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"It's alright, it's alright. According to the geologists' analysis, Japan was bound to sink and be destroyed eventually. It doesn't matter whether it sinks sooner or later," Gu Ran said easily. "Besides, it hasn't reached the worst point yet."
“Even if the price is all of humanity, I simply cannot allow a girl to sacrifice herself for such a damned reason. My justice does not permit such a sacrifice,” Caesar said quietly. “If I were to do that, it would violate my justice, and I would no longer be myself.”
Actually, he had wanted to back out yesterday, but as the team leader, he couldn't find a way to save face. Fortunately, Lu Mingfei did it for him today.
Chu Zihang asked angrily, "So all three of you were accomplices?"
Caesar was about to explain that they had not planned it and that it was merely an accidental, simultaneous crime.
Gu Ran quickly interrupted him to prevent him from stirring things up: "Although we share the same idea, we didn't plan it beforehand or discuss it with you. It's because you're too rational that we couldn't persuade you. Besides, I said from the beginning that Lu Mingfei should choose for himself, so... I didn't betray you, senior brother!"
He grabbed Caesar's neck as he leaned in through the car window: "I don't know if this person has betrayed us. I'll bring him here for you to deal with. Or shall we interrogate him?"
"How can it be considered betrayal? I'm not a traitor. It's just that the team leader made the decision but didn't communicate with the team members in time!" Caesar offered a plausible excuse.
"Enough!" Chu Zihang couldn't stand their nonsense any longer, but since things had come to this point, he ultimately didn't say a word and just sat there sulking at the tram platform.
Gu Ran raised his hands in surrender: "Senior brother, not everyone is as rational as you, rational enough to stab a folding knife into the heart of the woman you love. At least... I can't do it."
“I won’t stab her either, whether she’s the Dragon King or not,” Caesar said, looking down at the car window.
Chu Zihang opened his mouth, and in an instant, his bright golden eyes suddenly dimmed. The calm, strong, and resolute Chu Zihang vanished, as if he had turned into a weak boy who only knew how to run away.
Chapter 462 Chu Zihang is very easy to coax
Gu Ran and Caesar exchanged a glance, realizing they had said the wrong thing.
"Now that they've been released, we should naturally maximize our profits." Gu Ran broke the silence, preparing to find something to do to break the awkwardness and divert attention.
He released Caesar's thick neck, then took out his phone and dialed the family hotline:
"Hey, my name is Gu Ran. Tell your patriarch that I'm going to send Erii back. Quickly transfer the 3 billion bounty to my account. You issued the bounty before, and now that I've found her and sent her back, the bounty is rightfully mine."
My card number is... If the money doesn't arrive within half an hour, I'll cut off the train halfway! You don't need to understand what I'm saying, just relay it verbatim to Genji.
"Will the tortoise pay?" Caesar asked from the side.
"They should give it to him, right? Lu Mingfei will call the tortoise, but the tram takes a while to run, and the tortoise doesn't dare gamble on that time difference." Gu Ran didn't really care whether he received the money or not; he was just looking for some fun.
……
Right now, the most anxious person is Mai Shutoku, who is 900 meters away. Her orders are to keep a close watch on Erii and not allow her to return to the hands of the Snake-Headed Hachi family.
If anything goes wrong, she'll be responsible for shooting and killing Erii; she'd rather kill her than return the key.
Just as Chu Zihang said, once the White King awakens, more than ten million people in Tokyo will die.
However, the little devil boss made it clear that his consent must be obtained before the execution could be carried out.
Therefore, she could only aim at Erii's forehead while waiting for the boss's confirmation.
But the little devil boss remained silent.
The tram had already started moving, and Erii was getting further and further away from her sniping position. She became increasingly nervous and kept reporting the sniping distance to the shopkeeper.
But the boss still hasn't made a decision.
"Final warning: the target is about to leave effective firing range," Mai Shude whispered.
"Let her go." The young boss sighed softly. "It's rare for Lu Mingfei to escape my script, how can I not let him have his way?"
Mai Shude's finger was still on the trigger: "But boss, you said she was the key to opening the Well of Corpses. What if the key is in someone else's hands now?"
"What is there to fear? What if God is resurrected? When the battle of ten thousand armies begins, I will personally face the enemy!" The boss's voice was deep, like a king on a stage delivering inspiring lines.
"I await the wrath of the heavens." Mai Shude put away her gun and watched the tram drive into the fog and disappear from her sight.
Mai Shude breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't want to kill Erii, after all, she was so innocent.
Giant panda keepers develop feelings for their pandas after working for a long time.
She put the gun back in the box, carried it down the mountain, and went to the shed where she parked her motorcycle.
Suddenly, I noticed a high-end lunchbox on the back of the motorcycle. The lunchbox was wrapped in waterproof canvas. I opened the canvas and found a note on it:
"Thank you for your hard work, long-legged sister. I left you some eel rice, it should still be warm. I hope you like it! — Your most thoughtful junior, Gu Ran."
Mai Shude smiled, then sat sideways on the motorcycle seat, opened her lunchbox, and began to eat heartily.
Apart from eating a croissant in the morning, she hadn't eaten anything else.
I never expected that a little brother would remember her.
feel good.
……
Chu Zihang was eventually coaxed by Gu Ran. He had been sulking by himself, feeling like he was being ostracized by a small group.
Now they need to drive back. Gu Ran and Caesar both have cars, but he doesn't. He can't exactly walk back to Tokyo.
Gu Ran certainly wouldn't be that heartless.
Caesar wouldn't try to appease him, so only Gu Ran would have to step in.
Gu Ran's way of coaxing him was simple: she just clung to him like Xia Mi, constantly pestering him. In short, she kept shaking her senior brother's arm and saying, "Oh, senior brother, don't be angry, don't be angry, it's not a big deal, please forgive me, okay? It's okay if you don't forgive Caesar, but you have to forgive me..."
