400. Worship
Rome, Italy.
Frost Gattuso sat behind his desk in a patch of sunlight.
As the de facto head of the Gattuso family, he sat behind this table almost every day, waiting for someone to knock on the door and come in to deliver the materials.
He dictated dozens of letters, signed hundreds of papers, and managed the family's hundreds of thousands of employees around the world without leaving his home.
He is very satisfied with the state of work.
A person who really holds the power does not need to run around, it is the brain that really holds the power, and although the sword is sharp, it is only wielded.
He believed that he had no defects in his brain, but he needed a sharper sword, but the refusal of that arrogant nephew, Caesar, to become a sword, was the thing that worried him the most in all these years.
However, starting this year, the word will probably be removed from Caesar.
Because there is an extra character who is even more troublesome than Caesar.
A Celestial Empire.
A guy who isn't even a half-breed!
Gu Bei......
Frost holds a photograph in the background of the Port of Tokyoβor where it should have been.
It is said that it is a port, but it no longer functions as a port, and the Herras tsunami engulfed the whole of Tokyo, and according to estimates, the starting point of the tsunami is deep in the Japan Trench, and the port of Tokyo, as the closest port to the Japan Trench in the whole of Tokyo, sank to the bottom of the sea at the moment of the tsunami.
Now that the whole of Tokyo is water, and ships can be parked everywhere throughout Tokyo, there is no longer a need for a port - the whole of Tokyo has become a port.
Shin Tokyo Port.
The photo shows flooded Tokyo, and the port of Tokyo is vaguely recognizable from the surrounding protrusions, with a cruise ship parked on the water, a few people standing here and there on the deck, and some people driving speedboats to see people off on board.
At the edge of the deck, there stood two men who were familiar to Frost, and after being identified by the Gattuso family's satellites, Frost recognized them.
Gu Bei, Chu Zihang.
As a trustee of Kassel, Frost is very familiar with the personalities of the two colleges.
Especially Gu Bei, he just sat down with this guy a month ago to negotiate, and if he couldn't recognize it, he would have a ghost.
There were also a man and a woman standing next to them, two people Frost had never seen beforeβbut the young Frost always felt as if he had seen them somewhere, but he just couldn't remember.
But it doesn't matter.
The important thing is how these two people ended up in Tokyo?
Frost knew that there was news of the resurgence of the Dragon King in Tokyo, and that the Heras tsunami was caused by the Dragon King, but he remembered that the school board assigned the task team to Tokyo was supposed to be Caesar and ...... With whom?
Oh, and that paparazzi who is very good at candid photography.
Frost remembered that the paparazzi seemed to be the head of the Ministry of Information, and he had black material in his hand that he didn't know where to get it, and even Angers and Flamel's lace news - Frost wanted to know if he had his own, but he hoped not, so he didn't ask.
The task of the executive department is usually to act in teams of two, even if it is a multi-person operation, the personnel will be divided into two teams, and Caesar went to Tokyo this time, and the original task was not to slay the dragon but to investigate, to explore the recovery progress of the dragon king, so the school board only sent two of them.
Caesar was in charge of the battle, and that paparazzi was in charge of intelligence gathering.
This is the arrangement of the elders of the Gattuso family, and the elders all believe that even in the face of the dragon king who is about to recover, and with a burden who can only engage in intelligence and has no combat effectiveness, Caesar will be able to be safe and sound.
Although Frost did not think so, he could not veto the decision of the elders as the acting head of the family, so he had to let it go.
Although there were frequent accidents later, and even the dragon king woke up, the ending was still good.
Caesar eventually returned to the family intact.
But in any case, the executors of the task were Caesar and Fingal.
Where did Chu Zihang and Gu Bei come from?
Frost thought for a moment and understood.
Angers, it must be Angers.
Only Ange had the authority to mobilize others to the mission.
Merely...... Why?
Ange mobilized Chu Zihang, Frost can still understand, after all, Chu Zihang is recognized by everyone as the reserve president of the Lionheart Society, and Ange is a well-known veteran of the Lionheart Society, it is normal to let Chu Zihang participate in this kind of mission through the back door to increase his qualifications.
