My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 264 Rainbow Wings' Two Urgent Missions (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
[Hacker: Anyway, you and the young lady should go to Hokkaido and wait for orders. Sapporo, first take the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, then transfer to the JR Limited Express to Sapporo.]

Xia Pingzhou: Oh, then see you in Hokkaido.

After sending the message, Xia Pingzhou turned his head to look at Ayase Origami, who was still sleeping, then picked up a book from the floor, held it up, and deliberately let go, causing the book to fall to the ground with a "thud".

The girl in the kimono woke up with a sound. She opened her eyes from her pillow and stared blankly at the book that had fallen to the ground. After a while, she raised her head and looked at Xia Pingzhou.

Countless times, whenever Xia Pingzhou wanted to wake her up early in the morning, he would take a book from the bookshelf in the attic, let go of it, and let the book fall to the ground with a loud "bang," startling her awake from her sleep.

“They’ve rebelled…” she said softly, but her dark eyes showed no sign of anger.

"Then tell me, what's the best way for me to wake you up?" Xia Pingzhou said, bending down slightly and picking up the book "Snow White" from the ground.

"It's best not to wake her," said Origami Ayase, gently resting her head back on the pillow and closing her eyes.

"Then you'll become 'Snow White' poisoned by an apple," Xia Pingzhou said casually, creating a gap between "The Dancing Girl of Izu" and "Snow Country" on the bookshelf and placing the book in his hand.

"How can Snow White be woken up?"

“I forgot,” Xia Pingzhou said. “It seems that the villainous queen gave her a deep kiss on the face, and from then on, the mother and son reconciled and lived happily ever after with the seven dwarfs in the forest.”

The girl in the kimono remained silent for a long while after hearing this.

"The kitten misses its mother again," she said.

"Let's get down to business. The commander and the Ripper will be arriving in Japan tomorrow. I heard the commander is going to get one of his old friends out of a superhuman prison in Hokkaido," Xia Pingzhou said calmly. "It's probably preparation for the next operation. After all, we've lost a member, and there's still one vacancy in the brigade."

Origami Ayase slowly stood up, her delicate hair cascading over the folds of her shoulders. She stared blankly for a moment, then yawned softly before opening her eyes and raising her hand.

A thin piece of paper flew out from the ochre-red cuff, handing her the water glass from the bedside table.

"How many people?" she asked, bowing slightly as she drank her water.

"What do you mean, how many people?"

"Members who participated in the operation."

Xia Pingzhou thought for a moment: "Bloodline, Ripper, you and me, plus the leader... five people, oh right, and Robert and the hacker, that's five people and an artificial intelligence machine, and an electronic pet."

"Leave now?"

“No rush. The hacker has already arranged the itinerary. We’ll take the Shinkansen first, then the JR Limited Express, which will take about nine hours in total.” Xia Pingzhou turned to look at Ayase Origami. “You can sleep a little longer if you want.”

Origami Ayase thought for a moment, then slumped her shoulders, her eyelids drooping along with the sleeves of her kimono. Suddenly, she picked up the grayish-white manuscript that lay beside her pillow.

This is the "Endless Manuscript." The treasure that Xia Pingzhou handed over to her that day came from the royal treasury of the Whale Garden.

The Endless Manuscript can generate an inexhaustible supply of pages. It was initially used to record the daily lives of each of the miniature garden lords, but later the subjects found it unnecessary.

Because of the closed-off environment of the Whale Garden, the king was carefree and spent his days eating, drinking, playing, and sleeping. His activities barely took up a page or two of the book, so the subjects of the royal court simply put endless copies into the royal treasury.

"I want to find a place to try this out." The girl in the kimono said softly, as endless manuscripts floated up and fell into her ochre-red sleeve, placed together with her mother's collection of haiku.

“We have to give it a try.” Xia Pingzhou nodded. “We have to break into prison again in a couple of days. If we wait until the operation starts before trying, it will be too late.”

The two went downstairs, both still a bit sleepy, walking unsteadily, the wooden steps creaking. Xia Pingzhou lifted the shutter of the café, and sunlight streamed in through the glass door.

Ayase Origami was washing up in the bathroom, while Xia Pingzhou was preparing breakfast in the cafe's kitchen: two cups of hot milk and two slices of toast.

They sat down in the cafe, eating breakfast and communicating on their phones.

The reason for not speaking directly is that the young lady has only just learned how to use a mobile phone, so she finds this way of communicating very novel.

Whenever Xia Pingzhou was too lazy to type and looked up from his phone to speak, Ayase Origami would gently press a piece of paper against his lips. She didn't look up, sipping her milk, her slightly vacant eyes reflecting the words on the screen.

