Chapter 126 Heavy Rain, Tokyo, Bloody Auction (Ten)
In the real world, in an inconspicuous corner of an auction house.
The black pupa wrapped its entire body into a giant transparent pupa, hanging upside down motionlessly below the ceiling.
His eyes fell on the ghost bell that suddenly appeared, and he raised his eyebrows with interest, thinking that his father had indeed come, but he couldn't really fight them all by himself. Even if he was a time-based ability user, as a quasi-disaster-level, he had his limits after all.
So... I have to take advantage of this time to find a way to help him find a breakthrough.
At this moment, what caught the eyes of the group before the man in the jet-black cape and the Z-shaped breathing mask was:
——First, there is a huge clock tower.
The four-meter-high clock tower stood in front of the blue arc like a dark giant. The hour hand moved at high speed and finally stopped above "12 o'clock".
Amid the deafening sound of the bell, the whole world seemed to stand still for a second.
Then, a tangible sound wave spread out from the huge clock tower, twisting the blood arrows of the Bloodline, the billiard balls of Anluns, and the paper butterflies of Ayase Origami, making them scatter in all directions, but it did not touch the figure of Blue Arc.
The moment time returned to normal flow, Ghost Bell had already rushed from the entrance of the auction house to the front of Blue Arc.
Gui Zhong lowered his head to look at Lan Hu, who was bleeding all over and looked almost like a half corpse. He then slowly raised his head. The figures of the members of the brigade were reflected in his scarlet pupils.
He was trembling slightly, his mechanical respirator making an overload sound, and he asked almost word by word: "Who... hurt him like this?"
After a pause, his expression suddenly darkened and he roared angrily:
"Get out of here!"
The roar penetrated half of the auction hall, like the sound of a booming bronze bell, and fell heavily into the ears of several people in the brigade.
Lan Duoduo was stunned at the time. She covered her ears and muttered to the three people beside her: "Hey, hey, hey, what's going on now? Why did another unlucky guy show up? I remember that this guy is a super criminal. Shouldn't he cooperate with us to rob the auction?"
"Who knows?" The blood descendant spread his hands to indicate that he didn't know either.
"Maybe...Blue Arc is the illegitimate child of Ghost Bell and Black Pupa."
Xia Pingzhou told a joke with an expressionless face, and the members of the group looked at him in silence.
"Kitten... panted." said Ayase Origami.
"What are you angry about?" he asked.
"What a weird joke," she said.
At this moment, on the auction table in the mirror world, Qi Yuanli was looking up at the battle between the red dragon Wales and the daytime wolf. Hearing the strong bell sound coming from the wooden door behind him, he sent a crow through the wooden door and flew out of the mirror world.
Then, through the crow's red eyes, Qi Yuanyuan naturally saw the figure of Gui Zhong.
"...Ghost Bell?"
Qi Yuanli raised his eyebrows slightly and murmured the name.
How could he not know who Gui Zhong was?
A super criminal from China, a famous time-based mutant, said to be quasi-catastrophic level, but because of his terrifying ability mechanism that has already touched the threshold of catastrophic level, the United Nations specially sent Hongyi to arrest him.
In fact, it's not just the United Nations...even the so-called villain forces are afraid of the Ghost Bell.
Rather, no matter which faction people belong to, they are afraid of the growth of this monster that controls time. But even though everyone knows the value of time-related abilities, no one has ever successfully won over Ghost Bell in the true sense.
Because no one knows what Gui Zhong's goal is and what he is fighting for, so no one knows where to start.
But at this moment, Gui Zhong appeared here and protected a stranger who stood on the opposite side of his position.
This scene... is really unbelievable.
Qi Yuanli subconsciously suspected that there was some hidden relationship between Gui Zhong and Lan Hu, or that Gui Zhong was commissioned by the underworld to ensure the safety of Lan Hu and others in this operation.
Thinking of this, a strange light flashed in Qi Yuanyuan's deep pupils. He exchanged places with the crow and appeared in the auction house in the real world.
Qi Yuanli raised his eyes and looked directly at Gui Zhong, then slowly gave instructions to the members around him.
