Qing Chen smiled and asked, "I've revealed my trump card, what about yours?"
Kamishiro Uncan snarled, "You think you're the only one with a trump card?!"
The next moment, a rumbling sound came from afar, and the rat swarm surrounded them from all directions. Originally, they were about to escape to the wilderness, but they were summoned back by the God of the Clouds for a final battle.
Qing Chen stood still without saying a word.
Kamishiro Unsou laughed wildly: "You're still too young and don't understand the importance of timing. Since you could suppress my shikigami, why didn't you kill me from the beginning? What ability did I have to resist then? And now, can a few dozen of you resist the rat horde?"
Qing Chen said softly, "I'm worried that if the rat swarms run into the wilderness, they will become a major problem in the future. Too many people have already died in City 10; we can't let anyone else die from a rat infestation."
"Huh?" Kamishiro Unsou was taken aback.
"Wouldn't it be better to threaten your life and death, and then have you summon all the rat hordes back to kill them all together?" Qing Chen calmly analyzed, "Rats are very annoying creatures. They can hide in many corners and crevices. If you can't kill one, it can kill another. Now, thank you."
To kill someone is to destroy their spirit.
This rat swarm is not as simple as a million F-class rats raised from the corpse of Kamishiro Chika. Rather, it is hundreds of thousands of freaks raised by Kamishiro Chika using her own corpse as a catalyst and the more than six million residents of the Sixth District as nourishment!
As long as this race continues, Qingchen will always be thinking about it.
As the rat horde slowly approached, Kamishiro Unsou sneered, "How can you guarantee you won't die from the rat horde? You think you can kill 300,000 rats with just a few of you?"
“Look up at the rooftop of the building, who’s standing there?” Qing Chen said with a smile.
The boy's smile was especially bright in the sunlight.
Shen Daiyuncang suddenly looked up and was shocked to see Li Shutong standing on the rooftop in the sunlight, quietly listening to the conversation between the two sides.
Qingchen waved happily: "Master, it's been a long time!"
He didn't know that Li Shutong had extinguished the million-strong rat swarm, nor did he know that the Lower Three Districts had already won. He only knew that the rat swarm had been brought under control and was scattering and fleeing.
After he discovered that Li Shutong had arrived here, he no longer hesitated to delay, meticulously planning to have Shen Daiyun recall the entire rat tide.
It's risky to do this, but it's worth it!
Li Shutong smiled as he looked down at the boy, feeling that his apprentice had grown a lot.
This is Li Shutong's apprentice.
At this moment, Qingchen smiled and waved, "Master, come down and beat him up!"
When Shen Daiyuncang looked up and saw Li Shutong, he was already numb. When he was examining the Rat King's memories, he truly saw how that cloud of energy wiped out the million-strong rat tide.
He suddenly stopped the rat swarm and calmly said, "Why don't we cooperate? I know most of the secrets of the Kamishiro Foundation. As long as you are willing to cooperate with me, I can tell you about the defense maps, military deployments, technological research and development progress, and the list of key personnel in the intelligence system! I am also at odds with the head of the family, and we have common interests!"
Qing Chen shook his head: "You and I have no common interests, you know that. I will find a way to pry it out little by little. Fortunately, the body you possessed is very young and can live for many years. I will imprison you in the secret prison of the Secret Service and excavate you like a treasure. From today onwards, your code name will be Treasure Boy."
"Don't oversimplify this!" Kamishiro Unsou roared, "You'll be buried with us!"
As they spoke, the rat swarm surged again.
Qingchen's heart tightened, and he looked up at Li Shutong, only to find that his master was not looking down, but looking behind the rat swarm.
"What happened? Why is Master looking over there?" Qingchen wondered.
Immediately afterwards, a deafening battle cry erupted from the outer perimeter of the rat swarm: "Kill!"
Qing Chen was stunned.
...
...
Outside the rat horde, Xiao San is leading the refugees and their families from the lower three districts, one by one carrying weapons, to fight off the rat horde.
They no longer felt fear when they looked at the rats; they were more like humans before the rat swarm, who would stomp on any rat they saw.
The crowd surged behind the rat horde, everyone had cut their clothes into strips and wrapped them around their necks, and some even had red long underwear wrapped around their necks, no one knew where they found it.
They first followed the storm to the vicinity of the city wall, where they saw that the metal storm on the wall had stopped attacking humans and instead began attacking the rat swarm.
