Congratulations on Your Arrest

  Chapter 195 The Deterrence of the Pearl Tower (Part 1)

   In the shadows between tall buildings,

  When living in this city in his previous life, Higashinohara used to ride a bicycle in the winding alleys every sunrise morning and sunset evening.

  But he didn't expect that after an unknown number of years, he would have the opportunity to return to this city by the river and regain the time of running in the alleys in those years.

  Suddenly, an extremely fast, cannonball-like strange monster suddenly accelerated behind him, and flew towards the place where Dong Yeyuan was, with a piercing scream like a night owl's blood thirsting from his throat.

  He hit the target, but also missed, and there was only a shadow left in the place where Higashinohara was located for a second.

  The strange demon looked around in a daze, as if he had noticed something, raised his head slightly, and a long black lacquered sword on top of his head drove straight into his throat from his nasal bone.

  Chila—!

  Amidst the ear-piercing friction between the blade of the sword and the bones, Higashinohara, who descended from the sky with a chopping sword in his hand, instantly stabbed the corrupted face of the strange demon to pieces.

  He drew his sword backhand and kicked, and the corpse-like strange demon staggered and fell to the ground.

   "Hey, hey! Run!"

  In front of the dark alley, Xincun Shinichi, a human ability hired by the investigation team, suddenly noticed that there were no footsteps behind him, and shouted at Higashinohara in a panic.

   It wasn't that there was any "teammate relationship" between the two people who formed a temporary team after Gray Mane ordered everyone to evacuate. It was really too scary to be alone in the dark.

In particular, Shinichi Shinmura found out that the little brother named "Nishimiyai" who had evacuated with him and gathered together inadvertently had an unparalleled "sense of direction" and "insight" even in the dark. The virtue of "old and warm heart".

When they were evacuating in the dark alley before, several times when they encountered a sudden attack from a strange monster with strange abilities, he was just halfway through the attack, and the "old-hearted" brother next to him solved his opponent Immediately return to help him up to help him.

So much so that after this short journey, Xincun Zhen felt a sense of dependence in the heart of the gentle-eyed brother next to him, which he didn't realize, so he stopped and shouted at this time Withdrew together with Higashinohara.

  But Higashinohara did not move.

Not only that, he turned around suddenly, squinted his eyes and looked at the strange demons following behind him in the alley—most of these strange demons were in an unconscious state, in other words, they were a manifestation of pure personal spiritual will Transformed into a humanoid "carrier" with a special ability.

Higashinohara couldn't help but took a deep breath. In his mind's [Guild Handbook], he was collecting the unknown particles released by the remnant body of the strange demon whose head had just been smashed by him. Strange Demon.

  What's the situation with this little brother?

  Ximura Shinichi couldn't help being stunned.

  He really wanted to say that brothers don’t need you to break the queen, let’s go to the Pearl Tower to join everyone, it’s so dark that if you don’t leave, I’m a little scared to be alone.

   But before the "useless words" could be uttered, the Higashinohara in front of him had disappeared.

  To be precise, it turned into an afterimage that stretched continuously in the darkness, and it was completely impossible to see what ability it used to urge.

   If you have to say it, it's like a 100-meter sprint with extremely fast speed.

  The next moment, under the dim moonlight above the alley, the clear knife light splashed in the alley like a spring.

   Ruins!

  No me one knife style. Onikiri!

  Amidst the ear-piercing rubbing sound as if a blade was scraping the skull, the strange demons crowded from the other side of the alley to show their abilities all brushed their heads in different places in an instant, and the sound of heads falling to the ground could be heard endlessly.

Higashinohara lowered his head and glanced at the cutting sword of the adjudicator in his hand. After cutting so many people in one breath, it was still sharp. Although it was not as good as his two ancient knives, they were better than the two small Tai knives he found in the second-hand market. Too much.

   "Let's go."

