Masked Rider: Infinite Journey

Shi Dong looked embarrassed: "But I still have to go to work. If I don't go, we won't be able to guarantee our expenses."

"Work? Okay!" Lan Guanghong hammered his palm and said enthusiastically, "Then I'll go with my brother-in-law. After all, I'm a grown-up and can't live here for free."

Hearing this, Shi Dong was speechless for a moment.

——Battle Rabbit, look at him!

A rabbit who had been living and eating for free in a coffee shop for two years suddenly sneezed while riding his bike.

Chapter 248 An unexpected gain

In the end, Shi Dong was very moved and rejected Lan Guanghong's request to work together. After all, he was not really going to work, but to secretly do some exciting bad things.

However, he still entrusted this cheap brother-in-law with one task, which was to go to Beidu and bring back the muscular idiot.

"Wanzhang Longwo, isn't he a wanted murderer?" Lan Guanghong, pretending not to have read the script, asked doubtfully, "Are we accomplices?"

"The word 'accomplice' is too harsh. In fact, it's very likely that Manjo was wrongly accused. Zhantu wants to help him clear his name and return him to freedom." Ishido packed up his luggage and stuffed the information that Sayu brought yesterday into Lan Guanghong's arms. He smiled and said, "Anyway, I'll leave this matter to you, Ciao~"

Blu-ray Red: ...

Forget it, let’s just go. There are a lot of things to discover there.

First, there are a total of sixty full bottles, one-third of which are held by each of the three cities. This time, we can try to get some of the twenty bottles from Beidu.

The second is Katsuragi Takumi's research data. The USB flash drive containing the data is buried in the former site of the Namba Heavy Industries Scientific Research Institute, which happens to be located in Kitatoshi.

Then, or this is the most important thing - see if the corrupt officials of the Time Management Bureau are in Beidu.

Originally, Lan Guanghong thought that this guy should be hiding in Dongdu, because the world's strongest combat forces, Mr. E, Ryuga, and Battle Rabbit are now gathered in this small cafe. If he wants to obtain the knight power of the three, lurking nearby or in a place closely related to them is the best choice.

But three days passed, and whether he was in the Dongdu Government or in the cafe, the progress of the dial did not move at all, which meant that the goal was still far away.

From this point of view, the target is most likely not in Dongdu now, so we can only try our luck somewhere else.

"Come to think of it, Red Daddy is still growing potatoes in Kitato... No, he should be called Saruto Ikkai." Standing outside a secret passage in the Sky Wall, Lan Guanghong twisted his wrist and smiled healthily, "Well, let's go get to know him a little bit."

Passing through the dark and narrow tunnel, Lan Guanghong just poked his head out from the exit when a cold gun muzzle was pointed at his head.

Blu-ray Red:?

Before the muzzle of the gun touched his skin, he grabbed the attacker's wrist with lightning speed, pulled him in front of him, and clamped his other hand on the man's neck like an iron clamp.

The attacker was stunned on the spot. At this moment, his accomplices around him saw that something had changed. Seven or eight strong men in black clothes immediately jumped out of the bushes. One of them shouted in panic: "Hey! You guys, let our big brother go!"

The big brother who was locked up by a strong man:?

Baga Yalu! You even yelled it out loud, afraid that people wouldn't know I was the leader?!

"Roar, big brother, right?"

He snatched the other man's gun away, pointed it at his brother's forehead, and whispered coldly in his ear, "I hate it most when someone points a gun at me. Do you know what happened to everyone who did that before?"

Hearing this, the elder brother broke out in a cold sweat.

Oh my god, I met a ruthless person this time!

"But I'm not a devil. How about this? Give me a reason to let you go." Lan Guanghong paused, then smiled wholeheartedly and continued, "If this reason convinces me, I'll let you go. How about that?"

The eldest brother's eyes lit up and he immediately begged for mercy.

But at this moment he suddenly found that his neck was stuck tightly by the other party and he couldn't utter a single word!

Big Brother: ???

Afraid that the other party would misunderstand him, he didn't dare to struggle hard. He could only tremble his head slightly to indicate, "Boss, can you please let go a little?"

