Chapter 142 Star Gate
I wonder if any of you have had the experience of being deceived, deceived, tricked, and robbed of 80 million yuan?
Now Li Pan has it.
Be more open-minded. There is a first time for everything. Calm down and think about what to do next...
So he took the shuttle back and went to work for the day. Li Pan didn't know what he had done, so he sat in the office and thought about it. All day long...
it was really hard to bear it the more I thought about it, the more I lost it! The more I think about it, the more I get angrier!
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhahahahahahahahaha! Fuck you! I want your life!!" A
blood dragon rose into the sky from the vast sea of sand! Stirring up the anime sky!
For a moment, a bloody storm poured down, causing a huge amount of blood! Thousands of miles of yellow sand will be submerged by the red water pouring from the sky! The vast desert turned into a boundless sea of blood!
The tsunami set off swept over the entire desert, leaving only an area of sand dunes around the white felt tent, like an isolated island in a sea of blood.
"Ang——!!"
Then from the boundless sea of blood, a red dragon broke out of the sea!
On the red scales, drops of blood and tears were sprinkled. On the dragon's neck, there was a human-faced dragon head, with an angry beard, golden eyes and black horns. Blood and fire spurted out from the mouth and nose, red breath lingered, and red clouds wrapped around it.
"Congratulations, big brother, for practicing your qi to transform into a god! Your blood god son is so domineering, majestic, and murderous. He deserves to be the god of our religion, hahaha!" Duan Kecheng, who transformed into a handsome young man, opened the tent and strode forward
. He walked out, laughed and clasped his fists at the blood dragon.
The red dragon stared at Duan Kecheng, swept its tail, swam around, and set off a huge wave of blood. The blood wave was overwhelming, like a pair of big hands hitting Duan Kecheng.
Duan Kecheng just smiled and remained motionless, watching the huge waves roll in front of him on both sides.
Then, from the sea of blood, a young man of about fifteen or sixteen years old, with black hair and golden eyes, a red line between his eyebrows, and wearing a blood robe came out.
"Brother, please use it!"
Duan Kecheng invited Li Pan to sit in the tent and poured him a glass of water and wine. Seeing his gloomy face, he couldn't help but wonder, "
Eh? Brother, what's wrong with you? It's a great joy to refine the Son of Blood God. Why?" Aren't you in a good mood?"
Li Pan muttered, "I was fooled..."
Duan Kecheng became furious and shouted,
"Who! Who is so bold as to dare to trick my brother? Brother, tell me. ! I'll help you kill his whole family!"
Li Pan, "...I don't know who it is, I just know it's a man." "
Okay! I'll kill all the men in the world..."
Duan Kecheng paused. He sat back and said,
"...Brother, can we be more specific?"
Li Pan shook his head, "Don't worry about it. I'll crush him like a grasshopper. The problem is how to get back the money he deceived me... "
When Duan Kecheng heard this, he said strangely,
"Being cheated of money? But my eldest brother has great supernatural powers, extraordinary powers, calculations, and clear principles. How could he be deceived?
Ah, could it be that that bastard broke his promise and regretted it later?
Humph! I hate this kind of profiteer the most! When doing business, one must be honest and trustworthy! Pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other hand! They pass off inferior goods as good ones and pass off goods as fake goods!
Brother, don’t worry! I will definitely help you kill that profiteer’s family!”
Li Pan said, “That’s right. No, there's nothing wrong with what he sold me, but he gave me some extra small gifts that I didn't like and wanted to regret."
Duan Kecheng, "..."
Li Pan didn't pay attention to him, so he drank down the drink in one gulp and looked up to the sky with a sigh. , "Garbage! My money! Give me back my money!"
Duan Kecheng quickly filled it up for him and said with a smile,
"What am I saying? This is not a big deal! Brother, if you are short of money, why don't you go and grab it? Okay! The rich people in this world are most afraid of death. They kidnap a few of them and threaten them. If they don’t pay, they will kill their whole family. They will definitely pay the ransom. This will happen several times. The first time they are alive, the second time they are familiar. , he turned around and sent the prisoner himself in advance, and he also wants to offer you up! He'll always try his best!"
