amaotonovel Chapter 358: The Plan of "Ascension to God"
Chapter 358: The Plan of "Ascension to God"
Chapter 358: The Plan of "Ascension to God"
"Your adoptive father is dead. He was actually a hidden...evil man. What he showed before you was just his disguise."
Lu Mingfei returned to Uesugi Eri's room on the "ξ" floor and told her that her adoptive father, Tachibana Masamune, was dead.
I originally wanted to use the word "heretic", but considering that I had to slowly change Eri's habit of being "addicted" to "The Words of the Holy Spirit", I changed my words to describe Herzog as "evil man".
Behind him followed Gen Chisei and Gen Chijo. The older one, Gen Chisei, already had a visibly tired look on his face.
He hadn't closed his eyes for more than thirty hours, which didn't give him much time to be emo, nor did it give the Eight Snake Families time to be angry. He led the elite backbone of the Execution Bureau and followed the other family heads to conduct a thorough cleansing and search of everything left by "Tachibana Masamune".
Accompanying him was his younger brother, who had grown quite large and wore armor that made a rumbling sound when he walked.
He followed them as the "Dragon King" to recruit existing members of the Ghost Clan. If they were brainwashed too deeply, they would be ruthlessly eliminated. At the same time, he also used the "Dream Tapir" as a spirit to conduct efficient direct interrogation to obtain information.
From the face revealed after taking off the helmet, one can still vaguely see some of the remaining beauty of a young girl, but more of it is as calm and resolute as steel. It seems that all the grievances, anger, and unwillingness... were poured out with the falling fist when Herzog was killed that day.
Yuan Zhisheng has begun to wonder what kind of transformation surgery Lu Mingfei and his team had performed to allow a person to undergo such a comprehensive transformation both physically and mentally.
……
"Ah."
Eiry just nodded, and her pretty face did not show any strange expression because of Lu Mingfei's words.
She held a small, pink control device and stared intently at the LCD screen in front of her, showing the scene of a man charging and killing with a gun.
Fingel said that this was a war game played by ordinary people, unlike theirs which were scary, bloody, exciting and not suitable for children. The one Eri played was "Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare"...
"This is her gaming time," Gen Chisei whispered in the background. "During this period, Eri's schedule has been very regular. In the past, she would spend her time playing games and reading comics except for eating and resting. Now, she divides part of her time between praying and reading the notebook."
"Then let her gaming time return to normal and stop reading that notebook." Lu Mingfei leaned back and whispered to him.
"..."
Yuan Zhisheng wanted to ask, wasn't it you who wrote that book and had it translated for Eri? However, considering that the current Lu Mingfei's thinking might have changed a lot from the Lu Mingfei who came to Japan half a year ago, he stopped talking.
But Eri is in a pretty good condition now, and the fake "Masamune Tachibana" is not worth even the slightest emotional ups and downs for her.
Gen Chisei had thought about teaching Eri how to behave, but now the care he showed her was limited to playing video games with her.
"It seems that my worry about you losing control of your emotions was unnecessary. That's good. There is nothing worth remembering about that kind of evil person."
Seeing that Eri was in a normal mood, Lu Mingfei prepared to get up and leave, and went downstairs to follow up on the progress of the investigation on Herzog.
The character holding the gun on the screen fell to the ground with a thud. The picture turned gray and a look of annoyance appeared on Eri's face.
But she didn't continue playing the game. Instead, she put down the controller, picked up the pen beside her, opened her notebook and began to write. After she finished, she showed it to Lu Mingfei and her two brothers:
"He's not someone Eri is close to. Eri doesn't like him. He sometimes looks at Eri with a bad look. He also has a very unpleasant smell and makes very loud noises."
A nasty smell? A loud sound? Lu Mingfei frowned slightly, pondering the meaning.
Are you referring to the devil? He subconsciously thought of the remnant soul of the Wanbian Demon Lord who had not yet died.
Eri, who is protected by the power of faith, should be sensitive to chaos; and heretics like Herzog who like to play tricks are exactly the kind of people that the Lord of Change likes to instigate.
As for the question of whether Herzog is completely dead...
Even Genjitsu, who had smashed his head into pieces with her own hands, was unable to answer.
Lu Mingfei was not afraid that Herzog would come back with the devil, he just didn't want more innocent lives to be swept up in this heretical conspiracy and die.
"There are new discoveries." A new message came from the power helmet placed on the tatami. After simply saying "see you later" to Eri, Lu Mingfei quickly stood up, put on the helmet and left. Gen Chisei and Gen Chinu followed immediately.
Watching the three people leaving the room, Eri just pouted, picked up the controller and immersed herself in the game in front of her.
……
A mountain shrine of the Snake Eight Family on the outskirts of Tokyo.
The heavy rain hit Lu Mingfei's power armor, and the splashing rain drew a beautiful parabola. The red light emitted from the helmet eyepiece reflected the torrential rain like a waterfall and silver needles.
Caesar and Genji followed behind him, while Chu Zihang and Finkel stayed behind at Genji Heavy Industries; there was a convoy of dozens of cars on both sides of the mountain road, and men in black suits, carrying long swords and guns, stood in the rain without daring to make a sound.
Except for the top leaders of the Snake Eight Families, most family members are unaware of the origins of these large-sized Kamen Riders/humanoid Mobile Suit Gundams; as well as the true identity of the current patriarch, Tachibana Masamune.
