Chapter 396 Lin Xingshi’s Birthday (asking for monthly tickets)
August 23rd, eleven o'clock in the evening Icelandic time.
Pitch-black restraints formed a giant black cocoon, hanging upside down on an iceberg in the northern part of Hofs Glacier. A ray of blue aurora stretched across the boundless night sky, and the night enveloped the clear and magnificent glacier.
At this moment, Gu Wenyu was hiding inside the giant cocoon, resting quietly with his eyes closed.
Suddenly, the giant pupa, which had been silent for a long time, trembled slightly, and Gu Wenyu's spider-web-like senses were also awakened.
He didn't know how many days it had been since he had experienced such a sensory impact.
Even though his restraints were incredibly sensitive, stretching like a spiderweb across a thousand meters of polar regions, in this vast white world, all he could hear was the whimpering of the wind and snow, and the roar of melting glaciers.
If there is anything worth seeing, it is the brilliant aurora in the sky.
But on this night, the silence of this deserted place was finally broken.
The next second, Gu Wenyu suddenly heard the sound of the earth shaking.
The whole world seemed to wake up at this moment, and the black pupa suddenly opened its eyes.
"This is..." he murmured.
In an instant, the pitch-black giant pupa opened, and its entire body was covered with transparent restraints.
He looked up and saw that the entire Hofsglacier was shaking violently. One or two smaller icebergs collapsed and hit the ground, disintegrating into white mist and making a deafening roar.
The black pupa's body fell from the top of the iceberg in an instant, and then, like a transparent bird, it distributed the gravity of its body, flew above the pole, and quickly approached the source of the noise.
Not long after, the black pupa landed on the top of an iceberg, slightly bent its knees and crouched down, draped over the top of the mountain like a colorless curtain, completely blending in with the ice surface.
Then he raised his head silently, his eyes piercing through the white mist and looking into the distance.
At this moment, the frozen soil a thousand meters away suddenly collapsed, and thousands of cracks slowly spread out from the ice surface. Then a magnificent giant suddenly broke through the ice, rose from the ground, and extended straight towards the blue sky!
The scene was like a long-sleeping giant reaching out its hand from the icy-blue permafrost. The world rumbled, and the entire Hofsglacier trembled with its awakening.
"Here it comes..." Hei Pupa grinned and said silently, "I've been waiting for so many days, and finally it's here."
Hei Pupa could not imagine any other possibility for a building to be built in such a place except the base of the Savior Society. This also proved that the mentor was indeed fooling them that day, and the base of the Savior Society was not on the moon at all.
He looked at the giant metal tower that was slowly rising. The building was a deep blue with a very technological texture, interspersed with some white stripes.
The dark white stripes crisscrossed the surface of the tower, forming a magnificent picture. It was the pattern of the "World Tree" in mythology - an ancient and majestic giant tree spreading towards the sky, with lush branches and leaves, casting a shadow that covered the sky.
Gazing from afar on the top of the iceberg, it is even more magnificent and majestic than the Tower of Babel recorded in the Bible, which is breathtaking.
"I've caught you, the Salvation Society..." Black Pupa said silently, staring at the giant tower.
A tower.
This is the true appearance of the Salvation Society base.
Hei Pupa made a rough estimate and found that the area covered by this giant tower was extremely large. The radius alone was estimated to be hundreds of meters, almost covering half of the glacier in his field of vision.
It was hard for him to imagine how such a large object could be hidden at the bottom of the glacier, but since the Salvation Society could even create an environmental simulation space, this kind of project should not be a problem at all.
"Is this tower where my real body, Kong Youling, and the others are imprisoned?" Hei Pu thought, "It would be great if I could find out the exact location. Then, when I sneak into the tower, I can find the location of the prison room right away."
He quickly shook his head, dismissing the thought, "But with the Black Pupa's sensory abilities, as long as I can sneak in, I can find my true form no matter how many walls are in between."
After a moment, the diamond-shaped door at the bottom of the giant metal tower slowly opened.
Then, a woman in a white coat and a bun walked out from a corridor that seemed to have no end and was filled with strong light.
Bang...bang...bang...
Hei Pupa's heartbeat had never been so rapid. He concentrated, holding his breath, his gaze piercing the heavy snowstorm. His pupils reflected the woman's face: fairly delicate features, dark circles under her eyes, and a bun hairstyle.
