Abyss Express

New Year's Eve on New Year's Eve.

The platform ushered in the last train of the Jiachen Year of the Dragon.

There were not many passengers left in the car, and everyone returned to the gentle hometown of the surface world early, preparing to spend the leisurely and comfortable Spring Festival holiday. Like trade transfer stations in various places, many people who have started a family in the underground world retain the custom of returning home.

At Jiujie Station, located in the East Asian cultural circle, red lanterns have been hung on the platform and twin towers, and they look beaming under the bright and flawless man-made starry sky and moonlight.

A huge projection screen goes all the way down from the top floor of the Five Kings Council building, and the welcome hall opens its doors. On weekdays, twelve construction vehicles rush out of these closed doors, projecting lights to illuminate the paintings carefully drawn by the artists at the station. 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, took away the weapon bag for luggage check-in, and immediately covered the manager's mouth before the manager shouted, telling the manager not to panic or shout.

Wen Bucai was in a complicated mood. The last time he returned to the Nine Realms Station was sixteen years ago.

All the familiar things are now different.

The station manager looked even older, the manager had been replaced, and the bus captain was no longer the same as last time, and the fireman took the position of the bus captain.

He slowly stepped over the basalt bricks of the platform, looked at the black caves of the endless abyss beside the guardrail, and saw the shadow of the huge mountain-like building of the Council of Five Kings.

Old handwriting can be seen on the projection cloth.

It is painted with a brush, and the lines are soft and wild. The dragon and the snake are fighting each other. It is a huge picture of 150 meters by 100 meters.

It is a scene where the Futan Qinglong in the Jiachen year and the Creation Red Snake in the Yisi year are biting and fighting each other.

Wen Bucai recognized that the brushwork of this painting was done by an ancient fairy family of [Anonymous], and it was drawn by Luo Ping'an himself.

The theme of this portrait is called "Overturning the Lights". Luo Ping'an, a VIP, is most particular about the metaphysical imagery of years, months and days.

Look at the red snake in the portrait that has just shed a layer of dark old scales. It is a scene of fighting to the death with the old green dragon with gray beard and gray beard that has been lurking in the water for a long time. Coming to celebrate the New Year, I am afraid it will scare away many newcomers.

The red snake in the portrait has already bit Qinglong's neck. Mottled red and black scales grew from the horned head of the serpent, which obtained extraordinary good fortune from the dragon's blood. It seemed that both sides would suffer, but in fact the winner had already been decided.

The inner meaning of [covering the lamp] shown in "Gui Zang Yi Jing"——

——It is the night-lit fire in the world, with wood as its heart and water as its oil. Those who cover the lights, the light of the golden lamp, and the beauty of the jade platform.

——When the sun and the moon are not clear, when tomorrow and the earth are not clear.

The juncture between the year of Jiachen and the year of Yisi is a taboo hurdle where dragons and snakes compete, and the night goes to the bright.

In the vernacular, the earthly branches are in opposition, the wind blows and the lights go out, and there is a time limit for great turmoil and great changes.

Wen Bucai didn't know much about these metaphysics and numerology. He was not interested in these things. He just learned from this portrait that the New Year's gift given to BOSS by Daoist Luo Ping'an was such a wicked and unlucky painting.

He was in a calm mood and returned to the cabinet without haste.

As soon as he pushed open the door of the cabinet, he saw the pitiful appearance of BOSS.

BOSS's eyes were watery, as if seeing a good boy who had gone on a long journey and finally returned home.

The little cat and the cat climbing lady eagerly ordered.

"Stand up, hurry, hurry! Go and meet him!"

The cat climbing lady got the order, and immediately hugged the boss and walked to the red carpet in front of the door.

Wen Bucai: "You are polite, you are polite! You are too polite!"

The boss opened a pair of small paws, and threw himself into Wen Bucai's arms.

"Oh! Whoa! Wenbucai! I miss you so much!~"

Wen Bucai caught the boss and didn't say anything, but felt the cat wiping tears in his arms, as if he had been wronged.

