Chapter 166 Liu Dao
effortlessly defeated a countryman killer organization, which is really not a record worth bragging about.
Li Pan was too lazy to talk nonsense, and threw the remaining Hattori Hanzo into the infantry cabin, and asked the drone to pack and courier it back to the company, and handed it over to 0113007 for disposal.
He activated the optical camouflage function, and with the electronic support of Shiba, he immediately evacuated the scene and disappeared into the vast night with a burst of Superman jumps and parkour.
The entire kidnapping mission took less than fifteen minutes from takeoff. Not to mention the disappearance of the star, the NCPA didn't even have time to send out the police... In short, he ordered others to continue tracking Kotaro's traces while contacting
Iga about the hostage exchange. Li Pan announced that he was off work.
Two thousand five hundred yuan is not worth fighting for, right?
Of course, we still have to keep looking for the 'Mikoshi'.
So Li Pan turned on SBS and ran wildly, running through streets and alleys and jumping off buildings. In a straight line, he came to the old house of the Feng Mo family, where Kotaro was kidnapped.
Having just seen Shiba's on-site analysis and simulation in Whale Style, Li Pan also noticed that Kotaro was not captured without any help and was killed instantly.
Judging from the battle calculations, he should have been accidentally attacked and seriously injured, but he still unblocked and transformed to resist tenaciously. After struggling for a while and lifting several pieces of the floor, he was defeated and captured.
The support from Shiba was not slow in coming, but the sneak attackers were also very careful. They retreated immediately after catching anyone alive and did not stay to clean up the battlefield.
In other words, Kotaro actually had enough time to hide the mikoshi during the battle. There is even a certain possibility that the 'mikoshi' is still in this mansion untouched.
So Li Pan decided to try his luck.
As a close servant of Oda, the Seal Demon family has been in charge of the imperial court for generations. This kind of spy leader is responsible for surveillance, assassinations, and house raids. Although he is not visible on the stage, he is very powerful and his family is extremely rich.
The various assets of the Royal Court members in various places in 0791, both overt and covert, as well as villas and manors, secret bases and hiding places, all fell into the hands of the Demon Feng Family after their defeat. This old house is also one of the properties in Night City. It is a large villa located in a wealthy area, and is a private property that is as neat as a park.
When Li Pan arrived, NCPA's police robots had cordoned off the scene. However, in recent days, nuclear explosions had occurred frequently, and the engineering robots had no time to restore the city's appearance. NCPA had no interest or time to investigate the company's crime scenes one by one. The scene was extremely quiet. Same as the cemetery.
So Li Pan simply used a super jump and optical invisibility to sneak into the mansion.
Well, if Kotaro had hidden the mikoshi here before, where would he have hidden it...
Li Pan wandered around
and couldn't find it.
After all, the 'Mikoshi' is not a monster, nor is it a magic weapon. It neither emits light nor fires cannons. To put it bluntly, it only records the experimental data, program blueprints, and Oda clan's electronic soul of the Takamagahara Tenma King Project. Device, some kind of hard disk storage device.
In a place like the City of Night, where anyone can dig out eight-liang alloys from their bodies, finding such electronic equipment is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
And even if the thing is found, the data must be cracked and repaired. If it is encryption software or has a self-destruct program, it will be even more traceless.
I remember that when Li Pan was working in the garbage dump, there was such a weirdo among treasure hunters who specialized in recycling various discarded hard drives and data cards, and trying to make money by restoring the data on them. If he could get some company blueprints or something, Then send it. Of course, most of the time what is decrypted and decompressed are pornographic films...
But it doesn't matter, Li Pan still has a way. Well, don't look at his heavy-backed and half-body mecha, loaded with guns and ammunition. He is a serious cultivator.
Well, it's not normal for us cultivators to be able to figure things out and predict the future. This is our job to earn a living.
So he grabbed a handful of grass and started to forget about it. Well, this is actually real grass, rich and rich... Anyway, after
grabbing a handful of grass, Li Pan sat on the ground and took a deep breath. After the grass turned green, he He began to deduce King Wen's hexagram according to Dayan's method.
