Kotetsu Yongin looked at the third division team member in front of him in confusion: "This is impossible. Mr. Duan Mu told me that he was coming to the second line of defense to help. If you think about it again, did you ignore it?
, Mr. Duan Mu is the young man in our team who wears black work clothes, black high boots, and has black hair."
"Captain Kotetsu..."
The member of the Third Division who was questioned continuously swallowed his saliva and said nervously: "I have been stationed here all the time, and it is true that no one has been here."
"How can it be?"
Kotetsu Yuune did not refute the title of the members of the third division. Most of them were ordinary soldiers outside the division. When calling the deputy captains of other divisions, they would not add the word "vice". After all, the deputy captain is also the captain...
…This can also be regarded as a manifestation of human sophistication.
She wasn't used to it at first, but after hearing it for a long time, she didn't bother to worry about it anymore.
If Mr. Duan Mu didn't come here, then where did he go?
Kotetsu Yongin couldn't help but have a look of worry on his face. It was only a hundred meters from the position to here. Even if Duan Mu was a road fool, he couldn't possibly get lost in such a short distance, right? What's more, there was a giant virtual reference object at the time.
.
Could it be...
He ran to the center of the battlefield in order to see the void up close?
Thinking of this, Kotetsu Yuune couldn't help but look towards the center of the battlefield where the battle had just ended, and found that the members of the Third Division who had killed the last giant Hollow on the front line had returned with the wounded, but they could not be found among them.
Duan Mu's figure made the worry on Kotetsu Yongin's face even more intense.
When I got up, I wanted to go up to them and ask these people if they had seen Mr. Duan Mu.
"Yongyin."
But before she could step forward, a familiar voice came from behind.
"team leader?"
Kotetsu Yongin turned around and realized that Captain Unohana had arrived here at some point. He hurriedly asked: "Captain, have you seen Mr. Duan Mu? He just said that he was going to support the second...
"
"Do not worry."
Unohana Retsu smiled slightly: "Vice-captain Omaeda used Hell Butterfly to inform me earlier that their operations over there needed the assistance of a member of the Fourth Division, so they took Mr. Duan Mu away with him."
"ah?"
After hearing Unohana Retsu's words, the worry on Kotetsu Yuine's face not only did not subside, but instead became more uneasy.
What is the purpose of stealth maneuvers?
Execute the traitors!!
Among the twelve people who rebelled, there were three chief officers. Going after them was an extremely dangerous operation. It was many times more dangerous than observing a giant virtual creature at close range. One careless move could lead to death.
The executioner killed him.
"How could he take Mr. Duan Mu away? You must know that Mr. Duan Mu has been in Rukongai all this time, concentrating on studying the Way of Return, and doesn't know how to fight at all. This is really nonsense!"
Hu Che Yongyin said with an ugly face: "If you need help, it would be better to ask me to go than Mr. Duan Mu."
"Would you like to concentrate on your research and answer?"
A faint smile appeared on Maozhihualie's face, and then he shook his head: "Don't worry, that young Mr. Duan Mu is not as fragile as you said, and don't forget, that young Mr. Duan Mu's Tongting Certificate is from
It was issued secretly, and Vice Captain Omaeda knows the details of Mr. Duan Mu-chan better than you do."
Kotetsu Yongin was startled when she heard this, and the uneasiness on her face subsided a little. Although she was a little dissatisfied with Ohmaeda's behavior of taking Mr. Duanmu away privately, she believed in the captain. Since the captain said not to worry, she said
The captain must know something.
"The rescue here has ended. Let's go back to the comprehensive first aid center. There are still many injured people who have only received emergency treatment waiting for us."
"yes!"
…
At the same time, the mountains west of Kagano City.
"Something is wrong!"
Ohmaeda looked at the tracker and frowned slightly: "They dispersed."
"dispersion?"
Duan Mu was stunned, and looked closely at the tablet, and found that the twelve red dots that had been gathered together were indeed separated from the middle. Nine of the red dots continued to go towards Kagano City, while the other three red dots headed towards Kagano City.
Go to the west of Noshi.
"If you go to the west..."
Ohmaeda flipped the screen on the tracker: "Why are they running there? Most of them are in the wilderness and some remote towns. Even the nearest Karakura Town is 22km away from Kageno City.
It’s helpful to hide their whereabouts, could someone help them?”
"Kakakura Town?"
This familiar place name made Duan Mu's eyes flash with a strange color.
"Who is going west? Those three officials?" Duan Mu asked.
"Um."
Oh Maeda stopped in mid-air, and a group of Xing troops behind him also stopped.
"fair enough."
The opponent's situation of scattering and escaping had been predicted in advance and many trackers were prepared in advance. Therefore, Ohmaeda did not panic about the current situation, but said in an orderly manner: "You use the spare trackers and continue to look at the mirror.
As we march towards Yeshi, Duan Mu and I will chase the three chief officers."
