Chapter 52

"What bad luck... We have to locate and plant the flag in the snow... Damn the snow, damn the ground!"

Ceobe, who was wearing a black winter suit, cursed as she moved with difficulty in the snow, taking one deep step and one shallow step.

"Forget it. We are already lucky. Don't forget that the boss also sent a team of unlucky guys to stop the CPA from the Northeast Division... That's why those cops arrived so slowly."

"Hiss... Will none of those guys survive? I made an appointment with that guy to have a good drink after this job... No wonder he entrusted his wish to me before leaving today. I thought he was worrying too much..."

"Then your wine is wasted. That team is obviously the boss's abandoned pawn."

The other Ceobe shrugged, her expression twisted for a moment.

"They are miserable too. If it weren't for their own wishes coming true... Well, it doesn't matter. Let's do our best. When the time comes to make a wish, don't forget to help him make his wish."

Ceobe uttered two “awws,” lowered her head, and said no more.

The four Ceobs continued to move forward following the marks on the map. In the snowy field, only the wind was humming a song.

"Is it around here?"

The leader, Ceobe, turned around and asked.

The others nodded at the mysterious line chart.

"Okay, let's get started. This place in Linling is really weird and cold..."

Keobe, who was at the back, stamped her feet, as if she was chilled by the cold night wind.

Although the snow had stopped, it had become colder.

The leading Keobe pulled the black and white pennant spinning in the air out of her pocket. The small pennant soon floated and rotated automatically in the air, and the surrounding black and white pixels also circled it like a satellite.

The three flags set up by the middleman to use humans as nourishment to forcibly awaken the activity of the tree spirit are essentially some kind of formation. Formations are a common form of assistance/attack in the inner world. The famous Qi Men Dun Jia and the West District Magic Array are both types of formations.

The middleman used the flag as the center of the entire formation, and used the en factor to outline the runes that connected the centers of the formation in order to achieve the flow of the mysterious factor and realize the effect he desired.

Ceobe, who was in the lead, placed the flags exactly as they were. Two chains of pixel blocks, one black and one white, extended from around the flags suspended in the air, heading towards the direction of the other two flags in the distance.

"Report, Flag One is in position."

Ceobe looked at the watch on her wrist and began to report to the middleman in front of the giant tree.

"clatter."

A slight sound was heard, which was the signal from the other side indicating that it had received the message.

"Now, let's just wait."

Ceobe stood up and casually prepared to lean against a birch tree. He wanted to take out a cigarette from his pocket and smoke it, but the next second, he was interrupted by the fluorescent sea behind him.

The blue color like broken stars flickered in the snowy field at night, almost turning the ground into a starry sky.

A sharp wind blew out from the space without any warning, and a young man with indistinguishable features appeared out of nowhere with a sharp spear blade. The sharp spear blade went straight to the back of the neck of the unsuspecting Keobe. Gu Qingming did not kill him, but knocked him out with the side of the spear.

Seeing their companion fall down the moment he smoked, others were wondering if he had put himself in some kind of smoking ban that would make him faint in order to quit smoking. The next second, they saw a little bit of blue water remaining behind him.

"Someone! It's the CPA!"

A man shouted loudly, but just as he uttered the first word, he found that his throat seemed to be strangled by an invisible hand and he could not make any other sound.

[“The Master said: Do not speak what is not proper.”]

Zheng Qiuji, who was hiding in a snow pile not far away, looked at Ceope who was struggling frantically while grabbing his neck, and smiled ironically.

You executioners, now you have come to this day.

Zheng Qiuji thought.

The other two understood the current situation instantly. Their special abilities were one fire and one ice. The moment the tide appeared, Keobe, who was of the ice element, swung an ice blade with one hand. Unfortunately, the owner of the tide had already taken Gu Qingming and dodged behind them.

"Watch your back!"

Keobe, who was of the fire element, felt the abnormal wind behind him, so he quickly turned around and punched out. His fist was stained with red flames and was blown into a slender shape by the cold wind.

Gu Qingming did not retreat, and the green wind blew in the opposite direction along the opponent's fist, bringing with it the cold wind. Keobe, who was of the fire element, did not expect that the opponent would not retreat at all, so he quickly turned around and took a step, doing a backflip to avoid the tornado mixed with fire, leaving a short scratch on the snow. When he looked at his opponent carefully, he was surprised to find that the opponent's face was too young.

“…Underage?!”

Fire-type Keobe, who was nearly burned by her own fire, was in disbelief.

"Oh my, so what if he's underage? Isn't he much more powerful than an adult who dares to stand at the downwind position even though his supernatural power is fire?"

A bony hand was placed on the shoulder of the fire-type Keobe. Chu Zhongyuan leaned over and said something sarcastic. He put one hand in his pocket, and the fluorescent sea-like water tide under his feet did not even recede.

"Those guys are such losers. So many people can't stop the CPA's vanguard—"

The ice-type mutant threw three more ice blades over, but Chu Zhongyuan's figure disappeared in an instant. The ice blades vaguely crossed the dots of blue light and fell into the snow behind, disappearing without a trace.

"Hey, your aim is really bad, unlike me—"

Chu Zhongyuan appeared behind Keobe, who was half-kneeling on the ground because of the suffocating feeling on his neck. Then he raised a branch that he had picked up at some point and hit him hard on the back of his neck.

