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"Why are you here?" Su Xiaoqiang was taken aback when she heard the voice, then said, "Let me see, I'm not afraid."
She pushed Gu Ran's hand away and then saw the woman who had been cut in half at the waist, lying on the ground in two pieces, her internal organs and intestines scattered all over the ground, with dark brown blood flowing on the ground.
However, the woman was not completely dead yet, because she had clearly taken a gene serum, and the raging dragon blood was still repairing her body, temporarily keeping her alive.
But within a minute, she would lose consciousness, suffer brain death, and then bleed to death completely.
Su Xiaoqiang hadn't expected the scene to be so bloody, like watching a gory American horror movie.
The gore in the movie is just a visual shock, but the gore in real life, in addition to the visual shock, also has a olfactory impact, and the woman who is not quite dead is still struggling in pain.
Gu Ran's shadow clone covered Su Xiaoqiang's eyes and then unleashed a wind blade, killing the woman instantly.
Not far away, Zhang Qiong also finished the battle at this time.
It turned out that just as the two men appeared to launch a sneak attack, Zhang Qiong plunged her sword into the ground again. Instantly, arcs of electricity began to appear on the ground, forming an electric arc net centered on her. When the men came out to attack, the electric arc net automatically transformed into electric blades, slashing at the two men without any concealment.
Without any warning, the two hybrids were cut in half at the waist!
At the same time, the electric arc nets began to spread outwards, extending ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters...
Seeing that the electric arcs were about to harm Su Xiaoqiang, the shadow clone immediately grabbed Su Xiaoqiang and carried her backward until they were eighty meters away, at which point the electric arcs stopped.
Zhang Qiong sheathed the Dragon Slayer Sword, looked at Gu Ran eighty meters away, seemed somewhat surprised, then closed her eyes slightly, but nothing happened.
She was somewhat stunned, seemingly confused, looking at the Dragon Slayer Sword with a bewildered expression.
"Mom, you're amazing!" Seeing her sheathe her sword, the shadow clone carried Su Xiaoqiang over to join her. He put Su Xiaoqiang down and clapped his hands. "I never knew you knew the Divine Sword Thunder Control Technique, Mom! Could you teach me?"
Zhang Qiong smoothed her hair and showed off her skills in front of her son, which made her feel a little proud.
She laughed and said, "What divine sword lightning control technique... This is the power of the Dragon Slayer Sword, the Wrath of Indra."
"Indra's Wrath? Isn't that a power that can only be used by those with Primordial-level authority?" Gu Ran's shadow clone asked in confusion, "Why would a sword also have that?"
"What's so surprising about that? The Dragon Slaying Platform can use the Primordial-level Word of Power 'Nine Infants,' and the Dragon Slaying Sword is comparable to the Dragon Slaying Platform. The Word of Power used by the Living Spirit is naturally also of the Primordial level."
The so-called Primordial Level Word of Power is a Word of Power with exclusive authority to the Dragon King that can be given the name "Primordial Manifestation". Hybrids cannot inherit or awaken such a super Word of Power on their own.
Other ancient-level incantations include the Candle Dragon of the King of Bronze and Fire, the Shiva Karma Dance of the King of Earth and Mountains, and the Oracle of the White King.
"You've been carrying the Dragon Slayer Sword all this time, didn't you know it possessed the power of words?"
"I do not know!"
"So how do you use it?"
As Zhang Qiong asked the question, she took out the Glock pistol that Gu Ran had given her earlier, which was filled with mercury-core blunt metal armor-piercing bullets.
She loaded a bullet, aimed at the head of the fallen mixed-race man, and began to deliver the final blow.
This Glock has a silencer, and the bullets it fires make a 'biu biu biu biu' sound. Su Xiaoqiang was stunned when he saw it from the side.
"Don't be afraid. My mom isn't a born killer. She only finishes off mutated hybrids. These people have taken gene-enhancing drugs. My mom was afraid that when they were injured, they wouldn't be able to suppress their boiling dragon blood and turn into dead bodies, so she struck first."
Yes, these people all had dark brown blood flowing from their bodies, which was no longer the normal color of human blood; it was clear that their blood had exceeded the critical blood limit.
Chapter 454 The Dragon-Slaying Sword and the Dragon-Slaying Platform
These hybrids are not completely dead yet. If left unattended, they will transform into Deadpools, potentially harming nearby residents or the medical staff who are trying to help them.
Just like the walking dead, people bitten by zombies must be eliminated immediately to prevent zombies from harming others and to prevent new zombies from appearing.
Saving zombies is the stupidest thing you can do.
Soon, Zhang Qiong finished off the remaining enemies, each shot a headshot, just like a ruthless dual-wielding granny.
"Let's go, it's too dirty here, don't scare my Xiaoqiang." Zhang Qiong went up and took Su Xiaoqiang's arm, pointed to the car not far away, and said to Gu Ran, "Go get the car, let's go somewhere else and talk as we walk."
