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Inside the bag were the weapons that Chip Girl had prepared for him.
"I can only give you one M4A1. I need the rest for later. I have extra Glocks, so you can each have one, but I can't give you too many bullets. Each person will only have one magazine. Frigga's bullets are also limited, so ten rounds each."
In two or three minutes, he had all the guns ready and distributed them to the four women.
"Take this gun." Gu Ran handed the only Glock with a silencer to Su Xiaoqiang. "The first five rounds are Frigga bullets, the rest are live ammunition. If anything happens, don't hesitate, just empty the magazine."
Chapter 395 Descendants of the Duke of Shanyang
Su Xiaoqiang took the gun from Gu Ran's hand. She didn't expect that she would get her hands on a weapon again so soon.
Tang Shishi skillfully took out the magazine, glanced at it, then chambered a bullet, and put the gun away with the safety off.
Zhou Xinqing wasn't very good at using guns, so after thinking about it, she decided not to take it and gave the gun to Tang Shishi instead.
"Mom, how much longer until the person you're waiting for arrives?" Gu Ran asked Zhang Qiong.
"It takes some time to get here from Yokohama. Are you in a hurry?"
"It is indeed a bit rushed."
“You can go first,” Zhang Qiong said. “I can protect them myself.”
"I'm worried that you might not trust the people you're waiting for. The Snake Clan has immense power in Japan. What if they can't withstand the pressure from the Snake Clan?"
"Don't worry, the people I found are absolutely trustworthy." Zhang Qiong asked, "By the way, are you sure the people who surrounded us at the airport were from the Snake Clan?"
“Hmm…” Gu Ran was taken aback. “Now that you mention it, I’m not really sure.”
He had a preconceived notion that the Hebi-Hachi family was monitoring the relationships around him, so he thought the person tailing him was the Hebi-Hachi family.
But besides that, there are other possibilities, such as the Zhang family of Nanyang? Or... the Fierce Ghost Gang?
For example, Lu Mingfei's uncle's family did not encounter any harassment from the underworld when they came to Japan for tourism, so the incident at the airport may not necessarily have been done by the Snake-Headed Eight Family.
Gu Ran had a radio in his car, and he and Zhang Qiong listened to the news. The incident at the airport was not classified as a terrorist attack; it was only described as an accidental explosion caused by flammable and explosive materials.
It's unclear whether the Snake Clan is covering for themselves or if other forces are involved.
The good news is that none of the four of them, including Su Xiaoqiang, are wanted by the police, which means they no longer need to hide from Japanese security personnel.
It would take some time for Zhang Qiong's people to arrive, so Gu Ran and Su Xiaoqiang had some time alone together.
"Let me hug you, it's been so long since I've hugged my precious baby." Gu Ran hugged Su Xiaoqiang in his arms. Today she was wearing a thin spring wool sweater, a skirt and pencil pants.
Her body was still as soft as I remembered, and her hair seemed to have been treated with a different scented shampoo.
"Girls smell nice and are soft; it's so comfortable to hug them."
Su Xiaoqiang hadn't been in her fiancé's arms for a long time. She smelled the unfamiliar scent of his shower gel, which was definitely a mass-market product with a very strong fragrance.
Therefore, Su Xiaoqiang believed that he must be staying in a very cheap hotel because he was being hunted and wanted and could not show his face in public.
She hugged him tightly, feeling a pang of heartache; he must have suffered terribly.
This is Miss Su's misunderstanding, because she has never stayed in chain hotels. She usually stays in five-star hotels, and her shampoo and shower gel are specially supplied.
The shower gel from the chain hotel wasn't particularly good, but it wasn't particularly bad either, and Gu Ran didn't care about such things.
She gently stroked his cheek, then remembered how she had snapped at him at the airport earlier, and felt a pang of guilt.
"I……"
She was about to apologize when Gu Ran kissed her on the lips.
After a while, their lips parted, and Gu Ran pinched her smooth cheek, saying, "Don't blame yourself, it will break my heart."
It turns out he had always cared about her feelings.
Su Xiaoqiang opened her mouth, but suddenly her emotions surged up. She leaned on his shoulder and sniffled softly.
I was moved by him, and my nose felt a little sore.
Gu Ran put his arm around her slender waist and said, "What I meant when I told my mom was that if Zhou Xinqing and Tang Shishi died, I would at most go to their graves to send flowers, feel a little sentimental occasionally, and then forget about them in three to five years."
"But if you die, I will be sad for the rest of my life." He stroked her soft hair. "So you have to take care of yourself, okay?"
"Ah."
Why did you come to Japan this time?
"I want to go to Disneyland to buy a limited edition 'Minnie' bow."
"Oh..." Gu Ran thought for a moment, "I should be free in a few days, then we can go shopping together."
"Really?" Su Xiaoqiang asked, her eyes wide and sparkling.
"Of course." Gu Ran pinched her small, pert nose, and seeing her overjoyed expression, knew she must be very happy.
At that moment, a white extended Lincoln drove in, followed by three black seven-seater vans, all fully loaded.
Gu Ran immediately became alert.
A middle-aged man, who looked to be in his fifties, stepped out of the stretch Lincoln. He spotted Zhang Qiong immediately and greeted her with a smile.
The man had a kind and approachable smile, and was quite handsome.
"Xiao Zhang, it's been a long time." The middle-aged man extended his hand.
Zhang Qiong shook hands with him lightly and said with a smile, "Mr. Liu, I'm sorry to bother you."
Gu Ran was taken aback. This person's surname was Liu? Was he Japanese or Chinese?
