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Chapter 123 Torrential Rain, Tokyo, A Bloodbath at the Auction (Part 7)

"I'm alive?"

Su Zimai silently murmured to herself as she slowly opened her eyes from the darkness.

She belatedly looked up, staring at the queen statue bound by restraints. The cold blade was inches away, the dagger about to pierce Su Zimai's head.

Su Zimai was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that there seemed to be a wet patch under her, and the floor was wet.

A moment later, she looked up blankly again, and a dark figure appeared in her tear-blurred vision. The figure was holding a novel and looked calm.

"……elder brother?"

Staring at the shadowy figure bound in straitjackets, she unconsciously uttered those two words for some reason.

In the deathly silence, all eyes in the auction hall were fixed on the dark figure hanging upside down from the ceiling. Even in the heart of the battlefield, where he could be caught in the crossfire at any moment, he remained calmly reading his book.

“That is…” Lan Duoduo was stunned.

“Black Chrysalis.” Oda Takikage narrowed his eyes and slowly uttered the name of this uninvited guest.

"He saved Xiaomai?" Lin Zhengquan raised his thick, short eyebrows and murmured.

"He said 'collaborator'? Could it be... that he is the leader's collaborator?" Xu Sanyan wondered.

Xia Pingzhou raised his eyes expressionlessly and silently looked at Hei Yong's face.

At that moment, Kuroyo closed the book in her hand, "My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute".

Then, with a sudden tug, the restraints binding the queen statue's arms were pulled, distributing the weight, and the statue landed lightly on the queen statue's shoulders.

As he extended the restraint straps toward the crystal chandelier on the ceiling, he reached out his hand toward Su Zimai.

“Let’s go, Miss Su Zimai.” Hei Yong shrugged and said casually, “I have an appointment with someone. If you die, he might hold a grudge against me.”

Su Zimai was slightly taken aback, and then vaguely realized that this person was not her brother, but a big fluttering moth!
After regaining her senses, she stretched out her trembling hand with all her might, met the cold gaze of the queen statue, and then took the palm wrapped in the restraints by the black cocoon.

"That's right. I thought you wouldn't catch my hand even if you died."

Black Chrysalis taunted, grabbing Su Zimai's right hand. At that moment, his restraints were already wrapped around the crystal chandelier in the dome.

He held Su Zimai in his arms, grabbed the restraints, stepped on the shoulders of the Queen statue, and leaped upwards.

Oda Takikage tilted his head back and watched this scene quietly.

"We can't let them get away. The commander is very interested in the black pupa, so we can bring him to him."

As soon as he finished speaking, Oda Takikage's figure suddenly disappeared into the shadows beneath his feet.

He flashed to the shadow cast by the crystal chandelier on the ceiling and emerged from it.

He raised his katana and slashed horizontally at the back of the black pupa's head!

Seemingly anticipating Oda Ryūkage's actions, before he made his move, the black chrysanthemum sitting on the crystal chandelier murmured:
"Ninjas are such treacherous creatures... Shouldn't the Japanese have some Bushido spirit, fight fair and square, and commit seppuku if they can't win?"

Immediately afterward, just as Oda Takikage's katana was about to touch the back of Kuroko's head, his figure suddenly vanished from the spot!

[The superpower stored in the restraints has been released—transferring oneself and a target encountered to an unknown location 50 meters away from the original location (Superpower source: Superpower user "Rukawa Yamato")]

This is the superpower of the gangster driver that Black Chrysalis attacked in the Maybach. He casually stole the other party's superpower at the time, but he didn't expect it to come in handy now.

"Disappeared?"

Oda Takikage was slightly taken aback, his katana missed its mark and tumbled down from mid-air.

"Did the black pupae take away the wheat?"

Xu Sanyan frowned, then glanced around.

He and Lin Zhengquan were already struggling to fight Lan Duoduo, and when they saw that another member of the troupe had joined in the auction and that the troupe leader showed no sign of returning from the movie screen, he knew that further entanglement would be futile.

It's even possible that... he'll die here along with Lin Zhengquan.

Xu Sanyan immediately made a decision, raising his umbrella and releasing a cloud of smoke from its tip. The white mist instantly enveloped him and Lin Zhengquan, then spread to the entrance of the auction house.

Through the mist, Xu Sanyan gestured to Lin Zhengquan with her eyes: "Let's go."

Although Lin Zhengquan was unwilling, he gritted his teeth and chose to leave the auction venue with Xu Sanyan.

Oda Takikage, Xia Pingzhou, and Lan Duoduo stood motionless outside the mist.

They all knew that the enemy's Sky Drive could manipulate "fog," and that rushing into the fog would be dangerous, so they quietly waited for the fog to dissipate.

Before long, when the thick fog in the auction house dissipated, Xu Sanyan and Lin Zhengquan had disappeared without a trace.

