Volume 1 Urban War Clouds Section 9 The Little Puppet Master
After successfully recruiting An Jing, Liu Zheng only had the last person left in the list, so as soon as several people were combined, they simply acted together to get the last person done, and then went back to Qiantang together.
On the same day, the three of them walked out of the dense forest and returned to the small mountain village where they came.
Liu Zheng only brought one day's rations when they entered the mountain, and they didn't prepare overnight equipment, but they didn't come back all night, but this group of simple mountain people were worried to death, thinking that these two young people were probably more than lucky, and at this time, they not only returned safe and sound, but also brought out a handsome big girl, all of whom were amazed. In fact, An Jing is in her forties if she counts her real age, but in the past ten years of living alone in the forest, it seems that she has not left any traces on her body at all, and she still maintains the appearance of being twenty or thirty years old.
After bidding farewell to the mountain people, Liu Zheng and his party flew from Heilongjiang from the northernmost part of the Chinese territory to the southern province of Yuezhou, where they needed to recruit the last target, and lived in Foshan, the hometown of the famous martial arts.
If you want to talk about Foshan, it is really famous, there have been countless martial arts masters in history, the most famous are Ip Man and Huang Feihong, and the classic "Foshan Shadowless Feet" in film and television dramas has pushed the city to a position close to everyone knows.
However, the person they are looking for today is not a person from the martial arts, or it should be said that the ability he is good at is not martial arts.
In the end, the information recorded in this record form is relatively complete, and the text is quite detailed about this person called "Shen Anpeng":
Shen Anpeng, born in 2008, his parents died, and he was raised by his grandfather, and was the last heir of the Mohist school during the Warring States Period. After the death of Mozi that year, the Mo family was divided into three, among which the ink of the Xiangli clan (Qin Mo) inherited the mechanism of the Mo family, the ink of the Deng Ling clan (Chu Mo) inherited the martial arts, and the ink of the Xiangfu clan (Qi Mo) inherited the art of wit and righteousness. According to legend, the surname Shen was first passed down by Mozi's eldest disciple 釐釐 (qín gǔ xī), who was the most authentic successor of the Mo family. Although the Shen family belonged to the Mo school of the Deng Ling clan, their ancestors obtained the legendary "Book of Ink" by chance, which had long been lost, and learned the technique written by Mozi himself in the book. In order to avoid the competition between the other two schools and the covetousness within their own sects, the ancestors of the Shen family immediately chose to flee.
However, as the so-called "Pifu is not guilty of his crimes", how can there be an impermeable wall in this world, they encountered interception on the way to escape, although the Shen family fought back, they still inevitably suffered heavy casualties, only a few people fled to Nanhai County at that time, which is now Yuezhou, so they pretended to be surnamed Chen, and lived incognito since then.
With the changes of the times, the Mo family has long since completely withdrawn from the stage of history, and the Shen family, which has been inherited for more than 2,000 years, has long been thin, and now only Shen Anpeng is left.
The old man of the Shen family is not talented enough, and he can't get a glimpse of the true transmission of the organ in the "Book of Ink", so he only learned a little fur, and did carpentry work in Foshan, relying on a meager income to raise his grandson. The details in the record form were dictated by Shen Laohan himself at that time.
"My mom, a child born in '08, is only 8 years old now. Liu Zheng, are you sure that the person we are looking for is him? Luo Zhijian finished reading the contents of the table and asked incredulously.
"I don't know, let's go and see it, Comrade Fu won't be sloppy in this aspect, maybe this kid is talented?"
An Jing also read Shen Anpeng's information, and said thoughtfully: "When I was young, I read a book that recorded the Mo family, which wrote that Mozi was an extremely skilled master in his early years. Once the state of Chu wanted to attack the state of Song, he asked the world's first craftsman, the public loser of the state of Lu, which is what we call Lu Ban, to help design and build siege weapons. Mozi was very anxious when he heard the news of the attack on the Song Dynasty by the Later Chu State, so he went to dissuade the King of Chu, but the King of Chu did not listen to the advice and insisted on fighting, Mozi had no choice but to find Lu Ban, in front of the King of Chu, the two of them used the belt as the city wall and the wood chips as the siege equipment, and practiced an offensive and defensive battle on the spot. As a result, Lu Ban used up all the siege weapons and still failed to break through the wall of the Song Kingdom, while Mozi still had a lot of means left to defend the city. ”
Mozi is an expert in civil engineering, which Liu Zheng had known before, but he didn't expect him to be even more powerful than Lu Ban! I just don't know how much this child who has just entered elementary school can learn, and it seems that this mission can still be expected.