But why did Ange look to the north?
Obviously, Gu Bei's face is not a mixed race.
Moreover, Gu Bei is not from Kassel at all, and his relationship with Castle tends to be more of a state of cooperation.
Ange probably can't be mobilized.
So, why did Gu Bei appear in Tokyo?
Frost was puzzled.
He probably couldn't have imagined that the root cause of this incident was Gu Bei.
Whether it's the revival of the Dragon King or the fall of Tokyo, or the dragon slaying operation of the Eight Snake Families. It's all controlled by Gu Bei behind the scenes.
If Herzog was still alive, then he probably wouldn't have imagined that at first, Gu Bei just wanted to celebrate Eriyi's birthday.
If he wasn't in a hurry to make a move, then Gu Bei had no reason or evidence to move him at all.
It can only be said that creation makes people.
But Frost has no God's perspective, he can't think of the pass, and can only judge: "There is something special in Tokyo, because of this kind of thing, Ange and Gu Bei will gather in Tokyo together." β
This judgment is in a way...... That's right.
After all, the existence of the White King is special enough.
Looks like we still need to work on Caesar.
Speaking of Caesar, Frost had a bit of a headache.
If the headache brought by Gu Bei was the feeling of holding an electric drill to open a hole in the south door, then the pain caused by Caesar was more similar to opening the lowest grade TD being stuffed into the atrophied cerebellum.
It doesn't hurt very much, but it hurts all the time.
Caesar has always been a headache child, and in the final analysis, it is because he is too disobedient.
Disobedient children are the most annoying.
Sometimes looking at his dead face, I really want to slap it.
But what's the use of pumping it?
Even if you smoke his cheeks and blood splashes into his eyes, those ice-blue pupils still won't blink, looking at you with disdain.
This is the real death, and you have to die until you die.
"Every hero needs elders to clear the way for him before he grows up," Frost blew the mist in his glass, "and call Caesar to me." β
This was said to Patsy, who was beside him.
Compared to Caesar's mischievous willfulness, Patsy is undoubtedly a better choice.
The bloodline is stronger, and it is calmer and more sane.
The difference between Parcy and Caesar is like that of Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Sasuke.
It's a pity that Passy's bloodline is too strong.
There is no future for such a strong bloodline, and the probability of getting out of control is as high as 99%.
Therefore, the position of the head of the house is destined to be Caesar's.
The difference between the two in this regard is also like Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Sasuke, although Sasuke is a willful dead child, he is the reincarnation of Indra, and he has a bright future.
And Uchiha Itachi can only become the ladder of Sasuke's growth, nourishment, and finally rot in Sasuke's shadow.
What a shame...... Frost sighed, but before he could restrain his emotions, Patsy's words made his blood pressure soar: "Lord Frost, the young master has already left the family in the morning, and he didn't use the family's transportation, not even that Harley, we don't know where he went." β
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Frost snapped his forehead.
The family's vehicles are equipped with locators, and Caesar's location is monitored at all times if he uses those vehicles, which is also the means used by the family to control Caesar.
After all, Gattuso Manor is in the middle of nowhere, and if you want to walk from here to the city on foot, even with the strength of a half-blood, it will take five hours to walk non-stop.
But on second thought, Caesar was indeed capable of doing this.
As for where he went......
ββ
Milan, Italy.
In the small chapel of the Duomo of Milan, in the center stands the image of the Virgin, and on both sides of the passage are exquisite sarcophagi.
Catholic custom allows high-ranking believers to be buried in the church for future generations to worship.
These marble sarcophagi contain the bones of large figures, their names and dates of birth and death engraved on the bottom of the coffins, and some of the coffins have images of the deceased engraved on the lids.
The newest of these is a sarcophagus made of sparkling white marble, with a lid carved with a young woman dressed in a plain gauze robe.
In order to prevent the deceased's face from being known to outsiders, the carver specially carved a veil for her, but even this could not prevent many unrelated worshippers from stopping in front of this sarcophagus to admire the beauty of the face and lament the transience of life.
The side of the sarcophagus is written in gold with the date of birth and death of the deceased, as well as the surname.
Her surname was very rare Gulveig, and she died at the age of twenty-six.
