Tianzun and Yin Hou followed the Demon King and finally discovered the secret of the walking giant.

Through the woods, they saw a giant "skeleton" more than one foot tall, staggering towards them.

And this giant without the "bird head" mask looks very uncoordinated, even a little funny.

It turns out that behind the bird-head mask, the giant has no face. From his neck up, there is something like a wooden stake. On this wooden stake, a golden spear is inserted.

The tail of this spear is exposed, and most of the head is in the giant's "cavity".

As the giant walked, the spear was still turning slowly, and while turning, it extended its cavity upwards.

And on the neck of the giant with a spear stuck in it, there was also a fat golden python coiled around it.

This python has a white belly and golden back, red eyes and blue tongue. It doesn’t look very long. It has circled twice around the giant’s neck, and hissed out the message. A pair of round red eyes were looking at the creature that made a “gurgling” sound.

Demon King.

When the giant walked to a place not far away from the crowd, most of the spear had already reached the top of the giant's cavity, and the giant stopped. He saw the snake slowly raising its head and wrapping around the spear.

As the snake wrapped around the spear, the spear was "pressed" into the giant's cavity... and the giant started walking again.

Yin Hou pressed his eyebrows helplessly, and Tianzun was also speechless...

This giant's principle is similar to that of a mechanical doll, and he has many apprentices.

This kind of doll can move all joints. There is usually a hole in the back. A special key can be inserted into the hole and turned a few times. When the key is released, the doll will start walking. As it walks, the key will turn back. Wait.

If the key stops turning, the doll will stop. There are also those with holes at the top. This kind of key does not turn, but presses down... just like the giant in front of you.

"It took a long time..." Yin Hou looked at the giant who came to them and then stopped, "it turned out to be this snake's toy."

The snake spat out a message and tilted its head to look at the Demon King, as if wondering how this guy who didn't look like a bird could make bird sounds.

"This kind of python is used to catch birds. This one is quite smart. It is probably easier to catch birds in the trees if it is coiled around the giant's neck."

Yin Hou seems to be a little interested in this snake.

The demon king jumped up and climbed onto the giant's shoulders.

The snake didn't bite him, but moved to the side to make room for the demon king.

The demon king stood on the giant's shoulders, stretched out his hand and pulled out the golden spear.

Tianzun and Yin Hou had never found the golden spear that Mr. Jiang returned to the mountain god's mother-in-law. It turned out to be in the giant's cavity.

"This golden spear is equivalent to a key." The demon king inserted the spear back into his cavity, pressed it lightly, and the spear went down, and the giant started walking again.

The demon king shakes the golden spear and can also control the direction of the giant.

Yin Hou took the golden bird head, jumped up, and hid in the bird head with the Demon King.

The bird's head covered the two of them just right. Tianzun looked at it as if the giant was walking...

"Oh..." Tianzun also understood, "Looking like this can really scare people, it feels like a giant skeleton is walking!"

It turned out that the reason they saw the giant before was because the python got into the helmet and pressed the spear, and the giant started walking.

But the giant walked crookedly and looked a little awkward.

Yin Hou jumped down again holding the bird's head.

The Demon King said, "This spear was made by Old Man Jiang later. It is estimated that the workmanship is still a little different from the original, so it is not stable at all."

"Can you move your hands?" Tianzun was curious.

The demon king studied it for a while, then turned the spear. The giant turned around, tilted his body, and hit the tree with a "bang".

The demon king was covered in tree leaves.

After patting the leaves, the Demon King tried again. The giant's hand was raised a little, but fell down again... a little unruly.

"Maybe because it's not the original spear, it doesn't feel very easy to control." The demon king pressed the spear and controlled the giant to walk crookedly.

Tianzun and Yin Hou followed behind, discussing as they walked.

"It seems that every sitting giant has a standing giant holding a golden spear next to him, right?" Tianzun asked.

Yin Hou also nodded, "So these standing giants can actually walk? Just use the golden spear to open the 'mechanism'?"

Tianzun looked at the golden python still hanging on the giant's shoulder and said, "I can understand that this python can press the golden spear, but it will never open the giant python's bird head first, and then wrap around the golden python to insert it."

Go into the cavity and put on a bird head to control it?"

Yin Hou also shook his head, "Since the mountain god Granny went to 'return' the golden spear, she might have inserted it into her mouth."

Tianzun touched his chin, "Why did she do that?"

Yin Hou spreads his hands - then who knows?

