Dragon Clan: They're all insane, and you still want me to slay dragons?

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The girl stared at the large hole in the door that Gao Kui had long since torn down. Her face was stern, and she stood tall and proud, like a great general about to lead his troops into battle on a rally stage.

In the end, Erii mustered up her courage and stepped out of the cage that could not actually restrain her at all.

One step, two steps, three steps...

With each step she took, the girl's momentum waned, as if her rank had plummeted from a general leading an army to a captain escorting provisions, and finally, she was reduced to a defeated general fleeing in disarray, his armor and weapons discarded.

Erii lost her spirit after only a few steps out of the bedroom. She walked nervously down the dark corridor, head drooping, looking dejected.

Suddenly, Erii's delicate nose twitched slightly as she caught a glimpse of a familiar figure carrying a sword and spear at the end of the corridor. Her chest was instantly filled with courage, and she took off running towards Gao Kui at the end of the corridor.

As expected, I still can't bring myself to run away from home alone. I can only muster the courage to do it when I'm with familiar people, people who make me feel safe.

Chapter 165 Hot Mom from Hasi!

Gao Kui searched the top floor but still found nothing. Not only was there no Aso Makoto, but there wasn't even a sandalwood scent similar to Aso Makoto's hair. Instead, there were quite a few rooms filled with the smell of death and old people.

Those were probably the rooms where the elders of the Snake Clan lived. Gao Kui had good reason to suspect that they didn't bathe. The strong smell of dead skin from the old people in the rooms almost made Gao Kui vomit his dinner from the night before.

Gao Kui was becoming increasingly suspicious of the information Norma provided, and his mind was starting to churn again.

Norma said that Aso Makoto and Sakurai Hiroshi were very likely at the Genji Heavy Industries building. The biker gang members also said that the person had been delivered to the Genji Heavy Industries building, so he rushed over without a care and fought his way from the twelfth floor to the top floor.

But if you think about it carefully, Norma isn't entirely without the possibility of making mistakes, is she?

Norma said that while searching for relevant information, it encountered harassment and interception from another supercomputer artificial intelligence, and the information and intelligence it ultimately obtained may not be accurate, and may very well be the product of deliberate misleading by the other party.

To take an even worse view, Norma, as an artificial intelligence, might develop its own emotional module, much like Skynet in the Terminator series, breaking free from Cassel's control and going berserk, with Norma becoming Neo's savior in something similar to The Matrix.

Norma, determined to unleash a mechanical frenzy and destroy the world, decides to eliminate his own savior first. He tricks himself into joining Genji Heavy Industries. If the Snake Clan fails, Norma will later send the T800 robot, resembling Schwarzenegger, and the future liquid metal robot T1000…

Gao Kui, whose mind was in complete disarray, heard hurried footsteps. The footsteps were very light, and judging from the sound, the person weighed only about 100 jin (50 catties). In contrast, the T800 and T1000 should conservatively weigh several hundred jin (300 kg), after all, Schwarzenegger had made Harley-Davidson motorcycles sink several centimeters when he sat on them.

Despite his paranoia, Gao Kui instinctively turned in the direction of the sound and raised the white ivory, wondering if Norma had made the robot it created lighter.

Erii stopped about two or three meters away from Gao Kui, carrying a large bundle, her dark red eyes sparkling with curiosity as she looked at Gao Kui and the M1911 pistol he was holding up.

The girl couldn't understand why the kind person who had shown her no hostility after only a few minutes of separation would turn on her and point a gun at her upon their reunion. Was this some kind of special welcoming ceremony between friends?

"why you?"

After seeing the girl clearly, Gao Kui put down his gun again, his gaze lingering for a moment on the large bundle that the girl was carrying on the shoulder of a man.

"Even though you're unwilling to help me, I've still decided to run away from home."

Erii tilted her head to the side, clamped the pole holding the bundle between her fingers, freeing her hands. Her slender fingers flew, rapidly forming hand seals.

After receiving enough ninjutsu to unleash several Lightning Release: Chidori, Erii belatedly realized that the kind person in front of her probably didn't understand sign language, and hurriedly tried to open the bundle to find the writing board inside.

“No need to find a writing board, I can read it.” Gao Kui raised his hand to stop Erii.

Ok?

They actually know sign language?

Erii's eyes widened, and after a moment's thought, she asked Takagi a math question in sign language: "What is 1000 - 7?"

Gao Kui immediately widened his eyes and glared at Erii with the same look a watermelon stall owner would give Liu Huaqiang. "Are you here to cause trouble?!"

The girl's dark red eyes flickered; she couldn't answer?

Gao Kui sorted through his thoughts again. That comic wouldn't be created until 2011, and the origin of this meme would be even later. The girl in front of him probably wouldn't understand the meme.

