Chapter 460: Defense
The New Year passed quickly, and it seemed like half of it had passed in the blink of an eye. However, walking on the streets, the spring couplets on the doors and the banners and lanterns that had not been taken down still retained a lot of the New Year atmosphere.
That day, Chen Chuan drove to the old house alone, cleaned the house inside and out, put a few cans of new tea leaves in, then made a cup of tea and went to the corridor under the eaves. Looking at the stream and woods in front, he slowly drank it under the warm sunshine.
Some memories have emerged in the past few days, and this time there are scenes of the Chinese New Year, with my mother, my aunt and my eldest aunt together.
This aunt was ten years older than the two sisters and later married and moved to another place. He saw her a few times when he was a child, but she hadn't been back for a long time. It seemed that the uncle-in-law had a military background. Later, Nian Qian was able to go to military school with the help of his aunt's family.
All of these memories were from festivals and the New Year period, closely related to what he knew and felt at the moment, and unsurprisingly, most of them were from earlier periods, with only the ones related to the brown-haired woman being a little later in the timeline.
This person should be a key figure, and the whereabouts of this life's parents and even the cause of death of the previous life may be involved.
But he doesn't think too much about it now. He will always know what he needs to know.
After all, these are things of the past and do not affect him now.
There are some things that need attention.
Ni Qianqian took the information she gave him before he returned to Yangzhi very seriously. After all, without knowing the true purpose of the Ferris Wheel Company, he couldn't assume that the other party would give up after a failure.
He had thought about this earlier. If the other party still refused to give up, there would be an excellent opportunity to attack on his way back, so he had to take some precautions when returning to the central city this time.
He stayed at the old house until noon, packed up his things, and drove back home. In the afternoon, his cousins and Chaoming were chasing each other around, while he sat on the sofa in the living room reading a book. Suddenly, the phone rang. He picked it up and said, "This is Chen Chuan."
Ren Xiaotian's voice rang out in the conversation: "Junior brother, I have found the person you want."
Chen Chuan asked about the location and said, "Okay, I'll be right there." He said something to his aunt who was mending shoe soles in the yard, then went out and drove out of the city.
Because he was not sure whether he would encounter danger, he needed to prepare some sacrifices for his civet cat stone tablet. Nowadays, it was almost impossible to find such wanted criminals in the city, so he could only look for them outside the city. He simply asked Ren Xiaotian to do it directly. After all, this person was very familiar with the situation outside the city and in the wilderness.
Moreover, this person is steady and reliable in his work and is not afraid of any problems.
After leaving the city, even though he drove out of an area, he could still see patrol cars driving back and forth from time to time in the outer city area that had been almost left unattended in the past. It seemed that the customs bureau had indeed increased its security inspections.
Director Guan is a person with a strong sense of justice. It seems that he has done a better job after taking office, but in fact whether he can do well sometimes does not depend entirely on this, but also on the external environment.
If the biggest cancer, Molan Company, had not been eradicated, no matter how hard Director Guan tried, it would be useless.
In addition, the construction of the northern railway employed a large number of manpower, a considerable number of whom were recruited from Jiaoshan. According to Lu Ke, many people in the village went there.
In order to prevent any problems in the construction of the railway, the Yuan'an Company also dispatched an armed convoy to patrol there, which prevented the roving bandits from coming from that direction.
He drove all the way towards Jiaoshan. The further he went, the stronger the wind and sand became. The sky was gray and hazy. There was a crackling sound on the car windows and the whole car was covered with a layer of yellow sand.
More than an hour later, Ren Xiaotian's car was seen parked there. He slowed down, slowly pulled over, stopped on the side, and got out.
Seeing him arrive, Ren Xiaotian also got out of the car, went to the trunk, and took someone out.
"He's on the wanted list of the police department, responsible for kidnapping, robbery, human trafficking, smuggling of arms and illegal drugs, and crimes committed by armed gangs."
The man, who was originally listless, seemed to realize that something was wrong and immediately started to save himself, shouting:
"Brothers, can you please let me go? I have money, I'll give it all to you. I also know where the boss hides the medicine, I can take you there. I can't do anything by myself, the boss and my brothers have a huge bounty on their heads."
Chen Chuan didn't waste any time talking to him. He took the man from Ren Xiaotian and carried him to his car. Using the vehicle body as a barrier, he threw the civet cat talisman on the man.
As the shadow of a raccoon cat emerged and drilled into the bandit's body, the man immediately let out a shrill scream.
