68: Dark Arrow
"Ancient Ancients...... You can understand it that way. Deng Chaoyang said.
He ...... Still alive? Zhang Fan asked.
Deng Chaoyang thought for a while and said:
"It can be said that they are alive, or it can be said that they are long dead."
The Twelve God Kings, Zhang Fan had never heard of it. So he asked:
"Can you tell me about the Twelve Divine Kings?"
Deng Chaoyang crossed his legs, glanced at Mitsui Yingyi, and said:
"It's up to you to talk about this kind of thing."
Mitsui Yingyi nodded and told Zhang Fan about the origin of the Twelve God Kings.
About 200,000 years ago, a round of scientific and technological explosion broke out in human civilization, controllable nuclear fusion was broken through, and then the large-scale use of cold nuclear fusion was realized.
In addition to the longevity gene problem that was solved at that time, the solution of the energy problem naturally solved many things that were previously constrained by energy, such as interstellar voyages.
Since then, the only thing that can hinder the pace of human interstellar expansion is the theory of relativity.
As a result, mankind began to find ways to bypass the shackles of the theory of relativity. The final solution was to lay the Lorentz wormhole, also known as the stargate.
Through unmanned spaceships, the efforts of generations of humans, and the assistance of clones, they have laid the stargates where they want to go.
It didn't take long for humans to lay a stargate near a planet not far from the center of the Milky Way.
After the laying of this stargate was completed, a team passed through the stargate first as an advance team.
However, unlike usual, as soon as the advance party passed through the stargate, the stargate set up on this side of the earth disappeared.
Just as everyone was checking what was wrong, they found that some people around them had suddenly disappeared inexplicably, talking to themselves one second, and the next second they were evaporating, leaving no trace.
At that time, this happened in many places, and these disappeared people never appeared again, which is a later story.
Let's just say that after this inexplicable thing happened, everyone fell into a panic, they didn't know what happened, whether they were attacked, and they didn't know who the attacker was and where.
Until one day not long after, the advance team suddenly appeared from the place where the star gate disappeared, and this team had a total of twelve people, that is, the later twelve god kings.
Speaking of this, Hideyoshi Mitsui stopped and took a sip of water.
Zhang Fan asked:
"What happened after the twelve of them passed through the Star Gate?"
Hideyoshi Mitsui shook his head and said:
"I don't know, no one knows what happened after they passed through the stargate, but they must have had an adventure."
"Why do you say that?" Zhang Fan asked.
"Because these twelve people have completely changed since the Star Gate came back." Hideyoshi Mitsui replied.
"What's changed?"
"They all have their own abilities, abilities that humans shouldn't have?"
"For example?"
Mitsui Hideyoshi raised his head, looked at the roof, and was stunned for a moment before saying:
"I don't know very well, the twelve god kings haven't appeared in public for a long, long time, and their abilities are said to be different, some can control time, some can control space, and I don't know if it's specific."
Control time? Controlling the space? Zhang Fan felt very incredible, these things are the most basic components of the four-dimensional universe, if the twelve god kings can control these things, isn't that equivalent to controlling the universe?
"So what happened to them? How did it suddenly disappear? Zhang Fan asked.
"After the twelve of them reappeared, the world pattern changed, as the so-called greater ability, the greater the right and wrong, the twelve of them, did a lot of things, some good, some bad."
"What did they do?" Zhang Fan was very interested in hearing this, and hurriedly asked.
Hideyoshi Mitsui shook his head with a smile and said:
"I'm not very good at history, I can't remember the specifics, I just know that they killed a lot of people, as long as they think they have no value in existence, they basically kill them."
"Huh? What do they want to do? Zhang Fan said in surprise.
"I don't know, maybe I want to purify the world." Hideyoshi Mitsui said.
Purify the world? Zhang Fan asked:
"Do they think of themselves as gods?"
Mitsui laughed and said:
"The Twelve God Kings, aren't they gods?"
"And what about later?" Zhang Fan asked.
"Later, there were conflicts within the Twelve God Kings, and soon after, three God Kings disappeared and have not reappeared so far."
"So far?" Zhang Fan asked:
"You mean, the twelve of them will live a long time?"
"They are immortal, no longer human, gods." Mitsui said, and then he squinted his eyes and said to Zhang Fan:
"How do you know nothing about the Twelve God Kings?"
Zhang Fan smiled and said:
"My history is worse than yours."
Mitsui shook his head with a smile, and Zhang Fan asked again:
"Three of the Twelve God Kings have disappeared, so what about the other nine?"
"There are nine more, after the other three god kings disappeared, they also retired one after another, or disappeared, and few people know where they are."
"Missing ......"
Zhang Fan muttered to himself, if it is like what Mitsui Yingyi said, how can such a capable person retire?
"Yes, the God-King is missing, but it's just ......"
"Just what?" Zhang Fan asked.
Hideyoshi Mitsui paused for a moment before he said:
"It's just that people like the god king, as long as they exist, their influence is huge, maybe in a corner, there is a god king who is secretly controlling the world."
After listening to this, Zhang Fan looked at Deng Chaoyang and asked:
"Is your biological father such a god-king?"
