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This official is the Governor of Tokyo. In fact, like Zelensky, he is a performer-politician who is pushed to the forefront by powerful figures behind the scenes, but he has no real power.
Lacking real power, he couldn't send a helicopter to take his daughter to safety; he could only comfort his 18-year-old high school daughter and tell her not to be afraid.
Chapter 502 The Last Scene
The Tokyo governor's daughter was only eighteen years old and was home alone. She was terrified because her home was near Shinjuku Ward, where Osaka's gangsters had recently attacked a host club, with the sound of gunfire heard.
Now, the governor realizes that he can't protect anything—not Tokyo, not his daughter, and not even himself.
But the people of Tokyo need him to step forward, restore public confidence, and convince everyone that the natural disaster will soon be over.
So he stood up and gave a speech, condemning the gangsters and demanding that they immediately surrender. At the same time, he also denounced the cowardly leaders who had abandoned him alone in the city.
The Tokyo governor was also drunk, and he uttered all sorts of curses, both those he should and shouldn't have, without any restraint.
The live TV broadcast was interrupted at this point, leaving Su Xiaoqiang somewhat bewildered as she watched the inconclusive broadcast.
She frowned, holding her phone, hesitating whether to text Gu Ran, but afraid of bothering him and distracting him.
However, not knowing anything made her feel uneasy and anxious.
Just then, my phone received a text message. The message was simple: "Go to sleep peacefully. Everything will be alright when you wake up tomorrow. Trust me."
That was a text message sent by Gu Ran using his own phone number, because EVA had completely taken over Japan by then, and communications had naturally been restored.
Su Xiaoqiang looked at the text message. She knew that Gu Ran had sent it to her to put her mind at ease and to let her know that she was safe.
She thought for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said to Tang Shishi and Zhou Xinqing, "I'm going to sleep now. Goodnight, everyone."
"Oh..." Tang Shishi seemed to notice the change in Su Xiaoqiang's mood, "Did Gu Ran bring good news?"
He said that everything would be alright once it gets light.
"You believe him?" Zhou Xinqing asked.
“Of course,” Su Xiaoqiang said.
"Alright, since that's the case, I'm going to sleep too." Tang Shishi went to the wardrobe, took out the bedding, and spread it out on the tatami.
Zhou Xinqing thought for a moment and then took a bed. She actually trusted Gu Ran. In her heart, Gu Ran was a more powerful being than Nuwa. If he couldn't solve the problem, then the world might as well be destroyed.
*……*……*
Tama River, Red Well.
"There are about three kilometers left. The worst villain will be arriving at Hongjing. Is everything set up?" Gu Ran shouted into the communication headset.
“The bodies have all been placed in their proper places,” Sakura began to report. “The things you specifically stole from the shrine are also hidden among these bodies; I believe they won’t be noticeable unless you look closely.”
“Very good, lovely Miss Sakura, but I must correct you on one point. I did not steal anything. I took things with your beloved patriarch’s permission, so it was not stealing.”
Sakura didn't say anything, perhaps because she was shy, while Genji glanced at Gu Ran and gave him a look that let him figure it out himself.
Gu Ran glanced at the tracker's location again and shouted into his earpiece, "Alright, everyone get ready! That old fox is sneaking in. The final act is about to begin. No retakes, no mistakes allowed! One, two, three, action!"
At a command, the stand-ins for Genjiro and Genjiro instantly got into character and faced off again.
A torrential downpour was falling from the sky. The two men, each wielding two swords, slowly walked around the circle in the arena.
Suddenly, Yuan Zhinv brought up something from the past: "Brother, I still remember that year, you saw in the newspaper that the Leonid meteor shower was coming, and Japan was the best place to observe meteors."
"At that time, you were so happy, and so was I. We were really looking forward to the meteor shower. So we went up the mountain together, set up camp, and then it started to rain."
“I was very sad at that time because I had been looking forward to it for so long. Then you comforted me, saying that as long as we finished eating the plum rice, the sky would clear up in a while and we could see the meteor shower. But as a result, it rained all night and we couldn’t see anything.”
Yuan Zhinv looked up at the sky: "The rain that day was just as heavy as today's."