  Higashinohara back road

   This time it was Xincun Shinichi's turn to be dumbfounded.

   It wasn't until Higashinohara came over and patted him on the shoulder that Xincun Shinichi didn't realize it.

  He stared straight at Higashinohara. If I remember correctly, this little brother's ability is the enviable talent sequence 23 water ability [Desolate Ruins].

   "Nishimiya-kun, how did you do it?" Xincun Shinichi couldn't help but ask.

  He is a fifth-level and second-level power user. In all fairness, if he can overcome his fear, he can also deal with these first-level gray ordinary monsters behind him.

But the difficult point is that he doesn't know whether there will be some second-level strange monsters mixed in among these strange monsters. Go take that risk.

  It doesn't look like the Higashinohara in front of him, not only is he extremely decisive this time around, but also his strikes are crisp and unsloppy!

  Nimura Shinichi even had some doubts. The strange monsters beheaded by him might be mixed with second-level strange monsters, but they were beheaded by "equal treatment" before they could react.

  【Decomposition completed】

  【Congratulations to the host for gaining 0.3 source points】

  Are these first-level gray ordinary monsters harvested so little?

  Higashi Yehara vomited in his heart.

  He exchanged all 0.3 source power points into 30 proficiency points, and added all of them to the sword shape of Wuwo Yidao style (intermediate level 70/100) in one go.

  In an instant, Wuwo's ​​proficiency after the one-shot style changed, becoming an advanced 0/500.

  This distance from [Grandmaster]'s 500-point proficiency is a bit difficult. At least 5 points of source power are required, which means that Higashinohara has to kill five third-level blue high-risk strange demons.

   But those are all existences of the seventh to eighth order.

Or there is another way, that is to wait for the third-level blue high-risk alien body to turn into a pure unconscious ability and escape to another world through the door of [boundary], just like the convenience store female clerk in the Xinyuan apartment that night .

   After the strange demon passes through the [boundary] gate and descends, its strength will drop by one or two steps, but the unknown particles obtained after beheading are still from the "blue quality", which can decompose the ability of 1 source point.

  Perhaps, it is time to consider improving the proficiency of secret skills and secret secrets, these two are the big killers in actual combat.

  Hearing Shinichi Shinichi's question next to him at this time, Higashinohara didn't think too much, shrugged and said, "It's no big deal, just hurry up."

  Xincun Shinichi's eyes twitched when he heard this,

  He gave Higashinohara a sideways glance,

  Are you sure you are only going faster?

  Speaking of which, Xincun Shinichi is 22 years old this year, with a level 5 and 2 ability level. After passing the interview of the Judgment Division, he thought that he was the elite of the younger generation of New Tokyo and even Wano Country.

  Compared with the performance of the younger brother who is so tender-faced in front of him in the past two days, Xincun Shinichi suddenly realized that he shouldn't have the idea of ​​"comparison" at all.

   "Uh ok." That's all Xincun Shinichi could say.

  But suddenly, he seemed to remember something again, and said anxiously, "By the way, when we evacuated just now, did the captain arrange for the wounded to evacuate?"

All this happened suddenly tonight, even more horrifying than last night in the residential buildings of Pujiang Community. No one thought that those strange demons who had not been seen during the day would actually move in groups and even So they started a "hunt".

  Yes, yes, it is hunting.

  When they fled in a hurry tonight, chasing the strange demons with different abilities behind them drove them like hunting primitive people in ancient society.

   It's just that the "prey" group of Higashinohara and Shinichi Niimura is a bit special. Halfway through the chase, the identities of the hunter and the prey changed.

   Higashinohara and the others became hunters.

  Hearing what Shinichi Shinichi said, Higashinohara thought about it carefully, and couldn't help but shook his head, "I didn't hear anything about it in the voice, maybe the captain has his plans."

  What is Captain’s plan?

  The two looked at each other, and Shinichi Niimura's complexion turned slightly pale.

