Chapter Ninety-Six: The Turtle

With a creaking sound, the door to the Snowy Mountain Bar slowly opens, and the moment Fluttershy walks into the bar, she immediately catches the eyes of all the men in the bar. Fluttershy sits on the bar stool at the bar, her jade fingers bent on the bar and taps, and the bartender turns to look at the snow-capped woman in front of her.

"Miss, what do you want to drink?"

"Whatever, I'll ask you something."

The bartender puts down the champagne glass he was wiping, pours a low-alcohol glass of tequila and puts it in front of Fluttershy.

"It was cold, drank this warm. Oh, by the way, what are you going to inquire about? ”

Fluttershy picks up the glass and sinks it down, and despite the low agave flavor, the spicy flavor quickly blasts her taste buds, and it doesn't take long for her whole body to warm up. She asked, placing a picture in front of the bartender.

"Do you know this person?"

Since the photo is a remake of Fluttershy, it's a bit blurry. The bartender looked at it for a moment before speaking.

"It seems to have been taken in front of our store."

"Well, I wonder if you recognize this person."

The bartender puts down the photo and pours Fluttershy another glass, and when he glances at Fluttershy and sees that Fluttershy is looking at him coldly, the bartender turns his gaze back to the glass that is about to be full. Said.

"I don't know. Beauty, your wine. ”

Fluttershy grabs her glass and gulps it down, and is about to turn away after paying for it, when a drunken man stands in front of Fluttershy and says flirtatiously.

"The beautiful woman will drink two glasses with me."

Fluttershy takes a step to the side, trying to bypass the drunk, but the drunk gets back in front of Fluttershy and continues.

"Don't be so cold, my brother not only has money but also has many treasures."

As the drunk speaks, he touches his crotch, and Fluttershy feels sick and has a smiling expression on her face, and one of her hands touches the man's crotch, and the man's eyes are wide open and he shows off to his friends with a hippie smile, and just as he is about to celebrate his success, Fluttershy suddenly grabs his little thumb and slams it hard, only to hear the sound of a broken bone, followed by the screams of a drunk man killing a pig. The drunk rolled on the ground in pain, knocking over many tables and chairs. Fluttershy breaks off his remaining four fingers, and the people around her look at Fluttershy in shock, all of whom look down at their glasses when she gets up and looks around. Fluttershy looks at the bar again and says.

"Sorry to mess up your shop."

The bartender shrugged.

"He deserves it."

Fluttershy leaves some money behind and kicks the drunk in the face before heading out. As she walks out of the bar, Fluttershy suddenly doesn't know where she is going. Because of a moment of anger, he hid in the car and followed Zhang Ze and Mishima to Kashi Town, not to mention cosmetics, and even took warm clothes. After entering the hotel, Zhang Ze and Mishima are not heard from, and Fluttershy has no choice but to return to the bar.

The drunk moans in pain on the floor, and Fluttershy steps over to sit on the bar stool and knocks on the bar. When the bartender saw that she was back, he poured another glass of tequila and said.

"Nowhere to go?"

Fluttershy nods as she holds her glass, and the bartender looks at Fluttershy's thin leather coat and pulls out a thick down jacket from under the bar and hands it to her.

"Put it on."

Fluttershy says coldly.

"I don't wear men's clothes."

The bartender smiled and said.

"Coincidentally, this is really not men's clothing."

Suspiciously, Fluttershy takes the down jacket and notices that the color scheme of the dress is feminine, and she tries it on her body, which is not only warm but also fits well.

"It's the first time I've heard of down jackets sold in a bar."

"It's not for sale, it's my sister's clothes."

"Then if you give it to me, aren't you afraid that your sister will be angry?"

"No, it won't."

Fluttershy snorts.

"Men are self-righteous creatures."

The bartender burst out laughing.

"What about the woman?"

Fluttershy's eyes widen at the bartender's question, and she doesn't know what to answer for a moment, so she gives him a wide roll of the eyes. The bartender asked, reining in his smile.

"Are you here to find the woman in the photo?"

Fluttershy's hand as she lifts her glass stops in the air, and she asks.

"Do you know where she is?"

"I don't know."

"Then why are you asking me?"

"Just because I don't know doesn't mean I don't know her."

"Why didn't you say it when I asked you just now."

