The warm sunshine shone on Jinguji Maki's little face. She looked at Qingchen quietly from time to time, but was attracted by the Rubik's Cube turning in his hands.
The little girl thinks that this Onii-chan is really special.
Qingchen did not look at the little girl, his eyes were always outside the window. He did not explain why the two of them pretended not to know each other, nor why they sat so far away.
Fortunately, Jinguji Maki was too sensible and didn't ask any more questions.
This little girl is so sensible, just like Qingchen himself when he was a child.
That kind of humble sensibleness is the first survival skill that life teaches them.
This way you won't be annoying.
The bus stopped at Nakatsugawa City Station in Gifu Prefecture. Qingchen first accompanied Jinguji Maki to the hospital.
The nurses and doctors in the hospital seemed to know her. When they saw her, they greeted her enthusiastically: "Are you here to buy medicine for grandma again? She is such a sensible little girl."
Sensibleness seems to be Jinguji Maki's label, and many people will give him compliments that are not so heartfelt.
But only Qingchen understands that the little girl should rather be less sensible and be willful occasionally without being blamed.
The little girl walked in front, and Qingchen followed more than ten meters behind. The little girl was buying medicine at the counter, and he was waiting outside.
He watched the little girl take out her small wallet, buy medicine skillfully, and pay for it.
Next, he went to buy a mountain bike.
The little girl followed without saying a word. There were floats passing by on the street, as if there was some grand festival going on.
When Qingchen bought the car, the little girl was waiting outside the store, the tip of her nose was red from the cold, but she was very happy.
The process of buying a bike was very fast. For Qingchen, the quality of this mountain bike must be very good, so he directly bought the store’s treasure.
A car is equivalent to more than 80,000 yuan in RMB. Jinguji Maki stuck out his tongue when he heard this price from a distance, thinking that this is a rich Onii-chan...
Because the facilities in her hot spring hotel are old and the service is not good, the price is the lowest in Shirakawa-go.
At first, Jinguji Maki thought that Qingchen’s financial situation was not rich, so he chose them.
But now that I think about it, people who can rent a hot spring hotel in Shirakawa Township for a month are definitely not poor.
Qingchen pushed the cart out of the shop. At this time, Jinguji Maki was looking at the float parade and the ramen shop on the roadside.
He rarely approached the little girl and asked in a low voice: "Want to stay and play in Nakatsu River?"
Jinguji Maki looked up at him in disbelief, hesitated and asked, "Is it okay?"
However, at this moment, several cars passed quickly through the street and stopped not far away.
The car had the logo of the mysterious business department. Several people in black suits got out of the car and rushed into a shop on the street.
Qingchen frowned. He knew this was not directed at him, but he was curious about what the Mysterious Business Department was doing.
But they saw those people grabbing the owner of a soba noodle shop and dragging him out.
Pedestrians on the street were watching, and someone whispered: "We're arresting people again!"
Qingchen had heard on the Internet that the Island Country's Mysterious Business Department had been arresting people non-stop.
Moreover, he also knew the reason for arresting people: the time walkers of the God's Age, in the comparison table, the world's household registration information was used to 'create' time walkers.
They are bringing people who have overlapped between the outer and inner worlds, but cannot travel because of different regions, to overlapping locations to actively replace those who have been lost in the inner world.
After replacement, male time walkers with combat capabilities will be sent to secret military bases for special training, while women and children who cannot become combat capabilities will become 'mules' for transporting items from the other world.
In order to increase the control ability of the time walkers of the Gods in the surface world.
Domestically, Kunlun and Jiuzhou used data fortresses to protect the household registration information database.
Therefore, the Rishi Foundation has no way to do such a thing, but no one in the island country protects the household registration information database, and the same goes for Korea.
The island country and Koryo even took the initiative to open their household registration information databases. Kunlun once suspected that time walkers had appeared in the top management of these two countries, and that they had been traveled in reverse by the gods and Kashima.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why in the Age of Gods, Kashima controlled more time walkers than Kunlun and Kyushu.
At the very beginning, the people from around the world who were captured by the Gods were only concentrated in the three cities of Osaka, Tokyo, and Kobe. Now they have slowly begun to spread to the surrounding areas.
At this time, Jinguji Maki didn't pay attention to all this. She looked at Qingchen expectantly: "Can I go play for a while, Onii-chan?"
Qingchen glanced at the vehicle of the Mysterious Business Department, and then said calmly: "No, go home."
He didn't want to stay any longer in the activity area of the Mysterious Division.
When in Osaka, it was a strategy to keep the Mysterious Division tense, but at this time it should be low-key.
After saying that, he pushed the car towards the bus stop. The little girl said "Oh". Although she was a little disappointed, she still lowered her head and followed behind, keeping her distance.
After arriving at the bus stop, Qingchen asked Jinguji Maki to get on the bus alone, and he rode back alone. He wanted to familiarize himself with the traffic conditions on the flat road.
