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You have arrested the wrong person, I am not XXXX, I am an innocent citizen... these words, the officials of the enforcement office who deal with criminals all the year round are tired of hearing them.

"Shut up!" The Tongxin punched the young man who kept shouting "I'm not from the barbarian group" with a very rough movement, "How many times do you think I've heard similar words? "

Facing the "Three Returns" officials of the Nanfan Institute, which are far more numerous than them, most of the members of the barbarian group have no intention of fighting.

They fled in despair, and were captured one by one by the officials who had already surrounded them.

The few people who were more aggressive and wanted to fight to the death with their knives were quickly suppressed by the officials who had an absolute advantage in numbers and equipment.

In less than 10 minutes, the gang of thieves who broke into the Ryogoku Hiroko Road and tried to rob the shops here were all caught, and none of them were caught.

Yuli, a Nanfan who returned temporarily, looked triumphantly at the thieves who were being pushed down to the ground in various postures, with a look of relief on his face.

He raised his eyes and looked at the surrounding shops.

If it wasn't because of someone's informant, the enforcement office had obtained the relevant information in advance, otherwise these merchants on Guangxiao Road in the two countries might have suffered tonight.

Thinking of this, Yu Li couldn't help but feel fearful.

"Hmph!" Yu Li withdrew his eyes from the shops around him, and laughed contemptuously at a middle-aged man in front of him who was still pressed to the ground and whose body was tied up like a rice dumpling, "What's that?" Group' ah...it's really ridiculous, the name sounds good, but in the end you are no different from those 'rebels' who often make troubles."

"Pull up the banner of 'rejecting the barbarians', and do some despicable deeds that will only bully your own people."

Yu Li originally thought that the middle-aged man would show a unwilling and angry expression after hearing his ridicule, and then raised his head to "argue with reason" with him—after all, Yu Li had already seen a similar scene. Been there too many times.

As long as you question the so-called "great cause of fighting against barbarians" practiced by some "people with lofty ideals", they will immediately shout angrily like a cat whose tail has been stepped on, "What do you know", "What do we know?" Everything I do is for the sake of this country", "You gang of lackeys of the government can't understand the ambition of us patriots"...

But who knew—after hearing Yu Li's piercing ridicule, the middle-aged man showed a look that Yu Li had never expected.

This middle-aged man... raised his head in confusion, and cast a surprised look at Yu Li: "The Koi Group...? Wait, wait a minute! You've got the wrong person! We have nothing to do with the Koi Group. ! We belong to the Tianzhong Party!"

"Tianzhong Party...?" Yu Li frowned.

Yu Li's taunt just now also reached the ears of the surrounding thieves who were also being pressed to the ground.

At this time, these people also raised their heads and said sharply:

"Yes, yes! We are not from the barbarian group!"

"We have nothing to do with the barbarian group! We are loyal to the party! We are loyal to the party!"

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If a person says that he is not a member of the Barbarian Group, Na Yuli will only regard this person as sophistry and ignore him at all.

But so many people claim with the same caliber that the organization they belong to is the "Tianzhong Party", which has never been heard before, and has nothing to do with the Yiyi Group... This makes Yuli feel a little bit guilty .

Yu Li's brows became tighter and tighter, and a look of confusion and bewilderment slowly appeared on his cheeks...

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Edo, somewhere——

"...Mr. Kanno."

"What's the matter?" Kanno, leaning against the wall and resting his eyes with his eyes closed, opened a gap in his eyes and glanced at the one-armed samurai beside him.

"The spies we sent to Ryogoku Hirokoji to spy on information are back—our plan was a great success."

"The idiots of the Tianzhong Party foolishly stumbled into the 'big net' set up by the enforcement office on Guangxiao Road in the two countries, and they have all been caught by the officials of the enforcement office."

Kanno's eyes opened wider as the one-armed samurai's voice fell,

"...Heh." Kanno sneered, and then changed into a mocking tone, "The plan... is going much smoother than we imagined."

"It's really hard work from the official mission of the enforcement office, helping us get rid of an annoying enemy."

"Mr. Kanno. Our side...is it almost time to start action?" The one-armed samurai stuck out his tongue and licked the corner of his mouth.

"...Well." After a moment of contemplation, Kanno nodded slightly, "Let's pass down the order—the operation has officially begun."

The one-armed warrior smiled "hehe", replied "Deling" in a frivolous tone, and quickly stepped back, his figure hidden in the darkness.

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Edo, Kitabansho, a certain room——

"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..." Susui's mouth was wide open enough to fit an apple.

