The 10 people who were left behind by Kamino to cut off the backs all had pretty good skills, and judging from their movements, it seemed that they had been specially trained on how to cut off the backs for others.
They didn't take the initiative to attack, they just held their swords, defended and dodged, blocking Qingdeng and others.
Qingto didn't want to just let this big fish like Kamino slip away from his eyes.
But facing this group of enemies who had set up a turtle formation to cut off the rear, Qingden and the others had no way to win quickly. Even if they wanted to chase Kamino and the others, they were unable to do so.
After working with Saito, Nagakura and others to cut down four of them, this "back-breaking force" began to retreat out of the corridor and out of the transfer station.
Judging from the results of the battle, it was Qingdeng and the others who defeated this rear-breaking force.
But judging from the goals of both sides, it was this rear-cutting force that won. They successfully blocked Qingto and his party, buying time for Kamino and others to retreat.
At this time, all the large forces of the anti-barbarian group headed by Shenye had withdrawn from the Fanshu Adjustment Center.
As soon as they retreated to the street outside the gate of the training center, Kamino heard dense footsteps coming from the west side of the street.
Through the faint moonlight, Kamino could vaguely make out: at the west side of the street, a large number of officials from the execution office were running towards them.
Coincidentally, the person leading this group of reinforcements was Qingto's immediate superior: Arima.
Arima holds the handle in his ten hands, charging forward with great momentum. Although he is not good at martial arts, when it comes to courage, he will not lose to anyone in the Edo South or North Administrative Office.
Kamino gritted his teeth, and then ordered his subordinates to divide into several groups and scatter away.
Before escaping, Kamino did not forget to instruct his subordinates to set a fire - so much fire oil was poured into Fanshu Diao House, but it could not go to waste.
Bear!
A fire breaks out.
A small half of the Fanshu Diao Institute was instantly surrounded and devoured by fire.
Under the illumination of the fire, Kamino and others and the officers of the execution office started a cat-and-mouse chase...
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Qingden also participated in the hunt for Kamino and the others.
The two talents of "leading the way" and "strengthening muscles" are a match made in heaven.
The talent effect of "Strengthening Muscles" of "Muscles are not easily fatigued" allows Qingden to sprint continuously at his top speed for a long period of time.
In short: Qingden is very good at chasing people now.
He led Saito and others, and coordinated with Arima and others who arrived, to pursue the escaping Kamino.
The "strong muscles" and "leading the way" that can cooperate with each other allowed Qingdeng to successfully catch many people with his own hands.
But no matter what, the people of the anti-barbarian group dispersed and escaped...
They scattered in all directions and dived into the complicated streets like fish into the sea, making it extremely difficult for Qingdeng and the others to catch them.
Often after following someone and turning around an alley, I suddenly find that the person has disappeared. Even if I climb to a higher place, I can't find where the person went.
Although some guys who were slow or unlucky were successfully caught, these guys caught by the officials seemed to be just ordinary pawns, and they were unable to catch the most important Kamino...
In desperation, Arima had to ask the execution office for instructions to send more manpower.
Although the manpower of the execution office was already very tight, Bojing and Atsukawa, who were not willing to let the leader of the anti-barbarian group escape, still forced some people to come over, preparing to increase the intensity of the search.
At the same time, Aoto and Arima received an order - Hakui is now going to the Fanshu Adjustment Institute in person and is preparing to personally check the current situation of the Fanshu Adjustment Station that was attacked. He asked Qingto and Arima to temporarily stop attacking Kamino. After the arrest, he immediately returned to the Fanshu Adjustment Institute.
Now that the order had been received, Qingteng had no choice but to lead Saito and the others, dragging their slightly tired bodies with Arima back to the now quite dilapidated Fanshu Adjustment Institute.
Because the fire was put out in time, the Fanshu Adjustment Center was not seriously damaged by the fire set by Kamino and others before they left. Only a small part of the building was scorched by the flames.
The Fanshu Adjustment Center, which is still smelling of burnt smoke and thin smoke, is noisy.
Officials from the execution office and the town fire department gathered around the Fanshu transfer office, each performing their duties.
Firefighters from the town checked to see if there were any fires that had not been extinguished.
The people from the execution center transported out one after another the bodies of innocent people who were unfortunately murdered by the anti-barbarian group tonight.
Qingden saw Katsurin Taro - he was sitting in a corner of the training center with the other survivors with a tired expression, accepting questions from the officers of the training center.
"Tachibana-kun!"
Bo Jing's voice suddenly reached Qingdeng's ears.
Looking past the sound, at the gate of the transfer station, it seemed that Bojing had just arrived. He took the initiative to greet Qingdeng who had returned, taking three steps at a time.
