Dragon Clan: Thought So Far.

Kunshan is just a small place, but it has a corner of Yangcheng Lake and has been vigorously developing finance and industry in recent years. So although it is only a county-level city, its livability is rated by the United Nations as the same level as Singapore.

When driving into the city along the ring highway, Su Xiaoqiang smacked his lips and said, "It's just so-so, it looks even worse than Hefei."

This girl is now trying her best to cut off all her escape routes and is determined to be with Lu Mingfei. If there is an abyss in front of her, she will jump into it; if there is a big river in front of her, she will jump into the river.

Lu Mingfei felt somewhat uneasy. He really didn't know how to explain the current situation to Eiry and Zero.

Perhaps it was the increasingly fiery dragon bloodline at work, Lu Mingfei always felt that he seemed to have a big heart, as if he could accommodate anyone, and it was also as if there was always a flame of greed beating in him, tempting him to fall into some unknown abyss.

But he still feels guilty.

Eri had been waiting for him for so many years in the huge cage of Genji Heavy Industries, and Her Royal Highness the Princess never cared whether he was a loser or today's dragon-slaying hero, as if standing with him was a matter of course.

There are also Nuonuo and Xia Mi.

In fact, there are already a lot of people standing around him, and he should have been satisfied, but this fucked up world is like a eunuch helping the Emperor choose concubines, always sending people he can't refuse to his side.

"Kunshan is closer to Xiangyang City, which is the Zhou family's base camp. No one in this world dares to attack you here." Wazhu, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, said. She looked into Su Xiaoqiang's eyes through the rearview mirror. "Although you have inherited some of the power left by Norton, that power is still too weak. After losing the power of the elements, even if you still master the mysteries of alchemy, your position as king will be in jeopardy. When you suppressed Kungunir, these secrets were completely exposed. The jackals hiding in the dark are grinding their teeth and sucking blood."

Su Xiaoqiang held his cheek with his phoenix eyes and looked around, his gaze moving back and forth between Lord Wa and Lu Mingfei.

"Will you come with us north?" she asked.

Wazhu shook her head. "I can't leave China. The Zhengtong organization looks strong and united, but it is actually much more fragile than the secret party. Those ancient families who have suppressed their ambitions for thousands of years are just waiting for an opportunity... If I leave, I will soon be expelled from the core of power. Even if I use bloody means to regain this power, it will take a long time."

It is not difficult to imagine that before the end of feudal society, the mixed-race world of this country should actually be a world where heroes and princes fought for hegemony. The reason why they seem to be twisted into a rope now is that they are actually succumbing to the powerful force of Lord Wa.

Even those families who obtained the fragments of Wade Fornil's Dragon Bone Cross could not compete with Lord Wa.

Su Xiaoqiang said "oh" and stopped talking.

The black BMW sedan carried them through the entire city toward the corner of Yangcheng Lake. Under the rain clouds blown in from the direction of Hefei, the high walls and deep alleys and the iron street lamps emitted a faint light.

They left Hefei at night and arrived in Kunshan in the early morning. In the long winter haze, their car was the only one moving forward on the road, crushing dry fallen leaves, and the air seemed to be filled with the smell of snow.

"Master Uesugi and Princess Romanov are now temporarily settled in the Jiang family's house. With Jiang Wanzhi and Bai Shanglu here, they can be considered to have someone to take care of them." Lord Wa looked at Lu Mingfei, "Tonight I will take you to the private house by the lake to stay and rest for a while. We will be able to meet up with Charlotte Cassel in three or two days at most."

Lu Mingfei had always thought that the fame of Jiang Wanzhi and Bai Shanglu was only spread within the orthodox circle, but when he talked with Zhao Menghua about his experience in Kunshan some time ago, he found out that even the boy had heard of the couple's name.

Nowadays, there are very few hairy crabs like those sold in the Yangcheng Lake area of ​​Kunshan ten years ago. It is said that after Bai Shanglu married into the Jiang family, old man Jiang handed over all their family businesses to this son-in-law. All the big and small bosses in Kunshan were waiting to see the Jiang family's son-in-law make a fool of himself, but they did not expect that Bai Shanglu was actually very capable. The first thing he did after taking over Jiang Wanzhi's business was to expand the business model of the crab restaurant.

