I am Jinshan Youxia

Chapter 512

The headquarters of the anti-foreign patriots and the ronin group.

"A-Gin~"

Shimura Shinpachi tossed and turned on the tatami mat, unable to sleep. After Zhang Chengyi left, the Edo police came after him. He followed the group of anti-foreign patriots to their secret hideout in a daze, but they discovered that he was not one of their comrades, so he had no way to leave.

Rebelling against the Amanto and the Shogunate is not child's play; how could they possibly let go of someone who might betray their position?

However, these anti-foreign patriots remembered that he left the prison with Zhang Chengyi and suspected that the two had a relationship, so they did nothing to him and just locked him in a room at the camp.

They provided him with food and drink, but wouldn't let him leave.

To be honest, the dinner was better than what I eat at Yorozuya or at home, but I just couldn't fall asleep in a place like this.

With a "whoosh," the shoji door was pulled open, and Shimura Shinpachi rolled out of bed, fully clothed, and looked up at the doorway.

The man standing at the door, dressed in a kimono and wearing a straw hat, lifted the hat slightly to reveal a handsome face. He looked at the glasses on the tatami mat and greeted, "Yo, Gintoki's sidekick, what's your name...?"

"Shinichi, right?"

"It's Shinpachi, Shinpachi!" Shimura Shinpachi immediately retorted. He squinted to recognize the person and, without even putting on his glasses, complained, "Mr. Katsura, you're clearly a patriot who fights against foreign invaders, so why are you reading children's comics like Gintoki?"

"And you better look at me properly, don't stare at my glasses!"

"Excuse me." Katsura Kotaro bowed slightly to his glasses.

Shinpachi Shimura was speechless with exasperation. He reached up and put on his glasses, then couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Katsura, what are you doing here?"

He heard from the anti-foreign patriots who had locked themselves up that they had no connection with Katsura Kotaro.

"He caused chaos within the Shinsengumi and escaped with a large number of imprisoned anti-foreign patriots..."

Katsura Kotaro smiled gently. "Gintoki and you guys really did something that all the anti-foreign patriots would consider remarkable."

The reason he was able to find them so quickly was because he had been keeping an eye on Sakata Gintoki and his two friends.

After all, he was the one who got himself involved and ended up in the police station; it wouldn't be in his nature to completely ignore it.

"No," Shimura Shinpachi said, somewhat distressed, as he revealed the truth.

They were once again unlucky enough to be implicated by someone else. A strange man escaped from prison, took them with him when they left the police station, blew up the police station wall with a cannon, and explicitly mentioned in his conversation with the anti-foreign patriots that he wanted to find "anti-foreign patriot Katsura Kotaro".

"He introduced himself as Zhang Chengyi, the Wandering Swordsman of Jinshan." He gave the other person's name.

Katsura Kotaro frowned. He seemed to have some recollection of the name, but he couldn't remember when he had heard the strange name 'Zhang Chengyi' before, and the title 'Gold Mountain Ranger' was completely unheard of.

"I understand," he replied quickly, then asked, "Shinpachi, do you want to leave here with me?"

He currently does not know the whereabouts of Sakata Gintoki and Kagura, but he has learned that Shimura Shinpachi was brought here by the ronin group.

As for the mysterious person who orchestrated the prison break...

The Ronin Group hasn't mentioned it at all; are they trying to recruit them?

He defeated Okita Souji of the Shinsengumi in one move; he has impressive skills.

"Great."

Shinpachi Shimura didn't think too much about it and cheered; he really wanted to go home.

Katsura Kotaro lowered his straw hat slightly and turned to leave.

At this point, we can't just send Shimura Shinpachi back. If he gets caught by the Shinsengumi again, the information about the Ronin group might be leaked. We have to wait until the Ronin group has moved away.

Even though they rarely contacted each other and had different ideologies, their shared identity as patriots who opposed foreign aggression led them to help each other on many occasions.

After all, following the failure of the resistance and the surrender of the shogunate to the Amanto, a large number of anti-foreign patriots were purged, and past ideological conflicts were no longer a significant issue.

Instead of arguing about the ideals and ideas of expelling the celestial beings, let's see who is better able to achieve this goal.

