Chapter 269 Good News and Bad News (asking for monthly tickets)
[Xia Pingzhou: Don’t worry, it’s only six in the morning.]
[Hacker: Anyway, I'll give you an address first. You and the young lady can come and meet up around noon.]
Xia Pingzhou looked up from his phone and turned his head to look at the huge French window in the corner of the room. In the dimly lit world, the Sapporo Radio Tower reached up to the sky, emitting warm light under the cold and clear sky.
At this moment, he suddenly heard the voice of the queen's stone statue.
He was startled, but soon determined that it was not an auditory hallucination, but came from his mind. The queen told him that a demon appeared nearby, at the eleven o'clock direction. Xia Pingzhou was a little surprised, because the queen's stone statue had never reminded him of this before.
So he subconsciously picked up his phone and took a look at the Exorcist Association's app. He saw that there were no red dots flashing on the pop-up map, which meant that even the association had not found the existence of demons in Sapporo.
"Really?" Xia Pingzhou asked in his heart.
The shadow of the Queen's stone statue nodded in his mind.
"Okay, I'll trust you this time."
Xia Pingzhou thought so and released Tianqu. The black and white light spread out and formed a Möbius ring. The gorgeous chess shadows revolved around him like satellites.
He pinched the noble and graceful chess piece, and it dropped with a "click", and the queen came in response.
As if to avoid disturbing Ayase Origami's sleep, the stone statue of the queen leaned over and picked him up, passing through the huge floor-to-ceiling window in an instant.
She ran on the red-painted walls of the hotel, and finally stomped off the ground like a flying bird. At the moment when she was about to hit the tall building, her figure reflected on the glass curtain wall suddenly became transparent.
Relying on the power of nothingness, the stone statue of the queen passed through high-rise buildings, landed on the branches of a big tree, jumped between the trees, and quickly crossed the cold and deserted Datong Park in the early morning and arrived at the city center.
After the queen landed, Xia Pingzhou raised his eyes from her shoulder and looked around. What caught his eye was the famous commercial street in Sapporo - Tanukikoji Shopping Street.
This is a 900-meter-long arcade street covering 7 blocks with an all-weather arch design. Even on rainy days, there is no need to worry, as tourists can wander the street regardless of the weather. A huge raccoon balloon is hung in the air at the entrance, with two iconic "raccoon" plaques on the left and right, one red and one blue.
However, the street was not open for business at this time. The lights in the commercial street were dim and there were few people.
The stone statue of the queen narrowed its eyes and wrote in the air with cold blue flames, telling Xia Pingzhou that the devil's breath was just ahead.
Xia Pingzhou was half-believing and half-doubting. After all, he didn't know that the queen had the ability to sense demons.
He wondered, could it be that as his spiritual attributes improved, the queen, as his chess piece, also saw her perception increase to a corresponding degree?
After all, it is clearly written in black and white on the system panel that the attributes of the chess player will affect the abilities of the chess pieces.
The stone statue of the queen carried Xia Pingzhou into the commercial street, passed the range of the surveillance camera, and slowly went deeper into the street.
After a while, they suddenly saw a brightly lit ramen restaurant in the deserted arcade.
The scene was extremely bizarre: it was clearly not yet opening time for the commercial street, and all other stores were shrouded in darkness, but this ramen restaurant was emitting warm flames.
The stone statue of the queen leaped with Xia Pingzhou, approached the ramen restaurant like lightning, and opened the sliding door to the outside.
The wooden sliding door opened with a rumbling sound.
Xia Pingzhou raised his eyebrows slightly. What came into view was a restaurant layout, but it was not as cramped as it looked from the outside. Instead, it was the size of half a football field.
Warm orange light casts from the ceiling, rendering this extraordinary space.
Four giant babies were sitting in front of the bar, their body proportions extremely distorted: their heads were as big as a rolling stone on a mountain top, and their limbs were as thin as a short-legged cat.
At this moment, each baby stretched out his arms on the bar, kicking the air and crying loudly. While crying to the sky, they shouted "I want to eat" in Japanese.
Behind the bar, there stood a giant figure wearing a ramen chef's outfit. If you look closely, you'll see that it's a green demon that's four or five meters tall.
There was a huge pot hanging in the air, and at the bottom of the pot there was a ghost fire that seemed to never go out.
The ramen chef grabbed one or two passersby from somewhere, tied them up and put them into a hot pot. The pot was filled with rich soup, which was simmering over a low fire.
Xia Pingzhou understood now. This demon was using tourists as food, stewing the ramen in the pot to satisfy the four guests at the bar.
"Ramen Master? There is such a demon?"
He was thinking curiously in his heart, but his movements were not vague at all. He directly grabbed the fire demon on the Möbius strip.
There was a clear sound like breaking glass, and the chess shadow disappeared in a flash.
Instead, a demon made of light and dark flames bared its fangs in mid-air.
Xia Pingzhou silently recited the four words "Bridge of Humans and Demons" in his heart, and then the phantom of a bridge formed between the fire demon and the stone statue of the queen, with two chess pieces standing at the head and end of the bridge respectively.
In an instant, their bodies were suddenly sucked into the middle of the bridge, and finally twisted apart, merging into a dazzling fiery red light that swept outward.
The red light faded, and a strange figure appeared inside the ramen restaurant.
