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The backpack was made of special materials, which were said to be resistant to both high temperatures and friction, making it perfect for Lu Mingfei. The backpack he used to carry the seven deadly sins was made of ordinary nylon cloth, which would be reduced to ashes in a slightly more intense battle.
The aluminum alloy box in his hand was a multi-purpose tool box that Su Enxi imitated based on the equipment box provided by the Equipment Department of Kassel College to the Executive Department's specialists. In addition to the necessary antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs, it also contained a modified Remington sniper rifle. When needed, Lu Mingfei could reassemble it in just a few minutes.
The bullets are alchemical armor-piercing bullets enchanted using alchemy and tempered with mercury.
Lu Mingfei, who is about to embark on the journey, can be said to be armed to the teeth. Carrying the seven deadly sins and the weapon box, he can even wipe out an entire hunting team of the executive department without using violent blood.
But for some unknown reason, neither Her Royal Highness the Princess nor Sister Mai came to see Lu Mingfei off. Susie and Christina, who had been living in Carlominster Manor all this time, seemed to be completely unaware of it.
Eiry was wearing a dark purple cashmere coat, the ends of the scarf around her neck fluttering in the wind. She hid her chin in the scarf and took a step forward to the edge of the platform, standing shoulder to shoulder with Lu Mingfei. The wind coming from deep in the rails made her look like a swaying purple wild raspberry.
The sharp car lights tore through the darkness covering the railroad tracks under the bridge. Lu Mingfei's body suddenly shook. With the faint light, he saw an old man with a shabby figure waving at him on the opposite side of the platform.
He was wearing a black robe, his hair and eyebrows were gray, and the skin on his face had deep wrinkles due to aging.
It turned out to be Beowulf, who had left a great reputation even in the entire history of the Secret Party. He was one of the most powerful half-bloods in Europe and an elder who held ultimate power.
Across the foggy darkness, Beowulf was smiling and waving at Lu Mingfei, with his followers standing behind him like a black wall.
Lu Mingfei immediately guessed that the person sent by the academy to hunt him down was the old man who inherited the titles of Beowulf and Dragonblood.
He was neither a commissioner nor a beheader, and he never even left his number in the executive department. In that turbulent era, Angers was an absolute radical, while many elders were true conservatives.
While Hilbert's Kassel Academy was formed and the executive department sent its own specialists to set up branches around the world and gradually suppressed the out-of-control dragon resurrection incident, old men like Beowulf were still sending or leading their own hunting teams to walk on the brink of life and death, just like hundreds of years ago, to kill the resurrected dragons again.
It was 7:55 a.m. Moscow time. The platform, which was open only to Bunin and his distinguished guests, was empty. The silver-polished tracks crisscrossed in the distance like a group of steel snakes.
There was no dispatcher in the empty dispatch room. Artificial intelligence independent of the Internet controlled all the dispatching work here. The lonely signal lights switched between red and green in the darkness.
There are neither the iron-clad mercenary girls of the Elizabeth Palace nor the elite guards of the Karominsk Manor. Due to Bunin's sometimes demand for the transportation of prohibited items, not even a single armed policeman can be found. This is the best time for the academy to launch its first formal attack.
Eiry put her hands in her pockets and looked at Beowulf and the expressionless men behind him across the platform together with Lu Mingfei.
Compared to Su Xiaoqiang, who is still ignorant of everything in this dark society, the little monster is also inexperienced, but after all, she once visited the self-proclaimed integrated social system in Tokyo as the eldest princess of the Japanese underworld.
She didn't know who was a good guy and who was a bad guy, but she could tell who was a thug and who was a desperado who was willing to risk his life.
Crow and Yasha were probably the men she had come into contact with the most besides Minamoto no Chisei and Tachibana Masamune. They were servile in front of her brother, but Eri could see the glimmer of cruelty in their eyes.
Some people talk to you politely in a suit and tie, but the next second they step on your face with crocodile leather shoes and make you bite the corner of the wooden table to break your teeth.
This is the temperament of a thug. Su Xiaoqiang has not yet developed such a vision, but Hui Liyi can recognize it at a glance.
The men behind Beowulf did not seem to come from an organization like the executive department, which had a relatively loose management. Instead, they looked more like they were from the army. They looked cold and hard just standing there, making it difficult for people to approach them.
A beast-like roar echoed on the empty platform. It was the whistle of the train that had just torn through the darkness as it entered the station. Lu Mingfei's tense heart relaxed a little.
