World Occult Usage Guide

Chapter 37 Fortune Telling
The golem in the surveillance footage emitted a strange "whooshing" sound and pounced on the defenseless mother and daughter.

"Zombies, it's zombies!" the girl cried out, her hands trembling with fear. "Don't bite me!"

"Get out of the way!"

The older woman embraced the immobile girl, and the golem's hands struck empty air. It struggled to move its stiff neck, looking at the two of them for help.

"Don't go...I..."

"Don't be afraid, Mom will protect you!" The older woman used the office furniture as obstacles, circling the golem repeatedly. "Hold my hand!"

"Woooooooo..."

Lin An squinted and noticed something strange.

Unlike the golems in the dojo, this "golem" moved slowly, retained most of its human appearance, and even wore a few tattered clothes, but its muscles were stiff, its skin was gray, and its face was covered with bumpy bumps, making it ugly and bizarre.

“That golem is still half-human, and it’s asking for help from others based on its own will. It has no intention of killing unless I give the order to control it.” Kim Ji-eun picked up a microphone and threw it to Lin An. “If you want to save them, why don’t you play a game with me?”

I need to stall for time, he thought.

Once the golem is out of hypnosis, kill it!

Kim Ji-eun was on edge, staring intently at Lin An until he picked up the microphone, opened the roll of paper on it, and nodded. Kim Ji-eun couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Fell into a trap!
It seems he wants to save the people inside.

“The rules are as follows.” Jin Zhien gripped the stone slab tightly to ease his inner tension. “The girl’s birth date and time are written on the paper. You can cast a divination for her at any time; at the same time, I will also cast a divination for my ‘golem’.”

"What's the explanation for this?" Lin An asked.

“Since you claim that Dragon Kingdom is the orthodox school of Bazi (Four Pillars of Destiny) astrology, why not use your predictions to help them escape danger?” Jin Zhien explained. “You can use the microphone to tell them their next move, and I will activate the demon golem based on the divination to continue chasing them.”

Lin An pondered for a while, then pushed up his sunglasses.

"Okay."

The golem in the office suddenly froze. The mother and daughter were stunned for a moment, and before they could relax, the golem let out a hoarse roar.

Unlike before when it hesitated, the golem sped up and launched a frenzied attack.

"Thunder over Earth (豫), lower Kun (坤) above Zhen (震), Kun represents earth, Zhen represents thunder. Follow the times and the trend, this is the source of harmony and joy. Stay where you are and do not move!"

A deep, rumbling voice suddenly rang out from somewhere, echoing throughout the office, startling the mother and daughter.

"who is it?"

Stand still and wait to be bitten to death by zombies?
The older woman intended to continue moving towards the door to avoid the golem's attack, but the girl's legs suddenly gave way and she fell to the ground, pulling her down a few steps as well.

Seeing the golem's fierce expression and its relentless advance, the older woman had no choice but to shield her daughter with her own body.

"Boom!"

The next moment, the golem lost its aim in its frenzy, brushed past the two of them, and crashed into the wall. Seeing this, the older woman grabbed her daughter's hand and ran towards the door.

"Bang bang bang!"

She grabbed the doorknob and shook it hard, but the door remained firmly locked from the inside.

"No! I can't open it!" Despair welled up inside her, but as she glanced at her daughter beside her, fear was gradually replaced by determination. "No matter what, I must get you out of here!"

"Gurgle...gurgle..."

The golem let out a few meaningless roars, pulled out its undamaged head, and turned back to the two of them. Its dark eye sockets held no light, only a chilling killing intent.

"The hexagram 'Great Exceeding' (泽风大过) is formed by the lower trigram 'Xun' (巽) and the upper trigram 'Dui' (兑). Dui represents lake, and Xun represents wood. These are conflicting hexagrams, indicating treacherous situations. Lie down immediately!"

The voice on the radio rang out again.

"Lie down!?"

The older woman remembered the voice that had told them to "stay put," and although she didn't obey, she had to stay put because the girl fell, and the golem indeed didn't hurt them.

Could this person be here to help them?

Should we listen to him?

Before they could even think, the golem's massive hand lashed out, and without a doubt, it could crush their bones in an instant!
The afterimages were overwhelming, as if there was no way out!
"Get down!"

The older woman pressed her arms down on her daughter, and the two fell heavily to the ground. The golem's fingers embedded themselves in the wall, and the door creaked and fell off the wall, letting in the light from outside.

It's an export!
We can escape!

The older woman's eyes lit up, and she was about to roll on the spot with the girl and squeeze through the hole in the door when the monster, as if anticipating this, raised its legs and jumped high into the air.

"Boom!"

Like an earthquake, it created a large, sunken crater.

The older woman turned to the side, using all her strength to push the girl, who was shrouded in shadow, away. A sharp pain shot through her arm as it was instantly crushed and deformed by the golem's feet. "Mom!"

