Chapter 154 The border between strange demons and the reappearance of the fox face (2-in-1)

"Starting immediately, after a one-minute countdown, a mighty blessing will come to everyone nearby centered on this radio tower, giving you the power you have longed for day and night."

"When you have power, will you still surrender to the fear of heaven and man, or will you bravely face your fear? You don't need to answer me. You only need to answer yourselves."

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The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and the faint moonlight passed through the transparent skylight on the ceiling and fell on the brown conference table in the conference room.

At the head of the table is a chair with leather armrests that have experienced a long period of rubbing and baptism. Sitting on the chair is an old man with gray hair and wrinkles on his face.

His hands gently rubbed the wrinkled leather on the armrests, and a live broadcast from the far east was playing on a light screen not far in front of him.

This is a suburban area nearly 500 kilometers away from the bustling Kyoto metropolitan area. There is a lake called Fox Lake, which is a tourist attraction that is warm in winter and cool in summer.

But since someone bought all the land around the lake a hundred years ago and built a manor by the lake, it has never been associated with ordinary people again.

No one would be dissatisfied and protest. Being able to own such a manor in a place like Kamikyo, which is known as the "center of the world" and where land is so valuable, speaks volumes about the identity and status of the owner of the manor.

In fact, the Tianhu Bart family, which controls the economic lifeline of the world, owns a manor in every corner of the world that matches the family's status and is low-key and luxurious.

The transparent ceiling conference room in the manor is not necessarily used for meetings, but can also be used to entertain guests who deserve careful attention, such as the old man sitting across the conference table.

The family behind that old man belongs to the Nine Celestial Families above the sky, which controls most of the energy ore veins in the world, and he is the current patriarch of the Tianlong Rhine Family—Senior Rhine.

Sitting on the chair with his body upright and calm, the leader of the Tianlong Clan, Senior Rhine, raised his fingertips and rubbed the center of his brow.

When his pure golden vertical eyes looked away from the light screen in the conference room, the white-haired old man at the end of the conference table, Bettencourt Bart, raised the remote control and turned off the live broadcast.

"This is the last live video transmitted from Wano New Tokyo a few minutes ago. After that, all signals were cut off."

Bettencourt Bart added in a steady voice, "The interruption was artificial. Obviously, someone didn't want us to know too much."

After the words fell, the conference room with only two people fell into silence.

After a while, the tall and upright leader of the Tianlong Clan, Senior Lain, shook his head gently and said with some emotion, "Is that the Wano Country in the East China Sea?"

"Yeah. There again."

Betancourt Bart, the leader of the Sky Fox Clan, nodded slightly, looked at the Celestial Dragon Clan's Clan Senior, Senior Laing, and said straight to the point, "You know about 'those things' that began to appear in the Wano Country more than a hundred years ago.

How many?"

"Those things?

Are you referring to the strange demon?"

The vertical pupils in Tianlong Clan Chief Senior Rhine's golden eyes condensed slightly.

At a certain moment, he seemed to be trapped in some memories, and he slowly said:

"At that time, I was still a child. My father warned me when he passed away that humans are like hounds in this world. When they are disobedient, they can be beaten appropriately, but when necessary, they can also be given a bone.

, when the night falls, they are the only people in this world who can help us resist the darkness."

"yes."

Bettencourt Bart nodded and said with a chuckle, "It's just that the weight of that 'bone' back then was a bit too heavy - the Nine Celestial Beings surrendered their political rights in the House of Lords and the World Government, and completely withdrew from history.

On the stage, the wisdom and courage of our fathers are far beyond our reach."

"But history repeats itself."

Senior Clan Leader of the Tianlong Clan, Senior Lain, lowered his eyes slightly and said, "I didn't expect that there would be human beings who would understand those strange demons that are buried in the dust of history. Maybe I am too old and too slow to be a member of Wano Country a few years ago.

That’s what I should have thought of when it was announced that we had developed a power fruit. It was not a power fruit, but a devil fruit. Only by making a deal with the devil can you gain power."

Bettencourt Bart shook his head when he heard this, with a look of indifference in his eyes, "History has proven countless times that human beings are like this. The more power, ability and resources they have, the more inferior creatures like them are unworthy.

What they have, they desire more and more.”

"The problem is that now [the border] has emerged, no one can be sure whether the situation there is the same as it was a hundred years ago. What should we do next?"

Senior Rhine asked.

The Sky Fox Clan has been the advisor of the Sky Dragon Clan in history. Although all the systems in the past no longer exist, this does not affect the Sky Dragon Clan leader Senior Rhine from seeking the opinion of this old fox.

Bettencourt Bart, the leader of the Tianhu Clan, pondered for a moment, then slowly said, "First send people to assess the level of the [Border], and then seal it through the Adjudication Department."

