Chapter 234-04: Doubt

Compared with the other two, Guan Junyan seemed calmer.

He has experienced many life-and-death crises. I don’t know if it’s because of his aura of a brave man, but every time he encounters a situation, it’s dangerous. However, the people around him are not as lucky as him.

That's why he doesn't want to take in apprentices. Once he gets into a crisis, he feels like he is harming others.

Remaining silent, he carefully observed the three monsters in front of him.

There are multi-headed mantises, a mountain of flesh with arms as many as beards, and a human figure wearing a mask and holding a long sword.

Was that woman a bait? Was she targeting me or the Special Affairs Bureau?

Or the Moon Initiator?
"I've already rushed to the door. The emergency support from the bureau can't arrive that quickly. Let's break through." Ozaki said hoarsely, "They seem to have a lot of information about us. Your abilities may have been revealed."

Guan Junyan knew that Ozaki was right, and the best strategy now was to leave.

"Don't fight too long, break out towards the door." He rushed towards the meat mountain, responsible for attracting attention.

Sawada and Nishikido obeyed the order and quickly ran towards the gate on the side of the meat mountain.

The masked man with the knife tilted his head, leaving an afterimage on the spot. In a flash, he was already on the side of Jinhu Ning, ready to chop him down with a knife.

"You're the one I've been waiting for!"

A hollow hand suddenly appeared in front of the masked man, spewing out huge streams of flames.

"Well!"

The masked man took a few steps back, extinguished the remaining flames on his body, and looked at Guan Junyan who was entangled with the meat mountain. He seemed not very interested in him, and turned to exchange glances with the multi-headed mantis.

"kill!"

The multiple mantis heads spoke human language, leaped up, and flew towards Guan Junyan, cooperating with the meat mountain to entangle him tightly so that he could not concentrate.

The masked man raised his knife again and rushed towards Nishikigo.

"***, you really think I'm a soft persimmon!"

What Jinhu Ning hated the most was becoming the weak point of the team and causing trouble for the team. He immediately became furious and opened his palms towards the outside of the gate.

Ripples appeared in the air, like a ripple, and a defensive stance silently unfolded under the sun outside the door. Like a mirror, it reflected a large amount of sunlight to a large area near the entrance of the mall, which was near Jinhu Ning.

"!"

The masked man who rushed forward with a knife was shocked. According to the intelligence, he did not expect the opponent's ability to have this use. He was not careful for a moment and let the scorching midday sun shine directly on his body, like a musket melting butter. Smoke came out of his body crazily. In his mind, an existence that could not be looked at directly and could not be felt was looming, as if it glanced at him lazily. In an instant, he felt the uncontrollable fear of the Mother Goddess. The next second, the connection between him and the Mother Goddess was directly cut off.

"Crack!" The masked man struggled to escape.

Sa!
At this time, Ozaki had already rushed into the mall, and with intense anger, he chopped off the masked man's head with a knife.

The masked man fell straight to the ground, and under the continued dissolving of the sunlight, his corpse soon turned into a dwarf-like, skinny green monster that looked like a goblin.

On another battlefield, Guan Junyan, who was attacked from both sides, paid attention to the situation outside and was about to leave.

"Meow (I'm back)!"

On the second floor of the mall, Kasahara cat appeared and connected the silk thread to Guan Junyan.

Guan Junyan felt the added strength and suddenly felt a lot more relaxed. He caught his opponent off guard and slashed off several arms and heads with his sword.

"withdraw!"

The meat mountain monster suddenly swelled up, and the remaining ten or so hands gave up supporting the body. They shot out like javelins, madly entangling Guan Junyan.

The mantis monster hesitated for a moment, but decided to leave. After a few jumps, it disappeared into the corner of the mall.

"Mage's Hand!"

Guan Junyan launched a move, not because he was so engrossed in the game that he had to shout out the moves, but because he and Kasahara had agreed on a cooperation, and he shouted out the moves before launching the move to make it easier for her to switch the bonuses.

