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"The grilled chicken wings taste pretty good." Lu Mingfei was full of praise. He did not expect that Chu Zihang, a noble son and the second generation of rich people, could actually master the relatively common skill of grilled chicken wings.
"There are two flavors. Caesar's method is very similar to how Norwegians roast venison, and they also use rosemary. In comparison, it is actually closer to a variation of fried chicken wings." Chu Zihang said.
"What about you, senior brother?" Lu Mingfei was curious.
Caesar: "I had a similar taste at a Northeastern barbecue stall in China."
"The combination of Chinese and Western styles blossoms." Lu Mingfei raised his glass, Hui Liyi carefully peeled off the tinfoil on the outside of the grilled chicken wings, raised his glass and touched it with Lu Mingfei, Caesar and Chu Zihang also raised their glasses. On such a stormy night, drinking and eating meat, the flames coming out of the stove made the whole kitchen warm, which was really comfortable.
Chu Zihang said: "Actually, I don't know how to cook. I can only do simple roasting and boiling. Xia Mi's skills are superb." As he talked, he drank by himself, his face did not change and his eyes did not squint. Caesar was astonished. He glanced at Chu Zihang and then at Lu Mingfei.
"If we really talk about cooking skills, I'm more optimistic about Susie and Isabella." Caesar was lucky enough to try Susie's cooking skills. The French, Italian, and Chinese stir-fry dishes were all of the best in the world. For a while, Master Gattuso was impressed. Astonished.
Lu Mingfei was embarrassed and didn't know how to continue. At this time, Eryi lowered her head and wrote in a small book, and then showed it to several people.
"Senior brother drinks," she said.
Raise your glasses at the same time.
At this time, both Chu Zihang and Caesar were a little stunned. Caesar bumped Chu Zihang's waist with his elbow, meaning that this little girl is new to the world and doesn't know anything. She is as simple as a dog's tail grass. Otherwise, you are a murderer, so you can stop being so angry all day long.
Chu Zihang raised his glass and clinked it with Eli Yi, and Caesar had no choice but to raise his glass.
"Until the Master of the Uesugi family orders." Chu Zihang drank all the beer in the cup and said, but his tone seemed to be gentler.
Eriyi took a sip of sake. Her drinking capacity is actually quite good, and her bloodline, which is stronger than anyone else, makes her unable to get drunk with sake, but only makes her blush. It's just that Huiliyi never exchanges glasses with anyone except Lu Mingfei. As for scolding Fang Qiu at the wine table, that's even more nonsense.
Lu Mingfei also took a sip of wine. He squeezed Hui Liyi's hand, thinking that when Hui Liyi drank, she was like a swan sipping the clear water in the pool. She had a long neck, fair skin, and clear collarbones. She was so elegant. And beautiful.
"I think those snake-like deadpools are not the inventory of the devils. They must have some facility or organization that conducts human experiments on hybrids kidnapped from all over the world, inducing the dragon blood in these people to become manic. ." Lu Mingfei said in a low voice. When he did this, a mountain breeze was passing by, and the candle in the glass cup in front of the shrine in the corner of the courtyard swayed violently.
Yuan Zhennu was trying to get in touch with the academy, and Lu Mingfei also felt that he would not break his promise with Caesar and Chu Zihang, so the snake-shaped deadliest soldiers who surrounded and suppressed them must have been sent by the king.
In this way, everything about Kazama Ruri was actually seen by Herzog. The asymmetry in intelligence made it difficult for Chu Zihang's team and those who were delusional and acted against fate in the Japanese Gu breeding farm.
Lu Mingfei felt that everything was strange and confusing. The people hiding behind the scenes were discovered one after another, from Herzog to Odin, from Odin to the Far North, and from the Far North to There is a dark side organization behind the scenes that has not yet appeared.
His knowledge of information alone is obviously no longer enough to turn the tide in this country. His power has nowhere to display, so it is necessary to introduce a bigger monster. The hybrid world is a fairy tale forest full of monsters and monsters. In this forest, there are small monsters like the Far North and the boar Neo and his dark forces, as well as big monsters like the Snake Qiba Family and the Fierce Ghosts. Monsters, but there is only one that can devour the flesh and blood of the same kind over the long years and grow into a real behemoth, and that is Cassel Academy.
Its predecessor is the Secret Party and the Blood Pact Society. Its cornerstone is the world's most prominent mixed-race family and the world's oldest dragon-slaying hero heritage. Its power involves the surface and the dark side of the world. When it is truly angry, every time A half-breed would shudder.
