Chapter 67

“…… Beheading? Ao Ling's tone was full of disbelief.

Night Rabbit nodded, "It's normal everywhere, when you suddenly disappeared three years ago, wasn't your teacher already in the hands of the shogunate?" ”

And he was taken away by the shogunate on charges of a crime, and it is very surprising that it can drag on for three years.

Ao Ling opened his mouth, feeling a little confused.

Others don't know, but Ao Ling is clear, when he left, Teacher Songyang personally told him that the person who caused the disturbance outside was going to pick him up.

Since he was there to pick up Matsuyo-sensei, why is the teacher still in the hands of the shogunate?

Ao Ling originally thought that it was still in the hands of the shogunate as a cover to fool others, but in fact it should have been transferred to Edo safely, but not long after he was relieved, he actually heard the bad news that Matsuyo-sensei was going to be beheaded.

Ao Ling frowned and guessed the possibility, and looked up at the night rabbit, "Edo...... In which direction? ”

"To the east of where you are, you'll find it if you go east." The night rabbit pointed to his nose and looked at Ao Ling with a smile.

The night rabbits of the Spring Rain Seventh Division have cooperated with Ao Ling a lot of times, and they know a lot about this young man's ability.

For example, this night rabbit knows that Ao Ling has a very sensitive sense of smell, and as long as he can get something with the aura of the target, he can carry out the task of reconnaissance more efficiently than any good informant.

After all, the strength of this teenager with a mysterious race is very strong.

Even if the target is covered in layers of concealment, Ao Ling can find the opponent with great precision and kill them.

In general, this boy is a very good partner to work with, and he is also a very sharp blade, and he also has a very simple and clear heart.

If it weren't for the fact that Ao Ling didn't have some characteristics unique to night rabbits, they would almost think that this boy was a night rabbit who had fallen to the earth.

The night rabbit who was in charge of liaison on Chunyu's side looked at the handsome-looking young man opposite with his face propped up, his light-colored pupils turned back to the screen with new movements, and he raised his eyebrows in surprise when he saw the newly handed information.

"Ling, your teacher is gone."

Ao Ling was stunned, "...... What the? ”

"It seems to have been robbed halfway, and the details are unclear - you'd better go and see it as soon as possible."

"Thank you, I'll contact you when it's over." After Ao Ling finished speaking, he was about to turn off the contact, but stopped at the last moment.

He looked at the man who suddenly walked into the screen, lowered his gaze and bowed slightly, "It's been a long time, Lord Fengxian." ”

"Long time no see, Ling." Fengxian laughed twice, then paused slightly, "You're going to Edo?" ”

Ao Ling nodded, an anxiety between his eyebrows.

"If you need shelter, you can go to Yoshiwara in Edo." Feng Xian said, with a subtle softness in her eyes, fleeting, almost making Ao Ling think it was an illusion.

Regarding what Feng Xian said, Ao Ling nodded without hesitation and accepted the kindness.

"Thank you, Lord Fengxian."

"I also have a kid here who wants to borrow your hand and give it a beating." Feng Xian, who was standing on the top of the night rabbit, held his cheeks, looked at the black-haired boy who was about to jump up in a hurry across the screen, smiled and waved his hand, "Go quickly." ”

Before the voice fell, the communication screen had been turned off by Ao Ling.

Fengxian looked at the severed communication interface, looked at the information on the screen, and turned his gaze to the smiling night rabbit on the side.

"Keep an eye on Yoshiwara." The man standing on top of the Night Rabbit said this, and without saying much about the fact that the liaison was using his intelligence network in Edo to help others check things, he stood up and left the contact room.

……

Ao Ling left the secret stronghold, and the morning mist cleared, and the sun shone down on the ground, illuminating the entire Hagi Castle.

The black-haired boy suddenly realized that Hagi Castle seemed to be no longer what he remembered.

In the distance, there were tall buildings in the middle of the city, which was very different from the low-rise urban area where he was now.

On the streets here, the celestials walked openly, and the humans who dominated Hagi Castle in memory all cowered and made way for the swaggering celestials.

More precisely, humanity seems to have simply lost the right to walk in the middle of the road.

