Chapter 138 Are you serious about taking a half step back?

"Wait a minute, this is not the outside world yet...well, strictly speaking, it isn't, but we are underground now, and it will be more beautiful above ground."

In the dark and damp sewer with a history of hundreds of years, Lu Mingfei held Hui Liyi's hand and walked on the narrow paths on both sides.

I didn't forget to teach her about science as we walked, for fear that she would find the outside world boring, dirty, messy and smelly and want to go home to play games.

Fortunately, this girl living in this small world was not so squeamish. She just looked at the canal in the middle curiously, where a foot-long creature was floating. When the flashlight was shone on it, it looked like a big lizard, but the sound it made was a bit like a dog.

Old Tang took a quick look and explained to Mingming and his mistress, "This thing is called a mud newt, a type of salamander that's fairly common in the United States. I prefer to call it a mud puppy."

Of course, since he doesn't speak Japanese, Lu Mingfei has to relay it to him.

As a result, the latter received another look of "how awesome" from the little red-haired witch.

Waving his hands to block the hair-thin aquatic plants hanging from the top of the sewer to prevent them from scaring Eri, Lu Mingfei whispered:

"We will be back on the ground soon. Just bear with me and I will prepare hot water for you to take a bath."

As mentioned before, Eri is a very clean person. When she has nothing to do, she can play with her rubber duck in the bathroom for a long time.

And now, she had just finished taking a shower and was dragged by Lu Mingfei to explore the sewer.

Although she did not show any resistance or disgust, and was even a little curious, Lu Mingfei still felt bad.

And there is Ling. This girl has been running around with him for two days and hasn't had much rest. He will let her and Eri go back to the hotel to take a shower and rest later. He and Lao Tang will handle the rest of the things.

As for Jiude Mai, as soon as she mentioned the devil, a heroic female ninja came up from behind and said, "We've got it done. Those idiot gangsters have been led to another place."

As the owner of the genuine Word Spirit·Netherworld, she had just turned back and created many specious traces and small traps, directly leading the guards of the Sheqi Eight Families astray.

"Thank you for your hard work." Lu Mingfei nodded. "Any action from the Peninsula Hotel?"

What happened today was too sudden. There was no guarantee that the Eight Clans of Sheqi would not cast suspicion on the envoys from Susang.

After all, in a sense, their apparent mission is to constantly test the bottom line of the Eight Sheqi Families and deepen cooperation step by step.

And if they discover some incredible secrets during the trial and prepare to take action in one go, it is not impossible.

"It's okay. There's no movement at the hotel for now." Jiude Mai pressed the headset and was obviously communicating with the potato chip girl Su Enxi:

"Don't worry, given the current situation, the possibility of the Ghost Clan raiding the Peninsula Hotel is higher than the possibility of the Eight Snake Clans coming to investigate.

Without solid evidence, they would not dare to take the initiative to provoke trouble, especially since you just experienced an assassination in the evening.

Although Potato Chips is just an accountant, sometimes her words are more effective in Japan than the world's number one dragon slayer Hilbert Jean Ange. After all, she can really bankrupt more than half of the eight companies in Sheqi with just one sentence. "

Lu Mingfei felt relieved after hearing this and told a joke about Kassel College: "What you said means that Kassel College's evaluation will be reduced again."

The long-legged female ninja did not comment, her eyes swept over the four people, and finally stopped at the pair of hands that she had been holding since who knows when.

Raising her eyebrows, she said jokingly, "Won't your hands sweat after holding hands for so long?"

Theoretically, this boy and girl met for the first time tonight, but seeing how familiar Lu Mingfei looked, it was clearly not his first time holding hands with a girl.

If it weren't for the vivid memory of Lu Mingfei being treated like a donkey by that literary girl Chen Wenwen in recent years, she would have sincerely suspected that this guy was actually like herself, a sea king/sea queen with so many exes that they couldn't even fit three pages of paper to list them.

And the head of the Uesugi family dressed as a shrine maiden is even more interesting.

Although she lived in an isolated little house, she should have been very wary of strangers, but she was easily abducted by a boy who broke into her house in the middle of the night in the name of a friend.

And he was so obedient that he let the other person lead him all the way! It was outrageous that he opened the door for something outrageous - it was outrageous to the extreme!

Damn, those otaku authors who write light novels wouldn't dare to write like this! But anyway, this is the fact she saw.

