chapter 123 part 1
Chapter 123: The East Sea Team Arrives, Ren Arakawa Makes His Move!! (Two Chapters Combined)
The battle of reincarnation was, in fact, also a race in the real world.
The first time Chu Xuan returned to the Main God Plaza, he devised a plan. He had Zheng Zha return to the real world, carrying the Main God's data hidden in a dagger, along with a series of high-tech equipment blueprints and a positioning device.
After nearly killing Zheng Zha and Zheng Zha's return to the Reincarnation Space, the technology in the country in the real world advanced by leaps and bounds within a few years, thanks to the blueprints Zheng Zha brought back.
And the Chu Xuan of this timeline, through clues from Ren Arakawa, actually analyzed that there was a high probability the Main God Space could connect to the real world.
Thus, they concluded that what they needed to do was to affect the evolution of their potential enemies from within the Main God Space.
Five hours passed quickly.
As dawn broke, the team of eight arrived at the battlefield.
The man in the lead wore three katanas at his waist and wooden clogs. His head was shaved bald on top, with hair only on the sides.
His appearance was that of a standard Raikage samurai.
The man lifted his Reincarnation System Watch and looked at the mission.
"Hahahaha! A Team Battle with three teams!"
"And the mission is to have us play the role of the final Ghost Mask Assassins! Interesting! How interesting!"
As he spoke, a man beside him, clad in ancient Raikage Onimusha armor and also wielding a katana, chuckled. "Tanaka Jusuke, is our bet still a thousand reward points per head this time? Last time, you lost a whole three thousand points to me. Are you scared to bet again?"
"Hmph!" The three-sword style samurai, Tanaka Jusuke, smirked. "Nakamura Jinta, you're too arrogant. Last time, my Three-Sword Style's ultimate technique, Tiger Hunt, hadn't been redeemed yet. With this ultimate skill, do you think you can compare to me?"
Nakamura Jinta, clad in Onimusha armor, drew his katana. "My Onimusha Enhancement is worlds stronger than your Three-Sword Style. Even with an ultimate technique, you're no match for me! If you have the guts, do you dare raise the stakes per head to fifteen hundred points?"
Tanaka Jusuke immediately roared in anger, "Two thousand points are fine! I'm going to kill someone right now!"
"That's enough!"
Among the eight, a man also wielding a katana, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with a female reincarnator, shouted to stop the two, saying, "Don't act rashly. We arrived less than a day after the other two teams. The gap in our strength hasn't been stretched that far."
"Moreover..."
The man touched a faint rune on his face. "After returning from The Mummy, my Gene Lock reached Tier three. But I have a faint feeling... I can always feel something calling my name from the bottom of my heart."
"I don't know what this is, but it's best not to rush into a direct conflict with the two teams. We need intelligence before we can make a move."
The youthful-looking, buxom woman beside him patted his arm. "Tanaka-kun! We'll do as you say!"
Tanaka nodded. "Jing Kong, start the mental scan. See if they have any mental power controllers."
Jing Kong nodded. "Mhm!"
Inside the police station.
Chu Xuan had already analyzed the general situation of the North Arctic Team thoroughly, using partial false information from the North Arctic Druid Sage, combined with Ren Arakawa's eyewitness account and description.
Ren Arakawa saw Chu Xuan's performance and felt hot sweat trickling down his forehead.
He had actually hidden the fact that he knew the North Arctic Team's captain was enhanced with the Ice-Ice Devil Fruit. But Chu Xuan had already written down his analysis: North Arctic Team captain, Tier two Gene Lock + B-rank enhancement, likely an ice-attribute enhancement path, with predicted probabilities for the Ice-Ice Devil Fruit, Snow-Snow Devil Fruit, Ice Mage attributes, and a whole pile of other enhancement directions.
The frightening part was that the probability for the Ice-Ice Devil Fruit was 7.31%. It looked small, but it was still the highest.
This analysis was already infinitely close to the truth.
This whole operation cemented Chu Xuan's title as "Script Chu Xuan."
"With the available data, this is all I can deduce." Chu Xuan handed the notebook to Ren Arakawa.
Ren Arakawa took it with a forced smile. "Haha, thanks for your hard work~"
Chu Xuan took out his communicator. "Hello?"
On the other end of the communicator, Ganniel's voice, tinged with icy air, replied, "This is Ganniel, captain of the North Arctic Team. Go ahead."
Chu Xuan said expressionlessly, "What were the results of your team's mental power controller's search?"
On the other end, Ganniel glanced at the long-haired girl on his team, Betty Field, then exchanged a look with the Sage Druid, Brooks. After receiving a nod of confirmation, he replied:
"Our team's mental power controller is using all her power to maintain a mental shield, because—"
"No need for explanations."
Chu Xuan's brilliant mind didn't need to be told. He naturally knew that the North Arctic Team wanted to hide first, let the East Sea Team's mental controller find Team China's position, and then either watch from the sidelines to gather intelligence or use Team China as a meat shield in the next step.
But by proactively contacting them, Chu Xuan had already thought of a way to handle the situation.
"In three minutes, my team's Ren Arakawa will fly into the sky. This is to estimate if the East Sea Team has anti-air capabilities. That's the first point."
"Second, after Ren Arakawa appears, he will draw the East Sea Team's attention. At that time, your mental power controller can definitely obtain their basic information quickly. I need their numbers. If possible, I need to know their gender ratio, body types, and appearances. The more detailed, the better. I will make a rough calculation of their strength."
"To prove the accuracy of my calculations, I'll first give a brief summary of your team's situation. Ganniel, Ice-Ice Devil Fruit enhancement. Mavis, long-range attacker. Albert Ellen, Arcane Network affinity physique..."
"This..." On the other end of the line, the members of the North Arctic Team were collectively dumbfounded. Only now did the Sage Druid Brooks understand what kind of person Team China's strategist was!
"He can actually discern our team's situation from information that was eighty percent false?" The Druid Brooks wiped away his sweat, snatched the communicator from Ganniel's hand, and said:
"Team China's strategist, we will cooperate fully. But you must tell me, what exactly is your team captain's enhancement path?"
Chu Xuan said, "A trash enhancement route from a manga I haven't seen. His comprehensive strength has reached the early stage of Tier three Gene Lock."
As he said this, Ren Arakawa's expression was a bit awkward.
Although he didn't know why it was so difficult, he couldn't even touch Tier two, let alone the distant Tier three.
Chu Xuan continued with a straight face, "Rest assured. Due to our relationship as a 'Farming Team,' you should be able to analyze our team's situation and reach a conclusion as well."
Having received a satisfactory answer, the North Arctic Sage Brooks nodded heavily. "In that case, let's sync our time! Our time zones are different, so our System Watches might be off... The operation begins in a little over two minutes!"
Chu Xuan put away the communicator. Zhang Jie, Zheng Zha, Zhan Lan, Zhao Yingkong, and the others all looked as if they had seen a ghost.
Ren Arakawa cleared his throat. "Everyone, I'm about to fly out and be a target. If I die, please be sure to remember my good deeds."
Chu Xuan glanced calmly at Ren Arakawa and came to another conclusion. "So there's a way to revive dead teammates in the Main God Space? Understood."
Ren Arakawa shut his mouth, afraid that if he revealed any more, this guy would figure out that he was a reincarnator who had read the original story.