City Seven, Folk Root Carving Art Museum.
Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er still didn't stop running and came right here.
Xing'er has a jealous temperament, and when he finished his breakthrough and wanted to test his strength, he naturally came to punish the evil cultivators without hesitation.
Yue Wen also hates evil, especially evil spirits.
Although the Parasitic Nightmare only has a few Demon Suppressing Coin, there is an art gallery here. If all are cleared, a large wave of Demon Suppressing Coin can be collected.
Before going to the demon tomb with Fan Bai Yan, it was an unexpected surprise that I could buy something from Big Dragon for self-defense.
On the way here, he also called Wang Shoucai and inquired about the Soul Shepherd Sect's information.
This Soul Shepherd Sect has no trouble in Jiang City, but from the perspective of the entire Tianbei Prefecture, it has a notorious reputation and belongs to an evil cultivating sect that makes people fearful.
The difference from the Flame Ghost Hall is that the number of disciples of this sect is much smaller, but the overall strength is not inferior at all.
It can also be deduced from this that the individual disciples of this sect are stronger.
The sect leader's name is Dai Muchun, and he is a large evil cultivator with the same name as Ah Hei Yan. Even in the Supervision Bureau's rating, this person is much more dangerous than Ah Hei Yan.
Because Flame Ghost Hall inheritance deals with corpses, while Soul Shepherd Sect inheritance deals with souls.
Compared to clumsily refining corpses into puppets, the method of manipulating souls must be more subtle.
Fan Bai Yan once revealed before that Ah Hei Yan teamed up with Dai Muchun to stab his master in the back to death and almost completely perished. I never thought that taking a job worth fifty yuan would lead to such an unexpected gain.
If Gen Diao hadn't been asked about it, given the character of the old fox Gongsun Yan, it would have been impossible for him to tell the truth about the Soul Shepherd Sect's stronghold. Even if he did, he would have reserved it for one day to secretly go to Fan Bai Yan to claim credit.
That is to say, Yue Wen happened to ask this question. He didn't know how much information Captain Wen had. He was afraid that he would be caught hiding something, so he gave a full explanation.
Yue Wen and Xing'er were running all the way, and it was already evening. When they arrived outside this "art museum", the night was already dark. In front of them was a somewhat simple mahogany building with only one floor and a small area. The words "Folk Root Carving Art Museum" were carved on the red paint wall. It looked a bit old and shabby, and the walls were full of mottled marks.
It doesn't look as grand as the attic just now, and it doesn't deserve the name of an "art museum" at all. However, considering that the artworks in the museum are all root carvings, it's not surprising. It's not easy for this art form from hundreds of years ago to survive.
After experiencing the impact of spiritual energy disasters, many cultural heritages have been lost.
To a certain extent, this is indeed an excellent hiding place for evil cultivators - even if it is a haunted house that has been abandoned for many years, some people will still want to go in and explore, but no one will care about this kind of art museum.
When there was still some distance, Yue Wen stopped the car.
"I'd better sneak in to explore the situation inside, and you wait for me outside." Yue Wen said to Zhao Xing'er, "Once you hear the sound of fighting inside, or if I send a message asking you to go in, you can rush in directly to find me."
"Understood." Zhao Xing'er nodded.
After laying out the tactics, Yue Wen unfolded Maze Tracking Art and sneaked into the art museum ahead.
Zhao Xing'er was hiding in a corner waiting for his signal. After a few minutes, he suddenly frowned and said, "Why do you feel a little bored?" "Oh!"
Thinking of this, she slapped her forehead and forgot that Qi Dian was no longer there.
When Yue Wen went in first to investigate the situation, Qi Dian and Zhao Xing'er were waiting for the signal outside together. The two of them could still chat if nothing happened. Now that Qi Dian was gone and only Xing'er was left, she felt a little bored.
In other words, when she felt bored, she realized that Qi Dian was not there.
In the previous investigations and battles, there was no real sense at all.
The front door of the art museum was locked. Yue Wen went around to the side, found a window and sneaked in, landing quietly.
When he raised his eyes, he saw a quite shocking scene.
Entering this art museum is the lobby, which contains nearly a hundred booths of varying heights, large and small. On each circular booth, there is a root sculpture displayed.
Some of them are as ferocious as hammers, some are as sharp as snakes, some are as round as rods, and some are as thin as silk...
There are also several large root carvings in the center, which are in different human and animal shapes, with heavy wooden bodies behind them.
These carvings are similar in style to the carving I picked up in the attic. They both have a rough and brutal abstract style, but when you look closely they look very real.
The difference is that these in the art museum are particularly "live".
It's like it's alive.
Even someone like Yue Wen, who doesn't know much about art, has to admit that these root carvings can indeed give people a strong visual impact. He got closer to one of the root carvings and looked carefully, and could feel that there were vaguely the same formation patterns on it, but in his Maze Tracking Art state, he could not examine it carefully with Spiritual Sense.
There are so many root carvings here, and it is impossible for him to check them one by one.
After walking around in a circle, he walked down a staircase at the back. After walking a few steps, he heard a faint "tuk-tuk-tuk" sound inside, mixed with a few faint screams.
