Chapter 36 Brigade
After loading Xia Pingzhou's character memory, Ji Minghuan was able to understand the text message he had just received.
[Anonymous user: This is an underground bar in the alley of Go-chome, Tokyo. We are waiting for you in the third private room.]
There is no doubt that this text message came from the "White Crow Brigade" - today is the time when Xia Pingzhou met them for the first time.
Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows, turned on the navigation on his phone, walked all the way to the destination, went down the stairs and entered the underground bar.
For some reason, although it was clearly morning, the place was extremely lively with people drinking and chatting. Of course, it was possible that these people had stayed up all night and drank until dawn, but that was too energetic.
He walked through the colorful crowd, came to the third box, raised his hand and knocked gently on the door.
The people in this box are from the White Crow Brigade... double S-rank wanted targets of the Deviant Association. Of course, they might also use a few dummies to test me, but that's not like their style.
With his back to the noisy crowd, Ji Minghuan was already praying in his heart, trying to lower his psychological expectations of the target as much as possible: "Don't die too quickly, even if it's successful. At least before the third game character is created, I hope this character can still be alive, otherwise my series of actions will be restricted again."
With a "click", someone turned the doorknob and opened the door for him.
He looked through the crack in the door and saw a girl wearing an ochre-red kimono and medium-length black hair. She looked indifferent, like a Japanese doll, with a pale complexion and large, empty eyes that made one feel cold if one stared at her for too long.
The girl said nothing, but just stared at him quietly.
"Come in."
There was a warm voice speaking in Japanese, and you could tell his Japanese had a British accent.
Ji Minghuan walked in and saw two other figures sitting on the sofa playing cards.
The outfits of these people are very recognizable. The man sitting on the left is wearing a V-neck shirt and a square mechanical box on his head. The box completely covers his head, and there are two white antennas on top of the box.
Sitting on the right is a blond, blue-eyed young man wearing an English suit, with a perpetual curve at the corner of his mouth.
"Newcomer?" the kimono girl behind him asked in Japanese.
"Just like in the photo, he is the substitute No. 12. The captain is very interested in his abilities. Let us come over and see if he is satisfied with him." The man with the mechanical box head made a steady voice.
"Then let's introduce ourselves first?" The man in the British suit put down the cards in his hand and said with a smile.
The girl in the kimono was silent, but a magazine in a drawer beside her suddenly flew up, and each page was torn into pieces of paper. Then these pieces of paper danced in front of her and formed a line of Japanese in the air:
——My name is Ayase Origami, and I’m number 3 in the brigade.
Ji Minghuan looked at the words formed by the scraps of paper and thought: Is this the ability to control paper objects?
He said calmly, "Xia Pingzhou, come and take over No. 12's position."
In my memory, Xia Pingzhou was a taciturn person who always had a poker face.
Of course, the people in the White Crow Brigade have not yet had formal contact with Xia Pingzhou, and they don’t have any specific impression of his personality, so Ji Minghuan can overturn Xia Pingzhou’s original personality according to his own preferences and create a completely new character.
But after thinking about it, he felt that it would be better for him to speak less in this group. Establishing a taciturn personality could effectively avoid speaking out of turn.
His eyes swept across the three people present. Coincidentally, two of them occupied certain images in Xia Pingzhou's memory.
Xia Pingzhou had been investigating the White Crow Brigade like a madman for the past six months. He searched all kinds of dark webs and found video clips and surveillance footage related to them. Combining these with the official information currently released, he was able to recognize the appearance of most of the members.
The blond young man and the girl in kimono are both quasi-disaster-level psychics.
However, this "quasi-disaster level" was determined independently by Xia Pingzhou based on the intelligence he had investigated. He guessed that even if it was not quasi-disaster level, these two people were at least "Dragon level" or above, reaching the threshold of "quasi-disaster level".
As for the robot head, Xia Pingzhou did not find any information about it.
"My name is Andrens, number 11 in the brigade," said the blond and blue-eyed young man.
"Robert, number 7 in the regiment." said the weird man with his head in a mechanical box. "They call me 'Carrot Head', you can call me that too."
Ji Minghuan nodded at him.
"Well, it's about time to leave." An Luns looked down at his watch, "But there is one thing we need to do before we go. The leader said that we should kill everyone in the bar before we leave. Some of them are planning to take action at the auction in a week, which conflicts with our schedule."
Ji Minghuan thought for a moment and said, "So my assessment for joining the group is to go out and kill them all?"