The BOSS raised his head, his mouth was like a cannonball, and he asked a bunch of questions.

"How have you been these past years? Are you okay? Has anyone bullied you? For the past sixteen years, I've been thinking about it day and night, wondering if the T0-level combat units at the station will be wronged outside?"

Wen Bucai: "You really know how to joke"

BOSS wiped away tears and snot on Wen Bucai's shirt, and immediately returned to normal: "Well, I will not be polite."

It is very serious, its expression has become fierce and vicious, and it asked for a hunting list from Ms. Mao Climbing. It is all the heart troubles left by the super vengeful cat in the past sixteen years. Members of the derivative sect of the Crazy Butterfly Sect, as well as other scattered criminals, are considered [high-value targets].

"This is a meeting gift I reserved for you."

Wen Bucai: "I'm back for the New Year, Boss, can't it be?"

The BOSS immediately collected 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, and my vacation is over, can you tell me the reason? I stayed well at the Mimier Hot Spring Market, and there must be more important things to do I will do it, and it must be me, right?"

BOSS nodded and explained its design.

"I didn't want to disturb your life. You should have a good time in the hot spring market. If I don't feed you this spring of wisdom, you can't remember the past, and you can live happily for decades. ——I will not think of the pain of a dead wife and murder of a daughter, or the pain of losing my brother and amnesia."

Wen Bucai held the big cat face of the BOSS: "Okay, okay, enough, stop!~"

The boss's face was squeezed by a pair of big hands and turned into various shapes. It took a while to return to normal.

"But Luo Ping'an told me that fate has a definite number-the time limit of the time when the lights are turned off, and when the time of communication in Chensi year, there must be many major events, 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?"

The BOSS nodded: "Yes. That's when you thought about it."

It's no secret to VIPs --

——The main body of Aorun Mingde is the fierce beast of 梼杌.

It is a stubborn human-faced tiger, and the boss is just its spirit body, not its body.

The remains of [Mingde] obtained by the senate of various schools, not the remains of [Aorunmingde], means that the boss has undergone 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. It has to cut off its limbs, use the Vita brand to take away its essence, and constantly make panacea, so that it can keep its own place.

With the spread of Vita's brand on Aorun's body, every few decades, there will inevitably be a harvest season - from the mental state of the BOSS, it can be seen that the next harvest season is not far away.

The prison where the body of the beast is held will be opened, all the VIPs must return to the Nine Realms, and all the trains must also return to this place of departure, a large amount of manpower and material resources must be gathered to pick the Lady Bai who was born in the body of the beast.

Without the restraint of the Vita brand, this ferocious beast will exude terrifying pressure of inspiration.

This kind of ritual is very dangerous, the boss can only vaguely judge the mental state of the physical body through the sleep cycle - the quality of sleep is good and bad, making it difficult to be sure of the state of the physical body.

In each harvest season, the final result is nothing more than two.

In one of them, Aohen Mingde fully awakened, the spirit body of the boss was summoned by the body, and returned to the body, the three elements merged into one, and the fierce beast regained its real name.

This is the worst possible outcome. There will be no living creatures left in the space with a radius of more than 4,400 meters from the center of Nine Realms Station.

Wu Wu's terrifying Reiatsu can instantly destroy the spiritual world of all creatures, and restructure the thinking of these creatures into tools that only know how to execute something.

For example, people who are eating, feel the pressure of the inspiration of the 梼杌 itself, will instantly become a flesh and blood machine that only knows how to eat, and the ternary quality of the body will also be affected, and everything will evolve just for eating - turning into terror A monster born from the disaster.

In the big library, this kind of subordinate monsters are recorded, and they are collectively called [Ghosts].

They followed the big tiger with a human face like Wuwu, collecting excellent essence for him.

