Apocalypse: My Tattoos are Ten Yama Kings-Chapter 185 - 179: Who Supports and Who Opposes
Lin Yuan took the diagram from the Tang City official, studied it closely for a moment, and then asked, "Is this all?"
"Do you know the exact locations of those Buddhist temples?"
The diagram depicted nine Buddhist temples representing petals and one temple representing the lotus heart.
However, it only provided rough locations without marking the precise spots.
The Tang City official nodded and replied, "We only grasped the rough locations; the precise locations weren’t disclosed."
"When we probed deeper, black flames rose from his body, and he turned completely to ashes."
Black flames rising and turning into ashes?
Hearing this, Lin Yuan’s eyes widened involuntarily.
This was identical to what they had encountered.
When he used the Soul-Luring Lamp to view the Evil Buddha’s memory, he also saw black flames turning it to ashes at the crucial moment.
It seems that these black flames are likely a method used by Great Black Heaven to control these Evil Spirits under its command.
When the secrets of Great Black Heaven are touched, these Evil Spirits would be engulfed in black flames and burned to ashes.
These black flames can be regarded as a self-destruct mechanism.
Even after directly examining the memory, he couldn’t find much useful information.
They managed to obtain quite a bit of information using hypnosis techniques, which was already quite good.
Thinking of this, Lin Yuan asked, "Is there any other useful information?"
Of course, Lin Yuan asked this as a last resort, knowing that there probably weren’t any more clues.
As expected, the Tang City official shook his head and replied, "No more information; these are all the clues we have."
"Okay!" Lin Yuan acknowledged and immediately said, "Since there are no further clues, I’ll start assigning tasks."
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Meanwhile, outside the shelter.
As the survivors in the shelter were relieved that Emperor Dragon City had sent someone to rescue them,
the sky suddenly dimmed across the outermost edge of the shelter.
"Why did it suddenly become overcast?"
"No, why did only this small patch of sky change color?"
"Dark cloud, another dark cloud is coming!"
"It’s getting darker, everyone hurry up and find a place to take cover."
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The sky grew darker and more sinister, and the survivors who originally gathered outside noticed the anomaly and scattered in panic.
However, the "dark cloud" in the sky seemed to realize their intention to escape.
The "dark cloud" suddenly descended faster and faster.
At this time, in the shelter’s watchtower, the Life Pattern Master on watch finally saw clearly what it was.
The object falling from the sky was not a "dark cloud" at all, but a robe.
Yes, a robe descended from above.
When the robe swooped down, the Life Pattern Masters on guard reacted and shouted, "Evil Spirit, there’s an evil spirit attack."
However, by the time they reacted, it was already too late.
The robe descended from the sky, swooping towards the crowd, capturing dozens of individuals.
The robe was like Maitreya Buddha’s Human Seed Bag; as soon as people were scooped up into it, they were immediately shrunk.
After scooping up over a dozen people, the robe flew back up into the sky, seemingly intending to leave.
"Stop it!"
"Rescue them! Hurry up and rescue them!"
"Stop it, stop it!"
The Life Pattern Masters on guard yelled, pointing at the robe flying in midair.
Among the crowd, several Tier Six Life Pattern Masters, not weaker than Zhang Zhen, leaped up to block the robe.
Tier Six Life Pattern Masters represent the strongest force in Tang City’s official capacity.
However, just as these Tier Six Life Pattern Masters leaped up, intending to grab the robe in midair,
several black Buddha Hand Seals suddenly descended from the sky, directly slamming these Tier Six Life Pattern Masters into the ground.
Faced with the Evil Spirits in control, Tier Six Life Pattern Masters had no power to resist.
By the time these Tier Six Life Pattern Masters struggled to get up again to pursue, the robe had flown far away, leaving only a faint black dot in sight.
The Tier Six Life Pattern Masters of Tang City did not have the ability to fly; even if they wanted to chase, there was no way to do so.
"Chief, what should we do?" Tons of Life Pattern Masters turned to the strongest among them.
This person was regarded as the leader amongst Tang City’s Life Pattern Masters.
The leader, feeling pressure from his subordinates’ gaze, found himself at a loss.
There was really no way to catch up.
Even if they could somehow chase it, they definitely couldn’t defeat it.
"Watch carefully to prevent that sinister thing from coming back."
"I’ll go report immediately!" After saying this, the leader rushed to the meeting room.
The Evil Spirits appearing now in Tang City were beyond what they could handle.
Trying to handle them forcefully was not brave; it was suicidal.
Moments ago, the evil spirit controlling the robe clearly intended to scoop some people and leave without causing further trouble.
Otherwise, if the evil spirit lurking in the shadows had acted against them just now,
it could have done more than just slap them into the ground; it could have taken their lives.
The Evil Spirit that had used the robe to capture dozens of people was one of the three remaining attendants of Great Black Heaven.