The bartender smiled faintly and said.

"How do I know what you're looking for her, and I have to judge if you're dangerous."

The bartender gestures to the drunk man on the ground with his chin as she speaks, and Fluttershy blushes suddenly.

"Now you've figured it out?"

"Hmm. I know from the compensation you just left behind that you're not a dangerous person. ”

"I was defending myself, and you said he deserved it."

The bartender picked up the phone next to him, dialed a number and said.

"Red Bean, someone is looking for you at the bar."

Fluttershy can't hear what Redbean says on the phone, only the bartender.

"Okay, understood."

The bartender says as he hangs up the phone and looks at Fluttershy, whose excited expression is immediately irrepressible.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Is it Sister Red Bean? Is she coming? ”

"Are you familiar with each other?"

"She's my savior."

The bartender leads Fluttershy to the warehouse where the wine is kept.

"You'll be waiting for her right here."

Fluttershy nods excitedly, and the bartender just walks away when a secret door opens on the wall next to the warehouse, and Red Bean appears in the doorway. Fluttershy looks at Reddan, tears of excitement rolling back and forth in her eyes, and Redbean is startled at first when she sees Fluttershy, then immediately calms down and then softly shouts.

"Fluttershy."

Fluttershy gets up and runs to Redbean, throwing herself into Redbean's arms and crying. Startled by Fluttershy's cry, Redbean asks softly by patting her on the back.

"What's wrong? Bullied? ”

Fluttershy shook her head like a mother caring about her child, her throat choking as if she had been choked with a stone. Redbean smiles and puts her arm around Fluttershy's shoulders as the two of them make their way through the secret door to another room. Fluttershy sees Akizawa and Mishima sitting in a corner, and the three of them look at each other and burst out laughing. Zhang Ze said.

"I didn't expect to find red beans so easily, and now that Fluttershy is here, it's a reunion."

Fluttershy says as she wipes tears from her eyes.

"If I hadn't come with me secretly, how could I have met Sister Hongdou so soon."

Azuki said with a smile.

"Sit down. Just now, the water washed the Dragon King Temple. ”

Fluttershy asks in surprise.

"What's wrong?"

Azuki glanced at Mishima, and Mishima said.

"We were anesthetized by anesthetic smoke in the hotel just now, and then Hongdou's men brought us in to torture us, and when Hongdou appeared, she recognized me and let us go. We just got released, and you came. ”

"I see. Sister Hongdou, you should have taught my brother a lesson just now, he always bullied me. ”

"Oh? Why did he bully you? ”

Suddenly, Fluttershy realizes about Yu Toyoya and makes up a nonsense.

"He always said I was fat and that I couldn't get married."

Redbean says, still staring into Fluttershy's eyes.

"You've never succeeded by lying to me."

Fluttershy says as she sticks out her tongue.

"Alright. I say. It's Yu Toyoya, she asked my brother to come to you, but she herself hid aside, I don't think it's fair. ”

Mishima's face immediately plummets and she glares at Fluttershy, who grimaces at Mishima with her arm around Azuki. Mishima was about to speak when he was stopped by Azuki. She said lightly.

"Actually, I know that Xiaoyou came to me. It's me who avoided her, and I don't blame her for quitting CLA in the first place. Don't look at her usual big grin, in fact, she is a very soft person at heart, she is not suitable for a life of fighting and killing, and I avoided her to prevent her from getting involved again. ”

With that, Hongdou picked up the wine bottle at hand and took a big sip, then raised his hand and rubbed his head. Fluttershy asks.

"Sister Hongdou, is the shrapnel hurting again?"

"I've gotten used to it for so many years."

At this time, Zhang Ze asked.

"Red Bean, do you know the scientific expedition team 5 years ago?"

Hongdou smiled faintly and said.

"What kind of scientific expedition team is it? That's the CLA sent here by Liu Yi. ”

Hearing this, Mishima and Fluttershy both look at Azuki with shocked faces, and Mishima asks.

"The CLA 5 years ago was not under Liu Yi's control."

That's true, but the person who supported CLA's survival at that time was Liu Yi, and his investment in CLA at that time was equivalent to twice the annual military spending of the United States. At that time, I was also blinded by money, and I didn't find out about Liu Yi's wolf ambitions, and I was finally squeezed out by him, and even became his puppet for a time, so that I had to risk death in exchange for freedom. ”

Zhang Ze then asked.

