Chapter 114 Xia Pingzhou's second-level Tianqu, a new chess type (asking for monthly tickets)
July 18th.
On this evening, the No. 2 machine, Xia Pingzhou, had nothing to do, so he sat in a cafe and played a few rounds of poker with the members of the White Crow Brigade.
Xia Pingzhou fought so absent-mindedly and made many stupid moves - he basically threw all the bombs he could on his teammates.
Even the legendary British gambler Andrews couldn't stand his playing like this. He took the lead and lost two rounds with him, breaking his undefeated record in the card game in the brigade overnight.
After losing all his savings, Ayase Origami, who was sitting next to Xia Ping Zhou, naturally took his place and said to him expressionlessly, "I'll help you win it back, kitten, go to sleep first."
So Xia Pingzhou patted his butt and went back to the attic as a matter of course.
He thought to himself that it would be better for him to participate less in such team-building activities in the future. As a red scarf and three-good boy, it was not that he did not want to win, but even though he was in an international criminal group, he kept his original intention in mind and did not want to participate in gambling, and drew a clear line between himself and pornography, gambling and drugs.
Controlling the No. 2 machine towards the window, Xia Pingzhou stepped on the windowsill and jumped onto the roof of the attic.
By the way, Xia Pingzhou's physical strength is only D-level, which is in stark contrast to the other two attributes. At most, he is slightly stronger than an ordinary person.
Therefore, Xia Pingzhou couldn't afford to be careless. If he accidentally stepped on empty air and fell down, he would have to ask the stone statue of the queen to save him - the queen was different from other chess pieces, she had a mind, and Xia Pingzhou couldn't afford to lose this face, as he would have to lead troops to fight in the future.
After climbing onto the roof, the evening breeze blew towards him, and the cars on the street were like fireflies, forming an endless stream of light. Xia Pingzhou found a place to sit down, staring at the night view of Tokyo for a while, with the air conditioner outdoor unit buzzing in his ears.
He thought of Kong Youling again. Every time he sat on the attic roof, he would think of the time when he was still in the welfare home. He really hoped that Kong Youling could sit here with him, and the two of them could enjoy the evening breeze and look at the brightly lit Tokyo under the night sky.
If he wasn't some restricted superpower, Kong Youling was just an ordinary person, and they could put aside all the worries about saving the world and destroying the world, and just sit here and look at the sky, and the cars and people coming and going in the city...
After a moment, Xia Pingzhou came back to his senses and called up the "Tianqu Progress" in the character panel.
[The current progress of the second character's Sky Drive "Chess" is: 80%]
Looking at the red words on the panel, Xia Pingzhou thought to himself, "The Sky Drive of Unit 2 is about to be upgraded to Level 2. Let's upgrade it before the auction starts and see if we can get some precious mechanisms."
So he lay down on the roof of the attic, clicked on the skull pattern on his phone, opened the internal APP of the Exorcist Association, and a map appeared on the phone screen.
He put his right arm behind his head and closed his eyes to rest for a while. About an hour later, a "beep, beep" sound came from his ear, indicating that the instruments of the Exorcist Association had detected the demon appearing nearby.
Xia Pingzhou opened his eyes, looked at the red dot on the map, then stood up and fell from the roof, stepped on the windowsill, and fell into the attic.
Just then, Ayase Origami walked up from the first floor of the cafe. The girl in kimono drooped her eyelids, lifted her ochre-red kimono sleeves to cover her mouth, and yawned softly.
Then, the Japanese yen she had just won from other members flew out slowly from the cuffs of her kimono and into Xia Pingzhou's sweatshirt pocket - don't mention it, she actually won back the money Xia Pingzhou had lost.
"Demons have appeared on the map."
As Xia Pingzhou spoke, he reached out and touched the thick stack of Japanese yen in his pocket, then raised the screen of his mobile phone and pointed at the red dot on it with an expressionless face.
