On the fifth day at Fengshan Market, Ruyue and the others had not returned yet, and there was no one at Liu's house to chat with Jiang Xia.
Very boring.
At midnight, it was very lively outside Ruyifang Market. The large-scale night market was bustling with people. On the stage not far away, the young ladies from Huayueyuan were singing hard, and the dancers in cool costumes were dancing.
The men eating skewers below were also very respectful and would throw copper coins and colorful silk onto the stage from time to time.
Um.
This is the reward given to the young lady by the audience.
Next to the night market, the newly opened arcade shops are also very busy. This new business has become a trend in less than half a month. These several connected storefronts have also become a new base for street scoundrels in Fengyang County.
Every night, street urchins come here to play arcade machines all night long. Because they belong to different "gangs", several small-scale conflicts break out in the nearby alleys over the arcade machines.
Fortunately, Kunlunfang’s security personnel intervened in time and no one was injured.
In short, everyone is very energetic.
But the city outside Ruyifang Market is very quiet. This is normal. After all, only a few people like nightlife, and most ordinary people have to rest early for tomorrow's work.
Not everyone has the spare money to spend lavishly.
In this quiet night, the detectives from the county government office patrolled in groups of two, holding lanterns, and night watchmen beat drums and gongs. The night is always the best disguise for criminals, both in ancient times and today.
"Shua"
A night watchman holding a lantern just walked past the street corner when he heard the sound of wind passing behind him. He turned back suddenly but saw nothing.
I cursed inwardly, thinking that it must be that cat that ran over.
But it’s not.
After the night watchman walked away, a "person" wearing a cautious black hood quietly poked his head out from the eaves, and a strange light was flickering under his hood.
Sensing that there was no one around, this nimble creature ran quickly . Probably to reduce resistance, it also hung its arms behind its back in a dramatic manner.
Just like a ninja who can climb walls and fly over rooftops.
After turning a few streets, the night walker leaped and landed on the wall of the courtyard below like a spider, but the strange thing was that he landed on his feet.
Just like that, he was running at 90 degrees to the ground, with his feet on the wall, and continued to run quickly, like a cat, and jumped into the big yard.
This is the prison cell of the county government office.
There are many prisoners held there.
The mysterious night walker did not make a sound. After entering the cell, he activated optical camouflage and blended into the darkness like a chameleon.
It walked through the dim, foul-smelling cells, going deeper and deeper, and finally reached the deepest death row area. The prisoners imprisoned here were all extremely evil people, waiting to be executed in the autumn.
On weekdays, no one would pay attention to them.
The Night Walker looked around and finally stopped outside a cell. On a pile of broken grass inside, a man in his thirties was lying on his back.
There is a scar on his face, and even when he is asleep, he looks defiant.
It is said that in the previous bandit suppression operation jointly launched by the three counties of Fengming State, the bandit leader was captured. He was cruel and occupied the mountain as a king, and he was responsible for no less than 30 deaths.
"Click"
The night walker stretched out his left index finger, flicked out a sharp iron piece at the top, inserted it into the cell lock, and twisted it lightly, and the lock was opened.
The noise immediately alarmed the bandit.
He opened his eyes blankly and looked around, but only saw the cell door being pushed open by an invisible hand, but did not see any figure in front of him. This strange scene made the gangster step back uneasily.
He was very suspicious, wondering if those wronged souls came to seek revenge on him?
The evil deeds that he had done could not be concealed from himself. In Ku Mu Realm, a world full of gods and ghosts, it was not uncommon for wronged spirits to seek revenge.
In every death row there are legends about the revenge of wronged souls.
"Is there anyone here? Come quickly!"
The gangster swallowed and screamed hoarsely, but the next moment, his neck was clamped by five fingers like iron clamps, and his sturdy body was lifted into the air like a chicken.
The optical camouflage disappeared quietly at this moment.
The night walker in a tight hooded long coat was revealed, with a black cutting sword on its back. This thing with high-speed vibrating teeth is definitely a magical weapon in the mortal world of Bitter Wood Realm.
But you don't need weapons to kill a piece of trash.
"Well……"
The gangster's neck was strangled and he felt suffocated for a moment. He struggled and madly hit the Night Walker's arms with his fists, but his fists felt like hitting steel and it hurt his hand bones.
Then, the evil guy saw Night Walker raise his head.
Under the hood was a strange face that looked like it was wearing a helmet, with a Y-shaped red light spot like an eye moving in the observation hole.
There are four green energy rings on the left and right sides of its cheeks.
this……
Is this the wronged soul in the legend? Or is it the soul-collecting messenger from the underworld? They... shouldn't they look like the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons, or the Black and White Impermanence?
Why does it look like this?
"Click"
Before the bandit's nonsensical imagination ended, the sound of a neck breaking rang out in the darkness. The bandit's eyes suddenly widened, and in the next moment, they lost all vitality.
Like throwing away garbage, it was thrown on the dirty haystack. The night walker leaned over, opened the palm of his left hand, and a piece of bluish-white jade was pinched in the mechanical fingers and moved close to the corpse.
The next moment, the Yin Five Elements Ink Talisman on the white jade jumped for a moment and then returned to silence.
There were noisy footsteps outside the cage behind him. The Night Walker activated the optical camouflage in the next moment and disappeared into the cage, waiting for the dazed and awakened jailer to rush over.
