Six hours later, it was dark.

Several large jeeps from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, whistling sirens, sped from Tokyo to Yokohama, ran over the rubble of Chinatown, and reached the Kanto headquarters of the Black Dragon Society deep in the bamboo forest.

And in front of this jeep, there was a big dog with a red mane, and its four legs ran faster than four wheels, which surprised the policeman who drove it.

In front of the ruins of the Black Dragon Society, the rear car door opened, and four or five policemen jumped out, as well as Taiki Haneda, and Hikaru Saga, a girl in a school uniform.

She called out to "Ernie Sauce", and the nine colors let out a deer's roar. Many policemen shone their flashlights, hoping to find Qin Beiyang's traces, but they only found a deep crack in the ground, emitting the heat flow of the black dragon's wriggling......

A few hours earlier, the town's grave beast Nine Colors had completed a 30-kilometer sprint from Yokohama to Tokyo. It finds the Marquis of Saga's palace near the Imperial Palace, knocks over the bodyguards and servants who are blocking it, and reaches the princess Hikari, who has just passed her sixteenth birthday.

Haneda Taishu also took refuge in the Marquis's Palace, and when he saw it holding a three-foot Tang knife in his mouth and a cross bow on his front legs, he knew that Qin Beiyang was more than lucky.

Guang ran to his father and begged bitterly, after all, it was Qin Beiyang and Jiuse who saved the lives of everyone in the Marquis's Mansion. Haneda Taiki also asks the Marquis to help, otherwise he will be called ungrateful. The Marquis of Saga hesitated, and then called the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

Nine Colors acts as a guide, leading the way in front of several police cars. Hikaru Saga and Taiki Haneda, along with bodyguards sent by the Marquis, follow the police to Yokohama.

Nine colors will not recognize the wrong place, the black dragon has been buried deep in the cracks in the ground, unless there is another catastrophe, there will be no chance to run out and harm people.

Qin Beiyang is gone.

Not unexpected, although Nine Colors couldn't speak. Neither the Artisan Alliance, nor any other wicked man, could have left him where he was, dead or alive.

Hikaru Saga-chan grabbed his hands in despair: "Mr. Haneda, will my brother ......?"

"No!" Haneda Taiki replied categorically, "Qin Beiyang is a priceless treasure, and no one dares to kill him easily. ”

"Then get him back!"

Guang ordered the police to expand the search area and look for Qin Beiyang within a radius of ten kilometers. There are ruins everywhere, and people are digging up dead people on top of collapsed buildings. At night, many wild dogs gnawed at the carcasses, and the stench of decay was loud......

Qin Beiyang is still nowhere to be found.

Kuseki could no longer sense the direction of his master, and like a headless fly, carrying Hikaru Saga and Haneda Taiki, crossed the road north of Mt. Fuji, where the road was destroyed, and reached Yamanashi Prefecture between the mountains, Kai Province of Takeda Shingen in the Warring States Period; Follow Sagami Bay through Hakone and Atami to the beautiful Izu Peninsula. Kuseki went north into Gunma Prefecture and Ki Prefecture, and from Ibaraki Prefecture to the Pacific coast......

Obviously, Qin Beiyang had been taken out of the Kanto region, and it was extremely far away from the Nine Colors.

The Metropolitan Police Department has long since withdrawn, and hundreds of thousands of people who have gone missing from the Great Kanto Earthquake, whether they are still breathing or have turned into rotting corpses, are looking for their families in the rubble and refugee camps. No matter how powerful the Marquis of Saga is, unless the Prince Regent of Hirohito sends an edict, it is impossible to expend the police force on a Chinese.

Returning to the Marquis' Mansion in Tokyo, Hikaru asked Taiki Haneda to send a message to the Artisan Alliance, and the Marquis of Saga ordered Qin Beiyang to protect Qin Beiyang, regardless of the grievances between the Assassin Alliance and the Artisan Alliance, he must abide by the laws of the Japanese Empire and not kill people at will on Japanese soil.

Haneda conveyed the warning to Schmidt, the gatekeeper, but he believed it to be a futile effort by the Craftsmen League, who considered themselves to be the spokesmen of justice and order.

The place where Qin Beiyang was kidnapped was the Black Dragon Society behind Yokohama's Chinatown. Naturally, the Black Dragon Society is the number one suspect. This made it difficult for the Marquis of Saga, as a Japanese nobleman, he was extremely disgusted with the Black Dragon Society, an organization of the ronins, and did not want to have anything to do with it. However, the Marquis was afraid that his daughter would burn down the rebuilt Marquis's Mansion again, so he contacted the Black Dragon Society through a friend of the Old Scholar Clan.

