My wife is the stand-in.

Following the male fan's hand, Amanosaki saw a petite, pretty girl in white. The girl was also wearing glasses. When she saw Amanosaki's gaze shift towards her, she nervously and shyly hid behind the girl next to her.

What is the "Dongting Fans Group"?

"Oh, it's a small group we created ourselves. It was originally a group to forward the pictures you posted on the forum in 'To the Distant ACG,' but then we found out that you're also a knight-errant, so we officially renamed it the Dongting Fan Group."

"Wait a minute!? You called me 'wife'? You're not a fan of mine, are you?" Amanosaki was shocked.

"I like your paintings, but these friends are your real fans," the boy said with a generous smile.

"How many people here came specifically for my paintings?"

"Two or three... I guess?" the boy asked uncertainly.

"Then add me as a friend, let's create a group chat." Amanosaki excitedly took out his phone.

It wasn't easy, it really wasn't easy!

After so many years of time travel, Amanosaki has finally met the ACG (Anime, Comics, and Games) group!

This is progress from 0 to 1, a huge leap!

He was almost moved to tears.

'Shiyu, did you see that! I knew my efforts wouldn't have been in vain! Look, there are so many people here because of ACG, and so many fans!'

'My fans will definitely follow my work, and under my influence, they'll also become fans of anime and manga!'

Amanosaki patted the boy on the shoulder with a beaming smile, which startled the boy and made him feel a tightness in his chrysanthemum. He thought to himself, "Doesn't Amanosaki have a girlfriend? And there are so many female fans here, why is he being so enthusiastic towards me?"

Could it be... that he's a two-way plug?

A hint of retreat arose in the boy's mind.

At this moment, Amanosaki let go of his hand and started shouting to pull himself into the group as well.

Seeing this, the boy's doubts were dispelled, and Amanosaki also breathed a sigh of relief.

He had just been warned by Shiyu not to be too enthusiastic, or he might scare everyone away.

"The first generation of people who like ACG culture will most likely be similar to otaku on Earth. No matter how cheerful they seem, they are very likely to be sensitive and delicate inside. Nozaki, you need to control yourself."

Now it seems that Shiyu was right.

He also apologized to everyone, saying that he had a lot of tasks to do today and might have to leave tonight to head downstream, so he wouldn't be able to get together with everyone. Therefore, he offered to treat everyone to a nice meal.

Fans cheered and surrounded Amanosaki, asking for autographs and some even taking out their phones for photos.

Amanosaki agreed to everything.

Inside the detention cell, Kasumigaoka Utaha heard the cheers outside and felt a weight lifted from her heart.

She knew that Amanosaki valued the promotion of ACG culture very much. Now that the dawn of popular culture was just beginning to appear, it would probably be a big blow to him if it disappeared because of him.

She took a sip of warm water, intending to work harder on her writing and try to produce a few more fanfictions today. Just then, she noticed that the two policemen were still there, looking around the cramped detention cell.

"Is there anything I can help you with?" Shiyu asked.

Lin Shuyu looked up and squinted her eyes in confusion.

"Oh, nothing."

The young policeman smiled. "I'm just assessing you all."

He grabbed the neck of the policeman next to him, and a blood-stained silver needle emerged from his neck, shooting towards Li Junzi without warning.

Li Junzi suddenly looked up, slapped the needle away, and his eyes flashed with a fierce light:

"Soul-Locking Needles? You're a chivalrous knight from Fengdu!?"

The young policeman took off his hat. "Hello everyone, Xie Bi'an, the White Impermanence. We meet again."

Chapter 131: Unpredictable Schemes

Bai Wuchang Xie Bi'an.

Utaha knew this name. On the day she started operating under the identity of Icarus, she heard a lot about this person from Amanosaki and the people of the Toyodo branch.

The leader of the Unpredictable Guards, a renowned gang leader, and a seasoned killer.

Furthermore, out of jealousy that the fleet was the first to kill the Queen Fish and become famous within the Heroes' Mountain, while his own Wuchang Guard, as the secret force of the Fengdu branch, had merits but no reputation, he felt jealous.

Therefore, he allowed the Queen Fish to break into the Fengdu City sewer system—the Infernal Ground—exposing the schemes of Liu Nu, the Ghost King who was on duty in Fengdu this year, and indirectly causing his death.

Finally, the two leaders of the Impermanent Guard, Black Impermanence and White Impermanence, were dismissed from their posts.

"You should be in jail right now."

Lin Shuyu looked at Xie Bi'an, who had taken off his police uniform, revealing a loose white coat.

"You mean the solitary confinement cell at the Fengdu branch?" Xie Bi'an smiled, his already thin lips revealing a hint of meanness as he pursed them.

"I've worked in Fengdu City for 20 years, from a registered knight to a core member, from the Impermanent Guard to the White Impermanent, a full 20 years. I've killed more than eighty evil spirits and heretics all by myself. If it weren't for the Impermanent Guard always doing the dirty work, with my achievements, I would have accumulated hundreds of thousands of fans long ago, and becoming a branch leader would have been a piece of cake!"

