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Chapter 218 The Gatekeeper, The Sword of Damocles (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Bergen, Norway, Bryggen Port.

The crows in the sky suddenly became restless, emitting a continuous series of hoarse cries, like a dark cloud rushing across the pitch-black night. The sea also began to rise and fall, the waves crashing against the harbor more than doubling in height. This rise continued, as if a tsunami was about to strike.

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

As Qi Yuanli finished speaking, the eleven group members scattered on the dock all raised their heads and looked at the enormous shadow sweeping in from the horizon.

It shattered the half-moon's reflection on the sea, replacing it with an arrogant and domineering presence that dominated everyone's view. Huge waves roared in, their crashing sound almost engulfing the entire Bryggen dock.

With his hands in his suit pockets, Anlens couldn't help but whistle and softly exclaim in admiration:
"Bravo!"

The hacker dusted himself off, brushed the dust off his overalls, and stood up from behind the fishing boat's mast.

He turned around and instructed the team members on the dock: "At this speed, the legendary whale will probably be here in about ten minutes. I've already sent you the list of the Royal Court team via mobile phone. Please double-check it and don't let your guard down."

"This little brat has quite a loud voice," Bloodline said casually.

"Shut up, you old hag who's always chasing after love." The hacker raised his dead fish eyes and gave her a disdainful look.

Xia Pingzhou lay expressionless on the fence, silently eating the last piece of reindeer sausage before throwing the fork and plastic bag into the trash can.

Then I opened my phone and glanced at the photos and list sent by the hacker.

1. Captain: Rose (long sea-blue hair, wearing sapphire earrings): in charge of the generational wonders "Titanic" and "Loch Ness Monster".

2. Louis (with brown curly hair and glasses): in charge of the generational wonder, "The Tower of Babylon".

3. Kuki Soya (a Japanese man with a buzz cut): He controls the generational phenomenon "Hyakki Yagyō" (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons).

4. Direge (with a spiky hairstyle and a broken eyebrow): He controls the generational wonder "Tunguska Event".

5. Ke Aojiena (with a bun hairstyle and heavy dark circles under her eyes): She controls the generational mystery of the "Bermuda Triangle".

6. Ryan (black hair, gold eyes, messy long hair, and a full beard): He controls the generational wonder "Sword in the Stone".

Xia Pingzhou scanned through the documents but did not see Li Qingping's photo.

He looked up from his phone at the hacker on deck: "Where's Red Dragon? Why isn't there any information about him up here?"

The hacker said casually, "According to information obtained by the guild leader from an unknown collaborator, the Red Dragon is on our side this time. Besides, everyone has already seen him at the auction, so there's no need for further introductions, is there?"

Bai Tanlang frowned. "Are you sure you want to cooperate with that dragon at the auction house?"

He clearly hadn't forgotten the scene of his last battle with the red dragon at the mirror auction, so he couldn't believe that Li Qingping would become their collaborator.

"Enough with the nonsense... What are the commander's orders?" Ripper got up from the wooden hut in the corner of the harbor and walked over.

A crow flew through the night and landed on the fishing boat. Qi Liyuan switched places with the crow and appeared on the deck. He sat hunched over on the railing, turning his head to look at the shadow of the legendary whale, and said to the eleven group members scattered on the dock:
"Not a single member of Wang Ting's team will be spared."

The Ripper chuckled, summoned his katana, and looked down at the gleaming blade. "Then I'm relieved... I was just about to test my current strength, and I'm not worried about finding an opponent."

The girl in the kimono got up from the public wooden bench at the dock, finally stopped practicing typing on her phone, put the phone back in her sleeve, and then slowly walked to Xia Pingzhou's side.

She said, "When we get back, we'll take the cable car together."

"Then don't die." Xia Pingzhou turned to look at her.

"the same as you."

Tong Zizhu cupped his cheeks in his hands, leaned his elbows on the railing, and turned to look at them: "Do you all like to do this before an operation? It feels like the probability of dying suddenly has increased."

Bernardo had one hand in the pocket of his white trench coat, the other adjusting his one-way mirror, and a slight smile.

"Young people are great." Wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes.

After a while, a long whale call suddenly came from the horizon, and then the sea split in two, and a huge creature slowly emerged from the huge chasm that looked like a valley.

Xia Pingzhou stared intently at the monster that had emerged from the sea.

It was a reddish-brown whale, rising slowly from a huge whirlpool, accompanied by rolling waves sweeping in from the horizon. Its deep, empty eyes scrutinized the Bryggen dock, like a god looking down on the human world from the heavens.

Judging by appearance, the reddish-brown whale in front of us is about 200 meters long, which is comparable to the length of a Tennessee-class battleship.

The legendary whale, "Chicanao," was the second time Ji Minghuan had seen this whale.

The first time was at the port of Lijing, when he followed Li Qingping and watched him enter the whale's mouth. If he remembered correctly, there was a gatekeeper at the whale's mouth. The next moment, the reddish-brown whale slowly opened its mouth.

From its bottomless maw, a transparent staircase, seemingly made of glass, extended out, and then an old man dressed in a butler's uniform walked out unhurriedly with his hands behind his back.

The moment he saw the twelve figures, he suddenly summoned a catalog from the void, held it in his hand, turned to a page, drew out a card, and crushed it.

