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Under the influence of the multi-day storm, the city's port has long been paralyzed and unable to travel, like a weary giant, unable to resist the wrath of nature.

However, just a moment ago, the wind and rain that had been roaring in the sky gradually became gentle, as if it was a concession from some unknown force.

The old man who had infiltrated the base before was now standing on a small 15-meter-long ocean-going fishing boat, his eyes like a torch, piercing through the fading wind and rain, looking at the distant sea.

Far from the familiar harbor area, there are hardly any commercial buildings on the surrounding shore, only a barren rocky beach, which is like the wrinkles of the earth, recording the vicissitudes of time.

And the black undulating sea is like a huge monster, sometimes calm, sometimes violent, and unpredictable. After the storm, although the sea is much calmer, it is still full of unknowns.

The sea breeze blows gently, carrying the saltiness of the sea and the hardness of the rocks.

Inside the cabin, several quaint bronze chests lie quietly, covered with traces of time, exuding a mysterious and ancient atmosphere.

Just as the old man looked at the sea for a while and wanted to return to the cabin, a phone suddenly rang, and he answered: "The operation against the head of the Laurent family has succeeded, but your side has failed." "An emotionless voice.

Failed? The old man was shocked and couldn't help but think a lot, but the other party didn't elaborate, but changed the topic:

"Friedrich von Long, you're an old friend of Angers. With Ange's character, will he help Elisabeth Laurent, a little girl, to the greatest extent and try her best to tide her over this difficulty? ”

“…… I think it will. Friedrich von Long, a contemporary of Angers, an old man who has survived to this day, thought for a moment and replied: "He is, after all, an elegant and charming gentleman, and will not be indifferent to the ladies' pleas for help." ”

"But as we all know, the other side of Ange is a lonely and cold-blooded avenger, is it really necessary for him to get involved in the power struggle at the top of the secret party?"

On the other side of the phone, he asked, "Both the school board and the elders have people who are not very happy with Ange and want to impeach him." ”

"That's why Ange is even more likely to do it, because his lion's heart can't be compromised." Friedrich von Long explained, "More importantly, I know Angers' early love history. ”

"Love history?" The inquirer sniffed out the gossip and asked with interest: "When did he go to school at Cambridge?" ”

"Yes." Friedrich von Long adds: "Hilbert Jean Angers started out as a Yorkshire beggar and then worked his way to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he met the man who really changed his life, Menek Kassel. ”

"It was the happiest time of Angers' life, he studied at Cambridge, secretly participated in the activities of the secret party, held a copy of Shelley's poetry by the bridge of sighs and pretended to read, and secretly admired the girls' white silk dresses and Oxford white soles, and their beautiful calves......"

"Sounds like you're part of it, too."

"To be exact, I was Angers' wingman at the time, specially instructing him on etiquette, and also polishing ~ love letters for him, adding decorative patterns and patterns to the stationery."

Friedrich von Long took a deep breath: "I helped him to get in love with Elisabeth, the prettiest girl of Trinity College, a talented countess who was the center of attention on all occasions. Every night, I watched Ange go out for a tryst with the best girl in Cambridge. ”

"In the old photos, you seem to be more handsome and handsome than Ange, and in terms of bloodline purity and the importance within the secret party, you are also higher than him." The caller's tone was full of ridicule: "It turns out that in this respect he is not as good as a poor man, who watched Ange soak the goddess away......"

"We're analyzing the problem right now!" Friedrich von Long frowned: "Later, Ange broke up with Elisabeth, probably because of the gap in family conditions, and then, the 'Summer Mourning' incident, and then, that girl married another nobleman of equal status, gave birth to a child, and died of old age decades later and was buried in the grave, and now she is a dry skeleton with no beauty. ”

"So this Countess Elizabeth is related to the new trustee Elizabeth Laurent?"

On the other side, he asked, "I heard that Ange often returns to Cambridge and at the same time brings a bouquet of white roses to visit the tombstones of the female classmates of that year." The love affair that has lasted for hundreds of years and spanned the times is very touching! ”

"Not related by blood." Friedrich von Long said lightly: "But they are both English baroness, with the same name, similar age, and very similar appearances, which is enough for him to recall the feelings of his first love, and give birth to a tendency to rescue." ”

"Ange has persisted for so many years, not to take revenge on the Dragon King, but to protect the things in his heart that are worth remembering - the Kassel Academy, the souls of the Lionhearts, and the tombstones of those girls in the beginning, so that they will not be destroyed by the dragons."

