Chapter 48: Item 2: Picking up the item - Candy store
But a seal drawn with blood is not a long-term solution after all.
In order to suppress the heart that does not belong to Shen Li in his chest, the seal must remain in place at all times.
“This is a special pigment.”
Once completed, it will slowly blend into your skin tone and you won’t be able to see it at ordinary times.
It will only be revealed when the heart begins to stir and differentiate.
After obtaining Shen Li's consent, Ye Minglang began.
The slight pain from the needle piercing the skin did not make Shen Li feel unbearable. He leaned against the head of the bed drowsy. When he woke up, the seal on his chest had been completed, and he didn't know when Ye Minglang left.
Shen Li took a sip of water, walked to the mirror and took a look at the seal, and he really couldn't see it at all.
After reporting his safety to Song Buyu next door, Chen Li remembered that he had something important to do.
The blind man is missing.
The evil god in the church did not reveal where the blind man was until the last moment.
Chen Li returned to the church in the evening.
Most of the church has collapsed, and the whole place looks devastated.
The black goats on the nearby hillsides were driven away.
People from nearby towns gathered in groups of two or three to discuss the disaster.
"It must be an earthquake. It's so terrible. Fortunately, there were not many people in the church at that time."
"I don't think it's that simple. Haven't you heard? The archbishop is dead, and the church will select a new bishop from among several high priests tonight."
Chen Li didn't pay much attention to everyone's discussions. At this moment, he was standing in front of a group of black goats, observing something intently.
There are many groups of black goats. He is very patient and observes them for a long time every time he goes to a group of black goats.
He carefully distinguished each black goat. Suddenly, a black goat with white film in both eyes caught Chen Li's sight.
I don’t know whether it is because it is not gregarious or the flock deliberately excludes it, but this black goat always eats grass not far from the flock.
"Kou Yuxin?"
Shen Li called out a name to the black goat.
The black goat that was eating grass suddenly raised its head.
Its reaction was so intense that tears even shed from its blind eyes when it heard the name.
At this moment, Shen Li was sure that the blind black goat was a blind man.
So without hesitation, he picked up the small black goat and returned to the candy store.
Along the way, the blind man behaved very quietly.
No struggling, no screaming.
Kou Yuxin.
He hadn't heard anyone call him by that name for a long time.
He only said it once, during his last delivery mission, when he introduced himself to other couriers.
Only that time.
From then on, everyone called him: Blind Man.
Yeah, he's just a blind man.
What an obvious feature, it is always easier to remember than that difficult-to-pronounce name.
So much so that no one has ever called him by his full name.
Only Shen Li.
Only Shen Li.
When I was at my lowest point, having turned into a dirty black goat, I called out his full name.
He actually remembered his name.
The blind man felt mixed emotions and his tears rolled down for the umpteenth time.
Chen Li doesn't talk much, not when he's talking to people, and even more so when he's talking to a sheep.
He carried the blind man back to the dormitory, washed off the dirty mud and sheep dung on his body, then patiently blew dry his hair and combed out the tangled parts.
Finally, she put him on the warm bed and touched his head.
"Go to sleep."
The blind man bleated and closed his eyes, and the nightmare followed him like a shadow.
He dreamed that he was kneeling on the ground in pain, and all the bones in his body were broken and reassembled.
From a human, to a black goat.
When he was a human being, he was already desperate.
Without seeing the sun, you will always be a blind person who can’t see anything.
I thought I had already hit rock bottom, but now, I feel like I have fallen into hell.
He is no longer even a human being, but a blind black goat rejected by the flock?
The blind man suddenly woke up from his nightmare.
The room was very quiet and Shen Li's steady breathing could be clearly heard.
He jumped off the bed, counted his steps, and walked to the door...
“Bang, bang, bang!”
The first night in the candy house was not peaceful, as Shen Li was awakened by a knock on the door.
Song Buyu stood outside the door, looking disappointed in Chen Li as he urged him to quickly change into a black robe.
"What else could it be? The candy store owner is starting to make trouble for me."
Miller just came to inform them that there was something missing in the syrup that Mr. Charlie made, and asked them to go and find it.
Miller also specifically emphasized that if the deliverymen did not find that kind of thing, Mr. Charlie would directly ask them to get out of the candy store and cancel their delivery qualifications.
Song Buyu yawned lazily, "To put it bluntly, it's an elimination system. Hurry up and complete the task."
Song Buyu had drunk some wine and spoke with a lisp. He put his arm around Chen Li's thin shoulders and walked forward, with most of his weight hanging on him, not feeling that he was being excessive at all.
"By the way, I got up to go to the bathroom at night, and guess what I saw? A black goat that could open and close the door ran out of your room! I must have been dreaming, right? This can't be real. If it were true, it would be too outrageous! Don't you think so?"
The black goat that can open and close doors should be referring to a blind man.
