Chapter 317 Copper Snake and Iron Dog!
"By the way, let's get a piece of the Nine-turn Large Intestine Sashimi."
The hoarse voice of an old woman came from the stairs.
"Okay, mother-in-law."
At the door of the kitchen, a slim and green-looking monster hurried into the kitchen carrying a cage covered with cloth, completely unaware of Li Ran hiding behind the door.
The green weirdo is a kappa with thin hands and feet but very nimble movements.
The kappa had a crazy and excited smile on his face, as if he was extremely passionate about cooking, and his small eyes exuded a fiery light.
Hiding behind the door, Li Ran looked solemn and glanced at the kappa.
(The cook of the Mingtang House)
(B-level spiritually infected body)
(Crookedness value: 24000)
(As long as the mother-in-law of the Mingtang House is happy, the mother-in-law will reward it with extra life time.)
(It is cautious in doing things. Allow yourself to make a few mistakes, especially when it comes to cooking.)
The Kappa Cook's information is at your fingertips.
Li Ran hid behind the door and glanced at the time on his arm.
499:38:25
Although the passage of time in the first hour in the inner world and the surface world is the same, Li Ran still feels that time is disappearing inexplicably like flowing water.
"Grandma, half an hour has almost passed in just a moment?"
He still thought that in the other world, time would inexplicably speed up.
"Tuk Tuk Tuk!!"
The kappa has a thin body but very nimble hands and feet. He holds two kitchen knives and skillfully placed a set of horseshoe knives on the chopping board.
Li Ran, who was hiding behind the door, was curious about what was in the small cage that the kappa carried into the kitchen.
Although he had some bad suspicions in his mind, he still believed that seeing is believing.
Kappa cooks very quickly, and every step is meticulous and without any mess.
About ten minutes later, several dishes were ready.
The kappa put all the dishes on a tray and walked out of the kitchen.
But halfway through, he suddenly stopped and turned his head to look at the door next to him in confusion.
Suddenly, a black shadow flashed past, its eyes went dark, and it lost consciousness instantly.
"Oh no, it still discovered it." Li Ran cursed secretly in his heart.
The moment he killed the kappa, Li Ran immediately caught the tray that was about to fall to the ground.
The food on the tray almost fell to the ground.
Li Ran placed several dishes on the tray on the table, and then placed the kappa's body behind the door.
After doing all this, Li Ran carefully walked under the operating table holding an umbrella.
Uncovered the cloth in the cage.
His mission is to save the child.
As long as you find the child of the ramen shop owner and bring him back, the mission is complete.
So he couldn't wait to find out if the child of the ramen shop proprietress was in the cage.
Li Ran frowned when he uncovered the black cloth in the cage and looked inside clearly.
There is a child lying in the cage.
There was a shocking bloody gash on his chest.
Grass!
Li Ran sent greetings to the whole family of Ming Tangwu's mother-in-law in his heart.
It turns out that the dishes prepared by Kappa are all made of...
Recalling the dishes that Kappa just mentioned, Li Ran shuddered inexplicably.
Eat people, drink their blood, break their bones and suck their marrow?
It turns out what the prompt said was true.
He actually misinterpreted it as oppression?
It was because he underestimated the cruelty of the outside world.
In other words, children who are stolen in the outer world will be sent to the Mingtang House and eventually become the mother-in-law's food?
Just to eat children?
Although the person in the cage was a child, it was not the child Li Ran was looking for.
Otherwise the mission fails.
At this time, footsteps were heard upstairs, and the hoarse voice came again: "Why isn't my food ready yet?"
Li Ran secretly screamed that something was wrong.
The kappa cook was killed by him, and now there is no cook in the Ming Tang House.
If he didn't send the food upstairs, he would definitely be exposed.
Moreover, the mission has not been completed and the treasure has not been found.
Now he just hopes that his mother-in-law is blind and deaf and can't see him.
"Thump! Thump! Thump!"
The sound of heavy and hurried footsteps came from the stairs.
Oops, downstairs!
One was wearing a black robe, with a stooped body and a huge head. Its skin was as loose as melted candle oil, and there was a fierce expression on such wrinkled skin, like that of an old witch in the black forest. General.
Its hair was tied up high like a black plate on its head, and its hands exposed from the black robe were very skinny, shaped like dry branches.
After walking down the stairs, he hurriedly walked to the kitchen and glared fiercely at the kappa cook who came carrying a tray.