Inside the temple, the surveillance footage flickered as the girl collapsed onto her unconscious mother, bursting into tears.

Kim Ji-eun shook her head and sighed with emotion.

"Tsk tsk, people from the Dragon Kingdom, your divination is nothing special. It's unclear, full of loopholes, and can't determine the course of fate at all. Why don't you just abandon that old-fashioned method and learn our creativity!"

A divination stick inscribed with the language of the Hibiscus Kingdom was thrown in front of Lin An; it was a very auspicious sign.

Four Pillars of Destiny divination emphasizes "100% accuracy." Once Jin Zhien calculates the hexagram, there is no room for change.

On the contrary, Lin An's divination often failed to be implemented, after all, "heavenly secrets cannot be revealed", and the divination can only reveal a part of the operation of the Dao, which is difficult to explain and full of the possibility of human interpretation.

He could only ascertain the general direction of the future and offered his opinions to the mother and daughter, which contained many ambiguities.

These ambiguous details gave the golem an opportunity to exploit.

“The feng shui isn’t good for you.” Kim Ji-eun rested her chin on her hand, pressing her fingers against the pentagram stone slab. “So, do you still want to continue the divination?”

Lin An did not answer. He closed his eyes, and the I Ching, Bagua, and Qimen Dunjia appeared in his mind at the same time. The girl's fate was like a gray chess piece, wandering among the obscure and unclear hexagrams.

Heaven and earth, sun and moon, water and fire, wind and thunder...

It's now!

"Wow!"

He shook the divination stick container in his hand, and a bad divination stick fell to the ground, causing Kim Ji-eun to burst into laughter.

"Stop calculating, you're going to ruin them!" He casually picked up a brightly colored divination stick container, on which was written the birth date and time of the demon statue. He shook out a bamboo stick.

He didn't even bother to glance at the divination result. The energy of Canaanite magic flowed, and the golem walked heavily toward the mother and daughter.

"Hide under the desk!" Lin An shouted into the microphone.

"Shut up! Why should I listen to you!" the girl said, wiping away her tears. "So what if I die! I don't care anymore! Nobody expects me to keep living anyway! Maybe her life will be easier after I'm gone!"

"If you don't want to crawl back into your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be an excellent warrior."

Upon hearing this, a surge of fierce determination welled up in the girl's chest. With great effort, she dragged her unconscious mother and stumbled towards the desk.

“A futile struggle,” Kim Ji-eun muttered to herself. “As long as I have this intention, their deaths are a foregone conclusion… Fate is always on my side.”

Before the words were even finished, the rickety door snapped open with a "crack," the door panel collapsing inward and crashing behind the golem.

"Hmm?"

The golem groaned, its hand sweeping across the girl's calf, but missing its target. It then wobbled unsteadily, its clumsy body crashing to the ground with a loud thud.

"what!"

The girl was in so much pain that tears streamed down her face. She forced back her tears and curled up with her mother under the desk. Her anger was completely gone, and she couldn't help but shrink into her mother's arms, sobbing uncontrollably.

Faced with the danger of death, she suffered a complete mental breakdown.

If the golem launches another attack, the two incapacitated individuals will undoubtedly die.

"Huh... he's not dead?"

Kim Ji-eun picked up the discarded bamboo skewer and was surprised to find that it was a "medium" hexagram, which puzzled her.

With my luck improving, I should be able to get the golem to kill them this time.

Too strange……

Could it be that my mystique sometimes goes awry?
Jin Zhien shook off her distracting thoughts and looked down at Lin An. The golem was gradually awakening, transmitting an increasingly strong resonance to his magic stone.

Forget it, as long as I kill the person in front of me, dealing with them will be easy.

"The outcome is already decided," Kim Ji-eun said coldly. "You have lost, Chinese."

Ignoring the increasingly loud sounds of the golems moving around him, Lin An looked at the monitor and said calmly, "Little Jin, the outcome is still uncertain."

"Forehead……"

Despite being at a disadvantage, the young man's tone remained nonchalant. Kim Ji-eun couldn't see through his expression behind his sunglasses, and a wave of panic washed over her.

He recalled the extensive hypnosis he had undergone previously and wasn't sure if Lin An had no backup plan. The words caught in his throat, and he found himself in a difficult situation.

After thinking for a moment, Kim Ji-eun suddenly had an idea.

Through his mysterious manipulation, Lin An is probably already facing a run of bad luck.

Since that's the case, once we calculate his "death scenario," no matter what method he uses to continue struggling, he can't escape the trajectory of fate!
The main reason is that he believed the "prophet's" prediction, which will absolutely happen!
Jin Zhien smiled slightly: "If you want me to let them go, hand over your birth date and time so I can do a fortune telling. How about it?"

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