Dragon Clan: Thought So Far.

"It's a despicable method, isn't it? It's exactly what cowardly and ambitious people like him are most keen to do...using conspiracy to gain power and authority in this world, even at the cost of tens of millions of lives." Tachibana Masamune looked back at Tokyo, which was ravaged by the tsunami. The power bureau was still holding its ground. When the first wave of the tsunami hit, almost the entire city was plunged into darkness, but after a brief panic, many blocks were lit up again.

The tsunami came too suddenly, and the citizens had less than twenty minutes to evacuate. The elemental turbulence caused by the Yamata no Orochi completely blocked the meteorological satellite's monitoring of climate change in the waters near Tokyo Bay. Huge waves dozens of meters high flowed across the gaps between the gray-white buildings like a tidal wave.

Those who had time to escape fled to the west or north to high ground that would not be affected by the tsunami, while those who did not have time to escape went to the top of high-rise buildings together and looked around to see the vast ocean everywhere.

In order to stabilize the citizens and avoid possible public security crimes, the Electricity Bureau has been taken over by the Self-Defense Forces and is providing centralized power supply to designated buildings at the request of the Chief Cabinet Secretary.

Such a solemn and beautiful city was reflected in the black pupils of Tachibana Masamune, just like Takama-ga-hara that fell into the abyss many years ago.

Layer upon layer of black waves hit the outer wall of the titanium-black building. Every floor of the building was lit up with bright light, reflected on the turbulent water like a eerie mirage.

"At first, I didn't know that I was actually created as a puppet to replace Colonel Bondarev. It wasn't until the riot inside Genji Heavy Industries led to the exposure of Snake Deadpool's testing site that I remembered that it was indeed what I did. But the interesting thing is... I didn't feel ashamed of it in my memory, and even felt a kind of joy from the bottom of my heart when I dissected the bodies of those poor people. But that day when Zhisheng and I went to the underground laboratory together, what spread through my heart like a tide was not the fear and panic when the truth was revealed, but... compassion."

Yuan Zhinv sneered silently.

"If all this is true, then you should have inherited everything from that man, his cold-bloodedness and his meanness. Can a person like you also have emotions such as compassion?" For so many years, the Eight Snake Families and the Demon Clan have been living in peace, but that is not because the family heads have been influenced by Western thoughts and have become more respectful of human rights than before, but because of Tachibana Masamune's policies.

Colonel Bondarev mentioned by this puppet was probably a KGB agent from Moscow before he turned himself into a real Japanese. He believed that after experiencing the Second World War, both the family and the Demon Clan were very weak and could no longer afford a war that might be protracted and engulf the entire Japanese shadow society.

But that doesn't mean he didn't take action.

On the contrary, Tachibana Masamune was such a cunning fox that he began to introduce foreign assets on a large scale, secretly reached agreements with other mixed-race families who were not descendants of the White King, and ceded the interests of the Snake Eight Families in the archipelago.

Kyoto is the family's base. As long as the city of Tokyo is still under the control of the family, the Snakesaki Eight Clan, as the supreme underworld, will not collapse and it will even be difficult for them to fall into a disadvantage in almost all open and secret struggles.

The ghosts have to deal with threats from all sides, including those like the Academy who regard the fallen hybrids as a scourge.

"Yes, because even if we have the same genes and there is not much difference between our looks and memories, I am not him after all." Tachibana Masamune sighed softly, "Chisei found devices in my office, my residence, and even the antique Ferrari I drove when I traveled that could emit low-frequency sound waves that the human ear could not detect. They were still endlessly broadcasting a certain fixed sound to the outside world when they were discovered. The Rock Flow Research Institute analyzed those devices. Guess what was recorded in them?"

Yuan Zhinv was slightly stunned, and suddenly began to tremble violently.

He seemed to guess what the old man was going to say...

"It's a strange clapper sound, a bit like the melody that the Mayans in Central America would play during religious ceremonies when they were using the psychedelic effects of hallucinogenic mushrooms."

Tachibana Masamune whispered, "Luckily I inherited Bondarev's brain, so I realized that someone might have tampered with my brain. The clapper sound would stimulate a certain area of ​​the brain to induce the subconscious of this body to do something that the person controlling me wanted me to do. In this way, Friedrich could control the entire Snakesaki Eight Families through me. I guess he was going to use the same method to control the Demon Clan, but Dr. Herzog, who played the role of the King General for many years, was more difficult to deal with than he thought. Even a clone would find the truth from clues and disrupt his plan in turn, so Friedrich killed him completely and directly replaced Herzog's identity and status among the Demon Clan."

