Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 47: The Beggar Meets His Grandfather in His Memory

"Ring ring ring..."

When the sky was getting light, the dormitory doors opened. Many students who survived the night breathed a sigh of relief. They did not dare to delay and rushed to the classroom for fear of missing the three classes of the day.

However, in the innermost dormitory on the second floor, the dull sound of chopping meat could still be heard from time to time.

Dark red blood beads dripped onto the ground along the bed.

The slender fingers slid upwards along the dry skin, lightly pulling aside the cut wound to reveal the red and white muscle layer under the incision, and even the cut blood vessels underneath could be clearly seen.

"Flesh and blood suturing technique!"

Xiao Ran took out the needle and thread and began to sew along the skin and flesh. This time he chose the more difficult inward suturing method, which was to sew directly under the skin.

As a master-level suturing technique, Xiao Ran had also tried it on Xue Hongling, but the effect was not good.

To put it bluntly, it's because my skills are not good enough. After all, as a shoemaker, the requirements for suturing are not high. Because the heart of a dead person has stopped beating, the blood is mostly in a stagnant state and there will be no heavy bleeding. The shoemaker only needs to keep the surface sutures intact.

As for what's going on underneath the skin, that has nothing to do with the second cobbler.

Even if we encounter some troublesome areas, such as broken bones or ruptured internal organs, which affect the suturing effect, we will simply remove them.

Compared with real-life medical aesthetics, surgical operations, etc., we have to admit that this is far behind the times.

However, Xiao Ran now wants to try deeper stitching. On the one hand, after acquiring the Kong Kong Miao Shou skill, he has a deeper understanding of the technique. On the other hand, Xiao Ran also wants to see if doing so can help him achieve a higher score.

If it is feasible, then does it mean that the future direction of suturing can be closer to medical surgery in reality?

This was his second time using the flesh and blood suturing technique. His technique was a little unfamiliar at first, but soon he became faster and faster.

The old man lay in bed, but the light in his eyes had faded.

More than ten minutes ago, the old man was still trying to resist Xiao Ran, but when the bell rang outside, there was no movement at all.

These night ghosts seemed to have some special restrictions. Once the time limit was exceeded, the heavy death aura on their bodies would immediately dissipate.

Perhaps this is why they can only appear at night.

However, Xiao Ran did not consider these problems for the time being. He focused his eyes on quickly stitching the incised wound, ensuring that every detail was as perfect as possible.

Soon, when Xiao Ran finished stitching, a pleasant prompt sound rang in his ears.

[You have reached the conditions to trigger the privilege, do you want to activate the privilege soul grabbing! ]

"Seize the soul!"

Then a series of memories emerged in front of Xiao Ran. These memories were very scattered and were memories of the old man when he was alive. What surprised him was that this old man was actually a teacher.

Responsible for teaching history in school.

The scene then kept changing, and it was revealed that this history teacher would collect antique calligraphy and paintings and other items on a daily basis.

"The body of Guo Zhengling that you repaired is rated A-grade, and you gain 30 energy points."

"The Zhen'e Order successfully seized the soul, and you gained Guo Zhengling's ability [Identification of Qing Dynasty Porcelain]"

Soon, the relevant knowledge and information were integrated into Xiao Ran's mind, making him feel a little amused and helpless. He didn't expect that after so much effort, he would eventually gain the ability to identify things.

"It seems that the effect of the Suppression Order on these ghosts is more about obtaining their abilities when they were alive."

Combined with the fact that he got nothing on the bus before, Xiao Ran had a rough conclusion in his mind.

"Ding! The energy value of the Suppression Order has reached 100. Please complete the special task to upgrade!"

The prompt sound that followed made Xiao Ran startled. Only then did he remember that the Suppressing Evil Order could be upgraded.

