Kara~Kala~

There are candlesticks and an altar with incense burners, and smoke lingers among the candlelight.

The place where the statues of the gods should have been placed behind was replaced by a shrine with more than a dozen dolls, and the sound that just made was the doll of an obese woman on the second floor.

On the futon in front of the altar, an old man in a black and yellow robe suddenly opened his eyes. Although his eyes were covered with a layer of withered gray, the eyeballs inside were still turning and he quickly stared at a doll in the shrine.

“Catch it.”

The dust in his hand was gently swaying, and immediately behind him, a figure wearing a thick black and purple robe and a copper curtain connected by copper coins, took forward. When he walked to the altar, he reached out to take out the fat woman's doll and turned around and handed it to the old man on the cushion.

Its movements were very stiff throughout the process, as if the joints would not rotate.

"All things are shining with ghost clouds... and go against the sky..."

A low spell came out from his mouth, and in an instant, the darkness in the room became twisted like something crowded, and there was a whisper in the air, and the servants beside him were uncontrollably making low howls with beast nature.

The next second, I saw the doll in my hand suddenly expanding, and tentacles extending out of my waist and abdomen. In just a few seconds, it completely lost its human form. Then a crack bloomed from the middle, and finally turned into a pool of vague broken flesh and blood and slipped from between the knuckles.

"Bad! Come!"

He angrily rebuked, the old man's tone gradually grew higher.

"Captain, what are your instructions?"

There was a sound coming outside the door.

"The ghost was killed, and she also carried a doll. I want you to find out who did it and bring it back... pick two followers with the size of the ground, hurry up!"

He raised his palms and the servant's body tilted down at forty-five degrees. Several scarlet and slender tongues stretched out from the eyes of the copper coins, sweeping away the flesh and blood that smelled foul.

"clear!"

After the words came, the figure outside the door disappeared in an instant.

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In the helm room of Xiliu, foldable bamboo chairs are placed in the corner of the wall, and the beige light cast by the gas lights on the ceiling illuminates the entire room.

Lu Jing fiddled with the compass that was constantly shaking in his hand, and put it close to the table that Zhou Qing gave to him before. Xu Zhuo counted the gold leaves and silver dollars in the tray next to him. From time to time, he picked up the charcoal pen and wrote some things on the book, and at the same time he set aside some coins and put them in an extra bag.

After lying on the deck for a while, the feeling of exhaustion after tidal alienation faded away, and after getting familiar with his new power, Lu Jing naturally had to count the harvest on the Yuhai Flower Boat.

"After all, it's the Youhai Flower Boat. Manager Zheng is very generous. There are 5 gold leaves and 88 silver dollars here. When we arrive at Huashu Island, we can completely modify the Xiliu number in some basic modifications, buy a speedboat with medium performance and the outdoor camping equipment that may be used after boarding the Dango Island."

While speaking, Xu Zhuo's eyes fell on the exquisite compass in Lu Jing's hand. He was stunned for a moment, and suddenly came forward to stare at the silver-gray number "76" on the lid of the compass box.

"Captain, you... aren't an unknown strange thing in the legend, right?"

"What is an unknown strange thing?"

Lu Jing, who had just opened the suitcase, had not had time to look at the items inside, and heard Xu Zhuo's words and asked in surprise.

There is no way. Lu Jing has been wandering around the fishing boat circle before. When you ask him what sea fish are more common, it must be a good idea. When encountering this special news on the vast sea, you will naturally be blinded.

In fact, this is also the main reason why Lu Jing recruited Xu Zhuo before. The latter's extensive knowledge has really helped him a lot.

"It is rumored that unknown strange things passed down from the Ember Age are scattered everywhere in the vast sea. They have various forms and their abilities are also strange. The only similar point is that some part of them must have labels, that is, serial numbers... Do you also have special abilities in your compass?"

Xu Zhuo noticed the trembling of the compass and couldn't help asking.

"It does, it seems to be able to point me out something valuable, but I haven't figured out how much it can be done."

Close the compass in your hand and open it again, rubbing the numbers with your thumb, and finally turn your eyes to the things in your suitcase.

"Don't worry about this compass for now. Anyway, I can't figure out the reason for this in a while. It's not easy to see what can be marked by it."

There were not many things in the suitcase, and the two things were eliminated, which attracted Lu Jing's attention:

A scroll wrapped in brown and red leather is opened and read "Secret Art·Iron Sand Puppet" at the very left, and inside it describes the production and operation methods of a puppet.

"What's this?"

After watching for a while, Lu Jing was full of confusion. Not to mention the extremely complicated puppet making, he couldn't understand the trick of manipulating the doll.

"This is obviously a secret technique scroll exclusively to the puppet master. If you can understand it with zero foundation, then you are a genius puppet master who is rare in a century... In short, we will definitely not use it. If you find a place to sell it later, this secret technique scroll will definitely not be cheap."

Xu Zhuo glanced at the scroll twice, suddenly as if he had thought of something, and said,

"I know why the members of the Nightmare Ghost Pirates appeared on the Youhai Flower Boat. There is a Sand Blowing City, which specializes in sand and iron, and it is rumored that it is also a very famous weapon refining city. He probably wanted to go there to build this puppet."

"Tsk, it has nothing to do with us anyway, so let's take a look at this second one."

He thought that he was used to holding a whale spear, and had nothing to do with puppet technique. Lu Jing quickly lost interest in the scroll and turned to look at the thing wrapped in a layer of red cloth in his suitcase.

A simulated doll with unknown material size is roughly a miniature version. It is about the age of a child in his early teens, but his forehead and torso are carved with dark red spells, which look extremely evil.

"The people in the Nightmare Ghost Pirates shouldn't be so naive that they carry a doll with them. Even if they are a girl, they can still make a pink skirt or something."

Lu Jing put the doll under the light, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong. Perhaps because he had been hurt by the statue of the man before, he was extremely sensitive to such things and reached out to get the kerosene lamp closed next to him. He didn't want to leave such a strange thing on his boat.

"Don't, don't rush to burn it first. I seem to have seen similar pictures somewhere, you wait..."

Xu Zhuo, who guessed what Lu Jing wanted to do, quickly stopped him, trotted away from the helm room, and soon returned with a book, put it on the table and flipped it.

"Is there any other thing about this doll?"

Lu Jing leaned forward and happened to Xu Zhuo turn to one of the pages, with a doll of about the same size as in his hand on it!

"This is a book I bought in Qihuang Island in Taining Mansion. It records some local strange stories... I found it. The book says that the doll manufacturing process on Qihuang Island is extremely special. It is rumored that someone has created a doll that can host human souls... Why is it gone?"

After turning a page, Xu Zhuo found that the book had just mentioned it and there was no more content. He put together the books in a bit disappointed manner.

"In short, this doll is extraordinary. Although we don't know what it is for, we will save it first. After searching for the treasure on the Beast Island, we will go to Qihuang Island to find the doll master and ask. Maybe it will be as much money as that scroll."

"This can also be sold for a lot of money?"
Chapter completed!