However, a secret cult like the Shadow Clan is actually the most troublesome, after all, a secret cult is like a venomous snake lurking in the dark, and it can strike you with a fatal blow at any time.
Moreover, if you want to deal with a secret cult, you first need to know the background of this secret cult, so that you can decide how to deal with it. For example, if you want to deal with the Deep Diving Society, you must stay away from the coastline; if you want to deal with the Cult of the Cadaver, you must stay away from the Graveyard, because that is their home field, and fighting these secret cults on their home field is definitely an unwise choice... Of course, the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall usually arranges for players to play away games, otherwise the plot of the module cannot proceed.
However, as long as you know what mythical creature the secret cult is backed by, you can figure out the way they fight, because the secret cult that worships the Deep One is very different from the secret cult that worships the Migo in terms of fighting, one uses magic, the other uses black technology.
And now, Liu Xing and his group do not know what mythical creature the Shadow Clan is backed by.
Because for so long, although the Shadow Clan has transitioned from a mafia group to a secret cult, the Shadow Clan has not really done anything big, at least Liu Xing has never heard of the Shadow Clan holding any Ritual Ceremony, and the Shadow Clan also seems to have not made any public propaganda, so now the Shadow Clan is still a solid group, and other secret cults find it very difficult to get information about the Shadow Clan.
However, Liu Xing thinks that the mythical creature behind the Shadow Clan is most likely to be a Ghoul, because in the previous module, the young master of the Shadow Clan, Mikageichi, collaborated with a Ghoul, although that Ghoul was not a genuine Ghoul, but a cursed ordinary person.
And Mikageichi and that Ghoul collaborated to create a batch of hybrid creatures between humans and mythical creatures, although these hybrids only have the form but not the essence, but this also shows that Mikageichi and his people should have killed a lot of different types of mythical creatures.
Although according to the previous intelligence, Mikageichi is not valued in the family, and can even be said to be excluded by his two brothers, but those mythical creature materials are most likely sent by the Shadow Clan, because the Shadow Clan is a big family with many enemies, so for safety's sake, they need the Dark Willow Gang to help them with this experiment in secret, so that if it is discovered, they can easily escape.
Moreover, with Mikageichi and his Dark Willow Gang's strength, it is quite difficult for them to kill those mythical creatures, because creatures like the Deep One or the Ghoul basically live a communal life, and the mythical creatures have a very strong sense of revenge, so if they are not careful, they may be subjected to continuous pursuit.
Therefore, the mythical creature behind the Shadow Clan is most likely to be a superior race, so the Shadow Clan dares to hunt those inferior races like the Deep One and the Ghoul, and Liu Xing even suspects that the Shadow Clan may have the avatar of a Great Old One behind it.
In short, Liu Xing now feels that the danger level of the Shadow Clan may be higher than that of the Deep Diving Society.
Fortunately, now his group has not provoked the Shadow Clan, otherwise they may have big trouble in the future... Wait a minute.
Liu Xing suddenly remembered something, that is, his character card has not provoked the Shadow Clan, but the "Liu Xing" character card has actually killed the young master of the Shadow Clan, Mikageichi.
Although Mikageichi's father and two brothers despise him, he is still their relative, and now he has been killed by an outsider, so they must avenge Mikageichi, both emotionally and rationally, because if they don't avenge him, other secret cults will see them in what way when this incident comes out?
This is related to the face of their Shadow Clan.
As for why the Shadow Clan didn't chase "Liu Xing" and the others before, Liu Xing thinks it's probably because the Shadow Clan was in a critical period of transformation into a secret cult at that time, and didn't have time to deal with "Liu Xing" and the others, but now the internal situation of the Shadow Clan has stabilized, so it's time to avenge Mikageichi.
Thinking about this, Liu Xing and Ling Ishikawa looked at each other with a tacit understanding, and they both saw the helplessness and unease in each other's eyes.