Kazama Ruri still held the blades of Spider-Kiri and Doji-Kiri tightly. His blood was hot, vaporizing all the falling snow and hail.

Even if he realized that his two personalities were influenced by the club in General Wang's hand, it was a recent event, and it was also thanks to Lu Mingfei's reminder.

I didn't expect that this cloned puppet could find the medium that influenced it so quickly...

"I have been secretly resisting the control that is almost impossible to get rid of. I even realized earlier that there is something wrong with my thinking. I have always regarded the head of the Uesugi family as my daughter, but sometimes I have some thoughts in my heart that I would treat her as... food. I was very scared. In order to eliminate this terrifying delusion, I sent her away and let the child named Lu Mingfei take her away from Japan."

Ruri Kazama realized that Masamune Tachibana was not lying.

He had seen the head of the Uesugi family leave the family more than once. That child was as clear as glass. Apart from the feelings that Gen Chisei had poured into the girl, which should have belonged to him, even Gen Chisei found it difficult to feel resentment in his heart.

Judging from the girl's words and actions, she seemed to have been trained as a weapon without freedom since childhood. She knew very little about the outside world and had to rely on Lu Mingfei for guidance most of the time.

But her bloodline is so powerful that even an extremely evil demon like Minamoto no Chijo would feel afraid in front of Eri.

If the person who played the role of the king and controlled Tachibana Masamune was Friedrich, then everything would make sense. In the eyes of that madman, everything in the world was valuable, and anything that was valuable was his food.

Fengjian Liuli's heart suddenly trembled.

He remembered that General Wang seemed to have intended to let the holy remains parasitize him.

So this is what Friedrich meant by two people ascending the throne together? Let the Holy Relics parasitize the Source Maiden, and then let the Source Maiden's body act as a filter for the dragon blood toxicity and all curses.

Perhaps the character who was actually used as the filter in Friedrich's original plan should be the girl named Uesugi Eri.

Or perhaps before Friedrich came to Japan, Colonel Bondarev, who used the alias Masamune Tachibana, had been training the head of the Uesugi family as the Holy Grail, and that despicable German simply inherited Bondarev's conspiracy.

However, he did not expect that the clone created solely with Colonel Bondarev's genes would have such a keen intuition, realizing that his feelings towards the head of the Uesugi family had undergone strange changes, and thus deduced that something was affecting his subconscious mind, and sent the girl out of the Sheqi Eight Clan before that influence pushed him to hurt the head of the Uesugi family.

Tachibana Masamune placed his old, dry but still powerful hands on the shoulders of Minamoto Chinoyome and Minamoto Chisei respectively. The old man had a tall and straight body, his silver-gray hair fluttering in the wind along with the rustling windbreaker, the depths of his eyes were full of traces of time, and the lines on his face showed that he was very handsome when he was young, but now they were as hard as if carved by a knife.

"In that war that lasted from Black Swan Port in Siberia to Tokyo, they both thought they would be the final winners, but Friedrich received more support from the Saint Palace Medical Society, so Colonel Bondarev and Dr. Herzog both ended up in this tit-for-tat confrontation that lasted for decades."

Tachibana Masamune sighed, reached out his hand, and pulled out a long and narrow object from behind him.

Yuan Zhinv was breathing heavily. The more he looked at the old man in front of him, the more interesting he found him. The one who was in charge of this body now was Fengjian Liuli, and Fengjian Liuli had already buried the seeds of hatred in the deepest part of her heart.

When the long and narrow object was opened, it turned out to be a huge black umbrella. The heavy snow and hail hit the umbrella with crackling sounds. The chill in the air suddenly intensified tenfold and a hundredfold. It did not come from the younger brother with a hideous face nor from the older brother with a heart of steel.

But the temperature in the mountains really dropped suddenly by at least five degrees Celsius.

Just as Minamoto Chisei said to Minamoto Chijo, his original destination should have been Mount Fuji, which is regarded as a sacred mountain by the Japanese.

