My wife is the stand-in.

In the eyes of this great director, Amanosaki, Lin Shuyu, and Hinata Hyuga together are a gold mine of art.

"I persuaded the Chinese government to drive away those damned vultures from Franklin Country."

Amanosaki smiled reservedly: "That's perfect, now we can get along well. We'll take care of your safety from now on."

“Understood, understood.” Spielberg nodded with a smile, and with a wave of his hand, assistant director Bona and assistant director Karenina joined the team with a small team of about ten people carrying various equipment.

Karenina then gave Nozaki a charming and alluring wink.

Her response was two prominent breasts, one large and one small, each with its own unique characteristics.

And there were those wary yet confident gazes above.

Lin Shuyu was very wary of this foreign woman whose figure and charm were so different from her own, while Hinata Hyuga remained calm and composed, like a mature woman.

The heroes blocked off the riverbank where the four-clawed fish might appear, knowing the cameras were already on, and tried their best to show their best side.

The river turned a chilling crimson red amidst the searchlights and the explosions caused by the passing knights. Countless tiny eddies appeared and disappeared in the water, indicating that the situation in the river was far from calm on the surface.

The occasional roar of heavy artillery in the distance, and the sudden bursts of fire on the shore, indicated that the situation of the war had changed.

The balance of power has quietly shifted.

This group of geological experts is highly qualified and efficient.

Instead of using the most cumbersome method of checking each case one by one, they commissioned a skilled craftsman to collect samples from the riverbank. After obtaining the river water samples, they opened their toolbox, which was like a treasure chest, and began testing on the spot.

Because these geological experts all work in Hongdu, they have access to regular water samples from the major rivers in the Hongdu basin.

Based on this, we first detect the abnormal components. The rest is to screen the surrounding area and determine where these irritating components are seeping out from.

About half an hour later, when the clock struck seven, the geologist picked up his tablet and excitedly shouted:

"Found it! About five minutes from where we are, there's a marked underground cave. The water samples from that area have the most unidentified special components!"

The geologist adjusted his glasses. "But this one spot alone couldn't possibly pollute the entire river. There must be other caves hiding evil spirits."

"Take care of one at a time." Amanosaki stood up, shouldered his rifle, and led the group toward the cave.

At the end of a path hidden by bushes, the group discovered the well-hidden entrance to the cave.

"Strange, the entrance wasn't this big when I came here last time." The expert looked at the entrance, which was about three meters in diameter, ignoring the stench of the cold wind carrying some kind of biological excrement blowing in his face, and shone his flashlight down.

Amanosaki grabbed the expert by the back of his collar and lifted him up.

"Cough cough!" The expert, whose face was flushed red from being suddenly grabbed by the back of his collar and choked, was thrown behind Amanosaki.

A dark shadow emerged from the darkness surrounding the cave entrance, reaching for the spot where the expert had been standing. After missing its target, it didn't retreat but instead swayed slowly and alluringly, seemingly tempting everyone.

"Shadow?" Lin Shuyu frowned.

"Playing tricks." Amanosaki sneered, tilting his head to listen to Lin Shuyu's analysis, then nodded, "Click it!"

A warrior wearing a warrior exoskeleton power armor stepped forward, carrying a can of diesel fuel—the spare fuel for the military vehicle.

Just throw it in.

The shadow excitedly spread its body, enveloped the oil drum, and slowly and steadily swallowed it up.

"Try this!"

Li Junzi grinned, his stomach churned, and his right hand transformed into a tube. He lit a lighter at the tube's opening, and a blue, incompletely burning flame danced on his right hand.

He was spraying methane from his tubular hand.

It's a chemical component found in human farts; the so-called flammable fart is caused by this component.

Li Junzi's [Power of Myriad Forms] allows him to reshape his body at will. He altered the structure of his five internal organs, turning himself into a human methane-generating device.

Then, Li Junzi strained his abdominal muscles, and the methane in his stomach spewed out, along with a thin, long column of fire with a faint odor, which shot into the oil tank with the cap unscrewed.

The explosion occurred as everyone covered their noses and frowned.

Amanosaki wasn't satisfied, so he threw in another can of diesel fuel, and the fire quickly spread from the cave entrance along the oil.

Only the knight-errant could hear the pitiful cries from inside the cave, where a gaunt figure struggled in the fire.

Without a word, Amanosaki grabbed his gun and charged in.

His entire body lit up with enhancement magic patterns, strengthening his body and outer clothing, with thin crystals enveloping his body surface.

This skill was acquired through extensive training that brought him to the brink of death; it represents an extreme application of the few magic tricks he was proficient in.

If it were Rin Tohsaka now, she would probably be amazed by his practical abilities.

Yes, Amanosaki is definitely not a research-oriented magician like the Clock Tower; he is more like an application-oriented talent like Kiritsugu Emiya.

Ding!

The Spear of Longchinus narrowly grazed the demon's shoulder and embedded itself in the rock wall. Under the fork-shaped spear, the demon, which had a humanoid shape but was definitely not human and had a huge mouth that took up two-thirds of its face, was forced by instinctive fear to resist Amanosaki's weapon.

