When Xu Cheng said that he would go directly to Arakawa Buntaishi, Akimiya Yue worriedly said: "He has recovered his strength, are you okay?"
She was afraid that the battle between Xu Cheng and Tsugumo Shinji consumed too much energy, but Arakawa Buntai had already recovered his strength.
Xu Cheng smiled slightly: "Don't worry."
He is indeed in a bad state right now. His body and two character cards are both in a weak state due to the use of the hero's right arm, but self-protection is absolutely no problem.
If that doesn't work, there are four more chances to reopen.
Xu Cheng and Akimiya Yue went out together, leaving Hoshizaki Yukina, who was still poisoned, and Basi Yoshimizu, whose leg was injured.
Hoshizaki Yukina was unhappy at being forced to stay, but after seeing the weak Yoshimizu Yoshizaki, she suddenly showed a witch's smile again.
Seeing Yukina Hoshizaki walking towards him, Yoshimizu Yoshizaki hugged his pillow in fear.
"Sister Witch, what do you want to do?"
"Hey, Xiaoba, come on, take off your clothes and let me see if you are developing normally."
"No!"
"Ouch, you're blushing, obedient, let me see."
"Help!"
…
Xu Cheng and Akimiya Yue rushed to Arakawa Buntais' office side by side.
Midway, Qiu Gongyue finally couldn't help but ask: "What is your relationship with the witch?"
Xu Cheng thought about it seriously: "I did regard her as a tool before, but after getting along with her for a long time, I found that she is not a bad person and worth making friends with."
Qiu Gongyue was keenly aware of the key point: "Have we been together for a long time?"
Xu Cheng showed a question mark: "Is this what we should pay attention to?"
Qiu Gongyue was silent for a while, and then said: "The witch has a weird and changeable personality. She has no principles and credibility in her actions. She likes to have fun, behaves inappropriately, and makes a show of herself..."
Seeing Akimiya Yue listing a bunch of shortcomings of Hoshizaki Yukina, just when Xu Cheng thought he was going to speak ill of her behind her back, he heard Akimiya Yue's final conclusion: "...Although she has ten thousand shortcomings, she can barely You can still trust it.”
Your twists and turns make me unable to guard against it.
Xu Cheng asked curiously: "Then you are friends with her?"
Qiu Gongyue's face immediately dropped, and she denied it at the speed of light: "No."
Xu Cheng didn't ask any more questions. After a while, he suddenly heard Qiu Gongyue's subtle voice: "I'm very happy that you can come to save me, thank you."
This made Xu Cheng a little dissatisfied. He stretched out his hand and slapped her hard on the back: "We are seeing each other. Do we still need to say thank you?"
"hiss!"
Qiu Gongyue was so slapped that she gasped, raised her leg and kicked Xu Cheng in the butt, but he laughed and dodged it.
Looking at Xu Cheng running away, Qiu Gongyue showed a touching smile on her lips.
Yes, there is no need to say thank you between the two of them.
When they arrived at Arakawa Buntai's office, they couldn't find the old guy. The two looked around and finally found him in the branch.
Arakawa Buntais is dealing with the piles of corpses in the branch alone. Although the weather is getting colder now, if the corpses are left alone, sooner or later there will be a plague.
Seeing Arakawa Buntai, Xu Cheng gradually quickened his pace. When he was tens of meters away, he jumped up, flew towards Arakawa Buntai, and punched him in the face.
Arakawa Buntai's expression remained unchanged, his legs slightly bent, and he also punched to meet the attack.
boom!
A loud noise like the collision of metal rolled through the corridor and spread far away.
Arakawa Buntai subconsciously took two steps back, looking at Xu Cheng with a flash of surprise in his eyes: "Are you able to cover the surface of your body with Qi?"
The fourth level of breathing method is far more powerful than the third level. The main reason is that it can cover the surface of the body with Qi, forming a protective layer that is both offensive and defensive.
But this can only be achieved after cultivating to the fourth level of perfection, which is lv3.
Arakawa Buntai has been practicing for many years, and only now he can cover the surface of his body with Qi. He never expected that Xu Cheng's fourth-level breathing method is a perfect enhanced version of the manager's deduction, and he can do this at level 1.
Xu Cheng stood firmly on the spot with a smile on his face: "Do you still need to ask? Do you want me to punch you again?"
His punch has consumed the Qi accumulated by his body and the killer card. Now he is completely useless and will fall down with a push.