Beowulf is a dragon slayer who will stop at nothing, but at the same time he is also a knight like Gilbert Jean Ange who regards honor as everything. To this day, the glorious deeds of this old man a hundred years ago are still circulating in Europe. He and his brothers tracked down the seriously injured dragon across half of Northern Europe, killed the dragon in the wilderness, and then drank the hot dragon's blood together.
He probably appeared here not to prepare to use hypersonic shells to blow Lu Mingfei and the entire Moscow Railway Station to the sky, but just to tell Lu Mingfei unscrupulously, I'm here.
Otherwise, given Beowulf's style, it shouldn't be this old guy who appears here at this time, but a time bomb that can destroy the entire platform.
Lu Mingfei and Eiry could only look at the old man for a few seconds, because then a high-speed train roared past them and stopped at the end of the platform.
Those turned out to be several luxurious carriages pulled by steam locomotives. They entered the station with strong winds and heavy snow, and thick clouds of steam instantly swept across the entire platform.
"Are you leaving?" Eri asked.
Lu Mingfei nodded: "Just like Eri always wanted to leave Genji Heavy Industries, finding answers to certain questions is also my obsession."
He hesitated for a moment, then rolled up the sleeve of his left wrist. On that arm was tied a crescent-shaped white blade, the sword of Ame-no-Kurosakumo that could change its shape at will.
It is known as the sharpest blade in the world, capable of cutting through everything. Even the Yamata no Orochi will eventually fall under Susanoo's Murakumo sword.
Lu Mingfei took down Ame no Murakami and handed it to Eri.
The thin and sharp dagger fell into the girl's hand like a silver snake. Eri shook her wrist and the sword immediately tore through the air, making a slight buzzing sound.
It seemed to come alive, and Ama Murasaki was emitting some kind of joyful emotion.
Obviously, it is more suitable to be placed in Eri's hands than in Lu Mingfei's hands.
Lu Mingfei is good at using the short-arc sword, so Ame Murakami in his hands becomes a standard short-arc sword. Eri is good at using the samurai sword, so this sharp sword taken from the tailbone of the Yamata no Orochi becomes a standard samurai sword in her hands.
"The name of this sword is Tian Congyun. In the myth, Susanoo got the Yamata no Orochi drunk and took out this sword from its tailbone. He then used it to cut off all the heads of the Yamata no Orochi." Lu Mingfei pinched Eri's cheek and smiled. "The snake that escaped from the Well of Corpses to the Red Well was Susanoo. I found this sword in its tailbone. You carry it with you, and use this sword to cut off anyone who wants to hurt you."
"I don't want to kill anyone anymore," Eri said. "I used to be very lonely, and everyone I talked to died. Now it's fine, I can talk and sing, and no one will die."
The two people's foreheads touched each other. Eri smelled the strong masculine scent on Lu Mingfei, and her cheeks blushed slightly. A charming and cold shadow slowly awakened in her eyes, and then returned to silence again.
"Protect yourself and the little angel, and wait for me to come back." Lu Mingfei said.
"Yeah." Eri nodded heavily.
Su Xiaoqiang leaned on the mirror-smooth bench next to her. Her face was vaguely visible in the steam cloud, but her pupils still revealed reluctance.
"You too, little angel." Lu Mingfei let go of Eri, came to Su Xiaoqiang, tilted his head, and then reached out to pinch the little angel's wrist. "I don't know whether Norton is dead or asleep, or has left your body, but you now have a powerful force, which is enough for you to protect yourself."
"I know." Su Xiaoqiang shrugged, "Your friend is here."
Lu Mingfei looked back and saw a bloated man like a brown bear leaning against a support column on the platform where a train was parked in the distance. He was surrounded by steam and the cigarette flickered between his fingertips.
It's Bunin.
Looking again, Beowulf, who had just been standing opposite the platform, had disappeared.
But Lu Mingfei knew that he would be unable to sleep or eat for a long time. The academy would not take action against him in Moscow, but once this luxury train entered Siberia, the war would be a fight to the death.
Lu Mingfei looked back for the last time, and the light reflected on the pale faces of Hui Liyi and Su Xiaoqiang, like the color of a cold moon.
With the blessing of dragon blood, they are breathtakingly beautiful and breathtakingly cold.
Before boarding the train, Bunin took a curious look at the mountaineering bag behind Lu Mingfei and the aluminum alloy box in his hand.
