Before he could think any further, he saw a speedboat rushing upstream and pulled him out of the water.
The next morning, the boat owner even cooked him a bowl of hot porridge...
At that moment, the Revenant Hunter suddenly realized that this was the good luck brought by making a wish with the scarlet pen!
The power of rules!
Among the many taboo items today, the scarlet fountain pen is arguably the most useless one, but April wishes every day that she can have a hot meal the next day, which might save her life in a critical moment.
The second forbidden item that can be used to sacrifice the corpse of a superhuman is ACE-107, the best lighter in the whole village.
Offering a corpse once grants the use of fire once.
Everything it ignites turns to ashes; even steel burned with it evaporates.
The flame from this lighter won't spread; even when burning a corpse, it will only burn the body and not the clothes.
Someone once tried to use it to destroy the Earth, but they stopped after only burning one rock...
Later, someone used it to fight against an A-level enemy. After the two engaged in a forced close-quarters battle, the owner suddenly used a lighter to set one of the opponent's hairs on fire.
In just 2 seconds, the A-level superhuman turned to ashes.
The third forbidden item that can be used to sacrifice to extraordinary individuals is ACE-015, the wooden fish of Jiyun Temple.
This thing is a bit strange. It sacrifices corpses in a way that is considered a form of salvation, and the sacrificed corpses may even release their souls.
The soul looked pained but its eyes were vacant; it answered whatever was asked.
It will only last for five minutes.
The person who extracted this forbidden item was a high-ranking monk from the former Federal Jiyun Temple, which was once the most popular temple in terms of incense offerings.
After the high monk died, leaving behind this forbidden object, everyone felt that it had no Buddhist qualities whatsoever and was instead extremely cruel.
Later, hundreds of human skeletons were discovered in the underground cave beneath Jiyun Temple, and the skeletons bore knife and axe marks...
This event also sparked a wave of anti-monk sentiment within the Federation, and the Mechanicus was born around that time.
The last item, the forbidden item ACE-019, is a marionette.
These four forbidden items can be used to sacrifice the corpses of superhumans.
Three of them were in the hands of the Forbidden Tribunal. At this time, they encountered someone who could sacrifice the corpses of superhumans, which meant that the other party was holding the only "puppet" that had been lost and could be sacrificed to superhumans.
This process of elimination is very simple...
After pondering for a moment, Li Dongze asked, "Then what do you think is going on with Kamishiro Chika?"
March calmly said, "I suspect that Chika Kamishiro has been carrying the forbidden item ACE-039, 'Beyond the Three Realms'."
This forbidden item is quite interesting. It is a string of Buddhist prayer beads, which was removed from Jiyun Temple by its first abbot, who was a truly eminent monk.
Those outside the Three Realms have no active abilities, yet they are exempt from the judgment of all forbidden things.
For example, even if you wear this string of Buddhist beads called 'Beyond the Three Realms' and sing to the hunters every day, they won't pay any attention to you.
Even if someone burns you with the best lighter in the whole village, you won't be hurt.
Be thankful that your fate is arranged on the spot, and your fate will not be changed because of him.
The amazing thing about this thing is that if Chika Kamishiro had this with her before she died, she could have avoided the judgment of the Six-Eyed Raven.
Li Dongze said, "The Three Realms have been gone for over a hundred years, how could they have ended up in the hands of the Divine Era Consortium?"
“I don’t know,” March shook her head. “I’ve tried to find it using forbidden items, but it’s exempt from all forbidden items, so I couldn’t find it at all.”
This forbidden object from beyond the Three Realms is the most suitable for the Forbidden Tribunal, since they have to deal with all sorts of strange forbidden objects.
"Strange, is someone deliberately hiding Kamishiro Chika's body? Why?" Li Dongze frowned. "Could it be that the Kamishiro Foundation has acquired some kind of sinister power again?"
“It’s impossible to tell,” March shook her head. “I’m taking April and the others south tomorrow. This time, the Six-Eyed Crow’s cries have been unusually long, its five eyes are bleeding blood, and it won’t even eat hawthorns… Another demigod is about to fall.”
Li Dongze said, "I'll go with you."
"Why?" March asked.
“The Forbidden Tribunal hasn’t been as peaceful as it used to be,” Li Dongze said. “You have too many forbidden items in your possession, which will inevitably attract covetous eyes. Although you are doing things that are beneficial to the world, the conglomerates believe that once they obtain your forbidden items, they can do the same things you can do. So, from now on, you need to be careful. I’ll go with you this time.”
"Can you leave?" March glanced at him sideways: "If you could leave, you would have left long ago."
“It’s different,” Li Dongze shook his head: “The two people I’ve arranged for this small boss are more than capable of handling the daily management of Hengshe. Especially Zhang Tianzhen, who seems harmless but is actually full of bad intentions. With him and Hu Xiaoniu here, one righteous and one unorthodox, I can leave.”
“Huh,” March paused for a moment, “Then pack your things, we’ll leave first thing tomorrow morning. Also, don’t wear that outfit to the wilderness, it looks really out of place.”
Li Dongze raised an eyebrow: "Didn't you say I looked good in this outfit?"
March rolled her eyes: "It depends on the occasion, you know."
...
...
Just as the battle between the Chen, Kashima, and Kei clans was about to break out.
