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Chapter 183 The Salvation Team Arrives in London (Thanks to "Keyboard Master" for the generous donation)

[Black Chrysalis: Yes, Miss Ke, I will help investigate the underground bars in Westminster. We'll report back to each other as soon as we find any trace of "Red Light".]

Black Chrysalis had just sent the message when her right hand, which was holding the phone, suddenly paused.

At that moment, a series of faint noises suddenly came from the perspective of the main body in the mind. The main body's hearing returned, and the faint sounds of water and snoring entered the ears.

Black Chrysalis raised an eyebrow, thinking to herself, "Has the effects of the drug on my main body worn off? Although my eyelids are still a little hard to open, judging from the surrounding commotion, I should be on a ship..."

He raised his head and looked upside down at the Thames in London.

At that very moment, a small cargo ship was indeed seen parting the white waves on the Thames, slowly drifting in from a distance.

"It seems that my main body is on this ship. It looks like the Salvation Society is about to start taking action."

Thinking of this, the black pupa quickly synchronized its consciousness with its main body.

At the same time, inside the hold of that cargo ship in the distance.

Ji Minghuan slowly opened her eyes, and what came into view was an unfamiliar ceiling.

He touched himself and found that he was lying on a soft mat on the floor.

After a moment of stunned silence, he slowly turned his head and looked around. Through the cabin window, he could see the Thames River shimmering in the sunlight. The cargo ship moved along the river, rocking like a cradle inside, the wooden floor creaking and groaning.

Turning her gaze away from the window, Ji Minghuan's eyes settled on the interior of the cabin. Four other children from the Salvation Society lay on the floor around them.

Of the four, only Mario was awake; the others were still fast asleep on their respective mats.

Mario sat down against the wall, silently playing with his PSP. His dark circles were still very heavy; it seemed that even a sedative injection wouldn't save his sleep.

"Where am I?" Ji Minghuan threw back the covers and sat up.

"London."

Were we given tranquilizers last night?

“I think so,” Mario said.

Ji Minghuan subconsciously touched the collar around his neck. The indicator light was still "blue," which meant that he was still in a state where his "superpower had not yet awakened."

He breathed a sigh of relief and nudged Kong Youling's shoulder beside him: "Comrade Penguin, wake up."

Kong Youling slowly opened her eyelids, rubbed her white eyelashes, raised her head to look around, and was slightly stunned.

Ji Minghuan silently mouthed to her, "We've arrived in London."

After speaking, he and Kong Youling looked out the cabin window together. The first rays of morning sunlight streamed through the Thames into the dim cabin, illuminating their faces. Kong Youling stared blankly at the sun on the horizon, her light-sensitive eyes wide open.

The two faces were bathed in a warm halo, like groundhogs that had lived underground for a hundred years finally emerging from the ground and seeing the light of day again.

The white-haired girl stared blankly for a long time before turning to look at Ji Minghuan's face. He had been staring at her the whole time.

"It's been a long time since you've been in the sun, hasn't it?" Ji Minghuan touched the top of her head and asked silently.

"Ah."

She nodded vigorously, then picked up the notebook and pencil beside her pillow and wrote something in the notebook for him to see:
"The sun is so beautiful."

Upon seeing this, Ji Minghuan ruffled her hair forcefully, then said calmly, "Are you stupid? The sun is something we see every day, only you would think..." He suddenly paused, "Ah... why are you crying?"

Kong Youling was slightly taken aback, only then realizing that tears were welling up in her eyes and slowly sliding down her pale cheeks.

“Okay…the sun is quite beautiful.” Ji Minghuan shrugged, then looked up and gazed at the London sun with her. “But we’ll have plenty of opportunities to see more scenery in the future. It’s just the sun…don’t shed any tears.”

As he spoke, his eyes inexplicably reddened. "Oh no... I'm really embarrassing a dark elementary school student like myself. What am I doing with these lousy eyes? They must have gotten sand in them." He rubbed his eyes hard, trying to hold back the tears.

The two children huddled together, their gazes passing over the 325-meter-long Millennium Bridge, the sun on the horizon blurred by tears.

After a while, Ji Minghuan suddenly raised his hand and wiped away the tears on Kong Youling's face. Then he turned his head, cupped her face, and squeezed her pale face until it was round and plump.

“I told you, you’re not allowed to cry… We’re going to go to so many places in the future.” He stared into her eyes. “You can’t think that just being in the sun is good enough, good enough to make you cry. Absolutely not.”

In the sunlight, Kong Youling's lips curved into a slight smile as she gave him a smile, her tear-stained eyelids trembling like bird feathers.

“I didn’t really want to bother you, but I have to wake up the others. We’re not here to admire the scenery,” Mario paused, “we’re here to carry out a mission.”

