Chapter 154: The Border of Alien Demons, The Fox Face Reappears (2 in 1)
Chapter 154 The border between strange demons and the reappearance of the fox face (2-in-1)
"Starting immediately, after a one-minute countdown, a mighty blessing will come to everyone nearby centered on this radio tower, giving you the power you have longed for day and night."
"When you have power, will you still surrender to the fear of heaven and man, or will you bravely face your fear? You don't need to answer me. You only need to answer yourselves."
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The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and the faint moonlight passed through the transparent skylight on the ceiling and fell on the brown conference table in the conference room.
At the head of the table is a chair with leather armrests that have experienced a long period of rubbing and baptism. Sitting on the chair is an old man with gray hair and wrinkles on his face.
His hands gently rubbed the wrinkled leather on the armrests, and a live broadcast from the far east was playing on a light screen not far in front of him.
This is a suburban area nearly 500 kilometers away from the bustling Kyoto metropolitan area. There is a lake called Fox Lake, which is a tourist attraction that is warm in winter and cool in summer.
But since someone bought all the land around the lake a hundred years ago and built a manor by the lake, it has never been associated with ordinary people again.
No one would be dissatisfied and protest. Being able to own such a manor in a place like Kamikyo, which is known as the "center of the world" and where land is so valuable, speaks volumes about the identity and status of the owner of the manor.
In fact, the Tianhu Bart family, which controls the economic lifeline of the world, owns a manor in every corner of the world that matches the family's status and is low-key and luxurious.
The transparent ceiling conference room in the manor is not necessarily used for meetings, but can also be used to entertain guests who deserve careful attention, such as the old man sitting across the conference table.
The family behind that old man belongs to the Nine Celestial Families above the sky, which controls most of the energy ore veins in the world, and he is the current patriarch of the Tianlong Rhine Family—Senior Rhine.
Sitting on the chair with his body upright and calm, the leader of the Tianlong Clan, Senior Rhine, raised his fingertips and rubbed the center of his brow.
When his pure golden vertical eyes looked away from the light screen in the conference room, the white-haired old man at the end of the conference table, Bettencourt Bart, raised the remote control and turned off the live broadcast.
"This is the last live video transmitted from Wano New Tokyo a few minutes ago. After that, all signals were cut off."
Bettencourt Bart added in a steady voice, "The interruption was artificial. Obviously, someone didn't want us to know too much."
After the words fell, the conference room with only two people fell into silence.
After a while, the tall and upright leader of the Tianlong Clan, Senior Lain, shook his head gently and said with some emotion, "Is that the Wano Country in the East China Sea?"
"Yeah. There again."
Betancourt Bart, the leader of the Sky Fox Clan, nodded slightly, looked at the Celestial Dragon Clan's Clan Senior, Senior Laing, and said straight to the point, "You know about 'those things' that began to appear in the Wano Country more than a hundred years ago.
How many?"
"Those things?
Are you referring to the strange demon?"
The vertical pupils in Tianlong Clan Chief Senior Rhine's golden eyes condensed slightly.
At a certain moment, he seemed to be trapped in some memories, and he slowly said:
"At that time, I was still a child. My father warned me when he passed away that humans are like hounds in this world. When they are disobedient, they can be beaten appropriately, but when necessary, they can also be given a bone.
, when the night falls, they are the only people in this world who can help us resist the darkness."
"yes."
Bettencourt Bart nodded and said with a chuckle, "It's just that the weight of that 'bone' back then was a bit too heavy - the Nine Celestial Beings surrendered their political rights in the House of Lords and the World Government, and completely withdrew from history.
On the stage, the wisdom and courage of our fathers are far beyond our reach."
"But history repeats itself."
Senior Clan Leader of the Tianlong Clan, Senior Lain, lowered his eyes slightly and said, "I didn't expect that there would be human beings who would understand those strange demons that are buried in the dust of history. Maybe I am too old and too slow to be a member of Wano Country a few years ago.
