Volume 3 Winter Solstice Chapter 53: Almost Enough
The rain gradually subsided.
Sun Yu watched Tang Butian walking towards him. He pulled down the hood of his black raincoat and walked towards her.
Tang Butian looked towards the lake. There were several salvage boats parked by the lake and some workers got off the boats.
"Secretary Ji came just now. You were not here, so he chatted with Mr. Zhuang for a while," Sun Yu reported the situation to Tang Butian. "After the fire was put out by heavy rain and it was confirmed that there were no survivors, Secretary Ji asked everyone to go back for the time being. We are also wrapping up here."
"Thanks for your hard work."
"Nothing, it's just that Zhuang Zekun seems to be very familiar with Secretary Ji."
"Where is Guan Nuo?" Tang Butian asked.
"I saw it was going to rain, so I asked him to go back first. Do you want him to come over now?"
"Need not."
Sun Yu relaxed a little, and wiped the rain off his face. "Such a big accident, so many people died, I don't know what to do..."
"Zhuang Zekun is good at boxing and sealing techniques," Tang Butian took two steps forward, "You have read the case files. The Special Operations Department under his leadership was indeed stronger than it is now. He is very good at handling the current situation."
“Will he become our leader in the future?”
"He comes, I leave," Tang Butian turned and looked at Sun Yu, "If you want to change positions at that time, I will arrange it."
"Thank you, Chief."
Tang Butian took off his coat and put it in Sun Yu's hand, "I'm going to go down and take a look. You stand here. No matter what happens, don't leave."
Tang Butian drew a circle at Sun Yu's feet with the tip of the wooden sword.
"Okay, Chief."
Tang Butian walked forward step by step into the lake.
The water was over her head.
Surging.
——
Layer upon layer of energy spread outward with Zhuang Zekun and Huang Hu as the center.
A tear of blood flowed from the eye of the statue.
Jiang You reached out and grasped a black spiritual power line.
The candles on the surrounding walls brightened for a moment , then dimmed, and dense black shadows grew on the ground.
Zhuang Zekun saw Jiang You being enveloped by a black shadow and melting.
He took a step to the side and was about to rescue when the black soft sword wrapped around his wrist and he heard Huang Hu's chuckle again.
Zhuang Zekun turned his hand and grasped the soft sword, and cracks spread to both sides along the lines of the soft sword.
Huang Hu's eyes widened a little, and he pulled the soft sword back with force. Then he saw the soft sword shattered on the ground. At the same time, Zhuang Zekun's other fist hit his abdomen.
The blood in my body seemed to stop flowing in an instant.
Then, the body is penetrated.
Blood flowed from between his teeth and from the corners of his mouth.
The moment he regained control of his body, he rolled over and looked up at the statue, his eyes already half open.
Zhuang Zekun reached forward, grabbed Huang Hu by the collar, and said, "Stop."
“I can’t stop.”
The dark shadows moved around Jiang You, biting his body with sharp teeth.
Jiang You reached out and grabbed a black shadow, "Be good, it's not easy to grow this much flesh."
Jiang You took a step forward.
Overcoming life and death.
The shadow stopped struggling.
It was as if I had entered another space, with clouds of mist floating around, of varying sizes and colors, like watercolors randomly squeezed into a bucket and splashed out. It seemed as if there were all kinds of rays and particles mixed in it.
Colliding and merging.
Some small spots of light float in it.
Jiang You looked through the layers of fog and saw a shadow gradually attaching to the white statue.
The shadows continued to solidify.
Behind the statue, Zhuang Zekun grabbed Huang Hu's neck.
"Stop!" Zhuang Zekun ordered.
Blood spots appeared in Huang Hu's eyes. "The ritual has been completed. Give up."
A layer of darkness covered his face.
The statue's eyes were three-quarters open.
A black shadow flew up from the ground and bit Zhuang Zekun's wrist. At the same time, the statue opened its eyes, the ground shook, and it seemed that a sea of blood rushed into the altar.
The yellow crane suddenly disappeared.
Zhuang Zekun was stunned for a moment.
Then he heard a chuckle.
It's a yellow crane.
"Stop, I'll save your life!"
"You die, or I die, there is no other option."
"It's me, Uncle Song, Xiaohu, stop."
——
Jiang You played with the black shadow in his hand.
The black spiritual power lines broke one by one.
——
"What?"
Huang Hu's figure stood at the other end of the sea of blood, appearing and disappearing.
"It's me, Song Lin."
Huang Hu chuckled again, "Ten years ago, you deliberately appeared in front of me and my sister?"
"It's not intentional. I have been lurking in Yanjing looking for opportunities."
"You picked me?"
"I have always kept your sister's matter in mind," Zhuang Zekun spoke faster, "I have not forgotten anything I promised you. When everything is over, I will change your identities so that you can have peace and freedom..."
"Xiaojuan is already 28 years old, Uncle Song. She has been a goddess for ten years. You can obviously save her..."
"I promise she can get rid of..."
"He instigated a confrontation between me and Sun Xiu, and the relationship between the inner court and the outside world became irreconcilable. He hinted that I would destroy the Luotian Grand Chant at Baihe Temple. Guan Nuo, yes, deliberately exaggerated his threat..." Huang Hu's expression became distorted. "Guan Nuo, I remember now, he is the son of Sang Xu and Guan Qingtong. Uncle Liu, what do you think I am? Guan Nuo's whetstone?"
"No, I..." Zhuang Zekun couldn't find the words to refute for a moment.
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"Name, symbol, ritual, sacrifice," Jiang You held the black shadow in front of him and looked at its open mouth. "Very interesting, right? I knew there was a connection between them. The rhythm is good."
He stretched out his hands and elongated the shadow, then pinched the head and tail together, twisted the remaining two into one, and finally tied a knot.
"That's about it, it looks pretty similar," Jiang You shook off the twisted black shadow, "Little Spider, open the door..."
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Zhuang Zekun took a step forward and said, "Xiao Hu, we have known each other for ten years. What kind of person have I been in these ten years..."
“It can’t end.”
The eyes of the statue opened completely.
"I am also a sacrifice, so that I can summon His true body to come and guarantee that I can kill you," Huang Hu said softly, "Sun Xiu's layout in Tangjiang City for more than ten years has been destroyed. If I go back alive, Master Hu will not forgive me, and my sister's situation will become more difficult. If I die, everything will end with me. Since I killed you, Master Hu will not vent his anger on my sister."
The candlelight was completely extinguished.
Countless hands stretched out from the sea of blood and grabbed Zhuang Zekun's body.
Jiang You sang out of tune while swinging his hands.
The fog around gradually dissipated.
"Let's die together." Blood flowed from Huang Hu's eyes.
It completely entered the statue.
At this moment, a black shadow jumped out from the fog.
Jiang You took a step to the side.
He returned to the altar.
The body of the statue suddenly shook violently, and cracks appeared on its face and body. Under Huang Hu's incredulous eyes, the huge statue turned into pieces and fell to the ground.
Biting sound.
Candles fell from the walls all around.
The bloody hand disappeared and the sea of blood receded.
Zhuang Zekun turned around and saw Jiang You. "What did you do?"
"You asked me to destroy the spiritual energy cycle. Oh, by the way, because the law enforcement recorder fell into the water, I had to use my phone to record it, but there might only be sound. I didn't expect that 16% of the power could last so long and it didn't shut down." Jiang You jumped to the side and dodged the falling rocks. He pressed Zhuang Zekun and asked, "Is the effect okay?"
