Chapter 400: The Death of the Ripper (10,000 words, please give me a monthly ticket)
At 18:30 on August 24, it was a fresh and cool evening.
Typhoon "Big Windmill" did not arrive on time as predicted in the weather forecast. At this moment, the sky was a mixture of light blue and dim yellow.
The fjord city located on the seaside is shrouded in sunset. The windmills by the harbor are slowly rotating, the sea is sparkling, and the lights in every household are on. At first glance, one would think that this is just an ordinary evening.
At this time, in the basement of Lao Wu's antique shop.
After partying all day in the underground bar, most of the members of the White Crow Brigade have dispersed.
Now, Zhuge Hui has already left Haifan City with Zhong Wujiu, and Lin Xingshi's whereabouts are unknown. There is no opponent in Haifan City that can threaten the White Crow Brigade.
Even if they were discovered by the Exorcist Association, there would be no risk to them.
So, An Luns and Robert put on human face masks, changed into a set of ruffian floral suits that they had never worn before, and walked into the local small casino side by side.
Naturally, Qi Yuanyuan also disappeared. His whereabouts were as unpredictable as ever. Except when he was on the move, it was difficult to see him. Xueyi said that he wanted to go to the beach alone to relax, watch the sunset, and feel the sea breeze.
So during this period of time, the only people left in the bar were Xia Pingzhou, Yan Molin, Ayase Origami, Andrew, Bai Tanlang, the hacker, and Rukawa Chiba.
Xia Pingzhou turned the door handle and walked out of the private room. He took a look at the scene inside the bar.
Andrew was lying drunk on the bar, Bai Tanlang was standing by the wall with his shoulders hugged, his head down, pondering, Rukawa Chiba was flipping through an anatomy book, and Ayase Origami was drinking orange juice alone.
Finally, he turned his gaze to the girl in the corner wearing a black and white JK school uniform.
She placed the scabbard on the bar and sat herself on top of it, nibbling on some puffed biscuits while looking up at the animation on the TV.
The expression on Yan Molin's face did not change for a long time, until she noticed Xia Pingzhou was staring at her, and she turned her head to glance at him.
Xia Pingzhou looked at her, then walked over and sat down on the swivel chair next to Yan Molin.
"What's the matter?" Yan Molin asked casually, his eyes still fixed on the TV.
"Isn't it okay for me to have a heart-to-heart talk with you?" Xia Pingzhou replied.
"It's rare. You don't go to your eldest lady to act coquettishly?" Yan Molin said sarcastically.
Xia Pingzhou was silent for a moment, then glanced at the black plush gloves on his hands. "The eldest lady said you helped her choose these."
"Your birthday present?" Yan Molin said calmly, "She was so stupid. She was just sitting there in the mall, staring blankly for a long time. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I just gave her some advice."
"Then I have to thank you, otherwise I don't know what weird things she would pick out for me."
As he spoke, Xia Pingzhou pulled his phone from his pocket, removed the cat pendant from its base, and placed it on the counter. The chain coiled around the base of the pendant, and the cat sat motionless on the tabletop.
"If you have time to chat with me, why not go and play with her?" Yan Molin said, "She just complained to me on the phone that you've been avoiding her these past two days."
"Is there?"
Yan Molin took out his cell phone from his school uniform pocket, put it on the table, and casually pushed it towards Xia Pingzhou.
The phone slid around the bar and fell into Xia Pingzhou's palm. He picked it up and glanced at it casually.
【KamiNeko: Jack.】
【Hell Girl: Say.】
【KamiNeko: Did I do something wrong? 】
【Hell Girl: What do you mean? 】
Xia Pingzhou was silent for a while and looked away from the phone screen.
He asked, "How did you interpret this sentence to mean she was talking about me?"
"What else?" Yan Molin said, "Our young lady would be so emotional about something else. Instead of asking yourself why you're avoiding her?"
She paused and said, "We should have talked about this. If you make her sad, I will chop you down."
Xia Pingzhou put down his phone and pushed it to her from the table.
"When did you join the brigade?" He looked up at the TV and suddenly asked.
"Don't change the subject."
"Answer my question first, and I'll answer yours."
"A year ago." Yan Molin thought for a moment and then said.
"What's your reason for joining the brigade?"
"Do you need a reason?"
"need."
"I was simply interested. The captain sent me an invitation letter at the time." Yanma Rin said, glancing at Ayase Origami out of the corner of her eye. "If I had to give a reason, it was because I saw she was also in the brigade."
"she?"
