Chapter 216 White Crow Brigade, 12 people, all assembled (asking for monthly tickets)
Late at night on July 31st, Norway.
There are only a few hours left until the legendary whale Chicanao lands in Bergen.
At this moment, a group of people in different clothes are gathering at the Bryggen Pier. Some are wearing robot boxes on their heads, some are wearing black windbreakers with a crow perched on the back of their hands, and some are dancing in a red dress in the wind with their light golden hair flying.
The twelve members of the White Crow Brigade gathered here, scattered around the dock.
Xia Pingzhou leaned against the fence of the dock, enjoying the sea breeze and chatting with Andrew and Tong Zizhu.
Leaning on the railing and looking up, Bai Tanlang was standing on the deck of a fishing boat, leaning against the mast and resting with his eyes closed, while An Luns was standing beside him with a smile on his face, chattering non-stop and deliberately provoking him. It seemed that there was still room for improvement in the relationship between these two people.
Jack the Ripper, or "Yanma Rin" as she was called, was leaning against the back of a wooden fish house with her shoulders folded, playing "Ninja Cut Watermelon" on her mobile phone with one hand.
The Blood Descendant stood at the other corner of the port, gazing at the dark horizon in the distance. I wonder if he was thinking about the incident in R-Rated 1001 again.
Only Ayase Origami was still sitting quietly on the public wooden chair at the pier, practicing typing on her mobile phone.
The young lady had only recently learned how to use a mobile phone. When she heard the hacker comment that she typed very slowly, like a machine, she started to compete with him. She still changed into the same ochre-red kimono today. She said she was still used to wearing this dress when she was on a mission.
Under the dark night, the sea rose and fell, and the black waves crashed into the coast and broke into white waves. Xia Pingzhou silently looked at the sea while eating the reindeer sausage in his hand with a fork, waiting for the arrival of the legendary whale.
He looked at member No. 7 "Robert". The carrot-head's mechanical head was still eye-catching, with two antennas sticking up high, making people unable to help but look away.
A few hours ago, Robert had arranged interconnected portals all over Bergen. Even if the legendary whale appeared in other directions, he could immediately take all the team members to other ports in Bergen to welcome the giant whale grandly.
Xia Pingzhou put a piece of sausage into his mouth with a fork and turned to look at a church in the harbor.
Qi Yuanli was sitting on the spire of the church. The wind blew up the hem of his black windbreaker, and a crow was perched on the back of his hand.
The crows he created not long ago have already flown to every corner of the city and are circling the sky over the entire city. So no matter which direction the legendary whale "Chicanao" appears on the sea, the crows will be the first to notice and inform him.
Qi Yuanyuan lowered his eyes and sat quietly in the church, flipping through a copy of "Ulysses" in his hand, while using his right hand to build a tower of cards on the spire with playing cards.
Time passed by unknowingly, and it was already 0:00 on August 1st, local time in Norway.
After a delay of several seconds, a black and white panel popped up in front of Xia Pingzhou's eyes.
[Time has reached August 1, and the main mission 1 has been refreshed. ]
[Main Mission 1 (Phase 3): Invade the Whale Box Garden with the White Crow Brigade, rob the treasure of the Royal Court, and successfully survive this operation.]
[Task Reward: 2 skill points, 2 attribute points, 2 split points)]
There are quite a lot of rewards, Xia Pingzhou thought, I hope nothing will go wrong.
"By the way, who is Su Ying?" He tilted his head from the fence and looked at Tong Zizhu, "Why are you using her pseudonym?"
"Adoptive mother." Tong Zizhu pulled his cap down. "I liked her very much, but she left me to a kind family and left quietly. Luckily I knew she was an exorcist, otherwise I would never have found her in this life."
"Didn't she talk to you about herself?"
"No, she never mentioned anything about herself. She just said that she had an important mission, so she couldn't accompany me." Tong Zizhu said, "She was only in her twenties at that time, right?"
"Will she be dead? Exorcist is a high-risk profession, especially since she is going on an important mission. Isn't this a typical death flag in the movies?" Xia Pingzhou asked.
Tong Zizhu glanced at him coldly: "Even if she is dead, I have to see it with my own eyes before I can recognize her."
Xia Pingzhou thought for a moment and said, "You didn't ask the hacker to help you investigate? He is the group's shared Tamagotchi. If you want to find someone, you can ask him for help."
Tong Zizhu looked puzzled and seemed unwilling to answer this question.
Just then, Xia Pingzhou's cell phone suddenly vibrated.
【Hacker: Are you human? 】
[Xia Pingzhou: Where are you? Everyone has gathered, but why haven't I seen you yet? ]
【Hacker: Stupid, I'm on the boat in front of you. 】
[Xia Pingzhou: Oh, I see. You are too short and are blocked by the fishing boat’s pole.]
