Chapter 31 The Devil Below
Yan Rui was resurrected and returned to the world, and he became Feige Hall again.
Master Hall in the mirror gave him a prompt. Through this prompt, search for memory and you can find a ritual called "Alchemy Life". This ritual is very complicated. Its function is to allow ordinary creatures to produce some unique abilities of alchemy potions or alchemy poisons.
For example, it can change the toxin species of venomous snakes, from biological toxins to alchemy toxins, which is even more threatening. In theory, it can also give people the ability to secrete alchemy spider silk, but weaving it into a net is another skill. Master Hall once tried to transplant the alchemy potion that restrains the devil curse to himself, hoping to get rid of the devil contract. He succeeded in the ritual, but the devil contract could not be lifted in this way. In the end, except for the body adding many symptoms of alchemy poisoning, he did not obtain anything else.
This ritual should also transfer some less powerful alchemy effects, such as "food dissolution" potion. Some alchemists are exposed to toxins for a long time, or if they simply get older, their teeth and digestive systems are prone to problems. Not being able to eat is equivalent to death. Therefore, in order to save their lives, they invented a "food dissolution" potion that can digest food in advance and become the most basic nutrients - this is equivalent to using medicine to replace the work of the stomach and intestines.
Theoretically - because no one has done this - if we transfer the ability of food-dissolving alchemy medicine to the ghost cat, it should be able to secrete this alchemy medicine by itself and then obtain the ability to eat. In fact, whether we can do this is actually a huge question mark. After all, food-dissolving agents are designed for human alchemists, and the species gap between humans and ghost cats is too big. Moreover, humans are born with digestive abilities and do not need to "get" like ghost cat cubs.
So, this is not a solution, it is just a way of thinking. There is no answer from the sky here. The only way to solve the problem is to think, explore, and experiment. But fortunately, the "energy transfer" ceremony that Lord Kipling secretly gave him was effective. He woke up at midnight, twisted his body in Fitch's palm, and acted happily coquettishly.
Feichi's hands and legs were covered with blood, but the wound on his wrist had healed. The devil's ability to resurrect was of this benefit, which could directly save the trouble of healing. It was just that he kept rolling around on his body at midnight, and naturally became dirty.
"The hair is covered with blood, it's so ugly... Let's go, I'll wash it for you."
Midnight widened his eyes and looked terrified. It acted to escape, but Feiqi grabbed his tail. "Don't let go, you have to wash it. If you go out to see someone with blood, you may expose the vitality transfer ceremony. Most rituals that require blood are related to evil, so we can't cause trouble for Lord Snow Owl. Be obedient, be good..."
The devil contract is not just a saying. The "obeying order" inside is a lifelong thing. Midnight uses his eyes, moans and claws to express his strong intention of resisting, but he still succumbed to the clutches of the devil and was rubbed in the water basin several times.
Feiqi finally took off his cotton armor, changed his clothes, and then hugged him downstairs in midnight. In the hall, the banquet had begun. You could see Ramsden crying and chewing heavily. Wumama maliciously served a pile of white radish into his plate, but he didn't let him eat meat. Tron moved the chair and chose a farther place from Ramsden, chatting with Diderit while eating. Kelly was talking badly to Giles' ears, saying bad things about the students. Eddie selected easy-to-digest food for the old man and cut it open, making the old man very happy.
"We didn't wait for you at all, you definitely wouldn't mind?" Tron waved from a distance, and Diderit became even more enthusiastic and rushed over and took Midnight away.
"Recovered? What magical method did you use?" Tron wanted to reach out and touch Midnight, but he was not as quick as Dilly's movements. He was obviously not his cat, but his enthusiasm was greater than anyone else. The female paladin's preference was to pet cats and listen to stories.
"Alchemy." Feiqi was vague. "It still couldn't eat normally, but it finally survived. Tron, by spring, can I go to the mountains with me to find out if there are any other ghost cats?"
"It should be no problem. In spring, I was going to go into the mountains to catch the horn-winged monsters, and I was just looking for you to help. The trick of using the bear catcher is so useful. If you tie a chain to the bear catcher, it is also a control method. Even if there is no chain, you can win by simply bleeding. So, can we help each other?"
Tron raised his hand and Fitch held it, and the two of them agreed. "Come on, sit down and eat something. It's uncomfortable to eat outside for half a month, right? It's good to have some fresh ones, such as various purified carrots. But don't eat too much, it's easy to fart."
There are three bamboo baskets on the dining table, including carrots, white radishes and green radishes. They do not need to be cooked, they are simply washed and brought with some water droplets. Fitch hasn't eaten vegetables for a while, so he picked up a green radish without peeling it, and chewed it. The skin is so spicy, but it is wrapped in a hint of sweetness.
"It's pretty good!" Feiqi said with his cheeks puffed and said, "But why is it called purifying radish?"
