Chapter 946: Ezo Clan
Judging from the current situation, the "clean-up" work of Shimazu Hiromichi and Muto Masao is quite good, at least I haven't heard that other forces plan to do anything against them.
As for the abandoned villa area, Shimazu Nakano later sent someone to inspect it, and found that the entire abandoned villa area had been razed to the ground, and the gate to the dream land had been cast into a huge cement pillar.
Although surveillance cameras on nearby roads were retrieved, no suspicious vehicles were found heading to the villa area.
However, one thing can be inferred from this - Jing Yi Zhile and Liu Xuyu are not alone.
So Shimazu Nakano began to find someone to investigate the secret church where Naoraku Ii was back then, to see what had slipped through the net in that secret church.
Finally, it is also the one thing that Liu Xing is most concerned about, that is, what is the use of the few things left in the safe.
First of all, a pair of jade bracelets, because the origin of this pair of jade bracelets is very large, it is said that a certain Tang envoy brought back from the Tang Dynasty, and its function is also very simple - it can ward off evil spirits.
Jade can ward off evil spirits.
This sentence can be regarded as a phrase that has been passed down from ancient times to the present day, but its authenticity has yet to be verified, but in this parallel world set in the Cthulhu Mythos, some jade can indeed play a certain role in warding off evil spirits - making it impossible for certain weak mythical creatures to get close.
"It is said that after returning to the island country, the envoy sent the Tang Dynasty to give the pair of jade bracelets to his wife, and then a few days later, his wife was going to celebrate her father's birthday, and was attacked by a ghoul when she was passing by a cemetery, and the ghoul fled after seeing the pair of jade bracelets." Yin En held an apple and said, "Later, when this pair of jade bracelets fell into the hands of a secret church, they found mythical creatures to test, and finally found that some mythical creatures with average strength would be afraid when they saw that pair of jade bracelets, while powerful mythical creatures were unmoved. ”
"What's more, this pair of jade bracelets must be paired to be effective, because this pair of jade bracelets should be blessed by a powerful mage together, so if they are separated, the blessing effect will disappear; In addition, this pair of jade bracelets can also raise people, as long as they are worn for a long time, they can improve their physique and restore their spirits, so if it weren't for the worry that Liu Xing would break this pair of jade bracelets when you were dreaming, we wouldn't just put this pair of jade bracelets on your bedside table in the past two days. Zhang Jingxu added.
Liu Xing looked back and found that the pair of jade bracelets were indeed on the bedside table.
It seems that this pair of jade bracelets is really a treasure.
"As for the flintlock pistol, it's very interesting, because the flintlock pistol was actually an imitation made by the head of a secret church decades ago because of his personal hobby, but then the secret church was swallowed up by other secret churches, and a lot of things were left out because of it, and the flintlock pistol was sold as a craft, but the one who bought the flintlock pistol was a fairly good onmyoji, and the onmyoji modified the flintlock pistol according to his own ideas, Allowing this flintlock pistol to fire some special projectiles with various spell effects is to put it bluntly, making this flintlock pistol go from physical damage to magic damage. Yin took out the flintlock pistol from his waist.
"It's a pity that we didn't find a matching projectile, and it would be troublesome to make it ourselves, so this flintlock pistol can only be used as an ornament in the living room." Ding Kun said with some pity.
Yin En nodded, took the flintlock pistol and said: "Yes, but even if there is a matching projectile, this flintlock pistol is just a big toy, because the effective distance and shooting accuracy of the flintlock pistol are too poor, and the firing interval of each pellet is also very long, and the most important thing is that the damage of those special projectiles may not be as high as the pistol bullet, so this flintlock pistol is usually used for fun, and if you really want to bring it to the battlefield, it is not happy for yourself." ”
"Where's the snuffbox?" Liu Xing asked.