In order to prevent the prestige of the family's top leaders from being affected and the family's management from becoming chaotic, the Snake Eight Families announced to the middle and lower-level members of the family that the current head of the family, Tachibana Masamune, had fallen ill in bed due to overwork and was currently receiving treatment; the position of head of the family was temporarily held by Executive Bureau Director Minamoto Chisei.
In fact, the heads of the eight Snake families wanted to drag Herzog out of hell and kill him a hundred times, including the high-ranking members of the Oni clan who were recruited by Genji.
The family has confirmed that in order to balance the power of the two families, Herzog specially selected some outstanding young people from the Eight Families of Sheqi, and deliberately pushed them to the opposite side of the family by fabricating files that degraded their bloodline.
As long as you haven't been brainwashed too deeply by Herzog, or you don't think you are a pure descendant of the White King and want to transform into a pure-blooded dragon.
These members of the Demon Clan were eliminated when they showed hostility towards Minamoto no Chitose. Most of the remaining people had no choice but to survive in the Demon Clan, or they worked for the Demon Clan because of their hatred and anger towards the Eight Snake Families.
After a simple and direct spiritual baptism, the men among these people will be regarded as new recruits with qualified bloodlines. After the trip to Japan is over, they will be packed up together with the mixed-bloods selected from the eight families of Sheqi and sent back to the Sword of Revelation Legion for transformation surgery.
Lu Mingfei estimated that he could recruit about a thousand male recruits from the Japanese branch this time... but this number was still too small for a legion of 100,000 people.
Although the clan shrine of the Snake Eight Clan is classical, it has been carefully renovated and does not feel dilapidated at all. The inner wall of the main hall is a circle of carefully painted ukiyo-e paintings, decorated with phosphorus pigments, and the eyes are bright and lifelike. The demons and gods who seem to be about to break out of the wall to continue the war seem to shrink their necks and dare not act rashly after the three heavily armored warriors stepped in.
This is the gathering place for the eight families of Sheqi, but Lu Mingfei did not come here to attend the gathering to discuss the future of the eight families of Sheqi...
Led by Gen Chisei's assistant Sakura Yabuki, the four of them came to the door of a dark hall in Herzog's shrine. The ancient vermilion door showed signs of being roughly damaged.
"Young Master, you are here." Yuan Zhisheng's subordinates Crow and Yaksha came forward, holding a large flashlight in their hands, "There is no light inside."
"Is there anything special here?" Yuan Zhisheng asked.
"Yes, this is Tachibana... Herzog's secret storage room. Even the family's priests don't know what is inside this dark hall."
As Crow spoke, he and Yaksha led Yuan Zhisheng, Lu Mingfei and his party into the dark palace.
It is hard to imagine that Herzog is actually a collector. On both sides of the dark hall are shelves that reach the roof. The exhibits on the shelves are dazzling, ranging from Nara period Buddha statues to classical erotic paintings, as well as piles of quaint thread-bound rare books, seven or eight shelves of out-of-print vinyl records, and several walls covered with antique mechanical watches...
Although Caesar was a nobleman with good taste and was quite knowledgeable about collectibles, he could not feel any appreciation for these precious and expensive collections. He could only feel the disgusting greed of the collectors behind them through these collections.
"What's in this box?" Yuan Zhisheng saw a wooden box on the table. When he walked over and was about to open it, he was stopped by Crow:
"Young Master, you'd better not look at it...it's full of hair."
"Hair?" Yuan Zhisheng frowned.
"Yes, we took some of the hair back to the family for testing and found that the hair belonged to young and beautiful women. According to the Metropolitan Police Department's files, they were all missing persons who had been missing for several years."
Yuan Zhisheng felt his stomach cramping and felt like vomiting.
He remembered that he had read a book before, which said that cannibal tribes would cut off the heads of their prey as trophies. This disgusting old man, Herzog, must have cut a lock of the woman's hair as a trophy after the primitive act, and then brutally killed the other party.
"The most important written materials are here." Yaksha wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and looked like both an educated white-collar worker and a gentleman. He shone the flashlight on the bookcase and desk at the end of the dark hall - in fact, there was no need to shine the light, as Lu Mingfei saw the large number of archive files placed on the bookcase at the end when he entered the dark hall.
"He should have deposited some data files with the ghost group. I have sent Kogure to lead people to dig them out." said Genjitsu.
Lu Mingfei nodded, walked to the bookcase and casually pulled out a file - it seemed that Herzog had not been here for some time, and the surface of the file was covered with a thin layer of dust.
The files contained information filled with terminology, formulas and symbols. Compared to the archival records that Lu Mingfei had studied in the Black Swan Harbor illusion, these materials were much more profound and difficult to understand. It would probably take an expert at the same level as Herzog in the field of dragon-related research to quickly interpret these materials.
But Lu Mingfei did not study the formulas and genetic symbols on the volume carefully. After flipping through it hastily, he took off the volume in his hands and the heavy gauntlets wrapped around his hands and put them aside, and took out the next volume from the bookcase to facilitate faster and more efficient flipping through it.
"Are there any important information and data recorded here?" Caesar asked, and he also took out a copy of the scroll and read it attentively.
"We need to ask the alchemist to look at the specific information and data. This is his strong point," Lu Mingfei said calmly. "What I want to find out is how this heretic Herzog will continue his so-called 'ascension to godhood' plan now that the White King has turned into a dragon bone."
(End of this chapter)