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It was twelve o'clock midnight, and it was the time when the working group was testing the lighting system. The tall tower standing in the center of this huge city that seemed to stretch between the horizon and the skyline lit up with pink light.
Warm light bloomed like flowers in the pupils of Lu Mingfei and Eiry at the same time. The girl's lips opened slightly, and her face showed more shock than joy. Perhaps this scene brought back a beautiful moment in her memory.
After a long time, in the light and fire of Tokyo Sky Tree, Lu Mingfei slowly let go of Eri in his arms, and their eyes slowly moved to the same point. Soon, there was only the other person as he remembered, in the warm halo like divine inspiration.
When their eyes met, Eri's breathing became heavy, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and her beautiful eyes stared at Lu Mingfei without blinking.
She very slowly put her arms around the man's waist and buried her head in his chest.
Chapter 177 Meiji Shrine
Today, because she was preparing to go to Meiji Jingu Shrine, Eri actually got up very early, and got into the bathtub with a little yellow duck she found in the suitcase on her head. The sunlight after the rain fell on the frosted glass of the bathroom, and she could vaguely see half of a clear and moving shadow.
By the time Lu Mingfei put on his clothes and heated up the milk, Huili had already finished her bath.
She changed out of her sporty outfit today and put on a beige short windbreaker with high-heeled boots. Her long crimson hair was tied up with a simple light blue ribbon headdress.
If you ignore those curious eyes that look around like a cat, the girl in front of you does look like a cool and beautiful lady.
While Eri was combing her hair, Lu Mingfei was stretching his muscles beside her. All the bones in his body made crisp crackling sounds as if a rusty machine was struggling to start working again.
"If you sleep on the floor, you should put an extra quilt under you. My back and waist aches now, and I feel like I'm sleepwalking into a patriotic war." Lu Mingfei said as he looked into the girl's eyes through the small round mirror in front of Eri. His posture at this moment was between the eighth set of national radio gymnastics and Tai Chi. The girl covered her mouth and giggled, then ran to Lu Mingfei obediently to massage his shoulders.
They played games until very late last night, but given the physical fitness of the mixed-bloods, it shouldn't be a big problem.
"I want to have eel rice for lunch." After Lu Mingfei stretched his body, Eiry spread the small notebook on Lu Mingfei's back and wrote, then showed it to him.
"Okay. Eri should go home tonight. As for Sensoji Temple, we can go there next time we go out to play." Lu Mingfei said.
Although Eri's body was not as weak as when he saw her in the last time, Lu Mingfei was still unwilling to take risks. After all, Genji Heavy Industries had more professional and sophisticated equipment to help her stabilize her bloodline, so it would be safer to send Eri back.
Anyway, the study group will probably stay in Japan for a long time.
Eri nodded, and although she was a little depressed, she did not refute.
Lu Mingfei sat down on the bed and picked up his phone to see if Chu Zihang and the others had sent him any messages. The girl trotted over to stand in front of him. After taking off her boots, her toes were as crystal clear as jade and were moving restlessly.
Lu Mingfei looked at her curiously.
"Does this dress look good on me?" Eri tilted her head to show Lu Mingfei the note she had written, then she tiptoed and turned around in front of him like a proud ballerina dancing Black Swan.
Lu Mingfei looked at her in silence, deliberately observing her. The combination of beige short windbreaker and high-heeled boots is actually a bit outdated among girls on the streets of Tokyo. Short skirts and over-the-knee socks are popular now. Eri's aesthetics have not changed with the changes in the outside world. She still retains her original intention that if she thinks it looks good, it really looks good.
However, because of her good foundation, it doesn’t matter what Eri wears. She will be the focus of the whole street whenever she goes out.
"It looks good." Lu Mingfei gave a thumbs up.
Eiry threw herself into Lu Mingfei's arms like a white bird spreading its wings, twisted around to find a comfortable position, and hugged the man's arm.
"Does Mingfei like it?" she wrote on the paper.