Taiki Haneda visits the Tokyo headquarters of the Black Dragon Society with a letter from the Marquis of Saga, as well as expensive gifts from Haneda Trading Company. It was a heavily guarded dojo, and although it was badly damaged by the earthquake, it was still guarded by a large number of ronin wearing kimonos and carrying katana swords at their waists. Eighteen years ago, the China League was established here.

Receiving Haneda Taiki was Japan's "King of Ronin", the founder of the Black Dragon Society, Mitsuru Toyama.

This white-bearded old man was born in the turbulent era of the end of the Edo period. Although he was born in a broken samurai family, 60,000 ronins in Japan were willing to go to the soup for him. Toushan Man advocated Greater Asianism, was a close friend of Sun Yat-sen, and fully supported the League to overthrow the Qing court. During the Taisho era, he even intervened in state affairs, around the engagement of the crown prince Hirohito, sent assassins to threaten the Japanese army giant Yama Prefecture Aritomo, and let the ronin beat the adopted son of Duke Xionji Gongwang, and even made Yama Prefecture Youpeng and Xionji Gongwang, the two old enemies, apologize to each other and jointly ask the emperor for guilt, which shows the strength of Toyamaman's power.

A few years ago, Haneda Taiki's father was hacked to death by the ronins of the Black Dragon Society, and now he sees Toushan Man again, and he can't wait to eat the meat and sleep the skin......

Toyama Mitsumi read the letter from the Marquis of Saga, accepted Haneda's gift, and finally stared at the name on a blank piece of paper

Qin Beiyang

"Mr. Haneda, I'm sorry, I don't know this person."

Toyama bowed on the tatami mat and prepared to send off the guests.

"The Yokohama Club of the Black Dragon Society, I heard that a black dragon from Heilongjiang, China, is imprisoned?"

"I found out twenty years ago while traveling in Manchuria. How many people in the world can see the dragon with their own eyes? I hired thousands of hunters and fishermen, used hundreds of kilograms of gunpowder, and even stimulated the Heilongjiang River with a huge amount of electricity, and the water was full of dead fish, and many Russians downstream were electrocuted to capture this black dragon. I bribed the officials of the Qing Kingdom to secretly transport it to Japan and became the patron saint of the Black Dragon Society. The Japanese archipelago on the map is a dragon. With this black dragon from the bottom of the cold river of the Asian continent, guarding the heart of the empire is definitely beneficial to Japan's national fortune! ”

"But the black dragon is also a double-edged sword."

The old man stroked his beard and said, "It's a pity, the hall where the black dragon is imprisoned has been destroyed by an aftershock, but fortunately the black dragon fell into the cracks in the ground, otherwise once it escapes, I am afraid it will cause even greater damage than the Kanto earthquake." ”

Haneda Taiki found nothing, I wonder if Toyama is lying? The forces of the Black Dragon Society are intertwined, and no one dares to touch them easily.

At the end of September, there were no more aftershocks. The relief efforts in Tokyo and Yokohama came to an end, and all that should have been dug up from the rubble was dug up, and many of the corpses were mutilated or highly decomposed, and they were no longer recognizable, and Guang stubbornly believed that Qin Beiyang was not among them.

Taiki Haneda was away from home for a month, and his wife and children were very worried, and finally returned to Osaka.

It would be a few months before the Marquis Saga's mansion was rebuilt, and the family moved out of the stinking Tokyo to a bungalow villa in the high mountains of Karuizawa. Hikari never gave up looking for Qin Beiyang, and she sent the subordinates of the Marquis's Mansion to various parts of Japan to search for news about the "Chinese Qin Beiyang". She carefully kept the ring-headed Tang knife and the Russian cross bow, and regularly asked the craftsman to sharpen and maintain the knife, so that the knife and bow would not be unusable when Qin Beiyang returned.

Jiuse temporarily became the pet of Princess Guang, and followed her to wander on the alpine meadows all day long, as if returning to the misty Taibai Mountain. This is the roof of the Japanese archipelago, and the first heavy snow falls. Hikaru Saga always sighs and hugs the town's tomb beast to look at the smoke from the Asama volcano eruption.

In November, when the second heavy snow fell, the nine colors were gone.

While Hikaru Saga-Hikari mobilized all the servants on the mountain to search for the lost "hounds", Kusei had already crossed the snow-covered Nakasendo Road, passed through the hometown of the Sanada family, and came to the ancient Shinano Province in ancient times, the current Nagano City and Zenko-ji Temple, and the ancient battlefield of Kawanakajima where Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin Ryu fought each other.

