Chapter 328: Alien Games, Countdown, Bloody Storm (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

August 13, 19:00 Japan time, Osaka Port.

Late in the night, Osaka Bay enveloped in a peaceful twilight. In the distance, the Tempozan Ferris Wheel lit up the night sky. Countless LED lights shimmered across its steel structure, transforming the massive 112-meter-tall structure into a halo.

At this moment, at the edge of the harbor fence, Fan Dongqing, Ke Qingzheng, Gu Qiye, Urushihara Liuli, Garfield, Jiujiu, Puppet Father, Kalina, Alexandra, Oda Hideo, Uriel, Esther, and the twelve people from Hongyi gathered here.

Parked next to them were four red and blue camouflage fighter jets ready to take off.

The "Light-Eating Bee Extermination Operation" will begin in five hours. At that time, most members will board the fighter planes made by Garfield using his supernatural powers and rush to the island at full speed.

In the task allocation, some people are responsible for exterminating the worker bees, some are responsible for raiding the hive, competing with the four queen bees, and beheading the queen bee, and of course some will stay in Osaka.

Esther Doolittle, the girl with black hair and red eyes, was lying quietly in an open coffin, the hem of her Gothic Lolita skirt spreading like a flower.

Before she fell asleep, she instructed Oda Hideo to wake her up before the action began.

The reason why she gave the instructions to Oda Hideo was probably because he was the only one in the organization who would knock on the coffin twice respectfully and wake her up gently and slowly.

The methods used by others were either quite brutal, or they were freaks like Kalina and the Puppet Father who had different thinking from ordinary people. Esther would never give them the task of waking her up, lest she get so angry that she would directly overturn all four of Garfield's fighter planes.

In fact, Esther will not participate in the assault on the nameless island. She will stay in Osaka to prevent the attack of the Bee Tribe - although everyone thinks that is nonsense, she just wants to sleep, and the probability of the Bee Tribe suddenly attacking Osaka is also very small.

The sea was already high tide. Under the cover of night, the waves were surging, and the black tide hit the lighthouse, breaking into a piece of white waves, splashing high into the sky.

A cumulonimbus cloud is also floating over from a distance. It may rain in a while, and judging from the size of the cumulonimbus cloud, the rain will be quite heavy.

At this moment, except for Esther who was resting in the coffin, the remaining eleven members of Hongyi opened their tablets and listened to the long speech from Commander Chen Qian.

Gu Qinye didn't have a tablet, so he had to hug Yuriel's shoulders.

The two of them leaned against the fence, enjoying the night breeze, while silently looking at the dignified woman on the tablet, their heads almost touching.

If the background of the picture was not a conference room, anyone would think they had turned on CCTV's News Channel. The commander's appearance was really too formal.

"Just to reconfirm, do you all know your assigned tasks?" Commander Chen Qian asked, "Especially you, Fan Dongqing."

"What's wrong with me?" Fan Dongqing asked, wondering how many times he'd been singled out for attention. He was wearing his pure white, double-breasted Tang suit again today, and was sitting on a public wooden chair, one arm folded over his shoulder, legs crossed, his other hand clutching his phone.

"Don't forget what you should do when you get to the island," said Chen Qian.

"Remember, the one that Garfield and I fought against that Gigantamaxed Bee-Hound, his name seemed to be 'Guli', right?" Fan Dongqing tilted his head and asked unhappily.

"Yes," Chen Qian said, "Garfield's drone is still monitoring the situation on the island. Right now, neither the hive nor the worker bees on the island have shown any unusual behavior. They probably haven't realized the surprise attack we're about to launch."

Garfield sat on the fence, turning up the collar of his sweater to block the night wind, looking down at the drone surveillance footage on his phone, his blue eyes expressionless.

The surveillance footage on the mobile phone cuts back and forth very quickly, sometimes jumping to the entrance of the hive, sometimes jumping to the east, west, south and north sides of the island, sometimes to the beach on the edge of the island, and even to the undulating sea surface around the island.

His drone inspected every corner - but he didn't dare fly into the hive, because that was meaningless: as long as it got close to the hive, it would be discovered by the four bee queens and crushed in an instant.

"What's the point of making us wait here for five hours?" Fan Dongqing yawned.

"If the bee tribe suddenly takes action before twelve o'clock, the plan may change."

"Then you won't want us to wait at the port for five hours, right?" Fan Dongqing asked again.

"Alright, I'll allow you to wander around a bit, but don't stray too far." Chen Qian sighed, "Even if I didn't tell you, you'd definitely wander around anyway... You're always like this, never taking your mission seriously."

"It's been a great help."

Fan Dongqing put his hands in his pockets and walked straight towards Urushihara Ruri as he spoke.

Urushihara Ruri tilted her head, gazing silently at the Tempozan Ferris Wheel in the distance. The brightly lit giant wheel was reflected in her glass-clear eyes.

"What?" She curled the corners of her mouth and slowly turned around to look at Fan Dongqing.

