Shu Guan wore a blue cleaner's uniform, a dust-proof face towel on his face, and a mop bucket in his hand. He walked into an office in the consulate building of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun in Shanghai and started cleaning seriously.
This was his second day as a cleaning staff member of the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun, and also his twelfth day in Shanghai.
Twelve days ago, Shu Guan came to Shencheng, thinking about how to enter the consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun and find traces of Yuan Yingzi.
It is definitely not possible to sneak in using Taoism. His true state is just a practitioner in the realm of first knowledge. Once he uses Taoism, he will be easily discovered by the practitioners in the consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun.
But then he found several recruitment brochures from the consulate posted at the back door of the consulate.
Shu Guan immediately decided to enter the consulate as an ordinary person. With the secret breath gathering technique he learned in the underground cave of Huan Temple, no one would know that he was a practitioner as long as he did not use his spiritual power.
Among those recruitment brochures, Shu Guan finally chose to apply for a job as a cleaner at the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun.
In fact, he had no choice, because only cleaning workers were allowed to apply for the job. Other job types, such as ordinary clerks and even kitchen chefs, required expats from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun in Shanghai.
However, his status as a cleaner is quite convenient if he wants to investigate some things in the consulate.
It's just that although Shu Guan thought of a way, he waited for another ten days in the Oriental Hotel before finally getting the chance.
Because of the war, although these recruitment brochures were posted more than a month ago, the recruitment was delayed because of the war.
It wasn't until the war ended, Dahua and Xuri reached an agreement, Shanghai returned to its pre-war status quo, and life returned to normal, that the consulate resumed recruiting workers.
Shuguan's application process went smoothly because he had no competitors at all.
Expatriates from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun were basically unwilling to take on such hard and low-level jobs as cleaning workers, so the original recruitment brochure relaxed the recruitment conditions to allow Chinese to apply.
Unexpectedly, on the day of recruitment, Shu Guan was the only Chinese person who applied for a job as a cleaner.
This is an unexpected but reasonable thing.
The two *** teams just had such a big battle in Shanghai. No Chinese with any sense of integrity would come to apply for a job at the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun.
Judging from this matter, the Shencheng people of Dahua, even those at the lowest level, are very courageous, because the wages paid by the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun are quite acceptable for jobs of the same level. .
Even the staff member in charge of recruitment looked at Shu Guan with undisguised contempt.
In short, without any competition, Shu Guan became a cleaning staff member of the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun.
Of course, this has to go through some assessments. For example, the Chinese who apply for the job must provide a medical certificate showing that they do not have any infectious diseases, as well as a local residence registration in Shanghai.
However, it is not too difficult to fake these things, especially for a practitioner.
Hui Xu said that because the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun was in a hurry to recruit people, it did not do more verification and investigation than the certificates provided by Shu Guan.
After all, it’s just a job to hire a cleaner.
The consulate staff in charge of recruitment just asked a question.
"Do you know Xuri Mandarin?"
The consulate staff asked this question in Xuri Mandarin.
Xiaoyi completed the translation simultaneously in Shuguan's mind, and now Xiaoyi has completely mastered the language.
But Shu Guan's face showed a blank expression, as if he didn't understand what the consulate staff was saying.
So the staff member had a look of satisfaction in his eyes, and then, speaking in blunt Mandarin, he told Shu Guan that he had been hired.
Today is Shuguan’s second day at work.
The best thing about the job of a cleaner is that you can
Enter any corner of the consulate in a fair manner.
As for whether he would be recognized by Minamoto Sakurako who knew him when he entered the consulate with his original appearance, if Minamoto Sakurako was really in the consulate.
This isn't really a problem.
Shu Guan originally came to see Yuan Yingzi. If there was a chance to meet face to face, there was no need to disguise his identity. He could just go up and fuck the Princess of the Rising Sun Kingdom.
The only thing Shu Guan was worried about was whether he could strike out with the sword at the foot of Snake Mountain when he met Yuan Yingzi.
Of course, Yuan Yingzi is definitely not as strong as she was when she was in Jingcheng.
After all, her original physical body had been destroyed by Shu Guan. Even if the Black Dragon Society could help her regain her body, her strength would have dropped significantly.
Shu Guan is currently not even sure whether Yuan Yingzi is in Shanghai or not. He pretended to enter the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun, mainly to find clues about Yuan Yingzi's whereabouts.
…
After cleaning one room, Shu Guan went out with a bucket, broom and mop and walked to another room. On the passage, he met several consulate staff members in suits. The staff members walked over talking in Xuri Mandarin.
