Poor Taoist Qiu Chuji
Chapter 295 The Truth about the Artifact
Chapter 295 The Truth about the Artifact
Outside the Beast Ear Olin Stadium, Song Cailing walked in front and led the way, while reading the information she had just searched on the Internet: “The Beast Ear Olin Main Arena covers an area of 4.13 million square meters, with an east-west axis of 45 meters, a north-south axis of 280 meters, and a circumference of 830 meters. The main structure is steel, and the stands are 47 meters high, divided into two floors with a roof, which can accommodate 100,000 spectators. There are 52 entrances and exits in total, and all 100,000 spectators can enter or exit the stadium in 30 minutes.”
Song Cailing put down her phone and turned to Qiu Chuji and said, “It looks like this is not going to be easy to tamper with.”
“After all, with so many spectators gathered, setting fire seems to be the most appropriate way to offer sacrifice. However, with so many exits, as long as people do a good job of evacuating, it is very likely that the specific death toll will not reach the target at all.”
“Even if we don’t evacuate and let the audience run around and trample on the place, it doesn’t look like there’s a lot of flammable material here… Do we need to spray gasoline on the stadium in advance?”
Qiu Chuji did not answer. He was also trying to look at the stadium from the perspective of those who were responsible for arranging the sacrifice to see if it could take on the responsibility of unifying the Five Elements.
In modern society, it is actually not difficult to commit large-scale and widespread killings.
For example, releasing poison gas or some highly infectious virus in a stadium could easily claim thousands of lives.
However, any study of the data on previous sacrifices would deny this possibility.
Since it is a sacrifice, it must comply with the rules.
Let’s take the Shiyuehao as an example. This is a gold and water situation, but why is water still the main factor?
Because although the hull was made of steel, equivalent to a large iron coffin, those students and teachers were basically drowned.
The materials involved in the sacrifice and the method of killing people in the sacrifice are two different things.
Several other sacrifices were similar, based on a certain attribute of the five elements, which stipulated that the way the sacrificed person died must be consistent with the five elements of the sacrifice.
In the sacrifice of the Five Elements Return to One, not only are the elements of the five attributes required to be gathered together, but the death of the sacrificed person should also revolve around these five elements, with as little help as possible from other external elements.
Thinking of this, Qiu Chuji turned his eyes and said to Song Cailing, “You take a taxi home first. I’ll take a look around here and contact you later!”
Song Cailing curled her lips and subconsciously wanted to speak, but then she thought of something and stopped talking. She waved at Qiu Chuji, left the stadium, walked to the main road and took a taxi home.
The Song family is not very wealthy, and taxis are relatively expensive in South Korea. However, after Song Cailing took over Qiu Chuji’s order, she made a small fortune. While entertaining Qiu Chuji, she was able to receive a considerable daily allowance. She has been considered wealthy recently.
After Song Cailing left, Qiu Chuji grabbed the flying sword and mobilized a trace of true energy in his body. He then flashed past the security personnel’s sight like the wind, avoided some cameras, and broke into the workroom of the stadium.
He was already 50% sure that this stadium was the sacrificial site where the five elements would finally be united into one.
Because this place is like a pocket where you can do whatever you want.
As long as the audience enters the venue and then seals all the entrances and exits, a large number of people can be killed by flooding, fire, wall collapse, and crushing of steel columns.
These correspond to the four elements of water, fire, earth and gold respectively.
Finally there is only wood!
Among South Korea’s past sacrifices, only the breaking of the Holy Water Bridge was related to “wood”.
Although modern bridges contain few wooden structures, bridges themselves have been considered a derivative of “wood” since ancient times.
However, even the seats in the stadium are basically made of steel mixed with plastic, and wood is scarce, let alone being used to kill people.
As long as Qiu Chuji finds clues related to the “wood” killing in this hall, he can be 100% sure that this is the place where the final sacrifice of the Five Elements Return to One will be carried out.
After looking around, Qiu Chuji did not find any sacrificial materials that matched the “wood” attribute, so he began to doubt whether this was a bait deliberately thrown out by the South Koreans to divert attention.
After all, their plan to acquire the national treasure should soon be known to everyone.
Before unifying the five elements, it would be acceptable to use some tricks to divert attention.
Even if the South Korean government is terrible, it can’t be so low-level as to be incompetent…right?
As Qiu Chuji was searching, he suddenly heard two very faint breathing sounds approaching quickly, but there were no footsteps.
With a flash, Qiu Chuji jumped onto a steel beam, then breathed in the tortoise-like manner to reduce his presence, even his body temperature was dropping rapidly.