“993,” Gao Kui replied.

Wow, they actually know sign language!

Erii's eyes widened, and she felt more and more that the kind person in front of her was like her. For Erii, who had difficulty speaking, being able to understand sign language was a real advantage.

No one is an island, entire of itself. What connects these isolated islands is communication. If even basic communication is impossible, then true connection is out of the question.

Unfortunately, among the people Erii comes into contact with on a daily basis, only Genjiro and Tachibana Masamune know sign language, and their level is not particularly high.

Like a stray ragdoll kitten, oblivious to the wickedness of human nature, Erii took a few steps closer to Takagi, still using her little head to hold the pole and asking questions in sign language.

Why do you know sign language?

"This is a sad story."

Gao Kui sighed softly, his eyes filled with sorrow as if recalling some unbearable past events, and he was about to light a cigarette to talk about the past.

That happened when I was in elementary school. Back then, Gao Kui wasn't called Gao Kui but Ishida Shoya. He attended an elementary school in Japan. Later, a girl named Nishimiya Shoko, who had a hearing impairment, transferred to his class...

"Why should I tell you?" Gao Kui suddenly put on a stern face, stuffing back the memories that had welled up from the depths of his mind, memories he couldn't tell were real or not.

"Because I consider you a friend."

Erii's eyes were sincere; she genuinely felt that Takagi was her friend. He not only told her the clever trick of wiping the arcade machine's back cover with a damp towel, but also informed her of the important news that her brother was away.

As Gao Kui gazed into the girl's clear eyes, his thoughts began to wander. First, they wandered to Wong Kar-wai's film "Days of Being Wild," where there is a classic scene where Leslie Cheung strikes up a conversation with Maggie Cheung, asking her to look at her watch for one minute, and then says, "One minute before 4 p.m. on April 16, 1960, you were with me. Because of you, I will remember this minute. From now on, we are friends for one minute."

Gao Kui felt that Erii running over and saying they were friends was strangely similar to the situation in the movie, equally inexplicable.

Then, Gao Kui's thoughts drifted to the episode of Ultraman Tiga featuring the Lightning Man. There was no particular reason, just the line, "Friend, it's delicious." Finally, his thoughts wandered back to *Days of Being Wild*, then to Tiger Brother, Knife Brother, Shenyang Street, and *Summer Soseki*...

Erii simply stood there, gazing at Gao Kui with clear eyes. The more chaotic Gao Kui's thoughts were, the purer the girl's thoughts were.

In the end, Gao Kui just shook his head and said, "Give up. Even if you say we are friends, I will not take you away from home."

“I don’t need you to take me, I can walk by myself.” Erii said in sign language, not very confidently.

really?

Gao Kui took a few steps to the left, and Erii quickly followed. Suddenly, Gao Kui turned around and took a few steps back, and Erii also turned around and quickly followed, almost inseparable.

Gao Kui suddenly stopped and stared at Erii without saying a word.

Like a stalker discovered in a sitcom or gag manga, Erii's eyes darted left and right, one hand holding onto a pole, the other tidying her dark red hair.

"Are you acting out a comedy anime with me?" Gao Kui was both amused and exasperated.

Funny comics often feature scenes like this: a stalker sneaks around a person, hiding behind bushes and trash cans, without ever being discovered. Passersby on the street are oblivious to the moving bushes. Even if they are discovered, they only need to point to the sky and shout "Look, there's a UFO!" to fool everyone and escape.

Unfortunately, this is the real world, and such obviously unrealistic and comedic scenes will not appear in the real world.

Erii's delicate eyebrows drooped instantly after her seemingly perfect disguise was exposed. She tilted her head, gripped the stick, and dejectedly began to sign.

"I'm scared. Can I follow you, at least until we leave the building?"

Humanity's greatest fear is the fear of the unknown, and this applies to Erii as well. Despite being the youngest princess of the Snake Clan and the head of thousands of clans, most of the Genji Heavy Industries remains unknown to Erii.

The only things she was familiar with were that simply furnished bedroom and the intensive care unit located deep underground.

How could God create a girl with such a strong anime/manga vibe?

Gao Kui really wanted to complain: a shrine maiden outfit, stunning beauty, innocent kindness, and seemingly lacking in common sense about life—such a beautiful, almost unrealistic character would definitely be criticized by readers in an urban novel for being unrealistic, too much like anime, and for the author to tone it down…

What kind of character design fits the urban channel? There is no absolute standard, but Chen Motong's character design is definitely more realistic than Erii's.

But in Gao Kui's eyes, the two are completely different in terms of realism; perhaps he is just a character in a light novel.

Ultimately, all the words boiled down to one complaint: "You're in your own home, why would you be afraid?"