The little girl got on the bus alone, sat on the last row of seats, and lay eagerly on the window watching Qingchen ride away.
She lowered her head, waiting for the car to start, and then returned alone.
In fact, it didn't matter whether she saw the floats in Nakatsugawa City or not. She just didn't really want to be alone.
However, at this moment, she heard someone knocking on the car window.
Jinguji Maki looked up and saw Qingchen wearing a peaked cap and a scarf, standing outside the bus.
He calmly waved to the little girl and motioned for her to get out of the car.
Jinguji Maki hurriedly ran down: "Onii-chan..."
Qingchen handed her a new pair of gloves and a new scarf, and said to her: "Will you come back to Baichuan Township with me? If you sit on the beam, it will be a little cold, and it will take a little longer to go back. It will probably take a while."
More than three hours.”
Jinguji Maki smiled happily: "It doesn't matter!"
On the way back, the cold wind blew against her face, but the little girl didn't care at all.
On both sides of the black road, there are white mountains in the distance, and clear springs and streams accompanying the road nearby.
The end of the little girl's long scarf was floating in the wind, waving happily.
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Qingchen's life returned to tranquility. He rode a mountain bike every day. In the early morning, before everyone in Shirakawa Township got up, he set off for the mountains.
Then he carried the mountain bike on his back to the top of the mountain. In the evening, after all the skiers had returned to the hotel, he rode the bike back to Shirakawa-go.
Every day I could see the little girl from a distance, sitting in front of the hotel door with her chin propped up, waving to him.
This may be the most peaceful nine days since Qingchen traveled through time.
To heal the suffering he suffered in the other world.
Qingchen was setting off from the highest peak, Okuho Takadake, clearing the road bit by bit along the ridge, sweeping away the snow and throwing away the unstable gravel.
Because of the steepness of the mountain ridge, and because he had to spend half of his time practicing mountain bike control every day, Qingchen could only complete a few hundred meters of meticulous cleaning every day.
The winding ridge he wants to clear has a slope length of 3.1 kilometers, with slopes exceeding 45 degrees in many places.
He was not in a hurry and went out early and came back late every day.
As night fell, Qingchen rode against the cold wind to Shirakawa Township.
It's just that something is different today.
When he saw the familiar hot spring hotel from a distance, he did not see the familiar little girl.
Qingchen fell silent.
He left his mountain bike in the snow on the side of the road, walked slowly towards the hot spring hotel, and listened carefully to everything going on.
There was no sound of breathing in the hot spring hotel.
Qingchen opened the door and saw Jinguji Maki's grandma lying on the ground, making no sound.
He immediately turned around and left, knocked on the door of the hot spring hotel next door, and asked calmly: "Hello, have you seen the little girl next door?"
The owner of this hot spring hotel is a middle-aged woman. She hesitated and said: "You mean Maki...she was taken away by people from the Mysterious Business Department, but they haven't left yet."
"Where are they?" Qingchen asked calmly.
"I went to the east of Shirakawa Township. It seems there are other people to arrest," the boss said, "You are..."
Qingchen didn't answer, turned around and left.
He stood on the black gravel road, looking quietly at the end of the path to the east of Shirakawa Township.
Reason told him that he should not create any more complications before completing the life and death challenge.
He only needs to wait three more days before he can clear all the ridges and try the life-and-death challenge.
Only when he reaches level B can he be qualified to return to the A02 base to try to escape, and only then can he be qualified to return to Osaka and start killing people.
No matter how powerful the time walker of the Gods in the world is, except for a very small number of chosen people, he is the ceiling of combat effectiveness.
If we go on a killing spree in Shirakawa Township now, it will definitely attract countless time walkers from the Age of Gods. No matter how decisive Qingchen is in killing people, the events here will quickly spread back to Osaka.
So the best option is to wait another three days.
But...can Jinguji Maki wait for him for three days?
With the despicable humanity of the time walkers of the Gods, Qingchen didn't know what these people would do to Jinguji Maki in three days, and he didn't want to know.
He only knew that if he could really wait these three days, he would let the gods take the little girl away.
Then he doesn't have to complete any life-and-death tests anymore.
Because at that time, he was not worthy of eating the protein bars that Wang Yuchao and Zhao Mingke threw to him.
Not worthy of the respect of Li Ke, Qing Yi, Nan Gengchen, Liu Dezhu, and Luo Wanya.
I am not worthy to accompany Mr. Li Xiurui on his last journey.
He probably doesn't deserve to be a knight either.
What else do knights believe in besides courage?
The young man stood on the black road and thought, there should be eternal sincerity.
Never ask about interests, only ask about the sincerity of your heart.
Qingchen faced the wind and snow in the dark night and walked towards the east of Shirakawa Township.
His expression was as stubborn and resolute as when he was building stone walls in the pigsty countless times.
Perhaps he had thought about it at the moment in the pig pen. If the long night in this world would not pass by itself, then he would use day to redefine the endless night.