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"Aren't you interested in what kind of story will happen between Lu Mingfei and the head of the Shangshan family?" Chu Zihang interrupted Caesar.

Caesar pressed his face against the window glass next to the back seat of the black Lexus, making it look like a pancake. "That's not the case," he said.

"Then don't say more. We have to ensure that Commissioner Lu will not affect the tasks assigned to us by the organization due to his personal emotional issues!" Chu Zihang spoke righteously.

Caesar was shocked: "Hey, you're talking like a communist now, big brother! And a communist from the underground period!"

"I'm just doing my duty. I think the task assigned by the principal to suppress the Eight Sheqi Families will probably turn into a marriage between the S-class of our department and the three beautiful heads of the Eight Sheqi Families if it continues to develop like this." Chu Zihang looked righteous.

Caesar looked up in the rearview mirror at Chu Zihang, who also had his face pressed against the driver's side window, and clicked his tongue with disdain.

"I think you are just a gossip." He said

"What does gossip mean?"

"I'm asking, are you Chinese or am I Chinese?"

"From the perspective of nationality, you are Italian and I am Chinese."

"Okay, okay, I give in to you. I really don't understand why I would choose someone like you as my opponent." Caesar covered his face, speechless. "In China, 'gossip' is a Cantonese slang used to describe a woman who likes to meddle in other people's affairs. You can also say 'Sanba' or 'long-tongued woman'."

"But physiologically I am a male." Chu Zihang was not angry. He took out a telescope from somewhere and stuck the lens out of the window to spy on what was happening in the distance.

"I know you are a man. This is just a figure of speech. Do you understand rhetoric?" Caesar was a little crazy, but he suddenly calmed down.

He suddenly realized that he had probably been with idiots like Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang for too long, and their idiot temperament was beginning to affect him.

Their surveillance targets were Lu Mingfei and Eri, who had been sent out of Genji Heavy Industries by Sakura.

Obviously, considering the status of the head of the Shangshan family, this level of surveillance is definitely not excessive.

"Where are they going?" Caesar asked.

"I don't know, but it looks like our Shangshan family head is going to drink some orange-flavored soda. Lu Mingfei went to buy three cans... Oh, I thought he would keep one for himself, but it turns out that Shangshan family head wants to drink two cans and give the other one to Miss Ying." Chu Zihang said.

"We didn't see each other's face in that quick glance that time. Now that I see you, do you think that Uesugi Eri and Chen Motong look a lot like each other?" Caesar suddenly asked.

He did pursue the little red-haired witch in the academy for a long time, and he felt that it would be a book that he could not understand.

Unfortunately, he failed.

Chu Zihang looked carefully for two minutes and said, "They do look alike, but the head of the Shangshan family doesn't look very old mentally, and he seems too attached to Lu Mingfei."

"I always feel that he is abducting underage girls. In this case, as gentlemen, we should rush out and beat this guy up." Caesar clenched his fists secretly.

"If you do this, Yuan Zhisheng will definitely give you a prize." Chu Zihang was not prepared to take action.

The two of them have become much stronger than before after using the Nibelungen Plan, but Lu Mingfei has also grown. Chu Zihang has learned to look at people from a developmental perspective, so he doesn't think that he and Caesar can beat Lu Mingfei.

And they were in no position to beat him.

"Speaking of which, our head of the Kamishima family has a really well-developed figure." Caesar commented, and Chu Zihang hesitated and looked at Eri in the car in the distance.

"Indeed, much bigger than Xia Mi." Chu Zihang looked at her for a long time and nodded seriously.

Chapter 169: Eri's Autumn Strategy (1)

Today Sakura drove Gen Chisei's Hummer. This high-powered off-road vehicle roared into the traffic flow, drove out of Shinjuku District, passed Chiyoda, Koto, and Edogawa, and finally entered Urayasu City, Chiba Prefecture near noon.

