Chapter 62: Hidden Anger, the White-clothed Priest Appears

Chen Xihao left the old man, crossed the torii gate, dodged the right-wing group who handed him leaflets and military uniforms, and continued to walk up the stone steps towards the interior of the shrine.

At this time, on the side of one of the steps of the shrine, he noticed an old man wearing the uniform of an old Japanese military officer. Unlike the group of people who played the role of Japanese soldiers, he did not join their team, but just sat quietly in this corner alone.

Chen Xihao observed him for a long time and felt that he was not old enough to go to war before 1931. So, where did he get this old officer's uniform from?

Chen Xihao walked over slowly, squatted down, and asked, "Your military uniform is very chic, is it your own?" ”

The old guy glanced at Chen Xihao, and said proudly, "This is my father's!" ”

It turned out to be a "second devil", Chen Xihao smiled slightly.

The two talked for a while, and this "second devil" proudly said that his father was the commander of the army wing, and he led hundreds of men and horses to garrison Kaifeng in China, and later fought with the Chinese army, and half of them died. He said that his father surrendered in Jinan, and that his father had been to Jinan 10 years ago, not to repent, but to commemorate his comrades-in-arms who died in Jinan. Before he died, the father of the "second devil" took out this set of military uniforms and asked him to put them on every year on the "day of the end of the war" and go to the Yasukuni Shrine to sit for half a day, because before the Japanese army attacked, they all agreed to "meet in Yasukuni after death." In the end, the "two devils" said excitedly that those Japanese soldiers who were killed by the Chinese army will definitely think of their wing captain when they see this set of military uniforms, and they will surround him again, so he will also inherit his father's will and spirit, and his martial arts will last forever.

After Chen Xihao listened, a cold light flashed in his eyes, his grandfather was from Shandong, he had been to Jinan many times, and he had also visited the "May Third Massacre" (Jinan Massacre) Monument. In 1928, under Chiang Kai-shek's policy of non-resistance, after the Chinese army abandoned Jinan, the Japanese army entered the city, massacred, looted, and hundreds of people were killed and displaced. Cai Gongshi, the special negotiator of Shandong, went to the Japanese military camp to negotiate, but was cut off by the Japanese invaders, cut off his ears and gouged out his eyes, after the "Ji case", the number of deaths registered by the Chinese military and civilians was more than 7,000 people, and more than 20,000 people were killed and burned by the Japanese army without registering, Chen Xihao's grandfather once said to him that the ancestor was a native of Qihe in the suburbs of Jinan, and the five nearby villages at that time, after the Japanese army entered Jinan, except for their village near the mountain, the whole village hid in the mountains, and the remaining four villages were all slaughtered by the Japanese army.

Do you want to kill this old guy now?

Chen Xihao stood up, looking at the crowd of people wearing Japanese military uniforms around him, his chest was a little blocked, so he looked up at the sky, took a deep breath, and endured it for the time being. However, the white light in his right hand flickered, and a white butterfly, which was invisible to ordinary people, had already landed on the shoulder of this "two devils".

Continuing towards the main hall of the Yasukuni Shrine, outside the main hall, there was already a long queue of people to pay homage, and there were also many young women here, including several very fashionably dressed women holding mobile phones and looking left and right, as if they were looking for someone to help them take a group photo.

"How many people, do you need someone to help take a group photo?" Chen Xihao stepped forward and asked.

A beautiful woman dressed in white seemed a little excited when she heard Chen Xihao's accent being Kanto, she nodded first, and then asked, "Are you also from Kanto?" ”

Chen Xihao thought for a while and said, "Yes, I'm from Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture, what about you?" ”

"I'm from Yokohama, and I'm here to travel to Tokyo at the invitation of my old classmates, and these two are my college classmates in Tokyo!"

The woman in white introduced the other two ladies beside Chen Xihao.

"Well, hello! Come on, I'll take a picture of you first! ”

Chen Xihao nodded to the other two women and took the phone from the hands of the woman in white.

After taking photos of these three beautiful women, Chen Xihao began to ask the woman in white, since she is traveling to Tokyo, why don't you go to Ginza and Shibuya, and what is she doing at Yasukuni Shrine?

The answer given by the woman in white once again cast a haze on Chen Xihao's heart.

She first asked Chen Xihao if he knew how many iron-blooded men in Kanto had sacrificed for the "Great East Asia Holy War"? (The United States collectively referred to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Pacific Naval War as World War II, the Chinese called it the War of Resistance against Japan, Japan called it the War of Aggression against China and the Pacific War collectively referred to as the Greater East Asian Holy War, and the Japanese right-wing never admitted that what they launched during World War II was a war of aggression)

Chen Xihao shook his head slightly.

"More than 600,000 people, close to one-third of the total number of officers and soldiers killed in the holy war, as a Kanto man, how can you not even know this?"

The woman in white was obviously a little angry, and her words also carried strong emotions.

