Volume 3 Hello, Eri Chapter 270: Dragon Carnival (I)
"How can we find the king general?" Minamoto Chitose looked into Tachibana Masamune's eyes and asked expressionlessly.
“The answer is anytime!”
Tachibana Masamune showed a look of delight. He felt that Genjiro was relieved by asking this. He took out an old Nokia mobile phone from his pocket and placed it between the two of them. The phone was at least 10 years old. The screen was pitifully small. It only had basic phone functions with a screen composed of black and white lines, and it couldn't even send text messages.
"I have a phone like this, and Herzog has one too. There's only one number in the two phones that binds them to each other, and we use this phone to communicate." Tachibana Masamune showed the phone to Minamoto Chitose, "Although we've broken up, I know General Wang won't throw away the one that belongs to him, just like I still have this phone. We've worked together for more than a decade, and each of us has too many things that the other wants. If we still want to find those things, we have to keep the other alive, or go to his home and erase him and take them for ourselves."
"You look more like old friends than rivals," said Genji.
"Yes, we are rivals, but we are also the ones who know each other best." Tachibana Masamune said quietly, "The story is over. You should understand now why the position of the head of the family is passed to you, right? I have regarded you as my own son many years ago. I am a selfish sinner and have no right to lead this family to fight a just war. They are just sacrifices to me. But you can. Everything is prepared for you. All I want is a way to live a few more years. I have no more interest in things like dragon blood. It is not something that ordinary people can easily get involved in. According to family rules, I should commit seppuku to atone for my sins, but I don't want to die like this. At least let me see your wedding. I want to close my eyes like a qualified father."
"Then show me." Genji placed the spider across her knees, with the blade slightly unsheathed.
"Now?" asked Masamune Tachibana.
"Now." Yuan Zhinv nodded.
Tachibana Masamune picked up the old cell phone and opened the address book in front of Minamoto Chitose. There was indeed only a single number stored in it. He pressed the dial button without hesitation to turn on the speakerphone, and the busy tone echoed in the temple.
The Cassel trio had been monitoring the conversation between the two. Caesar and Chu Zihang could only understand a few words, but Lu Mingfei could roughly understand it. She kept using the academy's sign language to explain to the two people, but Tachibana Masamune's story was too long, and even if she tried to explain the key points, it was still very difficult. However, after a while, the two people understood what she wanted to convey and nodded frequently. Seeing how serious they were, Lu Mingfei became a little worried, because she couldn't speak and expose herself, and she couldn't confirm whether what the two people understood was consistent with what she wanted to say.
It is now 3:30 in the morning. Most people are immersed in dreams, but for some people, sleeping is just a waste of the few moments in their lives. The phone was answered after only a few rings.
"I knew you would call again."
The background is the endless sound of rain, which makes people feel as if they are standing in the rain. The infiltrated team took too long to enter Genji Heavy Industries and did not even realize that it was raining heavily outside.
Genjitsu's heart moved, this voice was very familiar to him, it was the voice of the king general, that man always wore a mask and did not show his true face. Now think about it, according to Tachibana Masamune, it was because Herzog was highly transformed into a dragon and no longer had a human form, so his vocal cords were also a little damaged, and he spoke like an old organ.
"Whenever we contact, you always sound so full of energy, Herzog," Tachibana Masamune said. "I betrayed you, and you don't sound angry at all."
"Because I know you will betray me. I'm not surprised by something I've expected. I'm just counting the time and wondering when it will happen. I've been betrayed once before and I no longer trust anyone. I agreed to you that day because you hit my soft spot. If it weren't for your advice, I wouldn't have gotten to know Japan so quickly and settled here."
"You couldn't even speak a word of Japanese at that time." Tachibana Masamune seemed to have thought of something interesting. "So for all these years we have been using each other and guarding against each other. We are both enemies and friends."
"Some people say that if you hang out with bad people for too long, you will become a bad person yourself. You and I are the best examples of this. You suddenly remembered to look for me so late at night. I think you must have figured out something."
"I've only thought about it a lot, but I can't say I have it all figured out." Tachibana Masamune looked up at the girl opposite him, "Should I call you something else? Evolution has made you feel the joy of ruling the world, right? Even a thousand-degree incendiary bomb can't do anything to you, how enviable."
