Chapter 9: The Evil Statue and the Sacrifice Book

Chapter 9: The Evil Statue and the Sacrifice Book

Chapter 9: The Evil Statue and the Sacrifice Book
Old street, in front of Jiao’s butcher shop.

Meng Shenji, the Tiangong Sect salesman, accepted the four hundred taels of silver from Li Yu, smiled with satisfaction, then whistled and instructed the mechanical maid named Hongdou:
"Go, pack your own luggage and add another psychic stone."

After saying this, he looked at the permanently closed butcher shop in front of him and the yard behind it.

He nodded, took out a pen and paper from his vest pocket, and wrote down the address.

At this time, the mechanical maid had already grabbed a tattered cloth bag, jumped out of the shop again, and stood beside Li Yu very obediently.

Before Li Yu could ask about the maid's operation details, Meng Shenji lost his patience and said:

"The instructions for re-identifying as the owner and operating the system are all inside her package."

"In three days, the first issue of Wanfu Daily will be delivered to your door."

After saying this, without giving Li Yu a chance to pester him, he jumped onto the steam shop and quickly went down the street.

Obviously, this guy was a little annoyed because he didn't squeeze out much profit, and his after-sales attitude was extremely bad.

Li Yu was not annoyed at all when he saw this.

He felt that he had gotten a lot of benefits in this deal and was in a very good mood.

After opening the gate, he was about to call his mechanical maid to follow.

When I turned around, I saw that her mechanical head was drooping and her fox eyes were closed. Was it actually turned off?
Li Yu's face darkened and he cursed the evil businessman inwardly.

The calculation was so precise that he just used up the last bit of spiritual energy?
At this moment, he couldn't figure out how to change the battery for his maid on the street, so he had to resign himself to his fate and went forward to hug the maid and move her to the yard.

After getting started, it's surprisingly light.

He could even pick it up with one hand and carry it inside under his ribs.

Considering that the scene would not be pretty, Li Yu still picked her up obediently and let the pretty face, which was almost indistinguishable from that of a real girl, rest on his shoulder.

This scene reminded Li Yu of some jokes from his previous life, such as the store owners paying attention to packaging.

"But even in my previous life, I couldn't find such a lifelike puppet."

"And here, a Sequence 7 expert from the Tiangong Sect can make one, and can discard it at will after use. Since it can be sold by salesmen on the streets, I'm afraid that such a mechanical maid is not a rare and exotic item."

"Especially without the so-called [Heavenly Secret Core], its effectiveness must have been reduced by 90%."

Muttering, Li Yu moved the maid back to the main house.

He immediately reached out to take the cloth bag, opened it and spread it on the table.

Inside was a leather booklet, a set of maid clothes, and a strangely shaped crystal that glowed like a fiery rainbow but had obvious impurities inside.

The latter should be the so-called lowest grade psychic stone.

Li Yu did not move, but picked up the leather booklet first. On the cover was written: "Linglong Doll Operation Manual·Red Bean Chapter".

Below the title, there is a number: the thirty-sixth.

“So, this is still mass-produced?”

With a little doubt, Li Yu opened the manual.

Sure enough, the content of the first page answered him directly, and the first thing he saw was the producer's self-introduction.

"I am Yun Dongjun, a disciple of the Tiangong Sect. I was promoted to [Puppet Maker] a month ago. I couldn't resist the urge to make puppets, so I spent a year to cast a complete set of Linglong puppets, a total of 36, each with extraordinary magical effects. They are my masterpieces."

"This doll is called Red Bean. Since it is the last one, I have done my best to load it with almost all the functions and effects..."

After seeing the beginning, Li Yu did not show any joy.

When I bought it, Meng Shenji had already told me that almost all the useful parts on the maid doll had been dismantled, leaving only an empty shell.

Fortunately, he only paid for the remaining part.

The manual is not thick and can be read quickly.

Although he had expected this, a hint of regret and melancholy still appeared on his face.

"Tsk tsk!"

"According to Yun Dongjun, Hongdou was not a mechanical maid at first, but an extraordinary puppet that could fight and assist its master. She was also the most perfect of the thirty-six puppets."

"I don't know what happened to it later, but almost all the useful functions were removed, especially the Tiangong Secret Core that can bring extraordinary powers and extremely high wisdom..."

While Li Yu was muttering, he reached out and took the spiritual energy stone with many impurities.

Then he paced and came behind Hongdou.

I first fumbled around the back of his head and somehow triggered some switch. With a click, the skull opened up, revealing an extremely complex device inside. The area where the brain core should have been placed was empty.