Along with Bo Jing, there were some official officials behind him who faced Qing Den.
"Master Bojing." Qingdeng bowed to Bojing and the others in a polite manner.
"Tachibana-kun..." Bojing walked up to Qingteng and looked at Qingteng repeatedly with an expression mixed with complex emotions such as excitement, happiness, and surprise.
His lips moved, as if he wanted to say something to Qingden.
After considering his words for a long time, he finally sighed:
"It's been really hard on you tonight."
"Thank you for discovering the traces of the anti-barbarian group in time..."
"Well done!"
Bo Jing raised his hands and patted Qingden's shoulders affectionately several times.
Time goes back to just now - the fires that suddenly broke out in various places in Edo inevitably caused confusion among the officials at the execution office.
The people who poured into the streets to escape the fire and fled to safety areas seriously affected the monitoring of various places in Edo by the officials.
The subordinates' requests for instructions reached Beibansuo like pieces of paper: What should we do now? Are you going to continue to monitor the movements of the anti-barbarian group? Or should we terminate the operation and help people escape from the fire?
While Hakui and Atsukawa were struggling, a servant from their own division suddenly came to the North Division in a hurry.
He said that he was sent by Ju Qingdeng and had important information to report: the Tibetan Book Review Institute was being attacked by a large number of unknown persons! And these unknown people are suspected to be the anti-barbarian group! Request additional reinforcements to rush to Fanshu Adjustment Station!
Although the fire situation is critical, controlling the fire situation is not their job after all.
In the final analysis, their first goal tonight is to track down the anti-barbarian group!
Therefore, after hearing the information reported by this member of the army, Bo Jing and others were shocked at first, and then responded quickly: they immediately dispatched all the troops they could to the Fanshu transfer station.
Under Bo Jing's order, Arima led a large force to the Fanshu Adjustment Center - this is a story later.
He discovered the traces of the anti-barbarian group in time, and bravely rushed forward to fight with the people of the anti-barbarian group, saving many people led by Katsu Rintaro, and won a lot of support for the arrival of the large army of the envoy. Time... For a moment, Bo Jing couldn't think of what words or sentences to use to praise Qingdeng's achievements tonight.
Bojing was praising him happily - but Qingden's face did not show any joy.
"Thanks to me for discovering the traces of the anti-barbarian group in time..." Qingdeng softly repeated the praise Bo Jing gave him just now, and smiled bitterly, "Lord Bo Jing, the person who discovered the traces of the anti-barbarian group in time... It’s not me.”
"Huh?" Bo Jing opened his eyes.
There were horses and others beside him who all looked surprised at this time.
"Didn't you discover the anti-barbarian group?" Bo Jing blinked hard twice, "Then how did you find out that the people from the anti-barbarian group were attacking the Tibetan Book Transfer Center?"
"That's because..." Qingdeng said this and paused.
He pursed his lips, and after a moment, he continued with a strange expression:
"That's because Mao Xiaoseng reported to me."
"Cat Monk?!" Bo Jing, who doubted whether he heard correctly, opened his eyes even wider, and subconsciously turned his body to the side to keep his left ear away. Qingden is closer.
After all, it is impossible to conceal or deceive this matter.
Since we have always wanted to tell the truth, let’s just tell the truth now.
Qingdeng tidied up his words and then cleared his throat——
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Time goes back to when Aonto and the others were still at the fire scene in Kenmachi——
"Tachibana Aoden! Catch it!"
The gender-neutral voice that sounded from behind Qingdeng instantly attracted the attention of everyone around him.
Qingden, who was also shocked, turned around quickly, and then raised his gaze in the direction of the neutral voice.
I saw a petite figure standing in a shop behind him.
He was dressed in black, with a black turban and faceband on his head, slightly loose black clothes and black hakama, and black gloves and black footbags on his hands and feet. The only exposed part of his body was his eyes.
Looking at this guy standing on the roof, whose clothing looked suspicious, Nagakura, Harada, and Toudo looked solemn, and quickly pulled out and raised their weapons.
The surrounding town fire police officers were looking at this mysterious man with different expressions.
Only Aoto and Saito had strange expressions.
Qingdeng recognized this person...
He just met this person not long ago... and copied a strange talent from this person.
"Cat Monk...?" Qingden called this person's name softly at a volume that only he could hear clearly.
The man in black who suddenly appeared was the big monster thief: the cat monk.
Before Qingdeng could be surprised that the cat monk suddenly appeared at this time, he saw the cat monk suddenly raised his right hand and threw something at Qingdeng in full view of everyone.
Things like this hit the muddy ground at Qingdeng's feet, sprinkling mud at intervals.
Qingden took a closer look - such an object turned out to be a paper ball wrapped with something hard.
