I formed the strongest swordsman group

The 10 people who were left behind by Shenye all have pretty good skills, and judging from their movements, they seem to have specially trained how to cut backs for others.

They didn't take the initiative to attack, they only held knives, only defended and dodged, and blocked Qingdeng and others firmly.

Qingdeng didn't want to just let the big fish like Shenye slip away from his eyes.

But facing this group of enemies who set up a tortoise formation to break the rear, Qingdeng and the others had no way to win quickly, and they were powerless to chase Shenye and the others.

After working together with Saito and Yongcang to cut down four of them, this "broken army" began to retreat outside the corridor and outside the police station.

Judging from the results of the battle, it was Qingdeng and the others who defeated the broken army.

But judging from the goals of both sides, it was the broken army that won. They successfully blocked Qingdeng and his party, buying time for Kanno and the others to retreat.

At this time, the large force of the barbarian group headed by Shen Ye had completely withdrawn from the Fanshu Institute.

As soon as he retreated to the street outside the gate of the police station, Shenye heard dense footsteps coming from the intersection on the west side.

With the faint moonlight, Shenye could vaguely distinguish: at the intersection on the west side, a large number of officials from the execution office were running towards them.

Coincidentally, the person leading this batch of reinforcements was Qingdeng's immediate superior: Arima.

Arima held the handle ten times, aggressively, and charged forward. Although he was not good at martial arts, in terms of courage, he would not lose to anyone in the Edo Minami and Hokkaido.

Shen Ye gritted his teeth, and then ordered his subordinates to divide into several groups and disperse to escape.

Before escaping, Shenye did not forget to instruct his subordinates to set fire to it—so much kerosene was poured into Fan Shutiao, it couldn't just be wasted like this.

Bear!

The fire ignited.

The small half of the Fan Shu Tiao was surrounded and swallowed by the fire in an instant.

Under the illumination of the fire, Shenye and others started a cat-and-mouse chase with the officials of the enforcement office...

...

...

Qing Deng also participated in the hunt for Shen Ye and the others.

The two talents of "leading the horse" and "strong muscles" are really a match made in heaven.

The talent effect of "Strong Muscle" "Muscles are not easily fatigued" can make Qingdeng sprint at his highest speed for a long time.

In short: Qing Deng is very good at chasing people now.

He led Saito and others, and cooperated with Arima and others who had arrived, to chase down the escaped Kanno.

The "strong muscles" and "leading the way" that can cooperate with each other have enabled Qingdeng to successfully capture many people with his own hands.

However, the people from the barbarian group scattered and fled...

They scattered and got into the complicated streets and alleys, like fish into the sea, making it extremely difficult for Qingdeng and the others to catch them.

It is often that after following some people through a certain alley, they suddenly find that the person has disappeared, and they can't find where they went when they climbed to a high place.

Although some guys who are slow or unlucky have been successfully caught, these guys caught by the officials seem to be just some ordinary pawns, and they have been unable to catch the most important Shen Ye...

In desperation, Arima had to ask the execution office for additional manpower.

Although the current manpower of the Enforcement Office is already very tight, Susui and Atsukawa, who were not willing to let the leader of the barbarian group escape like this, forced some people to come over, preparing to increase the intensity of the search.

At the same time, Qingdeng, Arima and the others received an order - Susukei is currently going to the Tibetan Script Research Institute in person, preparing to personally check the current situation of the attacked Tibetan Script Research Institute. He asked Qingdeng and Arima to temporarily stop talking to Kanno He was arrested and immediately returned to the Tibetan Book Research Office.

After the order was received, Qingdeng had no choice but to lead Saito and the others, and together with Arima, dragged his slightly tired body back to the now quite dilapidated Book Office.

Because the fire was extinguished in a timely manner, the Fanshu Institute was not seriously damaged by the fire that Shenye and the others set before leaving. Only a small part of the building was scorched by the flames.

Now, the Fanshu Institute, which is still emitting scorched and thin smoke, is not without noise.

Officials from the Enforcement Office and the Dinghuoxiao surrounded the Tibetan Book Research Office and performed their respective duties.

Town firefighters check to see if there are still flames that have not been extinguished.

The people of the enforcement office transported out one after another the remains of innocent people who were unfortunate enough to be murdered by the barbarians tonight.

Qingdeng saw Katsu Rintaro——he was sitting in a corner of the police station with the rest of the survivors with a tired expression, accepting questions from the officials of the prison.

"Mr. Tangerine!"

Susukino's voice suddenly reached Qingdeng's ears.

Following the prestige, at the gate of the police station, it seemed that Susui had just arrived, and he took the initiative to greet Qingdeng who had returned in three steps at a time.

Those who greeted Qingdeng with Susui, and some officials behind him.