"Of course not... This is just a matter of convenience. If the captain is really interested in you, then killing them is not a test for you. You just need to consider which posture is easier." An Lun paused, "Don't worry... Let me try first to see if there is any way to save effort."
As he spoke, a strange light flashed in his eyes, and then a blue slot machine three or four meters tall suddenly appeared, standing quietly beside him.
"Slot machine, the special ability of team member No. 11... I wonder what effect it will have." Ji Minghuan thought.
An Luns leaned against the side of the slot machine, raised his hand and shook the joystick of the slot machine. Amid the "clattering" sound of the game, the three grids of the slot machine began to swing at high speed and draw results.
When the dust settled, what finally appeared on the slot machine interface were three parallel "bazookas".
Ayase Origami was silent, and Robert beside her was also silent.
"That's fine." An Lunsi spread his hands, "It seems that the result is a bit... high-profile."
"Newbie, let's go."
As Robert spoke, he had already placed his hands on the wall of the box. He used his special powers to create a door frame on the wall that was connected to nowhere.
"If you don't leave now, you're going to be blown away, newcomer." Ayase Origami warned expressionlessly, and was the first to turn the handle of the door frame and step into the other world on the other side.
"GOGO, we'll take you to a fun place." An Luns put his arm around Ji Minghuan's shoulders and took him to the portal on the wall.
"Aren't you going to kill everyone in the bar?" Ji Minghuan asked casually, his eyes still on the slot machine.
"What are you talking about? They... are already dead." An Luns leaned close to his ear and spoke in a low voice.
The next moment, the front shell of the slot machine opened, and a huge rocket launcher slowly stretched out from it. Then, accompanied by a deafening bang, flames that were strong enough to shoot straight into the sky spurted out from the muzzle, melting the entire box with ease, and whistled towards the bar hall outside.
It was a pity that the four of them could not see what the underground bar looked like now... because when they came to their senses, their figures had already passed through the portal. As the door frame on the wall disappeared, the movement behind the door was blocked countless kilometers away.
Ji Minghuan only heard the roar for a moment, but before the door closed, he definitely felt the burning wind blowing from behind.
He could tell... no one in the entire bar would survive. No, not just the bar, but also the alley where the bar was located and the nearby residential area would probably have no survivors.
Then, in an hour or two, this news will spread all over Japan.
"Dealing with this group of psychopaths is not much more interesting than playing house with two disaster-level masters."
Ji Minghuan was thinking with interest, and when he looked up, he saw what seemed to be a long-abandoned office building in front of him.
In the office, the walls and floors had not been cleaned for a long time. The dusty desks were arranged in a mess, and some of them even had one or two broken computers on them.
There is a banner in Japanese on the wall on both sides.
The banner on the left reads: "Observe working hours! Don't waste even a minute or a second!"
The banner on the right reads: The workplace is a battlefield! Always maintain your highest concentration!
"Haha, there really is a scent of a social animal blowing towards me. Will any social animal devil be born here?" Ji Minghuan thought.
He glanced at the robot head named "Robert" and wondered:
"It seems that the ability of member No. 7 is to create a portal on the wall connecting two different places. No wonder Xia Pingzhou didn't investigate him. He is a functional member who does not need to participate in battles. Naturally, he will not be seen by outsiders."
Although he knew it in his heart, Ji Minghuan still asked the three of them for confirmation:
"Where is this? Weren't we just in an underground bar in the harbor?"
An Luns released his shoulders and explained, "Robert's ability is to leave portals in places he has been to. As long as the distance between each two portals is not too far, they can be connected."
He paused and said, "This is an office building in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Previously, two consecutive incidents of employees dying suddenly from overwork occurred here. The company was forced to close by the Japanese government, and the office building became vacant."
"What else do you want me to do?"
"Hush, see?" An Luns stared straight ahead and teased, "Whatever I ask you to do, that's of course what you exorcists are best at doing."
Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows, and suddenly smelled a strong odor in the air, and immediately reacted:
"demon?"
"That's right. The three of us will be watching you and the demon fighting from behind, and then we'll give you scores... If more than two of us are not satisfied with your performance, we will not only refuse to let you join the group, but we will also kill you on the spot." An Luns smiled, "It looks like your opponent has appeared. Aren't you going to welcome it?"
As soon as the words fell, a shadow suddenly emerged on the ground from the center of this gloomy office, spreading out like a black lake. Then a huge shadow slowly rose from the black lake and was exposed to the sunlight.
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