My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 69 Rules
At this moment, Ji Minghuan finally understood a problem that had troubled him for a long time.

Why would his ability system arrange for the second unit to join the White Crow Brigade at the risk of extremely high mortality? In the character creation process, there was no other option, as if the character "Xia Pingzhou" was born just to "join the brigade."

Now, knowing that there are people related to the Salvation Society within the brigade, Ji Minghuan suddenly felt relieved.

He thought to himself, "Bai Tanlang, the brigade's number 10 member, could definitely use this card. If one day I can't make it in the brigade anymore, or if after killing Jack the Ripper, I'm hunted down by other members as a traitor, I can use his son's intelligence to cooperate with him and use him as 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 ideal outcome would be to turn the brigade into a viable fighting force. Twelve powerful individuals with varying abilities would certainly be able to play a significant role. If they value Bai Tanlang so much, they might even join him in the Savior Society's base to help him rescue 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 underestimate him, Bai Tanlang is actually quite interesting... We hear a lot of interesting stories from the demon world from him every day. He says that the leader of the demons in China is the Nian beast, a very powerful beast, but because of his reputation as a hunter, he has to live in seclusion in the mountains. We used to hear him talk about the Nian beast every day... It seems he was one of the demon's minions, but later fell in love with a human woman and fled to the human world."

That’s great… It sounds like Bai Tanlang has certain connections among the demons, which can be utilized, Ji Minghuan thought. It is said that the strongest demon in China is actually a Nian beast. I have 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 in his heart he was silently cheering for the two of them.

"I was just speaking well of you to the newcomers," An Lunsi said. "Is it necessary to get 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 said helplessly, supporting his robot head. His voice still had a strong metallic texture.

"That being said, I agree that you can beat up An Lunsi once or twice, and I can pretend not to 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, her hands propped up against the floor, watching the bickering as if watching a spectacle. Beside her, a yellowed newspaper suddenly ripped apart, its printed pages merging into Japanese characters in mid-air: "Add one, it doesn't count as an internal fight unless you beat him to death."

Seeing that the situation was settled, An Luns spread his hands helplessly to express his compromise.

He said: "People are so heartless... The only time they show group cohesion is 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 one level slower than my brother's, Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows and thought calmly.

The Ripper Girl stared into his eyes and said calmly, "Old rules, you must hand over a heart before joining the group." As she spoke, she turned the knife with red blade patterns in her right hand.

"Something like a heart... can you let someone else keep it?"

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. Although he could still hear his heartbeat, he could feel as if something was missing inside him.

The Ripper explained, "This is my Sky Drive ability. Your heart may appear to be in my hand, but as long as I don't destroy it, it's still inside you and won't 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 the mole, I'll return your heart to you as collateral." She paused, "Before that, I won't do anything with your heart. Unless everyone votes unanimously to identify you as the mole, in which case I'll cut your heart in half."

Ji Minghuan looked into her eyes expressionlessly and asked word by word, "But if I hadn't betrayed you, what if one day you disliked me and crushed my heart?"

The Ripper said nothing.

An Lun Si shrugged and spoke on behalf of the Ripper: "We will kill her then, because she violated the most core rules of the group - 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."

His face was expressionless, but he felt a pang of pain inside. Even though this game machine was gone, he could just save up some splitting points and create a replacement—but Xia Pingzhou was a "rare organism," and there was no telling if he would find such a good template next time.

"Don't worry, don't worry... When I first joined the group, I also temporarily gave my heart to the Ripper's sister for safekeeping."

An Lunsi 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 quickly. He knew he couldn't fight us."

"I cut his ribs into antennas." Robert said in a hoarse electromagnetic voice, pointing to 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, a heart suddenly appeared in his palm like magic.

After a pause, she said calmly, "There's nothing we can do... After we found out he was the traitor, everyone was very sad. We had no choice but to let him stay with us this way."

"What about you?" Ji Minghuan turned his head to look at An Lunsi and said sarcastically, "Don't you want to 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'm not interested in dead people, let alone a traitor. I stayed in the brigade only because of the agreement between me and the commander."

"What agreement?" Ji Minghuan asked.

The Ripper Girl explained: "He called himself 'Britain's No. 1 Gambler', but he gambled with the gang leader and lost. We didn't want him to see the gang leader, but he made 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 looked at An Luns with ill intent.

Ayase Origami played with the paper cranes and said calmly:

"The captain gave him a chance to live and let him join us and become a member of the White Crow Brigade."

Bai Tanlang scratched the scar on his eyelid and said sarcastically without mercy, "What a clown... Just thinking back to his confident tone at the beginning makes me laugh."

"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're saying all this just to remind me not to be a mole?"

Ji Minghuan spoke calmly, glancing sideways at the two hearts in the Ripper's palms - the heart 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're invincible anyway." Ayase Origami lowered her eyes, playing with her phone, and said expressionlessly, "If you cheat on our feelings... we'll 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 chilling.

Ji Minghuan was silent for a moment. "First of all, I don't have that idea. Secondly, my heart is still with you. I can't be a traitor even if I want to."

The Ripper temporarily collected his heart, and no one knew where it was stored, 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 most urgent task now was to gain the trust of the members and get the heart of Unit 2 back from the Ripper.

Therefore... I absolutely cannot let anything slip at this auction. Once I'm identified as a traitor, there's no way I can 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. If you need anything, please contact me by phone."

After saying this, Ji Minghuan turned around and walked out of the abandoned building under everyone's gaze.

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 Unit 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 go into battle lightly and wrap your body with the restraint."

He twitched the corners of his lips and said, "Anyway, with my stupid sister's character, she probably won't recognize it's me."

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