Chapter 24: Sadako's Videotape + "Evil-Warding Sword Manual" = ?
From "The Legend of Sword and Fairy," Zhao Ling'er's traditional undergarment.
This was the information Lin Hao received.
Nothing more, nothing less.
The ordinary fabric held no energy and had no special construction; it was just a plain dudou.
"This shouldn't be!" Lin Hao's face was filled with resentment, like a perpetually complaining ghost: "Why... why would the little fairy wear ordinary clothes?"
"Never mind dragon scales or phoenix feathers, at least give me some celestial silk or sacred spirit armor!"
The ordinary fabric contained no special energy, making it worthless beyond mere collection.
"Why didn't you get something else?" Lin Hao felt a pang of heartache, as if he'd lost hundreds of millions. He rubbed the Little Devil's round face forcefully: "If you had just gotten her bell or jade pendant, I could have gained spiritual power and transferred to immortal cultivation."
"Wuwuwu... Hehehe..."
The Little Devil waved its short arms, vividly recounting the exciting scene it had just witnessed.
"A beautiful girl bathing, with a perverted man peeping nearby?" Lin Hao had a pretty good idea of the plot.
"Did the beautiful girl look a lot like Xu Hongdou?"
"Who's Xu Hongdou? She's the one whose stockings you took last time!"
The Little Devil recalled for a moment and nodded.
"Sigh... Why didn't you take her bracelet!"
Lin Hao, full of regret, silently placed the dudou into the collection cabinet, muttering from time to time: "She didn't have children, so there are no bodily fluids on the dudou. If it were panties, maybe I could have brought back some of Nuwa's blood..."
"Remember, if you ever meet this beautiful girl again, you go and pull out a strand of her hair," Lin Hao instructed earnestly.
"Uh uh..." The Little Devil nodded blankly.
The "lottery" continued. Perhaps it had used up all its luck on the first draw, as everything afterward was tattered and torn. Apart from letting Lin Hao know which worlds the Little Devil had visited, it yielded nothing useful.
Just as the energy was about to run out, the Little Devil suddenly brought back an old-fashioned videotape.
Lin Hao took it, paused for a moment, and then a strange smile spread across his face.
"Hold on a moment, get your parchment," Lin Hao said, eager to try, as he walked to a television and inserted the videotape into the player.
The Little Devil didn't understand but still produced its parchment.
Director Lin's little cutie had two main functions: first, to travel through myriad worlds and bring back items for him to absorb; second, the common demonic trope – soul contracts.
The Little Devil possessed a roll of parchment, the "Demon Contract," which could be used to sign contracts with living beings. Lin Hao could then manipulate, control, and obliterate the souls of those beings, naturally being able to view and alter their memories.
As everyone knows, signing a contract with the devil leads to a miserable end. Although it seems like one gains something, the soul is forever damned, equivalent to selling one's soul to the devil.
The Little Devil's contract was the same: as long as a being pressed their handprint onto it, their soul would be bound by the contract.
Of course, this required the target to "willingly" do so, using blood as a medium, as the formal spirit of the contract had to be observed.
However, "willingness" could be active or passive.
Could a contract that couldn't be exploited be called a demon contract?
In the past, in China, Lin Hao had never contracted any souls, just as he had never revealed his android or cloning technology to Zheng Xian. These methods were too terrifying, especially to those in power.
Now that he was in America, he had no reservations.
"Lay the parchment in front of the television, and place your little fork on it," Lin Hao instructed the Little Devil, then retreated a few steps with the remote.
The Little Devil complied, looking bewildered.
Lin Hao turned on the television. First, there were static snow, then a gloomy forest appeared on the screen, with an ancient well in the center.
The dark visuals and eerie music made the Little Devil's eyes light up.
This atmosphere was indeed more exciting than its "Hehehe" opening!
So, the Little Devil immediately brought over the radio Lin Hao had specially prepared for it, to record a new opening.
"When three people walk together, one of them must be my teacher." The sage truly did not deceive me.
After a moment of eerie prelude, a head with disheveled hair rose from the ancient well.
First the head, then sharp, elongated fingernails, and slender hands covered in thin white clothing. The hands propped themselves up, and the figure crawled out of the ancient well step by step.
The Little Devil trembled all over, scared and shrinking behind Lin Hao, but it couldn't suppress its curiosity. It secretly peeked out half its head, then quickly retreated.
Lin Hao, however, was waiting, a smile he couldn't suppress playing on his lips.
A woman in white, with disheveled hair, crawled out of the ancient well and stood in the center of the screen. The next second, the camera suddenly zoomed in, her entire head seeming to fill the screen.
The next second, a horrifying scene unfolded!
The woman, who was clearly inside the television, used her hands to pierce through the screen, pushing her head out.
Just like when she crawled out of the ancient well, her hands propped themselves up, and her body squeezed out bit by bit.
Unfortunately, a withered yellow parchment was placed in front of the television, with a black fork pressing it down.
The white-clad woman's hand landed directly on the fork. The Little Devil's fork actually cut a wound in her spiritual body. Bright red, real blood flowed out, leaving a partial bloody handprint on the parchment in a moment.
The parchment absorbed the blood, regardless of whether it was complete or not.
The woman in white trembled, straightening up as if electrocuted, her eyes behind her disheveled hair filled with confusion.
Who am I? Where am I? What did I do?
How can there be people like this in the world?
They set a trap for me, and it actually worked!
"Hehehe, as long as you're brave enough, Sadako can take maternity leave!" Lin Hao chuckled.
Through the "Devil's Contract," he could already feel Sadako's soul and was successfully controlling her.
That's right, the videotape brought back by the Little Devil was the infamous "Sadako videotape"!
"Congratulations, you're the first living being the Little Devil brought back." Lin Hao walked forward, ignoring Sadako's dangerous nature.
Sadako, still dazed, desperately wanted to use her superpowers on this fearless man, but she found herself unable to even form such a thought. This man was like a god, untouchable.
Sadako looked up, her eyes behind her hair staring blankly at Lin Hao.
Lin Hao reached out and parted the hair from her forehead, revealing a pale but delicate face.
"She's quite pretty!" Lin Hao reached out and touched Sadako's cheek. The sensation was icy cold.
Although she was a spiritual entity, the touch felt real.
When he touched the videotape earlier, Lin Hao had copied its inherent "curse" ability, which could kill a person within seven days.
However, it was a pity that any curse was a form of energy. In Sadako's world, this move was unbeatable, but in the Marvel world, there were many who could resist this energy impact.
It wasn't as if Sadako's curse could kill even a Great Luo Golden Immortal or a creator god, right?
This meant that this ability, when placed on Lin Hao, could only kill those weaker than him, and it would still take seven days.
Lin Hao had initially thought he could copy Sadako's abilities by touching her. What he wanted most were Sadako's healing abilities, phasing, and teleportation, but he discovered he couldn't exploit any loopholes. After all, the videotape was what the Little Devil brought back; Sadako was merely a soul residing within it.
"From now on, you'll follow me and do the same job as before," Director Lin began assigning tasks. "When you encounter women, use your old routine. When you encounter men, you can switch roles..."
As he spoke, he turned on the computer and showed Sadako a CG animated film he had made himself, featuring an incredibly dashing woman in red.
He then took out the "Evil-Warding Sword Manual" that the Little Devil had previously snatched from Headmaster Yue and explained his new approach to Sadako.
"I'll plant some seeds of inner strength within you and teach you how to practice this sword technique. In the future, when you meet men, you can use your superpowers to pass this sword technique on to them..."
The men of America deserved to have their own superpowers.
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