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"It seems that someone on the mountain was cursed by the barbarians. Elder Hu was anxious, fearing that the barbarians would attack us. So he went down to keep an eye on us personally. He was really busy all the time."
Liu Hongyang looked depressed. "I have done more work in the past half month than in the previous two months!"
Chen Mu looked at Liu Hongyang, whose face was pale, and shook his head and laughed.
It seems that he is exhausted.
"Look at the bright side. If the project is completed sooner, you can get the Taoist merit and white jade money sooner," Chen Mu comforted.
Liu Hongyang was even more depressed: "But our compensation is calculated on a daily basis."
Chen Mu was speechless.
He finally understood why the Eagle Cliff mountain protection ban was so slow to create.
The guys from Baigong Hall must be deliberately delaying time to cheat on me.
"No more talking." Liu Hongyang waved his hand.
He immediately turned his head around to look around, and soon his eyes were fixed on the brown wooden cup on the windowsill.
Liu Hongyang stood up and walked to the window, sniffed, then pointed at the wooden cup and said eagerly: "Junior brother actually has good cooking skills!"
"This smell, tsk tsk ..."
"Brother, you like spicy soup?" Chen Mu raised his eyebrows in surprise.
The wooden cup was originally filled with Huiyuan soup with a spicy Hu La Tang flavor.
He drank the soup without washing the cup.
I didn't expect that Senior Brother Liu could smell the flavor of Hu La Tang.
"It's getting late, please sit for a moment, I'll go cook. This is a good opportunity for you to see my cooking skills." Chen Mu stood up with a smile.
"No trouble?" Liu Hongyang said embarrassedly, rubbing his hands.
"Just tell me the secret of turning the ground into steel." Chen Mu laughed happily.
Liu Hongyang immediately laughed: "That's not enough for just one meal!"
Hey!
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 361 Seven Killing Yin Soldiers
A few days later, in a secret room underground.
Chen Mu rummaged through the things in the wooden box with little interest.
"A deputy chief inspector of the inspection office is worth only this much?"
Five spiritual talismans, a bottle of Tongxi Baima Dan, four Peiyuan Dan...
"Only these tens of thousands of pieces of white jade are barely worthy of my attention." Chen Mu curled his lips.
The best thing is of course the black iron nail.
Unfortunately, it was cut off by his Yincuo Moon Blade.
"In the end, it was all because of my bad luck." Chen Mu thought happily.
With a flip of his right hand, a crescent black blade and a spherical bone shield appeared in the palm of his hand.
"You have to continue reciting the Soul-raising Mantra."
The extraordinary growth potential makes Chen Mu look forward to this magical weapon even more.
"magic weapon?"
After thinking about it, he shook his head and denied it: "It is impossible to collect the jade species by mistake."
According to the information sporadically seen in the Sutra Academy, a magic weapon may not be more powerful than a magic tool, but it can definitely be collected into jade seeds and has growth potential.
By coincidence, only one of the above conditions is true.
"It's probably some kind of unique magical weapon." Chen Mu shook his head and stopped thinking about it.
When you become stronger and have more experience in the future, you will understand it.
Sort the things in the wooden box into categories and put them into the Five Ghosts Bag.
Chen Mu suddenly discovered that he had more than 47,000 white jade coins in his hand.
"You can buy half of the secret method of concentrating the acupoints."
He suddenly felt in a good mood.
Thinking about the two deputy mayors who died at his hands, whose total net worth was only thirty thousand, Chen Mu felt better.
"I have so much money and don't know where to spend it." Chen Mu was very proud.
"This Dongling is not good. It's in the middle of nowhere and there's not even a Hongxiufang."
"Once I have mastered the Condensation Technique, I will find a way to transfer back to the Chicken Coop Path."
"Since I have traveled through time, of course I have to see this colorful world."
……
At the foot of Yingchou Cliff.
In the northern area of Fangshi Mountain Village, in front of Lu Butcher’s meat shop.