"It's both satisfying and painful. My evolution is not complete. You know, only God's blood can help me complete the final evolution. It's in Tokyo now. If you hadn't had evil ideas about me, we should be working together to explore God's secret treasure. The power of two people is always greater than that of one person. What a pity."
"There's nothing to be sorry about. You and I are not the kind of people who would be obedient. When we see God with our own eyes, only one of us will pull out a gun and shoot the other in the back."
"Don't be so absolute." Herzog's voice was filled with a faint smile. "Since you called me, I might as well make it clear that I have to arrange a meeting with you."
"Is there any need for us to meet?"
"Of course, we should have a good talk and see how to divide the White King's inheritance."
"Are you stupid? We just talked about this. Do I look like someone who would sit down and cut half of the meat on my plate for you?"
"You are not , and neither am I. But if more hands reach out for the same piece of meat, in order to prevent it from falling into someone else's mouth, you may have to give up a piece." Wang Jiang's voice suddenly became low, "Guess how many people are coveting that thing now?"
Tachibana Masamune and Minamoto no Chitose looked at each other. This tone seemed to imply that the general had already obtained enough information, otherwise he would not have been so friendly to Tachibana Masamune who had betrayed him.
"Are you talking about Hilbert Jean Angers?" Tachibana Masamune asked tentatively.
Principal Ange announced his arrival in Japan in a high-profile manner, and at the same time disappeared without a trace from the Japanese interception. The Demonic Ghost Clan and the Snake Eight Clan sent people to follow him, wanting to know what this old guy brought with him at a time when the situation had changed so suddenly. It could be a butcher knife or a nuclear bomb. Unfortunately, no one in the world can track a person whose word spirit is time zero. Even if he is an old guy, he is a violent machine capable of fighting a division. Both Tachibana Masamune and Herzog have to be wary of him.
"He is just one of them. Strictly speaking, he doesn't care about God. He just wants to destroy God. If he finds God before us, he will just challenge and kill her before anyone else. It must be said that he is indeed an extremely noble king, but the newborn God is just a child and can't be Ange's opponent." Herzog said, "He is our dangerous competitor."
"Then I can't think of anyone who is eyeing what we want. It can't be the Caesar team. They have been out of contact for many days and we don't even know if they are still alive."
"Hey! We're still alive, old man! And we're still eavesdropping on your conversation here!"
If it wasn't for the need to continue silent monitoring, Lu Mingfei really wanted to jump out and give this old bastard a slap.
"You forgot one person, a person who has been biting our tail all the time." Herzog said with a smile, "Mr. Chen."
Tachibana Masamune's pupils widened slightly for a moment: "There has been no news about him in Japan for many years."
"You and I teamed up to kill his pursuers. Of course, he would change his strategy and not be so reckless, because he is a Chinese and doesn't know what is on the Japanese islands. I have been tracking down the news about this person since the day I landed in Japan. It took me twenty years to catch the clues. His full name is Chen Hao. He is one of the current directors of the Kassel College Board of Directors. He is a legitimate descendant of the ancient Chinese Chen family, the dragon-slaying family. In terms of the length of history, his family is no less than that of the emperors of the Eight Clans of Sheqi. Their heritage can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period."
Lu Mingfei was startled, and quickly conveyed the news to the two people beside her using sign language as fast as a phantom. Caesar and Chu Zihang did not expect to hear the secrets of the board members in such a place. Everyone wished they could hear the conversation on the phone as clearly as a rabbit, but Lu Mingfei was the only one among them who was proficient in Japanese.
Except for Caesar's uncle Frost who is an open agent, the identities of the other board members of Kassel College are kept secret.
This is easy to understand. The directors who are able to fund a dragon-slaying institution like Kassel College must be either rich or noble. It is easy to cause unnecessary trouble if they easily expose their information. As for Frost, it doesn't matter. The Gattuso family always likes to walk sideways, like a crab swimming on the European continent. If you dare to provoke him, he will tear off your flowery pants for swimming.
"If it's him, he would indeed care about the remains of God." Tachibana Masamune's face was gloomy.
