Translation

When the Qin Family's two pickup trucks turned onto this small mountain road and saw the Kamishiro Family's convoy, it was too late to turn back.

I was about to return to work tonight, but I never expected to run into this kind of trouble.

Qing Chen didn't quite understand why the teacher was smearing ashes on his face.

At this moment, the two convoys met. If the convoy in front was the Kamishiro Family, even if the other party did not recognize someone like the teacher who had been living in seclusion for many years, Kamishiro Kono would definitely recognize her.

Applying some ash won't do any good.

Li Shutong seemed to see through his thoughts, so he chuckled softly, "Don't worry, the one who recognized you has already returned to the north."

Qing Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

In the Outer World, China has 19 cities that correspond to the Inner World, but in fact, the entire Federation has 25 cities, six of which are controlled by the Kamishiro and Kashima families respectively, corresponding to six cities in Goryeo and the island nation.

However, both families were merged due to tectonic movements, so the Li, Chen, and Qing families have never recognized them.

As a result, there have always been pro-war factions within the three families, who firmly support launching a war.

In recent decades, the prestige of the pro-war faction within the three families has grown, which led to the marriage alliance Kamishiro Family.

It appears to be a marriage alliance, but in reality, it's a way for the daughter to lower her status.

Li Shutong said to Qing Chen, "In the earliest days, the Kamishiro Family seemed to be the royal family of the island. Although they lost their feudal traditions after migrating here, they were always surrounded by several major families. These families still exist today: Takahashi, Yamaguchi, and Inoue. For hundreds of years, these three families have always been the retainers of Kamishiro."

Qing Chen asked, "Is the Kamishiro Family large?"

"Our business spans all walks of life," Li Shutong said. "However, things have been a bit strange over the years. In the early days, the Kamishiro Family had thousands of members, but now the number has been decreasing, with only a few hundred left."

As they spoke, Qing Chen could vaguely see a large tent and a flickering campfire in front of the black SUV, indicating that the other party had already set up camp there.

Several men in black suits approached the Qin Family's convoy. They wore communication headsets, Qing Chen could hear the metallic scraping sound of mechanical limbs coming from under their clothes as they walked.

Qin Cheng said into the walkie-talkie, "Sit in the car and don't move."

It seems that when ordinary people encounter conglomerates, the best they can do is stay put and try not to provoke them.

More than a dozen men in black suits surrounded the two pickup trucks. One of them noticed the Hunter logo and serial number on the truck and whispered something into his earpiece.

Soon, one of them asked with a beaming smile, "Which one of you is the captain of this hunting team?"

Qin Cheng raised his hand. "Hello, it's me."

"It's like this, our boss invites everyone to get off the bus for a get-together to discuss something," the man in the black suit said with a smile, his tone very friendly and polite.

Li Shutong got out of the car, muttering to himself, "Always wearing that fake polite face."

Qing Chen silently followed behind him. The boy suddenly felt that the Kamishiro Family must have offended his teacher in the past.

After they all left the pickup truck, the dozen or so men in black suits immediately began a thorough search of it. Some even took out daggers and cut open the leather seats to check for any dangerous items inside.

After these detailed checks were completed, the bodyguards of the Kamishiro Family took out a device from the black SUV and began scanning the fuel tanks and tires of the two pickup trucks.

Immediately afterwards, someone used a handheld detector to scan Qin Cheng and all of them one by one.

When it was Qin Yiyi's turn, the other party even had a female bodyguard to conduct a one-on-one body search.

Only after confirming that all the weapons had been found did they smile amicably and say, "Sorry, this is just routine business, please don't take offense. We will temporarily keep the weapons and firearms, and will return them to you later. Also, we will compensate for any damaged items at their original price."

To be honest, Qing Chen felt the check was unnecessary, after all, there was someone in the team who could shatter someone's entire skeleton with his bare hands...

At this moment, Qing Chen also realized what Li Shutong meant by "false politeness".

Despite the other party's politeness, these people inspected everyone without explanation, even conducting a full body search and damaging the seats.

While the other party was impolite, they were surprisingly polite in changing female bodyguards during the body search and promised to compensate for the losses.

Qing Chen had never dealt with this kind of person before, and he always felt a strange sense of dislocation.

A dozen or so people came to the campfire and saw a middle-aged man in a kimono sitting on a folding chair, with a young girl beside him staring blankly at the campfire.

Upon closer inspection, one could even see tear stains on the other person's face.

When the middle-aged man saw Qin Cheng and the others arrive, he immediately stood up and greeted them with a smile, but the young girl sat to the side without moving.

The middle-aged man's expression turned grim and he said to the girl, "いつまでcryingくんだ.おさんがているんだぞ.せめてThe marriage of the family is the desire, the Kamishiro Kongone is the Danna, the Qing family is the marriage, and the result is the happiness."

It's in Japanese again.

The other party did not want Qin Cheng and the others to understand what they were saying.

However, just as the middle-aged man spoke, Qing Chen noticed that the teacher next to him raised an eyebrow.

He asked in a low voice, "Teacher, can you understand what they're saying?"

Li Shutong glanced at him and said calmly, "You know nothing about your teacher's erudition."

Qing Chen was genuinely astonished this time. "What did they say?"

Li Shutong thought for a moment and said, "This old man is telling the girl not to cry. He said that the girl married a promising young man from the Chen family, while Kamishiro Kono married a good-for-nothing like you. So the girl has nothing to cry about. Her life is at least better than Kamishiro Kono's."

Qing Chen was taken aback; it turned out the girl was crying because of the arranged marriage.

But Li Shutong said expressionlessly, "This old bastard said my students are good-for-nothings. Why don't I just kill them all?"

Qing Chen was speechless, thinking to himself, "Teacher, did you understand? Did you really understand, or are you just trying to fool me?"

However, since Li Shutong spoke with such certainty, Qing Chen felt that his teacher was probably not talking nonsense.

At this moment, the girl wiped away her tears and stood up.

The middle-aged man looked at everyone and introduced himself, "Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Kamishiro Seisho. It's nice to meet you all."

Qin Cheng had never seen anything like this before, so he quickly said, "You're too kind, you're too kind. We're just passing by."

Kamishiro Seisho asked, "May I ask where you all are headed?"

Qin Cheng politely replied, "We received a mission to find Kite Falcon and Golden Snub-nosed Monkey, but we couldn't find them in the north, so we can only try our luck in the south."

Just then, a member of the Kamishiro Family in a black suit walked over. They seemed to have already checked Pikachu and confirmed that they were just ordinary hunters with no special identities, so they could be killed.

After considering his words carefully, Kamishiro Seisho said, "Because we have changed our itinerary at the last minute, in order to prevent the outside world from knowing our whereabouts, we have no choice but to ask you all to stay here indefinitely."

Li Shutong whispered to Qing Chen, "Let me translate for you. What he meant was that he wanted to die here."

Qing Chen was shocked. "Teacher, this sentence is in Chinese, I can understand it, no translation needed."

And that's not what they meant!

Now, Qing Chen suspects that the teacher was just fooling him with that previous statement!

Before Li Shutong could say anything more, they heard the roar of an engine and deafening music coming from outside the mountain road.