Chapter 329: Gathering Time (asking for monthly ticket)
Time is approaching 0:00 am on August 14th, inside the Osaka bookstore.
The bookstore closed unusually early today. The shutters were shut tight and the windows were taped shut.
In front of the last row of bookshelves in the store, a white-haired boy was leaning against the bookshelf, and there was another black figure hanging upside down below the ceiling.
"Mr. Black Pupa, who else are we looking for?"
"Be patient."
Xizel glanced down at his newly bought children's watch, sighed, and asked curiously, "Who is it that hasn't come yet? Do we have to wait for him?"
On his shoulder, Yagubaru gritted his teeth, "What Shark hates most is people who are not punctual."
"Makutaki." Hei Pupa said nonchalantly while reading the comics, "He is the last one."
"Mr. Makutaki?" César thought for a moment, "Will he really come? After all, aren't we going to help Mr. Blue Arc?"
"He will come..."
Ghost Bell spoke in a deep voice as he walked out from the shadows, and the hoarse sound of metal machinery echoed inside the bookstore.
Black Pupa turned his head to look at him. Ghost Bell dragged the tattered black cloak on the ground. The metal breathing mask emitted deep and shallow breathing sounds that were sometimes far and sometimes near. A corner of the silver and black armor was revealed.
He hadn't seen Gu Zhuoan wearing this combat uniform for a while, and it felt a little strange.
"What are you looking at?" asked Gui Zhong.
"Nothing, I'm just taking a posthumous photo for you. Maybe you'll die on the island later, and this photo of mine will become a rare ghost clock." Hei Pu said, taking out his mobile phone from the restraints, turning on the camera and taking a photo.
Gui Zhong's eyes twitched slightly, and he resisted the urge to crush his phone.
"But Hongyi is about to start the action." Xizel said, "Hasn't Mr. Mutaki arrived yet?"
As soon as he finished speaking, suddenly, a figure walked down the stairs leading to the second floor of the bookstore.
This person's appearance is strange and cold. He is wearing a black cloak that covers his entire body, a medieval knight's helmet on his head, and a sword at his waist.
As he walked, his black cloak slid slowly on the ground, as if dragging the tail feathers of a crow. Finally, he stopped in front of a few people.
Mu Taki slowly raised his head, his eyes beneath the helmet cold and bright.
Black Pupa closed the comic book and greeted him warmly with the restraints, "Oh, Mr. Makutaki! It's been a long time since I last saw you. Don't be so quick to pose, let's have a big hug first."
"Shut up, bug," Makutaki said.
"Yes, the taste is right. This is the aloof little prince we witnessed the night of genocide. I'm relieved to see that you are still as inhumane as ever."
Black Pupa paused at this point, "Otherwise, I'd have to worry about whether you'd be brainwashed by your psychic powers and become a damned traitor, inserting yourself among us, waiting to stab us in the back."
He lowered his voice and looked directly into Makutaki's eyes, "So that's a possibility?"
Makuto looked at him motionlessly, "What do you think?"
"I checked him out," Ghost Bell said. "He's fine."
"Since there's no problem, then let's get back to the point," Hei Pu said. "We were clearly collaborators, but you chose to wait until the last minute to show up. I couldn't get in touch with you for several days. I almost suspected you were dead."
As he spoke, he narrowed his eyes and said, "So, are you dead? Dead? Dead? If you're not dead, why don't you reply to my message?"
"I'm busy, practicing." Mu Taki said concisely.
"Could it be that you've also achieved a breakthrough?" Black Pupa scratched his chin and speculated, "You truly are a genius even more talented than Blue Arc. You've reached the Quasi-Catastrophe level in just two years. What a freak!"
Mu Taki didn't comment and said coldly: "Let's go, don't waste your time."
"Let me see, my Christmas sleigh can carry two people, and the Phoenix can carry two people."
Xizel muttered, counting on his fingers, "What about the other person we have? Mr. Gui Zhong can't fly, Mr. Hei Pupa can't fly, and Mr. Mu Taki can't fly either."
"Sharkshark can fly!" said Little Shark, "Sharkshark can also carry a person!"
"You're right. I forgot that Yagubaru can fly." Xizel said in surprise, with a smile on his face. "Then let's go quickly and kill the entire family of light-eating bees."
Mu Taki frowned and asked Hei Pupa, "Where did these two idiots come from?"
"It's all your fault for not replying to my message. Now you don't understand the situation, do you?" Hei Pu held his forehead and sighed. "Open your eyes wide! This little white-haired boy is Dr. Zelsi who saved your life."
"Who is Zelsey?" Makutaki asked.
"That's the guy wearing the medieval bird-beak mask. He's César in disguise." said Gui Zhong.
"Oh, I remember." said Mu Taki.
Xizel suppressed the smile on his face, leaned close to Shark's ear, and whispered softly:
"Agubaru, Mr. Makutaki said I'm mentally retarded, and Phoenix said that after the war, it won't care if someone has broken limbs..."
Yagubaru raised his fin and put it close to Cesar's ear, whispering:
"Don't worry, César, I think he wants to eat Shark's headbutt..."
Mu Taki took a deep breath and raised his hand to adjust the bird-beak mask on his face.
Gui Zhong said coldly, "I hope you all can shut up, especially when it's time to fight. Otherwise, we'll look foolish in front of Hong Yi."
"Don't worry, you'll look stupid if you talk less." Black Pupa said dimly.
Before he could finish his words, Gui Zhong suddenly punched the wall with a loud bang, and a dent appeared on the wall.
"Don't worry, I'll turn on the mute mode for everyone right away."
Black Pupa raised his index finger and placed it in front of his lips, then covered the mouths of César and Agubaru with restraints.
