Chapter 237 The Calm Before the Storm
"Tara!"
'Yeah, why didn't I think of that before? Although it's a villain, it's a villain with a brain. At most, I can just give it a mask. Anyway, the energy of my mask has been copied and pasted. As for whether he can still use it, what does it have to do with me? '
Thinking of this, Zhou Hao’s mind suddenly became clear.
And after this biggest problem was solved, other problems were no longer problems. He quickly figured out the remaining things, including how to motivate Tara to come and help.
"If that's the case, I can use the Sheep Charm now since I haven't used it for a long time."
While thinking this, Zhou Hao took out the magic item he first got from the system space: "Sheep Talisman!"
The meaning of Zhou Hao taking out the sheep talisman was very clear: he wanted to leave his body and go find Tara.
As for why he wanted to leave his body, this was easy to understand. First, the situation was special. If the Dark Emperor found out and thought he was trying to escape, that would be bad.
The second one is very simple. Because he has the Soul Gem in his hand, his soul strength is much stronger than Tara's now. Therefore, if he finds Tara, it will be easy to negotiate or use coercion or inducement.
"Okay then, old friend, we'll see you later."
Zhou Hao muttered something and activated the sheep charm in his body to let his soul leave his body. He took out the sheep charm just in case. If he encountered any danger, he could activate it in time and come back. After all, he didn't have many ways to attack his soul, so he kept a backup just in case.
As a white light enveloped it, Zhou Hao felt a strange energy slowly peeling off his soul and body. As the white light disappeared, Zhou Hao's soul was successfully peeled off.
"Wuhu is not bad. Apart from the fact that the way I move is not very convenient, there is no other discomfort."
After moving around in the air for a while, Zhou Hao didn't delay any longer. He floated up directly and left the entire building of Meng Academy and came to the magic protective shield.
Looking at the protective shield in front of him, Zhou Hao had no intention of staying anymore. He directly found the yellow soul gem in his body and activated it to increase his soul strength to a higher level. Then he rushed out.
"Yeah, not bad, didn't use much energy."
Looking at the protective shield that was slowly repairing itself below, Zhou Hao nodded with satisfaction. After all, he just made a hole in it to allow himself to get out.
After taking a final look, Zhou Hao left without looking back and returned to the little broken ball to look for Tara.
So the question is, did anyone else discover that Zhou Hao's soul had "escaped"? There were resources for that, and the reason they didn't say anything was because they felt that Zhou Hao's body was still there, so they made a big deal out of a small matter.
The reason why the Dark Emperor didn't come up to ask Jin was that it wasn't time yet. If Zhou Hao's soul hadn't returned by the time, he might have come up to ask.
"Hey, I seem to have forgotten one thing. How should I find Tara, the big boss?"
After spinning in the air above the broken ball for a while, Zhou Hao finally thought of a question worth pondering. However, it was only worth pondering because he quickly thought of a solution. : And that solution was also very simple, which was:
"I can take out the mask to sense Tara's location."
Because the system space is not in the small broken ball, but in a space bonus similar to the Shadow Kingdom, even if Zhou Hao is only in a soul state, he can get the mask stored in the system space.
Zhou Hao did it as soon as he thought of it. He immediately stretched out his illusory right hand to his system space. After a while of groping, he took out a pair of Niga mask that he had obtained first.
After getting the brown mask, Zhou Hao closed his eyes and quickly found Tara's location. Opening his eyes, Zhou Hao smiled slightly and went towards the determined location.
……
"Tara, I won't let you take the mask!"
Somewhere in the Warring States, two parties are confronting each other. One of the parties is Tara and his subordinates who were recruited from somewhere, among whom is a man wearing a Lazo mask.
On the other side is the Dragon Team that we are all familiar with. However, at this time, the members of the Dragon Team have not arrived yet. After all, Tru is still under Valon's command, and the Bull Warrior and the Little Snake have not come yet. Therefore, at this time, the Dragon Team actually only has Jackie Chan, Xiaoyu and Dad.
