Chapter 216 Bloodline and Heredity
◎Day 13 of the Highway Survival Game!◎
Bourbon had expected Gin's sister to refuse Shuichi Akai's request, but he was speechless that his friend, who was from the same generation, would refuse without even conveying the message to Kazesei Mamoru.
Meanwhile, Shuichi Akai, who was opposite him, was still multitasking while looking at the investigation data in the email. Hearing Bourbon's conversation and knowing that Hagiwara and the others had turned off their phones to talk to Gin, he couldn't help but ask, "Why did you refuse? If you need anything as compensation, just name it, and I will try my best to meet their requirements."
“Hey! That guy asked you for a reason, say…” Bourbon glanced at Shuichi Akai, then decided to switch his phone to speakerphone as well. While relaying Shuichi Akai’s words, he took out the police’s special phone and sent instructions to Kazami.
When Hagiwara heard about the mention of payment, he knew the other party had misunderstood and quickly explained, "We didn't refuse because of the payment; it's just that the rules regarding the dungeons weren't explained in detail last time."
Actually, I don't know why, but all the dungeons that Feng Jiang enters are in the Japanese region. They are always generated in places in the Japanese region where various destruction events occur, and he has never been to dungeons in other countries.
Judging from the conversations on the regional channel, it seems that other players' scenarios are also fixed in one country, but in different historical timelines, occurring at various points in time that could lead to destruction, such as natural disasters, man-made calamities, or wars.
"Does the nationality of one's bloodline affect the location of the instance a survivor enters?" Upon hearing Hagiwara's explanation, Bourbon subconsciously made this conjecture, after all, his previous investigation of the organization had confirmed that the organization's headquarters were definitely in Japan.
Even if there are no other problems, the true identity of the organization's BOSS can be considered locked. However, since he has not yet found out his whereabouts and has not seen the organization's BOSS in person, he cannot be 100% sure that the information he has investigated so far is completely true.
So even after learning more information later, the speculation that Gin's sister was the organization's future boss was wrong, and the organization's boss had a different view of Gin.
And his codename, which was practically a manual for the organization's young master, made Bourbon never change his belief that Gin and the organization's boss were definitely related.
Moreover, during this year, while he was busy investigating Akai Tsutomu and the Silver Bullet, the Kudo family and Akai Shuichi were not idle either. When he was investigating in the United States, he received information from Akai Shuichi to show his sincerity.
As mentioned above, Shinichi Kudo's father, the famous mystery novelist Yusaku Kudo, deduced from the code left by Koji Haneda at the hotel's death scene that the code could be spelled into two different results: Rum and Karasuma Renya, depending on the spelling.
Of these two outcomes, Mr. Kudo Yusaku believes that it is more likely that Koji Haneda used a code to hint at the name Karasuma Renya. There are two reasons for this reasoning: firstly, as a Japanese Go player, Koji Haneda is certain that he does not hold any official secret position.
It's likely that Amanda accidentally witnessed something the organization was planning to do to her, which led to her being silenced by the organization. Under such circumstances, her understanding of the organization was limited, in addition to the timing of the incident.
It is highly unlikely that the code names of the organization's members would be known. If the code names of the organization's members were not even known, then naturally the code name "Rum" would not have been left behind.
Another reason is that the FBI had a conflict with the organization last October. It seems that the organization was hunting down FBI members for some purpose. During that conflict, FBI members overheard some of Rum's identity information from organization member Vodka.
Based on that information, Shinichi Kudo identified Rum and sent his photo to Shuichi Akai and the Kudo couple, warning them to be careful if they encountered him.
Kudo Yusaku has a good memory, and he used the photograph to confirm that the man in the photo had represented the ailing Karasuma Renya at the World Economic Conference 47 years ago.
He discovered this because after deducing that the code might point to Karasuma Renya, he secretly collected a lot of information about Karasuma Renya. With his good memory, he naturally remembered the information that was closely related to Karasuma Renya.
This person looks much younger than his actual age. However, considering the physical condition of Vermouth, Conan, and Ai Haibara, it can be inferred that his appearance is not as old as his actual age, possibly due to taking APTX4869.
Since Rum is the confidant of the organization's boss, and Rum's face is identical to that of the person who once represented Karasuma Renya at the World Economic Conference, it is highly likely that the organization's boss is indeed Karasuma Renya.
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Upon receiving this intelligence from Shuichi Akai as a gesture of goodwill, Bourbon naturally conducted a secret investigation into Renya Karasuma, though he seemed to be deliberately concealing his information, and very little information could be found.
But after all, he was one of Japan's top three families half a century ago, a super-capitalist whose assets ranked among the top 100 in the world. Some of his basic information could not be hidden or completely destroyed.