The real Genji was on the other side of the screen, listening to Genji's words, he sighed, thinking to himself, "Genji is always so sensitive."
“You’re always so sensitive, sometimes you really annoy me,” the stand-in said coldly.
Genji was stunned when he heard the stand-in's words on the screen. The stand-in seemed to know what he was thinking and actually said the lines from the depths of his heart.
Yuan Zhinv said with a hint of resentment, "Every day I spend with my brother is happy, but happiness has a limit. I've used up all my limit on being with my brother. If I run out of my limit, then maybe I should separate from my brother."
"Stop talking, I don't want to hear it," the stand-in replied.
Yuan Zhinü said, "This world is really strange. There are always things that one person really wants to say, but the other person doesn't want to hear."
"Since we can't go back, what's the point of talking about the past?"
"Brother, why do we kill each other? We used to depend on each other for survival."
"No one in this world can live without anyone else forever; you will grow up someday."
“Yes, I’ve grown up now,” Yuan Zhinv said with a self-deprecating laugh. “After leaving you, I’ve seen the true face of the world.”
"true colors?"
“Yes, it’s a long food chain. The strong eat the weak, and the weak devour the even weaker.” Yuan Zhinv looked at the corpse of the king on the ground. “Look, this is what this man taught me. Everyone in this world is doing evil. If you don’t want to be devoured, you have to climb up the food chain until you become the biggest devourer.”
Yuan Zhisheng opened his mouth in front of the monitor screen. Although he already knew that Yuan Zhinu had returned to normal and was no longer under the control of the King, and he clearly understood that this was all an act, every word Yuan Zhinu said still made his heart ache.
If he had discovered earlier that his brother was being controlled by the king and rescued him, perhaps things would have been different.
They didn't have to live such a painful life all these years.
"Wow, what an absolute brother complex!" Director Gu Ran hugged himself tightly, goosebumps rising all over his body.
Erii was also staring at Genjiro on the monitor screen. She had been playing PSP games alone, but now she was drawn to Genjiro. She felt a sense of familiarity and warmth towards this somewhat effeminate man.
"Is he also my brother?" Erii wrote in her notebook, pointing at Genjiro as she asked.
"I suppose so," Genji replied.
"The mastermind hasn't arrived yet. Let's kill God first while he's still away," Gu Ran commanded through his headset.
At this moment, Genji took out the briefcase, took out the quartz capture chamber, crushed it with her hand, and then held the parasite holy remains in her hand.
"What does he want to do?" Yuan Zhisheng was a little nervous. He didn't know the script and didn't understand what Yuan Zhinu wanted to do.
Could it be that Genji couldn't resist the temptation and wanted to become a god?
"Stop him!" Yuan Zhisheng looked at Gu Ran.
"Don't rush," Gu Ran replied calmly.
Then the stand-in began to deliver his lines, yelling angrily at Genji: "No one can evolve into a pure-blooded Dragon King through the Holy Remains! That's a trap left for humanity by the White King! You're just offering your flesh and blood to that thing, and once it parasitizes you, the one living in this world will no longer be you, but the new White King!"
"Is that so?" Yuan Zhi Nu held the Holy Corpse in her hand. The Holy Corpse kept trying to bite her hand with its teeth, but Yuan Zhi Nu remained vigilant and prevented it from biting her.
The next second, he reached out and poked out the Holy Remains' big eyes, then kept digging deeper inside. The Holy Remains struggled desperately, but it was just a parasite and had no ability to resist. It could only have its flesh dug out by Genji.
The Holy Relic must be speechless. In the past, it could easily hypnotize people with the White King's hypnosis and then parasitize them. But now this person is completely unmoved. Despite having excellent bloodline, he is not tempted by it. What bad luck.
Soon, Genji's fingers finally pinched a section of the spine deep inside the eyes of the consuming holy remains. He then forcefully pulled the spine out, and threw the remaining biological tissue, such as the eyes, on the ground and crushed it with one foot.
The vertebrae twitched in Genji's hand for a moment, then stiffened and stopped moving.
“Chinu…he killed a god!” Genji looked at the screen. “Well done, so well done! The White King’s legacy, which the Oni Clan regarded as the sacred remains of the path to evolution, has finally been killed today.”
