Chapter 209 Before the Advance Team Meeting
Chapter 209 Before the Advance Team Meeting
A few days later.
Soul Society.
Around noon in the morning, the twelve Shinigami filed into the meeting hall of the First Division, wearing white Shinigami uniforms with their Zanpakutōs on them. On the back of their Shinigami uniforms were numbers from two to twelve.
Arrange them on both sides in the same order as before.
They are the top Shinigami captains of the Gotei 13, and their every move exudes a powerful aura.
Kyoraku Shunsui stood in the first place, wearing a conical hat with the brim deliberately pushed down, revealing only half of his face covered with stubble.
He glanced around and muttered softly, "Everyone is more punctual than the last for this meeting." He then sighed out of habit, not knowing what he was worried about.
The captain of the 12th Division, Mayuri Kurotsuchi, showed an inexplicable disdain on his face. He stretched out his hand with long pointed nails and rubbed it repeatedly: "It's really boring to hold a unified meeting just because of the matter of the Hueco Mundo advance team."
Ichimaru Gin narrowed his eyes: "Captain Nirvana looks very angry."
"Humph, according to previous information, the existence of the advance team is based on the balance of the souls of the three realms. It is mainly composed of death row prisoners, supplemented by the squad, and its purpose is to purify the souls."
Purifying the soul is nothing more than the glorification of annihilation.
"This kind of thing is as simple as it can be." Gin Ichimaru didn't even look at him, just stared at the floor and talked to himself.
A steady voice sounded: "The Hueco Mundo advance team, according to previous rules, will carry out purification missions every hundred years. But it has been shelved for many years, maybe this time will be different." The speaker was Tosen Kaname.
Kurotsuchi Mayuri sneered, "You mean, for such a boring purification mission, we need to hold a grand ceremony?"
"Based on the current changes in Soul Society, this time may be different from the past."
"Different? Don't tell me that those Hollows who pose no threat to the captains can be taken seriously by the captains."
"In order to achieve soul balance, soul purification was previously carried out based on the data provided by the Technology Development Bureau. Later, all the data on Hueco Mundo disappeared, and the captain-general issued the contents of the purification mission, including now."
Except for Toshiro who was a little confused, the other captains were silent. They heard all of Kurotsuchi Mayuri's complaints and could tell that he was slightly dissatisfied with the captain-general's concealment.
Aizen understood that the Hueco Mundo suddenly closed all space channel nodes hundreds of years ago, which had never happened in the entire history of the Gotei 13.
Until it was reopened, there is still no relevant information.
Through his glasses, Aizen Sosuke glanced at the captains present. Kurotsuchi Mayuri looked careless and said this without any thought.
Ultimately, he still wanted to resonate with everyone. After all, he didn't have the courage to face the captain alone.
However, it also reveals another message, which is that perhaps the information he has is more comprehensive.
Reiatsu Rain, each of the Ten Espadas has fifty years of high-quality Reiatsu appearing out of thin air.
It was a gathering like a sacrifice, and everything about it was weird.
Every Arrancar-level Vastod had a deep taboo about that incident. It didn't seem like a lie. This uneasy feeling of fear actually suppressed the instinct of devouring and killing from the great hollow life forms.
After returning to Hueco Mundo, Aizen Sosuke conducted various investigations and summaries on the matter, but all ended in failure.
It would be best if it was some kind of sacrificial activity as originally envisioned, but it would be tricky if it was some powerful being setting up an unknown chess game.
At least his strength is not inferior to his own. Aizen Sosuke is accustomed to thinking of the worst possible scenarios for unknown situations.
This also indirectly led to the particularly smooth surrender of the Ten Espada, which had both advantages and disadvantages.
Without the use of the Collapsing Jade, the Mirror Flowers and Water Moons alone are not enough to make this group of Great Hollows, each with their own ulterior motives, completely surrender.
Any one of the Ten Espada of Hueco Mundo is stronger than most of the captains of Squadron 13, but they cannot directly declare war as planned.
As I thought about it, I couldn't help but feel a headache. I never thought that I would hesitate at this point.
He had to borrow the power of the Hueco Mundo. There were two forces in the real world, but they were too weak, so weak that he couldn't muster any interest in them.
Could this meeting be related to this matter? Aizen thought about it and rejected this idea. It was probably related to his frequent experiments. He needed to keep a low profile for a while.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Kurotsuchi Mayuri's eyes deepened with sarcasm. "Sixty years ago, the captain ordered a purification campaign for the Soul City. Then, in the following period of time, the Technology Development Bureau developed a birth-inducing drug and released it to the Soul City and the human world. The population doubled. This kind of thing has never happened before."
"Considering the recent frequent activities of the Great Hollows, we can basically conclude that some changes have occurred in the Hueco Mundo, unknown changes that we are unaware of."
"At present, the souls of the three realms have maintained a balance, and they have abnormally sent out advance teams. Don't the captains have anything to say?"
When it comes to the balance data of the souls in the three realms, Mayuri Kurotsuchi has the most say.
“Pa…pa…pa.” Kyoraku Shunsui clapped his hands and praised, “As expected of Captain Nirvana, you can gather so much useful information just from these insignificant little things. The 12th Division has made outstanding contributions. The number of students at Mao Academy has indeed increased a lot recently.”
"However, I think the old man should have his own ideas. We should just follow his orders. This kind of troublesome thing is a headache just thinking about it."
Seeing that the other captains did not take the bait, Mayuri Kuroda felt annoyed. His eyes rolled around and his gaze suddenly fell on an inconspicuous figure.
It’s Toushirou, and Kurotsuchi Mayuri is about to speak.
Suddenly, Kenpachi Zaraki picked his ears with his right hand and said loudly, "It's so noisy."
Seeing the biggest troublemaker of the Gotei 13 speaking, Kurotsuchi Mayuri also fell silent.
Kenpachi Zaraki said while picking his ears: "The old man has already started playing the game before he even arrived. He is so energetic. Come and fight with me. It's just a good way to warm up."
As soon as these words were spoken, the air fell into silence. Seeing this, Kenpachi Zaraki curled his lips in boredom, he was not surprised.
In silence, a figure slowly walked over from the side. Sitting at the head was the captain of the first squadron, Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto.
Since Li Chuan left Soul Society, Yamamoto Genryusai has been living in seclusion and rarely appears in public except for necessary meetings.
Ukitake Jushiro and Kyoraku Shunsui couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw that their teacher hadn't changed at all and was in the same spirit as before, with the same familiar sense of oppression.
At the same time, he also kept in mind that this matter could not be resolved so simply. Throughout history, the Gotei 13 had never suffered a serious loss.
Yamamoto Genryusai was not tall and looked old, but the vague sense of oppression he gave him still made the captains very alert.
The captain looked around and nodded: "The main content of this meeting is to discuss the specific matters regarding the advance team of Hueco Mundo."
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