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Chapter 216 The White Raven Brigade, 12 members, all assembled (Seeking monthly votes)

Late at night on July 31, Norway.

The countdown to the legendary whale "Chicanao" landing in Bergen is in its final hours.

At this moment, a group of people dressed in various styles were gathered at the Bryggen Wharf. Some wore robot boxes on their heads, some wore black trench coats with a crow perched on the back of their hands, and some wore red dresses that fluttered in the wind with their light golden hair flying.

The twelve members of the White Crow Brigade gathered here, scattered around the dock.

Xia Ping leaned against the pier railing, enjoying the sea breeze while chatting with Andrew and Tong Zizhu.

Looking up from the railing, Bai Tanlang was standing on the deck of a fishing boat, leaning against the mast and resting with his eyes closed. Anluns was standing beside him, smiling and chattering incessantly, deliberately trying to provoke him. It seemed that there was still room for their relationship to deteriorate.

Jack the Ripper, or as she is known, "Enma Rin," is currently leaning against the back of a wooden fish house with her arms crossed, playing "Ninja Slicer" on her phone with one hand.

The Bloodline stood at another corner of the harbor, gazing at the dark horizon in the distance, perhaps thinking of the restricted-level 1001 incident again.

Only Origami Ayase remained quietly sitting on a public wooden bench at the pier, practicing typing on her phone.

The young lady had only recently learned to use a mobile phone, and after hearing the hacker comment that she typed very slowly, like a human-machine interface, she started to challenge him. Today, she still wore that ochre-red kimono, saying that she still preferred to wear it when on missions.

Under the pitch-black night sky, the sea rose and fell, black waves crashing against the shore and breaking into white spray. Xia Pingzhou silently watched the sea, eating his reindeer sausage with a fork, waiting for the legendary whale to arrive.

He looked at member number 7, "Robert," whose mechanical head was still conspicuous, with two antennas sticking up high, making it hard not to look away.

A few hours earlier, Robert had already set up interconnected portals throughout Bergen, so that even if the legendary whale appeared in other directions, he could immediately lead all the team members to other ports in Bergen to give a grand welcome to the giant whale.

Xia Pingzhou put a sausage in his mouth with his fork and turned to look at a church in the harbor.

Qi Yuanli was sitting on the spire of the church, the wind blowing the hem of his black overcoat, and a raven was perched on the back of his hand.

Not long ago, the crows he created flew to every corner of the city, circling the sky above the entire city. So no matter which direction the legendary whale "Chicanao" appeared on the sea, the crows would immediately notice and inform him.

Qi Liyuan lowered his eyes and sat quietly on the church, flipping through a copy of "Ulysses" in his hands, while his right hand used playing cards to build a card tower on the spire.

Time passed unnoticed, and it was now midnight on August 1st, Norwegian local time.

After a few seconds, a black and white panel popped up in front of Xia Pingzhou's eyes.

[It's August 1st now, and Main Quest 1 has been refreshed.]

[Main Quest 1 (Phase 3): Infiltrate the Whale Garden with the White Raven Brigade, plunder the Royal Court's treasure, and survive this operation.]

[Mission Rewards: 2 Skill Points, 2 Attribute Points, 2 Split Points]

The rewards are quite substantial, Xia Pingzhou thought, hoping there wouldn't be any problems.

"Speaking of which, who is Su Ying?" He turned his head from the fence to look at Tong Zizhu. "Why did you use her alias?"

“My foster mother.” Tong Zizhu lowered his baseball cap. “I really liked her, but she left me with a kind family and left without a sound. Luckily, I knew she was an exorcist, otherwise I really would never have found her in this lifetime.”

"Has she never talked to you about herself?"

“No, she never mentioned her own affairs. She just said she had an important mission and couldn’t be with me,” Tong Zizhu said. “She was only in her early twenties then, right?”

"Could she be dead? Exorcists are a high-risk profession, especially since she was on an important mission. Isn't this a typical death flag from a movie?" Xia Pingzhou asked.

Tong Zizhu gave him a cold glance: "Even if she's dead, I'll only acknowledge it if I see it with my own eyes."

Xia Pingzhou thought for a moment: "Didn't you ask a hacker to help you investigate? He's the guild's shared electronic pet, so you can't go wrong by asking him for help."

Tong Zizhu looked puzzled, seemingly unwilling to answer the question.

Just then, Xia Pingzhou's phone suddenly vibrated.

[Hacker: Are you even human?]

[Xia Pingzhou: Where are you? Everyone's gathered, but I still haven't seen you!]

[Hacker: Idiot, I'm on the boat right in front of you.]

[Xia Pingzhou: Oh, I see. You're too short; the fishing boat's pole is blocking your view.]

As Xia Pingzhou typed, he glanced at the mast of the fishing boat. The hacker, who was sitting there playing on his phone, seemed to notice his gaze and gave him the middle finger without turning his head.