That’s what I should have thought of when it was announced that we had developed a power fruit. It was not a power fruit, but a devil fruit. Only by making a deal with the devil can you gain power."
Bettencourt Bart shook his head when he heard this, with a look of indifference in his eyes, "History has proven countless times that human beings are like this. The more power, ability and resources they have, the more inferior creatures like them are unworthy.
What they have, they desire more and more.”
"The problem is that now [the border] has emerged, no one can be sure whether the situation there is the same as it was a hundred years ago. What should we do next?"
Senior Rhine asked.
The Sky Fox Clan has been the advisor of the Sky Dragon Clan in history. Although all the systems in the past no longer exist, this does not affect the Sky Dragon Clan leader Senior Rhine from seeking the opinion of this old fox.
Bettencourt Bart, the leader of the Tianhu Clan, pondered for a moment, then slowly said, "First send people to assess the level of the [Border], and then seal it through the Adjudication Department."
"All humans who have been incarnated by strange demons and lost their consciousness will be regarded as cleansed by strange demons. The remaining humans who gained abilities through strange demons will be concentrated in isolation and locked up to eliminate unstable and high-risk abilities that are not in the talent sequence. They will be quarantined for half a year before considering the situation.
freed."
After saying this in a cold tone, Bettencourt Bart suddenly sighed and said with a wry smile, "I hope the level of Wano [Border] will not be too high this time, otherwise those of the Nine Families will ignore the world and pursue people above the ninth level.
I'm afraid I can't stand the loneliness any longer, old man."
Senior Clan Leader of the Tianlong Clan, Senior Lain, had been listening to his words in silence. At this time, he nodded slightly and suddenly asked, "Then what should we do tonight?"
Bettencourt Bart glanced at Senior Rhine with some weirdness in his heart, but said calmly, "The affairs of Wano Country this time are not related to Gaius Rhine, the seventh judge of your clan.
Are you responsible? He should handle things tonight well."
Senior Rhine nodded, glanced at Bettencourt Bart with his golden vertical pupils, and said unconsciously, "That is indeed a very outstanding child, hard-working and stubborn, always rational and indifferent, I am
I see a shadow of me in him, but he doesn't seem to be that close to the family."
"Children always like a warm home."
Bettencourt Bart said with a smile, "Maybe your management method is too strict, but it doesn't matter. No matter where the child goes, he will always belong to the family behind him."
"I hope so"
Senior Rhine said calmly.
He did not continue to speak, and silently tasted the amber-colored Qingshou Liquor in the cup, feeling the pungency of the liquid across his throat. His golden vertical pupils were filled with silent pressure.
Of course he was aware of the certain connection that Gaius Rhine, a collateral descendant of the Adjudication Division, and the old fox across the conference table had maintained over the years.
However, he doesn't resent it. The descendants of the descendants cannot obtain too many resources in the family, and if they want to rise to the top, they have to use their own brains. This is not an unforgivable thing.
He is not worried that the other party will betray him.
Marcus Rhine, the eleventh adjudicator of the Judgment Department, died in Wano some time ago, which means that one of the orthodox heirs within the Tianlong clan has become vacant.
If Gaius Rhine could handle this incident neatly and neatly this time, he would kill the flea hiding behind the dark golden mask in the East China Sea for the World Government and the Nine Families.
Then he wouldn't mind letting Gaius Rhine, a collateral descendant, take Markas Rhine's place, and he would naturally return to the family at that time.
What the old fox in front of me said,
There is always one thing that is right.
No matter where the child goes,
He also belongs to the family behind him. After all, the blood of the noble Tianlong clan flows in his body.
Wano Country, New Tokyo.
The pedestrian street at the foot of the Sky Tree.
When the people of the third investigation team responsible for maintaining order at the scene saw those ordinary people falling to the ground inexplicably, holding their heads and rolling in pain, everyone was stunned.
