Zongman: Beginning and Snow under the Rain Escape from Raccoon City

Her already injured condition naturally made movement even more difficult.

Nino Nakano looked up at Ichika Nakano with a complicated expression and whispered, "Don't let Miku and the others know about this."

Ichika Nakano was stunned for a moment, and her eyes instantly reddened.

She bit her lip, her voice choked with emotion: "Ninaga...I..."

Nino, just like herself, was always thinking about protecting her younger sister.

She was about to say something when she was interrupted by Nino Nakano.

"Sister, listen to me. 017"

Nino Nakano's tone was firm, as if she was trying her best to suppress her emotions: "We have another 100 million now, and with the money we took out in the previous loan, it's enough to pay the hospital staff's salaries."

"If we can get Dad to talk to the bank again and stop them from withdrawing the loan, the hospital might be able to recover."

Her voice was low as she tried to remain calm and analyze the situation, but her eyes involuntarily welled up with tears: "We...we can't let them know how we got this money."

Nakano Ichika's body trembled violently, and tears streamed down her face again.

She covered her face with her hands and sobbed softly, "Nino...it's my fault...if I had resolved this sooner, you wouldn't have had to..."

Her words caught in her throat, as if she were suffocating under the weight of guilt: "Why did you come along? You could have avoided this suffering..."

Nino Nakano's eyes trembled slightly, as if her sister's words had struck a nerve.

She bit her lip, forcing herself to calm down, and whispered, "Sister, we're sisters. How can the four of us sit idly by if you're carrying this alone?"

Nino Nakano's gaze fell on the torn black stockings on her legs; her inner thighs were still burning with pain.

She frowned slightly, then quickly masked her discomfort: "This money was earned together... For them, for Dad's career, we had no other choice."

Chapter 214 The Missing Hachiman Hikigaya

"Something happened!"

"Ye Hai'nei!"

That day, Komachi Hikigaya hurriedly went to Deepsea Financial to find Ye Hai.

Nino Nakano hurriedly stood up, straightened her disheveled clothes, and then, blushing, hid in the nearby lounge.

Since Yuihama Yuka became Ye Hai's personal secretary, Ye Hai had a rest room specially set up in his office.

Anyway, his office is spacious, so adding another room won't make a difference.

"What's wrong, Komachi?"

Ye Hai stood up, and Yuihama Yuka walked into the office at the right time, bringing the two of them two cups of tea.

“The Osaka police contacted me and said that my brother had gone missing along with a detective.”

Komachi Hikigaya completely ignored the tea on the table and spoke hurriedly.

"Missing?"

Ye Hai was stunned for a moment, then quickly checked within the Main God Space.

His expression immediately relaxed; he wasn't dead yet.

That's not a big problem.

“This morning, the police came to me and asked if I had any news about my brother.”

"Osaka police said they were last seen in the surveillance footage near Niigata Port..."

"Moreover, most of the boats there are fishing boats going out to sea, not a tourist area."

"Logically speaking, neither a student nor a detective should go to a place like this."

Hikigaya Komachi said with some worry, "And my brother didn't leave me any message at all..."

"Don't worry, I just checked, your brother is still alive."

Ye Hai offered a reassuring remark, then added, "Of course, I don't know whether it's lively and energetic or half-dead."

Komachi Hikigaya puffed out her cheeks slightly and said angrily, "How can you comfort someone like that, Ye Hai'er?"

Despite saying that, Komachi Hikigaya breathed a slight sigh of relief after confirming that her brother was still alive.

At least that's good news, isn't it?

……

Meanwhile, on the Russian Far East border

The dilapidated fishing boat slowly approached the shore in the night, its wooden deck stained a pale white by snow and ice. The biting sea wind howled through the gaps in the cargo hold, making a faint, mournful sound.

Hachiman Hikigaya wrapped his trench coat tighter, stepped off the deck through the crunching frost, and looked at the man beside him with a complicated expression.

"I must be crazy to have gone to Russia with you on that rickety fishing boat."

"Haha."

Hattori Heiji cracked his knuckles and said excitedly, "Come on, you're a superhuman, how come you're not as brave as an ordinary person like me?"

Looking at his excited expression, Hachiman Hikigaya couldn't help but roll his eyes: "You're a detective, and the son of a policeman, and you even know how to smuggle yourself in..."

"Don't worry about the details."

Hattori Heiji winked smugly.

"Where are we now?"

Hachiman Hikigaya, wrapped in a trench coat, stood on the thick snow, his breath drifting in front of him.

Vladivostok.

Hattori Heiji pointed to the map: "I checked, and a few dozen kilometers to the west, there's a village that had an accident a few days ago, and the entire village lost signal."

