An infinite journey starting from paradise

"Girl... although you do have a nice appearance and figure, I'm not a sex-hungry person. If I really wanted to do something to you, with the difference in power between us, do you think you could still keep your clothes on?"

Lin Shangren felt a little helpless, but he was pondering what Koizumi Hongzi had said in his mind.

"It seems the situation is more chaotic than I thought."

The author says:

Author's words: Damn, I've never been so eager to go back to work. If it doesn't work out, I'll just answer the alarm and leave tomorrow. (Sad

Mentality exploded, a day of waiting

For someone like me who can live happily on my own, I'm more suited to living alone. Marriage is harmful to both myself and others, alas...

Chapter 404 Transition

Koizumi Hongzi didn't quite trust Lin Shangren's words. Although the scent was very faint, she could still smell several different kinds of female body fragrance from Lin Shangren. It was obvious that this guy was a scumbag who was used to rolling around in piles of cosmetics.

But as Hayashi Shangren said, if he wanted to take her body, Koizumi Hongzi would be powerless to resist. So if she didn't want to become his plaything, she should change the topic.

Koizumi Hongzi took a deep breath and said, "Let's not talk about this. You have no interest in me anyway, right? Well, I'd better answer your other question."

"Wait." Lin Shangren stopped Koizumi Hongzi, then immediately gestured for her to continue. "Forget it, go on. I'll ask that Lucifer guy about this myself later. First, tell me, where did you witches come from?"

"I don't know exactly where the starry sky beyond Earth is," Koizumi Hongzi replied, pointing upward. "Thousands of years ago, the ancestors of the witch clan drifted to Earth. They intermarried with the Earthlings of that time, and the hybrid children they gave birth to were the first witches. Of course, this period of history isn't necessarily set reality. Who knows if it's been overwritten or modified."

"Is that so? Then how did you notice that something was wrong with the history of this world? It should be difficult for people who are undergoing the rewriting changes in this world to notice this." Lin Shangren asked curiously.

"Because of divination," Koizumi Hongzi replied. "My divination skills are always sometimes effective and sometimes not. The results are often off. Logically, this is not abnormal. After all, divination is only about predicting future possibilities, and it can't be 100% accurate.

But when I used divination to recall something I had lost in the past, I discovered many inexplicable phenomena. Things I had never had in the past appeared inexplicably, and things that I clearly had in my memory disappeared for some reason. I wanted to recall what it was, but I couldn't remember it.

It's like someone has rewritten my life. One moment I'm having dinner with my parents, the next I'm alone, then completely disappears, only to reappear in a completely different form. And yet, I'm completely unaware of all this change.

Just thinking about it makes me feel scary and powerless.

Is this what reality is like? Mr. Evil God from outside this world."

"Perhaps," Lin Shangren said, choosing his words carefully. "If you understand quantum mechanics and the observer effect, you'll know this might be the norm in the material world."

"I don't understand." Koizumi Hongzi shook her head. "But it doesn't matter anyway. No matter how the past changes, the only thing I can control in the midst of change is the present. Besides... after officially meeting you, my fate should be fixed, right?"

"That's right," Lin Shangren replied, "So the history you know now is still of some reference value. Continue to tell me about the relationship between your witch clan's ancestors, the legendary Pandora, and Princess Kaguya."

Koizumi Hongzi replied, "Two branches of the same race, at least that's what the ancient texts handed down from my family say. Our ancestors were a race from outside the solar system, similar in appearance to humans. They were divided into advanced and ordinary species. The advanced species were almost identical to humans, except for having rabbit ears and the ability to call upon magic derived from their own souls and from other gods and evil spirits in the universe. The ordinary species had humanoid rabbit heads, resembling oversized, upright rabbits."

For unknown reasons, our ancestors arrived in the solar system, but the spacecraft carrying them malfunctioned. Most of them followed the spacecraft and made an emergency landing on the moon, while a few escaped to Earth via the escape pods. Those who arrived on Earth were the ancestors of the witch clan.

