Chapter 345 Father and Son Team Up vs. Puppet Father (7,000 words, please give me a monthly ticket)
August 15th, 0:16 am, on the edge of the uninhabited island.
The restraints continued to spread out from the cuffs of the windbreaker, connecting to the sand and rocks. The black pupa pulled the restraints and shuttled through the dim sand.
As he flew towards the center of the island, he lowered his eyes to look at the diamond pattern in his hand.
Just before Black Pupa's body left the beach, he used the restraints to steal Urushihara Ruri's special ability - "Thousand Return Hands", and at the same time a diamond pattern appeared on the back of his right hand.
The moment his eyes touched the diamond pattern, some perspectives gradually emerged in his mind:
——These are the perspectives of those marked by Urushihara Ruri.
But to his surprise, among the Rainbow Wing members still active on the uninhabited island, there were only five people with the "Thousand Return Hand" mark on their bodies.
These five people are "Alexandra", "Ninety-Nine", "Garfield", "Uriel" and "Gu Qiye".
It seems that Urushihara Ruri also anticipated that Black Pupa might steal her supernatural power, so she secretly removed the marks of several people in the Salvation Society;
For some reason, she also removed the mark on Dongqing, apparently because she didn't want her to be caught by the black pupa.
Besides this, Ke Qingzheng is not a member of the Salvation Society, but he does not have the "Thousand Return Hand" mark on his body. This may be because he was not initially in the queue for the uninhabited island raid, but was assigned to stay in Osaka.
At this moment, as the diamond pattern on the back of his hand glowed, the method of using the "Thousand Return Hand" flooded into Hei Pupa's mind.
1: Drag up to two people into an independent space. After a certain period of time, the other party will automatically leave the independent space.
2: Pull a person with the "Thousand Return Hand" mark to your side. (Restriction: The distance between you and the other person cannot exceed three kilometers)
3: Pull a person with the "Thousand Return Hand" mark to the side of another person. (Restriction: The distance between the two people cannot exceed three kilometers)
"Then the question is, why is Urushihara Ruri immune to my 'Restraint Belt Mantra' and the Queen Bee's poison?" Hei Pu thought puzzledly.
He originally thought that Urushihara Ruri had a trick up her sleeve, and that her special ability should have been able to explain that scene, but now it seems that this is not the case.
Of course, the answer will have to wait and be revealed later, as he has urgent things to do.
At this moment, in the center of the uninhabited island, not far from the beehive ruins.
The raging sand and the wind and snow were intertwined together, and the sky was a dim scene with white snow. The light beams and missiles destroyed the hazy beauty, and smoke rose amid the roar.
César rode on top of the Christmas sleigh, and two reindeer walked in the air, dragging the sleigh across the sky. They were like a small snowstorm, and the air cooled down a bit wherever they went.
Behind him, ninety-nine floating turrets fired missiles and beams in unison, chasing after Caesar's figure like a rainstorm.
At the moment when he was about to be caught up by the tracking missile, Xizel took a deep breath and crushed the generation-level fragment "Phoenix" without looking back.
With a crisp "click", the phoenix took off into the air and spread its huge ochre-red wings, blocking the barrage of bullets behind him.
Flames shot up into the sky, and bombs exploded one after another, turning into a deafening roar.
“Bang bang bang bang bang—!”
Jiujiu frowned, her pink twintails rising and falling. She raised a sniper rifle, her pupils close to the scope, and pointed the gun at Xizel. However, at this moment, a diamond-shaped mark on Jiujiu's wrist suddenly lit up, spreading out a wave of deep blue light.
She was slightly stunned, "Liuli?"
In just the next second, the light that burst out from her wrist swallowed her up, and the girl in Russian military uniform disappeared in the desert, leaving only a military cap engraved with the national emblem falling into the sand and soon being blown away by the wind.
Xizel was stunned for a moment, then blinked, turned his head and looked around, then slowly put down the generation-level wonder in his hand.
"What's going on?" he murmured.
He had already made preparations and planned to use the "Tower of Babylon" to withstand the next round of artillery suppression from Ninety-Nine, but he did not expect that Ninety-Nine's figure disappeared without a trace in the next second, and the floating turrets disappeared as well.
At the same time, not far away, Su Wei was fighting alone against Hong Yi's "Flowing Whistle" and "Princess".
