Walk out of Hongxiang Hutong and go northwest for more than 400 meters, and you will see the sign of Luo Family Bathhouse.
This is a large wooden house located next to the winding road of a hot spring in a low hill. There are two children in front of the door who work as receptionists. They are also very enthusiastic when they see the guests from Japan. They pick up towels and scented powder to welcome the guests.
The boy looked to be only twelve or thirteen years old. He came close to Billy. He looked cute and cute, and spoke in a sweet voice.
"Hey! This guest is here to take a bath, right? Please be patient. It happens to be a good time to change the water after work and the fishermen are all leaving."
Billy was originally in a bad mood, but when he saw this energetic child, he felt a little distressed——
——There is no such thing as illegal child labor in this place. Billy, the anti-counterfeiting fighter, used to battle wits with various illegal enterprises, buy insurance and gamble his life with unscrupulous merchants, but he never saw these things.
The same goes for the little girl who is soliciting customers on the other side. Her attitude and expression when entertaining Teacher Su Ling is a standard business fake smile. Her attitude is gentle and her tone is gentle, fearing that she will scare away the distinguished guests. Everything is full of skill and maturity.
Think about it carefully - in front of the Luo family bathhouse, maybe a few years ago, there were two six or seven-year-old children. The guests coming and going might be tired of the towel powder in the hands of the adults.
Be suspicious and alert.
But children are always innocent and approachable.
Before Billy could finish thinking——
——Teacher Su Ling asked.
"How are the fees calculated?"
The little girl smiled and said: "The male guests are worth two yuan each, and the female guests are eight yuan each."
Su Ling: "Is it so expensive for a woman to take a bath?"
The little girl looked like she was changing her face in a Sichuan opera, and explained aggrievedly: "You have to take care of your hair, choose a good bristle brush to clean your body, and have a separate bathing pool. How can you do it cheaply? Guest, you have to think..."
"A woman's body is delicate, can a farmer compare with it? He can't compare..."
The little boy on the other side panicked and explained: "No..."
The little girl glanced at her companion and seemed to roll her eyes.
"What? Are you trying to ruin my business?"
When he arrived here, Billy finally felt a strange atmosphere.
The two doormen didn't seem to be on the same page, and there was always a secret rivalry between them.
When a boy bows and salutes, a girl should hold hands and support her clothes.
The boy patted his beard and rode his horse, talking about the bravery and handsomeness of Big Brother Billy.
The girl spoke softly, talking about Teacher Su Ling's chic and beautiful appearance.
"What's going on?" Billy approached Teacher Su Ling and asked in a low voice.
Su Ling: "Look at their health bars."
There is something wrong inside and outside this bathhouse, starting with the blood bars of these two children——
-At first the [Health] bar on their heads was gray.
This means that [Phoenix] has not yet been able to find out their true identities and cannot determine the relationship between enemies and friends.
Later, the two children had [Popularity -1] signs on each other’s foreheads.
At the end, there was an occasional weak psychic tide, and Su Ling's soul power immediately turned the two health bars into [yellow] - they were temporarily friendly enemies.
[Elemental analysis in progress...]
[Due to environmental factors, you cannot get the target's pheromones, and the smell of the powder is strong, which seriously affects your sense of smell.]
[Target No. 1: Unknown race]
[Target No. 1: Gender·Male]
[Target No. 1: Special individuals affected by the power of the soul]
[Target No. 2: Unknown race]
[Target No. 2: Gender·Female]
[Target No. 2: Special individuals affected by the power of the soul]
[No. 1/2: The true age cannot be ascertained]
[Results of elemental analysis: The spiritual energy tide emanating from the bodies of the two welcoming doormen at Luo's Bathhouse already has the characteristics of soul power. They were affected by the soul power. The specific effect of soul power cannot be confirmed, and more information needs to be collected.
]
Teacher Su Ling used the Phoenix to synchronize this information and sent it to Billy the Kid - the [Phoenix] turned into a spiritual light screen scroll, reflecting lines of characters.
"Did the bathhouse owner brainwash these two children? Forcibly order them to pick up the guests?" Billy understood the elemental analysis report and became angry in his heart.
"Instead of thinking wildly, it's better to take action." Su Ling was very decisive.
She grabbed the little girl's arm and took a bite——
——There is no smell of the blood-giving monster, and the pheromones in the sweat are only panic and love.
As for this love, it is very clear, a naked pursuit of money and a longing for happiness. It has a sweet and greasy feeling.
"Ouch!" The little girl looked at the bloody teeth marks on her arm and really couldn't figure out what the guest was going crazy about.
She didn't cry or scream, she just smiled awkwardly.