The ancestors of witches were divided into two factions. One group wanted to conquer the earth with their own magic and advanced technology. They were the ancestors of the black magic users. The other group lived in seclusion and did not want to have too much interaction with humans. They were the ancestors of our red magic lineage.

However, since we live on Earth, it's impossible not to interact with humans. My ancestors, though reclusive, eventually intermarried with humans over time and integrated into human society. Mixed-blood descendants like me no longer have the rabbit ears of our ancestors. While my magic is stronger than that of pure aliens, I face many more constraints..."

"For example, you can't cry, because if you cry, the magic will be lost?" Lin Shangren asked.

"Yes." Koizumi Hongzi nodded. "Besides this, there are other restrictions... Anyway, the Red Magic Witches have become part of human society. As for those who use black magic, they want to conquer humanity, but at that time, humans on Earth were not as weak as they are now. Even without using firearms, they could kill witches with physical strength. Moreover, there were various powerful individuals on Earth at that time who were revered as gods.

Therefore, the ancestors of the black magic users could only hide in the corners of human society, acting in secret.

Over a thousand years ago, aliens from the moon repaired some of their spacecraft's propulsion systems and launched an invasion of Earth. Their leader was the Princess Kaguya you mentioned. She was defeated and sealed away by Earth's native gods, then revived centuries ago, launching another invasion before being suppressed and sealed away again. The book doesn't provide a clear account of this part.

As for Pandora... she must be one of the aliens. Halley's Comet might be a lifeboat for a cruise. According to the book, she arrived on Earth before my ancestors. She seems to be carrying something...

The records about this part are very ambiguous. I asked Lucifer, but he didn't answer me. Anyway, it seems that after they arrived in the solar system, a rebellion broke out on the ship, and Pandora escaped with something. As for what this 'something' was, I have no idea.

"That's it... um..."

Lin Shangren dropped his chin in thought. After a moment, he raised his head and asked Koizumi Hongzi, "Can you let me see the classics passed down in your family?"

"Wait." Koizumi Hongzi said.

"What's wrong?" Lin Shangren asked.

"You're more reasonable and rule-abiding than I thought. You actually asked for my permission?"

Koizumi Hongzi's tone became much lighter. Although she was intimidated by the other party, overall, the evil god in front of her was not as difficult as she had imagined. In fact, to some extent, he was quite easy to get along with.

"I thought you were going to ask me for some reward." Lin Shangren said.

"Hey, can I ask you for compensation? Well, after all, you borrowed my things, so you should pay rent."

"So what do you want?"

"Then... can you tell me what the place outside this world is like? And... you, I have never seen an evil god as reasonable as you. Why do you stay in this world as a police officer?" asked Koizumi Hongzi.

"Because it's convenient," Lin Shangren replied. "Besides, I've already said that I'm human, a genuine human. Call me by my first name, Mr. Lin, Officer Lin, or Doctor Lin. Just don't call me the Evil God. As for other worlds, I'll take you to see them for yourself."

As he spoke, Lin Shangren opened the [Luofu Reality] and pulled Koizumi Hongzi into the simulated dream.

……

On the other side, Seven Star Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Manaka Hehuan is currently busy with company matters, including the broadcast of the Ultraman series, the planning of the Kamen Rider series, and other films. Fortunately, with the help of Tachibana Maya and Aso Kasumi, Hehuan isn't too busy.

Compared to these matters, He Huan was more looking forward to her and Lin Shangren's trip to Hokkaido, and the surprise they had prepared for him tonight. Although they thought they had just had a big time with Lin Shangren the night before, for Lin Shangren, it had been a long time since he had been close to them. Not to mention the new family member.

"Besides the still unconscious Taira Ie, there's also the gentle and virtuous Yamato Nadeshiko and the little ninja who was accidentally dragged into this? Tokita Yukiyo or Kirika-nee should be easy to get along with. As for the latter, it depends on Naoto's attitude."

Thinking about this, He Huan opened the file bag on the left side of the table. It contained resumes that had just been delivered by the Human Resources Department that morning. Someone else was interviewing for the position of Lin Shangren's assistant. The previous interviewee for this position was Tachibana Mayo, who was planning to assassinate Lin Shangren.