"Which department in the entire Fengdu branch doesn't know me? The solitary confinement cell is no different from my home."

Li Junzi frowned upon hearing this.

"This is against the rules," he said bluntly. "Leaving aside your collusion with the branch management to treat the regulations as a joke, according to the rules set by [Qunxia Mountain], no one has served a branch for twenty years without any reputation."

Lin Shuyu pinched the bridge of her nose and interrupted Li Junzi's speech: "Stop talking, Xiao Li. The guards at the Fengdu branch have all degenerated, so it's normal for them to set up a group of secret agents to do the dirty work... But what you said reminded me that there are still tigers and flies in the Fengdu branch."

As she spoke, she leaned back in her chair, stretched, and her young body drew a bright arc, as if making the detention room even brighter.

But this casual action angered Xie Bi'an.

He threw out a second Soul-Locking Needle, aiming it at Lin Shuyu's eyes.

This time, Li Junzi's middle section of his finger snapped open with a crack, muscle fibers ruptured, and his finger flew out like a bullet, breaking through the Soul-Locking Needle.

"Hitting a woman is not cool at all, especially a woman who can't fight back."

Li Junzi's severed finger healed and regenerated rapidly.

His body began to deform, his muscles were sculpted, and an exoskeleton covered his skin.

"The so-called Soul-Locking Needle of the Fengdu Branch is actually just a hollow needle with a special hallucinogenic drug added inside. Combined with the brainwashing techniques passed down in the branch, it can make people temporarily obey commands. Be careful not to get shot."

Lin Shuyu loosened her bones and began operating the tablet.

"It's alright, Miss Lin. I just pricked myself several times with a needle and have already developed the detoxification glands."

Li Junzi pointed to his neck, chest, and waist, "Eight detoxification glands, want to try breaking them one by one?"

Xie Bi'an let out a long sigh of frustration. He paced back and forth at the door for a couple of steps, his expression contorted with embarrassment, before finally exploding: "You! You fucking bastards, where do you get the nerve to be so arrogant in front of me?!"

"Because my older brother is outside. If he can kill you on guard duty, he can kill you too."

Mr. Li told him the truth.

"Ha!" Xie Bi'an laughed wildly, "You think I came here unprepared? That damned Amanosaki is too busy to save you right now! You can all just wait to die!"

Looking at the crazed Xie Bi'an, Li Junzi scratched his forehead. "Friend, I understand the suffering you endured from being exploited by the Fengdu branch for 20 years, but that doesn't mean I can't laugh at you for talking nonsense. In fact, if I hadn't severed your facial nerves, I would have been laughing my head off."

As he spoke, he pointed to Lin Shuyu, who was operating a tablet and giggling incessantly while covering her mouth.

"Here's the proof."

"Yeah?!"

Xie Bi'an's eyes flashed with a fierce light. He pulled out a mourning stick from behind him, his muscles tensing up: "Then don't you think about it? I've been talking for so long, why hasn't your savior arrived yet?"

"Come on, let him come and hit me!"

Xie Bi'an roared.

So Li Junzi and Lin Shuyu both looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha, the meaning in their eyes was self-evident.

Do you and Amanosaki have a special connection with others?

But their gazes fell on nothing; Kasumigaoka Utaha was not there.

"cough!"

A cough drew their attention. In the corner, Shi Yu was crouching under the table, looking completely calm.

"What are you doing, sister-in-law?"

"Emergency evacuation, of course," Kasumigaoka Utaha calmly replied.

"Didn't you contact your older brother?"

"I contacted him. I contacted him when he threw the needle away."

"What about others?"

"It's inconvenient for us to come in from outside."

"Why is it inconvenient? It's just a matter of a few doors. If it doesn't work, we can tear down the wall." Li Junzi was confused, but Lin Shuyu's face darkened.

She looked at Xie Bi'an, her eyes filled with ferocity:

"You bastard, you kidnapped a hostage and you dare to call yourself a knight-errant!"

He cursed as he grabbed the documents and desk lamp and threw them at them.

This disheveled appearance was exactly what Xie Bi'an wanted to see, and he laughed heartily.

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Amanosaki, however, was unable to free himself at that moment.

Because he was taken hostage.

These hostages were all his fans.

The petite and adorable girl who was identified by the boy with glasses and who initiated this fan meeting in front of the police station spoke in a soft voice just as Amanosaki was about to angrily return after receiving the message from Kasumigaoka Utaha through her Stand ability "As If I Were There".

“Mr. Amanosaki, I think it would be better if you didn’t leave now.”

The sound was like someone rubbing your ear with a foamy bath sponge, carrying an ASMR power that made your bones tingle, and it was exceptionally sweet.

But Amanosaki was terrified.

He sensed supernatural abilities; some of his fans were using them!

Amanosaki turned his head and found the girl hiding in the crowd, who seemed timid, looking at him with an innocent expression.