Of course, Shinichi Niimura knew the meaning of Higashinohara's words. With Captain Gray Mane's character, let alone the wounded, he didn't casually label the people he was with as "wounded" when he evacuated to delay the progress of those strange demons. Time would be a mercy.

  Higashi Nohara looked at the pale-faced Xincun Shinichi, two of the three wounded were incapacitated, and one of them might be his friend. Now this situation inevitably made him feel that he had betrayed his friend.

   But there is no other way.

  Higashi Nohara raised his head and looked at the sky-reaching tower obliquely inserted into the clouds smeared by the moonlight in front of his eyes. According to the description in Ma Baoli's diary, there seemed to be some danger in the Pearl Tower.

   But the date of the diary is 4597 AD. The weathering and corrosion of these buildings is unknown how many years have passed since he came to this world. It is difficult to say whether the Pearl Pagoda is still dangerous.

After thinking about it, Higashinohara still relieved, "Let's go to that tower and join the investigation team first. The injured people in the camp may have attracted the attention of strange demons when we evacuated, and those strange demons have come to encircle us. On the contrary, it may not be certain that they will be able to recover from a desperate situation.”

   Survival from a desperate situation?

  Hearing what Higashinohara said, Xincun Shinichi couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and nodded with a sad face.

   Nobody is a fool.

  Of course he knew that these were comforting words.

   But I really don’t have much time to think about it now,

  The sound of rustling footsteps came from the other end of the alley again, and the night wind passing through the halls and alleys was mixed with the whispers of various "weird syllables" heard in Xincun Shinichi.

  Although Higashinohara was the only one who could understand the "complex and weird syllables" uttered by these strange monsters, he decided to turn around just now because those strange monsters were chasing too closely and too close.

   Now that he didn't catch up with him, he rushed out by himself, which was no different from a firefly in the dark night, and he was easily attacked by those strange monsters.

  What worries Higashinohara the most is that behind this apparently organized night attack against them, the "Ling Wei" mentioned in Ma Baoli's diary is also among them.

  According to the description in the diary and his analysis, it is suspected that Ling Wei, the "leader" of the strange monster in the Pujiang community, is very likely to be the top of the second-level dangerous strange monster, that is, the sixth-level peak strength.

  Under normal circumstances, Higashinohara's comprehensive strength is basically invincible against those with abilities of the upper fifth level, and is also capable of fighting against those at the beginning of the sixth level.

  But against the sixth-order peak, life and death are unpredictable.

  Xincun Shinichi does not have as many sources of information as Higashinohara for analysis, but he has an inexplicable trust in this young Higashinohara.

  The two left as soon as they said they would, and they broke up with the strange demon behind them.

  But the saying "Wangshan runs to death" is not unreasonable.

  Under the dim moonlight, the Pearl Tower, which stretches from the ground to the sky and plunges into the sea of ​​clouds like a road to the sky, seems to be close at hand, but in fact it took them quite a long time to arrive.

  During this period, the strange demon behind him was chasing after him.

  Relying on [Nine Eyes and Six Paths]'s insight into the surroundings in the dark and his familiarity with the city of Jianghai in his previous life, Higashinohara tried several times to get rid of those "tails", but unfortunately there was no result.

   This is obviously not normal.

  Higashi Nohara secretly speculated that nine out of ten commanders or generals who organized and directed these strange monsters might have mastered the ability to track strange monsters.

   Could it be Ling Wei?

  However, they didn't stay with anyone all the way, and the strange demons failed to catch up again after all.

   When they arrived at the foot of the Pearl Tower, Xincun Shinmoto thought that they should be the first to arrive here under the leadership of Higashinohara, who has an excellent "sense of direction".

   Unexpectedly, not far from the main entrance of the Pearl Tower, a woman with light blue hair immediately attracted his attention. The person in front of him was obviously Hela from the investigation team.