With the return of the Yamata no Orochi, what descended on Tokyo was definitely not the tsunami that swept across the city, nor were the alien species that were gathering in Tokyo Bay to grind their teeth and suck blood.

The Nibelungen Night Food Field, which has been guarded by the Sheqi Eight Clan since ancient times, has been opened. According to the family's records, the gate of Nibelungen will appear on the top of Mount Fuji, and the volcano that has been dormant for a long time will erupt with the majesty of destroying the world.

Before Nibelungen completely merges with the real world, the unique weather in that kingdom of the dead will be brought to the sky above Tokyo along with the outward surging air currents.

The ancestors have locked themselves in hell for too long. For hundreds and thousands of years, generation after generation of the Eight Clans of Sheqi followed the call of their bloodline and walked into the kingdom of the dead before dying. They used their own lives as the sealing nodes and buried the Night Food Origin deeper into the illusion bit by bit.

But today, under the call of God, the Nibelungen, which buried the kingdom of God and the temple, is being awakened, and the dead ancestors will return to this world with anger and hatred.

Their resentment can even freeze water into ice, and countless elemental tides gather in the sky above Tokyo to form a terrifying cold current.

In the rapidly dropping temperature, the air exhaled from the mouths and noses of Yuan Zhisheng and Yuan Zhinu turned into white steam. They stared into each other's eyes that were burning like molten iron, and listened silently to the narration of the poor puppet beside them.

The technology for creating shadow warriors is not perfect, and the "hybrids" that are bred have incomplete spirits. They may be endowed with powerful strength, but their bodies are getting worse day by day, like a train rushing towards hell. Their organ failure and cell metabolism rate are far greater than those of hybrids born through normal pregnancy.

In the past, the Snakezaki Eight Families had commissioned the Ganliu Research Institute to carry out efficient and low-cost cloning. The cloned objects ranged from several family heads to members of each branch, covering almost all levels of the entire bloodline sequence. However, they all failed in the end due to their short lifespan, high costs that did not meet the requirement of "low cost" at all, and shockingly low success rates.

In modern times when genetic technology is gradually developing, Kassel Academy has definitely made similar attempts and efforts. However, it has been fourteen years since the first cloned sheep was born at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, England on July 1996, 7. The war in the mixed-blood society is still stuck in the relatively primitive elite battle, and there has been no frenzy of S-class mixed-blood clones using human wave tactics to destroy one gathering point of pure-blooded dragons after another. In fact, it can be judged that the attempt made by the secret party in this matter should have been declared a failure.

No one knows when this puppet controlled by Friedrich began to control the Eight Clans of Sheqi. There is no reason for him not to know the tragic fate he will inevitably face as a clone.

"So, brother, are you here to kill me again this time?" Yuan Zhinv used her bloody hands to tear off the hard exoskeleton on her face. The pale bone layers that seemed to be shining with metallic silver light were torn off along with the flesh and blood.

But the hot dragon blood repaired the scars on Yuan Zhinv's face in just a moment. The devil's face disappeared from Yuan Zhisheng's sight, and was replaced by a delicate face that was white and almost translucent. The molten iron-like golden eyes also went out in an instant, turning into a timid look like a girl.

In just a second, the boy's pounding heart suddenly calmed down, the dragon blood was cooling down, and the bulging and knotted muscles all over his body slowly calmed down. The scales and claws were retracted into the body. After transforming into a dragon, his body, which was as tall as a super soldier, shrank little by little, and finally became the appearance of the boy in the mountains, with a thin collarbone, slender ankles, naked, and his whole body as soft as a girl.

He wiped his face with his arm, tilted his head back and smiled as clear as water.

Yuan Zhisheng's stone-hard expression shattered, and the sharp claws holding his sword trembled slightly.

But Fengjian Liuli held the blade and rushed towards it.

Two knives penetrated into the boy's ribs at the same time, but the powerful hemostatic system and self-healing function failed at this moment, as if the dragon part of his body had completely given up on this child.

"I am not your brother, Minamoto Chishio, but a devil born from hatred and anger. They all call me Kazama Ruri." He said, looking at Minamoto Chishio with a look that was somewhere between disdain and ridicule. Minamoto Chishio was stunned for a moment, and Tachibana Masamune also showed a surprised expression.

"Double personality?" Tachibana Masamune said in a deep voice.