"No. 12, Origami, Lan Duoduo, and Andrew, go to the mirror world and help White Greedy Wolf resist the red dragon."
"Ah?" Lan Duoduo pointed at himself, his face full of suspicion and surprise, "I fight the red dragon?"
"Just cover, don't get close." Qi Yuanli added, "Put your own safety first."
"Oh." Lan Duoduo nodded.
"Understood." Andrew said, putting away the sniper rifle on the ground with a playful smile, "Then I'll go deal with that stupid dragon. I'll leave this clock tower freak over here to you, Captain."
"Got it." Xia Pingzhou said. His answer was clear, but he didn't know what he could do.
In short, put the two cannon cart chess pieces on the auction table, and symbolically fire two shots at the red dragon to make its presence felt.
Ayase Origami did not respond, but just quietly followed Xia Pingzhou into the world inside the mirror.
After the four named members left, the auction venue in the real world suddenly became much more spacious. The heavy breathing coming from Gui Zhong's metal mask continued to echo in the venue.
Looking at the ghost bell that was stopping the bleeding of Blue Arc, Qi Yuanli whispered: "Jack, Bloodborn, An Lance, the three of you deal with the ghost bell. I will help if you need it."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Ripper and An Lance, with only half of their faces left, walked out of the mirror.
The hideous, broken faces of the two members were exposed under the light of the crystal chandelier, half of them were bones and the other half were covered with flesh, like Izanami that Izanagi saw in the underworld.
An Lunsi glanced at the ghost clock, blinked his remaining eye, and asked curiously, "Wow... Captain, why is a super criminal protecting the aliens?"
Qi Yuan remained silent.
The Ripper raised the dark red long knife, his eyes still as cold as the polar night, "You always talk so much nonsense."
The blood descendant curled the corners of his lips, and the figure of Gui Zhong was reflected in his red pupils.
She said calmly, "Although I'd rather go see the red dragon, this is also very interesting, and I haven't fought with the captain for a long time."
After using some means to temporarily stop Blue Arc's bleeding, Gui Zhong got up from the ground.
He looked up at the long knife in the Ripper's hand, narrowed his eyes slightly, and compared it with the knife wounds on Blue Arc's body. Then, the face under the breathing mask twitched slightly, and his eyes suddenly became extremely cold, like a beast that was choosing its prey.
"So it's you..." Gui Zhong muttered to himself hoarsely, staring at the Ripper with his eyes motionless.
At this moment, the hour hand of the clock tower was still above "12 o'clock", but the second hand that had been stationary began to move, and the ticking sound spread in the auction hall.
The clacking of gears overlapped with the breathing sound of the mechanical mask.
Black Pupa was hanging upside down below the ceiling, silently cheering for Ghost Bell: "That's right... It's her, it's the Ripper, kill her, Dad!"
An Lance shrugged, reluctantly raised the pool cue, and put it behind his neck, "I really want to change my weapon... I hate the slot machines today."
"Isn't it the power you developed yourself?" the Ripper said sarcastically.
"Who made my superpowers look like this?"
"What else can a gambling bug look like?"
While joking, the two of them disappeared at the same time.
Continuing the strategy used to fight against Blue Arc, one of them held a billiard cue and the other held a dark red long knife, and they attacked the Ghost Bell from both sides.
The blood descendant created a blood-red longbow in his hands, pulled the bowstring from the auction table, and put the blood arrow on it.
At this moment, the deafening bell rang again, like a gust of wind sweeping through the entire auction hall, brushing everyone's cheek.
Immediately, everyone stopped, and An Lance and the Ripper's bodies froze in mid-air without moving.
Like a freeze frame from a movie, the two men were still in attacking postures.
The hour hand on the clock tower still pointed to "12 o'clock".
When the hour hand of the clock tower points to "12 o'clock", the surrounding time will pause for 1 second for every 10 seconds that pass; and in this fleeting 1 second, in the whole world, only the ghost clock and his shadow can take action.
This is also the strongest hour among the 12 hours, and the strongest mode of the Ghost Clock.
Gui Zhong suddenly raised his head. In this mercury-colored world, only the scarlet light in his pupils was bright.