"Shut up."

"Oh," Mario said dismissively.

"Can't you call out? Or do you not have a mouth?" Ji Minghuan released Kong Youling's cheek and looked up at Mario with a displeased expression. "You were clearly the first one to wake up among us."

“I don’t know them well,” Mario said expressionlessly. “If it weren’t for the mission, I wouldn’t be with you guys.”

The mission… Kong Youling looked at Mario's lips and then remembered that they were here to carry out a mission. So she rested her chin on her hand, thought for a while, and wrote something in her notebook for Ji Minghuan to see:

"What is the mission?"

“This has nothing to do with us,” Ji Minghuan said confidently. “It’s okay, Big Sister and Big Dog will handle it, and if all else fails, there’s always this console kid.”

He glanced down and saw that Kong Youling's collar was emitting a "green" indicator light, which meant that the Salvation Society had not unlocked her access to her superpowers.

It seems the Salvation never intended for the two of them to take action.

"Are they alright?" Kong Youling asked.

"It seems like nothing's wrong, just that his sleeping posture needs improvement." As he spoke, Ji Minghuan sat on the ground and casually glanced at Filio and Sun Changkong.

The two of them were sleeping like pigs, snoring loudly.

Ji Minghuan stood up, strode over, and forcefully pushed Sun Changkong, who was lying on the ground: "Big Sister! Big Sister—! Wake up! The base is on fire!"

"Shut up, shut up... Penguin monster, take this from me, Old Sun, with my stick..."

Sun Changkong smacked his lips, turned over, kicked off the blanket, and his long, dark red hair was scattered messily on the pillow.

"Time to wake up, boss!" Ji Minghuan shouted in her ear.

Sun Changkong was jolted awake from his dream. He sat up straight in bed with his bloodshot eyes wide open and stared blankly out the window.

She murmured, "Where is this..."

"This is London."

Ji Minghuan spoke softly, then leaned over and gently nudged Filio to wake him up: "You're awake, big dog. We still need you to bite that traffic light to death today."

Filio groaned and woke up, rubbing his eyes. His wolf ears and tail were drooping.

"Ji Minghuan, have we arrived in London?" he asked, yawning.

"Here we are."

"Wow! Why didn't you wake me up sooner? It's so embarrassing!" Sun Changkong's ears turned red as he looked at the pillow full of drool. He scratched his frizzy red hair and angrily showed his little tiger teeth.

"Who told you to sleep so soundly that your nose was running? I couldn't wake you up at all!" Ji Minghuan rolled her eyes at her.

Kong Youling sat on the ground, looking at the group, and smiled softly. "Oh right, before the ship reaches the shore, hurry up!" Ji Minghuan said, squatting down next to the puzzled Kong Youling, snatching the pencil from her hand, and then writing a line on the wall of the cabin.

Kong Youling looked up and saw that the wall read: "Ji Minghuan and Kong Youling were here."

After finishing writing, Ji Minghuan turned to meet Kong Youling's gaze: "Okay, this will be the first stop."

Kong Youling clapped her hands and said silently, "First stop!"

Sun Changkong stared at the two names on the wall, raised his fiery red eyebrows, and then leaned closer.

“I want to write too!” she said.

Ji Minghuan looked at her: "Can you write?"

Sun Changkong was taken aback: "I...I'm not very good at it, then Ji Minghuan, can you write it for me?"

"What are you doing?" Filio walked over sleepily, rubbing his eyes. His wolf tail dragged on the ground, and his hospital gown was a little loose.

Ji Minghuan pursed her lips and silently added Sun Changkong and Filio's names next to the previous line of text.

"Are you satisfied now?" he asked.

Sun Changkong put his hands on his hips and hummed, "Only that Cat Leo doesn't have a name."

Mario scoffed: "Boring."

At that moment, voices simultaneously came from the collars of the group: "In three minutes, the cargo ship will approach Westminster. Look at this map, the place marked with a red dot is the underground bar. That bar is called 'Eden,' and your mission objective, 'Red Light,' is there."

As soon as he finished speaking, a beam of light suddenly shot out from the metal collar around Ji Minghuan's neck, projecting a map onto the wall.

The children nearby marveled and looked at the projected map together.

"Hey, why do I look like a projector?" Ji Minghuan muttered, his face darkening as he looked up at the map.

A thought struck him: "This location is that underground bar in the east of Westminster... it's near Xia Pingzhou's hotel."

In that instant, he synchronized his consciousness with the first mecha, the black chrysalis.

The black pupa, hanging upside down below the parliament building, suddenly opened its eyes, took out its phone wrapped in restraints, and looked at the message it had received.

[Ke Qirui: "Yan Gui" will complete the gang's drug deal within the next hour, and he is "Red Light's" target.]

