ebookland Chapter 154 Origin
Chapter 154 Origin
That was a long time ago, at least longer than Fang Wuwei had imagined.
That was about twenty-six years ago, around 1988, during the neon economic bubble.
According to Tomori Matsuo's description, that era was full of gold, especially real estate, and the economic bubble period was a time of huge profits.
At that time, the Tu Shou family's huge foundation allowed him to stand out in this bloody sea of finance.
Originally, his life would probably have gone on like this. Either he would have stepped on countless corpses in this sea of gold and become a superior person, or he would have failed and been completely silent in that sea of blood.
Until some people broke their peaceful lives.
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At that time, the Tu Shou couple had just gotten married and were only in their early twenties, in the prime of their life, so youthful, and so beautiful.
The two had been through ups and downs together. In just a few years, they had experienced making a fortune, then going bankrupt, and finally making a comeback... They had developed a very deep relationship and were deeply in love with each other.
Their identical golden hair became the best symbol of the two and the destined bond of their fate in this life.
Everyone gave their blessings to their marriage, including those who shouldn't have come.
On their wedding day, gangsters came.
At that time, the Tu Shou family took advantage of the rising housing prices and became a real estate tyrant, controlling most of the local properties and land. They were very successful. They originally thought that the best thing would be to live a good life, have a child, and live a happy and legendary life.
Until the arrival of the gangsters, they just wanted to whitewash themselves.
Neon was in an economic bubble period in the 23s and 800s. Everyone had high salaries and high consumption. There was even a saying that "selling the wards of Tokyo could buy the entire United States." Everyone made a fortune, and even ordinary office workers could spend yen on a taxi for a bowl of yen ramen.
Everyone is extremely wealthy, even ordinary housewives can make a lot of money, and wearing branded clothes has even become a standard for women...except for the gangsters.
That era was the most destitute and lowest point for the Japanese gangs, and the gangsters who came after Touma's family were among those who were most destitute.
They came here to clean up their mess, to leave their past behind and do some legitimate business, but they had nothing and could only hope that someone could help them.
They set their sights on the then overlord, the Toumori family, and with the idea of pleasing them, they showed up uninvited on the day of Toumori Matsuo's wedding, bringing their gifts...
"So, this is it?"
Fang Wuwei pointed to the purple crystal on the table. When no one was using it, the magic power on it was like a pool of stagnant water, motionless. One could only sense the magic power, but there was no fluctuation at all, which showed that it was quite stable.
Toumori Matsuo nodded.
"They sent us a lot of these crystals, but now we have almost used them up... Do you still want to hear more?"
"It's alright... I'm curious where they got this."
Soon Fang Wuwei got the answer from Tu Shousongsheng.
In that era, no one looked down on gangsters, especially the Toumori family. They quickly drove the gangsters away, and the marriage went on as usual, as if nothing had happened.
It was not until that night that Tuo Shousong became curious and wanted to take a closer look at the crystals sent by the gangsters.
Only one was delivered at that time, and it was extremely small in size, but very beautiful. Under the moonlight, with only a little light source, it refracted rainbow-like light. It was obvious at a glance that it was not an ordinary item and must be extremely rare.
After seeing the gangsters' determination and sincerity, Toumori Matsuo met with them the next day and promised to rent them a house for free temporarily for their development.
To Touma Matsuo, a house was just a drizzle at the time, but to the gangsters, it was a huge blessing, so they sent a large number of gifts the next day.
A crystal clear bracelet, and those crystals are even bigger, and there are dozens of them.
But Tuo Shou Song Sheng was stunned... My goodness, I thought those crystals were so precious, but they were bought in bulk? So many?
But it’s hard to take back things that have been given away. As for the house...just give it away. It’s rented anyway, so just consider it as a kind gesture.
And I have to admit that these crystals are really beautiful. Mrs. Tu Shou likes them very much and puts a different one by her bed every night.
The turning point of the matter was that in the second year, Mrs. Tu Shou saw so many crystals and was tired of their ordinary appearance, so she decided to carve them into jewelry.
After making an appointment with the craftsmen, an accident happened when they were processing the first piece of crystal.
When the craftsman saw the unknown material, he wanted to test the situation first. With one blow of the carving hammer, the crystal began to crack, and the cracks instantly spread all over the crystal.
At first I thought it was just a problem with the crystal material, but a bright light shone from the cracks in the crystal, and the strange and mysterious light illuminated the studio at that time.
Afterwards, an extremely violent explosion occurred, almost blowing the entire studio into the sky, and the craftsman died on the spot without a complete body.
The Tu Shou couple had just turned around to go out and were still saying goodbye to the craftsman's apprentice when they saw the house inside explode violently. Purple light burst out from it, and the violent and strange energy blew them away.
There was no fire, no smoke, no loud roar in the explosion. The explosion was even unusually quiet, with only the sound of houses flying up and then falling to the ground.
The terrified people called the police, but in the end they only found the crystals inside.
Only the crystals were left, except for the one that exploded, and the other things... seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. Even the body of the craftsman could not be found, and the house was missing a large part of the materials.
This is naturally not normal. No matter how stupid they are, the Toumori couple should have realized what was going on.
Horrified, they went to find the gangsters, accompanied by numerous bodyguards, and inquired about the origin of these crystals.
The gangsters have started to do legitimate business. Knowing the current economic situation, they naturally did not dare to offend the giant Toumori family and honestly explained the origin of the crystal.
They picked them up from a corpse. The crystals were scattered all over the ground, surrounding the corpse. It looked very strange.
The gangsters just thought that the man had died suddenly, so they took all the crystals away in order to avoid waste, and buried the body on the spot out of humanitarianism... Under the angry pursuit of the Toumori family, they led the way and dug out the body, and then they saw the most shocking scene in their lives.
The body had been buried in the ground for more than a year, but it was still intact. There was no sign of decay at all, and even no corpse spots or stench. It looked like it was sleeping, that's all.
"So, we brought the body back..."
Tu Shousongsheng led Fang Wuwei through another secret door and came to a deeper place.
There was something that looked like an operating table, and on it, under the light, there was a person lying, with several bodyguards standing beside him with guns on their waists. There were also some bookshelves around him, filled with many books.
"We have conducted a scientific study and found that this person is indeed dead. All of his organs have failed and lost their ability to work. His heart no longer beats and he no longer breathes. His body is also extremely cold. But for some reason, he does not have any of the symptoms that other people would experience after death, such as rotting, corpse spots, corpse odor, and rigor mortis. None of these symptoms occurred."
Fang Wuwei walked forward to observe - a man, a man in a robe, lying peacefully on the stage. Under the strong light, his face was pale and his eyes were closed. He seemed to be sleeping, but also seemed to have died long ago... and yet, seemed to be still alive.
Fang Wuwei could sense that there was a layer of magic power still flowing through the man's body, flowing on his surface.