Mobile Shelter

Chapter 122

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After seeing that Suzuki Masako had almost finished eating, Dong Qi asked, "What are your plans for the future?"

Upon hearing Dong Qi's question, Suzuki Masako paused for a moment, then looked at Dong Qi with a puzzled expression, wondering why he would ask such a question.

Seeing Suzuki Masako's reaction, Dong Qi then asked, "Aren't we already at the First Island? We've both fulfilled our initial agreement."

So I want to know, are you willing to continue following me, or do you have relatives on the first island? If you don't want to continue following me, I can actually send you there.

Upon hearing Dong Qi's words, Suzuki Masako's face turned pale, then she looked aggrieved, and tears welled up in her eyes.

Seeing Suzuki Masako's expression, Dong Qi was momentarily at a loss, and then immediately comforted her, "Alright, alright, I admit I misspoke."

Masako Suzuki wasn't exactly a fairy, so after seeing Dong Qi's statement, she spoke softly with a slightly aggrieved tone: "I was sent to a shrine by my parents when I was young, so I don't have a close connection with my family."

The Suzuki Group, controlled by my family, is a pillar enterprise on the Fourth Island. I've heard from other awakened individuals that the imperial court once organized an evacuation, but I don't know if my parents left the Fourth Island during that evacuation.

After introducing her family situation, Masako Suzuki hesitated for a moment before blushing and whispering, "If you don't mind, I'd like to follow you around from now on."

After hearing what Suzuki Masako said, and seeing Suzuki Masako's shy face at this moment.

As the saying goes, "keeping warm makes you think of other things," Dong Qi immediately got up, not even bothering to clean up the tableware on the table, and directly picked up Suzuki Masako, and the two entered the carriage again.

Just as Dong Qi was striving to be the first, the cult learned that although the priestess of the fourth island had come to the first island, she had been kidnapped and taken away. Therefore, the high priest in charge of the cult was very angry.

Before the catastrophe, the high priest held a very high position in the island nation. However, after the catastrophe, for some unknown reason, most of the high-ranking priests in the entire religion, except for him, did not awaken their supernatural abilities.

On the contrary, many of the lower-ranking priests awakened and gained supernatural abilities.

This resulted in other high-ranking members of the cult who could have competed with him for power losing their ability to contend with him simply because he said, "You have not received divinely bestowed abilities."

Moreover, with the identity of a divinely granted person (an awakened one), his appeal within the church greatly increased. After recruiting other priests in the church who had acquired supernatural abilities, his position within the church was greatly consolidated.

If Suzuki Masako hadn't awakened her special abilities and was still just an ordinary person, he wouldn't have cared too much even if he knew she had arrived at the First Island.

However, after learning that Masako Suzuki had also awakened a supernatural ability, the High Priest's thoughts began to waver.

At this time, the island nation's court had already established three large survivor bases on the first island.

Because of Shintoism's powerful influence on the island nation, the Third Survivor Base is nominally still under the control of the government's high-ranking officials.

But in reality, the High Priest wields more influence in the Third Foundation than the highest-ranking official in charge of the Third Foundation.

And most importantly, the highest-ranking officer of the Third Base is actually a fanatical Shintoist.

Therefore, after learning that Suzuki Masako had arrived on the first island, the people in the other two bases, after receiving the mission, probably only perfunctorily inquired about the mission details, and quickly forgot about it after discovering that it was not a mandatory mission.

However, the survivors in the Third Base, under the High Priest's instructions, attached great importance to this mission and dispatched many people to conduct a thorough search of the First Island.

Looking at Suzuki Masako lying helplessly on the mattress, Dong Qi knew that he shouldn't continue to indulge in her gentle embrace and torment her.

The chassis of your destined car is already at level 19. Just one more level up will allow your destined car to advance to the next level.

Moreover, barring any unforeseen circumstances, as long as the vehicle frame level is upgraded to level 20, Dong Qi should theoretically be able to obtain 5,000 points of unknown energy.

With the four thousand energy points already stored, I only need one thousand energy points to obtain another upgrade item.

For Dong Qi in the past, obtaining 1,000 energy points would not have been easy, but for Dong Qi now, who is full of martial virtue and has arrived in a foreign land, it is not so difficult.

He has nine ways to make up for the remaining insufficient energy.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, Dong Qi not only cleaned himself up, but also took the opportunity to give Suzuki Masako a full-body wash and treatment amidst her slight resistance.

Seeing that the shrine maiden's outfit, which could increase attack speed, was now reduced to shreds, Dong Qi helplessly threw it away. He then took a large set of clothes from his own belongings and put them on Suzuki Masako.

Seeing that Suzuki Masako was still somewhat drowsy and hadn't fully woken up, Dong Qi reclined the passenger seat, allowing her to lie down and continue resting.

Unaware of the current situation inside First Island, Dong Qi did not immediately go to the industrial parks on First Island.