The master has told him not to go near Ah Yu or Guang, because the powerful spirit stone in the body of the tomb beast in the town will kill all the master's beloved people like killing the white Russian beauty Katya.

Therefore, in order to protect the life of the light, the nine colors must leave the light and plunge into darkness alone.

Since six years ago, the tomb of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty in Bailuyuan was opened, and the young Qilin Town Tomb Beast came to the world, and the nine colors followed Qin Beiyang around the world, and even crossed the interior of the earth. Except for the two months when the master went to the "Heavenly Academy" and a period of time in prison in Japan, Jiuse almost never separated from him.

Now, in a foreign country, the small town tomb beasts are full of missing their masters, and they can only travel thousands of miles alone. Jiuse believed that as long as he was within a hundred kilometers of Qin Beiyang, even if there were tens of millions of people around, he would be able to smell his scent......

But Jiu Se can't sense where Qin Beiyang is?

It heads north into the ancient Echigo Province and along the coast of the Sea of Japan on the Hokuriku Province, stepping on a thick layer of snow. The town's tomb beast doesn't want to attract attention, its red mane is too eye-catching, and it picks people to walk in the inaccessible mountains. Kuseki crosses the entire island of Honshu and looks out over the snow-covered Hokkaido on the southern shore of the Tsugaru Strait in Aomori Prefecture. There is no need for a ferry, it burrows into the icy sea, although its five elements belong to fire and gold, and it is originally the most afraid of water, but because it has devoured the spirit stone of the tomb beast of the evil dragon town in the East China Sea, it can also turn over the river and the sea like a dragon. It silently crosses the strait, disembarks in Hakodate in southern Hokkaido, climbs Goryokaku, and plunges deep into a snow-capped world......

Kuseki decided to travel all over the Japanese archipelago. It encountered a ferocious black bear in Hokkaido's Daisetsuzan Mountains, and Kuseki used its antlers to fight the bear and kill the behemoth. It then traveled south along the Pacific coast, re-passing the eastern part of Honshu Island and returning from Tokaido to the region. Nine colors couldn't help but be disgusted by the poisonous substance, and attacked the chemical factory in Osaka, feasting on poison enough to kill half of the Japanese. It felt stronger and stronger, and no human or animal could stop it.

The small town tomb beast once again crossed the sea to the island of Shikoku, and in the mountains of Kochi Prefecture, the hometown of Sakamoto Ryoma, it encountered a group of fierce Tosa fighting dogs. Just in the field during the day, the enemy was a huge fierce dog, weighing more than a hundred catties, and dozens of them rushed up to besiege the nine colors. It can't transform and can only cope with it as a big dog. But it doesn't have the teeth of a dog and can't bite each other in turn. But the shell of its hard body cracked many of Tosa Inu's front teeth. Shiver waited until night fell, when it transformed into antlers, stabbed the Tosa dogs to death one by one, and then burned them to ashes with glass fireballs.

It became more and more bloodthirsty, and although the Gravemon didn't need to eat flesh or drink blood at all, it was just eager to kill all ferocious animals and challenge anyone who dared to challenge it. Coming to Kyushu from Shikoku, in a small fishing village in Kagoshima Prefecture, it went to sea to kill many dolphins that migrated in the bay. It even climbed Mount Aso and swallowed a lot of poisonous sulfur.

The dismemberment and shredding of animal carcasses by Kushiki inevitably attracted attention, and Japanese farmers and fishermen thought that a murderous prehistoric monster had appeared and gave it the nickname "ジラ".

The thirteenth year of the Republic of China, 1924, spring.

Finally, it's time for the cherry blossoms to bloom. This year, the Japanese no longer have the interest in cherry blossom viewing, but regard the cherry blossoms that quickly withered into mud as the ghosts of last year's Great Kanto Earthquake. And the roots of every cherry blossom tree in Tokyo and Yokohama seem to be soaked in the blood of the victims.

The small town tomb beast Nine Colors traveled to every prefecture and city in Japan, and returned to the bamboo forest behind Yokohama's Chinatown, the origin of Qin Beiyang's disappearance, and the former Black Dragon Society Dojo.

It is still in ruins, and the black dragon will know that there is a black dragon hidden in the cracks in the ground, and deliberately do not repair it, but let it be buried forever.

Jiuse hid in the bamboo forest, only to see a young woman's face appear under the bright spring sun.

She is dressed in smart Western-style women's clothes, wearing a peaked cap, overalls and cargo pants, and seems to have a dagger hidden at her waist. She turned her head, the spring breeze blowing her black hair, and a pair of dark eyes, as if looking for her brother in the depths of the underground palace.

She's Ah Yu.

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