Chapter 332: Osaka Battlefield, Gothic Girl's Solo Show (asking for monthly ticket)
At the same time that the other ten members of Hongyi raided the uninhabited island, Osaka Port, Japan.
"Gothic Doll" Esther and "Sentry" Ke Qingzheng were ordered by the commander to stay in Osaka Port.
At this moment, they suddenly heard a loud bang, and they all looked into the distance at the same time.
Under the cover of night, one of the compartments of the Tempozan Ferris Wheel suddenly exploded, and then a five-meter-tall mutated light-eating bee tore open the door and squeezed out.
It sucked in the moonlight, raised its ferocious head, and roared at the night sky.
Esther raised her red eyes. She had not been observing the giant light-eating bee from beginning to end, but was staring at the other corner of the Ferris wheel.
It was on the top of a carriage, and a half-human, half-bee creature with short navy blue hair and wearing a navy blue skirt was sitting there lazily with its body tilted.
The Ferris wheel car slowly rose, and she swung her long legs in the night breeze, looking playfully at the harbor with a childish smile on her face.
It seemed like he was mocking them, or like a child inviting others to play together.
"Little thing...is that what you call the bee queen?" Esther asked calmly, holding the little rabbit doll.
"That's right, she is the third bee queen of the light-eating bees, 'Cameron'." Ke Qingzheng nodded.
He also knew in his heart that with Esther's personality, she would never look at the information of the Four Great Bee Queens.
"So what is her ability?" Esther asked.
"Her ability is to use human corpses to create mutated light-eating bees," Ke Qingzheng explained. "According to Garfield, she's the weakest of the four queen bees, but her abilities are well-suited for causing chaos in cities—if she's given enough human corpses, she could even create an army."
Esther yawned.
She smacked her lips and said listlessly, "Little thing, take care of the mutant light-eating bees on the sightseeing boat and the Ferris wheel, and leave this queen bee to me."
"A sightseeing boat?"
As Ke Qingzheng asked, he turned his head to look at the sightseeing boat coming from the sea.
The scene that came into view was incredible. Tourists were drinking and dancing on the deck. They were hugging each other like wild beasts that had lost their minds, tearing each other's lips and bodies hard.
It's like a carnival before the end of the world.
The next moment, all the passengers on the sightseeing boat knelt on the ground, their clothes ripped open from their chests, revealing their beating hearts with sea-blue veins. Immediately afterwards, their bodies began to mutate as expected.
In just a few seconds, giant light-eating bees were born. They gnashed their teeth and rubbed their palms, their sharp and slender stingers split open, revealing their mouths like carnivorous plants.
The sightseeing boat collapsed.
The giant bees spread their transparent thin wings and flew towards the port with a deafening buzzing sound.
"It's possible that the Three Bee Queens could become invisible. Can you keep up with her?" Ke Qingzheng withdrew his gaze and asked expressionlessly.
"Are you talking to me, kid?" Esther said, "From the moment she entered my sight, I've already left a tracking 'puppet string' above her head. She can't escape anywhere."
She looked up at the night sky. A faint thread had appeared above Cameron's head, and the end of the thread was unknown where in the night sky.
Everyone except Esther, including Cameron, couldn't see the puppet line clearly.
At this moment, Esther closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, her red pupils suddenly became empty.
The girl in the Gothic skirt looked like a puppet on a stage play, with empty eyes and expression. Silk strings hung from her head, controlling every part of her body, and her joints were stiffly bent upwards.
Finally, a transparent silk thread fell from somewhere in the night sky and connected to Esther's head.
Then she raised her head and her lips curled into an emotionless grin.
Ke Qingzheng knew that this was Esther's trump card - "puppet state".
After entering the "puppet form", Esther's body is no longer under her control, but will be controlled by the "puppet string" above her head, automatically making the most accurate actions in the current environment.
To put it in an easy-to-understand analogy, it’s like turning on the “AI takeover” mode.
"It's rare to see you so motivated. I'll leave the Three Bee Marquises to you while I take care of the miscellaneous soldiers."
Ke Qingzheng adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose, then suddenly turned sideways, raised his right hand and made a pistol shape.
