At 8:30 pm, the last computer passed Yuwen's test and was ready.
Yuwen wiped his sweat and nodded at Liu Tianming. Liu Tianming understood and immediately sent his colleagues from the Information Department home. The young people had worked for six to seven hours in a row and were exhausted. It was exactly what Captain Liu wanted to let them go back. In the blink of an eye, all of them left the Tenglong Building. Only Yuwen and the other four were left in the entire building.
"In half an hour, the Houtian Eight Trigrams Formation I designed will start operating. Due to time constraints, Yuwen didn't have the time to program the rune transformation automatically, so we can only use manual methods to interfere with the transformation of a few key nodes.”Wei Yuanzheng cleared his throat as if he was teaching his students in class." The exterior of this array formation is the Zhengyi Talisman. The inner array formation is composed of the Rest Gate, the Life Gate, the Pain Gate, the Stop Gate, the View Gate, the Death Gate, the Shock Gate, and the Open Gate. Once the Dragon King of the Jing River enters the array formation, he will fall from the Rest Gate to the Stop Gate, the Shock Gate, the Pain Gate, and finally the Death Gate. Yuwen had to guard the Death Gate on the sixth floor and give the Dragon King the final blow. Gu Qing and I would guard the intersection between the Stop Gate and the Shock Gate, which was the twenty-third floor. Liu Tianming would be in charge of the Pain Gate on the twelfth floor.”
"Liu Tianming, the Pain Gate that you're in charge of is very important. The Dragon King is likely to struggle in the Pain Gate for a long time. You must guard it well. No matter what happens, you must prioritize the normal operation of the computer.”Yuwen suddenly interjected, especially instructing Liu Tianming.
Liu Tianming responded and turned his attention to Wei Yuanzheng's demonstration. Wei Yuanzheng briefly explained to Gu Qing and Liu Tianming the operation of the computer. In fact, the operation was quite simple. It was nothing more than switching the display states of several computers in a fixed order.
Yuwen still wanted to say something to Liu Tianming, but after some deliberation, he gave up.
There was not much time left. After the four of them parted ways, they quickly rushed to their positions.
Gu Qing and Wei Yuanzheng were both on the twenty-third floor. Due to Hun Dun's chaos, half of the offices on the twenty-third floor had been turned into ruins. In the afternoon, not only were there not enough computers, but the original network facilities and power supply had also been severely damaged. However, this floor required a lot of computers. Yuwen and the others spent a lot of effort to set it up according to the blueprint.
A ray of moonlight shone through the window, and a faint white light fell on Gu Qing. The place where Gu Qing was standing was the place where Chen Chen died in the morning. The long blood trail on the ground was shocking under the moonlight. Gu Qing couldn't bear to look at it anymore, so he turned his face to the window.
Outside the window, a bright full moon hung high in the night sky. The gentle moonlight and starlight reflected each other, making the city seem to be draped in a silver veil.
" Lan Yue..." Gu Qing muttered softly. The Dragon King's resurrection was imminent, right?
"The wind is blowing!" Wei Yuanzheng, who was not far from Gu Qing, suddenly called out. Gu Qing was stunned. He looked over and indeed, the sky changed in an instant. A thick dark cloud that came from nowhere was rapidly sweeping over. In the blink of an eye, it covered the sky and the earth, completely swallowing the bright moon and the starry sky. A gust of cold wind suddenly poured in through the glassless window, making Gu Qing unable to open his eyes.
"The clouds follow the dragon, and the wind follows the tiger. The Dragon King is about to rise!”Wei Yuanzheng shouted again.
" Ka... Ka Ka..." Yuwen's voice came from the walkie-talkie after a burst of electric current." Everyone, get into position. The Eight Trigrams Array is starting to operate!"”
Gu Qing quickly walked to a computer. The screen was shining brightly, showing two bright red seal characters. Gu Qing looked around and found that the seal characters displayed on each computer were different. She guessed and roughly recognized a few groups of characters. They were Tianlao, Siming, and Gouchen. She couldn't recognize the rest.