It is also a good thing for them that the three chief officers are not separated. If the three chief officers each bring a few soldiers, things will become very troublesome.
"yes."
More than a dozen Xing troops responded immediately and disappeared in an instant.
"Shall we set off too...?"
Ohmaeda looked at Duan Mu next to him and found that Duan Mu was looking intently at the tracker in his hand, with a look of deep thought on his face. He couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong?"
"Something's wrong."
"Are you referring to the fact that the three chief officers were not separated?" Ohmaeda smiled nonchalantly: "I think it is normal. The three chief officers can cooperate with each other to exert strong strength, and with nine
For ordinary soldiers, it is equivalent to carrying nine burdens, so it is normal for them to scatter and escape like this."
"It's not because of this, but..."
"Stop talking nonsense."
Ohmaeda interrupted directly: "What's the matter? Let's wait until we catch up with them. The reiatsu extracted by the tracker has a time limit. It will be troublesome if we wait for a while for the reiatsu sample extracted from it to disappear. If the person is lost,
, I won’t give you even a cent of the reward I promised!”
After that, he ignored Duan Mu's reaction and directly ran Shunpo, galloping in the direction of the three red dots.
"Hello~~"
Duan Mu twitched the corner of his mouth, and after silently reciting "The customer is God" several times in his mind, he followed!
no way……
Who gives people more money?
After dividing the troops, there was no need to wait for more than a dozen Xing troops, and Duan Mu and his two men's traveling speed suddenly increased dramatically.
Although Omaeda was slightly bloated, his speed was surprisingly fast. Duan Mu could only barely follow him even though he was running Shunpo at full speed under normal conditions.
This made Duan Mu's eyes flash with a strange look. Although he often joked that the position of vice-captain was inherited, Ōmaeda was definitely not as unworthy as he said with this quick step alone.
What's more...
If he was not strong enough, he would not be allowed to become the vice-captain of the second division with his serious character.
Racing along at such a speed, the distance between the two of them and the three officers was rapidly closing.
In just three minutes, the distance was less than a few hundred meters.
"Saw it!!"
Ohmaeda's rather excited voice came, making Duan Mu couldn't help but sigh.
It turned out to be a mistake.
Duan Mu has always been extremely sensitive to detecting spiritual pressure. In fact, he had already detected the spiritual pressure of the three people before he saw their figures again.
These three people...
Without exception, the spiritual pressure intensity was at the level of ordinary members of the Gotei 13, and he was definitely not the chief officer that the two of them wanted to track.
Valley
"Um?"
Oh Maeda also noticed this, and a trace of doubt flashed across his face.
When the distance between the two sides was less than a hundred meters, the three people in front discovered the figures of Duan Mu and the two. When they saw Oh Maeda, their faces turned pale.
"Oops, we're chasing you!!"
"This is different from what was promised. Why is the vice-captain coming to chase us?"
"..."
As they spoke, the three of them couldn't help but speed up again, hoping to get rid of Ohmaeda who was pursuing them.
However……
The next second, two figures appeared in front of them very suddenly.
Buzz~~
Vice-captain level spiritual pressure surged out, and the gravity of the entire area suddenly surged at this moment. The three people were caught off guard and crashed directly from mid-air to the ground.
Bang bang bang!
After three muffled sounds in succession, the three of them smashed a big hole into the ground. Before they could get up, a soft shout came from above their heads.
"The Fourth Way of Binding: This Rope."
Duan Mu stretched out his hand, and three ropes made of spiritual power shot out of the air, tying up the three of them in the blink of an eye.
"Who are you?"
Ohmaeda fell down and looked at the three people with a gloomy face. His expression was extremely ugly, because unlike the previous investigation, these three people were not in the list of twelve people who defected, but the souls belonging to the three chief officials were on the tracker.
But Yi Ruiran pointed at the three people in front of him.
"Wait a minute~ Vice Captain Omaeda." One of the men with a scar on his face shouted urgently: "It was Fengyuan Si who forced us. We have never done anything illegal."
"Yes...yes, it's none of our business."
"We are innocent!"
Phew~
The sword flashed, and a flash of confusion flashed in the eyes of the scar-faced man who spoke first, and he felt that the world in his eyes began to turn upside down.
thump!
The headless corpse fell to the ground. Ohmaeda held a Zanpakutō and said in a cold tone: "What I'm asking is~ who are you!"
One second his companion was still alive, but the next second he was a headless corpse. The remaining two people were so frightened that they sat on the ground, trembling all over. But after seeing the impatience on Ohmaeda's face,
One of them hurriedly knelt down on the ground and said tremblingly: "I... we... are members of the Third Division..."
"Where are the four seats of Fengyuan Light Gray, the nine seats of Yanagawain, and the twelve seats of Yuan Mingyu?"
"No...don't know..."
"We really don't know that it was the Fengyuan Four Seats who made us..."
The other person recounted the defection plan from beginning to end with a look of horror on his face.
