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He first took a sip of tequila, then summoned EVA to chat, and made a request to EVA:
"EVA, unlock the coordinates of the Red Well."
"But you already promised the principal you wouldn't throw divine punishment in Tokyo."
“Tokyo has been bombed before, so it doesn’t matter if it’s bombed again,” the vice principal said. “I was just lying to the principal to make him happy. You should know that a god shouldn’t live in this world, because it will eventually become the new White King.”
Therefore, the vice principal plans to track down the god's location to unleash divine retribution. If the god escapes to Tokyo, then divine retribution will also fall on Tokyo and destroy the god.
“The result of divine retribution in Tokyo is the destruction of an entire district.” Eva’s tone was calm. “Saving the world at the cost of the lives of an entire district is reasonable in the logic of artificial intelligence.”
"Very good, I appreciate the tone you use when you're treating human life like dirt."
“But it is you, mentor, who is so reckless with human life,” EVA said. When she was still human, she would not have been able to make such a decision, but now she is just an artificial intelligence.
The vice principal didn't say anything more, and EVA also deactivated the coordinates of the Red Well.
"By the way, haven't we found our mascot baby Lu Mingfei yet?" the vice principal asked.
"No mascot will be of any use against the White King," EVA said calmly. "When the Condemns appeared, the war between humans and dragons entered a completely new realm."
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The mascot, Lu Mingfei, is drinking in the wine cellar of Takamagahara. In his opinion, the Oni Clan is definitely blocking people at the exits. If he runs around, he might run into the gunmen and Deadpool. Therefore, it's better to hide and not be found by anyone.
He spilled several cases of aged whiskey in the hallway to cover up his unnatural scent, hoping Deadpool wouldn't be able to find him.
I wonder where my senior brother and Gu Ran went. With their abilities, they should be saving the world. This good-for-nothing should just stay here and not hold them back.
He was a little sad because he hadn't been able to meet the two brothers, Genjiro and Genjiro, today, and Genjiro had trusted him so much when she left.
But Lu Mingfei was destined to make Yuan Zhinu sad, because it was Lu Mingze who could kill the Dragon King, not the useless Lu Mingfei.
He hid in the wine cellar and drank, and I don't know how long he drank, maybe an hour or two.
Suddenly, his phone beeped with a message notification. He was puzzled and hurriedly took out his phone.
Chapter 496 But, I refuse!
Erii bought her phone when she was with Lu Mingfei.
But Lu Mingfei remembered that her phone should have been left at the love hotel.
"Where is Sakura?" Erii asked.
"You, you really are Erii? Where are you?" Lu Mingfei replied to the message.
Erii answered honestly, "I am Uesugi Erii, and I am on my way to the airport, heading to South Korea."
"I'll only believe it if we video chat." Lu Mingfei thought it was the little devil Lu Mingze playing tricks, so he requested a video chat.
Soon, Erii sent Lu Mingfei a video call. Lu Mingfei answered, glanced at the screen, and hung up, because he didn't want her to see what was happening on his end.
That was indeed Erii, sitting very properly in the back seat of a luxury car, wearing her favorite white dress.
"Didn't you leave without your phone?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"But Sakura put it in a box and sent it back to me!"
Lu Mingfei then realized that it was sent by his senior brothers.
"Where is Sakura? I'm coming to find you, I'm so scared."
Lu Mingfei was stunned. He felt as if he could empathize with her and truly sensed Erii's fear. She was a little girl, sitting alone in the back seat of the car, with torrential rain outside, preparing to go to a foreign country. She must have been very lonely, so lonely that she wanted to hold someone's hand.
Lu Mingfei comforted her, telling her not to be afraid, it was just a tsunami.
"It's not a tsunami, it's something else. I heard it calling. Little Sakura, where are you? I'll come pick you up. Shall we go to South Korea together?"
Lu Mingfei felt a surge of excitement. Was this the prelude to a rich and beautiful woman eloping with a poor loser?
It turns out that this silly girl really likes and trusts him. In the list of people she most wants to escape with, she must be number one, even more so than Genjiro.
Although a reliable, beautiful, rich, and wealthy woman wanted to take him away, allowing him to escape Tokyo.
“Daga, Koukouwaru! (But I refuse!)” Lu Mingfei said to the empty wine cellar in a very chuunibyou way, uttering Rohan Kishibe’s catchphrase from “JOJO”.
He had wanted to say it for a long time, but unfortunately there was no audience.
"You go first, I'm safe here." Lu Mingfei sent a message on his phone, telling Erii that he was in the shelter and that she shouldn't come to pick him up.
Shinjuku is flooded now. If he agrees, that silly girl will definitely have the driver drive into the water to pick him up.
Let's not go through all that trouble; it's really unnecessary.
Will Little Cherry Blossom come to South Korea to find me?
"Maybe... if I can get a plane ticket." Lu Mingfei actually wanted to end the conversation, but he was hiding all alone now, and having someone to chat with would make him feel less lonely, so he couldn't bear to end the conversation.
He chatted idly with Erii, but Erii only cared about whether she could see Lu Mingfei again. Lu Mingfei had no choice but to agree to meet her in South Korea, lying to her that they had arranged to meet under the crabapple tree, with ice cream as a token.
Erii was worried that the tsunami might also submerge South Korea, in which case there would be no more crabapple trees in Seoul, and the two of them would never be able to meet again.
Lu Mingfei thought to himself that this girl was really silly, but why did she like and trust him so much? He still hadn't figured it out.
Just then, the cellar door was kicked open, and someone came in.
Lu Mingfei quickly pretended to be dead. If they were enemies, he hoped they would find out he was dead and not finish him off. If they were allies... he was too cowardly to hide here, so he might as well pretend to be unconscious.
But his act of feigning unconsciousness was discovered shortly afterward, which was rather embarrassing.