Ao Ling frowned as he looked at a storefront in the distance that had been smashed by angry celestials, his eyes swept around the people who had avoided him, his hand holding the knife tightened, and finally he simply turned around and left Hagi City.

It is more important to find a teacher quickly than to seek justice for these people who have been bullied to the point of numbness.

A few pieces of paper were pasted on the notice board at the city gate, which seemed to have been pasted for a long time, and they looked a little broken and blurred when they were blown by the wind.

Ao Ling directly bypassed the guards who seemed a little lazy during the day, and was just about to leave, but was stopped by those few pieces of paper.

The portrait on the paper was no longer legible, but the words on it were still vaguely recognizable.

- Gintoki Sakata, Kotaro Katsura, Shinsuke Takasugi, and Tatsuma Sakamoto.

The names of these four words were written on four sheets of paper, and the small characters at the bottom had been completely blurred, but what this paper was used for, Ao Ling knew very well.

This is a wanted warrant.

It seems that the situation of the few of them and Teacher Songyang is not very good, Ao Ling licked his lips, looked at the portraits a few more times with some anxiety, and turned his head and rushed towards the east.

Edo is a bit far east of Hagi Castle, but it's a matter of hours for Ao Ling, who is now much stronger.

Edo, as the capital of today, is much more advanced than Hagi Castle, and similarly, as a capital city, it has a large population and a very mixed atmosphere.

Ao Ling stood outside Edo Castle, looking up at the spaceships flying overhead from time to time, carefully distinguishing the chaotic aura, trying to find the familiar aura in it.

He was anxious and a little scared.

What if he didn't have time to save Mr. Songyang?

Ao Ling even suspected that what Abe Qingming said to him before fooled him.

All three of them were wanted, and Matsuyo-sensei's physical condition was held in the shogunate's custody for three years, and the situation must have been particularly bad, and now he was even ordered to be beheaded and robbed halfway......

And it will definitely not be Sakata Gintoki who robbed the teacher.

Ao Ling knew this very well, because if it was Sakata Gintoki and them, Night Rabbit's intelligence network would definitely recognize them directly.

The grim situation had made Ao Ling very anxious, and the chaotic and indistinguishable aura of Edo Castle had undoubtedly exacerbated his inner irritability and rising anger.

"The one over there!"

Ao Ling, who was interrupted from searching, turned his head at the sound and saw two dog-headed celestials walking towards him, and their eyes fell on his knife.

"Isn't there a ban on knives already issued?" A dog's head frowned, and as soon as he stopped, he reached for the knife on Ao Ling's waist.

The monster boy frowned and stopped the other party's hand.

He smelled the scent of Sakata Gintoki in the two dog heads.

"Have you seen a guy with a white natural curly haircut lately?" Ao Ling asked, his tone a little unusually calm.

The dog's head didn't listen to what he said at all, and twitched the hand that was held by Ao Ling, but found that the other party's strength was really great, and couldn't help but be a little annoyed, "Human, hand over the knife!" ”

Ao Ling ignored him and asked repeatedly, "Have you ever seen a white natural roll?" ”

"I haven't seen it!" The dog's other hand was in the holster, and the gun had not yet been drawn. When I came out, I seemed to hear the sound of something breaking in my ears, and as soon as my neck was cold, I no longer felt anything.

Ao Ling set his gaze on another dog-headed celestial, and calmly let go of the celestial whose neck he had directly choked, and his face was stained with the warm blood flesh that had been splashed, rolling down his white and smooth cheeks.

His hands had turned into sharp claws, and his nails glowed a terrifying purple black in the sun.

"I'm in a hurry." Ao Ling's tone was light, and a faint trace of red like blood appeared around a pair of pitch-black beast pupils, "So please be sure to think about it." ”

The black-haired teenager paused, and asked again repeatedly, "Have you ever seen a white natural roll recently?" ”

Frightened by Ao Ling's strange changes and the death of his companions, the celestials shuddered and were busy pulling it out. The gun was broken in the next moment by the handsome and well-behaved young man who was very fierce in his hands.

"I'm in a hurry, so patience isn't good." Ao Ling pinched the celestial man's neck, and when he got closer, he noticed that the other party still had a trace of the smell of Katsura Kotaro and Takasugi Shinsuke.