Zhang Jingxu pointed to the living room and said: "Like the flintlock pistol in Yin En's hand, that snuffbox can only be regarded as a collector's item, because its function is to make the snuff (powdered smokeless tobacco) put in it have a hypnotic effect, to put it bluntly, it allows the user to smoke a pot of snuff before going to bed, and then he can sleep well, so this snuffbox is now placed on the counter as a decoration, and it looks pretty good." ”
Liu Xing raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "In this case, the things left in the safe are not that Jing Yi Zhile and Liu Xuyu didn't have time to take them, but that they were too lazy to take them away?" ”
"That's right, in addition to the pair of jade bracelets, these things are still a little useful, the flintlock pistol and snuff bottle are useless to Jing Yi Zhile and Liu Xuyu, as for the embroidered shoe, it's about the same, because as long as you can't control that embroidered shoe, then that embroidered shoe is also a useless thing." Zhang Wenbing nodded and said.
Liu Xing thought for a while and asked curiously, "Then again, how did you deal with that embroidered shoe?" ”
"The embroidered shoes were asked to go by Shimazu Nakano, saying that they were going to be sent for a full range of inspections, to see where this embroidered shoes came from, and if there was a way to copy them, if they could be copied, then we could airdrop a batch of embroidered shoes to the territory of the public faction, or it would not be long before the territory of the public faction fell into chaos, although the current public faction has become a mess." Zhang Jingxu gloated.
It turned out that earlier today, two small secret churches under the public faction clashed, and ended up fighting directly on the streets of Tokyo.
On top of that, they are members of a security company that is currently tasked with ensuring the safety of the Tokyo area.
You must know that the ordinary police in Tokyo have been transferred to the surrounding area to "pacify the masses", so this security company is currently responsible for maintaining public order in Tokyo... Of course, the samurai faction also set up corresponding security companies to take over major cities such as Osaka.
So when the two small secret churches got angry and started a street shootout, the situation went in an uncontrollable direction, which eventually led to the death of more than a dozen people on the spot, including two ordinary citizens who were hit by stray bullets.
At this moment, the public faction is facing great pressure from public opinion, and the internal problems have not been resolved, because the two small secret churches have found their "big brothers" and want to "ask each other for an explanation".
Therefore, according to the undercover report of Shimazu Nakano who was inserted into the public faction, now the internal affairs of the public faction have become a pot of porridge, and some small-scale friction incidents will occur from time to time.
However, this can be regarded as a wake-up call for the samurai faction, so although the Oda family and other forces still feel that something is wrong with the Tokushima incident, they no longer put the problem on the bright side, and ask Shimazu Hiromichi and Muto Masao to come up with more evidence to prove themselves.
Of course, the Oda family and other forces are still investigating the Tokushima incident.
"Okay, Liu Xing, do you want to get up and move now?" Yin Eun asked.
Liu Xing nodded, he had been asleep for several days now, so he had to get up and move well.
Because Liu Xing seemed to have nothing to do, Zhang Jingxu and the others went their separate ways, leaving Sonoda Zhuli to accompany Liu Xing to the back garden for a walk.
As for Alice, after returning to Osaka City, she found a new job as the leader of the Foreigners Working Group of the Samurai faction, responsible for coordinating and arranging the tasks carried out by the foreigners in the Samurai faction.
Of course, these foreigners are basically players, because these players will go to the island country as foreign friends to participate in the battle of Gongwu, so Yin En and others support Alice to become the leader of this working group, after all, they can grasp the dynamics of this part of the players, and they can also use them to do some small things.
In the back garden, Liu Xing did not forget to ask Sonoda Zhuli about other situations during this time.
"Not much actually happened during this time, and there were some small riots on the Hokkaido side." Sonoda Zhuli sighed and said: "Liu Xing, you should also know the situation in Hokkaido, because there are almost no strong families over there, so after the start of the Gongwu War, Hokkaido is not like other regions where people stand up and take the lead, so many people with a heart began to make trouble in Hokkaido." ”
Liu Xing nodded, because of some historical reasons, the Hokkaido region has always been regarded as a wild and bitter cold place, so although the Hokkaido region is not small, there are no families willing to go to the Hokkaido region to develop, so the Hokkaido region has always been regarded as one of the most backward regions of the island country, and it has not been officially developed until the last one or two hundred years.