"My guest, are you an alchemist? Do you want to taste human flesh?"
In Daxia, alchemists have never been serious cultivators of immortality. No matter what kind of elixir, the best medicine to use is human flesh. There are thousands of ways to identify the essence, but the most direct and effective one is to "take a bite"——
Su Ling skipped the useless conversation and directly confirmed the identity of the children by biting them.
[Elemental analysis in progress...]
[Race: Homo sapiens]
[Age: twelve years old]
[Individuals affected by Soul Power need more clues for specific effects.]
"Take me to see Mr. Accountant." Su Ling went straight to the point without saying anything. Since these two children are fine, then follow the prompts given by [Phoenix] and find the Mr. Accountant who is not willing to touch silverware.
The female doll was first bitten by a guest and was still angry. Then she heard this inexplicable request. She was a little unhappy and wanted an explanation.
"Good sister...you..."
Before she finished speaking, Su Ling quickly took out twenty pieces of cat money from her carrying bag and counted the money neatly.
"Here, two thousand, is it enough?"
The girl quickly forced out a smile: "That's enough! You come with me..."
Teacher Su Ling followed the girl into the inner room of the bathhouse. Billy also wanted to follow, but he couldn't understand the VIP's behavior. His words and deeds were very much like the [Strange Player] in the game world. It seemed that he could
All the skipped dialogues are skipped, and questions that can be solved directly are never asked in roundabout ways.
I heard the BOSS and other VIPs talk about her, and the gunsmith teacher also gave private lessons, talking about the properties of pyroxene, and also used [Phoenix] as a special case.
That woman seemed to be able to control all the stones, like a sophisticated machine.
When we arrived at the inner hall, there were paintings and pottery artifacts that had been authenticated by [Phoenix] everywhere.
This fifty-meter walkway is filled with spiritual text descriptions everywhere.
Billy's eyes glanced over, and [Phoenix] immediately revealed the details.
[Longyou Moso Bamboo: Also known as Meng Zong Bamboo, it can grow up to twenty meters. It is used as an ornamental beam for the building. It is not load-bearing. It is useless to attack it when you choose to destroy the building]
[Painting 1: It looks like the work of a Western artist from Shambhala. Since most of the oil paintings from the Nine Realms of the East are in a realistic style, in order to protect the paintings in the hot spring environment, the owner of Luo Shi Bathhouse only purchased some watercolor decorative paintings]
[Note: This painting depicts the natural landscape of Baibei Port at sunrise. The processing of the front and rear scenes is quite rough. It ignores most of the brushstrokes and focuses on the changes of light and shadow. It is the work of a beginner]
[Painting 2: This is a portrait painting, which uses a sketch to represent a three-dimensional human face. The woman in the painting is gorgeously dressed, tall, and decorated with a lot of accessories]
[Remarks: Judging from the cursive handwriting of the sketch, this is the great-grandmother of the Luo family and the bathhouse manager appointed by the general banner of the Daoheng County magistrate. Under her family's operation and management, this bathhouse gradually developed into what it is today.
appearance.]
The structural walls of the wooden house, decorative walls, load-bearing beams and wallpaper window grilles, real windows for ventilation and false windows to maintain indoor temperature, decorations and welcome meals, and then the stone steps at the entrance to the hot spring pool on the first underground floor
, every object in the environment falls into Su Ling's eyes - it becomes detailed data of [Phoenix].
Billy was as shocked as he was when the gunsmith first met Teacher A Ling——
——He never thought that Soul Power could be used in this way, and could also be used as a real-time monitoring recorder. It didn't seem to be of much use, but it was almost omnipotent.
When Teacher A Ling was leading the way, she also left a series of footprints made by spiritual beings for Billy. These bright red light screen marks became the best signposts in a lightless environment.
Billy followed him to the counter, listened carefully, and stopped talking nonsense.
Su Ling only paid for it and talked about her family's affairs with the little girl. As for Judah's team? She didn't even mention it at all, unwilling to reveal any news.
"You come here to work, don't your parents care?"
The girl smiled and said, "Where do you care? My parents have passed away long ago."
Su Ling leaned against the counter, waiting for the accountant to come——
"——Have you earned enough money? What are you going to do?"
"Where can you earn enough?" The girl smiled even more happily: "There is still a saying in the world that you can earn enough money? Isn't the more the better?"
Su Ling then asked: "Does the bathhouse owner know about your family's affairs?"
"We all know..." At this point, the little girl became a little impatient and complained in her heart - why did this guest keep asking questions? According to the past situation, she was the one who asked the questions. She was the one who asked the questions.