There was only a corpse left in the cage.
There is no perpetrator...
There are no footprints...
The prisoner's eyes were wide open, filled with residual fear.
Hmm.
After tonight, there will be another legend of a wronged ghost seeking revenge in Fengyang County Prison.
——
"Click"
The Headless Knight of Unit-01 strode up to Lao Jiang who had his eyes closed, raised his left hand and handed him the spiritual jade. At this moment, Lao Jiang also broke the body and mind knot of the ink martial arts.
He opened his eyes and reached out to take the spiritual jade handed to him by the headless knight.
He put it to his ear and paused.
I can still vaguely hear the unwilling howls coming from it, of course, maybe it's an illusion. This thing is not a soul stone, and things made by the Mo family are not that evil.
"Boss, if I remember correctly, you said before that this kind of thing of taking the souls of living people is strictly prohibited by the Immortal Alliance, right?"
Malte, who was busy at the other side of the cellar laboratory, turned to Jiang Xia and said:
"If this is discovered, you will be called an evil cultivator, boss."
"What does it have to do with me?"
Jiang Xia said casually:
"The condemned will be executed in the autumn, and not even a complete body will be left. I helped him end his sinful life in advance. Shouldn't he be grateful to me?
Also, Malte, don't think that you can say whatever you want just because you've been having a good time these days. You didn't see me kill him with your own eyes, right?
Be careful or I'll let Julie beat you up!
That woman has plenty of ways to torture you in bed."
"Don't scare me, boss."
Marte laughed and said:
"Julie is much more normal now. Damn, she even asked for the missionary position last night... God, this is so conservative that it makes me feel a little creepy.
You don’t know how much she played before…Okay, this is done too.”
The bald man was talking but he didn't stop working.
He turned sideways and saw a new guard puppet on the workbench. Like the Headless Horseman, it was covered with ink symbols and had completed the soul infusion step.
Theoretically, it still needs to undergo quenching, but these executor robots are too low-level and are made of ordinary steel, so their energy conductivity is very poor.
There is no need to quench them anymore.
“This is the third one.”
Marte picked up his handkerchief, wiped his hands, and said to Jiang Xia:
"Want to do more?"
"No."
Jiang Xia stood up and walked around the Dullahan. He stroked his chin and said:
"Their strength is barely enough to bully ordinary people and minor monks. They are useless in higher-level situations. I brought back some spiritual iron.
During this time, you can melt them down. Before I come back from the Southern Wilds, I want to see a Wuwei puppet made of spirit iron. Is that okay?"
"Yes, no problem. I have already mastered the method of smelting spiritual iron."
Marte nodded and said:
"Do we need to install the energy system as well? That's going to be very complicated."
"Need not."
Lao Jiang reached out and knocked on the Dullahan's chest. With a click, a small secret compartment opened. He put the spiritual jade into the groove and said:
“I don’t plan to use electricity for power. Lao Wang is researching the conversion of spiritual energy. If we are lucky, they will use spiritual stones for power in the future.
Hush, don't talk, the psychic experiment is about to begin."
Jiang Xia made a gesture to keep quiet, and Malte took a step back, picked up the wine bottle next to him, folded his arms, and watched his boss's performance. He was not too interested in these magic techniques.
But who would refuse to watch free magic tricks?
Jiang Xia looked at the groove where the spiritual jade was embedded in the headless knight's chest. On all four sides of the groove, there were small magic circles composed of Yin Five Elements Ink Symbols, which were directly copied from the spiritual wood puppet.
With Lao Jiang's current knowledge and understanding of the Five Elements Ink Talisman, he is still unable to improve this seemingly simple ink array and can only make do with it.
He also carved a "holy power gathering" spirit array on it, allowing it to automatically absorb spiritual energy from the outside world to provide energy for the spiritual jade.
"Bang"
Lao Jiang knocked on the surface of the groove, and the iron sheets on all four sides closed together to protect the spiritual jade, and the armor on the outside also slowly closed.
He took a step back and looked at the Headless Knight who had stopped working in front of him with interest.
He was very curious about what kind of sparks would be created when the violent and complete soul of the death row prisoner met the new body of the improved Wuwei puppet?
Can it reach the level of artificial intelligence that he wants to see?
Jiang Xia's wait did not last long.
"Click"
A new soul was revived in the cold body of the Headless Knight. The talisman array of the spiritual jade and the ink talismans around the guards quickly resonated, just like water poured into a bucket, quickly stretching into the shape of a bucket.
Three hundred and seventy ink symbols provide simulated five senses, allowing the soul within to quickly sense the surrounding world.
He is very ignorant.
Very confused.
It was obvious that he still didn't understand what was happening.
He remembered that he was dead and killed by the wronged spirits. Why was he ? The soul after death always feels light and fluttery.
But this body of steel, like flesh and blood, protected his soul.
He tried to move.
So, under Lao Jiang's surprised gaze, the headless knight took a step back stiffly, and perhaps he did not stand firmly, so he sat down on the ground, and his head under the hood was still swaying from side to side.
He is still trying to see the world in its original way.
This clumsiness.
Lao Jiang shook his head in dissatisfaction. This was not the result he wanted to see after spending most of the night playing a stealth game.
“Stand up!”
Lao Jiang said coldly:
"It's time to show your worth, Test Subject No. 1. Let me see how much you are worth."