Chapter 395 The insider of the brigade and the lake hunter, the reminder of the black pupa (asking for monthly tickets)
August 24th, 1:30 AM. Inside the underground bar of Lao Wu Antique Shop in Haifan City.
At this moment, the battle between Hu Lie and the Nian Beast had ended for some time, and everyone in the White Crow Brigade had returned to their local base.
It was late at night, the clock on the wall was ticking, the whole bar was quiet, the neon signs flickered, the faint aroma of alcohol filled the air, Xia Pingzhu and Ayase Origami were sitting on the sofa playing Gobang.
Qi Yuanyuan sat at the bar, feeding the crows and playing cards casually.
The playing cards were stacked one on top of the other, forming a finely structured pyramid. A crow cackles hoarsely, drops a feather on top of the deck, and the pyramid collapses.
An Luns was playing billiard by himself at the moment, while the hacker was sitting on a swivel chair, turning the chair while using his mobile phone to hack into the city's surveillance system to gain insight into Lake Hunter's movements.
Yan Molin sat on the swivel chair, lowered his head and wiped the knife with a rag. Andrew drank big gulps of liquor, his legs shaking violently, and his leather shoes slapping on the ground.
A movie called "Léon: The Professional" was playing on TV. Vampire raised his head to look at the movie screen, while Rukawa Chiba was looking at a medical magazine with a smile.
A moment later, the hacker spoke, breaking the silence that enveloped the tavern.
"It seems we underestimated the combat power of the Son of Nian. We thought the demons were already defeated, but suddenly a cheater showed up," the hacker shrugged. "But... after all, we weren't sure if Blue Arc and Ghost Bell were nearby, so it was difficult for us to take action."
He also knew in his heart that the captain would only take action when there was absolutely no chance of failure.
In the situation just now, Qi Yuanli would not let them take action - after all, the combat power of the Lake Hunters was still complete, the position of the Son of Nian Beast was unknown, and the people of the Gu family were nowhere to be seen, and they were probably lying in ambush nearby.
There are too many uncertain factors. If you act rashly under such circumstances, you will most likely pay a heavy price.
"Then what should we do?" Andrew put down his glass and suddenly sneered darkly, veins throbbing on his forehead. "Are we just going to give up like this?"
"What can we do?" the hacker rolled his eyes at him. "Except for that Savior Society, what other organization in the world can go head-to-head with Lake Hunter?"
He sighed while playing with his phone, "The truth is, we missed the perfect opportunity. But there's nothing we can do about it, since that Lightning Hamster and the Clock Tower Man suddenly showed up."
Robert scratched his mechanical head. "Calm down, Andrew. The demons are still recovering from their injuries, and they're missing several key generals. If we run into the Lake Hunters at this critical juncture, the best outcome will be a mutual loss."
He paused and said, "In order to avenge Lan Duoduo, a few more people around you died. Are you satisfied with this?"
"Carrot Head, if you say another word, I'll blow your lousy robot head apart."
As he spoke, Andrew raised his head and glanced around, and said in a deep voice, almost enunciating each word, "Aren't you angry? Lan Duoduo and Uncle Takiying were brutally killed by that beast in front of us!" He slammed the table.
"It's so noisy... If I had known, I would have gone straight to the casino." An Lunsi said, leaning forward expressionlessly. His eyes were aligned with the pool cue in his hand, and he pushed the end forward, poking the cue forward and hitting the ball.
A brief silence enveloped the underground bar, the only sound being the continuous clatter of the billiard ball hitting the wall. It bounced off the table dozens of times before finally landing in the hole.
"If I have to flee here, I don't mind using the last 'Dragon Cinder' on my own people." Andrew said hoarsely, taking out the dark red bullet from his pocket.
Upon hearing this, Yan Molin drew his sword from its sheath in an instant.
"Swish", with a clear sound, the magic sword was against Andrew's neck.
"Be quiet, I won't say it again." She said expressionlessly, "Otherwise your head will hit the ground before your bullet."