"I dropped out of school at a young age and was helping my family run a bookstore. I saw her a few times there. She was the eldest daughter of the Ayase family, and Oda Takikage would always follow her around," Enma Rin said, glancing at the girl in a kimono reading a haiku collection in the distance. "She always looked so empty. I felt like she was a lot like me, so I remembered her then and there."
"Is that so?" Xia Pingzhou said, "Then you two are quite destined to meet."
He paused, took a sip of orange juice with ice, and said after a long while:
“In fact, we are quite compatible.”
"What's our connection?" Yan Molin asked, "I don't remember seeing you before."
"You killed my parents. Is this a sign of fate?" Xia Pingzhou asked expressionlessly.
"Do you think this joke is funny?" Yan Molin said expressionlessly, "We all know that you are an orphan and have an albino sister. We are looking for her."
Xia Pingzhou thought for a moment and asked, "Are you really happy when you kill people?"
"It was fun at first. It's like playing a game. At first you drive your car and kill those NPCs, and it's fun and relaxing, but then it starts to get boring." Yan Molin hugged his shoulders and tilted his head, a strand of straight black hair falling from his ear. "I've almost completely lost interest now. It's only interesting when I'm competing against other players."
"A player? In your world, do you think I'm an NPC or a player?"
"You're a pet dog led by a player." Yan Molin thought for a moment, tilted his head indifferently, and made a joke, "Compared to an NPC, at least you're a little more interesting."
"Didn't you say before that I was your kind?" Xia Pingzhou said, "Then I'm a pet dog, and you're a pet cat?"
Yan Molin was silent, and Xia Pingzhou took the lead and grabbed the scabbard she placed on the bar.
"Can you be more civilized?" he asked. "Don't always resort to violence. It's not conducive to harmony among the group members."
The moment he grasped the scabbard, Xia Pingzhou suddenly saw a picture.
It was an evening. The girl in school uniform opened the door with her key, stood at the door, and looked up at the entrance silently.
There was a woman hanging from the ceiling by a rope.
"Mom, I was bullied at school... It hurts." The girl said, walked over blankly and shook the woman's foot.
The mother didn't move.
"Mom, the teacher told me that as long as I communicate well with Mom and Dad, you won't quarrel..."
The mother remained motionless.
"The teacher also said that it was all my fault for being too timid."
The girl in school uniform lowered her head, whispered, and gently shook her mother's feet.
"But I was so scared, I didn't dare to talk to you. But today I suddenly realized that if I didn't say anything, it would continue like this."
She gently pinched her mother's trouser legs,
"So, can you and Dad please stop arguing..." she said, "and be nicer to me, okay?"
At that moment, the mother's slippers fell off her feet and landed on the ground with a loud "clap", breaking the dead silence in the room. The girl in the school uniform looked down at the slippers for a long time, and tears welled up in her eyes.
Then she ran away without looking back.
"I wish everyone would die..." the girl murmured.
She sat alone on the swing in the park, swinging the swing rope with one hand, and suddenly raised the other hand, made a pistol shape, and pulled the trigger towards the sunset.
"Bang..."
The girl said softly, with a hint of bright red on the corner of her white lips, like red beans dripping on paper.
The next moment, the sunset at her fingertips suddenly shattered.
Xia Pingzhou slowly came back to her senses and realized that this was her memory.
"If you want me to be more civilized, then you'd better not provoke me." Yan Molin said with a smile on his face.
"Oh, then let me ask you another civilized question." Xia Pingzhou was silent for a moment and then spoke.
"explain."
"Half a year ago, when you passed that alley in Lijing, you saw a group of NPCs on the rooftop looking at you, so you suddenly felt very annoyed, right?" Xia Pingzhou thought for a moment. "You were thinking, they're just a bunch of NPCs, why can they look at you so fearlessly?"
Yan Molin lowered his eyes and thought for a while with an expressionless face before slowly turning his head to look at Xia Pingzhou.
"What are you talking about?"
"Didn't we talk about this at the harbor last night? You killed a family six months ago, but spared only one boy because the blood covered the photo and you didn't bother to pursue the matter."
Yan Molin then remembered, and she said:
"Adolescence is about being irritated for no reason and not liking being looked at, so they died."
Xia Pingzhou was silent, with no expression on his face. The bar was bustling with voices, and the chirping sounds of cartoon characters could be heard from the TV. Yan Molin ate another piece of puffed biscuit.
"Do you remember their faces?" he asked.
"I forgot." Yan Molin said.
He began, "The father of that family is an honest man wearing glasses. He worries every day about being fired from his job, but he's a good man who cares about his family. The mother is an ordinary housewife who takes care of the housework every day. Their daughter is only twelve years old. She loves to doodle in her notebook and has a kind heart. She often brings homework home for sick classmates."
