Chapter 161 Wishing Cup Part Three
In view of the current urgency of the situation, there is a risk of world destruction every minute and every second, and there is no time to hesitate and make more careful plans, and must start taking action immediately.
Considering that the monster in front of him, Shiranui, has completely filled the surface of the earth, attacking will only make his flesh and blood grow longer and longer. It is difficult to physically open a path in a short period of time to enter the underground spiritual veins and seize the Holy Grail.
So Li Pan decided to take a shortcut! Take it through the back door! Get the key!
Ah Qi opened the door with a silver key. The other side of the door led directly to the underground cell of Chiyoda Prison, which should be a place where serious criminals were detained. I have to say that this cell was built very solidly. It was hit by two nuclear bombs and bombed indiscriminately for so long without collapsing. Its solidity is comparable to that of Li Pan. No wonder Kotaro couldn't escape at first... So everyone filed in
. As they entered, Li Pan and Yamazaki Ayato were holding monomolecular fire axes and high-energy electric saws in front of them to clear the way. Ashiya Shigui was in the middle, and Aqi had a paper shredder and a portable battery pack on her back.
Li Pan and Yamazaki swung their axes and chopped open the alloy prison door. Then Li Pan sensed the tidal surge of underground spiritual veins and led the way, leading everyone all the way underground.
Monster Shiranui was mainly hit by firepower from the surface. The flesh and blood mainly grew outwards. It was not so dense underground. There were only layers of capillaries and a sticky and slippery fleshy film like cell membranes, like some kind of lichen or moss. It spread and grew along the outer wall of the prison, as if it had been covered with a disgusting wallpaper.
And the further down you go, the thicker and more vivid the flesh wall becomes, as if the entire prison has become a part of the monster. The closer you get to the destination, the narrower the space becomes, and the more difficult it is for people to pass, as if they are stepping on something. On the soft bed, one foot is deep and the other is shallow, and the flesh wall is constantly leaking a lot of thick juice. If you accidentally slip, many flesh sprouts will appear and turn into arms to catch people.
Li Pan tried to chop with an axe, but saw that the wound healed quickly, and more and larger granules grew out, almost sealing the passage. He also knew that it was the same outside and inside. With the bonus of the Holy Grail, the more he attacked, the more flesh and blood would be resurrected. .
But Li Pan also discovered that if he poured monkey sword energy into the ax blade to cut, the wound would not heal. It seems that in terms of lethality alone, this sword energy is really one of the best, and it can't withstand any demon, devil, or monster. .
So Li Pan relied on his sword energy and brute force to forcefully pull out his teammates who were stuck in the flesh wall from time to time. In the end, the passage became more narrow and crowded, and he was left to open the way with an ax alone, while the others followed behind, heading deeper into the corridor. Advancing with difficulty.
"I can't get through. This wall of flesh is too thick! It's already filled up!"
When we reached the end of the corridor, we could see the passage leading to the Earth Vein Spirit Pond on the opposite side. But the team was blocked by a wall of flesh. Li Pan struck twice with the axe, and pounded it twice with the handle of the axe. The flesh wall twitched, but this was probably the main stem of the flower outside. It was difficult to cut off by chopping, and there was no time to waste here. Turning around, I saw that the passage that had been squeezed all the way through was full of granulation, and it was starting to be sutured and sealed.
"Quick! Open the door! Open it again!"
Yamazaki Ayato took out the silver key and inserted it into the wall of flesh. Everyone filed in and rushed into the door before being swallowed by the mountain of flesh.
Li Pan stopped and looked around. He saw only a stretch of green mountains surrounded by tall cedar trees. He turned around and looked around. Not only the other teammates, but also the chemical protective suits and fire axes had disappeared. Now he was wearing A formal suit.
No,
no, no, no, no
, this is not his body, it is the real world, it has entered the gap.
The gap, the rift in the world, the alien space, the heavenly paradise, the unreal dimension, this is the alien space constructed by the monster Shiranui using the power of the Holy Grail, the devil, and the spiritual veins.
However, this space is obviously built based on Kiriko Shiranui's memories, experiences and the ninjutsu illusions she has learned. It is completely different from her brother's cave, that is, they have truly restored and reconstructed every grain of sand, and you just I randomly pulled the textures from the Internet and it gave me a rough and low-quality feeling.
Naturally, such low-level illusions couldn't trap Li Pan at all. He closed his eyes and concentrated, silently reciting the "Heart Sutra of Supreme Evil Slayer". He concentrated his spiritual thoughts, turned his figure, and turned into three inches of green light, instantly breaking free from the shackles of the illusion. Then he flew towards the mountains and dense forests.
