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"Have I told you about Yangcheng Lake before?"
Eriko nodded seriously.
"Yangcheng Lake is such a good place..." Lu Mingfei took out the cigarette box from his windbreaker pocket, his fingers lingered on the moment he opened the lid, hesitated, and pushed back the soft seven-star that he had pulled out.
He changed a piece of maltose and held it in his mouth, looking at the endless distance. The city spread out under his eyes, like a gray sea.
The wind ruffled Lu Mingfei's forehead hair, and his dark eyes reflected the sea of clouds like mountains.
"I've been there twice. The first time was with my mother when I was eleven years old. At that time, we went to Crab House, which is a crab restaurant by the lake. My mother said as she helped me pick out the crab meat. This business is not difficult to do, because the place is Yangcheng Lake, there is no shortage of top-quality ingredients, and crabs are also very easy to cook. If you steam them in water, they are fresh and sweet, and you can sell them at a good price with some rice wine and side dishes. " Lu Mingfei was neither sad nor happy when he said this, but his eyes were quite deep. Eryi couldn't understand that look, but she often saw similar expressions from her brother.
"But my family has no money, can't afford to rent the land in Yangcheng Lake, and we don't have the connections." Lu Mingfei shrugged, "I haven't told you, my father used to be a cadre of the botanical garden, he could make guinea fowl, and often gave it to My mother brought back a handful of tulips and put them on the shoe cabinet at the door. You can smell the fragrance when you enter the house... But the salary for cadres is not high, and there is no money to be made for cadres in the botanical garden, so our family is quite poor. "
"What about the second time?" Eriyi put up a small notebook. She is indeed a great listener, and she is also very good at complimenting Lu Mingfei. Whenever Lu Mingfei talks about connecting in the middle, Eliyi will ask, "What next?"
Lu Mingfei raised his eyebrows, "Then they went abroad, and I followed my uncle and aunt." He said,
"One summer vacation, my aunt accompanied my cousin to the summer camp. It was the little fat guy named Lu Mingze. You should still have some memories, right?"
"I don't like him." Eriki frowned her slender eyebrows and wrinkled her nose, making an expression of disgust.
Getting along with peers is indeed the best way for children to grow up. Even though Natsumi-san is technically older than Eriki, Miss Jörmungandr is still old-hearted and is as smart as a rabbit. Same.
In the past, Eri's expressions were monotonous. Although she learned to laugh and cry after being with Lu Mingfei, she could never show a look of disgust.
Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment. Hui Liyi touched his forehead, as if he suddenly remembered something, and then raised the small book.
"Sakura's cousin seems a bit naughty." Eryi blinked, and Lu Mingfei laughed dumbly. In another world, when eating at Chateau Joel Robuchon, a three-star Michelin restaurant, Lu Mingze always peeked at Eryi's calves. At that moment, the little monster was ignorant and didn't understand anything. Perhaps looking back now, he felt that Lu Mingze didn't look like a good person.
In this way, Lu Mingze is indeed quite vulgar.
"Okay, anyway, it was that summer vacation. My uncle's work gave me a bonus, and he took me to Yangcheng Lake at the end of the summer vacation. He also said that hairy crabs can be eaten open." Lu Mingfei said with a smile,
"At that time, eating crabs in a boat will soon become popular on the lake. When we went there, the first store with this business model opened, and the price was much more expensive than other stores. But my uncle is a face-saving person, and he often He said that men should enjoy the best things. After boarding the boat, the very beautiful proprietress tricked us into ordering a full set menu. Others sold crabs and services. My uncle said that what we were enjoying was in the same style, with the autumn breeze, lotus fields and bright moon in the sky. It’s very pleasant to drink rice wine with gold pincers.”
"Style?" Hui Liyi wrote down a word in the notebook, blinked and looked at Lu Mingfei, who smiled: "It means high-end."
The Lexus was parked at the intersection of Naritasan Omotesando. The tower with the three characters "Omotesando" cast a narrow shadow on the car. Not far away, there was a bustling street with an endless flow of people. The cold air in early winter was filled with a sense of quietness. The smell of cold pine needles.