Su Wei seemed to be able to predict the future. Whenever Ke Qingzheng raised his hand knife and slashed out a sharp blade in the air at a speed faster than the speed of sound, Su Wei could control the ruler in front of him and enlarge it, so as to perfectly receive the opponent's moves. This happened without exception after several exchanges.
Alexandra knew that she could not use the "Red Sun" in the "Sun and Moon" at will, otherwise it would easily hurt friendly forces. So she had to take advantage of the time when Ke Qingzheng was suppressing Su Wei and let the artificial moon drop a beam of moonlight to sweep towards Su Wei.
But the strange thing was that the moonlight could never catch up with Su Wei's figure. He would always step on the ruler before the moonlight fell, and fly away like a sword-wielding man in a fairy tale, as if he had anticipated their every move in advance.
In fact, this is the "measurement" of Su Wei's Tianqu ability.
When he was first a first-rank exorcist, his "teaching ruler" could measure the "position" of certain tiny objects through photos;
After being promoted to a second-level exorcist, he began to be able to use a ruler to measure a person's "information" and even learn about his opponent's abilities.
But despite this, Su Wei's Tianqu still seemed mediocre in the first two levels, and could not help him stand out in the world of exorcists where there are many talented people.
However, when the "Teaching Ruler" reached the third level, it underwent earth-shaking changes.
From that day on, Su Wei began to be able to measure the future through the "teaching ruler". At first it was one second, then one and a half seconds. After he cultivated to the pinnacle of the third-level exorcist, the range he could measure reached "two seconds in the future."
In other words, Su Wei could see all the actions that Ke Qingzheng and Alexandra would take in the next two seconds, and that was why he could perfectly avoid all the attacks of the opponent.
“Young people are full of spirit.”
Su Wei had his hands behind his back, his eyes calm behind the lenses. The ruler circling around him sometimes shrank like a shuttle, sometimes expanded like a pillar, and his position seemed to change accordingly.
Alexandra slowly realized something was wrong. She hugged her shoulders and asked Ke Qingzheng without turning around, "Why can this person predict every one of our attacks?"
Ke Qingzheng shook his head silently, "Maybe that's his celestial power..."
At this moment, the diamond pattern on Alexandra's wrist suddenly burst out with a strong deep blue light. Before she could react, the strong light engulfed her body.
Ke Qingzheng was startled.
He turned his head suddenly and found that the arms girl "Ninety-nine" was also swallowed by the deep blue light at this moment, and then disappeared.
There was no doubt that it was Urushihara Ruri's ability. He had been in Hongyi for so long that it was impossible for him to make a mistake!
"What's going on..."
Ke Qingzheng frowned slightly. He didn't think he could fight Su Wei when he was the only one left. This exorcist was really too strong.
On the other side, Fan Dongqing was controlling the Liqing Boat to collide head-on with Yagubaru.
The dragon's head opened, and tongues of fire spewed out. The strong men manipulated the wooden poles in their hands to stir the air, and the Liqing boat crashed into Yagubaru at full speed. A loud bang shook it apart, and a heat wave rolled in, forcing the 300-meter-long figure in front of them back dozens of meters.
At this moment, Ke Qing was controlling the airflow and shooting like a bullet from a distance, then he jumped up and landed on the deck of the Li Qing boat.
He stood beside Fan Dongqing, back to back with him.
Fan Dongqing is the only member of the team left who is still capable of fighting, and Ke Qingzheng must join up with him.
"Why did Liuli send Alexandra and Jiujiu away?" Fan Dongqing asked.
"I don't know either. Is there a mark on your hand?" Ke Qingzheng asked, "In the past, Liuli wouldn't have sent our people away without a word."
"No." Fan Dongqing frowned, glanced at his wrist, and then murmured, "Liuli removed my mark?"
"Don't think too much. It must be that black pupa who stole Liuli's superpowers and sent Jiujiu and the princess away." Garfield's voice came.
Fan Dongqing and Ke Qingzheng looked up and saw Garfield using a flying backpack to descend from the sky with Yuriel and step onto the deck of the dragon boat.
"What should we do then?"
"What else can we do?" Garfield said. "Let's go and rescue them."
He paused and said, "I just recovered all the remaining drones and fighter jets on the island. The metal reserves now are enough for me to build a mecha in a short time. I can also fight with you."
As soon as he finished speaking, the boy's pupils flashed blue, and then a miniature red and blue mecha rose from the ground. It was only half the height of its heyday, but it was still imposing from a distance.
