Chapter 283 Li Hu returns to the north and returns to hell!
Chapter 283 Li Hu returns to the north and returns to hell!
There are many rumors about the "Hell World" from the outside world, but most people know very little about it.
The fundamental reason for this situation is not only that ordinary people are in an "information cocoon" at that level that they cannot access, but also the monopoly of this information by those superior heavenly and human classes.
For example, the last time Higashinohara entered the team hired by the Judgment Division, they entered that little-known world together with the people of the Judgment Division.
If they can come back alive, they will also become one of the very few "informants" in the human world about what lies behind the Border Gate.
But the crux of the matter is that when Higashinohara didn't enter the [World Destroyer] form the last time he came back from behind the Border Gate, he shocked everyone's eyeballs and killed the woman guarding the gate of the Sixth Judgment Archbishop Adeline Lyon.
None of their exploration team of seven humans could come back, let alone survive as "insiders".
Even so, among the five people including Higashinohara and Hela who survived at that time, Hela, Nanami Kenjiro and others are now hiding their heads and tails.
Higashinohara even kept his name anonymous.
This leaves ordinary people in the outside world who want to understand the "hell world" behind the "Border Gate" to rely on some superficial channels.
However, the greatness of human beings lies in their endless thirst for knowledge.
There is no airtight wall in the world, even if the gods try their best to suppress the spread of news about the hell world for unknown reasons.
But there are still more and more groups and forces that have mastered this information through various secret channels, and even channels that come from within the heavenly beings.
The East China Sea, the waters of Wano Country.
The rising sun is rising in the east, the sparkling sea is endless golden, and a large black ship without any flag is rising and falling on the sea.
At the bow of the ship, stood a man wearing wooden clogs, with medium-long black hair tied into a bundle behind his head, and a mandala with hell mandala flowers draped over his body.
He was holding a metal pipe in his hand, his pure black eyes were half-open and half-closed, and he was looking at the looming land coastline within the limit of vision in the northwest.
Next to him, stood a tall man with short chestnut hair under a brown fisherman's hat. He was holding a small bottle of wine in his hand. He raised it and put it to his mouth and sipped it gently.
One bite.
"What are you doing standing idle on the boat? The people on your boat are still waiting for you, the general manager, to cheer them up. What's wrong? Are you suddenly feeling a little homesick?"
The man wearing a brown fisherman's hat glanced at Sakamoto beside him, and suddenly joked with a smile.
Sakamoto withdrew his sight from looking into the distance and gently knocked the ashes on the deck. With his long hair flowing in the sea breeze, he had a strange temperament that was a mixture of pirates and nobles. He said with a slight sigh, "Yes.
Before I knew it, so much time had passed.”
From the rescue of Ryunosuke Kamiya from the execution ground on Asahi Island at the end of last year and being jointly wanted by the Adjudication Division and Wano Country, to the salvage of Tokugawa Ritora from the Nemuro Strait in Hokkaido on the first day of the New Year this year to a resort island in the South China Sea for recuperation.
Returning to today.
Before I knew it, almost half a year had passed.
However, after hearing Sakamoto's sigh, the man with short chestnut hair wearing a fisherman's hat was silent for a moment, looked at Sakamoto with a complex expression, chuckled and said, "Yeah. I don't know.
It’s been so long since I woke up.”
Both of them lamented the passage of time, but their meanings were completely different.
Sakamoto turned his head and glanced at the man next to him who looked like a maroon tiger.
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would be hard to imagine that this tiger-like man was so seriously injured that it only took him less than half a year to recover and break through the shackles on his head.
He took a step further and broke through from the eighth level in one fell swoop to become a true eighth level demigod level ability user.
He understood what Tokugawa Ritora meant by "so long ago", and he couldn't help but recall the time when he studied at Takehara Minami Private Academy.
So many years have passed in the blink of an eye, but everything that happened in the past still seems to be vivid in my mind.
"Is Principal Kyogoku in good health?" Sakamoto asked suddenly.
"The old guy has always been physically strong, but he is still so easy to teach."
Tokugawa Ritora smiled, glanced at the land coastline getting closer and closer to the northwest, and continued:
"Back then, he praised you as 'the most amazing talent he's ever seen in his life'. During that time, I wanted to recruit you into the third investigation team I founded, but if you didn't leave, look at the situation. I'm afraid that old guy
I will probably appoint you as the next principal of Takehara Minami Academy and keep you."
At this point, Tokugawa Ritora's voice paused, and Sakamoto didn't speak either.
Both of them knew very well that even if Kyogoku Kawamizu, Takehara Minami's old principal, valued Sakamoto again, Sakamoto would not be able to stay at Takehara Minami Private Academy.
It is even less possible to join the Metropolitan Police.
Because his surname is "Sakamoto", a surname that is thousands of years older than the Ninja and Fuuma party.