The men and women in the crowd and Lu Mingfei passed by Eli Yi. For a moment, Lu Mingfei and Eli Yi suddenly turned their heads and stared at each other.
Realizing that the other person was also looking at her at this moment, both of them were stunned for a moment. Eriki's eyes blinked, and a slight blush appeared on her cheeks.
"You will also take me to Yangcheng Lake to eat hairy crabs later." Hui Liyi put up a small book and Lu Mingfei nodded.
At this time, the phone rang from his pocket, and Lu Mingfei raised an eyebrow. Probably zero has arrived.
If the golden holy liquid has been extracted, it should not occupy a large space, and one person can put it in a bottle and take it away.
"Zero?" Lu Mingfei asked tentatively.
The incoming call did not display a number, which was in line with the style of Lu Mingze's team, but another woman's voice sounded on the other end of the phone.
"Lu Jun, do you still remember our agreement..."
Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment. He covered the phone and looked at Eli Yi. Could it be that it was the Sheqiba family's phone number, trying to find his location in this way?
But the next second, Lu Mingfei's pupils suddenly shrank.
"The truth is about to be revealed to us all in the sky and nowhere..."
Chapter 288 Golden Sacrifice (1)
Fallen leaves were flying along the ginseng road in Narita in autumn. Lu Mingfei slowly yawned. He and Eri Yi had been waiting for a while.
Dozens of cameras in the entire street that could capture this angle were pointed at them, like a dragnet trying to completely envelop the prey. But Lu Mingfei seemed not to know, chatting with Eli Yi all the time.
In fact, he was the one doing most of the talking, while Eri listened attentively. Eri had always been a great listener, but not a good friend to chat with.
Eriyi's handwriting speed is really not slow, but how many years has she lived in a cage?
Bird, who has been imprisoned since birth, has mustered up so much courage to step out again and again, and is found again and again. Each time she goes back and forth, her heart cools down a little bit, making her trapped more and more in her own world. The deeper.
Communicating with people is really difficult for such people.
Amidst the falling leaves, a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow was driving along the road from the airport to Sanmotō. Most of the pedestrians on the street were in a hurry and anxious to avoid them, but some were leisurely and comfortable, moving slowly. .
Some people say that the airport is a microcosm of the world. You can see everything you want to see from people here, including life and death, love and hatred, mothers who send away their children, and elderly people who bid farewell to old friends with tears. There are also those who stop to stare at each other and then smile freely and never see each other again, and the lovers who say goodbye reluctantly.
Some people are in a hurry, and some people are also very leisurely.
Lu Mingfei stood up from the bumper and waved to the slow-moving Rolls-Royce. The old man in a coat who passed by looked over in surprise. The sunlight falling on Lu Mingfei's body seemed to be coated with a thin layer of gold.
The Rolls-Royce has a Russian flag tied to its rearview mirror, and a Russian flag is also erected on the side of the front hood. This means that the car belongs to the Russian Embassy and has great criminal liability in this country. Immunity.
The person driving the car was actually zero, and he could only vaguely see him wearing a stiff shirt, with a bulging chest, long golden hair tied up, simple but beautiful, and his skin was white and shiny in the sun.
Sitting in the passenger seat was a certain kendo lady with her long black hair tied into a ponytail, revealing her fair and slender back neck. She was wearing tight jeans and a white body shirt that completely exposed her slim waistline. She was clearly a woman. The mature beauty with a slender waist and long legs lifted her sunglasses on top of her head, looking inexplicably and strangely childish.
Jiude Mai saw Lu Mingfei from a distance and stretched out her hand to greet him.
Norma is undoubtedly the eye of the sky entrusted with the important task of the academy. She can rely on satellite and network communication technology to simultaneously master almost all the cameras that have been produced and used by mankind so far, and the number of these cameras exceeds hundreds of billions.
In a big city like Tokyo, these cameras are like countless eyes. There is no doubt that the other "Norma" is staring at Lu Mingfei and Eriki through these eyes.
