Chapter 137 Heading to Genji Heavy Industries
Lu Mingfei held Guimaru Kunigasuna in one hand and brushed away the water droplets in front of his eyes with the other hand. He walked through the water film that seemed like the boundary between dreams and reality and stepped back into the street he had just passed.
There was still a hint of decay and rust in the damp air. At this moment, the rain outside the Night Food Plain had stopped.
Lu Mingfei stood there and looked down at himself. His black windbreaker was completely wet. Raindrops dripped onto the ground from the corners of his clothes. The sticky and cold feeling made him feel uncomfortable.
He took a deep breath, then turned his head to look beside him and found that Eri's thin body was trembling slightly helplessly.
Her hands were still tightly grasping the corners of his clothes. The red witch costume, soaked by the rain, clung to her skin, outlining her tender and delicate curves particularly clearly.
The wet cloth could not hide her slender waist and slightly raised chest. Her neck and collarbone looked white and thin. Her red hair, wet by the rain, stuck to both sides of her cheeks, entwined like vines.
Lu Mingfei couldn't help but frown. Although the girl looked somewhat enchantingly beautiful, she was more like a piece of glass that would shatter at the slightest touch.
"You must be frozen." Lu Mingfei said in a light tone.
Eiry didn't respond, but just lowered her head, like a cat drenched in the rain, holding tightly onto the corner of Lu Mingfei's clothes. Her teddy bear was also soaked, drooping, its fur stuck together, losing its warm texture.
She sneezed lightly and her shoulders shook slightly, making her thin figure look lonely and helpless.
Lu Mingfei stared at her for a few seconds, sighed, unbuttoned his wet windbreaker, and put it on her shoulders.
"Put it on first." He said in a calm tone, but with a hint of unapologetic attitude. Then a warm current flowed from his palm to Eri's body, and soon water vapor began to spread over him and Eri's body.
Eri looked up at him, a hint of surprise flashed in her amber eyes, but she quickly lowered her head and nodded slightly, as if she was afraid that Lu Mingfei would see her expression.
It was already late at night and there were not many people on the streets. Lu Mingfei walked in front, and Eiry still followed behind him carefully, her steps soft and silent, as if she was afraid to disturb this silent world.
"Are you going to keep holding me?" Lu Mingfei asked without turning his head.
Eri didn't answer, but just clutched the corner of his clothes even tighter, as if once she let go, the world would abandon her again.
Lu Mingfei sighed helplessly: "Catch me if you want."
The ramen stand not far away is still there, but it looks like it’s about to close.
"Boss, do you have any ramen left?" Lu Mingfei asked as he lifted the curtain of the ramen stall.
The owner of the ramen stall was packing up his stall when he heard someone shouting. He looked over. Under the dim light, his wrinkled old face looked a little tired, but his eyes were still bright and sharp. He was stunned for a moment when he saw Lu Mingfei coming back, but he quickly came to his senses.
"Yes." He slowly wiped the water off his hands and pointed to the bench in front of him, "But the soup base is almost gone. I can still make the last two bowls."
Lu Mingfei nodded, walked over, pulled out a bench and sat down. He casually placed Onimaru Kunitsuna on the edge of the table. The blade reflected the dim light on the stall, and the cold light flashed by. Eri hesitated for a moment, still holding the corner of his clothes tightly, and sat beside him silently.
"Then two bowls." Lu Mingfei nodded and said.
"I'll make it for you as soon as possible." The boss turned around and started to cook the noodles. The soup in the pot soon began to boil, and the steaming hot mixed with the rich aroma of pork bones spread.
Eri's nose twitched slightly, and she looked timidly at the ramen in the pot with a barely perceptible expectation in her eyes, but she remained silent and did not make any sound.
Lu Mingfei glanced at her and said casually, "Have you never eaten ramen?"
Eri lowered her head and shook it slightly.
Soon, the boss placed two bowls of steaming tonkotsu ramen in front of them. The white soup base was thick and warm, with a few slices of thinly sliced barbecued pork and a soft-boiled egg floating on the surface, dotted with green onions. The aroma was fragrant, as if dispelling the chill in the night.
Lu Mingfei picked up the chopsticks and stirred the noodles carelessly. Steam rose from the bowl, blurring his vision and the quiet rainy night.
"Eat." He handed a pair of chopsticks to Eri.
Eri was stunned for a moment, then carefully took the chopsticks, held the bowl with both hands, and blew away the hot air gently. She took a sip of the soup, her eyes brightened slightly, but she still didn't speak, just ate the noodles slowly.
Lu Mingfei watched her eat the noodles in small bites, as if every bite was taken with caution and tentativeness. He couldn't help but feel a strange feeling in his heart. This girl looked like she had been isolated from the world for too long, and even this kind of ordinary food seemed unfamiliar to her.
"How is it?" he asked casually.
Eri looked up at him and nodded slightly in response.
