This is the GJC-02 longitude and latitude coordinates projected by satellite.

After taking a quick look at the mess in Fang's Hardware Store, Fang Bailu let out a long sigh of resentment. He raised his head and glanced at the wall facing the door, where the counter should have been. On it were neatly spray-painted four large characters in regular script: Harmony brings wealth.

Fang Bailu is not someone who likes to use violence... Anyone familiar with the market knows that the money spent on a high-quality modified bullet is enough to buy nutrient solution for several days.

Not to mention the stories of those swordsmen who spent half their life savings on a strengthening surgery, only to have their bones torn into pieces and sold for money in the alley.

Violence cannot bring credit points, new Malay kyat, new yen or renminbi.

But sometimes Fang Bailu had to admit that violence was often the most direct and quickest way to solve a problem.

What is the immortal bone? What is this hexahedron relic? Why do the outer sect Taoists want to trade with the Yin spirit? Although Fang Bailu is curious, he doesn't want to know.

Sometimes information can bring wealth, but most of the time it just gives you one more reason to get shot.

The outer sect Taoist priest knew that Fang Bailu was a living dead, so the outer sect Taoist priest had to die - both mentally and physically.

Although Fang Bailu had thought about escaping from Kuala Lumpur, hiding in the wilderness, or even fleeing to other countries.

But can he really get away? Fang Bailu was too lazy to think about it anymore. Sometimes it was good to let emotions guide his actions.

After living in this era that does not belong to him for several years, Fang Bailu is already too tired.

He went up to the second floor and took out a backpack from the mist of the white coffin. There was a small metal label on the straps, with a few small words engraved with laser:

"Emergency Armament for Qigong Practitioners".

When the outer sect Taoist priests came to his house before, he had no chance to go upstairs to get these things, but now it was different. He was the hunter, and the outer sect Taoist priests were his prey.

Fang Bailu reached his hand into the mist again. After searching for a while, he pulled out a long strip of khaki paper with some complicated and incomprehensible symbols painted on it in dark red.

This is a paper talisman.

In this era, paper is rare. Fang Bailu stared at the talisman for a long time, and finally put it carefully into his pocket.

Fang Bailu stuffed the hexadecahedron into his backpack, slung it over his shoulder, pushed open the glass door and walked into the rainy night of Kuala Lumpur.

The four words "Harmony brings wealth" behind him were drowned out by the darkness in the room and could no longer be seen clearly.

Chapter 5: All Evils Are Banished

The Petronas Towers stand tall in the center of Kuala Lumpur, with their tops reaching into the clouds and smoke and into the sky.

This tower from the old world has been continuously added to over the years and is no longer what it used to be.

The edge of the tower top extends and radiates for several square kilometers in all directions, forming a closed ecological zone in mid-air.

The twin towers that once stood side by side were connected by building materials after multiple expansions.

Fang Bailu pulled the collar of his raincoat upright and tightened it, looking at the crowd of people gathered around the oil tower.

Security employees from the Sensory Society were stationed at the checkpoints, conducting iris tests on those entering the oil tower.

Only residents who meet the requirements of the database records can enter, and occasionally unqualified people are thrown out by security.

The Petronas Towers is the wealthy area in the entire Kuala Lumpur, so naturally there are many people who want to take advantage of the situation and sneak in.

Judging from the real-time longitude and latitude coordinates received by Fang Bailu, the outer Taoist priest is in the oil tower at this time.

He took out a small box from his pocket, with two hemispherical transparent sheets floating inside. This was an iris mimic with information about qualified residents, which was given to him by a vacant guest as payment for a debt.

Fang Bailu gently picked them up and placed them on the eyeball. With a "pop" sound, the thin slices slowly opened and then stuck tightly to the eye wall.

He blinked to ease the discomfort caused by the foreign object and walked towards the entrance of the oil tower.

After passing the inspection card at the door, the crowd in the tower became noticeably thinner.

Although the Petroleum Tower Ecological Zone can accommodate at least 50,000 people, in fact less than 10,000 people live in it.

Generally, only employees of large companies or Qigong practitioners are eligible to live here.

"Go to the 90th floor." The observation elevator received the voice command and began to slowly climb upwards.

He thought of the dilapidated mechanical elevators on Alor Street and couldn't help but sigh. No matter how the times change, some things will always create a chasm between people.

The observation elevator rose rapidly - in the lightning and heavy rain, the whole of Kuala Lumpur looked like a miniature toy. The traces of millions of people's survival seemed so slim and unknowable.