In the past, diners from all over the country came from afar to Yangcheng Lake to eat crabs for the novelty, but now that cold chain transportation is becoming more and more convenient, it is obviously more reliable to sit at home and wait for hairy crabs to be delivered. In addition, there is no threshold to the crab restaurant business. In the past few years, crab restaurants were opened everywhere in Kunshan, and as a result of vicious competition, all of them were on the verge of bankruptcy.

Bai Shanglu used to run a clinic. Although he had not received much education, he had a good business sense. He thought that the key to breaking through was to engage in differentiated competition. A few years ago, after obtaining the management rights of the crab restaurant from Jiang Wanzhi, he bought several pleasure boats and converted them into mobile restaurants, taking customers to the lake to eat fresh fish.

The pleasure boat business was surprisingly good and the investment was quickly recovered.

Later, they entered the e-commerce industry and invested in wafer fabs, making a lot of money. Now, in just a few years, they have become well-known capital tycoons in Kunshan.

In the world of hybrids, they are even more famous. It is said that Bai Shanglu, who was an ordinary person at the time, showed amazing perseverance when facing the infiltration and invasion of Solomon's Temple. He even pulled out the Dragon-Severing Platform after that guy named Zhao Xuzhen summoned a real pure-blooded dragon and inadvertently recited the Word of Spirit. Jiuying killed the dragon.

"The Bai family is also on their way. If you are going to Siberia, it won't hurt to build good relations with them." Wazhu said with his eyes closed and dozing off, like an elder who is about to see off his juniors. "There is an arms dealer named Bunin in Moscow who controls one-third of the Soviet heritage in Siberia, but he can't develop it on his own, so he has a lot of dealings with the Bai family... Bunin's daughter is Christina Kabaeva, and she is now the fiancée of the dandy young master of the Gattuso family. I don't know much about the intelligence from Russia, but if his daughters are mixed-blood, then he himself should also be involved in the dark society."

Lu Mingfei remembered that Christina had mentioned her adoptive father Bunin, who used to work for the government for a period of time and later went into business on his own. He was quite rich and was considered a wealthy family in Moscow.

"I heard from Master Uesugi and Miss Romanova that you went to Siberia to find out the truth of something, and the final destination may be a port that has been abandoned for a long time. This kind of place sounds very much like the base center used by those fanatical political committees for secret experiments or weapons research and development before the collapse of the Soviet Union. After 1991, most of these places were closed, and even the coordinates were erased from the database to prevent the files from being leaked and obtained by the enemies of that country... After all, Siberia is too vast, and with Russia's current population, there is no way to control such a vast land. They have no way to supervise the Soviet legacy. In this case, it is better to let them be completely sealed in the dust of history." Lord Wa said softly,

"But Bunin is a powerful arms dealer in Moscow. Sometimes he sells Russian standard equipment to the warring small countries, but more often he is more like a grave robber. He has been digging the Soviet Union's graves, finding those closed cities or bases in Siberia and selling the hidden technology and semi-finished military equipment to other countries. Sometimes the Russian Ministry of Defense will use active tactical missiles to bomb abandoned cities. Before the bombing, the coordinates will be given to Bunin, who will then value the remaining military property rights in the city. After thoroughly excavating and cashing out the value, the bomb will fall in the ruins of the city... You can get in touch with Bunin through the Bai family. With his help, it may be much easier to find that nameless port."

Lu Mingfei looked through the rearview mirror at the small, pale face of Lord Wa sitting in the passenger seat and said, "Thank you."

Wazhu was stunned for a moment, then waved her hands: "Speaking of these, you call me sister, don't you? Since you are my brother, of course I have to take care of you."

"Actually, I'm still curious about your true identity, but since you don't want to tell me, I won't ask." Lu Mingfei smiled, "One day I'll know, right?"

This time it was Wazhu's turn to remain silent. "That's about right," she said. "I hope you'll still recognize me one day."

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It was late at night and when the driver took Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang to where they were staying today, everything around them was completely silent.

The so-called private residence turned out to be a blue brick courtyard with a rather grand decoration. Pushing the door open, there was a garden. Wintersweets that bloom even in winter were transplanted in the flowerbed. The fragrance of the plum blossoms permeated the bitter cold air, and even the lungs were filled with a transparent and gloomy chill.