"How dare you disobey me?"
The ghost mother-in-law of Mingtang House stretched out her claws like dead branches to teach the kappa a lesson.
"It's done, Granny." The kappa handed the tray to Granny Ghost, his voice starting to tremble with fear.
"Don't you know my time is precious?" Granny Ghost snorted coldly.
The kappa explained in a trembling voice: "Po... Po, I wasted some time sharpening my knife today."
"Don't use such trivial things to take up my meal time in the future. My time is very precious."
"There won't be another time, mother-in-law." Kappa said.
"There is no need to send it upstairs today. You can take the pig food in the cage to the backyard and feed it to the baby." "
By the way, you always wanted me to give you another job, and this time there happened to be a vacancy in the soup kitchen. , you will go to work in the soup kitchen after making lunch for me."
After saying that, Granny Ghost threw a wooden sign with the word "Soup" written on it to the kappa.
"Thank you... thank you, grandma."
The ghost grandma walked towards the corridor with the tray, making harsh chewing sounds as she walked.
"Today's large intestine sashimi was not washed, but I like it."
After the ghost mother-in-law walked away, the kappa picked up the cage and wooden sign under the table and walked towards the back door of the kitchen.
"Yeah, it was so dangerous, but luckily I got through it." Li Ran thought to himself.
After he asked Miss Saori to absorb the kappa's blood, he shed a layer of nightmare skin on him.
Wearing this nightmare skin can make the fake look real.
At the Cangming Airport, Li Ran couldn't even see his golden finger. If this ghost mother-in-law could tell it was fake, she would be a ghost.
And got a tip from Goldfinger.
There is no need to hold an umbrella to transform into a weird appearance, because the Nightmare Skin has completely absorbed the weird characteristics of the other world.
This was something Li Ran didn't expect.
Holding an umbrella, Li Ran always felt that he was helpless and unable to use his skills.
In this way, he no longer needs to hold an umbrella and can use the Nightmare Skin to walk in the other world.
Just now, Li Ran was already prepared for a life-and-death fight if the ghost mother-in-law found out.
But fortunately, he excused himself with an excuse.
Li Ran was glad that he did not kill the kappa before he prepared the meal. Doing so would not only expose the presence of an intruder in the Mingtang House, but would also put him in danger of death.
Go to the back kitchen and open the door to the back kitchen.
Suddenly, a fishy wind and bloody rain hit his face.
"This, this is..." Li Ran raised his head with an incredible expression on his face.
There are knives and rocks lying across it, and the sharp cliffs are like teeth.
The sound of water rumbled, and a huge bloody waterfall flew down into the sky.
On a cliff protruding from the ravine on the west side of the waterfall, it looks like a wolf fang in the sky.
The wooden house stands on the cliff.
Li Ran carried the cage to the edge of Longya Hengshi.
There is a long and narrow feldspar trough on the edge of the cliff. On the other side of the trough, there is a pipe hole that flows into the bottom of the waterfall cliff.
What Li Ran had to do was pour the "pig food" in the iron bucket into the trough.
The so-called pig food has long been replaced by the corpse of a kappa by Li Ran.
And at this moment, it seemed to be a response to his inner doubts.
"呷~~~~"
A terrifying long hiss penetrated the huge waterfall, and a huge bronze snake shadow more than ten feet long arched out of the huge waterfall. The snake shadow curved and arched, and the water waterfall splashed, The huge head was reflected behind the silver-white waterfall curtain, and the reflected head alone was the size of a wooden house on the cliff.
Across the curtain of the flying waterfall, Li Ran stood in shock.
He didn't dare to move or breathe.
One person and one snake, still!
Even though he was separated by the huge waterfall, he could feel the giant bronze snake inside the waterfall staring at him.
After a long time, the huge bronze snake shadow behind the waterfall curtain slowly sank into the rolling water vapor.
Li Ran realized that he was soaked all over, and he couldn't tell whether it was caused by cold sweat or water mist.
Just then, he felt that he was enveloped by an extremely terrifying pressure. The invisible pressure made him feel like he was a prey being targeted by a tiger.
(You can feed the copper snake and iron dog by throwing the corpse in the cage into the trough.)
Li Ran followed the prompts, opened the cage, and threw the body of the cook kappa into the trough. The body slid into the waterfall along a section of the pipe in the trough. Down.
