Tongzhi County city.
An elegant villa.
The luminous pearls emit soft fluorescence, illuminating the room.
The young man in brocade clothes and white face looked at the leaf card in his hand with fascination. With a smile on his face, he glanced at the other three people at the square table.
It seemed that the cards in his hand were very good. After losing almost all night, the smile on his face was a bit ferocious.
"One Hundred Thousand Guan, I'm sorry, everyone."
At this time, a red-faced man opposite suddenly spread out his bamboo cards and looked at everyone with a half-smile.
"You..."
The smile on the face of the young man in brocade clothes and white face suddenly froze, and the bamboo cards in his clenched hands rattled.
"Three people were accepted."
The red-eyed man saw that the three people beside him didn't move at all, so he grabbed the thick treasure banknotes piled on the table and put them into his arms.
The servants waiting around the table piled up the scattered bamboo chips, but the white-faced man in brocade clothes did not put down his chips again.
The red-faced man seemed to see something and smiled.
"Second Young Master Guo, you seem to be having some bad luck tonight. I think your chips are gone. Why don't you come back tomorrow?"
"Hmph, you are lucky today. I will definitely defeat you next time..."
Anger flashed on the man's face, and he threw away the cards he had just stacked. Then he flicked his long sleeves and stood up to leave.
But there were suppressed sneers coming from behind, making his heart feel like it was on fire.
He strode away from this Tian Yuan Gambling House, and took his entourage straight to the street Herbal Hall.
Herbal Hall The shopkeeper Yang Fu was already waiting at the door and came over with a smile on his face.
In the room, the man in brocade suffocated the fragrant tea in the tea bowl in one gulp, gargled his mouth and spit it out again. His eyes fell on Yang Fu who was standing aside just now.
"How's it going? Where's the money? Fatty Yang."
Hearing this, Yang Fu immediately stepped forward and spoke.
"Second Young Master, I have asked Balong to take action, and now that he has succeeded, I have already sent someone over to get the Young Master's share of the money. I estimate that there should be two to three thousand taels of silver."
Hearing this, Second Young Master Guo had a smile on his face.
"Very good, good job, Yang Fu, I will help you with the piece of land you are interested in."
"Thank you sir, thank you sir..."
Yang Fu had a look of surprise on his face.
He knew that the young man in front of him was a completely ignorant and dandy, but his identity lay there, and it would be very convenient to establish a relationship with him. This was also the reason why Herbal Hall had developed rapidly in the city in recent years.
Just like this time, the land he is interested in has been competing with another opponent. The opponent also has a background behind it, but the county magistrate is the leader of Tongzhi. As long as the county magistrate nods, then the land will naturally be his.
At this moment, two handymen hurried over.
After seeing the two people in the room, he paused in his steps and showed hesitation on his face.
Seeing this Yang Fu frowned and said.
"Tell me, what's going on? Don't hang around."
"Reporting to the shopkeeper, we went to the mountain village outside the city, there... there..."
"Then what's wrong with you? You're stammering, you bastard!!"
Seeing the other party's reaction, Yang Fu had a bad premonition in his heart and asked sharply.
"The cottage... there are corpses inside the cottage, there is no living person..."
"What!?"
Hearing this, Yang Fu's face froze, and Second Young Master Guo on the side also frowned, with a bit of shock in his eyes.
At the same time, in the bandit camp on the low mountain.
Two figures stood in the camp, looking at the mess in front of them.
He began to shuttle back and forth in the camp until he saw the body of Balong, then looked at the empty dungeon, and then disappeared into the camp without looking back.
county seat.
In the pavilions with carved dragons and painted phoenixes.
A man with a fair complexion and a rather scholarly temperament was standing on the terrace.
His eyes fell on the pond below, and he stretched out his hand to throw out a handful of fish food, which immediately caused koi fish of different colors in the pond to scramble for it.
At a glance, there are hundreds of koi in the pond.
The little bits of fish food were quickly snatched up.
The koi carp did not stop. Those koi carps that did not grab the fish food pounced directly on the same kind next to them and began to bite crazily.
Not long after, the originally clear pond was stained red with blood and became like bloody water.
On the contrary, this further stimulated the koi fish in the pond, causing them to kill each other even more crazily.
