Chapter 8: The Secret of the Tezukai (I)
Hell's Kitchen, New York, inside the courtyard of the Innocence Society. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Haibian King David is repeating his daily training, he has been practicing with the stick for more than half a year, under reasonable and scientific exercise and abundant nutritional supplements.
David, who originally looked thin, has now begun to become very strong.
His age happens to be the physiological development period of boys, and he is a crazy age to grow taller. After a long period of exercise, David's size has jumped to 1.75 meters.
Coupled with the right weight gain, he now looks a lot stronger. Li Jie almost didn't recognize him at first sight.
Although only half a year has passed, it seems that David's whole temperament has changed a lot. The little boy who had been a little cowering was gone.
Now he looks more confident, practicing stick skills in the courtyard like a full-fledged martial artist.
The rubber sticks he used had been replaced with two stronger iron sticks, and his moves seemed to be quite coherent between offense and defense.
"David, it looks like you're practicing well. Li Jie jumped directly from the slippery wing and landed in the courtyard, which shocked the innocent ninjas who were patrolling.
"No, no, no, don't get excited. He's a Nightcrawler, as you should know. Just as the ninjas were about to rush up and subdue Li Jie, David immediately stopped them.
"Well, I'm sorry guys. I forgot to say hello. Li Jie waved his hand and said to the ninjas slightly apologetically.
"Looks like you've improved a lot, David. Li Jie glanced at David and said.
"Really, do you really think so?" it seemed that David was pleasantly surprised by Jack's words. "But the master kept saying that I was still short of heat. ”
"I've read the cartoons about you, and it's pretty cool! I hope to be like you, fighting criminals and defending the city. "The heroic dream in David's character has not faded.
"But the master told me that I wasn't allowed to go out on my own unless I could get to a tie with Matt. David said with some regret.
"But Matt is strong, he can't see. But it's even more powerful than a sharp-eyed person. No attack could escape his ears. ”
"Don't complain, the stick is right. New York City isn't a very safe place to be. Haven't you read the news lately?" Li Jie said, and at the same time signaled to David that he was looking for the stick.
"If you don't have Matt's level, be really careful. Li Jie is serious, Daredevil's physical strength is only the top among the human race.
If he hadn't had the same ear as cheating, and could use his hearing as radar, he would definitely have suffered a lot when fighting criminals at night.
Matt, as Li Jie's current lawyer, Li Jie often sees him, and knows that this guy has another scar on his body recently, because it is very conspicuous, near his neck.
"Nightkin hears you're looking for me. "The place where I met him was the same Japanese room that I met him for the first time.
It looks like the stickman likes this house very much.
"Yes, thank you for the tea. Li Jie opened with a polite tone.
"I've heard that you've done a lot of great things lately, and last night I heard about the prison riot on the outskirts of New York City, and you were involved in the crackdown and arrests. The stick man drank tea and was casually polite.
"Yes, but those things are not worth mentioning. I have come today to ask you for something important. Li Jie didn't plan to be polite with the stick all the time, so he simply said straight to the point.
"What do you want to know?" said the stickman as he sipped the tea in front of him. David sat quietly on his knees.
"Something about the hand and how it will raise the dead. Li Jie directly said what he wanted to know.
"You once said that it was precisely because the Hand Harmony Society broke the cycle of life and death that it touched many people to judge the Hand Peace Society and established the current Innocence Society. ”
"I wonder how the Hand and the Church bring the dead back into the world. Exactly how they did it. ”
Li Jie's words surprised David, although he was also a personal disciple of the stick, but David's entry time was too short. There's a lot of time the stick hasn't talked to him.
The stick man stopped drinking the tea, and he hesitated for a long time holding the tea bowl in both hands. "It's a forbidden technique. ”
"I don't think it's a good idea to tell you. Breaking the balance of the cycle of life and death is not a good thing for the real world. "It doesn't look like the stick wants to say much.
"Come on, it's important. It's not that I want to resurrect anyone, but that there is a crazy man who is preparing to do it. Li Jie roughly told him about Kim and Doom.
The stick man kept thinking, and Li Jie could only wait quietly in his lower position. He didn't speak until the tea in the tea bowl was cold. He sighed before speaking. "David, go down first. No one is allowed to approach the house. ”
Li Jie knew that the stick was going to say something useful. Although David also wanted to hear these things, this was a secret about the resurrection of the dead, which could arouse the curiosity of ordinary people.
But now that the stick had spoken, David had no choice but to leave. It wasn't until he was sure that there was no one else around him that he spoke.
"Since the last Battle of the Hand and the Guild, I'm sure you know that Nightkin has a lot of strange things in this world. Li Jie agreed.
"The secret art of Tewakai was inherited from the Koga ninja. And the secret technique they first obtained was enlightened in the earlier Toyo Heian period. ”
"The great onmyoji of the Heian period, Harumi Abe, is probably the most powerful onmyoji in the history of the East. Onmyoji's mana, or main ability, is to control ghosts. ”
"From a Western point of view, it's about driving demons. Onmyoji not only drives away ghosts, but also destroys the wandering ghosts in the world. ”
"The East is a country full of ghosts in the early days. At that time, Onmyoji was an important official. Haruaki Abe is the best in this. ”
"When his mana was at its peak, he once asked the king of the East to eliminate the ghosts used by the East. After years of searching, he found the source of the Oriental ghosts. ”
"It was a terrible hole, and at the other end of that hole was the intersection of the road to hell. All the ghosts enter the East through this entrance. ”
Li Jie already vaguely knew what the biggest secret of the Hand and Society was.
As many stories tell, Abe Harumi gathered many other onmyoji and sealed the entrance to this hell. Over the centuries, the number of Oriental ghosts began to decrease dramatically. ”
"Abe Haruaki and his followers once made a blood oath that they would never reveal the secret of this cave to anyone else, but this world will not have walls that will never be impermeable. ”
"Secrets will come out one day. (To be continued.) )