Outside, there were Deadpools and gunmen, but the humpback whale led a few guests and waiters to the wine cellar for refuge.
A short while later, a waiter who had been keeping watch outside returned and told the humpback whale that there was a man-eating monster outside...
The humpback whale raised its hand to signal him to stop talking, while reassuring the guest, "The situation outside is good. The water level is dropping, and the Metropolitan Police Department's rescue team is on its way. However, there are still monsters outside, so please don't make any noise."
Lu Mingfei knew the humpback whale was lying, but lying at this moment could keep these ordinary people from panicking, so it could be considered a white lie.
He sat in the corner, ignoring everyone, and everyone else ignored him too, because his act of pretending to be dead was so cowardly and pathetic.
However, the humpback whale was willing to talk to Lu Mingfei. He plopped down next to Lu Mingfei, greeted him, and lifted his suit jacket to show Lu Mingfei his chest.
Lu Mingfei initially didn't want to look, but after glancing at it, he realized he had misunderstood; under the humpback whale's coat were two Beretta pistols.
The humpback whale shoved a gun into Lu Mingfei's hand: "In this situation, we can only rely on you and me."
Lu Mingfei was startled, just like when Liu Bei heard Cao Cao say, "The only heroes in the world are you and I." He almost dropped his gun.
Is he really that reliable?
Lu Mingfei asked, "Manager, aren't we a stress-relief club? Why are you carrying military weapons?"
"Don't try to fool me. Don't you know how to use it?" The humpback whale had already figured out that Caesar, Chu Zihang, and Lu Mingfei all came from a special department. Just by looking at how Caesar and Chu Zihang dared to face hundreds or thousands of gangsters, it was clear that they were not simple at all.
Lu Mingfei certainly knows how to use a gun. Firearms and close combat are compulsory courses at Kassel College, but his close combat skills are really average. He is only good at firearms.
The store manager said that he was a third-class lieutenant in the Self-Defense Forces before retiring, and that he would be relieved once he found Lu Mingfei.
"The landlady said, you are light, you are electricity, you are the only myth!"
Lu Mingfei felt a chill run down his spine. He was no savior at all; he had risked his life for it all.
He stopped pretending at this point and honestly told the humpback whale that he couldn't do it, just like General Fan said that Zhao Peng couldn't play as a defender. He didn't have the ability, you know!
Lu Mingfei silently returned the pistol to the humpback whale. The humpback whale stood there, unsure whether to accept it or not, and the conversation could no longer continue awkwardly.
Finally, the humpback whale had no choice but to put away its pistol in disappointment, then picked up a steel pipe, put on sunglasses, and patrolled the vicinity.
The rest of the people huddled together for warmth, offering words of comfort and encouragement to one another, while Lu Mingfei was all alone in a corner.
He glanced at his phone listlessly. Erii had sent him a lot of messages, saying that her new passport name was Kim Hee-won and that she had given him the address of the apartment that Genji had bought for him.
"Little Sakura, are you still there? Please talk to me."
“Little Sakura, I feel cold. I can hear that thing roaring. It seems to be talking to me.”
Erii talked on and on, but Lu Mingfei didn't reply, because he couldn't give Erii anything, he could only offer a few words of comfort.
But such comfort is just ineffective concern. The one who can truly care for her and has the ability to resolve everything is Genjiro. Presumably, Genjiro has already arranged everything for Erii in South Korea, so there is no need for Lu Mingfei's ineffective concern.
After thinking about it, he decided not to reply to Erii's message and planned to turn off his phone's location service to prevent Erii from tracking him down. However, he also wanted to see if Erii had arrived at the airport, so he glanced at her location.
Then he froze.
*……*……*
At a campsite five kilometers outside the Red Well on the Tama River, Gu Ran had prepared a satellite broadcasting vehicle as a temporary base.
He leaned against the car, eating instant noodles, and asked Genji: "I wasn't lying to you, was I? Someone is indeed trying to abduct Erii and take her to the Red Well. As for who it is... do you want to guess?"
Genji put down the iPad, still feeling a bit shaken. He had almost handed Erii over to the tiger's den; he had been so careless!
He lowered his head and said, "Could it be the King General? I didn't expect that the Snake Clan had been infiltrated so thoroughly by him."
"Have you ever thought about who that king will be?"
“Isn’t the king Herzog?” Genji asked.
"Herzog is indeed the King General, but... do you think Herzog only has the title of King General?"
Yuan Zhisheng frowned, unable to understand Gu Ran's meaning.
"Never mind, all the actors are in place tonight, and the stage is set up, so let's just keep watching." Gu Ran sat in the car, looking at the screen inside.
This vehicle has more than a dozen screens, each corresponding to a hidden high-definition camera. All of these cameras are located inside the Red Well.
This morning, before Zero's surgery, he asked her for details about the Red Well and asked her to draw a map. Then he sent five shadow clones with cameras he bought in Akihabara to set up inside the Red Well.
The purpose was to let Genji see the truth.
If he were to say that, Genji would definitely not believe him, so there's no point in saying anything more; let him see for himself.
Erii poked Gu Ran's back with her fingertip, then handed him a small notebook with a line written on it asking:
"Can you give me back my phone?"
Gu Ran said, "Eri, can I borrow your phone for a bit? I'll return it to you tomorrow, okay?"
“But I want to chat with Sakura,” Erii replied in writing.
"I know, I've already made an appointment with Xiaoyinghua. He'll meet you after this is all over," Gu Ran lied. "If you chat with him now, it will disturb his work and distract him. It could even kill someone."
Erii bit her lip, which was unusual for her, and finally replied, "I understand. Then I won't take my phone and won't bother Sakura."
"Good girl." Gu Ran reached out and patted Erii's soft head.
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