The green light circulated as fast as light and shadow, and soon Li Pan discovered traces of other teammates.
It can be seen that Kiriko Shiranui is still a little conscious and has not harmed her colleagues in the company. Ah Qi is wandering around the mountains with a paper shredder on her back. Ashiya Shiki seems to have realized that this is an illusion and is making spells to summon shikigami. And Yamazaki Ayato was still lying in the grass, sleeping soundly and not waking up.
And Li Pan turned around and found that they were not the only ones coming, but there were others.
These people should be the ones Shiba is talking about. They are the corporate dogs that other forces sneaked into the investigation. They also came for the Holy Grail. Some of them lost consciousness like Yamazaki. There are also some who have strong mental power and can gradually regain their self-awareness and wake up. , but apparently still unable to see through dreams and illusions.
After all, this is not the real world. After discovering that their super prosthetics and communication equipment have 'failed', the company dogs wandered aimlessly in the dense forest, conducting investigations and explorations, and then became prey and were attacked by the devil in their dreams. They hunted them one by one.
Yes, this dreamland is a huge hunting ground. In addition to people, there are also some weird and disgusting things in the forest. They should be the demon monsters that were sealed by the Koga people and absorbed and fused.
The most conspicuous one is naturally the Great Tengu. At this moment, the demon god appears in the classic Crow Wing form. It has the strongest combat power. It whizzes past in the sky and suddenly pounces into the forest. One punch can smash pedestrians on the ground to pieces. Meat, pick up the heart and liver and eat it.
There are also some weird demons that Li Pan has never seen before.
Some are like four conjoined women stuck together with glue, alien shapes put together back to back, with four heads and eight arms. They usually hide in the forest or among the fallen leaves. When someone passes by, they will suddenly start to move and rush through the forest. Walking, weaving through, sometimes jumping and sometimes running sideways, climbing up like a spinning top, snarling and rushing over, he pounced on those company dogs, stretched out his hands to tear off the limbs, dug out the lungs, tore the whole person alive and swallowed it eat.
Some monsters look like giant silkworm chrysalises, white flesh maggots with many women's faces. They will laugh and sing at the same time, attracting the charming company dogs to come to them, stretch out their arms from the fat insects and hug people into them. into his arms, then he opened his huge mouth and spit out his needle-like mouthparts to suck out the brain.
There are also monsters that look like normal humanoids, but they are clearly just using the skins of those kunoichi. Although they are grinning, their eyes are actually dark, and the skins are empty, so they only use the female body as a disguise. Attracting the company dog to approach, it pounced on the person with its mouth wide open like a fierce ghost. The whole skin bag was like a cloth bag and covered the person's head. Then, like a python devouring its prey, it squirmed and crushed the human form inside into a pulp.
Although they were in a dream, the mental consciousness of these corporate dogs obviously could not withstand the horrific torture of these monsters and ghosts. They were devoured by these demons one after another, and the 'qi' in their bodies also dissipated completely, and they probably died completely.
While Li Pan was watching the demon gods eating, he could vaguely sense that these things did not possess human emotions and consciousness. They were all real monsters and real demon gods.
It is estimated that Shiranui Kiriko cannot control so many demons in her body, so she simply allows their consciousness to move freely, guarding the periphery of the spiritual world and sending away external intruders.
Some of those monsters were powerful, and they could sense that Li Pan was spying secretly, but they were too busy eating people to catch him. They couldn't touch the green light flying around, so they didn't bother to pay attention to him.
Li Pan didn't have time to pay attention to these demons now. With a flash of green light, he flew towards the depths of the dense forest and found a village hidden in the forest.
Koga no Sato, the village of ninjas.
It seems that this world should be the spiritual world built by Kiriko Shiranui using the memories of her hometown.
With a flash of green light, Li Pan transformed into a human form and entered the village.
The village was quiet and deserted, and in the center of the village, probably in the courtyard of a deep house such as Rentou Mansion, Li Pan found twenty corpses covered with white cloth.
"Wuzi? Are you in there?"
Li Pan felt the astonishing 'qi' in the room and tried to call out.
The sound of thumping footsteps came from the back room. A woman wearing a red kimono, bare thighs, and wearing wooden clogs, dressed like a streetwalker, with heavy makeup, and a body and facial features that were 70% similar to Koga Asahime came out and said with a carefree expression. He said in a lazy voice,
"She's not here anymore."
Li Pan squinted at the woman, then glanced at the body covered with white cloth.
"Are you the nine-tailed demon fox?"
