The platform ushered in the last train for the Year of the Dragon.
There were only a few passengers left on the bus, and people all returned to the gentle hometown of the surface world early, preparing to spend a leisurely and comfortable Spring Festival holiday. Like trade transfer stations in various places, many people who started families and started businesses in the underground world still retained the custom of returning home.
Located in the East Asia Cultural Circle, Jiujie Station, the platform and twin towers have been hung with red lanterns, looking cheerful under the bright and flawless artificial starry sky and moonlight.
A huge projection screen went all the way down from the top floor of the Five Kings Council building. The door of the reception hall was opened. Twelve construction vehicles rushed out of these normally closed doors. They wanted to project light and display the paintings carefully drawn by the station's artists.
All reflected on the curtain of the Council of Five Kings.
At this moment, an important guest got off the last train.
——It was Wen Bucai who thanked the manager and took away the weapon bag that was checked in the luggage. Before the manager could shout anything, he immediately covered the manager's mouth and asked the manager to stop being flustered and excited and not to make loud announcements.
Wen Bucai was in a complicated mood. The last time he returned to Jiujie Station was sixteen years ago.
Everything that was familiar has now changed.
The station manager looked older. The manager was replaced by someone else. The train commander was no longer the same one as before. The stoker took the position of the train captain.
He slowly stepped across the basalt stone bricks of the platform, and looked at the black cave of the endless abyss beside the guardrail, and saw the shadow of the huge building of the Council of Five Kings like a mountain.
You can see the handwriting of the old people on the projection cloth.
It is painted with a brush, and the lines are smooth and arrogant. It is a huge painting of 150 meters by 100 meters.
It is a scene where the Futan Qinglong of the Jiachen year and the Creation Red Snake of the Yisi year are biting and fighting each other.
Wen Bucai recognized the brushwork of this painting. It was made by an ancient immortal master named [Anonymous] and was painted by Luo Ping'an himself.
The theme of this portrait is called "Covering the Lights". The VIP Luo Ping'an is most particular about the metaphysical image of the year, month and time.
Look at the red snake in the painting, which has just lost a layer of old black scales. It is about to fight to the death with the old green dragon with gray beard that has been lurking in the water for a long time. It is a scene of fighting until the scales are broken and the claws are broken and the flesh is blurred. With this painting
If you come to celebrate the New Year, I'm afraid it will scare away many newcomers.
The red snake in the portrait has bitten the green dragon's neck. The horn-shaped head of the big snake has also grown mottled red and black scales. It has obtained extraordinary fortune from the dragon's blood. It seems that both sides are harmed, but in fact the winner has been decided.
The inner meaning of [Covering the Light] as shown in the "Gui Zang Yi Jing" -
——It is the fire of the night in the world, with wood as the heart and water as the oil. When it encounters yin, it is good, but when it encounters yang, it is unfavorable. If it covers the light of the lamp, the light of the golden lamp will shine, and the jade platform will spit out the sun and the moon.
The place is when tomorrow and earth are unknown.
The pass between the year of Jiachen and the year of Yisi is a taboo pass where the dragon and the snake compete, and night passes and dawn comes.
In vernacular terms, it means that the earthly branches are in conflict, the wind blows out the lights, and there is a time limit for great turbulence and change.
Wen Bucai didn't understand these things of metaphysics and numerology very well. He was not interested in these things. He just learned from this portrait that the New Year's gift given to Bo by Taoist Luo Ping'an was such a wicked and unlucky painting.
He was in a calm mood and returned to the cabinet unhurriedly.
As soon as I opened the cabinet door, I saw Bo looking pitiful.
Bo's eyes were watery, as if he had seen a good boy who had gone on a long trip and finally returned home.
The lady on the kitten and cat climbing frame ordered eagerly.
"Stand up quickly, quickly, quickly! Go and meet him!"
The cat climbing frame lady received the order and immediately hugged bo and walked to the red carpet in front of the door.
Wen Bucai: "You're too polite! You're too polite!"
Bo opened a pair of small paws and pounced into Wen Bucai's arms.
"Oh! Oh! Oh! I'm not talented! I miss you so much!~"
Wen Bucai caught Bo and didn't say anything. He just felt the cat wiping its tears fiercely in his arms, as if it had been wronged.
bo raised his head, his mouth was like a barrage of firecrackers, asking a lot of questions.