There were only one or two traces that looked like blood and flesh stains left, and it was impossible to infer the appearance of the secret core based on them.

The Tiangong Secret Core is the core inheritance of the Tiangong Sect, and it is almost impossible for outsiders to obtain it.

Li Yu closed the skull and reached down again.

He found the waistline and clicked on it. Along with the old steam gushing out, a mechanism that was obviously used to place the psychic stone popped out.

“No need for big surprises!”

"Just help me clean up that damn storage room and those two bodies that have begun to rot. That will be more than worth it."

After muttering, Li Yu directly took out the scrapped gray-black spirit stone and put in a new stone.

Instantly, the mechanism retracted. A clicking sound immediately rang out from inside, and streams of red steam with a faint fragrance gushed out from all the gaps in her body. Her head suddenly lifted up, and the ruby ​​on her forehead flashed with fire again, and a pair of fascinating fox eyes slowly opened.

And Li Yu had already stood in front of her when the change happened.

As their eyes met, a voice that sounded mechanical but also completely girlish sounded:

"Red Bean No. 36 of Linglong has been successfully restarted, and has discovered a human life form and started to recognize its master."

With the mechanical sound, the gem between his eyebrows immediately burst into a ball of red light and began to cover Li Yu from head to toe.

Good guy!
Is it really a scanning function?

When Li Yu felt the magic, the mechanical voice continued:
"The new owner is a male human in his infancy. The body's aura is being recorded."

"Warning! Warning!"

"The new owner's body seems to be infested by a strange creature... Activate the spiritual medicine function... Activate failed!"

"Starting the purge function... Failed to start!"

"Start freeze function... Start failed!"

"Start the bounty function... Startup failed!"

These touching words of the girl's voice entered Li Yu's ears, but made him feel very uncomfortable.

He now fully understood that the mechanical maid "Hongdou" in front of him was actually a truly rare and valuable item.

Now, it's all gone.

At this moment, he really wanted to go up and cover the maid's mouth, telling her that he knew and asked her to stop talking.

As if she could sense the new owner's regret, she gave up trying to start the machine after a few moments of stalling.

A pair of fox eyes looked at Li Yu steadily and said gently:

"Recognition of the master is successful!"

"Master, please give me your orders!"

After all the trouble, Li Yu no longer had any hope of getting a bargain and believed that you get what you pay for.

Without paying much attention, he immediately pointed to the maid's clothing on the table that looked like a half-sleeved skirt and said:
"Put on your clothes and follow me."

"Okay, Master."...

"Clean them up, leaving no body parts, blood, or stench behind."

"Yes, Master."

As the conversation ended, Hongdou, who had put on her clothes and looked like a real pretty girl, quickly walked out from behind Li Yu.

He strode into the small dark room, picked up the bodies of Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang in each hand, and went straight to the open space in the yard.

After stacking them together, the girl's voice sounded again:
"Activate the corpse burning function!"

"boom!"

There was almost no sign. Li Yu, the master, only saw a red light suddenly burst out from Hongdou's belly and go up. Then he saw a large ball of fire with a strange blue light and some liquid attached to it, which spurted out of her mouth and fell directly on the two corpses.

A strange scene appeared immediately.

Normally, even if the body is burned in a raging fire, it will take a long time.

But the two bodies that touched the dark blue liquid fire were quickly burned through and turned into crispy pieces. After dozens of breaths, they even began to vaporize, turning into blue-black mist visible to the naked eye, floating into the sky.

When the last wisp of corpse fog dissipated and the flames died down, no corpse could be seen in the yard anymore. Only a grayish-white mark of medium size was left which could be directly buried by turning over the soil.

"it is good!"

Others found it horrifying and terrifying, but Li Yu, as the host, couldn't help but applaud.

He had been worried before about how to deal with the disgusting and tricky "legacies" left by the original couple, but now he has a solution.

Who would have thought?

This cute and beautiful maid doll that looks like a fox girl is actually a top-notch crematorium.

Just this function made Li Yu very satisfied.

"That Yun Dongjun must be a man who is used to killing people and stealing goods, and destroying the bodies and traces."

"Otherwise, why would they develop such a perverted corpse-burning function?"

While complaining about the maid maker, Li Yu did not delay at all. He took the key and walked towards the storage room that had once brought him a great psychological trauma.

Before unlocking the door, he turned around and told Hongdou:
"When I open the door, you will burn all the filthy flesh, blood, and poisonous food inside."

After saying this, he seemed to have thought of something and added:

"If there are any extraordinary items like these, you can keep them for now and let me deal with them."

