ZiLi wanted to take a bath, but since both the innkeeper and his wife were of old age, it was obviously not good to let them carry water. Presumably they must have felt that they could not let their guests down, so they had built a public bath behind the small inn near the well.
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“I’ll help you wash your back, big brother.”
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“But boss Su, you’re only five years older than us!” CunGong and CunShou both said at the same time.
“Don’t you know what pretending is? What I’m talking about now is the pretending, okay! Don’t move!” ZiLi held the arms of CunGong and CunShou in place and took out two different masks made of human skin from the pile of disguise tools and put them on their faces.
CunGong and CunShou closed their eyes and waited for a long time without noticing any other movements, so they opened their eyes and asked curiously, “Boss Su, why aren’t you doing anything?”
“What else do I need to do, when it’s done? If you don’t believe me, look!” He picked up a bronze mirror and handed it to them.
Looking at the mirror with black lines all over their faces, they said in unison, “You call yourself master of disguise? Then we can call ourselves that too, ah!”
ZiLi hovered over them and said with squinting eyes, “Why? Do you have a complaint?”
“――We don’t!”
“If there are none, come over and lend me a hand! We need to make more weapons to defend ourselves.”
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“What is this for?”
“For poison!” ZiLi replied succinctly.
CunGong immediately pulled his younger brother three meters away and covered his nose as he stared warily at the washbowl.
The corners of ZiLi’s mouth twitched as he looked at the two and he said, “I didn’t say this was poison, so why are you standing so far away? This is just a container for the poison!”
CunGong let go of CunShou somewhat embarrassed.
“This is a container? What kind of poison is if for?” CunShou asked curiously. He had never heard of anyone using sachets made from sheep intestines to store things!
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“You mustn’t touch this, your whole hand will rot quickly if you do! And if you don’t stop it, it will keep on rotting until only your remains are left!” ZiLi said with some fear and trepidation. I really don’t know what this substance, which is more corrosive than Aqua Regia 4 , really is! When he got the medicine powder that day, he did an experiment and discovered that it corroded not only chicken feet, but also wood, fiber and even steel, but not ceramics and sheep intestines soaked in wine, although he didn’t know exactly what the reaction mechanism was! And when he saw those sheep intestines, ZiLi could not help but think of the game he played in his childhood, filling small balloons with water and then using them as hand grenades, which gave him the idea of the mysterious concealed weapons he had thrown at the assassins who had been chasing him that time.
Looking at the dangerous cup of poison, CunGong and CunShou could not help but swallow their saliva and ask, “So― so, how can we stop it from corroding further?”
ZiLi threw them two pairs of gloves soaked in wine and replied, “With wine 5 of course, you fools! Go to work, dissolve the powder, but be careful! I will put it in the sheep intestines!”
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“All right!” The two brothers, eager to give it a try, replied.
The three of them, like workers in a sweatshop, made another thirty-one bombs in the room. Together with the nine smoke bombs that CunGong and CunShou carried, he was convinced that this could ensure some safety for the three of them, who were young, inexperienced 6 and with little ability to defend themselves.
“Keep the gloves, you two, and remember when you throw the bombs you have to put them on. All right, go to bed, tomorrow we must hasten our journey!”
They had just climbed into bed after packing their things and had just laid down when they suddenly heard an urgent and rough banging on the door downstairs. The three of them got up in alarm, then heard the innkeeper coming upstairs panting, after which he knocked on their door, saying in panic, “Young men, open the door quickly, you must leave here at once!”
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