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It’s not entirely correct to say that it was protection. Only a very few people knew that during this process Chu Tianjiao secretly met with the night watchman, and then the box split into two.
Perhaps Ange had already expected that someone would attack Chu Tianjiao. Chu Tianjiao and the things in the box were just baits. What they really wanted to do was to hand over the Black King's bones and blood that had been tampered with by the Night Watchmen to the hands of the mastermind behind the scenes.
The person who did this was Odin. No matter what he used the Black King's bone and blood that he got from Chu Tianjiao, he was ultimately tricked by Angers.
"The last time we saw Tianjiao was in 03. Is he okay?" Qiao Weini hesitated and looked at Chu Zihang. "In fact, I was sure you were his son the first time I saw you. You look exactly like him."
"Dad is an executive officer on the gray list who performs top-secret missions. It's normal that you don't know his intelligence, Aunt Qiao." Chu Zihang said calmly, "On the eve of Typhoon Dandelion's landing in 06, we were led to the Nibelungen of a dragon king on an elevated road. Dad was attacked there, and his life or death is still unknown to this day."
“How could such a thing happen to you…” Qiao Weini was stunned and looked at Lu Lincheng.
Lu Lincheng frowned, not looking at his wife's eyes, and just drank silently.
"Senior brother, you haven't introduced this lady to us yet." Krisja sat next to Lu Mingfei and tilted her head to look at Khorkina opposite her.
Khorkina suddenly realized, "My name is Khorkina, Khorkina Pugacheva, and I am a student of Professor Winnie," she said.
Lu Mingfei secretly gave Chrisga a thumbs up. It was obvious that Chu Zihang was unable to extract any useful information from his mother, so the next step would be for Lu Mingfei to control.
"I heard that Khorkina is the leader of the safe haven. She is the most dazzling one among all the girls." He took over the conversation, pretending to hesitate and looking into Khorkina's eyes. "I passed by a small group of young people on the way to this small building. They were discussing a boy named Anton, saying that he was the only one in this port who was worthy of you."
This sentence was not a lie. Lu Lincheng and Qiao Weini did hear some rumors about Anton on the way home with Lu Mingfei.
But the real reason why Lu Mingfei asked this question was that the word Anton also appeared in Zero's description of Black Swan Harbor.
Ling was very good at hiding her emotions, so Lu Mingfei couldn't even tell anything about her opinion of Khorkina from her micro-expressions.
"Anton Belozovsky." Khorkina hummed, "They all say that we are a perfect match, but I don't like him... The social structure of Haven has not yet developed into a patriarchal society. We advocate free love, so I never spend time alone with him."
"Russian too?"
"Yes, I heard he was from St. Petersburg." Khorkina nodded.
Chapter 607: Ghosts' Carnival
While he was still eating at the table, Lu Mingfei already knew that he was assigned to live with Ling.
There was no expression of any strangeness on Her Royal Highness the Princess's face, but this distribution was reasonable. After all, she had just told Qiao Weini and Lu Lincheng that she was Lu Mingfei's fiancée.
Since she is a fiancée, it is only natural for her to sleep in the same bed with her future husband.
It was after his mother told him about this arrangement that Lu Mingfei clearly heard Xia Mi humming in anger in his heart.
"You've got what you wanted, right? You can finally share the same bed with your little Renata? Are you going to tell her some humiliating nonsense like 'Princess, put your hair up' later?" The image of the little junior sister flashed back and forth in front of Lu Mingfei's eyes. Lu Mingfei looked at his nose and his nose at his heart, and in his mind he talked to the Dragon King Jörmungandr who lived in symbiosis with him.
"I'm not such a perverted person, okay? Junior sister, don't you know that? When did I ask you to put your hair up?"
"I remember some people just like to be kicked..."
“Shut up now…” Lu Mingfei’s eyes twitched. Although no one could hear their conversation, Lu Mingfei still subconsciously felt a little ashamed in front of so many people.
After dinner, Lu Mingfei's original intention was to go back and have a rest. Although he had sufficient supplies during his escape, fatigue from the journey was inevitable.
In addition, the mind has been in a state of high concentration for a long time, and when one temporarily enters an environment that at least looks peaceful and tranquil, a feeling of fatigue immediately comes over one.
But Khorkina actually invited them to a party full of young people. As a clone, Bunin was actually only 40 years old, but he looked as old as a 70-year-old man, with a big belly, and after wrapping himself tightly in a coat, he looked like an old and fat groundhog.
Old Bunin was relieved to hear that all the people attending the party were young people.
People of a certain era should do what they should do. Old Bunin boasts that he has been in the circle of Moscow's powerful and wealthy for decades, but it is difficult for him to integrate into the group of people of Christina's age.
Moreover, when creating clones, the original body usually leaves defects in the genes to prevent the occurrence of extremely rare events that would cause one's identity to be replaced.
His body had begun to age and die at an alarming rate, and even with Moscow's most advanced medical equipment the old guy wouldn't live many more years.