At this moment, Genji felt an immense sense of joy!
"A laughable skeleton dares to enslave me." Genji sneered, brandishing her sword again at her substitute. "Come, brother, let's settle our score!"
The stand-in remained silent, simply raising the Spider Cutter and the Dojigiri Yasutsuna. He slowly moved his arms, assuming the heart-shaped sword style, the Four-Style Eight-Style, and the "Rakshasa Oni-kotsu" sword stance.
"Is this knife holder authentic?" Gu Ran asked Yuan Zhisheng.
"The setup is indeed impressive." Genji nodded in affirmation.
This is a sword stance that Gu Ran specially copied using his Sharingan. Now that he's using it with his shadow clone, it's naturally quite impressive.
Genjiro looked at the stand-in's posture, chuckled softly, and recited an ancient language that had long been lost.
When he chanted the incantation, it was like singing a short, hypnotic song; the transparent boundary of the domain expanded rapidly, soon enveloping the substitute within it.
However, Genji's Word of Power did not affect the Stand; it only controlled the field with her domain.
“Very good, very good, the bad guy has now entered the Red Well,” Director Gu Ran glanced at the tracker. The bulletproof Mercedes had stopped, and Herzog should have already entered.
He told Genjiro, "Next, you need to use illusion magic to pretend to die together with your substitute. Then, Kazama Ruri's personality will die, and Genjiro's cowardly personality will appear. You will fight each other to the death. The big bad guy will think he is the fisherman who can profit, so he will take the initiative to jump out and explain his plan."
Chapter 503 Brothers in Memories
Genjiro and her double started acting, but they didn't really need to act much because they were under the effect of an illusion. They just stared at each other blankly, facing each other.
"Do you know what Genjiro's illusion is?" Gu Ran suddenly asked Genjiro.
Yuan Zhisheng shook his head.
“It’s that small town.” As he spoke, Gu Ran switched his eyes to the three-tomoe Sharingan and met Genji’s gaze.
The next second, he brought Genjiro into the illusion.
Yuan Zhisheng looked at the familiar town and was slightly startled. Gu Ran appeared behind him and said, "Let's go and see the basement where your brother hid back then. You should know this place better than I do."
This small town is where Genjiro and Genjiro grew up together. It is located deep in the mountains, far from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo, but very peaceful.
Yuan Zhisheng knew he had been hypnotized and entered a hallucination, but he didn't know how Gu Ran had done it, so he asked in confusion, "Is this also your Word of Power?"
"If you insist on a scientific explanation, you can think of it as me controlling brainwaves to synchronize your brain frequency with mine, thus allowing us to share my memories," Gu Ran said, spouting nonsense with a straight face. "My power of words controls electricity and magnetism!"
Yuan Zhisheng was skeptical, as the explanation seemed a bit far-fetched, but he didn't delve into it and simply walked through the illusion.
“Yuan Zhinu once pulled me into his illusion, where he told me about what happened back then,” Gu Ran said.
"Back then?"
For the Genji brothers, the memories of that time were unbearable, and both brothers were consumed by those memories for a long time.
Genjiro killed his own brother when he first slew a demon; this was the price he paid for justice. It wasn't until he talked about it again with Angers tonight and was severely criticized by the principal that he began to feel at peace.
As for Genjiro, she was stabbed in the heart by her brother when she was most helpless. That was her eternal pain. How could her own brother be so cruel as to stab her in the heart? Why couldn't he help her? It wasn't his fault that she was born a demon!
Since this incident, the two brothers have been immersed in endless pain, and the one who caused the pain was that devilish person.
Gu Ran followed behind Yuan Zhisheng and they arrived at the basement where Yuan Zhisheng had killed Yuan Zhinu years ago. Inside the basement were many young girls dressed in gorgeous theatrical costumes.
Those girls were all beautifully dressed, youthful and full of vitality, but they were all dead and had been wrapped in epoxy resin.
He went to the center of the basement, where there was a large bathtub filled with injection molding chemicals.
Here, a cowardly boy, clutching a spider-like creature in one hand and trembling while holding his dead younger brother in the other.