She was the youngest child among all the injured, looking no more than four or five years old. Her mother was a waitress in the store. Since she was a single parent and had no other family members, she was brought to the store by her mother.
When the earthquake occurred, the little girl was playing alone in a corner of the kitchen, waiting for her mother to get off work and take her home.
It was precisely because of the space left in the corner after the house collapsed that the little girl was lucky enough to escape fatal danger, but her body was scratched in many places and had multiple soft tissue contusions.
It must have been very painful, as the girl's face was covered with tear marks. Later, she fell asleep because she was tired of crying, curled up in a small ball on the hospital bed, like an abandoned kitten.
The girl who was always indifferent, as if she didn't care about anything, sat by the bed and watched quietly. There was still no expression on her face, but there was a rare bit of warmth in her dark eyes.
Xia Mi tiptoed over and whispered, "You gangsters also care about humanity? Isn't it just about fighting and killing, young master?"
She imitated the executive's way of shouting, but there was a hint of sarcasm in her voice.
"Do you know what the underworld is?" Yuan Zhinv asked softly.
Xia Mi scratched her head: "To be honest, I don't really know, but the name sounds very powerful."
"No, not at all."
Yuan Zhinv looked at the sleeping girl, her voice more emotional: "The earliest underworld was made up of fallen samurai, craftsmen, dock workers and prostitutes. They made a living by their skills and formed guilds to avoid being bullied by others."
"Is that so? But you look very powerful." Xia Mi gestured and pointed at the black-clad executive officer: "He looks very powerful too."
"That's because we are not gangsters at heart. Have you heard of the Eight Snake Clans?"
"I've actually heard of it. After I came to Japan, I heard a few gangsters talking about it. They said that the Sheqi Eight Clan was the most powerful gang. I thought the gang was run by the Sheqi Eight Clan."
"No, the underworld only existed after the Edo period. Before that, the eight families of Snake Qi were all noble families. The underworld gangs were organizations of the weak. The eight families of Snake Qi also disdained the underworld at first, until they lost their land during the reform and needed to find other means to support themselves."
"So the Eight Snake Families got involved in the underworld, got their hands dirty to make money, and used force to establish their authority in the underworld. At the same time, they protected the gangs established by the poor, collected their offerings, and provided them with protection. Their identities as underworld law enforcers were established step by step from that time, and it has not been many years since then."
"Japan is a country that allows underworld organizations to register according to law. Those gangs are the original guilds, which are organizations created by the weak to protect themselves. They are in corners and alleys where lights don't reach. They are humble, weak, and dark people."
"Compared to kind and successful people, these inferior people are ugly, but just as where there is light there must be shadow, where there are superior people there must be inferior people. Dark organizations have grown up among the inferior people, and that is the underworld."
Xia Mi blinked her eyes: "You want to say that the Eight Snake Families are the leaders of the weak? The so-called underworld is just the weak getting together to avoid being bullied? It sounds like you are the savior."
"We are certainly not saviors. We are people who do business with the underworld. We are paid to coordinate the balance and contradictions in the underworld, but we are indeed the leaders of the weak."
"Most of the people living at the bottom of the underworld are weak people who cannot enter mainstream society. They are small hooligans who go to stores with knives to ask for protection money. Many of them are children from single-parent families, children who have been expelled from school or have no money to go to school."
"Many of the women flirting in nightclubs are single mothers, or have been abused by their fathers or even raped by their stepfathers. To these women, their bodies are not precious."
"They are not very smart and probably haven't received much education, so they will only blindly believe in and obey the orders of their family. In their eyes, their family is God. They believe in God, and God is all their hope."
Speaking of this, Minamoto no Chikōdō remembered the man who was fed Deadpool by Tachibana Masamune at the Snake House. Until the last moment, he did not believe that the patriarch killed him. His last words before his death were to ask Minamoto no Chikōdō to tell Tachibana Masamune that there was an enemy attack.
After being in the battle between the fierce demons and the Snake clan for so many years, Gen Chijo once wanted to completely destroy the Snake clan. But when she looked at that stupid and stubborn man to death, she suddenly realized that the Japanese underworld cannot do without the Snake clan.
There are more than 100,000 registered gangsters in Japan, and millions of associated people. In this society of shadows, everyone is accustomed to speaking with violence. The violence of the Snake Eight Families is above them. If one day the Snake Eight Families are disbanded, there will be no emperor in the underworld.
A society without an emperor would be like the Warring States Period, where everyone speaks with violence. I don’t know how many people would die in street fights, and how many women would be forced to sell themselves or even their daughters.
Genjiro is a very cold person. She doesn't really care about these things. What does the suffering of others have to do with her? It doesn't matter if all of Japan dies. Anyway, that damn God has never had mercy on her.
