My Avatar is Becoming the Ultimate BOSS-Chapter 720 - 386: Gu Family’s Raid, The Eleven Members of the White Crow Travel Brigade

Late at night on August 23rd, a corner of the port in Hai Fan City.

A young man with black hair was wearing a black tailcoat, his left hand tucked in his pocket, and his right hand holding a Bible, standing silently atop the railing like an upright crow.

Urushibara Osamu lowered his head, quietly flipping through the pages of the book, while the reflection of a full moon glimmered on the sea's surface.

In front of him, mysterious figures with varying demeanors were dispersed around the port, their shadows elongated by the moonlight, swayed by the sea breeze.

For some unknown reason, the air was permeated with the scent of blood.

Following the scent, one could see that on each street lamp at the port, bodies were bound by bloody threads, suspending them in mid-air. Their eyes rolled back, mouths frothing, shoulders and arms hanging limp.

These people were Lake Hunting's Exorcist spies stationed at the port. They didn't even get a clear look at the members of the Travel Brigade before being strung up by Bloodline's blood threads, struggling in the sea breeze only briefly before suffocating to death.

The night was dark and windy; the clear light of the full moon illuminated the port, casting its glow on the moored fishing boats.

Setting aside Bai Tanlang, who was still on the side of the Year Beast Monarch, the captain of the White Crow Travel Brigade, along with ten other members, had already gathered here in full.

According to Bai Tanlang's information, the Year Beast Monarch would lead the Zodiac Team in a fierce assault on Lake Hunting tonight.

The members of the White Crow Travel Brigade only needed to wait for the right moment within Hai Fan City. There was no need for any signals—as soon as that group of Demons started, it would inevitably cause a commotion known throughout the city, making it difficult for anyone to pretend ignorance.

At that time, they would move in and attempt to take down the four members of Lake Hunting.

Even though each member of Lake Hunting's individual combat capability far surpassed Rainbow Wings and was almost touching the ceiling of the Catastrophe Level, it was impossible for them to escape unscathed amidst the siege of more than a dozen Catastrophe-level individuals from both the Year Beast Monarch and the White Crow Travel Brigade.

At this moment, Xia Pingzhou and Ayase Origami were quietly sitting on a public wooden bench next to a street lamp.

They intentionally found a street lamp without hanging bodies, otherwise, they would have to watch the corpses of the Exorcists swinging back and forth.

The orange-yellow light streamed down through the lamp's cover, illuminating their expressionless faces as one of them played Minesweeper on his phone, while the other practiced typing.

Ayase Origami habitually used their Line chat interface for typing practice, so whenever Xia Pingzhou picked up his phone, he could see some inexplicable and fragmented chat messages.

At that moment, he looked down at his phone, also able to see messages from the kimono-clad girl.

The Line alert box would occasionally pop up from the top of the screen.

[KamiNeko: Idiot.]

[KamiNeko: Marshmallow.]

[KamiNeko: Dolphin.]

[KamiNeko: Kitty, turn your head.]

Seeing the latest message, Xia Pingzhou raised an eyebrow, then turned his head to meet the pitch-black eyes of the kimono girl, who was staring at him intently.

"What's up?"

Xia Pingzhou curiously asked. She remained silent.

"What did Takayama say to you at that time?" Ayase Origami suddenly asked after some thought.

"'At that time' refers to?" Xia Pingzhou asked, perplexed.

"The auction."

"Oh, you mean after you were about to take action against Zhou Jiuya, and I knocked you out?" Xia Pingzhou pondered for a moment, then lifted his head to ask her, "Are you sure you want to hear about it?"

In his memory, Ayase Origami had never asked about this in over a month. He had avoided bringing up Oda Takashige, fearing it might sadden her.

Xia Pingzhou didn't expect that after all this time, he'd forgotten about it, and Ayase Origami would suddenly mention it.

The kimono-clad girl nodded silently, looking at him.

"He said at the time... to take good care of you, and also said, 'Mr. Xia Pingzhou, I'll leave the young lady to you.'"

Xia Pingzhou said softly. He still remembered that scene at the auction vividly, a memory strong for someone as weak as he was back then. To his eyes, a powerful "Oda Takashige" was turned to blood in an instant by a falling bronze pillar.

It was a brutally abrupt scene that shattered Xia Pingzhou's game-like composure for the first time.

It wasn't until that moment that he understood the insurmountable gap between Dragon-level Superpower Users and Catastrophe-level Superpower Users.

Zhou Jiuya wanted to make an example quickly and leave, so he didn't target Quasi-Catastrophe-level members but chose two easy Dragon-level ones to shock everyone swiftly.

If not for luck, perhaps it wouldn't have been Lan Duoduo and Oda Takashige who died, but Xia Pingzhou.

But now, the White Crow Travel Brigade was no longer the same. After the trial by the Royal Court battle, they had the confidence to contend with the world's strongest, no longer at the mercy of others.

"And that's all. The situation was urgent then, and Uncle Takayama only had time to leave me with those words."

After saying this, Xia Pingzhou was silent for a while, head bowed, not daring to look at Ayase Origami's expression.

"Why did Takayama say that back then?" Ayase Origami asked softly, her eyes downcast.

"I don't understand. I was so weak back then, one of the weakest in the brigade, so entrusting you to me was a strange choice." Xia Pingzhou paused, turning to look at her, "Maybe because he knew you liked sticking with me?"