The ancestor of the Sakamoto clan, "The Dragon of Sakamoto", was once called "the most radical and dangerous man" among the countless "anti-barbarian patriots" in the land of peace during the war to resist the invasion of the gods.
Even though time changed later and humans finally ceased war with the Celestials and coexisted, the descendants of the Sakamoto clan who were expelled to the sea still had the lifelong goal of annihilating the Celestials.
He often instigates, plans and creates various unrest in various countries surrounding Wano, and carries the family mission of subverting the rule of gods and humans in this world.
If the ancestors of the Sakamoto clan had not felt that living at sea would be too cruel to their descendants, they made an arrangement whereby the children of the Sakamoto clan could remain anonymous and live and study on land until they reached adulthood at the age of eighteen.
I'm afraid Sakamoto-san didn't have the chance to study and live at Takehara Minami Private Academy for so many years.
Although Kyogoku Kawamizu often told him that such vain things as so-called mission and hatred have always been heavy shackles for young people with a bright future.
But Tokugawa Ritora also clearly knows that the mission of this thousand-year-old family cannot be decided by individuals.
If Sakamoto, who was the commander-in-chief of the Sakamoto Dragon Pirates, chose to give up and return to the sea, it would mean that the old, weak, women and children of the Sakamoto clan who have lived at sea for generations would lose their leader, and their final fate might not be escapable by other pirate groups.
The invasion was finally completely wiped out in the vast sea.
Sighing, Tokugawa Ritora stopped going further on this topic, but Sakamoto said, "Actually, I am very curious, Wano Country once assisted the Adjudication Division in arresting you, I mean why at this time when Wano Country is in turmoil.
You will choose to come back.”
"Why are you coming back?"
Under the messy and flowing long hair, Sakamoto's eyes were still half-open and half-closed, but he said in a somewhat sad tone, "The former Wano Country once betrayed the Sakamoto clan, and the current Wano Country is still wearing heavy shackles, and its resources have been
The plutocratic families are in control, and the people are fooled by politicians. There are all kinds of disadvantages."
Sakamoto paused and stroked the sword on his waist, which was covered with Mori Ken's intricate patterns. It was one of the highest swords in Kyoto, the "Yami-Kiri Maru".
He continued softly, "It's just that this is our country after all. Even if we sometimes use violent means to do radical things, it's not the turn of those overseas gangs to run wild."
Having said this, Sakamoto turned his head and looked at Tokugawa Ritora standing aside, with a light smile on his handsome face!
He picked up the pipe again and lit it, taking a gentle sip and exhaling the smoke.
"What about you, Team Leader Tokugawa? The doctor recommended that you stay in Nanhai to recuperate for a while. Why did you choose to return to Wano Country with us at this time? Is it also because of the recent turmoil? Those guys in the Wano Country Parliament Building are...
I have betrayed you before."
Hearing Sakamoto's words in the sea breeze, Tokugawa Ritora was silent for a moment.
He looked at the increasingly clear coastline in the northwest, and his thick black brows were calm and intimidating, "It was those congressmen and politicians who betrayed me in the past, but now it is the ordinary people of Wano who are suffering."
"I didn't come back to prove anything, I just wanted to see with my own eyes what this country without me would be like, and what the politicians and congressmen who would get rid of me would turn this country into. If it disappoints me, then I
I will use these hands again to correct some wrong things that should not be done."
When Tokugawa Ritora said these words, he stood on the deck with his hands clasped behind his back, his whole body motionless, full of a sense of greatness, and like an active volcano that might erupt at any time.
"Sure enough, it's still the same tiger I know."
Sakamoto heard the words and chuckled and shook his head, "However, I heard that there was a man in Wano who thought that you were framed and died. Not only did he kill the leader of the Northern Army of the Dawn Revolutionary Army in the North Sea with a sword, but he also did it in a way that no one could have imagined.
On the day of the Emperor's birthday, his thunderous methods bloodbathed Wano's parliamentarians and cabinet ministers from top to bottom, and the entire white jade square in front of the Imperial Palace was reduced to rubble."
"What he is doing now seems to be something you wanted to do before but didn't dare to do."
When Tokugawa Ritora heard this, the figure wearing the dark golden dragonfly mask could not help but appear in his mind.
And later, after he was rescued by Sakamoto Lord on a boat and woke up at a resort island in the South China Sea, what he saw and heard on the TV network news often made him sit there alone and fall into deep and incomprehensible contemplation.
Hearing Sakamoto's words at this time, Tokugawa Ritora's expression became a little complicated, and he said sincerely, "That is indeed an amazing guy."
"Oh?" Sakamoto raised his eyebrows, glanced at Tokugawa Ritora, who had a complex expression, and asked with a chuckle, "Does Team Leader Tokugawa know the man I'm talking about?"
"I don't know."