But she still remembers the look in the eyes of the man who was bitten to death by Deadpool, looking at her so seriously, so worriedly, and yet full of trust. She stood there and looked at him for a long time, watching his body getting colder and colder, but the light in those dead eyes was always there, as if it would never disappear.
So she finally left behind the Eight Clans of Sheqi.
But even if she stayed, she never asked about specific things. After all, Yuan Zhinv was still an indifferent person. She only cared about those few important people. She didn't care about the life and death of other people, and it had nothing to do with her whether they lived well or not.
Until Sakurai Akira died, he was still asking her why, asking her why it was so difficult just to live.
Gen Chino was unable to answer his question, and at the same time felt angry, offended.
This time it was Sakurai Akira, who will it be next time? Minamoto Chisei? Uesugi Kotsu? Eri? Or Sakurai Kogure?
It was not until that moment that Yuan Zhinu understood why those ancient tyrants, who enslaved the people and lived a life of luxury, would be angry because their own people were killed.
Because those people were his assets, and he felt offended and provoked when someone was disposing of his assets at will.
The king is like a wolf, and the people are his sheep. A good wolf will not let the sheep get hurt.
And Minamoto no Chijo is now becoming that tyrant. She is turning Japan into her territory, and these underworld gangs are her assets.
She would never allow anyone to touch her things, no matter if it was the Dragon King or anything else.
God comes to kill gods, Buddha comes to destroy Buddha.
Xia Mi wanted to say something, but suddenly shut up because Yuan Zhinv's expression changed.
The girl's dark eyes were filled with murderous intent, and this young gangster emanated the majesty of an emperor.
She sat there as if she was sitting on a throne, and would never retreat no matter how powerful the enemy was.
Because behind her are her people, her figure is majestic and lonely.
Chapter 173 Who is the prey?
By the time Minamoto no Chitose finished dealing with all the matters and returned to Genji Heavy Industries, a bright orange color had already appeared on the horizon.
Xia Mi was drowsy after staying up all night in the car. After the car finally stopped, she opened her eyes in confusion and was taken to a resting place by Yuan Zhinv.
It was a very monotonous and simple room. Apart from some basic furniture, the whole room was empty. However, it was very clean and there was a faint scent of incense.
"You can rest here first." said Yuan Zhinv.
Xia Mi looked around curiously: "Whose room is this?"
"mine."
"Then where are you going to sleep?" Xia Mi blinked and lowered her head shyly: "Do you want to sleep with me? I don't mind, but I don't know if you are used to it."
She acted like a shy young wife, with an attitude of "You saved me, I have no way to repay you, so I have to give you my body". But unfortunately, the person she was hooking up with was a blockhead who had no understanding of romance at all.
Yuan Zhinv was too lazy to pay attention to the dramatic Dragon King. She just said "I have something else to do" and turned away. She could feel someone looking at her inquiringly, but she pretended not to notice.
In fact, Yuan Zhinu's heart was far from being as calm as she appeared, because she didn't know why Xia Mi appeared here.
When she first learned that the simulator could improve bloodline by slaying dragons, Yuan Zhinu overestimated her own capabilities and thought of killing this little dragon girl. She was misled by the original novel and thought that Chu Zihang could kill her, so the Dragon King's strength was somewhat unworthy of his reputation.
She first contacted Chu Zihang because she wanted to lure out this love-brained guy, but later even when she took Chu Zihang to confront Odin, Xia Mi did not show up.
Not only that, Yuan Zhinu also sent people to China to look for her, but they didn't find any clues. It was as if such a person had never existed in the world, so naturally any search was in vain.
But after fighting with the young dragon king Leviathan, who was also in human form, Yuan Zhinv finally understood how much this love-brained man had let go when fighting a certain man named Chu...
Therefore, Yuan Zhinu decisively gave up her suicidal behavior. After all, she didn't have the charm of the man named Chu and she probably wouldn't be treated leniently. At least, she didn't plan to provoke these dragon kings again until her bloodline was upgraded to the first generation.
As a result, she stopped looking for the Dragon King and the Dragon King came looking for her instead.
In the original novel, Xia Mi appeared to go after Constantine's dragon bone cross, but now Constantine is not only alive but also about to hatch, and there is a Norton standing by, watching closely. What does this little dragon girl want to do? To divert Norton and steal the house?
But even if Norton has been lured away now, it doesn't mean that he won't come back. With his temper, he will explode on the spot if he finds out that his brother has been killed, right?
Besides, didn't the four monarchs have a blood pact? If they fought each other, they would be retaliated against, so Odin would only hide behind the scenes, picking up bones from Lu Mingfei, and never really took action.
But apart from Constantine, Yuan Zhinu couldn't think of any other reason. Could it be that Xiao Longnu came for her? But she was not Chu Zihang, and she didn't have such great charm.
