My Avatar is Becoming the Ultimate BOSS-Chapter 80 - 069 Rules

At this moment, Ji Minghuan finally understood a question that had troubled him for a long time.

Why would his Superpower System take the extremely high risk of death to place the No.2 body into the White Crow Travel Brigade—in the character creation stage, there was no other route to choose, as if the character "Xia Pingzhou" was born to "join the brigade".

And now, knowing that there were also people within the brigade associated with the Salvation Society, Ji Minghuan suddenly felt relieved.

He thought to himself: "The brigade’s member No.10, Bai Tanlang, this card can absolutely be utilized: if one day I can’t stay in the brigade, or after killing Jack the Ripper I’m hunted as a traitor by the others, I can collaborate with him using his son’s intel, letting him be my scapegoat."

Ji Minghuan’s face remained expressionless as he glanced over the five members on the ruins.

"Of course... the ideal outcome is to turn the brigade into usable combat power, and the twelve strong individuals with different abilities can certainly play a significant role—if they value Bai Tanlang highly, they might even help him save his son, heading together to the Salvation Society’s base."

Thinking of this, Ji Minghua’s gaze lingered on Bai Tanlang’s face for a second, meeting his clouded left eye.

At this time, Anluns patted Ji Minghuan’s shoulder and said with a smile:

"Don’t mind how he looks, actually Bai Tanlang is quite interesting... every day we hear a lot of fascinating stories about the Demon Realm from him. He says the head demon of China is a very formidable Nian Beast, but due to the name Lake Hunting, it had to hide deep in the mountains. We used to hear about that Nian Beast every day from him... seems like he was an underling of that demon, but fell in love with a human woman, so he came to the human world."

Awesome... seems like Bai Tanlang has a certain network in the demon world, this can be used, Ji Minghuan thought, speaking of which, I had never even heard that the strongest demon in China is a Nian Beast.

"Shut up..." Bai Tanlang opened his eyes, staring straight at Anluns, "You, slot-machine boy, if you annoy me again I’ll tear your mouth apart."

Fight, fight, fight...

Ji Minghuan kept a poker face, but silently cheered for the two in his heart.

"I was just saying good things to the newbie about you." Anluns said, "Is it necessary to be so excited?"

"Wanna fight?" Bai Tanlang asked, articulating each word.

"Not impossible." Anluns still wore a smile, but a cold light flashed in his eyes.

"Intra-member fighting is prohibited." Robert adjusted his robotic head, helplessly speaking. His voice still carried a strong metallic timbre.

"That’s what they say but I agree with giving Anluns a beat or two every now and then, I can pretend not to see it."

The Ripper girl spoke without lifting her head, sitting on an old machine, her pale legs swinging in the morning light.

Ayase Origami sat on the upper ruins, her hands resting behind on the floor, watching the quarrel like a show. Beside her, yellowed newspaper suddenly tore open, pages marked with print formed into Japanese characters in the air, "Plus one, not beating him to death doesn’t count as infighting."

Seeing the situation set, Anluns reluctantly spread his hands to show compromise.

He said, "Everyone only shows teamwork when it comes to bullying me..."

"What’s the newbie’s name?" the Ripper asked, tilting her slender cheek, her pitch-black eyes fixing on Ji Minghuan.

"No.12, Xia Pingzhou." Ji Minghuan said.

In the blink of an eye, the Ripper’s figure flashed, appearing in front of him.

So fast... this speed seems just slightly weaker than my old brother, Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrow, thinking without showing any emotion.

The Ripper girl stared into his eyes, calmly saying, "The usual rule, joining the brigade requires handing over a heart." She said while spinning the knife with red patterns in her right hand.

"Can something like a heart really be kept by someone else?"

Just after speaking, Ji Minghuan only saw a dark red arc flash before his eyes, and the Ripper’s hand already held a "thumping" heart.

He belatedly touched his chest, he could still hear his heartbeat, yet felt like something was missing within.

The Ripper explained: "This is my Celestial Driver ability, your heart appears in my hand, but as long as I don’t destroy it, it’s equivalent to still being in your body, not affecting your bodily functions."

Hearing this, Ji Minghuan slowly released his hand from covering his chest, meeting her gaze.

He asked: "When can I have my heart back?"

The Ripper said: "Once it’s confirmed you’re not an internal traitor, I’ll return the heart to you, consider it as ’entry collateral’." She paused here, "Before that, I won’t do anything to your heart; unless unanimously voted to find you a traitor, then I will cut your heart in half."

Ji Minghuan looked at her expressionlessly, asking word by word: "But if I haven’t betrayed, and one day you don’t like me, breaking my heart..."

The Ripper did not speak.

Anluns shrugged, speaking on behalf of the Ripper: "At that point, we would kill her too, because she violated the core team rule—members are not allowed to kill each other."