However, Lan Guanghong didn't let go. He just waited for a moment and then suddenly said, "Nothing to say? Good! I admire tough guys like you the most!"

"Since you are so tough——"

Just let me go?

There was a glimmer of hope in the eldest brother's eyes.

"I'll leave you with an intact body."

With a click, the pistol's safety was released.

At this moment, the eldest brother recalled running in the sunset as a child. That was his lost memory...

"boom!"

As soon as Lan Guanghong let go, the young brother fell to the ground.

Seeing this, several younger brothers nearby turned around and ran away.

Nonsense, they don’t have guns, and if they stay here, one of them might be the next to get shot.

As for what to do with the fallen big brother... who was that? I don't know him, he slipped away.

"Tsk tsk, the world is going downhill and people's hearts are no longer the same." Lan Guanghong shook his head in disappointment, leaned over and took out a large stack of trophies from his eldest brother's pocket, and stuffed it into his own pocket with a sigh on his face.

Then he pushed aside the branches blocking his way and came to the family of three who were tied to the tree by the group of people.

"Phew~, thank you."

The rescued father held his son's head and bowed deeply to Lan Guanghong with his wife. "Thank you so much! If we hadn't met you today, we would have been forcibly captured and enslaved."

Lan Guanghong frowned when he heard this: "Slave? Can you tell me more about it?"

"Ah, actually, I just heard that if you try to sneak in without enough money, they'll send you to a place to work as free labor. There's no rest there, and you have to work non-stop until you die of exhaustion."

“…I see. I understand.”

Lan Guanghong took out the spoils he had just obtained and gave half of it to the father.

"Ah! This won't do! If we can escape with our lives..."

"Take it. We'll split it in half when we meet. This is my rule."

After saying that, he turned around and left, waving his hand casually with his back to the family, saying, "Let's leave quickly. Those guys might be back soon."

After a moment of hesitation, the father bowed again and finally left in a hurry with his family.

Lan Guanghong returned to the frightened elder brother and gently patted his face: "Hey, wake up."

"Oh!" The eldest brother, whose face was swollen like a pumpkin, opened his eyes and shouted in surprise, "I'm still alive?!"

Lan Guanghong no longer had the heart to tease him and simply grabbed his collar: "Look into my eyes!"

Super power hypnosis, activated!

The kidnapper, who was ecstatic about surviving the disaster, had his psychological defenses broken in an instant and his eyes became dull.

"You killed me after you woke up, and now you want to take me to that place."

He didn't need to specify the location, because after being hypnotized, the person would instinctively take him to the place he should go in this situation, and would ignore any unreasonable details along the way. For example, why did he kill the other person, but the other person was not injured or restrained, and... why his income was gone, etc.

With a light snap of his fingers, the robber's eyes became smart again.

"Wahahahaha, I can even fight back in this situation, I'm so strong!"

He arrogantly pressed down on Lan Guanghong's shoulder and said, "Boy, you are still too young. Just follow me!"

"Yeah." Lan Guanghong slapped the robber's hand away and smiled healthily: "Let's go."

Chapter 249 Thank you, Parad

After being "escorted" for a distance by the robber boss, Lan Guanghong was received by the mechanical soldier who was handed over. Finally, he was taken into a closed prison van with other people who were sent here and drove to an unknown place.

Of course, the mere iron sheet could not block the detection of Blue Light Red, and he could see everything along the way.

"Pure black mechanical soldiers, they don't look like they belong to the government. Are they from some unknown force?"

The original drama did not portray the other two countries much, so it seems not impossible that an organization similar to Faust appeared in the northern capital.

Perhaps, this may be related to the Time Management Bureau?

Lan Guanghong guessed so, but the result disappointed him. After the vehicle reached the finish line, the tracking dial remained unchanged.

The final destination is a secret base hidden in the mountains. It is a building that rises in a spiral shape. Judging from its scale, it seems that the mountain has been hollowed out by half.

What is even more horrifying is that, apart from the thick pillars in the center that should also serve as the supporting structure, the other walls are embedded with densely packed capsules, which can make people with trypophobia die on the spot at first glance.