The elevator had only reached the 85th floor when Fang Bailu pressed its emergency brake button. After a slight tremor, the elevator slowly stopped.

Fang Bailu pushed open the emergency door above the elevator and climbed into the elevator shaft with a pull-up.

According to the coordinates, the outer Taoist priest should be on the 90th floor of the Oil Tower.

But he didn't intend to knock on the door of the outer Taoist priest directly.

Fang Bailu crawled out of the elevator shaft and fastened the safety rope lock to the maintenance ladder.

He climbed up the maintenance ladder. The strong wind from high altitude brought a strong push, almost blowing him away several times - the maintenance ladder was extremely slippery due to the rain.

"If I had known that I was going to do a Mission Impossible drama like this, I would have gone for a complete transformation..."

Fang Bailu climbed up carefully while thinking wildly in his mind.

He tightened the backpack, and the hexadecahedron was slowly expanding and contracting inside.

Judging from the words of the Yin spirit, what the outer Taoist priest originally wanted to trade was something called "Immortal Bone".

But whether it was due to misunderstanding or some other reason, it was not a hexadecahedron.

At least judging from the three words "immortal bone", it's probably some kind of magical weapon for qigong practitioners.

"All the Qigong practitioners are really bad..." Fang Bailu was filled with resentment when he thought of the mess of troubles that the outer sect Taoist priests had caused him.

Why are there Qigong practitioners?

Fang Bailu remembered what the previous owner of the hardware store had told him:

Before the blackout, there was a trend called "Chinese Mysticism Renaissance", which aimed to use technology to reproduce the mystic elements in various documents and fictional works. Whether it was the new alchemy, artificial flying swords, synthetic meridians, or data Yin Shen, they were all products of that trend. But after the blackout, much of the knowledge just disappeared deep in the storage medium and could no longer be seen.

Most of these so-called Qigong practitioners today are just users of legacy technologies.

As for Fang Bailu himself, he was much older than all of these - before he fell asleep, there were none of these strange things.

Fang Bailu climbed up the dilapidated and weathered maintenance ladder to the 90th floor. The strong wind at high altitude had a terrible drag force. If it weren't for the safety rope, Fang Bailu would have been blown away long ago.

He finally stepped onto the maintenance rack. Now with the wall of the oil tower blocking his way, the wind seemed a little smaller.

He walked along the maintenance ladder, pulled a pair of goggles from his pocket, and switched several gears towards the outer wall.

Infrared, thermal sensors, vital signs monitors... He checked all the surveillance channels one by one.

A figure sitting cross-legged appeared on the screen of the viewfinder. His body temperature was around 25 degrees Celsius, which was much lower than the normal body temperature.

At the same time, the vital signs monitor showed that his heartbeat was extremely slow, only 15 beats per minute.

"The outer sect Taoist priest is taking a deep breath..."

This should be his alchemy room.

Fang Bailu hesitated for a moment, but still took out the piece of paper from the secret bag:

It is earth yellow all over, but the dragon and phoenix patterns on it are dark red, like a piece of charcoal that is about to go out.

This is a talisman. Even in the heavy rain, it was not wet at all.

This is one of the reasons why Fang Bailu dared to confront the outer sect Taoist priest head-on.

Fang Bailu gently picked it up with his left hand and held it upright in front of his eyes. He put his right index and middle fingers together and made a sword gesture.

He closed his eyes and chanted silently:

"The way of heaven is complete, three and five are complete, the sun and the moon are together. Out of the darkness, into the dark, the qi spreads the way, the qi communicates with the gods. The qi moves evil spirits and thieves to death. Those who see me are blind, and those who hear me are deaf. Those who dare to plot against me will suffer the consequences--"

"All evils are warded off."

The talisman ignited without fire in his left hand, and the torrential rain still had no effect on its flames. Fang Bailu flipped his hand, struck his two palms together, and extinguished it in his palms.

The ashes left by the burning were dispersed by the strong wind and disappeared in the air.

Fang Bailu knocked on the outer wall, raised his head and said to himself:

"The outer sect Taoist priest is here."

A face emerged from the violent storm. It had sharp eyebrows, star-like eyes, a nose like a hanging gallbladder, and was pale and mechanical—it was the ghost.

"Oh! You are so reliable!" The ghost laughed without moving his lips.

"Aren't you going to open the door?" Fang Bailu shrugged, no longer as cautious as he was when he saw the evil spirit in the hardware store.