After passing the flower garden, there is a quaint small building with a patio. Southerners love patios when building their own houses. They pay attention to the four waters returning to the main hall, which means gathering wealth in feng shui. There are similar things in the field of alchemy, but it does not gather water but gathers elements, that is, gathers active elements and drives out inert elements. Using words in such a building will have the opposite effect of that in the field of precepts.

Su Xiaoqiang was still a little bit shaken from what she had just experienced. Lu Mingfei sat with her in her room for a while, and only returned to his own room after the girl fell asleep.

As the wind whistled back and forth on the lake outside, Lu Mingfei sat down at the table in front of the window, found a bottle of Taidiao wine from the ice chest in the corner, added plums to it, and then sipped the ice wine while looking at a large map that had been kept in his backpack.

He had to go to Siberia no matter what. Herzog, Bondarev, Black Swan Port, and those hallucinations that once appeared in his mind and the familiar feeling when he was called Zero in the hallucinations. Too much history has been played out on that frozen land, and too many truths have been buried under the ice for thousands of years in the cold wind.

It seems that all the ambitious people, including the Holy Palace Medical Society, Odin and Herzog, rose from Siberia. Even Li Wuyue, who caused the Summer Mourning, eventually died in Siberia. The embryo of the Dragon King, who was deprived of his authority and lost his crown, was buried in the Abyss for decades until not long ago when he was finally awakened by Lu Mingfei's words of not wanting to die.

The only way to find the truth is to set foot on that land.

But the more important thing at the moment is whether it is possible to obtain the Black King's blood through Charlotte Cassel to resurrect Xia Mi.

Lu Mingfei's gaze lingered at the border between northern China and Russia. After hesitating for a moment, he turned to Outer Mongolia.

It is not realistic to go directly across the border into Siberia. Both China and Russia are information superpowers. As soon as Lu Mingfei walks out of the port, he will be captured by Norma's Sky Eye. There is no doubt that his every move will be monitored by spy satellites in geosynchronous orbit. Even if he appears in the truly uninhabited wilderness of Siberia, Pompeii may not hesitate to release the Sword of Scourge, which was originally used to deal with the Dragon King.

With Lu Mingfei's current means, it is difficult for him to resist the Sword of Heaven's Punishment with the Rhine effect.

However, if they enter Siberia through Mongolia, the situation will be quite different. The Tatars have been almost isolated from the secret party's information circle, and Outer Mongolia's own information network is not well developed. It is difficult for Norma's Sky Eye to monitor Lu Mingfei almost all the time like in Russia or China.

After thinking for a while, he felt that he could not come up with any results, so he got up, went to the bathroom and soaked himself in the bathtub.

Water vapor rose up and filled the entire enclosed space, and dense droplets soon hung on the frosted glass.

Lu Mingfei put a white towel soaked in cold water on his forehead and drank another sip of Taidiao wine.

He called out in his heart, "Junior sister, are you awake?" The girl with sleepy eyes and pale face appeared beside him, rubbing her eyes. She was wearing a silk pajamas with lace sleeves, her long hair was slightly curled at the ends, and her lips were a very light red.

Seeing that Xia Mi was finally able to show this ghostly state, Lu Mingfei breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm so exhausted that I haven't fully recovered yet." Xia Mi yawned, supporting her chin.

Not only did she not recover, Lu Mingfei suspected that the spirit body that was suspected to be the White King's parasite in himself or Eri was also seriously damaged.

Lu Mingfei organized his words and told him everything that had happened recently. When Xia Mi heard that he was almost stabbed through the heart by Kungunir, her eyes widened with fear.

But when he heard that the Sel family might still have the remains of the Black King's blood, he felt a little hesitant.

After just a few words, the junior sister was so sleepy that she threw herself on Lu Mingfei and fell into sleep again. Lu Mingfei sighed, wiped himself clean, wrapped himself in a bath towel and went back to the room.

The humming sound of the heating system echoed in the corners of the room, and the warm air surged up, making even Lu Mingfei feel a little tired.

He sat on the edge of the bed, thought for a moment, and then got under the quilt, but as soon as he got under, all the muscles in his body tensed up.

It wasn't that I heard any noise.

But there was actually someone waiting inside the quilt.

As soon as Lu Mingfei entered, a girl with skin as white as cream hugged his waist tightly from behind, and her breath like orchid fell on the back of his neck like fire. (End of this chapter)