Chapter 85 The Villain
Ji Minghuan controlled the No. 2 machine and came to Shibaura Pier with Ayase Origami. They boarded the "water bus" which was the Tokyo Mizube Line. The journey to Harumi Pier took about 25 minutes.
He stood on the open deck, leaning his arms on the railing, staring at the scenery on the sea in a daze.
The ship was getting farther and farther away from the port. In Ji Minghuan's field of vision, the Tokyo Tower gradually shrank into a thin orange pole, and the glass curtain wall of the Mori Building in Roppongi Hills reflected cold light. A seagull in the distance flew in with a gust of cold sea breeze, blowing Ji Minghuan's hair.
The sea water sparkled under the morning sun, and the magnificent outline of Mount Fuji could be vaguely seen in the distance.
After an unknown amount of time, the ship entered Tokyo Bay and approached the Rainbow Bridge.
Ji Minghuan turned his head and looked at the bridge pier in the distance. One or two seagulls were perched on the rusty maintenance ladder.
Suddenly, he remembered the reason why Bloodline and White Wolf joined the group, so he turned to Ayase Origami beside him and asked:
"Why did you join the Brigade?"
"I'm not interested in answering...but if this is a question between a kitten and its master, that's another matter." Ayase Origami said indifferently, with the sea reflected in her pupils.
Ji Minghuan asked, "Are you guys done yet?" Then he shouted expressionlessly:
"Meow."
I have to say, even the voice seems to be "expressionless".
Ayase Origami was slightly stunned and turned to look at Xia Pingzhou. She had clearly just made a joke, but she didn't expect this expressionless newcomer to pick up on it.
A hint of smile suddenly appeared on the face of this plain, expressionless girl.
If you didn't know that she was a member of the White Crow Brigade, a wanted criminal who did all kinds of evil, just looking at her smiling face, you might think she was just a normal Japanese girl.
"Number 12, are you... a reserved man?" She wrote on a piece of paper and made it fly in the air.
The passengers around who saw this scene exclaimed, the Japanese passengers shouted "Sikokuichi", and the Italian men whistled and shouted "Bravo" to express their praise. They thought the kimono girl was performing magic.
Someone wanted to pick up the phone to take a picture, but found that the lens was covered with a layer of pure white. When he turned the phone around, he found that the camera eye was stuck with a layer of thin paper that could not be torn off.
"You haven't answered my question yet." Ji Minghuan asked in a low voice, his black hair blown high by the sea breeze.
Ayase Origami thought for a moment and said, "It's boring to stay in the family. I'm like a puppet. Everything is arranged for me. I can see the end of my life at a glance."
"Then what?"
The ship passed directly under the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo Bay, and the shadow cast by the bridge covered the faces of all the passengers. The girl's white cheeks were covered by the shadow, and she said:
"The leader came to me and said to me... 'It's more fun to be a villain than a puppet, isn't it?'"
"What is your answer?"
"I accepted. So Takikage followed me and joined the White Crow Brigade."
The sound of the waves drowned out their whispers.
As the two chatted, the water bus arrived at Harumi Pier.
Amid the cries of seagulls, they got off the boat and came to a cafe near Tokyo Bay. Looking around, the cafe was decorated very elegantly - the tables and chairs were made of mahogany, there were paintings on the walls, and a conspicuous business certificate was hung on the wall.
There weren't many guests in the restaurant, only one or two tables. But there were only four tables in total, and there wouldn't be enough space for more.
"This is the cafe that Takikage used to run. After joining the brigade, he handed it over to a junior. Every time the brigade's operations are over, he will come back here. It's safe here, and the underworld won't come looking for us."
Ayase Origami introduced with a blank expression.
Ji Minghuan nodded, looked at the customers in the store, and his expression suddenly changed slightly.
He saw a familiar figure among the guests, so he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and secretly recited the name in his heart:
"Li Qingping?"
That’s right…the person sitting inside the cafe was Li Qingping, and sitting opposite him was a foreign youth.
The young man had long golden hair and eyes as blue as the sea. He was wearing a white casual shirt made of very expensive-looking fabric.