The reason why he started taking action was to gain the upper hand and frighten Arakawa Buntais, so that he could gain the upper hand in the subsequent conversation.
Arakawa Buntai looked at the energetic Xu Cheng and Qiu Gongyue who was following him, and suddenly sighed with a lonely look on his face: "The younger generation is scary."
Decades ago, he was so young and high-spirited, but in the blink of an eye he was already in his sixties.
Despite his appearance, he is only forty-five years old, but this is due to the breathing method, and his actual age is close to sixty.
The reason why he deliberately showed that he had recovered his strength in front of Qiu Gongyue was to prevent these young people from attacking him. Of course, he would not choose to fight Xu Cheng at this time.
"Shinji Tsugumo has been busy for so long and started such a big battle, but in the end he got an advantage for you. It's fate."
Arakawa Buntai randomly found a place to sit down and said to the two of them: "If you have anything to ask, just ask. Maybe it won't be long before I am forced to retire from the headquarters."
After punching Xu Cheng, he suddenly showed a lot of old age.
Xu Cheng winked at Qiu Gongyue and told her to ask her questions quickly.
Akimiya Yue immediately asked: "Why did you deliberately set things off and let Shinji Tsugumo make the matter bigger?"
Arakawa Buntai thought about it, and finally shook his head: "It's too complicated, so let me start from the beginning. You should be confused. Shinji Tsugumo is so outstanding, why have we always refused to let him be a candidate?"
Xu Cheng chuckled: "Aren't you guys suppressing him all the time?"
"Yes, I am indeed suppressing him, but not because of his origin."
Arakawa Buntai continued talking to himself: "Shinji Tsugumo's grades during training were mediocre. You also know this in Xinyue. He miraculously completed an A-level mission just after he debuted, and all the killers with him died. He is the only one who survived, and he still has no details about the mission process, but his strength has improved by leaps and bounds."
"It's not a big deal if he refuses to explain the reason. Who hasn't had some adventures? But Shinji Tsugumo's temperament changed drastically and he started to form gangs. He even privately promised to other Samsungs that he would spread the fourth-level breathing method for free. How could we let him Is he a candidate?"
Xu Cheng felt a slight movement in his heart. Jin Yun Shinji was able to complete A-level tasks when he first debuted. It was probably at that time that he got the Eight Chi Mirror and turned from a mediocre person into a genius.
Arakawa Buntais continued to tell that facing an ambitious man like Tsugumo Shinji, he teamed up with his advisors and elders to suppress him secretly.
But Tsugumo Shinji does have a skill. In just a few years, he became the strongest young killer under pressure, and gained the admiration and recognition of most killers.
In this case, if he had not made a mistake, Arakawa Buntais would not be able to do anything to him.
"Privately, I also pretended to be my identity and tested Tsugumo Shinji."
Arakawa Buntai fell into memories: "In the end, I ended up fighting him to a draw. He didn't know where he got the power of Vulcan, and he has grown into a difficult opponent. If I didn't have special confidence, I wouldn't dare to attack him. ”
Speaking of this, Arakawa Buntai raised his head and glanced at Xu Cheng: "When you first came to the branch, you had a conflict with Tsugumo Shinji and others. Why should I favor you? I just think that with your talent, maybe you can Defeating Tsugumo Shinji, it turns out that I was not wrong about the person at first, where did you learn the fourth-level breathing technique?"
Xu Cheng crossed his hands and looked like he had no comment: "Self-taught."
"It doesn't matter if you don't tell me. The breathing method has been leaked many times. I'm surprised that you can learn it without relying on the Heart Stone Institute at the headquarters."
Arakawa Buntai praised him and continued to talk.
Tsugumo Shinji's power is becoming more and more solid and powerful. At the latest election meeting, he didn't even know what method he used to get an advisory elder to vote in agreement.
If Qiu Gongyue hadn't resisted the pressure in the end and abstained from voting, he would have succeeded in getting the candidate status.
After the election meeting, Shinji Tsugumo, who realized that he might not be able to become a candidate through normal channels, had the idea of violently seizing power and began to prepare for it.
After Arakawa Buntais learned the news through the mole planted next to Tsugumo Shinji, he was shocked and angry, and immediately made up his mind to get rid of him.
But at this time, Tsugumo Shinji was already too strong and had won over most of the killers. Without a legitimate reason, Arakawa Buntais could not kill him, and other killers would not help.