Chu Zihang was being pestered by him relentlessly, and although he tried to break free, he couldn't, because Gu Ran used the coiling silk technique of Tai Chi.
Chu Zihang was so bothered by his shameless entanglement that he couldn't break free even after exchanging more than ten rounds of Tai Chi push hands with him.
In the end, Chu Zihang could only admit defeat and drank the oolong tea that Gu Ran had bought from the vending machine, which was considered an acceptance of his apology for pouring tea for him.
"Let's drive back then." Gu Ran opened the trunk of the Q7, took out a can of gasoline, and added...
This brat was prepared all along. He thought he was going to have to push the car to the gas station, but he just put the extracted gasoline in the trunk.
They were absolutely certain that Chu Zihang wouldn't search the car.
"Senior, why don't you drive? I ate too much for dinner and I'm feeling a bit sleepy now," Gu Ran said, letting out a burp.
Chu Zihang didn't care about such a small matter as driving. He nodded, and Gu Ran happily sat in the passenger seat. After fastening her seatbelt, she yawned and prepared to go to sleep.
He hasn't slept since last night, and has been doing a lot of things in his spare time.
"Oh, I almost forgot about the blood sample," Gu Ran thought to himself.
He had previously obtained the blood sample of that top-tier Shadow Warrior, as well as Erii's blood sample.
He collected all of Erii's blood into the summoning scroll, leaving only a drop on the handkerchief. At this moment, both blood samples were submitted to the system.
Two blood samples are being tested.
[Reward: Chakra +20, Current Chakra Total: 323 cards]
[Immortal Body unlocking progress increased by 5%, current progress is 90%]
[Progress in unlocking Susanoo's third form +4, current progress is 43/48]
[Learned S-rank ninjutsu: Spirit Transformation Technique]
[Learned A-rank ninjutsu: Mutual Explosive Tags]
[Rinnegan unlock progress +2, current progress is 71/96]
[Note: Unlocking the Rinnegan requires unlocking the Sage Body.]
Gu Ran was somewhat stunned as he looked at the system information.
Unexpectedly, Erii and the Shadow Warrior's blood samples were so powerful. Their blood levels were already close to the Dragon King's, which is why they were able to unlock the Immortal Body!
Thinking about it carefully, it makes sense. The Shadow Warrior was able to intimidate Mai Shude with his gaze and also intimidate Erii, which was truly terrifying. Erii was also able to make the Deadpool kneel down and make way for her, submitting to her. This was all a manifestation of the purity of her bloodline.
That's why Erii needed to inject serum to suppress her abilities; otherwise, she really would have transformed into a dragon.
In addition, he also learned the Ninjutsu Spirit Transformation Technique and the Mutual Multiplication Explosive Tags.
The Spirit Transformation Technique is a rather fantastical ninjutsu that allows a person's soul to leave their body. The soul can ignore space and distance and travel to any place. Moreover, the soul can possess another person's body and control them to do other things, which is somewhat similar to the primordial spirit in cultivation novels.
start up!
The only drawback is that when the soul leaves the body, the physical body becomes very vulnerable. If it is injured, the physical body dies and the person is gone.
Therefore, it must be used in an absolutely safe place.
Aside from that, there are no other drawbacks.
Multiplicative detonating tags are created by attaching a single detonating tag to a person's body. This detonating tag can continuously summon countless other detonating tags to explode simultaneously, with the explosions concentrated at a single point.
The advantage of this technique is obvious: a single explosive tag can create an infinite chain of explosions. The disadvantage is also obvious: the explosion range is very large. If one is not careful, one may also be affected. Therefore, it is a forbidden technique!
However, Gu Ran has the Flying Thunder God Technique, so he is not afraid of being affected. Moreover, he can use shadow clones to go there and release explosive tags without being affected. So it's alright.
In short, he now has two more reliable ninjutsu and attack methods.
However, the system hadn't given him the ninjutsu he wanted, which left him somewhat frustrated.
Without that ninjutsu, he would have encountered some minor trouble later in Ragnarok.
But it didn't bother him. There would be plenty of opportunities to collect blood samples. If all else failed, he could always try to get more from Lu Mingfei later. There would always be a chance to get some.
*……*……*
At that moment, Yuan Zhisheng received two phone calls.
One of the calls was from Gu Ran. He called the company's operator, who couldn't understand Chinese and was worried about not being able to convey the message clearly, so there was only a recording of the call. In short, Gu Ran would return Erii, but he wanted money—3 billion yen—within half an hour.
Moreover, he spoke with such self-righteousness: "Your Sheqi Hachike family offered a reward for finding someone, and now that I've found them for you, you should pay the reward. Not asking for 10 billion yen is already very generous of you. I hope you will have a sense of contractual obligation."
Genjiro and his three retainers were speechless after listening to the recording. Erii was clearly the one who kidnapped them...
Okay, it wasn't kidnapping. Gu Ran has already explained that it was Erii who kidnapped Lu Mingfei, but he was clearly in your hands, and now that he's back, you're asking for a reward.
Where can we go to seek justice? Do the kidnappers want a ransom?
Moreover, it makes no sense that the Secret Party would return Erii!
"Could it be that they're short of funds for their operation, so they're asking us for money?" the strategist Yaksha suggested.
"But didn't he just steal billions of yen from Genji Heavy Industries?" Crow said, puzzled.
"What did he mean by cutting off the tram?" Ying noticed the blind spot in Gu Ran's words.
While Yuan Zhisheng was wondering, he suddenly received another phone call.
"Hello, is this the giant tortoise? Send someone to pick up your sister. She's on the train from Baijinji Town back to Tokyo, the last train at 9:45."