Volume 3 Hello, Eri Chapter 341 Blurred Dark Phase (Part 2)
"I heard that you work for someone else? Could it be that you are not on the same page with us?" Samson seemed to be a little gossipy, but actually he was a little worried about Ling.
Before leaving Japan, Lu Mingfei and Ling sat down and talked for a long time. In the freshman year, the college was invaded and the Dragon King Norton awakened. Ling pretended to be one of the invaders in the incident and was caught by Lu Mingfei. Although they did not directly explain each other's situation at that time, Lu Mingfei always kept it in mind.
Now that the old site of Kassel Academy has been destroyed, the family has moved to Tokyo. Since they chose Ling as their comrade, Lu Mingfei simply asked about this matter again. At that time, Ling said he couldn't answer, but now it may not be the case. If you want to say who is most concerned about slaying dragons around him, besides Ange, it is Lu Mingze. In the freshman year, Ling's answer was that she came to help the only S-level dragon slayer.
This time, Ling did answer the question that had been circulating for several years. She admitted that she was indeed Lu Mingze's partner. There should not be many people in this world who knew about Lu Mingze. Every time she appeared, it was like a still dream. But Ling could directly say this name, and it was obvious that she had no intention of lying.
So the identities of the three comrades were exchanged by Lu Mingfei: the close minister of the King of Bronze and Fire, the sister of the King of Earth and Mountain, and Zero who was entrusted by someone. However, the name Lu Mingze was still kept secret from others. There was no need to tell it out, as it was a secret that belonged only to Lu Mingfei herself.
"I was already by her side before you even met Lu Mingfei. What do you think?" Ling's words seemed to be based on seniority, and the subtext was that you, a junior, should stop fighting with me.
"So it's your old lover." Samson nodded thoughtfully and snapped his fingers. "I understand!"
"You know nothing!" Lu Mingfei almost spat out blood, "What old lover? He's just a roommate! It was your words that made me become a famous big-tailed wolf in Shilan! Now you're still using the same trick!"
"I admit that it was my mistake then, but how do you explain now that there are only beautiful girls and no men in your team?" Samson asked righteously, like a judge who had made the final decision in a court of law.
"Isn't it okay that I don't know many reliable adult men?" Lu Mingfei argued loudly.
Coming from the mouth of a young girl, it seems that she is destined to be single for the rest of her life. After all, the number of high-quality human men around her, Lu Mingfei, can be counted on one hand... Caesar is already taken, Chu Zihang is destined, and as for that guy Fingel, you must never take him to places with many beautiful women, as he is simply like a wolf and a tiger. Then, the last ones may include the Genji brothers and Principal Angers, and that's pretty much the end.
Thinking about it this way, it seems that the Shilan Middle School forum misrepresented her, Lu Mingfei, as the Queen of Ten Thousand Females, which is really not unfair at all! Speaking of the high-quality human girls around her, including the girls in the fan club, she can at least pull out a combat company!
"It's so sad to hear it and so sad to see it..." Xia Mi was almost laughing like crazy. She went over to hug Lu Mingfei and patted her head. "It's okay, baby, don't cry. If no one wants you in the future, you can consider me. I can take care of your three meals a day!"
Lu Mingfei had nothing to say. She even began to doubt whether it was a mistake to put this team together. But when it came to dealing with Odin, the experience and methods used by the dragon slayers in the past were useless. Only the current funny guys had real skills and knowledge that could be used.
The MINI COOPER followed the navigation and returned to the road taken many years ago. Although she grew up in this city, Lu Mingfei had not walked this road many times by herself. Even today, it still seems a bit desolate. It is the old city area, and the air-conditioning units on the mottled exterior walls of the buildings are dripping with water. Pedestrians have to take a detour. There are only fly restaurants on the roadside for the convenience of the people. Only drivers will go this way when they want to be convenient.
The car stopped by the roadside. There was still some distance from here to the fork where the elevated road turned, but Lu Mingfei had already seen the excavator and the turned road surface over there. The entrance section to the No. 10 elevated road was being renovated, and the elevated road itself was temporarily out of use.
"What a coincidence?" Xia Mi frowned slightly, feeling as if something was targeting their actions.
"I can't get on the car, but I can." Lu Mingfei put on her sun hat, carried her small bag, and pushed open the car door. "I'll go over and take a look. You don't have to wait for me. You can go and try out any ideas you have. After I finish my work here, I'm going to attend the party at Shilan Middle School in the evening. Xia Mi, are you interested?"
