Chapter 369 Incident at White Swan Harbor! (Part 2)
Chapter 369 White Swan Harbor Incident! (Part 2)
The time is three days later.
That is April 20th,
Twelve o'clock sharp at noon.
When Higashinohara got up from a coffee shop on the roadside near White Swan Port, his eyes accidentally glanced at two slightly weird people in white robes and white scarves wrapped around their heads behind him who happened to be paying the bill as well.
He followed him out of the coffee shop.
Higashinohara does not suffer from persecution paranoia.
I haven't done anything out of the ordinary in the past three days since I came to Barton County. Of course, I won't see two people following me out and think that the other party is coming for me.
In fact, during the three days he stayed in Barton County waiting to get the knife, he really felt the popularity of Barton County among the "one city and six counties" in the Kyoto metropolitan area.
Even if he went out to buy a meal from the hotel where he was staying, he would encounter several human tourists from different countries on the street, dressed much more strangely than the two behind him.
In the past three days, Higashinohara, who has seen a lot of exotic customs, would probably calmly regard her as a piece of performance art even if she saw someone running naked on the streets of Barton County.
It has to be said that in the area of White Swan Harbor in Barton County, those gods who regard humans as monkeys will hardly interfere with anything in this three-acre area.
No wonder so many tourists flock to breathe the wonderful air of Kamikyoto City every year, even though this is only the edge of Kamikyoto City.
However, after walking out of the roadside coffee shop in White Swan Port, Higashinohara had just walked two streets, and the scene at the intersection not far ahead made him frown slightly.
I saw a group of people from the black-robed enforcement team, fully armed at some point, appearing at the intersection of White Swan Harbor, scanning every passer-by with their sharp eyes like falcons.
What's going on?
During the three days that Higashinohara was in White Swan Port, he never saw those figures in black robes.
——This almost made him forget in his mind that this was the Kyoto city area closest to the Adjudication Division.
But why did those black robes suddenly appear at the intersection of White Swan Harbor today?
"Why are the people from the Adjudication Department here?"
"I guess something happened?"
"Haven't you heard? Several local celestial nobles in Barton County were wiped out?"
"Ah this? Who is so crazy? Kill them all?"
"I heard they all disappeared."
"What kind of annihilation is that?"
"That's why these black robes are so nervous. I heard that among them is the Sheriff of Barton County."
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Higashinohara, who has keen senses, listened to the low voices of pedestrians talking to each other on the streets around him, and his expression could not help but change slightly.
Such an unexpected incident would be a good or bad thing for his trip to Barton County.
Facing these black robes who are as indifferent as eagles and dogs, although the tourists passing by have been accustomed to the freedom and ease of White Swan Harbor these days, they have already been accustomed to this scene in front of them in the countries they have lived in for so many years.
After a short period of noise, everyone was silent and quietly cooperated with the interrogation of the black-robed enforcement teams on the street.
Higashinohara glanced in that direction.
This road happened to be the road leading to Kamado Tanjuro's house in White Swan Port, but he turned around and walked into a dark alley beside him.
During the three days he waited in White Swan Port to pick up the knife, he had memorized the routes and streets around the port by heart through maps.
He chose this dark alley, which required a few detours, but he could still reach Kamado Tanjuro's house through the back door.
You must know that although Higashinohara's identity on the surface is now flawless, there is no truly perfect disguise in this world, and the wisest choice is to avoid unnecessary interrogation by the enemy.
Although he took a detour in the dark alley, Higashinohara avoided the surveillance camera and let go of his speed.
It only took about ten minutes for him to arrive at the back door of the small courtyard of Kamado Tanjuro's house in White Swan Harbor earlier than the originally agreed time to pick up the knife.
However, just when he was about to step out of the dark alley, Higashinohara's heart suddenly moved slightly, and he took back his steps again.
A squeak!
The back door of the small courtyard was pushed open, and the footsteps of three people could be heard.
at the same time,
A slightly angry scolding sound reached his ears.
"Trash! Can't you even catch a blacksmith?" The man walking in the middle said to the two people next to him in a cold tone.
The two people who were angrily scolded had varying degrees of burns on their arms, faces and clothes. Waves of burning pain hit them, and they said angrily:
"Mad! Who knew that boy had awakened his fire ability and attacked us from behind when he was taking the sword."
"Where's the Tian Cong Yun Sword?"
The man in the middle said with cold eyes, "Vice Captain Perlos loves swords so much that he finally got the news that Hawke Udall's supreme sword was cut off and recast here. If we go ashore early this time, it will be
If you get nothing, you should know the consequences."
When they heard the word "Pelos", the two of them immediately thought of the man who drank and slept on the boat with his sword in his hand all day long.
It is conceivable that if they mess up this matter, it will be tantamount to losing each other's wife.
Why is there something wrong with this statement?
Anyway, that’s what it means.
The two of them felt a slight chill in their hearts.
