Act XXIII Friends

"And my bastard dad has said something similar before, he thinks that the position of the head of the family and the bloodline of the Gattuso family are a burden, and his desire is probably to sleep with all the women in the world, but ninety-nine percent of those women are willing to sleep with him because of his wealth and status......

"Well, maybe there's his stinky face that is nothing but handsome, but that face was also given to him by the blood of the family, and if he hadn't been born into Gattuso's family and was ugly, no woman would have wanted to marry him with that bastard personality alone."

"You mean that if I wasn't the head of the underworld, I wouldn't even be able to find a job selling sunscreen?" Yuan Zhisheng asked.

"Perhaps." Caesar shrugged, "For example, if you're just an ordinary low-class person in Tokyo, you probably won't have any chance to go to France in your life, and even if you do, you can only travel."

"Or perhaps, you won't think about selling sunscreen at all, the firewood, rice, oil, and salt in daily life are enough to crowd your brain, and you won't have any space to think about the so-called poetry and distance."

"People are like this, those in high positions of power usually shout what they want to be free, what to be idle, and those rich people like to buy villas in the countryside for this reason, but they rarely have time to live, just put the house there as a psychological comfort."

"But those at the bottom yearn for wealth and power, and they are even willing to pay any price, even their lives, in order to climb to high positions."

"In other words, you'll always be dissatisfied with what you have, and yearn for what you don't have, whether it's worth it or not."

"What you can't get is always in turmoil~" Lu Mingfei hummed Eason Chan's "Red Rose" softly, "That's probably the truth."

Yuan Zhisheng thought for a moment, "Gattuso-kun, if you were that tortoise named George, what kind of life would you like to live?"

"What do you mean?"

"As the last Pinta Island tortoise, everyone wants George to have offspring, even if it is a mother tortoise of other subspecies, at least to retain some of the genes of the Pinta Island tortoise."

"It was said in the news that the zoologists had found other species of female tortoises for him, but George was reluctant to get close to the female tortoises they had found, and the zoologists were anxious about what kind of female tortoises George liked." Yuan Zhisheng said.

"When I read the news, a strange thought popped up to me, not that George didn't like the female tortoises that zoologists were looking for for him, but that George didn't want to be with the female tortoises at all, and it didn't matter if he had offspring or not, he just wanted to leave the national park and crawl to his puddle and roll in the mud."

"So, if you were George, would you choose to stay in the national park and work hard to breed with the mother tortoise, or bite through the barbed wire in the national park and climb back to your puddle?"

"I'm too lazy to go and if, I really want to conquer the world." Caesar said.

Yuan Zhisheng directly ignored this neurotic remark and continued, "George is the last Pinta Island tortoise in the world, and I am the last descendant of the Yuan family in the world."

"The last Pinta Island tortoise should work hard to breed for the immortality of the race, and the last descendant of the Gento family should reinvigorate the family's prestige in the underworld, but George just wants to go back to his puddle and roll around, and I just want to go to the naturist beach to sell sunscreen."

He stared into Caesar's eyes, "I'm this kind of person, in fact, the underworld business of the Eight Snake Families and the mission of the secret party are not important to me, my ideal in life is to sell sunscreen."

"I don't know much about your uncle, but I don't think I should be the same kind of person as him, I was very poor when I was a child, basically I lived in a ravine and a ravine, and my brother depended on each other, my identity suddenly became rich, and I also knew very well that I didn't need this kind of life, if I had to choose again, I would rather go back to that ravine."

"Neither the continuation nor the prestige of the Gen family is important to me."

"Then why don't you go? If you hop on the plane at midnight, you'll be feeding the pigeons in the South American sun tomorrow night." Caesar said, "You are an independent man, and an independent man should be self

So, although you may be scolded by the people of the family as the most irresponsible young master if you leave, but so what, do you care about this?"

"I don't care...... But ......"

"But what? There is nothing but I think that if there is something I want to do, I will do it, to break free from the so-called shackles, instead of crying and crying that I hate my family and longing for freedom."