Yan Molin tilted his pale face, looking down at Xia Pingzhou's profile with indifferent eyes, and at the same time slowly grasped the dark red scabbard on the bar.
"What are you talking about?" she asked.
"Having said that, don't you understand yet?"
Xia Pingzhou slowly turned his head to look into Yan Molin's eyes, meeting her eyes that were as dark as the midnight.
"Half a year ago, the person who escaped from your hands..."
At this point, he lowered his voice: "It's me."
Upon hearing this, the expression on Yan Molin's face changed subtly.
Her pupils dilated slightly, and the face reflected in her eyes suddenly became unfamiliar. At this moment, a black and white halo suddenly emerged from Xia Pingzhou's body, transforming into a ring and spreading outward.
In an instant, the ring swallowed up the figures of Yan Molin and Xia Pingzhou.
After two or three seconds, other people in the bar noticed the commotion and turned their heads.
But just as they realized what was happening and turned their eyes to look, the circle of the "Black King's Territory" had already shrunk and closed, and the figures of Xia Pingzhou and Yan Molin disappeared in front of the bar together.
A moment later, inside the Black King's territory.
On a desolate and magnificent chessboard, black and white chess squares are intertwined and alternating, extending all the way to the end of the world.
At this moment, on the chessboard, there were two slender figures standing opposite each other across a hundred meters.
Xia Pingzhou looked up at Yan Molin.
Yan Molin opened his eyes slightly and stared at the floor for a while.
The drooping black straight hair covered Yan Molin's eyes. She slowly raised her eyes from under her hair and met his gaze.
The two looked at each other silently for a moment before someone spoke to break the silence on the chessboard.
"It's you..." she murmured.
"Yes, just ask whatever you want to ask. I am very tolerant of the dead." Xia Pingzhou said calmly.
"You traitor, your tone is quite rude." Yan Molin sneered.
"What else?"
"So you joined the White Crow Brigade to seek revenge on me from the very beginning?" Yan Molin paused, "Because... I killed your family half a year ago?"
Xia Pingzhou lowered his eyes, then raised them again and replied, "Yes, but not entirely."
"What's the meaning?"
"Actually, revenge on you is meaningless to me. It's rather strange that I have to find such a high-sounding excuse for myself. After all, Xia Pingzhou's parents mean nothing to me. Like you, they are just NPCs that I can see everywhere."
Xia Pingzhou paused at this point and said, "But you're different. You're a level monster. If you don't kill you, the level will get stuck. The reason for your death is that simple."
Yan Molin stared at him, his voice getting colder, "Have you started talking nonsense?"
"I'm telling the truth. After all, there's no need for me to lie to a dead person."
After Xia Pingzhou finished speaking, a black and white halo flowed out from his body, forming a Möbius ring-shaped loop.
In an instant, he stretched out his hand, picked up the king's chess shadow from the circle, and placed it behind himself, then summoned out five soldier chess pieces in one breath.
The diamond soldiers all raised their shields and half-knelt on the ground with powerful movements, forming a powerful shield formation.
“Yo——!”
Suddenly, the neighing of wild horses was heard, followed by the sound of horse hooves that seemed to drown out the entire world. Then, two stone knights appeared from either end of the shield formation, riding their fierce horses and charging forward.
The tips of their spears were pointed directly at Yan Molin, so fast that they almost turned into two beams of black light.
Yan Molin was silent for a moment and pulled off the tie of his school uniform.
Almost without reservation, she activated the "Grudge Form" the moment the battle began. In an instant, the blade of the demon sword turned into an extremely black "卍" character.
Immediately afterwards, all the pores on the blade opened up, and countless resentful souls poured out like a tide, enveloping her entire body.
The mournful sobbing sound was restless and whistling in the air. When she raised her head again, her eyes like the polar night were filled with an alluring deep red.
In an instant, she leaped upwards with the hilt of her sword, her black panther skirt swaying like falling flowers. Two stone statues of knights passed below her, and she drew her sword from its sheath. A crescent-shaped arc of light descended, separating the knights' bodies and dropping their heads into the air.
"Black and White King Flash."
Seizing the moment Yan Molin was suspended in mid-air, Xia Pingzhou issued an order. Three stone statues of soldiers were sacrificed, transforming into a stream of black and white light that flowed into the king's scepter.
Then, the King Colossus raised his scepter and pointed the end of it at Yanma Lin.
The black and white light spots expanded, contracted, and suddenly exploded completely, turning into a magnificent beam of light that shot straight out.
“Bang!”
Logically speaking, Yan Molin had no way to adjust his position in mid-air.