Deng Chaoyang shook his head and said:
"I don't know, I know about him about you about the same as you do."
Zhang Fan asked again:
"How old are you?"
"One hundred and seventy-seven."
"Your biological father, that is, Deng Donglai, gave birth to you more than 170 years ago, and he is still an ancient man who has lived for hundreds of thousands of years...... Do you know who your real mother is? ”
Deng Chaoyang spread his hands and said:
"What the hell knows."
The news he got from this father and son opened Zhang Fan's eyes, he didn't expect that there was a group of dominant-like people in the galaxy, could it be ...... Does this have anything to do with Mitsui Hideyoshi wanting to form an alliance with himself?
Thinking of this, Zhang Fan asked:
"President Mitsui, you are a clone, I guess not many people know about it."
Hideyoshi Mitsui nodded and said:
"You asked about the point, that's right, my existence is to replace the real Mitsui Hideyoshi, I'm just a stand-in, so, legally, I don't have the right to exercise Mitsui Hideyoshi's various functions at all."
"So for more than 100 years, you have lived in seclusion, right?" Zhang Fan said.
Hideyoshi Mitsui smiled and said:
"Just look at this place, I've lived here for a long, long time, and I've been here since I was cloned."
Zhang Fan asked again:
"Can't you hide it now?"
Mitsui Yingyi didn't speak, and Deng Chaoyang replied:
"Yes, now my brother Mitsui Hongichi has begun to suspect that he wants to take his father's place, but this level of power transfer must be handled by my biological father."
Zhang Fan nodded, somewhat figured it out, and then said:
"Are you worried that your brother will be bad for you in the showdown?"
"Yes." Deng Chaoyang nodded and said.
"That's why you want to ally with me?"
Hideyoshi Mitsui yawned, seeming a little sleepy, and said:
"Mitsui Hiroichi is insidious and vicious, ambitious, and reckless in doing things, he has always wanted to replace me, and has repeatedly pretended to let me cultivate and hand over the position of president of Mitsui Kaisha to him."
Hideyoshi Mitsui sighed and continued:
"It's just that I can't do anything, and of course it's impossible to agree to his request."
Zhang Fan thought to himself, I can't do anything, didn't you buy these sky-high tea and eggs?
"Recently, Koichi Mitsui has often come to me and asked some questions to test my truth, and I estimate that it will not be long before there will be a showdown."
"So, you thought of forming an alliance with me? Increase your own strength against Mitsui Hongichi in the future? ”
Hideyoshi Mitsui nodded and said:
"Of course, this is the main thing, in the final analysis, the son inherits his father's business, and Mitsui Hongi's request is not too much, but I can't make a decision, and it is precisely because I have not made a decision for a long time that it is more and more likely that Mitsui Hongichi will forcibly let me abdicate."
Deng Chaoyang also said:
"Moreover, my brother will definitely suspect that my father will hand over the position of president to me."
Where is this alliance? It's clear that you're looking for a backer.
So Zhang Fan said:
"So, I don't seem to get anything in return for my alliance with you."
He looked at Mitsui Yingyi, then at Deng Chaoyang, and then said:
"You see, if I form an alliance with you, I will be an enemy of Mitsui Hongi, and at present, it seems that Mitsui Hongichi's strength is much stronger than the two of you, and for me, the alliance is to get weak friends, and at the same time set up a strong enemy, which is not cost-effective."
Mitsui Yingyi smiled a little embarrassed, and Deng Chaoyang said:
"Vulnerable friends? Why do you think we're the underdog? ”
"Isn't it?" Zhang Fan asked.
Deng Chaoyang shook his head with a smile and said:
"My strength is naturally inferior to my brother in the Mitsui Club, but do you remember when I asked you before, do you want me to help you?"
"Yes." Zhang Fan said.
But now it looks like they're looking for help.
Deng Chaoyang nodded and continued:
"The Kanda family will always hunt you down in the future, and I can help you solve this problem."
Zhang Fan became interested, although he didn't pay much attention to the revenge of the Kanda family, he still wanted to know how Deng Chaoyang would solve this problem.
So, Zhang Fan asked:
"How do you fix it?"
Deng Chaoyang smiled mysteriously and said:
"From the day I knew I was picking it up, I knew that there would be such a day, so I secretly cultivated my own power outside of the Mitsui Kaisha."
"Your own power?"
"Well, I know Mitsui Hongichi, if it weren't for my father protecting me, he would have kicked me out of Mitsui Kaisha a long time ago, and the original purpose of my cultivation of my own power was to prepare to confront my brother and compete for the inheritance of Mitsui Kaisha, but since I knew that my biological father was Deng Chaoyang, I lost interest in Mitsui Kaisha."
"Oh? So what do you want to do? ”
Deng Chaoyang did not answer directly, but said:
"I've raised a bunch of assassins, proficient in assassination, and it has a name, it's called 'Dark Arrow'"
张范 says:
"The Assassin Order? Dark Arrow? The name is quite straightforward. ”
As soon as Zhang Fan's voice fell, he heard a voice outside the house:
"That's right, it's very appropriate, but from now on, the owner of the dark arrow should be changed."