After thinking about it for a while, Yin Hou asked Tianzun, "Do you still remember the first few villagers kidnapped by the mountain god?"

Tianzun asked, "Are they the ones who were thrown into the pit?"

Yin Hou nodded, "Didn't we also see that pit that day? It looked like it was dug out by a giant holding a tree pole."

Tianzun also understood what Yin Hou was suspecting, "Anyway, this giant certainly can't do such complicated movements, let alone a python, even a human can't control it."

"And that day, didn't Xiao Zou say that he felt the breath of a large beast?" Yin Hou felt strange, "That python doesn't look like a large beast. As for the large beasts in the forest, apart from tigers, they are bears.

?

Tianzun nodded, "Almost."

"But if it were a bear, it wouldn't be able to control such a mechanism, right?" Yin Hou found it unimaginable.

This question stumped Tianzun, "I don't know if a bear can do what a python does, but a bear wouldn't kidnap someone and then dig a hole and bury him, right?"

Yin Hou was also amused, "That's true, no matter how you look at it, this is something that only talents can do."

"Will there be another giant?" Tianzun asked, "There were originally three in the cave?"

Yin Hou thought for a while, "But the three of them felt that the cave was a bit crowded, and there were no other footprints on the ground."

"That is..." Tianzun said another possibility, "Is there another cave in Kuaiji Mountain?"

Yin Hou felt that this was really unlikely, "If it's another giant controlled by humans, who do you think is more likely?"

Tianzun didn't answer, but looked at Yin Hou. Since this old ghost would ask such a question, he must have already suspected someone.

Sure enough, Yin Hou said, "I think that guy Jiang Wanglou is quite suspicious."

"That's right... that guy has studied the topography and history of Kuaiji Mountain for so many years. It's indeed very likely that it's him."

"It's not just because the terrain is familiar." Yin Hou continued, "He even killed his own father for the compass, and he can't be sure that his father gave the compass to you. From his point of view, it is most likely..."

"He would think that his father returned the compass back to the cave." Tianzun thought this guess was reasonable, "However, the cave was blocked again. Maybe he found other caves by mistake?"

"Well, there's another thing I'm more suspicious about." Yin Hou said, "I took a boat and passed by Wanglou City once before."

Tianzun narrowed his eyes - when will you take the boat?

Yin Hou waved his hand to indicate that this was not important, and continued to express his doubts, "The scale of Wanglou City is not small, and the island is not small either. Jiang Wanglou was only a teenager when he built Wanglou City. Even if he sold all the property of the Jiang family, I

I feel that that little money may not even be enough to buy an island, let alone build such a big city and recruit so many apprentices! And unlike Xingkong Island and Hemeng, Wanglou City is a Jianghu sect, unlike the first two

Just doing business to make money... Where did he get so much money?"

Tianzun crossed his arms and thought, "How much does an island cost?"

Yin Hou spread his hands - it's probably not cheap. Doesn't your apprentice have one? Ask him later...

The two were chatting when they heard a "boom" in front of them, followed by the Demon King's voice, "Oops!"

Tianzun and Yin Hou quickly looked up - it turned out that there was a pit in front of them, the Demon King was not paying attention, and the giant fell into the pit.

The two of them ran to the edge of the pit and looked down, and saw the demon king sitting on the giant body, holding the golden python in his arms.

The golden python raised its head and rubbed the Demon King's face quite affectionately.

Yin Hou said to Tianzun, "This python is also very strange."

"A python is weird too?" Tianzun looked at Yin Hou - Why do you look at everything so weird today?

"This is a python catching birds!" Yin Hou said.

Tianzun was puzzled, "What happened to catching the bird?"

"There are two types of pythons, not to mention the ones that are especially known for eating people and wild beasts. Ordinary pythons are usually divided into those that eat birds and those that eat mice. Usually the ones that eat mice are more docile, move slowly and don't have long teeth.

. But those who eat birds are quite aggressive. Their teeth are very long and they move very quickly. They can bite people."

Tianzun tilted his head and looked at Yin Hou - you know this?

Yin Hou muttered, "Heishui told me."

While he was talking, the giant was dragged up by the demon king again, and he was trying his best to climb up the pit.

The snake also climbed onto the Demon King's head, coiled itself in a circle, and looked up at him as he tried to save the giant.

Tianzun and Yin Hou both suppressed their laughter.

After finally getting the giant up, they saw four children running out of the forest. It was a beautiful time.

Following them out were other people from Kaifeng Mansion.
To be continued...