However, the sound only lasted for a while before it became weaker. After another minute or two, there was no sound at all, and the whole person had turned into a dried corpse.
Chen Chuan looked up at this time and saw a pit not far ahead. It turned out that Ren Xiaotian had even dug the pit. He walked over and threw the bandit's body into it. The wind and sand here were so strong that it was filled up in a short time, and he didn't even have to bury it.
After walking back, he said to Ren Xiaotian who was waiting on the side: "Brother, thank you."
Ren Xiaotian said, "Nothing."
Chen Chuan took advantage of the wind and sand blocked by the car body and said, "Brother, are you still planning to accept the commission here?" Ren Xiaotian didn't say much during the dinner, and it was unknown whether he had the same plan as the others.
Ren Xiaotian said, "I'll go to Central City." He thought for a moment and said, "I've definitely lost a lot of acquaintances over the past year. With the decline in smuggling business in the wasteland, there will be fewer and fewer people. I think it's better for me to leave soon."
Chen Chuan smiled, extended his hand, and said, "Brother, please come find me first when you get to Central City."
Ren Xiaotian took a look, stretched out his hand somewhat uncomfortably, and shook hands with him.
"Yes."
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is late January.
Chen Chuan was already preparing to return to Central City. This time, he would bring Wei Dong and Wu Han with him. The others all had things to attend to and would need to arrive a little later, perhaps in February or March.
Director Lei had to leave a few days earlier, so they could travel together. Of course, he wouldn't be alone in Central City; the Esoteric Cult Inspection Bureau would send someone to escort him.
As for Senior Sister He and Xiao Ying, they will take him over together after he is settled.
Director Lei was quite cautious about taking up this post. Before that, he even called Chen Chuan to come over.
"Some people might not want to see me go to Central City, so I need to take some precautions. Student Chen, I'm planning to make some arrangements here as well. Do you agree?"
Chen Chuan didn't hesitate and said, "Director Lei, what should we do?"
Director Lei took out a stack of membrane-like materials and said, "This is the bionic skin specially made by the bureau. The ritual patterns you saw tattooed on our bodies before were made with the help of this material."
He rolled up his sleeves, took out a piece and put it on his arm. It looked almost the same as his original skin.
"This membrane can be pre-drawn with patterns, and after use, you can tear it off and replace it with another one. It's very convenient. This time I prepared some for you. After applying it to your body, you only need to connect the reserved rituals, like this..."
He clenched his fist, and the ritual pattern suddenly glowed with light. "The ritual can now be activated."
He added: "Of course, the timing of initiating this ritual is up to you, so you can choose a method that works for you and don't need to copy others.
Besides these, there are also clothes..."
He asked He Nan to bring over a smock and handed it to Chen Chuan. "This is a special garment made by the bureau. It's very tough. The inside is connected with special silk threads, and it is arranged in the shape of a ritual pattern. Even if the surface is damaged, it will not affect the effect of the ceremony too much."
Chen Chuan took it and nodded. He had used the esoteric rituals against the Viper Group the last time, and it had been very effective in synergizing the attack, and it had also played a role in the final kill of Xu Xianwen.
However, he had a question. The use of esoteric rituals seemed to be very mature, but it was rarely used by fighters. He wondered if it was because of the above ban or other reasons?
After he raised this question, Director Lei said in a deep voice: "This is mainly due to the ban. Although the combination of the two can play a greater role, it may also produce more terrible consequences. There are lessons in the history of the old times.
In fact, if you were not born with the ability to resist strange substances, I would not let you continue to come into contact with these things.
And from what I've learned, some rituals can be influenced and suppressed by some powerful biological fields, even including some powerful people.
However, these are small-scale rituals. More powerful rituals are different. They usually take several years or even more than ten years to prepare and cannot be easily broken.
These rituals are now sealed and are not allowed to be studied, because anyone involved in them would involve the lives of thousands of people. "
Chen Chuan understood clearly that in the old days, all the imperial families in the world had established a state religion.
What exactly are these secret religions used for? Although countries around the world have not publicly stated it in order to cover up the existence of the secret religions, he knows from what he has come into contact with and seen before that it is definitely not a good thing.
Especially since some rituals have the benefits of increasing lifespan and vitality, as well as consolidating one's own rule, how could those rulers resist not using them?
He shook his head, put all this aside for the time being, thought for a while, then took the membranes and began to carve the ritual patterns he needed on them.
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(End of this chapter)
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