Chapter 785: 783
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"Slap!" Tanaka Motoyoshi was suddenly slapped so hard that he fell to the ground, several teeth knocked out, his mouth bleeding profusely and swollen.
"Elder!" The sight shocked the other eight people, who all changed expressions and called out, wanting to rush forward to help him.
However, as soon as one person moved, a flash of Sword Light decapitated the Japanese man, his head rolling on the ground like Suowen's.
The others immediately dared not move, their eyes filled with terror.
Unlike Suowen, they all possessed cultivation and were skilled at stealth and assassination. Even if bullets were fired at them, they would reflexively dodge, but just then, their companion had his head silently severed without any chance to react.
It was not hard to imagine that if Ge Dongxu truly wanted to kill them, it would be like cutting grass—useless even with their cultivation.
"It seems that you have no intention of letting us go," Tanaka Motoyoshi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and got up from the ground, his heart already filled with towering waves of shock.
Previously, he had only witnessed Ge Dongxu's prowess, but now he had experienced it firsthand.
He was an Onmyoji of the Qi Cultivation Third Layer, and although his real strength lay not in his cultivation but his Shikigami, a slap through the air from Ge Dongxu had sent him flying to the ground. The power was beyond his imagination.
"Finally, some sense in your head," Ge Dongxu said with an "appreciative" expression, then continued, "Now, you only have the choice of how to die. Of course, that's provided you answer my questions; otherwise, I think your Shikigami would be very willing to slowly devour your souls."
No sooner had Ge Dongxu's words ended than a puff of white smoke erupted in front of the other seven people, with shadows twisting within it.
"It seems your subordinates are even more foolish than you!" Ge Dongxu showed no signs of stopping them from using their Ninjutsu to escape; instead, he shook his head and said to Tanaka Motoyoshi.
But as Ge Dongxu's voice faded, the white smoke gradually dissipated, and the seven people were now suspended in mid-air.
"What do you want to know?" Tanaka Motoyoshi wilted at the sight, despair filling his eyes.
About the treasure, and about your family's affairs," Ge Dongxu replied indifferently.
"I can tell you about the treasure, but I have nothing to say regarding my family's affairs," Tanaka Motoyoshi responded.
"You're not in a position to negotiate with me." As Ge Dongxu spoke, he made a grabbing motion through the air, and Tanaka Motoyoshi uncontrollably rose and fell into Ge Dongxu's palm.
Ge Dongxu patted Tanaka Motoyoshi a few times and said, "When you can tell me these things, that's when your pain will end."
With the chanting of a spell, Tanaka Motoyoshi instantly felt as if millions of ants were crawling over his body, gnawing at his flesh, and his heart.
Tanaka Motoyoshi immediately rolled on the ground, scratching and tearing at himself uncontrollably.
Seeing this scene, Gan Lei couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his forehead.
He knew all too well the pain being experienced.
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"Gan Lei, take a look and decide for yourself which of these people should stay and which should be killed. I think you should be able to control this region by now," Ge Dongxu said, turning to Gan Lei instead of Tanaka Motoyoshi.
"Yes, Master Ge," Gan Lei replied respectfully.
Ge Dongxu nodded and turned his gaze to the other seven Japanese.
"Master Ge, I'll talk, I'll talk," one of the leaner Japanese men blurted out in alarm as soon as Ge Dongxu's gaze swept over him.
"Good," Ge Dongxu said with a faint smile, and released the Japanese man from the grip of the branches.
"Sir, I, I am willing to talk too," Tanaka Motoyoshi, after all, was not truly a tough guy, especially since his subordinates were already ready to speak up, and his own stubbornness was useless.
"Why bother with this, you could have spoken earlier and avoided all this unnecessary suffering," Ge Dongxu said as he cast a spell, and Tanaka Motoyoshi stopped rolling on the ground and began to gasp for air, looking at Ge Dongxu as if he were a demon from Hell.
Soon, Ge Dongxu learned from Tanaka Motoyoshi that after Japan's defeat in the war, a large amount of gold, jade, and other valuable items looted from Southeast Asia were buried in the jungles of Northern Myanmar. An elder from the Tanaka Family was involved in the burial back then. But that elder had died early and only vaguely described the terrain around the site of the treasure. The exact location was unknown, and given the complexity of the jungle terrain in Northern Myanmar, even if he went in person, it would be difficult to find, let alone for Tanaka Motoyoshi and the others who only had his descriptions to go on.
However, the treasure was enormously valuable at that time, with fifty tons of gold alone, and many other jewels and jades. Therefore, the Tanaka Family never gave up searching for the treasure and had people active in the jungles of Northern Myanmar year-round.
Some time ago, they had finally confirmed that the valley ahead was the location where the Tanaka Family elder had buried the treasure.
As for the Tanaka Family, with the decline of Daoist arts and the rise of modern firearms, most young people were no longer willing to tirelessly cultivate Ninjutsu and Onmyodo. So among the Tanaka Family, there were very few people nowadays with true cultivation and knowledge of techniques.
Besides Tanaka Motoyoshi, the elder, only the head of the family possessed the cultivation of Qi Cultivation Third Layer, and most of those were brought here by him.
Beyond this, Ge Dongxu naturally also inquired in detail about the situation of the Tanaka Family.
He knew that the family still held some wealth and power in Japan, but they were somewhat inferior to the Matsukawa Family currently controlled by Matsukawa Nozomu. More nuanced details did not interest Ge Dongxu. He simply arranged for a landline phone to be brought, and made a call to Matsukawa Nozomu, briefly explained a few things to him, and then let him talk to Tanaka Motoyoshi.
With the wisdom Matsukawa Nozomu possessed in the business world, his wealth, and the cruel and venomous nature of Yamaguchi Haruko from the Anri Organization, specifically arranged by Ge Dongxu, they would know how to make the Tanaka Family decline and even perish, now that they had the most core information from Tanaka Motoyoshi.
While Ge Dongxu was interrogating Tanaka Motoyoshi and others, Gan Lei was not idle on his end.
He personally took the lives of seven or eight of Suowen's most loyal subordinates, then released the others.
The main elites of Suowen's force, who were originally Gan Lei's men, had now witnessed Ge Dongxu's terrifying and bizarre techniques to an extreme point, and dared not harbor any second thoughts. Without the need for Gan Lei to say anything, each one of them reaffirmed their loyalty to him.
Having these men, Gan Lei naturally regained control of the region.
"Kill these Japanese people, and then let's take another trip to see Bacha," Ge Dongxu said, pointing at Tanaka Motoyoshi and the others, now that all the necessary questions had been asked, and Gan Lei, through his former subordinates, had regained control of the troops taken by Suowen.
PS: Today's update is complete; the next one will be in the evening tomorrow.