The kappa's body was quickly submerged in the sea of blood by the waterfall.
"Boom woof woof woof!!!
"
Under the waterfall there was the sound of two little babies fighting for food, and then two ferocious figures were fighting together on the waterfall.
Seeing this scene, Li Ran couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"What ghost is under this waterfall?"
Iron dog and copper snake?
He seemed to have seen a similar setting in a certain classic, but for a moment, he couldn't remember it.
After feeding, Li Ran returned to the kitchen.
Divine feeling!
Using his spiritual sense, Li Ran discovered that the ghost mother-in-law at Menming Hot Spring House had left.
There is no more weirdness in the wooden house.
It seems that this small wooden house is just the dining hall and resting place for the ghost grandmother.
Li Ran walked up the stairs to the second floor. The second floor was a small attic with a bed in it.
There's something like a scanner on the bed.
Li Ran has seen this type of scanner in some stores in the watch world.
It is a device issued by Time Bank that can store life time. It can be used for transactions and shopping. If you need to extract the time inside, you only need to point the scanner at your arm.
Is this injection time for Granny Ghost?
And the hag has always emphasized that its time is precious.
Is it here just for injection time and meals?
Is this cabin just the witch's dining hall?
"Where are the stolen children?"
Li Ran returned to the first floor and looked at the corridor leading to the cliff.
He glanced at the time.
499:18:14
"Oh, time flies really fast."
Li then gritted his teeth and walked towards the corridor.
Push open the two-page door and walk into the corridor.
He constantly used his spiritual sense to scan the sea cliff area, and put on perspective glasses to observe the structure of the cliff.
"It turns out that all the secrets are inside the sea cliff!"
From his position, the entire structure of the cliff was clearly visible.
Li Ran saw multiple caves on the cliff. One cave led to the bottom of the cliff, extending underground like a mine, reaching a place deeper than the ocean. Tall monsters carried large tanks to the ground. In and out of the cave.
The cave is too deep, and X-ray glasses cannot see what is going on deep inside the cave.
But Li Ran felt that those strange laborers might have entered the seabed through the cave on the cliff to collect some minerals. He used perspective glasses to see that the inside of the vat was full of white crystal rocks, which were then transported to the rock by the ghosts. In another huge cave on the wall.
This cave is where Li Ran's corridor is directly opposite. However, after reaching the cliff through the corridor, he needs to take the elevator inside the cliff to enter.
After walking through the corridor to the inside of the cliff, Li Ran came to an elevator shaft.
There is a lever next to him. Pull the lever and the elevator will slowly reach his area.
Li Ran believed that the stolen child was probably in the huge cave.
There are many weirdos in the cave, and they are forced to do some hard work like oppressed laborers.
Now that he has Nightmare Skin and a strange aura from the other world, he doesn't have to worry about being discovered.
"Little Butterfly, will you also guide me there?" The
colorful Phoenix Butterfly on the back of her hand flapped its wings slowly, guiding me to continue moving forward.
Pull the lever.
Accompanied by the harsh and loud sound of the chain, the simple lock ladder slowly fell from the vertical channel of the mountain.
"The kitchen is located on the lower cliff. Under the lower cliff is a waterfall, and there are giant bronze snakes under the sea..."
Li Ran constructed a three-dimensional simulation map in his mind so that he could quickly become familiar with the terrain.
The lock ladder goes up vertically, about a minute later.
The locking ladder slowly stopped, and a horizontal passage appeared in the middle of the locking ladder passage. A crooked wooden sign above the passage clearly read the word "Soup House".
"I want to see what kind of soup this soup house makes?"
After entering the passage, not long after, there was a loud noise from the front, like the noise of a market.
A light appeared in front of him, and Li Ran continued to walk forward.
"Who is it?"
There were two men at the door, wrapped in bandages and holding spears, blocking Li Ran's way.
Mummy Guard?
Such a word suddenly popped up in Li Ran's mind.
Maybe it was because after having the terrifying sense of oppression from the ghost mother-in-law, I was obviously not so nervous when I saw these little minions.
These two mummy warriors are obviously the gatekeepers.
Li Ran calmly took out the soup house sign.
Seeing the sign, the two mummy guards immediately let him go.
Putting away the sign, Li Ran felt confident. At present, it seemed that he needed a pass like the sign to go anywhere.
I just don’t know if the place where the treasure is located requires a pass.
