Chapter 188: School Trip Ends

Just as Li Boyong was trying to persuade Saina, two military transport planes, nominally belonging to the United Nations but actually belonging to Mithril, were slowly landing at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.

The two transport planes landed one after another. After unloading the hundreds of passengers on board, they quickly took off and left Haneda Airport again.

Leaving behind hundreds of passengers who were still in shock, these passengers who had just experienced the Shunan hijacking incident and were rescued looked at the familiar Haneda Airport and couldn't help but cry with joy.

Until this moment, they finally confirmed that they were really rescued.

This was really a terrible trip. First, the plane was hijacked, all passengers on board became hostages, and then they finally waited for the mysterious rescue force in panic.

The rescue force had a fierce exchange of fire with the garrison of the Shunan base. After watching a modern war drama that was more explosive than a commercial blockbuster on the spot, a long-horned machine belonging to the rescue side dug a suitcase directly from the belly of the machine and threw it out.

The suitcase drew a parabola and then exploded violently in the air.

It turned out that the passenger plane had long been installed with high-yield bombs.

Finally, under the guidance of the so-called "peacekeeping force," all passengers left the passenger plane, boarded the military transport plane of the rescue side, and finally returned to Tokyo.

And Sousuke and Chidori Kaname, who missed the first aid, turned the tables in a desperate situation together with the injured Kurz.

Under Chidori Kaname's reminder, Sousuke calculated the passing time of the military satellite, used the fire to convey a distress signal to the Tuatha de Danaan, and subsequently obtained the λ-Driver-equipped AS, ARX-7 Arbalest, shot from the Tuatha de Danaan.

After a bitter battle, Sousuke defeated the pursuing enemy and successfully returned to the Tuatha de Danaan with his companion Kurz and Chidori Kaname.

In short, Jiulong's plan to abduct Chidori Kaname failed, the test machine assigned to him by the organization—the Hell Monarch—was shot down, and he himself was injured in the battle with Sousuke.

Li Boyong learned about the course of the Shunan incident through Amalgam's internal intelligence channels, and the result was no different from his memory.

However, it was a pity that Saina finally refused Li Boyong's solicitation.

They were all people who killed without blinking and had hearts as hard as iron; it wasn't something that could be moved by a few simple words.

But Li Boyong also saw very clearly that Saina's momentary hesitation was by no means false. It seemed that the efforts made by the mercenary named Wuzhi Zheng'er were not meaningless.

The other party also hesitated about the suicidal revenge on society. It might not be that she was nostalgic for the society that was about to be retaliated against. Li Boyong guessed that it was probably because she was hesitant about whether the lives that she and her companions were about to pay were worth it.

As the ship carrying Saina and the two Savages sailed away from the port, Li Boyong temporarily put this matter aside.

It seemed that after Saina "fell in love with the old man at the village entrance" as in the plot, it would be a good time to try to persuade her again.

Li Boyong sent a clever veteran to follow Saina's ship. He specifically ordered the other party to pay attention to the specific personnel configuration and hiding location of A21 when collecting the balance. At that time, these intelligence would be more convenient for Li Boyong's winning-over plan.

Of course, if it still didn't work, he could only let Saina get what she wished for.

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The incident at Shunan Airport was suppressed under the tacit understanding of various governments and didn't cause too many waves in public opinion.

But no matter what, this incident was finally over. Sousuke and Chidori Kaname seemed to have been sent back to Tokyo by Mithril. It seemed that Li Boyong and Shihe had reached the time to return to Tokyo.

It was just that on the return trip, Li Boyong and Shihe brought an extra military laptop, which contained the operating system newly developed by Nami. That was the result of Nami's efforts under Shihe's guidance these days.

Sometimes one really has to sigh at how powerful the black technology of the Whispered is. The black technology they possess is all very mature technology. As long as they awaken, it is equivalent to directly possessing the results.

Developing an AS operating system that surpasses the existing military grade in just a few days is not a simple matter.

After Shihe's demonstration, the operating system newly developed by Nami seemed to have no small advantage over the operating system currently used on the Phantom.

After returning to Tokyo, Li Boyong and Shihe returned to that noisy school life.

