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They finally bought the disc of "Tokyo Love Story" on a street at least two kilometers away from Meiji Jingu Shrine. Eri seemed very interested in the adult discs on the shelf not far away, but for her own personal safety, Lu Mingfei quickly pulled her away from the store.
Chapter 179: The Desperate Man Goes Upstream
Shibuya is a very unique area in Tokyo. It is not only a sleepless street like Shinjuku, but also the fashion center of Asia. Turning into the alleys, you will find yakitori, sushi and oden restaurants on the street.
Young people sat under the temporary awning of the mobile food truck, drinking to the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves, but even when they were happy, they suppressed their emotions. Everyone was very quiet, and everyone was worried that they would disturb the people around them. Japan is indeed a country that is abnormally strict in small matters.
The leaves of the ginkgo tree swirled and fell, hanging on the boy's shoulders and the girl's hair. Lu Mingfei reached out to help Eri flick off the apricot-yellow leaves hanging on her hair, and the two smiled at each other.
They entered a shop specializing in unagi grilled chicken. The owner immediately served them pre-meal sake. The proprietress came over with a twist of her waist. Before she could say anything, she saw the young man showing four fingers. She understood what she meant and ordered two more sets of tableware for them.
"Don't be unhappy when you go home, Eri. I'm very close to you. If you're scared, just send me a message." Lu Mingfei helped Eri pour the wine. Of course, the sake from this roadside shop is not as good as the Black Dragon Daiginjo, but Boss Lu is not the kind of person who puts on airs, and Eri can't taste the difference between the two at all.
"I'm not afraid." Eri's eyes sparkled, "Mingfei, will you come pick me up to play again?"
"Well, I will stay in Japan for a long time. During this period, I will come to see Eri often. When I leave, I will take you with me." Lu Mingfei sipped the cheap sake in small sips, and his eyes looked outside the glass wall from time to time to see if there were two familiar guys.
Those grey buildings towered into the sky in the sunlight. Lu Mingfei suddenly felt that this city was so depressing and strange. Looking up to the west, it seemed that he could only see the shadows of giant buildings.
He imagined the little girl curled up and hugged him tightly. She was wearing a red and white shrine maiden costume and sitting on the tatami. Rilakkuma, Psyduck and Ultraman Barbie dolls were placed beside her like the center of attention.
The girl can see the world through only a small window. From a very young age, she can see the buildings around her growing towards the sky day after day, like dense bamboo forests. One day, they will grow to connect with the sky.
It's so lonely.
I'm so lonely that I want to destroy the world.
"Brother, are you beginning to feel lonely? That's good. This way, when you are inevitably alone in the end, you won't feel abandoned by the world." Someone said to Lu Mingfei.
"Because in the final analysis, when that day comes, it will be you who will abandon this world."
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Lu Mingfei's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he let out a long breath, as if he had finally breathed a sigh of relief, but all the muscles in his body were tense, and it was as if he had transformed from a lazy cat into a lion or tiger on the hunt in an instant.
The Devil is at your door...
How can we not be vigilant?
A boy in a black Florentine striped suit and a white bow tie sat at the table next to them. It was far from dinner time, so there was no one there.
He was facing the direction where the sun was rising. There were many tiny dust particles swirling in the light falling through the gaps between the buildings, and the boy's back seemed to be immersed in a long and narrow shadow.
The great rules seemed to have dropped from the sky, and the time of this world stopped. The flying dust dancing in the light column was suspended in the air, and the steam rising from the plate in the hands of the proprietress who was walking up from the kitchen with grilled unagi also solidified.
Lu Mingfei looked at Eri. The girl's eyes were clear and bright, reflecting his face like a calm lake under the sun.
"You haven't appeared by my side for a long time. I even lost contact with you during this period." Lu Mingfei drank the sake in the glass.