The next moment, he pointed his fingertips at the mutated light-eating bee that was causing trouble on the Tempozan Ferris wheel, slightly bent his index finger, and pulled the invisible trigger.
In an instant, an air bullet that was condensed to the extreme shot out from his fingertips!
“Bang!”
After a delay of a full second, the hissing of the air finally came out.
The invisible air bullet swirled through the air, creating a sharp vortex that instantly spanned a thousand meters. Then, it accurately struck the body of the five-meter-long mutant light-eating bee.
With a "puff", a hole with a radius of one meter suddenly appeared in its chest!
Blood gushed out wildly, and it collapsed with a wail, crashing to the ground of the playground.
Cameron, who was sitting on the top of the car, saw this scene and raised his eyebrows.
She didn't seem to expect that the short-haired man with glasses could actually kill her toy from a thousand meters away, and hit the vital part without any error.
"A sharpshooter... Are there such powerful guys in human beings?" Cameron clapped his hands and looked down at the mutated light-eating bee that was hit by an air bullet and fell to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.
People's screams and shouts echoed in the fog.
At this moment Cameron was suddenly stunned.
She came to her senses and looked up suddenly, but the Gothic doll Esther had disappeared from her sight.
Not far away, Esther stepped on the wooden houses at the harbor, flew into the brightly lit streets, crossed over telephone poles and billboards, and then stepped on the top of the glass curtain wall of the skyscraper.
The girl in the gothic skirt bent her knees slightly, concentrating her strength on her toes. In the next second, the entire building's glass shattered. With the overwhelming recoil, her body was engulfed in a hail of flying glass, propelling her straight forward.
At this moment, she was like a black umbrella blown away by a storm. The black hem of her Gothic skirt swayed wildly in the wind, and she was so fast that only her afterimage remained!
In an instant, Esther's figure had torn through the night sky and stepped onto the Tempozan Ferris Wheel.
But at the same time, Cameron spread her huge wings like bird feathers, and a cloud of powder fell from her wings. Her figure became transparent, instantly blending into the night and disappearing without a trace.
However, the girl in the gothic skirt rode on the Ferris wheel car and shot upwards.
She was like a light seagull, flying in the night sky, passing through the bustling lights, chasing in the direction where Cameron disappeared, her black tail feathers swaying in the wind.
Esther couldn't see Cameron's figure at all, but she could see a puppet line falling from the sky, connecting to a corner of the night sky.
She knew in her heart that the end of the line was where Cameron was, so she chased Cameron's back relentlessly.
At this time, at the distant port, Ke Qingzheng saw that Esther had become serious, so he turned around and faced the dozens of light-eating bees flying from the sightseeing boat.
He raised his hand and swung his sword, and sharp blades of air cut through the air and shot forward with a roar.
On the ground, a dark ravine tore open and spread straight forward.
The port's fence was shattered the moment it was affected, and the ones who suffered afterwards were naturally the swarm of mutant giant bees that swarmed in from the sea.
The sharp blades in the air slashed forward, silently creating hideous grooves on their bodies!
Some had their thin wings cut open and some had their heads cut open. Blood gushed out of the monsters' bodies like a flood, in an endless stream. It seemed that even if they bled them for a whole day, the dirty blood in their bodies could not be squeezed out.
As the saying goes, "the simplest way is the best" - for Ke Qingzheng, manipulating the air to form an invisible giant for battle, or manipulating the composition of the air to deprive the enemy of oxygen, are not as straightforward and satisfying as using a hand knife to swing out a sharp blade in the air.
Unlike the other members of Hongyi who developed their special abilities in all sorts of strange and fancy ways, Ke Qing seemed like a stubborn person who deliberately went against the norm.
From the moment he was promoted to the Calamity Level, he gave up on further developing the diverse uses of his superpowers.
Instead, day after day, year after year, they hone this simplest technique, engraving it repeatedly into their muscle memory.
It's like a craftsman, with the purest ingenuity, polishing the same rough sword blade day and night.
When he woke up every day, there was only one thought in his mind, which was to make his knife skills faster, more accurate, and more ruthless!