In a short time, less than 1/10 of the densely packed koi in the pond were left.
Looking at this scene, a smile appeared on the face of the scholar-looking man.
"Natural selection, survival of the fittest, the only way to become stronger..."
After muttering, he turned back to the hall without even looking at the koi in the pond.
At this time, two more figures appeared in the hall.
"How's it going? Why are you here all of a sudden?"
The scholarly man glanced at the two of them, sat down directly on the upper seat and spoke calmly.
"Eldest Young Master, Balong Something happened over there. The entire camp was basically destroyed, and the strangers imprisoned in the dungeon were all empty and missing..."
One of the two figures bowed his hands and said in a deep voice.
"Huh!?"
The expression on the scholar man's face condensed, and his expression immediately turned cold.
"What's going on? I will need these strangers in seven days. How could something go wrong at this time? Do you know who did it!?"
"This... there is no news yet, but my subordinates have sent people to investigate. I believe there will be progress soon."
Two figures in the hall replied respectfully.
Hearing this, the scholar man, or Tongzhi County Magistrate's eldest son Guo Feng, had cold eyes.
"If you dare to ruin my good deeds, no matter who finds out and brings them here, I will solve them myself, and in the other seven days, I will make up for the loss."
"My subordinate understands."
The two figures responded immediately, bowed, and then hurriedly left.
After watching the two people leave, Guo Feng had a gloomy expression on his face.
He reached out and pressed lightly under his seat. After a series of subtle friction sounds, a narrow alley appeared behind him.
With a gentle clap of his hands, the narrow and dark alleyway became faintly fluorescent.
Guo Feng stepped inside, and soon the alleyway became wider than this one. This was a rather wide underground space. The top of the dome was inlaid with luminous pearls the size of a baby's fist, which reflected the entire space as if it were daytime.
There is a deep pit in the center of the space.
There are deep lines around the potholes, and streams of bright red blood are slowly flowing into the potholes along these lines.
Guo Feng didn't stop until he reached the edge of the pothole.
At this moment, the things in the pothole came into view.
This is a bloody giant egg that is as tall as a person.
It doesn't seem accurate to say it's an egg, but more like a beating oval heart.
It is covered with dark brown thick blood vessels as thick as a finger, which are outlined in complex patterns.
Gu...
Occasionally, there were strange noises coming from the bloody flesh and eggs, like a big stone falling into a deep pond.
With every vibration of the blood-colored meat and eggs, the skin of the meat and eggs will bulge and protrude outwards, and then slowly retract and swell in another place.
Looking at this grotesque looking flesh and egg, Guo Feng not only showed no trace of disgust and fear on his face, but instead showed a sickly madness. What was in front of him was not ugly and soft, but seemed to be his favorite beauty.
Finally, he stretched out his left hand hidden under his big sleeve and gently covered the skin of the egg. His left hand was obviously different from the palm of a normal person.
The skin that should have been young and plump now looked like the shriveled and shriveled palms of an old man in his seventies or eighties. Even the skin was a different dark brown color from the other skin around the body.
As soon as his palm came into contact with the fleshy egg, something was immediately noticed in the fleshy egg.
There was just a pop, and the flesh and eggs under the skin where the two were in contact separated, and a flesh thorn came out of it and sank directly into the skin of Guo Feng's palm.
Guo Feng had a look of pain on his face, but he did not take his palm back, but allowed it to absorb his own blood crazily.
It wasn't until the tea time passed and his face became paler that he took his palm back.
And the flesh thorns protruding from the bloody flesh eggs quickly returned inside and disappeared.
"Baby, just wait, it won't be long before we can meet..."
Only the murmur of obsession echoed in the underground space.
Tongzhi County City, Residence.
After giving more than a dozen taels of silver to the guards guarding the city, Lin Sheng successfully drove the carriage into the city without inspection and returned to Residence's location.
Let Wang Dehai find a room to live in, and then sleep there.
Nearly a hundred thieves died in his hands that night.
There are also experts in the Body Tempering Muscle Forging realm world, so even he is a little tired at the moment.
The night passed quickly.
The next day it was bright.
On the long street, in a drug store.
Lin Sheng came out carrying several leather bags.
The leather bag contains naturally high-grade Mortal Beast blood.