They have different shapes. If they are only born for eating, most of them are distorted, vigorous and hairless. There are many sets of appendages and bone teeth blades under the skin bag, which are used to peel the skin and bone, and separate the flesh of the prey. The ring-shaped teeth densely covered in the huge cavity are like a roller of flesh and blood. Any high-quality essence will be carefully processed, and finally become the energy in the bodies of these ghosts, which will be given to the scorpion as nourishment.

Their functional brains are near the genitals of the skin sac, with a simple structure, and they only need to maintain basic mobility, and occasionally release some pheromones as rewards due to the hunting behavior of ghosts.

These monsters occasionally retain some human traits, such as a preferred language from before birth, that they use to lure prey into traps.

This is just one of the more common types of ghosts.

If people who are affected by the 梼杌 beast still hold strong intentions, have things that must be done, and have very difficult wishes, then this sub-body subordinate will evolve a weirder and more terrifying appearance.

This kind of monster is also recorded in the secret treasure house——

——The terrifying ghost named [Thousand Skulls].

Originally a researcher at the scientific research station, who wanted to explore more advanced knowledge of the astral world, had been in contact with Ao Han Mingde's body for too long, and was actively exposed to the environment polluted by spiritual disasters several times before and after. Turned into a ghost monster.

In the scientific research station, it usually uses human skin to pretend to be working normally, and secretly murders its colleagues to seize the spiritual essence. After the incident was revealed, it fled to the depths of the ground and collected nearly a thousand skulls. Turned his physical body into a huge skull sphere.

Among these remains are not only human beings, but also the heads of various disaster beasts or animals.

When Guangling Zhixi's quick response team found it, it hid in the satellite town of the trade transfer station. The people who used to live in the village became crazy because of the weird spiritual pressure of [Thousand Skull], and they could no longer be called normal humans. .

According to the records of the library——

——[Thousand Skulls] fell into an eternal deep sleep.

The armed employees and the soldiers of Guangling Zhixi can still hear it talking and singing at a distance of 400 meters.

It's as if its spiritual world has reached a fusion of good fortune. Ordinary people or people with inspiration are attracted by this weird singing and fall into inhuman madness one after another.

In order to solve the spiritual disaster of [Thousand Skulls], the train gun projected sixteen napalm bombs on this village. The spiritual pollution has not completely dissipated until today. Passengers with transcendental inspiration can still hear its singing when passing through this area. .

This is the worst result of the harvest season - the beast of the 梼杌 is fully awakened.

Another result is relatively acceptable to humans.

The BOSS monitors the physical body through the mental state at all times, and estimates the time of the harvest season. If this physical body is emptied by Vita's brand, the mad butterfly will have the upper hand, and countless huge mad butterflies will emerge from the arrogant body.

According to the calculation of the psionic tide, the scientific research station can barely get a critical value, and before Aorun's physical body completely collapses, the harvest season ritual must be carried out.

If this physical body is weak enough, four of the twelve Mingde bones in the hands of the school will be drawn and returned to Ao Hen's body, making this body complete again, and using this kind of pure essence to fight against it. Corrosion of the Vita brand, and in a dying state—

——Ao Han will fall into a deep sleep and fall asleep.

in fifty hours.

Ao Lun and Ming De are united, the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid will bring new vitality to the body, and its bioelectric field will tend to be stable, that is, in just fifty hours, people at the Nine Realms Station, Excavate a huge amount of elixir raw materials from its body.

At the end of fifty hours, in order to maintain the wisdom and humanity of the BOSS, five VIPs will pull out Mingde's remains and perform the limb-attaching ceremony. Ao Ruan, who was so hungry and thirsty, used the bones as a medium to pull these high-quality elemental carriers into his body, digesting and absorbing them into one body.

The remaining host of the ceremony will bring the little black cat back and become the boss's attendant.

These five people are the new kings of the Council of Five Kings, and they are the "people who become kings" in Lingweng's mouth.

Including the current Ms. Cat Climb, her name should be [King Hunter], she used to be a member of the Elders of the Bluestone School. A companion whose desire to survive is not strong enough.

Not every harvest season requires four VIPs as consumables.

