Doomsday Totem

Chapter 225 Cold Storage
"A friend asked me to come to the old street to find a blind old man." Tie Zha said straight to the point.

"He must be talking about me. I am the oldest and most famous old blind man in the old street." The old man boasted, and then asked, "Is there anything you can do for me?"

"I want to ask you some questions..." While speaking, Tie Slag looked at Xiaoyue.The latter understood immediately, and said to the old man, "Teacher, please talk slowly, Xiaoyue is going out first."

"Go, go." The old man raised his thin hand, and swung the back of his hand outward, as if chasing flies away.Xiaoyue immediately opened the curtain and walked out. The moment the shade cloth was lowered, the light in the cabin returned to dim again.

After a moment of silence, Tie Slag said slowly: "My friend mentioned the ability to transform into insects."

As soon as the words were finished, the old man's right hand on the low table trembled imperceptibly.Immediately afterwards, the old man shook his head and waved his arms and said, "Young man, you are looking for me. I know everything. The so-called worm-forming ability is the innate ability of worm-forming people. What kind of ant is there?" Muscles, pump circuits, beetle stamina, insect regeneration, drone glands, etc., which one do you want to ask?"

Iron Slag didn't answer, just looked at the old man quietly.The slight tremor just now did not escape his sight.The other party was obviously pretending to be stupid, as if trying to cover up something.After being silent for half a minute, the old man said to himself: "People with antoid muscles are infinitely powerful, people with pump circuits are agile, people with beetle stamina are full of energy, and people with insect regeneration can recover very quickly." Come on, as for the person with male ant glands..." At this point, the old man shook his shoulders and laughed dryly.At the same time, Tie Slag's pupils shrank suddenly. In the dim light, he noticed that the old man's left hand sank slightly, as if he was making some small movements.

Seeing that the other party had bad intentions, he couldn't help but pull out the Magnin revolver, pushed the safety catch, pointed at the old man and said in a deep voice, "You'd better be honest."

"Young man...don't be impulsive...speak up if you have something to say...I'm just a blind old man..." The old man hurriedly raised his hands and said in a trembling voice.

"It seems that you are indeed not blind." Tie Slag grinned and said.

"Young man...who told you to come here? I think...we shouldn't have any intersection..." said the old man.Just as Tie Slag was about to answer, the former suddenly sank and disappeared out of thin air.In an instant, Tie Slag narrowed his eyes and rushed out of the hut.

However, when he rushed outside the house, he took a quick look around.That little moon had disappeared, replaced by dozens of steel-bodied mechanically modified humans.These reformed people wore canvas military trousers on their lower bodies, and their upper bodies were exposed to the air.Looking fixedly, the power furnaces on their chests were glowing crimson and running at high speed.It can be seen from the fine gears and neat pipelines that their mechanical bodies are all the latest models, possessing combat power no less than that of a second-order psyker.

At this moment, some of these reformers blocked the two ends of the alley, and the other part stood on the roofs of the four places, completely blocking his way.

Tie Slag breathed a sigh of relief, bowed his body and bent his arms, assuming a fighting posture.The reformers who were close to him took a step back in unison, and put on a defensive posture.Seeing that the situation was on the verge of breaking out, the reformed man in red military trousers standing at the front faced Iron Slag and said in a blunt mechanical voice: "Sir, what is your purpose here?"

"As I said just now, a friend introduced me." Tie Slag looked around and said slowly.

"Young man, this is the territory of the worms. According to the rules of the Sandcastle, a traditional evolutionary should not appear here." At this moment, a broken gong and a broken iron voice suddenly came from above.Looking sideways following the voice, I saw the blind old man standing on the roof talking to him.

"So what?" Tie Slag narrowed his eyes and grinned.

"Explain your reason for coming." The old man threatened, "Otherwise, I guarantee that you will not be able to leave the old street alive."

"Really?" Iron Slag shrugged and said lightly.With just a few words, the negotiations reached a deadlock, and the alley was silent, as if even time had stood still...

After a while, Xiaoyue, who was carrying two big paper cups, returned to the hut.She quickly noticed the abnormal atmosphere at the scene, and immediately looked at the two confronting parties in surprise, and asked in surprise, "You... what's wrong with you?"

"Son, go home quickly." The old man standing on the roof said hurriedly.

"Master, he is a good man, did you misunderstand?" Xiaoyue stood not far from Tie Slag, raised her head and asked.

"What do children know, let's go!" the old man shouted loudly.

"I won't go, he is my guest, I want to take him back." Xiaoyue walked to Tie Zha's side and said stubbornly.

"Friends, I'm not your enemy." The next moment, Tie Slag put away the Magnin revolver and said with spread hands.

"Young man, you are not a worm, you should not come here." The old man repeated.

"Who says I'm not?" Tie Slag asked.

"I'm sorry, I don't see that you are a worm." The old man narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice.

"Why do you say I'm not?" Tie Slag asked back.