But it is not a very rigorous concealment after all. If someone has some extraordinary detection methods or extremely sharp senses, they can still detect Qiu Chuji’s existence.
Some methods in the martial arts world, even if they can still be used in this world, their effectiveness will be greatly reduced.
With Qiu Chuji’s abilities, he could only sigh helplessly under so many restrictions.
Of course, in addition to this method of hiding and sneaking in, there is also a method of destroying an entire family and sneaking in.
As long as everyone who sees me is killed, it won’t be considered exposure.
Qiu Chuji can switch to infiltration tactics at any time.
Not long after, two men and women who were obviously Asian walked in.
Why are they determined to be Asian?
Instead of Chinese, Koreans or Japanese?
All we can say is that the looks of these two people fit the stereotype of Asians in European and American propaganda very well.
This is not only the change in facial features caused by the change in food culture, but also the change in makeup that these Asians have taken the initiative to make in order to conform to the definition of them in Western society. Over time, it has become natural.
Anyone who has studied abroad in the West can probably tell at a glance which are the international students from China and which are the banana people who have long been domesticated.
Qiu Chuji saw that the two men were holding a flashlight in their hands. Under the light of the flashlight, the sound of their footsteps seemed to be absorbed, and no fluctuations could be heard.
If Qiu Chuji had not had sharp senses and heard the breathing sounds, he would not have noticed their approach.
The Asian man took out a device similar to a mobile phone and looked at it again, with a puzzled look on his face: “Strange! It clearly showed that there was a person here just now, how come he disappeared in the blink of an eye?”
He spoke Southern Korean, but it seemed a little unfamiliar and not fluent.
The Asian woman took out a small black pistol and said in English: “Come on! Joseph! There is no one else here, don’t disgust me with your broken Bangla. It’s really weird. You are obviously a Singaporean, why do you have to learn Bangla?”
“Do you think that after learning Bangla, you can pretend to be a Bangla oppa and deceive little girls?”
Although on the Internet, Koreans and Indians have long been at the bottom of the social ladder, despised by various countries, and are ridiculed as the five permanent members of YouTube together with Annan, Bolan, and Turchi, the idol culture output of South Korea has been quite powerful in recent years, and young girls in many countries do have a filter for South Korean Oppa.
“Shut up! Alice! I don’t want to discuss this with you. Remember the discipline that our supervisor taught us. Now we are English-speaking people who just returned from studying abroad. We shouldn’t speak English all the time. We should speak our ‘mother tongue’!” said the Asian man named Joseph. He glanced at the cell phone-like instrument again and suddenly raised the flashlight in his hand.
The beam of light shone on the ceiling, and a spider that had been curled up in the corner froze in place under the light, not moving at all.
At the same time, an Asian woman named Alice also pointed her gun in the direction of the flashlight, showing a fairly tacit degree of cooperation.
It was obvious that the quarrel between the two of them just now was just an illusion deliberately created.
Qiu Chuji sat on the crossbeam of the steel frame, watching the two people below performing funny tricks, and at the same time moved to a blind spot behind them without making any noise.
In Qiu Chuji’s opinion, the skills and reactions of these two people were very average, only slightly better than ordinary people.
However, they have tools and technological support, so they should not be underestimated.
Qiu Chuji wanted to try to obtain some information from them, such as what exactly was the national treasure that the South Koreans had tried so hard to obtain.
You can’t have been planning for quite some time but still not know who the real owner is!
Suddenly, a cell phone rang.
Qiu Chuji’s eyes changed slightly, and he instantly turned into a gust of wind, rushed to the side of the two men, and stretched out his hand to hit the Yuzhen point on the back of their necks.
The two men’s bodies slid suddenly, and they all deviated to the side in a way that was extremely inconsistent with common sense of mechanics, and actually avoided Qiu Chuji’s attack.
Even though Qiu Chuji’s attack did not even use half of his current strength, the fact that the two were able to dodge it must mean something fishy.
Qiu Chuji looked at the two men who had turned around and stood firmly, drawing their guns and aiming at him at the same time. Then he calmly took out the cell phone that was making a loud ringing sound from his arms.
The caller showed that it was Yang Guo.
Qiu Chuji had not lived in modern society for a long time. He had been accompanying Yang Guo in Hong Kong to recuperate recently. He had not remembered to turn off his mobile phone at special times to avoid affecting his actions due to the phone.
Of course, even if there is an impact, that’s fine.
Qiu Chuji answered the phone, looked at the two men pointing guns at him, and waved.
“Hey! It’s me!”
“You’re here too?”
“Stayed?”
“Yes! Okay! I’ll come find you when I have time.”