He raised his left hand into a fist, crossed the trajectory of the billiard cue, and smashed towards An Lunsi who was attacking from the left. The iron fist hit An Lunsi's abdomen without reservation, leaving a bloody wound. His five tense fingers were instantly stained red with blood.
Then, gathering all her strength, she twisted her body with red eyes and pierced the Ripper's abdomen with the metal blade on her right hand. Then she lifted the blade upwards and created a wound in her body that was exactly the same as Blue Arc's wound, and even deeper.
The Ripper's internal organs and ribs were crushed by the sharp wrist blade, and violent blood splashed in the mercury world.
Time resumed flowing, and the figures of Anluns and the Ripper flew backwards in opposite directions.
At the same time, the blood descendant's slender fingers released the bowstring.
"Bang--!"
With the sound of breaking through the air, the blood-red arrow turned into a beam of sharp red light and shot out, heading straight for Gui Zhong's head.
At this moment, Ghost Bell had just repelled An Lance and the Ripper. Naturally, he had no time to resist the blood-red arrows that were coming towards him. If things went as expected, his head would be pierced by the arrows in an instant.
However, his shadow suddenly "stood up" from the ground, rushed forward, raised his black hands, and grasped the blood-red longbow like a wild bull.
Shadow gathered all his strength and dragged the arrow with all his might, his feet sinking deep into the floor, plowing out two five-meter-long black grooves backwards.
Finally, the scarlet arrow stopped less than half a meter away from Gui Zhong's pupil.
Then, with a "pop" sound, it disintegrated into a pool of blood that splashed onto the ground, staining the metal upper of Gui Zhong's shoes red.
The Blood Descendant recalled the scene just now and raised his beautiful eyebrows, "He paused time again?"
An Lunsi covered the bloody hole in his stomach, blood seeping from his fingers. He climbed up from the ground.
"How cruel." He gave an ugly smile.
The Ripper stuck her sword into the floor, propped herself up and stood up, breathing deeply. The groove on her abdomen was dripping blood, and the broken pieces of internal organs and bones were scattered all over the floor.
Her internal organs are almost completely destroyed. At this rate of bleeding... she'll die soon.
Qi Yuanyuan's expression remained calm. He looked up at the clock tower behind the ghost clock and asked, "Has the second hand passed 10 seconds?" Thinking of this, he raised his voice slightly and ordered the members:
"Anluns, Jack, Bloodborn, keep your distance from him first, attack from a distance, and wait for my instructions."
As soon as he finished speaking, large flocks of crows rose up from behind Qi Yuanli and surrounded the bell tower.
However, a tangible sound wave spread out from the huge bell tower. The crows were instantly shattered by the sound wave, and their black feathers, wrapped in blood and flesh, fell down with a clatter.
The bell tower was dyed red with blood, and it made a rustling sound.
Qi Yuanli walked forward silently, and two crows flew out from his fingertips.
The ghost bell and the shadow raised their heads at the same time.
His shadow stood guard over the bell tower and the blue arc;
The ghost bell itself walked towards the lacquer principle step by step, and each step was as heavy as thunder.
The next moment, he stomped the ground and rushed forward.
A spider web-like hole appeared on the floor, and he was ejected with a "bang". With a gust of wind, the metal fist smashed into Qi Yuanli's head. It was like a train hitting him head-on, and Qi Yuanli's black hair was lifted high.
The next second, Qi Yuanli exchanged positions with the crow flying towards the bell tower.
But the shadow of Gui Zhong suddenly kicked out a deep pit on the ground, and turned into a black beam of light rising straight up among the flying wood chips, and slashed towards his neck with its wrist blade.
However, Qi Yuanli disappeared again. He appeared at the position of the last crow, which was beside Lan Hu, and released a crow from his fingertips to fly up to the glass chandelier.
At the same time, the second hand of the clock tower passed 10 seconds, and another deafening sound spread, sweeping across everyone's face like a gust of wind, almost making people deaf.
The world was once again shrouded in mercury, and everything seemed frozen like an oil painting.
When time resumed flowing, Qi Yuanli's pupils shrank slightly. He saw that the ghost clock, which was 20 meters away just now, had rushed to his eyes.