"Oh." Gu Ranying went to drive, and her mother put her arm around Su Xiaoqiang's shoulder and sat with her in the back seat.
As the car slowly drove along the road, Su Xiaoqiang's mood calmed down a bit, and she leaned against Zhang Qiong's chest.
Today's scene was too bloody, and it must have been quite a shock for her. She needs some time to recover.
"Tell me quickly, how do you usually use the Dragon Slayer Sword?" Zhang Qiong brought up the topic again. She felt something was off when she used the Dragon Slayer Sword today.
"I use it to chop people up, to kill Deadpool and stuff, it's really useful, one slash and it's deadly, it cuts through iron like mud!"
Gu Ran drove away from the scene quickly, heading towards the main body.
"Just for killing people?" Zhang Qiong was stunned for a moment, then realized that Gu Ran did not actually inherit the Zhang family's legacy, so everything he learned was based on his own understanding and was all self-taught. Therefore, he did not know the true use of the Dragon Slayer Sword.
The creature inside the Dragon Slayer Sword has been alive for countless years, which has led to a somewhat twisted personality; it never tells anyone anything on its own initiative.
She said, "You took alchemy at Kassel College, so you should know that dead things cannot use words of power; only living things can. Therefore, the advanced level of alchemy is to create living spirits and let them use words of power."
"I know that."
"This Dragon Slayer Sword contains an alchemical matrix, but it is not as complete as the Seven Deadly Sins. After all, it was the masterpiece of the King of Bronze and Fire. Therefore, the alchemical matrix in the Dragon Slayer Sword will lose energy over thousands of years of operation. In order to preserve energy, it can only absorb dragon blood, and the higher the purity, the better."
“I know that too. It didn’t like drinking Deadpool’s blood before!” Gu Ran said. “After this thing ate the Dragon King’s blood, it became picky and wouldn’t drink ordinary blood anymore.”
"You gave it the Dragon King's blood?" Zhang Qiong was stunned.
"Yes, it really enjoyed drinking Norton's blood, the Bronze and Fire King, and drained him dry!"
“No wonder, no wonder.” Zhang Qiong smiled. “No wonder I said the range of Word of Power: Indra’s Wrath would be so large today. It’s usually only thirty meters, but now it’s eighty meters.”
"Eighty meters in radius is an exaggeration, isn't it!" Gu Ran said.
“I heard that when the Dragon King uses Indra’s Wrath, the range can be several hundred meters. Eighty meters is just barely the beginning.” Zhang Qiong thought for a moment and continued, “However, after I used this sword, I was not affected by the killing intent. Could it be that drinking the Dragon King’s blood can eliminate the killing intent? That’s impossible. The Dragon King’s killing intent should be stronger.”
"That's because I negotiated with it, and it gave me fifteen seconds for free. As long as the battle ends within fifteen seconds, I won't be affected by the killing intent."
Previously, when Gu Ran was in the Three Gorges, the Dragon Slayer Sword specifically requested Norton's blood, which Gu Ran granted and exchanged conditions with it.
This refers to the fifteen seconds of use time without side effects.
Don't underestimate those fifteen seconds. In a basketball game, the time for a second shot is only fourteen seconds, so fifteen seconds is already a lot.
Zhang Qiong's battles today ended within fifteen seconds. Based on her previous experience, the longer she used the Dragon Slayer Sword, the greater the influence of the killing intent became. Therefore, she always ended the battles as quickly as possible.
Zhang Qiong was stunned. The Dragon Slayer Sword had been passed down in the Zhang family for at least two thousand years, and this was the first time he had ever heard of someone being able to negotiate with a living spirit.
It should be noted that living beings are high above and generally ignore ordinary people. Only those with the Bloodline Imprint - Edict will respond to them with a forced response.
But Gu Ran actually negotiated with the living spirit!
“Interesting. He truly lives up to his reputation as my son. Just the fact that he can negotiate with living beings is enough to shake the old folks in the family.” Zhang Qiong reached out and patted Gu Ran’s head.
She continued, "Do you know about the Zhou family's Dragon-Slaying Platform? Using the Dragon-Slaying Platform also comes at a price."
"What's the price?"
"The price of activating the Dragon Slayer Platform is to accept the interrogation by the living spirit within it. If the user fails the interrogation, their consciousness will be trapped inside the Dragon Slayer Platform until the living spirit within it is willing to let them leave."
"Consciousness can be trapped? Isn't that something you only see in cultivation novels?" Gu Ran retorted.
Zhang Qiong smiled and continued, "Back then, in order to suppress Duanlongtai, Nuwa spent a year reading all kinds of philosophical books in her study, from Socrates to Marx, from Lao Tzu to Wang Shouren. After she had mastered both Chinese and Western knowledge, she went to negotiate with Duanlongtai for two days and two nights before she was able to subdue it."