The boss watched them silently, his eyes revealing some complicated emotions. He sat down slowly and lit a cigarette. The smoke rose slowly under the light, like a layer of mist, covering this inconspicuous stall.
"You are not ordinary people." The boss suddenly spoke, his tone was calm, but with a hint of meaningful inquiry.
Lu Mingfei didn't raise his head, but just replied calmly: "No."
"I see." The boss smiled, as if he didn't care. He held the cigarette between his legs and looked down at the burning butt. "You guys always appear in strange places at strange times."
"Has anyone entered there recently?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"I don't know. I've never been in there. I'm just a gatekeeper." The old man replied while smoking.
Lu Mingfei did not continue talking. He lowered his head and ate noodles slowly, neither hurriedly nor slowly, as if everything in the outside world had nothing to do with him.
The streets after the rain were particularly quiet in silence, with only the sound of spoons colliding with dishes and the flickering light of the boss's cigarette butt in the dark.
"Have you finished eating?" Lu Mingfei suddenly asked, his eyes falling on Huili's bowl.
Eri looked up at him, a hint of warmth in her amber eyes, and she nodded slightly.
"We'll leave after we finish eating." Lu Mingfei said. What was giving him a headache next was how to deal with this girl and the thing hidden in her body.
Soon a Rolls-Royce stopped outside the ramen stall. The driver was Jude Mai, the one who had pulled Lu Mingfei's clothes out in the bathroom.
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At Genji Heavy Industries, Minamoto Chisei is having a face-to-face conversation with Tachibana Masamune in his office. His morale has been somewhat depressed since his last defeat to Lu Mingfei.
Although he has always been unwilling to take on the responsibility of the family, he has always been regarded by his family as the hope for revitalizing the Eight Clans of Sheqi because of his royal blood. He has always been considered the strongest person. However, this failure still hit him hard.
"Dad, are we really going to give up?" asked Minamoto Chisei while sitting opposite Tachibana Masamune.
"It's not about giving up, it's just a temporary compromise. Another way is to send Eri to kill that guy, but Eri's current condition is very unstable, so I chose a safe method. It's my selfish desire as a father. Besides, that guy is in the center of the storm now. If we kill him suddenly, public opinion will crush us." Tachibana Masamune said with a sigh while picking up the tea bowl.
"Report to the head of the family! The head of the Uesugi family is missing!" At this moment, someone pushed open the office door and reported in a panic.
"She ran away from home again? Why at this time?" Tachibana Masamune stood up suddenly and shouted in shock. "Maybe we were too busy recently and didn't take good care of her, so she got upset. Has Kaguya found the location of the head of the Uesugi family? Is he still at the intersection?" Minamoto Chisei also stood up, calmed Tachibana Masamune down, and then asked the person who broke in.
"Report... Report... Young Master, Kaguya-hime has not found the location of the head of the Uesugi family, and the surrounding cameras have not captured any images of the head of the Uesugi family leaving. Even the iron gate is intact... It seems that he suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth..." the man reported stutteringly.
"What!?" Even Gen Chisei was not calm this time. Eri had run away from home before, but she usually just stopped at a nearby intersection. Moreover, if Eri wanted to get out by herself, she could only destroy the iron gate. This was the first time she disappeared suddenly.
Tachibana Masamune's expression gradually became gloomy, the anger and uneasiness between his brows were clearly visible, and he tapped his fingers on the table a few times, showing his inner impatience at the moment.
"Send more people to look for her. No matter if it's Tokyo or the territory of the Eight Snake Families, search every inch of it! Replay the recordings from all the cameras and make sure to find out how she disappeared!" Tachibana Masamune said in a low voice, with an unquestionable tone.
Yuan Zhisheng also felt something was wrong and whispered, "Should we notify other gangs to offer a bounty?"
"No!" Tachibana Masamune's tone was very firm, "We can only handle this matter by ourselves. If we call in other underworld gangs in this situation, things will become even more difficult."
The air was filled with tension, and everyone in the room felt vaguely uneasy. Uesugi Eriya was not just a problem girl, she was also the ultimate weapon hidden by the Snake Eight Clan. If her disappearance involved hostile forces, the consequences would be disastrous.
Tachibana Masamune rubbed his brows, his eyes as sharp as ice: "Now, it doesn't matter who has her. The key is that we must find her before she gets into trouble, otherwise..."
Gen Chisei nodded and said nothing more. He knew that if Eri's power got out of control, it would be an unimaginable disaster.
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"Caesar, why do we have to squeeze into this small hotel?" Finkel complained to Caesar who had just returned.
They opened a double hotel. When the three grown men first came together to open the hotel, the look from the front desk clerk remained in his memory for a long time.
"Stop talking nonsense. Our operating funds are not that sufficient. How's the thing I asked you to investigate going?" Caesar asked after putting down what he was holding. He had just returned from gathering intelligence outside.
In order to gather intelligence, he had to use money, which he was best at, to pave the way, but this also forced them to be very frugal in their daily lives.