The two looked at each other, and fire seemed to be spewing from Gui Zhong's scarlet pupils.
Fortunately, Qi Yuanli was well prepared and exchanged positions with the crow that flew to the chandelier. The next moment, Ghost Bell's fist smashed a black crow to pieces, and blood and bones splattered all over the surface of the bell tower.
"You... just run away?"
Gui Zhong raised his head, looked at Qi Yuanli who was sitting above the crystal chandelier, and spoke sarcastically word by word.
At this moment, the Vampires and Anluns in the distance attacked him from both sides at the same time.
An Lance used a billiard cue to shoot an air billiard ball; the blood descendant made a huge spear and threw it at the ghost bell. Two bursts of air-breaking sounds overlapped, and the crystal chandelier flickered.
Gui Zhong sneered coldly and stood back to back with his shadow, like a pair of comrades who trusted each other.
He turned his head to face the west, shrugged his shoulders, swung his arms to gain leverage, and then suddenly punched out. This punch was accompanied by a loud bell sound and invisible sound waves, and it hit the air billiard ball without any effort;
With a "bang", the oncoming air table tennis ball instantly shattered and dissipated into a messy wind, blowing in all directions.
Behind the ghost bell, a muscular shadow rushed to the east, thrust his body forward, and fearlessly let the blood-red spear pierce his body.
Then, the shadow suddenly dug his feet into the floor and pulled the bloody giant spear with both hands. As his body slid backwards, two one-meter-deep grooves were created. The floor and the soil kept turning up, and the bloody spear splashed fireworks in the dark palm.
After a while, the kinetic energy on the gun was completely relieved, and the shadow's retreating figure stopped.
"How exaggerated..." the blood descendant thought, and a rare hint of surprise flashed across his red eyes.
This was the first time tonight that she was shocked by the strength of an opponent.
The ability to "pause time", the ability to "create a clone", the ability to control "sound waves", plus the physical fitness like a beast... this is what Ghost Bell showed them in just twenty seconds.
And... this is most likely just the tip of the iceberg.
"Come on, he's really a monster." An Luns said as he put away the billiard cue, with a smile on his lips but cold sweat dripping down his forehead.
"Can you do it?"
The Ripper's weak and cold voice came from my ear.
"Sister Ripper, you should think about yourself first... That ghost bell obviously hit you the hardest, and I don't know how long you can last with this amount of blood loss."
As An Lance spoke, she glanced sideways at the Ripper. She was covering the groove on her abdomen and her face looked slightly pale.
"I was just a little careless. I didn't expect him to be able to stop time..." The Ripper took a deep breath and excused himself, "Plus I was exhausted after fighting Blue Arc."
At this moment, Qi Yuanli, who was standing on the crystal chandelier, lowered his eyes to look at the clock tower, and then said: "Your clock tower will pause for 1 second every 10 seconds."
He paused, looking down at the figure of Ghost Bell: "So you are not without weaknesses. As long as the bell tower behind you is destroyed... you will become an ordinary strong man."
"You know...so what?" Gui Zhong replied without even raising his head.
He was not a foolish and reckless man, and he knew that the brigade commander could exchange places with Crow.
This means that as long as there is a crow, the lacquer principle can disappear at any time.
With such unparalleled mobility in front of us, chasing him is just a waste of time.
Unless he could kill Qi Yuanli instantly during the second when time paused, he would never be able to touch Qi Yuanli's body.
So, he turned his target to the three members of the auction house.
At this moment, after hearing Lacquer Principle's analysis, the members of the group quietly distanced themselves from Ghost Bell.
They all knew that the next time stop would come soon, and they were afraid that in that second when time stopped, they would be killed by this unreasonable monster.
A few seconds later, the bell rang again, and mercury enveloped the entire world.
The other team members were too far away, so even if Shadow were to chase them, they would be dispersed instead - Ghost Bell had to protect the "Bell Tower" and Blue Arc at the same time, so actively chasing them under this premise was definitely not a wise choice.
So Gui Zhong chose to take a gamble and continued to attack Qi Yuanli who was closer. He controlled the shadow to jump up from the ground, violently shooting towards the crystal chandelier on the dome, and slashed the wrist blade towards Qi Yuanli's leg.