Going to a party where you might have to drink vodka when you are so tired is not a wise decision.
Susie didn't like this kind of occasion, so she declined Khorkina's invitation and went back with Chrissia to the temporary residence that the Shelter had arranged for them near the exit. Chu Zihang decided to participate.
But this guy had his long sword behind his back, with one hand on his waist all the time, his face full of sternness and determination, just like a chivalrous hero who was going to die, and he could pull out a submachine gun from under his clothes and shoot everywhere at any time.
However, they underwent a security audit when entering the safe haven. Apart from the highly recognizable alchemical weapons, the Seven Deadly Sins, the only one allowed to remain in the entire team was Chu Zihang's Murasame.
The group strolled under the canopy of spruce tree crowns. A thick layer of snow accumulated on the hollow red brick ground. After drinking strong liquor, Khorkina's face was as red as if she had put on rouge, and the tip of her nose was also slightly red, revealing a girlish feeling that did not quite match her age.
She was wearing high-heeled boots and her steps were light. The golden straps on her boots fluttered in the wind, leaving footprints like those of a deer or a rabbit as she walked.
"Where are we going?" Lu Mingfei asked.
Khorkina put her hands behind her back, stopped not far ahead, turned around and tilted her head, "There is actually a bar in the safe haven. It's open 24 hours a day, but it doesn't charge money and has no employees. It relies on artificial intelligence and various epoch-making smart homes to provide services to the residents here. The bartender and the owner are the same person. There aren't many things in the shelter to entertain and kill time. Most people here think it's a sin to waste life on meaningless things, but we young people can't sit down, so we often get together in the bar to drink." she said.
Chu Zihang nodded and said stiffly: "I remember you said that the supply of materials in the safe haven is relatively scarce. Will the cargo ships that deliver materials every summer bring you a lot of vodka?"
Khorkina looked at him strangely and said, "No, the supplies we get from the outside world are mostly new mechanical equipment and high-tech parts for upgrading. Chocolates, cigarettes and stockings are just small things that can be stuffed into the gaps. After all, wine is a liquid and it is easy to spoil. We never let people from outside bring us wine." She said.
"But if that's the case, where are you going to get the liquor to meet the daily consumption of a 24-hour bar?" Chu Zihang asked.
"Brewing." Khorkina smiled and said, "What you see are only the above-ground buildings of the safe haven, but the underground area here is actually nearly ten times that of the above-ground area. In addition to the breeding farm, we also have a huge greenhouse. The food we produce every year is simply not enough to eat. With the perfect brewing technology, we can easily obtain a huge amount of alcohol."
In fact, the amount of alcohol consumed in daily human consumption is not large, and it also has a wide range of industrial uses.
"But for the time being we don't have to drink the wine we brew ourselves. When the safe haven was built, the committee commissioned the construction team at that time to build a huge wine cellar. Until now, a large part of the wine is still in there." Khorkina shrugged.
"Are you the son of Winnie's mentor's friend?" she asked.
"Chu Zihang."
"President of the Lionheart Society and one of the final candidates for the Nibelungen Project?" Khorkina's eyes seemed to be flashing with peach hearts.
Lu Mingfei turned his head to look at his senior brother's bewildered expression and the bewilderment in his usually cold golden eyes. He nudged the guy's arm with his elbow and said, "Senior brother, hold on. Be careful or Sister Su Xi will make you kneel on a durian when you get back."
"Why do you have to kneel on a durian?" Chu Zihang asked.
Lu Mingfei covered his face.
"I am no longer the president of the Lionheart Club. The new president is Lancelot." Chu Zihang answered Khorkina's question.
His dismissal was a recent event, and the information was brought back by Eva. The college had learned from the Gattuso family that Chu Zihang and Susie had betrayed the school board. As a traitor to the Secret Party, Chu Zihang was not qualified to continue to serve as the president of the Secret Party's core brotherhood.
According to the rules and regulations of the Lionheart Club, when the president has to step down due to force majeure, the next president will be elected from among the vice presidents.
Considering that the Lionheart Club only had two vice presidents and Susie had defected with Chu Zihang, Lancelot directly took over the power of president.
"In a social group, status is usually a reflection of power, and in human society it may also mean wisdom. Regardless of whether you are the president of the Lionheart Club now or not, at least you were once the president, your talents were recognized by many people, and you were also a leader in Kassel College." Khorkina said, "Those attending the cocktail party are the best students in the Haven. If nothing unexpected happens, these people will become the next generation of leaders after the current generation of leaders retire in the future... and you are also the best students in Kassel College, so we will have a lot of common topics."
Lu Mingfei pinched Ling's wrist, and the princess looked up in confusion.
Just then, the man was winking at him.
"Ms. Khorkina thinks that since one of us is the president of the Lionheart Society and the other is the president of the Dragon Blood Society, our GPAs in school must be incredibly high." Lu Mingfei said in a low voice.