“No! I don’t need your help, just take care of your own business first.”
“Well, I’ll find you if I need you to! You can also make some preparations first, and I’ll pass on the relevant information to you later.”
After Qiu Chuji chatted with Yang Guo for a few words, he reached out to hang up the phone.
Gunshot! Fired! Two whistling bullets, one shot straight into Qiu Chuji’s forehead, the other shot straight into his heart.
Although both pistols were equipped with silencers, the actual sound was only slightly smaller than a normal gunshot, and was weakened into another sound that was not so frightening and harsh.
However, although the gun fired, it was of no use.
A streak of fiery red light swept past, and the two bullets fired at Qiu Chuji were split in half. Almost at the same time, the guns in the hands of the two men were shattered into pieces, and their palms were scraped bloody by the sword.
When Joseph wanted to shine the flashlight in his hand on Qiu Chuji, Qiu Chuji had already made a series of moves, as if he appeared in front, behind, left and right of the two men at the same time, and stretched out his hands to hit the four acupuncture points of the two men.
They seemed to be wearing some kind of emergency response equipment. At the moment, they were facing Qiu Chuji and attacking from all sides at the same time. Under the stress reaction, they actively twisted their bodies into a strange shape. Although they avoided Qiu Chuji’s attack, several bones were broken and several major meridians were severed because of this twisting and folding.
Whoosh!
The flying sword swept past, and the sharp sword energy swept across the two people’s bodies.
The coats of the two men were torn open, revealing a pair of undergarments filled with electronic components, somewhat similar to motion capture gear.
At this moment, sparks were still coming out of some electronic components, obviously because the sword energy had just destroyed their internal structures.
“Who is it?” A chaotic sound of footsteps was heard, and security personnel from several stadiums seemed to be running over.
Qiu Chuji picked up the belongings of the two people on the ground, held them one in each hand, and turned into a shadow that flashed left and right in the wide venue, avoiding the camera and quickly disappeared in the venue.
Overhead, cars sped past, running over the bridge, making noisy noises.
Under the bridge, Qiu Chuji tied Joseph and Alice to the bridge pillars, pressed their temples, and rubbed them slightly with his internal energy to stimulate them to wake up.
This internal energy is not internal force, but a force of muscles and bones, which is simply exerted in a more soothing and feminine manner. Although it is far less mysterious than internal force, let alone comparable to true Qi, it comes from the flesh and blood, and is more universal than internal force and true Qi.
Qiu Chuji had actually made up his mind that after this matter was over, he would study pure physical martial arts for a while.
This method, which seems to have a very low upper limit, can actually be an extremely safe trump card if developed well.
“who are you?”
“What do you want to do to us?” After waking up, Joseph started shouting in the island language, as if he wanted to blur his identity.
Of course, the identity of “Singaporean” that he mentioned when talking to Alice before should not be taken seriously.
“I only have three questions for you.”
“That’s a good answer. I’ll let you go and we’ll pretend we’ve never met. If we have any further questions, we’ll use our own methods.”
“Of course, if you don’t answer well, I will save myself the trouble and just kill you and throw you into the Han River. I will let you flow into the sea freely!” Qiu Chuji’s words startled the two agents.
Is this person so reckless?
Being so reckless doesn’t conform to the rules for agents to deal with their peers!
Shouldn’t everyone be asking each other questions, exchanging information with intrigue, and competing with each other in wits and courage by testing the truth of the information?
“Okay! Whatever you want to ask, we’ll answer you!”
“But what can you use to guarantee that after we answer, you will be satisfied and let us go?” Alice asked.
At this moment, her eyes were a little bigger, and she no longer deliberately pursed her eyelids to pretend to squint.
“There are no guarantees. It all depends on whether I think the answers you give are to my liking.”
“Okay, I’m asking you, not you asking me!”
“Now, answer my first question. What exactly is that artifact from South Korea?”
“You have ten seconds to answer. The count starts now. If you exceed ten seconds, I will kill one of you and leave Jiang first.”
“If you don’t answer within thirty seconds, you will all die!” After Qiu Chuji said this, he released the murderous intent that he had deliberately restrained during his self-cultivation.
Although that pure spiritual temperament did not form any substantial pressure due to the changes in the world environment, it was still frightening to the two of them.
They are knowledgeable and have killed people.
Because of this, they could feel even more the horror and bloodiness of Qiu Chuji’s murderous intent. They couldn’t even imagine how many people Qiu Chuji had killed to develop such murderous intent.
“It’s a TV!” Joseph replied quickly.
Alice beside him looked incredulous. She didn’t expect that Joseph would actually tell the truth.