But then, the people on the ground writhing in pain suddenly stood up strangely, with various abilities appearing on their bodies, and they lost their senses and rushed towards the people of the Adjudication Department who were usually in awe of them like beasts.
In an instant, the people in the third investigation team felt a chill rushing from their heels to the sky. They all widened their eyes and felt as if their scalps were numbing!
That's the Adjudication Division!
Are these people crazy?
This thought just flashed through the minds of everyone in the third investigation team.
The next moment, everyone couldn't help but suddenly mentioned in their hearts, and a biting coldness surged in their hearts.
I saw those people who seemed to have lost their minds and rushed towards the adjudication department madly.
People are still jumping into the air.
Suddenly, as if someone pressed the freeze button, everything stagnated in mid-air.
what's the situation?
Everyone in the third investigation team has not yet reacted.
At this time, the middle-aged man who was rushing forward, his body covered with lightning, suddenly appeared from the back of his head. A thin sword that seemed to be both real and imaginary suddenly appeared. Blood spurted out like a blowout, and the whole man flew backwards.
Immediately afterwards, there was a heart-wrenching friction sound of a sharp blade penetrating the skull.
More than a dozen scarlet blood arrows spurted out in unison, followed by the sound of falling to the ground one after another.
In the blink of an eye, those humans who got up again after falling and tried to resist in the face of the Adjudication Division's clearance were all cut down like weeds in a pool of blood.
The surrounding third investigation team members looked at the fallen people and stood there with slightly sluggish expressions.
They had imagined countless consequences of attacking the Adjudication Division, but they had never imagined the scene in front of them.
Perhaps it was because they were of the same kind, but for a moment, everyone felt a chill in their hearts.
Gaius Rhine, the seventh judge holding a black umbrella, shook his head silently.
Human beings are still human beings after all.
Thinking that you have somehow mastered that trivial ability and forgetting the fact that you are a lowly creature like a human being is really ridiculous and unspeakably stupid.
His dark vertical pupils scanned the surroundings, and he said in an indifferent tone, "I just received news that the high-risk elements who assassinated the adjudicator and congressmen in Baiyu Square are on this street, and now the adjudication department is about to launch an arrest operation.
,Anyone who tries to block it will be treated as an accomplice!"
"yes!"
Everyone in the Judgment Division's execution team responded one after another, with a touch of excitement and anger in their tone.
To be honest, these people who suddenly pounced on them like crazy wild beasts just now really stunned the enforcement team of the Judgment Department, who usually take care of themselves in the country of Wano.
Like a wolf eating a sheep,
When a sheep sees a wolf, it will either run away,
Or get eaten.
But one day, when the sheep suddenly kick up their hooves and charge forward, the wolves who are accustomed to easy hunting may also be a little dumbfounded.
Of course, the reaction will be even more annoying.
Then what follows is the venting of anger and inevitably hurting innocent people.
A few hundred meters away,
An alleyway of Sky Tree Pedestrian Street.
Miria Nishimaru was holding a big black umbrella and standing in the rain in front of a convenience store with her little feet on her hands.
From time to time, she tilted her head and glanced at the dark alley over there, and her little hand holding the umbrella handle tightly revealed her inner anxiety.
Didn't you say go in and have a look?
Why doesn't big brother come out yet?
Have you encountered an enemy?
At this time, a man wearing a wide-brimmed black hat and a black coat suddenly appeared in his field of vision, and a look of joy suddenly appeared on Nishimaru Miria's anxious little face.
When the visitor approached, Nishimaru Miria quickly rushed over to help Higashinohara hold an umbrella to block the wind and rain outside.
"Brother, have you found them?"
Higashinohara took off the black top hat on his head, casually shook off the rainwater on the brim, shook his head, and said with a somewhat cold look, "There is only one."
His mood was a little gloomy, and he couldn't stop thinking about the four sophomores who fell in the rainy night. Their lives should not have been like this.
