Chapter 77 Qinglan Mountain City (1)
“Master, let’s go to Qinglan Mountain City.” Wen Weilan shouted to the oar swayer at the stern of the boat.
The man didn't answer or respond, and just continued to rock the oar mechanically.
But Wen Weilan was not worried at all about whether the other party received the message. He just sat down cross-legged on the bow of the boat and patted his side, signaling Liu Sheng to sit down as well.
Liu Sheng also sat aside and asked curiously: "Is this enough?"
Wen Weilan nodded and said: "Yes, this place is originally in the painting, and the oar-shaking man is just the person in the painting. They are one and the same. Every word said in the painting can be known by all the people in the painting."< br>
"It's really magical!" Liu Sheng looked at the water and mountains in the distance, spreading out like ink. The autumn was slightly cool, and the drizzle fell on his face itchingly. Under him was a small boat rocking in the river. Everything is so real.
"Of course it is magical. This is an ancient spiritual object at the level of an artifact [Eight Views of Xiaoxiang]. Only the owner of Xiaoxiang Tower is willing to take it out as a gathering place for the mystery hunters."
"I remember this painting is called [Xiaoxiang Autumn Rain], so there are eight such powerful objects in total?" Liu Sheng asked.
Wen Weilan smiled with his eyes curled up and said: "That's why the owner of Xiaoxiang Tower selected eight cities with the widest radiation range to build Xiaoxiang Tower, and placed these eight pictures in them. , in order to take care of all the trick hunters to the greatest extent, among which we have five pictures in the Tang Dynasty, and the other three are in Mobei, Lingqiu and Xuanzhou.”
"It seems that the power of Xiaoxiang Tower should not be underestimated. It can actually set foot in several countries, but I have never heard of it before." Liu Sheng said with some confusion.
"This is not surprising. The rise of Xiaoxiang Tower has only happened in the past two years. There was no such organization specifically for conspiracy hunters before." Wen Weilan turned to look at Liu Sheng, the breeze blowing Picking up her hair and brushing it against her face.
"And you have been in Li County since you graduated from the academy. I am afraid you have not come into contact with any mystery hunters in the public system. What's more, you have never thought that one day you would get involved with a mystery hunter. Do you even have to join in if you have good connections?"
Wen Weilan does know Liu Sheng well.
Although Liu Sheng had heard of trick hunters before, and even some students in the academy who were not afraid of death would go hunting tricks to hone themselves so that they could pass the scientific examination, but to her, it was nothing. Need to know.
After all, Liu Sheng originally just wanted to live well and enjoy happiness until retirement.
An adventurous existence like the Trick Hunter has nothing to do with her.
And since she can’t practice, she’s just looking for death if she goes hunting for ghosts.
She never understood that it was enough to leave the artifacts to the Weaving Institute and hand them over to the country, so why should she hunt them herself? It also adds unnecessary risks to your life.
But Wen Weilan told her that in addition to students like them who hunted for tricks to hone their strength for the imperial examination, there were many trick hunters who had no choice but to take this path.
There are two reasons. One is to make money, the other is to make money for a better life.
Those who are able to practice but cannot pass the imperial examination and cannot enter the weaving academy, what can they do after leaving the academy?
Unless they really have a craft like Liu Sheng's mother Ling Youlian, others seem to have to rely on their own strength to make money.
The most profitable thing is to hunt monsters and sell them.
Many strange objects can be used by practitioners after being contained and purified. Some are extremely powerful, while others have endless magical uses. Just like Mr. Wen did, he found a piece of wood from a pear tree and re-consecrated it into a craft that could be used by him, realizing his crazy idea.
However, the artifacts contained in the Weaving Institute will only be circulated in the official system, so how can unofficial practitioners obtain them?
Of course it can only be purchased from the Trick Hunter.
I heard from Wen Weilan that this kind of transaction was strictly prohibited in the Weaving Institute at the beginning, including unofficial existences such as trick hunters. However, the strict prohibition continued, so they had no choice but to turn a blind eye, and an underground market for trading in strange objects gradually formed.
Moreover, in the past two years, it seems that the law has gradually been liberalized, which is why a conspiracy-hunting organization like Xiaoxiang Tower has begun to take root.
But after all, the mystery hunters are not the trained and well-equipped professionals of the Weaving Institute's Patrol Department. They mostly rely on bravery, and therefore are easily damaged by the mystery.
So in order to make better money, they themselves need to actively explore weird things, find at least one weird thing that suits them, and improve their chances of survival.
There are also even more crazy people who will even deliberately attract strange objects into their bodies and become "tricksters".
However, Liu Sheng has not seen the Trickster in reality. He only knows that although the Trickster is strong, he is extremely dangerous and can easily be assimilated or back-bitten by the monsters, and eventually becomes a monster completely. The whole body exploded with evil energy. At that time, some people had speculated that Miss Wen was chasing the strength to become a trickster, but she suffered a backlash, which was quite disdainful.
And this method is not recognized by the Weaving Academy because it is too dangerous, so even if Liu Sheng cannot practice, he never thought of taking this path.
But now...
Liu Sheng looked at Wen Weilan's side face looking into the distance. The edges were rounded and gentle. This face looked nothing like hers.
She knew how determined Wen Weilan was and how difficult the path he had chosen was.
……
The ship bowed and stopped at the dock.
Liu Sheng and Wen Weilan stepped ashore, and the boat quietly rowed away, turning into a leaf in the river scenery.
In front of us is a mountain village market embedded under the mountains. There is no rain here, but there is a faint afterglow of the setting sun with an ink edge in the yellow sky, illuminating the mountains behind with a shimmering blue color.
In the market, each shop stall looks to be painted with a few strokes of ink, and there are still rough edges with blurred ink. The smoke after the rain is evaporating, and their faces are as blurred as theirs. The ghost hunters were in twos and threes, their figures looming in the fog.
Liu Sheng walked a few steps and saw a huge wooden sign in front of him that said "No High Jump". He remembered that there was also this strange sentence "No High Jump" on the sign, so he still asked. come out.
“I once heard the senior trick hunter say this. It seems that in the painting over there in Mobei, someone was curious and wanted to touch the clouds in the sky, so he jumped up, and who knew what happened? The sky is broken.”
"After all, this is just a painting, and the sky is fake, so it will break if you poke it."
"As a result, it cost Xiaoxiang Pavilion a lot of money to repair the spiritual objects, and the man also lost his fortune."
“That’s why we have this sentence: Don’t jump high, in case there are people who are so curious again.”
After Wen Weilan explained, he also frowned slightly, feeling that this matter was quite interesting. funny.
Liu Sheng also smiled.
However, this also shows that Xiaoxiang Pavilion cannot directly imprison everyone with this object.
After experiencing the world of Qixuan Xueshe, Liu Sheng had some delusions of being persecuted by a small world. What he feared most was that the small world in this world would be trapped in a trap by the manipulator outside the small world.
(End of this chapter)