Not long after, Su Wei walked down from the second floor with his hands behind his back.
He adjusted his glasses, a cold gleam flashing on the lenses. "Now that everything is ready, let's go. Time is running out."
"Mr. Su Wei, there is a hole on the wall of your bookstore. What should we do?" Xizel broke free from the restraints of Black Pupa and said to Su Wei with a smile on his face.
At this moment, the arm that Gui Zhong had used to destroy the wall suddenly trembled.
"It's okay, it's not my bookstore anyway." Su Wei said lightly.
At the same time, the Rainbow Wing personnel scattered near the coast all returned to Osaka Port.
Gu Qinye, Yuriel and the ninety-nine girls were staying behind the same camouflage fighter plane, leaning against the railing, silently waiting for the commander's instructions.
The sea breeze blew their hair. Gu Qiye looked up at the cumulonimbus clouds in the night sky in a daze. Yuriel lowered her head, her snow-white hair flying in the wind. Jiujiu hugged her shoulders and frowned, turning her head to look at the sea in the dark night, her pink twintails rising and falling.
Gu Qinye suddenly thought of something, then picked up his phone, opened WeChat, quickly operated it for a while, then turned to Yuriel and said.
"I've already sent you the video I mentioned last night via my phone."
Just as he finished speaking, a particularly concerned notification sound suddenly rang out from Yuriel's phone.
Yuriel was silent, lowered her eyes, opened her phone, and clicked on the WeChat screen. The fluorescent light on the screen illuminated her ice-blue eyes.
As Gu Qiye said, he sent her a video recorded in a Blue Arc uniform.
Last night, after Gu Qiye returned to the association building, he asked the staff of the Japanese Paranormal Association for a set of Blue Arc Paranormal uniforms after a long absence.
Then he sat alone in the room, put on his uniform, turned on the camera function of his mobile phone, waved in front of the camera, read out the names of the children in the welfare home, and greeted the children he had never seen through the screen.
Uriel stared silently at the cyan and blue figure on the screen.
She had a blank expression on her face and raised her finger to save the video in her album. At this moment, a pop-up window suddenly caught her attention.
Uriel looked up and saw the Commander's face appear above the phone screen. She was still sitting in the swivel chair in the conference room.
Chen Qian hugged her shoulders and said slowly:
"There have been some minor changes in plans."
"According to Garfield's observations, Cameron hasn't appeared in a long time. It's possible she's left the island without anyone noticing. After all, we already know she has the ability to become invisible, so it shouldn't be difficult for her to do so."
"So, Ke Qingzheng, you and Esther will stay here to defend. You don't need to participate in the assault."
Not far away, Fan Dongqing looked at his phone and asked, "Are you worried that the old woman will fall asleep?" He paused, "Or are you worried that she can't deal with the queen bee on her own?"
"To be on the safe side," Chen Qian said, "it's safer to leave one more person behind. Who knows what tricks those light-eating bees have in store."
"Is this your judgment?" Ke Qingzheng asked expressionlessly, "Are you sure you want me to stay?"
He believed that his combat capability was at least in the top five in Rainbow Wing, but he did not expect to be left in the city by the commander.
"That's right. This is the consensus of Garfield and I." Chen Qian nodded. "He thinks there's a high probability that the Three Bee Marquises have infiltrated the city. Esther might not be able to handle it alone."
"Okay, I'll stay," Ke Qingzheng said. "But if the Three Bee Marquises aren't in Osaka, but on the island, then you must arrange for someone else to deal with her."
"Don't worry, you can send Garfield when the time comes." Fan Dongqing said lazily, "I can handle the Second Bee Marquis by myself. I don't need anyone to help me. I didn't understand why Garfield and I were on the same team in the first place."
Chen Qian said, "That's right, Garfield and I also planned this."
"That's it, just be careful." Ke Qingzheng said, adjusting his glasses expressionlessly.
"Everyone else will go out," Chen Qian said, "and everything will proceed according to plan."
Except for Esther and Ke Qingzheng, everyone else boarded the camouflage fighter planes one after another.
As Oda Hideo passed by the coffin, he took the handle of his knife and knocked twice on the outer wall of the coffin, like knocking a wooden fish. "It's time to wake up, Miss Esther."
After saying that, he retracted the hilt of the knife and boarded the fighter plane without looking back.
After a while, Ke Qingzheng turned his head and watched four red and blue camouflage fighter jets rise into the sky, tearing through the clouds and roaring towards the uninhabited island.
He lowered his gaze and saw the black coffin at the harbor suddenly move. Then, a girl with black hair and red eyes in a Gothic skirt stood up from the coffin.
Esther yawned and said quietly, "Little one, there's an accident on the Ferris wheel."
Ke Qingzheng followed her gaze and turned to look at the Ferris wheel glittering in the night. At that moment, one of the compartments suddenly exploded.
Immediately afterwards, a huge shadow spread its huge wings, broke through the car door, and flew out.
"Bang!" The roar was deafening and the entire Ferris wheel collapsed.
The giant figure, revealed in the multicolored lights, resembled a five-meter-tall light-eating bee! Its giant body tore through each compartment, pulling out all the passengers and plunging them into its mouth.
The brutal roar, mixed with the screams of the crowd, resounded through the night sky.
"It's the ability of the Three Bee Marquises, transforming humans into light-eating bees," Ke Qingzheng said. "We can't let her come into contact with people with special abilities. Light-eating bees transformed from people with special abilities are much stronger."
Esther remained silent.
She stood up and slowly walked out of the coffin. In the night, a faint thread seemed to appear above her head, like a puppet on the stage.
(End of this chapter)
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