Would he betray the powerful and free United States?
“A television?”
“That’s right! An old-fashioned cabinet TV!” Since Joseph had already spoken, he didn’t hide it and continued, “It was originally just an ordinary psychic TV. Its greatest function is to help people dream and lead them into a fictional world of dreams. If you watch a good TV show through it, you will have a good dream. If you watch a scary TV show with it, you will have a nightmare and may even scare you to death!”
Qiu Chuji frowned. This sounded like it had nothing to do with the Five Elements Blood Sacrifice.
The monsters in TV dramas that use dreams as bait and devour souls with dreams do not seem to need the assistance and support of the five elements.
But Qiu Chuji did not interrupt Joseph and waited for him to continue. If what he said was wrong, or if he was trying to fool people with nine truths and one lie, Qiu Chuji would take drastic measures without hesitation.
For the lawless Qiu Chuji, if the clues are really exhausted and he can no longer proceed, he will not hesitate to kidnap high-ranking officials of South Korea, or even the president, to obtain the information and convenience he wants.
When a person possesses extraordinary strength, his method of dealing with problems will often be so plain and boring.
“In the 1990s, a South Korean master named Kim Sung-hoon proposed a theory, which was to create a powerful artifact that could distort everyone’s cognition, allowing fictional dreams to shroud reality, and the two to overlap, thereby achieving the vision of making South Korea a truly great country.”
“So they found the TV and guided it, first letting it devour the dreams of a large number of young men and women, allowing it to grow into a powerful object with conceptuality and free from its primitive constraints.”
As mentioned earlier, the objects in this world, that is, the spirits, can be roughly divided into two types: conceptual and non-conceptual.
Non-conceptual objects are more common, they have single functions, and their improvement methods are old-fashioned. For example, when Qiu Chuji first obtained the sports car that he refined into a flying sword, it became spiritual by causing the death of the driver in a car accident. So if it wants to make progress and improve, it must repeatedly take the driver’s life in the form of car accidents.
And if it is elevated to a conceptual level, then anyone who dies from it, such as in a car accident or collision, will have their soul devoured by it and become its nourishment.
When the television as an object rises to the conceptual level, it only needs to make up a dream, and anyone who dies in this dream will be swallowed up by it, without having to die or dream in a fixed way by watching a TV series or movie through it.
“After it had a concept, the South Koreans expanded the concept and successfully integrated the theory of the five elements, hoping to build a bridge between the dream it formed and reality.”
“As long as it succeeds, many of the fictional contents in the dream can be truly reflected in reality and change the entire world.”
At this point, Joseph added: “You are a special agent from China! In fact, our positions are the same!”
“The South Koreans are too crazy. If they succeed, we will all be greatly affected… Even if we all have our own trump cards, it is difficult for the strongest artifacts in different fields to truly interfere with each other’s fields.”
Qiu Chuji ignored Joseph’s nonsense.
He knew the inside story so clearly, which showed that the Americans were well aware of South Korea’s entire plan of blood sacrifice artifacts, and they were even behind the scenes fanning the flames.
In fact, Qiu Chuji did not expect that Joseph could reveal so much inside information.
You know, judging from previous appearances, Joseph and Alice were probably just pawns on field missions.
They were probably able to participate simply because they are Asian.
The only reason they know so much is because the United States is so deeply involved and so many people know about it. It has long been no secret among them.
In this case, Director Gu was not telling the truth either.
He arranged for Qiu Chuji and Yang Guo to come here just to use them as a decoy.
The news has been leaked in the American spy agency. Director Gu said that he didn’t know what the specific object was, and he hypocritically guided Qiu Chuji to check prisons and cells… It’s really funny.
Is the curse that South Korean presidents will be purged because they wish to do so?
That’s not…that’s it!
Those who understand will understand, and they don’t care about politics!
In a word, most Koreans do not have such noble sentiments as to sacrifice so many presidents to create things.
Anyone who can become president, even if he is not a complete chess player, is definitely no longer just a chess piece and will not willingly be used as a discarded piece.
Just think about it, all the lies that the Koreans have boasted about over the years, the culture and history that they have forcibly seized, the characters and historical events that they have fabricated, if all of these became true because of that TV…
Qiu Chuji felt that the responsibility on his shoulders was very heavy at the moment.
Old Qiu is also a celebrity. What if the Koreans are shameless enough to incorporate him into their nationality? Then when the TV is ready, won’t he also become the ancestor of the Koreans?
shudder!
shudder!
This matter must not be allowed to succeed in the hands of the Koreans!
You have to grab the TV, you have to grab it!
(End of this chapter)