or not... This is a goshawk!"

Xu Shu hurriedly said seriously: "Oh, it turned out to be him!"

He remembered who the old friend was.

Isn’t this the little boy who ate the cake before?

The fat aunt in the cafeteria said that Xiaoya has two followers, a fat guy and a thin guy. One is called Feng Xiaohuang and the other is called Tang Xiaocang.

It seems that this is the "hawk-dog" combination in front of us.

It turns out that they are not humans, but Xiaoya's subordinates.

Um...wait...

Xu Shu was slightly startled and said, "Senior, after all this time, it turns out that you are also a living cultivator?"

Although the other party had the image of a little girl, Xu Shu knew at this time that the other party was probably a master above the middle stage of the third rank, so he naturally would not neglect her anymore.

Xiaoya was a little unhappy: "Humph, if I'm not a living cultivator, why would I tell you so much? Brother Xiaorenxia is really an idiot who knows nothing. Xiaopang and Xiaohei, let's go!"

As soon as the words fell, the yellow dog bared its teeth at Xu Shu, as if expressing dissatisfaction, then turned and ran away.

Xiaoya added: "You should leave as well. The people from the Judgment Department will come to deal with the scene at nine o'clock. If you don't want to cause trouble, you can leave now."

Xu Shu nodded hurriedly, followed closely, and asked, "Senior, you have penetrated deep into the enemy's rear and rescued innocent civilians. Your methods are brilliant and admirable! My name is Yu Mingluan. May I know your name?"

"Brother, are you sick? I'm only a few years old and you call me senior!" Xiaoya was very annoyed.

The two of them went out of the tunnel gate one after another and returned to the library at the entrance.

The yellow dog broke through the window and the eagle spread its wings and took off. They seemed not to want to stay with Xu Shu any longer. In front of him, they took Xiaoya away.

clap clap!

Four blue crystals were dropped from the air and landed in Xu Shu's hands. They were the corrosive crystals in the bodies of "Shan Hao" and "Jian Yang".

Xiaoya was very generous and actually left the spoils to Xu Shu.

Xu Shu thought that perhaps she was of a very high level and looked down upon these small things of first or second level, but he was not pretentious and accepted them politely.

At the same time, a voice condensed in the air:
"You can call me Sister Jiang Chengzi. When you have time, come to Baiyujing to play with me. Also, don't use the name of a dead person, it's unlucky - Brother Xu Shu"

The last four words, in a form that was so sweet that it was sickening, gently reached Xu Shu's ears, as if rubbing against his earlobe.

This sends chills down one's spine and gives one goosebumps.

"So you're from the Judgment Department. No wonder you recognized me... Damn, I knew those guys were tight-lipped."

Xu Shu cursed inwardly.

Although he was surprised, he was not overly shocked.

When he first entered the city, he reported to the local adjudication office with his real identity.

Judging from the strength of this "Xiao Ya", it can be expected that her status in the local Arbitration Department is not low.

It was not surprising that she got the identity information she had when she entered the city.

It is almost impossible for a senior prosecutor from the destroyed D8B3 area not to attract the attention of other senior prosecutors in the same department here.

Fortunately, after all, he was one of “our own” people, and Xu Shu had been upright from the beginning, never hiding anything, so this was considered a small matter.

As for the name "Jiangchengzi", it sounds like the name of the director of Penglai District.

"Yellow dog, goshawk? Yellow on the left, goshawk on the right?"

"Do you want another Senkijuku Hiraoka?"

"Tsk tsk, this image doesn't match the image of a soft and cute little sister she presents..."

Xu Shu shook his head and talked to himself, when suddenly an idea came to his mind.

Could it be that Jiang Chengzi, the man behind the scenes, is actually a white-haired old man?

After all, "Xiaoya" is just a mechanical puppet.
As the saying goes, the more you lack something, the more you want it.

So, a white-haired old man pretends to be a cute little girl... and even acts like a spoiled child to me... This...

This is not completely impossible!

Xu Shu felt a chill at the thought and hurriedly left the library and Sunshine Primary School as quickly as possible.

When passing by the school gate, he looked back and saw that there were still about ten children waiting there for their parents to pick them up.

They were playing and joking with each other, all of them had smiles on their faces, completely oblivious to the fierce battle going on deep underground.

The seemingly violent explosion was inconspicuous amid the roar of mechanical processing in the factory not far away.

Xu Shu did not stay for long.

"Jiang Chengzi" Xiaoya was right. He didn't want to stay here to deal with the subsequent trivial matters.

Even though he was a senior prosecutor in the same department, he was an outsider after all. If he stayed at the scene after something like this happened, his original plan for tonight would be ruined.

Shu would not forget his original plan for today - to obtain the "Taotie" Xuan Chapter, and the corresponding third-order spell crystals, "Yin Shen" imprints and other upgrade materials were all prepared.

Everything is ready. If I hadn't been delayed for a long time in the basement of the school, I should be at home right now, risking my life and shedding my blood to sprint to the third level of my profession - "Dragon Elephant"!
Of course, Xu Shu did not regret the hour or so of delay.

But if you want me to stay and take care of my funeral, I'd like to decline.

He ran away decisively, crossing several streets in the second wave of people getting off work, and returned to his home in downtown No. 2.

Because he had said goodbye when he left, Xu Shuyou told his adoptive parents that if he came home late, they didn't have to wait for him and could just eat first.