"There are performance appraisals in hell too. I've been following you for so many years but I haven't gotten any benefits. Satan has to come back to me to report on my work." Lu Mingze turned around and looked at Lu Mingfei aggrievedly. "Brother, you live a very lewd life every day, with beautiful women on both sides, and three wives and four concubines tied up. I was so angry when I crawled out of the frying pan and learned about these things. I was wondering why I always have to carry a heavy burden forward. It turns out that someone has made my life peaceful for me."
"What do you mean by soft and fragrant, tied up, can you please talk about the real thing!"
"We haven't seen each other for a few months, so we should chat to liven up the atmosphere." Lu Mingze awkwardly moved his butt to the chair next to Lu Mingfei and sat down.
"Fuck you, if you want to liven up the atmosphere, you could find a female devil with big breasts, big hips, a thin waist and long legs to do pole dancing or something." Lu Mingfei said unhappily.
Lu Mingze said shyly: "Brother, you like this kind of style. If you are willing to sell me a quarter of your life, I can become the kind of female devil you said and develop a forbidden love with you."
"That's a bit outrageous, brother." Lu Mingfei covered his face, "Just talk about it, it's not too late to fight later."
"I see that you are full of fighting spirit, I don't want to offend my brother." Lu Mingze spread his hands.
"It's nothing serious, I just saw that you seemed lonely, so I came to talk to you."
"Bullshit, how do you know I'm lonely? I, your brother, am eating well and in good health, and I can't stop traveling with beautiful women. The word lonely has nothing to do with me." Lu Mingfei's words were quite obscene, but his voice was calm.
Lu Mingze smiled, then turned his head to look at Eri opposite him.
The little devil reached out and touched the girl's hair, and then pinched her cheeks. "So beautiful." He said softly,
"Brother, do you like the head of the Shangshan family?"
Lu Mingfei's expression finally showed some change. He looked at Lu Mingze coldly, as if he would draw his sword and cut the little devil in half in the next second.
"Don't worry, don't worry. No one in this world can pretend to be me. Brother, please don't look at me like that, okay?" Lu Mingze made a pitiful expression.
Lu Mingfei poured himself another glass of wine: "This is the territory of the White King's descendants. There are many members of the Eight Clans of Sheqi who are good at using spiritual words. It's hard for me not to doubt you."
The little devil once walked through Lu Mingfei's memory, and experienced almost everything he had ever experienced again. It seemed that whether he liked Eri was not a problem.
"Because your behavior is so weird. You seem to be very close to her, but there seems to be a thin veil between you. I've always said that love is the wine that the devil uses to bewitch human beings. Could it be that you know another devil, brother?" Lu Mingze looked at Lu Mingfei with the resentful look of a wife when she caught her husband fooling around with his mistress in the hotel.
Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Lu Mingze to ask such a question... a question that seemed so petty compared to the things the little devil always talked about, such as fate, power, and the future.
"I know what you want to say. You don't have to explain anything to me. I'm just curious about what choice you will make in the end, brother." Lu Mingze smiled rather lewdly. Lu Mingfei waved his hand. He really had no interest in delving into this topic.
“Although I don’t know why you suddenly became an emotional mentor, if your purpose in coming to me is to take a quarter of my life, then forget it. I’ve been living a pretty comfortable life recently and have no plans to die for the time being.” Lu Mingfei said.
"Look at what you're saying. Brother, you're a man who wants to live to see the completion of the Four Modernizations. How could I, your little brother, always be thinking about killing you? I came here this time because I have something to tell you." Lu Mingze took out two lemon-flavored ice creams from somewhere, handed one to Lu Mingfei and kept the other for himself.
"There is such a good thing? Free information again?" Lu Mingfei was suspicious. He suddenly realized something. Since he returned to this time and space, he has actually met opponents more than once who might endanger his life or even cause natural disasters that could threaten the lives of millions of people. Odin, who is still extremely mysterious, and Norton, who has become the supreme after devouring Constantine's power, are not weaker than the most dangerous enemy Lu Mingfei met in the previous time and space, the new White King Herzog.
But until today, Lu Mingze has not really asked to exchange even a quarter of his life with him.