After another moment, the wind became more and more intense. The pieces of paper and documents on the ground began to fly all over the sky. Occasionally, one or two pieces would sweep past Gu Qing's face, and it actually hurt! Gu Qing was extremely nervous. He didn't know whether the spell Yuwen had cast could really restrain the Dragon King.
Suddenly, a ball of white light appeared in the corner of the room. Accompanied by the sound of wind and thunder, a huge dragon head poked out from the white light. The Jing River Dragon King's long beard curled up, and black gas soared into the sky. He roared at Wei Yuanzheng and Gu Qing,""That bastard! How dare you use this evil technique to force me?"
Gu Qing was so frightened that his legs went weak and he almost fell to the ground. However, Wei Yuanzheng was not afraid. He stood proudly and confronted the Dragon King, saying loudly,"Evil beast! He still dared to be so arrogant after falling into the array.”Then, Wei Yuanzheng turned to Gu Qing and shouted,""Listen to my command!"
Gu Qing held the table and placed his fingers on the enter key of the computer in front of him.
"Press!" As Wei Yuanzheng shouted, the two of them pressed enter on the computer at the same time. "Crack!" The light on the computer screen in front of Wei Yuanzheng suddenly doubled, and the word " Heaven Prison " on the screen in front of Gu Qing suddenly became " Heaven Punishment ". The rest of the computers also shone brightly at the same time, causing the sound of electricity to crackle. Gu Qing did not notice that the lights of the entire city outside the window had dimmed a lot after she entered the car.
The Jing River Dragon King roared, as if an invisible force was pulling its neck. It could not resist this force and was gradually pulled down to the middle of the floor. Even though it struggled desperately, it was still dragged into the ground bit by bit.
The white dragon's shadow disappeared.
Wei Yuanzheng was stunned for a while before he grabbed the walkie-talkie on the table and shouted," Yuwen, the Dragon King has fallen into the Eight Trigrams Array! We just passed by the Stop Gate and the Shock Gate!"
"Good!" Yuwen's excited voice sounded." Now it's up to Liu Tianming!”
However, what followed was a long and anxious wait. The Dragon King's resistance seemed to be much stronger than expected. It was not easy to suppress it and reach the Pain Gate that Liu Tianming was in charge of.
Now, they could only wait patiently. Wei Yuanzheng and Gu Qing couldn't interfere. For a moment, both of them were idle. The wind outside the building was blowing fiercely. Gu Qing, who was feeling cold all over, hid in a leeward place. Out of his professional habit, the construction engineer Wei Yuanzheng began to observe the heavily damaged twenty-third floor.
Unknowingly, he discovered something shocking.
A thick concrete pillar was damaged from the middle after the impact. Nearly a quarter of the pillar's volume had collapsed. Undoubtedly, this was Hundun's doing. However, with the help of the flashing light on the computer screen, Wei Yuanzheng realized that the concrete that had fallen around the pillar had turned into fine gravel. Although Hundun was strong, the concrete it crashed into should be in the shape of a block. How could it be so fine?
Wei Yuanzheng approached the pillar and carefully observed the damage. He was surprised to find that there were many honeycomb-like holes on the fracture surface. The size of these holes completely exceeded the size of the air bubbles that could be allowed in the cast concrete. Moreover, the exposed steel bars in the damaged area were very rusted!
It was obvious that they had used inferior concrete and steel bars!
Gu Qing looked at Wei Yuanzheng walking around the floor in surprise. He didn't know what he was doing.
Wei Yuanzheng carefully examined the structure of the entire floor and picked up the debris on the ground to study it for a moment. Suddenly, his expression changed drastically. "Don't you think there's something wrong with the quality of this building?"”