He couldn't help but think: He is really the ultimate gigolo. He wants the rich woman to help him play cards and win money, and he also wants the rich woman to take him to fight demons. Oh no, this is a rich loli, he has to be more respectful.
"Playing cards, I'm sleepy..." Ayase Origami smacked her lips, "Takikage will take you there."
After saying that, she fell onto the bed, closed her eyes, and used her special powers to tear apart the pages of a haiku collection on the windowsill, and connected them into a paper quilt to cover herself.
Seeing her being so casual, Xia Pingzhu helplessly picked up a thin quilt from his mattress and covered Ayase Origami with it, then took her quilt away and hung it on the rack in the attic.
In this way, when Ayase Origami wants to read a book tomorrow, she can use her supernatural powers to restore the paper quilt into that haiku collection.
Then he went downstairs and saw Oda Takikage who was managing the cafe. He immediately asked, "No. 4, can you take me to kill two demons?"
His tone was as casual as "Can you play mahjong with me?"
Oda Takikage lowered his face and glanced at him through his reading glasses, then walked into the kitchen and took off his apron, then returned to the counter in the museum, took off his reading glasses, put them in the glasses case, and then slowly asked:
"Is it far from here?"
Xia Pingzhou shook his head. "It's not very far, but we don't know what level of demon it is. The Exorcist Association system needs a delay of half an hour to measure the demon's level. By that time, other exorcists have already gotten there first."
"Okay, let's go." Oda Takikage nodded, "Let me see the map first."
Xia Pingzhou handed him the phone with the APP open. Oda Takikage glanced at the location of the flashing red dot on the map, and then put his right hand on Xia Pingzhou's shoulder.
At this moment, Xia Pingzhou felt that the ground under his feet suddenly turned into a swamp. A strange gravitational force came, causing his whole body to sink unstoppably, as if being swallowed by a shadow with a bloody mouth.
Soon, the second machine, Xia Pingzhu, and Oda Takikage disappeared into the shadow lake under their feet.
The cafe was empty, with no one in sight.
Because the speed of movement was extremely fast, Xia Pingzhou could not see anything clearly and could not hear anything. He could only squint his eyes and barely catch a glimpse of a bizarre gray curtain.
Oda Takikage grabbed Xia Pingzhou's body and took him through the world of shadows at high speed.
In just less than a minute, the two of them arrived inside a large shopping mall.
After Xia Pingzhou broke free from the shadow, he leaned against the railing, hunched over and took a breath, thinking that the experience of the eldest lady's paper dragon was still the best. The feeling of walking in the shadow was probably something only a well-trained ninja like Uncle Takikage could accept.
"How many people can you take away at most with this trick?" Xia Pingzhou slowly raised his head and asked casually.
"My current limit is to bring one person into the shadow, otherwise it is likely that everyone will be lost in the world of shadows." Oda Takikage replied honestly.
Xia Pingzhou turned his head and looked around. At this time, there were no shops open in the mall and the lights in the aisles were all off.
Only one fashion store stood out. A large fire was spreading inside it. The bright flames from inside illuminated the aisle and spit out flames. The fire burned all the clothes and models in the fashion store to charcoal. Occasionally, one or two strange laughs came from the depths of the flames.
"No. 12, wait for me here."
After saying that, Oda Takikage rolled up his sleeves, condensed a shadow sword in his right hand, and walked towards the fashion store first.
Xia Pingzhou released Tianqu, stretched out his hand to touch the black and white ring surrounding him, and summoned out the stone statue of the queen.
The stone statue of the queen, dressed in luxurious silver-white attire, followed Oda Takikage into the interior of the fashion store.
There was a raging fire in the fashion store, with three particularly bright red flames emitting strange laughter.
What’s even more strange is that these three flames have eyes and mouths, and they stick out their tongues at Oda Takikage and the queen statue, which reminds Xia Pingzhou of Alcifer in “Howl’s Moving Castle”.
The battle was about to break out, and Oda Takikage and the three-headed fire demon were in a stalemate.
The sword he condensed from shadows could not touch the bodies of the three-headed demons, and physical means seemed to be useless against them.
