Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Bai Ju hadn’t dealt with this kind of thing for a long time, but now he had to suppress his strength to fight against the puppet.
Part of the puppet’s purpose was to test his depth, while Bai Ju’s purpose was to use the puppet to find the person behind it.
This operation was a bit difficult.
Although the opponent’s puppet had a rough appearance and dull expression, compared with these scrawled parts, the instructions given to this puppet were quite complex and high-end. This also meant that the puppet had the ability to act independently of the controller. Under normal circumstances, the puppet could dilute the connection between itself and the controller to close to nothing.
This was why Bai Ju must fight against it.
Bai Ju didn’t know the depth of this puppet, and he couldn’t even feel whether the controller was a human, a demon, or something else. He could only find a way out by oppressing the puppet and causing it to reach the limit of autonomous action.
There wasn’t much time left for him. The live broadcast lasted for one hour and forty minutes. Once it ended, two artists rushing to make the announcement would go directly to the parking lot below through the safety exit. Now, it had been nearly half an hour since the start of the show.
Through the safety exit door, Bai Ju could hear the footsteps coming and going outside; someone might try to get in or out from here. The other doors couldn’t be opened and they could be said to be locked, but if the safety exit door couldn’t be opened, it would naturally be an ACCIDENT.
Frowning slightly, Bai Ju stepped forward and jumped up nimbly, dodging the puppet’s strangled black tentacles. He turned over in the air, then Bai Ju turned around and stepped firmly on the puppet’s shoulders.
“Bind!” A low voice emerging from his throat, Bai Ju pointed at the puppet, and the thin blue silk threads intertwined with the faint light into a network, densely climbing around the puppet’s body, and those free-flowing black shadow tentacles were not spared, and they were all caught until the blue silk thread network was gathered together and included in the puppet’s body!
Bai Ju suppressed the power surging in his body, his breath became unstable for a while, and his feet seemed to have lost strength. His legs fluttered, and Bai Ju simply turned over and landed on the ground, pretending to squat down for a while.
The puppet seemed to still carry the controller’s consciousness. Seeing Bai Ju’s appearance, a glimmer of light flashed across his empty eyes, and the corners of his mouth turned up: “Bai Wang… it’s really pitiful to be reduced to this situation.”
Bai Ju’s acting skills were not very good, so he followed Xiao Yao’s example and replied as expressionlessly as possible: “In this situation? I’m living a good life.”
When the puppet heard this, his neck hung down with difficulty, and he looked down at Bai Ju: “The temple is gone, and the believers are gone… It’s hard to even deal with a puppet. Is this a good day?”
“Bai Wang, you are the demon king who almost became a god.”
Bai Ju lowered his eyes, and the corners of his mouth were a little awkward, then he raised his hand and rubbed his ears: “Becoming a god? It’s boring.”
The hoarse and weird voice of this puppet made his ears uncomfortable. He didn’t bother to talk to this puppet in detail, he simply stood up with his head down, pulled the net with his hand, and the puppet fell to the ground as he dragged it towards the exit of the underground parking lot, not forgetting to take away the little shirt that was hanging in the air.
This damn thing wanted to get close to him. Bai Ju thought that he didn’t understand the intrigues, but those who wanted to trick him must have spotted something profitable in him.
No matter how profitable it was, in this case, as long as he was alive, no matter how many times, the other party came to him, it wouldn’t matter.
The puppet was lying on the ground, and it didn’t feel anything as it was dragged and rubbed against the ground by Bai Ju. Instead, it smiled muffledly, and as the color of the light net on its body became lighter and lighter, as if it was surging with intention to break away.
Bai Ju kept paying attention to the puppet from the corner of his eye. He ran faster and faster, as if his physical strength had recovered. He then dragged the puppet around the corner. Although the puppet couldn’t be beaten away, it was tossed by Bai Ju’s simple and rough movements. It kept bumping into the wall and getting deformed and was thrown around so much that it couldn’t get out of the light net, which looked a little funny.
Bai Ju quickly ran to the exit of the parking lot, pulling the puppet and laughing: “You are much more embarrassed than me.”
The puppet seemed to want to speak, but the next moment, Bai Ju waved his hand and slapped him against the wall; then, from the parking lot Bai Ju, who came outside the building from the exit, clicked his fingers on the tiles, lifted his whole body suddenly, and climbed up along the outer wall of the building.
With three clicks, and using the strength of the window sill, brick cracks, etc., Bai Ju dragged the puppet up to the rooftop in a few seconds. As if he was relieved to avoid the crowd, Bai Ju changed the movements of his hands and mobilized his Mana, trying to trigger lightning to kill the puppet –
“Buzz -” with a dull sound, the blue light network suddenly broke, and the strings broke in the air, making a buzzing sound like a zither.
In the midst of the lightning and flint, the puppet collapsed into countless tiny black spots in an instant, wrapping around Bai Ju from all directions with surging sharp intent!
Bai Ju twitched the corner of his mouth, and a hint of cunning flashed in his eyes – he caught it.
Although there was only a very subtle smell, he found a power in the puppet that was not his own.
Then there was no need to keep it anymore.
The movements of his hands changed slightly, Bai Ju’s slender fingers clasped together into claws, and a flashing thunder dragon formed in his hands in an instant; at the same time, a divine light burst out from between Bai Ju’s eyebrows, cutting off the puppet’s consciousness!
As the Thunder Dragon swept past, those black specks dissipated into mustard dust and could no longer be gathered into puppets.