Erii nodded; she was genuinely afraid.

"Then I absolutely cannot let you come with me."

Erii reminded Takagi of one of his girlfriends, named Sakura Futaba, who suffered from severe social anxiety disorder and would have an episode whenever she left her bedroom. Later, with his help, Futaba gradually overcame her fear of the outside world.

Erii, standing before him, bore a striking resemblance to Futaba. Having relevant experience, Gao Kui knew he absolutely could not let Erii go out with him. If she was this afraid even at home, what would happen if she left Genji Heavy Industries?

Furthermore, he hadn't finished searching the rest of the building, and he hadn't taken the usual route, making it inconvenient to take Erii out no matter how you looked at it.

Um! ?

Erii suddenly opened her eyes wide and pointed behind Gao Kui. Her eyes and posture were as if she were saying, "Look, there's a UFO!"

Gao Kui was speechless: "Here we go again. I've told you this isn't a comedy anime. You think I'd..."

A faint whooshing sound came from outside the window. Gao Kui suddenly turned around, and the huge floor-to-ceiling window reflected his and Erii's figures. Outside the hazy window, neon lights covered the entire city, and a black helicopter flew in from the end of the neon lights.

The cabin door was open, and Genji stood in front of it, gripping the door with one hand, his fingers twisting so hard they deformed the steel, while the other held the famous sword Spider Cutter. His eyes shone with a molten, crimson-gold light, and his black trench coat fluttered in the night wind.

Genji looked up at the top floor of the Genji Heavy Industries building. His eyesight was excellent, and he could clearly see the entangled Gao Kui and Erii in the corridor.

You beast, prince of Northern Qi!

Just as Gao Kui didn't have a good impression of Yuan Zhisheng, Yuan Zhisheng's impression of Gao Kui wasn't much better. Gao Kui was extremely emotionally and mentally unstable, had questionable lifestyle habits, and squandered his girlfriend's money in nightclubs...

If you had to describe the relationship between Yuan Zhisheng and Gao Kui in four words, it would be "fellow acquaintances".

It's fine to eat, drink, and have fun together occasionally, but you should never become close to someone like that. Entrusting your cutest and most innocent younger sister to someone like that is absolutely out of the question.

But what does Genjiro see now?

Erii, carrying a bundle, followed behind the Northern Qi prince, looking every bit the part of a devoted wife. It must be the Northern Qi prince; he used sweet words to trick Erii into coming with him, so he could use her to blackmail him!

Even through a hundred meters of reflective glass, Erii could clearly see the anger in Genjiro's golden eyes.

Erii's face turned pale with fright. She subconsciously paused behind Gao Kui while carrying her bundle. "It must be because I've run away from home too many times. My brother is really angry this time."

As for Gao Kui?

A tremendous surprise descended upon him, his eyes lit up, and the anger in his heart could no longer be suppressed. His honey-gold eyes emitted golden light like a volcanic eruption, and he stared ferociously at Genjiro outside the window.

"Yuan Zhisheng!"

I've been waiting for you for so long, Haxi Hot Mom!

Heading towards the Genji Heavy Industries building, Genji leaped into the air, his figure soaring through the air like a hawk. As he approached the building, he suddenly swiftly swung his sword, unleashing more than a dozen dazzling blades of light.

Amidst the shattered anti-slip glass, Yuan Zhisheng leaped into the corridor, rolled to his feet, and brandished his knife, glaring at Gao Kui, who was "holding his sister hostage" a dozen meters away.

Whether it's the way he swept through the air, the way he rolled up after landing, or even his long black trench coat, it's almost exactly the same as when Gao Kui was a phantom thief.

However, Gao Kui's thoughts were racing, and if he wanted, he could maintain focus for a period of time, about five to ten minutes. From the moment Yuan Zhisheng appeared, Gao Kui's attention was more focused than ever before.

"Finally back, Genjiro! You beast, you really kept me waiting! Hand over my girlfriend now, or I might leave you a whole corpse!"

Gao Kui grinned and uttered the standard villain's line, his slender fingers gripping the hilt of the Longinus sword, his knuckles making a "squeaking" sound.

On the way here, Genjiro, who had communicated extensively with Ryoma Genichiro, had already devised a plan on how to communicate with the prince of Northern Qi: to be as tolerant as possible, since they were in the wrong first, and to take action to stop them if communication was impossible.

Upon seeing Erii being "held hostage," all notions of tolerance and communication were immediately forgotten.

“It was indeed our Sheqi family’s fault for kidnapping your girlfriend, Sakurai Hiroshi. It was my negligence in managing my subordinates that prevented me from discovering the traitor within the family. I will give you an explanation for this matter.”