Chapter 410: Xizel and the Brigade, Lake Hunter Joins (asking for monthly tickets)
The local time is 16:00 on August 26, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Two hundred meters above the Pearl Building, a white-haired boy in a sweatshirt was riding on a two-meter-long shark. He grabbed the dorsal fin, and the cold wind above the city blew on his face, lifting his snow-white hair high.
The shark's body was covered with a layer of dark blue water, which made it float in the air, just like a small airplane, flying straight forward against the cold wind.
After a while, Yagubaru brought Xizel down to the bottom of the city.
In a deserted alley, its size quickly shrank to that of a tiny Nobe shark, and then jumped into César's pocket.
"Shark is hungry and needs to eat." The little shark popped its head out of the pocket and muttered.
"Don't worry, let's find a hotel first." Cesar said, "Why do you always look for food first when you arrive in a new city?"
"You don't understand. Food is the soul of a city." Little Shark snorted. "Shark can tell whether a city has soul or not with the first bite of food he eats. For example, you people in the small garden are completely soulless. You eat food that's worse than pig food. If I were a person in the small garden, I would have jumped into the sea to feed the sharks long ago!"
“Cultural heritage is the soul!”
"Can culture be eaten? Alas... a child like you who has not experienced the cruel baptism of the ocean world cannot understand the profound thoughts of sharks." Yagubaru shook his head.
"In this world, it always feels like anything minors do is really troublesome," César muttered. "Even though the hacker from the brigade helped me disguise an identity, I still get asked a lot of questions when I check in at the front desk. It makes me think I might as well just sleep on the street. At least I won't be looked at strangely..."
He lowered his voice and said, "I suddenly miss Li Qingping a little. It would be great if he was with us. Li Qingping started traveling around the world at such a young age. He must have a lot of experience in this area."
Little Shark glanced at him and said, "Isn't Li Qingping also a minor? Doesn't he have to be questioned too?"
"Really?" Xizel was stunned and looked down at the little shark in his pocket.
"Yes, in your little world, people become adults at the age of 16, but in the outside world, they become adults at the age of 18. Li Qingping is only 17." Little Shark said, "Shark is more mature. Shark is already a high-level shark who has lived for hundreds of years."
"Why……"
"What are you sighing about? Shark hates people who sigh the most." Little Shark said angrily, "Look, this is the result of not paying attention to food. What's the use of culture? If you don't eat enough, you won't grow tall, and then you will be treated like a child."
"I won't argue with you."
"Cesare, my friend has booked a hotel for us. We can just go directly to that address."
"Which friend?"
"A large fluttering moth."
"Here we go again... Is Mr. Black Pupa really still alive?" Xizel murmured softly.
The little shark waved his fins and said seriously: "For the shark, it is Schrödinger's black pupa. It is alive when you observe it, and it is dead when you don't observe it."
"I don't understand. You should tell me where the hotel is so we can put our luggage down first."
"Two blocks south, there's only one hotel on that street. It's easy to spot."
After a while, the man and the shark checked in at the hotel front desk, got the room card, and safely settled in the double room on the fourth floor. César leaned on the windowsill, slightly turned his body, and looked at the sea and sky outside the window.
Suddenly, he raised his eyebrows and saw a flock of black crows flying in the sky in a corner of the harbor. Their hoarse cries filled the sky and disappeared in a flash.
"Agagubaru, those crows..." Xizel stared at the crows flying like a dark cloud and murmured, "Could it be..."
"Yes, it's the leader of the White Crow Brigade." Yagubaru interrupted, "That annoying Crow man is here too!"
"Great!" Xizel smiled. "It's been a while since I last saw the captain. Yagubaru, let's go outside and say hello to the captain, and then have a meal."
"Are you serious?"
"Of course I'm serious." Xizel said, "And how can you say that to Mr. Captain? He helped us defeat the Royal Court Team. Otherwise, we would have died in the Little Garden World."
Yagubaru silently wiped his head with his fin.
It thought to itself that its other body and the leader had just formed a blood feud, but now they were happily chatting and gossiping together again in another body. This feeling of dislocation was really crazy...
Fortunately, such days are about to end. After rescuing the main body on September 1st, Ji Minghuan will gather the abilities of all the machines into himself. Then he will be free and only needs to arrange the route of his world travel.
"Okay, okay, let's go chat with the leader." It sighed, "I think the leader must be in a good mood right now, so he came to Iceland to travel."
"Well, let's go."
As César spoke, he took the room card for electricity, walked out of the hotel, looked up at the white-capped mountains in the distance, walked for a while under the gray-blue sky, passed the rows of colorful wooden houses, and arrived at the port of Reykjavik.
