My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 36 Brigade
After loading Xia Pingzhou's character memory, Ji Minghuan was able to understand the text message he had just received.

[Anonymous user: This is an underground bar in an alleyway in Tokyo's Go-chome area. We're waiting for you in the third private room.]

There was no doubt that this text message came from the "White Crow Brigade" - today was the time when Xia Pingzhou met them for the first time.

Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows, turned on the navigation on his phone, walked all the way to his destination, went down the stairs and entered the underground bar.

For some reason, although it was clearly morning, the place was bustling with people drinking and chatting. Of course, it was possible that these people had stayed up all night and were drinking until dawn, but that was too energetic.

He walked through the colorful crowd and came to the third box. He raised his hand and knocked gently on the door.

The people in this box are from the White Crow Brigade... double S-rank wanted targets of the Odd Walker Association. Of course, they might use a few dummies to test me, but that's not like them.

With his back to the chaotic crowd, Ji Minghuan was already praying in his heart, trying to lower his expectations of his goal as much as possible. "Even if I don't die too quickly, even if I succeed, I hope that character can still be alive before the third game character is created. Otherwise, my series of actions will be restricted again."

With a "click", someone turned the doorknob and opened the door for him.

He peeked through the crack in the door. A girl wearing an ochre-red kimono and medium-length, elegant black hair opened the door. Her expression was indifferent, like a Japanese doll, her skin pale and her large, empty eyes so lifeless they made one feel cold if one stared at them for too long.

The girl didn't say anything, just stared at him quietly.

"Please come in."

There was a warm voice speaking in Japanese, and you could tell his Japanese had a British accent.

Ji Minghuan walked in and saw two other figures sitting on the sofa playing cards.

These people were all very recognizable by their attire. The man sitting on the left wore a V-neck shirt and had a square mechanical box on his head that completely enclosed his head. Two white antennas were inserted above the box.
Sitting on the right is a blond, blue-eyed young man wearing a British suit, with a persistent curve at the corner of his mouth.

"Newcomer?" the girl in kimono behind him asked in Japanese.

"Just like in the photo, he is the substitute No. 12. The captain is very interested in his abilities. Let us come over and see if he is satisfied with him." The man with the mechanical box head made a steady voice.

"Then let's introduce ourselves first?" The man in the British suit put down the cards in his hand and said with a smile.

The girl in the kimono remained silent. Suddenly, a magazine in a nearby drawer flew up, and each page was torn into pieces of paper. These pieces of paper then danced in front of her, forming a line of Japanese text in mid-air:
——My name is Ayase Origami, and I’m number 3 in the brigade.

Ji Minghuan looked at the words formed by the scraps of paper and thought: Is this the ability to control paper objects?
He said calmly, "Xia Pingzhou, take over number 12's position."

In my memory, Xia Pingzhou was a taciturn person who always had a poker face.

Of course, the people of the White Crow Brigade have not yet had formal contact with Xia Pingzhou, and they don’t have any specific impression of his personality, so Ji Minghuan can overturn Xia Pingzhou’s original personality at will according to his own preferences and create a completely new character.

But after thinking about it, he felt that it would be better for him to speak less in this group. Establishing a taciturn personality could effectively avoid speaking out of turn.

His eyes swept over the three people present. Coincidentally, two of them occupied certain images in Xia Pingzhou's memory.

Xia Pingzhou had been investigating the White Crow Brigade like crazy for the past six months. He had searched all over the dark web and found video clips and surveillance footage related to them. Combining this with the official information currently available, he was able to recognize the appearance of most of the members.

The blond young man and the girl in kimono are both quasi-disaster-level mutants.

However, this "quasi-catastrophe level" was determined independently by Xia Pingzhou based on the intelligence he had investigated. He guessed that even if they were not at the quasi-catastrophe level, these two people were at least at the "Dragon level" or above, reaching the threshold of the "quasi-catastrophe level".

As for the robot head, Xia Pingzhou did not find any information about it.

"I'm Andrens, number 11 in the brigade," said the blond and blue-eyed young man.

"Robert, number seven in the regiment," said the strange man with his head in a mechanical box. "They call me 'Carrot Head,' and you can call me that, too."

Ji Minghuan nodded at him.

"Well, it's about time to leave." An Lunsi looked down at his watch. "But there's one thing we need to do before we go. The leader said we should kill everyone in the bar before we leave. Some of them are planning to attack the auction in a week, which conflicts with our schedule."

Ji Minghuan thought for a moment and said, "So my assessment for joining the group is to go out and kill them all?"