Xia Pingzhou turned to Tong Zizhu and asked, "So, you didn't have the hacker investigate that woman named 'Su Ying'?" "He did, but he didn't find anything," Tong Zizhu said.

"Is there anything he can't find out?"

"The kid said he could continue the investigation, but it was very risky, and he said he didn't want to do that kind of trouble."

After all, the official information on Gu Qiye's family had been deleted. He was Blue Arc, after all. The official would definitely protect his family background strictly. They probably set up a bunch of traps in the database, Xia Pingzhou thought to himself.

Bernardo, dressed in a white trench coat, walked over and asked, "What are you two talking about?"

Tong Zizhu leaned on the railing, propping her cheek with one hand, and turned to look at him: "Talking about you... I heard you have a grudge against one of the people on Wangting's team?"

Bernardo paused for a moment: "'Sword in the Stone' Ryan, he used to be my best friend, but in the end I was expelled from the Little Garden, while he became a member of the Royal Court team. It's quite ironic."

"What forbidden or extraordinary methods did you use?"

Bernardo slowly said, "The common-level esoteric 'Necromancer' can make the skeletons of the dead stand up and do things for you. My family member died of illness at the time, and we didn't have the money for treatment. Later, I spent a lot of effort to find this esoteric fragment, hoping to see if I could resurrect the souls of the dead. But in the end, I was discovered by the Royal Court Army during the research process. The captain of this army was 'Ryan,' a friend I made in the Academy of Esoteric Arts."

He paused: "Lyan reported me to the king, who convicted me. In the end, the king confiscated my fragments of wonders and banished me from the country for 'insulting a corpse' and 'taboo wonders,' and I am never to set foot in the Whale Garden again."

“It’s really tragic,” Xia Pingzhou said. “I’ve lost my family and been stabbed in the back by an old friend.”

“Right?” Bernardo adjusted his one-way mirror, gave a silent bitter smile, and wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes. “When I heard that Ryan had become a member of the Royal Court team, I was even angrier... Of course, with his strength, he deserved it.”

Tong Zizhu asked curiously, "So... that fragment can really bring the dead back to life?"

Xia Pingzhou turned to look at her: "Why are you asking this? Do you want to use it to revive Su Ying?"

"Rise, Mother of the Black Chrysalis," he thought.

"None of your business." Tong Zizhu shrugged. "How about using it to resurrect your mother?"

"Heh, I have so many mothers waiting to be resurrected, they'll all have to wait in line in hell," Xia Pingzhou thought to himself.

Bernardo shook his head.

He said, "In fact, there are no such things in the world that can bring the souls of the dead back to life... I was just missing my family too much and having wild fantasies. I'm afraid even mythical wonders can't bring the dead back to life, let alone 'necromancers' which are just common wonders."

"Oh, what happened next?" Tong Zizhu asked curiously.

Bernardo thought for a moment: "Later, by a stroke of luck, after I was expelled from the Little Garden, I found a generational fragment in this world—'The Black Death'. It is a very special fragment, and its growth method is different from other generational fragments... In the past few years, I have been accumulating power so that one day I can return to the Little Garden and take revenge on those who betrayed me."

Andrew took a big gulp of red wine, put the bottle on the railing, and let out a long, satisfying sigh: "So, buddy, after we go into the miniature garden, you're going to have a one-on-one fight with that Ryan, right?"

“Of course,” Bernardo smiled, “this is a request I made to the captain.”

Andrew joked, "You're about to get your revenge... but be careful not to get chopped in two."

Bernardo adjusted his one-way mirror: "No, I know him very well."

Xia Pingzhou said expressionlessly, "It's okay. Being split in two is still decent. We had two members in a group who were in even worse shape recently. They were smashed into pieces."

"Hahahaha—! You brat, do you believe I'll shoot you if we start fighting later?" Andrew laughed maniacally, pounding on the fence, tears welling up in his eyes.

He seemed to have come to terms with Lan Duoduo's death.

Xia Pingzhou shrugged and replied nonchalantly, "Go ahead and open it, it won't make a difference anyway, just don't snipe my king."

As the group chatted idly, a flock of black crows suddenly swept across the sky, fluttering down from the horizon and dropping their black feathers in a flurry, like the harbinger of an approaching storm. Everyone's attention was immediately drawn to them.

Suddenly, a huge shadow appeared on the horizon, obscuring even the moon's reflection on the sea. The entire ocean began to stir, and under the moonlight, the shadow gradually revealed the outline of a whale.

It is swimming towards the port at a slow but steady pace.

At this moment, atop the church spire, Qi Yuanyuan looked up from his book, his deep gaze fixed on the colossal shadow cast across the horizon. As he closed his copy of *Ulysses*, he broke the harbor's deathly silence with his words:

"The legendary whale 'Chicanao'... has arrived."

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