The jazz music echoing in the air has co to an end. The underground bar is dirty and chaotic, bloodstained, and a headless corpse is lying on its side on the ground, a stench and the sll of blood overwhelming the senses.
Xia Pingzhou slowly turns his head, his eyes looking at three children in hospital gowns on the Sorsault Cloud.
Behind them, a pixelated door slowly closes, isolating the crumbling "Jurassic World" behind it, aning they’ve lost their retreat.
"Another batch of little brats?" Jack raises his eyebrows.
She lifts her eyes, glancing at their hospital gowns and tal collars, imdiately realizing these three are with those children in hospital gowns.
The white-haired girl pauses slightly, opening her eyes wide, her eyelids trembling as she looks at Sun Changkong.
As if she’d seen hope.
Ji Minghuan also ets Sun Changkong’s gaze.
Ayase Origami steps in front of Xia Pingzhou, raising her kimono sleeve and gently pushing him backward.
Among the Salvation Squad’s five mbers, only Mario’s reaction seems relatively calm at this mont.
He closes the black handheld device, then raises his eyes from the screen, calmly looking at the five people ahead.
Mario raises his eyebrows, thinking: "Where are those people just now? Did they all run away, leaving only one playing chess? I thought they were together."
Thinking this, he starts to assess the situation. Mario is very self-aware: outside the ga scene, he’s just a weakling with a combat power of only five, hardly even a regular adult.
So... if we exclude the possibility of Ji Minghuan suddenly unleashing power, the Salvation Squad’s combat capability basically relies on Sun Changkong and Filio.
And the woman in the school uniform in the bar looks dangerous, isn’t ordinary, the woman in the kimono seems formidable too, at least the sa level as the train woman just now.
Thinking like this, Mario isn’t sure if they can win, especially with hostages in their hands.
"Need to negotiate with them, but... this guy doesn’t seem like soone who’d sit down and talk." Thinking of this, Mario helplessly glances at Sun Changkong staying on the Sorsault Cloud.
Sun Changkong and Filio react the sa way.
Upon seeing Ji Minghuan with a scythe at his neck, their first response is to stand frozen on the spot, their eyes wide open, faces full of panic.
The next mont, Filio’s beast eyes stand erect, the fur on his tail and ears starting to sharpen.
"Let them go...!" he shouts, his hoarse voice echoing in the silent bar, like a deep wolf howl.
Jack glances at him, thinking: Werewolf? This kid looks strange... And a bit like Bai Tanlang?
"Don’t move, little brats." She says, "These two should be with you. If you don’t want their guts pulled out, stay quiet."
Filio cramps his nose, grits his teeth, the violent red in his pupils becoming clearer.
Like the two kids in her hands, the three children in hospital gowns give Jack an extrely dangerous feeling.
Among them, the most noticeable is of course the swirling white mist in midair. For so reason, the sight reminds Jack of a myth from China:
-- "Journey to the West".
"Sorsault Cloud?" She thinks, "Mythical-level marvel? Why would such a thing appear here? Truly fascinating... Once back, I must interrogate this newcor properly."
Thinking of this, Jack glances at Xia Pingzhou’s back, suddenly noticing an obvious bloodstain there, blood flowing down, staining his coat and pant legs.
"The newcor is injured?" Jack raises an eyebrow slightly.
"Kong Youling! Ji Minghuan--!"
At this mont, watching the two being held hostage, Sun Changkong finally reacts, red pupils shrinking. She grips the Golden Cudgel, stepping on the Sorsault Cloud angrily charging forward.
"Oh... this is what you chose."
Jack watches the rushing Sorsault Cloud, her face darkens, the dark red scythe whirling in midair.
However, just as the blade is about to touch Ji Minghuan’s neck, suddenly a clear light shines in the underground bar, almost illuminating the entire world.
She pauses slightly, looks towards the light source, seeing it cos from the diamond-shaped patterns on the wrists of the five children from the Salvation Society. The diamond at this mont is shining brilliantly.
In just a blink, all five children are engulfed by the sudden light, then disappear. Jack’s dark red scythe swings to nothing, a crashing sound echoes, and a giant hack mark appears on the distant wall.
"What’s happening, why so fast?" Jack watches around warily, thinking.
She never thought, at such a distance, anything could be faster than her scythe... Absolutely incredible, logically she should have been able to chop off Ji Minghuan and Kong Youling’s heads within 0.1 seconds.
A mont of silence envelops the underground bar.
"Who are they?" Ayase Origami asks.
Xia Pingzhou shakes his head, raises his hand to his forehead, silent.
"Not sure... Anyway, they’ve been sent away." Jack says expressionlessly.
"Should we chase?"
"No chase... Haven’t you noticed? The cat you keep is almost overwheld." Saying this, Jack uses her eyes to indicate the terrifying injuries behind Xia Pingzhou.
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