After breakfast, Xia Pingzhou and she walked out of the coffee shop, locked the glass door, and then summoned the Queen's Statue in a deserted corner of the long street.

The Queen statue put her arms around Xia Pingzhou on her left shoulder and Ayase Origami on her right shoulder, then lifted the two of them and leaped into the air, her figure running through the city.

They could see the hazy outline of Mount Fuji, and the morning light fell on Tokyo Bay, reflecting a shimmering expanse of water. Tokyo was vibrant in the early morning, with cars constantly passing by on the Rainbow Bridge. A warm summer breeze blew in, and the silhouette of the Empress Statue was reflected in the glass curtain wall, while the hair of a girl in a kimono swayed in the wind.

Before long, the queen statue led them to a nearby mountain. Sunlight filtered through the tree canopy, illuminating the two girls' heads, making the girl's skin appear as clear and translucent as glass.

Xia Pingzhou and Ayase Origami had been here before. At that time, a card incident occurred on the mountain. He was sitting on the roof of the cafe enjoying the breeze when Ayase Origami came up to find him.

She created a paper dragon, carried him to the front of the shrine, and swiftly killed the Asura Demon and the Yaksha Demon. It was as easy and effortless as beating up Su Zimai at an auction.

The sounds of birdsong and rustling leaves enveloped the vast world, and all that met their eyes was lush greenery. After walking for a while in the mountains and forests, they found a clearing in front of a cliff, with a turquoise lake at the foot of the mountain.

“Let’s do it here,” Xia Pingzhou said. “To be honest, this deep mountain forest shouldn’t attract too much attention. The Queen Statue and I will keep watch nearby, and you can go all out and try.”

Origami Ayase nodded silently and took out a grayish-white book from her sleeve.

A ray of bright sunlight streamed down from the mountaintop, fading the gray of the book covers to reveal an almost pure white surface. The endless manuscripts moved without wind, their pages torn apart under the control of the kimono-clad girl.

Soon, a strong wind swept in, causing thousands of trees to rustle and sway, birds and beasts to cry out in the mountains and forests, and huge waves to rise on the lake. The whole world was shrouded in this enormous commotion.

Xia Pingzhou raised his head, his black hair blowing in the wind. He stared at the incredible sight atop the mountain, his eyes widening slightly, a look of astonishment on his face.

A dozen hours later, at noon on August 6th, US time, on the second basement level of the Empire State Building, in an empty parking lot, Uriel opened the door of a Maybach, sat in the driver's seat, and started the engine using the remote key.

Gu Qiye got into the car, sat in the passenger seat, closed the door behind her, and then silently looked out the window, recalling the ten Rainbow Wing members she had just met at the meeting.

"What do we do now?" he asked.

“Let’s go eat first,” Yuriel said, “then we’ll assign tasks.”

"Task?"

The white-haired girl, as cold as an ice sculpture, nodded, silently took out her tablet, and glanced at the documents on it.

Gu Qiye cast his gaze over and saw familiar faces on the document list. His expression changed slightly; they were clearly members of the troupe he had met at the Tokyo auction: a girl in an ochre kimono, a young man in a black trench coat with deep, unfathomable eyes…

The name of the bandit group, "White Raven Brigade," flashed into his mind in an instant.

Gu Qiye recalled the events that occurred at the Tokyo auction half a month ago. He still remembered the despair of being surrounded by members of the Phantom Troupe in the Mirror World, and the dark figure that blocked his way when he was on the verge of death—the man wearing a metal breathing mask.

The image of Ghost Bell flashed through his mind. He remained silent for a moment, took a deep breath, and his eyes seemed to be veiled by a shadow of sadness.

“We have two urgent missions at hand, and five members of Rainbow Wing are on leave, so we must properly allocate personnel among the remaining seven to complete these two missions,” Yuriel said while reviewing the documents.

Which two tasks?

"The first mission is to capture the White Raven Brigade. They are suspected of directly participating in the looting and destruction of the Whale Garden, so the wanted level has been greatly increased. Originally, they were not within our scope of handling, but with the development of the destruction of the Garden on August 1, the higher-ups decided to send us to capture them in the short term."

“The White Raven Brigade…” Gu Qiye said expressionlessly, “But how are we supposed to find them? They’re elusive, wandering between countries around the world, without a fixed area of ​​activity.”

“According to eyewitness reports from the Japanese underworld, one of their members recently appeared in Japan. This photo was sent over ten hours ago,” Yuriel said, clicking on the photo in the file.