"They got away?"

Lan Duoduo muttered, putting her elbow on Xia Pingzhou's shoulder and glancing at the snowman kneeling on the ground. "But these two are really strong. They actually managed to beat my snowman like this."

"Want to chase?"

Xia Pingzhou turned to Oda Takikage and asked, as the Empress statue slowly walked back to his side.

“No need to pursue.” Oda Takikage said expressionlessly. “Our mission is complete. Next, let’s go back to the Mirror Auction House and see if the captain and the others have dealt with the enemy…”

As he spoke, he suddenly realized something was wrong, so he looked around and asked, "Where are the young lady and the vampire lady?"

“They…” Xia Pingzhou was silent for a moment, “are still in the movie world.”

Meanwhile, inside the movie world.

The black and white street was in a mess, almost a ruin—the originally exquisite Gothic buildings had been ravaged beyond recognition, with hundreds of pointed houses collapsed on the ground, turning into broken walls and rubble.

In the world of mime, only the last clock tower remains standing intact in the center of the long street.

"I wonder what's going on outside..."

Ke Qirui stood at the top of the clock tower, muttering absentmindedly.

The train demon's body was divided into countless movie screens, scattered above her head.

In that instant, the Bloodline suddenly sprang up from behind cover at a corner of the long street and hurled a blood-red spear at Ke Qirui.

The train demon roared and swung its body forward, the fragments of the train sweeping out like a dragon's tail, only to be pierced by a blood-red spear.

But the movie screen flashed past from behind, bringing with it another section of the carriage that blocked the spear's momentum.

Origami Ayase extended her right arm from behind the cover, and thousands of paper butterflies formed a white downpour that flowed irresistibly into the sky.

The train demon's body was too bulky to keep all the butterflies out, so Ke Qirui put down his pipe, took a step back, and disappeared into the movie screen, vanishing from the top of the clock tower.

Paper butterflies burst through the clock tower's windows. Amidst the deafening toll of the bells, the last intact building collapsed.

The next moment, a movie screen appeared beside Origami Ayase, and the engine of the train demon roared out from it.

A beam of headlights, as bright as day, illuminated Origami Ayase's profile.

She glanced sideways, then stomped her feet on the ground, shooting forward ten meters.

Then, the enormous train rumbled past her, crashing through rubble after rubble. The whole world trembled with a rumbling sound. “I’m telling you… this isn’t going to end like this, you’ll be the one who loses,” the Bloodline said. “This train is a hundred meters long, and we’ve already destroyed thirty meters of it. A little more time and we can destroy the whole train.”

She paused, then raised her crimson eyes to look at Ke Qirui, who had appeared at the street corner. "The most crucial problem is... your train demon is strong, but it's too slow. It has no advantage against ability users like us—even if you use the movie screen in conjunction with the train attack, we'll react immediately, which means you have no means of attack."

Ke Qirui put his pipe back into his trench coat pocket and said calmly, "You're right. My Train Demon is better suited for siege warfare than for small, delicate battles like this. It's definitely a disadvantage against you guys."

"Right?" Bloodline blinked. "It seems you're quite self-aware. I don't want to waste any more time with you. How about we each take a step back?"

Ayase Origami ordered the paper butterflies to devour the last building on the long street, then turned around and looked at Ke Qirui with empty and cold eyes.

"No... I never intended to defeat you from the beginning; my goal was simply to hold you off."

As soon as she finished speaking, a "ding" sound came from Ke Qirui's trench coat pocket.

She raised an eyebrow, took out her phone, and glanced at the message she had received.

[Black Chrysalis: Miss Ke, I've rescued your dear sister, Ke Zinan. The other two members of the Train Group have also already left the auction house.]

[Black Chrysalis: I suggest you think carefully about how to leave the auction house... Don't die there, it'll be a real problem for me.]

"Did we fail? I thought we could at least win over one member."

Under the dark moon, Ke Qirui sighed slightly. She had thought that Xia Pingzhou, Xu Sanyan, and Lin Zhengquan working together would at least be able to kill Lan Duoduo during this gap, but the situation seemed to have exceeded her expectations.

She looked up from her phone screen and slowly gazed at Bloodline and Origami Ayase.

"Well then... farewell."

After saying that, Ke Qirui disappeared into the movie screen behind her.

"Bye-bye." The Bloodline grinned at her.

Origami Ayase remained motionless in place, her kimono sleeves swaying in the wind.

The two watched as Ke Qirui's figure disappeared from the spot, and then the movie world they were in quickly collapsed.

When they came to their senses, the two were back in the real auction house. The world had returned to its vibrant colors, and the warm white light from the crystal chandelier bathed them like a tide, enveloping the figures of Bloodline and Ayase Origami.

Lan Duoduo and Xia Pingzhou on the auction stage both turned their heads to look.