"It's not something you should care about, what you should care about is which beautiful girls you will meet on your journey, how you will talk to them when you meet, or think about what type of girl you like, to be honest, I think Lu Mingfei is right, that girl named Sakura is very good."

"While you are still the young master of the Eight Snake Clan, take her and escape from the family, I believe she will not refuse, and even have a little longing? It doesn't matter, it only takes ten hours to get to France now, and you can count yourself as a man and a woman who have successfully eloped."

"Whether it's going to France, it's going to other places, the most important thing is to set off, aimlessly, just want to run as far as possible."

"There shouldn't be any cage in the world that can trap a real man."

"If you really don't want to stay in this city and be the boss of the underworld, you should leave without worrying about it, think about it, maybe there is a girl waiting for you on that flight, if you don't go, her next seat will be occupied by a bald salty old man, you can rush over now, you can point a gun at the salty old man's eyebrows and ask him to give up his seat to you, and fly to the naturist beach in France with the girl you like!" Great, isn't it?"

"Seriously, the way you look now makes me feel very fake."

"Hypothetical...... Is it?" Yuan Zhisheng looked up at the sky, "I just feel that there are a lot of responsibilities on my back, and I have to carry these responsibilities."

He placed the porcelain cup on the table, "Forget it, I still can't do it, the celestial beach is just my dream after all."

"Well, I'm not in a position to say that to you." Caesar frowned, "I'm the one who escapes the family responsibilities myself."

"I've always hated my family, but I'm a person who has been cultivated by my family with countless dollars and resources, so it's very contradictory, understand?"

"I'm both a vested interest and a scolder, and if I want to do that, I'm also hypocritical."

"Looks like we all have something to hide." Genji smiled, got up and walked to the terrace to look out at Tokyo in the rain.

"The city was called Edo back then, and when it rained, I felt like Tokyo was the same Edo again, candlelight and Hokage. At that time, it was the most fashionable and trendy city in Japan, where the Grand Shogun Seiyi opened his house, the Portuguese sold iron cannons and red-coated cannons in the port, and the girls with baskets walked the streets selling imported goods in small tin boxes."

"The underworld gangs are all weak organizations in the beginning, and the kind of people who can earn money and live a prosperous life with dignity are disdainful of the underworld."

"Why did you talk about this all of a sudden?" Caesar didn't quite understand.

"Originally, the Eight Snakes were also disdainful of the underworld, until they lost their land and estate in the midst of the change, and they could no longer support themselves. So the original head of the eight families intervened in the underworld and made money by soiling their hands, and they used the talent of the half-breed race to neutralize the underworld by force, sheltering the gangs formed by the poor, collecting their offerings, and providing them with protection."

"The identity of the Eight Snake Families as underworld law enforcers was established step by step from that time, and it has not been many years since then."

"You want to say that the Eight Snakes are the leaders of the weak?" Caesar said, "Isn't it suspicious that the gangsters are so self-positioned that they are whitewashed?"

"Hundreds of years have passed since the Edo period, and the Hachiya family is now not associated with poverty."

"It's one of the most prosperous cities in all of Asia, there are no samurai, no killers, no wars, and there's no point in why you have to stay here."

"It's not that easy, I'm not just talking about the kind of war that happens in people's hearts, all the time." Gen Zhisheng said, "You don't know much about the underworld, you have visited Genji Heavy Industries, and at most you only know about the Japanese branch, but you still don't know anything about the Eight Snake Families."

You can't understand the Japanese yakuza just by visiting this building, and the real yakuza is a shadow society of the weak in those corners and alleys where the lights can't be illuminated."

In your mind, the underworld is not tolerated, but with us, it cannot be eradicated, because there will always be lowly, weak, and dark people in the world, who are ugly compared to the good people who are successful, and who are inferior in society, but since there are superior people, there must be inferior people."

"Inferior?" Caesar said.

