Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1102 The Origin of An Gang's Family
"Ah, the masked one's here. Perfect timing! Do you have anything good to trade with me? I've found the An Gang family's genealogy." The woman with the electric charm patted several thick books in her hand and said.

"I've also found some family records here, a lot of them. I won't trade with you if I don't have anything good to offer."

I suspect this is a secret of the An Gang family. We could demand a ransom directly from them in the future. I think even if we sold it on the black market, plenty of people would be eager to buy it. "The man with the superpower of summoning a god is raising prices himself."

Xia Shou glanced at Su Yue and Su Weiyu; neither of them was carrying any spoils of war. It seemed that An Gang's collection wasn't so easy to find after all.

"You didn't find anything, did you?" Qing Shennan asked nervously, looking at Xia Shou who had nothing in his hands.

"There aren't any for now, but I can buy them with money."

"Hey, hey, hey, this price isn't something you can just buy..."

Xia Shou held up five fingers.

“Five million sounds good, but I think Angang would be happy to pay that price as well,” said the man, fiddling with the thick stack of old books in his hand.

Xia Shou nodded, having a general understanding of the other party's estimated price. He didn't really know what price to offer, since money was just a string of numbers to him.

Even without Su Weiyu giving him any special money, he had already saved tens of millions from his mission bonuses over the years, and he had nowhere to spend it.

Even if the other party wanted tens of millions, he could pay it all at once, but he didn't want to be too generous, since that would cause chaos in the economic market, and if the other party used the money to cause trouble, it would eventually implicate him.

Therefore... some bargaining is still necessary.

"Six million."

“We get over 100,000 yuan a month in pocket money at Angang’s house. Are you trying to feed us like beggars?”

"Brother, it would take you six years to save up six million with such a low monthly salary. And let me make this clear, the reason I'm offering such a high price isn't because this lousy notebook you have is actually valuable, but because the An Gang family's information is very important to me."

I'm only paying this price as a gamble; maybe it won't contain the information I want, and I'll just be buying a list of their ancestors.

To put it bluntly, I'm just opening blind boxes. If you don't sell it to me, I'll have to auction it on the black market, but selling An Gang's family tree on the black market will offend them, won't it? Aren't you afraid?

Or do you want to talk directly to Angang Steel? Do you think they'll be so easy to talk to? Think about it carefully.

Besides, I'm not exactly a millionaire, so let's stop here... Hey, flirtatious girl, are you selling your million?

The flirtatious woman said, "You gave him five million, and you're offering me only one million?!"

"You only have two books, while he has a little more. A million is not a small amount. If you save them up, you can buy some common banned items."

Can you pay now?

"can."

"That two million!"

"Okay, hey! Don't raise the price. I only agreed because time is of the essence; I still need to rescue my little one." Xia Shou took out his phone and completed the transaction with practiced ease.

After obtaining the family tree, Xia Shou immediately ignored the spirit medium and sat on the floor to look at it.

The man with the divine power was a little anxious and said, "Hey, I guarantee that this is absolutely some major information. It's not just a simple family tree. I think that old monster became like this because of some reason from his ancestors."

Xia Shou didn't even look up and said, "Is it about those things? Then you don't need to give it to me. I already know. As for demons, An Gang's ancestors once slew demons and sealed them away. If it's about those things, then your information is worthless."

The fortune teller was taken aback, then jumped up and down in a panic, saying, "No, it's not just that! There are other things too, there's bound to be something you'll be interested in. Five million it is, consider it making friends!" "Do you think I'm a sucker? I know everything written inside, why would I pay that much?"

"Three, three million!"

"That's about it, let's leave it at that," Xia Shou thought.

He sighed and held up two fingers: "Two million, take it or leave it, you can also sell it on the black market."

"Two million it is!"

Xia Shou nodded, paid, and accepted the goods.

Standing to the side, Su Weiyu quietly watched Xia Shou and these people talk business. Although she could have taken the notebooks directly from them, she didn't make a move.

After all, there might be some disputes after taking it over, but buying it is a different story. It's only a few million in total, just like buying game items with game currency.

Xia Shou casually picked up a few stacks of books and began to skim through them.

He flipped directly to the earliest family tree and saw a bunch of similar surnames, such as Angang and Suzuka.

"Suzuka... Angang's family..."

Xia Shou remembered that during the battle just now, An Gang Hei Yue, that yaksha-headed guy, had mentioned the girl from the "Suzuka family".

According to the Japanese way of surname inheritance, normally there shouldn't be two fixed surnames that have existed for a long time; women take their husbands' surnames.

However, in the earliest period of the family genealogy, the surname Suzuka remained very stable. Even when Angang disappeared for a period of time, the surname Suzuka still existed.

"Hey, do you guys know anything about the surname Suzuka?" Natsumori looked up at the others who were showing off their spoils.

The biker gang member said, "Of course it's Suzuka Gozen! She's super famous, with her tall eboshi hat, and in legend, she's the demon woman who defeated Ōtakemaru alongside Sakanoue no Tamuramaru!"

"You don't even know this? Didn't you just say you knew everything about that demon?!" The Divine Man realized he had been tricked; this man didn't know anything about An Gang's family history.

Xia Shou didn't have time to pay attention to the other party. He directly opened another family history and immediately saw the story of Suzuka Gozen that the other party was talking about.

While reading the legends recorded in An Gang's family documents, he took out his phone to search for all the information about Suzuka Gozen and quickly learned what kind of myth it was.

Similar to Shuten-dōji, it's simply a story of a wicked demon being tragically defeated by clever and resourceful ancient people in collaboration with a goddess-like figure.

Xia Shou's expression turned serious.

Could it be that... the An Gang family, like the hidden royal family, is also a descendant of the bloodline of mythical figures from the past?

The truth seemed to be obvious, and Xia Shou felt that he suddenly had more pieces in his puzzle, as if he could now piece together the whole picture.

However, it is still too messy and too fragmented, and a thread is needed to string these unrelated beads together.

This clichéd demon-slaying story is missing a crucial character who wasn't recorded, but Xia Shou is certain that the character exists, and the scene Su Weiyu saw was definitely not an illusion.

That character is Xia Shou himself!
What role did he play in this story?

(End of this chapter)