"Of course not... This is just a matter of convenience. If the captain's interest in you is genuine, then killing them won't be a test for you. You just need to consider which posture is easiest." An Lun paused, "Don't worry... Let me try first and see if there's any way to save effort."

As he spoke, a strange light flashed in his eyes, and then a blue slot machine three or four meters tall suddenly appeared, standing quietly beside him.

"Slot machine, member number 11's special ability... I wonder what effect it will have," Ji Minghuan thought. An Luns leaned against the side of the slot machine, raised his hand and cranked the joystick. Amidst the clattering sound of the game, the three slot machine boxes began to sway at high speed, drawing the result.

When the dust settled, what finally appeared on the slot machine interface were three parallel "bazookas".

Ayase Origami fell silent, and Robert beside her also fell silent.

"That's fine." An Lunsi spread his hands. "It seems the result is a bit... high-profile."

"Newcomer, let's go."

As Robert spoke, he had already placed his hands on the wall of the box. He used his special ability to create a door frame on the wall that was connected to nowhere.

"If you don't leave now, you're going to be blown away, newcomer." Ayase Origami warned expressionlessly, and was the first to turn the handle of the door frame and step into the other world on the other side.

"GOGO, let's take you to a fun place." An Luns put his arm around Ji Minghuan's shoulders and took him to the portal on the wall.

"Aren't you going to kill everyone in the bar?" Ji Minghuan asked casually, his eyes still fixed on the slot machine.

"What are you talking about? They... are already dead." An Luns leaned close to his ear and spoke in a low voice.

The next moment, the front shell of the slot machine opened, and a huge rocket launcher slowly extended from it. Then, accompanied by a deafening bang, flames that were strong enough to shoot straight into the sky shot out from the muzzle, melting the entire box with ease, and whistling towards the bar hall outside.

Unfortunately, the four of them couldn't see what the underground bar looked like now... because when they came to their senses, they had already passed through the portal. As the door frame on the wall disappeared, the movement behind the door was blocked for countless kilometers.

Ji Minghuan only heard the roar for a moment, but before the door closed, he clearly felt the scorching wind blowing from behind.

He could tell... no one in the entire bar would survive. No, not just the bar, but also the alley where the bar was located and the nearby residential area would probably have no survivors.

Then, in an hour or two, this news will spread throughout Japan.

"Dealing with this bunch of psychopaths is no more fun than playing house with two Calamity-level masters."

Ji Minghuan was thinking with great interest, and when he looked up, he saw what seemed to be a long-abandoned office building.

In the office, the walls and floors had not been cleaned for a long time. The dusty desks were arranged in a mess, and some of the desks even had one or two broken computers on them.

There is a banner in Japanese on the wall on both sides.

The banner on the left reads: 厳守労働時間！ 一分一秒を無駄にせず！ (Strictly adhere to working hours! Don’t waste a single minute!)

The banner on the right reads: 職場は戦場！ 常に最高の集中力を保持せよ！ (The workplace is a battlefield! Be sure to maintain optimal concentration!)
"Haha, there really is a smell of office slaves blowing in my face. Will any office slave demons be born here?" Ji Minghuan thought.

He glanced at the robot head named "Robert" and wondered:

"So it seems that Team Member No. 7's ability is to create a portal on the wall connecting two different places. No wonder Xia Pingzhou didn't investigate him—he's a functional team member who doesn't need to participate in combat, so naturally he won't be seen by outsiders."

Although he understood it in his heart, Ji Minghuan still asked the three of them for confirmation:
"Where is this? Weren't we just in this underground bar in the harbor?"

An Lunsi released his shoulders and explained, "Robert's ability is to leave portals wherever he has been. As long as the distance between each two portals is not too far, they can be connected."

He paused. "This is an office building in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Previously, due to two consecutive incidents of employees dying suddenly from overwork, the company was forced to close by the Japanese authorities, and the office building became vacant."

"What else do you want me to do?"

"Hush, see?" An Lunsi stared straight ahead and teased, "Whatever I ask you to do, that's of course what you exorcists are best at."

Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows, and suddenly smelled a strong odor in the air, and immediately reacted:

"demon?"

"That's right. The three of us will be watching you and the demon fight from behind, and then we'll give you scores... If more than two of us are dissatisfied with your performance, not only will we refuse to let you join the group, we'll also kill you on the spot." An Lunsi smiled. "It seems your opponent has appeared. Aren't you going to welcome it?"

As soon as the words fell, a shadow suddenly emerged from the center of this gloomy office on the ground, spreading out like a black lake. Then a huge shadow slowly rose from the black lake and was exposed to the sunlight.

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