Chapter 71 Anti-dog Death
"Sure enough...he is Spider-Man for sure."

Fanquan whispered to himself, his eyes flickering behind the lenses. Just as he expected, the seemingly inconspicuous boy in front of him was the real Spider-Man, and also the son of Blue Crow.

His goal had been achieved, and he could not continue to stay where he was, as that would only mean he was waiting to die. So he slowly turned around with the bottle of orange juice in his hand, walked towards the corner of the street, and entered a damp and narrow alley.

The moment his right foot stepped onto the ground in the alley, the three paper figures hidden in his sleeves began to tremble.

Fan Quan lowered his eyes and glanced calmly at the three little figures in his sleeves.

From the reaction of the paper man, he could clearly sense that the man named "Ke Xiaomo" had caught up with him from behind.

at the same time.

After saying goodbye to Ke Mingye, Ke Xiaomo slowly walked towards the vending machine.

In his eyes, the anti-dog slowly turned around and walked into an alley.

As the family members behind him walked into the corner, Ke Xiaomo's figure instantly turned into a ball of ink and splashed onto the ground.

Then, it transformed into an eagle-like shadow that clung to the ground, flapping its wings, just like a bird of prey flapping its wings at the bottom of the valley and soaring into the sky. The shadow quickly shuttled to the alley behind the vending machine.

Half a second later, Ke Xiaomo stood up from the middle of the empty alley, turned his head and looked around, but did not detect any human presence. This was even a one-way alley, with no other exit at all.

The next second, he stopped his wandering gaze.

In the darkness, he saw a huge single eye standing upright, with layers of colorful and charming ripples in the pupil, like the aurora over the North Pole.

[Skill name: Medusa's Eyes]

[Skill Effect: Open one of Medusa's eyes in mid-air, and anyone who looks at her for the last second will be petrified on the spot for a varying time period, depending on the strength of that person's "spiritual power" attribute. The higher the spiritual power attribute, the shorter the petrification time; the lower the spiritual power attribute, the longer the petrification time (the opponent can be petrified for up to 2.5 seconds).]

What kind of power is this? he wondered.

Less than half a second after he looked into the eyes of the "Eye of Medusa", Ke Xiaomo had already looked away. He quietly observed the eye from the corner of his eye until it turned into a puff of mist and flew into the night sky.

"That man is still nearby, otherwise he wouldn't have to use this trick to delay me."

Ke Xiaomo made a judgment in his heart.

As the strange vertical pupil disappeared in the darkness, Ke Xiaomo saw a crack emitting golden light hidden behind it.

Looking closely, the inside of the crack was filled with densely packed religious texts, enough to make a person with trypophobia scream and tear his throat open.

But in the blink of an eye, the cracks disappeared and turned into specks of fluorescent light that fell to the ground.

"That thing looks like... a door. It should be a medium for teleportation. So there is no doubt that he is probably still nearby."

Thinking of this, Ke Xiaomo's figure once again splashed onto the ground like ink, and turned into a thick shadow that spread out.

Time goes back three seconds.

As Anti-Dog walked into the alley, he released the D-level skill "Eye of Medusa" that he had just purchased on the skill sales page.

Then, he read out the theoretical words of one of the paper figures: "Holy Space."

Using this ability that he had used in the dungeon before, he opened a portal 20 meters to the west behind Medusa's eyes and walked quickly into it.

The interior of the holy space was filled with bizarre scenes created by painting with "religious texts". Sometimes he saw the Chinese purification ceremony... sometimes the Christian baptism ceremony... and sometimes the Midsummer Night activities in medieval Northern Europe.

It seems that every scene I see is related to the word "cleansing the body".

By the time Anti-Dog walked out of the holy space, he had already stepped into an ordinary civilian residence.

Turning my head and looking around, I saw a very Chinese-style living room, with a mahjong table with an ashtray, old-fashioned folding stools, an outdated TV, Chinese knots and embroidered murals hanging on the walls, and a family portrait of six people entering the house.

There was a noise coming from the bathroom. A woman in her 50s was applying a facial mask in front of the mirror. She shouted to the outside with a shrill voice, "Who is it?!"

Fanquan didn't make any sound, but just silently took two steps back and moved closer to the wall, while lowering his head to look at the paper man in his sleeve.

I saw that the first little man had disappeared along with the "Holy Space" passage.

He still had two paper figures left up his sleeves.

One of them, holding the vein on his wrist, muttered "Allegory of the Cave," "Metaphysics," "Rationalism";
Another sat cross-legged on his wrist, chanting "the doctrine of the mean", "benevolence is the basis", and "the unity of knowledge and action".

Anti-Dog blurts out: "Allegory of the Cave."

As soon as he finished speaking, the wall behind him seemed to transform into an ancient cave with a burning bonfire, pulling his body into it.

Hearing the chattering, the middle-aged woman with curly hair hurried out of the bathroom, put her hands on her hips, looked around the living room, and muttered something.

"What's the sound?"