The person who came was obviously Ke Ojiena, the woman who had previously replaced the mentor.
"A working girl?" Hei Pu thought, "Who would reveal such a flaw? It wouldn't be surprising if it was her. Is she busy getting off work?"
He narrowed his eyes. "Should we try to capture her? No, there's no need for that at this point. Now that the location of the Savior's base has been determined, all that's left is to gather our contacts and set the time for the attack."
Suddenly, Ke Ojiena took out a card that was glowing orange from her pocket and crushed it with a "click".
An orange light pattern flashed across the snow and ice, and then a blue triangle appeared out of thin air, swallowing her figure.
"A once-in-a-generation curiosity, the Bermuda Triangle?" Black Pupa scratched his chin, thinking, "It doesn't matter. I never planned to pursue her anyway. Working part-time isn't easy, and getting arrested and tortured after work... poor office worker. If I really do this, won't she become a working devil after she dies?"
Thinking of this, Hei Pupa no longer pursued Keojiena's whereabouts, but continued to stare at the magnificent blue and white tower.
Not long after Keojiena left, the Tower of Babel began to rumble down, like a huge cruise ship sinking into the deep sea, and soon disappeared without a trace.
Ice and snow once again covered this lonely world. In the white world, the black pupa stood alone on the top of the iceberg.
"It really makes sense to let Black Pupa fake his death. It's obvious to the naked eye that the Salvation Society has let down their guard."
Thinking this, he opened the map on his phone, took a look at the displayed location, memorized the latitude and longitude, and then slowly put the phone back into his windbreaker pocket.
"Well, the final preparations are complete. Next, I'll observe whether the people from Lake Hunter have truly been spiritually branded by Kong Youling. After ensuring that Lin Xingshi is safe, I can go to Lijing to meet my 'family'."
He was silent for a while, then suddenly scratched his head and sighed softly, "I'm so annoyed, I really don't want to see them... I'm afraid the diaper demon will smear my face with tears and snot, and I'm also afraid that Dad will strangle me while I cry."
As his thoughts reached this point, a colorless restraint belt spread out from the soles of the black pupa's feet, wrapping the iceberg at the bottom.
"It's almost time for us to meet, Master."
He muttered to himself silently, and his figure immediately disappeared from the spot, as if blown away by the cold Icelandic wind.
On August 23, 2020, late at night Iceland time, the No. 1 unit, Black Pupa, safely evacuated Hofsjokull.
At the same time, the time difference between Iceland and China is seven or eight hours, so in Haifan City on the other side of the world, it was already seven o'clock in the morning on August 24.
The morning sun rose from the horizon, and the mist on the mountain was burning coolly. When the first ray of sunlight shone through the floor-to-ceiling window onto Lin Xingshi's cheek, her fiery red hair was scattered on the pillow. She closed her eyes, her face calm and gentle.
After a while, she slowly opened her eyelids and saw an unfamiliar ceiling.
Lin Xingshi blinked his eyes. He was wearing a hospital gown and a bandage on his arm. With the exorcist's self-healing ability, he didn't need to do much treatment on the wound. Basic bleeding control was enough.
After a night, her injuries were almost healed. Thinking back on what happened last night, Lin Xingshi still felt a little dazed and unreal, as if it happened in the last century.
Lin Xingshi stared at the ceiling, lost in thought. Her mind was filled with the boy with the tuft of purple-red hair on his forehead. After so many years, they met again, but he seemed different from what she had imagined. Was he happy? She couldn't say. Was he sad? She couldn't say either. The rest of her feeling was just confusion.
She originally thought that she had grown up, become the captain of the Lake Hunt, and was famous throughout the world. Everyone called her the world's number one exorcist, and the old guys in the family finally didn't dare to look at her badly.
But the moment she saw the little Nian beast, she suddenly felt like a child again, still as helpless as she was ten years ago, and still as unable to change anything as she was ten years ago.
After a moment, someone suddenly knocked on the door from the corridor, interrupting Lin Xingshi's thoughts.
Lin Xingshi raised his eyebrows and slowly looked up at the door.
The man asked:
"Captain, how are you?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Xingshi slowly sat up from the bed and said calmly:
"I'm almost well. Come in, old crow."
