Chapter 264 Hong Yi's Two Urgent Tasks (asking for monthly tickets)
[Hacker: Anyway, you and the young lady should go to Hokkaido and wait. In Sapporo, take the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, and then transfer to the JR express train to Sapporo.]
【Xia Pingzhou: Oh, then we'll see you in Hokkaido. 】
After sending the message, Xia Pingzhu turned his head to look at Ayase Origami who was still sleeping, then picked up a book from the floor, raised it high, and deliberately let go, and the book fell to the ground with a "bang".
The kimono girl woke up. She opened her eyes from the pillow and stared at the book that fell on the ground in a daze. After a while, she raised her head and looked at Xia Pingzhou.
She had no idea how many times this had happened. Whenever Xia Pingzhou wanted to wake her up early in the morning, he would take a book from the bookshelf in the attic, then let go, causing the book to fall to the ground with a loud bang, waking her up from her sleep.
"Rebellion..." She said softly, but her dark eyes showed no trace of annoyance.
"Then tell me, how should I wake you up better?" Xia Pingzhou said as he bent down slightly and reached out to pick up the copy of "Snow White" from the ground.
"It's best not to wake you up." Ayase Origami said, leaning her head gently back on the pillow and closing her eyes.
"Then you'll become Snow White who's poisoned by the apple." Xia Pingzhou said casually, and put the book in his hand in a gap between "The Dancing Girl of Izu" and "Snow Country" on the bookshelf.
"How should Snow White...be woken up?"
"I forgot." Xia Pingzhou said, "It seems that the villain queen gave her a deep kiss on the face. From then on, the mother and son reconciled their past grudges and lived a happy life in the forest with the seven dwarfs."
After hearing this, the girl in kimono was silent for a long time.
"Little cat, I miss my mother again," she said.
"Let's get down to business. The captain and the Ripper will arrive in Japan tomorrow. I heard that the captain wants to get an old friend of his out of the prison for superpowers in Hokkaido." Xia Pingzhou said calmly, "It should be to prepare for the next operation. After all, we lost a member and there is still a vacant position in the brigade."
Ayase Origami slowly stood up, her beautiful hair hanging down on the folds of her shoulders. She stood there for a while with her hair down, yawned lightly, then opened her eyes and raised her hand.
A thin piece of paper flew out from the ochre-red cuff, and the cup of water on the bedside table was handed to her.
"How many people?" She lowered her head slightly and asked while drinking water.
"How many people?"
"Members of the group who participated in the operation."
Xia Pingzhou thought for a moment and said, "Blood Descendant, Ripper, you and me, plus the leader... five people. Oh, yes, there's also Robert and the hacker. That means five people and an artificial intelligence machine, and a Tamagotchi."
"Leaving now?"
"There's no rush. The hacker has already arranged the itinerary. We'll take the Shinkansen first, and then the JR express train. It will take about nine hours in total." Xia Pingzhu turned his head and looked at Ayase Origami. "You can sleep a little longer if you want."
Ayase Origami thought for a moment, her shoulders drooping, her eyes and her kimono sleeves drooping. She suddenly picked up the gray-white manuscript beside her pillow.
This is the Endless Manuscript. The treasure that Xia Pingzhu handed over to her that day came from the King's Treasury in the Whale Box Garden.
The Endless Manuscript can generate an endless amount of paper. It was originally used to record the daily life of each Hakoniwa monarch, but later the subjects found it unnecessary.
Because in the closed-door environment of the Whale Box Garden, the king could rest easy, and all he did every day was eat, drink, play, and sleep. What he did could not take up more than one or two pages in the book, so the subjects of the royal court simply put the Endless Manuscript into the royal treasury.
"I want to find a place to try this out." The kimono girl said softly, and the endless manuscript floated up and fell into her ochre-red cuffs, placed together with her mother's haiku collection.
"We have to give it a try." Xia Pingzhou nodded. "We have to break into the prison again in two days. It will be too late to try after the operation starts."
The two of them went downstairs. In fact, they were both a little sleepy, so they walked unsteadily, and the wooden stairs creaked. Xia Pingzhou lifted the gate of the cafe, and the sunlight shone in through the glass door.
Ayase Origami was washing up in the bathroom, while Xia Ping Zhou prepared breakfast in the kitchen of the cafe, two cups of hot milk and two slices of toast.
They sat down in a cafe, eating breakfast and talking on their phones.
The reason why they didn't speak directly was that the eldest lady had just learned how to use a mobile phone, so she found this way of communication very novel.