At this moment, a group of black crows were scattered on the harbor fence. In their dark red pupils, some reflected the scenery of the city, while others reflected the scenery of the sea.
"Isn't this Mr. Captain?" Xizel looked at a crow perched on the railing, leaned forward slightly, and lowered his voice as if whispering, "Mr. Captain, can you hear me? Please reply."
"Crow, don't be ungrateful. Get out here, Shark. César is calling you, can't you hear me?" The little shark in the pocket popped its head out and raised its fin to point at Crow's eyes.
The next moment, the crow suddenly raised its head, its dark red pupils reflecting César's face. After a moment, the crow disintegrated into a cloud of feathers and flew away.
Instead, Qi Yuanli's figure appeared among the scattered crow feathers. He sat on the railing of the harbor. The sea breeze blew over, brushing his slightly curly black hair.
After a while, he raised his eyes, looked silently at Cesar, and then looked at the little shark in his pocket.
Then he said hello, "Isn't this Your Highness the Prince? Long time no see."
"Mr. Captain, the country is gone, so how can there be any talk of a prince? Could he be a wandering prince?" Xizel tilted his head and smiled slightly.
"It was Hei Pupa who asked you to come to Iceland, right?" Qi Yuanli thought for a moment and then asked.
"Black pupa?"
Cesar was stunned.
In his pocket, Yagubaru quickly patted Xizel's chest with his fin.
Xizel looked down and saw Yagubaru controlling the dark blue water. The shape of the water changed and gradually gathered into a line of barely visible characters:
"Say yes quickly."
Looking at the line of flowing text suspended in the shadow, Xizel raised his eyebrows.
He didn't quite understand. He had clearly not seen Black Pupa in these days. How could it be Black Pupa who asked him to come to Iceland?
Besides, wasn't Mr. Black Pupa already buried? It was Yagubaru who had called them to Iceland.
Although he was still confused, Cesar raised his head and said:
"Well, it was Mr. Black Pupa who asked us to come to Iceland."
"So... I roughly understand." Qi Yuan thought for a moment, "The condition for Hei Pu and Xia Pingzhou to cooperate is that after Xia Pingzhou successfully takes revenge, he will help him complete his exploration of the Salvation Society."
He paused. "But why is Black Pupa so obsessed with the Salvation Society? What is his motive?"
"I don't know." Xizel lowered his head and thought for a moment, "Uh... maybe it's because Mr. Black Pupa's mother died at the hands of the Savior Society? Oh, no, I let it slip."
Qi Yuanli didn't take it seriously. He already knew Hei Pu's true identity, and he also knew that Hei Pu's mother "Su Ying" died at the hands of the puppet father of the Salvation Society.
"Is that so?" Qi Yuanli murmured, "So, luring us to Iceland wasn't Xia Pingzhou's original intention, but a condition for his cooperation with Hei Pupa."
In Xizel's impression, Xia Pingzhou's presence in the White Crow Brigade was extremely low. He couldn't even remember who Qi Yuanyuan was talking about for a moment, and then he realized that it was the expressionless man following the girl in kimono.
"Mr. Commander, what happened to Mr. Xia Pingzhou?" he asked curiously.
"Nothing." Qi Yuanyuan said calmly, "Cesare, have you seen him in this city?"
"No." Xizel shook his head. "Agubaru and I just got here not long ago."
"I understand. It seems that if we want to find Xia Pingzhou, we have to find the black pupa." Qi Yuanli said.
"Did you have a fight?" Xizel looked at him curiously.
"He betrayed us and killed two members of the group," Qi Yuanli said. "We are looking for him. If you see Hei Pupa, tell him that I want to meet him."
"Okay, Mr. Black Pupa has done so many evil things..." Xizel said with a sigh, touching his right index finger with his left index finger. "I thought he was really dead before, and I almost cried."
He shook his head, and suddenly raised the corner of his mouth, "But I also guessed that he wouldn't die so easily. After all, he is the benefactor who rescued Yagubaru and me from the small garden."
Qi Yuanyuan suddenly raised his eyes and looked into Xizel's eyes.
"What's wrong?"
"How did Black Pupa contact you when you were still in the small garden?"
Xizel wanted to say, "It was Yagubaru who contacted him. I don't understand how it was done." But after thinking for a while, without Yagubaru's reminder, he said:
"Mr. Black Pupa has an acquaintance in the Royal Court team. He asked that person to convey the information to us."
Yagubaru was stunned. He was just about to pat Xizel to remind him, but he didn't expect that this kid was so smart.
"Who?" Qi Yuanli asked.
