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Chapter 221 The Black Lieutenant and Dr. Gro

"call……"

With a long, drawn-out breath, a magnificent red light appeared in Uchiha Hikaru's eyes, and a dark red aura appeared around him.

—Susanoo!

In fact, Hikaru Uchiha felt that she could break free by using chakra and "ki" to force her way out, but she was too lazy to move, so she chose to stand still and directly activated the Sharingan's eye technique.

The moment the skeletal giant appeared, faint sounds emanated from the air, like invisible ropes suddenly taut, emitting mournful cries of unbearable strain, as if they were about to snap at any moment.

"Um?"

General Lan seemed to have sensed that something was wrong.

But the next moment, Uchiha Hikaru gently raised his head, met his gaze with calm eyes, and the tomoe windmill spun gently.

"Tsukuyomi!"

Eyes facing each other.

General Blue's expression became dazed, and the superpowers he had been trying so hard to maintain began to weaken.

In that instant, Esdeath exhaled and tore apart the invisible ropes in the air. Then, she took a step forward and shot towards the Blue General like an arrow. With just a quick movement, she ripped off one of his arms!

Blood splattered everywhere!

"Ah!!! My hand..."

General Blue screamed in pain, instinctively trying to cover his wound, but Esdeath gave him no chance to catch his breath. Esdeath slammed on the brakes and stopped, then twisted her waist and leaped up, performing a spinning flying kick in mid-air that sent General Blue flying!

Bang!

General Lan's body flew nearly a hundred meters like a cannonball, smashing through several large trees as thick as a bowl along the way, and finally rolled into a crater, where he was clearly barely breathing.

Only then did the blood that had spurted from the severed arm finally fall to the ground, staining Esdeath's feet a dark red.

"...Hmm? Your physical skills are actually this weak?"

Esdeath was somewhat taken aback.

She didn't know the difference between superpowers and "ki," and assumed that General Blue also possessed a technique similar to Master Roshi's "World Shock Palm," thus considering him an evenly matched opponent. The fact that the battle ended in just a few moves left her somewhat disappointed.

Uchiha Hikaru, however, was not surprised at all. He closed and opened his eyes slightly, and silently put away Susanoo.

Then he glanced again into the dense forest not far away.

Out of caution, she had deliberately created a shadow clone, hiding in the shadows, intending to reveal herself and make a move if the situation changed. However, it now seems that this contingency plan was somewhat unnecessary.

the other side.

After confirming that General Blue had been defeated, Esdeath raised her right hand and snapped her fingers lightly.

With this action, the surrounding blizzard intensified suddenly, and the temperature dropped again from tens of degrees below zero. In such a frigid environment, even the few Red Ribbon Army officers who were not frozen stiff felt the biting cold. Some tried to beg for mercy, while a few mustered their last strength and lunged at Esdeath, seemingly in a desperate attempt to fight back.

Thud! Thud!

Esdeath rushed forward, throwing punches and kicks.

The remaining officers were basically all unable to withstand two moves from Esdeath. All those who were kicked away were quickly frozen into ice in mid-air. When they hit the ground, there was a "crack" sound, and they shattered into countless fragments along with the ice, which flew into the surrounding air.

This bloodless and corpse-less method of killing terrified the remaining Red Ribbon Army soldiers.

Having lost the courage to act, they were all enveloped in the white snow, their body temperature rapidly dropping, turning them into ice sculptures standing in place, their faces still showing lingering fear.

"……it's over."

Esdeath looked around to make sure no one was standing there before waving her hand and turning back to Hikaru Uchiha.

From the moment Uchiha Hikaru and Esdeath rushed out of the forest and engaged in a battle with the Red Ribbon Army's armored forces, to the present day after the latter's complete annihilation...

The entire battle lasted a maximum of twenty minutes.

At this moment, the Red Ribbon Army base, both inside and outside, and even the forest within several kilometers around it, were all shrouded in a layer of ice. Apart from Uchiha Hikaru and Esdeath, no one else could be heard breathing. Even the birds in the dense forest were either frozen solid and hanging from the trees, or had flown far away to seek refuge.

