Chapter 139: Nian Beast, War, Red Lights (asking for monthly tickets)
In the private room of the Hunan restaurant, Zhuge Hui and Ke Qirui were chatting with each other, and Zhou Jiuya only occasionally interjected a word.
Ji Minghuan, who was sitting opposite the two of them, was bored, so he used the WeChat mini program to invite Su Zimai to play a game of Go.
Su Zimai typed back "you're sick", but still accepted the game invitation.
The brother and sister just played chess on their mobile phones in the box, not paying attention to the world.
Zhou Jiuya yawned and closed his eyes. "I'll rest for a while. Don't call me if there's nothing else."
"Old Crow, you really need to get some treatment for your narcolepsy... You're usually like this, and when it rains, you sleep like a dead pig?" Zhuge Hui said, "Don't mention it. There happens to be an old Chinese doctor in my family who is very good at it. I'll ask him to prescribe two pills of medicine for you to try?"
"Shut up." Zhou Jiuya said.
Ke Qirui reached out and picked up the menu on the table. After opening it, he glanced at the dishes and asked casually, "Have you ordered?"
Zhuge Hui smiled slightly: "No, we are all regular customers here, we don't need to order, the manager will always use the same menu to entertain us."
Zhou Jiuya slumped down on the sofa to rest and said casually, "Who says I'm a regular customer of yours? This is my first time eating here."
Ke Qirui lowered his head and took a puff of smoke from his pipe, then slowly asked, "Speaking of which, I heard from the president that Lake Hunter is planning to take action against the 'Nian Beast'. Is this information true?"
"Nian Beast?" Ji Minghuan's heart slightly moved, "I remember... when I first joined the White Crow Brigade, An Luns seemed to have mentioned it to me."
While playing chess with Su Zimai, he recalled what An Luns had said at that time.
"Don't underestimate Bai Tanlang. He's actually quite interesting... We hear a lot of interesting stories from the demon world from him every day. He said that the leader of the demons in China is a beast called Nian, which is very powerful, but because of his reputation, he has to live in seclusion in the mountains. We used to hear him talk about the beast every day... He seems to be a subordinate of the demon, but later he fell in love with a human woman and came to the human world."
Coming back to his senses, Ji Minghuan randomly placed a black chess piece on the chessboard on his phone, intentionally losing to Su Zimai.
Then he ignored the middle finger she raised from under the table and the smug look in her eyes, and looked up at Zhuge Hui from the screen of his mobile phone.
He thought: "It seems that Bai Tanlang knows the 'Nian Beast' they are talking about. It was once a member of the Chinese demon circle."
Zhuge Hui waved his folding fan, "Yes, recently those demons that have retreated to the mountains and forests have become more and more rampant, and even have a tendency to cross the border. So the old guys in the family can't sit still anymore, and they keep putting pressure on us, saying that the previous generation of Lake Hunters drove those demons into the mountains and forests, and you, the generation of Lake Hunters, must fight for your reputation and take advantage of the victory to catch those dirty things in one fell swoop, especially the 'Nian Beast'."
He didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "The four of us are really annoyed, so we have to start making plans. We have to go up the mountain in a few days, at least to put an end to the arrogance of these demons and make them behave themselves."
Hearing this, Ji Minghuan thought to himself: "So is it possible that the exorcists and the demons are going to officially go to war, or are they just planning to negotiate?"
Most of the high-level demons, like Bai Tanlang, possess minds comparable to those of humans. Since the demons in China have been silent for so long, it is likely that their leader, the Nian beast, has no intention of going to war with humans.
But it doesn't necessarily mean that they don't intend to start a war, but they are accumulating strength. Those demons have been settled in the mountains and forests for so long. Once the war starts, given their current numbers, they will definitely cause major turmoil to human society.
But by then... can the four people from Lake Hunter kill all those demons that have been accumulating power for a long time?
"Come on, big brother from Hu Lie." Ji Minghuan said.
