Chapter 313 The Lord of Gaotian, ascend to the ninth order! (Part 2)
Chapter 313 The Lord of Gaotian ascends to the ninth level! (Part 2)
Rules govern the field.
Order governs the rules.
For any eighth-level demigod-level ability user, they have already stood at the top of the pyramid built by hundreds of millions of ability users in this world, and are existences that countless ordinary ability users look up to.
However, only those who have stepped into the eighth level know how they long for the scenery at the top of the mountain when they are standing on the mist-shrouded mountainside, especially those who are stuck at the peak of the eighth level but cannot move forward.
I am extremely eager to break through that layer of film.
Just longing for longing.
Many things in this world cannot be changed by human will.
From "eighth-level demigod level" to "ninth-level god level", this difference has caused countless ability users to be stuck under this threshold even if their strength has reached the peak of the eighth level.
There are dry bones that no one knows about.
However, today, in this dark sea surrounded by mirage-like tides, this man is like a [seed] buried deep in the soil that sprouts and sprouts from the eighth level and enters a new and unprecedented stage in one fell swoop.
In an instant, terrifying power set off waves of turmoil in his body like a surging river.
Kimura Hakutaku used the [Seed] that he finally succeeded in after repeated experiments failed, and with the help of the cultivation of the outer tide, which is what these people call the "Styx", he actually pushed his ability level from the eighth level to the sky in one step.
Reached the ninth level.
But at this moment, Kimura Hakutaku looked like he was frowning slightly, as if he still had some doubts, but then he relaxed quickly.
"I see."
Kimura Hakutaku knew where the emptiness in his heart came from.
That is [Order], and he has not yet used [Rules] to establish his ninth level [Order].
"Ninth-level power, is this your purpose?"
But at this moment, the black sea behind Kimura Hakutaku suddenly shook, and a voice that sounded a little disappointed came out.
Kimura Hakuto was startled for a moment, then a gentle smile appeared on his lips, and he slowly turned around.
As expected, what came into view was the figure of a tall man with a solemn face and a powerful head of short chestnut hair.
"Long time no see. Captain Tokugawa."
Kimura Hakutaku stared at the other person, with a gentle smile on his face. He didn't seem too surprised by Tokugawa Ritora's "resurrection from the dead".
"haven't seen you for a long time."
Tokugawa Ritora stared at the man standing in front of him. The white light in the heart of his chest gradually disappeared. Even though the man was standing in front of him, he felt an inexplicable sense of alienation.
An inexplicable sadness suddenly surged in Tokugawa Ritora's heart. Once upon a time, the thirteen captains of the Thirteenth Division of the Wano Country's Third Investigation Team were all his pride.
But now, a sadly thick barrier has appeared between him and the man in front of him who once made him proud.
"Can I still trust you? Captain Kimura?" Tokugawa Ritora suddenly said, looking at Captain Kimura with those majestic tiger eyes, but what came to mind was a scene from more than ten years ago.
I still remember that time when Kimura Hakutaku, the heir to the Wano chaebol Kimura family, entered the third investigation team, causing a lot of controversy within the team.
Most people in the group felt that this was a sign that the shameless chaebol families who were accustomed to monopolizing the Third Investigation Team wanted to step in and infiltrate power when they saw the rise of the Third Investigation Team as an agency parallel to the Metropolitan Police Department. Therefore, most people expressed their disapproval of Kimura Hakutaku.
All the interviewees held objections, but the final decision was made by Tokugawa Ritora, who founded the third investigation team alone.
Under a lot of criticism, Tokugawa Ritora only asked Kimura Hakutaku one question during the interview, and that was "Can I trust you?"
That time and that moment.
Just like this moment.
Hearing this, Kimura Hakutaku's face also showed a hint of reminiscence. Immediately, his eyes turned to Tokugawa Ritora again, and he nodded and smiled as before:
"Of course you can."
After hearing Kimura Hakutaku's answer, Tokugawa Ritora looked at him with a complicated expression, shook his head, and said in a gradually cold tone:
"But everyone thought that during the period after my death, what you did made me feel strange, and I began to wonder whether you were worthy of the trust I had in you."
"Did Captain Miyano tell you?" Kimura Hakutaku said with a smile.
Tokugawa Ritora couldn't help but frown, and looked sharply at the smile on Kimura Hakutaku's face, and his expression gradually became more serious.
Miyano Juro, the captain of the 6th Division, was indeed the only person in the Third Investigation Team who kept in contact with Tokugawa Ritora during the period when Tokugawa Ritora was recuperating in the South China Sea.