Lu Mingfei scratched her nose and said, "I like whatever Eri wears." Then he helped the girl in his arms to stand up.
Eri's body was soft, without any signs of transformation into a dragon. Her skin still shone with the unique fluorescence of a young girl, and a faint fragrance filled the air, making people linger.
Eri's eyes narrowed up because of happiness, like crescent moons.
The rainstorm last night really used up the rain clouds that had accumulated in Tokyo Bay for a long time. After the sky cleared up, it was high and clear. Lu Mingfei opened the window, and the air was cold and fresh. The mottled sunlight shone through the leaves of the ginkgo tree outside the window and fell obliquely on the patchwork carpet under Eri's feet.
The tiny particles in the air danced in the beam of light like elves in the light.
Lu Mingfei stood up and patted Eri's shoulder. He looked into her eyes, which were reflecting the sunlight.
Lu Mingfei tilted his head, and Eiry tilted her head as well. Lu Mingfei smiled, and Eiry smiled as well.
"Let's go and see the Meiji Shrine." Lu Mingfei said, extending a hand to Eri. He actually wanted to see it too, because Lu Mingze said that in the original script he and Eri were supposed to hold their wedding there.
Fate is a clown that plays tricks on people. Last time, he failed to hold a wedding with her, but he also failed to miss her funeral.
The girl carefully placed her left hand in the man's palm and nodded obediently.
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The black Lexus moved silently through the traffic on the elevated road, nimble yet very stable. Caesar, who was reading a street magazine in the passenger seat, looked up with a little surprise at Chu Zihang, who was driving the car next to him.
"I didn't expect a violent guy like you to drive so well." He said, while tidying up his blond hair to prevent it from flying around due to the air flow coming in from the window.
"First of all, I'm not a violent person." Chu Zihang didn't even look at him. "Secondly, the purpose of abiding by traffic rules is to avoid accidental casualties in this team. Our current speed has reached 70 kilometers per hour. If a serious traffic accident occurs at this speed, even we will have a high chance of being fatally injured."
"What do you think of Fengjian Liuli?" Caesar was used to Chu Zihang's way of speaking, so he simply ignored him and asked what he wanted to ask.
"Not trustworthy." Chu Zihang said.
"why?"
"Do you think his real name is Kazama Ruri?"
Caesar fell silent. He knew that even in Japan, a country where people were overly frivolous, no one would name their child Kazama Ruri. A name like that had a strong sense of worldliness, and when people heard the name they would think of Kagetsu.
If the Ghost Group wants to cooperate with Kassel Academy, they must at least show sincerity. If the man named Fengjian Liuli is not even willing to reveal his real name, it will be difficult for Chu Zihang's team to build trust with them.
"But I think what he said is not necessarily all false. There may really be something dangerous hidden under the Abyss." Chu Zihang said.
Caesar frowned, he opened his black windbreaker, revealing the Ukiyo-e lining underneath, his words and actions showed a tendency to become closer to the members of the Japanese underworld organization.
Today, the itinerary arranged by Sheqi Eight Family for Chu Zihang's team was to visit the Meiji Shrine and the Inuyama family's residence. They officially recorded their files with Kaguya-hime and purchased insurance. In the morning, a slim girl brought them each the uniform of the Japanese branch executive bureau.
After putting on that black suit with Ukiyo-e lining, Caesar felt that he was a big shot in the Japanese underworld. When he spoke to the people from the Snake family, he unconsciously acted like a godfather of the underworld.
"Do you really think that's the kingdom of God down there?" Caesar lit a cigar for himself and looked out the window at Tokyo.
"You should have also looked through the files on the Greenland Ice Sea incident, right?"
"On November 2002, 11, in the Greenland Sea incident, the entire executive unit responsible for this mission was wiped out, and only one person survived. That person's name was Finkel von Frings." Caesar said calmly.
Caesar had reviewed almost all the major events in the history of the Camarilla many times, and they could remember every detail of each event.