Silently, four tiny scratches appeared on the originally smooth metal wall. As the wind blew, the metal wall that was cut by the ghost fell inward.

The outer sect Taoist priest was sitting cross-legged: the palms of his hands, the soles of his feet and the top of his head were all facing upwards, which is what is called “five hearts facing the sky” in Taoist alchemy.

The metal outer wall fell to the ground with a loud bang, but the outer Taoist priest was unaware of it.

"He should be resting." Fang Bailu pointed at the outer sect Taoist priest, "It's up to you whether you want to find something or ask him."

"Thank you for your help! Thank you for your help!" The ghost's face tilted slightly downward, as if he was bowing with his invisible body. "The deal is done, let's say goodbye!"

Spots of fluorescent light lit up from all around the ghost, which was the light of single-molecule silk threads.

"Or do you want to kill me to silence me? It seems that the immortal bone is really something extraordinary." Fang Bailu thought to himself, but his body was too lazy to move.

Instantly, the rainstorm around Fang Bailu seemed to stop for a moment: if you use a high-speed camera to take this picture, you will see that all the raindrops at the same level as Fang Bailu's neck are divided into two halves -

The single-molecule silk thread that was about to cut Fang Bailu's neck suddenly rolled back and passed across Yin Ling's face.

The ghost was split into two parts along the philtrum. The lower half of the face slowly slid down like a cut salmon and fell into the strong wind in the sky above Kuala Lumpur.

When Fang Bailu burned the evil-repelling talisman, it had already changed his authentication code.

During the effective period of the talisman, unless the authority of the weapon attacking him is higher than that of the talisman, even a low-Earth orbit strike device will only turn himself into dust.

The talisman has been burned, and the evil spirits can no longer hurt him.

"Is it a magnetic controller?" Although the mouth had disappeared, the voice of the evil spirit still came from an unknown place.

But this time, the voice that was full of energy and gentle suddenly became hoarse and high-pitched, sounding timid.

"I really don't know where its sound-generating device is..." Fang Bailu secretly complained in his heart.

White light bloomed around the ghost, as if a crystal flower was blooming.

Hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of threads? Fang Bailu didn't know. The light of the single-molecule thread was emitted by the driving device, and the thread itself did not reflect light.

This cluster of crystal flowers suddenly grew and expanded, covering Fang Bailu.

Fang Bailu glanced at the maintenance ladder under his feet and the smooth wall beside him with nowhere to put his support, and couldn't help feeling a little annoyed.

"It would be troublesome if I fell from this height..."

Although Fang Bailu was protected by the talisman, the attack that destroyed his foothold would not backfire. The evil-repelling talisman was just a protective talisman, not an intelligent weapon.

Snap! There was a sound like a dry branch wrapped in a wet towel being crushed.

The remaining upper half of the ghost's face was grasped by a jade-white hand and crushed. Blood mixed with rain water flowed down the wrist and dripped onto the black mask of the outer sect Taoist priest.

"The Supreme Turing Lord! Boss Fang is here?"

The sound of the outer sect Taoist priests, which was like the friction of metal, was full of teasing.

Chapter 6: Awakening the Exiled Immortal Spring

Outer sect Taoist priests are outer sect Taoist priests.

He has no name, no Taoist alias, and no Dharma name - last time, a swordsman bragged that he had hacked into the digital certificate of an outer Taoist priest, and the columns for both name and Taoist alias were empty.

Fang Bailu felt that this statement had a certain degree of credibility: because he never saw the swordsman again, and heard that his skull was cut open and his brain was eaten by several wild dogs in the wilderness outside Kuala Lumpur.

A swordsman who had undergone many transformations died in the wilderness? His implant surgery was introduced by Fang Bailu. According to Fang Bailu's experience, the body function of this unfortunate swordsman was enough to support him to kill wild dogs in the wilderness for three days and three nights without sleep.

So Fang Bailu knew clearly in his heart: this swordsman really got some little secrets of the outer sect Taoist priests, so he was sealed forever. How could a wild dog eat the memory in the brain?

...The outer sect Taoist priest casually shook the ghost's shattered half face, and the blurry mass of flesh and blood danced with the strong wind, gradually moving away from the oil tower.

He spread his palms and reached into the heavy rain, letting the raindrops wash away the blood.

Fang Bailu watched the remains of the ghost being swept into the clouds by the strong wind, turned around and tapped his cheek towards the outer sect Taoist priest:

"There's still some on your face, you'd better wipe it off."

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