But at this moment, Miguel, who had already turned off the live broadcast and was preparing to go into hiding, suddenly turned on the live broadcast again, and from the screen of his mobile phone, it could be seen that Miguel was now on the top floor of a certain building and was constantly moving.
Before Liu Xing could ask Miguel what had happened, Miguel spoke first: "Just now when I was in the car, I directly hacked into some cameras in Kabukicho to see if anyone was following me, and I suddenly found the surveillance cameras in the official office building of Shinjuku District, so out of curiosity I took a look at the situation in the Shinjuku District official office building, and found that the long-dormant Thousand Face has actually started to move, directly flying from the second floor to the top floor, and it seems that they are targeting the headquarters of the Shadow Clan, so I think Thousand Face is very likely to know that the Shadow Clan has obtained the Mirror World fragment of the Deep Diving Society, and now Thousand Face may want to play the mantis catching the cicada, with the yellow bird behind."
Miguel's words left Liu Xing and his group in a state of bewilderment, as Miguel's statement contained a lot of information.
The most important point was, how did Thousand Face know at this time that the Shadow Clan had obtained the Mirror World fragment from the Deep Diving Society?!
It should be known that in the current situation, the Deep Diving Society probably hasn't even figured out who stole their Mirror World fragment, yet Thousand Face has already confirmed the location of the Mirror World fragment.
This made Liu Xing recall the previous incident where Thousand Face suddenly came to Tokyo Comprehensive University and assassinated Oyamaya and others. At that time, Liu Xing and the others had speculated that Thousand Face had a mole within the Deep Diving Society, and that this mole was also a member of the Deep Diving Society's Tokyo Comprehensive University branch, otherwise Thousand Face wouldn't have been able to seize such a good opportunity to strike.
And now it seems that Thousand Face indeed has such a mole, and this mole most likely also happened to discover the fleeing Zhang Shiwu, who had committed murder, theft, and arson, and tracked him to the headquarters of the Shadow Clan, so now the notified Thousand Face is preparing to attack the Shadow Clan headquarters for a black-on-black operation.
Of course, there is also another possibility that cannot be ruled out, which is that the mole of Thousand Face is Zhang Shiwu himself, and Zhang Shiwu is a double agent.
However, this possibility is relatively low, after all, Liu Xing can understand how Zhang Shiwu got involved with the Shadow Clan, because according to Zhang Shiwu's past situation, it is very likely that after leaving home, he illegally immigrated to the Island Nation, and then by chance joined the Shadow Clan, which was still a mafia group at the time. Later, when the Shadow Clan transformed into a secret cult, Zhang Shiwu may have been recruited as an internal member due to his outstanding abilities and was sent to the Deep Diving Society's Tokyo Comprehensive University branch as a mole.
As for the relationship between Zhang Shiwu and Thousand Face, Liu Xing really can't figure it out, because during the Purple Dreamliner Cruise Ship incident, Zhang Shiwu was still in the country and should have had no connection with Thousand Face.
But now, what Liu Xing is most concerned about is whether Thousand Face will attack the Shadow Clan headquarters to seize that Mirror World fragment.
At this time, Miguel had already looked down from above and spotted Thousand Face still "sightseeing" on the rooftop of the official office building in the Shinjuku district.
It seems that Thousand Face may have also discovered the Shadow Clan's lookout, so it hasn't rashly started its action.
Five minutes passed, and suddenly Miguel turned his head to look at the Shadow Clan headquarters building, because at this time, a convoy of four black sedans and one white sedan had slowly driven out of the Shadow Clan headquarters building.
It seems that the Shadow Clan is planning to move the Mirror World fragment again.
At this moment, Thousand Face also began to act, transforming into a whirlwind and arriving on top of the convoy, then following the convoy.
Of course, Miguel is also tracking the convoy and Thousand Face.
Soon, the convoy arrived at the outskirts of Tokyo, so the destination should be outside of Tokyo.