"cut……"
Andrew's face twitched slightly, he turned his head to look at her, then looked away.
The Bloody leaned on the bar with her arms around her shoulders. She didn't look up to finish watching the scene in the movie where the little girl and the killer uncle parted. A trace of sadness flashed in her eyes, and she lowered her head to stare at the reflection of the bar sign on the ground in a daze.
"Captain, how is Bai Tanlang?" After a moment's silence, she asked.
"Bai Tanlang is safe. He is recuperating at Haifan Mountain." Qi Yuanli lowered his head, playing with a playing card, and replied nonchalantly.
"Don't worry, old woman. The captain's crows are watching over Bai Tanlang," the hacker muttered. "I have my surveillance network over there in the city, and the captain's crows are on the mountain. Nothing can possibly happen."
"Then I feel relieved." The Bloodline spread his hands. "Although a traitor has left among us, at least the others are safe."
Qi Yuanyuan looked down at the changing patterns on the playing cards and suddenly spoke, "By the way, Qianye, what was that thing you just told me?"
"Um... Captain, who are you referring to?" Rukawa Chiba adjusted his rimless glasses and raised his head to ask.
"It refers to..." Qi Yuanyuan paused slightly while playing with the playing cards, turned his head, and glanced at Rukawa Chiba out of the corner of his eye, "The memory you got from that girl named Su Zimai."
Hearing this, Xia Pingzhou, who was sitting on the sofa in the distance and playing Gomoku with Ayase Origami, was suddenly startled.
"Su Zimai's...memories?"
Xia Pingzhou murmured silently in his heart, and memories from the depths of his mind surged in like a tide.
In an instant, goose bumps appeared all over his body. At this moment, he suddenly recalled something, a very important thing!
That was before the Tokyo auction began, when he was controlling the No. 1 machine "Black Pupa" and met Ke Qirui and Su Zimai.
At that time, he personally revealed Xia Pingzhou's undercover identity to Su Zimai.
——That’s right, more than a month ago, Su Zimai had already learned from Hei Pu that “Xia Pingzhou was the traitor of the White Crow Brigade”!
If the doctor really searched Su Zimai's memories in the movie world, he would be finished!
Rukawa Chiba remained silent, with a playful smile on his lips.
"Oh no, are we going to have a falling out here?" Xia Pingzhou lowered his head and stared at the black and white chess squares, cold sweat oozing from his forehead.
He thought, "If we can drag the Ripper into the Black King's territory now, then all plans can proceed as usual. We'll just have to give up the other main quests. At least the most important one will be completed."
When his thoughts reached this point, his eyes suddenly turned colder.
After a moment, Xia Pingzhou slowly raised his head and looked at Rukawa Chiba.
The doctor smiled and tapped the tabletop lightly with his fingertips. He met Xia Pingzhou's gaze wordlessly, then quickly looked away.
"Don't you want to say it?" Qi Yuanli asked, "Or is it that the other party is using some trickery to stop you from saying it?"
Rukawa Chiba shook his head and said, "Captain, it's actually not a big deal. I'm making a fuss out of nothing."
Qi Yuanli was silent for a moment: "Really?"
At this moment, a crow appeared from the back of his hand, flapped its wings and flew up, then slowly landed on Rukawa Chiba's shoulder.
Rukawa Chiba lowered his eyes and looked at the crow on his shoulder. He remained unmoved when he met its scarlet eyes.
"Doctor, you're not hiding any important information, are you?" the hacker asked suspiciously, narrowing his eyes. "Your attitude is truly suspicious. I suggest you quickly excuse yourself."
An Luns curled the corners of his lips with interest and hit the table tennis ball with the cue again.
The table tennis balls pinged and everyone in the brigade looked at the silent Rukawa Chiba.
Yan Molin lowered his head to sharpen his long sword, and asked without looking up: "Speak... or not?"
