Chapter 69 Rules
At this moment, Ji Minghuan finally understood a problem that had been bothering him for a long time.
Why would his supernatural system arrange for the second machine to join the White Crow Brigade at the risk of an extremely high mortality rate? In the character creation process, there was no other way to choose, as if the character "Xia Pingzhou" was born just to "join the brigade."
Now, knowing that there are people in the brigade who are related to the Salvation Society, Ji Minghuan suddenly felt relieved.
He thought to himself, "The No. 10 member of the brigade, Bai Tanlang, I can definitely use this card: if one day I can't make it in the brigade anymore, or if after killing Jack the Ripper, I am hunted down by other members as a traitor, I can use the information about his son to cooperate with him and let him be my shield."
Ji Minghuan had a blank expression on his face as he glanced at the five members of the group lying on the ruins.
"Of course... the most ideal outcome is to turn the brigade into a usable fighting force. Twelve strong men with different abilities will definitely be able to play a significant role - if they think highly of Bai Tanlang, they might go to the base of the Salvation Society with him to help him save his son."
Thinking of this, Ji Minghua's eyes stayed on Bai Tanlang's face for a second and met his left eye with a white cataract.
At this time, An Luns patted Ji Minghuan on the shoulder and said with a smile:
"Don't look at him like that, Bai Tanlang is actually a very interesting person... We hear a lot of interesting stories from the demon world from him every day. He said that the leader of the demons in China is a beast called Nian, which is very powerful, but because of his reputation, he has to live in seclusion in the mountains. We used to hear him talk about the beast every day... He seems to be a subordinate of the demon, and later fell in love with a human woman, so he ran to the human world."
That’s great… It sounds like Bai Tanlang has certain connections among the demons, and this can be utilized, Ji Minghuan thought, it is said that the strongest demon in China is actually a Nian beast, I’ve never even heard of it before.
"Shut up..." Bai Tanlang opened his eyes and looked directly at An Lunsi, "Slot machine boy, if you bother me again, I will tear your mouth apart."
Fight, fight, fight...
Ji Minghuan kept a poker face, but he was silently cheering for the two of them in his heart.
"I was just speaking well of you to the newcomers," An Luns said, "Is it necessary to be so excited?"
"Do you want to fight?" Bai Tanlang asked word by word.
"It's not impossible." An Luns still had a smile on his face, but a cold light flashed in his eyes.
"Internal fighting is prohibited among the members." Robert supported his robot head and said helplessly. His voice still had a strong metallic texture.
"That being said, I agree that you can beat up An Lunsi once or twice. I can pretend that I didn't see it."
The Ripper Girl spoke without raising her head. She sat on an old machine, her white legs under her school uniform swaying in the morning light.
Ayase Origami sat in the ruins on the upper floor, with her hands on the floor, watching the two people bickering like a show. Beside her, the yellowed newspaper suddenly tore apart, and the pages with words printed on them merged into Japanese fonts in mid-air: "Add one, it doesn't count as an internal fight if you don't beat him to death."
Seeing that the situation had been decided, An Luns spread his hands helplessly to show his compromise.
He said: "People are so inhumane...they only show team cohesion when they are bullying me."
"What's the newcomer's name?" asked the Ripper. She tilted her thin cheek and stared at Ji Minghuan with her dark eyes.
"No. 12, Xia Pingzhou." Ji Minghuan said.
In the blink of an eye, the Ripper's figure flashed and appeared in front of him.
Really fast... This speed is probably only slightly slower than my brother's, Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows and thought calmly.
The Ripper Girl stared into his eyes and said calmly: "As usual, you must hand in a heart before joining the group." As she spoke, she turned the knife with red blade patterns in her right hand.
"Can someone else keep something like a heart?"
Just as he finished speaking, Ji Minghuan saw a dark red arc flash before his eyes, and then a beating heart appeared in the Ripper's hand.
He belatedly touched his chest. He could still hear his heartbeat, but he could feel as if something was missing inside his body.
The Ripper explained: "This is my Sky Drive ability. Your heart may seem to be in my hand, but as long as I don't destroy it, it is still in your body and will not affect the normal functioning of your body."
Hearing this, Ji Minghuan slowly released his hands from his chest and met her gaze.
He asked: "When can I get my heart back?"
The Ripper said, "Once I'm sure you're not a traitor, I'll return your heart to you as a 'mortgage for joining the group.'" She paused, "Before that, I won't do anything with your heart; unless everyone votes unanimously to determine that you are a traitor, then I'll cut your heart in half."
Ji Minghuan looked into her eyes expressionlessly and asked word by word, "But if I didn't betray you, what if one day you disliked me and crushed my heart?"
The Ripper said nothing.
An Lun Si shrugged and spoke for the Ripper: "We will kill her then, because she violated the most core group rule - members are not allowed to kill each other."