The reason for this addition is that memories resurfaced in Li Yu's mind.

Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang were devout believers of the Forbidden God Sect. They were able to come to Wanfu City because they obtained some inheritance by searching corpses.

Logically speaking, their legacy should also include some strange objects used for sacrifices, statues of evil gods, secret books of spiritual practice, etc.

But Li Yu only collected the account books.

If he hadn't guessed, the remaining things should be in this storage room.

After confirming that nothing was missing, Li Yu quickly unlocked the door with both hands. With a clanging sound, the iron chains covered with forbidden talismans fell down one after another. The door was wide open, and the familiar disgusting sound was about to happen again.

But this time, a young girl stepped forward and stood in front of Li Yu.

Before the horrible stench storm swept over, she opened her mouth first, and streams of dark blue liquid fire immediately ignited everything.

Even, including the smell.

In order to prevent the forbidden eggs in his belly from rebelling due to the scene in the storage room, Li Yu stepped back directly after unlocking the room, and only let Hongdou step in.

Because the storage room is completely sealed, the vaporized mist from the evil things can only be discharged from the door.

This time, he waited in the yard for more than an hour.

Seeing the corpse fog gradually thinning until it disappeared, he slowly approached.

Just then, Hongdou, who was already covered in dirt, walked out with a dusty face, and the cute girl's mechanical voice was still the same:
"Master, the filthy flesh and poisonous food have been burned."

"We also found a statue of an unknown evil god and a book of unknown cultivation techniques."

"Warning! Warning!"

"There is a strange creature parasitic in the master's body, which is suspected to be related to the evil god. Please handle it with caution."

"Hongdou suggested activating the selling function and selling this rare item... Activation failed!"

Li Yu was about to enter the storage room to check the two strange objects.

But after hearing this, I couldn't help but stop.

It’s not that he was worried about any unknown dangers. In fact, he already knew about the two strange objects in the storage room from his memory.

What really interested Li Yu were the few words mentioned by the mechanical maid.

"Now it seems that even though the secret core of the heavenly craft is gone, Hongdou still has a certain amount of wisdom."

"The other thing is the so-called sales function... It seems that there is an extremely convenient trading network within the Tiangong Sect?"

Li Yu made some guesses, then stepped past Hongdou and officially entered the storage room that his original self was also extremely curious about.

This time, he no longer saw those poisonous grains, rotten fruits, all kinds of rotten and filthy flesh, and the human fragments that made people physically uncomfortable.

All I could see was an empty storage room.

Only at the end there was a sacrificial table left.

It was covered with all kinds of strange yellow talismans and black incense was burning, but there were no offerings. It must have all been dealt with by Hongdou.

In the central area, there is an extremely strange and mottled statue. It does not resemble a human figure at all. It is more like a twisted, deformed, filthy mass of flesh with many evil scarlet eyes embedded on it.

There is also a thick atlas placed in front of the altar.

I don't know how many times it has been turned over by successive owners. It is now greasy, dirty and in tatters.

In Li Yu's mind, memories related to these two items immediately emerged:
"The forbidden stone statue."

"Because it has been sacrificed by many devout believers, it has been soaked in forbidden obsessions and filthy flesh and blood, and has transformed into an extraordinary and strange creature. If the prayer is correct, there is a chance that it will have a spiritual connection with the [Forbidden God]."

"If you hold this item, you will be contaminated by the evil thoughts of the forbidden god day and night. While gaining some special powers, you will also become more and more crazy."

"Jiao Qingsun Sanniang found this item from the body of the believer and performed frequent sacrifices afterwards. This is how she gained various supernatural powers, escaped the pursuit of Haotian Sect, and entered Wanfu City."

……

"The Forbidden God Sacrifice Book."

"It records the many rituals for worshipping the forbidden gods, as well as the list of sacrifices. The forbidden gods encourage believers to make sacrifices to them, and will give corresponding rewards."

……

As Li Yu recalled, his eyes could not help but look at the statue.

Suddenly, the statue seemed to come alive.

It began to wriggle and expand, dividing and multiplying. Ominous vapor rose up around it, an evil glow appeared, and endless filth and forbidden monsters surged out, only to be quickly swallowed back by the huge sea-like mass of flesh. This cycle repeated itself over and over again.

The sacrificial book was blown open by an evil wind that came from nowhere, revealing page after page of various sacrificial methods.

A rustling whisper, along with a faintly smelly evil wind, entered Li Yu's ears.

The first thing that came was the unclear horror song he heard when he first crossed over.

This time he heard it clearly.

(End of this chapter)