Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 505: Opportunity

"They...will be very dangerous?" Shinguji Maki repeated the sentence in a low voice.

Wait a minute.

The little girl looked up at the boy in astonishment.

The meaning contained in this sentence seemed to be different from her understanding.

Shadow Agency in the island country has always claimed to be divine messengers from Takamagahara.

These people not only control the Shinto religion with a total of 120 million believers, but also take over shrines everywhere, holding grand and mysterious ceremonies.

In her opinion, ordinary people who offend divine messengers must hide.

Moreover, after Qing Chen saved her, he had no choice but to take her to hide in the mountains. Usually, it is only weaker people...who need to hide, right?

But now, how can Qing Chen look afraid at all?

Qing Chen glanced at her: "But this time, I won't cover your eyes anymore, and you must keep your eyes open. If you close your eyes, I will have someone send you to live somewhere else, but you and I will not see each other again."

The little girl was stunned, and after hesitating for a long time, she said, "I will definitely not close my eyes."

This made the little girl feel a little strange. Last time, this brother was afraid that she would see bloody scenes, but this time he actively let her watch.

She suddenly understood that this might be a change of attitude.

Although she was too young to understand the reason for this change, Shinguji Maki believed that this change should be good.

Qing Chen rubbed her head and said softly: "Little friend, you have to be prepared to Face^[-] this cruel world...But it's okay, you are the same as me, the road I have traveled, you can also walk."

Shinguji Maki didn't hear anything in her little head.

She only remembered that she and her brother were the same kind of people.

So happy.

"Are we going to fight the bad guys now?" the little girl asked.

Qing Chen thought for a while and said, "Let's get the villagers out of danger first, and then create an opportunity for myself."

"Opportunity?" The little girl's eyes were full of doubts.

She is not a Knight yet, so she doesn't understand the jargon between Knights.

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Bai Chuan Village has a total of 431 people, including ski resort staff and tourists, totaling 943 people.

In this cold winter, more than 400 members of the Shadow Agency were brought to the village road in the center of Bai Chuan Village.

Dozens of huge braziers were lit with oil drums around, illuminating the place as bright as daybreak.

Shadow Agency members were all wearing brown-khaki windbreakers, black trousers, black leather boots, combed their shiny hair, and wore neat ties.

They formed a stark contrast with the tourists and villagers.

A middle-aged man put his hands in his windbreaker pockets and walked slowly around the crowd: "Let me introduce myself, I am Takeda Hideo, a director of the Shadow Agency. I know that some of you must be sheltering that little girl. Let's play a game. Let's use the Gassho-style Houses thatched houses of Bai Chuan Village as a bet. Every ten seconds, if you don't tell me where the little girl is, I will burn down one thatched house."

Gassho-style Houses thatched houses are not only a world cultural heritage, but also the homes of these villagers.

A villager shouted: "We are all legal citizens, why are you doing this?"

Takeda Hideo's Face^[-] turned cold: "The Shadow Agency exists for the future of the nation. Now you are harboring and protecting the little girl and the murderer we are looking for. What's the difference between this and treason? Do you know that seven people from the Shadow Agency died at their hands?"

The villager asked: "What are you doing arresting a little girl like Zhenji? Her life has been so bitter, why do you have to treat her like this?"

"This is the Shadow Agency's business, it's not your turn to ask," Takeda Hideo sneered, took a burning charcoal from the brazier with his bare hand, and threw it into the nearby Gassho-style Houses.

The carefully built thatched houses instantly burned into a raging fire.

The firelight reflected in the pupils of the villagers, with a desperate look like they were in hell.

They found that Takeda Hideo was fine after grabbing the burning charcoal with his bare hands...

Are these people really divine messengers from Takamagahara?

But why would divine messengers treat their believers like this?

As no villagers were willing to reveal Shinguji Maki's whereabouts, Gassho-style Houses turned into flames one after another.

Takeda Hideo had his men pull out the person who had just questioned him and pressed him to the ground.

He stepped on the questioner's cheek with the hard heel of his leather boot, grinding it into the dirt: "You shelter them, but when your house is burned down and your dignity is trampled into the mud, where are they?"

The questioner was so painful that he couldn't breathe, and the blood and mud on his Face^[-] mixed together: "It is you who burned down the Gassho-style Houses, not them."

Takeda Hideo smiled: "Guess what I'll burn if no one is willing to tell me where the little girl is after these Gassho-style Houses are all burned down?"

"Tell us."

"After the Gassho-style Houses are burned down, I'll burn you."

"Oh, okay!"

Bai Chuan Village suddenly became quiet, only the crackling sound of the burning fire remained.

Takeda Hideo slowly turned his head to the source of the sound, his Face^[-] contorted, and asked, "Who's talking?"

In the darkness outside the firelight, everyone vaguely saw a boy leading a little girl standing quietly in the south.

In a moment, everyone in the Shadow Agency realized that this was their target. The little girl and the one who killed seven of their members were here!

Takeda Hideo asked in his Bluetooth headset: "What about the people in the south? They didn't even know someone broke through."

However, no one answered him in the Bluetooth headset.

The members of the Shadow Agency were all stunned. To prevent the villagers from escaping, there were more than ten people guarding the south.

How could so many people be killed silently?

The firelight flickered, and Takeda Hideo saw that the boy was covered in blood, but the little girl was clean.

Takeda Hideo said calmly: "Be careful, surround them."

At this time, seeing someone approaching, Shinguji Maki weakly asked in a low voice: "Older Brother, what should we do now?"

Qing Chen whispered: "Run! Run quickly!"

"Ah?" The little girl was stunned. Wasn't she supposed to fight the bad guys? Why did she have to run after only a few words?

The plot development seems a little wrong.

Qing Chen casually said: "After we appear, the Shadow Agency will no longer bother the villagers."

The Shadow Agency members loaded their guns, slowly approached, and carefully guarded against the upcoming killing.

The next second, they saw the boy leading the little girl turn and walk into the darkness.

Walking faster and faster, gradually running...

And, I don't know where the boy took out a mountain bike from a pile of snow, and actually rode the bike with the little girl into the snowy mountains.

The boy seemed to think the speed was not fast enough, so he stood up and pedaled.

Takeda Hideo narrowed his eyes and looked at the boy's back as he rode his bike, thinking that escaping by bike was a little disrespectful.

Qing Chen didn't think there was anything wrong with this, and even felt a little like the guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines fighting the Japanese.

Takeda Hideo sneered: "Get in the car, chase them!"

The next moment, a member of the Shadow Agency suddenly reported in the communication channel: "Director Takeda, our tires have been punctured!"

Takeda Hideo was stunned. They brought hundreds of cars, and they were all punctured?!