It's just that in the enthronement ceremony of Ms. Cat Climb, she was more fortunate than she was unlucky. From then on, she gave up her real name and never wanted to recall that horrible memory.

Soon after--

——For the BOSS, it is the time to feast on misery.

The boss said to Wen Bucai: "I think you have the ability to pass this trial and confront my disobedient flesh body head-on."

Wen Bucai smiled: "Just leave me a seat when the time comes."

The boss is very serious: "I don't want any barriers between us, let the ugly words come first, don't treat my physical body as the same thing as me."

Wen Bucai shrugged: "You mean, the station, like the stick, is Mingde's masterpiece, and has nothing to do with Aohen?"

BOSS's expression was complicated, with an indescribable melancholy.

"I imprisoned it and donated its flesh and blood, just like what Jiang Xueming said in a modern context, I just ask for it, and the more I ask for it, the more empty I feel."

"People call me a ferocious monster. I think if this continues, I will definitely taste the most powerful weapon in the human world. In the 10,000-degree 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 single hair left. It is retribution and blood debt."

"I parted my body to make elixirs for you, and you saw me as a new god—perhaps William Nietzsche was right when he said he was the sun, and ended up going mad because the sun was just Radiate light and heat, but never ask people for anything."

"I'm still sober and rational now, building this railway, for my arrogant body, for Wu Wu, I have already contracted incurable madness."

Wen Bucai did not continue to speak.

He just looked down at the cat-shaped creature in his arms.

The boss also raised his head silently, looking up at the VIP with his frail animal body.

Wen Bucai suddenly asked: "I heard that the little man of the Skull and Bones Society, the big leader, found a way to kill you when he was still alive."

BOSS: "My dead door has a simple structure."

Wen Bucai: "As long as you can't make it through the harvest season, can't fall asleep, and are completely swallowed by Vita's brand."

BOSS: "The Crazy Butterfly will borrow my ternary quality to create a very powerful individual. It is a virus and a creature. The morpho butterfly that burst out of my body may be after the age of mythology. The most terrible spiritual disaster."

"I understand." Wen Bucai returned the cat to the cat climbing lady: "It's a big project, take your time, it will be faster if you take it slow."

After the boss explained these things, he asked about Wen Bucai's itinerary.

Wen Bucai took out his "kill list" from his clothes.

"Here is a personnel form. Take a look. They are all people who used to hook up with the cabinet members of the Skull and Bones in the Mimier Hot Spring Market. There are also many opinion leaders from the Red Stone School. Make a power-for-money deal—I’ll go back and pack these things, and I’ll be on standby at Mimier Hot Spring, and if you have anything to do, just call me on WeChat.”

BOSS: "Okay, where are you going to celebrate the New Year?"

"I'm going to [JoeStar], to meet the rising star." Wen Bucai said succinctly: "He wants to change my gun, tailor a suit of clothes for me, and have a New Year's Eve dinner together."

BOSS: "Then I won't delay your trip, please."

Wen Bucai just walked out a few steps.

The BOSS immediately called to stop.

"JOE! You really don't need me to give you 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, and it is a modern society. Many ancient creatures are also willing to form bonds with humans and give blood to them. I have a few candidates, and their growth cycles are not short."

"Here comes the question, Boss, do you think I, the lone star of the devil, can take good care of them? These people want to go through life and death with me, and go to slay dragons together, but can they really go to the wisdom spring with me to take a lava bath? What I need is an unbreakable weapon, a partner who watches from a distance and shouts to cheer, not a demon at the moment of life and death, not a burden."

The boss scratched his head: "I will also consider the need to take a bath in the lava. Maybe there are really monsters like Pompeii worms that can withstand thousands of degrees of heat and have given blood to humans."

Wen Bucai staggered and almost fell to his death at the door.

"What kind of weird thing are you talking about?"

Ms. Cat Climb said goodbye in a cool and elegant way.

"Go all the way, it has always been like this, you understand. Even if there is a new dog at the station, it will try to find a good partner for the dog."