"Ko Ojena, the member of the Royal Court who escaped."
"Is Ke Ojiena one of Black Pupa's men?" Qi Yuanli said expressionlessly. "Then it's easy to understand why she abandoned the prince and queen and fled."
"Well, that's all for today, Mr. Captain," said Xizel. "Agubaru and I have been on the road and are very hungry. We need to find something to eat."
"If it's convenient, would you like to go with us to Hofs Glacier?"
"Hofs Glacier?"
"Yes, Xia Pingzhou will also go there."
Xizel nodded: "Sure, if you need me to help you capture Mr. Xia Pingzhou, I can help you."
He had just finished speaking when, for some unknown reason, the little shark in his pocket suddenly poked his chest with its fin. The pain made him hold his heart and cry out softly.
"Okay, then we will call you when we set off." Qi Yuanli said.
"goodbye."
"goodbye."
After saying goodbye to each other, Xizel took Yagubaru to a German drive-through restaurant at the port. Qi Yuanyuan sat on the railing and watched them leave silently. Then his figure turned into a crow feather and disappeared.
The sea breeze blew the black crow feathers toward the sea, and the feathers swirled and fell onto the sea surface.
After a while, as Cesar walked into the drive-in restaurant, he suddenly raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Wow, why are you guys here again?"
He looked up and saw several familiar figures sitting in the restaurant: a girl in an ochre-red kimono, a boy in a jumpsuit, and a young man in a purple British suit. They were clearly three members of the White Crow Brigade.
"Isn't this little César?" An Luns turned his head and asked with a smile.
"The prince has arrived, boy, why don't you kneel down and kowtow?" The hacker said, holding his cheek, gently gnawing on a piece of roasted pork elbow, and then patted An Luns on the shoulder.
The girl in kimono didn't react at all to César's arrival. She kept her head down from beginning to end, staring quietly at the table with an indifferent expression and empty eyes.
"We're here to get something to eat," said Cesar.
"You've found the right place. The food in this restaurant is pretty good." An Luns said lightly.
"I'm relieved to hear your words, Mr. Gambler... Oh no, Mr. Anluns."
César quickly sat down opposite them, picked up the menu, flipped through it, and soon picked out what he wanted to eat. He ordered a Wellington steak for himself and packed a meal of roast pork knuckle and sausage for Yagubaru.
If it’s not enough for it, then when we get back to the hotel, we can order some takeout as a snack, otherwise it will be too conspicuous.
César raised his head and communicated with the waiter in English. After the waiter left, he was suddenly stunned and lowered his head to look at his pocket.
Only then did he realize that Yagubaru had no reaction at all - every time he ordered in the past, Yagubaru would pop his head out, point at the dishes on the menu with his fins, and say that he wanted this and that, and wanted to eat them all.
But at this moment, the little shark in his pocket was so quiet that it seemed dead.
"Agabaru, are you okay?"
He looked worriedly at the little shark in his pocket.
I saw the little shark sticking half of his head out of his pocket, staring motionlessly at the girl in kimono sitting across from the table.
César had never seen such a peaceful and tranquil expression on Yagubaru's face. It was as if he had become a different shark, which made him unable to help but poke the shark's head, as if he was performing an exorcism ritual to drive out the dirt from the shark's head.
After a while, he sighed and looked up at the girl in kimono across the table with Yagubaru.
But Ayase Origami seemed not to notice their gazes, and her eyes remained fixed on the table for a long time.
"Why are you unhappy?" After a while, the little shark suddenly asked.
In the silence, the girl in kimono ignored it.
"That's not right, Yagubaru. It's obvious that she's worried. Don't disturb others."
Xizel persuaded, taking the fries handed to him by the waiter and putting them on the table, while using his other hand to stuff Yagubaru's head back into his pocket.
But the little shark poked its head out again, stared at the kimono girl and asked:
"Shark asks you, why are you unhappy?"
At this time, the kimono girl finally reacted. She raised her head and looked at the little shark with empty eyes.
In silence, the man and the shark looked at each other for a moment.
In the end, it was the little shark who looked away first.
Being stared at by her, Little Shark suddenly became a little incoherent. "According to my life experience, all animals in the world will die - humans are the same; so whether you spend a day happily or sadly, it's still a day."
It paused and lowered its head. "Life is limited, so be happy."
The girl in kimono stared at it quietly for a while, then silently withdrew her gaze and continued to stare at the table in a daze.
"Mr. Hacker, what happened to Ms. Ayase?"
While chewing on some French fries dipped in ketchup, Cesar turned his head and asked the hacker sitting next to him quietly.
"She's heartbroken," the hacker said. "What else could it be?"