Coincidentally, the news of Tokugawa Ritora's "death" came back when Juro Miyano was also there, and Kimura Hakutaku "colluded" with former Foreign Minister Taku Amuro to replace the captain of the first team, Tsukada Masaru, as the acting team of the third investigation team.
For a long time, he was the first captain of the Thirteenth Division who chose to surrender and was close to Kimura Hakutaku.
At that time, people were pointing fingers at me and talking about it behind my back with contempt.
Now it seems that there is something else hidden.
Tokugawa Ritora stared at Kimura Hakutaku, "When did you first know about it?"
"Actually, I knew it from the beginning."
Kimura Hakutaku smiled and replied, "Captain Miyano has been following you all these years. Although he has an unruly personality, he respects you the most. I don't think there is anything in me that makes him betray you and follow me."
Hearing Kimura Hakutaku's answer, Tokugawa Ritora couldn't help but be silent for a moment, then raised his gaze to look at Kimura Hakutaku, feeling the uncontrollable and extremely terrifying power fluctuations surrounding him, and returned to the previous topic,
He said with a somewhat complicated expression, "So. Is everything you did just for this moment?"
"Now?"
Kimura Hakutaku shook his head and said with a smile, "No, no, no, what I have is just the necessary conditions for the arrival of a new great era."
"A great era?" Tokugawa Ritora frowned.
"Captain Tokugawa, do you think our current life is too lifeless?"
Kimura Hakutaku chuckled and said, "Everyone lives in the assigned position like a screw. If a screw breaks, a new screw will be replaced immediately. No one cares where the broken screw goes, day after day.
The daily labor cannot even earn the most basic dignity in front of heaven and man, but the people have long been numb to such a life, and have even been tamed to the point of being content with it."
Tokugawa Ritora stared at Kimura Hakutaku, "So. You want to subvert the stable lives of all people, regardless of their personal wishes or not?"
Kimura Hakutaku replied calmly, "Personal wishes? The fooled people are always afraid of the changes of the times. No matter whether it is good or bad, few people can make the right choice, but any better era comes.
Someone has to be the first to stand up, whether it's glory or infamy. Someone has to bear the responsibility, right?"
Tokugawa Ritora looked at the calmly smiling Kimura Hakutaku, his eyes becoming more complicated, "You mean, you want to take on all this and change this era, relying on the power you have in this hell world?"
"No no no."
Kimura Hakutaku shook his head again, "The change of the times is never one person's choice, but everyone's choice. I alone cannot bring any vital changes to this lifeless era."
Tokugawa Ritora said noncommittally, "But you should understand that most people are ordinary people. They have no right to choose. In this life, they just want to live a good life within their own abilities, get married and have children. So for them,
It’s already very satisfying.”
"Don't you have the right to choose?"
Kimura Hakuto lowered his head and murmured to himself. When he raised his head, a gentle smile appeared on his face, "It doesn't matter. This time, I will give them the right to choose again."
Saying this, Kimura Hakutaku took out a yellow-orange orange from nowhere in his hand. In the pitch-black tide, the surface of the orange exuded faint fluorescence like the heart on his chest.
"Is this the fruit of the ability you developed?"
Tokugawa Ritora apparently collected information on this from Miyano Juro.
"That's right." Kimura Hakutaku nodded, "I have obtained enough reserves of such fruits during this period, which is completely enough to provide one for everyone in Wano Country."
"As far as I know, the success rate of awakening abilities after eating such a fruit is extremely low. I'm afraid only one person will survive out of a thousand people. So you plan to distribute such dangerous defective products to the people of Wano.
"?" Tokugawa Ritora's tone became stern unconsciously at the end.
Faced with Tokugawa Ritora's questioning, Kimura Hakutaku suddenly asked Tokugawa Ritora, "Captain Tokugawa, do you know the total population of Wano Country?"
Facing this sudden question, Tokugawa Ritora glanced at Kimura Hakutaku, and still frowned and replied:
"As of the census last March, Wano currently has a population of approximately 200 million."
Kimura Hakutaku interrupted him again, "But if we want to initiate a magnificent revolution and completely change this era, so that everyone can live with dignity like a dragon, this country only needs 200,000 people."
A gentle smile slowly appeared on Kimura Hakuto's face, "A success rate of one thousandth is actually enough, isn't it?"