Li Pan squinted at him,
"Brother, you don't know the dangers of this world, you will suffer for being so unscrupulous. In addition, let me tell you, there are people in the company who are here to deal with you. Be careful and don't implicate me."
Duan Kecheng waved his hand nonchalantly,
"Brother, just don't worry! This is not a big deal, our god's sect has fought all over the world. Heaven! Attack all realms! Kill demons when you see them, kill gods when you meet them! Enemies are spread all over the world! There are
many people who want my life, there are at least one or two! Don’t worry! Come! Cheers, big brother!"
" ...Why is this something worth showing off?"
Li Pan drank another drink with him.
Ah, this drink is quite delicious, and it actually tastes like apple...
"Forget about this, by the way, brother, I got an interesting thing!"
Duan Kecheng walked behind the tent and brought out a wine vat,
"Brother Look!"
Li Pan went up to take a look and saw a person soaking in the wine vat. He was also a child. His skin was peeled off from the neck down and he was soaked in a jar of blood wine.
Li Pan looked at the young man, then at the wine plate in his hand, and silently spit the wine in his mouth back into the plate,
"Who is this?"
Duan Kecheng giggled, "I don't know, I picked it up on the road.
" Pan squinted at him and said,
"...you picked it up without knowing who it was? Why did he also cheat you out of money?"
"What money, brother, look at it."
Duan Kecheng stretched out his hand to squeeze the child's chin and opened his mouth. At that moment, Li Panzheng saw something in his mouth, like an eyeball looking out.
The eyeballs looked at each other and Li Pan and the others looked at each other, then retracted and rolled down the child's throat.
Li Pan frowned, "What the hell is this..."
Duan Kecheng laughed,
"I heard it's called Beheite. It's probably the egg in this world. The egg is one of the things you took out from the cave. It seems to be There is an existence that can touch the 'Tao' of this world.
I thought it might be useful to break the heavens in the future, so I searched for Petro's soul and got the method of sacrifice.
Yesterday, the natives of this world happened to massacre the city. I saw it to death. A lot of people, don't waste the opportunity, so they used the land to offer sacrifices and summoned this egg, egg.
Well, it chose this kid, so I picked it up." "
Oh, 'egg/egg', right... "
Li Pan looked at the boy again, and suddenly noticed that there were many runes and blood jars on the inner wall of the wine vat, which were glowing with red light and injecting traces of blood into his body through the medicinal wine.
So Li Panruo realized something, blinked, and two bright lights shot out from his eyes, shining on his face like high beams, and he saw through the opponent's prototype.
Yes, this desert and this sea of blood are not the real world.
Now that he has learned the "Book of Blood", Li Pan already knows that this gap has been shaped by Duan Kecheng into the secret world of the divine court and the illusion of the soul.
The various shapes of boys and dragons between the two people are all illusions of the soul, and the boy in the wine jar is actually in a 'dream'.
But now that he has seen through all kinds of illusions, he can see the truth hidden in the gaps behind the dream.
The child had been grilled to medium rare. He was burned like a veal steak by the incendiary bomb. His body was severely burned and he was almost out of shape.
At this time, there were many screws and steel drills inserted into various acupuncture points on his torso along the meridians. Of course, this was not a barbecue, but a wonderful method of using golden needles to draw pulses and point acupuncture points to revive the soul.
Li Pan also recognized that this technique was the healing method in the "Blood Barrel Book".
"Isn't this the magic method of restoring blood and reviving souls? Do you want to save him?"
Duan Kecheng said with a smile,
"Big brother has achieved great success, and he has remembered it all! Yes, it is the magic method of restoring blood and resurrecting souls!
The building where this kid lived was burned to death. However, he was protected by his parents, and he swallowed the 'egg/egg', and then he could breathe.
I think this person survived the disaster and will have good fortune in the future, and he has some qualifications, so I plan to accept him as a I'm a servant.
Even if I can't save him, I can still make a blood puppet clone and use it!"
After hearing this, Li Pan also sighed, all living beings are suffering...
