Chapter 117 Heavy Rain, Tokyo, Bloody Auction (I)
July 19th, the day before the underground auction officially opened for admission.
Ji Minghuan's three bodies were doing nothing that day. His original body tossed and turned in the dark. When he was hungry, he picked up food from the plate on the table. The prison cell was quiet, and there was no sign of the tutor's visit.
Gu Wenyu stayed in the room of the Roppongi Hotel, playing music games with a restraint belt from morning to night; Xia Pingzhou sat quietly in the cafe, drinking milk coffee and reading quietly with Ayase Origami. Oda Takikage prepared food for them.
At night, he controlled the two bodies one after another to go to bed, and fell asleep soon after closing his eyes.
Unexpectedly, he was not awakened by his mentor that night.
This also means that the mission that the Salvation Society wants them to perform has nothing to do with this Tokyo auction.
Ji Minghuan had no idea what the Salvation Society intended them to do.
He only knew that this was a good thing. At least he could focus his attention on the auction for the time being.
It was 8 o'clock in the evening on July 20th, and there were only four hours left before the Tokyo underground auction began.
The weather in Tokyo was not sunny that day. The gloomy cumulonimbus clouds swept over the sky. The heavy rain poured down from the sky, as if it was going to turn the city into a water city like Venice. The water on the streets was high enough to submerge passers-by's calves.
At this moment, on the top floor of an abandoned building.
Unit 2 Xia Pingzhou was walking slowly on the dilapidated and dark corridor. When he reached the end of the corridor, he turned his head and looked inside the gate. What he saw was a ruin. This should have been a two-story building, but because the upper floor was missing a lot of ground, it looked like two floors formed a building.
At this time, ten figures were scattered above the ruins. Some were standing in remote corners, some were sitting on top of abandoned machines, and some were sitting on top of piles of waste. These figures came into his sight one after another.
The second member of the group, Jack the Ripper, was still wearing the Japanese-style black and white school uniform today. She sat in a corner of the ruins, lowered her eyes, and silently played with the dark red dagger in her hand.
Member No. 3, Ayase Origami, was wearing an ochre-red kimono. She was sitting on the top of the ruins with a piece of paper under her, quietly reading a collection of haiku.
Member No. 4 Oda Takikage changed into a black ninja outfit, leaned against a pillar and closed his eyes to rest.
Member No. 5, Lan Duoduo, was wearing a punk-style T-shirt and jeans. She was sitting on a broken vending machine, playing the PSP game console.
Andrew, member No. 6 of the team, was still dressed as a western cowboy. He was holding a cigarette with a slight curve at the corner of his mouth. He lowered his eyes and wiped the black sniper rifle in his arms with a towel.
Robert, member No. 7, was wearing a white shirt and a square mechanical box on his head, but the difference was that there were no two antennas on the top of the box as usual. He sat there motionless, with his head drooping and taking a nap.
Member No. 8, the hacker, was wearing a jumpsuit. The black-haired boy was sitting in the corner, playing with his phone silently.
Member No. 9, the descendant of the bloodline, was still wearing a bright red dress. She held her cheeks with both hands, and the figure of Xia Pingzhou was reflected in her red pupils.
Team member No. 10, Bai Tanlang, covered his entire body with a cloak, and underneath he seemed to be wearing a leather jacket and leather pants. He raised his left eye, which had a scar and a white cataract, and looked at Xia Pingzhou quietly.
Member No. 11, An Lance, was still wearing the familiar British suit and was playing with a coin.
Above the silent ruins, the clear sound of silver coins twirling in the air could be heard clearly.
An Luns placed the flipped coin on the back of his right hand, curled the corners of his mouth, and looked up at Xia Pingzhou.
He said, "Newcomer, you are the slowest one."
"Where is the captain?" Xia Pingzhou looked around, but still could not see the captain.
"Not yet." An Lunsi said, raised the back of his hand, and asked himself: "Guess, front or back?"
"On the other hand." Xia Pingzhi replied immediately.