This is also the last meaning of my life, but it is practiced on a different and tortuous path. He thought silently in his heart, but he didn't say it.

"I see, you are one of the people who know him best. Ange acts like he's just trying to slay the dragon, just to lower the defenses of others, and to see him as a weapon that can be used wherever he wants......"

The last voice came from the phone: "This consultation is over, and you should continue with the 'Tower of Babel Project'." ”

Friedrich von Long put his phone aside, and he stood on the boat, looking back at the sky above the shore.

The clouds there, originally thick as lead, are now getting thinner and thinner, as if they have been gently lifted by some force, revealing the blue sky hidden behind them.

Beneath the surface of the sea, a huge shadow quietly emerged, it was a dragon much larger than a sea ship, theoretically extinct for tens of millions of years in the late Cretaceous period of the sea overlord.

It quietly followed Friedrich von Long's ship, its body looming in the water, as if it were a ghostly existence, and the golden light from its pupils was like a giant candle!

……

"Which fish is released without public morality?" At the same time, on the edge of the manhole cover that had been lifted in an alley on the outskirts of the city, Zhao Qing frowned slightly, and caught more than a dozen big fish jumping around from the sewage in the sewer, trapped them in the Gang Qi cage, and observed.

Most of these fish are the indigenous people of the sewers, such as Egyptian pond fish, scavengers, etc., but there are also some carp, crucian carp, and herring genera, which originally lived in ponds and rivers and inexplicably broke into the underground sewage.

Unusually, they all mutated into pale golden eyes, the body of the fish changed to translucent and blue, the shield-like scales showed a crystal silver, and their personalities became fierce, and their sharp teeth gnawed everywhere, making a terrible sound.

There is no doubt that these fish belong to the category of the dragon subspecies, and have become bloodthirsty man-eating species like the Devil-toothed Saurus Viper, with a much increased bite force enough to tear through all kinds of metal nets and invade the city along the sewers, which is quite alarming in today's waterlogged conditions.

Not long ago, hundreds of piranhas rushed out of the sewers and attacked Lu Mingfei's neighborhood, only to be killed by several retired commissioners of the Kassel Enforcement Department, but also bitten their feet.

After all, they are not real ghost tooth vipers, they cannot remain alive after they are out of water, they can swallow everything they can eat, including hard steel, and because they are too big to burrow into the body of their prey like dragon vipers, they can make vertical and horizontal passages in them.

If it were to go one step further and have male and female pairs enter the river, it would be the most horrific biological catastrophe ever, as these little things multiply at high speed and eventually eat everything.

Such a subspecies of dragons alone is enough to wreak havoc on human society, not to mention the dragons themselves who can create them, and for weak ordinary people, biotechnology may be more powerful than words and alchemy.

Now, I don't know which side has taken advantage of the chaos to secretly cultivate and release a large number of things similar to dragon vipers, and want to conduct related experiments, or in order to drag down a large number of hybrids to make the city's sewer system a forbidden area for humans.

"Although they are dangerous piranhas, it seems that they also have special research value, which can peek into the leopard and see some of the characteristics of the ghost tooth viper."

Zhao Qing pinched one of the blue carps, and after a brief analysis, he determined that these dragonblood fish had hemocyanin bound to copper ions, which was commonly found in deep-sea creatures and shrimp and crabs.

From this point of view, the original place of origin of the ghost tooth viper should be the deep sea area, although the oxygen-carrying capacity of hemocyanin is not as good as hemoglobin, but the deeper the seabed, the greater the pressure, the higher the amount of dissolved oxygen, so to the depth of the water in which it lives, the amount of dissolved oxygen is sufficient.

From a chemical point of view, the incredible digestive ability of dragon vipers is mostly related to the redox reaction of such copper-containing proteins, from which they obtain energy, so that they can survive by swallowing inorganic substances.

The Sumerians of this world developed the technology of bio-ironmaking, raising dragon vipers to devour iron ore, and then burning vipers with low-temperature flames to obtain high-quality iron.

For Zhao Qing, similar biotechnology can also play a role in many places, which can be regarded as a kind of technical reserve, such as the biological ironmaking technique of the ghost tooth dragon viper, which can be used for highly concealed mineral mining, smokeless and foggy, and difficult to find.