So Arakawa Buntais simply used his plan to let the situation get out of control, and even took the initiative to set fire to it, allowing Tsugumo Shinji to successfully lead the killers to violently seize power.
And his goal was to kill Tsugumo Shinji on the night of the riot. By then, all the witnesses and material evidence would be there, and no one would have anything to say. The remaining killers would be just a mob, and they would just need to be appeased and divided afterwards.
After listening to Arakawa Buntai's explanation, Xu Cheng and Akimiya Yue couldn't help but look like you're kidding me.
Tsugumo Shinji is not weaker than you, why do you kill him?
In the end, he was poisoned and fled into the secret passage.
This explanation was not convincing at all and would only make the two of them think that Arakawa Buntais had cerebral palsy.
"You will definitely think that I have cerebral palsy to come up with such an outrageous plan."
Arakawa Buntais looked calm: "But, if five of the seven three-star killers that Tsugumo Shinji has roped in are mine and plan to cooperate with me to surround Tsugumo Shinji, do you still think this plan is a joke? "
Xu Cheng and Qiu Gongyue were both startled.
Arakawa Buntais smiled faintly: "I have been an instructor and director for many years, and almost all the killers in the branch are my students. How could everyone betray their relatives? When Shinji Tsugumo secretly recalled the killers from outside, there were many People secretly contacted me privately to report his behavior.”
Qiu Gongyue couldn't help but said: "The evidence is already there, so why don't you take action in advance?"
Xu Cheng also interjected: "You said you had five three-stars on your side, but in the end you were betrayed and poisoned?"
Arakawa Buntai lowered his head and sighed: "I did plan to take action in advance, but I never expected that Tsugumo Shinji would find foreign aid."
He looked up at the two of them: "Have you ever heard of the Protectorate?"
Qiu Gongyue had never heard of it, and Xu Cheng pretended not to have heard of it. The conflict with the Protectorate was the ability card, which had nothing to do with his killer card.
"The Protectorate is a very mysterious and powerful organization. It has been our employer for the deceased for many years. It is also this organization that wants to recover the eight-foot magatama."
Arakawa Buntais sighed deeply again: "I never thought that the Protectorate Council would actually contact Tsugumo Shinji privately. The five three-star killers who originally supported me also changed their stance and supported Tsugumo because of the generous conditions offered by the Protectorate Council. Unshinji, by the time I knew it, it was already too late. I was completely defeated and couldn't do anything.
After hearing this, Xu Cheng and Qiu Gongyue finally understood the whole ins and outs of the matter.
To put it simply, Shinji Tsugumo jumped too much after getting the chance, which made Arakawa Buntais and other leaders displeased and suppressed him.
The suppressed Tsugumo Shinji planned to flip the table, but Arakawa Buntai took the opportunity to plant a few three-star moles next to him, preparing to beat him when he flipped the table.
Unexpectedly, Tsugumo Shinji actually hooked up with the wealthy boss of the Guardian Council, and used his money power to buy off several moles. Then Arakawa Buntais was miserable and was beaten up in turn.
This is a not too complicated story, with a beginning and an end, but they are all one-sided words of Arakawa Buntais.
Knowing that the two of them didn't believe it, Arakawa Buntai took out his cell phone and threw it to Xu Cheng: "Let's take a look."
Xu Cheng turned on his phone, and Akimiya Yue also came over. The two of them put their heads together and saw dozens of text messages on the phone, all of which were sent by the killer to report Tsugumo Shinji.
The time to report is tonight, when the killers are gathering in the cave.
Good guy, everyone is a mole.
However, Arakawa Buntais did not reply in the end, which probably chilled the hearts of these insiders. In the end, Tsugumo Shinji coerced him into joining the riot.
Arakawa Buntai adjusted his sitting posture: "If you have any other questions you want to ask, let's talk about it together. We won't have this opportunity next time."
Xu Cheng winked at Qiu Gongyue and told her to ask quickly.
Qiu Gongyue said: "I have two more questions. First, why do you push me to be the opposite of all killers?"
Arakawa Buntais' several actions deliberately pushed Akimiya Yue to the opposite side of the other killers, making her bear the hatred of the killers. She cared about this very much.
"Whether I push you or not, you are always on the opposite side of all killers, and this will not change."
Arakawa Buntai felt no guilt: "I just pushed you out to attract your attention briefly so that I could have time to plan."