"Maye, check this guy's background information. You should know the phone number of the Household Registration and Archives Department, right? Well, they should know our number." Hehuan ordered.

"I see." Tachibana Maya answered, flipping open her notebook. "Ms. Hehuan, I just received a call from the Metropolitan Police Department's DIE. The caller is a policewoman named Sato Miwako. She said she wanted to contact the master. She wanted to express her gratitude to the master regarding the Choshiro case."

"Officer Sato?" He Huan rubbed the back of his neck. "Then we'll tell him when Shangren comes back. By the way, how's Okino Yoko doing?"

"We can't dig it out using conventional means for the time being."

"Then let's use unconventional means. And..."

Hehuan opened a list, which contained the identity information of the "important targets" in the original "Detective Conan" that she was interested in, which she had asked Aso Kasumi and Aoki Fuyushi to collect.

"Preventing these murders has to be a priority."

Hehuan opened her assistant panel. In order to help Lin Shangren accumulate more time-travel quotas, she had to get busy.

Escape from home and stay home for a day

Just like the title says. I will try to catch up tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, because I have to go back to work. Sigh.

Chapter 405: Get ready to start delivering

A house in Tokyo.

With a flash of silver light, a flying knife pierced "Lin Shangren's face".

Of course, the flying knife only hit a photo of Lin Shangren pasted on the whiteboard.

It is not accurate to call it a photo. To be precise, it should be a picture cut out from the newspaper of Lin Shangren being interviewed as a police spokesperson.

Besides this picture, there were many other pictures related to Lin Shangren posted on the whiteboard. However, without exception, they were all pictures reported by the media, and there was not a single candid photo in the traditional sense.

This makes the whiteboard look less like a killer organization's intelligence analysis of their prey and more like a photo wall of their idols created by fan girls.

However, the person who made this whiteboard and shot this flying knife was not a girl. At least her body had long since left the realm of a girl. She had just gotten out of the bath and casually draped her bath towel over the chair, exposing her curvy body. A few drops of wet water were still sparkling in the light.

"What a tough guy."

The woman's fingers brushed across the corners of her eyes, wiping away the remaining water marks on her swallowtail butterfly tattoo. Her gaze was fixed on the photo of Lin Shangren and Lai Shenglei on the whiteboard, which the reporter had accidentally taken at the dinner party at Nagato's house.

Looking at the man in the photo, dressed in black and looking more like a winery employee than the others, the woman codenamed Chianti muttered softly, "We can't trace his movements at all, and the peripheral personnel assigned to his entertainment company are all gone. Should we start with the people around him?"

The woman picked up another throwing knife on the table with her fingers.

"Laisheng Lei has a deep background, so it's hard to target her. The same goes for the daughter of the Suzuki family. The others are either prosecutors or police officers..."

Chianti irritably pulled off the towel on his head and shook his still wet golden hair vigorously.

Long blond hair?

Yes, in this world, Chianti's identity has also changed. She's still a codenamed member of the winery, still a skilled and somewhat insane sniper. However, she no longer has her companion, codenamed Cohen, and has become a lone ranger like Vermouth. As for her appearance, it incorporates the features of another winery member named Kate Lauren.

Kate Lauren is a character in the Conan comic-adapted game "Detective Conan: The Three's Famous Reasoning". She is a member of the winery and lurks around the head of state of another country, waiting for an opportunity to assassinate him. She was eventually silenced by Gin.

In this world, Kate Lauren and Chianti merged into one person, the current female killer code-named Chianti, whose real name is Kate Lauren.

She is one of Gin's aces. After Gin was temporarily disabled by Hayashi Naoto after his wrist was crushed and ankle was stepped on, she was transferred back to Japan to investigate Hayashi Naoto's identity and background and prepare to assassinate him, the big trouble.

"What a nuisance. But I'm not the only one targeting this troublesome guy," Chianti thought. This morning, while she was monitoring the Seven Stars Entertainment Corporation as usual, she discovered a "special guy."