Then he opened his mouth and spurted out a red glowing blood. Pearl, turned into a divine light and shined it on the boy's head, also illuminating a bloody mark between his eyebrows.
It's not particularly useful, it just helps him protect the divine court, condense his soul, and support him for a while according to the secret spells in the "Blood Barrel Book".
Duan Kecheng clicked his tongue and praised,
"You are worthy of being the eldest brother. This hand is fast, good and standard in concentrating and guarding the heart. At first glance, you can tell that you have guided many Yixin disciples in their practice. I see that you have
also been the leader of the great altar, at least. It’s such a blessing for me to be able to make friends with you, the Dharma King who protects the world!” “
Okay, okay, stop bragging, didn’t you say you were going to some devil’s cave tonight? Let’s go.”
“Okay! Let’s go! Let’s go to the human world to worship. Moon."
Then the two people left the illusion and revealed their true bodies, a blood man and a blood baby, crawling out of the refrigerator.
The blood baby said, "Brother, I have calculated the time accurately, set up the barrier, and set up the altar, which is foolproof. When the moon appears later, we can fly directly to the realm of the devil's cave, but you have to obey me three times. It's something."
Li Pan said, "Tell me."
Xue Ying said, "It's not a big deal. Even those lambs smell sweet, but they all have their own owners. Although some old-timers are used to being domineering, but now I teach The teachings are strict. Those who have merit must be rewarded, and those who have made mistakes must be punished. There is no crime in autumn. You have to pay when you buy things. Brother, you must not become ferocious and kill wantonly. If you are seen by the law enforcement venerable, you will be severely punished if you violate the rules. Yes."
Li Pan thought to himself, you think too highly of your brother and me.
"Don't worry."
Xue Ying shook his head and said, "Secondly, if we go there, we won't meet anyone from the Magic Mountain and the Demon Sect. The Magic Mountain is nothing more than that. We all are fellow villagers from the same place. How can we still meet them? Let's talk about relatives and exchange some knowledge, but the Demon Sect is our feud. I can't guarantee that you, brother, were also harmed by the Demon Sect in your previous life. You have not yet achieved your magic, but you must endure it. The overall situation is more important." Li Pan
. I also know clearly in my heart that the Demon Sect is the Xuan Sect, and the divine sect's skills are indeed a bit weak in the later stages.
"I understand, I understand."
Xue Ying nodded, "If the elder brother is willing to obey me on these two items, it will be no big deal. As for the third item, it is actually rare after all, but the elder brother does not remember the previous life, and it is customary to inform him when he is informed. That's it
. If we meet someone from the Sword Sect, let's run away separately, live and die, and be brothers again in the next life."
Li Pan, "...No, who is this Sword Sect? Are you so afraid of me, brother?"
Xueying sighed,
" Alas... they are a group of lunatics. Fortunately, there are not many of them. It is not that they will not encounter death disaster, but if they encounter it, they will be unable to escape... In short, brother, you will think of it yourself later, and little brother, don't talk nonsense. The time has come
. , let's get started!"
So Li Pan followed Xue Ying to the garbage pile. Only then did he notice that the garbage mountain had been rebuilt and piled into forty-nine piles, arranged into a Zhoutian magic circle. In the midst of the large array of garbage, another piece of flat land was cleared, and a vague-looking figure was built with mud.
The blood baby knelt down in front of the statue, "Worship the Lord!"
Li Pan followed suit and knelt down, "Worship the Lord!"
He knelt down and bowed, and then he felt a ray of light coming from the top of his head. As soon as I stood up, the stars had changed. When I raised my head and looked around, the world had changed.
It seems that this is the boundary of the Demon Cave...
It was said to be the Demon Cave, and it was also called the Lamb. Li Pan thought it was some kind of cave on the top of the mountain, or a primitive society like Hemudu.
However, what Li Pan saw before his eyes was a prosperous city. It looks like an ancient city from the twentieth century, when humans were still bound to the surface by gravity.
The pedestrians running around are not much different from the Night City except for their old-fashioned clothing styles.
But when Li Pan looked at himself, a skinless bloody man standing in the middle of the street, while the humans around him were busy with their own affairs and completely unaware of the sudden appearance of the alien demon, he understood.