Garfield brought the unconscious Uriel into the cockpit. The humanoid mecha's eyes lit up, and a dazzling white light burst out from the hilt of the sword in his right hand.
Su Wei put his hands behind his back and adjusted his glasses. "After beating one, another comes. Are all you Hongyi Calabash Brothers?"
At the same time, in Qian Fanshou’s independent space.
The black pupa raised his head and saw a silver-white space with a diamond pattern printed in the middle of each wall.
Because the rules of the "Thousand Returns Hand" ability state that two people can be pulled into an independent space, the people that Black Pupa chooses to pull into the space can only be Rainbow Wing's Ninety-Nine and Alexandra.
Doing so can temporarily reduce the opponent's combat effectiveness, allowing Su Wei and Xizel to quickly break through, and then let them support Gui Zhong to capture the strongest among the Rainbow Wings - "Father of Puppet".
At this moment, Jiujiu and Alexandra were sitting against the wall like dolls, motionless.
Hei Pu turned his head to look at them, then lowered his eyes to look at the diamond pattern on the back of his hand.
"Hmm... I can use it twice more before my Thousand Returns Hand disappears," he muttered. "Then it's time to wrap things up."
After saying that, his figure disappeared into the independent space, and Jiujiu and Alexandra woke up.
"Is this Urushihara Ruri's space?" Alexandra stood up, one hand on her hip. "Why did she drag us in?"
"Where's Urushihara Ruri?" Jiujiu was startled, then frowned, "Why don't I see her?"
A minute ago, in another corner of the uninhabited island.
Two figures stood above the desert, one above and one below, their eyes meeting. Dust was flying, but it could not hide the extremely gloomy scarlet in the pupils of the silver-black figure.
"Guess how long I've been looking for you, bastard..." Gui Zhong looked directly at the face of the Puppet Father and said in a deep voice, suppressing his rage.
"Ghost Bell, right? One of the rare time-related psychics in the world. I know your name, but I don't know what I have done to make you so... angry and hysterical?" The Father of Puppet stood on the shoulder of the Mechanical Buddha, scratched the bandage on his face, and a hoarse and faint voice came out.
"Five years ago, in Lijing, in the old Jingmai neighborhood, do you remember what you did?"
"Old Jingmai Street District?" The Puppet Father pondered for a moment. "As for that operation, I was already punished and banned from carrying out missions for a long time...isn't that enough? Could it be that...among the people accidentally injured in that operation, there was someone close to you?"
"Her name is Su Ying."
"Do you really need to be angry with me? You're also a Calamity-level psychic, so you should understand. If we accidentally kill someone, it's like someone accidentally stepping on an ant. You should blame yourself for not finding a life form with greater endurance as your partner. You need someone who matches you."
Gui Zhong was suddenly startled.
He gritted his teeth and lowered his head, thinking back to the first time he met Su Ying. She was so proud and high-spirited at that time. She was so strong that he felt she was out of reach. But she gave up the nickname of genius exorcist and stopped summoning the Sky Exorcist for twenty years. She was willing to be an ordinary person and stay by his side.
Because at that time, he touched his nose foolishly and said to her, "I will protect you, come with me."
Su Ying was stunned for a long time, with her hands behind her back and her head lowered for a moment, then she raised her head and gave him a bright smile.
Gui Zhong lowered his eyes to look at the metal gloves, slowly clenched his five fingers, and then a deafening bell sounded, and he summoned a huge bell tower behind him.
The moment the bell tower appeared, Ghost Bell suddenly raised his head and stomped the ground, causing the sand beneath his feet to crack and dent—! His body shot forward like a cannonball, and a violent glint flashed from the corner of his eye, scarlet and eye-catching!
At the same time, the hands of the huge clock tower began to move at this moment.
Amidst the "click-click" sound, the pointer circled around at high speed, and every number on the clock face seemed to be trembling.
"Your ability is just as I thought." The Puppet Father didn't look at the incoming ghost clock, but instead at the rapidly rotating hands. "As long as you take precautions before the hands land, even if time is stopped, there's nothing to fear."
As he spoke, the Mechanical Buddha suddenly raised his six hands and covered Ajaya and the Puppet Father on his left shoulder.
Layers of overlapping hands and arms surrounded them, like a golden jungle. The figures of the Puppet Father and Ajaya were swallowed up by the shadow of the jungle in an instant!
At the same time, the pointer fell to the number "12". The world was silent at this moment, and then covered by a layer of mercury.
