The Heartless Mage Chapter 36: Dolls

Yue Qiluo stood on a chair, looking down at the tank in front of her.

There is a pile of broken skin and bones in the jar. The skin is already dry and soft, and the bones are fluffy and brittle. It can't help but touch. A mess of hairy scalp rests on the upper layer. Only shriveled eyeballs.

Yue Qiluo watched her unintentional body turn into a vat of smoky garbage, inexplicable and powerless. The brigade commander Ding Datou stood at the door with a smile, his face was pale, and his face was dry and wrinkled with a smirk. A person who lacks soul and soul can't live long, and he probably won't be able to last for many days.

Yue Qiluo picked up a wooden stick, put it into the tank and stirred it up, stirring up a cloud of smoke, which made her cough.

At the same time, Master Gu was also standing in front of a large water tank in the room. Crescent Moon stood outside sweeping the yard, and the whole yard squeaked; and the warm air from the tank was just injected with warm water.

After a few days, Wuxin changed again.

Master Gu slightly bent down and looked into the tank, and saw a half-human-long pink meat worm coiled in the water. Compared with the previous days, the concave parts of the meat worms were more concave and the convex parts were more convex. At first glance, it looks like a pimple. Rao is that Master Gu has strong nerves, and he can't bear it. Every morning became a barrier, because the meat worms were already crawling and moving, and often when Master Gu opened his eyes, he found that the white hair had pierced his nose.

Master Gu couldn't take it anymore, so he simply put Wuxin in the tank at night and soaked it; when it was dawn, when he was full of energy and courage, he fished it out of the tank and stretched it on the bed. Let it dry. However, Wuxin didn't seem to appreciate it. Master Gu didn't catch it at a glance, and it automatically burrowed into the dark, stuffy, smelly bed.

Master Gu took a small blanket to cover the mouth of the tank, then pushed the door and said to the crescent moon: "What kind of yard are you sweeping at night, it's falling snow, and sweeping is also a white sweep. Come in and listen to your words. Is it okay to freeze outside?"

Crescent Moon supported the big broom, her hands and face were red with cold: "How is he today?"

Master Gu waved his hand: "Okay, the longer the faster."

Crescent Moon asked again: "Is there anyone?"

Master Gu replied smoothly: "It's a little bit, don't worry."

Crescent Moon returned to the west wing. The Xiaoyang stove in the room was burning vigorously. She sighed. She really wanted to go over and take a look at Wuxin, but Mr. Gu refused to let it go. On the one hand, Master Gu's obstruction was on the one hand, and on the other hand, she also felt a little drum in her heart. Master Gu didn't eat ten years more rice than her for nothing, and everything he said was reasonable. If she saw such a terrible sight, she was also worried that a hurdle would be born in her heart, and she would not be able to get through it for the rest of her life. Now she closes her eyes and thinks of Wuxin, she still looks like the past, with a white face and dark eyebrows, occasionally a pink maggot is interspersed, but the big maggot does not prevail, she always feels that the big maggot has nothing to do with Wuxin.

There is a hand-cranked gramophone in the room, and a dozen records, all of which are Beijing opera. Crescent Moon listened to a piece of the play, and sighed again without emotion, only hoping that Wuxin would grow sooner.

Master Gu lived comfortably in the courtyard. Every now and then, a fat man would come to the door. Crescent Moon hid in the room, and listened to them chatting in the main room, every sentence was how the old handsome was, as if Mr. Gu wanted to eat under the old handsome, but the old coach has been training in Baoding, and he is not sure when he will return. . The big fat man and the old handsome have a little friendship, and they are willing to be a middleman at that time to lead a way for Master Gu.

Crescent Moon still has neither confidence nor interest in Master Gu's future. When she thinks that Wuxin still has no human form, she panics so much that grass grows in her heart.

Wuxin said that he would live forever, but seeing is believing and hearing is false. Can you really grow from one hand to another? What if it grows into something else? Is the day passed or not? Well, how did it go?

Crescent Moon is very sad and can't complain to Master Gu, so she has reduced her appetite by one-third, and she is full by eating only one and a half bowls of white rice and one sesame cake.

Master Gu does not have a heart with seven orifices, and has never noticed the sad face of Crescent Moon. He came to Tianjin specifically to climb Gaozhi. Gaozhi is currently in Baoding. He couldn't climb it for a while, so he simply hid in a small courtyard with all his concentration. It's okay to be idle, and he is unintentional in studying every day. At first Wuxin turned into a caterpillar, he thought that the other party would then cocoon and pupate, and finally the chrysalis burst and a new Wuxin came out. However, the caterpillar got bigger and bigger, and it didn't seem to have any plans to spin silk. Master Gu couldn't figure it out, and didn't know which way Wuxin wanted to go.

In the afternoon, Master Gu went to the Crescent Moon's house to listen to the record for a while, and when he had enough, he sent Crescent Moon to the kitchen to steam rice and cook vegetables, while he went back to the room and prepared to put Wuxin into the tank. Unexpectedly, as soon as he pushed the door and entered, he found a bulge among the quilts scattered on the bed, and he accidentally got into his own quilt completely.