Now, for example, she is ready to use a special technique to completely slaughter the piranhas in the sewers.

I saw that she casually cut the scales of the carp and sprinkled some yellow powder on it, which immediately caused a yellow and blue liquid to emerge from the wound of the fish's body, sneering, rising a faint smoke, and the blood quickly turned yellow, emitting a sour and burnt stench.

After throwing the poisoned carp into the water, it was already dead, and seven or eight piranhas surrounded it and bitten it, and in a moment, the carp turned into a pile of white bones and sank to the bottom of the water.

Immediately afterwards, seven or eight new fish that had eaten the flesh of the carp, and after a short time, they all turned their bellies and floated up from the water. The group of fish rushed to eat, and all of them were poisoned and died.

One and ten, ten and hundred, hundreds and thousands, continue to spread in the complex sewer system.

Because in the sewers, only dragon's blood piranhas have such violent aggressiveness, and the yellow water poison juice spreads, it will not take long to dilute and fail, but it is unlikely to affect other creatures, let alone affect the people on the ground, which can be called environmentally friendly and pollution-free.

Such a strong sense of déjà vu, such a special toxicity, the yellow powder applied by Zhao Qing is in line with the legendary "corpse powder", this poison was developed by Ouyang Feng, the western poison, and later passed to Hai Dafu and Wei Xiaobao, with the characteristics of infinite replication.

As soon as any blood touches it, the blood turns into poison, and after a carp sprinkled with a handful of corpse powder is poisoned, the blood in its body is highly poisonous, and it can be transmitted to other fish that swallow it, "self-replication", and it spreads more and more widely, and never stops.

Although Zhao Qing had never seen this kind of poison, after having a research direction, with her knowledge of medicine and poison that was far superior to Ouyang Feng's, she quickly developed a real "corpse powder", which could be produced under any conditions without relying too much on raw materials.

According to her research, this kind of bizarre poison powder actually has a similar principle to the "Fifteen Swords of Death", which is the result of triggering the death gas of the poison of the three corpses in the body and inducing the onset of the poison of the spirit and spirit, so it can be formed by decomposing a specific proportion of organic matter with the help of the poisonous dragon of the Fifteen Swords.

From this point of view, if the spread and diffusion of the "Fifteen Swords of Death" are lit, this sword move that seems to have lagged behind Zhao Qing's cultivation can actually increase over time, and eventually turn the world into a gloomy death prison, with the power to destroy the world.

Any skill with self-proliferating has unimaginable potential and an astonishing ceiling, and may be in danger of getting out of control, but it is also suitable as a response to specific situations, as well as hidden hole cards.

"At this time, those blisters filled with hunters~ captives should have arrived in another world, right?" Using a technique similar to the Spirit Snake to monitor a large area of water, Zhao Qing thought in his heart.

……

"Are these names the ancestors of the three bloodlines in the country? It looks like the number of people is quite right. The secret of the White King's bloodline was discovered by outsiders? Or did the other party specifically identify and record their names? ”

When thousands of dragon-blooded piranhas were poisoned and turned into bones, Yuan Zhisheng, who had finished the meeting, walked out of the gate of the Regent Hotel and strolled down the long street where the rain was fading.

At this moment, there was a special envelope in his handbag, which contained a list that the head of the Bai family stuffed over at the end of the meeting.

On this list, there are twenty or thirty names marked in red, all of which are R's own names, with the surnames "Uesugi, Gen, and Tachibana", showing a tree-like genealogy with intersecting trees, with dark and light colors, among which there is one called Uesugi Goshi, the deepest, and except for this person, the other names are obliquely crossed.

"What does the color represent the purity of the bloodline? Individual strength? The depth of hatred? The meaning of being crossed out should be that the person is dead? ”

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The Eight Families of the Snake Clan are the eight families that have mastered the secrets of the dragon clan from ancient times to the present, the Inuyama family who has mastered the customs industry, the Kazama family who has mastered the intelligence industry, the Ryoma family who has mastered the arms trade, the Sakurai family who has mastered the gambling industry, and the Miyamoto family who has been a hereditary samurai, and the three families of Uesugi, Gen and Tachibana behind the scenes.

