Chapter 78 Please forgive my rudeness a little (Please pre-order!!!)
It is less than two kilometers from the Paris Opera to the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, and Lu Mingfei can reach the destination in 20 minutes on foot.
However, when he was halfway through the journey, he couldn't help but slow down his pace.
It was nothing special. Before crossing the Saône River, Lu Mingfei stopped by the Church of St. Vincent, where he stopped for a moment to recall the proposal concert that he had personally planned.
Even today, when he recalls the scene of his good brother marrying the beauty and the red-haired girl who made him fall in love at first sight, he still feels an unstoppable joy in his heart.
It’s a pity that the deeper the joy, the chillier the night wind seems to be.
After a short stop, we still have to move forward.
While walking on the bridge less than a hundred meters long, it suddenly started to drizzle, and the umbrella that Lu Mingfei brought with him before going out came in handy.
This place is located in the center of Lyon. Even though it is late at night, there are still many pedestrians on the streets.
Lu Mingfei, a thin Asian man, stood out among the crowd of blond-haired and blue-eyed people.
But he walked through the streets with familiarity and soon found the remains of his brother-in-law's shop in his previous life.
The rain was drizzling. Lu Mingfei held an umbrella in one hand and stared at the bar with a "BigBird" sign in front of him with a wooden face.
The light board was brilliant, but it could not light up the pair of dark eyes that had lost their luster.
"Hey, kid, this is not the place for you!"
The doorman, who was wearing a tight V-neck shirt that exposed his belly, adjusted his bright red bow tie and waved away the stunned Asian teenager.
Asians are really surprised by the rare things they see. Almost everyone who comes to France for tourism will be extremely surprised by the level of openness here.
Awakened by the scolding, Lu Mingfei came to his senses, took a few steps back and left quickly.
"You're stupid. It's only 2009. My brother-in-law and his family have only just arrived in France. It will be two years before they open a store."
He whispered an excuse for himself, hoping to save his dignity.
He clearly could make four cuts in one second without missing any information during the competition, but this time he made a low-level mistake because he was too nervous. If I tell others about it, I'm afraid people will laugh at me.
As if to clear himself of this unbearable dark history, he quickened his pace and walked into the rain.
"Long Legs, why did you suddenly stop talking? Did he sneak out to see the pretty sister?"
In the communication channel, Potato Chip Girl's voice was particularly urgent.
The long-legged man who witnessed the scene just now hesitated for a moment, then told the truth about what he saw and heard, and also added a little guess:
"You said that he had no feelings for me before, and he didn't know how to be gentle with pretty girls. Is it because he has a problem with his sexual orientation?"
At this moment, she seriously suspected that Lu Mingfei was willing to be Chen Wenwen's follower and let her order him around just to cover up his true preferences!
"Mai, stop talking nonsense." A clear and cold voice joined the channel, warning the partner not to talk nonsense.
Some things are better left unsaid in your mind; if you speak them out loud, people will remember them.
"Okay, what do you say about those guys behind us? Should we get rid of them?"
"Don't move for now. The assassin organization that bought the dragon serum on the Hunter website has been forced into a corner by the French Executive Bureau. They haven't killed them yet, probably because they want to lure out the guys who sold the serum."
The potato chip girl told the two partners about the intelligence she had learned, and told them not to act rashly: "Don't do anything rash. It's okay to be mistaken for an enemy, but it would be a big loss if you rush to take the blame for others."
"Okay, let's continue following him. But is he planning to visit all the churches nearby in one night? He doesn't even have a map, so how does he know the terrain so well?"
"You ask me who should I ask, the magical conch?"
The low voices of conversation in the distance did not reach Lu Mingfei's ears. As the distance between him and the church building standing on the highest point in Lyon continued to shorten, he could only hear the sound of his violently beating heart in his chest.
He silently repeated the house number that was engraved in his soul over and over again in his mind, and stepped over one piece of old floor tile after another that had witnessed the entire process of the couple's acquaintance and love.
Finally, he stopped in front of an old red-roofed western-style building that was three stories high and faced south. The walls were slightly yellow and covered with a lot of carpets.
The small western-style building was silent, with only a faint flicker of light on the second floor. This discovery made Lu Mingfei feel a little relieved.
My wife is an internet addict. She often stays up late at night playing games. And because she is afraid of being caught and punished by her brother, she has developed the bad habit of not turning on the lights.
"It's her. It must be her. It must be her."
Lu Mingfei stood in the rain holding an umbrella, quietly looking at the window with flickering lights and shadows. The madness deep in his eyes was almost suppressed to the limit by the light called hope.
After traveling to another time and space, he can accept the changes in the world and accept that his brothers, friends and elders who were once as close as family have become strangers. At worst, he can just get to know them all over again. Anyway, he has already had this experience once.
But the fact is that all the people who were extremely important to him met with unexpected events. Either they disappeared mysteriously or their life trajectories changed drastically, inevitably tinged with the color of tragedy.
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From the moment he discovered that the Xia brothers and sisters had disappeared, from the moment he found out that his uncle Chu, who had treated him with such kindness, was missing, he felt like he had stepped into a quagmire of despair.
If you choose to obey, you will be swallowed up bit by bit.
If you choose to resist, you will sink even faster.
Letters from parents, recruitment by Kassel Academy, the disappearance of Old Tang's family, the collapse of the worldview caused by the dragon race and the hybrids, memories dug out of the brain, Finkel's complete blood transfusion, and the nightmare that lasted for a week...
All of this made Lu Mingfei's nerves tense to the extreme, and the reading on the pressure valve counter in his heart was close to the maximum pressure value he could withstand.
He is a player with a big heart, but not a thick nerve.
Having experienced an unhappy childhood, he is more sensitive than anyone else, and he values those who treat him kindly more than anyone else.
In his previous life, he started from nothing and when he first came to this world, he could comfort himself by thinking that he would return to the penniless state he was when he left his uncle's house in anger. As long as he worked hard, he could get back everything he had lost.
But who would have thought that what would follow would be a loss that would be as painful as a knife piercing the heart and penetrate deep into the bone marrow.
Those things that he thought were just temporarily sealed and would be taken back one day, turned from green leaves into fragile dead leaves within just a week, and turned into fragments that could never be put together again with the slightest touch.
The only thing that kept him from falling into paranoia and madness was the imperceptible hope deep in his heart.
He hopes that the person who shares the same bed with him will not let him face this familiar yet strange and cruel world alone.
He had already prepared himself mentally. If he couldn't find his lover here, he would go to Japan and turn the whole Tokyo upside down. If he still couldn't find her, he would go to Beijing and check the Chen family tree one by one.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Mingfei suppressed all his emotions, forced out a friendly smile, took two steps forward and rang the doorbell.
Although it was already late at night and he shouldn't disturb their sleep and playtime, he simply couldn't bear to wait until tomorrow.
Sorry, please forgive my rudeness.
(End of this chapter)