Chapter 454: Old Gods

【Scavenger Authority】

【Quality: Special】

【Description: A special identity certificate granted by the Space to certain types of Special Reincarnators, possessing the privilege of purge.】

【Effect 1: Holding this Authority will always result in being identified as a Scavenger.】 (Regardless of how the Reincarnator's style or strength changes, when a Purge Mission is triggered, the holder will always be in the front of the queue, with a priority no lower than 5.)

【Effect 2: In each mission world, you may designate one Reincarnator as a purge target. The Space will conduct an appraisal on them; if they fail the appraisal, a special Purge Mission will be initiated.】 (The appraisal will be based on the Reincarnator's behavior in the mission world, use of items, contact with special Plot Characters, etc.)

Bai Cangshu looked at his right palm, where a glowing triangular pattern had appeared. As long as he focused his gaze, he could see the detailed introduction of the 【Scavenger Authority】.

Simply put, this was a form of identity verification. In the future, whenever a Purge Mission was issued, even if Bai Cangshu did not meet the criteria, he would still gain the qualification to enter the sequence.

The information Bai Cangshu had previously learned from Li Qingzi was that Purge Missions primarily required two aspects. The first was strength; only Reincarnators who possessed the power to purge other Reincarnators would be listed by the Space as Scavenger candidates.

The second was the Reincarnator's style of conduct in the mission world. This was an implicit condition. Based on the Reincarnator's attitude toward other Reincarnators, Plot Characters, ordinary humans, and so on in the mission world, the Space would judge the Reincarnator's style and eventually, at an appropriate time, regard them as a Scavenger to execute a Purge Mission.

Furthermore, in Bai Cangshu's view, the more important effect of this Authority was clearly the second one. He could designate one person as a purge target in each mission world. Once they passed the Space's appraisal, he could kill them to obtain a 【Scavenger Scarlet Drop Card】 that allowed for designated draws.

Combined with the Scarlet Sin effect of Bai Cangshu's current 【Omen of the Evil God: Third Order】, he could acquire resources quickly and efficiently.

As for the success rate of the appraisal, because there was no suitable target yet, Bai Cangshu had not tested it.

"Um... Mr. Tao..."

The Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan, who was sitting in the conference room acting as a mediator, maintained a posture of being about to rise from his chair but not fully standing up.

The Japanese were consistently, almost pedantically, pretentious about such trivial matters.

They believed that sitting in a chair while speaking to a superior was disrespectful, but standing tall and proud before this Tao Baibai was also inappropriate.

Therefore, this high-ranking official with real power currently appeared almost sycophantic.

But the Prime Minister had no objections. The Mr. Tao Baibai before them was an existence already revered as a living god by those old fogies in Shintoism.

Although he did not believe such rhetoric, the footage of Tao Baibai killing that giant beast capable of ignoring nuclear explosions filled him with terror.

Moreover, although his own background was not impoverished, he was different from politicians from powerful clans like the Abe and Koizumi families; he had his own concerns and worries regarding the news circulating within the government about the end of the world and alien technology.

Bai Cangshu was interrupted in his thoughts. He raised his eyes, looking with displeasure at these Japanese politicians who were vying for him as if he were some kind of powerful force.

Boom!

Without warning, a wave of black-red Conqueror's Haki erupted violently.

The intense aura swept across thousands of meters like a raging sea. The politicians closest to Bai Cangshu instantly turned pale, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.

Mouri Keiya, the Chief Cabinet Secretary who had just spoken to interrupt Bai Cangshu's thoughts, rolled his eyes back and collapsed to the floor, his foul-smelling urine leaking out uncontrollably.

As for the various bodyguards secretly arranged in the back by these people, and the guards outside the conference room, they had no time to react at all and were likewise submerged by the Conqueror's Haki.

Thump, thump...

In a short moment, only three people remained conscious in this conference room.