Tokugawa Ritora couldn't help being startled when he heard the words, and then he came back to his senses. His thick black eyebrows suddenly stood up, and he asked in a low voice with anger:
"Does it mean to eliminate all the old, weak, sick, disabled and ordinary people? This country only needs 200,000 people to survive? Then who will decide who lives and who dies? You?"
"Of course they are."
Kimura Hakutaku said calmly, "Actually, if you give me some more time and I can continue the experiment of purifying the power fruit, theoretically there is a chance to improve the success rate to a certain extent, and more people can join us by then.
This magnificent change of the times.”
"But it's a pity. The World Conference in June is coming soon, and the time left to us and Wano by the World Government is running out.
So I need to give all people another chance to choose their destiny before that happens."
"It's really crazy."
Tokugawa Ritora shook his head, stared at the familiar yet unfamiliar gentle face in front of him, and said with an increasingly cold expression, "But I feel that any warm and harmonious family in Wano Country will be better off when you put the fruit of your ability into it."
When you let him and his family choose life or death at random in front of them, most sane people will reject your 'good offer'."
Kimura Hakutaku nodded, agreeing with Tokugawa Ritora's point of view, and said with a chuckle, "So those who dare to pay the price to gain the ability to embrace change are better than those who live in nihilistic happiness all day long to paralyze themselves and pray for charity.
People are more worthy of respect."
"Even if they die, I believe they will realize at the last moment of their lives that this is the value of life, because this is the only moment in their lives when they can truly control their own destiny."
"As for those who don't realize this," Kimura Hakutaku said with a smile, "After choosing independently in the form of ability fruit for the first time, I will use another more direct way to help them.
The step beyond the cliff that leads to the sky."
"Even if your family is ruined?"
At this time, Tokugawa Ritora looked directly at Kimura Hakutaku, and his tone became calmer.
"A family is ruined? It's a word that makes people feel morally guilty." The smile on Kimura Hakutaku's face gradually faded, and he looked at Tokugawa Ritora calmly.
"But Captain Tokugawa, you should know that the country of Wano is now on the verge of collapse and destruction.
As a citizen of Wano, if you don’t have the courage to re-choose your own destiny and pay the due price for it, your family will be ruined, and your family will be ruined, it’s just a matter of time, and such a person does not deserve sympathy.”
"Is that so?" Tokugawa Ritora finally knew where that strange feeling came from.
When the Kimura Hakutaku in front of him said these words, he completely lacked the emotions that humans should have.
He is like a "Creator" overlooking everyone, watching everyone's life and death indifferently.
"What if I say that I oppose your plan?" Tokugawa Ritora gradually exuded an astonishing aura, and the power of the eighth-level rules he controlled seemed to be a bit more solid than yesterday.
"Don't you understand yet?"
However, Hakutaku Kimura still stood there calmly, with Tokugawa Ritora's appearance reflected in his pupils, "Any change will not change because of our will, but because people, after being oppressed into the abyss, emerge from the hell of the abyss."
They have found power enough to roar the world, and this power will surely drive them to initiate changes that will tear the world apart."
"Don't you want to take a look at those vultures in Shangjing that have been clinging to the rotting human corpses for thousands of years, flapping their wings desperately in fear and panic?"
"To be honest, I'm looking forward to that day."
Tokugawa Ritora said calmly, "But I hope that the future of all the people of Wano will be decided by themselves, and there is no need for any dirty conspiracy behind this."
"You are still the same as before."
Kimura Hakutaku sighed, and a gentle smile appeared on his face again, "But I won't fight with you today."
"You can't solve the problem without taking action." Tokugawa Ritora raised his thick eyebrows.
"That's true, but I think it's better for you to solve the current problem first."
Kimura Hakutaku looked past Tokugawa Ritora and looked behind him, and suddenly said pointedly:
"Well, he's here."
As soon as he finished speaking, Tokugawa Ritora's heart suddenly tightened, and he felt that the mirage-like tide behind him was like a tsunami under the sea, and a majestic force surged in.
"A bunch of despicable bastards!
Get out of here!"
A thunderous sound boomed in his ears. Although Tokugawa Ritora benefited a lot from the tide, he was still shocked by this terrifying sound!
Kimura Hakutaku smiled and said softly, "I still have some things to deal with in this world, so I will leave this to you, Team Leader Tokugawa. I hope we can meet again when the [Border Gate] reopens in four days."
"
Some ethereal words fell,
Kimura Hakutaku, who had a gentle smile on his face, was seen swaying slightly like the moon reflected in the water.
After the ups and downs of the ripples subsided, his figure had disappeared.