Atlas of Heaven and Man.

Chapter 460 Defense
The New Year passed quickly, and it seemed like just a blink of an eye and more than half of it had gone by. However, walking on the streets, the spring couplets on the doors and the banners and lanterns that had not been taken down still retained a lot of the New Year atmosphere.

That day, Chen Chuan drove to the old house alone, cleaned the house inside and out, put a few cans of new tea in, then made a cup of tea and went to the corridor under the eaves of the door, looking at the stream and woods in front of him, and drank it slowly under the warm sun.

Some memories have emerged in the past few days, and this time the scene of Chinese New Year appeared again, with my mother, my younger aunt and my older aunt together.

This aunt was ten years older than the two sisters and later married and moved to another place. He saw her several times when he was a child, but she hadn't come back for a long time. It seemed that the uncle-in-law had a military background. Later, Nian Qian was able to go to military school with the help of the aunt's family.

All of these memories were from festivals and the New Year period, closely related to what he knew and felt at the moment, and unsurprisingly, most of them were from earlier periods, with only the ones related to the brown-haired woman being a little later in the timeline.

This person should be a relatively key figure, and may be involved in the whereabouts of this life's parents and even the cause of death of the previous life.

But now he doesn't think too much about it, he will always know what he needs to know.

After all, these are things of the past and do not affect him now.

There are some things that need attention.

He took the information Ni Qianqian gave him seriously before he returned to Yangzhi. After all, without knowing the true purpose of the Ferris Wheel Company, he couldn't assume that the other party would give up after failing once.

He had thought about it earlier. If the other party still refused to give up, there would be an excellent opportunity to attack on his way back, so he had to take some precautions when returning to the central city this time.

He stayed at the old house until noon, packed up his things, and drove back home. In the afternoon, his cousins ​​and Chaoming were chasing and playing there, while he sat on the sofa in the living room reading a book. Suddenly, the phone rang, and he went forward to pick it up and said, "This is Chen Chuan."

Ren Xiaotian's voice rang out in the conversation: "Junior brother, I have found the person you want."

Chen Chuan asked about the location and said, "Okay, I'll be there right away." He said something to his aunt who was sewing shoe soles in the yard, then went out and drove out of the city.

Because he was not sure whether he would encounter danger, he needed to prepare some sacrifices for his civet cat stone tablet. Nowadays, it was almost impossible to find such wanted criminals in the city, so he could only look for them outside the city. He simply asked Ren Xiaotian to do it. After all, he was very familiar with the situation outside the city and in the wilderness.

Moreover, this person is steady and reliable in his work and is not afraid of any problems.

After leaving the city, even though he drove out of an area, he could still see patrol cars driving back and forth in the outer city area that had been almost left unattended in the past. It seemed that the customs bureau had indeed increased its security inspections.

Director Guan is a person with a strong sense of justice. It seems that he does a better job after taking office, but whether he can actually do a good job sometimes does not entirely depend on this, but also on the external environment.

If the biggest cancer, Molan Company, had not been eradicated, no matter how hard Director Guan tried, it would be useless.

In addition, the construction of the northern railway employed a large number of manpower, a considerable number of whom were recruited from Jiaoshan. According to Lu Ke, many people in the village went there.

In order to prevent any problems in the construction of the railway, Yuan'an Company also dispatched an armed convoy to patrol there, which prevented the roving bandits from coming from that direction.

He drove all the way towards Jiaoshan. The further he drove, the stronger the wind and sand became. The sky was gray and the car windows made crackling sounds. The entire car was covered with a layer of yellow sand.

More than an hour later, he saw Ren Xiaotian's car parked there. He slowed down, slowly approached, stopped on the side, and got out.

Seeing him arrive, Ren Xiaotian also got out of the car, went to the trunk, and took someone out.

"He is a wanted criminal of the police department. He has committed kidnapping, robbery, human trafficking, smuggling of arms and illegal drugs, and all crimes committed by armed gangs."

The man was originally listless, but now he seemed to realize that something was wrong and immediately started to save himself, shouting:
"Brothers, can you let me go? I have money, I will give it to you. I also know where the boss hides the medicine, I can take you there. What use is I alone? The bounty on the heads of the boss and his brothers is huge."

Chen Chuan didn't waste any more time talking to him. He took the man from Ren Xiaotian and carried him to his car. Using the body of his car as an obstacle, he threw the civet cat talisman on the man.

As the shadow of a raccoon cat emerged and drilled into the bandit's body, the man immediately let out a shrill scream.