"Hey, Tong Zizhu is enough of a traitor. You don't want to be a traitor too, do you?" Andrew raised the sniper rifle, pointed the muzzle at Rukawa Chiba's head, and asked coldly.
"Do you really want to hear it?"
"Of course, don't force me to take it out of your mouth." The blood descendant said with a smile, and invisible blood-colored threads spread in the air, like a spider web scattered behind Rukawa Chiba.
Ayase Origami lowered her eyes, picked up a pencil, and drew a circle on the Gomoku square.
Xia Pingzhou took the pencil from her, nervously drew a hook, and then looked up.
"Actually... Hei Pupa's true identity is a high school boy named 'Gu Wenyu'. He is also the brother of the girl named Su Zimai." Rukawa Chiba said, "This is the information I got from her memories."
He paused. "This whole time, you've been fooled by a high school student. This is the truth. It's hard to hear...right?"
Xia Pingzhou was slightly stunned.
He thought about it for a while in confusion, and then secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, he simply couldn't understand why Rukawa Chiba didn't take this opportunity to expose his undercover identity and help him conceal his identity. Is there any benefit for Rukawa Chiba?
Xia Pingzhou was puzzled, so he simply stopped thinking and lowered his head to continue looking at the chessboard on the paper.
Ayase Origami didn't pay any attention to what others were saying. She just silently looked at the page with the Gomoku squares drawn on it.
"Kitten, you're daydreaming again." She suddenly tilted her head, and her cool hair fell on her ears.
"Black Pupa's identity?" the hacker was stunned. "After all this time, I wonder if this is what you're talking about, Doctor."
"What else?" Rukawa Chiba said, "I'm afraid that telling you this will hurt your pride. After all, you hate that black pupa to the core."
The hacker curled his lips. "Tsk, I told the team leader a long time ago. At that time, I tapped the Third Prince's phone and listened to their conversation at Black Pupa's funeral. I figured out the relationship between Black Pupa and them."
He paused. "But I really don't understand why Black Pupa faked his death in front of his family. Was it to deal with the Salvation Society?"
Qi Yuanyuan remained silent.
He suddenly recalled that day in Tokyo when he walked towards Urushihara Ruri step by step with a gun and pulled the trigger at her head. That was the last time he saw Hei Pupa.
"Captain, do you want me to pretend to be Black Pupa and find a way to send a text message to Blue Arc and Ghost Bell to lure them away from this city?" asked the hacker.
At this time, Qi Yuanli suddenly picked up his mobile phone and glanced at the screen.
[Black Pupa: Hello, Captain, long time no see.]
[Black Pupa: Since I helped you find your sister, please don't let your group members mess around, okay?]
[Black Pupa: By the way, if you're interested, you can locate me, but I don't recommend rushing over here, as this place is very dangerous.]
[Black Pupa: Although it's dangerous, it's related to your sister.]
[Black Pupa: This is all I can reveal about the details. You can guess what else is going on.]
Qi Yuanli looked at the words on the screen, lowered his head and pondered for a while, then raised his hand and started typing.
[Qi Liyuan: Last night, were you the one who asked your family to stop us?]
[Black Pupa: No, no, no, I wouldn't do something like that. After all, we're still in a cooperative relationship.]
[Black Pupa: I didn't know about this. It was Lake Hunter who asked them to catch you.]
[Black Pupa: By the way, be careful of that 'doctor' in your brigade. What he says may not be true. Don't let him lead you astray. The doctor may have come into contact with someone in prison, which may lead to impure motives.]
[Black Pupa: Pay attention to the people around you.]
Having said that, Hei Pupa's profile picture turned dark. Qi Yuanli glanced at the screen expressionlessly, then turned off the phone and lowered his eyes to look at the poker cards scattered on the ground.
Not far away, Xia Pingzhou raised his eyes from the paper and secretly observed Qi Yuanli's expression.
He talked nonsense in the identity of Black Pupa to confuse Qi Yuanli's sight. In this way, even if Rukawa Chiba revealed the fact that he was an undercover, the captain might not trust him at the first time, and there was still room for maneuver.