They found Mr. Shen's timber shop according to the address, but found that it had already been transformed into other shops, and asked the surrounding neighbors to find out that Mr. Shen had died of illness a few years ago, and this shop had also been given to someone else. Some people who know the situation also told them that the youngest grandson of the Shen family was arranged by the civil affairs system to be adopted by a local family at that time, but I heard that the child was spoiled by his grandfather since he was a child, and his personality was very rebellious, and he did not obey discipline at all, and rarely returned to his foster parents' home, but liked to live in his grandfather's dilapidated house.
After learning about these things, Liu Zheng and the others found the place where Xiao Shen went to school and asked the school about the child's situation. According to the teacher, the child's personality is indeed flawed, very withdrawn, irritable, often fighting with classmates, and the head teacher only learned that the child's family situation is more complicated than imagined after a home visit. However, in addition to personality reasons, Shen Anpeng's mind is very smart, he learns everything very quickly, and he can achieve excellent results without spending too much time, which also indirectly makes the school relax his discipline.
Because it was a weekend, Liu Zheng and the others went directly to the former residence of the Shen family after coming out of school, which is a bungalow area in the urban-rural junction on the outskirts of Nanzhuang, where most of the young people work in Guangzhou or Nanhai, most of the houses are empty, and there are still some old people.
Liu Zheng stood in front of the door and knocked, there was no response inside, he looked in from the window, and found that although the house was small, it was neatly organized, and there were a lot of wood and strange tools on the table and cabinets, Shen Anpeng should not be at home.
Just as the three of them were talking, they heard an alert voice from behind them: "What are you talking about?" ”
When the three of them turned around, they saw a boy standing not far away, staring at them coldly.
Liu Zheng smiled: "Are you Shen Anpeng, we are..."
Before the words fell, the little boy turned around and ran, and several people did not know where to go, so they could only chase all the way. The boy was thin and nimble, and very familiar with the surrounding terrain, and ran very fast in the gap of the house, and the three men followed him, running for hundreds of meters until they found him in the middle of a dilapidated house.
Shen Anpeng didn't run away now, but put his hands in his pants pockets and asked in Mandarin: "Where did you come from to hang your hair and dare to touch my family's things?" ”
"Hey, boy, do you dare to talk like that?" Luo Zhijian was upset when he heard it, and Liu Zheng hurriedly grabbed him. An Jing said softly to the boy: "An Peng, don't be afraid, we are not bad people. Then she told them where they had come from.
Shen Anpeng still looked vigilant, and frowned: "Special Populations Office, I'm not a psychopath, what are you looking for me for?" ”
Liu Zheng was speechless, it is estimated that this kid treats them as the mental hospital in Stephen Chow's movie "Kung Fu", so he can only add: "We are a national government department, and we want to invite you this time..."
"Less deception, which unit will look for children?" Shen Anpeng still didn't believe it.
Liu Zheng patiently replied: "That's right, we are a superpower organization, and you, as the heir of the Mo family and the holder of the Book of Ink, are exactly what we need..."
"Haha! Ha ha! Shen Anpeng laughed.
Liu Zheng frowned, this child's personality is really unlikable, if he doesn't guide him well, I'm afraid he will go down the wrong path when he grows up in the future.
Shen Anpeng laughed for a while and then stopped, and said sharply: "I knew, I knew, I really came for the "Book of Ink", you killed your grandfather, and now you want to lie to me!" He pulled out a wooden bead the size of a baby's fist from his pocket, pressed his fingers on it a few times, and he didn't know what mechanism was activated, and a strange sound was immediately heard in several ruined houses around him.
