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Hearing him say this, Asido glanced at Bai, who was sitting on Gu Shi's shoulder with a happy smile on his face, and then he clenched the Zanpakuto hanging at his waist, and there was a little more longing in his eyes.
“It would be great if it could succeed.”
The reason why Asido chose to stay in Hueco Mundo and not return to Soul Society was because of "home".
Being controlled by the nobles and having the justice of the god of death that he upheld denied, Asido no longer believes that this is where he belongs.
This time, Asido let go of his obsession with hunting as many Voids as possible, and came to the real world with Bai. He was busy for two months, looking for underground caves and opening up passages large enough for Voids to pass, also because of his "home".
In Asido's heart, he is a god of death who has abandoned Soul Society, Bai is a living person who has abandoned the real world, Gu Shi and others are outliers that are incompatible with ordinary hollows, and those who gather in this small group are all people who cannot find their place in this world.
He once thought that they could only "wander" like this, and eventually one day they would be buried in a place that did not belong to them.
But Gu Shi gave him a new choice.
If you don’t have a place to go, then create one with your own hands!
Create a piece of heavy spiritual land, and continuously accumulate spiritual power in it, until this area breaks through the big net, separates from the real world, and forms a small world that belongs to them alone.
There will be no despicable nobles who are high above and treat them as tools;
There will be no ignorant living people who regard immortality as a monster;
There won’t be any rude and brutal people who don’t care about anything except eating.
That would be their world, where they wouldn't have to be confused about where to go, and wouldn't have to force themselves to give up their beliefs and principles in order to fit in with stereotyped and decadent groups.
In the future, they can also invite more like-minded partners to provide a place where they can breathe freely for those who are not bad by nature but have lost their home because they are different from the people around them.
Perhaps, it will become the "utopia" that Gu Shi once talked about.
Although Asido didn't say a word, Gu Shi could guess what he was thinking.
Like most ordinary death gods, Asido has a simple sense of justice in his heart. However, unlike most people, when they find that their justice is being trampled upon, they either choose to give up their persistence or give up their lives for justice.
Asido, he gave up on himself.
He was unwilling to give up the justice he had upheld all his life, but he didn't know how to change.
Should we rebel against Soul Society and kill those nobles?
Not to mention the difference in strength, in this process, they will inevitably become hostile to their former colleagues. Those ordinary death gods are obviously not wrong, so do they have to kill them for the sake of "justice"?
Asido's simple justice would not allow him to do so.
So, Ashido stayed in Hueco Mundo and exiled himself.
Therefore, Gu Shi gave him a new hope and a new choice.
A multiple-choice question that jumps out of A or B and creates a C option by yourself.
Gu Shi believed that if the plan could really succeed and could really create a small world similar to the Soul Society, Asido would definitely risk his life to protect the new home that he created with his own hands.
And Gu Shi himself also needs such a new home.
For a long time before, Gu Shi was actually very worried about his future. If he wanted to break into the starry sky, he needed enough time to accumulate.
However, Aizen's talent will definitely grow much faster than his, so he will not be given too much time. When Aizen conquers Hueco Mundo in the future and forces Hueco Mundo to go to war with Soul Society, as long as he is still in Hueco Mundo and is a Hollow, it will be almost impossible for him to stay out of it.
Stand on Aizen's side? In the end, he will most likely be crushed by the protagonist's halo.
Standing on the side of Soul Society? Not to mention that he would be dragged into an even more dangerous war later, he would probably be wiped out by Aizen before that.
It seems that there is no way out no matter what.
But after getting the information about the Chongling Land, Gu Shi finally perked up.
What camp selection, what thousand-year blood feud, none of it has anything to do with me. I’ll just open another chessboard and won’t play with you anymore!
Soul Society is rotten! Aizen is ruthless! The Quincy are dictatorial! The Hollows are a bunch of fucked up things!
You are all bad guys, go fight each other, I will live a peaceful life in my new home, no one should bother me! When I have accumulated enough strength, I will take my friends and fly into space, no one should bother me!
Of course, this was just a joke said in anger.
As long as you are on Earth, you will inevitably have to deal with these forces. However, if you have a "home" that completely belongs to you and a proper retreat, you will undoubtedly have more confidence in your contacts with all parties.
Moreover, when I take my friends to space in the future, if there is an absolutely safe place where I don't have to worry about the opinions of Soul Society and Hueco Mundo, and I can place my friends' relatives and friends there, so that they can be sure that even if I leave, their relatives and friends will not be wronged, they will definitely feel more at ease when they leave.
After all, this is the world of death. Not everyone can abandon their relatives and friends for the sake of dreams, friendship, and freedom, and resolutely step into the sea where there may be no return in the world of One Piece.
While Gu Shi and Asido were silent, Tianpeng had quickly completed the "planting" of the spiritual power crystals and buried all of them according to the drawings that had been designed long ago.
"Master, you start it!"