Is it disguise?
Li Pan closed his eyes and opened them again. The electric light in his eyes flickered, scanning the crowd like a searchlight.
empty.
The streets are empty of pedestrians.
Empty and clothed, the skin was dusty coming and going on the road.
As he glanced away, those skin bags lit up with flames and turned into ashes.
But the people are fake, but the city is real.
It looks like a bustling, bustling street, but it's actually an empty, abandoned ghost town. It’s like a virtual game that’s rushed to launch but has no time to write AI scripts and no money to hire real NPCs. It looks like the screen is full, but in fact there is nothing real to interact with you at all. It’s just a scam to defraud money.
But what Li Pan didn't understand was that if it was just a disguise, or some unfinished building project, the city would be too realistic. He punched the ground, and it was all reinforced concrete.
"Brother, don't make trouble. You have to restrain yourself when you come to other people's territory."
Suddenly someone pulled him from the side. Li Pan blinked, put away the golden light and turned to look.
Duan Kecheng casually grabbed a passerby's skin, put it on the blood baby's head, and used illusion magic to construct the human form of the white-clothed and red-haired boy in the illusion.
"Those skins are the method of the divine religion? But this city should be made by people from my side, right?"
Li Pan also followed the same example and grabbed a piece of human skin and put it on his body, transforming it into a human-shaped blood-clothed body.
"Eldest brother is indeed very perceptive and talented. He can master the seven exquisite orifices as soon as he learns them..." "
Hey, if you keep flattering me, be careful and I will flatter you."
"Hey, elder brother is so humble. Everything the younger brother said is from the heart, how can he be flattering?"
Duan Kecheng smiled and walked Li Pan into the downtown area while pointing to the crowd around him to explain.
"This world is the territory captured by the demon cave people. The original human race has been eaten up by them. Because it is very close to your world, big brother, it can be used as a springboard for smuggling. I heard from the people in the demon cave,
' The "extraterrestrial disaster star" will come to patrol from time to time. So you have to be careful to cover up the secrets, so as not to let the other party see the flaws. Throw down the thunder and earth fire to destroy the world. "The extraterrestrial disaster star, the thunder and earth fire... can't mean the SEC's scientific research
investigation Boat...
But if it is true, then this is already the border earth.
Li Pan looked at the illusory city in front of him. It was almost the same style as the Night City, no, almost the same as New Tokyo. He could even see Oda's family crest, and suddenly he had some guesses about the location of the Demon Cave.
I have to make a strong point here and mention the naming rules for the heavens, the worlds, and the parallel earth.
In the Legion era, there was only one Earth, and the other planes were all colonies, and the names were randomly chosen by companies from various countries, such as Gaia, Kyushu, New Eden, and Takamagahara.
Among these colonies, Earth 01, the first alien world developed by mankind, is known as the capital of the old human union and has built wormhole star gates leading to all other planes.
After the committee was established, while sorting out the debt crisis, it also numbered the worlds in the heavens, and allocated positions according to the order in which each parallel earth colony paid off its debt, such as selling the earth to a certain company, and formally joining the trade treaty between the heavens.
That is, after the initial Earth 0 and the old capital Earth 01, the order increases, starting from 02 and going backwards.
But this sorting method was soon disrupted due to mergers between companies, corporate wars that destroyed everything, various species extinctions, all kinds of scientific research disasters, the upgrading of super weapons, one after another solemn agreements, etc. Various reasons.
Every day in the war, an Earth could be destroyed. In every century of peace, it is also possible that a destroyed world will be rebuilt.
Therefore, in order to facilitate management, after a war that almost destroyed 30% of the world, the new Security Committee made changes to the Earth numbering rules.
Now they are numbered not in chronological order, but in 'path', according to the star gates leading to each parallel world.
Yes, in the past, wormhole star gates could lead to all other worlds. But now, the cross-world routes of the wormhole star gate are restricted.
Taking 0791 as an example, it is actually Earth 0, Earth 01, Earth 07, Earth 079, and Earth 0791 in this order.