"Some weapons. After all, the place I'm going to is a dangerous place. Even if General Vatutin helps us get a pass to enter the special military restricted area, there will always be other things that will hinder us." Lu Mingfei picked up the aluminum alloy box and shook it in front of himself and Bunin. "It's just a Remington sniper rifle. It shouldn't be a big deal in the eyes of Mr. Bunin, who controls the largest outsourcing order of the Ministry of Defense, right?"
"In fact, I'm more surprised that you only brought so little." Bunin smiled and extinguished his cigarette on the wall, flicking the remaining cigarette into the snow with his fingers. "My train is armed with onboard heavy machine guns and hypersonic shells. The roof of the last carriage can be opened through a pneumatic system. When fully unfolded, it becomes a helipad with a light armed helicopter parked on it that can accommodate people taking off and landing... To be honest, as an arms dealer, Mr. Lu, you are not familiar with how low our bottom line is."
Lu Mingfei waved goodbye to Eri and Su Xiaoqiang, and stepped into the giant beast that was winding on the rails like a black snake. He seemed to leave without any regrets, and asked as he walked, "What is our journey like?"
"Let's go to Lake Baikal first, and we'll pick up some friends along the way... They are all descendants of powerful people, and they will be the best umbrella for this train." Bunin said, "To be honest, I don't participate in party struggles, but I hold the economic lifeline of some guys in my hands... Some people in the government want me to die. So every time I go to Siberia, there will be a whole bunch of Gru special forces following me, and some people hope that I will be alive and well, so those Gru special forces can never get orders from their superiors to fire at us."
Lu Mingfei was not interested in these things. He nodded and began to look around the environment in the carriage.
Unexpectedly, the decoration here is 40% similar to that of Elizabeth Palace, with large portrait murals, religious carvings covering the entire dome, and the floor is covered with fine lambskin. Every decoration in the corner is enough to cause a sensation in the collecting world.
The train trembled as it moved forward. Lu Mingfei stood by the window and looked at the platform. The shadows of Su Xiaoqiang and Eri were getting farther and farther away until they finally disappeared from his sight.
"How long will this trip take? I mean until we reach the final destination." Lu Mingfei asked.
After taking this step, Lu Mingfei was surprisingly calm. He looked at Buning, and Buning took him to the rest carriage.
"It will take at least twenty days to reach the end of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and then we can rely on snowmobiles to continue moving forward, but there will be little help I can provide you after leaving the tracks." Bunin said. He pushed open the door, but Lu Mingfei did not take a step, he was just stunned.
No wonder the decoration here is so similar to Elizabeth Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Princess was in good spirits and had been waiting in the carriage for a long time.
Chapter 572 Winter in the Far East
She glanced at Lu Mingfei coldly, suppressing him severely with just one look. The man sighed and walked obediently to the side of the long oak table in the middle of the car and sat down.
Bunin showed an apologetic expression, patted Lu Mingfei on the shoulder from behind, sighed helplessly, and then closed the door silently behind him.
"Why are you..." Lu Mingfei hesitated.
"Su Enxi captured the encrypted intelligence from Cuba, which was sent by Finkel. It used a very simple intelligence system that happened to be beyond Norma's recognition range." Ling did not look like he was explaining to Lu Mingfei why he appeared on this train. Instead, he looked like a judge in court with a criminal.
Lu Mingfei immediately realized that the simple intelligence system that could not be recognized by Norma was obviously a loophole left by EVA in the background of the academy's super artificial intelligence secretary.
The senior student was really smart and had thought of this very early on.
"What did Finkel say?" Lu Mingfei rubbed his hands, sat down beside the princess, and poured himself a cup of tea.
"He betrayed," Zero said.
Lu Mingfei was filled with righteous indignation: "Damn it, that loser with thick eyebrows and big eyes, Finkel, really betrayed our pure revolutionary friendship!"
"The target of rebellion is the academy..."
"I knew that we have a father-son relationship. Senior Brother Finger will definitely not leave me." Lu Mingfei clenched his fists. "The ones I raised with so many family barrels are indeed not ungrateful."
"He has a channel to get intelligence from inside the academy. Although some school directors have to obey the Gattuso family because of the regulations of the Abraham Bloodline Contract, your supporters still exist." Ling said, "The Executive Department has completely become an armed organization directly under the school board during the operation of Pompeii. Since you chose to refuse the academy's arrest, they have directly listed Finkel as a wanted person. Professor Schneider initially canceled this wanted order until he was also dismissed from his position. Finkel completely lost his protector and had to flee to Cuba."