Zhou Jiuya turned the doorknob, pushed the door open, closed the door, pulled a chair and sat down in the sun, hugging his shoulders and looking at the sea and sky outside the window.
"Isn't Wujiu outside? Why isn't he coming in?" Lin Xingshi turned his head and looked at him.
"It's better for him to stand guard outside. The people from the brigade may attack at any time." Zhou Jiuya said lightly.
"Where's Lao Hui?"
"Uh... he went to the supermarket to buy cigarettes and will be back soon." Zhou Jiuya replied.
Lin Xingshi raised his eyebrows: "Buy cigarettes, doesn't he not smoke?"
"Don't worry about it. What's wrong with someone suddenly learning to smoke?" Zhou Jiuya said, "Anyway, the three of us will stay in the hospital until you are discharged. The patients in this hospital were cleared out last night. The association has a professional exorcist who transferred them to another hospital."
"Is this necessary?" Lin Xingshi was so angry that he laughed and asked unhappily.
"It's necessary." Zhou Jiuya said firmly, "The brigade may take advantage of the situation and sneak in at any time. Old Lion, you don't want to see ordinary people implicated, do you?"
"That's true... What's the situation outside now?" Lin Xingshi thought for a moment and then asked.
"Those demons retreated into the mountains and haven't come out since. The White Crow Brigade's herd of beasts are probably still lurking in the city. The Association is searching every corner of Haifan City, even the fishing boats in the harbor."
"What about the Gu family?"
"They boarded the demon train and left the city last night," Zhou Jiuya said. "Stopping the White Crow Brigade was the best they could do. They didn't want to be entangled with the brigade any further, so they were in such a hurry to leave."
"Is that so? Say thank you to them for me." Lin Xingshi curled his lips. "I'll call them back when this is over. Hongyi is still chasing them."
"I know." Zhou Jiuya's face was expressionless. "They are staying with Ke Qirui. I can contact them at any time. Now let's think about how to catch those bandits and the son of the Nian beast."
Lin Xingshi lowered his eyes, looked at the bed sheet covering his legs, and was silent for a moment.
"A demon's intelligence is about the same as that of a primitive human. Do you really intend to reason with a group of barbarians? Don't think that demon is still the same demon you knew as a child. A demon is a demon. Sooner or later, its true nature will be revealed."
Zhou Jiuya seemed to see through her thoughts and spoke coldly without turning his head.
Lin Xingshi shook his head. "The Great Lord's days are numbered... If things continue like this, the Son of Nian will soon inherit his position and become the next leader of the demons."
"So what?" Zhou Jiuya asked impatiently.
"If it's Xiaonian, I'll have a chance to negotiate with it and maintain peace between humans and demons. What do you think..." Lin Xingshi stopped talking halfway through.
At this moment, Zhou Jiuya suddenly pulled the curtain, blocking the sunlight coming in from the window. The ward suddenly became dark, and Lin Xingshi's face also darkened.
"What are you doing?" Lin Xingshi looked at him.
Zhou Jiuya remained silent, but just looked towards the entrance of the ward.
Lin Xingshi raised his eyebrows slightly and followed his gaze. The next moment, the door was pushed open and a figure walked in from outside the ward.
The figure was wearing a green Republican-style robe and jacket with a black braid. At this moment, he had his hands behind his back with no expression on his face.
“…Lao Hui?”
Lin Xingshi suddenly felt that something was wrong. Zhou Jiuya and Zhuge Hui were acting a little abnormally today. First, Zhou Jiuya suddenly pulled the curtains without saying a word, and then Zhuge Hui walked into the ward with a serious face.
She frowned and gently lifted the sheet covering her legs as calmly as possible.
The next second, with a "click", Zhou Jiuya raised his hand and turned on the light in the room, then turned it off again, just like a child playing a prank.
At the same time, Zhuge Hui suddenly exposed his right hand, hidden behind his back, like a hound baring its fangs. Lin Xingshi's heart was also at its peak at this moment, and her pupils were already blazing with fire.
"Happy birthday, Captain!"
Zhuge Hui suddenly shouted, then smiled slightly and showed the object behind him.
Lin Xingshi was stunned for a moment, and what he saw was an exquisitely crafted cream cake with several burning candles on it. The cream was painted into the shape of a little red lion, which seemed to have been deliberately drawn by the cake chef.
