Chapter 60 Gap
Late at night, at the entrance of Roppongi EX Theater.
Keeping a short distance, Ji Minghuan and Ke Qirui looked at each other. The stone statue of the queen quietly protected the former, and the cold flames in her slender eye sockets burned fiercely.
"Ke Qirui," Ji Minghuan looked directly into Ke Qirui's eyes and said expressionlessly, "I remember your name."
"Oh? I thought you had forgotten about me. So...are you free to chat with me? Just here, since you've solved all the surveillance cameras anyway."
As Ke Qirui spoke, he took another puff of his cigarette, with smoke curling around his fingertips.
"If I say I'm busy, you'll let me go?"
"Indeed... If that time comes, I might try to find a way to make you free." Ke Qirui put the pipe back into his pocket and did not deny his statement. "But I am still a very polite person, so I will ask you first."
Ji Minghuan remained silent, with no expression on his face. It was a bit difficult for him to maintain Xia Pingzhou's cold personality. If he had played the role of "Black Pupa", he would probably have let himself go and retorted to Ke Qirui's words.
The stone statue of the queen turned the two daggers and moved forward, with the cold blue flames burning in her eye sockets.
"My companions are nearby." Ke Qirui took off his one-way glasses, took out a glasses cloth from his pocket and gently wiped it. "You are indeed a very talented exorcist. I watched the entire battle just now. Even though more than a year has been wasted, your strength is still beyond my imagination. But I don't think you can fight against many alone."
She paused and said, "And...from a personal point of view, I don't want to conflict with you."
After hearing her say this, Ji Minghuan thought of Su Zimai's face, and then silently surrendered.
He doesn't understand other people, but how could he not know his sister's personality and temper?
Who is Su Zimai? She has always been bullying her two brothers when she quarrels with them. This kid doesn't hold back when she gets angry, and she doesn't consider anything.
When the chase starts later, it won’t be surprising if Su Zimai suddenly uses some killer move to kill his number two character.
He asked: "So... you followed me all the way in the middle of the night?"
Ke Qirui shook her head: "No, we didn't follow you, nor did we specifically look for you. It's simply that there is a strong connection between us."
"What a fate..." She chuckled, "Every time I detect demons in the harbor and bring my people to take a look, I end up running into you."
"It's better to forget this kind of fate."
"We met two years ago. Since you still remember my name, you should also remember the scene at that time."
"So, what do you want to say?"
As he spoke, Ji Minghuan looked down at the crow tattoo on the back of his hand. He heard that the captain's ability was to control crows, so Ji Minghuan didn't know if this tattoo had a monitoring function... If it did, then he must be careful with what he said and did.
Every sentence that follows could be a matter of life or death.
Ke Qirui was silent for a while, then slowly took out a file from his windbreaker pocket. "I spent some time today investigating what happened half a year ago. I deeply regret that incident..."
She thought for a moment and said, "At present, I am the only one in the association who knows what you are doing. Everyone else thinks you are missing. For your safety, I have deleted your file without authorization. This way, no one can investigate your background, not even... those people."
The "those people" that Ke Qirui was referring to were naturally the members of the brigade. She knew very well what would happen to Xia Pingzhou if the White Crow Brigade hacked into the Exorcist Association's system and investigated Xia Pingzhou's background.
There were some photos hanging on the file table. In the photos, there was a rooftop with some bloody organs and flesh and bones hanging on the clothesline. Even the human face had been completely peeled off and was hanging quietly next to these organs.
Ji Minghuan rolled his eyes silently in his heart, thinking that we are playing some kind of role-playing game now, I play the Blue Arc, you play the Black Pupa under the street light... Now the positions are really reversed, it is true that fortunes change.
"You got the wrong person."
As he spoke, he moved towards the exit passage.
"Stop it... This is very dangerous." Ke Qirui looked away, "But having said that, my intuition tells me... You won't compromise."
"You have already determined in your heart that I am another person, so what else can I say?"
Ignoring his words, Ke Qirui said expressionlessly: "It's not too late to leave them now. Even though the brigade will regard you as a traitor and try every means to hunt you down, the Exorcist Association can guarantee your safety... It's better to come back to us than to stay with those lunatics. You might not survive even a month with them."
“I told you, you got the wrong person.” Ji Minghuan replied, thinking, I just said I won’t do the main task?
"That's right... I guessed you would say that." Ke Qirui said, "We can leave a contact number. If you suddenly come to your senses one day, you can contact me."
"I refuse." Ji Minghuan said expressionlessly, "I advise you not to stop me... How do you know that the other members of the group are not nearby, or do you think your people will have a chance of winning against us?"
After saying that, he silently passed by Ke Qirui and stepped into the entrance passage.
He hoped that Ke Qirui would understand that their current conversation would likely be heard by the members of the brigade, and that it was not surprising for those monsters to have strange abilities. It would be very risky for him to continue the conversation with Ke Qirui.
Fortunately, Ke Qirui did not say some things clearly from beginning to end, such as Xia Pingzhou joined the brigade for revenge, otherwise Ji Minghuan might have to fight with her to prove himself.
The entire Roppongi Theater was so quiet that the only sound was footsteps, but even these footsteps were fading away.
Ke Qirui did not stop him: "I sympathize with your experience, but you don't have to do this. The dead cannot be resurrected... It would be stupid to risk your life again. I'm sure those 'dead people' don't want to see this scene."
After a while, Ji Minghuan's voice came from the exit passage behind him.
"How do you know that I must have gone astray as you think, and not willing to follow them from the bottom of my heart?" he said, "Just meeting me two years ago, you are sure that I am a good person?"
He paused. "Maybe I really enjoy being among them. You haven't seen the Ripper's technique with your own eyes. When those faces and organs are hanging in the sun and swaying in the wind, I think they are beautiful... so beautiful... that it makes people want to see how attractive the person who made them is."
Ji Minghuan knew that Jack the Ripper had probably forgotten about killing a family in the alley half a year ago. For the Ripper, it was just an after-dinner entertainment and not worth remembering at all.
As long as it is not stated that those who were killed were Xia Pingzhou's family, even if the members of the brigade were monitoring Xia Pingzhou with some ability, these words would not arouse their suspicion.
Hearing this, Ke Qirui was silent for a long time, lowered the brim of his hat, and hid his face in the shadows.
She had seen too many crazy people over the years, so she was not angry or shocked by these words, but felt regretful...
If Xia Pingzhou was really so sick, she would undoubtedly take action against him here and reduce the number of members of the White Crow Brigade before the auction even started.
But at this moment, the stone statue of the queen suddenly walked slowly in front of her, raised her fingers, and blue flames burst out from her fingertips.
The Queen silently moved her fingers, and the flames formed a line of words in the air: "I will not cooperate with you, but there may be others who will cooperate with you."
Ke Qirui looked at the text silently, was stunned for a second, and asked in a low voice:
"who?"
The Queen's stone statue continued to move its fingertips in the air, and the flames formed new words:
"A black mummy."
The next moment, the words formed by the flames disappeared in midair like embers, and the Queen's figure suddenly became transparent, and she walked towards the wall of the theater. Her body merged into the wall and slowly disappeared.
(End of this chapter)
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