First count fifty grass stems, pull out one and discard it, that is Dayan's number of fifty, and its usefulness is nine out of forty.
The remainder is divided into two halves with both hands, the left hand is like "Heaven", the right hand is like "Earth", and then a grass stem is taken from the right hand and placed on the little finger of the left hand to be like "Human". In this way, one is hung and three are symbolized, forming a pattern of three talents of heaven, earth and man, and then evolution can begin.
It is the four camps that make the change, and eight times out of ten, it becomes the hexagram. Gossip and achieve success.
To put it simply, it means counting and dividing the grass with both hands, and then dividing the remainder with four numbers. The result must be one of 6 Lao Yin, 7 Shao Yang, 8 Shao Yin, and 9 Lao Yang.
Such three changes can lead to a Yao. Nine changes can lead to a hexagram. It's the so-called 'divination'.
However, there is one thing to say, no matter how well you practice the fortune-telling technique, it cannot be accurate every time. Even in Li Qingyun's world of immortality, fortune-telling is sometimes ineffective and can only play a supporting role as the icing on the cake.
Even Xuanmen monks themselves don't really believe in this. Some of the textbooks on Shangzhen Guan simply regard hexagrams as self-psychological suggestions. It is better to believe in hexagrams than to have no hexagrams. Thinking too much is just mediocre.
Of course, when you encounter difficulties and are hesitant, you can also make a hexagram. You can calm down, sort out your thoughts, and clarify cause and effect. And if you calculate the hexagram you want, you can naturally strengthen your confidence. Sure enough, 'Destiny is in my mouth! '.
And if you can't calculate it...if you can't calculate it, you can start another hexagram again. Can't you just calculate it until it hits the mark? Anyway, you can explain it however you want...
So in essence, in the fairy world, "Donor, I see that your hall is dark. I'm afraid your house will burst into a cesspool tonight!" In the City of Night, "What are you looking for? Have you paid off the loan? Why don't you go work if you don't have money?" It means the same thing, and most of them are used to make excuses for picking fights.
Of course, Li Pan really had no choice this time and wanted to find an idea, so he really recited the 'God's Shadow' silently and made calculations.
So he seriously pulled the grass roots and calculated a trick. When he took a final look at the hexagram, he couldn't help but feel a little thumped in his heart.
The main hexagram is Kan, the guest hexagram is Xun, and together they are Huan.
As the saying goes,
you can see an ingot of gold across the river. The bank is wide and the water is deep and there is nowhere to go. Looking at the wealth from a distance is hard to come by. Thinking about it day and night is in vain.
This hexagram is a superposition of different hexagrams. The wind moves on the water, pushing the waves and adding fuel to the flames. Undercurrents surge in all directions, the water is rapid and turbulent, people's hearts are distracted, and the shortcomings are irreversible.
Even though we try our best to rescue the scattered people and control the chaos, it is difficult to turn the crisis into peace. We should seek advantages as early as possible, avoid disadvantages, and stay away from disasters.
In short, it is a hexagram.
Li Pan really has a headache now.
Although it's not polite to say this, I'm afraid that Kotaro is really a loser. He has been plagued by disasters all his life and has a poor life. If he leaves it alone, he may die eight hundred times... Just as Li
Pan For a while, he was hesitating whether to start a new hexagram or just throw the grass into the air and say, "My fate is up to me! I am determined to turn this world around!" When he suddenly caught a glimpse of A Piao Piao passing by from the corner of his eye. ...
At first, Li Pan thought he was seeing something, maybe some plastic bag had been blown up by the wind, and then he took a closer look.
Ouch, what a piao.
This Ah Piao is wearing a white dress. There is nothing under the sleeves and skirt. She only sticks her head out from the collar, but it is also long and black, covering her face. It is impossible to tell the front and back. It is a very cliché and classic look in the movie. Until now, it has not had a chance to appear in heavy late-night supernatural movies. Nowadays, only role-playing genres have scenes where you can get a box lunch.