But the next moment, the girl in school uniform touched the head of the knight's stone statue with her toes, and then her figure leaped into the air like a falcon again, avoiding the gushing black and white light beam and passing by it.
The school uniform at her shoulders and waist shredded, and the aftermath of the beam of light tore through her fair skin, spilling blood onto the blade of the demon sword.
"Boom!" A sudden cannon shot rang out from a distance, once again drawing Yan Molin's attention.
She glanced out of the corner of her eye and saw Xia Pingzhou materialize two stone statues of artillery carts. They pointed their guns at Yan Molin and fired at the same time!
At the same time, Xia Pingzhou reached out and grabbed a series of demon chess figures on the ring road.
These were the chess pieces he had obtained after hunting so many demons in Tokyo and Lijing, and now he revealed them all.
Except for the "Black Sun Demon", Xia Pingzhou did not intend to use this disaster-level demon as a pawn here.
Immediately afterwards, dozens of demons emerged in the air, like a procession of a hundred demons at night, forming an illusory python with its tail coiled up. The demon army surrounded Yan Molin from all directions.
This scene was reflected in Yan Molin's pupils. The artillery fire and the encirclement of evil spirits and monsters arrived as expected at this moment.
But Yan Molin still had a blank expression, and there was no extra emotion in his eyes.
In a flash, she transformed the magic sword into sickle mode. Her body was like a broken moon, and she spun nimbly in the air. The sickle then drew a bright crescent moon.
“Song——!”
The sharp and strange full moon, with Yan Molin's body as the center, swept outward in an instant.
In an instant, the cannonballs of the cannon statue were cut off, and the figures of the demons were split into two. Then flames shot up into the sky, and black dust covered everything above the chessboard.
Yan Molin broke through the black fog and landed on the ground, with the hem of her school uniform fluttering like a bird's tail feathers.
At this moment, her sickle once again retracted into a dark red sword. She raised her head and walked towards Xia Pingzhou step by step.
"Are you playing?" Yan Molin said, "I won't show you any mercy."
"Didn't you say you always wanted to kill me?" Xia Pingzhou said calmly, "I'll give you a chance."
"You talk too much, you're totally different from usual." Yan Molin said, "If you say this battle has nothing to do with revenge, but is just to make me feel less guilty when I kill you, then you're wrong."
She paused and said, "I don't regret killing your parents at all. Now I only regret not cutting off the roots and killing you as well."
"You misunderstood. I said all this only because you're already dead," Xia Pingzhou said. "It doesn't matter what you say to a dead person."
"You are quite confident. It seems that our little cat is really going to turn the tables and become the master." Yan Molin said coldly.
In an instant, she stomped her feet and shot straight towards Xia Pingzhou like a ghost.
“Huff!”
The air pressure seemed to drop suddenly. Yan Molin rushed forward and slashed with his sword, breaking the shields of the remaining two soldiers and chopping off their heads.
Immediately afterwards, Yan Molin stepped on their shoulders and flipped into the air.
She transformed the demon sword into a sickle and swung it around like a phantom.
The arc-like blade light cut the cannonballs into pieces and swept out, destroying the two giant cannon statues farther away. It passed by Xia Pingzhou who was protected by the king's barrier and swung straight towards the isolated stone statue of the king.
"Raging demon."
After Xia Pingzhou finished speaking, the third contracted demon, the "Raging Demon", immediately transformed into a shield and appeared right in front of the king's stone statue, blocking the glow of the sickle.
Seeing that Xia Pingzhou protected the king, Yan Molin did not attack him immediately after landing. She understood that it was meaningless. As long as the king was still there, Xia Pingzhou would be absolutely safe.
At this time, Xia Pingzhou reached out and grabbed the most gorgeous chess piece on the circular path, which was as noble as a swan.
With a "click", the chess piece shadow shattered and the stone statue of the queen came to the rescue.
"Copy the demon."
Xia Pingzhou summoned the second contracted demon, and a trembling little paper man appeared on his shoulder.
"Copy target, Raging Demon."
The moment the order came down, the replica demon jumped up from his shoulder and transformed into the appearance of an angry demon in mid-air - a skeleton figure embedded in a silver cross.
"Clone Rage, Sword Form."
Xia Pingzhou continued, and then the copied demon's body retracted into the silver cross. The cross quickly shrank, and then a sharp bone blade extended from the tip.
The Queen's stone statue held the "Shield of Fury" in her left hand and the "Sword of Fury" in her right hand, and walked towards Yanma Lin.
Possessing both the furious "shield form" and "sword form", the Queen's stone statue's defense and offensive power have been elevated to an incredible level.
Yan Molin was slightly startled, and surprise flashed in his eyes for the first time.