Among this information, Bourbon discovered quite a few noteworthy things related to Gin—Karasuma Renya's nose shape is very similar to Gin's, and the facial features in some black and white photos of him in newspapers and magazines when he was young also bear some resemblance to Gin's.
In terms of ethnicity, Japanese people generally do not have the distinctly Western nose shape of people like Gin or Karasuma Renya. The reason why Karasuma Renya has such obvious Western genetic characteristics is because he is of mixed Japanese and English descent.
His family was originally from the old Han Chinese, whose ancestral origins can be traced back to the time of Xu Fu. Their original Han Chinese surname was "Wu," which was used during the decline of the Central Plains Empire and the Meiji Restoration in Japan.
Because of Japan's admiration for strength and the widespread promotion of the superiority of Western bloodlines in society, believing that cooperation with Western countries would lead to better development, the decline of the Central Plains Empire led to discrimination and humiliation against the former nobility, who had always been admired by Japan. At that time, Japan also promoted and popularized intermarriage with Westerners to improve bloodlines.
Renya Karasuma's wealthy father married a noblewoman from a prominent British family and changed his surname from Karasuma to the more Japanese surname 'Karasuma' to avoid his family being purged by the various new policies of the Meiji Restoration.
As the eldest son born from the marriage between the two families and inheriting everything from the Karasuma family, Karasuma Renya was naturally born of mixed Japanese and English descent. Therefore, his own descendants, as well as the descendants of his younger brothers and sisters from the main family of that generation, were also of mixed Japanese and English descent.
She bears a resemblance to him, especially in their noses, a typical trait inherited from first-degree relatives. This is further illustrated by the selfish and wicked nature of the organization's boss, who commits numerous evils for his own selfish desires.
Bourbon did not believe that he would support any relatives or descendants other than his own to become the 'organization's young master'; the only ones he could choose to become the 'organization's young master' were his own descendants.
Previously, I had been unable to investigate Gin's background. Only after learning his sister's real name and nationality did I realize that he was probably a Chinese citizen or grew up in China, which explained why I couldn't find out about his background before he joined the organization.
Moreover, the Karasuma family was originally a noble family. When the organization's boss chose to conceal the whereabouts of his descendants to avoid being hunted down by other forces, choosing the country of his ancestral home was a logical decision.
This indirectly explains why the organization is very active in Western countries such as Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom. Apart from not engaging in side businesses such as drug trafficking, they secretly do all sorts of things like extortion, robbery, and human trafficking, but they never develop business in the Central Plains.
That might be the 'safe zone' chosen by the organization's boss for his descendants, which is why he never extends the organization's claws there, lest it implicate his descendants who mysteriously disappeared in Japan through means such as faking their deaths.
Assuming that Gin is related to the organization's boss by blood, then his sister must also be of mixed Japanese and Western descent, and if we really count them, they have very little Chinese or Western blood.
The Japanese bloodline is stronger, so even though Gin's sister has the nationality of Zhongzhou and Chinese blood, she will still be placed in the Japanese region when the instance is released.
Wait a minute! That's not right. The Karasuma family investigation report sent by my secret informant mentioned that the Karasuma family, as an old aristocratic family that established itself in Japan during the time of Xu Fu and passed down from generation to generation, always adhered to the practice of intermarriage among themselves and not intermarrying with other ethnic groups.
Even when forced to marry into a prominent Japanese family due to certain worldly events, only the collateral branches inherited the family tradition. The direct line of the family remained conservative until the Meiji Restoration, when the decline and ignorance under the Chushu Empire system led to widespread contempt for the old aristocracy with Chushu blood in Japanese society. Only then did they begin to change their family tradition.
However, after that, the Karasuma lineage, which originated from the main branch of the Karasuma family, did not have any record of intermarriage with prominent Japanese families. Instead, they intermarried with various forces in Western countries, and Vermouth may have been one of the relatives produced by such an alliance.
However, neither he nor Shuichi Akai had time to investigate this matter, and the details were still unclear. They had only found some clues that seemed to be related to her background based on some information they had exchanged during their last meeting with Hagiwara and the others.
In short, the Karasuma family, through the influence of this marriage network, did not suffer significant losses even when Japan entered the bubble economy era, and wielded considerable influence in Western financial circles.
If that's the case, Gin and his sister might not only lack Yamato blood, but also have a higher proportion of Chinese blood. If that's the case, then the areas where survivors are placed in this survival game have nothing to do with bloodline? So how does the game choose the areas to place survivors?
Just as Bourbon thought of these things and rejected the idea that bloodline races affected the dungeon drop area, Feng Xingshou, who felt he knew more about this matter, replied into his phone after hearing his words: "It should be unrelated to bloodline races."
On the public chat channel, many people have mentioned issues such as not being in the dungeons set in their own country, and language barriers with the dungeon NPCs. I think this might be related to some of the survivors' own obsessions.
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