Pushing martial arts horizontally: starting from depriving the mantis shrimp of its talent

Chapter 88 New tricks
"I finally got the Shadow Step. Fortunately, it didn't take much effort."

Chen Cheng felt the secret book and Ningjin prescription in his arms, with a look of satisfaction on his face.

Walking on the street in the south of the city, Chen Cheng suddenly heard a burst of sad music. He looked up and saw a team playing gongs and drums approaching.

This is a funeral band. It looks like someone from a deceased family invited them over.

When there are familiar people around, I immediately sigh and shake my head.

"I don't know what evil the old Wangtou has done. His mother died when he was a child. He worked hard and lived frugally to raise his two sons."

"Finally, the two sons became successful. They married wives and bought big houses. However, they both died suddenly last night."

An old lady next to me wept secretly and sighed.

"Who says it's not the case? We were clearly about to live a good life, but then this happened."

"I heard that when I woke up in the morning, I found that most of my two sons were embedded in the big locust tree in the yard. When the two daughters-in-law saw this scene, they were frightened and fainted on the spot."

The middle-aged woman with a big hairy mole beside her mouth rolled her eyes and said mysteriously

"I heard that Lao Wangtou's two sons caused something unclean. Otherwise, how could he have died like this? His body looked like it was growing on a tree."

"If they hadn't provoked dirty things, how could the Wang brothers have made so much money and bought a big house in the past two or three years."

Chen Cheng's body broke through the limits one after another, and his hearing also improved, and he picked up the conversations of some gossipy women around him.

"Unclean things?"

Chen Cheng's heart tightened, thinking of the strange old lady who ran out of Xiaoqinglong Mountain before.

Embedding a person's body into a tree without causing any harm is something that not even a nine-blooded warrior can do.

Chen Cheng casually pulled someone over, asked the deceased person's home address while he was trembling, then let go and walked in the direction he pointed to.

Soon, Chen Chengcheng came to a residential house, where he saw white silk hangings everywhere, as well as various red ropes and charms.

There is a big hole in the ground. A locust tree has been cut in half, its roots dug out, tied with red ropes, and covered with charms.

There are also a few master dancers with serious faces, surrounding the locust tree, walking with strange steps, mumbling words and performing tricks continuously.

The roots were thrown aside in a corner.

"Is this the locust tree that grew up with the Wang brothers?"

Chen Cheng walked to the root of the tree in the corner and looked at the rings on the stump. He knew that the locust tree had been there for decades.

Chen Cheng knelt down and reached out to touch the growth rings. A familiar, faint cold feeling gave him goosebumps on his arms.

Chen Cheng's eyes flashed.

"It's really weird!"

The power was activated, and the annual rings suddenly became twisted and combined into entries.

[Unnamed ghost rhyme]: There was an unknown ghost rhyme that covered this locust tree and changed reality.

The entry presented very little information, but it did prove that something strange was happening in the city.

"Modify reality? Are the Wang brothers and the locust tree growing together? It is indeed a weird ability."

Unable to see anything more from the locust tree, Chen Cheng stood up and looked at the house where the banquet was about to begin.

"It's all coming."

After a pause, Chen Cheng stepped towards the door.

After paying twelve cents and lying about being a friend of the Wang brothers, Chen Cheng successfully entered the gate, found a table near the corner, pulled out a stool and sat down.

Soon after, the banquet officially started.

The women passing the dishes constantly shuttled between the tables, delivering portions of steaming dishes to each table.

During this period, other people came and pulled an old man with dark skin and wrinkled hair, a miserable appearance, like an old farmer, but the clothes on his body were very good, and comforted him with his hands.

"Brother, don't be too sad."

"The mountains and rivers are gone, but the incense of your family will continue to be passed on."

"Little sister, I happen to have a grandson, who is only eleven or twelve years old. He just happens to be adopted here to continue the legacy of your family."

An old lady held Lao Wangtou's hand and suggested with a look full of consideration for him.

The expression on Lao Wangtou's face froze, and he moved his face as if he wanted to get angry, but in the end he got used to it and endured it, saying awkwardly.

"Let's talk, let's take a seat first."

"Hey! Mrs. Xu is kind-hearted. Seeing that Lao Wangtou's two sons are gone, she wants to adopt her grandson. She is interested in Lao Wangtou's family business."

"My two daughters-in-law are still pregnant! I have a grandson, so how can I get her grandson?"

On Chen Cheng's table, an old lady said with disdain.

The other old lady nodded.
"Mr. Xu was cruel and ruthless when she was young. The first daughter-in-law was forced to death when she couldn't give birth to a son."

"Now that the old Wangtou's property is being targeted, I'm afraid my two daughters-in-law are also in danger."

"It won't be so cruel, will it?"

A young woman couldn't believe it when she heard this.

The old lady saw that she was angry, she was a foreign wife, and sneered.

"Huh, there's nothing else she can't do, just wait and see!"

After saying that, the old lady turned her eyes away from the young woman and looked at Chen Cheng, who looked like a mountain of meat next to her. She narrowed her eyes and showed a kind smile.