The Snake Qiba Family will not let the most powerful weapon they possess be held in the hands of someone from the academy.
They don't care that Eri is actually a girl who can cry, laugh, and have feelings. They only care about their family.
The artificial intelligence named Kaguya used the core of the titanium black building in Shinjuku District to radiate tens of thousands of tentacles to the entire Tokyo and even the entire Japan.
Lu Mingfei knew that he could not escape these tentacles. In Japan, Kaguya is a god. Even if the academy awakens Norma's war personality Eva, it will not be able to break through Kaguya's firewall in a short time.
Any camera will be a medium for her to find them. Tokyo is not some desolate Gobi Desert. The population density here is the highest in the world. The poor, rich, old and children gather here, even if you are just walking on the street with red hair. , there will also be passers-by who press the shutter on you a few times.
Since there is no way to avoid it, it is better to face it head on.
"Will my brother come back to me?" Eryi put up a small notebook, and there was a hint of nervousness on her indifferent cheeks.
She wore long white cotton socks and an autumn scarf to cover the black veins on her ankles and neck that were as small but dense as snakes.
Lu Mingfei touched Hui Liyi's hand. He looked at the camera closest to him and gave it a thumbs up.
"I belong to an organization called Kassel Academy. Xia Mi and Nuonuo should have told you." He said, "The relationship between the academy and the Snake Qiba Family is very subtle. There is probably a lot of tension between us. A war will break out soon, but your brother will not attack me until the war comes. "
Moreover, Xia Mi left a deep psychological shadow on Genji. It is said that the turtle has been holed up in the gate of Genji Heavy Industries for the past few days and has never left the house.
The Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow slowed down slowly and finally stopped accurately in front of Lu Mingfei and Eli Yi. The passenger window rolled down, revealing a pretty cheek.
"Handsome guy, are you taking your girlfriend out for a walk?" Mai Shutoku whistled, nodded her head hard, and put her sunglasses on her face with a snap.
Eryi's face was slightly red and she hid behind Lu Mingfei.
"Hello, Sister Mai." Lu Mingfei greeted obediently. Jiude Mai smiled, reached out to pat Lu Mingfei's shoulder, retracted his hand and leaned back in the chair.
That way they can all see zero.
Zero's eyes were shining, but with a sharp white-gold light. Her little face was also cold, but different from usual. Zero is usually a cold girl, but today she looks...
Like unhappy.
Lu Mingfei was a little frightened, wondering if he had violated some taboo by bothering the Royal Highness to go to Yangcheng Lake? Facing Zero's cold gaze, he tried his best to put on a stiff smile on his face.
"I helped you get the golden holy liquid. Aren't you going to treat me to a meal tonight?" Zero said, clearly a question, but his tone was unquestionable and firm.
——The Sanbiao Road in Narita Mountain doesn’t have a lot of traffic. In fact, no one wanted to go in for a walk, so they all got into the Lexus that Lu Mingfei drove. Instead, Mai Shutoku and Eri sat in the front row. Lu Mingfei put his hands on his knees and straightened his waist, staring ahead without daring to move, as if there was a platinum-gold female tyrannosaurus sitting next to him. .
"The head of the Uesugi family has a good foundation. He can dress up and make his debut." Mai Shutoku praised her generously, and the cold atmosphere in the car relaxed a little. Eriki touched her face and blinked to look at Shutoku Mai's slender legs.
"You look very much like Miss Sakura." The little monster put up a small notebook.
Mai Shutoku brushed her hair and shrugged.
"Then I'll call Chu Zihang and Caesar, and let's have a dinner together?" Lu Mingfei said cautiously. He glanced at Ling secretly, only to feel that the girl's side face was frighteningly cold, and occasionally there was a hint of a sword. His gaze came across,
"I can rent a Japanese-style room and have sukiyaki or something together," he said.
Omotesando's power supply system is quite abundant. Even in the morning, all the street lights are on, making it feel dense and bright even in the daytime.