"Then why did Liu Yi send CLA over at that time?"

"Of course, I'm here to find the Sealed World."

"Could it be that someone has already known the news of the cold ice of the world?"

Red Bean laughed and said.

"Looks like there's a lot you don't know. There are three major treasures in the world, the phoenix bead, the sealed ice, and the ancient wooden cup. All three are treasures from ancient times, and the energy contained in them is also mutually restrained. The cold ice can restrain the phoenix fire, the ancient wooden jar can seal the cold of the ice, and the fire of the phoenix bead can burn the ancient wooden jar to ashes. Ordinary people know very little about these things, and some have only heard of them from folklore, but in fact, they are all real, such as the phoenix bead that you found not long ago. ”

Zhang Ze asked in surprise.

"How did you know we were looking for the Phoenix Bead not long ago?"

"Don't look at me in this small place, in fact, I know everything about the outside, and I also know that the phoenix died in the hands of Fang Fan."

Hongdou couldn't help but laugh when he looked at Zhang Ze's surprised expression, and Zhang Ze asked.

"Who the hell wants these three treasures?"

Azuki looked at a piece of paper on the wall with the outline of a black figure on it.

"It's this person, your current rival questioner and Liu Yi are all employed by him. All I know is that this man's name is General, and he is a well-known collector abroad, but strangely enough, no one has ever seen him in real form. He has no interest in ordinary treasures, but is interested in legendary treasures, even at the cost of a large amount of money. Under the heavy reward, there will be a brave man, I think you all understand. ”

"So that's the case, no wonder the questioner will join forces with Liu Yi, it turns out that their purpose is the same."

Zhang Ze continued.

"We also heard that five years ago, the expedition team built a laboratory on the snowy mountain, and then it exploded, and the explosion caused a magnetic storm, so the people in this town are suffering from the strange disease of not sleeping?"

Hongdou suddenly became emotional when he heard this, and said.

"What a magnetic storm. It's all a lie, they did build a laboratory, but the cause of the explosion was deliberately detonated, their purpose was to kill everyone in the town, and the explosion did not cause a magnetic storm, but a psychotoxin that spread into the air. That psychotoxin can keep the brain awake and excited for 24 hours, and over time people here will never sleep again, and with it a terrible mutation. ”

"What mutation?"

"People here are normal during the day, but at night their skin is like a transparent plastic sheet, and you can see blue blood flowing in the veins under the skin."

Zhang Ze said in surprise.

"Blue blood? No wonder I saw a blue light flashing across the young girl's face. ”

"People here are infertile, but they will live a long life."

"Is this also caused by psychotoxins?"

Azuki shook his head and said.

"It's not clear."

Mishima asked with a long sigh.

"Do you have any clues about the location of the Sealed Ice? To tell you the truth, we're here to find cold ice this time. ”

Hongdou took a sip of wine and said.

"I know, in order to extinguish the phoenix fire. The phoenix fire does not burn the body, but directly burns the spiritual fire of the soul. ”

"yes. That's why we came all the way to find it for the sake of our friends. ”

"The ice is just behind the ice wall. But there's one more thing needed to get through the ice wall. ”

"What's that?"

"Turtle."

"Turtle?"

Azuki Bean nodded and said.

"This turtle lives under a glacier, can't you think of it? There are about 206 species of turtles and turtles in the world, and the reason why turtles are not among them is that they are so rare. Turtles live under glaciers all year round, and even if you open all the glaciers in the world, you can't get 10 turtles. ”

"Then you mean that our trip is in vain."

"Don't worry, listen to me slowly. Although turtles are rare, there is one here. ”

Zhang Ze said excitedly.

"Where?"

"The Mandrill Gang."

Zhang Ze and Mishima stiffened aside as if they had been struck by lightning, and Hongdou looked at the two people in a daze and asked.

"What's wrong with you?"

Mishima said with a poker face.

"We just taught the Mandrill Gang a lesson."

"Their boss has a little friendship with me, leave it to me."

The expressions on Zhang Ze and Mishima's faces immediately soothed, and Mishima asked in a low voice.

"Red Bean, who are the people living in this hotel?"