"Holy crap, that little girl Nuwa actually reads books? That gamer actually reads books?" Gu Ran seemed to have heard something strange. Every time he went to the top-floor club, that little girl was playing games and never got tired of it.
Su Xiaoqiang listened curiously, seemingly quite interested in this kind of story.
"Maybe she's treating those books like game guides," Zhang Qiong said with a smile.
Gu Ran nodded; this was probably the most plausible explanation.
"What did Nuwa and the living spirit of the Dragon-Slaying Platform debate?" Su Xiaoqiang asked at this moment.
Zhang Qiong said, "The living spirit of the Dragon-Slaying Platform asked Nuwa a question: When the observer disappears, does the observed world also disappear?"
"Damn, this is so brain-burning, it's a vicious cycle!" Gu Ran didn't want to debate anymore after hearing this topic. Both sides were brain-burning, and neither could convince the other.
"How did Nuwa win?"
Zhang Qiong said, "In the end, Nuwa quoted eight words from the Diamond Sutra: 'One should abide nowhere and yet give rise to the mind.'"
"Wow, that's so strange. I can write all eight characters, and I recognize each character individually, but I can't understand them at all when they're put together!" Gu Ran said jokingly, making Su Xiaoqiang cover her mouth and laugh.
"This sentence simply means that people should not be attached to worldly things in order to have a profound understanding. Zen Buddhism believes that attachment is the root of all suffering, and teaches people to let go of their attachments in order to obtain inner peace and tranquility."
"To me, this answer doesn't seem to match Huo Ling's question at all!" Gu Ran said.
"Because depending on the meaning, this sentence can also be interpreted in other ways. When the mind is free from attachment, it becomes one with the world. Even if the observer dies, their consciousness is still integrated with the vast world. Therefore, the world is eternal and the observer is eternal. If we compare the world to a musical instrument, if the observer is attached to their own feelings, they will only capture certain notes that are emanating from the strings. By letting go of attachment, the observer will perceive the existence of the instrument."
"I still don't understand, but I'm deeply shocked!" Gu Ran's first reaction was actually pure nonsense. Most philosophers throughout history were people who had nothing better to do than to have time to think wildly. And only those who have eaten their fill have the energy to argue.
Like Western philosophers, in ancient Greece, someone wrote on a wall, "This statement is false," and then a group of people with nothing better to do debated whether the statement was true or false.
The same was true in ancient China. Sayings like "A white horse is not a horse" and "You are not a fish, how can you know the joy of fish?" were just idle arguments.
Gu Ran held the steering wheel with one hand and scratched his head with the other. "Don't keep explaining philosophical things to me. So, does that mean Nuwa won the Dragon-Slaying Platform?"
“It can’t be called a win, it’s more like a draw,” Zhang Qiong explained. “The Dragon-Slaying Platform has been around for so many years. Every question it asks touches on the essence of the world. If the swordsman doesn’t have a deep understanding of the rules of the world or doesn’t have strong inner strength, his consciousness will be sealed inside the Dragon-Slaying Platform, and his body will be sacrificed. Only by gaining the approval of the Dragon-Slaying Platform can one draw and use the sword and survive.”
"So, the Dragon-Slaying Platform has acknowledged Nuwa?" Su Xiaoqiang asked.
“Yes, that’s why Nuwa is so respected,” Zhang Qiong said with a smile.
She continued, "The Zhang family's successive sword wielders have also tried to negotiate with the living spirit within the Dragon Slayer Sword, hoping to reduce the influence of its killing intent, but no one has ever succeeded. You were able to buy yourself fifteen seconds, which is excellent. I doubt any of those old fogies will dare to mess with you now."
Zhang Qiong became more and more proud as she spoke, and happily rubbed Gu Ran's head: "He truly is my son!"
Gu Ran kept a neat buzz cut, not worried about her mother messing up her hairstyle, since her hair was only this long anyway.
He said, "What, does someone from the Zhang family still have designs on me?"
Zhang Qiong laughed and said, "They're eyeing your deoxyribonucleotides and phosphodiester bonds!"
"Mom, how do you describe DNA in such a refined and elegant way?" Gu Ran pouted. "Do they even want me to breed with them?"
“Old people hold onto their old ideas, and these deeply ingrained thoughts are not easily shaken. Otherwise, the feudal imperial system would not have existed for so long, and even in modern times, there are still many bad habits passed down from ancient times.”
Zhang Qiong continued, "But you don't need to worry. Just do what you like. Even if the sky falls, Mom will hold it up for you."
"I'll hold the sky up even if it falls, but you take care of those old guys." The shadow clone had already driven to the outskirts of Tokyo and met up with the main body.
However, while waiting at a traffic light, a breaking news report suddenly appeared on the large screen on the street.
Chapter 455 Lu Mingfei Encounters Another Accident
On a large screen on the street, breaking news was being broadcast: a serious accident had occurred on a highway, and police cars, fire trucks, and ambulances had all arrived at the scene.