Shu Guan held a bucket and mop and leaned against the wall to get out of the way. Several staff members passed by him, still talking to themselves without looking at Shu Guan, as if they regarded Shu Guan as a ball of air.
The content of their conversation also reached Shuguan's ears. With Xiaoyi's simultaneous translation, the content of their conversation became clear.
What these staff members are talking about at this time is a very important confidential matter. If there are intelligence personnel from the Republic of China here at this time, they may be extremely excited by what they hear.
But for Shu Guan, he had no interest in what these staff members talked about, and he also knew very well that it was impossible for him to get what he wanted to know from these ordinary people.
Shu Guan came to work at the consulate at three o'clock in the morning. At eight o'clock in the morning, Shu Guan finally finished cleaning the entire five-story building of the consulate. At this time, the staff of the consulate came to work one after another.
Because he was the only one who applied for the job the day before yesterday, there was not enough manpower to be recruited. Currently, there is only one cleaning staff in the consulate. Shu Guan is responsible for the cleaning work of the entire building alone, while the other two cleaning staff are responsible for other areas.
The Consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun occupies a large area. In addition to the five-story office building, there is also a garden-style residential area behind it.
When Shu Guan came out of the office building, he glanced at the garden-style residential area behind.
No one can enter that residential area except the Consul.
Except for the cleaners, of course.
However, the cleaners inside are also expatriates from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun, and Shuguan is not allowed to enter.
And Shu Guan was standing outside the garden at this time, and he could also feel the fluctuations of spiritual power coming from there from time to time.
At this moment, two men and women, both in their forties and wearing cleaning uniforms, came from a distance. They were also talking in Rising Sun Mandarin and walking toward the residential area at the back.
Shu Guan bent slightly towards the woman with a somewhat mean and serious face.
This woman named Haruko is the consul responsible for the cleaning staff in the consulate. She is responsible for directing and arranging the work of the cleaning staff. Yesterday, it was she who led Shu Guan to explain those places in the office building and those rooms that must be kept extremely clean. .
At this time, Na Qingzi looked at Shu Guan coldly, and said with a condescending look on her face:
"Has everything been cleaned up?"
"Yes."
"I will check again later. If I find anything missing, you will not come to work tomorrow."
Half an hour later, Shu Guan walked around the office building with Qingzi. Qingzi didn't find anything she was dissatisfied with, so she waved Shu Guan to wait in the lounge with an extremely arrogant attitude.
Shu Guan can't get off work yet, and has to be here at all times. For example, if a staff member spills a cup of coffee, or if the entire building is full of food after lunch,
He needs to clean up all the kitchen waste.
He could not leave until all the staff got off work, and then in the early morning of the next day, he had to rush to clean up the building before the staff went to work.
This is really a hard job, no wonder no expats from the Land of the Rising Sun apply for it.
Shu Guan thought so boredly while waiting in the lounge.
So he wasn't really going to pretend to be this identity here for too long.
That night, Shu Guan went to Haruko's home after get off work and used the dream technique to enter Haruko's dream. He carefully looked through Haruko's memories and confirmed that there were some very special people living in the residential area behind the consulate. people.
However, he did not see the person he wanted to see in Haruko's dream.
After leaving Qingzi's house, Shu Guan went to another cleaner's house, but he also didn't gain much.
Among the three mortals who were able to enter the garden behind the consulate, he had already spied on the dreams of two of them.
As for the third person, the consul of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun in Shanghai, he will definitely know many secrets, but Shu Guan cannot observe his dreams.
Because Shu Guan had already met the consul today. The consul had a small cherry blossom badge on his chest, and the badge exuded gentle fluctuations of spiritual energy.
He was no stranger to the Sakura Emblem Bundle. He had seen it when he was in Jing City. It was a magic weapon used by the Black Dragon Society to ensure that the mortal members of the society would not be deliberately approached by practitioners.
There was no surprise for Shu Guan. A big shot like the consul would definitely be protected by some Taoist means.
…
On the second day, Shu Guan successfully entered the garden behind the consulate.
Because the other male cleaner suddenly developed a high fever late last night and was too sick to get out of bed.
So Qingzi could only ask Shu Guan to go in temporarily to help.
And her attitude towards Shu Guan seemed to have changed a lot overnight and she became very kind.
Last night, Shu Guan went to find these two cleaners, and he didn't just use the dream spell to read their memories.
He made the male janitor seriously ill.
As for Haruko, when he entered Haruko's dream, he said a few words to Haruko's despair.
The content of those few sentences was roughly to ask Haruko to let her take his place in the garden area behind the consulate when another cleaning worker was sick, and to obey her.
