Chapter 687 – Garland Drift

　　Zuo Qing’s eyebrows raised, “Perhaps, they don’t need to hold their breath?”

　　Wu Xiangnan froze in place.

　　”If you don’t breathe, how can you live?”

　　”When you meet someone, perhaps you’ll know.”

　　As Zuo Qing’s words fell, the door to the office was once again pushed open, and a figure clad in a dark blue han robe slowly walked in from outside the door, her long black hair hanging down her back tied by a red rope, and in her hand she carried a slender black box, not knowing what kind of weapon she was holding.

　　”This is ……” Wu Xiangnan looked at this young girl in front of her, somewhat bewildered.

　　”Fifth special squad member, Jia Lan.” Zuo Qing smiled and spoke, “Two months ago, she landed from the coast of the East Sea of Daxia, at that time, she could have startled our night watchmen stationed there, and after checking her identity, she found her way here.”

　　”Trouble for you all.” Caran spoke somewhat apologetically as he carried the black box.

　　”How is this trouble, if it wasn’t for you, we wouldn’t have been able to know what exactly happened to the fifth special squad that day.” Zuo Qing shook his head, “According to Caran’s description, the one who attacked them was probably the leader of the 004th special squad from the future, the [Mask] squad, Wang Mask, but we have long since discussed this matter with the man himself, and he doesn’t know anything about it.

　　If that person really stopped time for the crowd of Special Squad 5, their entire physiological response would be suspended, and they would not need to breathe in the ocean currents, and their lives would not be in danger.

　　This is also the reason why we dared to place the guessing area of their location, hundreds of kilometers away.”

　　Hearing this explanation, Wu Xiangnan pondered.

　　Calan couldn’t help but ask, “Commander Zuo, you said you’ve found their location, is that true?”

　　Calan’s eyes were filled with eagerness and excitement.

　　More than two years ago, on the sea in the mists, ever since that white-haired figure had sent her flying, she had crashed into an unfamiliar sea.

　　Caran’s own time was stopped and would not change due to the passage of time in the outside world, so she would not fall into a time-stopped state like the rest of the team, and perhaps that was why, that person had purposely broken her up with the rest of the team.

　　Fortunately, she had [Immortality] body protection, even if she didn’t breathe, eat or drink at the bottom of the sea, her life wouldn’t be in danger, she drifted in the sea for more than ten days before she finally stepped onto an island.

　　In the mist, she couldn’t discern the direction, and could only use some of the limited materials on the island to make a small boat, drifting alone in the mist.

　　And this drifting was two years.

　　In these two years, she had set foot on countless islands and seas, killed countless “mysteries” alone in the mist, and was defeated countless times by more powerful “mysteries”, falling into the sea again… …

　　She had also found the mainland, but it was not Da Xia, but a strange country that had already fallen into ruins, and some of the paperwork she found from it was all in a strange reptilian-like script, which was a bit familiar to Gala, because during the Han Dynasty, she had seen a letter sent from a small country in a remote area in the palace, and it seemed to use this kind of script inside… …If she remembered correctly, that country seemed to be called Weiman Korea.

　　Relying on the map she had seen during the Han Dynasty, Jia Lan tried hard to recall the location of this small country, and found a definite direction to set sail once again.

　　Finally, two months ago, she entered Da Xia’s territory.

　　These two years, for her, loneliness and confusion is not the most terrible, she had been lying alone in a coffin for two thousand years, compared to which two years is just a snap of the fingers …… but she felt a torment that she had never felt before.

　　Perhaps it was because the people she cared about were uncertain of life and death, and the urgency and worry in her heart seemed so small in the mist.

　　She did not know how many oars have been rowed off, how many sails have been broken, how many ships have been rotted …… just to return to his side faster, but the reality has let her disappointment and despair again and again.

　　No one knows how many times she cried alone on the boat in these two years, how many times she roared helplessly and angrily at the mighty Mystery, and how many times she sank to the bottom of the sea, in the endless darkness, longing for a reunion …….

　　After returning to Daxia, she realized that Lin Qiye and the others hadn’t returned, and even the Nightwatchman himself was searching for their whereabouts.

　　Zuo Qing assured her that he would definitely find them, so she stayed behind and waited for news of them.

　　And today, Zuo Qing told her that he might have found their whereabouts.

　　”Although it’s not completely certain, there’s a high probability that they drifted down the ocean currents to the vicinity of Japan.” Zuo Qing replied, “It’s a bit risky for Wu Xiangnan to go to Japan alone, so I want you to ……”

　　”I’ll go!” Without waiting for Zuo Qing to finish, Calan spoke decisively, “I must go!”

　　Seeing how certain Caran was, Zuo Qing didn’t say any more but nodded, “Then this time, it’ll be the two of you acting together, when you get to the vicinity of Japan, there will be people from the Upper Evil Society who will come into contact with you, and your task will be to find High Heavenly Plains, and to find the ‘Circle of Man’… …

　　Bring back the fifth special squad.”

　　After saying that, Zuo Qing thought for a moment and continued, “If you find them, remember not to involve them in this whirlpool, this matter involves a conflict between the divine kingdoms, it’s not something that one of their freshly promoted special squads can be involved in, have them come back directly to resume their duties.”

　　”Yes.” Calan couldn’t wait to depart.

　　”But, Commander Zuo.” Wu Xiangnan spoke with some hesitation, “There’s only one of these nameplates, the two of us, how are we going to walk through the mists?”

　　Zuo Qing looked at Jia Lan and said with a smile, “Don’t worry, she …… doesn’t need this kind of thing.”

　　Japan.

　　Hokkaido.

　　The two figures stood beside the Shinkansen, looking at the city in front of them and the endless azure ocean in the distance, and took a deep breath.

　　”The environment here is quite nice.” Lin Qiye lamented.

　　”Hm.” Amamiya Haruhide nodded slightly, “Hokkaido, itself, is a beautiful and quiet place where you can quietly think about people ……”

　　Boom–!

　　Before Amamiya Haruhui’s words fell, an earth-shattering explosion came from the distance, the ground shook violently for a few moments, and rolling smoke rose from the distance.

　　Amamiya Haruhui’s expression froze.

　　Lin Qiye glanced at him with an odd expression, “Quietly thinking about what? Survival or death?”

　　”I told you long ago, Hokkaido hasn’t been peaceful lately, it wasn’t like this here before.” Amamiya Haruhide shrugged.

　　”The place where the explosion happened, it seems to be a shrine.” Lin Qiye took a look from afar, “It seems like it’s not small.”

　　”It has nothing to do with us, our goal is to repair swords, not to go join in the fun.” Amamiya Haruhui spoke calmly, “Let’s go, take a taxi.”

　　Lin Qiye was about to take a step, when he suddenly seemed to notice something and turned back to look at the glass sliding door behind himself, with the two of them clearly reflected on the surface.

　　”What’s wrong?” Amamiya Haruhide asked.

　　”I don’t know ……,” Lin Qiye spoke with some uncertainty, “I just seemed to see that a shadow flashed past.”

　　Amamiya Haruhui looked around and didn’t see any strange people, “There doesn’t seem to be anyone else here, let’s go get a taxi first.”