Mao Xiaoseng used his neutral voice and shouted to Qingdeng again: "Look at that piece of paper! Fan Shu Tiao is in danger!"
After shouting these words, the cat monk turned around without looking back, jumped into the invisible darkness behind the shop.
Nagakura and the others subconsciously wanted to chase them, but were stopped by Qingden's shout.
"Stop chasing him! That man is Cat Monk, you can't catch him!"
When he first met the cat monk, Qing Deng still remembers the speed he showed and his dexterity in moving across complex terrain such as rooftops and narrow alleys.
Chasing the Neko-monk in the streets of Edo... They might even break their legs and not be able to catch up.
"Cat Monk?" Harada's eyes bulged, then he raised his head and looked in the direction where the Cat Monk disappeared.
Nagakura and Toudo, who had also met the famous phantom thief for the first time, were now looking at the direction where the cat monk left with curious and astonished eyes like Harada.
——Fan Shu tunes out all the dangers...?
While Qingdeng was chewing the words Mao Xiaoseng just shouted in his heart, he bent down and picked up the paper ball that Mao Xiaoseng had just thrown at his feet.
There was an ordinary stone wrapped in this piece of paper - probably it was wrapped in a heavy object so that it could be easily thrown at Qingdeng's feet.
Qingden threw the stone aside and unfolded the paper.
Saito and the others gathered around at this time, and followed Qingto to check what was written on the paper.
I saw only one sentence written in extremely correct handwriting on this piece of paper:
[A group of unknown people are attacking the Fanshu Adjustment Center. The number of attackers should be around sixty or seventy]
"The Fanshu Adjustment Center...is being attacked?" Teng Tang looked in disbelief.
Nagakura and Harada, who were standing side by side, looked at each other - both of them had confused expressions on their faces.
The famous monster thief suddenly appeared and informed them of "all the dangers of Fanshu Diao"... Their brains were a bit unable to understand what was going on...
Even Saito, who was always expressionless, was now frowning slightly.
Invariably, they all focused their attention on Qingdeng.
Qingdeng, who was still looking at the line of writing on the paper, now frowned.
The fog that is currently entangled in Qingto's mind is no less than that of Saito and the others...
There were so many questions that Qingdeng didn't know where to start thinking.
"Mr. Tachibana..." Harada put his spear on his shoulder, "Now... what should we do?"
Nagakura took over the conversation: "Do you want to believe...that little cat monk?"
Qingdeng thought for a moment, then let out a long breath, solemnly folded the paper in his hand and put it into his arms: "...Let's go. Let's go to the Fanshu Diao Institute."
"Mr. Tachibana," Todo said in astonishment, "Do we want to believe that little cat monk?"
"...Try your luck." Qingden said solemnly, "I just don't know what to do right now."
"The attack on Fanshu Diao...is really not an impossible thing."
"I would rather believe it than not. And...I really can't think of any reason why Mao Xiaoseng would tell me false information without any reason."
"Anyway, even if the trip to Fanshu Adjustment Center is in vain, we won't lose much."
"Let's go!"
Now that Ayoto has spoken, Saito and the others can only obey.
A group of people hurried away from the fire scene.
As soon as they left the raging waves of fire behind, they suddenly bumped into a young man dressed as a member of their own army.
"Ah! Lord Tachibana?" The young servant greeted Qingden in surprise after seeing him.
This place is one of the patrol areas that Qingteng is responsible for on weekdays, so most of the people in this area recognize Qingteng.
This servant was carrying a big hammer... Judging from his appearance, he probably wanted to go to the fire scene in Kagi-machi to help demolish the houses around the fire scene and prevent the spread of the fire.
In Edo, where fires occurred frequently, there was never a shortage of brave warriors who had the courage to work with the town fire department to put out fires when fires broke out.
After Qingdeng glanced at this brave servant, he waved to him: "What's your name?"
"Me? My name is Jiuzaburo!"
"Jiuzaburo, come with me."
"Huh? Is...what's wrong?"
"Don't ask so many questions yet, just follow me."
"Okay, okay!"
Jiuzaburo, who was confused, followed Qingdeng towards the Fanshu Diao Institute.
As a group of people hurriedly hurriedly hurriedly, soon, the huge shadow of Fanshu Diao Institute gradually appeared in Qingdeng's eyes.
What also appeared in Qingdeng's eyes... were the black shadows outside the training center.
Qingdeng, who had the night vision provided by the "cat's eye", clearly saw several corpses lying in a mess at the gate of the transfer station.
These corpses were all very familiar to Qingdeng - when they were patrolling outside the gate of the Fanshu Adjustment Institute tonight, they could see these guards guarding the gate of the transfer station dutifully...