The so-called "Ronin Group" is actually a general term. The people who were rescued are members of the "Kaiten Party," an extreme organization within the radical Ronin Group. If he hadn't come, once the Kaiten Party discovered that Shimura Shinpachi and Zhang Chengyi had no connection, the only option for Shimura Shinpachi would have been to be silenced.

Where exactly have I seen the name 'Zhang Chengyi' before?

Katsura Kotaro walked slowly, his mind filled with doubt.

A powerful samurai, and someone the Shinsengumi believed to be connected to anti-foreign patriots, couldn't possibly be unknown, using a name from another country, yet somehow familiar to him—he must have only recently come into contact with him.

We need to investigate this thoroughly...

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In a certain club.

"Hiccup~"

Zhang Chengyi hiccuped. The woman accompanying him was striking seductive poses. He watched her in a daze, his brain's processing power largely depleted. Using the little brain he had left to control his body was too tiring. Drinking to numb himself would be more comfortable.

For him, it was like trying to dance ballet on stilts while holding an embroidery needle. If it were him when he first entered the world of Tianlong, he probably wouldn't even be able to move his body.

Only by mastering the use of the body and acquiring a large amount of martial arts memory can one drive a body powerful enough to cut through a spaceship with such a small amount of computing power.

Exhaustion was inevitable, but he couldn't fall asleep immediately because he needed to provide computing power, so alcohol was the best way to relax.

As his control over his body strengthens and he acquires more knowledge, he is now able to make certain adjustments to his body's internal structure on his own.

If someone could see through things, they would see that he has two hearts, three lungs, and his brain tissue is frighteningly large, with dense neural networks. His internal organ structure is also vastly different from that of a normal person.

The Gintama world does not have a power system, and there is no extraordinary energy that requires training. Modifying the body will not delay his training, which makes it convenient for him to make drastic modifications to his body.

In this case, we can only determine that he is human at the genetic level, and he is essentially a subspecies of human.

After undergoing drastic modifications, his physical limits were unleashed, making him a monster capable of directly clashing with the Night King, Housen, and other members of the Yato clan.

"Lord Zhang Chengyi." The bespectacled celestial being approached, a fawning smile on his face.

"Boss Qin Ye wishes to see you. I wonder if you are available..."

Zhang Chengyi glanced at him sideways. This guy was Tuoluo, a low-level member of Spring Rain, who used Spring Rain's name to lead people around selling 'Reincarnation Village'. The reason he was able to find him and contact him was simple—

His initial source of wealth was "Reincarnation Village," through which he connected with Spring Rain via the interstellar drug Reincarnation Village. Qin Ye was his partner when he first went to the interstellar world.

Of course, he wasn't selling the Reincarnation Village, but rather using it to find Qin Ye and team up to resell rare interstellar minerals.

But as his business grew, he ruthlessly abandoned Qin Ye and his group.

Chapter 513 Trivial Matters

"Tuoluo."

Zhang Chengyi leaned back on the sofa, the dim light making his expression somewhat unreadable. "Do you hate me?"

Tuoluo's expression froze for a moment, then returned to a humble smile: "Of course not."

While others might find Zhang Chengyi mysterious, he and his boss, Qin Ye, knew perfectly well that this guy was just an Earthling, albeit one with terrifyingly powerful strength.

They were kicked out of the giant company Kingsoft, and although they harbored resentment, they were absolutely willing to abide by the law of the jungle. Spring Rain was such an organization, where the strong reigned supreme.

[Jinshan] cannot accommodate a group of weak and lowly Spring Rain people. Even if they are not kicked out, they will lose everything sooner or later.

But being kicked out without any compensation and having to return to Earth to pick up the reincarnation village sales route that looked good at first but turned out to be terrible later is just too painful.

Humans always feel that it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.

However, even if they knew Zhang Chengyi's true identity, they still dared not reveal it. [Jinshan] had become a behemoth in the universe through repeated intelligence gambles and Zhang Chengyi's inexplicable actions, connecting too many forces.

So what if the founder is a humble Earthling? Nobody will believe it. Even if they produce evidence, they'll definitely be killed by the fanatical Kingsoft people.

However, the opportunity soon arrived.

With Zhang Chengyi's return to Earth, they might not be able to do anything to the owner of Jinshan, but they can return to his side. He can easily make a fortune by showing them even a little benefit.