Tokugawa Ritora shook his head and said in a deep tone, "But if there is a chance, I would like to really get to know him."
"Speaking of which, today is the day when the Sky Tree [Border Gate] opens again. The scene may be very chaotic. Are you really determined to go to that lost hell world?"
"Hell world?"
A smile appeared on Sakamoto's face, he shook his head and said, "In the history of the Sakamoto clan, an ancestor once set foot on that world. After his death, he left behind the ancestral instruction not to enter easily before the eighth level. Now I have
Entering the eighth level, the Border Gate appears in New Tokyo again. For reasons and reasons, I should go and take a look at that so-called hell world."
Tokugawa Ritora knew that even though he was an elder and Sakamoto respected him very much, this child was still the same as he was at Takehara Minami Private Academy many years ago. Once many things were decided, no one could bring him back.
Kyogoku Kawamizu felt that this was the fierceness and tenacity that flowed in the blood inheritance of the "Dragon of Sakamoto" clan.
So he didn't say anything more, and just looked to the northwest in silence.
At this time, the sun gradually rose into the sky on the edge of the sea and sky in the east. The warm golden sunlight of the rising sun shone on the two of them, casting two long shadows on the deck.
To the north-northwest, the familiar coastline has become increasingly clear in the field of vision.
Wano Country, New Tokyo.
Edogawa Ward.
Today is March 20th, a week has passed since the Sky Tree [Border Gate] opened for the second time.
If nothing else, the Sky Tree [Border Gate] will be opened again this afternoon.
And according to the secret files within the Adjudication Department, if the [Border Gate] is not stable enough, this will be the last time it is opened.
From then on, just like the [Border Gate] that appeared for a flash in the torrent of history and was immediately blocked by the Adjudication Department, it disappeared in the surging tide of history.
Currently renting an apartment in Aragaki Apartment.
Standing in front of the mirror, Higashinohara arranged his clothes.
When he went out, he put on the Yasha mask with white face and fangs, then pressed a note on the square table of the tatami in the room, opened the door and left the room.
That's right, even though he was seriously advised and warned last night at dusk.
But after careful consideration, Higashinohara decided to join the latest limited mission [Lost Hell] released by the Scarlet Hunter website of Dawn, and return to the world that was familiar yet strange to him.
Because after seeing Old Man Walker's "Character Profile", Higashinohara clearly knew that he only killed one of the three old men from Shangjing's Nine Celestial Beings, but the remaining two entered that world in an attempt to find them.
The "Styx" that extends the life span by breaking through the first stage of the ninth stage.
Higashinohara didn't know what the so-called "Styx River" was, but it couldn't be the Pujiang River that had dried up and become corrupted by the Pearl Tower.
But he knew that the greatest attraction of "Styx" for these high-level ability users who are stuck in the bottleneck is that it can guide them to break through the current stage, and even awaken brand-new abilities and existing abilities that do not exist in the talent sequence.
Ability to achieve fusion and breakthrough—that is a place that all high-level ability users dream of but cannot find.
Now that we know this clearly,
Then Higashinohara would definitely not be able to sit back and wait for death at home, waiting for the two already scary old guys to become even more terrifying before they come to settle accounts with him.
And if you want to take the initiative, the Seven-Star Jaeger team that sneaked into [Dawn Scarlet] has returned to that lost hell world again, which is a good opportunity to return.
You know, the security of New Tokyo is now much better than a week ago. Even the efficiency of task selection at dusk has slowed down. Correspondingly, the efficiency of Higashinohara's "point brushing plan" has also been greatly reduced.
But things are different behind the border gate.
Those strange monsters do not need to trigger the mission of [Guilty Manual] at all. As long as they are killed, unknown particles can be collected and condensed into "ability fragments" to be broken down into source power points.
Moreover, there are also many leaders of the minions left in New Tokyo who were recently cleaned up by Higashinohara. They all used various methods to follow the two old people who went to Beijing when the [Border Gate] opened a week ago.
Got into that world.
In Higashinohara's eyes, if one of the leaders of the force organizations that create terror and chaos in New Tokyo can trigger a mission at the right time, it will be an extra attribute point gain.
With these reasons why he had to go, even if Huang warned him repeatedly last night not to be dazzled by the "immediate benefits", Higashinohara would not give up this rare opportunity.
Money is not money
Well, actually this made him excited.
However, there is another unspoken reason in Higashinohara's heart, and that is the startling glimpse he had of the Pearl Tower on the riverside when he came back from the [Border Gate] about half a month ago.
To this day,
He still remembers it very clearly.
Under the gloomy sun, we were on the Pearl Tower that Higashinohara and others had classified as a restricted area and had never set foot on it.
The boy standing alone in the vast wind on the Pearl Tower sloping hundreds of meters into the sky, wearing a loose high school uniform, stared at him with great concentration, his eyes filled with loneliness that spanned thousands of years of time and space.