In short, in an era where streaming media content such as Cyber City is full of hard-core pornographic content, this style is too old-fashioned. Even ordinary people will not be shocked if they see it. They will probably just think that someone is bored and uses a hidden camera to add It's just a prop for a drone prank video.
But the problem was that when Li Pan took off his SBS tactical mask and took a look at the low-light night vision device, infrared scanner, and range-finding telephoto lens, he found that nothing could be scanned.
It seemed to be the real Ah Piao...
Li Pan watched Ah Piao drifting into the courtyard of the back room.
After waiting for a while, it floated out again, holding a rectangular crystal in its hand.
Although the camera could not capture what Li Pan could see with his naked eyes, the crystal cuboid was very recognizable and he could find it by searching online. It is a high-density and high-purity optical quantum chip. Simply put, it is a very advanced hard disk memory stick. .
Could that be the 'Mikoshi'? According to the hexagram, he can indeed see a pot of gold, so it's probably true...
But who is this Ah Piao? Are they the undead being driven away? Could it be a magic like five ghost transportation? That's not right, don't people in this world only have one breath...
Li Pan thought for a while, although he could send Ah Piao to the afterlife with a small fist, but thinking of the hexagram calculated by just pulling the grass, he decided to play it safe. .
So he remained calm and pretended not to see anything. While activating optical invisibility on the spot, he silently recited the "Heart Sutra of Killing Evils", then a green light shined from his eyes, and his soul directly left the body.
Then the green light spun in mid-air, then moved behind Ah Piao and followed it.
This Ah Piao clearly had no spirituality, and turned a blind eye to Li Pan's soul, so he flew straight into the New Tokyo underground city, wandered around in the sewers, and finally flew straight into an abandoned subway station.
Directly outside the subway station is an underground shopping mall and commercial center. Of course, it has long been abandoned, with various dilapidated shops, scattered garbage, and a very cold atmosphere.
From the degree of damage to the surrounding buildings, as well as the blackened burn marks on the nearby ground, as well as a human figure circled in chalk, and scattered NCPA warning signs, it can be inferred that some fierce gun battle, explosion or fire accident occurred here. It was gradually abandoned after suffering a large number of casualties. In short, this scene is really from the underworld, a pure horror movie scene.
Ah Piao drifted all the way into the depths of the ruins, arriving at a place like an underground food court. It was even more outrageous here. I don’t know if red paint or dog blood was used on the walls, but there were many spells painted on them. The square had also been literally painted with Arranged like a cult altar.
Li Pan walked around the altar. Nine candlesticks as tall as one person were arranged around the altar. The pale white candles crackled with blue light, barely illuminating the square. Layers of blue light formed a bubble-like supernatural stance, which probably served as some kind of protection and realm.
Inside the magic circle, there were nine human sacrifices under the candlesticks.
Judging by their unique attire, these people seemed to be ninjas. They were lying on simple camp beds with their limbs bound. Their arms were injected with saline, muscle relaxants, and vitamin injections. The virtual machine interface on the back of their heads was locked, and their foreheads were locked. There was a talisman attached to it, and his eyes were wide open, and his eyeballs were moving rapidly as if epileptic, as if he was dreaming.
Everyone was cut open from the lungs to the groin with a knife, and the fat layer and skin were pulled open on both sides by surgical forceps, exposing the abdominal organs. In the center of the belly, something like a parasite was implanted. It was like a bulging white pustule, and the slime mold spread and parasitized into the host's internal organs. It looked like a silkworm cocoon.
What Li Pan never expected was that he would find Kotaro among this group of people.
However, he was a little better. He was not given any medicine, and his stomach was not parasitized. He was just stripped of all his equipment and tied tightly to his body with red ropes attached with many charms. Some of the charms were just right. He barely managed to cover up the key points, but it looked particularly irritating...
