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Chapter 444 The Well of Hidden Bones Appears
“But they can’t do it…” Lu Mingfei said with a bitter face.
“No problem, you can do it,” Caesar continued. “It’s not about her falling in love with you, although it would be even better if you two were in love…”
"I get it, you just want me to flirt with her and make me a scumbag, right?" Lu Mingfei said indignantly.
“We’ll be relieved if you really become a scumbag,” Gu Ran said at this moment. “Anyway, this is the organization’s decision, so you just have to obey orders. But Erii has to be willing, otherwise… you’ll be considered a kidnapper!”
"Damn it, so you mean if the mission fails, I'll be the only one who bravely sacrifices myself, right?!" Lu Mingfei wanted to argue, but Caesar, as the team leader, forcefully suppressed him.
At this moment, Chu Zihang handed a convenience bag to Lu Mingfei. Inside was chilled milk. Erii needed to drink a cup of warm milk before bed to help stabilize her emotions.
Gu Ran also handed him a bag containing various women's products that Su Xiaoqiang had helped him buy, such as underwear and sanitary napkins.
"Go quickly, this is an honorable mission. After the revolution succeeds, the organization will not forget your contribution." Gu Ran pushed Lu Mingfei out the door.
Lu Mingfei made a couple of rants, but ultimately, like a child who couldn't win against his parents, he left helplessly.
"Tell me about Kazama Ruri." Gu Ran sat on the edge of the bed, looking at his two senior brothers, wanting to know if he had missed any details.
So, Chu Zihang and Caesar recounted the story of Kazama Ruri together.
……
On the other hand, after learning that his younger brother, Genjiro, was still alive, Genjiro, having missed his target, called on Tachibana Masamune to go back to the mountains to pry open Genjiro's grave and confirm it one more time.
Upon reaching the mountains, they indeed discovered that Genji's body was no longer there.
Genjiro's first mission to slay demons was to eliminate Genjiro, and in his view, Genjiro must have come for revenge.
Tachibana Masamune comforted him, saying that it was not his fault, but the fault of the King, Herzog, because he created the twins and destined one of them to be a demon.
He lied and said that Genji had already become a demon and could not suppress her bloodlust, so her death was inevitable.
In reality, it was Tachibana Masamune who awakened Minamoto no Wakome's bloodthirsty personality with the sound of the clapper, which led to his bloodthirsty killings.
Tachibana Masamune was so adept at lying that he didn't even bother to prepare a draft. He even went so far as to comfort Genjiro, making it appear to outsiders like a scene of deep father-son affection.
In other words, Genjiro was too naive; if it were someone else, Tachibana Masamune wouldn't have succeeded so easily.
Actually, Tachibana Masamune is also very anxious now, because after the god awakened, he has been unable to find the Well of Hidden Bones.
The Well of Hidden Bones is the second incubation ground of the gods. The first one is in Takamagahara, but the second incubation ground has never been found, which has been troubling the people of the Snake-Headed Eight Families.
It wasn't until the Taisho era in modern times that the Hebi-hachi family came into contact with advanced Western technology and began sponsoring drilling teams to search for the remains of hatcheries underground in Japan.
For over a century, drilling exploration teams have been searching for underground rivers along the mountains surrounding Tokyo. The entire drilling process takes about a hundred years and involves drilling more than 10,000 exploratory wells.
Tachibana Masamune calculated the time and thought it was probably about time.
Ten years ago, based on archaeological data, he deduced that the ruins might be located deeper, so he increased the drilling exploration from 100 meters underground to 300 meters underground.
Over the past decade, he has discovered numerous bone fragments and found the remains of many mixed-race individuals.
Therefore, it can be confirmed that he is getting closer and closer to his goal.
……
Sure enough, the next morning, just as dawn broke, the heads of the Snake-Headed Eight Families all received a notice from their patriarch, Genjiro, requesting them to gather for a meeting.
All the heads of the families were present except for Inuyama He.
It was also Tachibana Masamune's idea not to contact Inuyama He. He told Genjiro that after the last machine gun attack, the Inuyama family head probably had a grudge against them, so it was not advisable to tell him about this situation, lest he inform Angers.
Genji thought about it and agreed with Tachibana Masamune's suggestion. As long as the Inuyama family was unaware, even if there was a leak, Inuyama He couldn't be blamed. It would be a good thing to remove him from the list.