Ceope opened her mouth and tried to scream, but she couldn't make any sound because of the effect of the word "Don't Speak Unless You Want to".

"crack shot!"

Chu Zhongyuan smiled like a devil that had just crawled out of the underworld.

The evil ghost's accomplice Zheng Qiuji clasped his hands together: I'm so ashamed.

“Click—”

Zheng Qiuji took out an intercom from his arms that made a slight clicking sound. The next second, Luo Dong's voice rang in the ears of the three people.

"Be careful, the middleman has already put down three flags, and he has started counting down!"

As long as it is a formation, an external force is needed to push the mysterious factor to start flowing.

Just like the initial fall of dominoes, after all the flags are placed in the designated positions, the middleman will personally give the formation the starting "force".

Luo Dong looked through the gap at the middleman with a serious expression, who was surrounded by black and white pigment blocks and en factor.

When the middleman finishes the countdown and activates the formation, the flags will be difficult to remove, and the branches on the villagers and tribesmen will begin to grow wildly.

To stop this, they must destroy the flag before the twenty-second countdown.

"twenty……"

The faint voices of Luo Dong and the middleman overlapped. Gu Qingming and Chu Zhongyuan looked at each other and their expressions became serious.

The two people who had been a little too proud of themselves because the process was too smooth quickly adjusted their attitude. Gu Qingming, as the main attacker, attracted the attention of the two psychics in the front. The ability of fire was the easiest to deal with. He just needed to use the sharp spear to sweep up the accumulated snow and then put out the flames that seemed to be shivering in the cold wind.

"nineteen,"

But the ice was a little difficult to deal with, and Gu Qingming had to concentrate very closely on his surroundings in order to be able to use the wind to deflect all the ice blades.

At the moment when Gu Qingming restrained the two psychics, Chu Zhongyuan reacted very quickly and teleported to the side of the flag, and hit the quietly floating flag with a birch stick using a standard golf attack posture.

"Slippery space-type! Loach boy!"

The ice-type Keobe had a rather irritable personality and started cursing straight away.

The flag was tilted at a 60-degree angle to the ground. Chu Zhongyuan stuck out his tongue, a fluorescent wave flashed by, and he disappeared again.

The three ice blades of the ice element Keobe became a joke, and they pierced the birch tree behind them with thorns.

If the birch tree had intelligence, it would have started cursing by now.

"ten……"

Luo Dong's voice overlapped with the middleman's voice, counting down quietly.

Gu Qingming raised his spear and opened the fire-type Keobe. The green wind formed the shape of a long snake and rushed towards the flag not far away, causing the flag to tilt to ninety degrees.

Just a little bit!

"six……"

Chu Zhongyuan dodged another attack from the ice-type Keobe. He estimated the distance between him and the flag, and with the fluorescent water in his hand flashing, he casually threw the condensed space towards the flag.

The ice-type Keobe rushed to stop him, but was knocked aside by Gu Qingming's spear and knocked unconscious by the wind blade.

"five……"

The concentrated space formed by the fluorescent water tide fell steadily on the flag. Chu Zhongyuan's accuracy had made great progress under the training of Gu Qingming and Cao Sheng, especially at such a critical moment.

"Four……"

"Bang!"

At the same time as the fourth sound, there was a muffled explosion. The condensed space was suddenly released by Chu Zhongyuan, like a spring that was compressed to the extreme and then released, bursting out with terrible energy like a small bomb explosion.

The chain of black and white pixels extending around the flag returns to its original state along with the flag, turning into translucent fragments that break apart in the cold wind.

At the same time, the middleman's unaware voice came from the intercom:

"three,"

"two,"

"one."

Gu Qingming hesitated for a moment, but at the last moment he chose to use the spear face to knock out the last fire-type Keober who was left behind, rather than using the spear face, which would have been bleeding everywhere and whose life was in danger.

What Ceobe did was abominable to both humans and gods, but Gu Qingming would not kill like them. After all, their lives had to be kept for trial in the Supreme Court of the Themis Law Society.

This is the most essential difference between CPA and Ceope.

"well."

Gu Qingming sighed.

If they were faster, they could have wiped them out before the four Ceobs put up the flags.

This eradication mission was not completed perfectly.

Gu Qingming thought coldly that he was doing the CPA task as homework.

"I've been wanting to ask this for a long time, why would a villain insist on calling himself a dog... But never mind, the flag has been cleared successfully! You are worthy of being the master!"

Chu Zhongyuan looked very happy and clapped himself ceremoniously.

"Then we just need to send the locations of these Ceobs to our CPA colleagues who are coming for help. They should be here soon."

Zheng Qiuji poked his head out from behind a snow pile. They did not hear Ceobe's initial conversation and did not know that this difficult illegal organization actually sent a suicide squad to entangle the CPA colleagues who came to support them.

He spent a few moments editing on the intercom and had already entered the longitude and latitude for automatic positioning.

"Leaving them here... I always feel a little uneasy. Although the relationship between Ceope is definitely not good enough to take away teammates who failed the mission."

Chu Zhongyuan sighed.

"By the way, Lao Zheng, can this intercom 3D print out a few pairs of handcuffs for me?"

Zheng Qiuji: ???

Brother, it’s really just a walkie-talkie, can you please not ask for such outrageous things?