Mechanical Pioneer Under One Person

"Zhuge Qing, descendant of Zhuge Wuhou."

"Very strong, Chu Lan will probably not be able to defeat him."

Chapter 109: Hundred Birds Gun

"So I'm late?"

Hearing Liu Ke's question, Zhang Chulan nodded and said sympathetically, "Xiao Ke, you didn't see that Zhuge Qing dodged all the opponent's attacks."

Feng Baobao also raised his cap and continued, "He knew the general direction of his opponent's attack in advance."

Liu Ke couldn't help but raise an eyebrow when he heard Feng Baobao's comment. He asked, "Sister Bao, are you saying that he can predict the future? That's a bit too fantastical, isn't it? Is this... reasonable?"

Xu San, who was standing next to him, also heaved a sigh of relief and said, "At least in the battle just now, he seemed to be able to predict the future."

After Xu San finished speaking, he frowned and paused before continuing, "He uses Qimen Dunjia. He is a [Sorcerer]."

"It's not uncommon to find sorcerers in the alien world, and there are even more who can deduce and predict."

"But I've never seen anyone like Zhuge Qing, who can predict his opponent's every attack during a battle—in that split-second situation..."

Xu Si took a puff of his cigarette, blowing smoke rings as he said, "Perhaps this is the special feature of the Zhuge family's [Wu Hou Qi Men]."

"After all, it's a method passed down by Prime Minister Zhuge Liang. It seems quite reasonable when you think about it. That's Zhuge Liang..."

Liu Ke listened to their cries of grief, then turned to look at Zhuge Qing's back and muttered, "Predicting the future?"

……

About half a day later, near sunset, the audition stage for 'The Good Taoist Priest of Longhu Mountain' finally came to an end.

Under the notification of the guiding Taoist priest one by one, the winners of all the audition rounds were gathered again in front of the square in the back mountain.

The old Taoist priest also appeared on the platform in the center of the square again, carrying the red box for drawing lots.

He glanced around, chuckled, and then said loudly, "Thank you for your hard work, everyone. By now, the first round of competition has been completed."

"There are thirty-two winners in total."

"The next competition will be held tomorrow in a one-on-one format. Please come forward and draw lots."

"There's a number on the lot. Those with the same number become opponents. After you draw..."

The old Taoist pointed to the Taoist priest who was not far away and said, "Come to him and replace the number with the name of your opponent."

After the old Taoist priest briefly explained the rules, the 32 contestants began to draw lots.

Due to the sudden drop in the number of people, there was no long queue for the draw and the process was completed in just five or six minutes.

Liu Ke drew number 29.

When he went to the Taoist priest to exchange lots, he happened to see his opponent.

A seven-foot-tall, rough-faced man named Liao Fan, wearing a white Fila vest, black Arc'teryx shorts, and carrying a spear.

As Liu Ke carefully looked at his next opponent, Liao Fan seemed to sense something and turned around to look at him.

The two men stared at each other for about eight or nine breaths, then nodded to each other and left.

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Less than half an hour after the drawing of lots was over, the sun set.

All the contestants and spectators left the venue in due time and went to the 'guest rooms' prepared for them at Longhu Mountain.

There are indeed many Taoist temples in the back mountain of Longhu Mountain, but not enough to provide a "house" for every contestant and spectator.

Therefore, most of the 'guest rooms' are temporary earthen "cabin"-level buildings built on open ground using supernatural magic, and are barely connected to electricity, water, and the Internet to meet basic needs.

As a "big boss" in the circle, Nadutong was naturally allocated a proper Taoist temple to rest.

And with Liu Ke's ability to "save face", it was natural for Gao Yushan, as an employee of the Northeast region, to live in Nadutong's temporary dormitory.

……

"By the way, who did you draw in the next round?"

Hearing Gao Yushan's question, Liu Ke, who was lying dead on the bunk bed, got up with difficulty and took out his sign slip.

As he handed the note over, he jokingly said, "Teacher Gao, you haven't talked about this person yet."

Gao Yushan took the note, looked at the name on it, frowned and recalled for a while.

Then, she said, "This Liao Fan... if I remember correctly, he's the heir of the Hebei minor school - the Hundred Bird Spear. I overlooked him."

She thought for a moment and added, "This Hundred Birds Gun...hasn't been very famous in recent years."

"I just remember there were rumors that his disciples were extremely fast at drawing their spears, and the sound of their spears piercing the air was like birdsong. This is the origin of their school."

After hearing this, Liu Ke didn't get too nervous. Instead, he continued to lie down and said, "It's okay, it's okay..."

After a while, Liu Ke, who was staring at the beams in a daze, suddenly laughed out loud for some reason.

The laughter was extremely short, cheerful yet a little sad, and it brought Er Zhuang, who was still racking his brains to recall the moves of the Hundred Bird Spear, back to his senses with laughter.

Gao Yushan happened to be feeling a little tired, so she simply stood up from the solid wooden chair, took off her white shoes and socks, and climbed onto the big bunk bed.

She moved around for a while, then leaned against the wall and sat next to Liu Ke's head. She asked with a squinting look, "What are you laughing at?"