Entering the soup room, Li Ran was immediately shocked by the huge bronze bowl in front of him. The bronze bowl was about fifteen feet high and twenty feet wide. It had an inverted trapezoidal structure, narrow at the bottom and wide at the top. There was a boiler room connected to the bottom.
Li Ran couldn't see the whole picture above the bronze bowl. He thought that the container for making soup in the soup room was the huge bronze bowl in front of him.
The entire soup house was built in an extremely huge cave. After the cave was transformed, there were many irregular niches around it, containing various utensils, large tanks and cages.
There are two curved steps on both sides of the bronze bowl. You can climb to the top of the bronze bowl through the steps. Li Ran saw someone climbing up the steps carrying a basin or bucket. After climbing to the top, he couldn't see it, but he could hear it. A heavy grinding sound.
In the boiler room, there were two dark, short, dwarf-like firemen who alternately took charge of the fire.
There is a bamboo conveyor belt on the right side of the boiler room. On the conveyor belt, baskets of grass and fruits are arranged in white, and they are transported to the top of the bronze bowl... "New here?" There is a small door under the huge
boiler
. A strange one-eyed dragon shouted at Li Ran at the small door. His voice was rough and drowned out all the noise in the cave.
Li Ran pointed at himself and asked doubtfully, "Call me?"
"Yes, it's you, come here!"
Li Ran came to the boiler room, and the one-eyed dragon ghost took a look at the wooden sign handed over by Li Ran and gave it back to him. .
"This should be the manager of the soup house." Li Ran thought to himself.
The steward of the soup kitchen is a one-eyed evil spirit with a green face, two sharp teeth exposed, and a whip covered with iron nails in his hand. He looks like he cannot be offended.
Offending him will never end well.
Just like the leader of the enslaved miners, if the whip in his hand hits the body, the skin will not be bruised.
"From now on, you will be responsible for collecting tear bottles." the steward said.
Li Ran responded respectfully, but in order to make his life better, he felt it was necessary to remind the manager to avoid being bullied in the soup kitchen.
"Master Steward, my mother-in-law needs to eat the food I cook every day. I have to leave when the time comes." Li Ran said.
The soup house is strictly controlled and you are not completely free to come and go. If you are enslaved in the soup house and cannot go anywhere, how will you find the treasure and save the children?
"What did your mother-in-law say?" the steward asked suspiciously.
"Yes, sir, feel free to ask your mother-in-law." Li Ran answered truthfully.
Hearing this, the steward smiled slightly on his black face, beckoned for someone, and said, "Gong Luo, please take care of me. If you don't understand, just ask Gong Luo." "
Okay." Li Ran said.
Luo Gong is a strange creature with green skin, tendons, and three eyes. It has a hunched back, like an old master, its face is full of wrinkles, and its eyes are cloudy, as if it has experienced a lot and is like It’s the feeling of looking down upon everything.
He took Li Ran to the area where the jars were stored in the alcove.
"From now on, you will be responsible for the collection work, and you won't need to do the heavy work." Luo Gong said, pointing to the warehouse workers carrying earthen jars not far away.
After getting the steward's signal, Luo Gong was obviously very smart.
Li Ran nodded and looked at the urns in the niche curiously. The urns were neatly arranged in rows. The bottom urn was one foot high, and the top one was only as big as a basketball.
The only thing they have in common is that there is a faucet-like device at the bottom of the jar, which is very similar to a beer barrel in a bar, but Li Ran doesn't think it contains wine.
"Luo Gong, what is packed in here?" Li Ran couldn't help but asked curiously.
"Tear jar, what are you pretending to be?" Luo Gong said calmly.
Li Ran opened his mouth in surprise, looked at the tile jars on the front wall, and said, "The tile jars on this entire wall are filled with tears?" "Where did the tears come from
?"
Luo Gong pushed a ladder and said to Li Ran: "You'll know if you go up and take a look."
The stern Luo Gong had a cunning smile on his lips at this moment, which gave Li Ran a bad feeling.
But he really wanted to know what was inside the jar.
Driven by strong curiosity, Li Ran climbed up the stairs and came to a tear tank.
He slowly opened the lid of the tear tank and lowered his head to peek into the gap.
The tear tank was dark and exuded a foul smell...
Suddenly, Li Ran's pupils trembled, and a pair of bloodshot eyes came into his eyes!
(End of chapter)