Then, without waiting for Chen Xihao to refute, she taught Chen Xihao like a lecturer: "Whenever war comes, we Kanto people are the most iron-blooded group. Now don't look at the prosperity and peace in the country, but Japan has reached the critical point of life and death, major earthquakes, nuclear leaks, corporate bankruptcies, white-collar suicides, mobile phone and home appliance industry is in deficit, and the consumer market has always been sluggish. It's not good not to raise taxes, and it's not good to raise taxes. Russia occupied our territory and did not return it, and the Koreans landed on Takeshima. The Chinese are also staring at our Senkaku Islands (China's Diaoyu Islands), do you say that if Japan continues like this, will there be any hope? ”

"Therefore, my friends and I came to the Yasukuni Shrine to ask those heroic spirits to bless us, who gave their lives for the country back then, and now for the rejuvenation of Japan, they will definitely give us strength again. As a boy from Kanto, you should show the spirit of a boy from Kanto, ask the spirits of the heroes to bless you, give you the spirit of eternal martial arts, and contribute your strength to the holy war that may occur in the future and the prosperity of Japan. ”

Chen Xihao had already looked away from the woman in white, he was afraid that if he continued to stare at her, he would not be able to help but reach out and pinch her neck.

But this time, Chen Xihao saw a long queue of people lined up in front of the main hall, and the restlessness in his heart was a little uncontrollable, so he turned his head and walked towards the side passage of the main hall, ignoring the woman in white shouting at him behind him. The woman in white actually kindly reminded Chen Xihao, because the direction he was walking in now was an area closed by the Yasukuni Shrine, which was the passage of the side gate, which was specially guarded by security guards and forbade ordinary people to pass by.

In addition to the main entrance, which is open to ordinary people, the shrine also has a side gate, which is mainly used by political bigwigs to visit the shrine, and through the side gate, you can directly enter the main hall, which is not accessible to ordinary people. There is an open space outside the side gate, where a reporter's exclusive interview position will be demarcated, that is, the place where people often see on TV that a certain big person will answer reporters' questions after visiting the shrine.

After Chen Xihao made his way to the passage, he was stopped by four uniformed security guards, in addition to these four people, there were also two shrine priests in Edo period samurai costumes, which were completely different from the other shrines that Chen Xihao had seen, and the priests of those shrines were all wearing traditional gray or brown robes, and no one was wearing samurai robes at all.

These people looked at Chen Xihao with a very unkind look, and told him in a very tough tone, get out of here, there will be big people here soon, and idlers and others will be severely punished if they trespass.

Chen Xihao, who was already holding back the fire in his belly, squinted his eyes and looked around first, and found that there was only one camera, and he had not turned to this side at this time.

So he nodded and pretended to turn around, and several security guards and shrine priests were slightly relieved to see Chen Xihao turn around and prepare to leave.

Without waiting for the security guards and the two priests to come back to their senses, Chen Xihao had already stepped forward, four hand knives and two knee collisions, quickly stunned several people in front of him, and dragged them into the grove on the side, Chen Xihao stripped off the clothes of one of the priests and put it on himself. Then Chen Xihao released the remaining Divine Insect Master, and seven or eight white butterflies flew away in all directions, stopping on the beams and branches of the surrounding passages, and one of them flew to the side gate, where many reporters with long guns and short cannons had gathered, and it seemed that as the security guard said, there was going to be a big man here today.

Chen Xihao was not in a hurry to go out, he wanted to observe who the person who arrived was first.

After a while, a group of plainclothes guards came to the side gate. A car drove by, and the reporters sitting on the ground scrambled to their feet and the guy. Getting out of the car was a politician in a gray suit and one of his entourage, followed by two bodyguards.

The white butterfly had already landed on the shoulder of the politician's entourage, and through the whispers between the two, Chen Xihao learned the identity of the politician, Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ohara (equivalent to the mayor of Tokyo). He is a staunch right-winger, and his main line of thought is to comprehensively deny Japan's responsibility for aggression, accuse the "Nanjing Massacre" of being a lie, the "comfort women" of being a voluntary prostitution woman, call "China" a "Shina," and hold that Class A war criminals are not guilty of crimes and are fully qualified to be enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine.

And he didn't pay attention to the reporters at the door at all, so he swaggered into the side door.

At the side gate of the shrine, in addition to the security guards, there were also two priests dressed in samurai attire that Chen Xihao had seen, and they led Ohara and his party towards the main hall.

When the group arrived at the entrance of the main hall, they were greeted by a high-ranking priest wearing a white power priest's uniform (similar to an onmyoji costume). When he saw the white-clothed priest, Tokyo Governor Ohara no longer had to face the reporters at the door, that kind of unstoppable arrogance, he hurriedly took a few steps and bowed to the white-clothed priest.

It's a pity that Chen Xihao doesn't know the rank division of the shrine priests, if he knew that there were high-ranking priests stationed in this shrine, he would definitely not have taken the liberty of arranging Shishen in such a conspicuous position.

Sure enough, just as Xiao Yuan and the entourage behind him bowed their heads, the white-clothed priest let out a slight "Huh?" ”

Then, the wat board in the priest's hand swung at the attendant's shoulder, and a slight popping sound rang out in the air.

"Peng!" A broken white butterfly-shaped rune paper floated to the ground, and Chen Xihao's vision instantly turned pitch black.

Exposed? Chen Xihao was in a hurry and just wanted to turn around and escape, and suddenly thought that he was also dressed as a samurai priest at the moment, he was quite confident in his strength, and he had walked through so many shrines in two days, only the Yasukuni Shrine appeared a white-clothed priest who could see through the gods, which means that this is the most likely mission location.

Chen Xihao's eyes condensed slightly, and he did not continue to escape, but walked out of the jungle and strode towards the passage where Xiao Yuan and the others walked, and in front of the passage was the main hall area where the white-clothed priest was.