After abandoning the chase for Lin Yuan, Great Black Heaven prepared to activate its array, first using a blood sacrifice of the ordinary survivors in the shelter.
However, when he deployed the array, he found that his array had failed.
The reason for the array’s failure was that one of the nine Buddhist temples representing the lotus had been destroyed.
Yes, the destroyed temple was the one Lin Yuan burned at the beginning.
If they want to blood sacrifice all the survivors, then all ten temples must be intact.
Great Black Heaven personally sat at the temple representing the lotus heart, and then drew the power of the nine lotus temples to succeed.
Now with one missing among the nine lotus temples, the array naturally cannot be successfully activated.
Destroy one, then naturally one needs to be supplemented.
Supplementing a temple is not difficult.
Now Tang City doesn’t have anything else, but there are plenty of empty houses.
Just rearrange one in the same location.
The only trouble is the Buddha lamps in the temple.
The day all Buddha lamps are lit is when the array is activated.
The purpose of taking away so many people was to use these people to refine new Buddha lamps.
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"We’ll divide into three..."
In the conference room, Lin Yuan hadn’t finished speaking when he saw a burly man rush in urgently.
He didn’t even bother knocking on the door and rushed straight in.
"Something..."
"Something happened, just now some Evil Spirits came!"
"They took away dozens of people, it’s Tier Five, Tier Five Evil Spirits!"
"Couldn’t stop them, we couldn’t stop them!" The newcomer said breathlessly.
Upon hearing this, Jian Bing made a motion to leave the conference room to pursue the Evil Spirits.
Lin Yuan instinctively grabbed Jian Bing’s small hand, feeling its warmth, Lin Yuan just wanted to say two words.
So smooth.
Jian Bing was suddenly caught by Lin Yuan, especially feeling Lin Yuan squeezing her hand and rubbing it in his palm!
She glared with her big blue eyes, staring at Lin Yuan with a look as if she wanted to eat him.
Jian Bing’s meaning was clear; let go of your filthy hand, she just didn’t say it directly.
Seeing Jian Bing’s predatory look, Lin Yuan sensibly released his hand.
After letting go, he instinctively sniffed it.
Everyone was shocked, thinking, you touched it, but even smelled it, that’s too much.
Seeing everyone looking at him with a strange gaze, Lin Yuan smiled and forcefully explained, "What brand of hand cream are you using, it smells so good!"
"Didn’t use any!"
"Boring!" Jian Bing coldly asked, "Why did you stop me?"
The topic shifted, and Lin Yuan’s feeling of social death disappeared.
"If you chase now, you’ll be too late."
"It’s impossible to catch up; if we could, there’s only one possibility, there would be an ambush!" Lin Yuan analyzed.
Jian Bing couldn’t refute Lin Yuan’s words.
Because what Lin Yuan said indeed made sense.
Both are Tier Five; one wants to leave, the other can’t stop it.
Moreover, those Tier Five Evil Spirits took the people and left, clearly not wanting a direct confrontation.
With the time it takes for this message, the Tier Five Evil Spirits have already gone far.
"What do you propose then?"
"Are we not going to save them?" Jian Bing eyed Lin Yuan and asked.
She wanted to see what good idea this shameless rogue had.
"How to save them?"
"This time they can take dozens, next time they can take hundreds, are we to babysit them forever?"
"Repair the pen after losing sheep, it’s never too late!"
"Defense is impossible; we must proactively attack."
"With just the few of us, if we act as babysitters for these survivors, we’d exhaust ourselves and still accomplish nothing." At this point, Lin Yuan sternly ordered, "Execute the plan I just laid out, we’re going to destroy the temples."
"As long as the temples are destroyed, they’ll be forced to come after us, attack us first."
"Force them out, and we’ll have a chance to win."
Regarding Lin Yuan’s plan of not rescuing, not protecting the survivors, everyone hesitated.
Faced with each other, for a moment, no one spoke.
Official actions often prioritized minimizing casualties.
However, Lin Yuan’s idea to send all Life Pattern Masters away without leaving anyone to protect the survivors felt somewhat inhumane.
"Solving the Evil Spirits quickly is saving people now!"
"Otherwise, there will be more casualties."
"Enough hesitating! Everyone here, raise your hands to vote. If you don’t want to follow my orders, then handle this yourselves." Lin Yuan said coldly.
Originally, the plan from Tang City’s official leader was to send one-third of the Life Pattern Masters to search for the temples.
With rough locations known, finding the temples shouldn’t be difficult.
He even suggested leaving Zhi Ming or Ling Guang to protect ordinary survivors in the shelter.
However, this proposal was vetoed by Lin Yuan. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
Lin Yuan’s approach was that everyone would take the initiative, leaving no Life Pattern Master behind.
Using the fastest method, destroy the temples and force the Evil Spirits to attack them proactively.