"Broken heart?" Xizel was stunned. This word seemed unfamiliar to him.
"That's right, we've all been betrayed." An Lunsi held his chest and spoke with the affectation of an actor. "It was such a painful experience. Xia Pingzhou broke all of our hearts. In other words, we've also been heartbroken."
"Oh, Mr. Xia Pingzhou is such a scumbag!" Xizel seemed to understand, took a fierce bite of French fries, and said indignantly, "He actually made so many of you break up?"
He suddenly thought of something, and quickly made up for it, "Although my father is also terrible in terms of love and has a mistress, it's better to say that I am the mistress's child, which is why the queen hates me so much."
He paused, frowned, and said seriously, "But my father only has my mother as a mistress! But everyone in the brigade is Xia Pingzhou's mistress. He is too fickle! No wonder Miss Ayase is sad!"
Baby Shark rolled his eyes.
"Is that so?" Ann Lance shrugged.
"Yeah, no wonder he is being hunted by all of you. Now I want to hunt him down too." César said while holding a French fry in his mouth.
The hacker held his forehead and sighed, "Don't talk about love, kids."
"Aren't you a child too?" Little Shark choked him.
"Please, I've learned from the Little Kitten Lover. I'm different from my peers." The hacker said, "I'm an expert in love now. Don't underestimate me. Don't call."
"Don't become a traitor by training yourself." Little Shark said darkly, "I'll complain to your leader later."
"What does a shark know? Shut up," the hacker said coldly. "Every time I monitor your lives, I find that you're either eating or on your way to eat. You're two complete gluttons. How can you teach others how to do things?"
Little Shark was furious. "How dare you insult my ideal life like this? What's wrong with being a cooking bucket? I want to travel around the world and eat all the delicious food in the world. I have nothing to say to superficial people like you."
After saying that, it hugged its fin, snorted coldly, and stuffed its head back into its pocket.
After a while, it popped its head out again, suddenly raised its fins, and controlled a stream of dark blue water to dance in the air.
With a "whoosh" sound, the water flow changed and drew a line of words in front of Ayase Origami.
The girl in kimono didn't raise her eyes, her gorgeous eyes were empty and lifeless. The words formed by the flowing water swayed in front of her, and finally slowly fell onto the table.
Only then did she see clearly what was written on the crooked line of words.
"Shasha, please have dinner."
With a splash, the line of water on the desktop transformed into new words:
"Shasha never treated anyone to a meal before, so don't be ungrateful."
There was another "whoosh" sound, and the line of text changed again:
"It's okay not to eat, but don't be unhappy. Shark doesn't like to see unhappy people."
The girl in kimono stared at the line of black and blue text swaying slightly on the desktop.
After a while, when she raised her head again, Little Shark had put his head back into his pocket. The restaurant was quiet. Seagulls and crows flew over the harbor outside, dropping black and white feathers.
Two days later, on August 28, Haifan City, inside an abandoned train station.
It was just dawn, and under the slightly blue sky, a dark red train was parked on the track.
The train was so long that one could not see the end. At this moment, at least half of the carriages were hidden in the shadows of the tunnel. It was hard to imagine how spectacular its entire appearance was.
At this moment, there were four figures sitting inside the brightly lit carriage No. 7. They sat in two rows, Lin Yilong and Gu Zhuoan in one row, and Su Wei and Gu Qiye in the other.
"What do you mean?" Lin Yilong asked, "Don't waste my time. If you want to leave, hurry up."
"They told us to wait here for a while." Su Wei wiped her glasses. "Lin Yilong, you're a good kid in every way, except that you take after your master in personality. You're a little too impatient."
"Father-in-law, I don't think this is my problem." Gu Zhuoan hugged his shoulders and said helplessly.
Gu Qinye remained silent. He didn't know how he could chat with Mu Long in the same place as if nothing had happened, so he simply remained silent.
After a while, they suddenly heard footsteps in the station, so they looked out the window and saw three figures with unique temperaments coming into view.
One of them was wearing a green long gown from the Republic of China era, holding a folding fan, with a sharp light in his eyes like a sword; the other was wearing a black coat and a ghost mask on his face. The mask covered his facial features, leaving only his eyes exposed, so his expression could not be seen clearly.
The man in the lead was wearing a black suit and had medium-length black hair with a long fiery red braid tied at the back of his head. He had a heroic face and his eyebrows and eyes were clear and picturesque.
"They are coming." Su Wei said.
"I'm sorry, I still have some trivial matters to attend to at the family level," Lin Xingshi lowered his eyes, glanced at his bandaged fist, and then looked up and said, "So I'm late."
(End of this chapter)
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