Ji Minghuan was puzzled: "At that time, my corpse would be cold, how to know if you killed her?"

"I will personally burn her ashes for you." Ayase Origami said indifferently.

Ji Minghuan was silent for a while: "Your rules are really casual."

He showed no expression on his face, but he still felt quite the pinch inside.

Although this game body was gone, he could just save up some Split Points and create another one as a substitute — but Xia Pingzhou was a "rare body", and there might not be a better template next time.

"Don’t worry, don’t worry... When I first joined the group, I also temporarily gave my heart to Jack the Ripper sister for safekeeping."

As Anluns spoke, he patted his shoulder and casually mentioned, "Oh right... There was once an insider in our group. But everyone quite liked him, do you know what happened later?"

"What happened?" Ji Minghuan asked nonchalantly.

"He died," Bai Tanlang said, "died quite smoothly, he himself knew he couldn’t fight us."

"I turned his ribs into an antenna," Robert said with a hoarse electromagnetic voice, pointing at the antenna inserted into the mechanical skull.

"My earrings are made from his skull," Ayase Origami swept back her black hair to reveal the bone-white earrings.

"I collected his heart and haven’t crushed it yet."

Jack the Ripper said while, like performing a magic trick, a heart suddenly appeared in her palm.

After a pause, she said flatly, "Couldn’t help it... Everyone was very sad after knowing he was the insider, so we could only let him stay with us in this way."

"And you?" Ji Minghuan turned his head to Anluns, sarcastically saying, "Didn’t collect some of his hip bones or something?"

"Hip bones are too much of an unhealthy interest," Anluns said with his hands in his suit pockets, smiling, "I’m not interested in dead people, let alone a traitor. I stay with the Travel Brigade only because of an agreement with the leader."

"What agreement?" Ji Minghuan pressed.

Jack the Ripper girl explained, "He claimed to be ’the United Kingdom’s top gambler’, but he lost to the leader in gambling. Originally, we didn’t want to let him see the leader, but his condition was — if he lost, he would commit suicide on the spot."

She paused: "We, holding the mindset of watching for fun, let him see the leader, and finally, he lost."

"Then how is he still alive?" Upon saying this, Ji Minghuan glanced maliciously at Anluns.

Ayase Origami toyed with a paper crane, speaking in a flat voice:

"The leader gave him a chance to live by allowing him to join us, becoming a member of the White Crow Travel Brigade."

Bai Tanlang scratched the scar on his eyelid, mercilessly mocking, "A real clown... It’s laughable how confident he sounded at the beginning."

"There’s no need to detail such things so thoroughly, okay?" Anluns visibly lost some face, shrugging.

"So... you all said so much just to remind me not to be an insider?"

Ji Minghuan said calmly, turning his head to glance at the two hearts in Jack’s palm—his own heart still beat vigorously with life, while the other heart lay unmoving, exhibiting an eerie iron-gray hue, like an organ specimen.

"If you betray us, it doesn’t matter, we are invincible anyway," Ayase Origami said expressionlessly, eyes lowered, playing with her phone, "If you deceive our feelings... we will be very angry."

The kimono-clad girl uttered these immature words with her cool, slightly childish voice, as if she were pouting, yet it sent chills down one’s spine.

Ji Minghuan remained silent for a moment: "Firstly, I have no such thoughts; secondly, the heart is still with you, I can’t be an insider even if I wanted to."

Jack temporarily put away his heart, no one knew where it was stored, and in short, it disappeared.

He knew clearly in his mind that there was still an absolute capability gap between him and the group members, so the top priority now was to gain the members’ trust and retrieve the heart of the second body from Jack the Ripper.

Therefore... I must not be exposed during this auction operation, once I’m identified as an insider, I won’t be able to escape in any way, thinking of this, Ji Minghuan looked up, expressionlessly asking everyone:

"Is the leader not in Tokyo yet? I really want to see with my own eyes... what kind of person he is."

Ayase Origami swung her pale little leg and replied casually, "In a few days."

"The leader is always like that, elusive, it’s hard to get in touch with him," Anluns scratched his forehead, "I originally wanted to invite him to play in the underground casino in Tokyo."

"Since I can’t see the leader and I’ve handed over the heart, I’ll head back for now. Contact me on my phone if there’s anything."

Leaving those words, Ji Minghuan turned around and walked out of the abandoned building under everyone’s gaze.

Before long, he took a train back to the hotel, then lay down on the bed, closed his eyes, and switched his consciousness to the "Gu Wenyu" perspective of the first body.

"Then... I should consider finding Su Zimai and establishing a cooperative relationship with them in advance."

Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan squeezed a strand of restraint belt from his fingertips, "Without a mask and a coat, let’s go light and wrap the body in a restraint belt."

He tugged at the corner of his lips, "Anyway, with my foolish sister’s nature, she probably won’t recognize it’s me."