Herzog is the most insidious careerist and cunning conspirator Lu Mingfei has ever seen. What he seeks is the throne second only to the emperor, the supreme authority. But this time Lu Mingfei is not alone. He will no longer fight alone. When the heavens are angry, there will be thousands of troops following him.
With the Brotherhood of the Dragon Blood Society as a link, Lu Mingfei was able to communicate with a small number of prominent families in the mixed-race world. At the same time, his supporter was Hilbert Jean Angers, leader of the Elders and Camarilla. Half of the members of the board of directors are on his side, and the Gattuso family owes him a favor.
As someone who had experienced it once, Lu Mingfei knew that there was a Deadpool breeding pool underneath Genji Heavy Industries. With such evidence in his hands, he could prove that the Snakes and the Demon Clan were birds of a feather. Given the academy's zero tolerance for such things, they would definitely strike back hard.
After seventy-five years, the iron fist of the secret party will once again fall on the heads of the eight families of Sheqi.
"The academy will not sit idly by, Tachibana Masamune... Mr. Masamune and the Inuyama family's trip to Chicago is destined to not go smoothly." Caesar has neither good nor bad feelings towards Tachibana Masamune, and he rarely calls someone sir, but The head of the Uesugi family was right in front of him. In many ways, Tachibana Masamune was like a father figure to Eriki, so he called the old man Mr. Masamune.
Gattuso's principles can be changed, as long as the woman standing in front of them is beautiful enough.
"Who do you think the academy will send to Tokyo?" Lu Mingfei stared into the depths of the stove. The sweet potato was already emitting a fragrant aroma, so he took it out and threw it into the ashes.
"Professor Schneider is very good at handling situations like this. He will have a suitable candidate." Chu Zihang concentrated, raised his head, drank the beer in the cup, and then filled it up for himself. Sha Fei is Schneider's favorite disciple. Similarly, Chu Zihang also trusts his mentor. Compared with Lu Mingfei and Professor Guderian, these two are simply a match made in heaven. Of course, it cannot be said that Guderian is not worthy of Lu Mingfei, but there is really too little that this little old man can teach him.
"It's not that I don't distrust the ability of the academy and the executive department," Caesar frowned, "but we are in Tokyo. This damn place is the largest population gathering place in the world. Even if the academy is determined to destroy every branch in the world, Even if every commissioner from Japan is transferred to Tokyo, it probably won't have much effect. Especially since we already know that the Eight Sheqi Family controls a super artificial intelligence named Kaguya, and its ability at the electronic information level is not inferior to that of Novo. There are too many mats, and she may not be able to understand every little thing that happens on every server on the earth, but if the turtle defense focuses entirely on Japan, even Norma will have a hard time breaking through her constantly updated firewall."
Lu Mingfei picked up the roasted sweet potatoes with his pointed fingers. He kept rotating his left and right hands while blowing the heat from his mouth to disperse the things. He looked at the mountains in the rain. That direction was Tokyo, which is the largest city in the world. From the atmosphere, If you look outside at the surface of the earth, you will see a continuous field of light and fire at night. Every building stays up all night, and the neon lights flash from dusk to dawn. No matter how huge the power is thrown here, it is like throwing a few grains of sand. Into the desert.
Unless the academy activates EVA and gives up surveillance and information hegemony over other areas, Kaguya will become the executive department's biggest enemy in the city.
Without artificial intelligence as the backing of the commissioners, the Executive Department would not be able to launch hostilities against the Eight Sheqi Families in Tokyo, and even Angers would not be able to reproduce the miracles of many years ago.
"Your authority in the execution department is not high enough." Chu Zihang said, "The academy is a very old organization. The Secret Party has had the advantage on the battlefield for many years, and it does not just rely on the execution department you see now. , on a list that only Professor Schneider and Principal Ange know, there are real elites hidden in the executive department headquarters. Each of them is an S-level hybrid or a Transcendent A-level hybrid. These people are scattered around the world. Each is named with a code name, and behind each code name there is an A-level or even S-level mission. The eight Sheqi families dare not trample on the bottom line of the academy because the family heads know that the big shots in the secret party are always overlooking them. In the hands of these big shots They hold the power that can subvert the entire Japanese mixed-race society, but no one knows when they will make up their mind to put these powers into the battlefield."
"I think the immortals are also part of these dark side forces, right?" Lu Mingfei said.