Wen Bucai disappeared in a flash, shouting polite words.

"You're too polite! Don't call me [you], King Hunter! Happy New Year!"

Wen Bucai didn't mention all the above things to Jiang Xueming.

For the two little guys Xue Ming and Meteor, it is still too early to know this.

Xue Ming worked silently in the crude blank workshop, smelting silver ingots and making silver-plated warheads.

Wen Bucai also received a New Year's gift. The barrel and action of the dagger submachine gun have been modified, and now they can be used with 9mm armor-piercing ammunition, and the drum can carry 50 rounds of ammunition.

The cylinder of the M500 has been adjusted again, and there will be no jamming.

But Wen Bucai pulled Xueming and insisted that Xueming name the two steel monsters. Xueming really didn't know how to name them—and finally let it go.

In addition, there is a Morpho costume. During the Chinese New Year, Xue Ming didn't want to overtime too many classes, and had to prepare for a trip to the big library, so Wen Bucai left his body data and did it later.

As the New Year counts down—

——At the last second, Jiang Xueming reserved a more formal gift.

It is the main weapon left for Xiao Qi, and it is also a [life talisman] made by Xue Ming for himself in the ringing ceremony.

On the big table of the New Year's Eve dinner at Sifang Terrace Bar, Xue Ming pushed the huge weapon box in front of Xiao Qi.

Xiaoqi's eyes lit up when he saw this thing.

"For me?"

Xue Ming nodded: "Yes, when I rang the bell for help, I felt more secure if you brought this thing with me."

The weapon box opens—

——Exposing the work of the Russian Central Research and Design Bureau (TsKIB SOO) in 2010, it is a bullpup rifle.

Its name is [ASH·12.7].

The effective range is only 300 meters, using 12.7mm large-caliber sniper bullets, which are bullets with reduced charges suitable for continuous shooting. This kind of ammunition is difficult to buy, but Xue Ming believes in Xiao Qi's contacts. She is always stationed at the station and wants to get one. This kind of thing should not be difficult in her opinion.

It can hang a grenade launcher under it. As a rifle with continuous firing function, the effective range does not exceed 300 meters. It is specially designed to stop the target's movement at close range and hunt large animals.

It was completely rebuilt by Xueming with titanium steel skeleton cutting, and the weight of the empty gun has reached ten kilograms. It doesn't need a very clever shooting technique. For the user, it needs a strong body to be able to shoot continuously.

For Xiaoqi, this gun is a set of fitness equipment.

Bai Lu was dumbfounded, ASH's appearance was very wild.

It's hard for her to imagine that my brother would actually give this kind of thing to his sister-in-law in the New Year

But seeing her sister-in-law's cheerfulness, Bai Lu began to doubt her aesthetics.

But what she didn't know was—

——This weapon made Xue Ming feel very at ease.

Especially when handed over to Xiaoqi, the 33-gram heavy warhead is like a flying brick, enough to stop large beasts and armored enemies.

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 played on the big TV at the bar, and everyone was relieved from the carbohydrate vertigo and woke up from the drowsy state.

Meteor is bluffing.

"Hey! Anyway, Brother Jason has a solution! He told me! He was studying Kung Fu in the SAS Royal Airborne Division——when he was bored, he followed Mr. Victor's novels and received a draft, but the draft was very It's a pity, during the transportation, it was bitten by cockroaches, 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.

"Well! But I sent two couriers in the past!"

The half-old child beamed with joy when he talked about immoral things.

"There is an intact manuscript in a courier box!"

When he clapped his hands, he seemed to have done a great deed.

"In the other box is the second manuscript I copied. I worked hard and poked a lot of small holes in the manuscript paper! At the end, I sprinkled some moving fake cockroaches!~"

3301 is considering how to apologize.

Xiao Qi followed Ah Xing and laughed.

The two brothers and sisters of the Jiang family cooked in silence.

Only Wen Bu couldn't laugh or cry, and finally said——

"—so talented."