"Discover the special mission: Suppress the Doom Order"

Mission conditions: Use the privilege of [Evil-Suppression Order] to sew up an E-level corpse and a D-level corpse, and the score must reach A or above!
Task time: unlimited

Mission Reward: The Suppression Order will be upgraded to D level.

(Note: During the suturing process of the D-class corpse, various strange curses may appear on the corpse itself, so please be careful!)

"You still need a mission."

Xiao Ran curled her lips, this was purely making things difficult for herself.

E-level corpses are easier to deal with, for example, the beggar on the bed next to me is definitely E-level, but corpses above D-level are probably not so easy to come across.

After taking another look at the old man and thinking that he was just a teacher in his life, Xiao Ran didn't continue to waste his energy on the old man.

Turn around and walk to the beggar.

The beggar's body was covered with knife marks. Zhao Jiuguang's knife had hit the beggar very hard, and the skin and flesh were curled up on both sides where the blade had cut. This showed that the blade was at an extremely high temperature when it cut the skin and flesh, otherwise it would not have caused such a wound.

Xiao Ran frowned. This kind of wound was the most annoying. No matter how much money was offered, no one would take it to the crematorium. The main reason was that it was very troublesome to deal with. Friends who often killed people knew that the skin of the corpse would gradually lose its elasticity after death.

At this time, after removing the burnt epidermis, the wound will be very ugly when sutured.

However, these were not difficult for Xiao Ran. He dug out the fruit knife, cut off the curled skin on the outside, and then removed the charred flesh inside along both sides of the wound. He then hollowed out both sides and reshaped the distance between the flesh.

Xiao Ran moved quickly. Her slender fingers perfectly combined stability and dexterity. The needle and thread on her fingertips looked like dancing elves, but each stitch was precise, stable, and neat without any drag.

Of the seven stab wounds, Xiao Ran sutured the sixth one in a blink of an eye, leaving only the fatal wound on the chest. Xiao Ran reached in to check the wound, and at this moment, something suddenly happened. Xiao Ran suddenly felt a piercing chill on his hand, as if someone had grabbed his hand.

"Pretending to be dead? No! It's not pretending to be dead."

He instinctively pulled back, but his hand seemed to be stuck in a quagmire. Not only could it not be pulled out, but it kept being sucked in, as if there was a black hole inside the corpse, and in a blink of an eye, half of Xiao Ran's hand was sucked in.

At this moment, Xiao Ran suddenly felt that his hand seemed to have touched something.

The finger tried to feel around for a few times and found a round rectangle, like an iron nail?
After trying to pull it out a few times, the suction became even stronger.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran no longer hesitated, and immediately took out the [Evil Suppression Order] and slapped it on the beggar's chest: "Suppress the Evil!"

A dark red color appeared above the [Evil-Suppressing Order], and then smashed heavily on the beggar's body.

“Bang! Bang!”

The beggar's body twitched on the bed, and wisps of black mist emerged from his chest like insects. Xiao Ran could clearly feel a strong sense of malice in it. He didn't know what it was, but with the help of the Zhen'e Order, the suction on the beggar's chest seemed to gradually weaken.

Xiao Ran immediately took out three power talismans and crushed them. A warm current rushed into his body, making Xiao Ran feel refreshed. He grasped the unknown object inside with one hand, stepped on the beggar's body with one foot and pulled it back with force.

With a "Puff!" sound, a black iron rod was pulled out by him.

"Dangdang!"

Xiao Ran threw the iron rod on the ground, shook off the blood on his hands, felt a numbness in his whole arm, then turned around to study the iron rod.

The iron rod is about the length of an adult's palm.

There are spikes similar to triangular cones at the bottom, and three naked women holding a skull are carved on the stick, with many skeletons carved in dark patterns around it.

At the very top sits an armored general holding a precious fan.

“This shape…”

Xiao Ran couldn't figure it out for a moment, but this thing wasn't a cursed object. It felt extremely cold in his hand. "Is it some kind of magic weapon?"

