Chapter 9

"What are you doing, stop quickly!" Emi shouted with full breath, and Saijo Nagi also frowned.

"Why, why do you want to treat me like this!" The girl was also surprised and scared.

The leading biker twisted the handlebars, and the five motorcycles circled around her.

"Because you are basically a little monster; of course we have to solve you before you grow into a big monster."

"That's right, 【Wu】 appeared because of you; get out of this village quickly!"

The girl named Xiao Xue defended loudly: "I didn't! 【Wu】 didn't do anything bad either. I want to get along well with everyone; why do you want to treat me like this?"

This weak counterattack made the five bikers laugh loudly: "Why? She's actually asking why there. Do we care about this kind of thing!"

"Stop it right now!" At this moment, the village chief wearing glasses walked over: "You are causing trouble again. Didn't you see the GUTS team people came!"

After being scolded, several bikers turned their handlebars and left. Before leaving, they didn't forget to mock Xiao Xue: "Haha, the GUTS team is here; that 【Wu】 will be eliminated by them. Let's see who supports you then."

The girl Xiao Xue, upon hearing this, looked at the four GUTS team members, pursed her lips, and ran into the vast white snow.

"Village Chief, just now that was..." Saijo Nagi frowned and stepped forward.

"Those bikers? Sigh, they call themselves the 【Satan Party】. They always gather to cause trouble, act recklessly, and extort and scare people when outsiders come here for tourism."

"They don't let people rest at night either, riding motorcycles and screaming, making us unable to sleep. People in the village scold them when they hear their names."

Kishida asked: "They said that girl is a little monster?"

Village Chief: "They bully Xiao Xue because she is an orphan and no one can stand up for her."

He sighed slightly and talked about Xiao Xue's past experiences.

"That was fifteen years ago. On a night when heavy snow was falling, a mother and daughter came from nowhere."

"The mother said goodbye to the world in hunger and cold, but the baby in her arms was safe and sound."

"Because of this, people in the village all say she is the daughter of a snow woman."

Soldier Shan Zhong: "So she is always bullied?"

Village Chief: "An old man who burned charcoal adopted her, but he passed away two years ago. Sigh... the little girl is cute and beautiful, but everyone says she is the daughter of 【Wu】, so she is very unpopular."

Emi, upon hearing this, couldn't help but look in the direction Xiao Xue left: "This child, how did she endure it?"

Her father went missing three years ago, which allowed Emi to understand this child's mood.

Kishida was more concerned about the monster that needed to be dealt with: "So, what exactly is 【Wu】?"

Village Chief: "I'm not an expert in this area either, but after 【Wu】 appeared, tourists decreased sharply, and the high-mountain rescue team didn't dare to come either. For the development of the village, it must be solved."

So, Emi stayed behind to continue collecting information.

"Vice Captain, some people say that when 【Wu】 appeared, they saw the girl named Xiao Xue shouting at 【Wu】 'don't use violence, go back to the mountain quickly,' and then 【Wu】 disappeared."

Saijo Nagi: "It might be a coincidence, continue to collect information."

The other three slid on sleds, followed the map provided by the village chief, and followed the road signs to the valley where 【Wu】 had left footprints in the rumors.

But half an hour later, several people realized something was wrong.

Soldier Shan Zhong took out the map: "How come it seems we are getting further and further away from the valley on the map."

Kishida: "Did someone tamper with the road signs? There is no annoying magnetic fog here; let's use satellite positioning directly."

Saijo Nagi turned her head sharply: "Who is there!"

Only to see a little girl wearing a red cotton-padded jacket hiding behind a withered tree and peeking at them; it was Xiao Xue, whom they had seen before.

"Did you do this? Do you know who we are?" Soldier Shan Zhong immediately realized the culprit who made them wander around blindly for half a day and pounced forward to grab her.

Xiao Xue said loudly: "You are the terrible people who eliminate monsters without distinguishing right from wrong!"

