In the texts I have read, there are real records of a century-old practitioner in a Tibetan tantric temple who shrunk into a cicada overnight and passed away. This method of passing away is the opposite of the traditional sense of "rainbowization", and has become another version of "becoming a Buddha in the flesh".

"Before it burst, there was nothing in the cicada. I said.

"What do you want to be inside?" asked Lian Chengbi.

I closed my eyes and pondered, recalling in my mind the night I saw Jingguan Xiaowu. The position of the cicada is strange, because the sachet is suspended in the air, swinging around, with no solidity to speak of.

As far as I know, the person who cares about Jingguan Xiaowu in the world is Zhang Quanzhong, otherwise he wouldn't have asked me to take her away safely as soon as we met.

I can see that Jingguan Xiaowu is Zhang Quanzhong's weakness, and vice versa.

"His soul curled up in the cicada's moult and clinged to her?" I asked myself in a low voice.

Then, Jingguan Xiaowu probably spent a long time with Zhang Quanzhong as a real person and a soul day and night, until the official fell to the ground, grew up, grew old, and finally died in battle.

Life is precious, but love is even more valuable. If Jingguan Xiaowu and Zhang Quanzhong have such a lonely love, then I really don't know whether to envy them or pity them.

"You don't believe in one thing—" Lian Chengbi said half-heartedly.

"What's that?" I asked faintly, not opening my eyes.

"You still don't believe it, even Jingguan Xiaowu is lying to you. Lian Chengbi sighed, said the answer, and then explained, "She made a game with Zhang Quanzhong, treated you as a living child, a robber, and a variable in the game, and with your wisdom, untied the dead knot of the Iron Gong Temple." This is the focus of all your illusions. ”

I can't argue with it, but I don't agree with Lianchengbi.

"There is only one fact, and whether you believe it or not, the facts will not change. Lian Chengbi said.

I don't believe that Jingguan Xiaowu would lie to me, she has always been so stoic, calm but helpless and helpless, and she told me all the truth. Even when I was forced to assassinate the enemy chieftains in the east, north, west, and south, she explained the stakes in advance and gave me the freedom to choose. Without her leading the way, we would not have been able to enter the stone chamber under Wulong Pond, allowing me to escape from illusion and return to reality in an instant.

"Tianshi, open the box. Lian Chengbi said.

I opened my eyes, but I didn't listen to her to open the box.

"For masters of similar levels, robbery has become the carrier of fierce competition between the two sides, so the ancient national players left the ancient proverb of 'robbing all chess and dying'. If Jingguan Xiaowu and Zhang Quanzhong joined forces to deceive me, then who was the enemy they were fighting against? Could it be the enemy who occupied Jinan City at that time?" I asked.

"Enemies, they're not worthy. Lian Chengbi shook his head proudly.

"Who could that be?" I asked again.

During World War II, the biggest enemy of the Chinese people was the Japanese invaders who crossed the Yalu River and swept the three eastern provinces, which was the common enemy of Asians. At that time, whether it was the government army, the Jianghu forces, or the people's bigwigs, they all pointed the spearhead of the struggle at the Japanese invaders and reached a consensus on "joint resistance against Japan".

"The Japanese are the enemy of the world, Zhang Quanzhong tried his best to plan, not to resist Japan, is it for-" My heart suddenly lit up, and I thought of the highest pursuit of a thaumaturgist's life, that is-"Fight with the sky, fight with fate, fight with luck, fight with self; ”

Only those who dare to defy fate are qualified to become first-class thaumaturgists.

Zhang Quanzhong, as the "No. 1 God Operator in Jiangbei", should have calculated his fate when he was a teenager. If there is a flaw in fate, he must spend his whole life trying to revise and make up for it in order to be perfect.

His life may have transcended life and death, country, and race, but with destiny as the enemy and self as the enemy, until it is perfect.

"He changed his fate, didn't he?" I asked.

Lian Chengbi finally breathed a sigh of relief: "You really figured it out, I didn't misunderstand you." ”

At first, I was trapped in the bitter love story of Jingguan Xiaowu and Zhang Quanzhong, and I had a preconceived idea of the two of them as a pair of mandarin ducks in troubled times.