"I prepared this trap to deal with you bad guys!"
Before the boy's words fell, the sound of breaking the air sounded everywhere, and Liu Zheng and the three of them hurriedly dodged, and the area where they were originally standing was all nailed with wooden thorns of chopsticks. The doors and windows of several surrounding houses were shattered, and more than a dozen black shadows rushed towards them.
In just a few breaths, the first black shadow had rushed in front of Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng kicked him down, and looked at it as a wooden man of the same size as an adult, holding a sharp knife in his hand and struggling to stand up. Liu Zheng crushed the wooden man's head with force, but the wooden man did not react to the lack of a head, and swung a knife at Liu Zheng's leg.
"Be careful, this puppet has some doorways!" Liu Zheng yelled and reminded the other two, and made a few moves in a row to smash the wooden man on the ground.
Seeing that there was no one else around, Luo Zhijian poured out thick slime, wrapped him into a hideous monster, laughed wildly and tore the wooden man in front of him in half, and then pulled out his legs and threw himself at Shen Anpeng.
These puppets are extremely delicately designed, I don't know what kind of energy they are used to drive, they can wave the weapons in their hands to attack without a thread or a stand, but after all, these are just dead things without thoughts, and they are okay to deal with normal people, but they will not have any effect in front of superpowers.
Seeing Luo Zhijian transform into a move, Ding Luo and An Jing took the initiative to step back, stood aside and did not make another move, An Jing also shouted behind Luo Zhijian: "Ah Jian, be careful not to frighten the child." The first time she saw gluttony in the dense forest, she was so frightened by that dignity that she didn't dare to approach, and she still has palpitations.
The gluttonous fangs and terrifying appearance really scared Shen Anpeng, no matter how smart he was, after all, he was only 7 or 8 years old, and it was the time when he was most afraid of demons and monsters, so he ran away with a scream, pinching the wooden balls with both hands while running, and the several puppets surrounding Liu Zheng and Anjing all turned around and rushed towards Luo Zhijian.
Luo Zhijian was in a gluttonous form, the violent factor in his body soared, and he was not surprised to see that those wooden people were all swinging knives to attack, and he stretched out his claws to grab the wooden people in front, and when he lifted it upside down, he smashed all the surrounding wooden figures. Seeing that there was no more intact puppet around him, he threw the wreckage from his hand and threw his head back to let out a loud roar.
An Jing took a few steps back, walked to Liu Zheng's side and whispered, "Liu Zheng, I have been holding back a question for a long time. Ah Jian, who the hell is he, how can he become such a terrifying monster? She hesitated and said, "Could it be that he... Not human? ”
"It's people, it's people, it's definitely people." Liu Zheng touched his nose in embarrassment, and then gave Luo Zhijian a general explanation.
After listening to Liu Zheng's explanation, An Jing nodded in surprise: "Oh... It's amazing that there are aliens alive around us, and I always thought they were fake. ”
The two staff members sent to recruit her, one is a martial arts master, and the other still has aliens living in her body, An Jing doesn't know how many people with such skills there are in the special group office in a province of Zhijiang, and she began to have more interest and expectations for this new job.
Shen Anpeng, who was over there, saw that the monster behind him was so ferocious, and he was even more unintentional, and pinched the wooden ball a few more times, and 6 wooden prosthetic limbs pierced the clothes behind him and stretched out, propping his small body off the ground, like a spider flying away into the distance.
Liu Zheng and An Jing caught up and destroyed all the remaining wooden figures, and the gluttony jumped a few times in a row, and caught up with Shen Anpeng in a few breaths, grabbed his neck collar with one hand, and broke all the wooden legs with the other hand. He grabbed Shen Anpeng back like a chicken, and when he saw that this kid was still screaming and struggling, he couldn't help but shout angrily: "If you quarrel again, I'll eat you!" As soon as he finished scolding, he felt a light hand, and then saw that the boy he was holding in his hand had turned into a puppet, and Shen Anpeng rolled to the ground and wanted to slip away.