It was too weak, afraid that it would be scratched and its soul destroyed.

Amanosaki grabbed the demon by the throat:

"Tell me what's down there, and I'll give you a quick death. Otherwise, I'll slowly grind your bones to dust with this gun. I have a way to keep you alive, and I won't ask a second time."

Under Lin Shuyu's guidance, which was comparable to the encyclopedia of martial arts, Amanosaki no longer needed to spend time testing the enemy's supernatural abilities.

Through visual and auditory observation alone, Lin Shuyu was able to discern the general categories of the demon's supernatural abilities and its common weaknesses.

The weaknesses of abilities like shadows and shadows are usually open flames, sunlight, and high-powered searchlights.

What prevented the demon from escaping was not the high temperature, but the flames that covered its skin after the diesel explosion.

This leaves it nowhere to escape.

"Below... is the master's gift."

"So that means your master isn't here." Amanosaki chuckled.

With a snap, the guy's life was ended.

Then he emerged from the flames, his back to withered life and swarms of bats, their feathers and wings speckled with flames, flying out of the cave.

"There's no one inside. Call the army and have them bring flamethrowers and oil to pour inside and set it on fire."

So he said.

The crowd was stunned by Amanosaki's decisiveness and hesitated whether it would be better to go down and test the waters, but Lin Shuyu had already taken out her phone and dialed a number.

"Excuse me, expert, could you please take another sample?" Amanosaki reached out and patted the expert on the back, who had just gotten up and was still shaken.

The expert, who had been trembling with fear, was held down by Amanosaki's hand, which was burning hot from the fire. Hearing Amanosaki's steady voice, he felt inexplicably at ease and nodded as if he had found a patron.

Spielberg watched this scene with surprise, glancing to the side.

Both Bona and Karenina gave him a thumbs-up.

I took pictures of everything.

They even captured footage of the fire scene.

"Great, fantastic! A few more shots and we can make a montage trailer. The movie will be released tomorrow, or at the latest, the day after tomorrow morning. We'll release them one after the other! A powerful combination!"

Spiegel secretly pumped his fist in excitement.

This is exactly what he wanted to film: crisp, clean, and executed in one continuous shot!

"Let's go, we still have a lot to do tonight."

Amanosaki took a deep breath of the cool, moist air, exhaled a thick fog, and it dissipated into the downpour.

A gift? You killed so many people and you still have the nerve to give me a gift? You tried to murder me twice and you still have the nerve to give me a gift?

I'll burn you to death too!

Chapter 233: The Conspiracy of the Lost Remnants

This cave is wide, tall, and deep, like a small, independent world that nature deliberately left for life outside the scope of human activity.

Transparent fish swam in the icy water, while aimless lizards silently breathed on the damp, cold rocks.

Then it was flung away by a bandaged hand, arcing across the pool before falling into the water. It struggled desperately, and was devoured by the excited little transparent fish that surrounded it, turning into crystalline bone fragments.

In this forgotten place, even the blood of lizards seems to have turned transparent.

"Ah~ Only in places like this can we, the remnants of the past abandoned by the times, be free."

The Taoist priest, dressed in an apricot-yellow robe, withdrew his fingers and sat upright on a futon, facing dozens of futons that had turned black from long-term use.

Some of these prayer cushions were occupied, while others were empty.

"Some friends have left us, but new friends have joined us."

The Taoist's voice was hoarse and deep. Although he had softened his voice, it still echoed throughout the cave like that of a night owl.

Behind him was a projection screen, showing a documentary about the last feudal dynasty in China.

Everyone was completely absorbed in the story unfolding on the screen.

This documentary was broadcast nationwide during a special period, but was later banned due to its content.

“We had a beautiful time when there were live sacrifices everywhere in the mountains, villages, Taoist temples, and monasteries. People bowed and kowtowed to us, and hundreds of millions of living beings offered their prayers to us!”

"This land was originally truly ours!"

The documentary was showing scenes of the River God's wedding, infant drowning in the river and sea, and a gloomy house where shamans and sorcerers were jumping and shouting, asking the 'gods' to possess them.

"But look at us now, what have we become?"

The Taoist pointed to his withered body, "There's no place for us in the city, no place for us in the countryside. We're rats! We're flies! We're bedbugs!"

On the prayer mat, a kind of evil demon bared its teeth, howled like a ghost, and wailed loudly; some even knelt on the ground and pounded on the ground.

A chilling wind suddenly swept through the cave.

It took a long time for everyone to calm down.

The Taoist priest, with his hem lifted, lay on his side on the prayer mat, one hand supporting his head and the other pointing to the sky.

The person in charge of controlling the projector bent over and switched the camera, and several photos appeared on the screen.

It was the transformation of a goat, from a four-legged beast, through one bloody experiment after another, with organs being removed, it eventually became a huge, strong, and ferocious monster.

"Now, our chance has come!"