Chapter 122: Three-Team War! The Reincarnation Teams Scheme Against Each Other!
"This is troublesome."
On the second floor of the police station, Zhang Jie peeked through a crack in the window. Seeing the members of Team North Arctic leaving one after another, he slumped onto a stool.
Zhang Jie had never even heard of something like a three-team battle. Now, all the team members, except for Chu Xuan and Ren Arakawa, were dumbfounded.
"No wonder the difficulty of this horror movie, and the gap between the two teams, didn't feel very hard. So this is what they were waiting for?" Zheng Zha grumbled, clenching his fists. The other team members felt much the same.
*Scratch, scratch, scratch.*
The sound of writing drew Zheng Zha's attention. He looked up and saw Chu Xuan rapidly calculating something in a notebook.
The formulas on it were complex and difficult to understand. Zheng Zha could only ask, "What are you calculating?"
"The gap."
Without looking up, Chu Xuan continued to write. A moment later, he reached a conclusion.
At the same time, in a bank vault not far from the police station, the entirety of Team North Arctic surrounded their strategist, the druid Dick Brooks. They, too, had reached a conclusion.
"A seventeen-hour gap, using our captain—with his second-stage gene lock and B-rank Freeze-Freeze Fruit—as a reference."
The Snow Wolf Druid, Dick Brooks, showed a worried expression. "The strongest member of Team East Sea... I'm afraid their gene lock is at least at the third stage. In terms of enhancements, they completely crush our captain. They must be at least A-rank to achieve a seventeen-hour arrival gap."
"It's over..."
Alexia, the non-mainstream youth holding an ice gun, lost his composure and stumbled backward.
In their last movie, they had encountered an expert with a third-stage gene lock, and their team had been scattered.
And now, so soon, they were about to face it again.
Without the protection of their old captain, their hopes of survival were incredibly slim.
Alexia scrambled over to Gunnar, grabbing his arm. "Cap... Captain! What do we do, Captain?! Say something!"
"Stop shouting!"
Gunnar had only recently become the captain of Team North Arctic. Faced with such a situation, he was also at a loss for a moment.
"How about this..." the strategist Snow Wolf proposed, lowering his voice. "We... let's join forces with Team China!"
"We... we can do that? Will they join forces with us?" stammered the skinny high school student, Albert Ellen.
"Given that our strength is not greater than Team East Sea's, the captain of the Breeding Team will have his hands full and won't be able to look after his team members. Besides," the Snow Wolf Druid licked his claws and continued.
"Breeding Teams usually turn their members into 'human swines,' leaving them with little mobility. This way, the captain of the Breeding Team will definitely be toyed with like a dog by Team East Sea!"
"Even if the captain of the Breeding Team has a large number of reward points and side-story plots, he can't afford the consequence of his entire team being wiped out!"
Everyone nodded in a daze, convinced by the strategist druid's reasoning.
"Therefore, I think he should..."
The long-haired girl, the psychic Betty Field, suddenly looked up. "They're here! Someone's coming!"
Outside the window, Ren Arakawa's figure was suspended in the air. He landed one-footed on the window of the bank building, kicked the glass open, and stuck his head inside. "Hey, Team North Arctic! Someone who knows what's going on, come out!"
After a moment, holding his ice gun, the non-mainstream white youth who had been pushed forward as a temporary representative, Alexia, walked out.
"W-what do you want?"
Alexia's voice trembled slightly. He was just a low-level combatant with a C-rank weapon, the ice gun, and a first-stage gene lock. He didn't even dare to make eye contact with Ren Arakawa.
*To be able to beat the Devil Team into that state...*
*The captain of the Breeding Team... just thinking about him is terrifying.*
"What do I want?" Ren Arakawa crossed his arms. "There are only a little over two hundred minutes left before Team East Sea arrives. Do you think you can beat them or what?"
Just as Alexia was about to say something, the Snow Wolf Druid stepped out from behind him.
"Allow me to introduce myself." The Snow Wolf Druid looked up and spoke. "Dick Brooks, the strategist of Team North Arctic."
Seeing that it was actually a wolf speaking to him, Ren Arakawa laughed.
"Is your captain mute? Sending an animal to speak for him? Even if he only speaks Tibetan, the Main God would automatically translate it into a language I can understand!"
Seeing this, Dick Brooks slowly transformed into his human form. "Forgive us for not having our main force meet you. And a word of advice: if you're thinking of making a move on us, our captain will reach your team before you can kill us."
"With a great enemy before us, you're playing these petty tricks..." Ren Arakawa couldn't be bothered to talk anymore and tossed out a notebook.
Startled, Alexia quickly dodged, but Dick Brooks was calmer and caught the notebook steadily.
Brooks flipped open the first page and saw the densely packed words.
On it were details about Team China's combat strength and several battle plans.
Seeing this, Dick Brooks suddenly felt a little embarrassed. He gave Ren Arakawa a sheepish smile. "Sir, please give me some time. I'll write down our team's situation right now."
About seven or eight minutes later, Brooks placed the notebook on the bank counter, left a communicator, and then slowly retreated towards the vault door. He looked at Ren Arakawa. "Then... our cooperation begins!"
"Mm."
Ren Arakawa grabbed the notebook, which now contained intelligence on Team North Arctic alongside the torn-out pages of Team China's intelligence, and quickly flew back to the police station.
Chu Xuan took the notebook and flipped through it casually, then sneered, "The intelligence they gave should also be fake."
"Fake? It's fake?" Zhang Jie leaned in, looking at the scribbled English on the page, and frowned. "How... how do you know it's fake? Wait, wait a minute, why did you say 'also'?"
Chu Xuan glanced at Ren Arakawa. "In a three-way standoff, among the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu, who do you think has the greatest hatred for whom?"
Zhang Jie had read *Romance of the Three Kingdoms* and answered immediately, "It should be the Kingdom of Shu and the Kingdom of Wu. Although they allied against Cao Cao, Guan Ren was directly killed by Wu's forces. And while Zhang Fei wasn't killed by someone from Wu, he was at war with Wu at the time. So you could say he was indirectly killed by Wu's forces."
As Zhang Jie spoke, he figured out the key to the problem. "Oh! I get it now!"
Chu Xuan smiled. Even though he didn't feel like smiling, he put on a show for everyone. He said, "The most confusing part of this team battle is actually the point system."
"When we found out it was a three-team battle, any normal person would think that the two weaker teams would ally to fight the strong one."
"But actually, it's not impossible to ally with the strong team and devour the weak one..."
A cruel glint flashed in Chu Xuan's eyes. "Although this intelligence they gave is fake, I can still analyze the general situation from it! A combat strength chart this detailed is almost impossible to fabricate out of thin air. There must be some basis in fact."
Chu Xuan gently pushed up his glasses. "The wisdom of mortals..."
Seeing Chu Xuan like this, Ren Arakawa couldn't help but interrupt, "You don't need to think about all that. No matter what, we have to go to war with Team East Sea!"
Chu Xuan was somewhat surprised. His brain spun rapidly for a moment, and he came up with a reason that made him want to laugh and cry, but one he couldn't possibly refuse.
Even an AI like Chu Xuan couldn't avoid it.
It was a gene carved into the very bones of every descendant of Huaxia.
Resist...
Japan.
(end of chapter)