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Chapter 1437: Start Over Again (Ham Slices Are Still Very Convenient)

It was not an easy task for Duanmu Huai to find the whereabouts of Nyarlathotep, but he was not completely without clues.

That's why he's sitting here.

"I never thought that you, Mr. Duanmu, would actually be willing to take on my commission."

The person sitting opposite Duanmu Huai was none other than Tezuka Renichi, the young leader of the Yingyue Group.

At this time before, Tezuka Lianyi had called Duanmu Huai, hoping to entrust him to investigate an incident, but at that time Duanmu Huai had no interest in the affairs of the underworld and decisively refused. However, this time when he came back here, Duanmu Huai chose to... accept it.

In fact, if Duanmu Huai thinks carefully from the perspective of an inquisitor, he will know that gangsters are quite useful. Generally, in the lower levels of the Hive, if an inquisitor wants to find a cult organization or something, the fastest way is through gangsters. Moreover, Duanmu Huai has dealt with gangsters in the Hive before in the game, and he knows that these people are good at both black and white, and are very useful.

  However, when he came to this world, perhaps because the system gave him several choices that forced him into the underworld, Duanmu Huai turned his back on the underworld. He always felt that if he got involved with the underworld in this world, he would be cheated by the system!

But now, since the world is about to be destroyed, there is no point in clinging to these boring loyalty and face. Since I have this clue in my hand, I might as well use it.

However, in this timeline, the situation in which Tezuka Renichi contacted Duanmu Huai was different from before.

In the first timeline, Duanmu Huai went to the small town of Aomori, and then met Tezuka Lianyi there. At that time, their Yingyue Group was responsible for finding the missing only daughter of Yingyue Group Leader, who was kidnapped by people from the old district who were expropriating land here. Therefore, Tezuka Lianyi entrusted Duanmu Huai to help investigate, and Duanmu Huai also entered the old district, killed the group of mutated deformed rabbit people, and killed the daughter of Yingyue Group Leader who was also contaminated, and killed the culprit Green God.

Finally, he took the last words of Team Leader Yingyue's daughter and handed them over to Tezuka Renichi, thus closing the case.

However, after the time went back, since the Green God had been killed by Duanmu Huai long ago, naturally nothing happened there, and Team Leader Yingyue's daughter was not kidnapped.

But Tezuka Lianyi still found himself.

However, the reason why he found Duanmu Huai this time was not because Duanmu Huai had a conflict with the people of the Yingyue Group, but because of Duanmu Huai's nickname "The Extreme Detective", which made Tezuka Lianyi mistakenly believe that Duanmu Huai specialized in handling cases for the underworld, so he came to him.

Duanmu Huai was really unhappy about this, but... considering that investigating Nyarlathotep was important, he still endured it.

This time, the investigation that Tezuka Lianyi commissioned Duanmu Huai to conduct was still related to land acquisition.

It seems that the Eagle Moon Group will never be able to get along with real estate in this life.

Duanmu Huai wanted to say, why don’t you just stop working in real estate.

"Mr. Duanmu, do you know Kamurocho?"

"Yes, it's next door."

Duanmu Huai certainly knew Kamurocho, but he never went there. To put it bluntly, it was like the red-light district in ancient times, a place full of eating, drinking, whoring, gambling and smoking. Duanmu Huai had always been politely indifferent to such places.

“In fact, the government is currently working on a redevelopment plan for Kamurocho.”

The Eagle Moon Group seems to have a unique way in this regard and can always find loopholes.

“Our problem is in one of those places.”

"a place?"

"Yes, it was originally a market in Kamurocho, but according to the plan, a skyscraper will be designed and built there as a landmark building in Kamurocho."

"Oh, so what? The people there don't want to relocate?"

"No, the relocation process itself went very smoothly."

"Then what's the problem?"

  Duanmu Huai looked confused. He thought it would be full of deformed nail households just like the old town area in Aomori, but it turns out that everyone there has been relocated?

So what's the problem? Isn't it just a matter of tearing it down and rebuilding it?

"The problem is that one of the plots of land......"

Originally Duanmu Huai thought that Tezuka Renichi would not explain anything to him, and he was ready to take a photo of him and ask about his shadow. However, what Duanmu Huai did not expect was that Tezuka Renichi was very frank and told him the whole thing.

On the ground of the market, there was a piece of land that belonged to an old man. Before he died, the old man distributed the land to his family. This was nothing. At most, they could find those people and then buy them out. For the gangsters, this was not difficult. It was nothing more than intimidation and inducement. Soon they had collected the contracts for most of the land.

However, the owner of one square meter of land is missing.

Now the gangsters are in a dilemma.

Whether you are intimidating, threatening, or tempting, you have to do it in front of people!

You can't find anyone, so you're chatting with the air?

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai was also confused at first. Isn't it just one square meter of land? Can't you just occupy it directly? You are a gangster. Even if you are a genuine real estate company, wouldn't you make it a done deal first when encountering such a thing? You gangsters are not as good as real estate companies? This doesn't make sense, right?

  However, Tezuka Renichi said... No!

The reason is simple, this is a government project, just like the old godfather in the movie "The Godfather" also colluded with politicians, they also have connections with politicians. And this landmark building represents the political achievements of the politicians. Of course, you can forcibly expropriate this land and start construction now, but once the owner of the land appears in the future and sues you with the contract, it will not be a political achievement for the politician, but a scandal!

