Tokyo Knights: The Odd Jobs X Files

Because there were quite a few people, and it wasn't peak season for hot spring tourism, Crocodile Man booked the entire hot spring hotel.

Meanwhile, everyone else had already soaked in the hot springs and gone to rest.

Crocodile said he wanted to go to the second floor. Although Li Xin didn't know what "second floor" meant, considering Crocodile's character, he could figure out what kind of place "second floor" was even with a brain.

In short, no one else will come to the hot spring before the hotel staff cleans it at 10 p.m., so Li Xin can soak in the hot spring with peace of mind.

Li Xin entered the hot spring first, immersing himself in it. The water temperature, slightly higher than normal body temperature, was just right, making it very comfortable. Li Xin couldn't help but think that even if it wasn't for any other purpose, a hot spring trip like this would be nice.

But after thinking about the cost of this hot spring trip... forget it, I'll just not come next time. If I want to soak in hot water, I can do it at home. Why spend so much money and effort?

However, the thought of the "big head" in the hot spring made Li Xin's mind wander again.

Whether it's worth it or not remains to be seen...

At that moment, the curtain at the entrance of the bathhouse was pulled up, and the three of them, with their long hair tied up and wrapped in bath towels, walked in. When they saw Li Xin soaking in the bathhouse early in the morning, Lai Sheng Lei showed a teasing smile: "Xin, you're quick."

Although it is a mixed bathing system, the entrances for men and women to the bath are different, and both need to clean their bodies before entering the bath.

Li Xin entered from the men's entrance, while Lai Shenglei and the others entered from the women's entrance; the two groups had not met beforehand.

Faced with Lai Sheng Lei's teasing, Li Xin replied without changing his expression, "I'm a boy, and boys take showers faster."

Seeing that Li Xin's skin had become much thicker than before, Lai Sheng Lei felt a mix of regret and pride, after all, it was a testament to her good teaching.

Led by Lai Sheng Rui, the three slowly entered the bath. Only after their bodies were completely submerged did they slowly remove their towels.

The hot spring water was a clear, greenish color, and with the mist rising from it, Li Xin could not actually see anything, nor could he possibly see anything.

(There's nothing I can do; if they see it, they won't let me broadcast it!)

Even so, the thought of bathing in the same pool with Laisheng Lei still made Li Xin's blood boil.

Compared to Li Xin, the three of them, including Lai Sheng Rui, seemed much more at ease. Even Shiranui Mai, who hadn't yet had anything happen with Li Xin, was extremely comfortable with the current situation.

"Hmm, soaking in a hot spring like this once in a while doesn't seem so bad..."

Mai Shiranui let out a comfortable groan.

Lai Sheng Rui also felt very comfortable. She squinted her eyes and leaned against the edge of the bath. After hearing Mai Shiranui's words, she couldn't help but say, "If you like, I can make a hot spring in the apartment. It should be very nice."

She also found the hot spring bath very comfortable. Although there are bathtubs in the apartments now, nothing beats the comfort of a hot spring bath.

Anyway, the tower apartment she's in now even has a swimming pool, so adding a bathtub wouldn't be a problem.

"Yeah!"

Mai Shiranui cheered repeatedly, and Mori also offered suggestions from the side. The three of them had a harmonious exchange, leaving Li Xin aside.

This mixed-gender bathing area not only didn't produce any inappropriate scenes, but was instead filled with the sweet atmosphere of girls getting along.

However, Li Xin had no complaints. There's a saying, "beauty is food for the eyes," and now that three beautiful women were in front of him, he was eating three late-night snacks. What was there to complain about? Besides, he was enjoying the relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.

After chatting for a long time, Lai Sheng Lei suddenly covered her head and said, "Oh dear, how long have we been soaking? My head is spinning..."

Mao Lixia immediately said, "Sister Xiaolei, let me help you upstairs to rest!"

"Okay, thank you, Lisha."

Lai Sheng Lei wrapped herself in a bath towel and had Morisha help her out of the bath.

Seeing that Rui Kisaragi was not feeling well, Mai Shiranui immediately said, "Sister Rui, let me help you."

"No need, Lixia is enough to take care of me. Xiaowu, you can stay and soak with Axin for a while longer."

"Rui said to Mai Shiranui, then quickly left the bath with Morishia, leaving Mai Shiranui to accompany her brother—who was at a loss."

Just as Mai Shiranui sensed something was wrong and tried to escape, a pair of strong arms emerged from the hot spring and wrapped around her waist.

"Xiao Wu..."

A voice filled with heavy breathing reached Mai Shiranui's ears, and Mai Shiranui immediately felt a shiver run through her body. She bit her lip and said: Little Tears, you tricked me!

Chapter 776 An Encounter

Li Xin pushed open the door and stepped onto the terrace. Moonlight streamed through the terrace into the room, falling on Mai Shiranui, who was wrapped in a bed sheet.