Akimiya Yue resisted the urge to blow his head off with a punch: "Second question, where did Indo Rika go?"
She didn't believe that her best friend Rika Indo was sent to perform some secret mission.
"I did deceive you about this."
Seeing that he could no longer hide it, Arakawa Buntai could only confess: "Headquarters sent people to Japan to investigate the whereabouts of the Assassin inheritance, and asked me to send a few people to assist. I sent Rika Yinto and two other three-star killers, but they were all on task. Disappeared in the process.”
"asshole!"
Akimiya Yue grabbed Arakawa Buntais collar with one hand and said angrily: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
If she had known about it earlier, she would have gone back to look for it instead of waiting until now.
"Headquarters asked me to keep it secret. How could I tell you?"
Arakawa Buntai's tone was very cold: "And you have been missing for so long. You know what this means."
If the killer is missing for more than a week while performing his mission, 99% of them are already dead, not to mention that Indo Rika has been missing for several months.
Akimiya Yue let go of Arakawa Buntaishi's collar and asked in a daze: "Where did you disappear?"
"Slabs."
Arakawa Buntai straightened the messed up collar: "I have sent people to check it a long time ago, but no clues were found."
Qiu Miyazuki didn't say a word and seemed to be in self-blame. If she had received the express delivery from Yin Teng Rika, she would have taken action immediately, maybe it would not have taken so long.
Arakawa Buntai looked at Xu Cheng again, seeming to ask you what you want to ask?
He has now become a ruthless human answering machine.
Xu Cheng really has a question: "Do you know the information about the Protectorate?"
"Have you forgotten the Assassin's Code I taught you?"
Arakawa Buntais returned to being a serious and old-fashioned instructor: "You are not allowed to inquire about the employer's information, and my understanding of the Protectorate is quite limited. I only know that it is a right-wing mysterious association that once kept three artifacts for the royal family, but they were later lost. ”
Xu Cheng frowned slightly. No wonder the resistance army was so interested in the eight-foot magatama. It turned out that the three artifacts were once lost in the hands of the Protectorate.
The Protectorate Council probably didn't know that the Eight Chi Mirrors were in Tsugumo Shinji's body, otherwise they wouldn't have cooperated with him.
Seeing that Xu Cheng and Akimiya Yue seemed to have no problem, Arakawa Buntai stood up and said: "I will report the matter here to the headquarters and wait for it to be dealt with. I will also report your credit for stopping the riot. No accident, next year You can become candidates."
Xu Cheng had no interest in becoming a candidate at all, and just when he was about to refuse, he heard Arakawa Buntais say: "Don't be too busy refusing, I don't know how you learned the fourth level, but don't you want to go to the headquarters to learn the fifth level? "
Xu Cheng suddenly had no objection. Although the manager could be pushed to the fifth level, with its profiteer attitude, it might be possible for him to be hollowed out in one go.
If you can learn the fifth-level breathing method at the headquarters of the Dead, you can at least save a lot of mission points.
After separating from Arakawa Buntai, Xu Cheng and Akimiya Yue were on their way back.
Xu Cheng was thinking about the three artifacts when he suddenly heard Akimiya Yue's voice: "Do you believe Arakawa Buntais' words?"
Xu Cheng subconsciously replied: "The most you can believe is a little, no more."
Although Arakawa Buntasu's explanation had a beginning and a finish, and there were text messages as evidence, it was outrageous for him to portray himself as a white lotus who wanted to get rid of the black sheep but unfortunately failed due to external forces.
"Five Dynasties Rivers, Mountains and Winds"
He must have concealed a lot of details and true purpose.
But Xu Cheng and Akimiya Yue were unable to defeat him. Xu Cheng was now in a weak state and had very little fighting power. He was unable to defeat Arakawa Buntais, who had the fourth level of breathing technique.
Qiu Gongyue also nodded: "Yes, we can only believe a little of his words. We still need to remain vigilant."
Xu Cheng was surprised and said, "Are you not sad anymore?"
"Nothing to be sad about."
Qiu Gongyue said calmly; "We are all killers, and we have been aware of death for a long time. It is nothing more than dying early or dying late."
Of course, if given the chance, she would still investigate the disappearance of Indo Rika.
Xu Cheng turned to look at her calm side face and suddenly asked: "If I die, won't you be sad?"
Qiu Gongyue paused for a moment, then continued to move forward.
"If you are going to die, then I probably won't live long. If we die together, there's nothing to be sad about."