The giant statue of the queen was as fast as a bolt of lightning, and in an instant it was close. The bone sword tore through the air and slashed towards Yan Molin. The chessboard under his feet shattered under the wind pressure caused by the sword.
“Bang!”
Yan Molin raised his demon sword, the tip of the blade touching the shield in the queen's left hand, and used the recoil to shoot back. Using softness to overcome hardness, he created some distance.
But when she came to her senses, the queen had already rushed behind her.
She turned around suddenly, raised her magic sword and faced the queen's bone sword. The purest dark red and the cold white collided violently, creating a wave of fireworks, tearing apart the monotonous black and white on the chessboard, and even shaking the air.
In just one second, the two nimble figures clashed fiercely on the black and white chessboard for more than ten rounds.
The flashes of swords and the shadows of sabers float across the chessboard.
Every time red and white collided, the chess pieces under their feet would burst apart in an instant, and this burst of shattering sound would not sound until they appeared for the second time.
They were traveling faster than the speed of sound.
Although Xia Pingzhou was the manipulator of the stone statue of the queen, his dynamic vision could not see the process of their confrontation. He could only see the sparks from the collision of swords and the dark red and white ripples remaining in the air.
After several confrontations, Yan Molin in the "Cursed Form" was actually at a disadvantage.
She knew that there was no real point in fighting with the Queen, so she suddenly made a feint to trick the Queen into raising her shield, then she touched the ground, brushed past the Queen, and rushed towards the stone statue of the King.
"Shadow Demon." Xia Pingzhou said.
As soon as he finished speaking, the stone statue of the king was instantly dragged into the shadows by the shadow demon.
Yan Molin's sword flew out, but missed. She lost her target, turned slightly, and slashed with her sword, striking the bone blade of the Queen's stone statue.
"Song!" A bright white light flashed past, leaving a deep groove on the demon sword, and knocked Yan Molin's figure more than ten meters away. Her feet rubbed against the chessboard, producing fireworks, and she barely stopped her retreat.
The Queen Colossus raised her shield and stood before the King.
Yan Molin looked up at the queen. She knew that it would be difficult for her to compete with the queen who was equipped with a bone sword and a bone shield.
So at this moment, she squeezed out all the remaining life she had, and even fed her own soul to this greedy Tianqu.
The ghost on the demon sword roared, blood smeared from the corner of Yan Molin's mouth, and the deep red in his pupils was infinitely enlarged, swallowing up the black in his eyes like a spark in the universe.
She was breathing softly, and could hear no other sound except the roars of the vengeful spirits. At this moment, those who died under her knife seemed to break out of the ground from under her feet, trying to drag her into hell.
"I'll be there soon." Yan Molin suddenly grinned.
The next moment, she shot out like a dark red lightning and arrived right in front of the queen's stone statue.
The sword danced across, the enchanting and ferocious blade light was like a giant python twisting its body, attached to the sword shadow, roaring and shattering the space, and slashing on the queen's bone shield.
"boom--!!!"
With a loud bang, the shield suddenly spread with thousands of cracks and shattered.
The Queen's statue reacted quickly, raising its bone sword in front of it. But then, the bone sword was also engulfed by the dark red sword light that rushed towards it like a tide, and the entire statue flew back a hundred meters.
"Bang--!!!" Yan Molin took the opportunity to swing his magic sword and cut off the head of the giant statue of the king. The black and white barrier covering Xia Pingzhou disappeared.
She took a deep breath, looked up at Xia Pingzhou, and approached him step by step with the magic sword in hand.
"Do you regret it? If you had kept it a secret instead of overestimating your own abilities, you wouldn't have died."
“No regrets.”
After saying that, Xia Pingzhou suddenly produced a card in his palm like a magician. The front of the card was printed with the night view of London. A huge golden clock tower was located in the center of the city, standing tall like a giant under the night sky.
It was the event card he got in London, "Noontime Has Arrived."
Event Card Name: Noon Has Arrived
[Card Effect: This card can only be used at midnight. A bell sound will spread out, and enemies who hear the bell will suddenly experience a surge of gravity.]
【Duration: 5 seconds.】
There is no concept of time in the chessboard world; it can be both day and night. All time exists and does not exist at the same time, so this card can take effect here.
Suddenly, the shadow of London's Big Ben appeared behind Xia Pingzhou. As the pendulum swung, a deafening bell sounded violently, rushing in all directions like a flood.
Yan Molin was slightly startled. At this moment, her body seemed to have suddenly become a thousand times heavier, as if every joint was shackled and she could hardly move.
At this moment, the stone statue of the queen, holding a slender bone sword, rushed over like a flying bird.