Once things have calmed down, we can repair our relationship with him. I think the head of the Inuyama family should be able to understand for the sake of the bigger picture.
The head of the Miyamoto family was the last to arrive. He was a researcher who liked to do experiments, so he was still wearing a white lab coat.
“I think we have found God,” Genji said after everyone had gathered.
Those present were both surprised and terrified upon hearing this.
Genjiro recounted what happened last night: the drilling team discovered the well containing the remains in the Akaki River, about forty kilometers west of Tokyo.
The Yaksha who arrived last night to handle the situation took out three items. The first two were two quartz glass bottles, containing dragon fetal blood and the Dragon Executioner, the Ghost Tooth Dragon Viper, respectively. The third item was a letter, which was the explorer's record.
When the Ghost-toothed Dragon Viper appeared last night, it killed many members of the drilling exploration team. Many of the team members were ordinary people. Fortunately, the captain was a member of the Snake-Headed Eight Family. He sacrificed his life to delay the situation for fifteen minutes, holding out until Yasha and his men arrived to deal with it.
Seeing this evidence, Shigeo Miyamoto had no choice but to believe it was all true, but he was puzzled as to why there had been such a sudden development.
Masamune Tachibana explained that the reason for today's progress was that he changed the drilling depth ten years ago.
The group discussed how to explore the Red Demon River, how to protect Tokyo, and how to kill the god!
Miyamoto Shigeo revealed his plan: to start from Red Well and use a super tunnel boring machine to excavate the tunnel. The super tunnel boring machine is a super piece of equipment capable of excavating the Channel Tunnel between England and France, and the diameter of the hole it excavates is as high as six meters!
The distance from the Red Well to the hatchery on the Red Demon River is about 1,500 meters, and Miyamoto Shio said that with that machine, it would only take ten days to dig to the hatchery.
As for the method of killing the god, he used the method of Susanoo in mythology, pouring a large amount of mercury into the well. Mercury is highly poisonous to dragons, and even the larvae of 'gods' would be affected. Even if he could not kill the god, he should be able to weaken it.
Then, thermite is injected. Thermite incendiary bombs can generate temperatures exceeding 3,000 degrees Celsius and can also evaporate mercury into highly toxic mercury vapor, further harming the gods.
That super tunneling machine is now in Tokyo, and renting it requires a deposit of 5 billion yen, plus a daily usage fee of 1.8 billion yen.
Yuan Zhisheng asked, "What if we fail?"
Miyamoto Shio said that if he failed, he would have no choice but to draw his sword, jump in, and fight the gods to atone for his sins with his death.
Genjiro and the others had no good solutions, so he immediately chose Miyamoto Shigeo's plan, ordering his retainers to buy thermite and mercury, and also preparing a cash check for 20 billion yen for Miyamoto Shigeo.
Genjiro also handed the Kikuichimonji Norimune sword to Miyamoto Shigeo. In the family, this sword was equivalent to the Shangfang sword in ancient China. It was an important token among the Snake-Headed Eight Families, somewhat like the dragon head stick in the movie "Yakuza". In short, one could become the leader of the gang only if they had this sword.
Having gained the trust of the patriarch, Miyamoto Shigeo immediately began his plan, preparing for his operation to slay the 'god'.
Genjiro assigned other tasks, such as having Fuuma Kotaro's Wind Group keep watch in the nearby jungle, and the heads of other families also immediately took action.
In short, the most important task of the Snake Clan is to prevent the 'god' from waking up.
For thousands of years, they have protected Japan, and now, the time for the final battle has finally come.
Genjiro also had doubts in his heart about whether Miyamoto Shigeo's plan could kill 'God'.
If he cannot be killed, then in the end he can only jump into the Well of Bones and fight the gods.
The blood flowing in their veins is God's favorite food, so God would surely welcome his arrival.
If even he can't kill the god, then we'll have to send Erii.
Erii is the family's strongest weapon; she wields the most powerful Word of Power in human history.
If she can't do that either, then she can only watch helplessly as the world is destroyed.
After the meeting ended, Genji was very worried because he had not heard from Erii.
This is her 22nd time running away from home, and she has been gone for more than 48 hours.
Sakura said she had sent people to look for her, but there was still no news.
