The mountains were all yellow and dry in the autumn. The cicadas' chirping became less frequent after the autumn. Lu Liangsheng disappeared as he led his old donkey along a country road. The sound of donkey's hooves 'trampling' could be heard from time to time on the asphalt road, attracting farmers working in the fields to stand up and look. The road was empty and there was not even a shadow of a person to be seen.
Ding ding…
The sound of the copper bell of the rocking chair, the bookshelf on the old donkey's back, the Toad Taoist priest opening the small door, crossing his legs, leaning against the purple gold gourd behind him, puffing on his pipe, looking at the rolling hills in the distance, humming a little tune along with the music playing on the mobile phone next to him.
Sun Yingxian followed behind, pulling a small paper man. When they encountered a rough road or stones on the road, the paper man would jump over them and he would follow suit, still looking down at his phone, learning to type, and happily chatting with someone.
"Keep your eyes on the road, or you'll fall!"
Toad took out his cigarette holder and said something to him, then leaned out half of his body and looked at the back of the man leading the donkey in front of him: "Liangsheng, didn't you say before that the red fox ran here? It should be quite familiar with this place, and I think it knows what delicious food there is in this foreign country."
"You only care about eating. You should ask foreign countries if there are any interesting things..." The Taoist muttered while staring at his phone.
The toad glared at him. The scholar walking in front did not look back. He looked at the rolling hills around him and said with a smile, "I will go find her after I finish this matter."
After walking a little further, I showed up and changed into modern clothes and hairstyle. I saw a farmer coming out of a vegetable shed in front of me. I walked up to him and asked about the names of nearby places in the island language I had learned.
"Tokyo? There's a platform in front. You can take a train there. If you walk, you can get into the city in half an hour."
Following the instructions of the island man, Lu Liangsheng thanked him and returned to the road and walked quickly. When the farmer looked again, the man had disappeared.
The sun passed through the noon and slanted into the clouds.
There are few vehicles passing by on the suburban highway in a busy city. Two cars are parked on the side of the road with their hazard lights on. In the car in front, the window is half open and smoke is wafting out. A short-haired woman in trousers is looking at the navigation on her mobile phone with a cigarette in her hand. A light spot is moving slowly towards this side. It is the location embedded in her sister Sanhua Yuri's mobile phone.
"When did Yuri become so slow?!"
Mikasaki raised her face, exhaled a puff of smoke from her red lips, put her phone on her knees, picked up the folder on the other seat, and looked through the club's financial report and the next plan for Yamada Bio.
Whenever she saw the legendary creatures listed at the door, the woman's hand holding the cigarette could not help but tremble slightly. Using the technological power of mortals to capture those creatures that only existed in legends, or even gods, made her feel unprecedented excitement. She could not help but groan and squeeze her legs together.
After a while, he let out a deep breath, took off his glasses and wiped them, then glanced at the navigation on his phone out of the corner of his eye. He suddenly let out a light "hmm", quickly threw away the document, took the phone in his hand, opened the car door and got out.
On the screen, the flashing light was approaching this side, but there was no movement around. Could it be that someone was walking here alone
Sanhua Saki put on her glasses and looked around. The trees on the road were rustling in the wind, and their yellow leaves were floating down. Occasionally, a vehicle passed by, but it didn't even stop, and sped away on the road.
The woman suddenly had a bad feeling and shouted to her men in the car behind her: "Let's go!" Just as she turned around and got into the car, the phone in her hand suddenly rang. As she swiped to answer it, a female voice came from the inside.
"Is that you?"
With one foot halfway into the car door, Sanhua Saki seemed to be struck by an electric current. She froze for a moment and turned back abruptly. On the road in the distance, a man in ancient costume was standing under a tree, holding a phone and smiling at her. The crystal pendant shaking on the phone belonged to Sanhua Yuri.
She felt a creepy sensation like ants crawling from her back to the back of her neck. She dropped the phone from her face, turned around and got into the car. She shouted to the man in the driver's seat, "Drive! Don't go to Shouming Building! Any other place will do."
The car started and drove away. The woman felt relieved when she felt the scenery outside the window flying backwards. She sat up and looked back through the rear window. The second car did not catch up. She knew something had happened. She was about to call Yamada Hao to tell him that an unidentified enemy had suddenly appeared when she turned sideways. She saw a figure sitting on the seat next to her, fiddling with Sanhua Yuri's phone. She looked at him with a slightly sideways face and a smile on his face.