A slight cold wind blew through a strand of Baoji's hair. Zero glanced at Lu Mingfei lightly, and Mai Jutoku burst into laughter from the driver's seat. Eryi was a little confused, so she poked her head out of the passenger seat and looked at Lu Mingfei and then at Ling.
"You and me, just the two of us," Zero said.
Two pairs of big eyes squeezed into the rearview mirror and secretly looked at the back seat, and Jude Mai and Eri's ears perked up.
Mai Shutoku whistled, and Eri tried to follow suit, but failed and her face turned red.
Lu Mingfei knew what Shutoku Mai meant, but he really had no intention of defending himself. Although in a sense, Her Royal Highness and I are partners who can trust each other, Zero is Lu Mingze's employee or friend or something else, and I am Lu Mingze's big customer.
But he never thought about whether Zero was really interested in him.
First of all, the two of them are not compatible at all. Secondly, Lu Mingfei feels from the bottom of his heart that he is not Ling's type at all. He always thought that Her Royal Highness stood up for him because of that kid Lu Mingze.
Having said that, it was thanks to Lu Mingze and his team that we were able to obtain pure-blood dragon embryos and extract the golden holy liquid from them. I think Ling had put a lot of thought into this matter and invited her to eat it alone. A meal is also appropriate.
It would be best for Her Royal Highness to be more transparent and let Lu Mingfei know what Lu Mingze wants to do this time and what benefits their team wants to gain from this matter.
To be honest, Lu Mingfei always felt that Lu Mingze was probably planning something huge, and everything he had ever done was to pave the way for someone to do that thing.
He was very scared in his heart, afraid that that person was actually himself, although even he was not sure whether this guess was true.
"Okay." Lu Mingfei decided to agree first. He touched the smooth platinum hair of the girl next to him. It felt like he was stroking a textured cloud.
"Just go to the same one we went to last time?"
"I've already made a reservation to go to Chateau Joel Robuchon." Ling said casually. Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, wondering why he still heard the name of that restaurant.
He stared blankly at the small, sober girl. Not sure if it was an illusion, but he actually saw a slight arc from the corner of Her Royal Highness's mouth.
The tips of Eriki's ears twitched, and she turned back to look at Lu Mingfei curiously. Chateau Joel Robuchon was like a canteen to the family owners, and even the manager there was actually a retainer of the Yuan family.
As someone who, like Lu Mingfei and Nono, came back here from another world or another period of time and space, Eryi also has deep memories of that farce-like family dinner.
But the more profound memory is that someone held her tightly in his arms amidst the light and shadow of swords. To this day, it seems that the sound of rain that spans time and space still echoes in Eriki's ears, as well as the sound of sharp blades cutting flesh.
It's hard to say whether Eryi fell in love with Lu Mingfei because of the hug eight hundred meters deep in the trench, or because Lu Mingfei didn't hand her over on that stormy rainy night.
When Lu Mingfei looked back, he happened to meet Eri Yi's gaze. He was stunned for a moment, and the passing time seemed to be reflected in those eyes. Lu Mingfei's heart moved, and he knew that Eliyi had also thought about that night.
Among those whose destinies had been changed, Lu Mingfei felt that he was really a waste, good for nothing, and it seemed that he could only hide behind his brothers and sisters and cry forever.
He hasn't done many right things, things that make him proud, but what happened on that rainy night can still make him stand upright to this day and say with pride that I can actually work hard without the devil's backing.
The two people's eyes met in the intersecting light of light and dark, and for just a moment, it was as if they had returned to the time they had spent together. Lu Mingfei remembered that people who wielded machetes a hundred times more powerful than him gathered together to take away the girl in his arms, because she was prey, she was worth tens of thousands of gold, and the girl was dependent on him, trembling with fear. How could he let go at this time? If he let go, he would be despising himself for the rest of his life. So risking your life is the last option.
Eliyi actually didn't think much about it. She just recalled that it was raining that night, and the alleys were so dark and deep. It was such a strange city to her and Lu Mingfei, and there was no one there. Help them.