Someone suddenly thought of something and hurried up and said, "Captain, although that cunning blacksmith ran fast, his wife and child just came back after he left, and he didn't have time to take them away with him. Now they have been transferred and controlled by us."
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The other person also reacted and said viciously, "Yes, he asked us to lose the wife of Vice Captain Pelos, then we will lose his wife and children. We left a note in the basement, and the other party will definitely come back.
When the time comes, you have to obediently hand over that big sharp knife."
When the captain in the middle heard what the two said, he was slightly startled and then snorted coldly.
"You guys still have some brains, but now we don't have time to waste. Let's put the matter of Vice Captain Pelos aside for now. Don't forget that the guys from the Western Army are still waiting for us. Let's go and do the captain's business first."
Upon hearing the word "captain", both of them tightened their expressions and nodded quickly:
"Yes, yes, business is important, business is important."
Speaking of this, one of them suddenly said, "What if that cunning blacksmith doesn't care about his wife and children?"
The captain shrugged upon hearing this and said sadly, "He doesn't care, so we don't need to care either. After finishing the business, the woman will leave an explanation to Captain Pelos and throw the child into the sea to feed the fish.
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After finishing speaking, the three of them seemed to be in a hurry and immediately left the back door of the small courtyard in a hurry.
In the shadow of the dark alley, Higashi Yehara walked out slowly, glanced at the backs of the three people, and then glanced at the deathly silent courtyard.
There were still five minutes left before he could take out the knife, but he obviously didn't need to go in anymore.
Judging from the words of these three people just now, they should be a group of pirates on the Western Sea.
The captain among them is quite strong, and it is initially estimated that he should be a seventh-level absolute ability user just like himself under normal circumstances.
A captain is a person of absolute ability.
There is no doubt that the background behind this group of pirates who suddenly appeared is definitely not small.
Higashinohara didn't directly fight out just now because he had this concern.
Kamado Tanjuro's wife and children were moved by them, and they don't know where they are now.
If he had taken action rashly just now, he would have been able to control the situation instantly.
But if there is the slightest mistake and the other party sends back the news, the other party will definitely think that he is Kamado Tanjuro's helper, which will be quite unfavorable for his wife and children.
However, I heard the [Amancongyun Sword] mentioned in the other party's words, and if I remember correctly, it should also be the work of the Twelve Skills of Kyoto's Supreme Sharp Sword.
It's no wonder that he came to Kamado Tanjuro.
However, the other party did not mention his [Large Chidori Jumonji] and [Phoenix Double Blades] in what he just said. It seems that the time coincided and he was affected by Chiyu.
Then it's a bit difficult to do now.
Where is Kamado Tanjuro?
He has absolutely no idea.
The two parties had only met once, and he didn't know whether Kamado Tanjuro would use the "Amansugaun Sword" in exchange for his wife and children after seeing the note in the basement.
The only clue Higashinohara has now is the three pirates who just left.
But he wants to believe that the other party will come back.
After all, he was a man who had awakened the blue high-risk ability of Talent Sequence 31 [Red Flame], but still worked hard and married a fisherman's daughter to live here fishing.
Then, follow along.
These thoughts are complex,
In fact, it's just a flash of light.
Higashinohara looked at the figure at the other end of the street that had not yet disappeared, and made a decision in his heart.
As long as you follow these three people, you can follow the clues to find Kamado Tanjuro's wife and children, and it is very likely that you will wait until Kamado Tanjuro appears again.
If you can help when the time comes, please help.
Deep in his heart, Higashino had no intention of saving all sentient beings in the world, and he did not have the ability to do so.
Just don't appear in front of your eyes.
Higashinohara has always adhered to one fundamental principle.
That is, evil is to be killed.
An hour passed in the blink of an eye.
The time is approaching a quarter past one in the afternoon.
A team of five people from the Mithril Society execution team lurked in a warehouse factory at a port in White Swan Port. The factory door was rusty and there were old cement bags piled inside.
It is estimated that it is a remnant of the White Swan Port Terminal that was built in the past. The tip of the nose is filled with the pungent smell of cement and rust.
"Is this the meeting place?"
A member of the execution team looked at the old-fashioned wall clock on the warehouse again, and couldn't help but ask with some hesitation.
Since eight o'clock in the morning, they have been squatting here for more than five hours. Their lunch at noon was bread and energy bars, but the large warehouse building was silent, not even a ghost.
Hearing the doubts of the team members, vice-captain Feilina couldn't help but glance at the stern side face of Kailutu, the president of the Mithril Society, and found that the other party had no intention of explaining.
She couldn't help but feel a little worried.
If Kairutu makes a wrong judgment, it will not only mean that they have wasted a day here.
It also means that their field mission assigned by the Eagle Bureau was a complete failure.
Ta-ta-ta-!
The second hand of the old-fashioned wall clock on the wall moves slowly.