At this time, they had already finished dinner and were sitting on the sofa in the living room reading newspapers.

As soon as Xu Shu returned home, he naturally asked about his health and helped him heat up his meals.

Xu Shu felt warm in his heart. It was really nice to have someone waiting for you when you got home.

He enjoyed his meal happily and fed the orange cat at the same time.

At this time, Zhou Shiyu filled a small basin with clean clothes, ignored her parents, and said to Xu Shu alone: ​​"Brother, I want to take a shower first, okay?"

Without even raising his head, Xu Shu nodded his chin slightly: "Oh, go ahead."

Seeing this, my sister curled her lips, turned around and went into the bathroom, locking the door with a click.

Xu Shu was waiting.

This is the disadvantage of having two bedrooms and one living room.

Although there is a private bathroom, there is only one.

When one person is inside, the others have to wait.

"According to my sister's bathing time, it takes about one hour and ten minutes to one hour and twenty minutes. This time is not a big problem, it has always been like this.

"Well, after she finishes, let my parents take a shower first. After they go to bed, I will go in to upgrade. After all, this promotion will probably take more than six hours. Uh..."

Xu Shu suddenly touched his chin and was calculating the time when he suddenly froze and thought of a question.

It's just an ordinary upgrade, and although the amount of bleeding is large, as long as it can be controlled, it is not so obvious. It is acceptable and people outside will not notice it.

But now we are preparing to advance and cross a major realm.

Xu Shu had experience in upgrading from level one to level two, and he knew very well that when he was promoted, the amount of blood loss he would suffer would be quite alarming, almost terrifying.

With such a small bathroom space at home, I’m afraid that the speed at which the water drains away will not be as fast as the speed at which my blood spurts out.

It would scare them.

Well, why not go to a hotel outside? On the one hand, I don’t have to pollute the environment at home, and on the other hand, I don’t have to wait...

Because he had this idea before, when he thought of it at this moment, Xu Shu no longer hesitated, turned around and hugged Alice on the sofa.

"Meow?" Alice tilted her head and looked at him, puzzled.

Xu Shu picked up a set of clothes and packed them, saying casually, "There's no time to explain. You stay at home. I'm going to be out for a while. I think I'll be home in the middle of the night."

Having said that, he stopped waiting and rushed out of the house in the cover of night.

It just so happened that there was a high-end hotel not far from my home, just across the street.

At the entrance of the hotel, several girls dressed scantily and fashionably were squatting in a dark corner where the rotating lights could not reach, exposed to the biting cold winter wind, smoking with their arms folded, waiting for guests to come.

In the upper city area on the 2nd, it is actually a little colder than on the ground, but not much.

I can’t suppress the cry for wildness, and I can’t stop the desire for pleasure.

A man looked around and negotiated the terms with the girl, and the two of them walked into the hotel arm in arm, becoming a new pair of lovers.

Xu Shu was very satisfied after seeing the hotel building, which had reliable quality and remained as stable as a rock without any vibration even in such a popular situation.

He could feel the breath of life everywhere in this hotel.

This vibrant atmosphere and exhilarating energy have quite auspicious symbolic meaning.

"Yes, it's a good sign, it's you!"

Xu Shu decisively entered the "Yue Lai Yue Shang Tou" hotel, booked a VIP room, went in, and made preparations.

All of this was seen by Alice, the orange cat who was lying in the distance and looking around quietly.

"...Damn it, he only stayed at home for a short while, but he was so eager to go out and do something indecent. Why is he so impatient? I am so pissed off!!!"

She gnashed her teeth, biting the fish bones into pieces one by one, and silently chanted a spell:
“Alice is guarding the house, Alice is good;
"Xu Shu went to visit prostitutes, Xu Shu is bad!"

Amidst the curses, the night grew darker.

……

The whole city became quiet, leaving only the occasional roar of cars speeding on the overpass and the occasional short moans coming from the surrounding night sky, interweaving with each other.

Everyone in the house has gone to bed.

Only the cat is still awake.

Alice jumped out of the bed where Zhou Shiyu was sleeping soundly, and quietly lay down on the windowsill.

She half-closed her eyes and looked quite comfortable.

In fact, she really likes this kind of popular environment. In the past, she was always locked up on the top of the tower of the Starry Church. Now that she is with Xu Shu, she actually enjoys it very much.

It's just that she never said it.

She just waited quietly for Xu Shu, who was out flirting with other women, to come home.

After waiting for a few hours, the sky began to brighten.

"Strange, why haven't you come back yet... Aren't you always practicing hard? What happened today? Why are you so impatient? Did you take the wrong medicine?"

Alice arched her back and stretched.

Her brows furrowed and she began to feel vaguely that something was wrong.

She recalled the inexplicably anxious expression on Xu Shu's face when he left, the saturated spiritual energy in him that was so perfect that it seemed to be about to erupt, and his usual state of diligent training and surging fighting spirit.

Gradually, a bold and terrifying idea came to Alice's mind belatedly.

Her pupils widened, her hair stood on end, and she muttered to herself in disbelief:
“It seems like he has reached the second level perfection?
"He won't break through to the third realm, will he?"

"It seems that his upgraded drive has not yet been expanded, it is just a low-frequency drive..."

"He...he shouldn't know that he needs to prepare in advance to advance to the third level, right?"

"Oh no! Something's going to happen, meow!!!"

(End of this chapter)