With this goal in mind, Ke Qingzheng would swing his sword at least tens of thousands of times every day.
And a few years later, his ascetic-like efforts gave him shocking feedback in actual combat, demonstrating the effect of "breaking ten skills with one force".
Now he swung the air blade at an extremely fast speed, so fast that it was several times harder to react to than a bullet.
This is a miracle, a miracle that comes from thousands of trials and tribulations.
So far, countless powerful enemies have died under Ke Qingzheng's air blade before they could even display their strengths. Some were cut in half, while others were split in two. It was not until the moment their bodies broke that they realized they were already dead.
But at this moment, Ke Qingzheng suddenly realized that something was wrong.
Even though those light-eating bees had been chopped into pieces and were in a horrible state, the broken and split pieces of flesh and blood still did not give up flapping their wings and pounced towards him!
At the same time, their bodies were turning red, as red as if they were burning, and dazzling and dangerous red light shot out from inside their torn chests!
Flames shot up into the sky, and the massive explosion swept across half of the port, forming a shocking mushroom cloud in the atmosphere!
"boom--!!!"
The screams of the crowd were drowned out by the deafening explosion. Red covered everything in the port, even the sea water and the night lost their color.
After a long while, the smoke covering the port slowly dissipated, and a voice was heard from it.
"Three Bee Marquises' special abilities can even create suicide soldiers using human corpses... It's a good thing the Three Bee Marquises didn't stay on the island, otherwise they would have been in for a real rough time."
In a corner two hundred meters away from the port, Ke Qing was wrapping himself in an air barrier that was completely isolated from the outside world. He looked at the raging flames around him, adjusted his glasses, and muttered to himself.
Just a second ago, he controlled the air at the moment of the explosion, magnified the recoil airflow formed by the explosion, and carried his body two hundred meters away.
Then they created an air barrier, which barely blocked the power of the explosion.
If he missed even one step, he would never have been able to escape unscathed.
When the dust and fog cleared, Osaka Port had turned into a shattered ruin.
Ke Qingzheng looked up and saw a seemingly endless expanse of charred black, with hot white steam rising up, making people feel as if they were in volcanic lava.
"A lot of people died. They will be punished when they go back." Ke Qingzheng looked at the dry bones on the ruins and said expressionlessly.
He slowly turned his head and looked through the misted lenses at the still bustling city of Osaka.
At this moment, the Gothic doll "Esther" is chasing the three-bee prince "Cameron" in the city.
Without exception, all passers-by who were caught up in this childish play met their death.
Esther was controlled by the silk strings above her head, like a lifeless puppet, running around the city with the most accurate and efficient behavioral logic.
She crossed the aerial work platform and landed on the top of a dark green JK express train. Then she bent her knees and her light body shot up in an instant. As her skirt swayed, the glass of the high-rise buildings along the way shattered, the lampshades of the traffic lights flickered, and the lights on the billboards dimmed.
"Why can this human see me? How strange..." Cameron thought in confusion.
She flew at full speed, trying to create some distance between herself and the Gothic doll behind her, but no matter how hard she tried, the distance between them always remained within 500 meters.
This human girl is as fast as a monster, Cameron thought.
Fortunately, Cameron had already made a plan in mind.
She had already arrived silently at the place where she had set the trap in advance. It was a street sandwiched between two skyscrapers.
At this moment, the offices inside the two skyscrapers were filled with "self-destructive light-eating bees" that she had transformed from human corpses - they were exactly the same as the batch of mutated light-eating bees that had just exploded at the port, and there were even more of them.
Cameron was certain that this explosion was enough to kill any disaster-level mutant.
In the offices of the two high-rise buildings, the staff members who were exhausted from working overtime all night were now slumped in their chairs, motionless. Their chests were torn open, and sea-blue blood vessels were beating on the surface of their hearts!
Cameron licked her lips and deliberately led the gray figure, which was chasing her like a ghost, into the street. Then, she mentally predicted the time when Esther would enter the street.
"three……"
"two……"
"one."
Cameron counted to three seconds silently, then grinned and snapped his fingers loudly.