The next moment, time resumed its normal flow.
As expected, the lacquer principle turned into a piece of crow feathers and scattered, appearing five meters in front of the ghost bell.
"Can you only hide like a cockroach?" Gui Zhong said sarcastically, slowly lowering his eyes to look at Qi Yuanli in front of him.
Qi Yuanli also slowly raised his head, and his deep eyes met Gui Zhong's gaze.
"Why not take a look behind you?" he suddenly said.
Behind you?
Gui Zhong frowned. Only then did he realize that there was a cold, emotionless murderous intent in the auction hall, like a ninja who had practiced for a long time and would only release the murderous intent at the moment of attack.
So Gui Zhong looked over suddenly and was immediately stunned.
At this moment, a man in black ninja attire knelt on the ground and put his sword against Blue Arc's neck.
“You bunch of bastards…” Gui Zhong’s face twitched.
He focused his attention on the three members and the brigade's leader the entire time, so he didn't notice that there was a person named Oda Takikage hiding in the auction house.
Concealing his breath, waiting for the right moment, and taking the opponent's head the moment he emerges from the darkness, deciding the victory or defeat with just one move - this is the style of a battle-hardened ninja, and Oda Takikage ended the battle at this moment.
"If you fight alone, your weakness may be only the bell tower." Qi Yuanli lowered his eyes and played with the playing cards, "But unfortunately, your performance just now exposed your other weakness. That is..."
He paused: "Blue Arc."
Gui Zhong twisted his neck and stared at Oda Takikage with a gloomy expression, then looked at the long sword on Lan Hu's neck. He clenched his fists for a moment, and the anger in his heart surged out like a rising sea, but had to be stopped by the dam of reason.
Meanwhile, thirty seconds passed silently from the start of the battle.
The hour hand of the huge clock tower moved at high speed again, and this time, it landed at "6 o'clock".
The ghost bell did nothing, just stood there quietly like a statue.
Qi Yuanyuan looked up at the clock tower and said slowly:
"Before this, I have more or less studied your abilities. The clock tower's hour hand will fall to a certain hour every 30 seconds, and at each hour you will display a different ability - this also means... at least in the next 30 seconds, you will no longer be able to release the ability to stop time."
As he spoke, he lowered his eyes and looked directly at the ghost bell, and continued in a calm tone:
"Without the ability to stop time, you can't be our opponent. Secondly, you can't save Lan from Oda Takikage..."
Before he finished speaking, a voice suddenly rang out in the auction hall, interrupting Qi Yuanyuan's words from behind: "When reminding others to pay attention to their backs, you might as well look behind yourself, Mr. Leader."
He paused and said, "I'm sure... the result will not disappoint you."
Qi Yuanli was slightly stunned.
As this eerie voice sounded, deathly silence briefly enveloped the auction hall.
After a while, Qi Yuanli turned his head expressionlessly and looked in the direction of the source of the sound.
At this moment, a figure wrapped in black bands was hanging upside down under the ceiling of the auction table;
Not only that, the black figure also tied up a man wearing a mechanical box head with his arms and hung the man's body in mid-air with a restraint.
What came into view was Black Pupa and the brigade's No. 7 member - "Robert".
Under Qi Yuanli's gaze, Hei Pupa slowly loosened his arms and instead wrapped black restraints around Robert's neck, wrapping them around several times, like a black snake strangling its enemy with its tail.
Robert struggled and uttered a muffled groan.
There was dead silence in the auction hall. All the team members, including Gui Zhong, stared at the uninvited guest hanging upside down in the air.
Black Pupa grinned and slowly said to Qi Yuanli:
"Oh, Mr. Sly Captain, I have seen your little trick. You'd better not let your crow get close to me, and don't let any of your members get close to me. Otherwise, I will strangle member No. 7's neck immediately."
Having said this, he paused for a moment, then lowered his voice and sneered:
"He may seem like the most inconspicuous and weakest member, but in fact, this member No. 7 is an indispensable cog in your operation, isn't he?"
"That is to say, if I kill him, it will be an irreparable loss for the White Crow Brigade."
"Please make your own assessment, Mr. Commander."
(End of this chapter)
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