"I'm asking you to go shopping," Fan Dongqing said, "What else can I do? Don't act stupid."

Urushihara Ruri tilted her head, "What on earth did I do to make you so obsessed?"

"I don't understand you, so I want to understand you." Fan Dongqing said.

"There are so many people you don't understand, and I'm not the only one." Urushihara Ruri said lightly.

“There are many people I don’t understand, but I don’t want to understand them. I only want to understand you.”

Urushihara Ruri was stunned for a moment, a self-deprecating arc curled up at the corner of her mouth, "Sometimes... I feel like I'm a puppet. Even I can't understand myself, let alone you."

"So, are you leaving or not?" Fan Dongqing took a hand out of his pocket and stretched it towards her.

Urushihara Ruri was silent for a while, then looked up at Fan Dongqing, her eyes clear.

"Let me make a bet, she won't accept it." Jiujiu said, her pink twintails rising and falling in the sea breeze.

"I don't think so either," Garfield said. "But actually, Urushihara Ruri doesn't seem to dislike narcissistic men that much, but I don't know why she keeps rejecting him."

"Garfield, don't you know nothing about love?" Jiujiu turned his head and stared at him with a frown.

Garfield turned up the collar of his sweater to cover his mouth and was too lazy to continue talking.

After that, to the surprise of both of them, Urushihara Ruri accepted Fan Dongqing's invitation and went out on the street with him. Jiujiu was dumbfounded and his jaw almost dropped.

Ke Qingzheng watched the scene silently, adjusted his glasses and had to stay alone at the port in a daze. He usually went shopping with Fan Dongqing.

Kalina, Oda Hideo, and Alexandra took out a bottle of red wine from somewhere, took a few glasses, and sat on the shore sipping it.

The puppet father hugged his shoulders with his oversized windbreaker fluttering in the sea breeze. He was alone, staring at the cumulonimbus clouds drifting in the distance, and a hoarse mumbling came from under the bandages, but no one could hear what he was saying.

"Since they are like this, why don't we go for a walk together?" Gu Qinye turned his head to look at Yuriel.

"The operation is about to begin, why relax now..." Yuriel raised her head and met Gu Qiye's gaze mid-sentence. She was silent for a moment and then changed her words, "Okay."

The two of them arrived at the harborside. Rows of lanterns hung above the night market. Smoke curled from the snack stalls, carrying the aroma of grilled fish. The stall owner's shovel slammed, and the splash of oil from the iron plate almost overlapped with the red light of the lanterns above.

Gu Qiye bought a box of takoyaki and leaned against the railing with Yuriel. They looked down at the river, their dim silhouettes cast on the water. As the cruise ship passed, the ripples shattered the two tiny shadows, merging them into a sea of shimmering light.

The salty sea breeze scratched their cheeks, and the guitar melody of street performers and the sound of tireless waves reached their ears.

"I've never ridden a Ferris wheel." Gu Qiye suddenly raised his head and looked at the Tempozan Ferris Wheel in the distance.

"I can sit with you once." Yuriel also looked up, "If you like."

"Let's talk about it later. Otherwise, if we encounter an emergency on the Ferris wheel, we won't be able to get off." Gu Qiye smiled.

"knew."

Yuriel looked away from the Ferris wheel and followed Gu Qinye back to the brightly lit street.

However, at this moment, right above the Tempozan Ferris Wheel not far from Osaka Port, one of the Ferris wheel boxes was filled with a horrible blood color, and a scene of blood plasma overflowing like a B-level movie was being played out.

Cameron, the Three-Hive Marquis, tore open a man's chest with his claws. The man lost consciousness before he could even scream. At this moment, an ice-blue crystal suddenly appeared in Cameron's right hand.

This is the product of her supernatural power.

She used her claws to embed the crystal into the man's still beating heart. The man's heart began to beat violently, and the strange sound echoed in the silent Ferris wheel box. The next moment, the man's body gradually turned into a giant cocoon.

Cameron looked down from the Ferris wheel, and the entire Osaka Port seemed to spread out in her sea-blue eyes.

In the distance, a huge sightseeing boat approached, with strings of warm yellow lights installed on it. It slowly plowed through the inky sea, illuminating the surrounding sea surface.

If you look closely, you can see that the tourists on the sightseeing boat have all been gutted, but they maintain a strange smile on their faces. Inside their hearts, a sea-blue crystal is beating, and cocoon-like white silk gradually wraps around their bodies, transforming them into inhuman creatures.

"The game... begins." Cameron raised the corners of his mouth and licked his lips.

She looked into the distance through the window of the Ferris wheel box. Under the night sky, the cables of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge formed a golden string across the night sky, extending to the undulating mountain shadows.

Further away, the skyscrapers of Umeda and Abeno districts stand side by side under the sky like glowing giants.

Osaka Port's nightscape is a breathtaking blend of light and darkness. The tourists, jubilant and clinking glasses, and Cameron, surveying the city like a predator, share a common understanding: tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.

(End of this chapter)