Just as it was turning around,
It's about to reach a quarter past one.
The roar of a speedboat engine riding the wind and waves seemed to come from the sea at the pier diagonally opposite the port warehouse factory building.
Someone is coming?
Everyone in the execution team suddenly became energetic.
But in a blink of an eye,
The tightly closed warehouse building was pushed open again, and a long-lost light shone in from the outside, along with the sound of dense footsteps.
Feilina, who hid behind the cement bag in the corner in advance, suppressed the excitement in her heart, raised her head slightly and glanced, then quickly retreated back.
"Are you here?" someone asked next to him.
"Here we come." Felina nodded.
"How many have come?"
"a lot of."
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In fact, there are more than a lot.
When the clock on the wall pointed to a quarter past one, a dense crowd of people suddenly poured in outside.
Some of these people took speedboats from the sea, some took boats from one side of the Bama Canal, and some drove vehicles without license plates.
After these people who arrived at the warehouse and factory through various modes of transportation met, they did not make any eye contact with each other. They all poured into the warehouse and factory with their heads lowered and minding their own business.
When the dense footsteps gradually became sparse and stopped, Nuoda's factory suddenly became quiet.
In the corner, Mithril Club and others were hiding behind a pile of cement bags, looking at each other in confusion.
The current scene is like someone opening your door and walking in in the dark night.
You clutched the quilt and hid under the quilt, but the room was so eerily quiet that the only thing left was your heartbeat.
What's going on?
The frowning vice-captain Feilina took a deep breath and subconsciously wanted to look up again to find out.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, footsteps sounded again from the direction of the warehouse door.
Compared with the dense and chaotic footsteps before, this time the footsteps were neither urgent nor slow, and had a very rhythmic feel.
From the quiet atmosphere of the factory,
A picture can even automatically appear in the minds of people hiding behind cement bags.
——The latecomers walked into the warehouse, and everyone silently paid attention to them.
Who will come?
This is indeed the case.
At this time, among the crowd that had just poured into the warehouse, Higashinohara, dressed in black, was wearing a mask, sunglasses and a peaked cap.
Such a very eye-catching decoration on the street outside, but placed in the factory at this moment, it is not conspicuous at all.
Because around Higashinohara, no matter men or women, old or young, they all covered part of their true faces in their own way.
——It seems that they also know very well that a gathering like today can never be placed in the sun.
Higashinohara couldn't help but glance at the three people diagonally in front of them with their chins half covered by the scarves under their necks.
Yes, those three were the three pirates that Higashinohara had followed all the way from Kamado Tanjuro's house, but for some unknown reason they also blended in with these people.
Thinking of this, Higashinohara could not help but look at the group of people who had just entered the warehouse and factory again. The familiar dark green coats made him narrow his eyes slightly.
Even though Barton County is in a remote area, it is still at the foot of the heavenly beings in the Kyoto metropolitan area.
If his current guess about the identity of the other party is correct, then these dark green coats can be seen in the urban area of Kyoto.
There is no doubt that it is naturally the strongest "Western Army" among the five armies of the Dawn Revolutionary Army in the southeast, northwest and northwest.
Speaking of which, even though some people regard him as an unstable and dangerous element, Higashinohara has no ill feelings towards the revolutionary army in this world.
But the Dawn Revolutionary Army is an exception.
No matter what grand slogans that group of people shouted, what these people did during this period of time was what they did under Higashinohara's nose.
all as always,
A disgusting abomination that never disappoints.
Are there just these people around him who are standing quietly on the same spot with their faces half-hidden like him?
Who are they?
Why come here at this time?
Why did the pirates get involved?
Higashinohara narrowed his eyes slightly,
These questions were pondering in my mind.
But before he could figure it out, a group of people in dark green coats walked into the dark warehouse factory just now under the watchful eyes of countless people.
I saw the leader, a tall man with a slightly raised collar and a scar on the right side of his face that gave off a cold aura.
Suddenly he raised his hand and patted it.
Soon, the person following him moved a movable blackboard from nowhere.
The man with a stern face turned around and wrote three large bloody characters on the blackboard very quickly with red chalk that seemed to be soaked in blood.
【Allies】
X!!!
A huge red cross covered the words "Allied Powers" as if torn apart.
The man raised his hand and pressed it casually, and the movable blackboard instantly rotated.
this time,
The man raised the blood-red chalk again,
Three completely unfamiliar words that had never appeared in history or any dictionary were written on the movable blackboard.
【Federal State】
There was a snap.
After the man finished writing, he threw away the chalk.
He calmly looked around at the members of the delegations from various countries whose eyes were wide open in shock and confusion, and his jaw could not help but rise slightly.
He was very satisfied.
I am very satisfied with the shock I brought.
"I have a dream."
Suddenly, the stern-faced man spoke slowly and said his first words after entering the warehouse factory, instantly attracting the attention of everyone present.