"You are such a sweet talker, little brother." Zhuge Hui smiled.
"Could you please not speak in that tone? Isn't it disgusting?" Su Zimai touched Ji Minghuan with his calf.
"Just use it, what right do you have to control me?" Ji Minghuan held his chin with one hand and said without turning his head.
Perhaps because they knew Zhuge Hui, the waiters served the food very quickly, and soon the fruits and tea cups on the table were replaced by a table full of delicious food.
Ji Minghuan put away his phone and ate in silence. Not only did he get to know Zhuge Hui and Zhou Jiuya, he also obtained information about "Qiyuan Liuli" and "Nian Beast". This trip was not in vain, so after a hearty meal, he and Su Zimai left the Hunan restaurant.
It was already late when the brother and sister returned home, but there was still no sign of Gu Zhuoan and Gu Qiye at home.
Ji Minghuan simply washed up, changed into a clean, loose pajamas, and lay down on the bed and closed his eyes.
At the same time, in another corner of the world, in a sea area near Tokyo, Japan.
Xia Ping Zhu and Ayase Origami were hiding in the cargo hold of the human smuggling ship. Above the cargo hold was a bulb emitting a warm orange light. The cabin was shaking and the lights were flickering.
He tilted his head and glanced at the girl in kimono who was looking down at the haiku collection quietly.
Then he looked away from her face and turned to stare at the sea outside the window in a daze.
The white cargo ship was drifting slowly on the sea, its black side pushing away the tide and heading towards a small country near Japan.
Once the human smuggling boat arrives at a nearby small country, they will board the plane arranged for them by the hackers at the local airport and head to Venice to meet up with several other members of the brigade.
And according to the hacker, there seems to be a new member waiting for them in Venice.
This mysterious member seemed to have had the idea of joining the brigade a long time ago, but because the brigade was full, he was unwilling to challenge other members to take its place, so he had to wait quietly for his opportunity.
After the auction, the 4th and 5th members of the brigade died at the auction, so the reserve member found an opportunity:
——He took over the position of the deceased Lan Duoduo and became the next No. 5 of the White Crow Brigade.
Ji Minghuan was quite curious. What kind of monster could the new member be chosen by the leader? But there was no point in being anxious. After boarding the plane tomorrow, he would arrive in Venice in the afternoon, and then he would be able to meet this new member.
So he leaned against the wall of the cargo hold, closed his eyes, and soon fell asleep amid the slight bumps.
"Restricted psychic, number 1002 - 'Ji Minghuan', get up quickly and get ready, the instructor has something to say." The sudden voice woke Ji Minghuan from the darkness.
He blinked.
What I see is the unchanging silver-white ceiling and the unchanging surveillance cameras.
And...the broadcasting equipment has changed slightly.
Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows and took a closer look, only to find that the broadcasting equipment had been transformed into the shape of a "little blue penguin". He didn't expect that when he mentioned it casually last time, the staff of the Salvation Society actually modified the broadcasting equipment according to his requirements.
Not only that, he turned his head again and saw a TV in the corner of the prison cell.
There is a retro CD player plugged into the TV, and a stack of CDs is placed on the silver-white floor. A quick glance reveals a rich variety of CDs, including cartoons, movies, and TV series, but most of them are from the last century.
"You guys are really thoughtful." He stood up from the bed and yawned. "Indeed... I am much less grumpy when I wake up."
The only response he got was a rumbling sound. Following the source of the sound, he saw the overlapping metal doors at the entrance slowly opening.
The instructor walked into the detention room from the corridor filled with white lights, with his hands behind his back and the hem of his white coat dragging behind him, then pulled a chair in front of the table and sat down.
Ji Minghuan jumped out of bed, picked up a bottle of milk from the plate on the table, and then walked towards the TV while unscrewing the bottle cap.
He was too lazy to pay attention to the instructor behind him. He sat in front of the TV, turned on the TV with the remote control, and then put the disc of the animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" into the CD player.