Yan Molin watched this scene out of the corner of her eye. She burned her life to the extreme. Every inch of the blade was roaring like a hungry ghost, and dark red light gushed out.
In an instant, she raised her katana, pouring all her strength into her wrist without reservation, and then slashed at the bone sword of the Queen's stone statue! The sword light, powerful enough to cut through the world, surged from the blade along with the roars of thousands of resentful souls.
There is no other sword light as strange as this in the world.
The feeling of oppression came like a flood, and the entire chessboard world was instantly dyed a violent dark red.
But at this moment, the body of the queen's stone statue suddenly turned into nothingness, and the flood-like sword light and Yan Molin's body passed through the queen.
The queen came behind Yan Molin.
Then, she turned over and stabbed Yan Molin's chest from behind, straight into her heart. She twisted the bone sword, shattering her internal organs.
Yan Molin remained silent.
The stone statue of the queen drew out the bone sword.
Yan Molin lowered his head and still stood there like a statue.
The blood that flowed out from the hole in her chest slowly dyed her skirt red.
After a while, she no longer resisted the gravity exerted on her body, and slowly knelt on the ground.
Then she let out a long sigh, leaned sideways, and fell down. Blood gushed out from the hole like a fountain, and in an instant, the chessboard beneath her turned into a warm pool of blood.
After a while, the magic sword fell from her palm.
The blade hit the chessboard, making a crisp sound.
"You lose." Xia Pingzhou said, slowly walking towards her. "Any last words? If not, forget it."
The chessboard world was dead silent, with only the sound of flowing blood, and Yan Molin's eyes gradually became empty.
"Do you know?"
She suddenly spoke in the dead silence.
"What?"
"I rarely tell people my name." Yan Molin looked up at the black and white sky, her lips moving slightly. She closed her eyes, "You are the first."
Xia Pingzhou was silent for a moment, then said expressionlessly:
"My name is Ji Minghuan."
As soon as she finished speaking, the stone statue of the queen raised her hand and swung the bone sword in her hand down towards Yan Molin's neck.
Silently, blood spurted out, staining Xia Pingzhou's gloves and cheeks red.
Then the queen silently bent down, raised her right hand, grabbed the girl's hair and lifted her head up.
At the same moment, a series of black and white prompt boxes popped up in front of Xia Pingzhou's eyes.
[Completed the final mission of Unit 2—"Located in the White Crow Brigade and killed Jack the Ripper."]
[Task rewards obtained: 3 attribute points, 3 skill points, 3 split points.]
[It has been detected that all main missions for Unit 2 have been completed. The "Unit Graduation" reward has been obtained: 4 attribute points and 4 skill points.]
Xia Pingzhou moved his fingers.
Unit 2's "Strength" attribute changes: D rank → C rank (↑3 points).
Unit 2's Speed attribute changes from S+ to SS (↑2 points) (reached the unit's maximum attribute)
Unit 2's "Spirit" attribute changes from S+ to SS (↑2 points) (reached the unit's maximum attribute)
After Unit 2 killed its opponent, the Black King's territory would shrink rapidly within four seconds. The next moment, the entire black and white chessboard world began to shrink rapidly.
It was as if a circular wall was pressing down on them, sucking all the air out of them.
A fatal feeling of suffocation came over me.
Xia Pingzhou took a deep breath of the turbid air, which was filled with the smell of blood. He slowly raised his eyes from the pool of blood on the ground, his eyes as cold as a ravine.
The statue of the Queen clutches the Ripper's head and disappears with him on the chessboard.
Meanwhile, inside the underground bar.
A pitch-black crow suddenly flew into the bar, flapped its wings, slowly landed on the bar counter, and spread out like a black feather.
Qi Yuanli's figure then appeared among the scattered crow feathers. He sat at the bar, slowly raised his eyes, and looked around.
At this moment, Andrew had woken up from his drunkenness. He held the sniper rifle and supported his forehead.
The hacker sat on a swivel chair, playing with his phone while shaking his legs. The Blood Descendant leaned on the bar with his shoulders folded, and Bai Tanlang chatted with Rukawa Chiba with an expressionless face.
"Captain, you're finally back." The hacker breathed a sigh of relief.
"What's the situation?" Qi Yuanli asked.
"The situation is that Xia Pingzhou suddenly went crazy. While chatting, he suddenly dragged the Ripper into his territory." The hacker clicked his tongue. "I don't know if they were just joking or what, but I called you over anyway."
"How long have they been in there?"
"They've been in there for a while, a minute?"
"One minute?"
Urushihara lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then turned his head to look at Ayase Origami.