The knuckles rubbed against each other, making a "snap" sound! At that moment, the world was silent, not a single sound could be heard. Then, a girl in a black gothic dress fell into the street.
Then, a deafening roar came from the office buildings on both sides of the street at the same time.
With Cameron's perfect calculations, the two things happened almost simultaneously.
In an instant, hundreds of light-eating bees crashed through the glass curtain wall of the high-rise building. The accumulated flesh and blood almost squeezed into a ball, wriggling hideously and foul-smellingly, like evil spirits pouring out of hell.
They swallowed up all the neon lights and all the moonlight, as if a huge net made of human flesh was sweeping over. It was a flood of blood and flesh!
The moment Esther entered the street, the world went dark.
She raised her empty puppet-like pupils, and in her pupils she reflected the countless wriggling flesh and blood. The heads and limbs of the giant light-eating bees piled up together and fell down like a torrential downpour.
At this moment, a silk thread suddenly fell from the only crack in the sky, and the thread was connected to the little rabbit doll that Esther was holding tightly in her arms.
The next moment, the little rabbit doll was pulled by the lines above its head and jumped out of her arms and fell to the ground. It then quickly expanded and turned into a gray-white giant rabbit that was three hundred meters tall.
Esther leaned forward slightly, bent her knees, and stepped on the giant rabbit's head, her skirt spreading out like a blooming flower.
She raised her empty eyes and silently looked at the swarm of bees that covered the sky.
The giant rabbit doll screamed and raised its right arm at an illogically fast speed. The strong wind it created at this moment blew away most of the mutated light-eating bees that were flying towards it.
Thanks to this, a crack finally appeared in the sky, and one could see the moonlight by looking up.
Then, the bunny doll grabbed Esther above its head with its fluffy pink left paw and threw her into the sky at the end of the street.
Esther's body was as light as an umbrella. In an instant, the doll threw her more than a thousand meters away and she passed through the gap opened by the bees.
The giant rabbit doll stayed where it was, lowering its furry head and sitting down on the street.
At the same time, hundreds of mutant light-eating bees descended. They surged like a tidal wave, crushing the three-hundred-meter-tall rabbit doll beneath them, forming a mountain of flesh and a sea of flesh.
Then, their bodies began to glow a dazzling red. The moment their surface temperature reached its peak, the swarm of bees suddenly exploded, turning into a raging fire that shot up into the sky.
In a short while, no one within a radius of several hundred meters survived.
Everything was destroyed in the devastating flames, and the rabbit doll was not spared from being burned.
"What's going on..."
Cameron flapped her wings, stopped in mid-air, and looked back at the scene, she was stunned.
The direction Esther was thrown by the giant rabbit doll was exactly the direction Cameron escaped.
All of Esther's actions in the puppet state were calculated with the utmost precision and efficiency, as if the one controlling the puppet at the moment was God, who had foreseen all the changes in the world and had a clear view of everything.
In an instant, she stepped onto a high-rise working platform and rushed towards Cameron like a hurricane.
Cameron flapped her huge wings violently and wanted to escape, but at this moment she suddenly saw several shining silk threads falling from the sky and landing behind her.
She was stunned for a moment, then turned around suddenly and saw human-shaped dolls tied to the ends of the silk threads falling from the sky.
They woke up one after another.
They were a group of dancers wearing colorful skirts, their mouths sewn shut with silk thread, the corners of their lips curled upwards in a sweet smile. Under the pull of the silk thread, the dancers' bodies suddenly tensed and their heads stood upright.
The dancers were standing on the work platforms of the high-rise buildings. Some were dancing the graceful swan dance, some were dancing the elegant tango. They jumped up and attacked Cameron. Their figures were so fast that they looked like pieces of colorful light dancing.
Then, they tied Cameron's body with invisible silk threads.
Tough silk threads bound every corner of Cameron's body, leaving her with nowhere to escape, like a mouse trapped in a mousetrap, her face full of fear.
"Is the game over?" she murmured, raising her sea-blue eyes, the corners of her mouth still raised.
Esther flew over and raised her right hand. Her index finger with black nails suddenly moved in the air, and a sharp thread spread out from her fingertips.