[Ke Qirui: We must find him in the three underground bars. "Red Light" is definitely hiding nearby, waiting for his chance. For safety, the four of us will work together, so we can't split up to search.]

[Ke Qirui: With Mr. Black Chrysalis's abilities, investigating the other two underground taverns shouldn't be difficult for us, right?]

The black chrysalis raised its hand to type and clicked send.
[Black Chrysalis: No need to look anymore.]

He received a reply to his message very quickly.

[Ke Qirui: So you've already found it?]

[Black Chrysalis: That's right, the traffic light is inside the "Eden" pub east of Westminster. You'd better hurry, you don't have much time left.]

After sending the message, Black Chrysalis wrapped the phone in the restraint straps.

This machine can only remain on top of the tower to observe the situation and cannot participate in the operation.

Firstly, there's a possibility that the Salvation Society might discover this; secondly, if hackers find out about the cooperative relationship between Xia Pingzhou and Black Chrysalis, Xia Pingzhou would be at great risk of being suspected.

Thinking this, Black Chrysalis closed her eyelids and switched her consciousness to the perspective of Xia Pingzhou, the second unit.

Xia Pingzhou glanced at Ayase Origami, who was still sleeping, quickly got up, put on his coat, washed his face briefly, put on a face mask, and then hurriedly left the hotel.

He walked down the street, took out his phone, and sent a message to the hacker.

[Xia Pingzhou: I'm in a bad mood and want to have a drink. Help me find a place, preferably a secluded underground bar, the kind where nothing bad will happen.]

[Hacker: Get lost! You really think you can boss me around like a digital pet?]

Xia Pingzhou: Add money.

[Hacker: The nearest bar is called "Eden," let me take a look.]

[Hacker: Go straight ahead, cross two streets, then turn into the second alley on the right. No code is needed, but I've heard that gangs often trade there, so you might encounter some danger.]

[Xia Pingzhou: What danger? We can't just go in for a drink and get beaten up, can we?]

[Hacker: Who knows? I'm busy playing games, I don't have time for you, logging off.]

Xia Pingzhou silently put away his phone, opened the map, and followed the route he remembered.

Before long, Xia Pingzhou, wearing a human skin mask, walked into an alley, went down a flight of stairs, and entered the "Eden" underground bar without any hindrance.

A jazz tune played in the brightly lit bar. There weren't many customers; the bartender was wiping glasses behind the counter. A television hanging from the ceiling was showing a horse race, and the excited shouts of the audience could be heard.

The surroundings were relatively quiet, with no unusual noises. However, just as Xia Pingzhou was about to venture deeper into the bar, he heard a roar coming from ahead, followed by the sounds of shattering glass and smashed tables.

He paused for a moment, looked up, and saw a short-haired man holding a lamppost in his hand.

The short-haired man wore a black jacket and black trousers. His muscles were bulging dramatically. The sleeves of his jacket were torn, and the veins throbbed, like snakes slithering along his muscular arms.

His eyes were bloodshot, his face was contorted, and drool was dripping from the corner of his mouth.

If these characteristics alone are not enough to identify the person, then anyone who sees the lamppost the man is holding will immediately recognize him as the infamous serial killer "Red Light".

That madman who murdered dozens of exorcists over a few years.

At the same time, he is also Xia Pingzhou's former close friend, "Shi Yimin".

At this very moment, the red light's leather shoes are stepping on a gruesome corpse.

The corpse's head had been smashed open, blood splattering onto the ground, leaving a waterfall-like gash along the side of its neck. There was probably no bone left; it had been smashed apart by a single blow. Its torso had been ripped off and lay against the wall.

Xia Pingzhou glanced up at the traffic light, and to avoid arousing suspicion, he looked down and sent a message to the hacker on his phone.

[Xia Pingzhou: What's going on? You really know how to pick a place for me.]

[Hacker: Do not disturb while in the game (auto-reply)]

The bar's customers and staff scattered and fled amidst screams, leaving only Xia Pingzhou standing still.

Amidst the chaos, the traffic light stood still. His right hand gripped the top of the lamppost, the lampshade emitting alternating red, green, and yellow light, making his already ferocious face appear even more terrifying, like that of a ghost.

The next moment, he roared like a wild beast, crushed the corpse beneath him with one foot, stomped the ground and charged forward, shooting towards Xia Pingzhou.

At the same time, Xia Pingzhou released the Sky Chaser, and alternating black and white halos spread outward, forming a ring. Countless chess pieces, like satellites, slowly rotated around his body.

Xia Pingzhou: I hate you.

[Hacker: Do not disturb while in the game (auto-reply)]

After sending the last message, Xia Pingzhou casually tossed his phone on the ground and then moved towards the traffic light.

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