As soon as I got rid of the influence of the story, I immediately put aside my pity for them and carefully examined Zhang Quanzhong's various arrangements in the Tiegong Temple incident.

At first, he set up the Hongmen Banquet to kill the supreme leader of the occupying army; then, the Hongmen Banquet was discovered by the thaumaturgists on the side of the occupying army, and there was an obvious "Nine Palace Death Talisman" on Daming Lake, and he could only hastily change his tactics, using everyone as a bait to lure the enemy to attack; later, the Tiegong Temple was besieged by Japanese thaumaturgists, and I was forced to take over the "soil" position of the land grandmother, and completely annihilate the enemy, he immediately proposed to attack the headquarters of the occupation army, but finally drank the bomb in Wulongtan.

In the whole process, he miscalculated step by step, not only shattering the peaceful situation in Jinan City, but also involving a large number of innocent people, creating the Wulongtan Massacre.

He mentioned several times that I was a "robber".

At the time, I didn't see the player clearly, thinking he was playing against the occupying forces. As a Chinese, in that situation, of course, I will do my best to help him regardless of the consequences.

It turned out that he actually used me as a "robbery", and wanted to compare himself with the heavenly oath.

"I was wrong. I smiled wryly and admitted it.

"In the face of major rights and wrongs, small mistakes can be ignored, as long as you can finally rein in the precipice and make up for the faults. Tianshi, as long as you figure it out, in this battle, we can reverse the decline in one fell swoop. Lian Chengbi replied with a smile.

"With whom is this battle?" I asked.

Lian Chengbi's left palm lightly pressed on the lid of the box, and replied in a firm tone: "This battle is the battle between the Central Plains Divine Calculation Shan clan and the 'First Divine Operator in Jiangbei' Mr. Zhang Quanzhong, and the ninth princess of the Japanese Imperial Family, Jingguan Xiaowu, and it is also the most brilliant battle of human wisdom and computing ability. You and I are laymen, outsiders, just watch the enemy plunder. ”

When I heard the words "Zhen Kitetai", I was taken aback.

It is the core holy place of the Japanese thaumaturgical world, which is equivalent to the Temple of Heaven or the Temple of Earth in the Central Plains, and it is the place where the Yamato national thaumaturgical community pays tribute to the thaumaturgical master Amaterasu.

Every year on March 1, 100 of Japan's top thaumaturgists form a memorial group and rush to the Iris Terrace in Torigaku Village, Kumatori Prefecture, in the shade of Mt. Fuji, to perform 33 major offerings, including whole cows, whole pigs, whole chickens, and whole fish.

The thaumaturgist festival of the town is famous all over the world, and when I say etiquette and rules, I mean the current situation, and before 1950, the imperial family controlled the town of kite quite strictly, and everyone who entered the shrine was the leader of the major Japanese forces and the imperial elite under the command of the emperor.

Jingguan Xiaowu can be called the "Ninth Princess", and she is naturally the emperor's favorite. Unfortunately, I have known her for a few days, but I have not had time to explore her origins.

"The master of the single family is here. Lian Chengbi whispered.

The sight at the entrance of the hall dimmed, and a team of tall and thin black-clothed mermaids rushed in, a total of nine, and the leader was Teacher Shan who had seen in the hospital.

"Teacher Shan, I can only help you so much. Lian Chengbi stood up and folded his palms in salute.

Teacher Shan seemed to be a different person, and his face no longer had the air of a mercenary spirit, but was cold and stern, and his demeanor was calm, as if he was facing a great enemy.

"We will solve the problem quietly, please rest assured Miss Lian. Teacher Shan said.

The other eight were all silent, each putting his hands in his jacket pockets, forming two bulging bags.

Lian Chengbi smiled and nodded: "Teacher Shan, I am a person who does what I say." Between now and two o'clock in the afternoon, the entire funeral home will be shut down for internal maintenance, and everyone who is going to transport the body will be notified to be transferred to another funeral home in the suburbs. I'll give you about three hours to clean up the scene as soon as possible. ”

Teacher Shan nodded: "Thank you." ”

Lian Chengbi bowed again: "The juniors will retire first." ”

The nine men in black bowed and saluted together, but they didn't say a word.