This is a secret that even he doesn't know. In the last period of time, his boss Lu was a bit rubbish and was not qualified to access the secrets of such a big shot. Chu Zihang should not be qualified either, but his teacher is Schneider after all. , perhaps mentioned accidentally.
There are a lot of immortals, but they were all killed by Lu Mingfei last time in the Nibelungs of the King of Earth and Mountain. They are very dangerous warriors. As Chu Zihang said, each one is super A grade. Even S-class, but there is an essential difference between it and the snake-like Deadpool created by Herzog. The Immortal is made from the corpses of powerful hybrids, while the snake-like Deadpool is the product of many human experiments and trials and errors using living hybrids. The former is a pure weapon, while the latter is the devil's agent. By.
The long-sleeping immortals were originally weapons used by the secret party to deal with Dragon King-level targets, but judging from the few words revealed by Angers, it seems that they are not controlled by the academy, but are instead controlled by Odin.
Originally, this army had extremely strong combat capabilities and could play a decisive role in the frontal battlefield. However, their opponent at that time was Lu Mingfei, who had suffered four times of heavy bloodshed and received the bonus of the Little Devil. In the death whirlwind of the Word Spirit Trial, The bones of the immortals, which were harder than steel, turned into powder.
Eriyi sat obediently on the side, waiting for Lu Mingfei to help her tear off the burnt part of the sweet potato, and then bit into the roasted sweet potato without making a sound, only occasionally looking up at Lu Mingfei.
Eliyi saw Lu Mingfei looking at her, his eyes sparkling. She held her chin in one hand and looked up into the man's eyes with a smile on her lips. With the other hand, she handed the half-eaten sweet potato to Lu Mingfei.
Chu Zihang said: "If it weren't for the principal's mission report, we would have no way of knowing the existence of such a thing as the Immortal with our authority." He took the pliers from Lu Mingfei's hand and put some tinfoil in the fire. Pick up the wrapped minced beef, then throw it into the ashes to cool down, then use scissors to cut the tin foil, find four wide-mouthed porcelain bowls from somewhere, and throw the sizzling and oily minced beef into four bowls respectively. Inside, Caesar dropped small packets of powdered condiments that he had just finished mixing into each porcelain bowl.
Two porcelain bowls were placed in front of Lu Mingfei and Hui Liyi. Chu Zihang withdrew expressionlessly, hiding himself in the shadow where the firelight could not shine.
"Senior brother is really a considerate and gentle man." Lu Mingfei said nonchalantly, "I actually added the biggest portion for Eriyi." He picked up a piece of roasted beef with chopsticks, which was covered with chopped green onions and Chili peppers are not like something that rich people like Chu Zihang and Caesar like to eat, but more like a snack from a street stall. Chu Zihang didn't speak, but the corner of his mouth twitched, then he picked up a small piece of beef with a toothpick and drank it with the beer.
Lu Mingfei wrapped Eriyi's leftover sweet potatoes in absorbent paper. The little girl seemed to be attracted by the minced beef. Although her behavior was still quite elegant, she ate it very quickly, like a lark drinking honey.
"According to Miss Sakura, Kazama Ruri has destroyed the Rock Flow Research Institute. Although the Miyamoto family head and researchers were dispersed in advance, the underwater working platform should no longer be usable." Caesar said, "But The Jiyuan plan still needs to be implemented. We can apply for the academy to deploy the deep submersible. Lu Mingfei and I will dive down and blow up the embryo. Chu Zihang, just watch from the shore. If the Sheqi Eight Families cause chaos, you can use it. Mountain cannon blast them.”
"I don't think I'm a mountain cannon." Chu Zihang said.
At this time, the light and distant boy's laughter suddenly sounded from the depths of the mountain again. Lu Mingfei was surprised. He was about to ask Chu Zihang and Caesar if they heard the sound, but Chu Zihang said The cold sword light responded to his question.
Chapter 196 Kazama Ruri
The black helicopter flew over the mountains and over the troughs. A man in a black trench coat stood by the open door with a cigarette in his mouth. The wind blowing against his face lifted his forehead, revealing his slender and strange hair. eyes.
Yuan Zhisheng's expression was neither sad nor happy. He quietly looked at the brightly lit Tokyo, like a moth lost in the darkness looking at the light that could burn it to ashes.
Behind him, a heavy aluminum alloy box lay there quietly, containing some kind of heavy weapon that could even kill dragons, along with two sheathed ancient knives.
One hand is cut by a spider, and the sword is inscribed with the spider mountain, which is fierce and lurking at night. The other sword was probably not an ordinary ancient sword, but an alchemy sword that had been used to slay demons.