Amalgam's Mr. Al became Teacher Li Boyong who taught Modern Chinese again, and Shihe was still the high-peak flower in the school.

It seemed that nothing had changed. The terrible hijacking incident didn't seem to have had much impact on the students who had experienced it.

No, it wasn't that there was no change.

I don't know when, but a green figure appeared beside the military demolition maniac who often caused commotion.

After the hijacking incident, the two who had lived and died together were clearly much closer.

By the way, Li Boyong had been liberated from the work of being a translation tool for Sousuke, because now Chidori Kaname had taken the initiative to take on related matters.

Every time Sousuke made a mistake, it was Chidori Kaname who helped him go to the Dean's office to apologize together.

Relatively speaking, there was an extra treasure against Sousuke—a paper fan—on Chidori Kaname's body.

And every time Sousuke was taught a lesson by Chidori Kaname's paper fan and still couldn't understand his mistake, he would go to Li Boyong.

"Hey, hey, when did I become your spiritual mentor?"

Li Boyong, who was preparing to get off work, looked at Sousuke who appeared in front of him again and couldn't help but complain.

Alright, he seemed to have gone from being a translation tool for Sousuke to being Sousuke's spiritual mentor.

Don't, my Shihe-chan is still waiting for me to go back at home!

"Sorry to bother you." Sousuke had a serious expression: "I encountered something I couldn't understand again, so I came to you. You are the only one in this school who can help me solve my doubts."

"Hey, don't say such cheesy things; it's disgusting." Li Boyong sat back in his seat helplessly, "What's wrong this time?"

Being requested by Sousuke with such a firm gaze, Li Boyong could only be a spiritual mentor for a while longer.

"The situation is like this. Today at 12:05 in the afternoon, I discovered someone spreading untrue rumors about Chidori Kaname on the small blackboard of the school newspaper."

"After the investigation, the criminal who spread the rumors was determined, and then I carried out an arrest and interrogation, but was stopped by Chidori Kaname."

"She not only ignored my efforts but also asked me to release the captured criminal immediately, and even... even got angry at me."

"I really can't understand, so I came to ask you for help, Teacher."

Sousuke roughly described the course of events, sounding as if he was extremely aggrieved, making Li Boyong's head ache.

It wasn't Chidori Kaname's fault for getting angry; just listening to Sousuke's statement itself had big problems.

Carried out an arrest and interrogation?

It was really a miracle that the matter could finally be resolved smoothly...

Looking at Sousuke's sincere request for advice, Li Boyong tried his best to choose words that Sousuke should be able to understand: "How could you openly take someone away and then carry out an interrogation in the school toilet?"

"Teacher, do you mean I should carry out the arrest and interrogation in a sparsely populated place?" Sousuke had an expression of having understood, "It was indeed my negligence. No wonder Chidori Kaname would be angry. Perhaps she was worried that people would suspect she was the mastermind based on my good relationship with her."

"..............." Li Boyong was silent for a while and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Why did it feel like Sousuke's symptoms had become more serious recently?

"Uh, maybe I expressed it wrong, but that's not what I meant..."

"Then what do you mean, Teacher?"

"I mean, you shouldn't interrogate that student." Li Boyong endured the veins about to pop out on his forehead and explained patiently.

"Cannot understand. If you don't interrogate, how can you obtain intelligence?"

"That's why the means of interrogation is the problem. There are many other ways to obtain intelligence."

"For example?"

"Uh... let me think... No, the key to the problem is not the method of obtaining intelligence!"

"Then what is it?"

"It's that your approach can be said to violate local laws and touch the bottom line of morality."

"I see. Then is there a legal way?"

"........."

The arduous psychological counseling continued. Li Boyong spent a lot of effort to explain the problem to Sousuke.

"Thank you, Teacher." Sousuke thanked Li Boyong sincerely: "Thanks to you, I can live smoothly in school. If I have similar doubts next time, I will come to find you again."

Sousuke bowed cleanly and left the teachers' office.

No, don't come to find me next time...

Li Boyong, who was very tired, complained fiercely at Sousuke's back. ===== CHAPTER 189 =====