Academy City's Puppet Master

"What! What's the point of this!" Ling Xingye jumped up, his first reaction was absurd and unbelievable.

It is not scientific at all to use blood, especially human blood, as an energy source!

But he immediately realized that, strictly speaking, the automatic puppet itself is an "unscientific" existence, right?

If you look at it from the perspective of magic or ghost legends, it actually makes sense, and it does fit the legendary settings of vampires and zombies.

Seeing Ling Xingye so excited, Bai Yinyao was surprised: "Don't you know Xingye at all?"

"This is Academy City, known as the base camp of the scientific world... How could I know such a thing." Ling Xingye asked back.

"Obviously I have already fought many automatic puppets before, I thought Xingye could guess something."

Ling Xingye rolled his eyes and said: "At that time, I thought those puppets were wirelessly and remotely controlled... Who knew they really had their own consciousness?"

Bai Yinyao looked up at the wall clock on the wall: "Okay, since we're going to cooperate next time, I'll spend some time teaching you the basics. It will be troublesome if you ask and answer questions on the spot during the battle."

Ling Xingye looked at the ghost beside him, sitting upright.

Now that he has decided to intervene in this matter, he must not let go of any valuable information!

What's more, he is very interested in automatic puppets and more sophisticated and advanced puppet techniques!

"If you want to trace the source of everything about puppets and puppet masters, you must mention a person...or an existence—'Yanshi'."

Bai Yinyao dipped his index finger in the tea, and wrote the word "Yanshi" on the table.Although she is a woman, the strokes of her pen are as vigorous and powerful as a golden hook and an iron stroke, and the water stains on the table condense and never disperse.

"In legend, he can be said to be the ancestor of the puppet master and the creator of the first puppet." Baiyin Yao said, "It was first recorded in "Liezi · Tang Wen". Yanshi is considered to be Bimozi Hejiang Shengong Shuban is an even more skilled craftsman."

Ling Xingye nodded to show that he knew it, and he knew this when he started learning silk puppets - when he was apprenticed to a master to learn art, the ancestor he enshrined was a puppet representing "Yanshi".

"Since the Zhou Dynasty, the descendants of Yanshiji's disciples have been working for the emperor's family." Bai Yinyao continued, "To be able to make puppets that are real enough, of course, such exquisite skills cannot be just used as playthings in the deep palace. ——The transition to militarization is extremely natural.

"Originally, it was used to guard imperial mausoleums and other forbidden areas of similar levels. Gradually, the puppet guards became the guards of the palace - tireless, fearless of death, and powerful in combat! These characteristics made the puppet guards popular among emperors .Even in the troubled times of the Spring and Autumn Period, when the nations were in conflict, some vassal states really used puppets to completely replace human guards.

"But then a fatal problem was exposed-these puppets are not completely obeying the orders of the protected. In fact, those who can really control them are those Yanshi. Because of Yanshi's betrayal, the city was destroyed. The incident is not an exception.

"So, as a matter of course, the Yanshi were hostile and expelled by all the vassal states at that time, and were even on the verge of destruction! The puppet army they cobbled together had no advantage in front of the real iron-blooded army. However, those Yanshi and their puppet army It also aroused the joint crusade of various countries, and soon the entire army was wiped out...

"But that was the first time that the puppet army appeared in public. Although it was defeated, it was largely because of its specialization in the art industry. Yanshi is not a military strategist, and its military network is almost zero. In the eyes of those real military masters , the puppet army is a very useful tool. Therefore, Yanshi was not wiped out, but once again entered the official sequence of various countries.

"After learning the lesson, one branch of Yanshi decided to make a change—they made brand-new guard puppets, and handed over these puppets to the people chosen by the princes to control them, so as to regain trust.

"This is the original origin of the silk-drawing puppets. The so-called 'drawing silk' means that these puppets are controlled by humans, rather than directly obeying orders from Yanshi. This branch of Yanshi has also gradually changed its role to simply 'making puppets'." , and the person who taught the 'Silk Pulling Opera' also gradually split from the mainstream of Yanshi.

"The leader of this branch is called 'Silver'."

Baiyin Yao dipped his index finger in water again, and wrote the word "Baiyin" on the other side of "Yanshi", echoing each other from afar.

===Chapter 69 Born Silver===

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"Really? So mysterious?"

Ling Xingye was silent for a long time after listening to the "History Lesson" explained by Bai Yinyao, and made such an evaluation.

Although you can also guess the "truth of history", or the historical background after the magic reform in this world...

But suddenly being told by someone, still a serious beauty, Ling Xingye still couldn't adapt for a while, and felt a little bit impacted on his three views.

"Well, who can say what happened thousands of years ago?" Unexpectedly, Bai Yinyao didn't insist on it, and shrugged indifferently, "Anyway, we can just believe it as the truth."

"Okay, that's the end of the small history lecture hall." Bai Yinyao clapped his hands, picked up the tea and drank it down in one gulp, "Then let's get to the point..."

His slender fingers tapped under the word "Yanshi".

"The 'vampire' seen today, and all other automatic puppets, belong to the 'Yanshi' side and are our enemies."

Then the jade finger lightly moved, pointing to the word "Baiyin": "People like you and me who operate silk puppets to fight are 'Baiyin'. Our mission is to crusade against all automatic puppets and prevent them from causing harm to the world!"

Ling Xingye looked at the two words on the table and nodded, then continued to wait for the next sentence.

He raised his head, met eyes with Baiyin Yao, and the two looked at each other.

"And then?" Ling Xingye, who hadn't waited for a long time, asked proactively.

Who knew that the woman on the opposite side responded with even more strange eyes: "No more, that's all, what else do you want to know?"

"That's all?" Because of surprise, Ling Xingye's voice was a little out of tune, "After a long and magnificent epic just now, did you finish explaining the main topic in two sentences?"

Baiyin Yao tilted his head: "I've made it very clear—the automatic puppets belonging to the Yanshi organization are our enemies in Baiyin, so we're going to hunt them down!"

"But why? Also, wasn't Yanshi the one who made and manipulated puppets in history? Why did he suddenly become an automatic puppet? How much content did you skip?"

"Are those things important?" Baiyin Yao Liu raised his eyebrows lightly, "It is the mission of all Baiyin to defeat the automatic puppets and protect human beings—the so-called mission does not need a reason."

"Think about the horrors in that alley today, the atrocities that every automatic puppet will inevitably commit. Countless innocent humans will become their prey and bait-isn't that reason enough? "

Ling Xingye was silent, the veins in his hands on the table were already bulging, and he clenched his fists tightly, as if cast iron.

Baiyin Yao stretched out his hands and gently held his fists: "Relax a bit, the puppet master's hands can't be so stiff... Look, you don't need those redundant explanations and reasons in Xingye - as long as you protect people's safety, it's enough It is. This is our mission."

"Xingye, you are born silver!"

Ling Xingye took a few deep breaths, suppressed his agitated mood, and then looked at Baiyin Yao seriously: "Leave aside the matter of Baiyin, it is indeed as you said, I can't let those automatic puppets continue to endanger people, so, I I will fight with you to defeat those monsters!"

Baiyin Yao showed a nice smile.