The woman didn't deny it. She leaned on the door frame and lazily sat down on the floor. She crossed her thighs and gave Li Pan a sideways look.
"Are you the Dragon King?"
Li Pan, "...who do you think I am?"
The woman narrowed her eyes and stared at him again,
"Hey, is it a human? It smells a bit like... hum, a stench... ..."
She took out a dry cigarette from her kimono, and took some shredded tobacco from her purse, lit it up, took a puff, and said in Kansai dialect, "For the sake of the Dragon King, I won't do anything with you
. . If you want to find Wuzi, you don’t have to tangle with me.
She has already brought the Holy Grail to touch the source. If you want to find her, you have to dive deeper and go to the realm of void." "What should I do
? Go, can you please point me to a way?"
Li Pan had no idea what the other party was talking about, but since the demon fox opposite had an autonomous consciousness and could communicate, he tried to negotiate, "
I'm only here for the Holy Grail, company She's trustworthy. If you can help me find her, the price can be negotiated and everything is negotiable."
The woman pursed her red lips, sucked in the smoke, blew out the smoke ring, and pointed at the corpses with the pipe,
"I am concubine. Help her guard these fragments of the soul, and when the deal is done, she will dedicate her body to me."
Upon hearing the other party's quotation, Li Pan smiled and said,
"If you just want a body of your own, that's really simple. But no matter what age it is now, what kind of thing do you want? With handles or without handles, with long hair or not, I will do as you ask. But if you must get
this body, I will do it. I can help. Even if you can really control this body, I will be happy to help. I
can promise that when I get the Holy Grail, I will immediately kill Shiranui Kiriko and seal other demons to help you gain control of this body. How about that?
Or Your Majesty, you can bet whether Shiranui Kiriko and these Koga ninjas who have sealed you for many years will keep their promise.
After all, I saw many demons guarding this illusion along the way. Maybe Kiriko also made a promise to them. Did you make the same promise?"
The woman tilted her head, leaning on her smooth jade shoulder, looking at Li Pan with interest,
"Is your palace really willing to kill her? I saw in Qian Ji's memory that the three of you We are quite close, right?"
"We are all adults. We are just a pure physical relationship where we are occasionally lonely and cold, and we hug each other for mutual benefit.
And it only lasts three times. I have saved her more than three times, and now it is It's time to save yourself..."
Li Pan pointed to the top of his head,
"Can you see that thing?"
The woman looked up and saw nothing in the sky. She thought for a moment that Li Pan was attracting her attention and wanted to launch an attack. But when he lowered his eyebrows, he saw that Li Pan was still pointing directly at the sky and made no other movements. He was not joking, so he couldn't help but look up curiously again. This time he focused his eyes, and his eyes shot out two golden lights, scanning the sky... ...
"What is that?"
Li Pan showed an expression like you are pretending to be a country boy, and smiled,
"That is the projection of the eleven-dimensional battleship in the three-dimensional universe. Since it is projected, it means that this interstitial space, It is also within the direct range of the naval gun.
If I cannot retrieve the Holy Grail within time and stop Shiranui Kiriko's plot, the company will open fire and destroy all detectable spaces. By then, let alone your body,
your soul will only I can't keep it even if I'm afraid. I'm not threatening you, I'm just stating the facts about what's going to happen.
Yes, Kiriko Shiranui and I have some friendship, but I still want to live. I won't stand at this moment of self-destruction. It's on her side.
So whether you believe me or not, it's best to show me a way. No matter what, you have no loss."
The woman took a puff of cigarette, thought about it, pursed her lips and smiled,
"Okay, actually I also feel that with Wuzi’s ability, she cannot reach the source, and reaching this point is already her limit, but you may be different... I will send you to see her." Then she opened her mouth
, Sticking out his tongue, revealing his pink mouth,
"Come in from here."
Li Pan took a breath of air, "...No, you still want to do this with me at this time??"
The woman rolled her eyes at him,
"If you want to break through this layer of dreamland and dive deeper, this is the fastest way.
Why, your palace is too small to enter? Then I'll change my head."
Then she opened her mouth, The woman's head suddenly transformed into a huge demon fox head as big as the front of a truck!
He opened his bloody mouth, full of fangs, and his throat was like a black hole. He stirred up a gust of fishy wind and bit Li Pan head-on!
Li Pan also sighed secretly. If he had known that this road was so smelly, he would have just taken the trail just now.
So he recited the Heart Sutra silently, and the light turned into three inches of blue light, which penetrated into the fox demon's mouth and fell straight down the demon fox's esophagus.
