Chapter 58: Item 2: Molar Candy
The human stick looked down at his body.
Without the protection of skin, the exposed muscles were bright red.
He sighed with some regret, seeming to be very dissatisfied with this body.
"Tsk tsk, what a pity, I thought the deal was done."
Not far away, the man with glasses who had escaped the disaster by using a wooden puppet walked out and touched his whole body in disbelief.
After making sure that his skin was still intact, he breathed a sigh of relief.
But when he saw his other self still standing after peeling off his skin, the man with glasses was very shocked and asked: "Who are you?"
The human stick had a polite smile on his face, but because his face was missing skin and was still bleeding, he looked very scary.
"Me?"
The man with glasses was safe and sound, and the wooden puppet began to take effect.
The smile on the man-stick's face froze, and all his muscles began to become wooden.
The grain of the wood gradually spread onto the face.
The human stick still said goodbye to everyone gracefully: "We will have a chance to meet again, so I'll take my leave first..."
The man-stick's eyes lost their luster and his whole body turned completely into wood.
His body still stood on the street, like a tree, with branches and buds growing from his outstretched arms.
The man with glasses felt a pain in his left arm.
[The primary wooden puppet has been used]
Let’s put the infighting aside for now.
The thing just now briefly occupied the body of the man with glasses. He mentioned a transaction and that they would meet again.
Although I only saw a bloody face, I still felt that he was scary.
Everyone had a premonition that the real danger would come when they met him again.
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The cathedral has been restored.
Shen Li, who was worshipped as a god, sat behind the curtain, and the believers knelt outside the curtain respectfully.
Chen Li still felt uncomfortable sitting here.
The blind man is not here, but fortunately Ye Minglang is around.
Ye Minglang called the archbishop through the curtain.
"You've been in this town for so many years. Have you ever heard of the dental clinic at 24 Akao Street?"
The archbishop was lying on the ground with a pious look on his face, but after hearing the address, he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat and could not speak clearly.
“I’ve heard…I’ve heard of it.”
"That place is very remote, on the edge of the fog forest, and not easy to get to. It used to be... a hospital."
"What about now?" Ye Minglang asked.
"There was a fire in that hospital many years ago, and many people died. Now it is just a ruin, and there is nothing good to go to."
The archbishop sounded obviously guilty.
Even someone as slow-witted as Shen Li could hear it.
Ye Minglang only put a little pressure on him and the archbishop told him everything.
"It's none of my business. It's really none of my business. It was all done by the former archbishop!"
"Did you set the fire?"
"No, when we came, the place had been abandoned due to a fire."
The Archbishop confessed honestly:
"The Star-Breaking Cult has a dead book that records many methods of summoning gods. The former archbishop has experimented with it many times..."
"In fact, before summoning the Black Goat God, we had tried to summon it more than a dozen times, but each time what we summoned was not satisfactory."
At the beginning, the archbishop was not familiar with the Necronomicon and often drew symbols incorrectly.
So the first few dozen summons were all trial and error.
"Those strange things have been summoned, but with our abilities, there is no way we can send them back."
"So the former archbishop came up with an idea. He used the ruins as a cover, slightly modified the place, and imprisoned the monster there."
The Archbishop assured again and again, "These monsters really won't harm anyone. They pose no threat to us. The disappearances of those people in the town were not caused by those monsters. After all, if there really was danger, the first person to suffer would definitely be the one who summoned the monster, right?"
"Besides, I promise that we will never summon those things again. After all, the Necronomicon has been lost."
The day the Archbishop held a new summoning ceremony was also the day they worshipped Shen Li as a god.
The scene was so chaotic that when the skeleton monster first appeared, everyone fled in all directions. The Book of the Dead was lost at that time.
It seems that the Archbishop did not know that it was Mr. Charlie who stole the Necronomicon that night.
Charlie joined the church with the sole purpose of stealing the book.
After Xia Li's death, the book is now in Ye Minglang's hands.
Considering the extremely harmful nature of this book, Ye Minglang did not intend to return the book to the archbishop.
"Now, let's talk about the origin of the Necronomicon and how it came into the hands of the church."
"I'm not very clear about this, but the archbishop mentioned it a little bit before. It is said that it is a man who suddenly appears and disappears. Let us make good use of this book and summon our own god."
Ye Minglang had taken a quick look at the contents of the book before.
Some of the content inside seemed familiar. The killing array that trapped him in the wooden house before also came from this book.