Whenever Xia Pingzhou was too lazy to type and looked up from his phone to open his mouth, Ayase Origami would gently block his lips with a piece of paper. She didn't even raise her head, drinking milk in small sips, with the words on the screen reflected in her slightly empty eyes.
After breakfast, Xia Pingzhou and she walked out of the cafe, locked the glass door, and then summoned the stone statue of the queen in an empty corner of the long street.
The stone statue of the queen held Xia Ping Zhou on its left shoulder, and Ayase Origami on its right shoulder, then picked them up and jumped, running over the city.
They could see the hazy outline of Mount Fuji, and the morning light fell on Tokyo Bay, reflecting the shimmering waves. Tokyo was full of vitality in the morning, and cars were constantly coming and going on the Rainbow Bridge. The warm summer breeze blew in, and the silhouette of the stone statue of the queen was reflected on the glass curtain wall, and the hair of the kimono girl swayed in the wind.
Soon, the Queen's stone statue brought them to a nearby mountain. The sun shone through the treetops onto their heads, and the girl's skin was as clear and transparent as glass.
Xia Ping Zhu and Ayase Origami have been here before. At that time, there was a card incident on the mountain. He was sitting on the roof of the cafe to get some fresh air, and Ayase Origami happened to come up to find him.
She made a paper dragon and carried him to the front of the shrine, killing the Shura Demon and the Yaksha Demon in one fell swoop. It was as easy and pleasant as beating up Su Zimai at the auction.
The sound of birdsong and rustling leaves enveloped the world, and all they could see was green. After walking for a while in the forest, they found an open space in front of a cliff, and at the bottom of the mountain was a green lake.
"Let's do it here." Xia Pingzhou said, "To be honest, this deep forest shouldn't attract too much attention. The Queen's stone statue and I will be on guard nearby, so you can go ahead and try."
Ayase Origami nodded silently and took out a gray-white book from her sleeve.
A bright sun shone from the top of the mountain, and the gray on the cover of the book faded, looking almost pure white. The endless manuscript opened automatically without wind, and under the control of the kimono girl, the pages were torn apart one by one.
After a while, a strong wind blew, thousands of trees rustled and swayed, birds and beasts in the mountains and forests cried together, and the lake was stirred up by huge waves. The whole world was shrouded in this huge movement.
Xia Pingzhou raised his head, his black hair blown by the wind. He looked at the incredible scene on the top of the mountain, slightly widened his eyes, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
More than ten hours later, at noon on August 6th, US time, on the second basement floor of the Empire State Building.
In an empty parking lot, Uriel opened the door of a Maybach, sat in the driver's seat, and started the engine using the remote control key.
Gu Qinye got into the car and sat in the passenger seat, closing the door casually. Then he looked out the window silently, thinking about the ten Rainbow Wing members he had just met at the meeting.
"What now?" he asked.
"Let's eat first," Uriel said, "and then we'll assign tasks."
"Task?"
The white-haired girl, who looked like an ice sculpture, nodded, silently took out her tablet and glanced at the file list on it.
Gu Qiye cast his eyes over and saw a familiar face on the document list. His expression changed slightly. They were the members of the brigade he had seen at the Tokyo auction: a girl in an ochre-red kimono, a young man in a black windbreaker with deep eyes...
"White Crow Brigade", the name of this bandit organization appeared in his mind in an instant.
Gu Qinye recalled the events that happened at the Tokyo auction half a month ago. He still remembered the feeling of despair when he was surrounded by members of the brigade in the mirror world, and the black shadow that blocked his way when he was on the verge of death, the man wearing a metal breathing mask.
The figure of Gui Zhong flashed by in his mind. He was silent for a while, took a deep breath, and his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of gloomy shadow.
"We have two urgent tasks on hand, and five members of Rainbow Wing are on vacation, so we must properly allocate personnel among the remaining seven to complete these two tasks." Yuriel said as she browsed the documents.
"Which two tasks?"
"The first mission is to capture the White Crow Brigade. They are suspected of being directly involved in the looting and destruction of the Whale's Box Garden, so their wanted level has been greatly increased. Originally, they were not within our scope of handling, but with the development of the Box Garden destruction incident on August 1, the top brass decided to send us to capture them in a short period of time."
"White Crow Brigade..." Gu Qiye had a blank expression on his face. "But how can we find them? Their whereabouts are uncertain, wandering between countries around the world, and they don't have a fixed range of activities."