Fortunately, Tara did not dare to act too recklessly because he was afraid that the Holy Lord was still alive, so the only General Lazo was under his command.
"Haha, Jackie Chan, you said that this mask will not belong to me unless I give it to you. You take yourself too seriously..."
Tara was quite happy when he made such a bold statement. After all, wouldn't it be happy to finally find a mask? But when he was halfway through his words, his voice got stuck because he felt a mask approaching him. However, the mask had been occupied by the boy named Zhou Hao. Therefore, he was not feeling well now.
"Lazo, what are you waiting for? Go and get the Samo mask back for me!"
Feeling Tara's anger, although General Lazo didn't know what was happening, since it was the boss's order, he didn't say anything more and directly summoned the Claw Shadow Soldiers to attack Jackie Chan.
Although Jackie Chan on the opposite side did not expect Tara to attack immediately, he had kept his whole body tense, so when he felt the darkness coming, he was not too panicked. He quickly took the mask and retreated.
The old man next to him did the same. Seeing the Claw Shadow Soldiers attacking him, he took out his own little puffer fish and started biu biu biu.
"Yo, Tara is busy!"
This was the scene that Zhou Hao saw when the show just ended. However, since he did not see Xiaoyu, he forgot about this little girl.
To be honest, he would never make such a low-level mistake under normal circumstances, but at this moment, Zhou Hao forgot about Xiaoyu for some reason.
"What are you doing here? Didn't we have an agreement that whoever finds the mask gets it? Are you going to break the agreement?"
It was obvious that even though Zhou Hao had turned into a soul, Tara was still wary of him.
Hearing this vigilant tone, Zhou Hao just spread his hands helplessly:
"I originally wanted to help you get the mask, but seeing you like this, forget it. I'm leaving now. Bye."
After saying that, Zhou Hao turned around and prepared to leave, a very basic tactic of playing hard to get. However, he believed that La, who was suspicious by nature, would definitely call Zhou Hao back again.
Sure enough, the next moment Zhou Hao’s soul-state head turned around, Tara’s voice rang out.
"Wait a minute, you said you wanted to help me, you have such a kind heart."
After hearing this, Zhou Hao knew that Tara still didn't believe him, so he turned around and left:
"If you don't believe me, forget it. I have things to do. I won't bother you if you continue."
It was a simple move of retreating to advance, so the question was, did Tara see it? It must have seen it, but it didn't dare to let Zhou Hao go just like that, and the reason was very simple.
He had come all this way, but now he left without accomplishing anything. Would he feel resentful? If he felt resentful, would he secretly help the members of Rong's team to snatch the mask away from them?
So Tara had no choice but to pinch her nose (although she had no hands now, the meaning was the same) and call Zhou Hao back.
"Wait a minute, tell me, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Zhou Hao, who had his back to Tara, finally smiled when he heard the voice. However, he did not turn back. He just took out the mask he had chosen from the system space and threw it to Tara:
"I need you to do me a favor. As for them, just give me a call if you need it."
Looking at the mask flying over, Tara's face was extremely solemn, because he knew that the engine proved that humans were definitely not easy to deal with. The problem that even he found difficult was definitely not a trivial matter.
But the question is still the same as before, can it refuse? Of course it can't, so it has no choice but to bite the bullet and ask the question:
"What's going on? Tell me."
Feeling that his mask was caught by the other party's telekinesis, Zhou Hao turned his head with satisfaction:
"Actually, this isn't that difficult. Just..."
Zhou Hao and Tara were having a happy discussion, but the situation on Long's team's side was not so good.
Because he hadn't appeared, Xiaoyu, who was lurking, was about to go forward when she saw an opportunity, but out of the corner of her eye she saw a mask suddenly thrown out from the void and flew towards Tara.