It's very light, but it's there.

Ao Ling's hand couldn't help but clench a little.

The dog-headed celestial man was pinched and let out a "ho" exhalation sound, and he stared at the young man covered in wide eyes, and there seemed to be blood in his eyes.

The celestial man grabbed Ao Ling's wrist and nodded with great difficulty.

Ao Ling relaxed his strength slightly and looked at the other party coldly.

"The day before yesterday, they went south." The celestial man shuddered, the threat of death and the pain of his broken hand making his body weak, and he knelt on the ground with the strength of Ao Ling's hand.

Ao Ling withdrew his hand, shook off the blood on his hand, and turned to leave here.

Just when the celestial man breathed a sigh of relief, a pitch-black blade appeared in front of him at some point, quietly levitating.

The sun can't shine a little bit on it.

This was the last thing that the celestial man saw that belonged to the world.

Ao Ling sped in the direction of the south of Edo Castle, and because the human form slowed down, he turned into a black giant dog and flashed over Edo, where many ships were floating, amid the exclamations of the people.

Seeing that the crowd is gradually becoming sparse, there is a faint hint of familiarity in the wind.

And the smell of blood.

Ao Ling finally smelled the scent of Teacher Songyang.

The smell was a little strange, and the blood still had that indescribable fragrance.

But the decay and weakness contained in it are like an ordinary human being, and there is no longer as strong as before.

The huge black dog smelled the sweetness and blood smell that was getting thicker and thicker, and the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

He ran wildly in the direction from which the bloody breath had come from.

Finally, on a cliff not too high, he saw the corpse that had fallen to the ground and lost its head, and the head of Matsuyo-sensei who had rolled down to the side with a peaceful smile.

- There are also corpses everywhere, a group of people who are completely stunned, and Sakata Gintoki, who is holding a blade stained with Matsuyo-sensei's blood.

Ao Ling's heart was almost broken.

What broke him down was not the fact that Matsuyo-sensei was beheaded by Sakata Gintoki's own hands, but the huge darkness that was gradually approaching Matsuyo-sensei's soul.

"Roar——!!!

The huge black dog let out an angry roar, and the demonic power quickly spread out, and a heavy black-red whip whipped through the darkness.

The darkness also let out a roar, dodging Ao Ling's demonic power, and turned his head and rushed towards the black dog.

Ao Ling opened a mouthful of sharp teeth, and without hesitation, he smothered at the darkness that rushed over.

An endless stream of deep darkness flowed into his stomach, carrying a cold, piercing chill.

In that moment of darkness, when he noticed that Ao Ling was devouring him, the sharp claws wrapped in thick demonic power slapped down fiercely, biting the head of the half of the darkness and flicking it, tearing the seemingly tangible darkness in half!

The torn pitch black instantly withered, crumbling into smoke under Ao Ling's claws, and disappeared without a trace.

Ao Ling could sense that the darkness had not completely disappeared, but had fled, but now, he didn't want to chase it.

With a flick of his tail, the huge black dog swept the group of hat-wearing guys who looked like they were in the hostile camp with Sakata Gintoki off the cliff, and then turned back into a human form after holding the soulless Sakata Gintoki, and took out the box containing the jade of the four souls from the jade plaque with shaking hands.

His gaze was firmly fixed on the soft soul with the face of Songyang Sensei, he took a deep breath, and walked up to the soul that opened its eyes and looked at him in surprise.

"Ling ......?" The soul showed a slight surprise, then showed a familiar soft smile, and nodded softly to the only boy who could see him, "Long time no see." ”

"Long time no see, Mr. Songyang." The black-haired boy opened the dark dark wood box and took out the Jade of the Four Souls.

The jade shines brightly in the sun, and just seeing it makes the ethereal soul solidify a little.

Ao Ling placed the Jade of the Four Souls next to Yoshida Matsuyo's soul and bowed deeply to the soul with a gentle expression.

When he looked up again, his eyes seemed to be soaked in something, and they looked a little red with wetness.

The black-haired boy looked at his commander fixedly, and his voice was slightly nasal and trembling with suppressed tremors.

"Student...... Fortunately, he was not dishonored. ”