"Vermouth, although your disguise is impeccable, I can't mistake your little movements and habits. Are you going to hunt him too?" Chianti stared at Lin Shangren in the photo with a burning gaze. "You really are a juicy and sought-after prey, you."

Apart from Chianti, who is unaware of his own limitations, there are several other groups ready to attack Lin Shangren. One of them is Vermouth, who is disguising herself as a secretary and lurking beside Lin Shangren. Her purpose is to obtain a tissue sample from Lin Shangren. As for the reason, we will not discuss it here.

Apart from the two groups of people in the winery, the one who most wanted to get rid of Lin Shangren was of course the so-called "Wind God" or the people from the Prajna family.

……

The ruins of Ryugu Castle on an isolated island in Okinawa.

This was originally the property of the Jincheng family. However, due to the kidnapping and murder of their daughter, Jincheng, several years ago, the head of the Jincheng family, in depression, sold his ancestral property and immigrated to the United States with the money, intending to start a new life. The island with the castle ruins has been abandoned ever since.

Until a few days ago, the Prajna family moved in here with the Wind God Sword.

The ruins of Ryugu Castle retain a cloaking array from the Warring States period, concealing the castle's presence. For the shaky ground of the Prajna family, this is the perfect hiding place.

Besides the ruins of Ryugu Castle, what they wanted most was of course the golden screen that recorded the location of the orb and Kaguya-hime's treasures. However, that screen had long been stolen by Kinjoto, or rather, Taira Ie and her friends, and its whereabouts were unknown.

Naturally, the people of the Prajna family could not know the abstract operation of Taira Ie who staged a fake kidnapping to test whether his father really loved him, so the ninjas of the Prajna family could only start investigating the kidnapping and murder case of the Kinjo family six years ago.

"It's been six years. That golden screen should have been melted down and sold long ago, right? There's no news from the underground antique market. Could it be that the robbers didn't know the value of it and melted it down into gold bars?"

Inside the main hall of Ryugu Castle, Prajna Hanzang, reclining on a dragon-headed bed, pondered this. The bald, middle-aged man tightly grasped the Wind God Sword. The green orb embedded within the Wind God Sword's hilt emanated wisps of energy, condensing into a tall, ethereal humanoid form beside Prajna Hanzang.

"Impossible." The shadow said, "No mortal can have such power to smelt the dragon girl's creation."

"Hehe, since you are not afraid of modern technology and weapons at all, why are you hiding like this? You should still be afraid, right? Afraid of nuclear weapons like the one that exploded in Hiroshima." There was some sarcasm in Hannya Hanzo's tone.

"Foolish! That thing you're talking about is just a poor imitation of the sun by you monkeys. The one I need to avoid is far more terrifying than the sun." The Wind God's consciousness said, "But, we only need to avoid it for a while. Once we get the Dragon God Pearl and Kaguya's relics, no matter if it's Kaguya, whose power is only one tenth of what it was, or any other gods, they will not be our opponents.

"Just go for it, Hanzo. Just like we agreed, my remaining soul won't last long. Once everything is ready, you and I will become one. This world will be ours." Thus spoke the Wind God's consciousness.

"hehe."

Hannya Hanzo sneered. Truthfully, he had no interest in world domination. He was content to live out his days in Rokkaku Village, a wealthy man who bullied men and women. Originally, the title "Hanzo" should never have belonged to him; Hannya Hanzo was his biological brother. Training his family members as ninja, or protecting the family legacy, was none of his business.

But who made his brother target his younger siblings?

"You raised someone else's daughter, but instead of seeking revenge, you turn around and bully your own siblings. You're truly a beast!"

Thinking of his elder brother's face, Hannya Hanzo clenched his fists again.

A month ago, Isshiki Torao, a frequent guest at Hannya's home, came to drink with the previous Hannya Hanzo, the brother of the current Hannya Hanzo, as usual. The two of them, both a little tipsy, got into an argument. Originally, it wouldn't have been a big deal, but perhaps there was something else in the wine that day, Isshiki Torao got incredibly drunk. He started to act crazy and started heading towards Hanzo's bedroom, saying... he wanted to sleep with the previous Hanzo's deceased wife. A fight ensued between the two.