I can’t understand it, but I have to be on guard.
With a cold face, Gen Chikyou pushed open the door of Uesugi Yue's office, ready to discuss something with him after he arrived. However, when she opened the door, she found the old man sitting inside handling official business, with a mountain of documents at hand.
Hearing the noise, Uesugi Yue raised his head, his expression visibly tired. When he saw it was Genjiro, he rubbed his temples and forced a smile.
"When did you come back, little girl?"
"Just now." Yuan Zhinv glanced at the dark circles under the old man's eyes and frowned slightly: "Have you been busy until now?"
"Alas, sometimes it's really hard to refuse to admit that you're old." Uesugi Yue sighed, his gray hair so obvious in the morning light: "Thinking back then, I was also an energetic and passionate young man..."
"There's no need to talk about what happened back then. Everyone has been young." Yuan Zhinv said, and walked over to flip through the documents in front of the old man. Looking at the densely packed government affairs and interpersonal relationships on it, her brows frowned even deeper.
"what is this?"
"A list of people to be taken care of." Uesugi Yue said, "and the people and things that need to be dealt with urgently after the Prime Minister's disappearance."
Genji was puzzled: "The Prime Minister is missing, what else is there to deal with?"
"...You don't think that if you want to control Japan, you just need to kill the Prime Minister?"
"What else? Kill all those who don't obey? Are they all on this list? Do you want me to kill them one by one?"
Uesugoshi: "..."
Looking at the clear eyes of the girl in front of him, Uesugi Yue suddenly understood how the elders who managed his family felt when they saw that he was uneducated.
No wonder the old chess master refused to take over the Snake Eight Families at that time. It was really troublesome and he wanted to just quit. Uesugi Yue suddenly missed the days of selling ramen on the streets of Tokyo.
Uesugi Koshi sighed deeply again, his voice becoming somewhat weak: "Japan is a responsible parliamentary democracy. The prime minister does not have the final say. The prime minister cannot resign whenever he wants. He is elected by the political party. If he wants to resign, he must not only have the consent of the cabinet, but also the approval of the party."
"Now he inexplicably says he wants to resign, and then disappears the next second. Who can't see that there is something fishy going on? The entire cabinet is in chaos now. They should be able to guess that it's us soon."
"That is, he is just missing at the moment. If you had announced his death directly, the government would probably have gone to war with us by now."
Yuan Zhinu thought about the head she had chopped off and felt guilty: "What should I do now?"
"Fortunately, this sudden earthquake diverted their attention." Uesugi Yue rubbed his face hard and said with a wry smile: "I will take care of it."
"And this is not the point. The point is the secret party. The Snake Eight Families were originally the shadow government of Japan. The head of the family was called the Shadow Emperor. Later, he was severely damaged by the secret party and gave up politics and cooperated with the underworld. Now we want to regain control of the government. There is no way the secret party will not respond."
Yuan Zhinu found that she had been thinking too simply. She thought that whoever disobeyed could be killed, but now it seems that is the behavior of a reckless man, and a reckless man cannot become an emperor.
But what should a smart person do? Yuan Zhinu had no idea at all. When she thought about it carefully, it seemed that she really only knew how to fight and kill.
Perhaps seeing the confusion of Genji, Uesugi Yue's eyes showed a little more pity: "It's okay, it's hard for you to think about these things, I'll do it, is there anything else you want?"
The tone sounded like "Be good, go play if you have nothing to do." Yuan Zhinv was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked a question: "Dad, if one day I am gone, will you feel more relaxed?"
"When I think about it, it seems like I'm the one who caused all the troubles Japan is facing now."
The girl's sudden words stunned Uesugi Yue.
But before he realized what this meant, Yuan Zhinv suddenly laughed again: "No, we are guarding the White King's wealth. We are the cursed bloodline. No matter who dies, as long as the curse remains, there will never be a relaxing day."
"But it's really hard to end the curse. I feel like if I want to kill the White Emperor, I have to sacrifice something of equal weight, like another Dragon King."
She stretched, as if she suddenly relaxed, and raised the corners of her mouth: "Dad, is there anything else I can help you with? But I only know how to fight and kill."
Looking at the smile on the girl's face, Uesugi Yue suddenly felt an indescribable depression in his heart for some reason, as if something bad was about to happen.
Maybe it's an illusion, he thought, but he couldn't help nagging: "You don't need to fight and kill, your brother is much more reliable than you, do you remember that you are injured? If you do this again, I won't say good things for you next time Xiao Mu gets angry."
Yuan Zhinu sighed, "I can't sit still. Dad, please let me work. I feel like my bones are getting rusty from lying down. Help me as much as I can while I have time. Wait for me later... I won't be here when school starts."
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