Anyone?
Yue Wen quickened his pace and went all the way down. The stairs went deep into the ground, and finally he saw a closed basement. There were some vague sounds coming through the basement door. Yue Wen stepped forward and looked at the situation inside through the crack in the door.
There was a large space inside, with piles of messy wood and various tools. Among the piles of wood sat a man wearing a military green work robe. He had long, messy hair, a thick beard, and his face could hardly be seen clearly.
He was holding a piece of brown-black wood root and carving it with a file. What he was carving seemed to be an embossed human face.
Next to the man, there are four transparent glass jars. Each jar has a cloud of gray-white mist, which is the condensed Yin Qi Nightmare Object! "Let us out... let me out!"
At this time, the Nightmare Objects are crying and howling.
"Shut up, everyone." The man suddenly gave a sinister warning, "If you howl any more, your souls will be driven away!"
The four Nightmare Object immediately did not dare to bark anymore, but they were still struggling in the jar. It was obvious that their spirits were very unstable.
"I need to check your grievances now." The man said solemnly, "You will tell me your respective experiences in turn, and let me hear how you all died. The one with the least grievances will be the first to integrate into my art..."
He raised his finger again and pointed at the glass jar on the far left, "Start with you!"
Nightmare Object is just a derivative of the combination of the remaining human consciousness and spiritual energy. It does not have complete spirituality, and it is impossible to have all the memories of his life. However, the original owner's most obsessed and resentful things, as well as things that happened before his death, will definitely be remembered.
The first Nightmare Object was trembling with yin energy and said, "I worked three night shifts in a row and ordered a cheap takeaway when I came back. I got food poisoning. I wanted to call an ambulance, but the fake phone I bought online suddenly exploded and almost knocked me out again. I endured the pain and wanted to run downstairs for help. The sneakers I bought at a discount fell off the soles on the way. I rolled down the stairs and fell to death!"
"Oh" the other Nightmare Object all exclaimed.
The first Nightmare Object seemed to be confirmed and said loudly, "Do you think I have a lot of resentment?"
"Not bad." The man nodded, seeming to agree, and pointed to the second Nightmare Object, "What about you?"
The second Nightmare Object said quietly, "My wife often goes out for running, and she likes to call me every time she runs, asking me to cheer her up. Then one day, my colleague said that I accidentally saw her walking into a hotel, and I asked her if she was going for a run. She said it was cold outside and there was a treadmill in the hotel fitness area. I worked hard to save money and bought her a treadmill on her birthday. I said you will do it in the future. I can run at home, but she said she didn't have any running friends at home... I said I would work hard to buy another one, and you and your running friends would come to the house from now on. She scolded me for being sick... I wanted to return the treadmill, but there was a leakage when I was dismantling the treadmill, and I was electrocuted to death. At the moment of death, I suddenly figured out a lot of things..." "Oh" and other Nightmare Object let out a higher exclamation.
"Do you think I should be resentful?" The second Nightmare Object sighed.
The man was silent for a moment and said, "Next one."
The third Nightmare Object hurriedly said, "I bought a house with a twenty-year loan when house prices were at the highest, and bought a car with a three-year loan when car prices were at the highest. In order to make up for these losses, I sold a large amount of gold inherited from my family and invested all the money in the stock market. The next day, the stock market fell to the bottom. In order to recoup my capital, I borrowed millions more from loan sharks on the black market, and bought all Polar Bear Coin, which are now worth several hundred yuan... In order to avoid the debt collectors, I lay down outside on the 30th floor, and someone jumped off the building. He grabbed me when passing by and took me down with him..."
"Oh" the other Nightmare Object were in an uproar again.
"I'm full of resentment now!" the third Nightmare Object roared, "Wow!"
"It's not bad." The man was quite satisfied, and then looked at the fourth Nightmare Object, "What about you?"
"I..." The fourth Nightmare Object seemed a little confused about what to say, and hesitantly said, "I stayed in the hotel to play games and knelt down sixteen times. In the last game, I killed sixty people and lost. At the last second before quitting, I heard my teammates who were 1-18 say "Four idiots". I was so angry that I had a cerebral hemorrhage on the spot."
"Oh" the other Nightmare Object were indignant at the same time.
After thinking for a moment, the man opened the jar and grabbed the second Nightmare Object, "It seems that you have the least resentment." "Wow!" the second Nightmare Object began to cry, "I really don't blame her! Although I have figured out a lot of things, in the end she is still willing to lie to me, which means she still has me in her heart! She still wants to be with me..."
"Become one with my art, and I can put you back in your home and let you look at them forever!" The man let out an evil laugh, "Jie Jie Jie Jie"
As he stuffed Nightmare Object into the root carving, the severed wooden root really seemed to be alive and quickly became lifelike. The entire root carving's eyebrows and eyes became bitter, with a round head and a round head, as if it was ready to say "I have the child's last name" at any time.
It turns out that this is how those living root carvings came to be!
Under the prying eyes of Yue Wen, the man completed another piece of work. He held up the root carving with its wails and said with satisfaction, "It's so perfect..."
"Art is root carving!"