Red Bean said mysteriously.

"It's all mine, but keep it a secret, and I'll tell you when I have a chance later."

Without further ado, Red Bean took Zhang Ze and Mishima and set off for the territory of the Mandrill Gang. In the distance, the snow is covered, the Kashi Mountains are hidden under the holy white snow, and the eagle song echoes in the mountain streams. The snow under Zhang Ze's feet creaked when he stepped on it, he took a deep breath, felt dizzy for a moment, and the clean air pierced into his lungs, and he couldn't help but shout. The shouts hit the snow on the top of the mountain, and I don't know if the heroic spirits under the snow can hear it, and a gust of wind carries the snowflakes from the top to the bottom of the mountain.

Mishima and Hongdou were both startled by Zhang Ze's shouting, they looked at Zhang Ze who was standing at the foot of the mountain looking up at the sky at this time, and the two walked up to him and said.

"What's wrong with you?"

"It's fine. It's just a shout to vent. ”

Hongdou said helplessly.

"This is Mandrill Gang territory, and you're doing this like a demonstration."

As soon as they finished speaking, a group of men on horseback came to them. The leader was dressed in animal skins and held a shotgun in his hand, and the scar from his forehead to the corners of his mouth was clearly visible. He looked at the three people in front of him and spoke loudly in the local dialect. Red Bean said.

"Look, what did I say, bring them in."

Zhang Ze asked in a low voice.

"What is he talking about?"

"He asked who we were?"

After that, Hongdou stepped forward to negotiate with the man, and after a few simple words, Hongdou took out a sign from behind him and handed it to the person. After seeing this, the man hurriedly and politely took the three of them to the base camp of the Mandrill Gang. The base camp is a large camp composed of independent tents, and the middle tent is the largest, and the three of them walked in and someone poured three bowls of hot tea, and then went out. Mishima asked.

"Who are we waiting for?"

"Of course it's their helper."

After a while, a tall man walked into the tent, he stepped forward very enthusiastically and hugged Hongdou, and hugged her for a circle, and then looked at Zhang Ze and Mishima with indifferent eyes, and the man was followed by two strong men. Mishima took a closer look and found that one of the strong men was the same person who had been teaching at the small supermarket in the early hours of the morning. When the man saw Mishima, there was a clear fear in his eyes, and when Mishima put his hand in front of him, he involuntarily took a step back. Red Bean said.

"There was some misunderstanding between my friend and your subordinates before, I hope you don't take it to heart."

The helper picked up the wine bowl on the table and drank it all, and then said with his wrist the residual wine that had been in his mouth.

"Naturally, I don't care, but I have to have an explanation for my people to be beaten."

With that, the helper threw a scimitar on the table and continued.

"Leave a finger and it's over."

Red Bean looked at it and said.

"Helper, we're old friends, don't embarrass me like this, right?"

"Sorry for you? If I had embarrassed you, would you have come in alive? Your friendship with me is between us, and your friend is between you, so you shouldn't mix these two things, right? ”

When Azuki was about to say something, he was stopped by Mishima, he said.

"Needless to say, I was reckless. This is how it should be done. ”

With that, Mishima picked up the scimitar on the table, and at the moment when Mishima was about to start, one was hit at Mishima's elbow, and Mishima's entire arm holding the knife suddenly became numb, and the scimitar fell to the ground with a crisp sound. The three of them looked at the helper at the same time, and he suddenly laughed and said.

"Well, it's a man, forget about beating people."

At this time, the strong man who was taught by Mishima took two bowls of wine and handed one bowl to Mishima. After the two of them touched each other's wine bowls, they drank them all, which was considered to be a release of their suspicions. At this time, the gang leader sent all the people around him, and only the three red beans were left in the camp. The helper drank another bowl of wine and said.

"Red Bean, it's definitely more than that simple for you to come to me this time, right?"

"The helper is wise. I'm here to borrow something from you. ”

The helper rolled his eyes, then laughed and said.

"What do you want to borrow?"

"Turtle."

The helpful leader's previous pleasant expression suddenly became serious and said.

"Come with me."

The three of them followed the gang leader to a cave next to the base camp, and suddenly a deafening roar came from the cave, and then a gust of wind whistled out from the deepest part of the cave.