"All humans who have been incarnated by strange demons and lost their consciousness will be regarded as cleansed by strange demons. The remaining humans who gained abilities through strange demons will be concentrated in isolation and locked up to eliminate unstable and high-risk abilities that are not in the talent sequence. They will be quarantined for half a year before considering the situation.

freed."

After saying this in a cold tone, Bettencourt Bart suddenly sighed and said with a wry smile, "I hope the level of Wano [Border] will not be too high this time, otherwise those of the Nine Families will ignore the world and pursue people above the ninth level.

I'm afraid I can't stand the loneliness any longer, old man."

Senior Clan Leader of the Tianlong Clan, Senior Lain, had been listening to his words in silence. At this time, he nodded slightly and suddenly asked, "Then what should we do tonight?"

Bettencourt Bart glanced at Senior Rhine with some weirdness in his heart, but said calmly, "The affairs of Wano Country this time are not related to Gaius Rhine, the seventh judge of your clan.

Are you responsible? He should handle things tonight well."

Senior Rhine nodded, glanced at Bettencourt Bart with his golden vertical pupils, and said unconsciously, "That is indeed a very outstanding child, hard-working and stubborn, always rational and indifferent, I am

I see a shadow of me in him, but he doesn't seem to be that close to the family."

"Children always like a warm home."

Bettencourt Bart said with a smile, "Maybe your management method is too strict, but it doesn't matter. No matter where the child goes, he will always belong to the family behind him."

"I hope so"

Senior Rhine said calmly.

He did not continue to speak, and silently tasted the amber-colored Qingshou Liquor in the cup, feeling the pungency of the liquid across his throat. His golden vertical pupils were filled with silent pressure.

Of course he was aware of the certain connection that Gaius Rhine, a collateral descendant of the Adjudication Division, and the old fox across the conference table had maintained over the years.

However, he doesn't resent it. The descendants of the descendants cannot obtain too many resources in the family, and if they want to rise to the top, they have to use their own brains. This is not an unforgivable thing.

He is not worried that the other party will betray him.

Marcus Rhine, the eleventh adjudicator of the Judgment Department, died in Wano some time ago, which means that one of the orthodox heirs within the Tianlong clan has become vacant.

If Gaius Rhine could handle this incident neatly and neatly this time, he would kill the flea hiding behind the dark golden mask in the East China Sea for the World Government and the Nine Families.

Then he wouldn't mind letting Gaius Rhine, a collateral descendant, take Markas Rhine's place, and he would naturally return to the family at that time.

What the old fox in front of me said,

There is always one thing that is right.

No matter where the child goes,

He also belongs to the family behind him. After all, the blood of the noble Tianlong clan flows in his body.

Wano Country, New Tokyo.

The pedestrian street at the foot of the Sky Tree.

When the people of the third investigation team responsible for maintaining order at the scene saw those ordinary people falling to the ground inexplicably, holding their heads and rolling in pain, everyone was stunned.

But then, the people on the ground writhing in pain suddenly stood up strangely, with various abilities appearing on their bodies, and they lost their senses and rushed towards the people of the Adjudication Department who were usually in awe of them like beasts.

In an instant, the people in the third investigation team felt a chill rushing from their heels to the sky. They all widened their eyes and felt as if their scalps were numbing!

That's the Adjudication Division!

Are these people crazy?

This thought just flashed through the minds of everyone in the third investigation team.

The next moment, everyone couldn't help but suddenly mentioned in their hearts, and a biting coldness surged in their hearts.

I saw those people who seemed to have lost their minds and rushed towards the adjudication department madly.

People are still jumping into the air.

Suddenly, as if someone pressed the freeze button, everything stagnated in mid-air.

what's the situation?

Everyone in the third investigation team has not yet reacted.

At this time, the middle-aged man who was rushing forward, his body covered with lightning, suddenly appeared from the back of his head. A thin sword that seemed to be both real and imaginary suddenly appeared. Blood spurted out like a blowout, and the whole man flew backwards.

Immediately afterwards, there was a heart-wrenching friction sound of a sharp blade penetrating the skull.

More than a dozen scarlet blood arrows spurted out in unison, followed by the sound of falling to the ground one after another.

In the blink of an eye, those humans who got up again after falling and tried to resist in the face of the Adjudication Division's clearance were all cut down like weeds in a pool of blood.

The surrounding third investigation team members looked at the fallen people and stood there with slightly sluggish expressions.

They had imagined countless consequences of attacking the Adjudication Division, but they had never imagined the scene in front of them.

Perhaps it was because they were of the same kind, but for a moment, everyone felt a chill in their hearts.

Gaius Rhine, the seventh judge holding a black umbrella, shook his head silently.

Human beings are still human beings after all.

Thinking that you have somehow mastered that trivial ability and forgetting the fact that you are a lowly creature like a human being is really ridiculous and unspeakably stupid.
To be continued...