"I initially thought it was just a communication disruption caused by a regular blizzard, which is quite common in Siberia."

"But when the telecommunications repairmen arrived in the village, they found that everyone in the village had disappeared."

Hachiman Hikigaya frowned: "The whole village?"

"Correct."

Heiji Hattori nodded: "The locals call that place 'Zarnoye,' it used to be a mining village."

“When the mineral resources were abundant, the village was quite prosperous. However, since the mineral resources were depleted in recent years, only a dozen or so retired miner families have been left in the village to live out their retirement.”

"Moreover, most of their children work in big cities, and the village is still mostly populated by the elderly."

“I’ve done some research, and combined it with the timeline you provided earlier.”

“If Tanaka Ichiro really came here and committed another crime, then this village is the most likely place.”

Hattori Heiji analyzed.

"The west side."

Hachiman Hikigaya murmured to himself, gazing in that direction. Indeed, in his perception, Ichiro Tanaka was also in that direction.

"Let's go."

A biting wind howled past, and the withered cedar forest in the distance looked like rows of silent night watchmen.

The two walked slowly along the snow-covered forest path. Behind them, the dilapidated fishing boat had been swallowed by the sea fog, and ahead lay an endless expanse of white.

"Hey."

Heiji Hattori tugged at his scarf, turned to look at Hachiman, and said, "Tell me, what exactly are your abilities, you 'vampire baron'?"

"Last time you only showed off how to break steel bars with your bare hands, plus you spread your pair of black bat wings and flew around twice... To be honest, I almost thought you were a mutant bat-man."

Hachiman Hikigaya glanced at him, his tone somewhat perfunctory: "Well, you've already seen it, haven't you? His strength has increased dramatically, and he can fly."

"That's it?"

"And then there's night vision, powerful recovery, mental resistance, blood-based weapons... Sigh, you wouldn't understand even if I told you."

Hachiman Hikigaya wrapped his trench coat tighter around himself: "Besides, my title of 'Baron' is actually the lowest rank among vampires, not exactly strong."

"Nonsense, you can obviously convert even lower-level blood slaves, like Tanaka Ichiro."

“Since there are even lower levels, you can’t be considered the lowest level.”

After refuting Hachiman Hikigaya's statement, Heiji Hattori then asked, "So how did you become a vampire? Who bit you? Did you sign a contract? Or were you already a vampire?"

At this question, Hachiman Hikigaya visibly paused.

Amid the wind and snow, his pupils contracted slightly for a moment, and his expression fell into a brief silence.

"This... I can't say."

"Huh? You don't believe me?"

"It's not that I don't believe you."

Hachiman Hikigaya shook his head, his voice lowered, and his tone became much more serious than before: "I will die if I say that."

Hattori Heiji was taken aback, thinking he was joking: "Really?"

"I'm not kidding."

Hachiman Hikigaya stopped and turned to look at him, his gaze deep and calm.

Seeing Hachiman Hikigaya's serious expression, Heiji Hattori nodded and said, "I understand."

"But there's something I'd like to ask."

Hachiman Hikigaya glanced at Heiji Hattori: "What?"

Are we really just going to walk through this?

"It's over twenty kilometers from here to our destination!!!"

Hattori Heiji looked at his calves, which were covered in snow, and said with some difficulty.

Even on ordinary roads, walking more than 20 kilometers can exhaust a person.

Not to mention snow-covered areas like this.

Chapter 215 Bank Loan Withdrawal

Unlike the heavy snowfall in Siberia.

Early winter in Tokyo only brought a slight chill to the air, with no signs of snow yet.

Only the snow on Mount Fuji remains year-round, bringing a touch of winter scenery to Tokyo.

Night falls at the Nakano residence.

Nino Nakano had just changed out of her coat and was about to walk towards the living room when she was silently pulled into the kitchen by a hand before she could take two steps.

"Hey—what are you doing?"

She complained in a low voice, but her sister still pressed her down next to the refrigerator door.

"Did you...do that with Ye Hai again today?"

Ichika Nakano's voice was very low.

"..."

Nino Nakano turned her head away without replying, but she subconsciously raised her hand and gently pressed her flat stomach. The subtle movement did not escape Ichika's eyes.

"really……"

Nakano Ichika sighed and rubbed her forehead: "Did you take any precautions?"

"If not, you need to take medicine."

"Do you know that if these incidents keep piling up, it could very well lead to—"

"I know."

Nino Nakano interrupted her, her voice lowering: "I chatted with Yuigahama Yuka for a while today."

"That secretary?"

Nakano Ichika frowned slightly: "What did she say to you?"