Chapter 64: 【koma-inu Bell】
But Shangshan Che’s hand did not transmit any sensation of slashing into a body.
“Tch, an afterimage…”
Shangshan Che’s three pupils rapidly turned, trying to capture High-Speed Grandpa’s landing point, but the clear 270-degree field of view in front of him transmitted no effective information.
—How fast exactly is this Supernatural Phenomenon’s movement speed?
Shangshan Che roared: “Two-Foot Adult, go back first!”
This High-Speed Grandpa was simply too eerie. If he could burst out with this terrifying speed akin to Teleportation at every moment, Shangshan Che had no confidence in protecting Two-Foot Adult.
“Mm!”
Although very worried about Shangshan Che’s condition, Two-Foot Adult did not cry out something like “I want to stay” to indirectly increase Shangshan Che’s pressure.
The girl in the white dress turned into a puff of smoke and returned to the Ksitigarbha Statue, which was then stored by Shangshan Che in the Storage Bag.
“Alright, next…”
Before the thought could fully form, Shangshan Che felt intense pain in his chest again, with blood gushing out as if it were free.
Looking down, it was that cane already dyed red with blood.
High-Speed Grandpa’s hoarse voice came: “Don’t walk on the Railroad Track, it’s too dangerous…”
“This is just outrageous. There were no footsteps, no breathing, no sound of air being compressed at all. Is this old man traveling in another dimension or what?”
But after entering the heavily injured state, Shangshan Che could clearly feel the blood throughout his body heating up, becoming scalding hot, as if rolling magma was flowing through his veins.
The empty bloody hole in his abdomen earlier was even stopping the bleeding at a visible speed, with tender flesh buds wriggling at the wound’s edge.
He glanced at the Attribute Panel during a spare moment and discovered that his Physique had reached a terrifying 52 points.
The Internal Qi and Power in his body both surged violently, nearly splitting Shangshan Che apart into several pieces.
Yet even so, Kaga Kiyomitsu still could not touch even a corner of High-Speed Grandpa’s clothing.
Slash empty, Backstab, slash empty, Backstab…
The Combat situation was almost completely one-sided. Even though Shangshan Che grew stronger the lower his health, it was of no use.
Under the continuous stabbing strikes of the cane in High-Speed Grandpa’s hand, Shangshan Che’s body had almost turned into a leaky sieve.
If not for the “Berserk” Talent supporting him, he would have long bled to death.
But at that moment, Ye Chun’s slightly trembling cheering voice came from not far away: “Th-that! Mr. Evil Spirit! Keep going, keep going!”
Shangshan Che, whose vision was already showing multiple overlapping images, tsked.
Is this woman an idiot?
Cheering from over there only now—what difference does it make from joining the National Revolutionary Army in 1949?
Shangshan Che hoarsely roared: “If you don’t want to die, get lost now!”
This roar completely drowned out the girl’s voice.
Ye Chun, chilled to the bone, stood stunned for a moment, as if finally accepting the reality that she was alone again, then ran desperately into the Mountain Forest without a word.
Her final thought was—turns out ghosts are also divided into good and evil.
Seeing Ye Chun’s figure gradually disappear, Shangshan Che was about to erupt with all the Internal Qi in his body for a desperate fight when he suddenly felt a sharp pain at his neck.
Immediately after, the world spun.
……
“Ha—ha—”
Clutching his intact neck, Shangshan Che’s face kept twitching.
Although Shangshan Che was long accustomed to the feeling of decapitation, this was the first time someone had brutally pierced and shattered his entire neck, causing his head to lose support and fall.
This extremely bizarre sensation, Shangshan Che believed no one would want to experience it a second time.
Lying on the bed for nearly ten minutes, Shangshan Che finally fully dispelled the strange sensation at his neck.
But he did not rush to do a Gacha Pull.
Instead, he closed his eyes and began recalling and reviewing that battle with High-Speed Grandpa… that one-sided slaughter.
From a Common Sense perspective, Shangshan Che felt he should not have been toyed to death by High-Speed Grandpa.
Because the fact that the opponent had Two-Star above his head was undeniable.
A Two-Star Supernatural Phenomenon might be able to kill him now, but it would definitely have to pay an extremely heavy price.
So…
“Was it a Mechanic Kill?”
Shangshan Che murmured softly, believing he had been killed by the first encounter with the mechanism.
He closed his eyes and carefully recalled every instant from hearing High-Speed Grandpa’s voice, then replayed, dissected, and analyzed it over and over.
After a long time, Shangshan Che frowned slightly and discovered a suspicious point.
That was—
High-Speed Grandpa’s nearly twenty cane thrusts all came from the front, back, and left side, without a single attack from the right.
Although this could be explained by his knife-holding hand being the right, facing an opponent whose blade couldn’t even touch a corner of his clothes, did High-Speed Grandpa need to be so cautious?
There was no reason for that.
So the answer could only be one.
“He can’t do it.”
Shangshan Che calmly and boldly speculated: “The reason High-Speed Grandpa can move so fast despite missing a leg is because he can perform ultra-high-speed movement on the Railroad Track.”
“Even, Teleportation!”
And there was no Railroad Track to his own right side, so High-Speed Grandpa couldn’t move there.
With the speculation established, all that remained was to verify it in the next life.
Shangshan Che, drenched in sweat from multiple mental replays, let out a long breath.
He called up the Panel and, seeing the over 500 Soul Ash, revealed a smile of bountiful harvest.
Long-awaited Gacha Pull, long-awaited ten-pull.
Here I come!
But before that, Shangshan Che first took a good bath, killing his bad luck self in the shampoo and body wash.
Feeling refreshed and fully prepared, Shangshan Che then heavily clicked “Ten-Pull Summoning” with his Thought.
—Ten-pull, startup!
The exquisite effects of the Abandoned Shrine reappeared. This time, the movements of the two Three-tailed Foxes at the Shrine Doorway were more practiced and swift than last time, but the items they brought out were not satisfactory.
Eight white lights, one green light.
But fortunately, the last Three-tailed Fox brought out a deep blue light.
“Who knows if it’s the Guaranteed Mechanism.” Shangshan Che pursed his lips, tone unkind. “Not clearly stating Gacha Pull probabilities, not clarifying the Guaranteed Mechanism— the person who made this Gacha Pool really needs to check if the household registry at home only has one page.”
Soul Incense Ash small×2, Soul Incense Ash small×6, Soul Incense Ash medium, Koma-inu Bell.
Nine Experience Bottles, and a bell Item with a faint Golden Light on its surface, seemingly the one hanging from the Three-tailed Fox’s waist in the Gacha Pool.
“Knowing my Hannya needs to Level up and specially sending a basket of Experience Bottles, thanks a lot, you’re actually pretty nice.”
Shangshan Che chuckled, moving all 8 bottles of Soul Incense Ash small from inventory onto the Demon Incarnation·Laughing Hannya that was faintly glowing.
Excess Soul Incense Ash detected beyond specified amount. Return the excess?
Shangshan Che, who thought the extra 5 points of Incense Ash value were just dog food, was stunned. He didn’t expect such a conscientious design.
“Yes.”
You obtained Soul Incense Ash small×2.5
“Laughing Hannya Youth Body” leveling up: 0%
Shocked again by the lack of rounding, Shangshan Che beamed with joy, his previously sullen mood swept away.
After neatly arranging the Soul Incense Ash in the Storage Bag, Shangshan Che looked at what might be the Rare Item from the guarantee.
—Koma-inu Bell
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