Gu Qing replied," I've long noticed that there's a problem. There are often small problems that require the property management personnel to repair. Think about it, Du Tingtao alone took a whole 60 million from the project funds. There might be a few other small leaders who also took some. The quality of the building can't be guaranteed. What's wrong?”
"I'm not talking about that kind of small problem. They've gone too far in cutting corners! The current Teng Long Building was already in a very dangerous situation. Even a slightly more intense earthquake could very likely cause serious consequences.”Wei Yuanzheng led Gu Qing to the pillar and pointed at the empty air holes.""This pillar cast with inferior concrete has very poor earthquake resistance. The tension on the cross section can easily break it. Moreover, to support such a building, the number and diameter of the pillars are obviously insufficient!”
Wei Yuanzheng saw that Gu Qing still could not sense the danger from his words, so he picked up a piece of cement brick from the ground and pulled it into two.
"This kind of brickwork is formed by mixing construction waste with a small amount of cement.”
Gu Qing finally came to his senses. He was shocked by Du Tingtao's ruthless actions. Could it be that he was preparing to start anew just to leave this dangerous building and wait to see the tragic collapse of the Teng Long Building? However, she still had a glimmer of hope. After all, the building had been in use for almost a year, and there had been no particularly serious accidents. "You're saying that there needs to be tremors to be in danger, right? But earthquakes rarely happened here.”
" The Soaring Dragon Building was built on the Broken Dragon Platform," Wei Yuanzheng said solemnly." If we fail to stop the restoration tonight, the foundation will definitely shake! At that time…"
"Will the Soaring Dragon Building collapse?" Gu Qing asked in surprise.
Wei Yuanzheng nodded.
Liu Tianming pinched his eyes with two fingers and rubbed them hard. The row of flashing computer screens made him a little dizzy. It had been nearly twenty minutes since Wei Yuanzheng reported the situation, but there was still no trace of the Dragon King.
He looked around. Since this floor had not been rented out yet, it was naturally not renovated. Even the partition wall had not been erected yet, so the entire floor was unobstructed. Looking at the gray wall, Tianming Liu suddenly thought of Jianguo Zhang.
The first time he carried out a mission with Xiao Zhang was also in this unrenovated building. Because he received a tip that there were drug dealers trading in the unfinished building, Liu Tianming led his brothers to ambush them in the building.
The walls back then were just as gray as this place…
Tianming Liu had been an orphan since he was young. He had never seen his parents since he was young. He had been living on the streets and robbing people. If it weren't for the kindness of Jianguo Zhang's grandmother, there would probably be no police officer named Tianming Liu now. Instead, there would be another repeat offender in prison. Zhang Jianguo was six years younger than Liu Tianming. He had been following Liu Tianming since he was young. Liu Tianming originally hoped that his younger brother could go to university to study and become a white-collar worker. He always felt that whatever his younger brother did was better than what he did. Who knew that Xiao Zhang would follow his brother and secretly apply for the People's Police University of China. Just like that, the two of them eventually became colleagues.
The first time he carried out a mission with his brother, Xiao Zhang was in danger. The drug dealers discovered an ambush and opened fire at the police. Liu Tianming appeared from behind the drug dealers and knocked over two of them with one shot. However, the third guy fired and missed Liu Tianming. Instead, he hit Xiao Zhang, who had rushed to protect his brother. Fortunately, Xiao Zhang was not the one in danger in the end. It was the drug dealer who fired. He was almost beaten to death by Liu Tianming's fist. However, from then on, Tianming Liu promised Jianguo Zhang's grandmother that he would never let such a thing happen again.
But now…Liu Tianming did not have the face to see his grandmother. After Xiao Zhang's memorial service, he never returned home…
"Ping!" The white light strip on the roof suddenly exploded! The loud noise interrupted Liu Tianming's painful memories. Liu Tianming was shocked and habitually aimed his gun at the ceiling. A five-meter-wide white halo gradually appeared on the ceiling. The halo slowly protruded into a hemisphere, and a tight dragon claw suddenly stretched out from the hemisphere. The Dragon King had appeared!