"Happy birthday, Lin Xingshi." Zhou Jiuya hugged his shoulders and tilted his head, saying reluctantly.
"Happy birthday." Zhong Wujiu walked in from the corridor, still wearing a ghost mask on his face, "Uh... I didn't want to cooperate with them, but they insisted that I do this."
Zhuge Hui bumped him with his shoulder and waved his folding fan, "Go away, you rough old man, how can you understand what romance and surprise are?"
Lin Xingshi was stunned for a long moment, then slowly raised her eyes, staring blankly at the cake in Zhuge Hui's hands. The candlelight flickered in the darkness, illuminating her pupils.
After a moment, Lin Xingshi came back to her senses, took a long breath, and then raised the corners of her lips, with a glint in her eyes. She said:
"Thank you. I haven't celebrated my birthday in ages... I'm very happy."
"Hey, Captain, don't say such cheesy things." Zhuge Hui waved his folding fan in one hand and held the cake in the other. "Look, Lao Ya and Wu Jiu are embarrassed."
Zhou Jiuya coughed twice, and Zhong Wujiu shrugged his shoulders and remained silent.
"I'm happy, but..." Lin Xingshi hesitated to speak.
"But what?" Zhuge Hui was stunned.
Lin Xingshi asked curiously, "Who celebrates their birthday in broad daylight? Do you understand? Isn't it always at night?"
Zhuge Hui pointed at her with his folding fan, "Hey, hey, hey...I'm observing the celestial phenomena at night and predicting that the White Crow Brigade will attack at night. Then I won't have time to celebrate my birthday."
He opened his folding fan and fanned himself. "That's why I discussed with Lao Ya and the others to celebrate your birthday in the morning... In broad daylight, I don't believe that a group of street rats would dare to show up."
"Then thank you so much for thinking of this." Lin Xingshi was amused.
Zhou Jiuya raised his eyes and looked at her, "Why do you look unhappy?"
"No, it's just that the last time I celebrated my birthday was a long, long time ago, when I was still wandering around outside."
Lin Xingshi shook his head and said softly, glancing through the curtains at the mottled light and shadow on the wall, "It would be nice if that person could come and celebrate my birthday with me."
The sea breeze blew up the curtains, and the curtains rose and fell, and the sunlight fell into her eyes again.
Zhuge Hui suddenly looked at Zhou Jiuya and said, "By the way, didn't we agree not to bring cell phones? There's a hacker in the brigade. If he leaks the information, it will be terrible."
"What are you afraid of?" Zhou Jiuya shoved his phone into the pocket of his Zhongshan suit and sneered, "At worst, we can just ask the White Crow Brigade to celebrate this birthday with us. Do they dare?"
"Look at what unlucky things you said."
"Shut up and leave me alone."
At the same time, on the other side of Haifan City, inside the underground bar of Lao Wu Antique Shop.
The members of the White Crow Brigade did not sleep all night, killing time in the bar while waiting for someone to return.
At this time, Xia Ping Zhu and Ayase Origami were sitting at the bar, drinking orange juice and watching the cartoon "Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuku Season 1" on TV.
Not long after, a tall and burly man suddenly pushed open the iron gate and walked in from the underground passage. He was wearing a white cloak and had short, neat and clean black hair.
The middle-aged man stopped at the door, raised his head, and scanned the room with his white-filmed eye, his gaze passing over everyone's face.
But for a long time, no one in the brigade paid any attention to him, as if they were deliberately ignoring him, until a black crow flapped its wings and flew in from outside the door, landing on the bar counter, and then someone spoke.
"Hey...isn't this our Bai Tanlang coming back?" An Luns said jokingly in a low voice while playing billiards.
"Old Wolf, long time no see." Robert took a sip of wine, and a hoarse magnetic sound came from behind his mechanical head.
"I thought you were dead." Yan Molin hugged his shoulders and tilted his head coldly.
"Brother Wolf, I missed you so much." An Lunsi smiled slightly. "How are you getting along with those demons in the mountains? Hmm... have you been assimilated by them? I feel like your wild aura seems to be much stronger."
"If you want to die, just say it, slot machine boy." Bai Tanlang said coldly in a deep voice.