"Yes." Blood was dripping from Yuan Zhinu's chest, and pain was sweeping through her body, but he still smiled, staring intently into Yuan Zhisheng's eyes, as if he was enjoying the astonishment and panic hidden in his eyes.

"Brother, do you remember? At that time, we were wrapped in the same quilt and slept on the peeling leather seats in the stadium of the mountain school. The winter in the mountains was too cold. It was said that some people had frozen to death outside. We were afraid of freezing, so we curled up and hugged each other, because only in this way could we feel a little warmth."

"Yes, I still remember stealing those abandoned tables and chairs from the deserted basement, setting them on fire to keep warm. The next day, the principal of that school scolded everyone in every class because he didn't know who did it." Yuan Zhisheng said, "Later, he found out because you shared that incident with a girl you liked very much at the time, but she didn't like you, so she reported you."

"It was you, brother, who told the principal that it was actually you who burned those tables and chairs, and helped me take the blame." Yuan Zhinv smiled.

"Will the devil's personality remember these things too?"

"I have investigated. What happened in the village at that time was done by the former king. He hypnotized me with some ability. Of course, he didn't trust anyone, so he hypnotized many people in the ghost group. I didn't understand this until Colonel Bondarev replaced him in the ghost group. Because the owner of that ability died, the hypnotized people gradually became sober... Besides, we demons are not monsters without hearts and souls." Fengjian Liuli said, "In fact, all freaks with royal blood flowing in their bodies are no different from demons. There is no corner in the world where we should stand. Wherever the emperor goes, there will be disasters."

"Because the god they have been pursuing has left a curse in our genes." Yuan Zhisheng's eyelids twitched, but fortunately he was hidden under the exoskeleton so he was not discovered. He said, "As long as the royal blood is not passed on, the curse will be broken."

"So you really are here to kill me?"

"You have too much innocent blood on your hands."

"Isn't it the same for you, brother?"

"Yes, today I have become a ghost like you. The poison in that serum has invaded my heart, and I am going to die." Yuan Zhisheng said softly. He slowly exerted force on his hands, and the two sharp knives pierced into Yuan Zhinu's chest little by little.

The two people stared at each other for a long time, each other's appearance reflected in their black pupils and red-gold pupils.

"I thought there would be a fight between us that would end in a lose-lose situation," said Yuan Zhisheng.

"No need. You are actually here to seek death. Die in my hands or die at the gate of Night Food Field." Genji smiled.

He had begun to lose blood and his face turned pale.

"I promised that child that I would avenge him, but now at this point the so-called revenge is nothing but an empty slogan. Killing you will give you relief." Genjiro opened her arms and gave up resisting. He took a step forward, and with the sound of swords entering the body, Spider Cut and Boy Cut pierced his chest at the same time.

Then, Yuan Zhisheng felt that he was hugged by a warm body.

He reached out to catch the powerless Yuan Zhinv, and big tears flowed uncontrollably from the corners of his eyes.

"Brother, this is my revenge... In the short remaining life of yours, use every second to regret what you did in the past..." Yuan Zhinv hugged Yuan Zhisheng's neck, but her body kept slipping and she couldn't stand steadily. Her consciousness gradually became blurred, but he was still smiling.

He laughed as happily as a child, as if he had gotten revenge or met an old friend again.

Tachibana Masamune stood silently by the side. He took off the white flower pinned on his lapel and placed it on Minamoto no Chino's shoulder.

"Zhisheng, I'm sorry that I didn't bring my daughter with me before..." said the old man.

"Dad." Yuan Zhisheng laid the boy flat on the ground, his expression hard as iron again, and he made a strong gesture.

"There is no time to be sad. We are still responsible for the hell. Let's go and close the door of Night Food Field."

"Can we really do this, relying on my commandments..."

"Perhaps it was just an accident that the person who created you gave you the word spirit of commandments, but this accident has brought us an incredible glimmer of hope." Yuan Zhisheng lit a cigarette in the snow. He silently looked down at Yuan Zhinu's body, and after making sure that he would not wake up again, he turned his head away and exhaled deeply.

"Even the ultimate alchemical field must follow the most basic alchemical principles. Without the sacrifice of elements, the gate of the Nibelung will collapse." Yuan Zhisheng said.

"But I'm just a..."