"By the way...it seems like Tao Pai Pai isn't in this group?"

Uchiha Hikaru looked around carefully, but did not see a figure wearing a pink mandarin jacket and with a long braid tied behind his head among the ice sculptures.

She pondered for a moment, then understood—

Tao Pai Pai and the Red Ribbon Army were not in a superior-subordinate relationship, but simply an employer-employee relationship.

The Red Ribbon Army gives money, and Tao Pai-bai kills people for nothing.

In the original work, the Red Ribbon Army only hired Tao Pai Pai to assassinate him after Goku had defeated several of their officers and destroyed Masruta's stronghold. Now, while Uchiha Hikaru and Esdeath have done something similar, the time frame is too short for Red Marshal to have considered this possibility.

Of course……

It's also possible that Tao Pai Pai has already received a call and is currently riding over on a pillar.

But if that's the case, it would be even better. Esdeath hasn't had enough of fighting yet, and having Tao Pai Pai as a sparring partner should satisfy her appetite.

"Let's go inside and take a look."

Uchiha Hikaru leaped lightly and flew into the castle, then searched along the corridors, floor by floor.

This castle complex is very large, with more than a dozen floors, an estimated thousand rooms, and a total area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters.

Just like outside, this place was also swept in by a blizzard, with a thin layer of ice covering the floors and walls, making it a bit slippery to walk on. Uchiha Hikaru simply used his Flying Technique to fly through the air, making his way up the stairs to the top floor, which was more than ten stories high, and stopped in front of an office with a sign that read "Marshal".

"Tsk tsk..."

"These guys are really rich. I wonder how many people they've plundered from."

Speaking of which...

Earth in the Dragon Ball world is not peaceful. Apart from the absence of large-scale world wars, it is generally in a state of chaos.

Let's not even talk about notorious criminal gangs like the Red Ribbon Army and the Rabbit Legion.

Even among the main characters, many come from a background of thievery. For example, Yamcha was a desert bandit before he met Goku and Bulma; Androids 17 and 18 were thieves when they were young; and the Ox-King started out as a highway robber, accumulating a lot of wealth by robbing passing caravans... In fact, most ordinary people in this world live on the edge of subsistence.

Even worse, in the hometown of Namu, one of the top four finalists in the 21st Martial Arts Tournament, people can't even afford water.

This extreme wealth gap remained unresolved for decades, because the hometown of "Uub," the reincarnation of Buu, was equally impoverished, requiring Uub to participate in martial arts tournaments to earn prize money to supplement the family income.

One of the reasons why Uchiha Hikaru tacitly allowed Esdeath to physically eliminate the Red Ribbon Army soldiers was because of this.

She didn't consider herself a peacemaker, nor did she want to do anything to punish evil and promote good—that was the job of Little Wukong and his friends.

But the Red Ribbon Army, with its numerous evil deeds and unrepentant scum...

Since we've decided to take action, it's best to nip it in the bud.

"Speaking of which..."

A thought suddenly flashed through Uchiha Hikaru's mind: What would happen if he made a wish to the dragon, asking for "world peace"?

Hmm... given Earth's style, I'd guess they'd give a "sorry, I can't do that" answer. After all, true peace can probably only be achieved through the extinction of humanity.

dong dong dong-

Uchiha Hikaru raised his hand and knocked on the door.

After waiting a few seconds, she pushed open the door and went into Marshal Hong's room.

There are two people in the room.

One was sitting, and the other was standing.

The man sitting there was a middle-aged man of short stature, with a head of red slicked-back hair and a pipe in his mouth; he was clearly Marshal Red.

The Red Silk Army collected the Dragon Balls on his orders, and the purpose of the former in searching for the Dragon Balls was to increase his height by 5 centimeters.

The person standing next to him was a black man in a black suit, presumably the black adjutant who ultimately killed Marshal Red and wanted to cooperate with Goku but was rejected by him.

now.

The two of them stood frozen in place, covered in a thick layer of ice and snow, and the ground around them was also covered with a layer of frost. They had obviously been affected by the "Ice Storm General" released by Esdeath. Even now, large snowflakes were still coming in from the open window on the other side, causing the temperature in the room to continue to drop.