The girl in kimono was sitting quietly on the sofa reading a book, and she didn't seem to think anything would happen.
"Ayase Origami, do you know what happened?" Urushi Yuan asked expressionlessly.
The girl in kimono was silent for a moment, looked up from above the haiku collection, and then shook her head.
"How interesting..." Rukawa Chiba smiled slightly.
"Captain, do you need me to call An Luns and Robert back? They are still making trouble in the casino." asked the hacker.
"No, that's not necessary." Qi Yuanli said, "Let's see what the situation is first."
There was silence in the underground bar. After a while, a black and white light flashed through the air.
Immediately afterwards, Xia Pingzhou and the Queen Statue returned to the bar.
Everyone's eyes were on them. The girl in kimono was the last one to look up. She raised her eyes from the haiku collection and looked at Xia Pingzhou's face.
At this moment, the neon sign of the bar flickered, making Xia Pingzhou's face look gloomy.
He raised the back of his hand and wiped the blood off his cheek.
In the darkness, the Queen's stone statue's eye sockets burned with a cold blue flame. Holding a bone knife in one hand, she slowly lifted Yan Molin's head above her head with the other, allowing all the members present to clearly see the bloody head.
This scene was eerie and chilling, just like the statue of the goddess of victory holding a torch, causing everyone in the brigade to freeze in place and then gasp.
Qi Yuanli remained silent, but just lowered his head to glance at Yan Molin's head.
Bai Tanlang's face twitched slightly.
The hacker stayed where he was.
The vampire slowly loosened her arms around her shoulders, and almost immediately turned her head to look at Ayase Origami.
The girl in kimono sat on the sofa. She raised her eyes, and the raised head of the queen's stone statue was reflected in her empty pupils.
"Jack...?"
Qi Yuanli was silent for a moment, then he withdrew his gaze from the head in the Queen's hand and whispered to Xia Pingzhou:
"What's the reason?"
Xia Pingzhou raised his head and looked into his eyes silently.
After a while, he said, "The Ripper killed my family."
"Is that so..." Qi Yuanli murmured, "I was careless."
Then, a hysterical roar broke the silence in the bar.
"Xia Pingzhou, you... you beast." Andrew first looked at the bloody head, then glared at Xia Pingzhou with wide eyes, roaring almost word by word, "So you've been a traitor all along?!"
Xia Pingzhou did not answer him, but looked down at the blood-stained velvet gloves.
He lowered his face and said coldly, "Just a warning. I don't intend to fight you here. But if you insist, I'm not without a chance of winning."
The moment he finished speaking, Andrew's finger was already on the trigger.
Seeing this, the Queen's stone statue suddenly transformed into a flash of lightning and rushed forward. She raised her slender bone sword, and the tip of the sword instantly pierced Andrew's heart.
"Unpredictably fast" was everyone's first thought. No one present could see the Queen's statue's movements clearly; she moved so fast it looked like the Grim Reaper descending with a sickle.
It's hard to guard against.
Qi Yuanli was slightly stunned.
If Andrew and Qi Yuanli were closer, perhaps Qi Yuanli could have saved him.
Rukawa Chiba smiled excitedly, his mouth almost cracking, and the dim neon lights were reflected on his lenses.
In dead silence, the queen pulled the bone sword out of Andrew's body.
“Huahua…”
Blood gushed out of the hole in Andrew's chest like a waterfall.
His face was filled with horror, and he crossed his arms over his chest, but it was of no use: the blood gushed out uncontrollably. Andrew slowly knelt on the ground, his head hanging down.
"Hey, hey, are you serious..." the hacker muttered blankly. He was the last one to react among everyone. At this moment, he looked down at Yan Molin's head, his face pale to the extreme.
"Xueyi, Bai Tanlang, restrain him." Qi Yuanli said as he summoned Tianqu, and Zhou Jiuya's Tonggu Compass appeared in his right hand.
"Theresa."
Xia Pingzhou suddenly spoke, uttering an unfamiliar name. At that moment, a figure in a red dress in the underground bar froze in place.
After a while, the Blood Descendant slowly raised his head and asked, "Why do you know this name?"
"1001 told me. He said this is your name." Xia Pingzhou looked into the blood descendant's eyes. "Theresa, I can take you to see him."
The blood descendant was silent for a long time, with her head lowered, and her falling light golden hair covered her eyes.
After a moment, she suddenly smiled.
The vampire girl spread her dragon wings that covered the sky and protected Xia Pingzhou. She raised her red eyes and met the gazes of the other group members.
The hacker said blankly, "What's going on?"
Qi Yuanli also frowned slightly.