Liu Tianming was not sure whether he should start the computer program now or wait for the Dragon King's whole body to appear from the light ball. He picked up the walkie-talkie and wanted to contact Yuwen, but there was a burst of electromagnetic interference from the walkie-talkie. It actually did not work.
When he turned around, the Dragon King had already fallen from the arc of light and landed in a large circle formed by twelve computers.
The giant white dragon seemed to have exhausted its energy in the battle against the Eight Trigrams Formation. It was lying on the ground panting, breathing out turbid air from time to time. Many scales on its body had fallen off, revealing a large area of dark gray flesh.
Liu Tianming didn't dare to delay. He quickly rushed to the computer and typed on the keyboard. After he entered a series of instructions, the seal characters displayed on the twelve computers changed at the same time. The original twelve original gods, Azure Dragon, Sacred Hall, Heavenly Punishment, Vermilion Bird, Golden Chamber, Heavenly Virtue, White Tiger, Jade Hall, Celestial Prison, Black Tortoise, Si Ming, and Gouchen, suddenly changed to the twelve stars of construction, division, full, peace, stability, determination, destruction, danger, success, recovery, opening, and closing!
After Yuwen and Wei Yuanzheng modified the Acquired Eight Trigrams passed down in the Wei family, they not only reversed the eight gates, but also integrated the essence of Qimen Dunjia. Its power was really amazing. Even a heavenly dragon like the Jing River Dragon King could not withstand the divine power of the array. In the Dragon King's eyes, the twelve computers were like twelve golden-armored gods, each holding a weapon and pouncing on him like hungry wolves. The Dragon King couldn't help but let out a fierce howl. His whole body tightened as if his dragon tendons had been pulled out. His beard and eyebrows stood on end, and his scales spread out. He was determined to perish together with the gods!
Liu Tianming saw the Dragon King baring his fangs and brandishing his claws in the Pain Gate. He was afraid that the formation would not be able to restrain him and that he would be freed. However, he was worried too much. Even though the Dragon King was brave, he was not in his full form after all. His spiritual power was greatly reduced, probably only 10 - 20% of his original body. Now, after a struggle, he was even more exhausted. The Acquired Eight Trigrams had the support of the city's powerful electricity, so it would never run out. As long as he persisted, the Dragon King would eventually fall into the door of death. Under Yuwen Jinqiang's all-out attack, there was only death.
However, at this critical moment of life and death, how could the Dragon King wait to die?
Tianming Liu suddenly felt a strong electric current pass through his brain, shaking him into a daze. The scene in front of him suddenly became chaotic.
The lights dimmed, but the walls were still gray and the computer was still there, but the Dragon King had disappeared!
Liu Tianming was startled, but he immediately realized that this was the Dragon King's Void Barrier Technique, right? He took a step back and closed his eyes to avoid the interference of the illusion.
" Deng, deng, deng…" A series of frantic footsteps came from afar. Who was it? Liu Tianming couldn't help but open his eyes, only to see a scene that absolutely couldn't have happened.
The person who ran over was Zhang Jianguo!
He saw Xiao Zhang holding the pistol in his right hand and covering his mouth with his left hand. As he ran towards Liu Tianming, he looked back from time to time as if something terrible was chasing him.
Liu Tianming stared at everything with his eyes wide open. He knew that it was just an illusion created by the Dragon King, but he could not ignore it.
Zhang Jianguo ran past Liu Tianming and released his left hand that was covering his mouth. He held the gun with both hands and fired two shots into the darkness behind him. The sound of bullets flying out of the barrel rang in Liu Tianming's ears, making his ears numb. However, Liu Tianming was unaware of it and only stared at Xiao Zhang's face.
Xiao Zhang's face had been torn open by a sharp object, and blood was gushing out…
Liu Tianming cried out in pain and knelt on the ground, sobbing uncontrollably.