Inuyama, Kazema, Ryoma, Sakurai, and Miyamoto are collectively known as the Outer Five Families, while Uesugi, Gen, and Tachibana are called the Inner Three Families, and the other name of the Inner Three Families is the "Amaterasu Family".

The number of people in the inner three families is far less than that of the outer five, and when there are 100 people in the outer five families, there is only one person in the inner three families.

But the three inner families are the families that can really give birth to the emperor, and they are the descendants of the three priest families of Amaterasu, Tsukiyomi and Susanoo, and they are the purest of the white king bloodlines of the eight families of Snake.

It is difficult for these people who carry the imperial blood to have offspring, because the fetus may be alienated, nine out of ten children are stillborn, and there are even cases where the fetus endangers the life of the mother, usually only a dozen to dozens of people.

Even if he fails to awaken the "imperial blood" and become a super hybrid that breaks the critical blood limit, the people of the inner three families are far stronger than the outer five, all of them are at the level of A-level and above, so even if the number is scarce, in the era when there is no emperor, he is still a well-deserved ruler of his family.

The youngest of them will be the head of the family, shouldering the responsibility of giving birth to the "emperor", while the others, as the elders of the family, will hold the power of the eight families of the snake and can appoint people from the other five families to work for them—including the latter at the level of the head of the family.

However, according to the records handed down by the family, it seems that the direct descendants of the three families of the Uchizo family died before the end of World War II, and none of the family elders were spared, so that the Uchizo family fell into a state of near extinction within fifty or sixty years, until the appearance of Tachibana Masamune, Minamoto Zhisheng, and Uesugi Eri.

Nowadays, in addition to them, people with the surnames Gen, Tachibana, and Uesugi can be found in the Snake Qi Eight family, but those are not really descendants of the inner three families. Rather, it was the bloodline that the three inner families adopted from the outer five families as "heirs" to strengthen their momentum.

This kind of collective extinction is obviously unusual, and most of them have the element of unnatural death.

In addition, who is the Uesugi who has not yet been "crossed out"? Could it be that he was the actor of the previous generation of the family? Is he still alive now?

Seeing the warning and demonstration in this list, as well as the reason why Kassel transferred himself out of this task, Yuan Zhisheng thought about it in his heart, knowing that under the management of his father, the eight families of the snake quickly recovered to the peak scale of commanding hundreds of thousands of black ~ gangs, and they were thriving, attracting the beating of the two major forces.

However, he doesn't care much about political things now, in fact, as an orphan without a father and mother, Yuan Zhisheng is still quite yearning and full of expectations for his real family and elders.

In terms of age, most of the people on the list have left unrecorded descendants, that is, there should be ancestors who they don't know.

Over the years, he never knew who his biological father was, and every time he asked about Tachibana Masamune, Tachibana Masamune always said that his father was a great person, and his greatness was incredible.

So in Gen Zhisheng's heart, his father is about a hero like the martial arts god of the Warring States, and he must be the leader of the R Ben gang after the war.

But judging from various sources, there are no particularly outstanding characters in the post-war R Ben gang, and the most outstanding ones are the level of Inuyama He and Kazema Kotaro, and it seems that this "heroic" character is not among them.

After going back, I just asked my father about the relevant information, presumably with an excuse to search for the remaining bloodlines of the three families and investigate the mysterious death of the family elder back then, Tachibana Masamune should be able to tell himself some new information.

Most of the elders in the direct line have criminals, which cannot be washed away, and I can only hope that between the elder and himself, there are several generations of normal people with acceptable character, at least recognize their relatives, and they will not feel that they have violated the justice in their hearts.

Thinking like this in his heart, Yuan Zhisheng found a small noodle restaurant on the street, and was about to sit for a while, open the list and take a look at the name of the surname Yuan in it, at this moment, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure, also entered this noodle restaurant.

It was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, wearing a white shirt, a navy blue school skirt, a pair of canvas sneakers, a sterling silver four-leaf clover pendant on her earlobe, and long dark red hair flying in the wind.

Who's this? Why does it look so similar to Eri? Yuan Zhisheng was stunned, very suspicious that he had seen Eri's twin sisters, and looked at it carefully, but found that the strange familiarity of Fang Cai disappeared.

"Students of the Kassel Academy?" Noticing the World Tree badge on the other party's bag, Chen Motong took the initiative to sit opposite him, took a menu, and asked, "What is this school like?" ”

…… (End of chapter)