Obviously, the cocktail party that Khorkina attended already had the rudiments of a brotherhood. In such an organization, it is normal for members to compete and cooperate with each other. However, Lu Mingfei would not be so stupid as to think that others wanted to wrestle with him and Chu Zihang.
After all, neither the Lionheart Society nor the Dragon Blood Society sound like serious clubs. Instead, they sound like troublemakers who bully men and women and openly go against the college's law enforcement agencies.
As the leader of the troublemakers and the head of the violent people, they must be crazy to want to compete with Chu Zihang.
Lu Mingfei didn't deliberately lower his voice when he spoke, so Khorkina heard it clearly. Her earlobes were slightly red, and she hunched her chest, shyly like a girl, and turned around to continue leading the way.
——The so-called bar is actually just a small building adjacent to the laboratory, but the door faces outwards.
The sound of wind and snow outside the explosion-proof door was like a giant beast gnawing at the steel plate. Lu Mingfei looked at the inky black polar night outside the frosted glass.
This should be the farthest place from the central copper pillar in the entire building complex, but neither in Eva's perception nor in Lu Mingfei's own perception did they leave the strange elemental vortex, as if every point in this area was indestructible and there were no flaws at all.
"Senior Sister, what form are you in now when you appear beside me?" Lu Mingfei suddenly asked.
Eva sat in Lu Mingfei's hair, holding her chin: "Have you ever heard of the soul leaving the body?"
"What? Could it be that the plot of this novel has finally turned from the urban soldier king to cultivating immortals and refining pills?"
"What are you thinking about? I mean it's actually my spirit that's communicating with you now." Eva covered her face. Sometimes she would be really shocked by Lu Mingfei's shocking words.
After waiting for a while without any response from Lu Mingfei, she asked again: "So what are you going to do next?"
"Let's take advantage of it. No matter whether this shelter is a trap or not, since my parents want me to stay, then I will stay." Lu Mingfei shrugged.
In fact, they had already confirmed their guess in their hearts that this entire shelter was a conspiracy by someone to deal with Lu Mingfei.
The only question now is what happened to Lu Lincheng and Qiao Weini. Are they Lu Mingfei's parents? Or are they just an illusory illusion?
"Then what you will face next is the review by the so-called committee and the demands they will make on you after the review," said Eva.
"Wait for the moment when these guys reveal their true intentions." Lu Mingfei snorted coldly.
At this moment, there was a dull sound of a vodka bottle cork popping out from behind him. Khorkina jumped onto the wooden box they had moved out of the wine cellar in her high boots. The wine was swirling in the enamel cup, and the foam was blooming.
"Junior brother, come here for a moment." Chu Zihang's voice came from not far away. He was kneeling beside the record player adjusting the needle. The melody of "Katyusha" was accompanied by a hoarse rustling sound.
Lu Mingfei nodded, looked at Ling, and walked towards Chu Zihang together.
There were actually a lot of people attending the cocktail party. In addition to Khorkina, there were several other girls and boys, and even the kid named Anton was there.
When Zero's eyes first scanned the faces of these boys and girls one by one, his pupils visibly shrank slightly.
As expected, the people who appeared in this tavern were basically the children who were used for experiments by Dr. Herzog when she saw them in Black Swan Harbor.
Anton took out the Famicom from somewhere like a magician and wiped the rust on the card slot with a towel.
He took a picture of the pixel-blurred display screen, and the colorful Tetris blocks reflected flickering spots of light on the outer walls of the enamel cups in the hands of the young people.
Khorkina soon got drunk. She smashed the cup on the wooden floor, pulled off her hairband and jumped onto the long table. The rhythm of her boot heels tapping was brisk and youthful, and the Lenin poster on the wall rustled in the vibration.
Anton pulled out an out-of-tune accordion from somewhere, and the sound of the accordion mixed with the sound of the record player, bringing a sense of the times and absurd unreality.
Except for Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei, everyone here was Russian. "Katyusha" really made the blood of every Slav boil, and everyone started dancing loudly.
Lu Mingfei finally took Ling's hand and came to Chu Zihang's side, and pointed under the record player.
The princess' pupils shrank slightly, and that place was pitch black, as if it had been burned by a fire.
"What did you think of?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"Let's talk about it when we get back." Ling said.
In fact, they knew what the other was thinking without any communication. The Black Swan Port, which was full of conspiracy and intrigue, was destroyed in a fire. The Su-35 squadron ordered by Moscow only bombed its ruins.
Lu Mingfei carefully looked at the decoration and flooring of the bar they were in out of the corner of his eye.
The tables and chairs in the room are basically simple sofa chairs and long board tables. The floor is paved with gray matte tiles, and there are murals of great men hanging on the walls.
This safe haven was probably built around the millennium, when the Soviet Union had already disintegrated and Russia took over the country.
Everything in the room looks like it was created during the Soviet era.
The members of the Doomsday Faction come from all over, and the secretary-general is a Chinese like Lu Lincheng.