"Master Susui." Qing Deng respectfully bowed to Susui and the others.

"Mr. Ju..." Susui, who walked up to Qingdeng, looked at Qingdeng repeatedly with an expression mixed with complex emotions such as joy, rejoicing, and astonishment.

His lips moved, as if he wanted to say something to Qing Deng.

After considering the wording for a long time, he finally sighed softly:

"It's really hard for you tonight."

"Thanks to you for discovering the trail of the Yi group in time..."

"Nice job!"

Susui raised his hands, and patted Qingdeng's shoulders affectionately and vigorously a few times.

The time goes back to just now—the sudden fire that ignited all over Edo made the officials of the execution office inevitably confused.

The people who rushed to the streets to escape the fire and fled to safety seriously affected the surveillance of various parts of Edo by officials.

The subordinates' requests for instructions were sent to Beifan Office like a piece of paper: what should we do now? Do you want to continue to monitor the movement of the barbarian group? Or stop the operation and help the people escape the fire?

When Susui, Atsukawa and the others were devastated, a servant from his own class suddenly came to the Beifan office in a hurry.

He said that he was sent by Juqingdeng, and he had important information to report: the Fanshu Institute is being attacked by a large number of unknown people! And this group of unknown people is suspected to be the Barbarian Group! Request to send additional reinforcements to the Fanshu Research Institute!

Although the fire is critical, it is not their duty to control the fire after all.

In the final analysis, their number one goal tonight is to track down the extermination group!

So, after hearing the information reported by their own servant, Susukei and others were shocked at first, and then reacted quickly: they immediately dispatched as many people as they could to the Fanshu Research Office.

Under Susukei's order, Arima led a large force to the Fanshu Institute—this is another story.

Discovered the traces of the Koi group in time, and rushed forward bravely to fight with the people of the group, rescued many people headed by Katsu Rintaro, and won a lot of people for the arrival of the large troops of the execution office. Time... For a moment, Susui couldn't think of any words or sentences to use to praise Qingdeng's achievements tonight.

Susui was happily praising him - but there was no joy on Qingdeng's face.

"Thanks to me for discovering the traces of the Koi group in time..." Qingdeng repeated Susui's compliment to him just now, and said with a wry smile, "Master Susui, the person who discovered the traces of the Koi group in time... It's not me."

"Huh?" Susui opened his eyes.

Arima and others beside him also showed surprise at this moment.

"Didn't you discover the Koi group?" Susuki blinked hard twice, "Then how did you find out that the people from the Koi group were attacking the Fanshu Institute?"

"That's because..." Qingdeng paused when he said this.

He pursed his lips, and after a while, he continued with a strange expression:

"That's because Mao Xiaoseng reported to me."

"Mao Xiaoseng?!" Susui, wondering if he had heard it wrong, opened his staring eyes a little wider, and subconsciously turned his body to the side, so that his left ear was far away. Qingdeng is closer.

After all, it is impossible to conceal and deceive.

Since it is always necessary to tell the truth, it is better to tell the truth now.

Qingdeng sorted out his words, then cleared his throat——

...

...

Rewind the time back to when Qingdeng and the others were still at the fire site in Kenmachi——

"Juqingdeng! Catch it!"

The neutral voice, completely indistinguishable from male and female, sounded from behind Qingdeng, and instantly attracted the attention of everyone around him.

Qingdeng, who was also surprised, turned around quickly, and then raised his eyes in the direction from which the neutral voice came.

I saw a petite figure standing on a shop behind him.

He was dressed in black, with a black turban and face scarf on his head, a slightly loose black clothes and black hakama, black gloves and black foot bags on his hands and feet, and the only exposed parts of his body were his eyes.

Seeing this guy standing on the roof with suspicious clothes no matter how he looked, Yongcang, Harada, and Fujido looked serious, and quickly drew and raised their weapons.

The surrounding town firefighters are all looking at this mysterious person with different expressions now.

Only Qingdeng and Saito had strange expressions.

Qing Deng recognized this person...

He met this person not long ago... and copied a strange talent from this person.

"Mao Xiaoseng...?" Qingdeng softly called this person's name with a volume that only he could hear clearly.

The man in black who suddenly appeared was the big strange thief: Mao Xiaoseng.

Before Qingdeng had time to be amazed at how the little monk Mao would suddenly appear here and now, he saw the little monk Mao suddenly raised his right hand in full view and threw something at Qingdeng forcefully.

Such things fell on the muddy ground at Qingdeng's feet, with little bits of mud in between.

Qingdeng took a closer look—this thing turned out to be a paper ball wrapped with something hard.

Mao Xiaoseng yelled at Qingdeng again with his neutral voice: "Look at that piece of paper! Fan Shutiao is all dangerous!"