"Susui." Nanbansho Makoto Atsukawa glanced at Susui beside him, "Would you like to go to sleep for a while now?"

"Haha..." Hou Chuan laughed a few times, raised his hand and rubbed his huge belly, "As a person grows older, his body will gradually become useless..."

"You don't need to rest or anything, I'm not that tired yet."

After finishing speaking, Susui took out a western-style pocket watch from his pocket.

This Western-style pocket watch was given to Susui by his eldest son a few months ago.

At the beginning, I was a little uncomfortable, but after using it for a long time, Susui gradually realized that this Western clock is really convenient. Just open the case and you can know what time it is, and you don’t have to rely on the sky to guess. It's time.

Susui skillfully threw off the case of the pocket watch, and saw that the hour and minute hands inside the watch formed a large obtuse angle—the current time was no more, no less, exactly 11:30 p.m.

"Why is it so late, and there is still no news..." Susui sighed, while putting the pocket watch in his hand back into his pocket.

"It would be a good thing if we can keep quiet like this all the time without any news." Atsukawa on the side smiled slightly, "It means that Edo can spend the night in peace."

The two current "mayors" of Edo, Susui and Atsukawa, will personally sit in the "temporary headquarters" Beibansuo tonight, with full power to command all officials involved in this big operation tonight.

After spending more than two hours at the Beifan Station with nothing to gain... Both Susui and Atsukawa inevitably began to feel tired.

Suddenly, just as Susui had just put his pocket watch back into his pocket, an official hurriedly opened the door and rushed to Susui and Atsukawa.

"Master Susui! Master Atsukawa!"

"The Barbarian Group really showed up on Ryogoku Hirokoji!"

"All the officials of the "Three Returns" of the Nanfan Institute bravely took the lead to meet the barbarians who appeared."

"All the thieves have been captured!"

Susukei and Atsukawa were stunned for a moment, and then stood up simultaneously with excitement and tacit understanding.

"All the thieves who showed up on Guangxiao Road in Ryogoku were caught?" Hou Chuan suppressed the excitement in his heart.

"Yeah!" The official nodded vigorously, and then began to report in detail how the officials of the "three times" of the Nanfan Institute wiped out the members of the extortion team who flocked to the streets of Guangxiao Road, Ryogoku.

After carefully listening to the official's report, Hou Chuan, whose cheeks were flushed with excitement, patted his thigh: "Wow! Well done! All the hard work today was finally not in vain!"

Even though it was Nanbansuo...that is, Atsukawa's subordinates who gave the Kobari group a head-on blow and made great contributions, Susui was also very happy after hearing the good news.

It will be a great benefit to the Southern and Northern Divisions responsible for maintaining the security of Edo if this terrorist organization that does not know when it will be reorganized will be eliminated as soon as possible.

Both Susukei and Atsukawa were overjoyed by the good news... However, the officials who came to report the good news to the two officials suddenly changed the subject:

"However...some officials from the 'Three Backs' of the Nanfan Institute jointly reported that these thieves caught are a bit strange."

The expressions of Susui and Atsukawa froze immediately.

"Strange?" Hou Chuan frowned at the official.

"The thieves who were caught all claimed that they had nothing to do with the extermination group, they were members of the Tianzhong Party."

"Heaven, Tianzhong Party...?" Susui, with doubts in his eyes, chewed this extremely unfamiliar title several times, then turned his head, and looked at Atsukawa beside him.

The Tianzhong Party... Be it Susui or Atsukawa, neither of them have heard of it.

"Those people...did they lie that they were not members of the Barbarian Group in order to get a lighter punishment in the future?" Hou Chuan hesitated.

The barbarian group is the "severe attack target" that the enforcement agency has vigorously promoted in recent days, so Hou Chuan's speculation is not unreasonable.

It is indeed possible that those people wanted to reduce their crimes, so they lied that they were not members of the Barbarian Group, and made up an organization name for themselves.

"...Let's take all these captured thieves back to the enforcement office as soon as possible." Susukino said in a deep voice, "After bringing them all back, we will interrogate them slowly to see what happened to them. Something happened."

"Hmm..." Hou Chuan nodded, "That's the only way..."

Hou Chuan’s voice has not yet fallen——

"Master Susui---! Master Atsukawa---!"

Outside the room, there was a roar that sounded like a scream.

A terrified official stumbled open the door and rushed into the room.

Susui originally wanted to reprimand this official and tell him to calm down a bit and stop making a fuss, but after seeing the unusually frightened look on this man's face, Susui couldn't help but feel a little uneasy in his heart, so he forced the capital The words of reprimand that had come to his lips were swallowed back into his stomach.