"How have you been over the past few years? How have you been? Has anyone bullied you? Over the past sixteen years, I have thought about it day and night, wondering whether the T0-level combat units at the station will be wronged outside?"
Wen Bucai: "You really know how to joke..."
Bo wiped away his tears and nose on Wen Bucai's shirt and immediately returned to normal: "Okay, I won't be polite."
It was arrogant, its expression became ferocious, and it asked for a kill list from the cat climbing frame lady. These are all the problems left by the super vindictive cat in the past sixteen years. Everyone inside is considered a serious problem of the Abyss Railway.
Members of the derivative sect of the Crazy Butterfly Holy Cult, as well as other scattered criminals, are considered [high-value targets].
"This is a meeting gift I reserved for you."
Wen Bucai: "I'm coming back to celebrate the New Year, bo, it's not that big of a deal, right?"
Bo immediately put away the list, as if coaxing a baby, and his tone became cute: "Then don't mention these bad things."
Wen Bucai: "You sent Victor's two apprentices to me. My vacation is over. Can you tell me why? I stayed well at Mimir Hot Spring Market. There must be more important things to do.
I will do it, and it must be me, right?"
Bo nodded and explained its design.
"Originally, I didn't want to disturb your life. You should have a happy time at the hot spring market. If I don't feed you this fountain of wisdom, you won't be able to remember the past and can live happily for decades.
——You will not think of the pain of losing your wife and killing your daughter, or losing your brother and losing his memory."
Wen Bucai held Bo's big cat face in his hands: "Okay, okay, that's enough, stop!~"
Bo's face was squeezed by a pair of big hands and turned into various shapes. He grumbled for a while before returning to normal.
"But Luo Ping'an told me that there is a destiny - the year is limited by the lights. When the Chensi year comes, many big things will happen, and the time has come..."
Wen Bucai became serious and cautious: "The time has come, what do you mean? Is it the time I thought?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Bo nodded: "Yes... that's when you think about it."
For VIPs, this is no secret——
——The true form of Ao Ru Ming De is the ferocious beast.
It is a stubborn human-faced tiger, bo is only its spirit body, not its true body.
The senate of each school received the remains of [Mingde] instead of [Aohuan Mingde], which means that bo has experienced Taoism and conversion, and is a black cat who understands human nature and understands human language.
But its physical body doesn't understand this principle, so it has to cut off its limbs, use Vita Brand to take away its essence, and constantly make panacea to make it peaceful and peaceful.
As the Vita brand spreads on Aohun's body, there will inevitably be a harvest season every few decades - from Bo's mental state, it can be seen that the next harvest season is not far away.
The prison where the ferocious beast's body is held will be opened. All VIPs must return to the Nine Realms, and all trains must return to this starting point. A large amount of manpower and material resources must be gathered to pluck the White Lady born from the ferocious beast's body.
Without the restraint of Vita's brand, this ferocious beast will exude terrifying inspirational pressure.
This ritual is very dangerous, and Bo can only vaguely judge the mental state of the body through the sleep cycle - the good and bad sleep quality makes it difficult to be sure what state the body is in.
In every harvest season, there are only two final results.
In one of them, Ao Hun Ming De is completely awakened. Bo's spirit body is summoned by the physical body and returns to the original body. The three elements are merged into one, and the evil beast regains its true name.
This is the worst possible outcome. There will be no sane living beings left in the space of more than 4,400 meters from the center of Jiujie Station.
The terrifying spiritual pressure of Yaozhu can destroy the spiritual world of all creatures in an instant, and reconstruct the thinking of these creatures into tools that only know how to perform something.
Just like people who are eating, feeling the inspiration pressure of Taozu itself, they will instantly turn into flesh and blood machines that only know how to eat. The three elements of the body will also be affected, and everything will evolve just for eating - turning into terror.
A monster born from a spiritual disaster.
In the Big Library, there are records of such subordinate monsters, which are collectively called [Ghosts].
They follow the giant human-faced tiger, Yongzhu, and collect excellent essence for him.
They have different shapes. If they were born only for eating, most of them would be twisted, strong and hairless. They have multiple sets of appendages and bony blades under the skin, which are used to peel skin and bones, and separate the flesh of prey.