And he was not the only acquaintance of Li Pan at the scene...
Ashiya Shiki wore an ancient priest's robe and sat at a wooden table in the center of the circle. Next to him, he was using a brush dipped in cinnabar to quickly draw talismans. There were nine jars sealed with talismans on the table in front of him. They were all strangely shaped, some were big and some were small. They looked like some kind of pickle jar... No, that's not right.
Li Pan suddenly recognized that some of them had seen it on TV, and they were exactly the same as the tea sets and treasures given to retainers by the Oda family. But I was afraid that these were not realistic retro imitations, but genuine ones that had been passed down from generation to generation. 'Antiquities', or in other words, 'monsters'...
Ah Piao fell straight into one of the jars, only to hear a soft click. Ashiya Shiki stopped writing, uncovered the sealing charm, and took out the crystal cuboid from the jar.
Ashiya Shiki Takayin had a sullen face, pointed his hand, and a piece of paper stood up on the table.
"Is this the thing?"
The paper man nodded repeatedly and murmured.
Ashiya Shiki snorted coldly,
"Everyone in the Oda family has been demolished. What are you still dreaming about?"
The paper man groaned.
Ashiya sneered,
"Oh, don't worry, this thing is useless to me. I don't care about it. I will give it to him when I find an opportunity. Now let's settle our accounts!" the
paper man chirped.
Ashiya roared angrily,
"What's wrong!? I regret that I killed you outright, and now you have tricked you into this devil's nest! You are a slave to a human being, and you will never be able to recover, and you will never be reincarnated! If I don't cut you to pieces with a thousand swords, your bones will be shattered.
" Ash! It's hard to understand the hatred in my heart!"
He took out a bamboo fan from his sleeve, bang! You have to hit the paper man.
Kotaro, who was tied to the bed, immediately trembled all over, tears streaming down his face, his teeth clenched on the rope, and foam overflowed from his mouth and nose.
The paper man screams.
Ashiya Shiki gritted his teeth, holding up his fan and banging it fiercely,
"Death! Haha! Hahaha! What a beautiful idea you have! You still want to die! Do you deserve to die?
I tell you! I can't die anymore. ! We can't die!
Eternal life! We are all slaves of others! Idiots!! Trash!!"
He hit the paper man seventeen or eighteen times, causing Kotaro on the bed to twitch all over, draining all his strength and muscles. I couldn't help but relax.
Ashiya Shiki finally vented his anger. He took a deep breath, flicked his wrist, and shook the paper man. The paper shot out like a dart, extinguishing the candle above Kotaro's head, and directly ignited the paper. , turned into fire and burned away.
Kotaro on the bed twitched violently and growled again, then tilted his head, straightened his waist, stretched his legs, and stopped moving... Was
he fainting from exhaustion? Or just die?
Because this kind of gameplay was so exciting and eye-catching, Li Pan didn't dare to lean over and study it seriously for a while.
However, just a few seconds later, under the cold eyes of Li Pan and the cold gaze of Ashiya Shiki, the demon-sealing Kotaro gasped "Ha--!" and sat up suddenly!
At the same time, his hair and muscles began to grow rapidly, and bone horns sprouted from the top of his head and elbows. It was clear that the seal was released and he transformed into the state of a ghost swallowing a boy. However, the ropes attached to the talismans on his body also emitted a golden light and were tightly stretched into Gui Tundongzi's muscles, showing no signs of breaking or breaking free.
On the contrary, Shuten Doji was uncomfortable with this rope technique and could not exert any strength, so he had to suppress and control the changes in his body shape. He glared at Ashiya Shiki with anger, gnashing his teeth, as if he wanted to tear his hands apart and eat him alive. The roar almost tore the Adam's apple, making an inhuman sound, like the thunder of thousands of war drums, and it sounded like...
"Six Paths——!!"
Ashiya Shiki snapped! I had to slap the fan in my hand and slap it in front of my face. A dark wind blew out and extinguished all the other candles.