Liu Ke glanced at Gao Yushan, and because the "from below" perspective was too ambiguous, he naturally changed his direction and looked at the ceiling, maintaining the most basic "do not look at what is inappropriate."

But after seeing everything, some saliva accumulated in his throat, so he cleared his throat and replied: "Nothing, I just suddenly felt..."

He stopped mid-sentence and sighed.

"You know, before I became enlightened... I didn't have any armor."

"People like Liao Fan, who are muscular fighters, were the type of people I hated to fight against the most back then."

"Because these guys are all very quick-witted, if you pull the trigger on your pistol or rifle slowly, the shot will go astray."

"Later, I got a gun like Grandpa Lu's, the kind that can lock people down."

"In the end, it was useless. These muscular fighters, when they made sword and knife flower movements, their Qi Gang was enough to block the bullets."

Gao Yushan nodded. She seemed to feel a little tired with her knees hugged against the wall, so she stretched her legs straight and moved closer to Liu Ke.

She stretched out her hands, rubbed Liu Ke's temples, and said, "And then?"

Liu Ke had been climbing the mountain for a whole day and playing a whole game, so he was quite tired. After being pressed like this, he couldn't close his eyes.

He simply closed his eyes, sighed, and said, "I saw at the Luotian Grand Ceremony today that the muscle-bound guys are the easiest to deal with here."

"Compared to those who practice Qimen, blow their air, do space-time boxing, and even summon spirits, the muscle group is simply too plain."

"I'm a little confused... Why do those strange people who do bad things for money, like Zhao Yuan, practice swordsmanship?"

"Wouldn't it be better to learn Qi Men Dun Jia? After you learn it, buy some scratch-off tickets, double-color balls, football lottery, stocks, etc., and you'll be rich, right? Why hurt others?"

Gao Yushan smiled and lowered her head, looking at Liu Ke who had his eyes closed. She could sense that he was a little sleepy, so she gradually softened the massage.

After a while, Gao Yushan heard snoring and turned from sitting to lying down, then fell asleep with a smile.

She really didn't have the nerve to tell Liu Ke that Qimen Dunjia couldn't compete with Shuangseqiu, as there was already a precedent for this...

……

Speaking of which, there were actually more than just Liu Ke and Gao Yushan in this room, after all, it was a large bunk bed.

There were two rooms allocated to the Taoist temple of Nadutong, one for Xu Si and Xu San, and one for the four young men Feng, Zhang, Liu and Gao.

After sunset, Feng Baobao left the room and no one knew where she went.

As for Zhang Chulan, he has been existing in the room as a light bulb that does not emit light.

Zhang Chulan heard that the two people on the other side of the bunk bed had stopped moving, so he turned over and wiped away his tears like a drowned dog.

"Nah, can't you just go outside and show off your love?"

"Can't you take care of my little heart?"

"Xiao Ke is fine, but even Zhang Lingyu isn't a virgin anymore..."

……

Bang!

Just when Zhang Chulan was feeling unhappy, Feng Baobao kicked the door open from outside. Seeing that Liu Ke and Gao Yushan were both asleep, she tiptoed to Zhang Chulan's side.

"Zhang Chulan, come out and follow me!"

Chapter 110 Too rude

Since the number of participants in the second round of Luotian Dajiao dropped sharply, the schedule pressure was not very high, so the Longhushan "competition group" was scheduled to start at 10 am.

"Chu Lan, you...didn't rest at all?"

When Liu Ke woke up at seven in the morning, he saw Zhang Chulan, who was sleeping on the right bunk bed, with dark circles around his eyes and looking very tired, so he couldn't help but ask.

Zhang Chulan's mental state was quite confused at the moment. After hearing Liu Ke's question, he laughed miserably for a long time, then turned his head and sighed deeply.

Liu Ke blinked, glanced at his and Feng Baobao's two pairs of old Liberation shoes, and asked with a smile: "Your shoes are all covered in mud..."

Before he could finish his words, Zhang Chulan made a silent gesture and whispered, "I finished today's competition last night."

Liu Ke was stunned for a moment, then he asked tentatively in a low voice, "That Green Talisman God, you guys give..."

Zhang Chulan nodded and whispered, "Sister Bao and I took care of it for him in the middle of the night. We used proper means and he was convinced."

Hearing this, Liu Ke's expression almost collapsed, but he still gave a thumbs-up and said, "Is it really legitimate? Besides... can two-in-one be enough to convince him?"

Zhang Chulan collapsed on the bunk, wiped his face, and said speechlessly, "When Sister Bao called me over, she had already 'invited' Shan Shitong to the woods."

"I can't help it... This is too damn clever. I can only come up with a more intuitive way to explain it to them."

"So, I had a serious fight with him in the woods to prove that I can win without any dirty tricks."

Liu Ke nodded and asked with a strange expression, "You won? Didn't he call you two crazy?"

Zhang Chulan sneered for a long time and said, "He didn't say it, but I guess he cursed me a lot in his heart."

"Don't talk about him. If it were me, I would scold him too."

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