"Sakura, are you sure?" Yuan Zhisheng's voice was low, but as sonorous as an iron spear. He inhaled the last puff of smoke into his lungs and searched for the cigarette box in his trouser pocket again.
The lid of the box was open, and there was only wrinkled tinfoil inside.
"Wind, for a second, I can't feel the wind." Sakura, who was supposed to be waiting at the intersection at the bottom of the mountain, actually appeared behind Yuan Zhisheng. Her expression was cold, and the fragrance of cherry blossoms lingered in with the cold wind. Originating from the naive nasal cavity.
"A certain word spirit is working, and the commissioners of this department have quietly stepped into the evil ghost's trap." Yuan Zhisheng said, "I think I should know that evil ghost."
Sakura said nothing.
She heard the boy's laughter in the mountains. The laughter was familiar and distant, like an old friend forgotten in the depths of memory singing to you over the long years.
It wasn't until she left the mountain that she finally remembered that it was the young master's laughter.
"I once cut a spider into his heart, and then buried the evil ghost in a dry well. Now he comes to me for revenge." Yuan Zhisheng said softly, his voice was so gentle, and there were golden flakes like molten iron in his eyes. But it was like a star exploding.
Sakura held two ancient swords and stood behind Yuan Zhisheng with her head bowed. She felt that the young master's expression was so tired, but also inexplicably as strong as a diamond. The majesty that could not be resisted burst out from his body, accompanied by such as Sadness like a turbulent wave.
As if fearing to disturb the ghosts and gods in the sky, the helicopter flew very low, and the huge cone-shaped light beam cast a round spot of light in the dense black forest. The howling of the wind was like the wail of evil spirits.
There used to be many villages in the suburbs of Tokyo, but most of them were destroyed in earthquakes. The government built resettlement houses in the north of Kanagawa for the villagers who lost their homes, so most of the country people went there. Nowadays, these mountains are inaccessible. It's like hell at night.
The pilot lowered the altitude again at Minamoto's signal. We were less than five kilometers away from the Shiroyu Dog Shrine. Among the ruins and ruins of villages, weeds as tall as a person grew freely, and only black remains of withered summer flowers remained. The platycodon is like a withered claw stretching towards the sky.
From a high altitude, you can see that the houses in the mountains that collapsed due to the earthquake seemed to be dead, with their beams and rafters rotting away.
A long time ago, that village was the only way to go from Kanagawa to Shiroha Dog Shrine. Now it is abandoned and the road has sunk into the underground river due to unstable foundation.
Minamoto remembers that when he first came to Tokyo, a city that is so addictive, Tachibana Masamune took him to stay overnight in this village. At that time, there were still a few old people here who had not moved out, and government staff every day They would come to express condolences every week and bring some rice, flour, tea oil, and occasionally mackerel caught from Tokyo Bay. But when I went back last year, the last old man died in that rather cold winter.
Sakura stood next to Yuan Zhisheng. She looked down at the ruins, her eyes indifferent, but a dim light suddenly reflected in her dark pupils.
The light spots were like fire tearing apart the curtain, gradually spreading.
It turned out to be a clean shrine dedicated to the gods of this mountain. In front of the shrine, there were candles all over the small courtyard.
In such an inaccessible mountain, the light and fire are blown by the wind and sway in the direction of the shrine like a pilgrim.
"There is an empty stone courtyard in the village, please land there." Yuan Zhisheng said to the pilot. In fact, he and Sakura were not worried about the safety of the headquarters commissioners. In the world, Lu Mingfei and Eri could be threatened at the same time. The person wearing clothes may not have been born yet, but Sakura was still a little surprised.
"Why don't we go to the White Feather Dog Shrine first? I'm worried that the ghost will irritate Miss Eriki," she said.
Gen Zhisheng shook his head, "There are always restrictions on the use of spiritual speech spirits, and blood is the only measure of this restriction. There will be no human in the world whose blood can surpass Eri, and she will not be in danger." He said.
The helicopter was hovering three meters above the ground. Yuan Zhisheng first threw the aluminum alloy box down, then took two ancient swords from Sakura's hands, and finally jumped down, like an eagle spreading its wings. Sakura followed closely behind, and the wind seemed to lift the girl's body, as light as a dandelion dancing in the air.
After landing and standing firm, Yuan Zhisheng took out his wallet, opened it and handed it to Sakura.
