I Can Devour Spirits

Chapter 89: Chapter 89: Scarlet Serpent Child

After washing his hair, Duan Rong used a towel to dry it. He stood in the cramped dorm room and recalled the feeling at the moment he threw the stone earlier.

Duan Rong feared that this inspiration gained by chance would soon disappear. His eyes flashed, and he immediately had an idea.

Duan Rong stood there, tossed the towel, and the towel landed steadily on the edge of the wooden plate in the corner of the wall.

Duan Rong chuckled lightly and said, ”If I use this hidden weapon technique to shoot, I would be the next Curry!”

Duan Rong quickly walked out of the dormitory, left the Yuan Shun Escort Agency, and arrived on West Main Street.

Duan Rong turned on West Main Street and then entered an alley. He stood at the entrance of the alley, glanced at the alleys on both sides, and suddenly walked into one of them.

In that alley, there were people squatting against the wall, with a propped-up wooden box beside them. The wooden box was about one and a half feet square, with straps on both sides, allowing it to be hung around the neck or placed at the side of the alley.

This is actually a box for selling sewing needles and thimbles!

In ancient times, this kind of thing was considered a tight commodity, needed by every household.

Duan Rong walked over quickly and said, ”Give me thirty needles!”

”Thirty needles?” The man squatting against the wall was about in his early thirties, very thin, with somewhat sneaky eyes.

”Why? Don’t you have that much stock?” Duan Rong frowned and asked.

”Yes, yes, why wouldn’t I?” The man said, picked thirty needles, wrapped them in straw paper, handed them to Duan Rong, and curiously asked, ”Ordinary households buy one or two at a time. Guest, how come you buy thirty at once?”

Duan Rong’s eyes condensed, feeling a bit displeased, thinking: doesn’t he know curiosity killed the cat?

Duan Rong smiled and said, ”I am using these needles to practice a martial art!”

”What martial art?”

”This martial art is called the Flower Picking Finger Technique. You throw these thirty needles one by one into the brick seam, and with just one finger, you can pick up all the needles within a quarter of an hour, which is the Entry Level realm of the Flower Picking Finger Technique!

”Can I practice this martial art?” The man said excitedly, feeling that the martial art seemed not too difficult.

”Of course, it’s just Entry Level; it’s not that difficult! Anyone can practice it!” Duan Rong smiled and said, ”Do you have some fine cotton thread? Give me a roll as well.”

”Yes.” The man took out a roll of cotton thread from the thread ends.

Duan Rong smiled, paid the money, took the needles and thread, and returned to the Escort Agency.

The man watched Duan Rong leave, immediately grabbed thirty needles, threw them into the green stone seam in the alley, and began to practice...

Duan Rong returned to the dormitory, opened the needle package, held a needle in his hand, stood firm, and suddenly shot a needle!

Just a flash of needle light, it was nailed to the edge of the bed.

Duan Rong’s eyes flickered, using the Cloud Serpent Step body technique, maneuvering in the cramped dormitory, turning and dodging, with his body maneuvering, he repeatedly waved his hand, shooting one by one the remaining twenty-nine needles from the needle pack to the edge of the bed.

Before long, the edge of the bed was composed of needles forming a plum blossom!

”The technique is actually not difficult, shooting needle technique shares the same principles! As for the change in angle each time, it’s adjusted based on body technique!”

Yet, Duan Rong was unaware that hidden weapon techniques are actually difficult to practice; it’s just that through Devouring Artifact Spirit, he has attained the realm of two techniques, and accidentally integrated them.

At present, he indeed found it not difficult!

But, for a novice wanting to reach his level, they’d have to endure much hardship!

Duan Rong took down the needles from the edge of the bed one by one. He looked at the needle package in his hand, preparing for his next idea.

He cut the bought cotton thread into small segments, threading a white tassel tail to each needle!

Then he took out the black porcelain bottle from his coat pocket, which was only the size of a plum.

Inside this ceramic bottle is the deadly poison he obtained from Zhou Shoushan!

Duan Rong took out a porcelain trough he used to mix dyes, added half of the clear water, and carefully opened the cover of the black porcelain bottle.

Instantly, a foul smell filled the cramped dormitory, Duan Rong used a needle to pick out a little bit of the black paste, then leaned the needle against the edge of the trough, immediately closed the bottle stopper, and set it aside.

Duan Rong adjusted the window, leaving a gap, and it was only this time that the foul smell in the cramped space reduced somewhat.

Duan Rong’s eyes were focused, carefully held the needle at the edge of the trough, swirled it in the clear water in the porcelain trough, washing all the paste into the water, and stirred for a long time before placing all thirty needles against the edge of the trough, submerging one-third of the needle front into the black poison water...

After handling it, seeing it was noon and the dining hall was about to serve lunch, Duan Rong closed the window and locked the door to head to the courtyard dining hall to eat.

After eating, Duan Rong returned to the dormitory, removed the needles from the poison water, placed them on the windowsill to dry, then took the porcelain trough outside and poured the leftover poison water into the corner of the wall far away.

Duan Rong then rinsed the porcelain trough with clear water, reentered the dormitory, and placed the porcelain trough separately at the other side under the bed!

He decided this porcelain trough would be dedicated to specialty use.

After finishing these, Duan Rong opened the window to let sunlight in, allowing the poisoned needles to dry quickly, and although some time had passed, the cramped dormitory still had faint traces of foul odor!

At this moment, suddenly Duan Rong caught sight of a gray-white spider the size of half a pinky nail exposed to sunlight by the edge of the bed.

With swift eyes and quick hands, he pinched a needle tail from the windowsill, and a poison needle shot out with a wave!

The needle flashed and nailed that gray-white spider to death!

Under the sunlight, the gray-white spider instantly turned black and then turned into a drop of ink, dripping down from the edge of the bed!

”Well... This poison is truly formidable!”

Duan Rong looked at the row of poison needles drying on the windowsill, suddenly his eyes flashed, and he said, ”Ice Soul Silver Needle!”

”Scarlet Practice Fairy...”

”No! Scarlet Practice Child Duan Rong!”

Duan Rong said, mimicked gestures, waving his hand, and made a few shooting poses.

After the poison needles dried, Duan Rong found and placed the poison needles one by one into a cork, then put the cork into his pocket.

This way, at least he has another means of self-preservation!

”These days, it’s hard to get by!”

Just as Duan Rong placed the cork filled with poison needles well, suddenly a thought flashed through his mind!

In fact, although Duan Rong was doing other things, his mind was constantly pondering over the matters concerning Xu Ruhu and Jie Lei!

This matter seemed like a huge puzzle?

Stirring Duan Rong’s interest!

But just now, it seemed like something flashed a light through the fog-like puzzle, then quickly submerged again, leaving Duan Rong momentarily unable to grasp it...

”What is it?” Duan Rong paced back and forth in the cramped dormitory...

Thought for a long time, only feeling that the flash idea seemed like a mud ox falling into the sea, becoming harder to detect...

Duan Rong decided to reorganize his thoughts!

In sorting through his thoughts, Duan Rong immediately discovered the problem.

Previously, he was pondering, since Jie Lei already left, how did he reappear in the dungeon?

He treated this issue as a locked room original reasoning game, purely as a curiosity and fun!

However, just now flashed through his mind, another more critical issue.

Which is the motive behind Jie Lei’s actions?

Why take such a huge risk, even implicating his uncle and himself with the blame of negligence, to help escape a notorious fugitive?

This question is obviously the more important one!

Because the why is always more important than the what!