The wind stopped breathing, and the dust in the air stopped swaying.
The Ghost Bell was like a tyrant who ruled over time. It leaped up with a roar, and its arm blade tore through the mercury in the air and chopped off one of the Mechanical Buddha's palms, leaving a huge groove!
Gears flew out of it and steam splashed out!
The next moment, Ghost Bell suddenly punched the Buddha's other arm, creating a dent.
"boom--!"
In an instant, one of the Mechanical Buddha's arms drooped down with a roar and fell to the ground.
It only has five arms left.
The next second, time resumed its flow, and a golden palm suddenly appeared, slamming down at a speed so fast it almost surpassed the speed of sound! Ghost Bell's figure was embedded in the huge palm, twisting at high speed, and then was slapped away a hundred meters.
He flew backwards in the air, a corner of his uniform was torn, and finally he fell on top of the bell tower, with a deafening roar.
Gui Zhong knelt on one knee in the flying sand, slowly stood up, and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand.
Every five seconds, the hands of the clock tower would move to a time point designated by him;
But the pointer cannot move to the same time point twice in a row. If he wants to use the ability at the same time point, he must wait for one round of pointer movement, so he cannot pause time twice in a row.
The Puppet Father remained motionless. He stood on the shoulder of the Mechanical Buddha, quietly observing the Ghost Bell.
The next moment, the shadow of the ghost bell suddenly stood up from the sand. Its outline was exactly the same as that of the ghost bell, equally sturdy and powerful.
The two of them rushed out together, tearing through the raging sand, shuttling through the desert, and flanking the Mechanical Buddha from both sides!
The puppet father hugged his shoulders and used the same trick again.
The Mechanical Buddha then raised two of its hands and slapped Ghost Bell and his shadow respectively.
At the same time, it brought the remaining three arms close to its shoulders and protected its shoulders with three huge palms, preventing the ghost bell from having any chance to hurt the Puppet Father and Ajaya.
Two huge golden palms shuttled through the air, almost raising a sandstorm, and then rushed towards him!
Ghost Bell's speed was not even close to that of the opponent, so he was instantly knocked away by the palm that came towards him.
But Shadow's ending was different from his - because at this moment five seconds passed, the hands of the clock tower were freed again, and began to rotate at high speed, and the result was obtained in an instant.
This time, the pointer landed at six o'clock!
And the ability at this point in time is: "Massage the shadow several times and turn it into a shadow giant."
"You try to keep guarding!" Ghost Bell roared and flew backwards, but his shadow rose from the ground in an instant, expanded violently, and turned into a giant that was forty meters tall.
"roar--!!!"
The shadow giant stood in the desert, roaring, and used his arms to catch the oncoming mechanical palm.
"Oh? You didn't use your time-stopping ability this time?" The Puppet Father said, "Your ability is very interesting. Every five seconds you can travel to a certain point in time and unleash a corresponding supernatural power."
The three hands covering his shoulders dispersed, and the Puppet Father saw the light of day again.
The Mechanical Buddha opened fire at full power, using all five palms at the same time, like a machine gun firing, the five golden arms shot forward one after another, and each palm hit the body of the shadow giant!
The whole world was shaking. The shadow giant roared and stretched out his arms to withstand the continuous attacks of the Mechanical Buddha.
In just two seconds, the shadow giant's body was blasted into pieces dozens of meters long.
As he retreated, his legs, deeply embedded in the sand, plowed out a cliff-like gully, with sand and rocks continuously sinking into it.
The puppet father raised an eyebrow, "Gone?"
That's right, the moment he focused his attention on the shadow giant, the ghost bell had disappeared. Suddenly, a strong wind blew from the side. The Puppet Father turned his head sharply and saw the ghost bell jumping up.
The sand burst into dust, and the ghost bell shot up like a scarlet arrow, piercing through the five arms of the Mechanical Buddha. Finally, he raised his arm blade with a roar and attacked the Puppet Father.
However, at the moment when Gui Zhong's arm blade was about to touch the neck of the Puppet Father, the Puppet Father suddenly smiled.
"Too slow," he said calmly, "You're so slow, and you still want to get close to me?"
As he spoke, the Mechanical Buddha suddenly raised his right palm and smashed it towards Ghost Bell's body from bottom to top!
"Bang!"
In an instant, the giant hand smashed through Ghost Bell's breastplate, sending it flying into the sky. Like a cannonball, it tore through the air and shot straight up!