Gu Qiye turned her head and glanced at the photo. From the angle of the photo, it was clear that it was taken from the pedestrian walkway of the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo Bay.

The camera pans across the sun-drenched Tokyo Bay, capturing a bizarre scene atop a distant mountain: gray-white paper pages tumble in the sky, forming a terrifying tornado, and even the seawater above Tokyo Bay seems to surge upwards.

Paper? Tornado? Gu Qiye was taken aback, immediately recalling the kimono-clad girl she had seen at the auction that day. She passed through the wooden door into the mirrored auction hall, with fluttering paper butterflies following behind her, like a white sea of ​​flowers.

"What is this?" he asked in a low voice.

“Manipulating paper pages, the ability of Ayase Origami, a member of the White Raven Brigade.” Yuriel said expressionlessly, “She was originally the eldest daughter of the head of the Ayase family, a Japanese yakuza family, but three years ago, she ran away from the Ayase family and joined the White Raven Brigade with her butler, ‘Oda Takikage’. The storm of paper pages in the photo is most likely generated by her ability.”

Gu Qiye thought for a moment: "As far as I know, they have an ability user who can open doors connecting different locations, which makes the group's whereabouts unpredictable, making it difficult for us to confront them head-on."

“A few years ago, the Japanese authorities captured a member of the White Ravens Brigade,” Yuriel said. “That member’s name was ‘Rukawa Chiba,’ and he was being held in ‘Shin-e-no-go,’ a prison for people with supernatural abilities in Hokkaido.”

She paused for a moment: "According to the prisoners in Shin-e-ha Village, Rukawa Chiba claims that the White Crow Brigade will get him out of prison soon. So we think the brigade's mission in Japan this time may be to break him out of prison and take Rukawa Chiba away."

“Is the information revealed by the prisoners in the prison meaningful? Could it be a diversionary tactic?” Gu Qiye shook his head. “However, the members of the White Raven Brigade are all a bunch of lunatics, so it’s not surprising that they do anything.”

"In any case, finding them will indeed be difficult, so for now we'll assume their goal is a prison break. We'll just wait for them at the 'New Leaf Village' prison for people with superpowers," Yuriel said. "If we don't find them, we'll continue searching for them. Anyway, we'll be staying in Japan for a while."

"What about the second urgent task?" Gu Qiye asked after a moment of silence.

Since there are two urgent missions to be assigned, it means they don't necessarily have to go to Japan to capture the White Crow Brigade. He is more curious about the content of the second mission and what kind of emergency situation can be compared with this group of villains in the brigade.

"The second urgent task is to investigate the disappearance of superhumans in Osaka, Japan: we've heard that a kind of humanoid magical creature has infiltrated the city and is hunting superhumans living there, taking them back to its territory as food," Yuriel said.

"Humanoids?"

"Yes, this incident was not usually of serious importance and would not normally fall under our jurisdiction. However, because one of the hunters had a close relationship with the Japanese Imperial Family, this task was forced to come to us."

What race are they?

“The Bee Clan,” Yuriel nodded, “but they have a form similar to humans.”

As she spoke, she opened the photo in the file sheet and handed the tablet computer in her hand to Gu Qiye.

Gu Qiye looked at the tablet computer and frowned slightly when she saw the photo displayed on the screen.

It was a clear, moonlit night. The corpse of a human male was embedded inside the billboard, or more precisely, his head was smashed inside. Sparks flew from the tangled wires, illuminating a golden humanoid monster with transparent bee wings, hovering in mid-air.

It is larger than a normal adult human, with the head of a bee, wings and tail of a bee, but its body structure is similar to that of a human, with thick limbs and muscles covered with a metallic golden-yellow protective membrane.

A half-human, half-bee creature, its body slightly arched, was gnawing at a man embedded in a billboard in mid-air. It turned its head, half its face facing the camera, its mouth, stained red with blood and entrails, contorted in a grotesque and brutal manner.

Gu Qiye frowned. He stared at the extremely bizarre creature in the photograph and couldn't help but murmur:
"what is this?"

Yuriel exited the photo interface and, while flipping through the documents, introduced:

"A few days ago, due to the destruction of the Whale Garden, a large number of islands from within the garden appeared in the waters near Bergen. According to information obtained by professionals after communicating with the islanders, these are a race of magical creatures that were expelled from the Whale Garden decades ago, and they have been named..."

She paused for a moment, then looked up: "'Light-Eating Bee'."

　I'm still not fully recovered today; my stomach has been hurting. I saw a doctor and am taking medication. Only one update for now, lol...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)