After shouting this sentence, Mao Xiaoseng turned around without looking back, jumped into the invisible darkness behind the shop.

Yongcang and the others subconsciously wanted to chase, but were stopped by Qingdeng.

"Stop chasing him! That man is Mao Xiaoseng, I can't catch up with him!"

When he met Mao Xiaoseng for the first time, the speed displayed by Mao Xiaoseng and the dexterous posture that can shuttle back and forth on complex terrain such as rooftops and narrow alleys are still fresh in Qingdeng's memory.

Chasing the little monk Mao in the streets of Edo... They might not even be able to catch up to him if they broke their legs.

"Mao Xiaoseng?" Harada's eyes bulged, then he raised his head and looked in the direction where Mao Xiaoseng's figure disappeared.

It was also the first time that Yongcang and Fujido saw this famous monster thief, and now, like Harada, they looked in the direction where Mao Xiaoseng left with curious and astonished eyes.

——Fan Shu tunes all dangers...?

Qingdeng chewed the words that Mao Xiaoseng had just yelled in his heart, while bending down, he picked up the ball of paper that Mao Xiaoseng had just thrown at his feet.

There was an ordinary stone wrapped in this piece of paper—probably it was specially wrapped with a heavy object for the convenience of throwing it at Qingdeng's feet.

Qingdeng threw the stone aside casually, and then unfolded the paper.

Saito and the others gathered around at this time, and followed Qingdeng to check what was written on the paper.

On this piece of paper, there was only one sentence written in extremely correct handwriting:

[A group of unknown people is attacking the Fanshu Institute, the number of attackers should be around 60 or 70]

"The Fanshu Institute...is being attacked?" Fujido said incredulously.

Yongcura and Harada, who were standing side by side, looked at each other—both of them had puzzled expressions on their faces.

The famous big monster who suddenly appeared and told them that "all dangers of Fan Shutiao"... Their brains couldn't understand what was going on...

Even Saito, who was always expressionless, frowned slightly now.

Unanimously, they all focused their attention on Qingdeng.

Qing Deng, who was still looking at the handwriting on the paper, frowned.

The fog entangled in Qingdeng's mind now is no less than that of Saito and the others...

With so many questions, Qingdeng didn't know where to start thinking.

"Mr. Tachibana..." Harada shouldered his long spear, "Now...what are we going to do?"

Yongcang took over the conversation: "Do you want to believe... that cat monk?"

Qingdeng pondered for a moment, then took a deep breath, solemnly folded the piece of paper in his hand, and put it in his bosom: "... Let's go. Let's go to the Fan Shu Tiao Office."

"Mr. Orange." Fujido said in astonishment, "Do we want to trust that cat monk?"

"...just try your luck." Qing Deng said in a deep voice, "I just don't know what to do right now."

"The attack on Fanshudiao...it's really not impossible."

"It's better to believe it than to believe it. And... I really can't think of any reason for Mao Xiaoseng to tell me a piece of false information for no reason."

"Anyway, even if we made a trip to the Tibetan Book Research Office for nothing, we have nothing to lose."

"Let's go!"

Since Qingdeng had spoken, Saito and the others could only follow suit.

A group of people hurried away from the fire scene.

As soon as they left the turbulent fire waves behind, they suddenly ran into a young man dressed as a slave.

"Ah! Master Tachibana?" After seeing Qingdeng, the young servant greeted Qingdeng in surprise.

This place was originally one of the patrolling jurisdictions that Qingdeng was in charge of on weekdays, so most of the local servants in this area knew Qingdeng.

This servant was carrying a big hammer... Judging from his appearance, he probably wanted to go to the fire scene in Keycho to help demolish the surrounding houses and prevent the fire from spreading.

In Edo, where fires are frequent, there has never been a shortage of brave men who dared to cooperate with the officials of the town to put out the fire when the fire broke out.

After taking a few glances at the brave servant, Qingdeng waved to the servant: "What's your name?"

"Me? My name is Jiu Saburo!"

"Jiu Saburo, come with me."

"Huh? Is... what's the matter?"

"Don't ask so many questions, just follow me."

"Okay, okay!"

Not knowing why, Jiu Saburo followed Qingdeng to the Fan Shu Tiao Institute.

Under the hurrying and slowing of the group, soon, the huge shadow of Fan Shutiao gradually appeared in Qingdeng's eyes.

What also appeared in Qingdeng's eyes... were the dark shadows outside the police station.

With the night vision ability provided by the "cat's eye", Qingdeng clearly saw several corpses lying here and there at the gate of the police station.

Qingdeng was very familiar with these corpses—when they passed the gate of the Fanshu Research Institute tonight, they could all see these guards guarding the gate of the Research Institute with all their duty...