Lu Mingfei's reaction was also normal. He didn't react like other teenagers who were caught awkwardly by letting go and severing ties or proudly raising his hands to show affection.

He still held Eri's hand, helping her block the aquatic plants that were hanging in front of her, and said in a calm voice:

"It's OK. I just happened to be dry recently."

Old Tang couldn't help but look sideways when he heard this, thinking that this guy was clearly a little bit disrespectful.

The senior bounty hunter who used to only care about eating, drinking and having fun with his friends suddenly had a strange thought - is love really that wonderful?

Looking back at the two people who looked like a groom leading his bride into the bridal chamber, he felt that perhaps if given the chance, he could also taste the bitterness of love.

While chatting, the group of five soon arrived at the basement of Takamagahara nightclub. Lao Tang and Ling went up first, followed by Eri and Lu Mingfei.

When it was Jiude Mai's turn, she suddenly felt something and glanced towards the end of the dark sewer. She heard the sound of shallow water stirring and barking, as if the mud puppy was having fun.

To be on the safe side, she pulled up her night vision goggles and put them on, making sure that nothing was unusual before jumping onto the manhole.

The heavy cast iron manhole cover was closed again, and silence returned to the sewer.

After an unknown amount of time, a dark figure walked out of the deep and invisible sewer and looked up at the entrance above.

"This place, if I remember correctly, seems to be Takamagahara?" The black shadow whispered softly, and then chuckled and walked towards the deeper darkness:

"Oh, interesting."

…

On the second basement floor of the Takamagahara Club, Lu Mingfei and Lao Tang were standing next to a cast iron manhole cover with guns in hand, while Jiude Mai was leaning against it with a stethoscope, like a weird plumber.

After listening carefully for a while and confirming that there was no movement, she put away her stethoscope and transformed from a female teacher in the health room back to a female ninja: "Okay, there shouldn't be anyone following us."

"Isn't your testing method a bit too... exaggerated?" Old Tang scratched his head, unable to find a suitable adjective.

Jiude Mai waved her hand: "There is an old Chinese saying, a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice it is a good cat. Don't worry about the method, as long as it works."

At the side, Eiry, who couldn't hold Lu Mingfei's hand, grabbed her red sword and looked around curiously. She looked like a well-behaved kitten who was interested in everything but had to remain aloof for fear of being petted.

Lu Mingfei saw her eyes fall on the organ parts piled in the corner, but he didn't ask her if she had ever learned to play a musical instrument.

The world line is different. Although she is holding a samurai sword now, her previous swinging and stabbing movements are not as sharp as in her previous life. It is more like a child holding a straight wooden stick and becoming a garden swordsman.

So, of the two instruments she knew how to play in her previous life, the only one left is probably the whistle.

"Let's go first, go back and take a shower." Lu Mingfei took her hand very naturally, and the process was so smooth that Old Tang's eyes widened and he wanted to shout, "Mingming, I want to fall in love."

"Are you sleepy? If you are, go to sleep first and go out to play tomorrow."

Hearing this, Eri shook her head, indicating that she was full of energy and not sleepy at all.

So Lu Mingfei turned around and looked at his good brother: "Old Tang, what do you say, do you want to be cool here?"

Before, Old Tang seemed to have a great interest in the profession of gigolo.

Su Enxi's voice sounded in the headset at the right time: "If you are interested, I can buy this shop and make you a rising star. Maybe you can replace that Kazama Ruri and become the legendary king of the Japanese gigolo world."

Jiude Mai also became interested after hearing this, and looked Lao Tang up and down, as if thinking about how to transform this amateur: "Indeed, you are an American, and a bounty hunter. With a little packaging, you can be the second Indiana Jones.

How about it? If you feel moved, just say it. I believe there will be many girls who like to listen to your adventure stories in and out of graves. "

While the three were communicating, Lu Mingfei was also translating for Eri in a low voice. When she heard that Old Tang had dealt with gods, ghosts, monsters and the like before and had suppressed them single-handedly, the little witch immediately took a half step back and shrank behind him.

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With half of his face revealed, he was secretly observing like a cat peeking out of its head. Old Tang with his scowl on his face and a funny look on his face did not look like an expert demon slayer.

Old Tang saw this action, and the enthusiasm that Su Enxi and Jiude Mai had jointly instigated just now disappeared in an instant.

Yes, here is a genuine gangster daughter, and even she would shy away from talking about her experiences. I guess other rich girls would not be interested in her stories.

