I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 63: Small Victory (Fourth Update)

At this moment, Zhang Chen suddenly put down his pen, then turned around and walked towards the backpack. The fox fairy Nannan was so frightened that she stopped in her tracks. She did not dare to touch Zhang Chen, for fear of being harmed by the golden light on Zhang Chen's body, and she retreated away with a look of fear on her face.

Zhang Chen walked towards the basket with a relaxed expression, looking at the fox fairy Nannan from the corner of his eyes, then walked slowly to the basket, stretched out his hand to open the basket, and heard Nannan muttering to herself: "This meat is enough for me to eat for a few days. I still need to check whether the meat is dried properly. Make sure it doesn't get moldy."

Zhang Chen held the dried meat in his hand and looked at it continuously, flipping through each piece. The fox spirit was so anxious that she was running around in circles, but for a moment she did not dare to come forward.

Then after Zhang Chen finished checking the dried meat, he slowly put it down, and under the vixen's watchful eyes, he picked up the basket and walked to the wooden box beside him.

This wooden box is also called a big wardrobe, similar to a freezer in a supermarket. It was bought by his father when he married his stepmother, and it was used to show off.

The large wardrobe was made of three-centimeter-thick elm wood, an extremely solid material that had long been painted with golden light by Zhang Chen.

At this time, Zhang Chen opened the door of the closet, and under the vixen's wide-eyed gaze, he stuffed the basket inside, then closed the wooden door. Zhang Chen lay down on it, muttering in a low voice, "The bed is messed up anyway, so I might as well spend the night in the wardrobe."

Looking at Zhang Chen lying on the wardrobe, the vixen was stunned. She stood there blankly with her mouth open, as if an egg could be stuffed in it. The fox fairy Nannan, holding a pair of scissors, looked at Zhang Chen pressed on the lid, then at the wardrobe box which was several centimeters thick, and the wardrobe shining with golden light. She was stunned for a moment and was actually at a loss.

After a long time, the fox fairy Nannan came back to her senses. The elegance and calmness on her face finally disappeared. She was so anxious that she cursed: "Bastard! Are you still a human being? No human being would do such a thing!"

She could use scissors to break into the wardrobe, but if she alarmed Zhang Chen, that guy would be difficult to deal with.

"It's a pity that I haven't recovered from my injuries yet, otherwise I, the ancestor, would have used the Moving Technique to move your house!" The fox fairy Nannan cursed angrily: "*********..."

Zhang Chen was lying on the box. Although he looked relaxed, his eyes and whole attention were all on the vixen. What if the vixen got angry and stabbed him with a pair of scissors? He would be unprepared.

Fortunately, the vixen did not do so. She just circled around Zhang Chen and the big box, cursing at them with ugly words, and finally left angrily and disappeared without a trace.

After the vixen left, Zhang Chen lay quietly on the box, with countless thoughts flashing through his mind: "Is this the only method the vixen has? What is the transportation method she mentioned?"

He thought about the methods that the fox spirits had used before. The first method was to transform reality into illusion. Buckets and food were transformed into nothingness and passed through the wall. The second method was that the fox spirit's soul left its body and could move various objects.

“There’s no need to be too afraid of carrying objects, as the weight of the objects that the vixen can carry must be limited. But the transformation between reality and illusion is really frightening! Since she has mastered the transformation between reality and illusion, she should not only have the ability to transform the objects in her own hands into reality and illusion, but also the ability to transform the objects in other people’s hands into reality and illusion. But one thing is certain, the things that I have blessed with golden light can be immune to the methods of the vixen.” A thought flashed through Zhang Chen’s mind.

"Transforming reality into illusion, this is simply an incredible method! This vixen is so difficult to deal with! I don't want to fight her directly, I need to outsmart her!"

"Of course, the most important thing is the fox spirit's body. The body is the essence of the fox spirit. If you want to kill the fox spirit, you need to destroy its body." Zhang Chen had a headache again. It seemed that ordinary traps were useless to the fox spirit, right? With the fox spirit's means, ordinary traps could not trap her at all.

"What about the trap blessed with golden light?" A thought flashed through Zhang Chen's mind: "Besides, the vixen seems to have been staying beside the scholar Zhang Chen all the time, hanging out with Zhang Chen all day long, not going anywhere, and I have no chance to set traps. Even if I go out to do something, the vixen's soul is out of its body, and it seems difficult to kill it with a trap! Moreover, the trap blessed with golden light is golden, and the vixen will definitely find it unless she is a fool, so how can she be fooled?"

"If you don't know the details of the physical body, then why not just bypass it?"

"Actually, I have another idea!" Zhang Chen's mind suddenly lit up with an idea, and he really came up with a plan: "I can create a closed space, and then trick the fox spirit's soul into entering it. Then I can seal the closed space directly from the outside, and use golden light to completely seal the closed space. By then, the fox spirit's body will lose its soul, and its soul will no longer have the nourishment of the body. Wouldn't it die sooner or later?"

The soul and the body are separated. As long as I starve the fox spirit's body to death, wouldn't that be the end of it?

"But how can I lure the vixen in? And a confined space is not a good choice!" Countless thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind, and his brain was blinking rapidly.

"I think this box is pretty good. If I can trick the fox spirit's soul into the box to carry the supplies, then I can directly use the golden light from outside to seal the box. Wouldn't the fox spirit be dead?"

"The only thing we can worry about is how fast the fox spirit's soul is. Is it faster for me to bless it with golden light, or is it faster for the fox spirit to escape directly? We need to test it a bit before we can make a decision!"

Zhang Chen said to himself:
"This matter still needs careful planning, so don't be too hasty."

In fact, the best "box" for him is the room, but there are holes on the walls of the room, and the ground is also compacted with mud. He wants to use the golden light to cover the entire room, but the target is too big. He is afraid that if he is a little slow, the fox spirit will escape before the golden light can seal the walls.

Once the vixen noticed that he had taken action, things would be in big trouble. Both sides would surely fight to the death, which was definitely not what Zhang Chen wanted to see.

What he wanted was to kill the vixen silently. Even if he couldn't kill her, he would never let the vixen suspect him. He definitely didn't want to fight the vixen himself. He knew that if he faced the vixen head-on, he would never be the vixen's opponent.

"Let's not talk about anything else. If the vixen brings a big rock and drops it from a high altitude, how should we deal with it?"

So the next choice is to use gunpowder to directly blow up the fox spirit's body, or to find a way to lure out the fox spirit's soul?
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Previously, chapters 62 and 61 were reversed. I deleted them and reposted them. Is that right for everyone?

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