Substitutes are not a problem

Chapter66

Eight years ago, Yokohama——

Sitting on a bench in Yamashita Park in Yokohama, bathed in the damp and cold sea breeze blowing from the harbor not far away, Akamatsu Gen quietly watched the people coming and going in front of him.

The last time I came to this city, I landed here six years ago after being taken away from the Everdark Isle in the Pacific Ocean.

Then she was sent to a research institute in Tokyo by Mr. Tsushima, where she stayed for six years.In the past six years, she has never left Tokyo, or was not allowed to leave.

The force behind that research institute is an organization, a huge and mysterious organization.

She doesn't know much about that organization, only that the official members of that organization use the name of wine as their code name.

Moreover, on the surface, some members still have quite glamorous identities in the political and business circles.

Because until now she was not considered a regular member of this organization, more like a contract worker hired outside the staff.

Mr. Tsushima, who has had a mutually beneficial relationship with that organization for a long time, obviously does not want to give her useful labor force to that organization, but rents her to that organization for the purpose of doing research for that organization in exchange for benefits.

Of course, she didn't want to be an official member of that organization at all, because that would mean... she was completely finished.

Her mission in the past six years has been completely centered around a subject, based on the residual information left by the previous researcher of this subject, Dr. Miyano and his wife.

The reason why Mr. Tsushima recommended her to the organization was also because the research on enhancing cell proliferation ability that she stumbled upon when she was in the research institute in Zurich coincided with the research that the organization wanted to complete.

She tried to hide the research direction she had explored back then, because she imagined that once this research was further developed, it might cause irreparable and terrible consequences.

And the purpose of that organization is obviously to turn the terrible consequences that may exist into reality, even crazier——

[Webeboth of God and the devil. Since wearing trying to raise the dead against the stream of time? We are both God and the devil.Because we can turn back time and bring people back to life. 】【1】

She considers herself neither a mad scientist nor an unstructured coward.But she has always believed that those who violate the laws of nature will be punished.

This is a study that should not continue, absolutely not.

Therefore, in the past six years, her research progress has been very slow, and it is a day if it can be delayed...

It is not easy for her to deliberately slow down the progress without being noticed by other people in the institute.

Fortunately, no one in the research institute is more professional than her in this field and has noticed her "not interested in this".

So at most, she was considered by the people in the organization to be inferior to the Miyano couple back then.

But because there is really no one who is stronger than her in this field.So I can only let her "work slowly and carefully" in the laboratory.

However, her strategy of "one day at a time" will soon fail, because... Mr. Tsushima is about to lose power.

The political arena has always been changing, and the political situation in Japan has been particularly unstable in recent years.

Mr. Tsushima, who has been in the political arena for several years, was finally defeated by his opponents after the highlight.

As for that kid Shuji Tsushima... According to Mr. Tsushima, the kid disappeared mysteriously the day after he graduated from primary school in England two years ago, not because he was kidnapped or threatened.

Instead, he himself disappeared from everyone's sight on his own initiative.At that time, after Mr. Tsushima learned the news, he even used his relationship with the British MI[-], but he still failed to find the whereabouts of the child, as if he had disappeared from the world.

In the end, Mr. Tsushima simply ignored the matter.He even said indifferently that he had never had this little son.

Mr. Tsushima is a man of his word. As a guardian, he changed the status of all the files of Tsushima Shuji to "dead", thus erasing the social existence of "Tsujima Shuji", and he himself is no longer mentioned.

It wasn't until Mr. Tsushima contacted her last time to tell her that he was about to lose power and let her prepare herself that he mentioned the youngest son who had "died" at the age of 12 for the first time in two years——

[That's fine, the entire Tsushima family will be liquidated soon, and my political enemies won't let anyone around me go... That kid hangs out alone, even if he's the only one, as long as he wants to live If you go on, you can always do it. 】

It really echoed what Shuji Tsushima said. Among the many children, his father liked him the most and hated him the most.

However, right now, Akasong Yuan thinks she should worry about herself first.

The reason why Mr. Tsushima informed him of his current situation in advance and hinted that she should prepare herself was also because...he couldn't protect her anymore.