In just one second, the ghost bell was blown to a height of three hundred meters, and the clouds could be seen when he looked up.
"There is nothing in the sky to leverage your strength. Even if you pause time, you can't fall to the ground within two seconds." The Puppet Father said slowly.
Five seconds passed again, and the hands of the huge clock tower began to rotate again, and the "clicking" sound filled the desert.
Then, the clock hand stopped at the number "2", and the ability at this point in time was: "Let the ghost clock return to its position two seconds ago"!
As for where the ghost clock was two seconds ago, there was no need to say anything.
The next moment, Gui Zhong's figure flashed from three hundred meters above and appeared right in front of the Puppet Father.
"Surprise, beast--!" He grinned, with a crazy and ferocious expression on his face.
"How is this possible..." The pupils of the Puppet Father shrank infinitely. No matter how fast the Mechanical Buddha was, it was too late.
At this moment, Gui Zhong's right palm had already grabbed the head of the Puppet Father, and with his powerful grip, he crushed the head of the Puppet Father!
A blood mist splattered and splashed onto Gui Zhong's metal breathing mask. His expression was as ferocious and excited as a beast, and red light flashed in his gloomy pupils.
However, at this moment, Gui Zhong suddenly saw an incredible scene. He had just crushed the head of the Puppet Father, and then a new Puppet Father suddenly appeared!
Still wearing the oversized windbreaker and a bandage on his face, he stood motionless on the shoulder of the Mechanical Buddha.
"Luckily, I crafted a new body for this battle, otherwise I would have died." The Puppet Father said, "As expected... arrogance leads to one's own destruction. Only the humble and powerful can survive to the end."
The next second, the Mechanical Buddha stretched out his two arms, and his two huge palms suddenly closed behind him as if swatting a fly, absorbing the ghost bell falling in the air.
“Haa ...
Ghost Bell roared as his body was squeezed between two huge hands. The metal on his battle suit burst open layer by layer, and thousands of cracks spread all over his body. Even his metal breathing mask shattered, revealing half of his face!
Violent Sanskrit sounds came from the Buddha's mouth, his eardrums were shattered, and blood flowed out from his ear holes, eyes and nostrils. Almost in an instant, he became a bloody man!
Gui Zhong's face was distorted, and his blood-stained facial features were almost twisted together.
His skull slowly shattered, and darker, redder blood flowed down from his forehead, staining his eyes red.
But he still did not give up struggling, and his arms were constantly trying to stretch outwards to resist the Buddha's closed palms.
He tried to push the two palms apart with the brute force of his arms, but it was no use - both were at the Calamity Grade, how could the strength of the flesh possibly overcome the power of the supernatural summoned creature?
The situation was almost a dead end. The clock tower's hour hand had just turned once, and the Ghost Bell wanted to release its next ability, but there were still three seconds left in the countdown.
And within these three seconds, the ghost bell will be crushed by the two palms of the Mechanical Buddha.
"Let me hear your wails..." The Puppet Father turned back from the Buddha's shoulder and looked at Ghost Bell, admiring his struggle between the Buddha's palms. "A time-related psychic, it seems, is nothing more than this."
However, at this moment, a roar of lightning suddenly came from the desert.
“Bang!”
Immediately afterwards, a beam of pitch-black lightning pierced through the flying dust and rushed towards him with unstoppable momentum, shooting upward from the soles of the Mechanical Buddha's feet, and in an instant passed through the Buddha's calves, thighs, and back.
Then, it suddenly changed direction!
I saw the beam of lightning stepping on the Buddha's back, leaping up, and shooting towards the direction of the Buddha's two palms, then suddenly pushing forward the ghost bell sandwiched between the two palms.
In an instant, the black lightning pushed Ghost Bell and escaped from the gap between the two palms with him!
The Buddha's two palms suddenly came together, and a sound like the roar of a bronze bell was heard.
“Boom boom boom—!”
The next moment, pitch-black lightning fell to the ground with the ghost bell. The remaining arcs in the air dissipated, and the figure wrapped in electric light finally revealed its true appearance. It was a young man with medium-length black hair.
Gui Zhong was stunned. He half-knelt on the ground, slowly raised his head, and looked at the young man's profile.
"Qino..." he murmured.
"Dad," Gu Qiye looked up at the puppet father and said softly, "I will settle the score with you after this battle."
(End of this chapter)
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