Someone of good will had checked her background and wanted to know which family this noble lady came from, but found nothing but that her funeral was presided over by the Pope of Rome himself, and it was extremely honorable.
Fresh orange blossoms are always enshrined in front of her sarcophagus, and the lights in the four corners of the sarcophagus are never extinguished, but no one has seen her relatives come to mourn.
Because when the mourners come, this chapel becomes a temporary off-limits.
Even if someone's ancestors are buried here, he can only wait quietly outside the door for the mourner to complete his ritual.
Caesar placed a bouquet of white flowers on the lid of the coffin: "I've come to see you, mother." β
He took out a small brush and began to sweep the inscription, even if it was pointless to do so, because the sarcophagus was spotless, but it was his ritual.
"I wasn't in Italy for the New Year's a few days ago, and the task in Tokyo was quite troublesome, there were several dragon kings, but there was no danger to life, and there was a very ...... I can't say how reliable it is, but the very strong guy follows us, and I also got along with a dragon king for a while, it was a girl, and she was very good-looking, but I already had someone I liked, and her name was Nono...... Let's talk about this later, if we decide to get married, I will bring her to meet you, I think you will like her, speaking of the dragon king, I feel that the dragon king is no different from us, that is called Xia ...... Forget it, it's not safe to say her name here, in short, the dragon king is quite easy to get along with, and like a second goods, she also has someone she likes, just like an ordinary human, the academy always teaches that dragons are brutal and unreasonable existences, but to be honest, I feel that she is much better than the old things in the family, and those old things are already a bunch of old antiques......"
Caesar never showed his chattering side in front of others, except with his mother.
My mother's funeral was also held in this chapel, and because she gave birth to a precious heir to the Gattuso family, the funeral was of a very high standard.
But after the funeral, the family held a small thank-you party, at which everyone drank champagne and chatted happily, as if it was something to celebrate.
That night, Caesar rushed into the meeting with gasoline and became an arsonist.
That's when the rift between him and his family began.
He is the only worshipper of his mother, and he has never missed some special days on the death day every year, and even if he misses it, he will make up for it, just like this Spring Festival.
I also come when I am in a particularly good mood or when I am particularly bad.
After cleaning, he knelt in front of the sarcophagus: "Mom, people or dragons, I can't tell the difference, some dragons live like people, have their own feelings, but have to fight to the death, some people can obviously live a rich life, but because of the ethereal fate and embark on the road of dragon slaying, Mom, I really can't tell." β
"It's just that I'm going to do something very dangerous, I can't say what it is, anyway, please watch me, Mom."
In fact, there is no need to say this, he believes that his mother is watching him from the sky, knowing everything he does and what he is going to do next.
It's just that if Gulveig were still alive, he probably wouldn't be willing to let Caesar take some risks.
But no one could stop Caesar from making up his mind.
He was such a stubborn person, even if the road ahead would break his leg and make him lose his life, as long as he recognized it, he would not turn back.
Besides, it's not that bad.
His plan does have a certain degree of danger, but if it is said that his life is dangerous, it is completely negligible.
Because of the risks of this plan, all of them were transferred by him to the guy who was not very reliable, but very strong.
Although he didn't discuss it in advance, he felt that Gu Bei should be fine...... Probably.
Walking out of the chapel, the mobile phone that had regained the signal rang loudly, Caesar ignored the message from the family, and then looked at the top three.
Fingal: "Boss, you're all set, when will you do it?" β
A wicked smile was added to the back, and it seemed that he couldn't wait to persecute someone.
The next one.
Nono: "It's a bit of a hassle over there, give me two more days." β
Well, it looks like we'll have to wait a little longer.
The last one.
Chu Zihang: "Gu Bei has noticed it, you'd better be more hidden." β
Very good, undercover in hand, I have it in the world.
Caesar called out Norma, cleared the communication records of his mobile phone, and then went to the large auditorium of the Milan Cathedral to pay his respects.
He is making a wish for Gu Bei, hoping that the person will not pass away.
At the same time, Gu Bei, who had just stepped off the high-speed rail on the other side of the ocean:
"Ahh
Some people died, but not completely......