Just as Matsushita was thinking about how to get closer to the little girl.
"Hmm? Where did she go? Where did the person go?"
Matsushita stood at the door, looking around the entire room. He searched several times carefully. The little girl who was just beside him had now disappeared.
This scared Matsushita so much that cold sweat broke out all over his body.
The other party had asked him to look after the little girl, and he had lost her right after they left. Now, it wasn't a question of whether he could steal their techniques, but whether he could keep his own life when they returned and found the little girl missing.
Matsushita dared not delay and quickly took out his walkie-talkie and shouted, "Everyone! Everyone, pay attention. A little girl is missing. Your mission is to find and protect her at all costs. I repeat, you must find and protect the little girl at all costs."
The entire hotel appeared calm on the surface, with tourists and couples coming and going, and hotel staff performing their daily duties as usual.
In reality, before Chen Long's family checked in, the entire hotel had been taken over by the Japanese military.
The ordinary tourists and hotel staff they saw were actually plainclothes disguised by Self-Defense Force soldiers.
Although Matsushita didn't understand why he was given this order, the duty of a soldier was to obey.
At Matsushita's command, the entire hotel became agitated. Everyone dropped what they were doing and began to organize a comprehensive, carpet-like search.
However, after searching the entire hotel upside down, they couldn't even find a trace of Xiao Yu.
Hearing the report from his subordinates, Matsushita felt terrible and yelled into the walkie-talkie, scolding them for their incompetence in not being able to find even a child.
However, after scolding, Matsushita calmed down and spoke into the walkie-talkie again, "Everyone, blockade all hotel entrances and exits. Station people at every possible exit point. Report immediately if the little girl's whereabouts are discovered."
Matsushita also realized that the reason the little girl named Xiao Yu disappeared was to follow the main group to fight the demons.
Therefore, she would definitely try her best to leave the hotel.
Rather than actively pursuing, it was better to wait by the side. Even if Xiao Yu didn't appear in the end, he could find a reasonable excuse to absolve himself when Chen Long and the others returned.
It was too unwise to focus all his energy on finding a little girl.
But Matsushita forgot one thing, which was that Xiao Yu was not an ordinary little girl. She knew magic and left the hotel through the main entrance guarded by soldiers with great ease.
Unaware of all this, Matsushita's gaze shifted to the demon-sealing potions left by his father in the room.
These potions came from a Grand Magus, and their quality and efficacy were beyond question. Now that the Grand Magus was gone, why not take some for research later?
Since there were so many, taking a little wouldn't be noticed.
Matsushita's plan was to reverse-engineer the potions and gain some knowledge of magic.
However, what Matsushita didn't know was that his father had never intended to hide them from the beginning.
These potions looked impressive, but they contained many specific ingredients and had strict requirements for the heat and timing of the refining process.
Let alone whether these Japanese amateurs could reverse-engineer them, even if they spent a lot of effort to research them, they would at most get a very useless potion.
The potions prepared by his father were definitely high-level, but they were only useful for sealing the Earth Demon and required corresponding divine artifacts and incantations. They were useless for anything else.
Matsushita didn't know this and, as if he had found a treasure, put a small amount of potion into a glass container and carried it close to his body.
On the other side, his father, Chen Long, and Tru got into a special car after leaving the hotel and headed rapidly towards the Earth Demon, with military vehicles clearing the way in front, behind, and to the sides.
Boom!
As the convoy advanced rapidly towards the Earth Demon, the military vehicle at the very front suddenly exploded. The massive explosion sent the vehicle flying several meters into the air, followed by the vehicles to its left and right, as if possessed, exploding in succession.
Facing such an explosion, the driver of the car gritted his teeth and said, "Hold on tight, everyone."
With that, he floored the accelerator, and the engine roared like a wild beast as he charged forward.
The soldier's frantic action was not entirely unexpected.
His comrades were now doing their best to block the Earth Demon, and every second they delayed meant more deaths. For this reason, he was willing to take some risks.
It turned out that the soldier's driving skills were truly superb.
At such a high speed, he was able to weave through the two fiery military vehicles at an extremely tricky angle.
Before the soldier could relax, the buildings on both sides of the road ahead began to collapse. The collapse was so precise, neither too much nor too little, that the rubble and debris from the collapsed buildings perfectly blocked the road ahead of the military vehicle.
This time it was different from last time. A large amount of rubble completely blocked the road, making it impassable, regardless of how good the driving skills were.
It was just that this accident was too coincidental. First, the leading military vehicles exploded for no reason, and then two buildings collapsed, perfectly blocking the road ahead, as if some mysterious force was deliberately obstructing them.
In fact, this was exactly the case.
Just as his father and the others were heading to find the Earth Demon with the potions, on the other side, a small bird quietly landed by the Earth Demon's ear.
Sensing the presence of the bird, the Earth Demon not only did not violently drive it away but allowed it to remain.
This was not an ordinary bird, but Bai Qi, transformed by the power of the Monkey Talisman.
Upon arriving at the Earth Demon's ear, the first thing Bai Qi said was that the human Grand Magus had arrived, and he should not engage in a prolonged struggle but quickly execute the plan.
Bai Qi deliberately did not mention that his father had the potion that could seal the Earth Demon, fearing that the Earth Demon would abandon the plan and flee if he heard it.
Upon hearing Bai Qi, the Earth Demon was still somewhat reluctant and wanted to stay and fight the human Grand Magus.
Fortunately, Bai Qi was a good persuader and managed to convince him.
The general gist of his persuasion was: "Look, although the human Grand Magus is not your match, fighting him will inevitably waste unnecessary time. If the humans gain an opportunity to catch their breath, even if they detonate the volcano, the damage caused will be greatly reduced. Why not temporarily avoid him? After detonating the volcano and covering the earth with lava, all humans, including the Grand Magus, will cease to exist.
Furthermore, as an Earth Demon, if the Earth Demon exerts a little more effort and takes advantage of the Mount Fuji eruption, it would not be a problem to sink half of Japan into the sea.
The Earth Demon thought about it and realized it was indeed the case. He resolutely followed Bai Qi's advice and changed course under Bai Qi's guidance.