Chapter 393 Gao Shu's Origins
Though all of this is just the one-sided story of the Bull King, the credibility of the Bull King is quite good.
Moreover, he's not exactly Lv Zhao's die-hard supporter, since he defected for the people in the Death Hills.
Therefore, what he says is quite trustworthy.
For a moment, Gao Xin and Wan Kai were both silent.
Gao Xin gave Wan Kai a glance, and the latter was dumbfounded. He hid for seven years, living under a pseudonym, only to find out that Lv Zhao never intended to kill him.
His heart was filled with hatred toward Lv Zhao, thinking that his elder brother was killed by that despicable man, but it turned out his elder brother was not dead.
Suddenly, he felt an emptiness inside.
Gao Xin sighed, "Gao Long was too extreme at that time. Although he spent a long time preparing the nuclear explosion, it might not necessarily have killed everyone."
"Hasn't any enemy discovered it all this time? Perhaps it had already been discovered and most of it was secretly replaced."
"Once detonated, it would provide a pretext, and Tangren City would be in danger."
"Even if hidden deeply, this would still result in the deaths of too many innocent people. Imprisoning him was not a problem at all for Lv Zhao."
"In the minds of Lv Zhao and others, Tangren City is more important than brotherly bonds."
Gao Xin spoke candidly that Gao Long's actions were difficult to judge right or wrong objectively, with different perspectives offering different views.
Lv Zhao believed it was unacceptable, while Gao Long believed he was correct. Both thought they were acting in Tangren City's best interest, so there was no solution but to fight it out.
The key was not to kill anyone. If you use your self-righteousness and the trust of your brothers to physically erase a family member without even giving him a chance to wake up and repent, are you still brothers?
So previously, when Gao Xin critiqued this as wrong, and Wan Kai said that was Lv Zhao's excuse, there was no issue.
As long as Gao Long and his group weren't dead, then Lv Zhao's actions were justified.
It showed that he really just wanted to stop that from happening.
Regardless of who was right and who was wrong objectively, Lv Zhao still treated Gao Long as a brother.
So Wan Kai suddenly fell silent, opening his mouth yet unable to speak.
Before the change at the Vermilion Bird Gate, they were all good brothers. His relationship with Lv Zhao and Han Ziming was also very good, a bond of life and death.
So he couldn't believe Lv Zhao's coup and hated it, feeling like his trust was all fed to the dogs.
Unexpectedly, the situation then should actually have been called a 'mutiny'.
Lv Zhao's group just wanted to control the overly aggressive Gao Long and others; it was only because Gao Long wouldn't listen that he had to imprison them and outwardly declared the group dead.
He successfully stopped the nuclear explosion incident and allowed Tangren City to lower its hostility and withdraw from the war, even preserving actual living power.
It was a multiple-task in one go, and it could be said to have been handled very well.
The only flaw was that he had to bear the stigma of injustice, with countless people treating him like a beast.
But if he truly were a beast, would those brothers still be so loyally following him?
The truth has always been clear; the high-ranking officials of Tangren City have always understood it.
The reason made public was also true. Nothing was covered up other than the fact that everyone was still alive.
That's why Wan Kai was so furious.
After all, the ones Gao Long intended to kill were outsiders, and it was a choice made in a critical situation.
From a brother's perspective, at most you could say he was extreme, but under no circumstances could he be killed.
Why did Wan Kai disdain Adam? It was because he would use some high-sounding things to judge his own people, thinking he was so righteous.
"No matter why, as long as the City Lord is not dead, I must rescue him," Wan Kai said after a long silence.
Gao Xin said, "I promised to avenge you, but since no one is actually dead, the so-called hatred is just about losing a fight."
"I will help you rescue him, but we must master the method."
"You have to listen to me on this, and I won't escalate matters to kill anyone."
He set the tone for this matter, and Wan Kai hurriedly nodded, having actually lost his desire to kill.
Lv Zhao and he were also brothers. Although he was made a Waste Dragon for seven years, in the end, he also had a problem.