As soon as these words came out, the corners of Saijo Nagi's eyes jumped.

"Terrible people?" Soldier Shan Zhong: "What are you talking about? We GUTS team members deal with monsters to protect human peace!"

"Lies, you are here to kill 【Wu】; it clearly didn't do anything bad!" The girl raised her hand and sprinkled a handful of snow on Soldier Shan Zhong's face, running toward the distance.

Soldier Shan Zhong swept the snow off his mask and face: "Damn it!"

He was angry but couldn't vent it; after all, he had to maintain restraint even when facing the "all show" Qi Ming, so of course he couldn't be the same as a child.

At this moment, the PDI communicators of several people rang, and Emi's voice came out: "Team member Qi Ming's locator's emergency rescue function has been activated; the search and rescue team has already rushed over."

Soldier Shan Zhong, who was holding a belly full of anger, of course wouldn't have any good words: "Need a rescue team with a locator? It's really more than enough to fail and less than enough to succeed. He made such big claims before; I really want to go and ask him if he saw the monster in the mountain."

Saijo Nagi: "The top priority is to deal with 【Wu】; use satellite positioning to go to the valley again."

After taking a big detour to reach the correct location, several people searched for a while, only to see the monster's footprints, but couldn't see its figure.

Emi called everyone again: "Latest situation, the ones who used the locator to call for help are the two missing college students; they said they encountered a monster in the mountain!"

"Huh?" Soldier Shan Zhong was stunned and stood in place, and Kishida also had a look of seeing a ghost.

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The three people who searched without success returned to the village, and the rescue team's helicopter also sent the two college students to the snow village to facilitate the GUTS team to ask about the situation in person.

The college student who met Qi Ming said that the person who gave him the locator was high-spirited and courageous, treating a fifty-meter monster like a dog, striving for a chance for him to escape.

Emi was stunned: "So amazing?"

"There really is a monster; this guy guessed right." Kishida felt quite ashamed.

And Soldier Shan Zhong lowered his head, his heels rubbing the ground unconsciously.

He had just said the heaviest words, darkly mocking Qi Ming for being afraid of real danger and insisting on staying in Mount Kirifuki to look for a non-existent monster.

As a result, not only was the monster confirmed, but Qi Ming also faced the difficulty... Has this guy always been this brave?

Moroboshi Dan, sitting in the command room listening to the news, was very gratified, feeling that although Qi Ming was not gregarious, he still had great integrity at the critical moment, and his persistence was correct.

Only Saijo Nagi frowned: "Alone in the deep mountain to pin down a monster? This is looking for death."

That college student: "Not necessarily, he jumped three meters high, the monster couldn't hit him, but he could hit the monster; this is simply a superman!"

Kishida thought, jumping three meters high, this has already exceeded the world high jump record; why don't you just say he can fly? Flattering your savior doesn't have to be this exaggerated, right.

He asked: "So, what exactly does the monster look like?"

"The head is very sharp, two hands like pincers, walking on two legs like a human, the body is ring-like like a tire."

The other college student retorted: "That's not right, what kind of eyes do you have? The monster's head is clearly round and flat, the body is also very smooth, and there are no pincers on its hands."

"You're the one with the problem, even if there is fog, it shouldn't be that different!"

The two college students argued on the spot, making the four GUTS team members' expressions complex.

Saijo Nagi: "It's probably the high tension of the spirit that made them delirious and hallucinate."

Kishida: "Then does their information still have reference value."

Soldier Shan Zhong, who was just like a withered bean sprout, "regained his vigor" again:

"No wonder team member Qi Ming could find them; it seems fantasy writers can attract each other."

"It's impossible for a person to jump three feet high, and it's impossible for a monster's head to be both round and sharp."

At this moment, the helicopter pilot spoke:

"Um, can I say a few words?"

"When I was rescuing them, I heard a very big movement from the other side of the mountain range, and there were very terrifying roars; there should really be a monster."

Soldier Shan Zhong was silent again.

(End of chapter)