Everyone who was eating stopped and looked at Feige with a weird look. Eddie quickly coughed and explained: "My young master doesn't understand this."
"This is the goddess' greatest achievement. You don't know? No wonder you can use spells, but you just have no chance of divine magic!" Diderit stroked the hair on Midnight's back and stuck out his tongue at Feich. "You are not grateful and despise you! The food grown underground has a devil's curse, and can only be eaten after purification. Oh... You may not know that the carrots grow underground, right?"
Of course I know! And I also know that the edible part of the carrot is root, but it is not all buried underground. Some of them will actually stick to the ground. But the food underground is cursed by the devil? And what about this?
He is a devil, at least he has the memory of a contract demon. Looking back carefully, the devil has never made such a plan and has never cursed the carrot. They are not without such ability, but this practice is simply a waste of time, and the benefits are so low that they are negligible, and the costs are so high that they rush out of the sky. The devil is bad, not stupid.
"I... really didn't know when I bought food or cooked food, right!" Feiqi yelled twice, eased the atmosphere and said, "Thanks to the goddess for purifying the food. What happens if it is not purified?"
Tron put a piece of reheated barbecue on the plate in front of Fitch and said, "It has a strange disease, is mentally abnormal, talks crazy, and has all kinds of curses from the devil. This cannot be counted. However, the food after purification is very safe. Radish, vermicelli, and dried potatoes are all good things that are particularly resistant to storage. Ice Peak Fortress depends on them in winter."
"Oh, the devil-purifying fan I mentioned last time is also among them?"
"Yes, it's a translucent cloth-like thing. Maybe you've eaten something cut into thin strips, that is, vermicelli." Tron thought for a while and felt that it wouldn't be offended by Fitch, so he further explained: "The nobles have fresher and safer food, and there is no need to purify the food. These vermicelli, carrots and dried potatoes are for the church Paladin troops, we monster hunters, and we use them for relief during famine. The devil lives underground, so the farther away from the ground, the better the food close to the sky. Let's just do it now."
"I won't be so fond of it. I'm not very picky about food." Feiqi ate a few bites of white radish with full sweet juice, feeling that happiness is just like that. "By the way, since the purified food is distributed by the church, then our griffin bounty has been paid in advance?"
As soon as this sentence was finished, most people's faces became gloomy. Old Man Kiplin rubbed his nose and shook his head: "The thirteenth day after you left the fortress, seven days ago, the new documents were coming. Winter is about to begin. It is not appropriate to perform the task at this time, so the previous hunting order was cancelled and our winter supplies were transported. Therefore, there was no griffin bounty."
"It was not appropriate to enter the mountain at this time. Whoever canceled the previous order so wisely? It seems that there are still guys who know how to be a human being!"
"Gresham Gary, it's him." Ramsden chewed the sausage hard, viciously.
"Damn it." Feiqi sucked a sausage and bit it hard.
That kid was too bad and used his power to play tricks! First, he used winter supplies as a threat and issued an order to force everyone to venture into the mountain to wipe his butt for his team's incompetence. Then, he calculated the time and canceled the previous orders, so that he could save the supplies originally used for rewards and disgusting the team members who entered the mountain.
The order to cancel the mission can reach the Ice Peak Fortress, but it cannot reach the hands of the team in front. It is a piece of waste paper. It cannot allow the people in front to withdraw, and it cannot prevent them from being injured, lost, failing, and death. What else can it be if it is waste paper?
"What do we think of when we carry the griffin's head? Why are we worried about sleeping all the way? Doesn't he have to pay the price for these ghost thoughts?"
"Fech, you've said a little too much." Tron waved his hand and gave him a wink: "We went out to hunt griffins not for Gresham, but for eliminating the hidden dangers of the evil beasts in the Sunset Mountains and making it safer here. And, isn't this also a training? The Goddess of Truth, Thunder, is the object of our service, not a specific person, you can't make a mistake!"
"I can't swallow this. There is no such reason in the world. What to do after I agree, it's natural to get money for work! If he cheats with this process, he will succeed once. Will he still use it next time? Have we been in this state of being tricked in the future? Do every command of his order be regarded as a devil's contract and read it word by word, and must be maliciously guessed?!"
"Enough, this kind of thing is enough once, and it will definitely not happen again in the future! You cannot spread doubts with this attitude, it is too much! It is impossible for deceiving and evil people to become paladins of goddesses, nor can you maintain the power of God's favor, so your idea of connecting knights and devils is too blasphemous!" Tron clenched his fist: "Fech, return to God. We have successfully hunted griffins and come back safely. This is a happy thing. How about happiness?!"
Feich lowered his head and blocked his face with two clenched fists. When he thought of Gresham, he was angry, but it was not right to take his anger on others. He waved his hand, tried to relax his tone, and said, "It's okay, just let me slow down."
Chapter completed!