Instead, they planned to continue along the coastline in search of docks, ports, and shipyards.

Compared to industrial parks that can obtain small quantities of medium- to high-grade alloys, shipyards can only obtain basic alloys, but they have the advantage of large quantities to satisfy everyone.

To upgrade the chassis of your vehicle to level 20, you need to absorb a large amount of metal.

For Dong Qi, both large ships that have already been built and metal materials stored in shipyards are the best areas for collecting resources.

The dense seaweed thickets and the occasional attacks by small, mutated marine creatures no longer posed a significant threat to Dong Qi's subsequent metal-gathering operations.

The electromagnetic cannon can easily carve out a wide path through the seaweed, and its sturdy chassis ensures that small, mutated marine creatures, no matter what attack methods they employ, will not cause any damage to the vehicle.

Just as Dong Qi was happily collecting metal materials, a search team led by a priest found the spot where Dong Qi had parked and rested.

Seeing the dining table lying in a mess, and then finding the tattered shrine maiden's robe that Dong Qi had discarded.

The priest had a bad feeling about it, and his expression immediately turned extremely angry.

After sending someone back to report, the priest immediately arranged for the scouts in the team to carefully distinguish the wheel tracks on the ground.

After determining the direction Dong Qi drove off in, everyone immediately followed the tire tracks.

Dong Qi, who was collecting metal materials, was unaware that his whereabouts had been discovered by others.

As the saying goes, good fortune never comes in pairs, but misfortunes never come singly.

Besides being discovered by the priests on the first island, Dong Qi's commotion while collecting metal materials along the coast also attracted the attention of giant marine creatures lurking in the sea.

Compared to those small, mutated marine creatures with little intelligence, perhaps due to their larger size and enlarged brains, the intelligence of those giant marine creatures has been greatly enhanced.

It's unclear whether Dong Qi was just unlucky, but he was originally a giant mutated marine creature that was injured by an electromagnetic cannon on the transition island and lost its ability to move.

After molting, it failed to catch up with the island nation awakens who had ganged up on it.

Although only Aoki Masako and Oda Taka caught up with the evacuation team and successfully followed Dong Qi's car to leave the transition island.

However, the other awakened ones who did not set foot on the ice road before it melted, although they did not foolishly go to sea to cross it, each used their own abilities to hide.

After enduring several days on the transition island, people began to attempt to cross the sea using their individual abilities.

During the crossing of the sea, some succeeded and some failed.

But regardless of whether those people succeeded or failed, they provided a clear direction for tracking the giant mutated marine creature on the island.

The giant mutated sea creature followed the direction in which the awakened ones fled, chasing them directly to the First Island.

The commotion caused by Dong Qi's electromagnetic cannon immediately reminded the giant mutated sea creature of the scene where it was injured and rendered unable to move.

However, knowing that it could not defeat its opponent, this giant mutated marine creature immediately returned to the sea to call on its friends and gather other giant mutated marine creatures, preparing to unite its forces and win a decisive battle to kill Dong Qi.

The tracking team led by the priest immediately discovered the road that Dong Qi had cleared with an electromagnetic cannon as they approached the area covered by seaweed.

With this clear path, we can find Dong Qi's location by following it further.

While it's possible that some fools might emerge among the high-ranking officials in a hereditary island nation, those who struggle at the bottom and manage to climb to mid- or low-level positions are undoubtedly intelligent, capable, and strong individuals.

Therefore, after discovering that Dong Qi had cleared a path through the seaweed, the priest leading the team did not immediately venture deeper, but instead sent someone back to the third base to request assistance.

At this moment, he shared the same idea as the giant mutated sea creature that was chasing after him; neither of them wanted to use piecemeal tactics to gradually increase the intensity of the pursuit.

Instead, they were preparing to gather strong reinforcements, hoping to defeat Dong Qi with overwhelming force.

The giant mutated marine creature wanted to kill Dong Qi, partly because Dong Qi injured it, and partly because of the mutated marine creature's innate hostility towards humans.

The priest leading the group wanted to kill Dong Qi because, in his view, the priestess he had kidnapped had been defiled by him.

Therefore, on this trip, he not only intends to kill Dong Qi, but also, if he finds Suzuki Masako, even if he successfully rescues her, he will not bring her back to the cult.

After all, it would be more beneficial for the religion to prevent the priestess from being defiled from committing suicide in order to maintain her purity, rather than resisting the temptation of demons.

As for Masako Suzuki, as long as she no longer appears in front of outsiders, whether she is dead or alive is of little significance to the Shinto cult.

However, if they could win over Masako Suzuki, it would be a different story for the priest leading the group.

As mentioned before, everyone harbors dark thoughts of blasphemy.

Originally just a low-ranking assistant, he was required to kneel and bow deeply when facing the priestess, even if they only met occasionally.

If he had the opportunity to arrest and detain her under a legitimate pretext, even if Suzuki Masako remained innocent when she was arrested, he would still frame her.