“What a pity.”
An Luns smiled slightly, opened his left hand, and saw that the coin on the back of his right hand was facing forward.
Xia Pingzhou was too lazy to continue paying attention to him. He glanced around and stopped at member No. 7 Robert, the man with the mechanical box on his head. Since Robert was still here, it meant that he had not sneaked into the auction.
This is good news for the defense.
As long as Robert can't open a door from inside the auction venue, the White Crow Brigade can only launch a frontal attack if they want to break into the auction.
If the brigade attacks from the front, they have plenty of means of defense. What they fear is a sudden attack from within, which would lead to the division of the battlefield and personnel, and they would be defeated one by one.
The Blood Descendant propped his hands on the ruined ground, tilted his swan-like neck to look out the window at the heavy rain, his red eyes reflecting the rain, "Today's weather is really nice..."
Lan Duoduo lowered his head to play games and muttered, "What a horrible weather."
"What kind of weather is needed to kill people?" Bai Tanlang said.
Andrew was holding a cigarette in his mouth. The old cowboy couldn't help but press down the brim of his cowboy hat and teased Xia Pingzhou with a smile: "Newcomer, what are you doing standing there like an idiot? Your young lady is waiting for you."
Xia Pingzhu looked at him expressionlessly, then climbed up the mountain of waste, jumped onto a broken wall, and sat down silently next to Ayase Origami.
"Let's play this."
Ayase Origami put down the haiku collection, and a piece of paper flew out from her sleeve. On it was a Gomoku grid that had been drawn in advance. There was also a pencil stuck in the paper.
Xia Pingzhou looked at the Gobang grid on the page and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The action would start in four hours, but these people were more relaxed than each other. It seemed that what they were going to do was not to kill everyone at the auction venue, but to find a place to soak in the hot spring and chat together.
He took the pencil from Ayase Origami and drew a cross on the middle square of the Gomoku game.
At the same time, in another corner of Tokyo, not far away from the Amemiya Building.
It was raining heavily. A Maybach was driving on a heavily flooded road. The headlights cut through the hazy rain curtain and found the road ahead.
Not far ahead, under the red traffic light, there was a huge, pitch-black insect pupa hanging upside down.
The driver of the Maybach was a young man with a crew cut, sunglasses and a suit; the old man sitting in the back was tall and handsome, wearing a bright yellow kimono with cornflowers painted on it, and his hair was combed back.
The Maybach stopped at a red light.
The driver's foot released from the brake pedal. He looked up and frowned, looking forward.
Looking at the foreign object hanging upside down under the traffic light, he said to the old man behind him:
"This is……"
The old man also narrowed his eyes, slightly opened the car window and looked sideways forward.
The rain was like a waterfall, washing over the giant pupa and flowing on its surface. The traffic lights were glowing dimly in the rain, and the intersection was deserted with no other cars in sight.
The old man was suddenly startled and immediately ordered: "Go!"
At this moment, the pitch-black pupa suddenly opened, and a figure wrapped in restraints came out of it. A restraint grabbed the headlight of the Maybach, and the black pupa fell right above the Maybach.
He used the restraints to reach inside the gap in the car window and pressed the window control button.
The car window slowly opened, and the wind and rain outside the window blew in. The old man stepped back in shock, only to see a dark head wearing sunglasses sticking out slightly, waving at the two of them with a restraint, and then said faintly:
"Good evening, gentlemen."
The driver suddenly turned around, picked up the Nambu-style pocket pistol on the seat, and fired several shots at Hei Pupa's head.
Bang! Bang! Bang! When the flashes of fire from the muzzle died down, Black Pupa was no longer in the car.
Instead, a restraint was extended into the car, the door was suddenly opened, and then Hei Pupa sat in and slowly closed the door. He also stretched out a finger and gently pressed the window control button, causing the window to rise up with a beep.
The wind and rain were no longer blowing in our faces, and the whole world seemed to be quiet, but a large area of the back seat was wet.