She picked up the feather duster and walked around the living room. After confirming that there was no one around, she cursed inwardly, "You're crazy!" Then she put her hands on her hips and walked back to the bathroom, continuing to apply the facial mask that she had not yet finished in front of the mirror.

The next moment, a strange figure slowly emerged from the shadows of the living room. He moved his eyes in the darkness, silently examining this seemingly ordinary living room.

"His aura disappeared here. Did he use the teleportation skill to leave here again? No, he might still be here, but he used some means to hide his body."

Ke Xiaomo's face was cold as he observed in the dark for a full five seconds.

His figure slowly disappeared into the shadows. Wandering shadows appeared one after another in the rooms of the house, and it seemed as if a pitch-black owl had flown over every corner.

Finally, he had no choice but to go to the bathroom where the aunt was, hiding in the shadow behind the door and observing her actions.

Did the strange man just now use some power to possess this woman? Ke Xiaomo thought about this, and after a while, he shook his head.

"Did he run away..."

He sighed softly, and his body fell quietly into the lake at his feet like a ball of ink, blending into it.

The aunt heard a faint sigh coming from behind her, turned around tremblingly, and her lips moved slightly, "Gang, what was that sound just now? It seems that this house is definitely uninhabitable. It must be haunted..."

At the same time, after entering the cave created by the "Allegory of the Cave", Anti-Dog looked inside.

In front of a blazing bonfire deep in the cave, there were two primitive men with their hands and feet tied up, sitting with their backs to the cave entrance.

They were dressed in rags, with hideous and numb faces, and were muttering something to the shadows on the wall.

That shadow is their reflection.

Watching this scene, Fanquan recalled the ancient Greek philosopher Plato's work "The Republic", from which the story of "Allegory of the Cave" came.

"A group of prisoners lived in a cave, with their hands and feet tied up. They could not turn around and could only face their backs to the cave entrance. There was a wall in front of them and a fire burning behind them. They saw their own shadows and the shadows of things on the wall and thought that these shadows were real. Later, someone climbed out of the cave and discovered the real world."

He silently repeated the story in his mind.

[Skill Effect of "Cave Fable": Enter a primitive cave isolated from the outside world. You can avoid all dangers in the cave, but the shadow on the wall will talk to you. Its words are confusing and may trap you here forever, so please carefully consider how long you want to stay in the cave.]

[Note: You may want to try to convince the two prisoners in the cave to leave. If you can, they will become your puppets and fight for you.]

After reading the introduction to the skills, Anti-Dog found a wall in the cave and sat down.

He slowly turned his head and glanced at the two prisoners who were bewitched by the shadow and had idiotic faces, then looked down at his own shadow reflected on the ground.

The shadow slowly opened his mouth and whispered something to him.

"Look, what's so good about the outside world? On those sleepless nights... You always try to put pills into your mouth. Every nerve seems to be torn by anxiety and pain. You always avoid the coming of the day... Isn't it good to hide in this cave? The things outside will never have anything to do with you. You will never feel pain... You will never feel tired. Only this warm campfire and I will accompany you... Have a good sleep. You don't have to worry about anything. Have a good sleep."

Fanquan suddenly felt dizzy, so he turned his eyes away from the shadow and looked at the last paper man in his sleeve. The man was sitting cross-legged on his wrist, muttering the three words "benevolence first", "unity of knowledge and action", and "doctrine of the mean".

“Knowledge and action come together.”

Anti-dog picked out this word.

Then he repeated a phrase to himself.

“No matter what happens or what I hear, in ten minutes, I will walk out of this cave… No matter what happens or what I hear, in ten minutes, I will walk out of this cave.”

As soon as he finished speaking, his expression suddenly became dull, as if his soul had been taken away.

[Skill Effect of "Unification of Knowledge and Action": You can give yourself an order, and your body will definitely act according to the order.]

At this moment, the world outside.

Ke Xiaomo was like an arrow shot into the shadows, shuttling through every house within a radius of 300 meters and searching almost every corner of the Lao Jingmai district.

But there was no trace of that man again... not even a trace.

At this point he finally gave up and returned to the street where he started. He leaned his back against the vending machine, lowered his head and looked at the ground, and was silent for a long time.

"Did he really get away? I thought tracking was my strong point."

Ke Xiaomo let out a long sigh, slowly raised his head, stared at the night sky, and muttered to himself with a hint of unwillingness in his tone.

"There are people in this city who can evade my pursuit... I guess I need to have a good talk with Big Brother about this matter when I get back."

After feeling melancholy for a moment, Ke Xiaomo stood up from the vending machine he was leaning against, stretched out his finger, and pressed the corresponding beverage icon on the panel of the vending machine.

"Xiao Ni wants Coke, Ming Ye wants Coke, Qiu Wu also wants Coke, Xiao Ling wants Sprite, and Yong Zhu wants Pulse."

He murmured softly, his fingers quickly pressing the corresponding icon, and the glass of the vending machine reflected an expressionless face.