"They are all from your class, right? I think they have almost forgotten me after not seeing me for a few years. It shouldn't be easy to find a place to eat! I knew a lot of restaurants in the past." Xia Mi waved her hand and declined the invitation.
In fact, with her personality, she would be the focus at any party, but today she just didn't want to go. The Shilan Cinderella of the past is now a super dragon-slaying elite. This should be Lu Mingfei's home court. She has no intention of being overshadowed or stealing the limelight from others. One golden phoenix is enough for a party.
"Remember to call me if you have any questions." Ling said. She pushed open the car door and got into the driver's seat. The two dragons, Xia Mi and Samson, had never considered taking a driver's license test, so she had to drive.
Lu Mingfei lowered her sun hat and approached the construction site. The sound of the impact drill was like a magic sound into her ears. The blocked road section was probably hundreds of meters long. The government was renovating the road section in the old city. It seemed that she just came at an unfortunate time.
"Go away, go away! Can't you see we're under construction?" The man in the red hat saw Lu Mingfei coming and quickly gestured. Not far above his head, an excavator was transporting away waste soil and rubble. If that stuff fell down, it could really kill someone.
"I'm sorry, I'm from a local university, and the school asked us to draw the main traffic map of the city by ourselves. Everyone has to write it, and I'm just missing this area. Can you please allow me to go up to the viaduct to take some pictures? It's under maintenance now and there's no one on the bridge." Lu Mingfei was polite, nodding and bowing, shaking the camera hanging around his neck, looking like a naive young boy.
This outfit is indeed easy to give people a good impression. The man in the red hat turned his head to look at the current progress and the road conditions. He thought that Lu Mingfei's plan to go to the elevated road to take pictures was just to borrow the road, and there would be no big problem, so he nodded.
"You can go up from here, but you still have to get down from here when you leave, in case if anything goes wrong we can't find anyone and we will be held responsible." The man in red hat reminded him of some details. He is the person in charge here and he has the final say on all matters, big or small.
“Of course, of course!” Lu Mingfei took out a pack of cigarettes from her bag and handed it to Red Hat. Red Hat was stunned when he saw it. The words written on the cigarette case were actually Japanese.
This is what Lu Mingfei took with her when she left Takamagahara. It is roughly equivalent to half a souvenir, but it is understandable that it is used as a personnel item now. The people with red hats on the construction site are all leaders, and they have smoked all the ordinary cigarettes, but not necessarily the foreign ones.
The man in the red hat put the cigarette in his pocket and looked at Lu Mingfei with more favor. He asked the workers to lift up the shed to let Lu Mingfei in. The road surface and sidewalk inside had basically been dug up, and only wooden boards were laid on top for easy walking. Lu Mingfei walked back and forth on the wooden boards, as if walking in a maze.
The excavated soil was piled up in the corner. These were not waste materials, but after all the pipes and other things under the road were repaired, these soils would be filled back and compacted, and stone slabs would be laid on top to pour cement in the gaps. Lu Mingfei stood in the center of the construction site for the first time. She couldn't help but deliberately slow down her pace to take a few more glances. A familiar mark flashed under the sun. Although the surface was covered with loose soil, the special bright silver material could still reflect the dazzling light.
It was a black suitcase buried in the wasteland. No one knew why it was buried underground. After being dug out, it was piled aside as garbage like dirt. What caught Lu Mingfei's eyes was the flourishing world tree on the surface of the suitcase. It was made up of silver carvings. It had been underground for so many years without seeing the light of day, but it still looked like brand new.
"Is that garbage that was dug out?" Lu Mingfei asked casually, as if she was asking it on a whim.
"Yeah, it's quite beautiful. It has been buried there for quite a while. The engineering team at that time didn't notice such a big thing. They were really careless." The man in red hat was leading the way in front of Lu Mingfei. He took a look at what Lu Mingfei was pointing at and talked about the past casually.
"Can I take it with me?"
"What's the point of carrying such a dirty thing?"
“I think the tree is drawn quite nicely. I like to draw in my spare time, mainly focusing on architectural modeling, and I want to learn it.” Lu Mingfei lied fluently.
"As long as you don't mind it being dirty, that thing looks pretty heavy." Red Hat felt that he was a little confused about the way college girls think nowadays.