In any case, Suzuki Masako was already his for the taking at this moment.

The support dispatched by the Third Base arrived much faster than the leading priest had anticipated.

The priest leading the group had not expected that the cult would attach such importance to this matter to a far greater degree than he had imagined.

The leader of the team that came to provide support this time is the head of the newly established God's Guard of the Faith Army.

Although the God's Guard is small in number, all of them are awakened individuals who have gained superpowers. Despite having only thirteen members, their true combat strength far exceeds that of a fully equipped thousand-strong battle group.

Although only six people came this time, their combat power far exceeds what ordinary people can imagine.

In addition, the third base also dispatched 500 fully armed soldiers.

Upon seeing the well-equipped soldiers, the priest leading the group was filled with indescribable conflicting emotions.

The identities and numbers of those who came to provide support demonstrate the importance Shintoism places on priestesses.

However, if Shintoism pays too much attention to priestesses, then his dark thoughts will never be realized.

In his view, even if Masako Suzuki is revered as a priestess, she should not attract so much attention from Shintoism.

After all, in every island nation with a population of over ten thousand, the local shrine will select a priestess to serve as a deity.

In other words, there are actually more than ten shrine maidens in the entire island nation who hold the title of "shrine maiden".

Although Masako Suzuki is ranked relatively high, she is not in the top three, so theoretically the cult should not attach such high importance to her.

Even if the Divine Guard is dispatched, theoretically only one or two people would come to provide support. Sending nearly half of their personnel to provide support at once must have some unknown inside story.

Upon arrival, the commander of the Divine Guard naturally took over supreme command from the priest in charge.

"Ono-kun, please describe in detail the information you obtained."

Upon hearing the question from the commander of the God's Guard, Priest Ono recounted all the information he knew without reservation.

After listening to Priest Ono's account, the team leader frowned and asked again, "From what you're saying, you just followed the trail."

After discovering that the other party had entered the seaweed patch, fearing danger, they did not send anyone in to continue tracking, instead wasting time waiting for reinforcements.

Upon hearing what the team leader said, Priest Ono immediately bowed deeply at a ninety-degree angle before speaking: "I'm sorry, the members I lead don't have strong combat capabilities. If we go deeper into the pursuit, we are likely to be wiped out."

That's why I chose to stay here, so that I can report the information we've gathered to you in person in detail.

Upon hearing Priest Ono's explanation, the leader glanced at him with disdain, then ignored the still-bowing Priest and addressed the group behind him:

"Miss Masako, who has been kidnapped by evil people, is just ahead. Everyone, listen to my command, follow me to rescue Miss Masako."

After the mobilization was completed, the team leader took the lead, directly leading the other members of the God's Guard. The skilled and daring members served as the vanguard and embarked on the road that Dong Qi had carved out of the seaweed with his electromagnetic cannon.

The giant mutated marine creatures, having already gathered several companions in the sea, felt that their fighting power was sufficient to easily deal with the humans on the shore. Therefore, they did not wait any longer and, together with the other giant mutated marine creatures, headed towards the shore.

Dong Qi, who was happily collecting metal materials, had no idea that he was being watched by two groups of enemies.

Just as the shipyard where Dong Qi was located was about to become a battlefield, the survivors who had followed Dong Qi's chariot to the First Island were also sent to a temporary camp under the jurisdiction of the island nation's government.

The other ordinary people were assigned heavy tasks as soon as they arrived at the camp.

Although the island nation's government would provide food for all survivors under its jurisdiction, those survivors also had to complete their daily assigned tasks in order to receive their full amount of food.

If the assigned workload is not completed, the food received will be deducted at a rate of 1.5 times.

Therefore, in order not to go hungry, all ordinary people would work hard every day, just to avoid starving themselves.

As for those who gained supernatural abilities, although the imperial court provided them with a minimum daily living allowance, it did not directly assign them tasks, but instead offered them several departments to choose from.

The group sat together, and everyone's eyes were drawn to the two Aoki sisters, who, despite sitting together, had very different appearances.

Although the two sisters are twins, they are completely different in appearance and temperament.

The eldest sister, Kotoko Aoki, is gentle and virtuous, and has the appearance of a naturally kind and caring older sister.

The younger sister, Masako Aoki, has a very lively personality, and seeing her reminds one of the vibrant and beloved girl from their school days.

Noticing everyone's gaze, Aoki Masako couldn't help but speak first: "Sis, which department should we choose?"

Upon hearing her sister's question, Kotoko Aoki didn't answer directly. Instead, she countered with, "Do you remember the car that took Masako Suzuki away?"

Upon hearing Aoki Kotoko's question, Oda Taka immediately understood her thoughts. Unable to contain his own greed, he impatiently asked, "Can you pinpoint the location of that car?"

Upon hearing Oda Taka's question, Aoki Kotoko did not answer, but simply nodded slightly.