If I'm not mistaken, this blond young man should be the second prince of the Whale Box Garden, the person Li Qingping is currently protecting - if something goes wrong with the second prince at this auction, I'm afraid my good brother will have to go back on his knees.
At this moment, Li Qingping looked a little absent-minded.
He didn't touch the coffee on the table. He lowered his head and concentrated on sending a message to someone on his mobile phone: he deleted and revised the text, hesitated in the dialog box for several times, and finally sent the message.
"You really know how to pick a place... If you want your good brother to die, just say so, okay?"
Ji Minghuan thought about it and synchronized his consciousness to the No. 1 machine "Black Pupa".
As he opened his eyes, he heard a message alert sound. He picked up the phone beside his pillow and saw that it was a WeChat message from Li Qingping. He had just been thinking for a long time in the cafe, considering what to send to Gu Wenyu.
[Li Qingping: Are you awake? Didn’t I say yesterday that I would invite you to meet my foreign friends? Do you want to come to the cafe? ]
"I'm afraid this coffee will kill people..." Ji Minghuan couldn't help but sigh.
In fact, he went to see Li Qingping because he had nothing to do and wanted to see what the "Second Prince" looked like.
In this way, he would not mistake the person at the auction - if at that time, Li Qingping needed someone to help him keep an eye on the second prince before he could make a bold move, then Ji Minghuan would jump out to help him kidnap the second prince, allowing Brother Red Dragon to play his role well.
Since the goal has been achieved, in order to ensure that nothing happens to Unit No. 1, Ji Minghuan doesn't need to let Gu Wenyu get involved in this mess.
It's impossible to ask him to use "restraint belt detection" to check the ability values of the team members, right?
It is very likely that at the moment the measurement was made, Hei Pupa's hands had already been broken by Ayase Origami, or the whole person had been dragged into the shadow by Oda Takikage for execution.
After much deliberation, he decided to stand Li Qingping up in a dignified manner.
【Gu Wenyu: I feel a little sleepy all of a sudden. Good night.】
[Li Qingping: You said goodnight so early in the morning? You stood up your good brother again, right? You are amazing.]
[Gu Wenyu: Don’t you still have your foreign friends? You didn’t even tell me you were traveling to Japan, but now it’s my brother who’s taking over.]
【Li Qingping: Didn’t you tell me either? 】
【Gu Wenyu: Same with you.】
"Sit down, have a drink of your choice." Ayase Origami's voice drew Ji Minghuan's attention back to the second unit. "It's free."
As she said this, she glanced sideways at Oda Takikage, who was sitting at the counter pretending to be the boss.
Following her gaze, Ji Minghuan controlled Xia Pingzhou to look sideways.
At this moment, Oda Takikage had already taken off his ninja uniform and changed into casual clothes. His two-meter-tall giant physique was very conspicuous even when he was sitting on a low stool, so Ji Minghuan recognized him as the ninja just now.
There was no expression on his strong face. He blinked at Ji Minghuan and then continued to read the newspaper with his head down.
Ji Minghuan was secretly surprised. The Tokyo Tower and the Tokyo Bay Rainbow Bridge are several kilometers apart, but Oda Takikage was faster than them by taking the sea bus, and he had even changed his clothes when they met again. It turned out that there was not a single ordinary character in the brigade.
"Is this a ninja?"
He had a new understanding of this No. 4 member, and secretly reminded himself: Before the auction begins, Su Zimai must be on guard against Oda Takikage, so as not to be dragged into the shadow without knowing how he died...
At this moment, at the table next to Ji Minghuan, Li Qingping and the second prince were chatting comfortably.
"Where is your friend?" The blond young man took a sip of coffee, raised his head and asked Li Qingping.
“He stood me up.”
Li Qingping replied expressionlessly.
It seemed that he had never given a good look to the people in the Whale Box Garden, even when facing the prince - it was the same when Ji Minghuan saw him communicating with the gatekeeper last time. It might be that he had a high status over there and liked to put on airs.
"What a bad guy." The second prince said with emotion.
"Yeah, bad guy." Li Qingping said with emotion.
"Okay, okay, we are good brothers who smile happily in front of each other, but we are cold and mean guys behind each other's backs."
Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan took a sip of his sugary coffee and stopped observing the two of them out of the corner of his eye.
(End of this chapter)
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