At Lu Mingfei's request, Ying took them to find the little-known Shizuoka Oden restaurant. It was called Oden, but it was obviously more like a cafe. When they arrived at around ten in the morning, there were urban white-collar workers in OL uniforms using their laptops on the table to handle official business, and there were also a few teenagers who were probably junior high school students nearby, whispering about something that made them laugh.

This oden restaurant has appeared in a Japanese TV series called "The Solitary Gourmet". Lu Mingfei only vaguely remembered that it was in the first season, but he had no idea which episode it was. Although Sakura had never been here, she had some experience in eating oden. However, Eri was a little surprised by this kind of common food.

"This is the craft tea ordered by the guests. Please enjoy it." A middle-aged man with a white towel wrapped on his head smiled and served tea to the guests.

Eri sat beside Miss Sakura somewhat stiffly. Although she was wearing sportswear, her eyebrows were lowered and her long eyelashes were trembling slightly, casting a light shadow in her beautiful red eyes. From this, anyone could tell that she was actually a shy girl.

But although she was shy, Eri still stole a glance at Lu Mingfei. Lu Mingfei could sense this, and so could Ying. Both of them felt a little uncomfortable. Lu Mingfei felt a little awkward because of Ying's presence, and Ying felt inexplicably as if she was projecting light in all directions.

"Drink tea, drink tea." Lu Mingfei cleared his throat, and Ying suddenly realized and turned her head away to avoid looking at Miss Eri's embarrassment from the corner of her eyes. The head of the Uesugi family probably had never been in contact with outsiders. She certainly knew etiquette, integrity, and knew how to be tactful and shy, but she was too bad at disguising herself. Although her eyes were hidden in the shadows of her eyelids, they were so bright that they seemed to be filled with stars.

It is called craft tea, but in fact, it is to add flowers that have been dried and specially treated in the tea bag, and add some edible pure natural spices. After soaking in hot water, the tea bag will spread out, and the dried flowers will bloom. Ying ordered jasmine tea for herself and Lu Mingfei. There is a jasmine flower wrapped in the tea. The tea leaves around it soaked in boiling water slowly diffuse in the transparent cup filled with hot steam, and then the jasmine flower inside seems to be really blooming. Eriyi's cup is cherry blossom tea, which contains more than one cherry blossom, which is pink and white. Eriyi lay down, resting her chin on her arm on the table, and watched the pink and white cherry blossoms gradually bloom through the tea and the glass.

Through the cup of Sakura tea that was still steaming, Eri could see a face that seemed to be shrouded in mist. She smiled happily, and the blurry shadow through the cup and the water looked at her.

Eiry raised her head and tilted it. Her eyes were clear and bright, like a flowing spring, staring at him intently.

Lu Mingfei suddenly noticed Eri's gaze looking at him. It was a kind of confusion that was unique to her, as if shrouded in mist. He did not dodge, because he finally had the opportunity to seriously and carefully look at this girl who, like himself, came from the end of a sad fate. She had been waiting for him here for a long time, and it must have been very hard.

It seemed that there was a faint feeling growing like a vine, growing in the mist dispersed between the tea conversations. The sun was shining brightly outside the window, and fine dust was flying in the light that came in through the gaps in the blinds. The girl smiled lightly, and the bright sunlight was reflected in her red eyes, as if the golden light was gathered into her pupils.

"If you need anything later, Mr. Lu, you can call or text me directly and I will pick you and Ms. Eri up. If you want to try the Tokyo subway system, you can go to JR Shin-Urayasu Station. This place is close to Meikai University and Urayasu City Comprehensive Park. It will be very lively at night. You can go back to Genji Heavy Industries after playing." Miss Sakura couldn't help it anymore and cleared her throat.

Fortunately, the boss brought them the oden they ordered. It was nothing more than lotus root, egg, white radish and tofu puff, but it was all black. Miss Ying also ordered beef tendon, which is said to be stewed so soft that it melts in one bite.

The aroma of meat and vegetables hits you in the face, and each dish is sprinkled with a little seaweed and bonito powder. This is the most authentic all-black oden in Shizuoka.