"I have gnat perception, and I can identify the identity and ability of a worm, unless..." The old man hesitated for a moment, then waved his hand suddenly, dismissed the reformer, and then said to Tie Slag, "Friend, let's go into the room and talk about it."

Iron Slag nodded, and then returned to the house.Not long after, the old man opened the curtain of the inner room and came out holding a candle.

"Young man, do you have a diamond array?" The old man said as he put the candle on the low table and sat down cross-legged.

"En." Tie Slag nodded in response.

"I need you to prove your identity." The old man stared at him with empty eye sockets, and said seriously, "There are too many liars these days."

"Insectization ability is the secret of every insectification person, I can't show it to you." Tie Slag said.

"Who sent you here?" asked the old man.Next, Tie Slag told the old man exactly what happened that day at the "Passenger's Square".After listening to his narration, the old man was silent for a long time, and then said: "Okay, I believe you for the time being, but you have to prove your identity." After speaking, the old man stood up, then picked up the candle on the table, and walked towards In the back room, he said, "Young man, please follow me."

Then, Tie Slag followed the old man into the back room.In the beating candlelight, the place is still very small, with only a simple single wooden bed, a large wardrobe, and a small round table and a small bench in the corner.

The old man came to the big closet, slowly opened the sliding door of the closet, then pushed aside the clothes inside, and groped in the closet for a while.Then, as if he had found a switch, he pressed it.

With a soft "swish", the inner panels of the wardrobe quickly separated to the two sides, and a clean and tidy metal passageway with strips of light tubes appeared on it.After the entrance was opened, the old man blew out the candles and walked into the passage.Iron Slag followed behind, looking around curiously.

This passage slopes downwards, about two meters high and one meter wide. The walls on both sides are inlaid with smooth stainless steel plates, the ceiling is neatly covered with white light tubes, and the ground is laid with Water corrugated stainless steel plate.

"My name is Edwin Burns, and I come from Nancheng of the Northern Wilderness Continent. People call me Old Blind." The old man said.

"My name is Sa Chacha, and I'm from the Temple of War Bear." Tie Zha introduced himself.

The old man stopped and said slowly, "Young man, lying is a bad habit."

"I grew up in the Northern Wilderness, so it's okay." Tie Slag spread his hands and said.Since the other party is from the Northern Wilderness, it can be heard from his accent.

The old man nodded in satisfaction, then walked forward, spit, and chattered endlessly: "Although the old blind man can't see, he has a clear mind, knows the laws of heaven and earth, and can see through all falsehoods and illusions in the world. The sea of ​​trees, the red sun facing the sky, the flood rushing into the Dragon King Temple, the road is uneven and you draw your sword to help..."

The two walked three to 40 meters in tandem and came to the end of the passage.There is a metal door here, the old blind man fumbled on the wall for a while, found a mechanism, and pressed it.

With a sound of "shua", the metal door opened to both sides.Walking in is an elevator, the old man pressed a few times on the board, and the metal door closed again.Then, the elevator sank down and began to run slowly.

After about a minute, the elevator stopped, and the metal door slid open to both sides.And at the moment when the metal door opened, a gust of deep cold air rushed towards the face, freezing the iron slag into a cold mind.

After stepping out of the elevator, there was a very long passage in front of me, about seven or eight meters wide, with metal pull rings on both sides, which looked like big drawers.Looking up, there are metal pipes above, covered with hoarfrost, and there is a trace of cold air.

"This place is called the cold storage, and it's where the corpses of the worms are stored." The old man introduced.Iron Slag understood in an instant, freezing the corpses of the worms in order to preserve their worming ability, waiting for the genetic plunder of the newcomers.

"My talent allows me to see the abilities of most wormers, so I can preserve their corpses by category." After speaking, the old man took out a booklet from his pocket and handed it to Iron Slag.The latter took his hand, glanced at him, and then flipped through it.

The first page of the pamphlet reads:

Basic level, red spectrum 500 gold, cyan spectrum 800 gold, white spectrum, orange spectrum, green spectrum 300 gold, purple spectrum 25000 gold.

The red spectrum is for strength enhancement, the cyan spectrum is for agility enhancement, the white spectrum is for five sense enhancements, the orange spectrum is for stamina enhancement, and the green spectrum is for vitality enhancement.

"What does the color spectrum mean?" Tie Slag asked while watching.

"I can only use the color spectrum to judge the ability of an insectoid. To put it simply, I can only see the tendency of the ability, but I cannot know the specific details, such as the name of the ability." The old man explained.

"What if I make a mistake?" Tie Slag asked.

"Let fate..." the old man smiled awkwardly and said with some embarrassment.

Iron Slag couldn't help rolling his eyes, then pointed to the "Purple Spectrum" in the booklet and asked, "What kind of ability is this? Why is it so expensive?"

Facing his question, the old man showed a mysterious smile, looking very wretched.

(End of this chapter)