The ring-shaped teeth densely packed in the huge cavity are like a flesh and blood roller. Any high-quality element will be carefully processed and eventually turned into energy in the bodies of these ghosts, which will be given to the Taoshu as nourishment.
Their functional brain is located near the genital organ of the skin. It has a simple structure and only needs to maintain basic mobility. Occasionally, it will release some pheromones as a reward due to the hunting behavior of the ghost.
These monsters occasionally retain some human characteristics, such as speaking the language they loved before birth, and use them to lure prey into traps.
This is just one of the more common types of ghosts.
If the person affected by the evil beast still has strong thoughts, things that must be accomplished, and wishes that are very difficult to let go, then this sub-body attachment will evolve into a more bizarre and terrifying appearance.
This kind of monster is also recorded in the secret treasure trove——
——The terrifying ghost named [Thousand Skulls].
He was originally a researcher at a scientific research station. He wanted to explore more advanced knowledge about the astral world. He had been in contact with Aohun Mingde's body for too long and was actively exposed to spiritual disasters and contaminated environments several times. This researcher made
Turned into a ghost monster.
It usually used human skin to pretend to work normally in the scientific research station, and secretly murdered colleagues to seize their spiritual essence. After the incident was exposed, it fled deep underground, collected nearly a thousand skulls, and used crude and barbaric techniques such as limb grafting.
Transformed his body into a huge skull sphere.
These remains include not only those of humans, but also the heads of various beasts or animals.
When Guangling's quick reaction force found it, it was hiding in a satellite town of the trade transfer station. The people who originally lived in the village became crazy because of the strange spiritual pressure of [Thousand Skulls], and could no longer be called normal humans.
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According to the records in the library——
——[Thousand Skulls] fell into a long-lasting sleep.
The armed employees and the soldiers stationed in Guangling can still hear it talking and singing in their sleep from a distance of 400 meters.
It's as if its spiritual world has achieved a unified creation. Ordinary people or people with inspiration are attracted by this weird singing, and fall into inhuman states of madness one after another.
In order to solve the spiritual disaster of "Thousand Skulls", train cannons dropped sixteen napalm bombs on this village. The psychic pollution has not completely dissipated to this day. Passengers with transcendental inspiration can still hear its song when passing through this area.
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This is the worst result during the harvest season - the ferocious beast completely awakens.
Another result is relatively acceptable to humans.
bo constantly monitors the physical body through his mental state, estimating the time of the harvest season. If this physical body is hollowed out by Vita's brand, and the crazy butterflies gain the upper hand, countless huge crazy butterflies will emerge from Ao Hen's body.
Calculated based on the psychic tide, the scientific research station can barely reach a critical value. Before Ao Hen's physical body completely collapses, the harvest season ritual must be performed.
If this physical body is weak enough, four of the twelve Mingde bones in the school's hands will be transferred back to Ao Hen's body to make this body complete again, and use this pure essence to fight
The erosion of Vita's brand, and in a dying state——
——Aohen will fall into a deep sleep and enter dreamland.
In fifty hours.
The spirit and flesh of Aohun and Mingde are integrated into one, and the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid will bring new vitality to the body, and its bioelectric field will become stable. In this short period of fifty hours, the people at Jiujie Station can
A huge amount of panacea raw materials were excavated from its body.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! At the end of the fifty hours, in order to maintain Bo's wisdom and humanity, five VIPs will remove Mingde's bones and perform a limb grafting ceremony.
, if the mind is not strong and the will is weak, it is very likely that in this process, the half-awake, hungry and thirsty Aoheng will use the remains as a medium to pull these high-quality essence carriers into the physical body, digest and absorb them and integrate them into one body.
The remaining host of the ceremony will come back with the little black cat and become Bo's waiter.
These five people are the new kings of the Council of Five Kings, the "people who will become kings" as Ling Weng calls them.
Including the current cat climbing frame lady, her name should be called [Hunter King], she was once a member of the Elder Council of the Blue Stone School. During the harvest ceremony, she saw the true appearance of Ao Hen, and also lost the other four.
A companion whose desire for survival is not strong enough.
Not every harvest season requires four VIPs as consumables.
It's just that during the enthronement ceremony of Ms. Cat Climbing Frame, she was luckier than she was unlucky. From then on, she gave up her real name and never wanted to think of that horrible memory again.