"For example, the common gangsters on TV, who go to the store with a knife to ask for protection money, I don't deny that there are such people, and there are even a large number of them, but many of them are children from single-parent families, children who have been expelled from school, and children who can't afford to go to college."

"And many of the women who flirt in nightclubs are single mothers, and some have tasted their father's domestic violence, and even been *** by their stepfather, in the eyes of this kind of woman, their body is not a precious thing, they don't think about what to do when they are old and can't seduce men, they only live in the present, and they can only live in the present."

"This is the society in the shadows."

"Can only live in the moment?" Caesar savored the words, "You mean, you gave them protection? You are the saviors of the people at the bottom?"

"This is what is called 'underworld justice'?"

"No, we never feel that we are righteous, the underworld and justice have never had any connection, and if there is, it is only an antagonistic relationship." Yuan Zhisheng said, "Although we have provided pensions and relief funds for the underworld members, we still govern them with an iron fist and violence, and we do not lack dirty means.

"This is the shadow of the world, far bigger than you think, violence is the biggest voice in this shadow world, if there are no rules, the rules set by the Snake Qi Hachi, the underworld emperor, collapse, the underworld will lose its ruler, everyone is eager to try to speak with their fists and knives, Tokyo will become the former Edo again, there are always weak people in this world, and the weak will die in pieces in the war and fighting."

"We are not the righteous, we are not heroes, we are not even heroes, on the contrary, we hold the greatest violence and evil in our hands."

"But it's necessary."

"If this world is a smooth road, there is no need for us to exist, but unfortunately the darkness of this world is like hell, and we are demons."

"It can only be a demon, whether you want it or not."

"You have a man in China named Cao Cao, who was the most violent man in the last years of the Han Dynasty, and he said a word."

Yuan Zhisheng looked at Caesar's eyes and paused word by word, "If there is no loneliness in the world, I don't know how many people will be kings and how many people will be emperors?"

"So I haven't made up my mind to climb into my puddle, I can give up my position of power, but as the head of the young family, I have a responsibility that I have to shirk, and I can't shake the foundation of the family until a new heir appears." Gen Zhisheng returned to the table and sat down, "I have to stay here, at least for now."

"Because I am Amaterasu, and Amaterasu's destiny is to illuminate those in darkness."

"And what about your celestial beach?" Caesar asked.

"I guess I won't be able to go until I'm dying." Yuan Zhisheng smiled helplessly, "Okay, let's not talk about this, let's just listen to the innocent moaning of a hypocrite."

"You don't have an evening show on your schedule, do you have any ideas? The family has a fixed box at the Kabuki Theater, and the Tamamo-mae Club run by the Inuyama family is known as the place with the most beautiful women in Tokyo, a Turkish-style bath? Or go to the Buddhist temple and burn incense for your mission tomorrow?"

Caesar slowly finished his glass of wine, "I thought it would be interesting to talk to you, why didn't you say anything about it all of a sudden?"

"I haven't known you for long, so it's not appropriate to say more."

"What does it matter, we're all friends anyway."

"Friend ......" Yuan Zhisheng thinks that he has been defined as a "friend" in the hearts of this group of neurotics?

It's a bit good to think about.

"Well, I'm not interested in the places you mentioned, and those two guys are strict wives, if they really go to that tamamo club, I'm afraid that Nuo Nuo and Natsumi will be mad."

"Why don't you show us the real Japanese underworld in your mouth?"

Yuan Zhisheng frowned slightly, "Those are not high-class places, and I can't guarantee your safety in that kind of place."

"Do you think the ace operators in the headquarters need your 'guarantee'?" Caesar pulled out Dictor and shook a knife in his hand, "We will take care of the security problem ourselves, I am not interested in any high-class places, the small restaurants in the streets and alleys are the local characteristics."

"Sounds interesting." Chu Zihang also hugged Xia Mi, who was smirking, and came over.

After a moment of silence, Gen Zhisheng pressed the walkie-talkie on the table, "Sakura, prepare uniforms for the three VIPs, go to the liaison department to get a dart, and set it up in Shinjuku District."