Sure enough, like everyone else, there was a photo sandwiched there. The background was a rather old and deserted shrine. There was a light helicopter parked in front of the shrine. The boys in white hunting clothes sewn from linen were leaning on the helicopter together. One boy is slightly older, handsome and tall, and is clearly a smaller version of Yuan Zhisheng. The other is slightly smaller, more feminine and handsome, but as beautiful as a girl.
Since the Kamakura period, samurai robes have been worn by priests during rituals. They are similar to the clothes worn by ministers. It can be seen that Minamoto Chisei probably once worked as a trainee priest.
"I spent my childhood and teenage years in the mountains of Kobe. To this day, I still don't know where my biological parents are or whether they are still alive." Yuan Zhisheng said softly, waving to the pilot. Drive the helicopter away from here, and then lead Sakura towards the direction of the shrine.
Minamoto rarely told anyone about these things. Sakura, Crow and Yasha were the few people who knew about it, and only Masamune Tachibana knew about it.
Sakura just listened quietly without speaking. She knew that maybe today she would be exposed to some secrets that Yuan Zhisheng had buried deep in her heart.
"The one in the photo is Shikatori Shrine, which is quite big in the mountains of Kobe. Many people come to visit it every year. The villagers make a living by selling souvenirs. My brother and I live in the house of my adoptive father, who does not work. , living by adopting children from the city and receiving relief funds from the rich." Yuan Zhisheng said,
"At that time, all the boys in the town had to take turns to study at Shikatori Shrine. My grades were always the best. Miyaji said that I could take over his class, and in the future, young girls could also work at the shrine to support themselves."
Sakura was a little shocked. She never knew that the young master had a younger brother. Then she suddenly realized something and her expression was a little moved.
"I told him that I was going to a big city to work hard, and he could hand over the position of Palace Secretary to Zhinu. But Zhinv died." Yuan Zhisheng said, and he stood in front of the candlelight that was coming like mountains and seas. , holding the handles of Spider-Cheer and Doji-Chere, all the strength in their bodies was stirring, as if they were trying to chop up the darkness that was not illuminated by the candlelight in front of them.
"The childish girl died. I killed him with these two knives because he degenerated into a ghost. I was already serving in the Executive Directorate at that time, and he was the first ghost I killed."
Sometimes Yuan Zhisheng would tell Crow and Yaksha about his childhood in the mountains. In these stories, he would conceal the name of the mountain town, and never mention the person who Chen once wanted to move to the position of the shrine's palace minister. passed down to his old man.
Of course, no one would mention the boy who was buried deep in his memory, his younger brother Genjitsu.
"The girl's bloodline is far better than mine, but it is not stable, so the emperor of the family is not him but me. If the laughter you heard in the mountains is really similar to mine, it is very likely him." Yuan Zhisheng's voice was low, he exhaled a long breath, walked towards the shrine in the candlelight,
"I have watched the video sent by Princess Kaguya of the attack on Genji Heavy Industries by the Oni. The young man who destroyed the Rock Flow Research Institute looks very familiar. Maybe it was too long ago, or maybe it happened in my memory. Deviation, but I always feel that I did not recognize the wrong person, that is him, the young girl came back to seek revenge on me."
Sakura is alert to possible attacks from any direction. She is the young master's retainer and is determined to die for Yuan Zhi. Now Yuan Zhisheng told her that there were still ghosts in the world whose bloodline was far stronger than his, which really made Sakura's hair stand on end.
Yuan Zhisheng was probably the most powerful man Sakura had ever seen besides Lu Mingfei, but even so, he still admitted that there was some evil spirit crawling in the night chanting his words with gnashing teeth. name.
This is really unbelievable, this is really... appalling.
The candles swayed when the mountain wind blew, but they never went out, like ghosts who had re-emerged from the land of the dead reveling in front of the shrine.
Yuan Zhisheng was bowing, with both swords at his waist. It was obvious that he was not as calm as he looked. Not only was he not calm, he looked like a liger on the hunt.
His muscles arched, and golden light could be seen flowing on his fair face in the candlelight. It was the ignited golden pupils that reflected the man's cheeks.
In front of the shrine is a thick gauze curtain, which was probably newly hung by the person who lit the candles. Yuan Zhisheng lit a match and threw it up, and the gauze curtain caught fire, actually burning very quickly. The wool curled up and gave off the disgusting smell of protein denaturation. , the huge hole spreads around from the center where the match fell.
The ancient alchemy knife split into cold arcs in the blazing light and fire. The spider cutter and the boy cutter were unsheathed at the same time, but there was nothing dangerous in the shrine.