Ji Minghuan was puzzled: "My body would have been cold by then, how could we be sure whether you killed her?"
"I will be responsible for burning her ashes for you." Ayase Origami said lightly.
Ji Minghuan was silent for a while: "Your rules are so casual."
There was no expression on his face, but he still felt very painful inside.
Even though this gaming machine was gone, he could just save up some splitting points and create another one as a replacement - but Xia Pingzhou was a "rare organism", and he might not be able to find such a good template next time.
"Don't worry, don't worry... When I first joined the group, I temporarily gave my heart to the Ripper's sister for safekeeping."
An Lun Si patted his shoulder and said quietly, "Oh, by the way... once there was a traitor in our group. But everyone liked him very much. Do you know what happened afterwards?"
"What happened?" Ji Minghuan asked nonchalantly.
"He's dead." Bai Tanlang said, "He died very easily. He knew he couldn't fight us."
"I cut his ribs into antennas." Robert said in a hoarse electromagnetic voice, pointing at the antenna inserted into the mechanical brain.
"My earrings are made of his skull." Ayase Origami lifted her black hair beside her ears, revealing the white earrings.
"I have kept his heart and have not crushed it yet."
As the Ripper spoke, like magic, a heart suddenly appeared in his palm.
After a pause, she said calmly, "There's nothing we can do... We were all very sad after knowing that he was a traitor, so we had no choice but to let him stay with us in this way."
"What about you?" Ji Minghuan turned his head to look at An Lunsi and said sarcastically, "Why don't you collect some of his hip bones or something?"
"Hip bones are such a bad taste." An Lunsi put his hands in his suit pockets and said with a smile, "I am not interested in dead people, let alone a traitor. I stayed in the brigade only because of the agreement between the commander and me."
"What agreement?" Ji Minghuan asked.
The Ripper Girl explained: "He called himself 'Britain's No. 1 gambler', but he gambled with the leader and lost. We didn't want him to meet the leader, but he proposed a condition - if he lost, he would commit suicide on the spot."
She paused and said, "We just wanted to have fun so we let him meet the leader. In the end, he lost."
"Then why is he still alive?" Ji Minghuan said this and glanced at An Luns with ill intent.
Ayase Origami said calmly while playing with the paper cranes:
"The captain gave him a chance to live and let him join us as a member of the White Crow Brigade."
Bai Tanlang scratched the scar on his eyelid and said sarcastically without mercy: "What a clown... It's funny to think of his confident tone at the beginning."
"There's no need to explain this kind of thing in such detail, okay?" An Luns was obviously a little embarrassed, and he shrugged.
"So... you said all this just to remind me not to be a traitor?"
Ji Minghuan spoke calmly, glancing sideways at the two hearts in the Ripper's palms - the one that belonged to him was still beating vigorously, while the other heart was motionless, a strange iron-gray color, like an organ specimen.
"It doesn't matter if you betray us, we are invincible anyway." Ayase Origami lowered her eyes, played with her phone, and said expressionlessly, "If you cheat on our feelings... we will be very angry."
The girl in kimono said these childish words in her cold and slightly childish voice, as if she was acting coquettishly, but it was also chilling.
Ji Minghuan was silent for a while: "First of all, I don't have that idea; secondly, my heart is still with you, so I can't be a traitor even if I want to."
The Ripper temporarily took his heart away, and no one knew where he stored it, but it disappeared anyway.
He knew in his heart that there was still an absolute gap in ability between himself and the other members of the brigade, so the top priority now was to gain the trust of the members and get the heart of Unit 2 back from the Ripper.
Therefore... I must not be exposed at this auction. Once I am identified as a traitor, I will not be able to escape. Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan raised his head and asked everyone expressionlessly:
"The captain hasn't arrived in Tokyo yet? I'd really like to see with my own eyes...what kind of person he is."
Ayase Origami shook her white legs and replied calmly, "In a few days."
"The leader is always like that, his whereabouts are unpredictable, and it's hard to contact him." An Lunsi scratched his forehead, "I originally wanted to ask him to come to Tokyo's underground casino to play."
"Since I can't see the leader and my heart has been handed over, I'll go back first. Contact me on your phone if you need anything."
After saying this, Ji Minghuan turned around and walked out of the abandoned building under the gaze of everyone.
Not long after, he took the tram back to the hotel, then lay down on the bed, closed his eyes, and switched his consciousness to the perspective of machine No. 1 "Gu Wenyu".
"Then... next we should think about how to find Su Zimai and establish a cooperative relationship with them in advance."
Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan squeezed out a piece of restraint from his fingertips, "If you don't have a mask and windbreaker, then you should go into battle lightly and wrap your body with the restraint."
He curled the corners of his lips: "Anyway, with my stupid sister's character, she shouldn't be able to recognize it's me."
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