Hei Jin looked at the old man, then turned to look at the driver and murmured, "Well... the rain is really heavy, don't you think? It's not too much to ask me to take shelter from the rain, right?" As he spoke, Hei Jin wiped the rain off his face.
The driver and the old man were both stunned, wondering how the hell you could get on the bus so naturally and talk to us in such a natural tone? !
The driver's finger was on the trigger, but at this second two restraints extended from the black pupa's body, one of which bound the driver's left hand, and the other grabbed the old man's neck.
While Hei Pupa was suffocating the old man, he used the other restraint to pull the gun out of the driver's hand and made it fall onto the seat.
"Mr. Fujimoto, please put your hand out!" the driver shouted at the old man.
The driver's ability is that as long as he touches a human, he can take himself and that human to a place 50 meters away from the original place. As long as he holds Mr. Fujimoto's hand, he can take Mr. Fujimoto out of the interior of the Maybach!
The old man stretched out his right hand tremblingly, but at the moment when their palms were about to touch, Hei Pupa suddenly wrapped a restraint belt around the driver's waist and tied him up.
At the same time, the power steal was activated.
[Passive skill "Restraint Suppression" has taken effect: While being bound by your restraint belt, the opponent cannot use any extraordinary abilities. ]
[Active skill "Power Steal" has been activated: Your restraint belt has stolen the power of the power user "Ryukawa Yamato", which can be released within 24 hours (after "releasing the skill" or "exceeding the time limit", the stored power will automatically disappear). ]
"Get some sleep. I'll attend the auction in your place."
Black Pupa slightly increased the strength of the two restraints and wrapped them around the mouths and noses of the old man and the driver at the same time. Not long after, the two of them fainted due to lack of oxygen.
He used restraints to pile the two people on the ground in the back seat, then sat in the driver's seat himself, took off the restraints, put on the sunglasses that the driver had dropped in the car, and drove the Maybach towards the Amemiya Building.
At the same time, pieces of restraints peeled off from the cuffs.
The restraints slowly formed into a human figure, and a dark incarnation took shape inside the car, gradually simulating the appearance of an old man in a kimono, and then climbed up.
Black Pupa hummed a song, tapped the steering wheel with his fingers, stepped on the pedal and drove the Maybach forward; the restraint incarnation sat in the back seat and changed into the kimono of the fainted old man.
Soon, the Maybach stopped in front of the Amemiya Building. Hei Pupa picked up the umbrella in the car and got out. He opened the umbrella to block the rain, then opened the door of the back seat and made his restraint belt incarnation walk out of it. The two walked towards the Amemiya Building together.
Black Pupa stopped and stepped inside, disguised as an old man in a kimono, and was examined by the core bodyguard team member "Fuyuyama Nobunaga" standing at the door, confirming that he was not wearing a human face mask and that his physical condition was normal.
Then a bodyguard who claimed to be a psychic and able to detect lies asked him to say with his own mouth whether he was a member of the White Crow Brigade.
Fortunately, Black Pupa was using a restraint belt incarnation, so no one could hear any problems.
So the restraint belt incarnation was quickly released.
The black pupa returned to the Maybach, stepped on the pedal to start the engine, and sped away with a roar.
After entering the Amemiya Building, the restraint belt incarnation took the elevator to the fifth floor.
At this moment, the Dragon-level Psychic Ying Wu was standing in front of the elevator. Behind her was an open door, and inside the door was a magnificently decorated venue. The venue was covered with red carpet and had seats for more than 200 people. The auction would not start for a few hours, so the scene on the auction stage was covered by a red curtain.
Yingwu took a look at the appearance of the restraint belt incarnation, checked the list in his hand, and then said respectfully:
"Please come in, Mr. Fujimoto."
Yingwu did not let anyone lead him into the auction hall, but instead took him straight to the right side of the corridor.
After walking for a while, the avatar of the restraint belt saw a big door. After opening the door, he could see a simple lounge. On the wall of the lounge was a huge mirror, and bizarre images flashed on the mirror.