A large transparent hand appeared and covered the almost completely immobile ball of flesh.

A large amount of cold air visible to the naked eye came out and kept transmitting. In a short while, the twisting flesh ball was frozen into an ice ball. Its efficiency was much better than if he used it directly.

"drink!"

He took advantage of a nearby pillar and leaped up, stabbing the ice ball with a 70-centimeter-long knife. With a click, cracks began to appear slowly and then quickly, spreading all over his body. As Guan Junyan turned over and landed on the ground, the ice ball behind him quickly disintegrated and completely shattered into ice chips on the ground.

[Experience +80]

Guan Junyan wiped the sweat off his forehead, smiled and gave a thumbs up to Kasahara on the second floor.

Kasahara hesitated for a moment. She couldn't compare with her fingers, so she raised her cat paw vertically as a thumbs up.

Guan Junyan never needs to deliberately make a finishing move or anything like that, as his experience is enough to tell whether the opponent is dead or not.

He walked onto the ice debris, dug a few times, and successfully turned out the green-skinned goblin that had turned into frozen fragments.

"No wonder the upper echelons all think that the Mother Goddess's integration is most likely not an Earth creature." Guan Junyan has killed more than one Mother Goddess's integration monster, but every time he sees a monster that looks so much like a goblin, he can't help but marvel at it, and the joy of victory will be reduced a lot, after all, he only killed a goblin.

There was no sense of accomplishment, and no female knight was rescued.

Kasahara fell to the ground and turned into a human form. Her clothes were soaked with sweat. It was obvious that she had really tried her best to rush back.

"That woman, did you find anything?"

"No, I lost her. She made me feel like I had some strange abilities, like I was out of this world." Kasahara shook his head.

Guan Junyan was not disappointed. What was more troublesome now was that his side had lost two months of Initiators.

He knew those two people, but he didn't expect them to die here.

The last time we suffered such a big loss was half a year ago.

Moreover, the woman's back
Guan Junyan hesitated, picked up the phone and made a call.

The phone rang for a few seconds before being picked up.

".Is there something wrong?" The voice on the other end revealed a sense of alienation.

"You're at school?"

"No, I'm at home."

"sick?"

"Senior Guan, do you have a personal matter or a business matter?"

"I was in Bunkyo District and encountered the Mother Goddess Unity. Two Moon Initiators from Ozaki's team were killed."

".Excuse me, can I help you?"

"It's okay, I just want to remind you to be careful."

"Thank you for your concern. Please express my condolences to Ozaki-senpai for me."

Guan Junyan put away the phone. This did not dispel his doubts. He just looked at Ozaki who was collecting the bodies of his teammates not far away. Now was not the time to go into details.

In an apartment tower in Bunkyo Ward, Izumi Ringo, who was sitting on the balcony, put down her phone and stared at the photo of her sister sitting opposite her in a daze.

"Meow~"

Jingquan came to his senses, looked at the cat at his feet, smiled, picked it up, felt the frequency of its snoring, and gently rubbed its neck.

Special Affairs Bureau.

Guan Junyan came to Ozaki Hiro's office carrying some lunch boxes and saw him staring at a group photo hanging on the wall.

"Aren't you hungry? Eat something."

Ozaki didn't reply and continued looking at the photo. After a few seconds, he gave an irrelevant answer.

“It seems like there are only a few people who have been able to walk out of my place over the years.”

"I, Sawada, Tsuchihashi, and Uehara, we all took an oath when we joined the Special Affairs Bureau. We all know the dangers, especially with the increasing number of pollution incidents in recent years. This is not your fault."

Ozaki turned around and silently took three lunch boxes.

"Is that all you're eating? Mom told me to turn my grief and anger into food."

Ozaki hesitated, then took another portion.

".By the way, does that woman's back look familiar to you?"

