Backlash: The Dark Web's Five Thunders Evil Technique (10)

Chapter Ten: The Fortune Teller Under the Overpass The rain poured onto Zhang Yu like thick ink, corroding his skin. The pointing fingers of passersby and the flashes of phone cameras drove him to the brink of madness. Zhang Yu could only scurry like a rat caught crossing the street, hiding in the dark corner beneath the overpass. "Kid, you've been struck by the Heart Thunder and Water Thunder of the Five Thunders Evil Technique, and you're still alive to run out here?" A hoarse voice came from the darkness. Zhang Yu suddenly looked up and saw a fortune-telling old man, dressed in a tattered Taoist robe and missing an eye, sitting on a low stool with a battered, scarred copper pot in front of him. Zhang Yu crawled towards him as if grabbing a life-saving straw. "Please... save me! My colleague practiced an evil technique from the dark web!" The one-eyed Taoist sneered and placed his hand on Zhang Yu's forehead. A warm current instantly surged into him, and the foul-smelling rainwater on Zhang Yu's body evaporated into black smoke. "What dark web? That's just someone repackaging the ancient 'Five Thunders Evil Technique' with modern internet jargon," the one-eyed Taoist said with a grave expression. "The Five Thunders are Heart, Water, Mountain, Earth, and Heaven. Old Liu sacrificed flesh and blood to activate the Heart Thunder and kill the general manager, and then used data to harm you with the Water Thunder. But every evil technique has a backlash. Old Liu is no longer human; he's just a puppet of the Thunder Demon." The Taoist took out an ancient coin stained with cinnabar from the copper pot and handed it to Zhang Yu. "If you want to live, you must return to the company at midnight tonight, find Old Liu's 'Natal Talisman Core,' and destroy it. Otherwise, when the third thunder, 'Mountain Thunder,' strikes, everyone in the building will die!" As Zhang Yu took the ancient coin and was about to ask more, the fortune-telling Taoist's face suddenly changed drastically, and he spat out a mouthful of black blood.