“Baka!!”
The woman was extremely shocked and angry. She reached out to her waist and pulled out a small silver gun with a cherry blossom pattern on it. She pointed it at the man smiling at her and pulled the trigger. With a bang, a tongue of fire spurted out of the muzzle. The moment the bullet was fired at the young man, it slowly stopped at a distance of half a foot as if it was stuck in a quagmire and hung in the air.
"this… "
Sanhua Saki's arm holding the gun was shaking even more violently, her eyes were wide open with an expression of disbelief, and her red lips uttered the island language stiffly.
"…A mutant?"
Lu Liangsheng just smiled and ignored her. He stretched out his fingertips to touch the forehead of the woman who wanted to dodge but was unable to move, then withdrew his hand and replied with a smile.
"So you want to become gods? That's a good ideal, but you've gone astray. Come, I'll show you the power of the gods."
He flicked his fingertips and flicked at the driver, who tilted his head and leaned over the steering wheel. The car spun and swayed, hit the roadside and rushed into the field in front. Lu Liangsheng grabbed Sanhua Saki, pressed her shoulders and disappeared from the seat.
Boom!
The out-of-control car hit the roadbed, turned sideways with a loud bang, and slammed into a large tree near the field. The car body was pushed forward at both ends due to inertia, and the vibrating tree trunk was dented inwards in the middle of the roof. The windows shattered and exploded, and the doors were squeezed and popped out in an instant, flying into the air and falling into a nearby field.
The wind blew across the bare fields. A figure walked over in the distance, looked at the broken glass scattered on the ground, walked towards the bent car, and grabbed the frame with his leather-gloved left hand and pulled it down. With the creaking sound of metal twisting, the whole car turned over, with both ends tilted up, and it turned over to the ground, swaying back and forth.
"It seems that I am still a step late. The attacker is quite capable."
The man named Xia Yi held the car door and casually pulled it down and threw it aside. He picked up a document that fell in front of the footrest, flipped through it casually, and his face suddenly darkened.
"Hunting legendary creatures... What's the purpose of this? Want to create a god again?"
Looking at the broken car, the woman named Sanhua Saki has probably been captured by the other party... Doesn't that mean they have to go to Shouming Building
After putting away the document, Xia Yi kicked his foot and the hard concrete ground cracked. His body rushed into the sky like a cannonball and looked down into the distance. In the prosperous city stood tall buildings. The name that once read "Shou Ming Zaibatsu" was being taken down by the loaders with a crane and replaced with "Yamada Biology".
In the window reflecting the setting sun, Yamada Hato was talking on the phone. After hanging up, he pressed his twitching eyelids and felt a bad feeling.
"The five people hired by Shengqi are already in place. Let's go over there."
Rubbing his eyelids, the old man asked someone to push his wheelchair to take out a tube of red, crystal-clear liquid from the safe and put it into a metal box.
These are the essences extracted from the corpses of mermaids in the sea using the equipment of the Shouming Zaibatsu. They contain enormous spiritual power. Other research institutes distributed in various states also store different biological essences. At this time, according to the old man's instructions, they were transported out from all over and concentrated at a pre-determined location.
In the descending panoramic elevator, an old man in a wheelchair stroked the metal box on his legs. Suddenly, one of the guards beside him spoke up and looked at the side of the panoramic glass. "What's that over there?"
The old man raised his cloudy eyes and tilted his head to look. In the sunset glow, there was a building opposite the building. A figure with his hands behind his back, wearing a green shirt with a cloud-patterned white robe inside, stood on the roof of the building and looked at the building. At his feet, there was a short-haired woman squatting in panic, with messy hair sticking to her cheeks, staring blankly at the sudden changes in the surroundings, and -
…A precious sword was suspended beside Lu Liangsheng, and the tip of the sword fell down, trembling with sword chants.
The sharp sword intent is filled with murderous aura.
…
In the descending panoramic elevator, the old man sitting in the wheelchair began to tremble all over, his hands pressing on the glass, his cloudy eyes showing a look of awe.
He thought of the day when he flew into the sky and the man standing on the wing.