Lu Mingfei felt bitter in his heart. He and Fingel quarreled with each other every day and ate pork elbows with cheap wine in the Bavaria-style Sunshine Restaurant. Fingel drank the red wine bought by Lu Mingfei and patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, my good brother. I will definitely stand by you at all times."
No one could have imagined that at this critical moment, although this guy could not provide much practical help, he was really willing to help.
This guy can stay in bed for a whole week on instant noodles, fried chicken, hamburgers and Coke. The academy keeps him like a mascot and he is happy with it. Now he is reduced to the remote countryside of Cuba and I don’t know if he can get used to it...
"He said that the school board had heard that after Professor Schneider stepped down, the executive department's pursuit of you has been stepped up, and even the hunting team that had already withdrawn from the historical stage has been invited out." Ling looked at Lu Mingfei, "They may not directly attack this train before Beowulf's patience is exhausted, but negotiations are inevitable... Bunin is a businessman, you can't expect him to have much integrity and bottom line. For a man like him, even his own life can be bought and sold, let alone you. As long as the college can offer a suitable price, he can leave you and the train on the broken tracks in Siberia at any time and let the school board use the Sword of God's Punishment to blow you to pieces in Siberia."
"But he said that before going to Lake Baikal, he would pass through various important places and bring the children of those government officials on the car to use as our shield." Lu Mingfei frowned.
"The promises made by politicians are even more ridiculous than those made by businessmen. They are also much more cold-blooded than businessmen. They just want a few offspring. As long as there are more benefits, they can marry more wives, find more women and give birth to more sons." Zero sneered, "Do you know what kind of promise the academy can make to Bunin? The weapons orders of the entire Western world can go to the hands of the Russian Ministry of Defense."
Alexander Bunin is the arms outsourcing company of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The world's largest arms sales market is located in the chaotic areas surrounding the Western world, including the Middle East, North Africa and even the Balkan Peninsula. Although Bunin's arms sales are quite broad, they are mostly concentrated in South Asia and areas covered by the Slavic language system.
If the school board is willing to pay some price to keep Brin out of Lu Mingfei's affairs, I think he will not refuse.
Since he began his escape, Lu Mingfei has rarely relied on his own strength to evade the academy's pursuit. When he was in China, he relied on the power of Lord Wa and orthodoxy, and when he came to Moscow, he relied on the influence of the Romanov family in the whole of Russia.
But once on this train, Lu Mingfei's greatest reliance has shifted from the Romanov family to Bunin.
"But what is your purpose in appearing here? Are you planning to take me away from Bunin's car?" Lu Mingfei asked.
Ling shook his head. "You still don't understand what my presence in Moscow means. Behind me stands the entire Romanov family, and the Romanov family's influence in Europe is no less than that of two or three school directors in the financial world. They control the syndicate, and I control the syndicate as well. Su Enxi can do the same as the school directors can promise Bunin."
Lu Mingfei almost understood that Her Royal Highness the Princess was planning to use herself as a hostage to tie up Bunin.
"He is an old fox. Although he is willing to help me for the sake of orthodoxy, I have not been able to bring him any substantial help after all." Lu Mingfei frowned, "But if you and I get into trouble in his car, Bunin's business will face a comprehensive crackdown by the Romanov family and Su Enxi. With his strength, can he survive this crackdown?"
Zero shook his head.
"Where's Sister Mai? Is she in this car too?"
"No, that's the second thing I want to tell you." Ling said. She put the yellow envelope in front of Lu Mingfei. The red clay stamp was still fresh, and there was a complex pattern on it.
Lu Mingfei had seen a similar pattern in Elizabeth Palace; it was the family emblem of the Romanov family.
"Senior sister was on the nuclear-powered icebreaker Imael when she was chasing the Far North when she was attacked by another icebreaker. The hull number of that icebreaker was also Yamal. It's not accurate to say it was an attack. That ship was caught in the ice storm and crashed into the Imael. Fortunately, Constantine and senior sister were on the same ship, so they didn't encounter a direct collision. But after the ice storm ended, a large number of black anacondas infected with dragon blood crawled out of the wreckage of the ship." Ling frowned slightly, "Those large numbers of dragon blood subspecies were mixed with Hydra from mythology. After the armed forces on the Imael eliminated all the subspecies and Hydra, they found Professor Schneider's body and a survivor who was still alive in the wreckage."
Lu Mingfei could imagine how critical the situation was just from a calm description. It was hard to imagine what would have happened if Constantine had not happened to be with Nono.
Whether it is an ice storm, a dragon subspecies, or Hydra, they are all the culprits that can cause a shipwreck.