"What's wrong?" Hou Chuan asked the official first.

"Master Susui, Master Atsukawa! Big, big things are bad! Fires broke out in Nishiyama Town, Tsukicho, and Pancho! Fire broke out in Nishiyama Town, Tsukicho, Pancho, etc.! Nishiyama Town, Tsukicho, Fire broke out in Pan Town and other places——!"

In a high-pitched voice, the official communicated the news three times in a row, although it was short...but each word was so heavy that it seemed to be able to punch a big hole in the ground.

It was as if the magic of "Time Pause" had been applied... Both Susui and Atsukawa's eyes were staring like copper bells, and they froze in place.

not moving at all...

Or...forgot that one's body can move...

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Sparks fly.

The scattered cherry blossom petals are accompanied by Mars, scattered in the night sky.

In places such as Hancho in Edo, the red flames illuminated the dark night and at the same time awakened the citizens of Edo who were sleeping.

"Huh? Why is it so bright... Ah! It's on fire! It's on fire!"

"Fire! Escape to an open place!"

"Quick! Call the local fire department to put out the fire!"

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In the Edo period of Japan, there was a common sense-in the city, as long as you saw a fire somewhere, and the fire was of a level that could not be extinguished with a few buckets... then you would burn everything. Don't think: run away!

If you don't run away quickly, you may not have time to escape.

More and more townspeople were awakened by the sudden fires, and then fled the fire in panic.

Because everyone was in a hurry to escape, almost no one noticed—there happened to be a few sneaky figures around each fire site.

Without exception, these sneaky figures are all warriors with swords on their waists.

They all raised their heads triumphantly, and looked at the flames and flames that were getting stronger and stronger on the fire field as if they were admiring their outstanding works of art...

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At this time, Qingdeng was in a town named "Kiancho".

Among the more than 1,000 cities and towns in Edo, this key town belongs to the most common and unremarkable category.

There are no famous shops or special industries, and no famous people worth mentioning live here.

But just tonight... To be more precise, just now, this usually inconspicuous city suddenly became "bright".

Because it's on fire.

The fire came suddenly and swiftly.

When Qingdeng led Saito and others to inspect this key town, he suddenly caught a glimpse of an orange-red light flickering at the left end of his field of vision.

When I moved my gaze, the orange-red light had condensed into concrete flames, tormenting the surrounding buildings...

Due to the dense population and buildings, Edo has always been a fire-prone city. On average, hundreds of large and small fires occur every year. Therefore, the residents of Edo have developed profound experience and experience in how to avoid fires. Skill.

After discovering the fire, the residents of Keycho screamed and hurriedly took their family and important belongings and fled to a place far away from the fire.

The sudden fire stunned Yongcang, Harada and the others.

"Mr. Tachibana, Mr. Tachibana!" Fujido stammered and asked Qingdeng anxiously, "What should we do now?"

Qingdeng was also shocked by the sudden fire, but he was shocked for a moment before he quickly calmed down.

There are fires - in Edo, where there are hundreds of fires a year, this is not a rare thing, not to mention that it is still the season when the weather is warming up and fires are most prone to fires.

But Qingdeng just felt that the occurrence of the fire was too coincidental!

Why did the fire suddenly break out at this juncture tonight?

Qingdeng pursed his lips, and made a quick decision after only thinking for a moment.

"Does any of you know where the nearest firefighter station is?" Qingdeng asked the surrounding subordinates quickly.

Yongcang, Saito, and Fujido 3 people, you look at me, and I look at you.

"I! I know!" Harada raised his hand high at this time, "I used to wash the dishes of a certain noodle shop here for a while! I know where the nearest town fire shop is!"

Wash the dishes?

Harada's experience of washing dishes for others made Qingdeng feel a little concerned, but now is not the time for small talk, he suppressed his curiosity, and quickly said to Harada:

"That's good! Harada, go to the nearest firefighter immediately, and tell them to come quickly to put out the fire! Go!"

"Understood! I'll go back as soon as I go!" Harada Xiaosa put the spear behind his back, and ran towards the street next to him, his figure quickly blending into the night.

No time to watch Harada—Qingdeng cast his sharp eyes on Yongcang and the others.

"You guys are responsible for going to the fire with me!"

Without any extra nonsense, after quickly giving the order, Qingdeng turned around decisively, and ran straight to the growing flames in the distance.

The hem and sleeves of the burgundy feathers on his body were rattled by the wind pressure as he ran at high speed.