Fortunately, Chu Zihang, this ascetic guy, has no requirements for food and accommodation. Finkel, this loser, is used to living in a doghouse and can cope with eating some junk food every day.
Even the eldest son of the Gattuso family felt uncomfortable with his current living environment. It was the first time for him to live in such a poor environment. He had to buy discounted food from a nearby convenience store every day.
You should know that he usually lives in a luxurious villa or a large apartment of several hundred square meters, and eats meals carefully prepared by five-star Michelin three-star chefs.
But as the captain of this team, he can only lead by example.
Finkel shrugged and pulled out a tablet from his pile of messy electronic devices. "The situation in Japan is very complicated right now. A while ago, a man named Gen Yusuke suddenly appeared. He first challenged all the kendo masters in Japan, and later became a member of the House of Representatives. Not long ago, he swept through the entire Tokyo gang. His current reputation is the best in Japan. All the celebrities are nothing compared to him."
"His main target of cleaning up is the Sheqi Eight Families, and the Sheqi Eight Families are the controllers of the Japanese hybrids. Even the Japanese Executive Bureau is under the Sheqi Eight Families. What's even more strange is that such a big thing happened in Japan, but there was no report in the media of other countries. So this loss of contact is very likely the work of this person named Gen Yusuke." Finkel took a tablet and flipped through the news one by one for Caesar to see.
"So just one person suppressed a local mixed-race force?" Caesar still found it hard to believe.
"It's impossible that there is only one person. There must be a driving force behind such a huge flow of information. But if we want to defeat those gangsters head-on, it seems that he can do it alone." Finkel continued.
"What do you mean?" Caesar asked, raising his eyebrows.
"When I first heard the news about Gen Yusuke fighting a thousand enemies alone in Kabukicho, I thought it was just hype until I saw Gen Yusuke's photo." Finkel slid out a photo from his tablet.
When Caesar saw the photo, his pupils contracted slightly.
"Lu Mingfei?" he said uncertainly.
"Yes, it is Lu Mingfei. I found it a little unbelievable at first. I didn't expect that this guy would go to Japan after leaving Kassel Academy and now he is almost becoming a local emperor. What do you think, should we go and join him?" Finkel sighed.
"Do you think that he won't become our enemy now that he has left Cassel?" Caesar said.
At this time, the door of the hotel room was pushed open again. Chu Zihang came back at this time. He put down the backpack in his hand and said.
"When I was monitoring Genji Heavy Industries just now, I saw that their large forces left in different directions. Now is the best time for us to enter Genji Heavy Industries to check."
Caesar looked at Chu Zihang and quickly gathered his thoughts: "A large force is going out? The opportunity has finally come. We can't miss it."
Finkel lazily leaned back in his chair, but a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes: "Are we finally taking action? I'm almost going crazy from being idle. But I still have to be honest. Sneaking into Genji Heavy Industries is no joke. That place is the heart of the Snake Eight Families. Not just any Tom, Dick or Harry can get in."
Caesar smiled slightly and said calmly: "Then prepare well."
Finkel curled his lips and said, "It's easy to say, but this is much more difficult than a gang fight. Those half-bloods from the eight Sheqi families are all crazy."
Chu Zihang did not say anything, but silently checked his equipment. His movements were clean and neat, without any unnecessary waste. He was never a person who would question a plan, he would only execute it.
"When do we leave?" Chu Zihang asked, his voice as calm as ever.
Caesar fastened his gloves and looked out the window: "Right away, now is the best time."
Finkel sighed and complained, "What a troublesome team we have." He stood up and began to stuff various electronic devices into his backpack. Chu Zihang, Caesar and Finkel quickly packed their equipment and prepared to take action.
"Genji Heavy Industries' security system won't be easy to deal with, but as long as we can get into the core area, we can find important intelligence." Caesar said, his tone revealing a calm confidence.
Finkel patted his backpack and said, "Don't worry. Hacking into security systems is my specialty. As long as Chu Zihang doesn't randomly attack anyone, we should be able to do it smoothly."
Chu Zihang ignored his teasing and just zipped up his backpack silently: "Let's go."
The three of them left the hotel quietly and disappeared into the Tokyo night.
At the same time, Tachibana Masamune stood in the high-level office of Genji Heavy Industries with a gloomy look. Neon lights flickered outside the window, but his eyes were as cold as a blade.
"Have they found Eri?" Tachibana Masamune asked in a low voice.
One of his men stood behind him respectfully: "No news yet, but we have sent more people to search."
Tachibana Masamune slowly closed his eyes and let out a long breath: "No matter what, we must bring her back as soon as possible. Once her power gets out of control, not only the Snake Eight Clan, but the entire Tokyo will be in disaster."
He turned around and looked at Yuan Zhisheng who was standing beside him: "How are you preparing?"
Yuan Zhisheng nodded: "I have arranged for people to monitor all exits in Tokyo. If we get any news about Eri, we will take action immediately."
(End of this chapter)