There were two "click" sounds from the CD player, and the movie disc was eaten up.
Then the TV screen flickered slightly and began to play the opening of a movie, with two boys and a girl playing baseball in an empty playground. It was summer and the cicadas were chirping.
"Remember the last time I told you that I wanted you to go out on a mission?"
Ji Minghuan was drinking canned pure milk while watching TV, with movie scenes reflected in his pupils.
After a long while, he slowly replied: "I still remember."
That happened before the auction started. At that time, Ji Minghuan thought that the task that the instructor asked them to perform was related to the Tokyo underground auction, but it turned out to be a false alarm. Ji Minghuan did not see the instructor visit until the auction ended.
The instructor said slowly, "The goal of your first mission out is to arrest a mad exorcist."
"Crazy exorcist?" Ji Minghuan asked without turning his head.
The tutor clasped his fingers together on the table and turned to look at Ji Minghuan's back.
He said: "Yes, the exorcist's code name is 'Red Light', and his real name is 'Shi Yimin'."
"Red light?"
Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows and thought to himself: Red Street Light, that is... the former teammate who suddenly went crazy and the main mission of the second unit Xia Pingzhou was to find?
Red Street Light is the evil exorcist who leaves a line of Latin words meaning "Salvation" at the scene after each crime. Not only that, he also leaves the iconic pattern of the Salvation Society - a six-pointed star wrapped in a circle.
As expected... Red Street Light is directly related to the Salvation Society, so the mentor wants us to find him.
"The Salvation Society will then send the children imprisoned here to arrest the crazy Red Street Light. My original body and Kong Youling will definitely be included."
"So...if I can find the red light before the Savior Society does, then there will be a chance for them to set up an ambush around the red light, and find a way to rescue my original body and Kong Youling together."
"But the only people I can call are my eldest daughter and my eldest brother. If we ambush them there in advance, will we really have a chance to defeat the people from the Salvation Society?"
Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan opened the CD player, replaced the disc of "Kamen Rider Polar Fox", and then said: "Why don't you just call it 'traffic light'? It sounds much more catchy than 'red road light'."
He paused and said, "So why are we arresting this traffic light? Did he do something wrong?"
"He slaughtered innocent exorcists in the name of our Salvation Society." The mentor replied, "This incident will have a negative impact on us, because the Salvation Society is an organization hidden behind the scenes and will never disclose our existence to the outside world."
"So you want us to kill people to silence them?"
"No, the first goal is to bring Red Street Light back. First, we need to confirm why Red Street Light knows about us. Secondly...if we really can't do that, then it doesn't matter even if we kill him. He is a madman and a villain who has done all kinds of evil anyway."
Ji Minghuan was silent for a moment. He began to wonder if the red traffic light was a bait deliberately set up by the Savior Society outside to lure their targets into the trap - for example, Ji Minghuan's three game consoles.
He said calmly: "Well, anyway, I am a Muggle who is just a handyman. When there is a fight, leave it to the other big brothers here. Kong Youling and I can just play."
"As long as you are willing to cooperate." The instructor smiled, "Don't worry, we will ensure your safety, because this is not just an operation, but also a test of your stability."
"So when do we start? I can't wait to get out of this crappy place."
The instructor shook his head. "Our people are still tracking Red Street Light's movements. I think we'll be able to find him soon."
"Tsk, I thought you had already found him." Ji Minghuan said with disdain and drank the milk in the glass jar in one breath.
"Compared to this, the kid I told you about last time will come to see you later." The instructor paused, "I hope you can become good friends."
Ji Minghuan was stunned: "The kid you told me about last time... the mythical 'Monkey King'?"
"Have you forgotten? His name is 'Sun Changkong'." The instructor smiled. "Anyway, get ready. I'm leaving now."
After saying that, the instructor stood up from his chair and walked towards the exit of the cell without looking back, leaving Ji Minghuan alone sitting on the floor of the cell, staring at the picture on TV in a daze.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