"I'll call Miss Sakura if I need anything!" Lu Mingfei said. Sakura helped Eiry pick up a large piece of radish and put it on the plate in front of her. The heat was rising. Eiry took a bite carefully, her eyes sparkling.

Eri immediately took out her little notebook, wrote and drew on it, and then held it up to show Lu Mingfei, "It's delicious."

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"Are we going to monitor them like this for the whole day? Look at that oden restaurant. I want to eat it too." In the black Lexus, Caesar used a telescope to watch Lu Mingfei and his friends enjoying their morning tea at Shizuoka Oden. Young Master Gattuso was from a famous family and had never cared about oden. But before they set out, they did some research and knew that Shizuoka Oden was the most famous restaurant here.

It is well known that the young master of the Gattuso family may not have eaten the most delicious food, but he must have eaten the best food.

"Anyway, there is no plan for today. The things you want to buy have been packed and sent back to school by the people from the Eight Snake Families." Chu Zihang said. His posture was almost exactly the same as Caesar's, the difference was that this one was obviously more devoted.

"Who said there are no plans? I'm planning to go see the Meiji Shrine. My asshole dad told me that if I get married one day in the future, I must hold a wedding at the Meiji Shrine. I also want to see the wedding scene!" Caesar said, but his eyes did not leave Lu Mingfei and Eri.

"why?"

"Why must the wedding be held at Meiji Jingu Shrine?" Caesar was stunned.

Chu Zihang put down the telescope for the moment and looked at Caesar who was sitting next to him across the back of the chair. "Why would someone like you want to get married?" He said, without any intention of being polite. Caesar's mouth twitched: "Asking this kind of question is like asking me why I poop."

"Excretion is a necessary metabolic process of the human body and is unavoidable. However, marriage is a cage for people like us. Once you enter, it is difficult to escape. Not only can it not bring us any help, but it will slow down our speed of swinging the knife," said Chu Zihang.

Caesar was silent for a few minutes. "I admit your point. Women do affect my speed of drawing a knife. But if I have the chance one day in the future, I will still get married."

"marry?"

"Responsibility. People like you don't understand." Caesar waved his hand and continued his surveillance work. This was his counterattack to Chu Zihang's previous words. Chu Zihang was not angry and picked up the telescope again.

The car suddenly became quiet, and the tobacco-scented men's perfume was gradually evaporating.

"If you also want to eat oden, I ordered takeout for you and also ordered a portion for myself." Chu Zihang suddenly said.

Caesar was a little surprised: "When did you order takeout?"

"Just now, when you went outside to smoke, I heard your stomach growling, and I was a little hungry too."

"When I was in college, members of the student union always told me that I was a meticulous person. I didn't believe it then, but now I do," Caesar said.

"But I still want to say that it is really rude and ungentlemanly to spy on a boy and a girl's date. If my father had followed me when I was dating a French royal princess when I was young, I would probably kick him into the river."

"First of all, I want to say that we are not peeping, this is called surveillance. Secondly, you are still very young, and your date with the French princess is at most a young romance in your school days." Chu Zihang looked indifferent.

His expression suddenly became serious. "And is the head of the Uesugi family really just an ordinary girl with some physical illness? As the leader of the team, I can certainly get more information from the principal, but as the future ruler of the Gattuso family, I think you must know a lot, right?"

"The Eight Snake Families, the Fierce Demon Clan, Minamoto Chisei, Uesugi Eri, the King General, the Dragon King... Japan is really not peaceful. To be honest, I never thought that our operation could still go so smoothly until now." Caesar said. He and Chu Zihang finally put down the telescope. Miss Ying accompanied Lu Mingfei and Eri. It seemed that the two would not suddenly disappear.

"The information we have obtained is that the head of the Uesugi family is likely a super hybrid with abilities close to those of the ancient species. Her physical problem is not a disease, but a curse. It is the dragon blood that cursed her."