This also means that he and Chu Zihang have always known that Finkel was actually an elite who was no less talented than them, and was once the leader of all students in the entire academy.
There must be some secret behind this guy's repetition, but since the college's top leaders have no objection, they will not delve into it. After all, Caesar and Chu Zihang are the leaders of the Student Union and the Lionheart Society respectively, and their political sense is quite sharp, but they are used to solving problems with violence, so their political talent is not shown.
"The operational files of that time mentioned a concept many times, the underwater 'door'." Chu Zihang said, "Coincidentally, Professor Schneider also reminded me before we set off that if I saw a door or something similar to a door underwater during the Jiyuan mission, I should immediately surface. I have the right to terminate this mission directly."
"So, the academy doesn't completely trust the information it got from the Sheqi Eight Clan."
"I already had some guesses. Yesterday, Fengjian Liuli told us that there might be a certain god's realm down there, which confirmed some of my inferences." Chu Zihang opened the window a little to let the cigar smoke be blown away by the wind.
"A door is the boundary between two spaces. In the human world, there is only indoors and outdoors; but in the dragon world, it is possible for two independent spaces to exist."
"Nibelungen." Caesar already knew what Chu Zihang wanted to say, "You mean, the Nibelungen that caused the academy to suffer heavy losses in the Greenland Ice Sea incident, and the Kingdom of God that Fengjian Liuli mentioned, were actually built by a certain Dragon King."
"As expected of you." Chu Zihang nodded. He and Caesar were definitely the people in the world who knew each other best. Only they had such a tacit understanding and their way of thinking was almost exactly the same.
"If our guess is correct, the monarch who has the ability to build Nibelungen in the extremely unstable sea water can only be the King of Ocean and Water who has not yet revived." Caesar's expression finally became serious. "If the opponent we are carrying out the Abyss Mission will eventually face is such a thing, then the probability of the mission's success will be very small, even close to zero. Because we can't be sure what the Dragon King's current state is. If it is a cocoon in the incubation state, there may be a glimmer of hope, but if the other party has actually woken up from a deep sleep for many years, then even the principal will not be able to compete with such a great supreme in the ocean."
"In fact, we don't have to take risks. We can just ask the people from the Rock Flow Research Institute and the Equipment Department to adjust the control distance of the deep-sea operation robot. We can carry out this extreme abyss operation on the sea surface." Chu Zihang said.
Technically speaking, this is not a difficult task for the Kassel College, which has mastered the world's cutting-edge technology. When the Pentagon was unable to develop an underwater drone that could dive to a depth of 8,000 meters underwater, the professors of the Department of Precision Mechanics had already developed an underwater unmanned operation that could be directly controlled from a distance through wave conduction.
This kind of technology has always been used in the cause of slaying dragons, but it is usually ineffective when facing second-generation or first-generation species.
Dragon embryos will generate a protective field around themselves. Any electronic control system within the field will be affected. Generally speaking, the older the dragon's bloodline, the stronger the effect of the field.
Something like a strong electromagnetic field will even form near the secondary and primary species, and this field is difficult to explain with current science. Even the Faraday cage cannot prevent equipment from being affected.
Even if hybrids enter the embryo's territory, their neural circuits will be disrupted. Similarly, the better the bloodline, the stronger the ability to resist interference.
However, it seems that they had prepared for today. The contemporary alchemist master Flamel had long been researching an alchemical matrix that could withstand this kind of field. Now, initial results have been achieved and it has begun to be put into practical use.
Although he always believed that the group of lunatics in Wattelheim had never done anything serious, Caesar admitted that they were still very reliable teammates when they got serious. At least when you were out of ammunition and had used up the last bullet in your hand, you could still throw out the communicator they gave you as a bomb.
Of course, the technical level of that group of bomb maniacs is definitely at the top of the world. They even applied to the principal to carry out the research and development and manufacturing of manned spacecraft. The purpose is to send the smartest people in the world - that is, themselves - to the moon when the Dragon King revives and the doomsday comes, and build a new century's "Garden of Eden" on the moon, where the technicians of Watt Alkhaiom will continue as the hope of mankind and the flame of civilization.