Immediately afterwards, the rat swarm suddenly contracted inward, and they all rushed back into the city.
Xiao San shouted from the front of the crowd, "Old Qin, Qin Shuli! We still haven't seen the Rat King. I suspect it might still be in the sewers. You take that team of plumbers from the lower three districts and drag it out for the parents. They know the sewers best!"
"Alright!" Qin Shuli left with a group of people.
Xiao San chased after the rat tide. When Shen Daiyuncang and Qing Chen were negotiating, he saw the rat tide stop and signaled everyone to quietly approach and split up to encircle it.
As soon as the rat swarm stirred, they began to shout and fight!
That terrifying swarm of rats was actually surrounded by humans.
Immediately afterwards, everyone witnessed Li Shutong's second breath of cloud, which forcefully blew away the 300,000 rat horde, leaving only one-third.
Like Qing Chen, the cost of expelling all of one's knight's true energy is the expulsion of the cloud energy. Li Shutong had just blown a breath of it a few hours ago, and his knight's true energy had not yet fully recovered.
Although it would let his apprentice know that he had stolen his master's skills, what is face compared to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people? If he didn't take action, many more refugees would die in the battle against the rat horde.
On the battlefield within the swarm of rats, Shindai Yuncang's face was extremely grim. He said to the gene warrior beside him, "Stop him, buy me some time..."
Before he could finish speaking, he heard Li Shutong's voice coming from above: "Save your energy, it's pointless."
Qingyi watched silently. He felt his vision blur and then six crisp sounds rang out in the air.
In less than a second, the six genetic warriors, their bones shattering inch by inch, crashed into the building facing the street and slowly slid down like a scroll painting.
No one present could even clearly see Li Shutong's figure!
Qing Chen smiled and said to Qing Yi, "This is the ability of a knight who has reached the demigod realm. Hitting people is like hanging a painting; a mere flick of the wrist can shatter their bones."
At this moment, Kamishiro Unsou tried to run away, but Li Shutong caught up with him. With four more sharp cracks, Kamishiro Senka's hands and legs were broken, and he lay on the ground unable to get up.
Li Shutong shook his head and said, "Human lifespan is limited. In order to pursue the ephemeral nature of time, they do not hesitate to possess their own descendants, falling from demigods to A-level, and then using your dirty methods to forcibly climb back to the demigod realm."
"Dirty methods?" Qing Chen asked curiously. "I've heard before that once someone has possessed another body, they can never return to being a demigod. But this old man has probably lived for hundreds of years. How has he managed to maintain his demigod status time and time again?"
At this moment, they all believed that the person in front of them, Kamishiro Unsou, was Kamishiro Senka.
Li Shutong said with emotion, "I used to have the same doubts as you, but I only understood after seeing the biological pollution this time. It was because it ate its own former body."
Qing almost vomited when he heard that.
Li Shutong analyzed: "The corpse of a demigod is like a key, or a license. When he first ascended to the demigod realm, his brain and body obtained the world's permission. After possessing another body, he lost the ability to ascend to the demigod realm on his own, so he ate his former body and deceived the world's will time and time again. His power also weakened time and time again."
Li Shutong: "In the earliest days, Onmyoji demigods could control 24 shikigami. In the era of the Minamoto clan, demigods could even control the Hyakki Yagyō (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons). But this old man, after possessing bodies time and time again, has been constantly weakening, and in the end, he can only control 12 shikigami. I guess he has sensed that his power is constantly weakening after each time he has deceived everyone, and even if he eats his own body again this time, he will not be able to regain the demigod status, so he wants to use his own body to do something else. How despicable, how hateful, how disgusting."
Qingchen fell silent; his master's guess must be the answer.
Otherwise, where did Chiaki Kamishiro's former body go?
The extraction of the forbidden substance ACE-039 from outside the Three Realms has really helped Kamishiro Chika a lot!
Qing Chen said, "These hundreds of years of evil are enough to overturn humanity's worldview."
“It’s over,” Li Shutong smiled. “I never thought it would end with you and me, master and disciple.”
However, at that moment, Kamishiro Unsou's eyes suddenly turned bloodshot as he said, "Even if I become a vengeful ghost, I will not let you go, knights!"
His face contorted, and the veins in his neck slowly turned black, spreading all the way down to his face.
Ultimately, his heart stopped beating and he stopped breathing!