The Eight Snake Families always thought that they had kept everything about Eri secret, but the heads of the families never seemed to have thought that this huge ruling group entrenched in Japan's shadow society had only been thriving for seventy years. During these seventy years, Japan had experienced many integrations with outside civilizations, and the Eight Snake Families were inevitably infiltrated by the academy and the ancient mixed-blood families in Europe.

For example, Fujiwara Nobunosuke, who now plays for the Gattuso family, his mother is actually a member of the Inuyama family. Although his talent and bloodline are far inferior to Inuyama Ka, compared to Inuyama Ka's Setsuna, Fujiwara Nobunosuke's Time Zero is obviously more mysterious and more dangerous.

Although many pawns who infiltrated the Snake Eight Families have been eliminated in recent years under Tachibana Masamune's governance, many pawns are still retained. They have been continuously reporting all the information about this behemoth entrenched in Japan to the secret party and the bigwigs in the entire mixed-blood world.

"That's why I have to monitor her. Uesugi Erie is more dangerous than the Dragon King in a sense. The intelligence the academy gave me is that her Word Spirit is very likely to be a high-risk Word Spirit above 101 in the Word Spirit Sequence List. Such power is in the hands of a person who may lose control at any time." Chu Zihang said, "From the principal's tone, it seems that she may lose control at any time, but she is very weak. If she is taken out of Genji Heavy Industries, she must be a subject that must be closely monitored."

"She is extremely strong and extremely weak at the same time. The dragon blood strengthens her on one hand and destroys her on the other. So she can only live in the special medical environment set up for her by the Eight Snake Families." Caesar said that the intelligence capabilities of the Gattuso family are not inferior to those of the Kassel Academy. Their infiltration of this country has penetrated deep into the bones. "But it seems to me that it is difficult for the head of the Uesugi family to lose control when he is with Lu Mingfei."

"We cannot place the safety of a country on your subjective conjecture, Caesar," said Chu Zihang.

"What arrangements did the principal make?" Caesar asked suddenly.

Chu Zihang hesitated for a moment, "He said that Lu Mingfei will handle the matter of the head of the Shangshan family. If he thinks she is safe, then we don't have to worry about it. If he thinks she is not safe, then he will naturally... do the right thing."

"Lu Mingfei is indeed more suitable than us to restrict a high-risk hybrid, and I think that girl trusts him very much." Caesar said, "Also, what is the right thing that the principal said?"

"Kill her." Chu Zihang said, and he slowly rubbed the blade of Murasame back and forth with the file stone, making a rustling sound.

"If she really loses control, or if the head of the Uesugi family is finally determined to be used for the wrong purpose by the Eight Snake Clan, then Lu Mingfei will kill her. This is what the principal told me, but I don't believe he will do it."

"Let me light a cigarette." Caesar narrowed his eyes, opened the window without waiting for Chu Zihang's consent, and bit off the head of the cigar with his teeth. He should have used a cigar cutter, but the conditions here were limited, so he didn't bother with it. Soon white smoke rose up, and the sunlight after the rain was clean and clear, shining through the smoke into Caesar's ice-blue eyes.

"This is a fucking war." Caesar whispered. He took out his Desert Eagle from his waist and threw it to Chu Zihang in the front row, "Open it and take a look."

Chu Zihang did not hesitate and unloaded the bullet inside. There was only one bullet. The bullet head facing the sunlight was transparent, and the inside was covered with seaweed-like red filaments. All the filaments grew from a seed-like core.

"This is..." Chu Zihang's heart was throbbing, and he felt that the ancient king was slowly opening his eyes in front of him.

"Philosopher's Stone?"

He and Caesar accepted the Nibelungen Project arranged by the academy during the summer vacation. The essence of this plan is to inject a substance extracted from the dragon bone cross and match it with the alchemical matrix carved by the vice principal on their bodies to cleanse their bloodline and ensure that their will will not be affected so that they can truly break through the critical blood limit. To be honest, if Caesar and Chu Zihang were to undergo a bloodline test again today, they would both be judged as S-level, but when they recalled the moment when they fought with Lu Mingfei, they still thought they were not that guy's opponent.