"According to the intelligence from eyewitnesses of the Japanese underworld, one of their members recently appeared in Japan. This photo was sent over ten hours ago." Yuriel said, clicking on the photo on the file list.
Gu Qinye turned his head to take a look. From the perspective of the photo, he could tell that it was taken from the sidewalk of the Tokyo Bay Rainbow Bridge.
The camera moved across the Tokyo Bay sparkling in the sun and captured a strange scene on a distant mountain: gray-white pages were rolling in the sky, forming a terrifying tornado, and even the sea water above the Tokyo Bay seemed to be surging upwards.
Paper sheets? Tornado? Gu Qiye was startled, and immediately recalled the kimono girl he saw at the auction that day. She walked through the wooden door and entered the mirrored auction room, with paper butterflies fluttering behind her, like a sea of white flowers.
"What is this?" he asked in a low voice.
"Manipulating paper is the ability of Ayase Origami, a member of the White Crows." Uriel had a blank expression. "She was originally the eldest daughter of the head of the Japanese underworld Ayase family. But three years ago, she escaped from the Ayase family and joined the White Crows with her butler Oda Takikage. The paper storm in the photo is most likely generated by her ability."
Gu Qiye thought for a moment and said, "As far as I know, they have a person with special abilities who can open doors connecting different places. This makes the brigade's whereabouts uncertain, and it is difficult for us to confront them head-on."
"A few years ago, the Japanese authorities captured a member of the White Crow Brigade," said Yuriel. "The member's name is 'Ryuukawa Chiba', and he is currently being held in the supernatural prison 'Shinba Township' in Hokkaido."
She paused and said, "According to the prisoners in Xinye Township, Rukawa Chiba claimed to be from the White Crow Brigade and would get him out of prison soon. So we think the brigade's goal of coming to Japan this time might be to break into the prison and take Rukawa Chiba away."
"Does the information from the prisoner's self-explosion have any meaning? Could it be a diversion?" Gu Qiye shook his head. "But the members of the White Crow Brigade are all a bunch of lunatics. It's not surprising that they would do anything."
"No matter what, it's really difficult for us to find them, so we temporarily assume that their goal is to break into the prison, and then we can just wait for them in the superpower prison 'Xinye Township'." Yuriel said, "If we can't wait, we will continue to search for their whereabouts. Anyway, we will be staying in Japan for a while."
"What about the second urgent task?" Gu Qinye was silent for a moment and then asked.
Since there are two urgent tasks to be assigned, it means that they don't necessarily have to go to Japan to capture the White Crow Brigade. He is more curious about the content of the second task and what emergency situation can be compared with this group of evil people in the brigade.
"The second urgent task is to investigate the disappearance of people with special abilities in Osaka, Japan. We heard that a kind of magical humanoid creature has infiltrated the city and is hunting people with special abilities living in the city and bringing them back to the territory as food," said Yuriel.
"Humanoid?"
"Yes, originally the seriousness of this incident was average, and normally it was not our responsibility, but because one of the hunted people was close to the Japanese royal family, this mission was forced to appear before us."
"What race are they?"
“Hive people.” Uriel nodded, “But they have a form similar to humans.”
As she spoke, she clicked on the photo in the file list and handed the tablet in her hand to Gu Qinye.
Gu Qinye looked at the tablet and frowned slightly when he saw the photo displayed on the screen.
It was a moonlit night. The body of a human male was embedded in the inside of the billboard. To be more precise, his head was smashed inside. The tangled wires burst into flames, reflecting a golden humanoid monster waving transparent bee wings and hovering in the air.
It is larger than a normal adult, with a bee's head, wings and tail, but its body structure is similar to that of a human, with thick limbs and muscles covered with a metallic golden protective membrane.
The half-man, half-bee creature was slightly hunched over, gnawing at the man embedded in the billboard in mid-air. It turned its head, half of its face facing the camera, and the corners of its mouth, stained red with blood and internal organs, looked hideous and brutal.
Gu Qiye frowned. He stared at the extremely strange creature in the photo and couldn't help but mutter:
"What's this?"
Yuriel exited the photo interface and introduced while flipping through the files:
"A few days ago, due to the destruction of the Whale's Box Garden, a large number of islands inside the box garden appeared in the sea near Bergen. According to the information obtained by professionals after communicating with the islanders, this is a race of magical creatures that were expelled from the Whale's Box Garden decades ago, and they were named..."
She paused for a moment and looked up: "'Light Devouring Bee'."
(End of this chapter)
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