The first fire demon can spit out a column of flames when it opens its mouth;
The second demon stirred the flames into a vortex and swept towards Oda Takikage; the last demon swallowed the flames and rushed towards Oda Takikage with its fangs and claws bared.
Oda Takikage was so fast that he moved around the fashion store, bouncing off the walls repeatedly with his feet.
The fire demon's attack could not reach his body, but the fire in the fashion store burned more and more fiercely, and the momentum of the three fire demons became more and more violent, and their bodies continued to expand.
If the fire they started spread to the entire shopping mall, these three demons might turn into flaming giants as tall as skyscrapers.
Xia Pingzhou silently touched the ring channel and summoned three silver soldiers. He asked the silver soldiers to quickly throw away the heavy shields in their hands and then go to three different fire extinguisher boxes in the corridor.
The soldiers smashed the glass with their swords with a "crack", and then, amid the rain of glass falling down, they threw down their swords and picked up fire extinguishers from the box.
Then, three silver soldiers holding fire extinguishers walked quickly towards the fashion store. However, their bodies were too heavy and it would take some time for them to get to the fashion store.
At this moment, the three fire demons in the fashion store took a breath together and sprayed flames towards Oda Takikage.
Oda Takikage seemed to want to take a gamble and see if the shadow sword with flames attached could hurt the demon. So he mixed the shadow sword and the flames together to form a strange red and black substance that looked like flames and shadows.
Then, a pair of long wings made of shadows suddenly grew out from behind Oda Takikage. He bent slightly and fluttered his shadow wings, as if he wanted to break through the flame curtain and face the three-headed flame demon head-on.
But at this moment, the Queen's stone statue beside him suddenly put his hand on his shoulder and released the "Nullification". Then Oda Takikage and the Queen's stone statue's bodies became transparent at the same time.
The flames spewed out by the demons missed the target and left a charred mark on the ground.
Oda Takikage retracted the shadow wings behind him, raised his eyebrows slightly, and turned his head to look at the Queen's stone statue. The Queen's stone statue nodded to him slightly, as if to say "You don't have to take risks", with cold blue flames burning in its slender eye sockets.
At this moment, Xia Pingzhou's three silver soldiers arrived at the scene with fire extinguishers.
The soldiers turned on the fire extinguisher, and white water mist sprayed out from the nozzle like a handheld fountain, extinguishing the fire in the store at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The three fire demons howled in unison, covering their faces with their hands and looking panicked, as if they wanted to escape from the store, but Oda Takikage swung his shadow sword and created a gust of wind that blew their bodies back, exposing their fronts to the water mist from the fire extinguisher.
Soon, the flames on their bodies were extinguished, leaving only a palm-sized demon head. The three black heads drooped on the ground like withered seeds, waiting to be slaughtered.
The stone statue of the queen leaned down, rushed forward, and used the short dagger and the long dagger in her hands to cut the three heads on the ground into countless pieces in an instant.
Then a series of prompt boxes popped up in front of Xia Pingzhou.
He leaned against the railing, quietly examining the gains of the battle.
[Detected that three C-level or above demons have been killed. The cumulative kill count of the "Wild Hunt Winter" system has been updated: 17/18 (1 kill is needed to complete the task)]
[The current progress of Unit 2's Skydrive "Chess" is: 80% → 100%]
[Congratulations, the Sky Drive "Chess" of Unit 2 Xia Pingzhou has been upgraded to the second level! ]
[Advanced Reward 1: Obtain a new skill: "King's Rook Castling". ]
[Advanced Reward 2: Get a new chess piece: "Bishop". ]
[Advanced Reward 3: Get an empty slot for contracting a demon.]
[The number of demons that can be contracted by this SkyDrive is currently: 1 (Contracted demon: Shadow Demon)]
Staring at the words on the panel, Xia Pingzhou thought contentedly: "Not only are there new skills, but there are also new chess types... Then, I should think about where to find a contracted demon."
(End of this chapter)
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