He thought Wuxin had a strange smell on his body, so he immediately frowned. After closing the door, he strode forward, lifted the quilt, and was about to scold a few words, but when he looked around, he suddenly discovered a problem—as the bumps became more and more obvious, the lines of the meat worms gradually became a little bit more Like a human being!

He stretched out his hand and touched the rounded upper end of the meat worm. It was soft and hard inside. Looking down from the top, he found a small hole in the clump of white hairs. The fingers tried to poke in, but it was just soft.

Master Gu was surprised and subconsciously said to himself: "Belly button?"

As soon as he thought about it, he became suspicious again: "Isn't it an asshole?"

Put out his finger and turned on the light, Master Gu turned the big meat worm over and over to take a closer look. The long and short white hair became denser and denser, and the flesh was no longer as tender and transparent as before. Mr. Gu couldn't see the details, and felt that the meat worms moved slightly, as if they were going to burrow into the bed.

Master Gu didn't say anything. As usual, he put the big meat worm into the water tank, then washed his hands and went to dinner. After another four or five days, this night he pinched the big meat worm from head to tail, and finally determined that there were bones growing out of the meat.

The whole meat worm was picked up, and it was already close to Master Gu's chest. The segments were thick and thin, and the shape of the head and neck was faintly discernible. The underside of the neck is still round and messy. Some white hairs have fallen off, some new ones have grown, and they grow against the pink flesh. As for the long thorn hairs, one or less has fallen off and will not be added.

Master Gu is still pretending to be deaf and dumb, and his heart is very calm. He feels that no matter what monsters he sees in the future, he will not make a fuss. Put Wuxin back into the big water tank, he decided to forget about the other party in the next few days, and there would be nothing alive in the house; otherwise, he would think about a meat worm every day, and he would not have the energy to plan how to climb the branch. .

As for Crescent Moon, he told the truth: "It seems that Master is really not lying. Now he has bones, although not many, but they are all very hard. There is an extra eye on the body, I don't know if it is the belly button or the Asshole, it's better than nothing anyway, right?"

Crescent Moon was very happy: "Is there any bones?"

Master Gu patted his thigh: "Can I lie to you? But it's still pretty ugly, so just listen to me, don't look at it!"

Crescent Moon had hope in her heart, she kept working with her hands and feet, boiled a large pot of broth to dry, and let Master Gu carry it to Wuxin. Master Gu poured the broth according to his words, then covered the big vat and didn't pay attention.

In the afternoon of the next day, he couldn't help being curious and looked into the tank again. The broth in the tank is gone, and the meat worms have gradually lost the shape of their bones as they grow. Master Gu tightened the cylinder head, but he didn't see it too clearly, nor did he intend to see it clearly.

In the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed. Crescent Moon and Master Gu stay in the courtyard all day long, and they are both lazy. Master Gu didn't dare to let Crescent Moon go out alone, for fear that she would get lost; he also didn't dare to go out together, because he was worried about Wuxin in the tank. Seeing that the New Year's Day is almost here, the old man hasn't come back, and he's not an adult, but the big fat man sent someone to bring festival applications, and he invited Master Gu to go drink and play cards and visit the kiln.

Master Gu has something in his heart and has no money in his pocket, so he refuses to go, preferring to lie in bed from morning to night to sleep. Get enough sleep during the day and go back to sleep at night, and there is no danger of insomnia. Three meals a day did not delay, I went to bed full of food and drink, and slept more soundly.

He slept warmly at night when he was woken up by a soak of urine. It was snowing heavily with goose feathers outside. He didn't bother to go to the toilet. He pushed the door and pushed his stomach out. Just scold it, and talk about it tomorrow, can I still know the same thing as a little girl?

Close the door and turned around. He was about to go to bed in the dark with sleepy eyes, but just as he took a step forward, he suddenly heard a moan.

It's very light, it's a soft "um...", an unintentional voice!

He immediately turned his head and looked at the large water tank in the corner of the house--because Wuxin has been half-human and half-worm lately, he hasn't changed much, so he hasn't looked inside for two days, and the soup hasn't poured. .

Quickly reached out to turn on the light, and he walked over to lift the small blanket over the tank. Leaning over and looking inward, he saw a human figure curled up in the tank. The ball on the top was similar to a head, with white hair in a mess, and a row of round beads protruded from the neck, as if it was a backbone. The shape of the shoulders has not yet appeared, but the meat buns that were born on both sides of the body have undergone evolution from fleshy lumps to sarcoid, and now they have become slender and curved, and are already the prototype of the arms.

"Master?" Master Gu said cautiously, "You...are you going to live?"

The specious human figure trembled slightly, one head drooped, and another moan was intermittently heard.

Master Gu stretched out a hand and touched the human figure lightly, but it was cold. So he asked again: "Are you cold?"

Withdrawing his hands and straightening his waist, Master Gu walked to the bed and sat down. He hurriedly began to put on cotton pants: "Wait, I'll boil hot water!"