The twin daggers of the Queen's stone statue disappeared, replaced by a long sword forged by raging fire. The sword was rippled with flickering flames, like the ebb and flow of the tide.
Behind her, a pair of giant wings made of fire spread out. Fire rained down from the wings, burning holes in the wooden floor.
The mirage-like firelight outlined her heroic figure, with her swan-like slender neck standing tall. A cloud pattern formed by the burning of flames spread across her breastplate and gauntlets.
[The powers of the "Flame Queen" are: "Flame Transformation" and "Pillar of Flame". ]
"Ah?" The four giant babies sitting at the bar suddenly stopped fighting and slowly turned their heads. Their eyes, which were clear just now, became empty and deep in an instant.
Their faces suddenly turned ferocious, and they looked no longer like babies but instead like evil spirits foraging for food.
Just as the giant babies were about to pounce from the bar, Xia Pingzhou suddenly spoke in a low voice:
"Pillar of Fire."
Hearing this, the Queen's statue suddenly flapped its wings and raised its sword forward in mid-air. The raging fire that had been cast into the blade suddenly gathered in the direction of the sword's tip.
The sword body turned into a huge column of fire that rushed forward like a bullet that could not be stopped. It was also like a roaring dragon, with bared fangs and claws, extremely ferocious and brutal, and in an instant it strung together the four giant babies that were rushing over.
The four giant babies were stunned. They whimpered and cried, looking down at the hole in their stomachs. They wanted to stretch out their hands to scratch the flame pillar, but their hands were also burned into fiery red embers.
The stone statue of the queen looked down at them condescendingly, raised her sword, and a column of fire swept from bottom to top, burning through the internal organs of the four giant babies and then their heads.
The annoying crying sound disappeared. For a moment, the whole ramen restaurant was much quieter. But the ramen chef behind the bar was furious. He roared and suddenly overturned the cauldron in the air.
The two tied passers-by flew out of the pot, splashing onto the floor along with the thick soup, and rolled several times before stopping.
"Turn into flames." Xia Pingzhou ordered.
At this moment, the ramen chef jumped up from behind the bar and smashed the seasoning spoon in his hand towards the body of the Queen's stone statue. A strong wind blew, and the Queen's eyebrows fluttered.
She bent her knees slightly in mid-air, and every corner of her body changed, suddenly turning into a blazing firework, rippling forward in the strong wind.
The ramen chef's seasoning spoon hit nothing. Instead, the raging fire swept across its body. It roared and raised its arms to protect itself.
The flames burned every inch of its skin, and in an instant, all its flesh was burned away. Its bones were pulled out and eaten up.
The flames once again merged into the Queen's physical form, and she appeared behind the ramen chef.
At this moment, there was only a pool of purple blood on the ground. Even the blood disappeared in the fire in an instant, turning into wisps of green smoke rising up.
At this point, the ramen restaurant was completely silent, with only the crackling sound of the fire burning the air.
At the same time, a series of settlement panels popped up in front of Xia Pingzhou.
[Due to the influence of the passive skill "Demon Hunter", 1 one-time chess type - "Ramen Chef Demon" and 2 one-time chess types - "Giant Food Demon" have been obtained. ]
[Detected that five C-level or higher demons have been killed. The cumulative kill count of the "Wild Hunt Winter" system has been updated: 40/40]
[Current kill count: 40, completed the goal of "cultivation task 4", and obtained "1 attribute point" as a reward. ]
[The progress of the second character's Sky Drive "Chess" has changed: 35% → 40%. 】
[Tip: After reaching 100% progress, your SkyDrive will evolve into the third-order form. ]
"Finally got this damn progress task together."
Xia Pingzhou muttered to himself, called up the character panel, and allocated attribute points.
[The "Spirit" attribute of your second unit "Chess Player" changes from A+ to A++ (the power of your "Chess Species" will also increase accordingly)]
When he looked up from the panel, he saw that the stone statue of the queen had returned to its normal form.
She lowered her head, picked up two passers-by on the ground with her dagger, and sent them to the outside of the ramen restaurant.
Then he silently picked up Xia Pingzhou's body, jumped up, turned into nothingness, passed through the dome of the arcade, and disappeared above the Tanukikoji Commercial Street.
After a while, the stone statue of the queen took Xia Pingzhou through the huge floor-to-ceiling window and back into the hotel.
Seeing that Ayase Origami was still asleep and it was not yet time for the brigade to gather, Xia Pingzhou took back the Tenqu, lay back on the bed, closed his eyes and took a nap.
Enter a dream.
"Restricted level psychic, number 1002, Ji Minghuan, the instructor is visiting, please get ready quickly."
I don’t know how long it took, but a cold voice came from his ears, waking Ji Minghuan from the darkness.
He blinked, and all he saw was the silver-white ceiling and the penguin-shaped broadcasting equipment. He turned his head and saw the metal door rumbling open, and his mentor was already standing at the door.
The instructor had a solemn expression on his face, as if his mother had just died.
With his hands behind his back as always, he walked in without saying a word and slowly sat down at the table.
The instructor placed the thermos cup on the table, clasped his hands together, and looked up at Ji Minghuan.
He said, "Ji Minghuan, I have two pieces of news for you, one is good news and the other is bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"
(End of this chapter)
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