"Hey, hey, hey, what's going on?" Lan Duoduo asked blankly, looking at the two people who had suddenly appeared.

"It's nothing, that train girl got away," the Bloodline said calmly. "What about you?"

Xia Pingzhou said expressionlessly, "They got away. I could have killed one, but that black cocoon rushed out and rescued the person."

The Bloodline shrugged: "Whatever, all the bodyguards were killed anyway."

Origami Ayase raised her eyes and stared at Xia Pingzhou without moving. She quietly observed him for a while, making sure he was not injured, before slowly withdrawing her gaze.

Just then, they suddenly turned their heads to look at the wooden door at the end of the auction stage.

They heard a dragon's roar that shook the heavens. This terrifying pressure pierced through the wooden door connecting the mirror world and reached the auction house in the real world.

The four of them were startled.

Ayase Origami and Xia Pingzhou remained silent, exchanging a glance.

"A dragon?" Bloodline raised her delicate eyebrows.

"What the heck is that noise?" Lan Duoduo muttered. "Wait, could it be..."

Lan Duoduo was the only knowledgeable person here. Looking at the world behind the door, she uttered a name with a mixture of fear and suspicion:
"Red Dragon...Wales?"

Meanwhile, in the corridor on the fourth floor of the Amamiya Building.

Black Chrysalis wrapped her arms around Su Zimai's head, smashed through the glass curtain wall of the building, and then, with a crashing sound, fell into the city along with a shower of glass.

Amidst the rumble of thunder, a real downpour swept in, carrying damp air that chilled to the bone. Tokyo's neon lights flickered on and off in the rain.

As she plummeted at high speed, Su Zimai gazed at the entire city. For some reason, even though she was flying in mid-air and might fall to the ground and be smashed into a bloody pulp, she didn't feel panicked at all. In fact, she felt... somewhat at ease.

After a moment's hesitation, Su Zimai buried her head in the guy's chest.

A moment later, Hei Yong used the restraints to grab onto the billboard of the Amamiya Building, stopping his fall. Then, he swung with Su Zimai towards downtown Tokyo, landing on an empty street. He used the restraints to tie himself to a rooftop and hung upside down below it.

Turning my head, I saw a chain bookstore. The door was closed, and the interior was dimly lit, indicating that it was not open today.

So Black Chrysalis used the restraints to pry open the lock and then pushed the door open.

He swung into the bookstore, hanging upside down from the ceiling, and slowly lowered the exhausted Su Zimai down with restraints, letting her rest against the counter.

"Oh... I smell something strange?" Black Chrysalis sniffed and suddenly said.

"Shut up! This...this is a side effect of Sky Drive!" Su Zimai was stunned for a moment, then her face turned red, and she raised her hand to cover her wet suit pants.

"Okay, okay, side effects."

Black Chrysalis turned her head away dismissively. "Miss Su Zimai, you should be safe here. I've told your team leader the location of this bookstore, and she'll be here to pick you up soon."

He paused, then said quietly, "Then I suggest you stay as far away from the auction house as possible. Right now, there's a group of real monsters wrestling on the rooftop, which is nothing like your petty squabbles."

After saying that, Hei Chang turned to look outside the bookstore. The rain was pounding on the street, and the wind was blowing into the bookstore, swirling up the movie posters on the shelves.

After a moment of silence, Su Zimai suddenly raised her head and looked at the head of the black chrysanthemum so close to hers. She asked softly:
"Who...who are you?"

"Black pupa."

"I'm asking you... are you my brother?" Su Zimai thought for a moment and then asked again.

"Isn't your brother Blue Arc?"

"Still trying to fool me! The guild leader and I already know my brother isn't from Blue Arc. How stupid of us to be fooled by you, you big moth..."

Su Zimai hugged her knees, lowered her eyes and looked at the ground, muttering angrily.

"Uh... does it really matter who I am?"

Black Chrysalis hung upside down from the ceiling, talking without looking up, while flipping through the book "My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute".

Su Zimai was silent for a moment, then said softly, "That's true... No matter who you are, whether you're my brother or not, I thank you."

"You're welcome. I need to go check on my collaborator, whose surname is 'Lan' and given name is 'Hu'... I hope he didn't die at the auction, it would be such a pity."

As soon as he finished speaking, the black pupa's figure suddenly disappeared below the ceiling of the bookstore.

A moment later, the bookstore's wooden door suddenly closed. The wind and rain stopped entering the store, and for a moment, the bookstore became quiet.

Before leaving, Hei Yong seemed to casually use the remote control to turn on the bookstore's air conditioning and turn on the heating.

The bookstore gradually warmed up amidst the hum of the air conditioner, while a torrential downpour continued outside the window.

Su Zimai looked at the city through the rain, rested her chin on her bent knees, closed her eyes, and slowly fell asleep.

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