Therefore, even the underworld must ensure that the procedures for this piece of land are clear and there are no problems. Therefore, if the owner of the "blank one square meter" cannot be found, the development plan cannot be started. However, it is obvious that the higher-ups cannot delay this plan indefinitely, so the underworld is under great pressure.

But for the Hawkeye Group, this is the best opportunity. It should be explained here that the Hawkeye Group is affiliated with the "Tojo Clan", the largest underworld organization in Kanto. However, the Hawkeye Group's sphere of influence is not in Kamurocho, but in the Aomori area. Logically speaking, it is not their turn to worry about this matter.

But the problem is that the one who controls Kamurocho is another group under the Tojo Clan - the Dojima Clan, which is also the most powerful group in the Tojo Clan.

There is also a problem with the Tojo Clan. After the death of the second-generation president of the Tojo Clan, no successor has been designated. Currently, an old man from the Tojo Clan's main family, Takashi Niihara, is acting as the president. Of course, a country cannot be without a king for a day. The Tojo Clan cannot keep the position of the leader vacant. According to the current situation of the Dojima Group, which is the only one in the Tojo Clan, its leader, Sohei Dojima, is definitely the next president. As long as he successfully completes the Kamurocho renovation plan, Sohei Dojima's achievements in the Tojo Clan will be unmatched, and he will soon become the third-generation president of the Tojo Clan!

  Of course, the other groups couldn't just watch Dojima Sohei succeed, but they had no other choice. What no one expected was that the Kamurocho renovation plan, which had been going extremely smoothly, actually had a change because of this piece of land whose owner could not be found!

If Dojima Munehei cannot find the owner of this square meter of land, then not only will he suffer a bad outcome this time, but he may even be blamed for it!

After all, this is a big project between the East City Association and politicians! As we all know, this kind of project does not depend on how much you contribute, but on whether you are important.

Just like the nail households, no one cares about the households that accepted the contract early, and only those who hold out to the end will attract the attention of the public and the media. If you can confront the excavator and throw a few Molotov cocktails, you will be on the social news. At this time, whoever can persuade the nail household to agree to the demolition will be regarded as a hero and praised, and promotion and wealth will be just around the corner.

As for the others who participated in the demolition work, they have no credit but only hard work.

  If Dojima Munehei had gotten all the land smoothly, then everyone would have just considered themselves unlucky. But now that there was a loophole, the other groups naturally couldn't just sit there and watch!

Even if I can't become the guild president, I can't let you, a fat guy, succeed!

It was under such circumstances that the Eagle Moon Group took the initiative to withdraw.

  After all, this development plan is currently the top priority of the Tojo Clan, and whoever can find the owner of that empty space will become the third-generation chief of the Tojo Clan and command the entire Kanto underworld!

Now, the other groups also became jealous.

You have to know that Kamurocho is the territory of the Dojima Group. It is definitely not possible for them to invade the territory of the Dojima Group and acquire the land there.

Firstly, they don't follow the rules, and secondly, you can't beat them since they are on their territory.

But now, we don’t have to spend so much effort. We just need to find the holder of that one square meter of land and obtain the ownership of the land from him. That will be the greatest achievement!

For Dojima Munehei, it was naturally unpleasant. I worked so hard for so long, but in the end I ended up making wedding clothes for others? Don't even think about it!

Therefore, the Dojima Group is now frantically looking for someone. After all, if someone else gets there first and finds the owner, Dojima Sohei might even want to commit suicide.

"So, you are here to ask me to find the owner of that piece of land and bring it to your Eagle Moon Group?"

Having said that, Duanmu Huai naturally understood why Tezuka Renichi was looking for him.

"Yes."

Tezuka Ren nodded.

"Finding people is what you detectives are best at, isn't it?"

What you said is indeed true, although Duanmu Huai's method of finding people has never been very scientific.

"no problem."

Duanmu Huai had no objection to the deal, but he also put forward his own requirements.

"But regarding compensation, I have a suggestion."

"What proposal?"

"I hope you can help me investigate some things... According to you, if I successfully bring that Ipyou to your leader, the leader of the Yingyue Group, then he will become the third generation of the Tojo Clan, right?"

"That's right."

Although he didn't know what Duanmu Huai wanted to say, Tezuka Lianyi still nodded.

"Well, I want you to help me research something."

"Some...things?"

"That's right. Let's talk about the specific situation after I complete the commission. Is that ok?"

"no problem."

Tezuka Renichi thought about it for a moment, then nodded. Although Duanmu Huai's request was a bit strange, if he could really complete the commission and help the Yingyue Group find the owner of the one ping of land, then the Yingyue Group would definitely owe him a big favor. Not to mention just investigating some things, even if Duanmu Huai asked them to help sink a few people in Tokyo Bay, that would be no problem.

The reason why Duanmu Huai proposed this condition was actually for the cult organization of Light of the Universe. Since Yog-Sothoth confirmed that this organization was in Japan, then the other party was very likely hiding somewhere. Duanmu Huai was too lazy to look for it alone. Since Dongchenghui was the largest underworld organization in Kanto, it was obviously the most appropriate to let them find these rats who were also hiding in the dark.

After all, snakes have their own paths and rats have their own nests.

"Then it's decided."

As he spoke, Duanmu Huai stood up and extended his hand to Tezuka Lianyi.

"Pleasant to work with."

"Pleasant to work with."