"The young man is really strong. He is a good candidate for work. How old are you? Are you married? If not, the old woman will find a matchmaker for you and make sure you have a big ass!" Chen Cheng said nothing, just expressionless. After looking at her, the old woman seemed to be targeted by some ferocious beast. The rest of the words were stuck in her throat, and the table suddenly became quiet.

"There are still too many people. Let's check again in the evening."

Looking at the wine tables filling the courtyard, Chen Cheng left after finishing his meal, planning to check back again in the evening.

Something strange happened in the city, which made Chen Cheng nervous.

I was able to escape from the weird old lady last time, but that doesn't mean I will be so lucky every time.

It is not Chen Cheng's character to sit still and wait for death.

At night, the lights in Wang's house were brightly lit, and a huge coffin was placed in the mourning hall.

I heard that the Wang brothers not only grew up with the locust tree, but also had part of their bodies growing up. Old Wangtou didn't want his two sons' bodies to be incomplete after death, so he ordered a large coffin to be joined together. The two of them were put in.

The night was getting darker.

The temperature dropped rapidly, and several people keeping watch in the mourning hall spread quilts on the ground and prepared to sleep for a night.

There was a crisp collision sound from the next room. It was someone playing dominoes.

I don't know when, a faint fragrance blew in along the night wind. The few wakemen who were still preparing to stay up for a while before going to sleep felt sleepy quickly coming over them. Their eyelids struggled a few times and they lay down on the quilts. Fell asleep.

The clanking of dominoes in the adjacent room also disappeared.

An unusually tall figure appeared at the door. Looking at the people in the mourning hall, heavy footsteps sounded, and soon the black shadow came to several guardians. However, the black shadow did not stop and passed by several people. We came to the huge coffin in the middle.

In the coffin, two twin brothers with very similar faces, their bodies twisted, limbs growing out of each other's chests, hugging each other in a weird posture, with a locust tree stake held between them.

Chen Cheng frowned, reached out and touched it, and the entry appeared.

But it was the same as before on the wooden pile, no difference at all.

"No?"

Chen Cheng retracted his arm and looked towards the backyard.

The main room in the backyard is the room of the Wang brothers, and Lao Wangtou sleeps in the side room.

Chen Cheng walked by, and everyone fell asleep peacefully. This was because he had poisoned him, a drug that he was immune to. After being poisoned, he would only feel sleepy, and then he would fall asleep, and it would have no effect on his body when he woke up. harm.

Chen Cheng knew that with his size and weight, it was impossible to sneak in quietly at night, so he simply chose to drug him.

As long as everyone is asleep, no one can see him, and that's perfect stealth.

Arriving at the main room, Chen Cheng put his palm on the door, secretly exerting his strength, and suddenly the latch inside the door was shaken open.

Chen Cheng walked in and closed the door.

The room was brightly lit, and a pretty little widow with tears on her face and dressed in white mourning clothes was lying on the bed. It seemed that she was in tears of sadness when she was drugged.

Chen Cheng's eyes lingered on the little widow for a moment, then moved away and began to scan other things in the room.

He stretched out a hand and put it on the ground, and the Centipede Flying Dragon spell between his chest muscles shone brightly.

Suddenly, the palms on the ground began to tremble.

Layers of shock waves emanated from the palm, covering everything around him.

Chen Cheng closed his eyes. In his mind's perception, as the shock waves spread and reflected, everything on the roof, in the cabinets, and underground formed a colorless three-dimensional model in his mind.

【Super speed vibration】

【Vibration Sensing】

Chen Cheng was using the two talents of the Centipede Flying Dragon Talisman to detect any strange items in the room.

After finding a few uncertain items and checking them, Chen Cheng put down a strange-looking jar and shook his head.

"Nothing strange, not here."

Chen Cheng turned around and walked out of the door. The moment he closed the door, he skillfully inserted the latch in the door back with the help of skill.

Chen Cheng came to the other main room next door and saw a very familiar face.

"It's still two sets of twins."

Chen Cheng repeated his old tricks, but he even found out the gender of the child in the little widow's belly and found nothing unusual.

"Not here either."

Chen Cheng closed the door and left, looking at the large courtyard. In order to prevent the existence of a secret room or something, he simply closed his eyes, opened two talents, and walked around the royal residence.

Checked every part of the entire house.

When the rockery in a small garden was explored, a secret passage appeared in the feedback of the shock wave.

Chen Cheng stopped, bent down and pressed his palms to the ground.

Previously, the range he could detect through weaker vibrations of his feet was limited.

After discovering an abnormality, use your hands that can vibrate more intensely to explore.

After increasing the vibration, the shock wave propagates farther. In the modeling of shock wave feedback, a secret passage leading to the bottom of the lotus pond in the garden appeared in Chen Cheng's mind.

At the end of the secret passage appeared a secret room blocked by extremely dense boulders.

But the boulder could not block the shock wave, and it quickly penetrated, and everything in the secret room came to mind.

In the secret room, a short man was cursing emotionally at a jar-like container on the stone platform in front of him.

"This figure, Old Wangtou?"

(End of this chapter)