Although Saito and the others didn't have the night vision ability like Qingdeng's, they could barely see the silhouettes of the members of the barbarian group who were swarming outside the institute with the slightest amount of moonlight.

I saw Saito and others looking at the Fanshu Institute that was really attacked now, all showing a look of astonishment.

"This, this is...?!" Jiu Saburo, who was forcefully pulled over by Qing Deng, was dumbfounded at the moment, staring blankly at the Fanshu Tiaosuo who was surrounded by the Kobari group.

At the beginning, Qingdeng was stunned by the fact that "Miao Xiaoseng's information was correct", but he quickly regained his composure.

"...Jiusaburo." Qingdeng said to Jiu Saburo in a deep voice, "Rush to the Beifan Office immediately, find Mr. Susukei, and tell him: The Fanshu Institute is encountering a large number of unknown people who seem to be from the barbarian group. attack, please send reinforcements immediately!"

This Jiu Saburo is also quite clever and eye-catching.

After hearing Qingdeng's order, he was only stunned for a moment, and then quickly realized: "Yes, yes! I'm going to the Beifan Office now!"

After finishing speaking, Jiu Saburo threw aside the big mallet he had been carrying on his shoulders just now, lifted the hem of the hakama, and hurried towards the direction of Beifansuo.

After Jiu Saburo left, Qingdeng turned his gaze back to the distant Fanshu Institute——

"……Ready to fight."

While issuing an attack order to the subordinates beside him in a calm tone, Qingdeng straightened the Ding Guishen on his waist.

Harada blinked vigorously at Qingdeng: "Mr. Tachibana, we... just attack with such a small number of people? Why don't we wait for the reinforcements from the execution office first?"

"There may still be survivors in the Fanshu Institute." Qingdeng said indifferently, "If we just wait for the reinforcements from the Enforcement Office to come over, the only survivors in the Institute may even freeze their bodies. gone."

"Attack now, maybe we can save a few people."

"and--"

Having said that, Qingdeng changed into a joking tone.

"We officials who shoulder the important mission of 'protecting Edo', if we don't rush forward when we see the enemies who are destroying Edo, we may be impeached in the future."

After hearing this, Harada grinned and smiled innocently: "Okay, you are our leader now, if you say you want to do something, then do it."

"Don't wait for the reinforcements, just attack directly... Haha, it sounds like a lot of fun!" Yongcang smiled expectantly and excitedly, gearing up.

Todo, who was young and hadn't seen much of the world, looked nervous, but there was no sign of shrinking on his cheeks.

Saito was as calm as ever - he just silently drew his sword in his hand.

Looking at his subordinates who didn't show any intention of retreating, the corners of Qingdeng's mouth curled up slightly.

"In that case, you all have to follow me closely!"

With a flick of the feathers on his upper body, he led the crowd, like a tiger descending the mountain, and rushed straight to the distant battlefield.

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...

After listening to Qingtou's narration, Susui, Arima and the others all showed the same uniform expression now - dumbfounded, clay sculpture and wood carving.

After a long while, Susui's consciousness finally returned to reality.

"Mr. Ju, what you said...is it all true?" He stuttered and asked back.

"Of course it's true." Qingdeng pulled out the note that Mao Xiaoseng threw to him from his bosom, which he kept carefully all the time, "This is the paper that Mao Xiaoseng threw to me."

"Then my subordinates, as well as the officials of the town fire department who were there at the time, can also testify that what I said is not false."

Susui took the paper from Qingdeng, spread it out, and looked at it carefully.

I saw that after Susui cast his eyes on this piece of paper with only one simple sentence written on it, his expression became more weird and complicated.

"This Mao Xiaoseng...what does he mean?" Susukino murmured, "How did he know that Fan Shudiao was under attack...? And why did he want to tell us this information...?"

"Maybe it was a momentary kindness." Qing Deng joked.

These questions... I'm afraid you have to ask Mao Xiaoseng himself to know why.

Susui was still holding the paper, thinking about it.

At this time, a slightly hasty calling sounded from behind Qingdeng:

"Mister Tangerine, Mr. Orange!"

Qingdeng turned around suspiciously, and saw a temporary Hui who he didn't know very well walking towards him with big strides.

This temporary Hui Tongxin was one of the reinforcements that Susui had brought over just now. Under Susui's order, this person led the team to clean up the messy police station just now.

"What's wrong?" Qing Deng asked.

"Someone wants to see you." Temporarily straightened his right thumb and gestured backwards, "What do you say? Are you free now? Do you want to meet that person?"

"Someone wants to see me?" Qingdeng looked over the senior's shoulder and looked behind him.

Behind him... stood a middle-aged man with a heavy fatigue on his face, but his waist was quite straight all the time.

It's Katsu Rintaro.

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