Xia Pingzhou was typing while looking at the mast of the fishing boat. The hacker was sitting there playing with his mobile phone. He seemed to notice his gaze and raised his middle finger at him without turning his head.
Xia Pingzhou turned to Tong Zizhu and asked, "So, you didn't ask the hacker to check the woman named 'Su Ying'?"
"He checked, but he didn't find anything." said Tong Zizhu.
"Is there anything he can't find out?"
"The kid said he could continue investigating, but it was very risky. He said he didn't want to go through that kind of trouble."
After all, the information of Gu Qinye's family has been deleted by the authorities. He is Blue Arc, and the authorities will definitely keep his family background strictly confidential. They must have set up a lot of traps in the database, Xia Pingzhou thought.
Bernardo, who was wearing a white windbreaker, came over and asked, "What are you talking about?"
Tong Zizhu lay on the fence, supporting his cheek with one hand, and turned to look at him: "Let's talk about you... I heard that you have a grudge with one of the Wangting team?"
Bernardo was silent for a while. "'Sword in the Stone' Ryan, he used to be my best friend, but in the end I was kicked out of the box garden, and he became a member of the Royal Court team. It's quite ironic."
"What forbidden curiosity did you use?"
Bernardo said slowly: "The popular-level oddity 'Necromancer' can make the skeletons of the dead stand up and work for you. My family died of illness at the time, and I had no money for treatment. Later, I spent a lot of effort to find this oddity fragment, and wanted to try to revive the souls of the dead, but in the end, it was discovered by the Royal Court Army during the research process. The captain of this army is 'Ryan', a friend I made in the past at the Oddity Academy."
He paused and said, "Lian reported me to the king and asked him to convict me. In the end, the king confiscated my fragments of strange stories and expelled me from the country for 'insulting corpses' and 'forbidden strange stories'. I will never set foot in the whale box again in my life."
"It's so tragic," Xia Pingzhou said, "I lost my family and was stabbed by an old friend."
“Really?” Bernardo adjusted his one-way mirror, smiled bitterly, and wrinkled his eyes. “When I heard that Ryan became a member of the Royal Court team, I became even more angry... Of course, he deserves the title with his strength.”
Tong Zizhu asked curiously: "So... that fragment can really revive the dead?"
Xia Pingzhou turned his head and looked at her: "Why are you asking this? Do you want to use it to revive Su Ying?"
Resurrection, mother of black pupa, he thought.
"It's none of your business." Tong Zizhu shrugged. "How about using it to revive your mother?"
"Haha, then I have too many mothers waiting to be resurrected. They all have to wait in line in hell." Xia Pingzhou complained in his heart.
Bernardo shook his head.
He said: "In fact, there is no such thing as a piece of anecdote that can revive the souls of the dead... I was just missing my family too much and had wild fantasies. I'm afraid even mythical stories can't bring the dead back to life, let alone the fact that 'The Necromancer' is just a common story."
"Oh, what happened next?" Tong Zizhu asked curiously.
Bernardo thought for a moment and said, "It was a blessing in disguise. After I was expelled from the small garden, I found a generational fragment in this world - 'Black Death'. This is a very special fragment. Its growth method is different from other generational fragments... I have been accumulating strength in the past few years, just to be able to return to the small garden one day and take revenge on those who betrayed me."
Andrew took a big gulp of red wine, put the bottle on the fence, and breathed a sigh of relief: "So, buddy, after we go into the box garden, are you going to fight Ryan one-on-one?"
"Of course," Bernardo smiled, "This is the request I made to the captain."
Andrew joked, "You're going to get your revenge soon... But be careful not to get chopped in two."
Bernardo adjusted his one-way mirror: "No, I know him very well."
Xia Pingzhou said expressionlessly: "It's okay. Being split into two pieces is considered decent. Some time ago, two of our members were even worse off. They were smashed into soy sauce."
"Ahahahahahahaha! Brat, do you believe that if a fight breaks out later, I will shoot you?" Andrew slapped the fence and laughed crazily, laughing so hard that tears were almost coming out of his eyes.
He seemed to have come to terms with Lan Duoduo's death.
Xia Pingzhou shrugged and replied nonchalantly: "Go ahead and fire it. It won't have any impact anyway. Just don't snipe my king."
While a few people were chatting, a flock of black crows suddenly flew across the sky and flapped their wings from the other end of the horizon, dropping black feathers. It was like a precursor to a storm, and everyone's attention was drawn to it.
Suddenly, a huge shadow appeared on the horizon, covering even the reflection of the moon on the sea. The whole sea began to stir, and under the moonlight, the shadow gradually took on the outline of a whale.
It was swimming towards the harbor at a slow but steady pace.
At this moment, on the church spire, Qi Yuanyuan raised his eyes from the pages of the book, and cast his deep eyes towards the huge shadow under the horizon. He closed the "Ulysses" in his hand and spoke to break the silence of the port:
"The legendary whale 'Chicanao'... is coming."
(End of this chapter)
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