This matter is messy and unclear. Ultimately, as long as the nuclear explosion can be controlled, everyone can still sit down and talk it out.
Gao Xin looked at the Bull King, "Can't the player's nanochips destroy most of the cells?"
"Since Gao Long is now in a fragmented state, this should be easy to handle, right?"
The Bull King shook his head, "To ensure that even remnants can trigger the nuclear explosion, Gao Long had the nanochips implanted one hundred percent."
"All his cells have nanochips, so to destroy them, you would have to destroy all his cells... which amounts to killing him."
"Would Lv Zhao ever do that? So he could only be locked up."
"Luckily, Han Ziming disabled his super-speed regeneration, preventing him from regaining consciousness, otherwise even a drop of Gao Long's blood could detonate a nuke..."
Everyone was stunned, truly ruthless.
Such a plan for a nuclear explosion clean slate is clearly a last-resort move, naturally not easily interrupted or thwarted.
For this, Gao Long not only gave the trigger to the Angel Envoy but also allowed nanochips to be implanted in all his cells, coordinating with super-speed regeneration Second Rank.
This ensured that at a critical moment, even if blown to bits, he could take countless people with him.
Even if at that time he himself would also be within the nuclear explosion zone, he could sacrifice himself to destroy everywhere except Tangren City.
This was the ultimate contingency plan to make Tangren City the last survivor on the island in the most critical plight.
As a T1 Legendary Quasi-Dragon King, there was no one on the island who could instantly wipe out all his cells, not even Milan and Caesar combined.
So the only way to counter this is through genetic editing.
And the strongest on the island in this area, the Dragon Prisoner, was his good brother Han Ziming, so he felt infallible.
Yet it was Han Ziming who came to deal with him, which is why the nuclear explosion was thwarted.
Wan Kai growled, "Big Brother always trusted you all. Even though he could detonate it himself, he still wanted to tell you all because he hoped for your support!"
"You say he wouldn't listen to advice, but did he detonate it? He never did, because he also hoped you would change your minds. He thought you wouldn't listen to reason."
"Until you acted, he had no defenses!"
"When I found him, intending to escape with him, he was the one who stayed voluntarily to buy me time, remaining with a resolve to die."
"Big Brother told me he had a daughter, prepared for the worst, but didn't even ask me to come back with vengeance later."
"But couldn't he detonate it then?"
"You say he completely lost it in the end, turning raw rice into cooked rice, but have you considered how desperate and broken he was?"
"He believed you truly betrayed him, not knowing if he would die, so all he could do was hold to his belief before death."
"I even suspect his mind went blank during the final validation, otherwise, given his reaction speed, how complicated must this validation process be for him to see Lv Zhao's sword coming at him and be unable to react?"
"He never imagined that one day, he would have to face Lv Zhao's Red Longbow."
Wan Kai was still angry, but not so hateful anymore.
And he was also the one who spoke the most for Gao Long, even now pondering how Gao Long, upon seeing Lv Zhao's sword approaching, might have had a buzzing mind.
The Bull King sighed: "But we have no way to bet that he won't activate it."
Gao Xin said: "Alright, enough talk, this matter destined Lv Zhao to take action."
"Because that explosive power is completely in Gao Long's hands, whether it explodes or not is just a thought away."
"Gao Long hasn't conceded at all, so Lv Zhao will inevitably act, otherwise no one knows when it might blow up."
Everyone was silent.
This matter, once explained, was actually just two brothers locking horns.
On one side is a bomb that could explode anytime, forcing Lv Zhao to act, with no other choice.
On the other side is Gao Long, already agitated due to betrayal by a brother, who wouldn't listen to reason.
Both brothers believe they are right and think the other doesn't understand them, saying anything would only escalate the argument.
In the end, one side has to make the other calm down.
"What did you mean by 'daughter' just now? Is Tai Sui female?" The Bull King was the first to break the silence, expressing his confusion.
Ling Sha was taken aback.
Gao Xin laughed: "He means Gao Shu, actually Gao Shu is the daughter of the former City Lord."
The Bull King looked at Gao Shu in shock, then at Gao Xin.