Not only that, Lu Mingze even often did some nominal customer feedback. He had used the phrase "something for nothing" unconditionally several times, and had also helped block Odin's holy spear Gungnir, which was said to be able to directly pierce fate.
From this perspective, Little Devil is indeed a conscientious businessman.
"Brother, you are no longer the same as you were before. After all, we are on the same boat, so it is only natural for us to share intelligence." Lu Mingze sighed, "And you should also look at me from a developmental perspective. It's already the second round, and are you the only one who has changed a little bit?"
"So you're going to let me use the cheat code for "something for nothing" unlimitedly from now on?"
"No, that won't do." The little devil refused. "This is developing too fast. It's like the evolution from Lord Buddha measuring the material resources of China to make the country happy to Don't say I didn't warn you. Brother, please consider whether I can bear it."
"Alright, alright, stop bragging and give me the information right away," said Lu Mingfei.
"That old man Ange asked Finkel to come to Tokyo."
"Wow, what is this loser doing here? Is he here to get killed?"
"Brother, you should also take your roommate seriously." Lu Mingze ate his lemon ice cream in small bites and looked up at Lu Mingfei. "When he entered the school, he was the spiritual leader of the academy. If he were alive today, he would be at least as powerful as Caesar and Chu Zihang combined."
Lu Mingfei was silent. He actually knew that Brother Baigou was also a top figure. When he met Gao Ming and Wan Boqian in Nibelungen some time ago, they talked about Fingel. It was said that he was a well-known super A-level student in that class. He got the highest scores in all subjects and crushed everyone in practical courses. He was a truly all-round talent.
"But this is nothing but intelligence. He can come if he wants." Lu Mingfei said, "If it is the principal's mission, then maybe we can have a chance to go to a nightclub together and blow sake bottles."
With a thud, Lu Mingze threw a photo on the table, and Lu Mingfei picked it up and took a look.
It was a photo of an old man from the Beijing style practicing Tai Chi under a jujube tree in a yard. Although the old man was wearing training clothes, holding a folding fan in his hand and had a crew cut, he clearly had an Aryan face.
"Who is this? Finkel's father?"
"Friedrich von Long, his current name is Lin Fenglong." Lu Mingze crossed his legs and looked at Lu Mingfei.
Lu Mingfei looked a little dazed. He thought of the photo of the first generation of the Lionheart Society in the principal's office. In the corner of the photo was the handsome young man with a straight white hunting suit and a pair of eyebrows that flew like swords.
"He was the one who betrayed Meinecke Cassel at the time. Angers found him in China and led Finkel to attack that guy on the night you left Nibelungen." Lu Mingze shrugged, "But he failed and got away."
"Don't ask me how Friedrich ran away. I'm just a devil, not God."
Lu Mingfei's eyes froze slightly.
"what do you mean……"
"That old dog should have come to Japan, and Finkel's mission is probably to... hunt him down." Lu Mingze nodded. "Obviously, Angers believes that Finkel has the ability to kill their old friend and will spare no effort to do so, but unfortunately we don't know why."
“If that’s the case…” Lu Mingfei’s face was serious, and he almost slammed the table and stood up, “So I was the only loser in the academy before?”
"In theory, yes." Lu Mingze nodded in approval, "But brother, you can't think that way. At least you have the support of the principal who regards you as a bastard."
"Hey, hey, hey, don't look at me with that look of congeniality. The joke about the principal's illegitimate child is not going to get over, right? And what does it have to do with me that Finkel came to Japan to kill an old German bastard?" Lu Mingfei covered his face.
"It's very important. You should know that the reason why the academy formulated the Jiyuan Project is because Norma discovered the existence of the embryo from the database of the Sheqi Eight Families when he was infiltrating Kaguya's firewall, right?" Lu Mingze's expression became rare and serious.
Lu Mingfei began to feel uneasy.
The little devil rarely showed such an expression. He remembered seeing it twice. One time was when he asked Lu Mingze to resurrect Eri in the previous time and space. The little devil explicitly refused this exchange because he could not change what had already happened.