"Could you wake them up, Xiao Ai? I have some questions for them."

Uchiha Hikaru turned his head and glanced at it.

Esdeath nodded, walked over to the black lieutenant, and lightly tapped his body with her index finger. The ice and snow on the latter's body shattered silently, and he suddenly woke up, staggering before opening his eyes wide in astonishment:

"You, you are...?"

"Oh."

Esdeath did not respond, but instead walked to the Red Marshal's side and did the same thing, reviving the latter from his frozen state.

"Who are you people, daring to barge into my office? Get out of here..."

"Shut up."

Upon waking, Marshal Red immediately glared and puffed out his beard, intending to reprimand him, but a chilling look from Esdeath silenced him abruptly. Meanwhile, the black-clad adjutant, reaching for his gun, was also struck by a "Shackles Technique" from Uchiha Hikaru, instantly freezing him in place, unable to move a single finger.

"Have you always been like this? Are you all a bit dim-witted?"

Uchiha Hikaru walked to the desk, lightly leaped onto it, and swung her legs gently in mid-air: "Even if you didn't witness what happened outside and can't imagine the Red Ribbon Army being defeated... seeing us here and no one coming to our aid, you should understand your situation, right?"

"..."

Marshal Red opened his mouth, seemingly still unable to let go of his pride as the leader of an army, and spoke again in a fierce tone: "What exactly do you want by breaking into the Red Ribbon Army headquarters? If someone hired you to come and deal with me, I can give you double the price!"

"money?"

Uchiha Hikaru smiled, his crimson Sharingan fixed on Red Marshal, and slowly said, "You may have misunderstood some things. My coming here is entirely of my own volition, and has nothing to do with your grudges outside. You and your money are not important to me; what is important is..."

"Where is Dr. Groh, the one I'm asking you about?"

"?"

Marshal Red was taken aback by this sudden question, then snorted and said, "So your target is Dr. Gro. I can tell you his location, but you must promise not to kill me, otherwise..."

"Noisy."

Uchiha Hikaru glanced at Red Marshal casually, and with a burst of eye power, black flames immediately ignited on his body. The latter let out a mournful wail and curses, but was quickly engulfed by the flames of "Amaterasu", turning into a charred skeleton scattered on the seat.

In that one glance, Uchiha Hikaru had forcibly probed Red Marshal's memories with "Eight Thousand Spears," rendering the latter useless now. Considering what he had done before, being burned to ashes by Amaterasu was already a decent way to die.

After doing all this, Uchiha Hikaru sighed and turned to look at the black-clad adjutant: "Talking to idiots is such a hassle... Your turn."

"...I know Dr. Gro's location; it's right below this castle...I'll take you there right away!"

The black-clad adjutant, sweating profusely, spoke hastily, as if afraid that if he hesitated to speak, he would be executed in the same manner.

"under?"

Uchiha Hikaru raised an eyebrow, then jumped off the table. With a flick of his eyes, he released the golden binding genjutsu from the black lieutenant: "Lead the way. You'd better not try anything funny; my patience is limited."

"……yes."

The black-clad adjutant secretly wiped away a cold sweat. Despite his panic, a secret thought began to stir within him.

He had long harbored the idea of ​​killing the Red Marshal and taking his place. However, he couldn't bring himself to do it because the latter had cultivated the Red Ribbon Army for many years and held immense prestige. Now, the Red Marshal's death had presented him with an opportunity, and he even began to consider whether he could use Uchiha Hikaru and his companion to revitalize the Red Ribbon Army.

Hikaru Uchiha was unaware of these thoughts.

Even if she knew, she wouldn't care—the black adjutant might be a little smarter than the red marshal, but in essence, they were birds of a feather, and after fulfilling their purpose, they would be disposed of just as easily.

"Please come this way."

The black lieutenant led Uchiha Hikaru and Esdeath to the door of a hidden elevator. After verifying their voiceprints, they activated the elevator and then took it down through a series of checkpoints involving iris, voiceprint, and fingerprint identification before arriving at an experimental base.

(End of this chapter)