In the wilderness, a convoy of 11 trucks carrying frozen meat slowly made its way from the north toward City 10.
The words "Northern Shenque Meat Food Supply Group" are painted on the vehicle.
This meat supplier is a monopoly owned by the Kamishiro Foundation.
Due to natural environmental factors, they vigorously developed livestock breeding industries such as cattle and sheep in the north, and then transported the beef and mutton to various cities in the south.
The convoy gradually slowed down as it reached the 10 cities.
The immigration official glanced at the documents, which showed that all the goods had been quarantined by City 20, there were no sick or dead sheep, and each sheep had an electronic beacon embedded with a traceable origin.
The bacterial count and all other indicators met the requirements.
The official looked at the convoy leader and said casually, "There's nothing smuggled in the car, is there? If there is, I suggest you confess yourself."
Upon hearing this, the convoy leader immediately grinned and pulled the official to a place without surveillance cameras, then stuffed a roll of banknotes into his hand: "You really have sharp eyes, nothing can be hidden from you. I've been asked to bring a few holly falcons from the wilderness to the big bosses."
The official did not accept the banknotes and said in his usual indifferent tone, "The holly falcon is a bird of prey that is prohibited from being kept in the city. I cannot let you pass."
The team leader quickly took off his watch again; it was a famous "Dragon Weave" brand watch in the Federation, costing more than 300,000 yuan.
The official paused for a moment, then casually put the watch into his pocket.
He stood in a blind spot of the surveillance cameras, waved to his subordinates from a distance, and passed.
The gates for entry and exit quarantine slowly lifted, and the metal storm in the dome was released.
The convoy continued driving into the city. The captain, who had just been grinning, slowly darkened his expression, becoming somewhat sinister.
His gaze, like that of a hunting hawk, swept across the front of the vehicle.
The team leader said in the vehicle's communication channel, "On the roof of the vehicles behind, all the goods are being delivered to their respective locations according to the orders."
As he spoke, his vehicle suddenly turned and drove alone into an underground parking garage in the fifth district.
When no one was paying attention, the truck stopped at a drainage system inspection port.
The vehicle came to a stop, and the rear door of the truck opened silently.
The vehicle's interior was lined with a shielding membrane to prevent radiation scanning. Inside, two men with grim expressions jumped out and methodically opened the sewer system's inspection port. As soon as they opened it, the sound of the city's vast and complex sewer system flowing could be heard.
The two men exchanged a glance, then lifted a long black wooden crate out of the truck and walked down the stairs at the maintenance entrance into the sewer.
The box was more than a person's length long and extremely quiet. What it contained did not seem to be a holly falcon at all.
This... looks more like a coffin.
At the entrance to the sewer access gate, the team leader whispered, "One minute and twenty-three seconds left. Remember, don't look up. Repeat, don't look up."
The two people inside the sewer whispered, "Roger that."
They placed the black box in the sewer, and one of them took out a syringe from his pocket, dripped the unknown liquid onto the black box, then turned back to the ground and crawled back into the back of the truck.
After closing the door, the vehicle drove away quickly.
Two people were in the driver's cab, and two were in the cargo box. They were calm as if nothing had happened.
However, dozens of gray rats, attracted by the unknown smell, began to frantically gnaw on the black wooden box in the sewer.
The rats used their claws to dig and their teeth to bite, so frantically that they didn't even care if they broke their own teeth.
Several tens of minutes later, the wooden box was finally gnawed through by the rats.
Inside the box was an old, pale hand with a string of Buddhist prayer beads on its wrist.
The hand was only a small part visible through the hole. This black wooden box was like a coffin abandoned in a mass grave, lying in this unknown dark world.
Rotten, fermented.
...
...
"Let's camp here," Qingchen said suddenly as he spotted a grove of trees.
This was the first campsite his master had set up when he first came to the wilderness.
Qingchen looked at Zhang Mengqian. After the pickup truck came to a stop, the little boy, disregarding his fatigue, got out of the car to set up a temporary tent for Qingchen, Yingzi, and Yangyang.
Qingchen felt a sense of disorientation; it was as if this scene had happened just yesterday, and he was still playing the role of Zhang Mengqian.
Shadow looked at Qingchen: "He has a natural sixth sense. Why don't you hurry up and let him cultivate? There are very few talents like him in the Federation. The two people who have been recorded have both become demigods. Don't waste such a good talent. If you can't teach him, I'll find someone else to teach him."
This is because spiritual practice itself is a process in which an individual's spiritual will gradually integrates with the world.
Those who already possess a sixth sense before this kind of cultivation have already completed the fusion, and their bodies have enormous potential waiting to be developed.
For such people, spiritual practice is a smooth path.
However, Qingchen shook his head as he looked at Zhang Mengqian and whispered to the shadow, "I wanted him to take a different path of cultivation, but he stubbornly insisted on taking mine. This child is good in every way, except for being exceptionally stubborn."
Shadow nodded: "He's even more stubborn than you. The more talented a person is, the purer they tend to be. It's a pity that if he doesn't change his mind, no one can help him. In the end, he might just waste his life."
However, at that moment, the shadow suddenly leaned backward without warning.
Qingchen quickly supported his back and laid him flat on the ground next to the campfire.
There was no heartbeat, no breathing.
The symptoms came on very suddenly, so suddenly that even the shadows weren't prepared.
A shadow fell over Qingchen's heart.