The sky turned from blue to white, and the dark corners where the fingers could not be reached gradually emerged. Chasing a flickering gear monster in a dark alley, she raised her hand and fired a shot, and the monster disappeared in time to a trash can, the bullet piercing a round hole in the trash can. The cogwheel monster appeared next to a mossy stone pillar a few meters away from the trash can, and a black spike struck through the air, so fast that it didn't have time to make the next space jump. With a piercing scream, the cogwheel monster stiffened in the air like a rag, and was nailed to the stone pillar by the inertia of the spike.

"Sixth." Xia Yan stepped out from behind the stone pillar opposite, took off the gear monster nailed to the pillar, and put it in his pocket. He had already filled Asaarashi's pocket with 5 youkai before he began to finish his part.

"It's more difficult to find traces of this kind of monster than it is to capture it." Asaarashi looked around and said.

"The brighter the sky, the faster the gear monster moves." After fastening his pockets, Xia Yan looked at the rectangular sky above him and said, "We're going to speed up." ”

Qian Lan nodded, glanced at Xia Yan's pocket and said, "Although there is a regulation on the number of spikes that each student can receive, but Yan still took more just now, right?" ”

"Well, I quietly took two more." Xia Yan took out 6 black spikes from his pocket and admitted.

"Because of Nishizawa?" Asarashi asked, remembering that Nishizawa needed to capture twice as many cogwheel monsters as they were.

"Not exactly," Xia Yan said with a smile at her, "Nishizawa doesn't necessarily need help from others, and it's just to be on the safe side." ”

Qianlan looked at him with some puzzlement. Xia Yan led her out of the alley and walked deeper into the ruins, while turning back and explaining to her: "For this mission, Mr. Bai has always emphasized the number of monsters, and whether we or Nishizawa and the others who are additionally punished, they only need to capture a certain number of monsters to pass the level. But not once did he mention the danger of these monsters. This suggests that these monsters themselves should not be dangerous - at least in Mr. Bai's opinion. Xia Yan glanced at the mountain of scrap collection yards in front of him, and found no trace of any living creatures, "Since these monsters are not dangerous, the reason for the limited number is obvious. ”

"They're scarce?" Asa-arashi thought for a moment and said, "Or maybe they're hard to catch......"

"Or both." Xia Yan smiled slightly, "Anyway, we've already seen the latter possibility, and space jumping is really tricky. So, assuming that there aren't many youkai out there, it's always good to grab as many as you can when you encounter them, right? ”

"But the extra youkai don't bring any extra points...... Ran said, looking into Xia Yan's eyes, as if she could read his thoughts. Then he sighed slightly and said, "No matter what you want to do, you have to avoid letting Mr. Bai notice that you have taken more props." Sister Alice wants you to watch out for him. ”

"Ah, I've been on the lookout." Xia Yan put the spike back into his pocket and smiled at her with relief. "It's too early to worry about the monsters exceeding the standard, so let's catch enough of the required amount before making plans."

In a dark underground parking garage, brothers Bud and Bernie are searching for a gear monster that has escaped here. The two of them squinted and carefully searched for traces of the youkai among the dilapidated airships, which were limited in their visibility due to the only flickering fluorescent green light sources in the underground garage.

A black shadow flashed from an airship not far away, and Bernie raised his hand, half frightened, half reflexively, to shoot it. The dark shadow paused for a moment, and then a cold voice rang out.

"You almost killed me, Johnson."

Izumi Watanabe stepped out of the gloom into the area covered by the cold light source, holding a large white boomerang in his right hand, with a sharp blade at one end. At this moment, a clear bullet mark is imprinted in the center of the boomerang.

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect it to be you." Bernie grunted, but there wasn't much apology in his tone. He looked around, still looking for the gear monster.

"How many did you catch?" Bard asked, looking at the bulging pocket that Izumi Watanabe had straddled his arm.

"Eight, what about you?" Izumi Watanabe replied briefly.

"I'm only 12 with Berniga." Bard said weakly, "This is so hard to find, we followed some of the students and then attacked them before them, and we barely managed to catch these." ”

"It's not been a few minutes since the sun came out, has it?" Izumi Watanabe said meaningfully.

"Does our alliance still count?" Bernie couldn't help but say, he glanced at Izumi Watanabe's pocket, "Punisher Alliance, didn't you say that we have to help each other and complete the mission together when the mission is doubled?" ”

"I didn't catch 10 of them myself, so you don't expect me to give you a few monsters, do you?" Izumi Watanabe asked amusedly.

"Maybe we shouldn't split up and catch youkai together." Bud said, a little annoyed, "I proposed it at first, but you said you were going to find that Nishizawa and invite him to join us, so you went it alone. How's that, have you found him? ”