This is equivalent to implanting these two things into Haruko's subconscious.
So the way Haruko looked at him today was no longer arrogant or condescending, but like a loyal dog looking at its master.
Qingzi led Shu Guan into the garden.
Within the garden, there are small wooden buildings located one after another. They are all wooden buildings with a strong Rising Sun style. There are lawns, pools, and rockeries between the wooden buildings. The scenery is beautiful and quiet.
At this time, you can see people from the Rising Sun country in twos and threes wearing kimonos sitting on the lawn and by the pool, both men and women, either making tea, playing chess, or admiring flowers, and chatting from time to time.
These people are all practitioners!
Most of the practitioners are in the first awareness stage, there are seven or eight fetal movement stages, and there are also many in the Qi-entraining stage.
When Shu Guan saw these people, he knew their identities. Although the Jie people were now wearing casual clothes and had calm and indifferent expressions, they still could not hide the bloody smell on their bodies and the cruelty and coldness in their bones.
These are men in black.
Or to use the title in the Black Dragon Club, he is a member of the Ninja Killing Team.
Shu Guan was sure that he was not wrong, because he had dealt with these people too many times, and many people in black had died under his hands. Shu Guan knew that unique aura as soon as he came into contact with it.
"Shu Sang, please be gentle when you work later, so as not to disturb these adults."
Haruko smiled flatteringly at him and gave him a kind reminder.
Shu Guandan nodded.
Now
When he was alone with this woman from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun, he no longer needed to be polite.
…
"Tell me, who shot the arrow that was shot out of the river that day?"
"Even Master Naito was shot to death by that iron arrow. He must be at least a powerful person at the peak of Nascent Soul!"
"No, no, no, according to Lord Capone's report afterwards, the person who really killed Lord Naito was actually Qingfeng Lao Dao from the Seven Immortals Alliance."
Beside the pool, three men in kimono were drinking tea and chatting. These three people were all powerful in the Fetal Movement Realm, and they were the three strongest people in the field.
Not far away from them, Shu Guan was holding a broom and silently sweeping the fallen leaves beside the pool.
"come here."
At this time, one of the men in kimono with a long and narrow face suddenly pointed towards Shu Guan.
Shu Guan seemed not to hear, and continued to sweep the fallen leaves.
It wasn't until the kimono man shouted twice more that Shu Guan stopped moving and looked at the kimono man with a blank expression, as if he didn't understand what the kimono man was saying.
The man in the kimono frowned, pointed to a white towel hanging by the pool, and motioned for Shu Guan to take it for him.
It wasn't until he signaled twice that Shu Guan seemed to understand. After saying "Ah," he picked up the white towel and walked over.
The man in kimono impatiently took the white towel from Shu Guan's hand, wiped away a trace of tea stains from the corner of his mouth, and then continued to talk to his companion:
"My team has actually spent more than ten days investigating this matter. The only clue we got is that the person who shot the arrow should be a young man. That young man is also related to the dragon that transcended the thunder tribulation. .”
"Young man? He's not an immortal from the Seven Immortals Alliance, is he?"
"It's very possible! Otherwise, how could he cooperate so well with Qingfeng Lao Dao? The two of them worked together to kill Naito-sama."
The three of them continued their heated discussion.
Shu Guan continued to sweep the fallen leaves around them.
"This matter has been reported to Her Highness the Princess, but I don't know why she hasn't responded yet."
"Her Royal Highness is secretly carrying out a particularly important mission. She probably has no time to take care of this matter. By the way, Her Royal Highness has not been back here for a long time."
[In view of the general environment,
"How long will that mission take?"
"When the princess came back last time, I heard from the people next to her that it would take at least half a year, but Her Royal Highness has actually been in Shencheng the whole time."
The sound of conversation on the side floated into my ears.
Shu Guan's sweeping hand suddenly paused slightly, and then continued as if nothing had happened.
An hour later, Shu Guan followed the fallen leaves on the road and came to the deepest part of the garden. The winding cobblestone path ended here. At the end there was a very elegant small building, surrounded by It is full of cherry blossom trees, but there are no other houses.
Shu Guan walked towards the small building with a broom in hand.
At this time, Qingzi ran over from a distance and shouted to him anxiously:
"Shu Sang, you can't."
"You are not allowed to enter this building. There are dedicated people responsible for cleaning it regularly. We cannot enter without permission."
Haruko ran up to him and explained respectfully.
Shu Guan groaned, looked left and right, then smiled and said:
"You must obey me and not stop me from doing anything."