This caused Sister Yu, who was about to charge, to stop in the middle of the road. When the surrounding shadow soldiers saw a person suddenly appear in the middle, would they have any prejudice against children? Of course not, they would just use their big hands to slap all the enemies in their sight.
Seeing the two small jade hands approaching him, to be honest, he was a little panicked. Because Zhou Hao and Valon were both fighting for the talismans, the Dragon Team and District 13 had very few talismans.
And Sister Yu didn't bring any talismans today, so she is in an unguarded state. If this slap is real, even though our Sister Yu is the protagonist, she won't be able to escape unscathed.
"Daddy!!!"
Fortunately, Xiaoyu did not panic when seeing the big hand in front of her, but directly called out her father's name. As for why she didn't call him Uncle Long?
'Uncle Long doesn't know magic, why should I call him? Readers nowadays are so weird. Hey, why am I thinking this? '
Although Xiaoyu was a little confused in the second half, her father's attack did not stop at all. Two green attacks exploded on the ghost soldier in front of Xiaoyu, and the huge ghost soldier disappeared.
At the same time as the two green attacks came the voice of my father:
"Xiaoyu~Don't be in a daze! The ghost ninjas are too powerful now. You are no match for them. You should take the onion and deal with Tara. And by the way, help dad to see how that mask appeared from the void?"
After listening to her father's instructions, Xiaoyu came back to her senses from her thoughts. She looked at Kara's mouth opening and closing in the air, as if she was chatting with someone. This time, she surprisingly did not talk back or refuse, but nodded and went in the direction of Tara.
"How do you think about it?"
After spending nearly two minutes, Zhou Hao finally finished explaining his needs. However, Tara seemed a little hesitant after hearing the needs. Seeing this, Zhou Hao raised his eyebrows curiously:
"Why? As the master of the Shadow Kingdom, are you afraid of anyone else besides that old guy, Mr. Tara, the Holy Lord?"
Zhou Hao's words were half a joke, and the other half was to find out about Tara's true strength. After all, she had lived for so long, and her strength might not be that strong, but she must have enough experience. This was what Zhou Hao lacked at the moment, so he would ask indirectly.
"Hmm~~Are you talking about the Quark Clan and Moe Academy that have been fighting the Dark Emperor for thousands of years?"
Hearing this, Zhou Hao raised his eyebrows again, because he seemed to smell a hint of gossip, but as an actor, he controlled his expression very well, just nodded slightly and asked in a moderate tone:
"Have you heard of Moe Academy or the Quarks?"
Tara simply hesitated for a moment and nodded. In his eyes, these were just some old stories and not a big secret. So Tara simply paused and began to talk about the events of that period:
"I have indeed heard of the Mengxu people you mentioned. Moreover, hundreds of years ago, the Holy Lord was sealed and I ruled the entire continent (the entire road here refers to the Foot Basin Country. After all, there is Marvel in Europe and the Honghuang system in China (I just don't know why it disappeared.). It only has nine generals. How could it rule the entire continent?). After that, I led my men to fight. But..."
Tara stopped talking here, as if she was too embarrassed to talk about what was going to happen next.
But would Zhou Hao care about these? Of course not. He only cared about what happened later. So he asked directly without any "sight":
"But, what? Tell me now!"
Looking at Zhou Hao's anxious expression, Tara had no choice but to shake her head slightly:
“Hey! I entered the Moe Academy with 12 generals at that time. Everything was fine at the beginning. After all, they only had five Moe Knights and were outnumbered. We quickly fought our way in.
But when we controlled all the areas and only the chief's office was left, we couldn't get in no matter what."
At this point, Tara tilted his head slightly toward the sky as if recalling something. After a long while, he lowered his head again and continued to narrate:
“At that time, we didn’t take this office seriously. We just sent three ghost generals to guard it, and didn’t take any other action.
But our idea at the time was very simple, we just wanted to surround this place and make the elder inside face the reality and either surrender or commit suicide. "