And judging from the contents of the pages, they should all be handwritten.
The people who trapped him in the town and modified the copy data should be the same group of people.
It was the copy inspector who had been fighting with him.
As for giving the Necronomicon to this group of ignorant followers, it was simply to allow them to summon something powerful enough to destroy him.
By then they will eliminate both the people and the copies, and the person behind the scenes will step forward and take back the power.
It's so easy for a company to change dynasties.
But they probably never imagined that Shen Li would suddenly appear and instantly kill the monsters summoned by the followers, and his status would soar.
Not only did he become the god they worshipped, but he also gained the faith of everyone.
Ye Minglang finished asking what he wanted to ask and signaled Chen Li to say a few words with his eyes.
Chen Li sat upright, knowing that something big was going to happen next. To ensure everyone's safety, he asked the archbishop to gather everyone in the cathedral before dawn and not to go out at will.
After Chen Li and Ye Minglang found out information about the address, they quickly returned to the candy store.
Not far away, I could hear the commotion coming from the candy store.
The candy store was turned upside down.
"What's going on?"
Song Buyu walked out with a sullen look on his face, "Something is missing."
Song Buyu simply recounted what had just happened, "Then I saw a figure flash in the candy store. When I went to check, I found that the three jars of molar candy were gone."
"We quickly chased after him, but he just flashed on the spot and then disappeared, just like a magic trick."
Knowing limited information, Ye Minglang could only speculate that the man should have a teleportation device similar to Zao Wu's parasol.
Generally speaking, ordinary couriers simply cannot possess this level of transmission equipment.
In just a moment, Ye Minglang quickly figured out the answer.
That person is at least at the administrator level.
Currently, the only missing administrators left in the copy are 01, 02, and 04.
In order to trap him, teleporting out of the entire instance is prohibited.
This also means that the administrator cannot leave either, and his teleportation device can only teleport him to other places in the town.
He came alone, carrying three jars of cursed substances with serious side effects.
It should be someone's order to interfere with their successful delivery.
Even at the cost of sacrificing oneself for this.
"One more thing."
Song Buyu originally wanted to gather everyone to look for it together, but he found out that the only people who could be used were those guarding the candy store.
None of the couriers who were sent out to get the news have returned.
The current delivery model has changed from the initial multi-person competitive delivery to the current multi-person cooperative delivery.
The more couriers there are, the better it is for them.
But now their numbers are being gradually reduced by an unknown force.
When there are fewer people, there is no way to share the curse with each other, and the side effects suffered by everyone will be greater.
The current situation is very unfavorable to them.
The first priority is to find the lost molar candy.
"They must still be in the town. Let's search in pairs, looking after each other."
Chen Li and Ye Minglang are in a group.
After the others had completely dispersed, Shen Li found the highest point.
He stood on the high roof facing the wind, picked a drop of blood from his fingers and merged it into his shadow.
Although Ye Minglang had seen Chen Li's shadow with his own eyes last time, he was still surprised to see his garbage bag-like shadow staggering to its feet again.
Only this time, his shadow was still intact.
The black shadow walked in front of Chen Li, knelt down, and folded up his lower body.
The shadow man folded his lower body, then raised his dark hands above his head and folded them three times.
He managed to fold himself from a thin piece into the size of a piece of paper.
Chen Li bent down, took the folded shadow in his hand, and began to tear it into pieces.
Every time the shadow was torn apart, Shen Li's body would suffer corresponding pain.
Seeing that Chen Li's face was turning pale, Ye Minglang subconsciously stopped him.
"Okay."
"no."
Chen Li tore it a few more times stubbornly, "The more you tear it into pieces, the faster you can find things."
He tore his shadow into pieces the size of paper and scattered them into the wind.
Ye Minglang stood behind Shen Li, watching these shadows fall into every corner of the town, then shifted his gaze to Shen Li's profile.
The boy's black hair was blown by the wind, his lips were slightly pursed, and his skin was a little pale because of the pain.
He seemed to have dreamt of this angle and this face countless times.
The night wind was too gentle to extinguish his love, which was like an ember that could start a prairie fire.
He placed his hand on his chest in a trance, his voice full of pain and confusion:
"Shen Li, have we known each other for a long time?"
"Have we forgotten each other?"
"I saw you in my dream..."
There was no expression on Shen Li's face, he just turned around and looked at him calmly.
"I'm sorry, but I have always had the habit of using memories as sacrifices and squandering them with spells, so I don't quite understand what you're talking about."
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