"Your relationship is still so good, I'm so envious." The blood descendant held his face with both hands, looked at the two of them with his red eyes, and teased with a smile.
"We've only been apart for a few days. Are you two crazy?" the hacker muttered.
At this moment, the black crow on the bar turned into crow feathers and scattered, and then a figure in a black swallowtail windbreaker appeared on the top of the bar.
"Where is your magic crown?" Qi Yuanli turned his head and asked Bai Tanlang expressionlessly.
Bai Tanlang was silent for a moment, then calmly explained, "It's temporarily with the Son of Nian. Last night, when Lin Xingshi and I were seriously injured in the fight, it was him wearing the Demonic Crown that saved me and the Nian Lord. I'll get the Demonic Crown back from him after a while."
"I see……"
Qi Yuanli murmured softly, looked at him, then looked away without asking for specific details.
Because he understood that since the Demon Crown was in the hands of the son of the Nian Beast, it would be difficult to get it back - the strength of the little Nian Beast was obvious to all, and it briefly fought against the two Lake Hunters on its own. Looking at the entire world, it would probably be difficult to find one or two people who could compete with this demon.
At this time, Bai Tanlang looked around and asked, "Where is Tongzizhu? Is he dead?"
"I'm going to look for my mom." The hacker said calmly while playing with his phone, "Don't worry about her, just treat her as if she's dead."
"so."
Bai Tanlang was not surprised. He had felt from the beginning that Tong Zizhu joined the brigade just for the sake of novelty and would not stay in the brigade for long. He would either find a reason to slip away or leave without saying a word. The ending proved his intuition.
"Captain, is your crow tattoo still on Tongzizhu?" The Bloody asked while drinking red wine, turning his head to the side.
"Yes, it's still there." Qi Yuanli said.
"Then you should be able to see the location of the boy bamboo?" asked the blood descendant.
Qi Yuanli replied: "Just this morning, she left Haifan City with those people, probably to avoid us."
"I see." The Bloodline smiled. "I can only wish this traitorous lady a good time."
"Captain, do you want me to kill her?" Yan Molin asked expressionlessly.
"No, there's no need for that." Qi Yuanli shook his head. "Her leaving doesn't matter."
As they were chatting, the hacker who was sitting on a swivel chair drinking orange juice suddenly changed his expression and froze in place.
"Uh... everyone, we have some sudden good news." The hacker was stunned for a moment, then raised his head and said.
"What good news?" Xia Pingzhou turned his head and glanced at him.
"We can take action against the Lake Hunters now," the hacker thought for a moment. "We're still here, so there's still time to go."
"What do you mean?" An Luns raised his eyebrows, glanced sideways from the billiard cue, and asked curiously.
"Uh... you might not believe this," the hacker paused, "Lake Hunter, there's an internal conflict."
"Internal strife?" Qi Yuanli looked at him.
"Yes, they are fighting among themselves." The hacker said and threw the phone in his hand towards Qi Yuanli.
Qi Yuanli reached out to catch it, then glanced at the surveillance footage on the screen. A hint of confusion flashed across his deep eyes, "Internal strife... at this time?"
Seeing this, the other members of the group also came over and leaned in to look at the image on the phone.
Xia Pingzhou was stunned for a moment, then asked expressionlessly, "Isn't this too sudden?"
"Suddenly where?" Andrew said gloomily, "That's exactly what I want. Get ready and leave now, or I'll blow your heads off one by one."
"Although I feel it's a bit ridiculous, this is a perfect opportunity. It's right here at Haifan City Central Hospital..." the hacker said, "Lin Xingshi is seriously injured. It seems the Gu family briefly left Haifan City last night on the train demon. They went back to Lijing."
He paused for a moment and turned to look at Qi Yuanli: "Of course, this could also be a trap. They are waiting for us to take the bait, so they created this illusion... What do you say, Captain?"
Qi Yuanli was silent for a moment, then uttered a single word:
"Walk."
As soon as he finished speaking, his figure immediately turned into a cloud of crow feathers that fell down and disappeared.
Seeing that the leader had left, the members inside the bar looked at each other in confusion.
Robert then stood up and placed his hand on the wall, creating a mahogany portal. He then turned around and looked at everyone through the mechanical box on his head.
"Let's go."
(End of this chapter)
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