However, Angers rejected Director Acadora's application on the grounds that there was only Adam but no Eve in the Garden of Eden and that the creature could not shoulder the responsibility of being the hope of mankind and the spark of civilization.
Thinking of this, Caesar suddenly looked a little solemn. He wondered if he had been with guys like Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei for too long, why did his thinking diverge so quickly!
"If we use deep-diving robots, the safety factor will indeed be much higher. I just don't know how big the problems within the Snake Eight Families are." Caesar said.
Norma's plan clearly stated that the information about the dragon embryos at the bottom of the abyss from the Kaguya database of the Eight Snakes should not be known by many people, and even several family heads should not know it at all. This means that this behemoth that has been entrenched in Japan for many years actually has more than one mind, just like the real Yamata no Orochi.
Perhaps someone is hiding in the shadows of this dark society, waiting for an opportunity to make his move, hoping to obtain the embryo of God so that the world can return to the era of dragon rule.
Chu Zihang's expression was equally solemn. It was obvious that he had already thought of everything that Caesar could think of.
When the cell phone rang, Chu Zihang's expression changed subtly.
He motioned to Caesar beside him to take his cell phone out of his pocket and check who sent the text message.
"It's Lu Mingfei." Caesar looked at Chu Zihang, "He and the head of the Uesugi family are also planning to go to Meiji Shrine today. They are already on their way."
The corners of Chu Zihang's eyes twitched slightly, and the knuckles of his fingers holding the steering wheel turned white.
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The JR station in Harajuku is very different from other stations in Tokyo because of its ancient appearance. One can vaguely glimpse the sense of time when it was first built, but it has been preserved to this day with indelible traces of time.
Compared with the street in front of the station where various trends converge, it is like a contrast of colors with an especially strong visual impact.
"It's so lively." Eiry showed the note to Lu Mingfei.
Lu Mingfei held a vanilla and strawberry flavored ice cream cone in each hand, while Eiry held his arm. The two of them stood in the noisy crowd and were quite eye-catching.
Eri's image is already hard to ignore. Her hair color is rare even on the streets of Tokyo, which has long been a trendsetter. Moreover, beautiful girls have always been a belief pursued by otakus in Japan.
Lu Mingfei's image stands out among the crowd on the streets of Tokyo where the average height of men does not exceed 1.75 meters. What's more, his facial features are delicate. Although he is not the kind of yandere handsome guy that Japanese girls pursue, he has his own masculine charm. When standing with Eri, it seems as if he has been blessed with the golden prop "True Goddess Companion", and his own charm attribute is ridiculously high.
"Tokyo is indeed the most crowded city." Lu Mingfei said to Eri. The girl stood on tiptoe and licked the strawberry-flavored ice cream cone in his hand with her pink tongue, then looked up at Lu Mingfei.
"What are other cities like?" Eri looked like a curious baby.
Lu Mingfei knew that she was not asking about Japanese cities like Kanagawa or Chiba Prefecture, but about the scenery and scenes in other corners of the world.
"I don't know about other places, but I often stay in Chicago. I think it is a colorful city. The sun is bright all year round, and it snows heavily in winter," said Lu Mingfei.
“Will the snow pile up?”
"Yes, it will be very thick, as if it will cover the entire city, and everything will turn white."
"I really want to go and see it, I really want to go with Mingfei." Eri looked longing. Tokyo is a city with little snow, and even in the coldest winter, the snow cannot pile up.
In addition, because Eri's body is very weak, the Yaki family will never let her out of Hara Heavy Industries when the weather is cold, so until today she has never really come into contact with something like snow.
"There will be a chance in the future." Lu Mingfei handed Eri's ice cream cone to her and touched her head.
They then walked along the side of the station and soon saw the entrance to Meiji Jingu Shrine.