I followed Lian Chengbi out of the hall, and instead of stopping, I quickly headed west, bypassing a row of gray concrete bungalows, and ascending the fire ladder to the roof of a five-story old building.

To my surprise, there was a three-foot-long black suitcase lying flat on the ground in the southeast corner of the rooftop.

Lianchengbi walked quickly to the suitcase and entered the password on the LCD screen. With a click, the box's reinforced combination lock popped open.

"It's a spear. Lian Chengbi explained.

She lifted the lid of the box, and what was wrapped in thickened black shockproof cotton was a sniper rifle that had been broken into nine parts.

"There are always accidents in everything, if the Shan clan can't handle Zhang Quanzhong and Jingguan Xiaowu, I have to take action. But fortunately, this is in the funeral home, even if there is a small movement, it will not attract the attention of the official. She said calmly.

I stood aside and watched as she neatly assembled her spear and set it up in the gap in the low wall at the edge of the rooftop.

"Your body hasn't recovered yet, so this time you can just watch the game with peace of mind, and you don't have to work hard. She said.

Lian Chengbi was able to call on the Qin King Guild at will, but this time she chose to fight alone, and did not use any of the old Qin Wang Guild's people.

"What about your people?" I asked.

"It's weird, and I don't want those people to see it and make a fuss about it. She said lightly.

After the spear was set up, she looked at the scope for more than ten seconds, made sure that everything was correct, and gently closed the shooting safety bolt.

"We may have to climb for a while, thaumaturgists are not street gangsters, especially these people who are good at arithmetic, they must be like Tai Chi pushers, you come and go for more than a dozen rendezvous without breaking out, and at the last moment they can distinguish between life and death. Alright, let's be patient!" she said, taking two waterproof cushions from the compartment on the other side of her suitcase and laying them flat on the broken wall next to them.

We sat down, close together, but the atmosphere was a little stiff.

She never said anything about asking the Shan family to rush to the funeral home to encircle and suppress Zhang Quanzhong, and it was obvious that her call to Teacher Shan in the car was a signal to inform him to bring someone to the funeral home instead of going to the hospital to deal with the abacus.

"Is it hard to tell me in advance?" I asked.

"Don't be angry. Lian Chengbi tried to explain, "Listen to me, Zhang Quanzhong is good at calculation, your mind has been controlled by him, you know a lot of things, and it is equivalent to reaching his ears." We don't have much time, so it's best to go all out and hit the nail on the head and solve the problem cleanly. You know it or you don't know, it's just an emotional issue, but I'm keeping it a secret from you, and I'm going to increase the success rate of this operation by at least thirty percent. Tianshi, let's not be hypocritical, let's face reality. ”

I have reason to be angry, but I have no reason to be angry.

Lianchengbi's approach is extreme, but it is effective and the most correct. In this complicated struggle, only with iron nerves and iron wrists like her can she be invincible.

"Yes, we don't have the capital to be pretentious. I whispered in response.

"Forgive me?" she patted her chest, "Your face was so serious just now, it scared me to death." ”

I can't laugh because I see a lot of things to improve in this simplest order of dealing with problems.

The practice of "teleology and interest theory" has always been criticized by the benevolent gentlemen on the rivers and lakes, but it is the most practical.

Lian Chengbi is stronger than Tang Wan, Red Sleeves and others, and she uses the modern military management model to demand herself, advance and retreat with evidence, relax and relax, strictly implement the rules, and never be emotional.

Here, whether it is Jingguan Xiaowu or Zhang Quanzhong, Teacher Shan or the Shan family, they are just a few points or lines on the map of Jinan, and only by dealing with the relationship between them without any thoughts and feelings can they be orderly and never disorderly.

Then, between me and Lian Chengbi, sometimes we are boyfriend and girlfriend, sometimes we are comrades-in-arms, and sometimes it is a simple, direct and clear cooperative relationship. When our relationship is in its last form, no one has to say sorry to anyone, and no one has to have some kind of responsibility for anyone.