Bai Ju stood in the center of the rooftop, raised his hand and clasped it slightly, and the fine dust in the air slowly gathered towards his palm.
“!”
At this moment, the iron door of the rooftop was suddenly knocked open, and Xiao Yao’s figure suddenly crashed into Bai Ju’s eyes.
Xiao Yao glanced around, and then his eyes stopped on Bai Ju. Seeing that he was standing without any abnormality, Xiao Yao breathed a sigh of relief, held the door with his hand, relaxed his shoulders, and began to breathe quickly.
“Ahem…Brother Bai, are you okay?” Xiao Yao calmed down and walked over to meet Bai Ju’s slightly amused eyes, feeling a little embarrassed afterward.
After all, Bai Ju was the demon king. When he waved his hand in Fengle Square before, the large space stopped, just like a joke. With that, it wasn’t Xiao Yao’s turn to worry about him.
Xiao Yao was also concerned but confused. After leaving the studio, he took a piece of Bai Ju’s hair and tracked him. He first chased him to the safety exit, then followed the scent left by the puppet hitting the wall and chased him outside. He then found Bai Ju had already climbed along the wall to the rooftop, so he turned around and ran up the stairs.
As a result, the Bai Ju on the other end had ended the battle neatly, leaving no room for him to take action; it only took about ten minutes, which was a bit fast.
Bai Ju quite enjoyed the care of his little guardian. When he saw Xiao Yao coming over, he simply opened his palms to show him: “The one who did it was a puppet. I forced out some things that didn’t belong to it. It should be with the controller or the little fox has something to do with it.”
Xiao Yao came over and took a look. In the palm of Xiao Bai Ju’s hand was a transparent and round bead with a streak of blood floating in the middle. It looked like a glass marble that a child played with, about the size of a soybean.
“What is this?” Xiao Yao hesitated. He had made great achievements in the warlock world, but he had never seen this thing before.
Bai Ju tossed it and stuffed the thing into Xiao Yao’s hand: “The puppet core, which is similar to the spiritual power bead, is the core of the control program. With this thing, the puppet’s ability to act autonomously will be expanded, and it will even have a certain degree of autonomous thinking and ability, such that he can share what he sees, hears and feels to the controller at the same time, but he can hide the person behind him because he does not accept direct instructions from the controller.”
Xiao Yao took the puppet core and noticed the problem behind this matter and said: “A person who can make such a thing should not be unknown in the warlock world, but I have never heard of any warlock who specializes in this. Brother Bai, I have to send this to the Warlock Association.”
Xiao Yao thought for a while and made up his mind; this thing was just a hot potato if he kept it in his hands, so it was better to send it to the Warlock Association as soon as possible. Let them make their decision first.
Bai Ju nodded, lowered his head and buttoned up his shirt. Anyway, the puppet core was not delicious. Although there was a lot of spiritual power in it, it tasted bland and empty, just like rotten food, without any vitality.
The two chatted on the rooftop for a while, and Qu Lang, who came after arranging the scene, also arrived on the rooftop.
Qu Lang had already contacted the Secret Service General Administration in a frantic manner and did not stay with the two of them for long. After asking Bai Wang for the record of the entire incident, the on-site profile restored the fight between Bai Ju and the puppet. After confirming that it was correct, he took the information with him. He drove away, leaving one person behind to continue cooperating with the scene.
Bai Ju followed Xiao Yao back to the studio, just in case, but still stared at it for a long time; fortunately, nothing happened again until everyone had left.
However, the steel frame of the seats that was cut off by the puppet was finally repaired by Bai Ju.
….
Back at the Demon Management Bureau, Xiao Yao and Bai Ju watched all the surveillance videos of Little Fox and the others from that day together overnight, and also listened to some of the backup recording files. At present, they could only confirm that these little demons were not aware of the incident.
After some investigation, the people who needed to be paid more attention were the several people who appeared in the Red Fox’s Lounge several times that day, including assistants, makeup artists, other makeup artists who came to borrow cosmetics, and assistants of several other artists.
After packaging all the investigation results and sending them to the Demon Management Bureau Committee and the General Secret Service Administration, Xiao Yao rubbed his forehead and slumped on the chair, feeling a little exhausted. In order to save time to find Bai Ju, he chose to use the magic star disk to set up the formation. The efficiency was indeed high, but the price was the use of essence and blood, which had serious sequelae. He lost both qi and blood, and it was more troublesome to make up for it.
When Bai Ju saw this, how could he not know that this young man was in this situation because he wanted to find him earlier? He immediately felt guilty and blamed himself, always feeling that he had not taken good care of Xiao Yao.
So, just when Xiao Yao was slumped on the chair to collect his thoughts, he suddenly felt his whole body light up, and when he opened his eyes, he found that he was being picked up.
After dealing with the puppet, Old Dog Bai no longer had the need to pretend to be young. He had thus turned back to his adult appearance at some point and was now giving him a solid but gentle princess hug.
Xiao Yao: “…”
However, Old Dog Bai was quite good at taking care of people. It didn’t matter that he had picked people up, he still lowered his head and put it against Xiao Yao’s forehead: “The body temperature is a bit low… You have to have a good rest. I will hold you to sleep. Be warmer.”
Xiao Yao really wanted to slap his inner roar on Bai Ju’s face.
I was promised that you would listen to my heart sounds! You should listen and see if this operation is appropriate!
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