Now he is only one step away from completely activating the second mark.
Fortunately, I can now activate it in one go.
He did not stop and returned directly to Residence with the beast blood.
He couldn't wait to open the leather bag and put his palm into it.
As the thought flashed, the blood in the leather bag had been completely absorbed by him, and at this moment, the second ring mark on his chest finally merged completely, forming a perfect circle.
"Huh... It's finally done. Let me see what changes the activation of the second mark can bring."
Lin Sheng's consciousness has sunk into the void space.
The void space at this moment has changed greatly compared to the previous calm. The thick blood mist is constantly churning and surging, as if it has completely fallen into a violent rage.
In the blood mist, there is an ape outlined by blood lines, suspended above the blood mist, lifelike and like a living creature.
And there was a thick mist of blood floating slowly next to the ape.
Watching this scene Lin Sheng thought, and the next moment the black mist quickly changed and converged to form another lifelike ape Strange Beast, but it was obviously much smaller than the ape next to it.
"Sure enough, two kinds of Strange Beast can be inserted into the body at the same time."
A smile appeared on Lin Sheng's face, and the amplification effect brought by two kinds of Strange Beast entering the body at the same time will undoubtedly be more powerful.
Moreover, there is obviously much more blood mist in the void space at this moment than before.
Regarding the formation of blood mist, he also understood that the principle was related to the number and type of beasts he absorbed and the amount of blood.
He spent the whole morning studying the changes after activating the second mark and the coordination effect between the two marks.
"It's a pity that the superposition of amplification attributes is not a simple 1+1 conversion..."
As for the cooperative effect between the two marks, he had some guesses in his mind before activating the second mark.
The simplest one is naturally 1+1.
To give a simple example, Black Tiger Ape and White Ape's two agility types Strange Beast are simultaneously in the body.
One of the two is Agility Boost 3, and the other is Agility Boost 2. If calculated according to 1+1, it is naturally 3+2, Agility Boost 5.
But now that the second mark is actually activated, the superposition between the two is not that simple. After Black Tiger Ape and White Ape are superimposed on each other, one can indeed feel that there is a great improvement compared to when Black Tiger Ape is simply in the body, but it is still far from the level of Agility Boost 5.
According to his psychological estimation, it is around Agility Boost 4.
However, if you think about it carefully, this situation is the most reasonable. After all, the higher the increase in the body's attributes, the stronger the effect. This is similar to the Martial Way realm.
Taking the simplest Strength Boost as an example, the Strength Boost of Strength Boost 1 may be around five hundred kilograms, Strength Boost 2 may be around one thousand two thousand three hundred kilograms, and the effect of Strength Boost 3 will directly increase the strength to about two thousand five hundred kilograms.
The approximate ratio is that the increase of each point is about twice the increase of the previous point.
You must know that even if Spirit Beast of the Silver-patterned Black Crocodile level enters the body, Strength Boost only has three points, which is only a little more than Tusk Mountain Boar.
But the gap between the two is huge, how could it be bridged so easily.
But even so, the activation of the second mark will be a huge boost to his strength.
Since the second mark can be activated, it may not be impossible to activate the third or even fourth... fourth or even fifth mark in the future.
You can fully utilize the special features of Strange Beast into the body and carry out reasonable matching, so as to maximize its advantages.
After continuing to explore and experiment until the afternoon, Lin Sheng just stopped.
After having lunch with Lin Hong Xie Guilan, they went to take a look at Xiao Shi. At this time, Xiao Shi had woken up from a coma and his injuries had been stabilized. It would take at least 10 days and a half to recover.
"Lin Tou."
Seeing Lin Sheng, Xiao Shi wanted to get up from the bed, but was immediately pushed down.
"Just rest and heal your injuries first."
Lin Sheng said with a solemn expression.
Only then did Xiao Shi lie down again, but his face was still full of guilt and annoyance.
"It's useless for me. If I hadn't trusted those two bastards, this wouldn't have happened."
"Okay, it's not your fault, just take good care of yourself."
Lin Sheng smiled and shook his head, but he didn't mean to blame him.
Now that he has been targeted, trouble will come sooner or later. Even if there is no such thing as Xiao Shi, there will be other things. Solving it now will save trouble in the future.