Soon after--
——For Bo, it is a time of great sorrow.
Bo said to Wen Bucai: "I think you have the ability to pass this trial and confront my disobedient body head-on."
Wen Bucai smiled: "Just leave me a place then."
Bo is very serious: "I don't want any barriers between us. Let's talk ugly beforehand. Don't treat my body as the same thing as me."
Wen Bucai shrugged: "You mean, like the stick, the station is a masterpiece of Mingde and has nothing to do with Aoru?"
Bo's expression was complicated, with an indescribable melancholy.
"I imprisoned it and sacrificed my blood and flesh. Just like what Jiang Xueming said in a modern context, I just asked for it. The more I asked for it, the more emptiness I felt."
"People call me a vicious monster. I think if this continues, I will definitely taste the most powerful weapon in the human world. In the tens of thousands of degrees of high temperature of nuclear energy, in the strong magnetic field of nuclear heat, in front of the artificial sun of nuclear explosion,
I am nothing, not even a hair left. I am just retribution and blood debt has to be paid with blood."
"I separated my body and made a panacea for you, but you regard me as a new god - maybe Wilhelm Nietzsche was right, he said that he was the sun, but in the end he fell into madness because the sun
It just radiates light and heat, but never asks for anything from people."
"I am now maintaining my sobriety and rationality to build this railway. For my proud body, and for Yongzhu, I have been infected with incurable madness."
Wen Bucai did not speak further.
He just looked down at the cat-like creature in his arms.
Bo also raised his head silently, looking up at the VIP with his frail body.
Wen Bucai suddenly asked: "I have heard that the little dwarf and the big leader of the Skull and Bones Society found a way to kill you while he was still alive."
bo: "My death door has a simple structure."
Wen Bucai: "As long as you can't survive the harvest season, can't fall asleep, and are completely swallowed by the Vita brand..."
bo: "The Mad Butterfly will borrow my ternary essence to create a very powerful individual. It is a virus and a living thing. The red morpho butterfly that bursts out of my body may be the world's most powerful butterfly after the mythical age.
The most terrible spiritual disaster.”
"I understand..." Wen Bucai returned the cat to the cat climbing frame lady: "It's a big project. Take your time. It will be faster if you take your time."
After Bo explained these things, he asked about Wen Bucai's itinerary.
Wen Bucai took out his "kill list" from his clothes.
"There is a list of personnel here. Take a look at it. They are all people in the Mimir Hot Spring Market who have hooked up with the Skull and Bones Society ministers. There are also many opinion leaders from the Red Stone School. They have relationships with people from the Crazy Butterfly Sect.
Doing power-for-money transactions - I'll go back and pack these things, and I'll be on standby at Mimir Hot Spring. If you need anything, just call me."
bo: "Okay, where are you going to celebrate the New Year?"
"I want to go to [joetar] and meet the star of tomorrow." Wen Bucai said concisely: "He wants to modify my gun, tailor-make a suit of clothes for me, and have a New Year's Eve dinner together."
bo: "Then I won't delay your schedule, please do."
Wen Bu just walked out a few steps.
bo immediately shouted stop.
"joe! You really don't need me to pair you with a waiter?"
"No need! You have lived for so long, you should understand how I feel."
"Now is the information age where a hundred flowers are blooming. It is a modern society. Many ancient creatures are also willing to associate with humans and exchange blood with them. I have several candidates, and their growth cycles are not short."
"Here comes the question, bo, do you think I, the lone star of the evil sky, can take care of them? These people want to go through life and death with me and slay dragons together, but can they really go to the lava bath with me in the wisdom spring?
What I need is a weapon that is indestructible, a partner who can watch from a distance and shouts to cheer me up, not an inner demon that troubles me at the moment of life and death, and not a burden."
Bo scratched his head: "I will also consider the need to take a bath in the lava. Maybe there really is a scourge similar to the Pompeii worm that can withstand thousands of degrees of heat and has bled with humans..."
Wen Bucai stumbled and almost fell to death at the door.
"What kind of weird thing are you talking about?"
The cat climbing frame lady said goodbye in a cool and elegant way.
"Have a good trip, it has always been like this, please understand. Even if a new dog comes to the station, it will try to find a good partner for the dog."