The line that could not be cut was stretched straight and taut in the air, and at this moment it was as sharp as a knife.
The next moment, Esther flew past Cameron, and the line in her hand had already passed across Cameron's neck.
Everything was silent, as quiet as a pantomime. Only two or three seconds after Esther landed did the world begin to make sounds.
When Cameron regained consciousness, her head had already separated from her body and was flying high into the sky. Then, it was caught in the blast from the front and burned into a cloud of flying embers in the blink of an eye.
"Three Bee Lords, Cameron... have been annihilated."
Esther fell from mid-air, her fluttering gray skirt drooping to the ground. She walked forward, muttering to herself as emotionlessly as a doll.
The puppet dancers she summoned fell from the sky and dispersed to downtown Osaka to help the survivors trapped in the sea of fire escape.
Not long after, the silk threads connecting every corner of Esther's body broke with a "snap" sound.
Then, her gorgeous yet empty eyes suddenly brightened up, and her crimson pupils were no longer empty, as if a doll had gained its own soul.
The girl in the Gothic skirt stood there in a daze for a while, and the series of events that happened after she entered the "puppet state" slowly emerged in her mind.
She nodded slightly, took a deep breath, and her face darkened.
"That's my Alice's favorite little rabbit doll." She murmured.
The next second, the girl's eyes suddenly turned dark, she clenched her fists, a look of pain appeared on her face, and the corners of her eyes turned red, "Grandma doesn't love me anymore... You threw my doll to the bees, and that was obviously my favorite doll."
"It's not grandma's fault. It's all the fault of those bees. I'll buy you another one later." Esther said, hugging her shoulders.
"But that doll has been with me for so long..." Alice murmured.
Passersby were screaming and running away, the dancing puppets were busy doing rescue work, and only the girl in the Gothic skirt was standing alone in the middle of the street, with her head down and talking to herself.
It's like a one-man show.
Her eyes sometimes turned red, sometimes turned black. When they turned red, her face was indifferent and her tone was domineering, and she seemed a little at a loss. When they turned black, she looked pitiful, her tone was soft, and her voice was soft.
"Don't cry... Listen to grandma, I'll ask that guy with glasses to buy you an identical one."
Esther spoke dejectedly as she took back control of her body from the other personality, wiped the tears that had just flowed from the corners of her eyes, and then stomped her feet hard.
As she walked forward, she pulled a cell phone from the pocket of her gothic skirt.
After a while, she called Ke Qingzheng.
"Is it solved?" Ke Qingzheng's cold voice came from the phone.
"What else?" Esther said coldly, "My granddaughter is angry. Go to the mall and buy her a bunny doll."
Ke Qingzheng said, "Can't you buy it yourself? While you're still awake, I want to go to the uninhabited island to help."
"Why would they need you on that deserted island? Little thing, who are you looking down on? If those ten gluttons can't even beat three bees, then they don't deserve to be called 'Rainbow Wings'."
Esther said, then changed the subject, "Your first priority is to buy a doll for my lovely little Alice, and then come and pick me up. I'm sleepy."
"That's right, they probably don't need my help." Ke Qingzheng said, "Then I'll come over, you wait for me over there."
Esther frowned and hung up the phone.
Then she pulled a black cross from her pocket.
She casually threw the cross to the ground. The cross twirled in the air and fell, suddenly transforming into a black coffin. With a "bang", it smashed a dent in the ground.
Behind the girl, a raging fire blazed, transforming the city hundreds of meters away into a living hell. Within the flames, some wailed, others wept bitterly, yet she, overcome by a sense of entrapment, let her eyelids droop.
Esther raised her hands, yawned softly, squatted down and sat in the black coffin, then slowly lay down. She placed her hands on her chest and slowly closed her eyelids.
"Good night, Alice. Everything will be fine after a good night's sleep," she said.
"Good night, Grandma," she said again.
The girl's lips moved slightly, and she whispered to herself in different tones, and the coffin door closed automatically without wind.
The black coffin slept quietly in the raging fire, ushering in a comfortable and quiet night.
(End of this chapter)
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