These words were what he said to Qingzi in her dream last night, out of despair.
A look of confusion suddenly appeared on Haruko's face.
"I will obey Shu Sang and will not stop Shu Sang from doing anything."
Shu Guan smiled again.
The mental prison left behind in Fusaopo is simply impossible for mortals to break free on their own.
Then he turned around and walked into the small building, and Haruko followed him blankly.
Come in.
The moment Shu Guan walked into the small building, a familiar feeling came to his heart.
The layout inside the small building is extremely simple, but it can be easily seen that this should be a woman's residence. There is nothing like an ordinary woman's boudoir, but there are a lot of books and documents, pens, inks, papers and inkstones.
This style is very similar to the room of Yuan Yingzi that Shu Guan had sneaked into in Jingcheng.
The most important thing is that this room is filled with a special faint fragrance, which is exactly the same as the fragrance that Shu Guan had smelled in Yuan Yingzi's room.
Shu Guan was almost certain that the owner of this small building was that Yuan Yingzi.
However, he still turned around and asked Haruko
"Do you know who lives here?"
"have no idea."
Haruko shook her head and said:
"The owner of this small building rarely comes back. When she comes back, we, the cleaning staff, will no longer be able to enter the garden. At that time, there will be dedicated servants in charge of the entire garden."
"Haruko has never met the owner of this small building, but she vaguely heard the adults say that the owner of this small building seems to be a princess!"
No wonder no memory of Minamoto Sakurako was found in Haruko's dream yesterday.
A look of surprise flashed in Shu Guan's eyes.
"Do you know when the owner of this small building came back for the last time?"
"It was a month ago, and I haven't been back since then."
Shu Dian nodded.
Now, he had found the answer he needed to know.
Minamoto Sakurako is not dead.
She regained her body.
She is in Shanghai.
She should be planning another huge conspiracy.
She will not return to the consulate for the time being.
These are what Shu Guan and Qingzi said, as well as some inferences drawn from just listening to the conversation between the men in black.
He stayed in the small building, bowing his head and remaining silent for a few minutes.
Then, he walked to the short table on the side and slowly began to pour water and grind it.
"Shu Sang, what are you doing?"
Haruko looked at him confused and asked in horror.
She knew very well that tampering with things in this small building was a capital offense.
However, the mental shackles in her subconscious made her unable to stop Shu Guan's behavior.
Shu Guan didn't say anything. After polishing, he picked up the brush and dipped it in it. Then he came to the front wall of the small building and wrote three words:
I am coming!
To be honest, his calligraphy is actually terrible.
These three characters are also written crookedly, like three clumsy geese, but there is a dazzling sharpness between the strokes.
Because when he wrote these three words, Shu Guan was thinking about the sword he drew at the foot of Snake Mountain.
Therefore, these three words contain a hint of the sword's meaning.
If Minamoto Sakurako sees these three words, she should immediately know who wrote it!
I am coming!
Three words are a letter of challenge!
Shu Guan threw the pen away and turned around.
Behind him, Haruko covered her mouth and looked at him in horror.
Shu Guan raised his hand and flicked her forehead, and Qingzi fell softly to the ground.
Then Shu Guan walked out of the small building, walked along the path with his broom, and soon walked back to the small pool.
There are still many people gathering on the lawn and next to the small pool.
The man in kimono with a narrow face was still there. When he saw Shu Guan approaching, he raised the white towel in his hand and shouted:
"Come here, take it and wash it."
Shu Guan walked over and took the white towel. Lightning muffled his mouth and nose, then put one arm around his neck, and with a sudden twist, he unscrewed the kimono man's head.
At the same time, the end of the broom in the other hand stabbed hard into the chest of another man in kimono next to him.
"I shot your Naito-sama."
Shu Guan whispered this into the ear of the head whose eyes were still open in fear and whose soul had not yet dispersed.
Then, the peach wood sword flew out quietly from his sleeve.
In the garden, screams could be heard one after another.
Today, no one can escape here.
This is also a kind of cleaning, isn't it?
…
Ten minutes later, Shu Guan walked out of the gate of the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun in Shanghai, carrying a bloody peach wood sword and an ox-ear sharp knife.
Behind him were several soldiers of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun who had fainted on the ground, as well as many consulate staff who looked at him in horror.
Naturally, he did not kill these mortals.
But the garden had been washed clean by his blood, and no one was alive except that Haruko.
…
I am coming!
Three words, plus the lives of sixty-three Black Dragon Club members!
This is Shu Guanxia's letter of challenge to Yuan Yingzi.
It depends on whether the princess of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun dares to accept the challenge!