“Let’s talk in the car,” Mr. Liu said. “This isn’t the place to talk.”
The arrival of the convoy attracted the attention of many onlookers, so he invited Zhang Qiong to get in the car first.
"Mom, can he really be trusted? Our enemies are the Snake Clan and the Demon Clan." Gu Ran deliberately spoke loudly so that Mr. Liu could hear.
Zhang Qiong pinched her son's cheek: "This is a descendant of the Duke of Shanyang, one of our own."
"The Duke of Shanyang?" Gu Ran was taken aback. He was good at history, so of course he knew who the Duke of Shanyang was.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Xian of Han, Liu Xie, was forced to abdicate the throne to Cao Pi, who then granted Liu Xie the title of Duke of Shanyang.
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the title of Duke of Shanyang was passed down until it was abolished during the Five Barbarian Invasions.
“Our ancestor was Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty,” Mr. Liu smiled and extended his hand to Gu Ran. “My name is Liu Yue.”
“Duke Shanyang’s descendants crossed the sea to Japan during the Western Jin Dynasty to escape the war. Their lineage has survived to this day and is an overseas branch of the Liu family of China.” Zhang Qiong then introduced to Liu Yue, “Gu Ran, my son.”
“I know, the youngest swordsman in the Zhang family,” Liu Yue laughed. “Truly, heroes emerge from among the young!”
As he spoke, Liu Yue and Gu Ran shook hands.
In an instant, Gu Ran used his Sharingan to hypnotize Liu Yue, then entered the Tsukuyomi world and asked him some questions.
"Mr. Liu, I'm entrusting my mother to your care." Gu Ranyue felt a long time in the world he read, but in reality, only a moment had passed. He shook hands briefly and then separated. "I have other things to do."
Liu Yue regained consciousness at this moment, and to outsiders, it seemed as if he had only been momentarily distracted.
But as soon as he emerged from Gu Ran's consciousness, his back was covered in a cold sweat.
Gu Ran did not hide his intentions in the world of Tsukuyomi. If Liu Yue had had any ill intentions just now, he would have been eliminated by Gu Ran in the world of Tsukuyomi.
Fortunately, Liu Yue is indeed fine; his heart is with China.
"I'm sorry, I've offended you greatly," Gu Ran said to Liu Yue.
"No, no..." Liu Yue wiped the fine sweat from his forehead. He hadn't expected that this prodigy of the Zhang family would have such an extraordinary bloodline. He had just been hypnotized and almost died.
Among hybrids, there is a fear of the strong regarding bloodlines, because in the genes of dragons, there is only strength and weakness, not right and wrong.
Therefore, Liu Yue did not feel that Gu Ran was impolite; on the contrary, he immediately corrected his attitude.
Zhang Qiong noticed something amiss; it seemed her eldest son was worried and had just tested Liu Yue.
"I'm sorry, my son is a little too worried about me." Zhang Qiong smoothed things over, then said to Gu Ran, "Alright, go ahead and do what you need to do, don't worry about me."
"Hmm." Gu Ran nodded, thought for a moment, then went back to the car, took a sword and handed it to Zhang Qiong, "Mom, please take this sword."
Gu Ran tossed the longsword over, and Zhang Qiong reached out and caught the familiar sword with a familiar gesture.
Dragon-Slaying Sword.
There were still some remnants of the Ghost-Toothed Dragon Viper and the Corpse Guardian on the Dragon Slayer Sword, which Gu Ran hadn't had time to clean up. Zhang Qiong could tell how intense Gu Ran's battle had been.
Zhang Qiong understood her son's meaning; giving her the sword was to give her another means of survival.
"And what about you?" she asked.
"I'm very capable, don't worry." After saying that, Gu Ran stepped forward and hugged Su Xiaoqiang again. "Be careful, okay? There are a lot of perverts in Japan."
"I understand. Ordinary perverts can't hurt me!" Su Xiaoqiang nodded and said.
Gu Ran glanced at Zhou Xinqing and Tang Shishi, and nodded to them.
They both nodded in response.
Then, Gu Ran got into his Civic and drove to Chizuru Town in Saitama.
After a while, Gu Ran sensed that Caesar, Chu Zihang, and Lu Mingfei's Flying Thunder God Marks were almost gathered together, and he needed to hurry to the Mambo website to meet them.
*……*……*
Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, Genji Heavy Industries.
Night had fallen, and it was rush hour. Genjiro, along with Sakura Yabuki, Crow, and Yasha, got into a disguised police car and headed to Chizuru Town.
Because Caesar kept visiting the Kassel College website at the internet cafe in Chizuru Town, it caught Kaguya's attention, and she reported it to Genjiro and the others.
And at this very moment, Norma, the college secretary, who was far away on the other side of the ocean, suddenly went berserk and kept attacking the 'Mambo' internet cafe in Chizuru Town.
It's obvious that there's something important in that place.
Genji was pleased to learn that Caesar and the others were still alive, but because the four of them knew the secret of the 'Burial Place of the Gods', they could not be allowed to leave for the time being.
"Has there been any investigation results regarding the riot at Haneda Airport?" Genji asked Yabuki Sakura.
Although the investigation later revealed that the bombings at Haneda Airport were caused by tactical grenades and were not lethal, the sheer scale of the commotion at such a major transportation hub had a significant impact, both overtly and covertly.
Ultimately, it was Genjiro who gave the order to eliminate the impact.
“We reviewed the surveillance footage but couldn’t find who threw the grenade; his method was very discreet,” said Sakura Yabuki.