It was obvious that Isshiki Torao was no match for the previous generation Hanzo who practiced martial arts. Under the influence of anger and alcohol, Isshiki Torao, who was knocked to the ground, actually revealed that he had an affair with the previous generation Hanzo's wife, and even his daughter Banruo Feng was Isshiki Torao's child.

Regardless of whether this scandal was true or not, the previous Hanzo and Isshiki Torao would never reconcile. With nearly thirty ninjas at home and his own martial arts skills far surpassing those of ordinary people, the previous Hanzo could easily and quietly kill Isshiki Torao if he wanted to.

However, the previous generation of Hanzo actually let Isshiki Torao go, and did not pursue or retaliate against him afterwards. Instead, he sneaked into the room of the current generation of Hanzo Hanzo late at night and raped his newly married wife in front of him.

This generation of Hanzo, whose real name is Hannya Yasuke, is the younger brother of the previous generation of Hanzo. He has been unmotivated and idle since childhood, living like an ordinary village bully. It was not until a year ago that Hannya Yasuke, who was over 40 years old, decided to settle down and live a normal life. With the wealth of the Hannya family, he also married a gentle and virtuous girl from the town of Kitayami.

Despite the fifteen-year age difference between them, their life was quite harmonious, mainly because the woman was tolerant of Hannyayasuke's shortcomings. Since they had a family to support them and didn't have to work, it was quite nice for the couple to stay at home.

But, that night, just as the couple finished making love and were about to go to sleep, Hannya Hanzo burst in...

The process was extremely brutal. With his mediocre martial arts skills, Prajna Yasuke certainly could not defeat his elder brother. With his legs dislocated, he could only watch like a dead dog as his brother humiliated his wife.

"Take her and run away? I'm useless and can't do anything right. It will definitely be difficult to escape from the Prajna family. What's more, he refuses to let us go... again and again, day after day... I have no choice but to kill him."

He couldn't remember the specific details, but he only remembered that in his despair, a strange voice of unknown gender suddenly rang in his ears, which led him to find the Wind God Sword hidden in the stone tablet in the Prajna family ancestral hall. And then...

"Then……"

Prajna Hanzang suddenly swung his sword with great force, and the sword force, accompanied by a strong wind pressure, swept towards the dragon head statue on the ceiling of the Dragon Palace City. The powerful force crushed and tore the bronze dragon head, and finally the statue was torn into pieces by the high pressure and fell to the ground.

The fate of the previous Hanzo's corpse was very similar to that of the current bronze dragon head, except that his body was mixed with the remains of another person - when Hannyayasuke swung his sword, his brother was on top of his wife. Together, they turned into blood splattered all over the room.

Kill his brother, inherit his name, wealth and the entire Prajna family, and then with the help of the power of the Wind God Sword, he can even rule the entire world. Under the influence of the Wind God consciousness in the Wind God Pearl, Prajna Yasuke... now he should be called Prajna Hanzo, his desires have been completely aroused.

The Wind God had originally intended to seize the sealed treasures of the other families in Rokkaku Village, find the unknown hidden Thunder God Sword, and use their power to conquer and control all of Japan. However, before he could act, he sensed an unprecedented sense of danger: a terrifying aura was approaching Rokkaku Village. With no other choice, he fled Rokkaku Village and made his own plans.

"The three of them haven't come yet. Not only them, but even my three ninjas haven't sent back any news. Could the mission have failed?" asked Prajna Hanzo.

"Yes," the Wind God replied, "so we have to speed up and find the golden screen or the prize pearl. With our current strength, even if we conquer the Earth, we will only be making wedding dresses for others. I have a feeling that Kaguya-sama is coming again. And... that terrifying feeling."

The shadow of the God of Wind began to twist and change, and finally took on a human figure similar in shape to Lin Shangren.

"This is the last scene Xie Yang sent me before he lost contact. This man got the Thunder God Sword. Maybe he used the power of the Thunder God Sword to kill Xie Yang. Find out his identity and take the Thunder God Sword back."