“The most important thing is to like something.”
Lu Mingfei jumped over on the wooden planks, picked up a shovel beside her, opened the dirt pile, and pulled the box out of the dirt pile. She turned it over and emptied the dirt inside. Although it was still dusty, it was obvious at a glance that this leather suitcase was exactly the same as the one Chu Tianjiao had used back then.
Over the years, Lu Mingfei has lifted similar items many times at Kassel Academy. The academy often provides equipment support for students on duty. They use titanium alloy suitcases with large capacity and ample storage. They are able to easily equip a student with the firepower of a squad.
But she had never seen such a leather suitcase before. Anything with the World Tree emblem must be produced by Kassel Academy. There was no reason for this suitcase to appear here. Did Odin take out the things inside the suitcase immediately after taking it away and then abandon it? If that was the case, this suitcase should have been left in Nibelungen, not buried deep underground at the intersection leading to the viaduct.
There was a bucket on the construction site. After getting permission, Lu Mingfei threw the entire suitcase into it to soak, then took it out and washed it clean by hand. The muddy water flowed into the pit at her feet. People on the construction site always looked twice when they passed by, wondering why the little girl in a white dress would go to such a place to deal with a pile of garbage, but Lu Mingfei didn't care. She cleaned the suitcase and carried it all the way to the viaduct.
She walked a long way until she could no longer see the construction site from this angle, then she squatted on the road and opened the suitcase. When she was washing it just now, she noticed that there was a layer inside the suitcase. Although this thing was dug out as garbage and was soaked in dust when it was opened, if there was still something in the layer, it should not be damaged, because there was a zipper there and the suitcase was not completely broken.
The zipper was open, and Lu Mingfei reached in to feel inside. There was indeed a stack of things inside. She took them all out in one breath, and scattered them casually on the road. She was stunned for a moment.
The top one is a family photo. The woman is bright and beautiful, the boy looks only four or five years old, and the man is wearing a white shirt and woolen trousers, with a slicked-back hair, and he is proudly hugging the woman's waist.
Lu Mingfei had seen all these people before. The woman was Su Xiaoyan, the man was Chu Tianjiao, and the little boy was Chu Zihang. This was the first time she saw Chu Zihang's childhood appearance. To be honest, the senior brother was even a little plain-looking when he was a child... he looked ugly, but no one expected that boys would change a lot when they grow up, and he would grow up to be a handsome and elegant Hua Wuque-like figure.
The photos at the back are all solo photos. The further you turn the page, the smaller the photos become. Su Xiaoyan is becoming more and more mature, and Chu Zihang is growing up slowly. Those photos seem to have been taken secretly. The angles are very clear, and some are even parts cropped from certain photos. A corner of another person's suit can be vaguely seen in the corner. Lu Mingfei guessed that it might be Chu Zihang's stepfather.
These photos can reveal a lot of information. On that rainy night, Chu Tianjiao was not killed instantly by Odin after they left as Lu Mingfei imagined, because this box belonged to Chu Tianjiao, and there were photos of him, his wife and children in it.
This means that Chu Tianjiao and Odin fought for a long time over the box, which led to the box appearing so far away. Chu Tianjiao even escaped from Nibelungen and returned to the entrance, but was stopped by Odin and the things in the box were taken back.
Uncle is awesome! Lu Mingfei almost cheered for the man. It turned out that he was not determined to stay and die that day. He was still fighting hard until the end, intending to return to the world with his son and his girlfriend.
Moreover, this suitcase was not simply an equipment box provided by the academy . If it was something to be handed over to the academy, it would have a combination lock to seal it, and it could be sent directly to Chicago after being packed. But Chu Tianjiao's suitcase did not have this, so it was probably his own personal equipment, and it would contain his own personal photos.
In this way, it can be easily inferred that the things originally stored in the box were found by Chu Tianjiao himself, and had nothing to do with the requirements of the academy. He just used the box to store it. However, Odin was eyeing the things in it and Lu Mingfei, so he appeared on the viaduct to stop them on the night when the two appeared at the same time.
As Nuonuo said, this was actually a coincidence. If Chu Tianjiao hadn't invited Lu Mingfei on a whim, he might not have met Odin so early. If the typhoon hadn't landed that day, Lu Mingfei wouldn't have squatted under the eaves for so long, waiting for Chu Zihang's concern and the day that determined their fate.