Although Saito and the others did not have the same night vision ability as Aonto, with the slight amount of moonlight, they could barely see clearly the figures of the members of the anti-barbarian team swarming outside the police station.
I saw Saito and others looking at the Fanshu Adjustment Center that was actually being attacked, with expressions of astonishment on their faces.
"This, this is...?!" Jiuzaburo, who was forcibly pulled over by Qingden, was dumbfounded at the moment, staring blankly at Fanshu Diaosuo, which was being surrounded by the anti-barbarian group.
At first, Qingdeng was stunned because "Mao Xiaoseng's information was actually correct," but he quickly regained his composure.
"...Shusaburo." Qingdeng said to Shusaburo in a deep voice, "Rush to the Beifan Institute now, find Mr. Bojing, and tell him: The Fanshu Diao Institute is suffering from a large number of unknown people who are suspected to be the anti-barbarian group. Attack, please send reinforcements immediately!"
This Jiuzaburo is also a very smart and eye-catching person.
After hearing Qingto's order, he was stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted: "Yes, yes! I'm going to Beifansuo now!"
After saying that, Jiuzaburo threw aside the big mallet he had been carrying on his shoulder, lifted up the hem of his hakama, and ran towards the direction of Beibansho as fast as a spark of fire.
After Jiuzaburo left, Qingdeng turned his attention back to the Fanshu Adjustment Institute in the distance——
"……Ready to fight."
While issuing attack orders to his subordinates in a calm tone, Qingto straightened the Dingguishen around his waist.
Harada blinked hard at Aoto: "Mr. Tachibana, we...are just going to attack with just a few people? Why don't we wait for the reinforcements from the execution center first?"
"There may be survivors in the Fanshu Diao Institute now." Qingdeng said calmly, "If we just wait so eagerly for the reinforcements from the Administrative Institute to arrive, then the only survivors in the Diao Institute may even have cold bodies. ”
"Attack now, maybe we can save a few people."
"and--"
Having said this, Qingden changed into a joking tone.
"If we, the officials with the important mission of 'protecting Edo', don't rush forward immediately when we see the enemies who are destroying Edo, we may be impeached in the future."
After hearing this, Harada grinned and said with a naive smile: "Okay, you are our leader now, and you will do what you say you want to do."
"Shall we attack directly without waiting for reinforcements... Haha, that sounds very exciting!" Nagakura smiled expectantly and excitedly, gearing up.
Todo, who was young and had not seen much of the world, looked nervous, but there was no shrinking look on his cheeks.
Saito was as calm as ever - he just silently drew his sword in his hand.
Looking at his subordinates who showed no intention of retreating, Qingdeng's lips curled up slightly.
"In that case, you all have to follow me closely!"
He threw his upper body, Yu Zhi, and led the crowd, like a tiger down the mountain, straight towards the battlefield in the distance.
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After listening to Aonto's story, Hakui and Arima all showed the same expression - dumbfounded, clay sculptures and wood carvings.
After a long while, Bo Jing's consciousness finally returned to reality.
"Ji Jun, what you said...is all true?" he asked with a slight stumble.
"Of course it's true." Qingdeng took out the piece of paper that Cat Xiao Monk threw to him from his arms and that he had kept carefully. "This is the piece of paper that Cat Xiao Monk threw to me."
"Then my subordinates, as well as the officers of the town fire department who were also present at the time, can also testify that what I said is not false."
Hakui took the piece of paper handed over by Qingteng, spread it out and looked at it carefully.
After Bo Jing cast his eyes on this piece of paper with only a simple sentence written on it, his expression further became weird and complicated.
"This little cat monk... what does he mean?" Bo Jing murmured, "How did he know that the Fanshu Diao Institute was under attack...? And why did he want to tell us this information...?"
"Maybe it was a moment of kindness." Qingden joked.
These questions... I'm afraid you have to ask Mao Xiaoseng himself to know the reason.
Bo Jing was still holding the piece of paper, thinking.
At this time, a slightly urgent call sounded from behind Qingdeng:
"Tachibana-kun, Tachibana-kun!"
Qingdeng turned around in confusion and saw a temporary Hui Tongxin whom he was not very familiar with striding towards him.
This temporary returnee was one of the reinforcements brought over by Bo Jing. This person, under Bo Jing's order, led his troops to clean up the messy training center.
"What's wrong?" Qingdeng asked.
"Someone wants to see you." He temporarily straightened his right thumb and gestured backwards, "What do you say? Are you free now? Do you want to meet that person?"
"Does anyone want to see me?" Qingdeng looked over the senior's shoulder and behind him.
Behind him... stood a middle-aged man with a strong look of fatigue on his face, but his waist was always straight.
It’s Katsurin Taro.
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