An Jing ran over and grabbed Shen Anpeng's hand, and just as she wanted to speak, she saw the wooden bead in the boy's hand turn into a dagger and stab at her hand, so she had to grab his other hand and pin it behind her back.
Shen Anpeng was in pain, and scolded uncleanly: "Stinky *, let me go!" ”
An Jing slapped Shen Anpeng on the head and scolded: "Little rabbit cub, if you dare to talk like this again, I will really beat you!" ”
Shen Anpeng covered his head, glared at An Jing viciously, gritted his teeth and shouted: "You dare to hit me on the head, my grandfather has never beaten me!" ”
"You're just spoiled to be so lawless, I'll teach you a good lesson for your grandfather today." An Jing's fierce temperament of the old ladies in the northeast rose, and the tiger's eyes glared back, "You try to play tricks again?" ”
The tigress was so powerful that even Liu Zheng and Luo Zhijian were silent, let alone a child. Shen Anpeng didn't dare to look at An Jing anymore, but shed tears, but his face was still angry, and he looked like he would not admit defeat. After today's events, he knows the gap between himself and the real superpowers, and if there is no real strength to support him, the tricks are just toys.
An Jing hugged Shen Anpeng's thin body, the boy had never been treated so affectionately in his life, and he was about to break free when he writhed violently. Seeing that he was disobedient, An Jing reached out and slapped him on the ass a few times, and Shen Anpeng opened his mouth and bit her shoulder. Liu Zheng and Luo Zhijian angrily wanted to come up and pull the stinky boy away, but An Jing stretched out her hand to stop them.
An Jing has the same beastly instincts as the tiger, she is keenly aware of Shen Anpeng's loneliness, all the unreasonable, perverse and ferocious, are the disguises that the little boy has to have in order not to be bullied by others. His last loved ones had also died, and the city was a steel cage for him, similar to himself in the primeval forest.
This kid is so insecure. An Jing's heart was filled with a feeling of sympathy, she patted the little boy on the back and whispered softly in his ear, and after a while, she felt the teeth that were biting her shoulder loosen.
An Jing hugged the little boy for a while, and waited for his mood to be completely stable before putting it on the ground. At this time, Shen Anpeng no longer had the anger just now, and all that was left was the immaturity and shyness of ordinary children.
"Apologies to the uncles." An Jing patted Shen Anpeng's head, and although the little boy was very reluctant, he still said "I'm sorry".
Liu Zheng and Luo Zhijian gave a thumbs up in unison, they were so impressed that they really had to rely on the brilliance of motherhood to deal with bear children.
An Jing smiled slightly, and said to Shen Anpeng: "Uncles and aunts are really not bad people, you go to Qiantang with us, and we will take care of and cultivate you." ”
Shen Anpeng asked sullenly, "Are you there too?" As soon as I asked, my face turned red.
"Yes, we're all here."
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Everyone lived in Foshan for a few days, went through the transfer and adoption procedures of Shen Anpeng, and after a few days of contact, the little boy finally figured out what the special group office of the National Security Bureau was doing. And Liu Zheng and the three of them also have a better understanding of Shen Anpeng, this child is very talented, especially in mechanics, he has learned a lot of tricks in the "Book of Ink", especially the puppet puppet technique explained in the book, he is particularly proficient, and the dummies made can rely on solar cells and clockwork drives to complete a lot of simple work independently.
While they were shocked by the various ingenious mechanism techniques in the "Book of Ink", they were also very interested in Shen Anpeng's future development. Due to his age, Shen Anpeng is not yet capable of building larger and more complex equipment, but all of them believe that in the near future, Huaxia will have an engineer who will shock the world.
A few days later, they were ready to leave to return to Qiantang, before leaving to sweep the grave of the old man Shen, Shen Anpeng knelt in front of the tombstone and told his grandfather loudly that he was going to live far away, and when he grew up, he would definitely carry forward the Mo family, after saying that, he kowtowed a few times to the portrait of his grandfather, stood up and followed Liu Zheng and them without hesitation.
The boy's shrill children's voice was strong in it, and the green smoke on the incense flame swirled upward, waving in the wind, did the grandfather who loved him and protect him really hear it?