Li Shutong was taken aback for a moment: "Wait, I've checked his mouth, there are no poisons hidden there!"
“There are too many ways to hide poison,” Qingchen said. “Master, this is not your oversight. Who knows where he hid the poison? He’s dead now. Besides, I’m not sure if he’s even dead yet.”
As he spoke, Qing Chen raised his hand and fired 12 more shots at Shen Dai Yun Cang, only stopping when he was certain that the other party could never come back to life.
"The way you shoot a dead person 12 times is just like your brother..." Li Shutong remarked.
In an instant, three streams of light flew out from the corpse of the God of the Clouds and flew straight into Qing Chen's hand bowl!
Qingchen laughed and said, "Master, you missed a detail: he faked his death."
"Hmm? Why?" Li Shutong asked curiously.
“He’s gambling, gambling that he’ll enter a state of suspended animation after taking the drug, and we’ll just bury him,” Qing Chen said. “Although the probability is very small, it’s worth taking a gamble in a desperate situation. But I know he’s not dead, because there are still three shikigami in his body that haven’t reached me yet.”
Li Shutong thought for a moment and said, "It's at least an A-grade item. Let's bury it in Forbidden Land No. 002. In a few decades, the old guys will harvest the forbidden substances it extracts."
Qing Chen asked curiously, "So, is this how all the forbidden items in the Forbidden Land came to be?"
What are some forbidden items?
Chapter 696, Forbidden Item ACE-039, Beyond the Three Realms
Qingchen felt somewhat uneasy.
He always felt that there were still some oversights in all the steps.
"Master, do you think it's possible that the one who died wasn't Kamishiro Chika?" Qingchen suddenly asked, squatting beside Kamishiro Uncang's corpse. "When Kamishiro Chika died, everyone thought Kamishiro Uncang was beside him, so the person who was possessed was Kamishiro Uncang. But what if it wasn't?"
The sounds of Xiao San and his group fighting against the rat horde still lingered. After Shen Dai Yun Cang died, the rat horde fell into chaos, seemingly reverting to its original nature and only caring about running away, no longer biting people.
In this noisy environment, Qingchen pondered.
Li Shutong looked at Qing Chen: "So you're saying that he didn't possess Shen Dai Yun Cang, but possessed someone else? And that Shen Dai Qian Chi might not be dead either?"
“According to the intelligence from the Secret Service, after the War of the Century, the airship that Kamishiro Chika was on landed at the Northern Air Force Base, and then Kamishiro Unsou came out and announced Kamishiro Chika’s death,” Qing Chen said. “Logically speaking, it seems that Kamishiro Unsou is indeed the most likely person to be possessed. He is an A-rank and a direct descendant, with the legitimate status of inheriting the power of the Kamishiro lineage. From the perspective of maximizing benefits, it is of course the most correct thing to possess him.”
Qing Chen: "But on the other hand, since everyone thinks that Shendai Yuncang was possessed, the Shendai family head will not let Shendai Yuncang go... So why would someone as cautious as Shendai Qianchi do this? Isn't Shendai Qianchi just making himself a target in the open?"
Qing Chen continued, "I don't have any evidence either, but when the answer is too easy to guess, it always makes people a little uneasy. Besides, there are quite a few people on that airship, and strictly speaking, Shen Dai Yun Cang is not the only one who can be possessed. Of course, this is just a guess."
On Whale Island, Qing Chen once put himself in the shoes of Kamishiro Chika to consider the problem. If he were Kamishiro Chika, he would definitely not possess Kamishiro Uncang, because it would be too easy to guess.
Moreover, just when everyone thought that Kamishiro Unsou was Kamishiro Senka, Kamishiro Unsou died, and everyone felt that Kamishiro Senka had truly perished.
Feigning death, shedding its skin like a cicada!
Before that airship landed, perhaps, two possession surgeries were performed.
One was possessed by Kamishiro Chika, and the other was possessed by Kamishiro Unsou.
Li Shutong frowned. He suddenly realized that although Qing Chen's analysis was missing some information, it was more in line with his understanding of Kamishiro Chika!
Moreover, this time, Chiaki Kamishiro died far too easily.
It should be noted that Li Shutong had been lying in wait in the north for quite some time in order to kill Shen Dai Qianchi, but the other party was so cautious that he didn't even come out of the Divine Bridge.
And now? They went all in, and then died.