"Clone, right? Actually, the person who is more suitable to do this should be the vice-president, but it is said that he has returned to Chicago now, and it is unlikely that he will come to Tokyo by private plane." Gen Chisheng threw the cigarette towards the bloodstain of Gen Chinu, but the cigarette butt was extinguished by the hail before it hit the ground, and the broken ice fell down as it rolled.
"But it doesn't matter. I didn't have any hope at first, but now I think there is no such good opportunity in the world. Maybe we can not only close the Nibelungen, but also kill the god who crawled out of the grave."

At this time, a heavy helicopter with an astonishing carrying capacity appeared above them. Several burly men descended along the zipline and ran madly to the two medical cabins that were originally used for the blood transfusion plan. After a series of operations, they fixed the things under the helicopter.

With a deafening roar, a machine weighing several tons actually rose from the ground.
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An incredible scene took place here, the back street of Tokyo University, as if Moses had used his scepter to split the Red Sea. The tsunami from Tokyo Bay actually avoided this street. The water walls on both sides were ten meters high, casting huge shadows.

"I said, are we really not leaving?" Inuyama He frowned.

"If this city was beyond saving, I would have been on the private plane waiting at Narita Airport, bound for France. But now that monster is left in Tokyo Bay, isn't it?" The ramen chef with a towel wrapped around his forehead was fiddling with a boiled egg opposite him.

"But around here..."

"You know I own all the land on this street, and now I'm so poor that I only have this piece of land left. But I'd rather sell ramen than sell this piece of land. Do you think it's just because of my nostalgia? I miss Japan during World War II so I don't want these old houses to be demolished? Do you think I'm such a person?" Uesugi Yue sighed, "I don't trust the younger generation, so I'd rather have sex with old ladies in a pub than spend billions of dollars from selling land on a life of luxury."

"You are indeed that kind of person." Inuyama He nodded, holding the knife.

"This is the real entrance to the Night Food Field." Uesugi Yue whispered. At his feet were piled up famous swords brought from the family, tied together. There were so many swords that he couldn't count them, but each one was a sharp blade for slaying demons.

Inuyama He looked around and saw heavy rain hitting the wooden buildings that were nearly a hundred years old.

The technology used to build these buildings was passed down from the Edo period. The craftsmen laid layers of tiles between the wooden rafters. Rainwater mixed with snow and hail flowed along the tile gutters, shooting out silver parabolas in the night. In this tsunami, all the fallen leaves fell, and the streets were filled with water, and the water was covered with fallen leaves, like a sea of ​​floating leaves.

"But both Fuma and Ryoma are guarding Mount Fuji..."

"That is the core of Nibelung. No one will stop them from entering the kingdom of the dead, but the chaos of that space will send them here the moment they step in." Uesugi Yue sipped the sake lightly. He patted Inuyama He's shoulder. "You are the student of that old bastard Ange. You shouldn't be so nervous... It's just a desperate war. Relax and drink some wine, because we will have to fight something soon."

"I don't quite understand..."

"Listen." Uesugi Yue peeled a marinated egg for Inuyama He and threw it into the ramen bowl in front of him, "They are nearby."

Inuyama He closed his eyes and listened, only to hear the sound of rain hitting the tiles becoming clearer and clearer, as well as the sound of the wind in the sky and the sound of accumulated water flowing on the ground.

Further in the distance, the cries of men and women trapped in the high-rise building could be heard. They were trapped, and something downstairs was trying to break in... probably a monster like a ghost. Unfortunately, the ghost slayers of the Eight Snake Families were now unable to take care of themselves.

Inuyama He's bloodline was not inferior, and the sounds seemed to have pictures in his ears. At the same time, the world became larger and larger as his hearing extended, extending into the darkness of heavy rain.

At a certain moment, Inuyama He suddenly sat up straight, opened his eyes, and hot lava flowed in his eyes!

He heard it!

It was like a lone ferocious beast howling hungryly in the distance. He and Uesugi Yue were right in the center of the group of beasts, with fierce and violent predators surrounding them on all sides.

Then the ground began to shake slightly, which was obviously the heavy footsteps of those shadows not far away.

Inuyama He also smelled the odor of rusted metal, which was also like the smell of blood, coming from the ancient age of gods.

The footsteps became closer and more frequent, and finally sounded like thunder coming from afar.

"The ancestors are back." Uesugi Yue put one foot on the bench and ate ramen with a grunt.

Like an old porcupine. (End of this chapter)