"Bai Tanlang, your son's name is Firion, right?" Xia Pingzhou continued, "I met him once in London. He said he was scared to see you because he ate his mother. He didn't know you were still looking for him."
Upon hearing this, Bai Tanlang was also stunned.
"I know where he is, and I can take you to him... But if you attack me here, that opportunity will be gone. I advise you to reconsider your purpose in joining the brigade."
After Xia Pingzhou finished speaking, he took off the pair of blood-stained gloves and walked past Bai Tanlang with an expressionless face.
He walked towards Ayase Origami step by step.
The footsteps sounded loud and clear in the quiet bar.
"Don't... come over here." After a while, someone suddenly said.
Xia Pingzhou did not stop.
The kimono-clad girl hung her head, stunned for a long moment, then lifted a piece of paper from her sleeve. The sharp piece of paper suddenly flew out, slashing across Xia Pingzhou's face, leaving a hideous bloody mark.
"No, come here." She said again, her voice very soft and trembling slightly.
In an instant, the overlapping layers of paper formed a pale paper barrier, blocking Xia Pingzhou's way.
But the next second, when she raised her head and saw the line of blood flowing down Xia Pingzhou's face, the paper barrier shattered.
The paper turned into colorless fragments, falling like snowflakes and drooping on the floor.
Xia Pingzhou's face was expressionless. He took off his gloves and slowly put the two pairs together. The blood that flowed from the gloves covered his fingers in red.
Then he slowly raised his head and handed the pair of gloves to Ayase Origami.
"You said this was a gift the Ripper picked for you. But the Ripper is the enemy who killed my parents, so I can't accept it. Now... I'm returning it to you."
After saying that, Xia Pingchu saw that Ayase Origami did not reach out for a long time, so he loosened the gloves.
The blood-stained glove slowly fell from mid-air and drooped on the floor.
Ayase Origami was like a kite with a broken string, her pupils slightly contracted as she stared blankly at the scene, the reflection of the gloves slowly falling in front of her.
Ayase Origami hadn't come to her senses until the gloves fell to the ground.
Her lips moved slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but she couldn't say anything and couldn't open her mouth at all.
Xia Pingzhou looked at her twice for the last time, then turned around and looked at Qi Yuanli.
"The Lacquer Principle, see you in Iceland."
As soon as he finished speaking, he looked away and walked towards the exit of the bar without looking back.
Xueyi and Bai Tanlang lowered their heads and hesitated for a moment, then followed.
"Sorry, Captain." Bai Tanlang said hoarsely.
The vampire was silent, and she walked like a puppet with its strings cut.
From beginning to end, the only thing in her mind was that name that no one had mentioned in a hundred years.
Theresa.
This is the name 1001 gave her, and it is a secret known only to the two of them.
The bar was silent. Rukawa Chiba kept smiling from beginning to end. In the end, he couldn't even suppress the madness in his smile. He took off his glasses and shook his head.
Amidst the chaos, the hacker muttered, "Hey, hey, hey, Captain, are we just going to let them go like this?"
But Qi Yuanli did not respond to him. He just hunched his back and silently looked at the girl's head on the ground and the cowboy's body with a cut in it, with no expression on his face.
Rukawa Chiba glanced at Ayase Origami out of the corner of his eye.
In the silence, the girl in kimono lowered her head and looked silently at the gloves on the ground. The shadow of her hair covered her face, making it impossible to see her expression.
After a while, suddenly, a line of tears quietly flowed from the corners of her eyes.
This girl, emotionally dull and hollow like a doll, who didn't even understand what sadness was, was now shedding tears. Her lips moved softly, like a malfunctioning robot, as she whispered to herself:
“…Don’t leave.”
It felt like I had been holding this in my heart for a very long time, and it took all my strength to finally squeeze these words out from between my lips and teeth.
But that person is gone, and no one will hear what she says anymore.
It was a long time before the paint principle responded.
He raised his head expressionlessly. A flock of crows fluttered in the air, lightly dropping a shower of feathers to the ground.
Crow feathers covered Yan Molin's head and Andrew's body.
After dealing with the two bodies, Qi Yuanli sat silently for a while, and then his figure turned into scattered feathers and disappeared, and then appeared on the dome of Lao Wu's antique shop.
Looking up, I saw that Bai Tanlang had transformed into a beast, spread his bone wings, and disappeared at the end of the horizon carrying Xia Pingzhou and the bloodline.
After a while, the setting sun sank completely below the horizon, taking away the light that was shining on the fjord city. At the same time, the long-overdue typhoon suddenly arrived.
That night, the entire Haifan City was trembling in the howling wind and rain.
(End of this chapter)
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