Thus, the story of the legendary cowherd ended before it even began.

Ling watched them laughing and joking quietly without saying a word. Suddenly, he heard the sound of an elevator running behind him. He turned around and saw that the elevator had passed the -1 floor and was heading towards the altitude where they were.

The dark field of illumination covered everyone again, and soon the elevator door opened. Two handsome gigolos came out carrying a slightly sagging sofa.

Placing the damaged sofa in the corner, the long-haired gigolo sighed, "Actually, I think this sofa can still be used after some repairs."

The short-haired gigolo shook his head helplessly: "But the store manager said that in order to provide the best service to the customers, it can only be replaced but not repaired."

"But the store is already in a difficult financial situation right now. I have a friend who works at a loan shark company. He said he seemed to have seen our store manager."

"I know about this, and I saw some gang members visiting the store manager a while ago."

"Oh, it's really hard for the store manager. He was a legendary figure in Tokyo back then."

"We have to make plans as soon as possible. If the nightclub really goes bankrupt one day, we have to find a new owner."

"I'm not going anywhere. I want to live and die with Takamagahara!"

The two cowherds left with sighs, and the five invisible men looked at each other in bewilderment.

Lu Mingfei asked first: "Could they have seen us and put on a show here?"

"Impossible." Jiude Mai rejected it on the spot, and then looked at Lu Mingfei with a smile: "Why, Mr. Lu, are you going to spend money to help this gigolo shop tide over the difficulties today?"

Lu Mingfei answered succinctly and decisively: "No money."

Time waits for no one, so the group quickly left Takama-ga-hara and got on the car back to The Peninsula Hotel in Chiyoda District.

When they passed by the gender-swapped feast of the Takama-ga-hara Hall, Lu Mingfei used his body to block Eri's sight to prevent the innocent girl from seeing the disgusting side.

Of course, the rules of Takama-ga-hara are there, and any truly disgusting and unspeakable plot cannot be broadcast. It just so happened that there was a girl who was hugged left and right, kissing here and there, and he was worried that Eri would be exposed to incorrect knowledge.

As usual, Jude Mai left first to prepare tools for Eri to conceal her identity.

Since he said he wanted to take Eri out to play, he couldn't hide her in the hotel, otherwise Lu Mingfei and his team's trip to Genji Heavy Industries would have been in vain.

Lao Tang continued to be his driver. The left half of his brain was thinking about Indiana Jones, and the right half of his brain was thinking about becoming the manager of Takama-ga-hara store and becoming the king of gigolos.

Eri was sitting by the window, and the window had an anti-peep film so she couldn't be seen from the outside.

At this moment, her rosy red eyes reflected the neon lights in the sky, and the bustling night with lights and bustling voices made her feel dazzled.

The building was tall and there were many people, and the night sky was big and heavy, so she still held Lu Mingfei tightly with one hand, as if she regarded this person as a support that could support her and not let her run back home and hide when she was alone.

Lu Mingfei felt the delicate touch of his fingertips and could vaguely sense the girl's uneasiness, but at this moment their relationship was limited to friends meeting for the first time, and he could not hold her in his arms and comfort her softly like he used to.

So he could only hold her back tightly, trying to pass on his warmth to her.

He tapped the headset and asked, "Potato Chips, do you have any clues about the old Chinese doctor I asked you to help find before?"

Now that I have brought Eri out, I have to be responsible for everything about her. The most urgent thing is to find out what chronic diseases she has.

Is it the same congenital deficiency and illness as in the previous life, or is it a sequelae of dragon blood.

"Not yet." Su Enxi gave a disappointing answer.

Although Lu Mingfei clearly stated Dr. Xia's name, appearance and address, the people she sent out were unable to find the target.

Lu Mingfei couldn't say he was particularly disappointed when he heard this, as he had already prepared himself for this in his heart.

“Please pay more attention to the serum and see if you can analyze something out of it.” Lu Mingfei glanced at the metal medicine box in Ling’s hand.

Just now, when Jiude Mai left, she took a bottle of serum from inside and said that she would take it to the laboratory under their organization for analysis to see if it could be replicated.

Lu Mingfei didn't know much about this, but he still saw hope.

However, looking at Zero who remained silent, he felt that the hope might not be that great.

Let’s go back to the hotel first and we can talk about it in detail later.

(End of this chapter)