Tianpeng's eyes were full of anticipation. There were Death Gods in Soul Society, there were Hollows in Hueco Mundo, and in the new small world, there might be new specialties that would provide her with more diverse alchemy materials. She couldn't help but look forward to such a future.
However, the initial launch should indeed be carried out by Master Gu Shi, who proposed the plan to restore the spiritual land.
In life, a sense of ritual is also very important.
At this point, Gu Shi couldn't help but get a little excited. He nodded heavily, strode to the center of the "array diagram", released his spiritual power, and relied on the control skills he had honed for five years to connect the numerous spiritual power crystals to form a complete cycle.
Suddenly, a square barrier quickly emerged, completely covering an area of about several square kilometers, equivalent to the area of more than ten high school campuses, as well as the sky and underground.
It was a very imposing scene. After the initial excitement, Tianpeng and others were still excited. Gu Shi couldn't help but secretly shook his head in his heart.
The deputy leader of the Ghost Path Clan is Akitada Bokugen. With just a clap of his hands, he can create a complete barrier that can hide the masked army tightly. He does not need additional spiritual power supply, and the autonomous circulation of spiritual power can support the barrier for a long time.
However, his own barrier was designed and pieced together based on the ghost information and barrier notes found in Mao. Its only advantage is that it covers a large enough area. Apart from that, its sturdiness and spiritual energy circulation effect are probably far inferior to those of Akihiro Shoda's casual shot.
Fortunately, the effect of concealing the internal spiritual power fluctuations and preventing the outside world from noticing the abnormal changes in internal spiritual power has really worked, just like in the previous tests. This is enough for the time being, and we can slowly improve and expand it in the future.
My world, start!
Chapter 144 Old Problem
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Chapter 145: Urahara's Heartache
"Kisuke, what on earth have you been doing lately?"
Shihouin Yoruichi was holding a small wine flask and frowned as he looked at his friend's haggard appearance.
In the past five years, Urahara Kisuke stayed in his laboratory every day, researching all kinds of inexplicable and incomprehensible things. Almost every once in a while, he would run to the outskirts of Rukongai to capture Hollows. Sometimes he would even borrow the Shihouin family's world-travelling gate and run to the human world. He would be away for ten days or half a month, and even the time he spent drinking with her was reduced.
If it were just this, Shihouin Yoruichi would not have any objection. They were not children anymore and each had their own things to do. As Death Gods, they had plenty of time and their friendship would not deteriorate due to a lack of communication for a while.
But recently, Urahara Kisuke's behavior seems to be getting more and more outrageous. According to the report of the secret operation, he has visited the Maou Spiritual Academy as a noble more than once recently to "visit" and observe those students.
There is no problem using Hollows for experiments, as long as they are done in a covert manner and have covert maneuvers to help cover up, nothing serious will happen. But if they target Mao's students, then the matter will be exposed to the world, and I'm afraid the captain-general will have to intervene personally.
When she first received this information, Shihouin Yoruichi did not take it seriously. She had confidence in her friend's character and believed that Urahara Kisuke would never do such a cruel thing. She ordered a secret operation to help cover it up and did not pay any more attention to it.
But unfortunately, not long after Urahara Kisuke frequently went in and out of Mao, something happened to Mao. One or several Hollows of unknown identity drove their black chambers directly into the territory of Mao Spiritual Academy.
Although the alarm was triggered the moment the black chamber was opened, the Gotei 13 responded as quickly as possible, with the captains of the 8th and 3rd divisions both making the trip in person, but it was still too late.
A student who was famous and had been noticed by several vice-captains of the squad before he graduated was brutally murdered. Not even a body was left. No traces were found at the scene. The only preliminary speculation is that he was eaten clean on the spot without even a drop of blood left.
This incident directly angered the captain. The air pressure in Jingling Court was so low these days that it was suffocating. When the Grim Reapers were patrolling, they didn't even dare to breathe too loudly.
When Yoruichi's mother came home yesterday, she also said that the captain-general had submitted an application to the Central 46th Office. Once the application is approved, personnel will be immediately drawn from various squads to form a Hueco Mundo Expeditionary Force, which will go to Hueco Mundo to carry out a mopping-up mission lasting at least twenty years and thoroughly clean up Hueco Mundo.
By then, maybe even one or two captains will be transferred out.
Of course, the nobles who controlled the Forty-Sixth Chamber were generally unwilling to expend manpower and resources on an expedition to Hueco Mundo just for a single student.
What's more, in recent years, a group of nobles have begun to take the lead and plan to pass a proposal to defeat the Quincy within fifty years. They are now actively connecting with various families. This group of nobles is of course even more reluctant to invest their precious combat power into Hueco Mundo at this juncture. In the end, the application for the Hueco Mundo expeditionary force will probably not be approved.
But no matter what, the captain's attitude has been made clear.
Under such circumstances, the fact that Kisuke Urahara frequently went in and out of the Maou Spiritual Academy before the incident naturally became glaring.