Tonight was different from the attack on Takehara Minami Private Academy a few nights ago. From the woman's last words, it could be heard that the other party was obviously targeting him.
At this moment, he seemed to be able to smell the damp bloody smell in the dark alley in the tip of his nose, and his heart suddenly became more gloomy, and even his breathing felt a little uncomfortable.
Why is this?
Higashinohara was thinking about this question.
Miria Nishimaru, who was struggling to hold the big black umbrella next to her, seemed to notice that Higashinohara's mood was different from before, and she frowned slightly, as if she was filled with some kind of depression.
She did not use the ability of [True Listening], but her little mind seemed to have guessed something.
"Big brother."
Approaching the meeting point at Takehara Minami, Nishimaru Miria suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong, Miria-chan?" Higashinohara lowered his head and looked at Nishimaru Miria and asked.
Nishimaru Miria didn't say anything. She just took off the small school bag on her shoulder, took out a red and blue fox mask from it, looked up at her pretty and charming little face and said to Higashinohara, "Here, here's this for you."
Higashinohara lowered his head and glanced at the familiar mask, and heard Nishimaru Miria continue in a brisk tone, "Brother, don't worry about me. I will meet up with the teacher and the others right away. We can go back by ourselves."
Higashinohara couldn't help but startled slightly when he heard this, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face.
This little guy.
It's really unusually considerate.
He couldn't help but chuckle, took the fox face from Nishimaru Miria's hand, rubbed Nishimaru Miria's little head, and the two separated at the meeting point of Takehara Minami Private Academy.
There are some things that don’t need to be said.
Because everything is already unspeakable.
After they separated, Higashinohara quickly rushed towards the exchange venue without stopping for long.
Higashinohara had just finished allocating attribute points when he killed the woman in the dark alley, which meant that the countdown had begun and he didn't have much time to waste.
However, walking on the somewhat empty pedestrian street and getting closer to the venue of the exchange meeting, Higashinohara couldn't help but frown slightly, and couldn't help but feel a little doubtful in his heart.
Just now in the dark alley, the woman seemed to have informed the person who wanted to arrest him, so it stands to reason that the person should have been facing him and rushed over.
Why hasn't anyone been seen yet?
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly saw a large group of people crying and shouting from behind the street corner and running away somewhere in embarrassment.
Suddenly, time seemed to stop for a moment!
The next moment, blood rained back like a tidal wave from countless fragmented corpses.
Higashinohara's pupils couldn't help but shrink suddenly.
In the rain of blood, I saw a tall man holding a black umbrella, stepping on the bloody corpses and red blood on the ground, walking with cold and stiff steps on the blood-soaked street.
Behind him was a large group of enforcement teams from the Adjudication Department, frantically chasing the fleeing people.
At this time, a sluggish middle-aged man was forced to retreat to the corner by three members of the enforcement team of the Adjudication Department.
He suddenly collapsed and knelt down in the heavy rain, crying, shaking his head and shouting:
"Please! I'm not crazy, I'm not them. I didn't attack you! I still have a family and children, and I don't want the power anymore! Please."
Suddenly,
The sounds in the rainy night stopped abruptly.
Under the big black umbrella,
Higashinohara tightened the handle of the umbrella in his hand.
At the same time, Gaius Rhine, the seventh judge standing at the front, seemed to notice something.
He turned his head, and in his pair of vertical pupils as dark as hell, his cold eyes suddenly looked through the misty rain curtain at the motionless big black umbrella on the side of the road.
At this time, Gaius Rhine suddenly saw the front edge of the big black umbrella lift slightly, revealing the red and blue patterned mask of the Inari Shrine fox monster under the umbrella.
The two looked at each other through the rain and fog.
Fox face?
Gaius Rhine slowly remembered something.
The corners of his lips could not help but raise slightly, raising a hint of a sneer or a mocking arc.