Soon, five bottles of drinks slammed down from the delivery port.

Ke Xiaomo touched his trouser pocket and found that the bag of food hidden inside was missing, so he had to hold all five bottles of drinks in his arms and turned around to walk home.

The phone in his pocket vibrated. He freed his hand to pick up the phone, turned on the screen, and saw that Ke Mingye had sent him a WeChat message.

【Ke Mingye: Where are you? I'm dying of thirst. Where's my Coke? 】

【Ke Xiaomo: Don’t worry, I’m coming. 】

Ke Xiaomo replied to the message using voice input, then walked into the dark street with a hint of smile in the corner of his eyes.

"Well, let's go home."

On the other side, Fanquan walked out of the cave and once again stepped into the familiar old Chinese-style living room.

Turning his head, he saw an old lady with a facial mask on her face, holding a feather duster in her left hand and a ghost-exorcising talisman in her right hand, curled up in the corner of the living room, staring at him with a pale face, muttering: "Namo Amitabha, demons and ghosts please go away, demons and ghosts please go away, demons and ghosts please go away..."

"excuse me."

Fan Quan adjusted his glasses, uttered a lukewarm remark, then walked towards the entrance with an expressionless face, turned the doorknob and walked out of the house.

Soon, he returned to his rented house.

He closed the door, turned on the computer, and logged into the website specifically used to contact Cai Bing.

[Anti-dog: Are you still alive? ]

【Cai Bing: Dead.】

【Anti-dog: Good death.】

[Cai Bing: I really want to die. Thanks to you, I was forced to destroy more than a dozen machines, and the several local area networks I just built are also gone. It's no different from being dead, okay? ]

[Anti-dog: What are you going to do next? ]

[Cai Bing: Fortunately, Qing Ya and I are not in the same city. He could only contact the people in the association to arrest me. Before I left, I used the micro-monitor left in the house to take a look. Not long after I sent a message to you, my house was surrounded by a group of armed troops, and there were one or two superheroes with combat power of B level.]

[Anti-Dog: So you have escaped from their pursuit? ]

[Zai Bing: I guess I have escaped. Anyway, I can’t stay in this city anymore.]

【Anti-dog: Where are you going? 】

[Zai Bing: Going the other way, I came to travel around Beijing. ]

[Fanquan: Very good, should I sing a song "Beijing Welcomes You" for you? ]

[Zai Bing: God damn, I really want to slap you to death, so what happened to that Spider Man you mentioned? ]

[Anti-Dog: It's confirmed. His character background is that he is the son of Qing Ya, and in his family of nine, at least seven people besides him are superhumans.]

[Zai Bing: So exaggerated? Then what are you going to do? Scheme against him and make him reveal his identity in front of his family?]

[Anti-Dog: No, his existence is definitely a trump card arranged by the system for us. If we really have a chance to exterminate superhumans, then his role in the future will not be ignored.]

[Cai Bing: I understand. You want to be someone's nanny?]

[Anti-Dog: I need your help. He is an important trump card. We cannot let his identity be exposed to other players, let alone to that monster family.]

[Cai Bing: You want to be a babysitter, and you want to drag your buddies to suffer with you? ]

[Anti-Dog: Qing Ya will soon start investigating the 'Dice Monster'. Based on my observation, Spider-Man may have left many clues. For example, in the photo of the Dice Monster, he is wearing the 'University Uniform of Huanjing No. 3 Middle School'. This will remind Qing Ya of his son's school. He can always find the flaws by calling up the corresponding surveillance footage.]

[Cai Bing: Huanjing No. 3 Middle School? ]

[Anti-Dog: Yes, before Qing Ya took over the matter, he had to help Spider-Man delete some of the surveillance footage related to the school. The specific time was on June 6 and June 19. It was during these two days that he learned the skills and began to use puppets to carry out two-line operations in the school. With Qing Ya's reconnaissance technology, he would definitely not let go of the school surveillance, and the footage related to his son would be even more conspicuous.]

[Cai Bing: Oh, then I will reluctantly help you cut off the surveillance footage of that school over the past two days. I hope your judgment is correct.]

【Anti-dog: Thank you. 】

[Cai Bing: I am still in the spotlight. I will contact you again when I reach Huanjing. I will sneak over by boat tonight and will arrive in two days.]

【Anti-dog: Understood.】

After sending the last message, Fan Quan closed his laptop, leaned back in his chair and took a deep breath.

Just then, he discovered that the "communication list icon" in the upper right corner of his field of vision had a bubble with the number ① in it. He had been so busy escaping from the ninja that he didn't notice it.

After hesitating for two seconds, Fanquan stretched out his finger, clicked the icon, and a prompt panel popped up in front of him.

[The player "Failed Man" has accepted your friend request. ]

【Hint: Your friend "Failed Man" sent you a message. 】

[Failed Man: Rest in peace, Anti-Dog. If I am still alive this day next year, I will remember to burn incense for you.]

【Anti-dog:? 】

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)