Wen Bucai disappeared in a flash, shouting out his polite words.
"That's too polite! Don't call me [you], King Hunter! Happy New Year!"
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Wen Bucai said nothing to Jiang Xueming about all the above matters.
For the two little guys Xueming and Meteor, it is still too early to know this.
Xueming worked silently in the simple rough workshop, smelting silver ingots and making silver-plated warheads.
Wen Bucai also received a New Year's gift. The barrel of the dagger submachine gun has been modified and is now compatible with nine-millimeter armor-piercing ammunition. The drum allows it to hold fifty rounds.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The m00's cartridge chamber has been adjusted again, and there will no longer be jamming.
But Wen Bucai pulled Xueming and forced Xueming to name these two steel monsters. Xueming really didn't know how to name them - and finally let it go.
In addition, there is also a Morpho butterfly costume. During the Chinese New Year, Xueming didn't want to work too many overtimes and had to prepare for a trip to the library, so Wen Bucai only left the body data and did it later.
With the countdown to the new year——
——At the last second, Jiang Xueming reserved a more formal gift.
It is the main weapon left to Xiao Qi, and it is also a [life-protecting amulet] made by Xueming for her own bell-ringing ceremony.
The huge weapon box was pushed to Xiao Qi's face by Xueming's hand on the New Year's Eve dinner table at Sifang Terrace Bar.
Xiaoqi's eyes lit up when he saw this thing.
"For me?"
Xueming nodded: "Yes, when I ring the bell for help, if you bring this thing, I will feel safer."
The weapon box is opened——
——Revealing the Russian Central Research and Design Bureau (tkib
oo)'s work in 2010 is a bullpup rifle.
Its name is [ah·1.7].
The effective range is only three hundred meters. It uses 1.7mm large-caliber sniper bullets, which are bullets with reduced charges suitable for continuous shooting. This kind of ammunition is difficult to buy, but Xueming believes in Xiaoqi's connections. She is stationed at the station and wants to get it.
This kind of thing shouldn't be difficult in her opinion.
It can be hung with a grenade launcher. As a rifle with a continuous fire function, the effective range does not exceed three hundred meters. It is specially designed to stop target movements at close range and hunt large animals.
It has been completely reconstructed by Xue Ming using titanium steel bones, and the weight of the empty gun has reached ten kilograms. It does not require any sophisticated shooting techniques. For the user, it requires a strong body to shoot continuously.
For Xiao Qi, this gun is a set of fitness equipment.
Bai Lu was stunned. Ah's style was so wild.
It was hard for her to imagine that her brother would give such a thing to her sister-in-law during the New Year...
But seeing her sister-in-law's cheerful attitude, Bai Lu began to doubt her own aesthetics.
But what she doesn't know is——
——This kind of weapon makes Xueming feel very at ease.
Especially when handed to Xiao Qi's hands, the 33-gram heavy warhead is like a flying brick, enough to stop large beasts and enemies wearing armor.
Halfway through the New Year's Eve dinner, Meteor told everyone a very bad joke.
“Brother Jason and I have been chatting on WeChat!”
Teacher Sansan was curious: “Can WeChat be used abroad?”
The Spring Festival Gala was playing on the big TV in the bar, and everyone was relieved from the carb-induced dizziness and woke up from their drowsy state.
The shooting star whirred.
"Hey! Brother Jason has an idea anyway! He told me! He studied kung fu in the Royal Airborne Division A - when he was bored, he followed Teacher Victor's books and received a manuscript, but that manuscript was a pity
Ah, during the transportation process, it was riddled with cockroach bites and I couldn't understand anything, so Brother Jason threw it away."
Teacher Sansan was impatient: "So you gave him the manuscript you received?"
Meteor smiled mysteriously.
"Yeah! But I sent two couriers!"
This half-year-old child beams with joy when he talks about immoral things.
“In a courier box are intact manuscripts!”
He clapped his hands as if he had done something good.
"In the other box is the second manuscript I copied. I worked hard and poked many small holes in the manuscript paper! Finally, I sprinkled in a few moving fake cockroaches!~"
3301 is thinking about how to apologize.
Xiao Qi followed Ah Xing and laughed.
The two Jiang brothers and sisters worked in silence.
Only Wen Bucai didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, and finally said——