Through the transparent glass of the capsule, one can see the humanoid creature inside. At just one glance, Lan Guanghong couldn't help but frown.

A strange appearance like a cleaner, a head like a snail monster.

——"Isn't this a Bugster?!"

The Broken Source Body is a monster that appears in Kamen Rider Ex-Aid. Its essence is a game virus that will proliferate as the stress of the patient infected with the virus increases, and eventually completely take over the body of the infected person to complete its own materialization.

But that's not the point, the point is...

"Why did the monster from Eimeng Angel come here? This is not the right set!"

He remembered clearly that the world map in Hosho Eimu's place was normal, unlike here which was divided into three countries by the wall of sky.

So, what exactly happened?

A moment of distraction slowed down Lan Guanghong's pace. The armed mechanical soldier next to him immediately hit him hard on the shoulder with the butt of his gun. Lan Guanghong paused, turned his head to look at the number on the robot's face, and then followed the silent army into the central column.

As soon as he entered, he was hit by a faint familiar stench.

"Nebula gas? You want to transform humans into Slammers... No, that's not right!"

Thinking of the countless collapse sources sleeping in the cabin outside, Lan Guanghong suddenly understood the purpose of this organization.

"They want to transform people into monsters with the characteristics of both Smashers and Demolition Bodies!"

The door suddenly closed, trapping this group of people who were still unaware of their situation. Then, a large amount of yellow gas and some tiny glittering particles suddenly sprinkled down from above. These were the nebula gas and the game virus!

"Boss Gou Zha!"

Lan Guanghong cursed angrily, then opened his hands without hesitation and used all his strength to compress the two vicious poisons.

"Everyone, get out of the way! This thing is poisonous! Don't get involved with it!"

After hearing his warning, everyone present quickly moved away from the center and huddled at the edge, trembling in fear.

Lan Guanghong couldn't help but twitch his mouth at this moment.

It turned out that the mechanical soldiers outside discovered the abnormality inside first and sent four machines over here.

If the mechanical soldiers entered and opened fire, innocent people would inevitably be harmed. Now he had to make a decision: let these people inhale the gas and transform into Agito to rush out and fight, or risk being exposed and transform into his true knight form to resolve the disaster here without any damage.

——No need to choose at all.

"Tsk, at worst I can try harder in the next world!"

Having made up his mind, Lan Guanghong's eyes focused.

At this moment, something strange happened outside!

Sparks suddenly burst out from a mechanical soldier on guard, and then its joints twisted, and it raised its gun uncontrollably and attacked its colleagues around it.

The surrounding soldiers reacted quickly, immediately firing at the traitor and shooting him into pieces, but their eyes could not catch the extremely complex data stream floating out of the soldier when he was counterattacked.

"It really makes me unhappy that precious lives have been turned into this state."

The red and blue data transformed into a fashionable human figure standing outside the pillar door, looking around with an indifferent expression at the composite monster around him - the Nebula Collapse Source Body.

And Lan Guanghong also saw the appearance of the young man through his ability of perspective.

"Pallade! WTF...huh? Wait!"

He suddenly remembered that Build did appear in the final episode of Ex-Aid.

It is a tradition of special effects that the protagonist of a new work will appear after the old work is finished. Blu-ray Red originally thought that this was just an easter egg and that such a thing would not happen in the real world, but now it seems... not necessarily!

However, the Build that appeared in Eimu's world should not be Battle Rabbit but Katsuragi Takumi. Before leaving, he beat up Parad and absorbed the power of Ex-Aid into a full bottle. From this point of view, whether Parad wanted to fight back or take back Eimu's power, it makes sense for him to come to this world.

As for how he got here, he probably followed Katsuragi here by chance, after all, they had already passed through.

"But you came just in time. Thank you, Parad!"

Outside, Parad transformed into LV99 and activated the invincible mode against a group of mechanical soldiers. He switched between the axe and the gun in his hands freely and quickly cleared out all the soldiers present.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief and was about to cancel his transformation, the mastermind behind the scenes probably discovered the abnormality here through the surveillance. The capsule compartments on the bottom two floors suddenly opened, and a large group of Nebula Collapse Sources screamed and pounced on Parad.