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The clanging and clattering of knives echoed like raindrops in the lounge. Sakurai Akira couldn't keep up with the pace of these two geniuses at all. If he joined in, Asuya would only be able to find an opening in Chu Zihang's cover for him.
Sakurai Akira withdrew and watched Asuya, who was sweating profusely after twenty moves.
The once arrogant Asuya admitted that he was not the only genius in the world, and that he had just encountered a very powerful genius.
"Will I die here tonight?" He couldn't help but think as he faced Chu Zihang's fierce and swift killing moves.
……
The system, holding the phone it had found, asked the arrested man with the bewildered expression, "What's your name?"
After confirming that the other party was suspicious, Lu Mingfei turned the taxi to a deserted place. In a narrow alley where the car couldn't go, the other party got out of the car and chased after them. Then Lu Mingfei and Erii caught him.
Surprisingly, this man was not of mixed race; he was just an ordinary person.
“Ronald Don,” Old Don replied in broken Japanese.
The broken Japanese didn't sound like that of a native speaker, and it wasn't even as fluent as Chu Zihang's. It was highly likely that the speaker wasn't from the Snake Clan... The system then switched to English and asked the other party, "What are you doing following us?"
Old Tang, of course, was fluent in English and immediately retorted, "I was just going that way..."
"To tell you the truth, I don't want to waste time. Otherwise, it would have been much easier to just sink you into the sea."
The system patted the man's head, pulled out an alchemical dagger from its body, and held it to his throat.
The sharp knife made a shallow cut as soon as it touched the surface.
The sharp knife didn't even sting Old Tang, but after the system sheathed the knife and looked at the blood flowing on the blade, it said, "Your hand trembled a little."
Seeing that thin line of blood, Old Tang finally felt the stinging pain in his neck, which nearly scared him to death. He had no doubt that the other person could have easily slit his throat with a flick of their wrist... There were quite a few shootings and other fatalities in the United States, so Old Tang was naturally terrified...
"Big brother, don't kill me! I'll talk, I'll talk!"
Faced with his own blood, Old Tang couldn't hold back any longer and immediately spilled out his entire story: "I'm an American, a bounty hunter. I saw that someone in Japan was offering a bounty of 1350 million... no, it was only 900 million at first, for a girl named Uesugi Erii, so I came here to try my luck. I've only been in Japan for two days, and I don't know anything else."
Brother, please let me go. I have an 80-year-old mother to support and a three-year-old child to raise…
Erii Uesugi?
The system exchanged a glance with Erii, who was watching expressionlessly to the side. Then, the system pointed at Erii and asked, "Erii? Her?"
Even Inuyama He, the head of the Snake-Headed Eighth Family, couldn't see Erii's flaws. How could this ordinary person, and an ordinary American who had just arrived in Japan, see through Erii's makeup?
"Yes, yes, yes! No, no, no!"
Old Tang nodded and then shook his head, saying, "I just felt that she looked a lot like Uesugi Erii, the one with the bounty on her head, so I wanted to come and take a look."
How exactly does it resemble something?
"I feel like we have a similar vibe!"
Old Tang pleaded, "But it was just a gut feeling, and it was just a misperception. Please let me go, brother. She doesn't look like Uesugi Erii at all! I must have been mistaken!"
Temperament, intuition?
Lu Mingfei felt it was somewhat unbelievable, but this person was troublesome.
The system analyzed the situation and felt that simply killing them would be easier.
After obtaining the results, it looked at Erii, wondering if Erii could accept the bloody scene.
Erii noticed Lu Mingfei looking at her and asked softly, "What's wrong?"
"I'm thinking about how to get rid of this person," the system said.
Old Tang didn't quite understand the Japanese the system was speaking, but he had a feeling that the two of them were discussing their future... He immediately knelt down and started begging for mercy.
Chapter 113 Good Luck
Although Uesugi Kotsushi had made the judgment that the two children in the photo were most likely related to him, his body trembled when he actually saw the DNA paternity test report.
Goosebumps rose on my skin, and no one could guess what the old man was thinking.
Even Uesugi Kotsugu himself didn't know what he was thinking; one thought after another churned in his mind.
I really have a child now...
Wasn't he determined to sever this cursed bloodline...?
where are they……
Who will their mother be...?
What should I do...?
This man, who once arrogantly proclaimed himself the strongest hybrid, is now bewildered and at a loss, even contemplating running away, because he has failed his children...
"Ring ring..." Inuyama He's phone rang.
"What? Erii-san has been spotted?"
Even though he lowered his voice to talk to the person on the other end of the phone, Uesugi Kotsugu, with his incredibly sharp hearing, still heard his conversation clearly and turned sharply to look at Inuyama Kakeru, who was answering the phone.
Erii can hear the almost imperceptible heartbeat of a human being; there's no reason why this genuine movie star wouldn't have such a physical ability.
Suppressing the urge to snatch Inuyama He's phone, Uesugi took deep breaths, trying to calm himself down.
He sat on the cold chair, gripping his thigh hard. The pain surged like a tidal wave, and only then did his mind clear up somewhat.
He then began to think about what to do next:
First, we need to find Erii, her daughter, because her situation might be very dangerous!