And 0113 is sorted by Earth 0, Earth 01, Earth 11, and Earth 0113.
Of course, this is just a rough official naming rule. In fact, there are many privileges and exceptions.
A basic principle is that Earth 0 is the beginning and end of everything. But the stargate leading to Earth 0 is top secret. No ship can approach Earth 0 without passing through 01.
The second principle is that Earth 01 can be omitted in the numbering sequence, because in Earth 01, there is no longer an Earth.
This is the battlefield where the Legion was destroyed, and it is also the fleet headquarters of the Security Committee. Countless Titan and Dreadnought bases are suspended above the wreckage of the damaged Earth.
The third principle is that the construction of the Star Gate must be approved by the committee.
There is an upper limit to the number of star gates allowed to be built on each earth, from 0 to 9.
But all Gate 0 are so-called 'Return Star Gates'.
Take Earth 02 as an example. In the Earth 02 plane, the official star gates are 020, 021...029, these ten gates.
Among them, door 021 leads to Earth 021. Gate 020 leads to Earth 01.
Of course Earth 01 is an exception.
The officially approved star gates of Earth 01 are 02, 03, 04...019, these eighteen.
But in fact, in addition to the hidden Star Gate 0, Earth 01 serves as the transportation hub of the heavens, the capital of the old human government, and the location of the offices of the Security Committee of the heavens.
Each large committee company has more or less built its own star gates and secret channels here.
At the same time, Earth 01 is the only place that preserves the original wormhole to all multiverses.
Therefore, the fleet belonging to the Security Committee can appear in any galaxy anytime, anywhere to maintain the absolute order of the committee.
But the reverse is not true.
For example, if the civilian merchant ship of 0791 wants to do trade in other planes, it needs to jump up from the 'Return Star Gate' step by step.
Pass through the three star gates of 07910, 0790, and 070 to reach Earth 01 before heading to other paths.
For another example, if 0113 sends a ship to pick up Tai Sui, if it uses civilian channels, it will theoretically have to go through five star gates to reach 0791.
And every time a star gate is crossed, the cost and tariffs that need to be paid are sky-high.
However, TheM Company is a member of the Safety Committee and naturally has its own privileges, so the other party directly went through the committee channel and sent the Dreadnought to jump directly to 0791, arriving in an instant.
By the way, under this trading system, the most cost-effective ones are naturally the owners of the eighteen worlds from 02 to 019.
Because they are the closest to the trade nodes of the All-Heaven Star Gate, they can reach Earth 01 in just one hop. At the same time, other earths on the derived path must also pay tolls for them.
Yes, the owners of these eighteen worlds are members of the Security Committee in a general sense.
Obviously, the construction of all star gates and the development of all new worlds require the approval of the Safety Committee.
When the Ethics Committee's research ship discovers a new century, only the company that wins the bid is allowed to build the door to the new world.
By the way, it is impossible to travel to other worlds from Earth 0791.
Because there is only one return star gate here, namely Gate 07910, and Gate 07911 does not exist.
In the era of the Eighth New Tokyo, Takamagahara once had such an opportunity.
Opportunity to develop a new world '07911'. Opportunity to become an alternate member of the committee.
But Gao Tianyuan has taken too big a step. They are bidding for Earth 07911 while also bidding for committee seats. The result I want is that I can’t get anything.
So as New World's bid failed, the 07911 development plan, which had invested a lot of resources, was suspended, and Gao Tianyuan's shareholders lost everything.
The Oda clan was unwilling to accept failure, and forcibly and secretly promoted the construction of Star Gate 07911, illegally building the Star Gate, and finally committing suicide on the head of the King of Hell, which violated the taboo of the Safety Committee and led to the outbreak of a full-scale war.
With the destruction of one Titan and the destruction of both Titan fleets, Gao Tianyuan finally failed to defend the 07911 Star Gate. The illegal Star Gate was completely destroyed by the Security Committee fleet and was defeated by GG.
So Gao Tianyuan declared surrender, fell short of success, and was completely bankrupt.
So, could the location of the Demon Cave be that of Earth 07911...
(End of this chapter)