As the card shattered, a huge oval glass barrier enveloped the world within a radius of hundreds of meters.

The hacker raised his eyebrows and said with great interest, "A common-sense tidbit—'Cognitive Shield Barrier.' Every time a legendary whale lands, its gatekeeper uses this card to prevent the stinky, enormous whale from being discovered by the inhabitants of the human world."

Andrew looked up, staring at the gatekeeper in the whale's mouth, and scratched the stubble on his chin.

He murmured, "The gatekeeper... I've heard of him from Lan Duoduo... I always felt that this kind of person was not simple. Could he be one of those 'hidden masters'?"

Robert shrugged: "If that were the case, I wouldn't be at the bottom of the group and be teased by you guys every day as 'the doorman'."

The old man inside the whale's mouth slowly lowered his head, put his hands behind his back, and glanced at the twelve figures scattered on the dock. Then he sighed and scratched his snow-white sideburns.

“I’m sorry… my name is ‘Nabis,’ and I’m the gatekeeper of this miniature garden. I can’t let you through here.”

As the gatekeeper spoke, he summoned the Book of Strange Tales, took out an orange card from it, and held it in his hand, saying, "Even if it costs me this old, worthless, wretched life."

The next moment, the gatekeeper crushed the card in his hand.

An orange streak of light flashed across the sky, followed by the sudden formation of a giant sword hovering directly above the whale. It was estimated to be fifty meters long and ten meters wide; falling from such a height, it would likely destroy a skyscraper.

“A once-in-a-generation phenomenon—the ‘Sword of Damocles’.” Shiori Yuichi said expressionlessly, “I see… Being chosen as the gatekeeper of the Little Garden requires a certain amount of strength.”

He pulled a playing card from between his index and middle fingers, and a flock of crows swarmed forward from the hem of his trench coat. At the same time, the giant sword that had been suspended in mid-air suddenly moved, accompanied by a whooshing sound as it plummeted downwards.

A strong wind descended from the sky, and the air pressure at the entire dock seemed to drop a little.

Bai Tanlang raised his head, stomped hard on the deck of the fishing boat, and his body shot into the sky like a cannonball. In the blink of an eye, he had transformed into a giant wolf tens of meters long, with his high-performing pupils shining with a light like the polar day.

The Wolf of the Day howled and raised its head, its two hind legs wedging into the decks of two fishing boats, while its two forelegs clung to the blade, preventing the greatsword from falling.

At the same time, a raven spread its wings and flew into the whale's mouth. When the gatekeeper Nabis came to his senses, Qi Liyuan had already appeared behind him. A playing card was lightly sliced ​​across the gatekeeper's neck through the gap between his index and middle fingers, and a bright red line of blood spurted out.

The gatekeeper slowly knelt on the ground. His expression remained calm, but the color in his eyes gradually became cloudy and empty.

“It’s no use… You bunch of inhuman thieves can’t defeat the Royal Court team.” The gatekeeper, lying in the whale’s mouth, lowered his head and said hoarsely.

Blood gushed from his neck, forming a pool of blood beneath him.

Qi Yuanli did not respond, nor did he even glance at the scene outside the whale's mouth out of the corner of his eye. He simply put the playing cards between his fingers, put his hands in the pockets of his black trench coat, and silently walked into the whale's belly.

The group members followed him, heading deeper into the whale's mouth.

On the dock, the Ripper's dark red katana transformed into a giant scythe, which sprang from the dock railing and landed on the very bottom of the Sword of Darkmoss.

She brandished her scythe, embedding its sharp tip into the blade of the greatsword, and then ran upwards on the surface of the Sword of Darkmos, as if running on the surface of a skyscraper, her figure transforming into a dark red meteor rushing upwards.

In an instant, the scythe in his hand cleaved a huge crack in the middle of the fifty-meter-long giant sword.

Then, White Wolf roared and exerted force with both arms, causing the crack in the center of the Sword of Damocles to expand continuously until it was forcibly torn in two and fell into the dark sea, creating a white wave.

Finally, the Sword of Damocles, now split in two, was swallowed by the surging waves and sank to the bottom of the sea.

The Wolf of the Day slowly transformed into its original form, wiping the sweat from its brow with the back of its hand. The fishing boat beneath it swayed precariously, almost sinking to the bottom of the sea. The White Wolf bent down, picked up some clothes from the deck, and put them on. It turned and looked around, only to see that the other members of the group had already entered the whale's mouth. The Bryggen dock was empty.

It seemed everyone thought he and the Ripper were enough to clean up the mess, and no one even bothered to give the two of them a second glance.

A schoolgirl in a school uniform descended from the sky, landing on the railing of a fishing boat. The sickle in her hand had somehow transformed into a slender katana. With her hair flying wildly, she pressed down on the billowing hem of her black and white skirt, turned to Bai Tanlang, and asked:
"good?"

"Are you talking to me?"

Bai Tanlang gave a cold sneer, his wounds already healing rapidly.

"Let's go... this boat is about to sink," Ripper warned, glancing down at the fishing boat that was already half submerged in the sea.

White Wolf and Ripper leaped into the whale's mouth together, heading towards the bottomless belly of the whale.

(End of this chapter)