Based on the intelligence at hand, he and Herzog speculated that Mr. Chen deliberately drove the Lenin carrying the remains of the Dragon King to the Japanese Trench and capsized it in order to awaken the White King. At that time, neither of them knew the secret of the hybrids on the Japanese islands, but Mr. Chen had already known about the existence of the White King.
The Dragon Abyss Project that was carried out not long ago was also promoted by Kassel College in cooperation with the Japanese branch. If Mr. Chen is indeed a member of the Board of Directors, from this incident, it can be inferred that the relationship between the Board of Directors and Kassel College itself is not as harmonious as imagined. The Board of Directors controls the world's best dragon-slaying resources and mixed-blood troops, and step by step controls Kassel College to do things for them, and even Angers is kept in the dark.
"He has not appeared for so many years, but he was the cause of this incident, which has always given me a bold idea." Herzog said, "Mr. Chen knows about the existence of the two of us. He allows our actions in Japan because he knows that we will open the treasure of the White King for him step by step. Now the time is ripe, and it is time for him to appear when the fruit is picked."
"Has he come to Japan yet?" A trace of cold sweat appeared on Masamune Tachibana's forehead.
He only feared three people in this world, one was Herzog, one was Ange, and the other was Mr. Chen. Mr. Chen was the one who brought him into the world of dragons. Tachibana Masamune could never forget the legendary swords and shadows. The air around him was full of silver-white slashes, whirling and changing. Even though he now had excellent bloodlines, he seemed to have seen the end of his failure when he thought of becoming an enemy of such a person.
"It wasn't him who came, but another school director, the only Gattuso who showed up in public." Herzog said coldly, "There were five mysterious people who traded with me in Black Swan Port. Since one of them, Mr. Chen, is a member of the school board, I strongly suspect that the others are also mysterious school directors of Kassel College, but there is no evidence yet. The only thing that can be confirmed is that when Ange's plane arrived in Japan, an ocean-going freighter belonging to the Gattuso family immediately sailed from Singapore to Japan. Before that, it was anchored there when the Longyuan Project began. The Gattuso family is the provider of the Trieste submersible!"
The shocking news that followed one after another washed over the entire mural hall like a storm. Lu Mingfei hesitated several times whether to tell Caesar what she had heard. Caesar signaled with his eyes that it was okay to continue, so she could only convey the truth and then watched Caesar's face become more and more gloomy, like ice placed in the dark.
"We are now at a dead end, my old friend." Although he said it seriously, Herzog's voice sounded relaxed. "Japan is just an island country. It can't compete with Kassel and the secret parties in Europe. If you plan to take the treasure alone, you must first consider whether you can be their opponent! In this case, your only choice is to continue to cooperate with me, so that we can still have a chance to share the treasure of the White King. Otherwise, you can only sit and wait for death and watch them destroy your Snake Eight Families!"
Tachibana Masamune was silent for a long time, and Minamoto Chisho kept looking at him. At this point, it was no longer a question of whether or not to hand over the family business to Minamoto Chisho. If either the European secret party or the Kassel Academy knew clearly what Tachibana Masamune or Herzog had done, they would immediately smash them to pieces and scatter them into the sea.
"What do you think?" Tachibana Masamune asked with difficulty.
"Japan is our territory, and things in Japan can only be ours. Since they want to come, we have to make them bleed a little, even break their teeth, so that they can see the bloodiness of Bushido." Herzog said with a smile, "The Demonic Clan and the Eight Snake Families have plenty of people. Don't they all hate Cassel for reaching out to Japan? Then let them fight to the end to protect their beliefs. Even the European secret party will feel a headache when facing an army of thousands of ordinary people mixed with mixed-bloods, right? The more people die, the better, and the more chaotic the fight, the better. They will become the food for us to ascend to the throne. Just this once, I am willing to share the White King's secret treasure with you!"
Tachibana Masamune lowered his head and said nothing. He didn't believe that Herzog would really talk to him about sharing, but he had to think about his next path. Herzog was right in one sentence. The secret party would only kill him when they arrived in Japan. Even if the entire Snake Eight Clan was used, they couldn't save him. The number of hybrids in Japan was limited and they were descendants of the White King. There were not enough super hybrids to compete with the increasingly powerful secret party.
The divine sword slashed down, with a large arc of light, pointing directly at Tachibana Masamune's head.