Then we need to arrest Tachibana Masamune. He's a very secretive person, and we have to catch him and find out what happened!
Next, in what capacity and on what occasion should I meet them?
Who is their mother?
After hanging up the phone, Inuyama He thought for a moment and said to Uesugi Kotsugi, who was sitting blankly in the chair, "Master, Uesugi Erii appeared in Tokyo with her clothes on and her hair cut short."
"Is she in danger?" Uesugi Koshiro looked up sharply and asked.
Inuyama He shook his head and put it more nicely: "We don't know yet. If we rule out the possibility that Tachibana Masamune is up to something, considering her current situation, it might be something left behind after she changed her appearance, but she just doesn't know how to deal with it."
She had always lived in the intensive care unit, her understanding was practically nonexistent, and she had no experience living alone outside. It's normal that she didn't know how to handle these situations.
Where was it found?
Inuyama He whispered, "Over there in Akihabara."
Genji Heavy Industries was located in Shinjuku, so Lu Mingfei and his team naturally booked a hotel nearby to explore the company. On their way to Disneyland in Edogawa Ward, while passing through Akihabara, Lu Mingfei casually tossed something out of the way…
"Akihabara!!!" Uesugi Koshi suddenly clenched his fist tightly.
Akihabara, a mecca for otaku, is not far from the University of Tokyo and Senso-ji Temple; they are all within easy driving distance.
The fact that these things were left there proves that Erii was in that area.
He lived with his son and daughter in the big city of Tokyo. Perhaps the closest they ever got was just across the street, yet they had never met each other... Uesugi Koshi felt a strange, indescribable feeling in his heart for a moment.
After a moment, the former movie star calmed himself down and asked, "The most important thing now is to find Erii. Do you have any clues?"
His gaze was fixed on Inuyama He.
Inuyama He said, "Actually, it's not that there are no clues. Within the family, the young master Genjiro and Erii are the closest siblings. If, and I mean if, Erii really did run away from home to play, then the young master Genjiro might not be unaware of where his sister wanted to go."
Genjiro and Erii have the best relationship... Uesugi Koshi asked, "If Genjiro knows where Erii wants to go, why hasn't he found her yet?"
“Young Master Genjiro is actually a very kind person,” Inuyama He said in a low voice. “His indifference is just a protective color. In a yakuza family that relies on violence, showing kindness is not a good thing. Only a ruthless iron fist can steer this big ship.”
Although Inuyama He was unable to steer the great ship of the Snake Clan, he could still discern people's true nature, especially... the cowardly Genji.
Inuyama He successfully projected his own feelings onto Genjiro, because he had also been cowardly and understood Genjiro's thoughts all too well.
When he was cowardly, he would use madness to cover up his cowardice; Genjiro, on the other hand, used ruthlessness to cover up his cowardice.
However, it's a good thing to know one's own flaws. Genjiro also knows how to disguise himself, so Inuyama He has never told Genjiro about this.
Inuyama He paused here, "Miss Erii has lived in the intensive care unit since she was a child and has never been able to play freely outside. If she really runs out to play, the young master will give her a chance."
"Foolish." Uesugi Koshi gritted his teeth. "Eri's body..."
If Genjiro held this kind of thought and mentality, then it was indeed too impulsive and irrational, but that was his sister...
"Ugh!"
Uesugi sighed deeply, beginning to feel anxious... If Genji was willing to let his sister go out to play, then he couldn't start with Genji.
The only thing to fear now is that bastard Tachibana Masamune using Erii to cause trouble.
So how should I make my entrance?
And the White King in the Abyss...
From the moment he learned of Erii's whereabouts at noon until evening, Uesugi Koshi's buttocks seemed glued to the chair, unable to move an inch.
This surprised Inuyama He, who had expected the Uesugi patriarch to excitedly run over and grab Genji's hand, saying, "My son~"
However, Uesugi's stunned behavior seems understandable.
Inuyama He's phone rang again. This time, he didn't say anything, but listened to his subordinate's report. However, the more he listened, the more his expression changed, becoming serious and complicated...
After listening to his subordinate's report, he looked at Uesugi Kotsugi, who was already looking at him.
The two men locked eyes, and Inuyama He said with an extremely solemn expression, "Genji's adoptive parents are not dead."
So that's what it was... Uesugi Koshi nodded.
“However, my subordinates also discovered two other things.” Inuyama He looked at the former patriarch, hesitant to speak…
Sometimes silence speaks volumes, Uesugi Kotsushi's gaze sharpened.
……
Sigh, why does this person know so much and have such good eyesight?
If we were to deal with this guy, it would be equivalent to Lu Mingfei's first time... killing someone.
The system took into account Lu Mingfei's mindset and let him make the decision himself.
Erii didn't speak. She knew about death and that Lu Mingfei wanted to kill the person chasing after her, but he hesitated and seemed reluctant to kill him.
Because Old Tang never confirmed Erii's identity, killing her was a clean and efficient move, but not killing her might cause trouble... Because of the possibility, he decided to kill one person, which was Lu Mingfei's dilemma.
After analyzing the system, the biggest problems were twofold: one was that he suspected Erii's identity might be exposed to the Snake-Headed Eight Families, and the other was that he had seen Lu Mingfei's face and knew what Lu Mingfei looked like.