Exhausted, Mai Shiranui was fast asleep and showed no sign of waking up, even with the light stimulating her.

Li Xin glanced at Mai Shiranui with affection, closed the door, and left alone on the terrace.

Well, speaking of which, Hu Laoliu still owes me quite a bit of money. Considering the great help he's provided, why don't I waive it for him?

No, no, no! This is a separate matter. We agreed on a price beforehand, so how can we raise the price after the transaction is completed?

And who knows what other good stuff that guy might have? We must not underestimate the foundation of a sect with a thousand-year history!

Under the moonlight, Li Xin sat cross-legged on the terrace. His primordial spirit left his body again, wanting to find the golden spirit beast he had encountered before. He had a premonition that the golden spirit beast must be of great help to him, otherwise his primordial spirit would not have guided him here.

During the day, Li Xin toured the Shimabara Peninsula with the group, paying no attention to the search for the lost item. However, this did not mean that he was only focused on "health and wellness" and had forgotten the real purpose of his trip to the Shimabara Peninsula.

The soul belongs to Yin, and the primordial spirit can only exert its greatest power at night. Conversely, the primordial spirit is actually relatively weak during the day.

Of course, this is only the current situation. In the future, when Li Xin's primordial spirit is fully developed, he can ascend to the heavens and descend to the earth, and even break through the atmosphere. So, let alone the fact that it appeared during the day, that will be a piece of cake.

In short, for now, Li Xin can only explore in his primordial spirit form at night.

As his primordial spirit took flight, Li Xin's vision underwent a tremendous change. High above in the air, everything before him was vastly different from what he had seen during the day.

Countless points of light flickered, those were the soul lights of the people living in Shimabara City; the ground was covered with flowing rivers of light, those were the earth's spiritual energy flowing.

The sea shimmered, and spiritual energy drifted above it like mist, hazy and indistinct, preventing Li Xin from seeing any further.

Li Xin controlled his primordial spirit to float to a higher place, overlooking the entire island peninsula, but he couldn't see the golden spirit beast anywhere.

Did you leave? Or did you not come out for a walk tonight?

Li Xin muttered to himself.

If the object the golden spirit beast was attached to was mobile and had already left the Shimabara Peninsula, then that would be troublesome. After all, that kind of sudden feeling doesn't come out of nowhere, and it has no direction. If you miss it, you miss it. If you want to have the same feeling again, who knows when you'll get another chance.

Unwilling to give up, Li Xin wandered around the entire Shimabara Peninsula in his primordial spirit form, but found no trace of the golden spirit beast, and finally gave up.

Just as Li Xin was about to return to the inn, he suddenly caught sight of something.

He arrived at an abandoned church and stared blankly at the cross at the top of the church.

This cross looks familiar...

Li Xin muttered to himself.

Christianity is the world's largest religion, with nearly two billion followers. Christian churches can be seen everywhere. Even in Japan, a country where Shintoism and Buddhism are prevalent, there are a considerable number of Christian believers. So seeing a cross is perfectly normal.

However, this cross is completely different from a regular cross.

There are generally two types of crosses: one with the image of the "Son of God" suffering, and the other without. Generally speaking, the Roman Catholic Church and Protestantism use crosses with an image, while Protestantism uses crosses without an image.

However, the cross on this dilapidated church is a third type, different from this image. Centered on the taiji, each of the four ends has one of the eight trigrams. This does not look like something from Christianity, but rather from Taoism in the Central Plains.

Of course, if that were all, Li Xin would at most think it was strange and wouldn't pay much attention to it. The reason Li Xin paid so much attention to it was because he had seen the image of the cross somewhere before.

By the way, in the Great Rakshasa Sect!

Li Xin remembered that he had seen this cross in the portrait of the Linglong Sect Master of the Great Rakshasa Sect; he was holding just such a cross in his hand.

At the time, Li Xin was puzzled as to why the leader of the Great Rakshasa Sect would be holding something that clearly looked like a Taoist object, but he didn't ask for fear of offending anyone. Now, seeing this cross on the Shimabara Peninsula, which has nothing to do with the Great Rakshasa Sect, Li Xin naturally became curious.

Li Xin remembered that the patriarch of the Great Rakshasa Sect had said that the "Supreme Skill of Heaven and Earth" was obtained from the Central Plains by the Linglong Sect Master. So, when he obtained the "Supreme Skill of Heaven and Earth", did he also obtain any related items... such as that cross?

Although it was just a guess, Li Xin's spiritual senses told him that his guess was correct.

Silently noting down the location, Li Xin returned to the hot spring inn. Feeling very pleased with what he had gained, he pulled back the sheet covering Mai Shiranui.

Startled awake by the strange sensation in her body, Mai Shiranui looked at Li Xin with a terrified expression and cried out, "Xin, stop messing around! I'm not fully awake yet... Waaah!"