In the past, when the older generation encountered a corpse that died suddenly or in a particularly tragic way, when the family members buried the corpse, they would nail cinnabar nails on the coffin to prevent the corpse from resurrecting, in order to suppress evil spirits.

But I have never heard of driving nails into a corpse, but no matter how I look at it, it seems a bit like some kind of vicious curse that will prevent people from being reborn and their souls will be trapped in the corpse forever.

Unfortunately, I don’t know much about these evil rumors.

"It's okay, I can just watch it myself!"

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran became even more curious about the beggar's origins. He picked up the needle and thread and began to suture the last wound on his chest.

"Seize the soul!"

After the stitching was completed, Xiao Ran couldn't wait to use his privilege to seize the soul.

Suddenly, a series of memories came to Xiao Ran's mind.

In the picture, a beggar is begging on the roadside with two little beggars. It is not difficult to see from the surrounding environment that people were still wearing cotton clothes at that time. There were few cars or even bicycles on the street. If pedestrians walked by a little faster, they would raise a cloud of dust on the ground.

The beggar looked around and his eyes fixed on a house diagonally opposite. He saw a woman pulling a little girl into the house. From the look of the door, he knew it must be a wealthy home.

The scene ends here, and then the memory begins to jump. When the beggar appears again, he is running for his life in a panic with a horrified look on his face.

While running, he looked back from time to time.

Suddenly, the beggar stopped abruptly and looked at the bushes in front of him vigilantly.

"Who! Come out!"

The grass shook a few times, and three or four figures walked out, both men and women. The things in their hands were also very unique. One of them held a suona, some held a fan, and some held two stone locks.

Over there is a woman wearing a flowery cotton jacket, with long braids on her head and a lotus flower in her hand.

On the side there is a square-faced man carrying a shoulder pole with two bamboo baskets hanging under the pole.

The bamboo basket was opened and several bloody heads rolled out.

When the beggar took a look, he saw that the heads that rolled out were all his disciples and his face changed immediately.

"Plop!" He knelt on the ground.

"I didn't know the rules of the game and offended you. Please forgive me. From now on, I will never set foot in the Central Plains again in my life."

The beggar raised his finger and swore, then took out all the money he had extorted during this period.

Hearing this, several people looked at each other, and then heard a teasing voice from the bushes nearby: "It's too late. Under the overpass, the martial arts tricks, the literary mouths, the gold dots, the leather doors, the hanging small curls (liu), as long as they pay the price, they can all have something to say, but there is no change in business."

Xiao Ran nodded when he heard this. A simple translation of this sentence means, "There are all kinds of businesses in the area, fortune tellers, medicine sellers, bodyguards, thieves, as long as they pay the ticket price, they can all have a place, but there is no such insidious business. The subtext is that there is no way for him to make a living."

But the voice sounded familiar. Xiao Ran looked in the direction of the sound and saw three people walking out of the bushes. The leader was a middle-aged man, not very old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, wearing a coarse cloth jacket.

Xiao Ran looked at the man carefully and felt that he looked more and more familiar. He waited for the beggar next to him to suddenly turn around and glare at the three of them. His eyes seemed to be blazing with fire and he cursed: "Bah, Xiao the Cobbler, when did your house number appear in the Changchun Association? If I don't die this time, I will kill your entire village!"

"Shao the cobbler?"

Xiao Ran's mind was blank. He looked at the middle-aged man who came and his head suddenly buzzed: "My grandfather?"

　A business that is more extreme: refers to the business that used to rely on fraud and deception to cheat people out of their lives. For example, if a girl is pregnant, they say she is carrying a ghost baby and that it will be a disaster if she is born. The fetus is killed in the tenth month of pregnancy. This is called a business that is more extreme. People who travel around the world don't mind cheating people out of their money, but they hate this kind of "more extreme" business the most. (The above comes from the book [Jianghu Congtan])
　　
　
(End of this chapter)