Having said that, Chu Zihang is probably one of the people in the world who has had close contact with the Dragon Bone Cross for the longest time. During this period, he also heard the vice-principal talk about the Philosopher's Stone, so it is not surprising that he knows this bullet.

"We have a small alchemy workshop outside Rome. Although it is small, its heritage can be traced back to before the Middle Ages. Their achievements in alchemy are certainly not as good as those of the vice-president and the Gottingen family, but they can also make such alchemical warheads. It is made of high-hardness quartz and is wrapped with the philosopher's stone extracted from the dragon bone cross of the bronze and fire kings. It contains the property of burning, and when necessary, it can even completely burn down a city. If it hits the heart of a creature, everything about this creature will disappear from the world." Caesar narrowed his eyes slightly, not looking in the direction of the oden restaurant where Lu Mingfei and the others were, but looking at the clouds in the distant sky. That is the place where the sky and the earth meet. It seems that a long wind is blowing high and far away.

"Have you been carrying this thing with you all the time?" Chu Zihang asked.

"Yes, when Norton's dragon bone cross entered the ice cellar, the school board was almost ready to divide it up, but the elders prevented it from happening. They believed that Lu Mingfei's power was enough to protect his wealth, and he should have a share of the dragon bone cross of the King of Bronze and Fire. You got the quota for the Nibelungen Evolution from Lu Mingfei, right?" Caesar said, "Although the dragon bone cross was not completely divided up, it is not uncommon for each family to get a small, insignificant part. That's how I got this bullet."

"I'm curious about what the Gattuso family wants you to use this bullet on." Chu Zihang's eyes suddenly became deep. He looked at Caesar, who handed the bullet and the Desert Eagle back to him, and his other hand covered the handle of Murasame's knife.

"The Eight Snake Families are not a monolithic entity. We have an opportunity. The old guys in the family hope to use this opportunity to formally extend the power of the Gattuso family and the secret party to the territory of this country." Caesar stared at the gun in his hand and exhaled another puff of smoke. "They also believe that there are some monsters hidden in this family. That Yuan Zhisheng may be someone who is not inferior to Lu Mingfei, and Uesugi Eri is even more dangerous. I have two of the same bullets. I have the right to choose which two people who pose a threat to us to kill."

The Desert Eagle, as bright as a mirror in the sunlight, reflects the ferocious light.

"The mission instructions we received are different. The principal wants us to monitor the head of the Uesugi family. If she returns to Genji Heavy Industries, we will give up the surveillance. If there is a chance, it would be best to bring her back to the academy. She will be a good research subject. Mr. Frost Gattuso seems to hope that you can kill the one among the Eight Snake Families who is capable of hindering the secret party. So which side's mission requirements will you ultimately carry out?" Chu Zihang looked into Caesar's eyes.

"This world is divided into evil and justice. I am the righteous Caesar Gattuso, and the academy and my family are asking us to do evil things." Caesar spat out the cigarette butt in his mouth fiercely. He looked at Chu Zihang with a fierce look for a moment, but Chu Zihang was not a person who would be intimidated by eyes. He just stared into Caesar's eyes calmly, and the fierce look soon dimmed again. "Did you see the look in that girl's eyes? As clean as a child. Chu Zihang, can you really make up your mind to execute a child when necessary? Or... send that child to the operating table of the academy?" They all knew what the operating table in the academy's research institute was like. It was simply a hell on earth, even more cruel than the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.

The voice of this proud man was so tired, as tired as if he had lost all faith.

"I don't know." Chu Zihang said, "This is politics. The boundaries between justice and evil in politics are blurred. So people like me are only suitable to be sharp knives and just move forward courageously."

He seemed to have answered Caesar's question.

As a knife?

Caesar suddenly became a little confused, but Chu Zihang suddenly said: "But my monitoring of them is not entirely in compliance with the principal's orders..." He hesitated, "In fact, it is more because of Xia Mi's commission."