Then he covered his chin with a fan, revealing only a pair of narrow fox eyes,
"Now that you're here, why are you hiding? Let's come out and talk, everyone."
Li Pan continued to hide, silent, because he knew The other person is not talking to himself.
Then in the darkness, the other eight people also trembled, and then they saw their flesh and blood disintegrating in an instant. Their skin, flesh, and bones were all sucked up by the slime mold attached to their stomachs. Their essence, blood, bones, and flesh melted into a ball and were wrapped in it, and then the large group of slime mold surged out. He stood up, cracking open twisted human faces, like some wraith from hell, wailing and roaring, making incomprehensible ghostly screams, like landslides and tsunamis, and like ghosts crying and howling, calling out only one name. .
"Six Paths——!!!"
However, Ashiya Shiki seemed to be able to understand the meaning of these two words and communicated with them normally. He said sadly,
"Don't be so grateful. I told you earlier that I and other members of the Ashiya family People are different.
As long as you can use it for me, I don't care how many crops you eat or how much land you destroy." As
he said this, he snapped away the fan, held it in his left hand, and then picked up a freshly drawn piece of paper in his right hand. Talisman, chant silently in your mouth, and the talisman in your hand will burn.
Then he picked up the jar that Ah Piao had just entered with his left hand, opened the seal, and threw the burning charm into it.
boom! Suddenly, the fire shot into the sky, as if a firecracker had exploded. A sharp scream sounded from the tank, and then blood overflowed from the tank.
Ashiya Shiki extended his hand and made a request,
"Who wants to enter my jar?"
"Six Paths--!!"
A white slime mold screamed, jumped up in the air, and flew into the jar with a pop, causing a big ball of blood. foam.
Ashiya Shiki pursed his lips and smiled, raised his hand to cover the jar,
"Okay, those who know the current affairs are heroes. I think you old guys can also see that in this world, the world is in ruins, the demons are dancing around, and no one is taking care of them. You won’t be able to dance around for a few days.”
He paused, then repeated his old trick, took a jar, lit a charm, blew up whatever was inside before, and made room for a new thing to live in.
Then he looked sideways at Kotaro, no, he was a drinking boy.
"What about you, are you willing to come out? Don't worry, even if you get out, he won't die."
"Six Paths!!" Shuten Doji roared.
Ashiya Shiki glanced at him,
"Huh, I don't know what you see in that trash. Protecting him like this. It's up to you."
So he opened the cans one by one, repacked them one by one, and finally the floor was almost covered with slime mold. All in.
But there was only one last one left in the field. Not only did this slime mold not fall into the urn, but it gradually transformed into half of its human body, twisting its voluptuous and plump female body. It also grew half of its mouth and made a sweet sound like a harp. , as if calling,
"Six Paths~~~"
Ashiya Shiki opened his fan fiercely and covered his face, blood overflowed from the corner of his left eye,
"... Tamamo-mae, I know you will not obey me, but with this How long can you last with such a small amount of meat?"
The female body called out in a delicate voice, like drops of water dripping onto the jade plate, making a tinkling sound,
"Six Paths~~~"
Ashiya Shiki coughed behind the fan and spurted blood. , but still squinted his eyes, pursed his lips and smiled,
"Ahem...oh, let me tell you, you have an idea for him, right? Then I advise you not to waste your efforts.
Even the real Dragon King cannot touch him. Six paths, and retreated completely. But that thing actually came back directly, without even a bit of human form breaking...
It was definitely not a person, or an apostle... I'm afraid it had come down a long time ago, and it had been in contact with the source for many times. What a monster..."
Ashiya Shiki put away his fan, revealing an insect's mouthparts from under the fan, wheeze--! He had to blow out a burst of flames, catching the female body off guard and spraying all over her body.
The female body of the slime mold twisted, writhed, and howled in the flames, emitting the mournful cry of a beast in the forest struggling in the sea of fire,
"Six Paths!!!"
Then it was burned to ashes and disappeared.
(End of chapter)