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Edo, the Book Office, Katsu Rintaro's office——

"Mr. Sheng! Mr. Sheng! Don't work yet! Something big happened! There is a city on fire to the west!"

Outside the room, Umegoro's anxious shout interrupted Katsu Rintaro who was still working overtime on translation work.

"On fire?" Katsu Rintaro was startled for a moment, then quickly put down the brush in his hand, ran to the window not far away, and poked his head out of the window.

The western sky was illuminated by orange light.

Although judging from the intensity of the fire, the place where the fire started was quite a distance away from Fanshudiao, but no one can tell whether the fire will spread.

A small flame eventually turned into a huge fire that burned several surrounding cities and towns, and even most of the city to nothingness... This kind of thing happened repeatedly throughout the Edo period.

"Quick! Mei Goro! Hurry up and transport all these important books and manuscripts away with me! Let those who are still studying and working at the Fanshu Tiao Institute come and help!"

Katsu Rintaro, with a gloomy face, walked to the bookshelf in the corner of the office in three steps, and took down some of the books on the shelf one by one.

"Okay, okay!" Meigoro nodded vigorously.

However, all of a sudden—there was a burst of hurried footsteps from the first floor of the Fanshu Institute, and along with the footsteps, there were shouts from the guards, and then the shouts suddenly turned into exclamations. The screams then turned into screams...

Katsu Rintaro, who was carrying books and manuscripts in a hurry, suddenly stopped and tensed, his eyes froze, and he looked down at the tatami under his feet: "What's going on on the first floor...?"

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The current "wave of expelling barbarians" is intensifying. In order to prevent criminals from coming to make trouble, the Fanshu Tiao Institute specially increased the number of guards to six.

After Katsu Rintaro took over as the head of the Fanshu Research Institute, he wanted to further increase the number of guards, but the available operating funds were limited, and hiring 6 guards was the limit of their Fanshu Research Institute.

The first to be attacked were the six guards who were still dutifully guarding the gate of the Fanshu Institute at this point in time.

"who?!"

They saw black shadows emerging from the dark place shrouded by night outside the gate of the Fan Shu Tiao Institute.

The guards raised their voices and drew their swords.

However, the black shadows had an absolute numerical advantage.

In the blink of an eye, more than 20 black shadows swooped towards the guards, taking advantage of their numbers, to divide and surround the guards.

"Enemy Attack! Enemy Attack! Enemy Attack!"

The guards fought bravely, and at the same time fulfilled their duties. While fighting against the "uninvited guests", they raised their voices and shouted warnings to the apprentices and staff who were still in the Fanshu Institute. .

The light of the knife danced, and blood sprayed.

Under the attack of the crowd of black shadows, the thin line of defense of the guards was quickly breached.

After the guards were all beheaded, more black shadows emerged from all directions.

After leaving more than 30 people to surround the Fanshu Institute, the remaining 40 people fiercely jumped over the gate of the Institute!

As soon as they entered the investigation station, they encountered a very young man with a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose.

This young man probably heard a strange noise at the gate, so he came here to check the situation.

"Heavenly Punishment!"——After a certain black figure drank so loudly, he stabbed the young man with a knife. The tip of the knife hit the young man's left eye socket. The gun exploded, red, white... Strange liquids of various colors splashed everywhere.

"Heavenly Punishment—!"

"Heavenly Punishment Country Thief!"

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The shadows scatter in all directions, bringing screams and carnage wherever they go.

People in the police station either ran away in fear, or hid somewhere trembling.

People and people, people and things, things and things collide with each other.

The originally peaceful police station suddenly became a mess and chaos.

These black shadows who attacked the Fanshu Institute had a very clear division of labor.

Some people are responsible for chasing and killing the apprentices and staff who are still studying and working in the police station tonight.

Another group of people took bamboo tubes from their waists, and dumped the liquid with a strong pungent smell contained in the bamboo tubes everywhere...

Like cats catching mice, like hunters rounding up their prey, they chased and killed the apprentices and staff of the institute.

Only a very few people managed to escape outside the investigation station, but the outside of the investigation station was also controlled by the shadows. Those who escaped by chance were killed one by one by the shadows in charge of surrounding the investigation station.

"It turns out that the inside of the Fanshu Institute looks like this..."

Holding the knife at his waist, Kanno walked along a certain corridor in the police station at a pace that seemed to be relaxing in his own courtyard, while looking around.

Suddenly, his foot kicked a book that had fallen to the ground.

He bent down, picked up the book, and flipped it casually—the book was filled with tadpole-like words in an unknown language.