However, as the vehicle density around the convoy became lower and the roadsides became darker, Thousand Face finally couldn't resist taking action.
And Thousand Face's first target was naturally the white sedan, because this white sedan was too conspicuous in the convoy and was also right in the middle of the convoy.
So the Mirror World fragment is most likely in the white sedan.
However, to everyone's surprise, the white sedan was effortlessly cut into pieces by Thousand Face.
It seems that the white sedan was just a decoy.
At this time, the other four black sedans also stopped, and more than ten people in black clothes, armed with various weapons, got out of the cars and aimed at Thousand Face.
What caught Liu Xing's attention was that these Shadow Clan members were holding weapons with a strong sense of futuristic technology.
It seems that the mythical creature behind the Shadow Clan should be the Yis People or Migo-like high-tech mythical creature races.
This could be a bit troublesome, because a secret cult like the Shadow Clan, which follows the technological path, is much more difficult to deal with than a secret cult like the Deep Diving Society, which follows the magical path. After all, it is very difficult to learn magic, let alone learn the kind of non-exploitative magic, so in a secret cult like the Deep Diving Society, there are not many believers who can use magic, and the lower-level members are basically a bunch of weaklings with a combat power of only five.
But for a secret cult like the Shadow Clan, which follows the technological path, it's different. Their high-level members can also use magic, and they even use alien black technology to manufacture various Weapons and Equipment to arm those lower-level members, making them possess formidable combat power.
At this time, Liu Xing noticed that Zhang Shiwu came out of the front black sedan, and a young man who looked very similar to Mikageichi got out of the other side of the car.
It seems that this young man is Zhang Shiwu's big brother, but it's unclear whether he is Mikageichi's big brother or second brother.
Since the Shadow Clan successfully transformed into a secret cult, the mafia part of the Shadow Clan has been handed over to some of the middle-level cadres of the original Shadow Clan, while Mikageichi's two brothers are assisting their father in Tokyo.
At this time, Thousand Face, realizing that he was surrounded, did not panic, but directly waved his hand to unleash several wind blades to clear the surrounding Shadow Clan members.
However, the Shadow Clan members then pulled the trigger, and their weapons instantly emitted several energy beams, targeting Thousand Face.
Realizing something was wrong, Thousand Face tried to dodge, but was still hit by several energy beams, resulting in several large holes in his body.
It seems that the damage from these energy beams is quite high.
However, for Thousand Face, who was already a corpse, these injuries were nothing to him, but it did enrage him.
So Thousand Face transformed into a whirlwind again and launched a fierce attack, while the Shadow Clan members' weapons clearly needed to be recharged, so Thousand Face's attack turned three Shadow Clan members into fragments.
At this time, Thousand Face also noticed Zhang Shiwu and Mikageichi's brothers watching the show, so Thousand Face immediately changed targets, preparing to capture the leader first.
Just then, Mikageichi's brother suddenly pulled out a handgun from his pocket and directly shot off half of Thousand Face's head with one shot!
Thousand Face was stunned, and Liu Xing and the others who witnessed this were also dumbfounded.
Because according to Liu Xing, the handgun used by Mikageichi's brother seemed to be just an ordinary Desert Eagle, and the bullets fired also appeared to be ordinary bullets.
When Thousand Face regained his senses, he was truly enraged and transformed into a whirlwind, directly attacking Mikageichi's brother, and in the blink of an eye, the distance between the two was only five meters.
But at this critical moment, after six gunshots, Thousand Face fell at Mikageichi's brother's feet, and this time Thousand Face had lost its head.
It seems that Thousand Face has "died".
"Damn, this guy is quite impressive, managing to instantly headshot Thousand Face with six shots in one second. Is this guy cheating or something?!" Ling Ishikawa exclaimed.
Next to him, Liu Xing spoke up, "Don't panic, I've seen people do two seconds, seventeen shots before."