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The next day, Lai Shengrui and Mao Lixia brought red bean rice into Li Xin's room.

After a chaotic night, Li Xin's room was in a mess. Lai Sheng Lei sent Li Xin away and then tidied up the bed with Mao Lixia.

Looking at the exhausted Mai Shiranui, Lai Sheng Rui teased, "How was last night?"

Mai Shiranui blushed slightly, biting her lip as she said, "Sister Xiaolei, shouldn't you know best?"

Since the "body swap" incident, her and Laisheng Rui's five senses have been connected. Within a certain range, the two can feel each other's feelings, but beyond that range, the feeling gradually weakens. The two tested it and found that when they were about two kilometers apart, the connection between their five senses was completely severed.

Lai Sheng Lei smiled and said, "I don't know. I rushed back last night and only came back this morning."

Mai Shiranui gasped, thinking to herself that this woman was truly terrifying. Fortunately, she had always kept her position upright and had never had any bad thoughts.

No matter how powerful Lai Sheng Rui is, she can't read minds and doesn't know what Shiranui Mai is thinking. Seeing Shiranui Mai gasp, she thought she had been bullied badly by Li Xin last night, so she said to Shiranui Mai, "You had a hard time last night. I will help you with some of the work when I have the chance, if you don't mind."

"How could I mind... It's like Ashin never finishes assigning me tasks. If I have to deal with him all the time, I really can't take it... I'm even thinking now that I wish Xiao Ai would grow up faster..."

Mai Shiranui said softly.

Both Rui Kisugi and Morishia deeply understood Mai Shiranui's words.

Although Mai Shiranui looked miserable, her body had actually been treated by Li Xin with "Mingyu True Qi" long ago. So when she got up, she only took a few steps before adapting to the soreness and became lively again.

After washing up, Mai Shiranui followed Rui Kisaragi and Moriha out of the room. The three of them had a harmonious atmosphere, just like sisters.

At this moment, Li Xin was thinking about the church with the strange cross that he had seen the night before. He told the others and then prepared to go to the church or the vicinity alone to inquire about it.

Seeing that Li Xin was about to leave, Kisugi Rui stepped forward to ask him something. After hearing Li Xin's description, Kisugi Rui had a sudden thought and took out the wooden plaque that Kanzaki Kaori had given her earlier, asking Li Xin, "Is it this cross on top?"

Li Xin took it and looked at it, then immediately said, "That's right, it's this one. Xiao Lei, where did you get this wooden plaque?"

Lai Sheng Lei also felt that it was no coincidence, and said to Li Xin, "I met Miss Huo Zhi when I was booking my plane ticket. She gave it to me and said it was a talisman from her sect."

"Kaori Kanzaki...isn't she a Puritan?"

Li Xin was puzzled.

Laisheng Rui shook his head and said, "No, she actually belongs to a small cross sect in Japan. She was seconded to the Puritan Church and is not a member of the Puritan Church herself. By the way, she should be in the Amakusa Islands, not far from the Shimabara Peninsula. We can go to her and ask her about the cross, after all, she is the leader of that sect."

Upon hearing this, Li Xin agreed with Lai Sheng Lei's reasoning and nodded, saying, "Alright, I understand. Let's set off together then."

"it is good!"

In the next life, I'll nod with tears in my eyes.

So, Li Xin let the others continue their sightseeing, while he and Lai Sheng Rui headed to the Amakusa Islands.

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"Excuse me, sir, do you know where the 'Amakusa-style' church is? You mean the Amakusa-style cross church?"

On Amakusa Shimojima, the largest island in the Amakusa Islands, a nun repeatedly bows to passersby, asking them about the Amakusa-style Cross Church.

"What? What style?"

An old man put his hand to his ear after hearing the nun's question, as if he hadn't heard her clearly.

"'Amakusa style'."

The nun spoke patiently.

"What style is 'heaven'?"

"'Amakusa style'."

"What kind of grass style?"

"'Amakusa style'."

"Amakusa what?"

"It's the 'Amakusa style'."

"..."

The old man kept asking the same question. An ordinary person would have gotten angry long ago if they were questioned like that. Even a person with a good temper would have realized by now that the old man didn't want to answer at all and would have taken their leave.

But the nun patiently repeated her answer without showing any impatience, and her tone and speed of voice remained unchanged.

Finally, the old man admitted defeat, panting as he said to the nun, "I don't know, go ask someone else!"

"Oh, I see. Well, I'm sorry to have bothered you. Goodbye, and may God bless you."

The nun bowed very politely to the old man and gave him a blessing. She took two steps forward, then suddenly circled around to face him again, bowed once more, and continued to ask, "Excuse me, sir, do you know where the 'Amakusa-style' church is? You mean the Amakusa-style Cross Church?"

The old man broke down on the spot and ran away.

This person is absolutely insane!