However, the sound only lasted for a while before it became weaker. After another minute or two, there was no sound at all. The whole person had turned into a mummy.

Chen Chuan looked up at this time and saw a pit not far ahead. It turned out that Ren Xiaotian had even dug the pit. He walked over and threw the bandit's body into it. The wind and sand here were so strong that the pit was filled up in a short while, and he didn't even have to bother burying it.

After he came back, he said to Ren Xiaotian who was waiting on the side: "Brother, thank you."

Ren Xiaotian said: "Nothing."

Chen Chuan took advantage of the wind and sand blocked by the car body and said, "Brother, are you still planning to accept commissions here?" Ren Xiaotian didn't say much during the dinner, and it was unknown whether he had the same plan as the others. Ren Xiaotian said, "I will go to the central city." He thought for a moment and said, "I have indeed lost a lot of acquaintances in the past year. The smuggling business in the wasteland has decreased, and there will be fewer and fewer people. I think it's better for me to leave early."

Chen Chuan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "Brother, please find me first when you get to the central city."

Ren Xiaotian took a look, stretched out his hand somewhat uncomfortably, and shook hands with him.

"Will do."

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is late January.

Chen Chuan was already preparing to return to the central city. This time, he would bring Wei Dong and Wu Han with him, but the others had some things to deal with and would need to arrive a little later, perhaps in February or March.

And since Director Lei had to leave a few days earlier, the two of them could travel together. Of course, he was not the only one going to Central City to take up his post, the Secret Cult Review Bureau would send people to escort him.

As for Senior Sister He and Xiao Ying, they will take him over after he is settled.

Director Lei was quite cautious about taking up this post. Before that, he even called Chen Chuan to come over.

"Some people may not want to see me go to the central city, so I need to make some preparations. Student Chen, I plan to make some arrangements here as well. Do you agree?"

Chen Chuan did not hesitate and said, "Director Lei, what should we do?"

Director Lei took out a stack of membrane-like things and said, "This is the bionic skin specially made by the bureau. The ritual patterns you saw on our bodies before were made with the help of these things."

He rolled up his sleeves, took out a piece and put it on his arm. It looked almost the same as his original skin.

"This membrane can be painted with patterns in advance, and you can tear it off and replace it with another one after use. It's very convenient. I prepared some for you this time. After sticking it on your body, you only need to connect the reserved rituals, like this..."

He clenched his fist, and the ritual pattern suddenly glowed with fluorescence. "The ritual can be activated now."

He added: "Of course, the timing of starting this ritual is up to you, so you can choose a method that suits you best, and there is no need to copy it.

Besides these, there are clothes..."

He asked He Nan to bring a smock and handed it to Chen Chuan. "This is a special garment made by the bureau. It is very tough. The inside is connected with special silk threads. It is arranged in the shape of a ritual pattern. Even if the surface is damaged, it will not affect the effect of the ritual too much."

Chen Chuan took it and nodded. Last time when he dealt with the Viper Group, he had used the secret ritual, which was very useful in conjunction with the attack, and it also played a certain role in killing Xu Xianwen in the end.

However, he had a question. The use of esoteric rituals seemed to be very mature, but it was rarely used by fighters. He didn't know if it was because of the above ban or other reasons?
After he raised this question, Director Lei said in a deep voice: "This is mainly due to the ban. Although the combination of the two can play a greater role, it may also produce more terrible consequences. There are lessons in the history of the old times.

In fact, if you were not born with the ability to resist strange substances, I would not let you continue to come into contact with these things.

And from what I have learned, some rituals can be influenced and suppressed by some powerful biological fields, even including some powerful people.

However, these are small-scale rituals. More powerful rituals are different. They usually take several years or even more than ten years to prepare and cannot be easily broken.

These rituals are now sealed and are not allowed to be studied, because anyone involved in them would involve the lives of thousands of people. "

Chen Chuan understood clearly that in the old days, all the imperial families of countries in the world had established a state religion.

What exactly are these secret religions used for? Although countries around the world have not publicly stated it in order to cover up the existence of the secret religions, he knows from what he has come into contact with and seen before that it is definitely not a good thing.

Especially since some rituals have the benefits of increasing lifespan and vitality, as well as consolidating one's own rule, how could those rulers bear not to use them?

He shook his head, put all this aside for the time being, thought for a while, then took the membranes and began to carve the ritual patterns he needed on them.

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(End of this chapter)