   Before Xincun Shinichi came up to ask "Why are you so fast", Hela, who was staring at the Pearl Tower in a daze, turned around and found Higashinohara and Xincun Shinichi, and immediately walked over and looked around and said:

   "Are you here? Where are the others?"

  Higashi Nohara glanced at Hela, didn't say much, and didn't ask any more questions.

  Xincun Shinichi swallowed the doubts surging in his heart first, and replied, "We all dispersed when we evacuated, and the others should still be on the way."

   As soon as he finished speaking, footsteps came from the darkness not far away, and the nerves of the three suddenly tensed up. They didn't realize it was Gray Mane until they saw clearly.

Grey Mane's right arm seemed to be injured, he ran over with his right arm in his arms with a gloomy expression, without even looking at the three people standing here, he found a bench by the side of the street and sat down, and began to give himself Bandage.

  In the darkness, Higashinohara glanced at Gray Mane, who was some distance away from them, and vaguely felt that his wound was not caused by a strange demon attack.

   On the contrary, it seemed to be cut by a sharp object such as a long sword.

  Can strange demons use swords?

   Higashinohara frowned slightly.

   At this moment, in the darkness in all directions in front of the main gate of the Pearl Tower, the sound of hurried footsteps sounded one after another.

   After the members of the investigation team rushed out of the shadow of the dark high-rise building under the pursuit of strange demons, they all gathered together when they saw Higashinohara and others waiting under the Pearl Tower.

   In less than three minutes.

  Under the Pearl Tower, nine of the ten people the investigation team evacuated tonight showed up. Only the last hired human ability user has yet to arrive.

  At this time, Ji Yuanwen, who had lingering fears in his heart, approached him, and asked respectfully in a low voice beside Gray Mane, "There is someone who hasn't returned to the team, what should we do, Captain? Shall we wait for him here?"

In the danger of a sudden attack tonight, Gray Mane calmly pointed out a "clear way" to everyone, which immediately made the panic-stricken Jiyuanwen people seem to have found their backbone, and they became more determined to hold on tight Surprisingly, this thigh will be able to catch the giant ship of the Judiciary in the future.

  Grey Mane was just bandaging the wound on his arm, and when he heard Ji Yuanwen's words, he shook his head without thinking, "There's no need to wait, I can only blame his own fate for not being here."

Xincun Shinichi, who was walking with Higashinohara all the way, may have just experienced abandoning his companions, and now he is about to abandon his teammates again. Hearing this, he couldn't bear to say, "It's Tsukikawa-san who didn't come, why don't we wait a little longer He, by the way, isn't he with you, captain?"

Hearing Xincun Shinichi's words, everyone was taken aback for a moment, and then the corner of their eyes drifted to Gray Mane, but the latter stared at Xincun Shinichi with a gloomy expression, and shook his face expressionlessly. He shook his head and said, "I haven't seen him before."

  Everyone was silent for a moment.

  Grey Mane was unwilling to get entangled in such "little things". His mind was running at high speed, thinking about how to complete the task of the Tribunal Division, and further get rid of these strange demons to save his life.

  Unexpectedly, at this moment, Higashinohara, who had been silent for a long time, stared at the darkness in the shadows of those high-rise buildings, and said in a calm tone, "They... stopped."

   They stopped?

  Everyone was startled when they heard the words.

   Someone looked intently into the thick ink-like darkness, and as expected, those whispers and chaotic footsteps that made the scalp tingle in the back of their heads followed closely.

  From the moment they arrived in front of the Pearl Tower, everything disappeared, and the surrounding air was only left with the continuous "whimpering" of the high-rise buildings in the city.

what's going on?

  Everyone had some doubts in their minds for a while.

   But gradually, some people came to their senses and suddenly turned their heads to look at the Pearl Tower obliquely inserted into the clouds behind them. Pale faces were reflected in the dim moonlight.

   Asking for tickets lol~

   There will be a second update later.

  (end of this chapter)