Chen Mu pretended to be puzzled and looked at the tall, thin middle-aged man in front of him with a pockmarked face.
"Where's Lao Lu?"
The tall, thin middle-aged man smiled and said, "Old Lu quit, so I took over his shop."
Chen Mu nodded: "Okay, give me 100 kilograms of pork and rabbit meat."
Then he asked casually, "Do you know why Lao Lu stopped doing it?"
The tall and thin butcher's face changed slightly, and then he pretended to be relaxed and said: "I have made enough money, so I went back to Yuquan Mountain to practice."
Go back to Yuquan Mountain? Ha!
The fat guy has turned to ashes now!
Chen Mu glanced at the other person's expression.
I knew in my heart that the other party was lying on purpose because they were afraid of affecting their business.
He didn't ask again.
As an old customer, asking a casual question is normal chatting, but asking too many questions is like intentional prying.
"The six Wushan brothers and sisters handled it very cleanly." Chen Mu was satisfied.
The inspection office's attention was diverted, and there were no bad rumors outside. This disaster was temporarily over.
The new butcher was obviously more generous than Lu the butcher, and the bone-chopping knife in his hand was a magic weapon.
Although the quality is not high, it is very convenient to use it to chop meat. It doesn't take long to chop the meat.
"Sir, one hundred kilograms of pork and rabbit meat is worth a total of twenty-six white jades. Take a look..." the tall and thin butcher asked carefully.
"The price has increased?" Chen Mu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
In the past, these pork and rabbit meats could be bought for no more than twelve white jades.
"It's all because of those Dongling barbarians." The tall and thin butcher smiled bitterly.
"Those who raise pigs and rabbits don't dare to leave the mountains to collect fodder, for fear that their energy will be absorbed by the barbarians' spells."
"Pigs and rabbits are not getting enough to eat, so the number of mature and ready-to-slaughter pigs is small, so the price is naturally rising."
"Maybe the price will go up again in a few days." complained the tall and thin butcher.
"Didn't they arrest a lot of people?" Chen Mu was surprised: "Hasn't it been settled yet?"
"It's useless even if we catch him." The tall and thin butcher shook his head: "The secret techniques of the Dongling barbarians are very strange. As long as they can detect the opponent's energy, they can curse and kill him from a distance of thousands of miles."
"We did catch quite a few secret agents, but who knows how much Qi they had collected before?"
Is it so scary?
Chen Mu's heart suddenly tightened.
He had never paid much attention to the so-called barbarian curse case before.
This kind of sporadic resistance was something I had heard of in Wuyan Mountain before, but it was nothing.
But according to what the tall and thin butcher said, one might be ambushed without even knowing it, which is too scary.
Chen Mu didn't want to hang around in the market anymore, so he went to Hongcaotang to buy some medicinal herbs and then hurried back to the wooden building on the mountainside.
……
In the evening, after asking the six brothers and sisters of Wushan many times, Chen Mu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The real culprit in the witchcraft and curse case was indeed not found, but it was not as horrible as the tall and thin butcher said.
The idea that the barbarians secretly absorb qi is even more of a misunderstanding.
"Rumors are so scary." Chen Mu curled his lips.
It's impossible even if you think about it.
The spells cast by the Dongling barbarians may be truly evil, but they definitely have limitations.
If they were really that powerful, how could Jilongdao have taken over three mountains in succession?
Chen Mu confidently picked up a piece of crystal braised pork with chopsticks and chewed it carefully with yellow sprout rice.
In the past, when he ate, he wanted to swallow the whole bowl in one gulp. If he wanted to chew slowly, it would take him half an hour to finish a meal.
Now that he has Huiyuan Soup, his appetite has dropped drastically and he finally has the leisure to enjoy it slowly.
"Tsk...this sixth-level cooking skill is just so-so."
"At most, it ranks first in Yunzhou."
"hey-hey……"