"What are you thinking about?" Ayase Origami suddenly asked.
Xia Pingzhou shook his head. "I'm thinking about Gomoku."
"It's a lie."
"Thinking of you."
The girl in kimono was stunned.
She was stunned for a moment, and then a piece of paper flew out from her sleeve and tickled his nose.
"Play chess," she said.
"oh."
A few hours later, it was already dawn and the long crowing of roosters could be heard from Haifan Mountain.
Inside the cave behind the waterfall, the Nian Beast King was lying on a huge cushion with his eyes closed and sleeping.
At this time, the little Nian beast crossed the rushing waterfall and fell into the cave. It twisted its head to shake off the water on its lion's fur, then looked up at the king.
The Nian Beast's mane had turned completely white overnight, making it look significantly older. After a moment's hesitation, it slowly opened its eyes and looked up at the little Nian Beast.
"You're here..." After a while, it spoke, its voice already hoarse.
The little Nian beast silently looked at its white mane and the flame on its head that was as faint as a candle and seemed like it would go out at any time, then nodded silently.
"Come here..."
The Little Nian Beast came over to it and squatted down on the small cushion where the Totoro Demon usually lay. It thought for a moment and then asked:
"What's up, Dad?"
"I saw it all last night." The Nian Beast Lord was silent for a long time, then asked, "Since you have such strength, why didn't you fight with us from the beginning?"
"Because I don't like disputes." The little Nian Beast said calmly, "I didn't want to fight humans to the death in the first place, so I left Haifan Mountain and went wandering outside."
It paused and said, "I'm not like you, my father. I don't have any ambitions. My only desire is to eat, drink, travel, and live a carefree life. I heard you were going to fight, and I came back because I knew you wouldn't win."
"Did you know from the beginning that I couldn't win?" The Nian Beast King looked down at the ground and asked thoughtfully.
"Dad, you know it yourself, you know you can't win," said the little Nian Beast. "You're old and sick, and not as brave as you used to be, but you just won't give up..."
"Yeah... it's so hard to let go." The Nian Beast Lord lowered his voice. "When I think about these demons on the mountain after I leave, they may have to live in this deep mountain for the rest of their lives. I feel an inexplicable irritation, even... fear."
It paused and said, "So, I want to do something for them while I'm still breathing... Child, have I done anything wrong?"
The Little Nian Beast was silent for a moment, then shook his head. "You used to be so proud, how could you ask me such a question?"
Two lions, one big and one small, faced the cave entrance and watched the rushing waterfall in silence for a long time.
After a moment, the Nian Beast Lord slowly said, "You can see that I can't hold on for much longer, and Haifan Mountain needs a leader."
The Little Nian Beast said without hesitation, "Let's give it to the rat. Among the demons, it at least has some brains." It thought for a moment and said, "It's better than giving your position to some mad bull or monkey... At the very least, giving it to White Wolf would be more suitable."
"No, they can't." The Nian Beast King interrupted.
"Who can do it then?"
The Nian Beast Lord was silent for a long time. "You are my son. I believe in you."
"I can't carry such a heavy burden." The little Nian beast tilted its head.
"Even if it's for my sake... can you take care of them for me?"
"What if I have other ideas after I take your place?"
"What idea?"
"Humans and demons don't have to fight to the death, right?" Little Nian Beast said, "Lin Xingshi and I are friends. We can..."
"Nonsense!" the prince growled angrily.
"I've told you, but you won't listen." The little Nian Beast rolled his eyes. "Then I'm leaving. Don't look for me if you have nothing to do next time."
"etc……"
"What happened again?"
The Nian Beast Lord was silent for a long, long time. "It's up to you... Do as you wish."
"Oh, you finally got it?" said the little Nian Beast. "Then rest in peace, old man. Live one day at a time. Stop messing around... I'll take care of the rest for you."
Having said this, the little Nian beast was suddenly startled and his expression changed drastically.