Shen Li was not worried about the blind man's departure, but felt a little guilty.
He felt that he had not thought it through carefully enough and had not prepared fodder for him. It was not surprising that he went out hungry in the middle of the night to eat a few bites of grass.
Chen Li and other deliverymen stood in front of the counter on the first floor, waiting for Mr. Xia Li to tell them what raw materials he wanted.
Many people came in from outside, and like Yu Qianqian and his friends, they did not choose to live in a candy store.
A rough count of the number of people who have survived to the present day shows that there are less than eighty.
The candy store was crowded late at night, squeezed by more than 80 deliverymen.
Mr. Charlie was still stirring the syrup slowly.
He stood on a ladder, holding a large wooden spoon, and said to everyone: "The candy is almost done, but there is one ingredient missing."
"What kind of material is it that requires waking people up in the middle of the night?"
This person expressing dissatisfaction expressed the thoughts of almost everyone.
"Dead man's bucktooth."
Mr. Charlie said.
Chen Li heard Song Buyu beside him raise his voice and shout: "What the hell?"
"Dead man's bucktooth."
"This stuff is added to...raw materials to make candy?"
Song Buyu ate a few candies during the day and thought they tasted good at the time, but now he feels a little nauseous.
"What kind of shady shop is this? They use dead people's teeth to make candy?"
Miller was anxious to speak in Mr. Charlie's favor.
"The candies Mr. Charlie made this time are very special. The ones you ate before were all normal candies without any weird things added."
Mr. Sharley didn't want Miller to reveal too much about the "special candy" he made this time.
He just emphasized to everyone that if the "dead man's teeth" were not brought back before dawn, he would not give the delivery to the courier.
In order to complete the task, everyone entered the cemetery with flashlights.
Du Ruo didn't need to say much, and the men surrounding her gave her the first tooth they found.
She walked to Song Buyu, took out the tooth that another sucker had given her, and handed it to Song Buyu.
"Hurry up and finish the task and go back to sleep with me. I'm so sleepy."
Song Buyu glanced at Chen Li and asked Du Ruo: "Has anyone given you a third tooth? Give me another one!"
He has it, but Chen Li doesn't, and he promised to protect him.
"Don't push your luck!"
Du Ruo took back the tooth that he had handed to Song Buyu and left.
I watched as the grave in front of me was dug up completely, with no extra teeth to be found.
“I don’t know where there are cemeteries.”
"I know."
Chen Li remembered that when he came out of the misty forest before, he happened to pass by a cemetery and met a blind man there.
"You are my God!" Song Buyu, who was a little discouraged just now, hurriedly urged Shen Li: "Why don't you lead the way?"
Chen Li was as confident as ever in his ability to recognize the road.
"Go this way." Even the voice was full of confidence.
Two hours later.
Song Buyu finally couldn't bear it anymore.
"In fact, I've been feeling something is wrong for a long time. We've been going in circles."
He raised his voice: "But I was so naive to think that you were going around in circles to get rid of the other couriers and take me to the cemetery alone!"
"But now, there's no one behind us, and you're still leading me around in circles. That's what's wrong of you! My legs are almost broken!"
Shen Li apologized to him: "I'm sorry, I took the wrong direction just now, I should actually... go this way."
"Who gave you the confidence to go this way? We have been around this place eight hundred times!"
He finally figured it out.
"You are a person with poor direction!"
How come he only realized now that this kid had a poor sense of direction? He really regretted it.
Chen Li turned his face away stubbornly and refused to admit it.
Song Buyu calmed down his anger and said, "From now on, I will lead the way."
"But you haven't been to the cemetery I mentioned." Chen Li still felt that he had a better chance of leading the way.
“Although I haven’t been there, I can use the process of elimination.”
The route that Chen Li had just taken him around was enough to circle the town several times.
There were only a few places he hadn't been to, and he really couldn't understand how Shen Li had perfectly avoided the destination and led him around so confidently for so long.
Half an hour later, the two finally arrived at the cemetery that Shen Li mentioned.
There is still an hour until dawn.
Song Buyu randomly selected a tomb to dig.
A few crows stood on the treetops, staring at them.
Chen Li looked at the crow, and suddenly remembered the crow that Zao Wu handed him, and he shuddered.
"Come and lend a hand."
Song Buyu was already sweating profusely from digging.
It was a pitch-black coffin.
Even though it had been buried underground for a long time, after the dirt was wiped off, the coffin lid still had a glossy luster.
"A fir coffin." Song Buyu knocked on the coffin board casually. "It has a unique fragrance and antiseptic properties, and it's very expensive..."
Looking at the information on the tombstone again, he was only eighteen years old, which should be the age for him to get cavities.
Before Song Buyu finished his words, he heard two knocking sounds coming from inside the coffin.
“Knock, knock.”
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