One was the current Prime Minister of Japan, Suga Hideto, sitting opposite Bai Cangshu, and the other was an old man sitting at a certain distance behind him.

Suga Hideto's limbs trembled. What kind of power was this? He turned his head stiffly; there was no sound anywhere around him.

Bai Cangshu stood up and opened the window of the conference room. From here, one could see a corner of Mount Fuji. This group of people had moved the Prime Minister's Residence away from Tokyo, but they still chose a place where they could see Mount Fuji.

"Let's keep it simple and direct, humans~"

Bai Cangshu was increasingly accustomed to referring to these weak, ordinary people as "humans." He had already unconsciously begun to view himself as a different species.

At this moment, the gap between him and these powerless ordinary people was already several times greater than the gap between these ordinary people and the monkeys in a zoo.

"I need you to help me find the wealthy clans in your country that control those black-clad warriors. The list, the locations."

Bai Cangshu leaned against the window and issued his command.

Suga Hideto did not look back at the representative of the Emperor; the two exchanged a glance, neither offering any opposition.

Those black-clad warriors who wielded special weapons and had fought against giant beasts, appearing even in the major incidents in Tokyo and Osaka, had long been noticed by the government.

What made them uneasy was that this power was not in the hands of the government, or rather, not in their own hands.

Certain clans were secretly and privately controlling that kind of power.

Bai Cangshu's goal in this world was to farm as many resources as possible. This was a world where the difficulty was clearly lower than his Rating.

Besides hunting those Reincarnators, he naturally had to dig as much as possible from the plot.

In Bai Cangshu's view, the technology related to the black sphere was the greatest extra reward in this world.

Moreover, one of the two purge targets seemed to still be in Deguo, at a very distant coordinate. The Multi-faceted Alien had not sent that person back directly; Bai Cangshu speculated that this also had to do with the Multi-faceted Alien's plans.

And judging from current signs, the reason the Reincarnators in this world triggered a Purge Mission was precisely because they coveted Gantz, thereby coming into contact with the Multi-faceted Alien.

Bai Cangshu believed this was a hint from the Multi-faceted Alien, implying that he could eventually find that last purge target by tracking Gantz's technology, and that there, the Multi-faceted Alien's purpose for contacting him would be revealed.

"We will give you a definitive answer within three hours."

After Suga Hideto spoke, he left the conference room to arrange the relevant actions. Only after walking outside the conference room did he see that the security and guards all around had lost consciousness and collapsed on the ground. He forced himself to stay calm and used his mobile phone to call the Tsuchimikado clan.

He was starting to believe the words of those old things; this kind of guy really did not seem like a human.

"Mr. Tsuchimikado, that Lord is currently in our temporary residence. Um, please, do treat Him well."

Bai Cangshu, inside the conference room, heard everything clearly. He had already torn apart the conference table and some documents, preparing to use them as firewood to roast the giant beast meat he had brought back.

Soon, flames ignited within the conference room...

——

"Hanako, hang in there, Big Brother found something good~"

In a building full of blood and ruin, the little boy, ragged and covered in blood and various dust, had bright eyes. He leaned his sleeping younger sister against the pillar that had been gouged out with a huge hole by something.

Then he walked to the middle of the building. Even though it was reinforced concrete, within a circle of red patterns on the ground, a strange tree was shaking its red leaves, emitting an inexplicable attraction.

The little boy walked to the base of the tree, knelt down piously, and began to pray.

"I hope we can find Mom."

"I hope Hanako can open her eyes."

"I hope... to make those bad people... pay the price..."

The eerie tree shook incessantly, as if something had appeared beneath the ground, and the little boy immediately stepped forward to grope about.

The movement of the tree shaking became increasingly obvious; at the same time, in other parts of Tokyo, several identical eerie trees were also shaking their branches.

Beneath every tree, many people were gathered; these people were all covered in rags and bloodstains, but at this moment, they all revealed smiles of Man Zhi, as if their prayers had been fulfilled.

(End of chapter)