In the end, he was somewhat disappointed...
Gao Shu was indifferent, saying: "I don't care whether Gao Long is dead or alive, it's better if he's alive, I'm too lazy to be City Lord."
"I just want to know, who my mother is..."
"Uncle Niu, do you know?"
The Bull King scratched his head: "How would I know? I didn't even know he had a daughter..."
"To be honest, I just recently visited Tangren City, they were all discussing the Gao family's orphan, saying how could Gao Long have a child outside, which everyone knows nothing about."
"The old fellows all suspect that it's nonsense from Wan Kai."
"However... now I see, you do look a bit like Gao Long, especially those mischievous eyes."
Wan Kai raised his head proudly: "Why would I make things up about Big Brother? He indeed has a child, he told me himself."
"Not only that, Gao Shu has awakened the Jade Dragon, only her jade color is white, so it should be called White Jade Dragon."
The Bull King laughed: "Even the exclusive module is similar, they really are father and daughter."
"As for your mother, I don't know, if I had to say, it looks a bit like..."
Thinking of someone, his face changed, shaking his head: "Impossible, that's too far-fetched."
Wan Kai and Gao Shu looked at him in shock: "What did you see?"
The Bull King shook his head.
Gao Shu was anxious: "You have seen my mother, right? I resemble her, right? Who is it! Tell me, please."
The Bull King sighed: "I don't know, I just see a little resemblance, but she couldn't possibly be your mother."
Wan Kai was also curious: "Who, tell us, even a slim possibility is good."
The Bull King looked at Wan Kai with a complicated expression: "You didn't notice?"
"Should I have noticed?" Wan Kai shook his head in confusion.
The Bull King hinted: "Looks like growing up watching her, you didn't notice."
"But as soon as I saw her, I felt familiarity, partly because of Gao Long, and partly... pay attention to her slender neck, chin, and forehead."
"Hmm, why not let her hair down, style it in a one-nine split, then you'll see."
Wan Kai was taken aback, immediately took Gao Shu's ponytail down and altered her hairstyle.
With a one-nine split, the hair on the right tucked behind her ear, and all the rest combed to the left, Gao Shu looked even more beautiful, emphasizing her side profile.
That side profile was beautiful, especially the curve of the chin and her swan neck, transformed from an originally wild child feel to a more elegant and graceful aura.
"Ah this..."
Wan Kai's eyes widened, staring at Gao Shu's side profile, as if struck by lightning.
Gao Shu was confused: "How is it? Is it really like my mother? You know her, right? Tell me who it is!"
Wan Kai was stiffened, looking as though he would die: "No, she definitely isn't."
Clearly, Wan Kai also recognized the resemblance to someone, but he and the Bull King firmly asserted it's impossible.
This left Gao Shu extremely anxious.
Gao Xin was also very curious: "Who, tell us, is it Milan?"
Unexpectedly, on this matter, both strongly shook their heads, refusing to speak.
Instead, Ling Sha, who was straightforward, eyed Gao Shu's side profile in shock: "This... really resembles Aunt Tang..."
After saying that, she herself was surprised, her pupils quaking: "Ah? Your mother is Aunt Tang?"
Wan Kai was the first to rage: "Stop! Nonsense! How could it be!"
Gao Xin was clever, seeing that Ling Sha recognized her too, immediately reacted: "Couldn't it be... Lv Zhao's woman?"
He guessed right, and the Bull King didn't deny it.
Wan Kai's face turned ashen: "This is utterly impossible! Just a slight resemblance..."
Gao Xin's mouth twitched, this was an even bigger gossip.
Could it be that Gao Shu is the illegitimate child of Gao Long and Lv Zhao's wife? Isn't everything over then?
Initially, he thought the matter between Gao Long and Lv Zhao could be easily solved, the group being buddies, controlling the nuclear bomb, breaking the chain of suspicion, everyone sitting down for a clear conversation would suffice.
But unexpectedly, Gao Shu's background complicated the problem...
"But this explains everything." Gao Xin muttered, finally understanding.
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