He retired from the business, left Spring Rain, and lived a wonderful life as an interstellar tycoon...

Given this beautiful vision, do we hate it?

hatred.

But more often than not, it's driven by desire and a desire to climb the social ladder. They flatter, fawn, and grovel, and they don't care about anything else. Having seen the real interstellar tycoons, they can no longer continue their dead-end drug trafficking and pirate jobs.

This is the legendary concept of "good depravity".

"Is it that you can't, or that you dare not?" Zhang Chengyi's voice was neither sad nor happy, but tinged with drowsiness and drunkenness. "I remember I warned you not to go and sell the Reincarnation Village anymore."

He wasn't a demon, but he really disliked drugs. Interstellar drugs were also outside his aesthetic range. If it weren't for Qin Ye and Tuo Luo being somewhat sensible enough not to turn against him or cause him trouble, he would have killed the two people who used to sell drugs full-time long ago.

To be honest, both sides were just using each other. The fact that he was willing to spare their silence out of consideration for their cooperation and instead sent those two damned guys away shows how good-natured he is.

If it were him when he had just left the world of Tianlong for the second time, he would probably have been killing and fighting to his heart's content in the universe.

What are these so-called "Heavenly Guides" and "Spring Rain"? They're just a bunch of scum. If they gather together and fire a single shot with the Dragon Vein Star Destroyer, the entire universe will be quiet.

Even the mighty Yato clan couldn't defeat him, and when he witnessed the power of the Dragon Vein weapon in space, he genuinely believed that he absolutely couldn't withstand it. If the solar system couldn't withstand it even without considering the losses, then the carbon-based creatures of the Gintama world would have no chance of stopping it.

In a world where the power of weapons far surpasses the strength of individuals, the ultimate determinant of everything is not the individual.

The reason why the Celestial Guides are so powerful is that they monopolize the dragon veins. Initially, the Celestial Guides were just an organization similar to the United Nations, created by various countries in the universe to prevent the misuse of dragon vein weapons. Later, they went out of control because the Celestial Guides had too much power and controlled too many dragon veins, turning the Celestial Gang into a behemoth in the universe.

Dragon veins aren't just for weapons; this energy source is practically a universal clean energy source.

During that period, Zhang Chengyi acted recklessly, believing that the individual world was meaningless. He believed that the world was composed of information, and that each world contained infinitely similar or identical worlds, forming an infinite ocean of worlds.

Destruction today, reappearance tomorrow; the joys and sorrows of beings within the world seem utterly unimportant, their own preferences and happiness are what truly matter.

Now that he has experienced so much of the world and witnessed so much, whether it has any meaning or not is no longer important to him. In further reflection, the emotional value he can gain is the most important, and the personality of 'Zhang Chengyi, the Wandering Knight of Jinshan' is the most important.

Tuoluo vaguely sensed something was wrong, and his expression became even more humble. "My lord, we did not sell the Reincarnation Village to Earth. This is your hometown."

The reason his boss, Qin Ye, brought back the high-ranking official position of the Samurai Country Shogunate was to curry favor with this lord. The main reason for selling the Reincarnation Village was that he and his subordinates needed the money to make a living.

Spring Rain isn't a government that gives out money; it's a pirate regime. If you don't work, you're not entitled to any money.

Simply put, everyone acts under the banner of Spring Rain. When Spring Rain needs help, the members have to pay out of their own pockets and charge into battle with weapons. There will be rewards after the battle, but on ordinary days they have to beg for food.

"I'll give you three days."

Zhang Chengyi yawned and gestured for the bar hostess to refill his glass. "If I hear you're still doing business in the Reincarnation Village within three days..." He didn't finish his sentence, but his meaning was clear.

Killing Qin Ye and Tuo Luo was simple; the trouble was Chun Yu's reaction. The Jinshan power he represented was too great, and every move he made would attract the attention of Tian Dao Zhong and Chun Yu.

If he wants to continue living a carefree life on Earth and follow the comic book storyline in the future, he can't do anything out of line.

It would be troublesome, and unless it affects his perception, he will definitely not do anything unnecessary.

"I understand," Tuoluo replied, bowing his head.