The bodyguard wearing sunglasses crossed his arms and said calmly, "Mr. Fujimoto, the real auction site is right here. I wish you good luck."
The restraint belt incarnation hesitated for a moment, then stepped into the mirror.
When his figure passed through the mirror, he suddenly saw a bustling auction venue. The noise and bustle were overwhelming, and the guests who were dressed in their best clothes were talking loudly in their seats, mixed with one or two loud laughs.
He turned his head and looked towards a remote corner of the venue. The alien Blue Arc, wearing a full set of combat uniform, was hugging his shoulders and looking around quietly; Jing Shou, wearing an Onmyoji costume, stood beside him and whispered something to him.
One of the members of the core bodyguard team, Ritsu Haihara, was standing at the entrance of the mirror auction house.
Seeing the incarnation of the restraint belt coming in, Huiyuan Ritsu came over with a group of armed bodyguards to conduct a final check on him. After confirming that he was fine, Huiyuan Ritsu smiled and nodded at him, then greeted the cheongsam woman not far away.
Soon, a tall woman wearing a cheongsam and a bun-like hairstyle came over, nodded slightly, and said to the restraint belt incarnation in a respectful and sweet voice:
"Mr. Fujimoto, this way please."
The avatar of the restraint followed her and finally sat down in the fifth seat in the third row of the venue. He rolled up the sleeves of his kimono, hugged his shoulders, and slowly closed his eyelids, pretending to rest his eyes, hoping that no one would come to talk to him.
At the same time, on a street in Tokyo.
Hei Pupa stepped on the brake pedal, stopped the Maybach in the heavy rain, took off his sunglasses, and looked down at his mobile phone.
【Blue Arc: Where are you? 】
[Black Pupa: My avatar is already at the auction venue.]
[Blue Arc: There are only three people standing guard in the mirror world: me, Mirror Guardian, and Huiyuan Ritsu. Because I am faster, I can rush over to support immediately after something happens in the real world. What are you doing in the mirror world? Didn't I ask you to keep an eye on my sister? ]
[Black Pupa: Be patient, Mr. Blue Arc. The White Crow Brigade will not take action until the auction officially begins. Before I go and keep an eye on your sister, I plan to find out who the "mysterious guest" in the auction venue is.]
[Blue Arc: Forget it, you have to act quickly and get it done before the auction starts.]
Black Pupa leaned back in the car seat and closed his eyes, then raised his legs and pressed them against the car window in front of him. He then controlled the restraints and opened his eyes again in the auction house in the mirror.
The restraint belt incarnation raised his head and looked around. Soon he saw the entrance to the mirror world. Two figures walked out of the huge mirror on the wall and were being examined by Ritsu Haihara.
These two people are old acquaintances of Hei Pupa.
One of them was Li Qingping. He was wearing a black suit today. He had let down his pigtails, and his medium-length hair fell behind his head. His handsome face had a cold expression and his posture was straight. His words and actions were completely different from the usual cheerful Li Qingping.
The other person was the second prince of the Whale Hakoniwa whom I saw in the cafe that day. The second prince was dressed in a low-key manner today. He wore a plaid shirt and a round hat.
But his golden hair and ocean-blue eyes still made him stand out.
The second prince leaned close to Li Qingping's ear and whispered something to him, then the cheongsam woman came over and took the two to their seats.
Controlling the restraints incarnation, he turned his head and glanced at the celebrities of the underworld families sitting in the seats. Hei Pupa thought in his heart:
"So... Li Qingping has arrived, where is the second 'mysterious guest' at the auction hiding?"
So he switched to his original body, sat inside the Maybach and sent a text message to Ke Qirui.
[Black Pupa: Oh, Ms. Ke, can you give me some clues about what the mysterious guest you told me before who "can kill half the brigade by himself" looks like? ]
[Ke Qirui: From the perspective of a collaborator, I advise you not to investigate him, as it could easily lead to trouble.]
[Black Pupa: The more you say this, the more interested I become. I hope he can give me a surprise.]
(End of this chapter)
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