As if he touched something terribly dirty, Kanno threw the book in his hand back to the ground with a look of disgust.

"It's really disgusting... The dignified kingdom of God, there is no need to learn the knowledge of those barbarians."

"This bookstore is really full of disgusting people and disgusting things."

The apprentices and staff of the Tibetan Book Institute are basically scholars who do not know any martial arts. Facing the attack of the brutal barbarian group, they have no power to fight back.

A very few people who grabbed weapons and tried to resist were quickly defeated by the barbarians who had an absolute superiority in numbers.

"Ahhhhhhhh!" A teenager who should be only about 15 years old stumbled and wanted to escape to the second floor of the investigation station.

But the legs, which had been weakened by the sudden change, became uncontrollable, and they no longer seemed to grow on his body.

"ah!"

The young man kicked a corpse on the ground with his left foot, and fell straight into the shit.

"You can still run."

A playful and mocking "praise" sounded faintly from behind the boy.

Kanno's confidant - the one-armed samurai walked towards the young man with a comfortable pace of twisting and turning, holding a sword.

The boy with fear written all over his face tried to prop up his body and run away.

But the trembling arms couldn't exert any strength...

"You, do you know what you are doing?"

Although his body became immobile due to fear, for some reason, the young man retained the strength and courage to question the one-armed warrior.

"This, this is, is the forefront of our Japanese study and research of foreign studies."

"Have you ever thought about what will happen if you destroy this place? It's not easy for us to master the knowledge and skills of Westerners!"

The one-armed warrior squinted at the young man.

"Of course we know what we're doing now."

"We're here to destroy this disgusting place."

"What is there to learn from Yidi's knowledge? We don't need to learn anything from Yidi at all."

"You gang of traitors who learned the knowledge of barbarians and Di, I really feel disgusted when I see it."

After all, the one-armed warrior raised the sword held by his one-arm high, aiming the blade at the boy's head.

"Hey...!" The boy held his head in his hands, and the trembling range and speed of his body became even more frightening.

Just when the one-armed warrior was about to swing down the knife in his palm, he suddenly heard a metallic "click" sound coming from behind him.

The pupils of the one-armed warrior suddenly shrank, and then jumped to the side like a conditioned reflex.

boom!

The sound of pistol firing was deafening.

A scorching bullet grazed the one-armed warrior's cheek, leaving a hot bloodstain on the one-armed warrior's face.

The one-armed warrior hid in a nearby room in a slightly embarrassed posture, then poked half of his face out of the hiding room with a gloomy expression, looking in the direction of the gunshot just now.

I saw a middle-aged man standing at the end of the corridor where the one-armed warrior was just now, holding a bleeding knife in his right hand and a revolver still smoking from the muzzle in his left hand.

"Katsu Rintaro...?!" The pupils of the one-armed samurai shrank again.

This middle-aged man was none other than Katsu Rintaro whom he took Shen Ye to meet at noon today.

"Ah Zheng!" Katsu Rintaro shouted at the boy, "Come here!"

"Old, teacher!"

The timely appearance and rescue of the teacher greatly moved the young man, but also surged with new strength.

Feeling that his hands and feet were not shaking so much, the boy got up from the ground with both hands and feet, and ran towards Katsu Rintaro.

"Tsk..." The one-armed samurai curled his lips and tried to rush out, chasing the boy and Katsu Rintaro.

But as soon as he leaned half of his body out of the room, Katsu Rintaro shot another shot at the one-armed samurai quickly, forcing the one-armed samurai to retract his body back into the room.

During this time of dodging, Katsu Rintaro has already taken the boy away...

Katsu Rintaro led the boy to escape to the stairs leading upstairs, and pointed at the stairs with his hand.

"Azheng! You go to the roof! Go! I have asked Mei Goro to build a fortification on the roof!"

There are three floors in the Fanshu Tiaoshou.

The roof mentioned by Katsu Rintaro is the third floor of the research institute.

"Then, what about you, teacher? Aren't you going to the roof with me?"

"There should be some people who haven't been killed yet." Katsu Rintaro said in a deep voice, "I'm going to rescue them all! Leave me alone, you go to the roof!"

"Heavenly Punishment—!"

At this time, a black shadow suddenly sprang out from behind Katsu Rintaro, and rushed towards Katsu Rintaro.

"Teacher! Your queen..."

boom!

Before the boy's warning was finished, Katsu Rintaro quickly turned around, raised the revolver in his left hand, and aimed a shot at the black shadow who was about to attack him, directly blowing the black shadow's head.

"Don't underestimate the old man!"

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