Again, those big families in the island country still control their own one-third of an acre of land, so after the start of the Gongwu War, those areas that are not under the direct jurisdiction of the Gongjia faction and the martial family faction basically have local big families standing up to take control of the side to ensure that everything in the local area can continue to operate normally.
However, there is a lack of such a family in Hokkaido that has the ability to stand up, so many cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods have taken the opportunity to come out and do things for their own interests.
As a result, there will be an accident in the Hokkaido region in three days, and it is difficult for the public factions close to the Hokkaido region to send people to solve the problem, because they are now managing the Hokkaido region in a bad name, and it is easy for the samurai faction to seize the opportunity to launch public opinion.
Therefore, the Hokkaido region is now a three-way region...
"Two days ago, Miss Sawada received a message that another organization had popped up in Hokkaido, and they claimed to be an oracle from the Ezo gods, and they planned to re-establish a kingdom belonging to the Ezo tribe in Hokkaido." Sonoda Juri sighed again and said.
Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, shook his head and said, "Ezo clan? It's another bad debt. ”
The Ezo tribe was originally an indigenous people of the island country, and originally lived mainly in the northeastern region of Honshu Island, but a long time ago, it was defeated by the Yamato tribe, the main ethnic group of the island country, and the remaining people were forced to move to the Hokkaido region, which is one of the reasons why those families in the island country are reluctant to go to the Hokkaido region, because this Ezo is also a cannibal!
No one would want to be neighbors with a bunch of cannibals
So in modern times, the advent of guns ended the era of cold weapons, and the Ezo people officially "joined" the island nation, but when the Ezo people were mixed with the down-and-out samurai who were forced to come to the Hokkaido region to beg for a living, the Hokkaido region was still in turmoil for many years.
Although the Ezo people have been fully integrated into the island nation system by now, if someone does something in the name of the Ezo people, it will be a troublesome thing, because the problem between the island nation and the Ezo people is like the problem between the American lighthouse nation and the Indians.
"Yes, now I heard that the Gongke faction is planning to send someone to us to discuss the Hokkaido issue, and Shimazu Nakano also held a meeting for this two days ago, and everyone thinks that this Hokkaido region can't go on anymore, because the battle of Gongmu is still an internal problem to put it bluntly, and some Xiaoxiao must not be allowed to take advantage of the profit, and... Sonoda Mori wanted to speak and stopped.
Seeing this, Liu Xing said with a smile: "If nothing else, behind the organization that wants to rebuild the Ezo country, there should be the figure of the American Lighthouse Country." ”
"That's right, after investigation, we found that the organization is indeed backed by the American lighthouse country, because the organization's bank account has recently received a lot of foreign remittances, and the most important thing is that there are many so-called non-governmental organizations in the Hokkaido region, and these non-governmental organizations are the white gloves of the American lighthouse country, and it is nominally a self-financing non-governmental organization, but in fact, more than 80% of the activity funds are directly funded by the American lighthouse country." Sonoda Quiri nodded and said.
Liu Xing couldn't help but shake his head and smile, he didn't expect that the American Lighthouse State Affairs still wanted to do things now, it seems that they are still unwilling to withdraw troops from the island country, and they even played such a hand.
Wait a minute.
Liu Xing suddenly thought of something, frowned and asked, "By the way, Zhu Li, do you know where Muto Masayoshi is now?" ”
"Masayoshi Muto?"
Sonoda Zhuli quickly understood what Liu Xing meant, and pulled Liu Xing back: "Let's go find Chen Fuping now, she should know where Muto Masayoshi is now." ”
Fortunately, Chen Fuping was doing things with Alice at this time, so Liu Xing and Sonoda Zhuri quickly found her.
"Muto Justice? I heard Ryuzaki say the other day that his father had decided not to participate in the election and was going to go straight back to the American lighthouse country to avoid the limelight. Chen Fuping thought for a moment and spoke.