Although these three people were also defectors, their method of defecting was extremely secretive. According to the instructions of the fourth seat, the three of them served as a vanguard force to explore the situation. They first met the four giant virtual beings, and then at the fourth seat of Fengyuan.
With the help of others, he disguised himself as a fallen soldier.
"...Then the three of us took advantage of the chaos to escape after others started to attack our teammates, and set off towards Kagano City with the remaining nine team members, but the three officers had not been with us from the beginning... As for
The reason why we were separated from those nine team members is because..."
The middle-aged man who spoke pointed to the headless corpse next to him: "Yanagawa Kushi is his brother. Yanagawa Kushi told the three of us that the nine team members were actually bait set up to cover the six of us leaving.
, let us find a reason to separate from the nine of them halfway and go to other places to hide alone."
"We really don't know where those three judges went..."
Hearing this, even though Ohmaeda was a fool, he understood that he had been deceived.
The three chief officers had obviously made sufficient preparations before defecting. Before their stealthy maneuver, they somehow used some method to change the residual spiritual pressure at the wound to the spiritual pressure of the three people in front of them.
It was not the nine soldiers among the three who acted as bait, but them.
The three of them acted as stand-ins for the three officers with the most obvious targets, attracting the strongest pursuers, while the three officers took this opportunity to completely hide themselves.
"Using your own brother as a substitute?"
Duan Mu's face looked a little strange. Putting aside the other two people, this Yanagawa Jiuxi was regarded as a supervision target by the supervision team, and he was really not unjust at all.
Ohmaeda looked at Duan Mu, sighed and said, "It's over... After we go back this time, the two of us will probably be punished."
"It's none of my business as a temporary worker."
Duan Mu said angrily: "And I said something was wrong before, because the twelve of them escaped too slowly. We set off so long after us, even if we were traveling faster than them, we shouldn't be like this
It’s easy to catch up.”
"Twelve people gathered together, and they could barely explain it by saying that the three chief officers were very loyal and suppressed their speed in order to take care of the nine team members... But after they separated, the speed of the three people on the tracker did not increase significantly.
It doesn’t look like three chief ministers at all.”
"Then you didn't tell me before!!" Ohmaeda shouted.
"Did you give me time to explain? You're running so fast, just chasing you is hard enough."
"..." Ohmaeda.
In fact, if the responsibility really needs to be investigated, Duan Mu is also responsible.
Because when he was treating the support team members who were attacked by surprise, he found that the residual spiritual pressure on their bodies was too obvious. Even if he immediately notified Xing Jun after discovering the defection, it would still take a long time from assembling the troops to rushing to the real world.
It lasted nearly ten minutes.
Normally, the remnant of spiritual pressure at the wound should not be so obvious even if it has not dissipated, not to mention that there are still twelve defectors.
For example, Duan Mu went to the comprehensive rescue center for the first time to treat the members of the 11th Division. Even if those members were injured by their captain, the residual spiritual pressure in the wounds would continue to corrode the wounds and would continue to weaken as time went by.
Not to mention a group of shinigami who are only the most powerful ones.
However, Duan Mu didn't think much about it at that time. It wasn't until the three people dispersed from the nine people that he realized something was wrong.
But Duan Mu would never say anything about this. Who knows if Broken Bee knew about it, he would be dissatisfied with himself because of it.
"Those bastards on the supervision team, if they could have been more serious, things wouldn't have gotten to this point."
Ohmaeda glanced at Duan Mu and emphasized again: "The people in the supervision team are a bunch of bastards!"
"..." Duan Mu.
I always feel like this guy is criticizing me.
As if to vent his anger, Ohmaeda dealt with the remaining two people, and then put away the three shallow pistols that had lost their owners.
Duan Mu looked at the three daggers, and the thought of snatching one suddenly flashed through his mind, but Duan Mu immediately snuffed it out. He didn't want to be regarded as an enemy by Seireitei just for the sake of a dagger.
"Can you lend me one to look at?"
Although you can't keep it as your own, it's good to try it out.
When Ohmaeda heard this, a look of vigilance appeared on his face. He had not forgotten that Duan Mu once asked him for a light beating.
and……
According to the three people, their deaths are already known to everyone. The three shallow guns are not in the recovery list. If he does not report that there are three other people who defected, the support force will only search for the three shallow guns around the battlefield.
, in the end, if there are no accidents, it will be reported by the third team and handled as lost.
In his opinion, Duan Mu is very likely to make these three shallow attacks.
"Don't even think about it."
However, this was because he was overthinking it. Last time, he didn't tell Duan Mu about the lost Qian Da. Duan Mu really just wanted to play with it in his hand.
"mean."
Duan Mu didn't force it, but instead asked: "Does the reward you promised me still count?"
"The commission has not been completed, and you still ask me for payment?" Oh Maeda said angrily.
"..."
Duan Mu's mouth twitched, and after pondering for a moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "Add another one million, and I'll help you find the remaining three people."