Only by opening up the guests' chat boxes and prescribing the right medicine can we please them...
Thinking of this, she finally let go of her guard, because the money given by Su Ling was too much, and the reward tip could be converted into silver dollars, which would be enough for the private school tuition.
As a result, I lost my guard in my conversation, my will gradually became weak in the repeated questions and answers, and I suddenly said something strange.
"Hey..." The girl sighed: "Grandpa wants to go to school, and grandma has given birth to a second child. My eldest son, who is not living up to expectations, is worried about the dowry. The betrothal gift comes in and out, and he can't keep up with the account.
He couldn't come back when he was busy, but his wife was not satisfied and wanted to pick a second child to remarry. From then on, the two brothers were not on good terms and wanted money everywhere."
"Huh?" Billy didn't understand.
To be honest, Su Ling didn't understand either.
The two of them tried to remain calm and exchanged glances with each other.
The spirit body of the phoenix gradually turned into a huge question mark.
Billy clicked on the private message——
[Group information·Phoenix: Do you understand?]
[Group information·Stinky Boy: How can I understand this! The amount of information is almost as much as a fucking Indian TV series!]
[Group information·Stinky Boy: Why do I have this ID?]
[Phoenix: I don’t understand, this little girl seems to be saying...]
[Brave Billy: She has to raise tuition for her grandfather, earn money for her grandma to raise the baby, and she has at least three children to raise.]
[Phoenix: She is indeed only twelve years old...]
[Brave Billy: Is this little kid crazy? He’s just talking crazy things!]
[Phoenix: Do you still remember the news sent back by the scout team? Billy? I think they are crazy too.]
[Brave Billy: That’s different. At least Kuai Dao’s brothers can still maintain their will to fight. Their voices are all related to combat, but what was this little girl talking about just now?]
[Phoenix: Maybe she is used to it - Billy, is there a possibility? She looks twelve years old, and the blood I tasted in her arm can indeed prove that this is the young body of a twelve-year-old
.]
[Brave Billy: What do you mean?]
[Phoenix: We seem to have arrived at the edge of the treacherous and ever-changing spirit world. We are still seven kilometers away from Aizong’s Mausoleum. These two children were affected by the power of the spirit. Originally, they were both adults and had lived for many, many years.
A complete life, but suddenly turned back to twelve years old by this strange soul power.]
[Brave Billy: So...]
If you think about it carefully, you can naturally explain why the bell ringing message of the Kuaishou team is so crazy and so illogical.
After they entered the small town of Aizongling, they could no longer determine the time they were in, nor did they know the flow of time——
——Are you heading towards the future? Or are you running towards the past? Are you aging rapidly? Or are you turning into a child?
They need to send letters to the watch all the time and mark the information with time to ensure the accuracy of the war situation. To the outside world, these ringtones are like useless rants sent out in an instant.
Kuai Dao's warriors mentioned time many times, but they didn't understand how all this happened and fell into a huge panic.
The same is true for the doorman at the bathhouse at this moment——
——The little girl has grown up. She has her own family, a husband and children. Her grandparents are still alive, but her parents have passed away.
Her grandfather also suffered from the control of this spirit power. He may have returned to his childhood and needed to receive a private school education in the new era.
At the same time, her grandmother has returned to youth or middle age. She is pregnant with her second child and it is inconvenient for her to work. She can only rely on her granddaughter to work to support the family.
She herself had at least three children. After giving birth, she was immediately transferred back to the age of twelve by the power of the spirit.
Only in this case will the incomprehensible conversation just now occur, which is like a madman talking in a crazy way.
[Phoenix: Her family is all affected by this soul power.]
[Brave Billy: It seems like...]
A young, beautiful and fair-skinned girl walked out from the background. She looked to be no more than seventeen or eighteen years old. She had pretty eyes and a peach-shaped face, and a saddle-shaped nose and eyebrows like a crescent moon. She was a beautiful woman in the blooming season.
"Both of you are rare visitors from the East! Come, come, come!~"
Both Billy and Su Ling felt a strong spiritual tide. At the moment, this young girl was a blood-granting monster that contained only fifty percent of the human body.
Occasionally, the guests who come and go are mostly strong fishermen with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes. Occasionally, one or two young ladies wearing silk robes can be seen walking by quickly.
Without exception, this place is like a paradise, as if the concept of time has disappeared.
Except for the hotel owners at Baibei Port, as long as there are individuals with psychic fluctuations in their body, people with this characteristic——
——They are all young, even young.
"Dare to ask!"
Su Ling decided to get straight to the point and asked the accounting girl to show her blood strip.
If you can kneel down, then just kneel down and ask questions.