Regardless of whether he colluded with Hueco Mundo to attack Mao, there are many Shinigami who are willing to mention his name in front of the captain-general to gain an opportunity to show up in front of the captain-general. Among them are some Shinigami of noble birth. Even the Shihouin family cannot completely suppress the matter under such circumstances.
After all, the one who is in power in the Shihouin family now is not Shihouin Yoruichi, and Urahara Kisuke is just Shihouin Yoruichi's friend. Before the two of them have a closer relationship, the effort that the Shihouin family is willing to make for him will definitely not be too great.
For example, the genius Kuchiki Hibiki who married into the Kuchiki family has been very motivated in recent decades. He has actively participated in the crusades against the rebellious Shinigami many times, and it is obvious that he is aiming for the position of captain. After he received the information that Urahara Kisuke was a suspect, he would certainly not let go of this opportunity to make a contribution easily.
The Kuchiki family and the Shihouin family are both among the four great noble families. Kuchiki Hibiki is the son-in-law of the head of the Kuchiki family, Kuchiki Ginrin, and has already carried the Kuchiki surname. Urahara Kisuke is only a friend of the future head of the family, Shihouin Yoruichi. Even if the Shihouin family wants to help Urahara Kisuke, they do not have enough reasons to stand their ground.
After all, if the Shihouin family really wanted to interfere, it would be a complete provocation in the eyes of the Kuchiki family.
What do you mean? You, the Shifengyuan family, want to shut up the legitimate son-in-law of the Kuchiki family for an outsider? We are all from the four great noble families. Do you underestimate the name of Kuchiki and think that my Kuchiki family is one of those small noble families that you can bully at will?
Therefore, even if Shihouin Yoruichi believed in her friend, in this situation, she could only give him a heads-up in advance before the news reached the captain-general's ears and Urahara Kisuke was called in for questioning, so that he could be mentally prepared.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that Shihouin Yoruichi believes that Urahara Kisuke is innocent enough and will be acquitted soon even if he is called in for questioning.
Anyway, the criminal army and prisons are under the charge of the Shihouin family, so Urahara Kisuke will not be wronged if he is imprisoned, and there is no need to worry about him being tortured into confessing. Once the captain-general has finished questioning, the matter will be over.
However, what surprised Shihouin Yoruichi was that after she told the news to Urahara Kisuke, her friend who she had determined to be innocent became unexpectedly anxious. He rubbed his forehead hard and bit his nails unconsciously, looking like a criminal suspect.
Urahara Kisuke's behavior made Shihouin Yoruichi's heart skip a beat. She became serious and used the interrogation skills she learned in the criminal army. She carefully observed Urahara Kisuke's expression, analyzed his movements, and at the same time seriously asked him what he had been doing during this period of time.
Urahara Kisuke had a lot of grievances in his heart, ever since he obtained the interrogation records of Saito Yamizu five years ago and saw the technology that allowed Shinigami to transform into Hollows, he has been studying ways to allow Shinigami and Hollows to transform into each other, or assimilate into the same form, trying to eliminate the barriers between Shinigami and Hollows.
He had his own bottom line in his mind. All the experimental subjects he had used in the past five years were hollows. He had not attacked any of the Shinigami, and he had not even harmed the civilians in Rukongai, whose lives were worthless in the eyes of the nobles. He had been frequently going in and out of the Maou Spiritual Academy during this period, just to collect some students' spiritual power as samples.
Unlike the stereotyped Shinigami, the spiritual power of students who have not yet released their Zanpakutō is more "loose" and "variable", and the analysis effect will be significantly higher than that of the Shinigami, making them good research material.
Urahara Kisuke is truly innocent, but the problem is that the subject he is researching is an absolute taboo in the eyes of 99% of the Shinigami.
The last person who tried to study this thing, Saito Yami, is still in jail. Two years ago, another genius who was originally favored by everyone was thrown into the maggot nest because he touched a taboo.
In just five years, the two of them touched upon things that absolutely should not be touched. If Urahara Kisuke dared to speak out about his research topic at this time, he would probably have to go to the Maggot's Nest and become neighbors with that genius that same day.
But if I don't tell you and try to make up a lie to get away with it...
That would be an underestimation of the captain who has lived for thousands of years.
Urahara Kisuke couldn't help but secretly groan in his heart, his brows were furrowed so tightly that he could hold a pair of chopsticks.
Chapter 146 Decision
Just as Shihouin Yoruichi absolutely believed in Urahara Kisuke, Urahara Kisuke also believed in Shihouin Yoruichi. Even though he knew that Yoruichi would most likely not support his research, Urahara Kisuke still told her his troubles truthfully.
The result was not beyond Urahara Kisuke's expectations. Yoruichi really could not understand his actions. Even though he repeatedly emphasized that if he succeeded, the Shinigami and the Hollows would be able to usher in peace, and they would no longer have to fight each other. The tragedy that had occurred every year for the past thousand years would no longer have to continue, Yoruichi's attitude remained unchanged, and he asked a question that he could not answer no matter what.
"Now that there is no conflict between the God of Death and the Hollow, is there any reason for the God of Death to exist?"