The Dragon King had actually used an illusion to recreate the tragic scene of Xiao Zhang's sacrifice!
Xiao Zhang retreated and ran away from Liu Tianming. The huge figure of Hun Dun appeared from the darkness. Its speed was so amazing that it caught up with Xiao Zhang in a few swings. Just like its usual attack method, Hun Dun quickly bumped into Xiao Zhang's chest!
"Kacha!" Liu Tianming clearly heard the sound of bones breaking. Xiao Zhang's body flew high into the air and hit the wall with a muffled sound.
Liu Tianming's face was covered in tears. His hands were on the ground, and his entire body was trembling. He kept mumbling," This isn't real…This isn't real…"
Hun Dun walked to Xiao Zhang calmly. Blood kept pouring out of Xiao Zhang's mouth, and the police uniform on his chest had turned dark red. He raised the pistol shakily and fired two more shots at Hun Dun's head. Hun Dun suddenly became crazy. A dragon claw stretched out of his body and quickly slashed at Xiao Zhang's abdomen.
Liu Tianming could no longer shed any tears. His eyes widened as he stared at the tragic scene before him.
Xiao Zhang used the last of his strength to raise the pistol and aim it at his temple. Before pulling the trigger, he looked in Liu Tianming's direction and called out softly,""Brother…"
" No..." Liu Tianming roared into the sky. He had been blinded by anger and had completely forgotten that everything was just an illusion. He only knew that a monster had killed his brother in front of him.
Liu Tianming raised the gun in his hand angrily.
"Bang! Bang…Bang!" After the two gunshots, there was a violent explosion. Liu Tianming's eyes suddenly lit up. Xiao Zhang's remains and Hun Dun disappeared without a trace. In front of him was a computer monitor that was emitting smoke and a burnt smell.
Losing an energy gathering point meant that the twelve stars could no longer rotate in a circular manner. A slight change would affect the overall situation, and the entire Houtian Eight Trigrams would lose its energy.
The Jing River Dragon King, who had been on the verge of death just a moment ago, suddenly perked up and flew up. In the blink of an eye, he crossed the sky, leaving only a sinister smile.
Liu Tianming watched helplessly as the Dragon King broke free from the shackles of the acquired Eight Trigrams. Only then did he realize that he had made an irreparable mistake!
Yuwen Zheng was sitting cross-legged, waiting for the Dragon King to appear. However, not only did the Dragon King not appear, but the alarm on the main control computer rang. Yuwen rushed forward to take a look. A red dot on the 12th floor had already darkened.
" God..." Yuwen let out a painful groan and grabbed his hair. The tearing pain in his scalp forced Yuwen to calm down.
He grabbed the walkie-talkie and shouted,"Liu Tianming, what's going on with you?" How's the Dragon King?"
After the Dragon King disappeared, Liu Tianming's walkie-talkie also returned to normal. His bewildered voice came back,"I…I was hit by the Dragon King's illusion and shot a computer…The Dragon King has already escaped.”
This news not only made Yuwen beat his chest, but also scared Gu Qing and Wei Yuanzheng. Since there was no news from Liu Tianming, the two of them took the elevator from the roof to the 12th floor to see the situation of Liu Tianming. Who knew that as soon as they came out of the elevator, they heard Liu Tianming tell Yuwen the bad news.
Wei Yuanzheng did not have time to explain. He dragged Liu Tianming into the elevator." Let's go, let's go! The Soaring Dragon Building is going to collapse!"
Gu Qing hurriedly shouted into the walkie-talkie,"Yuwen, wait for us at the elevator. It's dangerous here!”
The four of them met up and fled toward the outside of the building. Before they stepped out of the gate, there was a violent tremor on the roof. It seemed that the Dragon King had gone against the current and escaped through the Life Gate.
Yuwen was really unwilling and cried out in pain three times.
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