".Ah, actually there are many similar back figures. I have seen many women with similar figures. Only seniors like you who are two-dimensional are not familiar with the three-dimensional world."

"Oh, I see." He lowered his head to eat, as if accepting the other party's explanation.

Guan Junyan breathed a sigh of relief.

As expected, I was not the only one who suspected that the figure was related to Jingquan. After all, they did look alike.

"I told Chief Noguchi that we've given up on this missing case. He asked me to recommend a team to take over. Do you want to take it over? If not, I'll recommend that guy Tashiro." Ozaki said vaguely while eating his lunch box.

"I'll answer it!" Guan Junyan was a little anxious. He was afraid that others would simply list Jing Quan as an important suspect without any reason. If he were to investigate, at least the impact could be kept to a minimum.

"Well, you should go to Chief Noguchi and explain the situation later. Wait, why is there only half a piece of tonkatsu?!"

"Uh, this was given to me by Tashiro-senpai. It's none of my business."

Guan Junyan quickly shirked responsibility and slipped out of the office.

The atmosphere in the bureau seemed a little depressing. He walked all the way to Noguchi Takeshi's office, took a deep breath outside the door, and then knocked on the door.

"Come in."

For some reason, hearing Director Noguchi's voice can make me feel more at ease, but it is difficult for anyone not to be a little nervous when facing him alone.

"You performed very well today, a textbook response." Noguchi looked at him carefully and nodded in praise.

"Thank you, Deputy Director. There are also contributions from other people." Guan Junyan straightened his back and did not dare to take credit for himself.

"Do you think this incident is related to the missing case?" Noguchi didn't say much and went straight to the point.

"There must be." Guan Junyan nodded.

"How are you going to investigate?"

"Let's start with Lisa's interpersonal relationships. I think her disappearance is closely related to the Mother Goddess's integration. She may even be a relatively important figure to the Mother Goddess's integration. If she belongs to another force, then we may be able to obtain some information from this aspect. However, there is too little information now, and we cannot rule out that Lisa is a hook used to set up today's situation. After all, their target today is still the Moon Initiator, and they have a general and clear understanding of our location and ability information."

"Well, I will also arrange for Fengchuan to investigate the issue of information exposure. There have been frequent pollution incidents recently, and we don't have many people to mobilize. Lisa's disappearance case and the attack case will be combined and you will be in charge. The disaster level is level three - lurking. You have the corresponding authority."

"Yes!"

"By the way, you may not know that among the large amount of data reviewed, someone who looked like Yueying had contacted her."

Guan Junyan's expression changed. Yueying?
Speaking of which, he has come into contact with this organization.

They are mainly composed of some Moon Initiators who are in the opposition and are unwilling to join the official group. They don't carry out any sabotage activities on weekdays. At most, they will snatch people in advance, but they are not particularly demanding and have never done anything extreme. Many Moon Initiators in the Special Affairs Bureau have been contacted in advance by Yueying's people.

If Lisa is a Moon Initiator, then it is not surprising that she is touched by Moon Shadow.

"Lisa's personal information is very strange. It seems like she came to Japan specifically, and Yueying is basically active in Japan. That is to say, after Lisa came to Japan, Yueying's people sensed that she had awakened and became a Yue Initiator, so they took the initiative to contact her. But because Lisa was responsible for tasks of other forces, she refused?" Guan Junyan made an inference slowly. He didn't expect that a missing case would involve so many forces, which made his head a little swollen.

Tuk-tuk-tuk!
A rapid knock on the door interrupted his thoughts.

"Chief! There's a polluter riot in the central district!" Noguchi's assistant hurriedly opened the door and said anxiously.

Riot?! It can only be called a riot if there are more than ten of them at the same time.

Guan Junyan subconsciously turned his head to look out the window, only to find that night had fallen unknowingly, and there were two full moons hanging high in the sky.

By the way, today is a full moon.

(End of this chapter)