It was originally a relationship of exchange of interests, and Mr. Tsushima, who was about to lose power, could no longer contribute benefits to that organization, which meant that she could no longer dissociate from that organization as his subordinate.

If there is no accident, she will be forced to join that organization at that time, and once she officially becomes a "bottle of wine" in that organization, the only outcome she can predict is...unnatural death.

Either after she completely loses value or refuses to cooperate well, the organization directly erases her;

Either the organization will be purged by the official government in the future, and she who has engaged in illegal research in the organization is also waiting to be sentenced.

Either way is a dead end.

And coming to Yokohama this time, perhaps, will be her last chance.

Six years ago, as expected, the war on Everdark Island in the Pacific finally came to an end with Japan's defeat.

As Japan's largest international seaport city, Yokohama has also fallen into chaos. Powers from various countries are pouring in, local forces are also fighting endlessly, and a large number of people with supernatural powers are concentrated and dormant here. The chaos in this city is difficult even for the government to intervene. , this area was "forced" to completely become a special autonomous region, as if it existed independently of the outside world.

For example, winery organizations with influence all over Japan and even overseas have not arranged any forces in Yokohama, or rather, they can't avoid the muddy water in Yokohama.

This time she was sent to Yokohama because of a deal between the organization's second-in-command "Rum" and the head of the port mafia.

She didn't know what kind of friendship these two old men had in the past. The current situation is that the port mafia leader who has been in decline in health for the past few years has become more and more tyrannical, and his mind is becoming more and more crazy. impending fear.

So frantically trying to grab all the ways to continue life.After learning that Rum's organization has a drug that can "return the dead", he decisively negotiated with Rum and asked to send someone with this technology to restore his declining body.

Langmu didn't know that there was something in the hands of this old man, so he really agreed and sent her over.

Of course, this wave is not a loss in Rum's view.Because the "silver bullet" that can bring people back to life has not been researched at all.

So there is no need to worry that the port mafia leader who is plagued by illness will suddenly come back alive and full of blood.

The actual task that Rum arranged for her on this trip was to investigate the situation of the supernatural beings in Yokohama and search for supernatural powers that might help the organization achieve its goals. It just so happened that this time she could enter Yokohama for investigation without worrying about coming from the port. Mafia pressure.

Of course, in this transaction, the two old men acquiesced that it did not involve the organizations of the two parties, and it was just a private transaction between the two of them.

Therefore, apart from these two parties and her as an intermediary tool, no third person knows about it.

She was a pharmacist working at a medical research institute in Tokyo, and an old friend of the port mafia boss recommended her to come and heal the port mafia boss.

This is the identity she has after coming to Yokohama for a month.

This month in Yokohama was her last chance if she wanted to get rid of a future where she was dead anyway.

Otherwise, when she returned to Tokyo a month later, Mr. Tsushima might have gone into exile overseas, and she would also be forced to be granted a wine title.

According to the negotiation between the two old men, she came to Yokohama alone.

Waiting at the specific location designated by Yamashita Park in Yokohama, waiting for the Port Mafia who was sent here to join her.

Footsteps were coming towards her.

It wasn't the footsteps of a single person, but the sound was the size of a small team.

Finally, the footsteps stopped beside her.

Chi Songyuan turned his head and looked at the person who came to meet her...

"You are the pharmacist specially invited by the leader from Tokyo."

When he saw the person in his eyes, Chi Songyuan felt a little dazed for a moment, and his brain even stopped functioning for a moment.

And before she had time to react instinctively, the man had already spoken again, and said in a polite and gentle voice: "My humble servant, Mori Ogai, is the personal doctor of the leader of the port mafia. Come here and pick you up to meet the leader."

These warm words, like a cooling agent, made Chi Songyuan's brain calm down instantly.

She naturally saw the small group of Port Mafia members in black suits and black sunglasses following behind the personal doctor.Then even returned the same polite and distant smile, just like meeting for the first time.

It's like they never knew each other.

"My name is Gen Chimatsu, nice to meet you, Dr. Mori."

fate?opportunity?destiny?

she does not know……

The only thing she knew was that at such a moment, a bold idea appeared in her mind.