The second time was after successfully blocking Kungunir during the CC1000 train attack on Kassel College not long ago.
Whenever Lu Mingze showed such an expression, it usually meant that the development of the situation might be beyond his control.
"Wasn't it that Herzog's information was leaked and then accidentally obtained by Norma?" Lu Mingfei asked in a low voice. If there is someone in Japan who covets God's authority, then this person is undoubtedly Herzog. This reasoning is completely valid.
Kaguya's computing power was originally far inferior to that of Kassel Academy's central control system, so it was not impossible for the firewall to be breached and some data to be stolen.
"You have been ordinary for too long that you have forgotten that we were once the masters of this world." Lu Mingze touched Lu Mingfei's face and chuckled, "EVA is the god in this world who can control the entire information level. She can certainly forge an attack log and convince the school board that her information comes from Kaguya-sama whose firewall was breached. Brother, we are the most core instructions in the lowest-level command library of this system. Obey and protect, this is EVA's attitude towards you."
"As for the control over the academy's artificial intelligence, there are only two people who can be on the same level as you. One is Hilbert Jean Angers, and the other is Fingel von Frings."
“Wait wait wait, I don’t quite understand. I have the academy’s black card, so my authority is very high, comparable to that of a school director. But what you said about submission and protection, that’s nonsense!” Lu Mingfei yelled. In fact, he believed it vaguely when Lu Mingze said these words.
But once he chose to believe this, Lu Mingfei felt a sense of urgency and crisis as if he was trapped in a cage.
The central control system of Kassel College appeared only slightly later than the first large-scale integrated computer in the true sense of the word. If Lu Mingfei had the authority to write into the system at that time, it would be too unbelievable. That was the 1980s. Boss Lu at that time was not even a fertilized egg, and Lu Lincheng was probably still a young boy.
There is another more likely guess that his authority was implanted along with the artificial intelligence. Norma was created in 2003, and Lu Mingfei should still be under the surveillance of the academy at that time. In this case, it is not impossible that he was set as the person with the highest authority over Norma.
But once he acknowledged this setting, Lu Mingfei had to face a problem.
Is he a free monster or a captive monster?
"The mission my mom and the others are carrying out is very special, so Angers gave you this authority." Lu Mingze narrowed his eyes.
Hearing this, Lu Mingfei patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
"There are three people in the world who can view the lowest level logs of EVA. In the information world, we and Ange are almost transparent to each other, but at the same time there is a very special guy who we cannot see through." The little devil frowned his delicate eyebrows. Obviously, he did not like the feeling of not being able to fully grasp things.
"You should know that EVA is actually a real student of Cassel. She was one of the victims of the Greenland Ice Sea incident and Finkel's girlfriend. After being preserved in the world by her mentor Flamel in a special way, she became the central control system of the academy."
"You mean that Senior EVA is not completely restricted by the code and may have a certain degree of autonomy? Is this really possible?" Lu Mingfei exclaimed.
"Nothing is impossible in the world of dragons. Don't be surprised if you see Nidhogg jumping out of the cemetery and doing the cha-cha tomorrow." Lu Mingze curled his lips.
"I checked Norma's log, and I believe Ange did the same. She never got any relevant information from Kaguya's database. That information just appeared out of thin air!"
"No matter how smart she is, she is ultimately just a computer. She may have a certain degree of self-awareness, but it is impossible for her to compile a completely non-existent and real piece of information," said Lu Mingfei.
Lu Mingze snapped his fingers: "Bravo! Brother is so smart! Norma can't get the information, so the only one who can pass the information to the academy through Norma without exposing himself is Finger!"
"What do you mean?" Lu Mingfei suddenly sat up straight, his back felt cold, as if he had thought of something terrible.
"It's not just you, Senior Sister, and the head of the Uesugi family, brother, who have returned to the past from a certain branch of fate." Lu Mingze's voice was faint.
"Do you remember Finkel's ID on the Night Watcher Forum?"