After thinking for a moment, Genjiro raised the bounty to 3 billion yen.
Because Erii is also their weapon, they cannot be without a weapon when the battle begins.
Sakura did as instructed.
"Don't you think I'm despicable and cruel?" Yuan Zhisheng asked Ying. He thought to himself that if it were Gu Ran, he would probably mock him for being hypocritical.
He didn't know if he was a masochist, but he suddenly really wanted to be mocked by Gu Ran.
“We are all weapons, and you see yourself as a weapon too, right?” Sakura said in a cold tone. “We are all murder weapons, so we can sympathize with each other.”
“If this matter is resolved smoothly, I’d like to go to the nudist beach in Montalivate, France, and sell sunscreen.” Genji looked at Tokyo shrouded in misty rain and asked Sakura behind him, “Would you like to go on a vacation together?”
Genjiro's retainers all knew that he didn't like being involved in the underworld and only hoped to live a free and unrestrained life abroad. He had planned his retirement long ago, bought several shops to collect rent to support crows and yakshas, and entrusted the reliable Sakura to collect the rent and pay them.
In Genjiro's plan, he never intended to take his retainers to France. However, when Sakura said that they were all "in the same boat," his heartstrings were inadvertently touched.
So they extended an invitation.
Imagine having such a beautiful girl by your side at the beach. Even if you don't say a word, just watching the sea together and applying sunscreen would be nice.
"It would be my honor," Sakura said expressionlessly, but a rare hint of delight flickered in her heart.
Chapter 445 The Red Thread of Fate
Gu Ran slept until noon again before getting up.
"Why are you always out running around at night instead of sleeping? Are you trying to steal something?" Zhang Qiong seemed to disapprove of her son sleeping until noon every day.
Gu Ran complained, "When I'm home, you complain that I'm annoying; when I'm not home, you complain that I don't come home at night. It's really annoying whether I have a mom or not..."
"You brat..." Just as Zhang Qiong was about to hit the kid, Gu Ran jumped into the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face.
Thinking about it carefully, she, as a mother, simply hadn't accepted that her son had suddenly grown up, and still thought that her child was like when he was a child, and that she had to handle everything.
She often forgets that her son is already capable of standing on his own.
After brushing her teeth and washing her face, Gu Ran went to the living room to eat with everyone. It was rare for everyone to be together today, and no one went out. The main reason was that it had been raining the whole time.
Tang Shishi and Zhou Xinqing had heard Gu Ran say that the awakening of the Dragon King would cause weather changes, but they hadn't really felt anything about it yet.
But the two of them also checked the relevant meteorological data in the past two days and learned that this year's rainfall is more than ten times higher than the average year!
Moreover, every day it rains with torrential downpours and strong winds; the raindrops are so hard they hurt when they hit your face.
This unusual rainfall is like the rainy season in a tropical rainforest, but Tokyo is still experiencing the chilly weather of early spring. The continuous heavy rainfall without convection is truly abnormal.
If this were a typical inland city, it would probably be suffering from urban flooding by now. However, Tokyo's sewer system has always had redundant designs, so its drainage system is quite good and has not caused flooding.
But if God truly awakens, can this city still be defended?
"I've finished eating, I'm going to take a nap." Gu Ran yawned and went back to her room to sleep after finishing lunch.
“Hey, I have something to tell you,” Zhang Qiong called out to Gu Ran. “I’ve booked a really good restaurant. Let’s have a get-together on Saturday, and then we should be leaving Tokyo soon.”
"Okay!" Gu Ran waved his hand; he was so sleepy he was going to go to bed.
After chatting with Chu Zihang and the others last night, he went back home. Suddenly, he remembered that the matter of the Zhang family in Nanyang had not been resolved yet, so he sped to the port of Chiba and found the cargo ship of the Zhang family in Nanyang, following the address that Yabuki Sakura had given him.
The cargo ship was moored deep inside the port's dock, hidden very well. There were about a hundred people inside, with varying bloodlines. Most were C-level, about a dozen were B-level, and the fewest were A-level.
Because it had been raining, these people were just sitting on the cargo ship with nothing to do.
Inside the cargo ship, there were also many human experiments and corpse guard experiments, but these technologies were very backward, not even one-tenth as advanced as Herzog's, and they couldn't even create a snake-like Deadpool.