For a moment, the brilliance reversed, the movie flew by, and fell into a deep void of nothingness in an instant.
In that void, Li Pan felt that only a few seconds had passed, and it seemed like a long life. Suddenly, he fell into a trance, his eyes blurred, and he found himself standing in front of a door.
A door in the void. Beyond this door, everything is empty.
Li Pan swallowed, knocked on the door, and opened the door.
Inside the door is a Han-style teahouse with calligraphy hanging on both sides, which read:
I have no self-image at this time, no one has the identity, and no living beings.
All appearances are right and wrong, and all sentient beings are not sentient beings.
The Holy Grail was placed on the coffee table in the middle, and the cup contained an unknown liquid.
'Shiranui Kiriko' was wearing a black and white Taoist robe, her long hair was held up by a wooden hairpin, like a female crown, she was sitting at the table, raising her hand to signal Li Pan to come in.
Li Pan didn't move for a moment, because he was sure that the person in front of him was definitely not Shiranui Kiriko, but just a piece of her skin. Her eyes were empty and dark, with nothing in them.
'Shiranui Kiriko' spoke directly, speaking a man's voice that she had never heard before, but for some reason it sounded familiar.
"Sit."
Li Pan couldn't help but step in, sit on 'Shiranui', no, sit opposite 'it', looking at the Holy Grail in front of him.
Then 'it' spoke,
"I want to catch that fish."
Li Pan, "...what? Fish?"
'It' smiled and pointed to the top of its head, "That one."
That... eleven-dimensional battleship ...
'It' nodded, and then sighed,
"People in the world always have endless desires, but they can't grasp the opportunity when given to them. It's because they are so
useless and unwilling to do so, that's why they are called , Mortal...
Okay, I still have to change it for you."
Li Pan swallowed, "I, I will do it?"
'It' turned its hand, and as if by magic, it conjured up the piece of Dragon King Temple. Jade card.
"Make a wish, you can do anything. Help me lead that big fish out from the other side of the boundary membrane."
Then Li Pan saw that the jade plaque, which could not be damaged even by a nuclear bomb, was taken away by 'it' He held it in his hand and broke it into two pieces.
Li Pan swallowed, his mouth was dry, he raised the Holy Grail and drank it...
Damn, why is it tasteless... This is another glass of water for me...
'It' shook his head and said with a smile,
"Pure Why don't you, you really learned the true teachings over there.
There's nothing wrong with that. The 'root' is a very fair thing.
The more rules you change, the greater the price you have to pay.
No desires, no demands, Sticking to my way is easier said than done.
You have survived this disaster."
'It' stretched out two fingers, twisted the broken jade medal in his hand, and actually put it together again, and handed it back to Li coil.
"Okay, go to sleep."
Li Pan said, "What, what on earth are you..."
Li Pan opened his eyes suddenly.
He found that he was back in his body, still sitting in the Dragon King Temple, holding the Holy Grail in his right hand and the jade tablet in his left hand.
The jade medal flashed and flashed, emitting a green shimmer, like a heartbeat, and looking carefully, there was clearly a trace of fine lines on the jade medal, like natural jade marks, and as if it had been broken just now.
Li Pan blinked hard again, held the Holy Grail and the jade tablet, and confirmed that he was not dreaming. Then he swallowed, got up with his waist bent, and crawled out of the ruined temple.
It's raining outside.
It rained blood.
The huge flower stems entrenched in the ancient well of Lingquan and the rock formations of the prison had completely collapsed and disintegrated.
The large mass of broken flesh and blood gathered together to form a grotesque monster demon, which transformed into what Li Pan saw in his dream. He broke free from his collapsing torso and fled in all directions, running towards freedom.
And more flesh and blood continued to collapse and disintegrate, and tons of plasma and flesh fell from around the cave like a spewing mudslide.
Li Pan lowered his head and glanced around, and saw the altar that was washed away and submerged by blood, and something lying beside the ancient well spiritual pond.
This 'thing' should be Shiranui Kiriko herself. How to describe it? Has her skin been 'borrowed'? Now that she has lost the Holy Grail, her flesh and blood have disintegrated, leaving only an old and shriveled torso, which looks like A piece of dead wood floating by the pond.
Li Pan felt that she still had her last breath, so she hurried forward,
"Kiroko, Kiriko! You, it... what on earth is that?"
Shiranui Kiriko glanced at Li Pan with dim, gray pupils, and said,
"...Please...just let me die this time..."
Li Pan was stunned for a moment, looked at the Holy Grail in his hand, and did nothing in the end.
Then the woman died.
(End of chapter)