"What's wrong?" the prince asked, looking up.
The little Nian beast opened his mouth but did not speak. He just thought silently. He finally understood the source of the uneasiness he had felt last night.
Yes, it remembered what the mentor had said to it in the Salvation Society’s base almost half a month ago.
"Speaking of this, we plan to send Kong Youling out once in the near future. Do you have any opinion on this?" said the instructor.
"What's going on? What do you want to do with a penguin? This is not only animal abuse, but also child labor," Ji Minghuan asked.
"It's simple. The Rainbow Wings are still under our control, but the Lake Hunters are different. They are very dangerous to us. In the past, we could have left them alone for now, but things are not going well now. We must take some preventative measures."
"So what?" Ji Minghuan asked calmly.
The instructor said slowly, "So, we thought of using Kong Youling's special ability to plant a mental stamp in the minds of Lin Xingshi, Zhou Jiuya, Zhuge Hui, and Zhong Wujiu, the four people from the lake hunt, to ensure they don't overstep the boundaries."
He paused, then looked up to meet Ji Minghuan's gaze.
"What do you think, Ji Minghuan?"
In fact, if this was the only thing, it wouldn't be enough to prove anything. What really made Ji Minghuan nervous was:
——That day in the elevator of the Salvation Society base, he asked Kong Youling this question: "Where do you think the Salvation Society base might be?"
At that time, Kong Youling lowered his head and thought for a while, then drew a moon on the drawing board.
That’s right, the moon!
Shortly after that, the instructor took them on an elevator to the lunar simulation space inside the base and told them:
The moon is where the Salvation Society’s base is located.
The mentor most likely wanted them to believe this and give up the idea of escaping from the Salvation Society.
Because of this, it is definitely not a coincidence that Kong Youling answered the word "moon" on the drawing board. There must be some connection between them.
As his thoughts reached this point, a shocking thought emerged in Little Nian Beast's mind:
——Kong Youling had left the Salvation Society base once before! That's why she knew the answer!
At this moment, the little Nian beast suddenly woke up from its tangled thoughts. It murmured:
"The mentor took her away from the Salvation Society once... but at that time, the mentor was cautious. He didn't let Kong Youling see the actual location of the base. Instead, he let her see the lunar simulation space. After that, he made Kong Youling faint temporarily and only woke her up when she needed to contact the Lake Hunter members."
It paused and said, "That's why Kong Youling mistakenly thought that the moon was outside the Salvation Society base, and then secretly told me the answer on the drawing board."
At this moment, all the clues in the little Nian beast's mind were connected, its hair stood up, and its pupils contracted slightly.
"No wonder I didn't see my mentor and Kong Youling for three or four days in a row. My mentor took Kong Youling away from the Salvation Society and let Ke Aojiena take over."
"During the time when Kong Youling left the Salvation Society, her mentor brought her into contact with the people from Lake Hunter. The people from Lake Hunter are generally quite generous and would not be on guard against a little girl."
"That is to say... among Zhuge Hui, Zhong Wujiu, and the others, it's very likely that Kong Youling has already planted a mental imprint in the minds of some of them! The specific effect is unclear, but it will definitely lead the situation towards the picture that the mentor wants to see."
"Oh no, Lin Xingshi is in danger... She is seriously injured and hospitalized now, and this is the time when we are most vulnerable." Thinking of this, the little Nian Beast took a breath.
The Nian Beast Lord looked at the pale face of the little Nian Beast and asked:
"What's wrong, son?"
"I have something to do, Dad. Let's talk later." It turned around immediately and spoke very quickly.
The Nian Beast Lord hurriedly called out to it, coughed a few times, and asked hurriedly:
"Wait, what exactly are you referring to?"
"I don't have time to explain to you here. If you don't go now, it might be too late! Let's talk later!" After the little Nian beast finished speaking, a devilish flame burst out from the soles of its feet, and it leaped out of the cave without looking back.
(End of this chapter)
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