Dragon Clan: Thought So Far.

Qiao Weini's cooking skills seemed to have not changed in many years. Lu Mingfei recognized the taste of his childhood as soon as he took the first bite.

Surprisingly, even after living in a place like Siberia for more than ten years, this family still retains the habit of enjoying Chinese food during meals. Most of the dishes on the table are heavy oil and color hard dishes such as Mapo tofu, braised lamb, angelica guinea chicken and stir-fried prawns.

It seemed that Khorkina often visited her mentor. Even Lu Mingfei couldn't find where Qiao Weini hid the dishes. She quickly found all the tableware from the hidden cabinet.

The companions who entered the safe haven with Lu Mingfei have all received invitations. Susie and Chu Zihang have already arrived. Both of them are a little restrained in front of Lu Lincheng. Obviously, after Lu Mingfei told them about the love-hate entanglement between Chu Tianjiao, Qiao Weini and Lu Lincheng when they were young, the president and vice president of the Lionheart Club both felt that they had entered a blind spot of experience.

Old Bunin changed into his tweed coat and after a short rest he looked radiant with health.

He found the gene drug that could cure Christina's ALS in the safe of City 023, and injected the drug into his daughter's carotid artery. As a clone whose life was as empty as hell, Bunin put all his love for Ms. Bella into her daughter Christina.

That kind of love is even a little deformed, but it is undeniable that it is so selfless and great, even though she knows that she will surely die if she embarks on the escape with Lu Mingfei, she is still willing to do so.

Now that he had saved Christina's life with his own hands, Bunin felt that he had fulfilled the meaning of his life.

But he still gritted his teeth and kept the last dose of genetic medicine with him, as if he was following a demon into hell. He would not feel at ease until he had wiped out everything that could threaten Christina.

Chrissie was watching TV, which was showing Daniel Petrie's Servant of the People, which must have been a repository for the CCTV connection.

"We rarely cook for ourselves. There is a canteen in the shelter, and a professional team of chefs provides daily food for all the staff in the shelter." Lu Lincheng was rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find his hidden liquor and cups. "The supplies here are not dependent on external supplies. Food is very precious, and waste should be absolutely eliminated. Therefore, even the committee members who guide the fate of this port usually only eat in the canteen with others."

"What do we usually eat in the cafeteria?" Lu Mingfei asked.

Lu Lincheng showed a sad expression on his face. "It depends on the situation. Usually the synthetic meat is grown from protein. The chef will usually make the meat taste like steak or chicken according to his mood." He said.

In the outside world, synthesizing protein using water and air is still only a theoretical issue, but here this technology has been applied to people's livelihood.

Lu Mingfei had never eaten synthetic meat, but he thought it wouldn't be worse than Su Xiaoyan's cooking skills...

"The texture of steak and chicken is like sawdust, and the taste is like sawdust dipped in soy sauce or some other weird condiment," Khorkina said. "By comparison, I prefer to try the dark cuisine of the British... But everyone has ideals and aspirations, and the most basic needs and desires of human beings, such as appetite, are not insurmountable psychological barriers."

Lu Mingfei stared at the guinea fowl in the stainless steel basin in a daze.

Qiao Weini noticed that her son was wondering where this thing came from. She touched his head and said with a smile, "Of course, the Shelter also has a special breeding farm. Occasionally, the cafeteria will also slightly improve the taste of diners... Guinea fowl are easy to raise, reproduce quickly, and don't consume much food. We raise thousands of poultry, each of which has a number."

"Are we making an exception?"

"Your father is the secretary general of the Safe Haven after all, so he should have this power." Qiao Weini spoke of Lu Lincheng in a cold tone, not even looking at the man. "The committee will not remove him from the position of secretary general just because you ate one more chicken, nor will they cut off my experimental project because of this kind of thing."

Khorkina took out a piece of chocolate wrapped in shiny tin foil from the empty bag she carried with her. She quietly put it into Lu Mingfei's hand and winked at him: "Before the war came, the safe haven actually received some non-essential daily necessities from the outside world every year, such as women's stockings, children's chocolate and men's cigarettes. Such things can neither promote the progress of civilization nor help the committee stabilize social order, let alone important war reserves. There will never be a special factory in the port to produce related materials... But humans are different from animals. After material needs are met, spiritual needs become extremely important. Eating synthetic meat forever will make people crazy, so we can always get the little things we want from the material requisition office."

"Thank you." Lu Mingfei put the chocolate into his pocket and replied politely, "But the port in the north should be frozen for a long time. How do you rely on to get supplies? Dog sledding should be difficult, right? Or is there actually a hidden track nearby?"

"In the summer, the ice melts and cargo ships can follow the icebreakers in," Khorkina explained. "Once they even brought a church that could be assembled... Unfortunately, Catholicism and Orthodoxy are not mainstream in the safe haven. There are all kinds of people who believe in Amun, Vishnu, Taoist immortals, and even Zoroastrianism. In short, out of concern for inequality rather than scarcity, the committee eventually blew up the church."

At this time, except for Zero, almost everyone was already there. They were sitting in groups of three or four on the sofa or in a corner of the room, talking in low voices.

When Qiao Weini learned that Chu Zihang was Chu Tianjiao's son, she showed a strange look.

She said: "Your eyes are very similar to Xiaoyan's, but you are using the pride and coldness you learned from Chu Tianjiao as a disguise to hide your loneliness and childishness."

"Aunt Qiao knows my mother?" Chu Zihang was a little surprised.

Qiao Weini nodded: "I had the honor of meeting her a few times in Hefei. She was a very popular stage star at that time."

"Aunt Su took good care of me during the time you were away." Lu Mingfei suddenly said.

Lu Lincheng and Qiao Weini's expressions froze slightly.

Leaving Lu Mingfei at his uncle and aunt's house while they go to settle in a safe haven alone is a knot that this family cannot untie no matter what.

Fortunately, everyone had good luck today. Whenever the atmosphere became awkward, there would always be someone to disrupt the situation.

The knock on the door sounded again, and Lu Mingfei stood up and said, "I'll go open the door."

Ling was standing at the door. She had indeed changed her clothes and seemed to have made herself up carefully. She wore a camel cashmere coat that reached her feet and high-topped deerskin boots. The cold white light soaked her hair. Her long platinum braids fell on her shoulders, and the ends of the braids spread out into a light golden galaxy that stuck to her waist. The pupils on her cold little face were extremely deep and quiet.

When she saw Lu Mingfei at the door, a flaw appeared in her cold expression. Her delicate nose wrinkled and she reached out to hold Lu Mingfei's arm.

Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment but did not stop.

Ling took a deep breath behind the corner of the door, and finally held Lu Mingfei's waist from behind and pushed him in. "Hello, uncle and auntie, I'm Ling, Mingfei's... fiancée." The girl suddenly changed her expression and revealed a cute smile that could melt people's hearts. Her voice was slightly raised, which didn't sound consistent with the character of the princess who kept strangers away.

Chu Zihang and Su Qian were both stunned for a moment, then looked at each other, and saw shock and disbelief in each other's eyes.

Krisja's eyes widened, but the surprise and disappointment were only fleeting.

Qiao Weini and Lu Lincheng stood up almost at the same time. The middle-aged woman snatched Ling from Lu Mingfei's hands with the enthusiasm of a mother welcoming her daughter-in-law and forced her to sit next to her. Lu Lincheng seemed a little at a loss.

"Hey, junior brother, look at that girl named Khorkina, look at her eyes." Eva said in Lu Mingfei's ear.

Lu Mingfei's pupils flickered as he looked into Khorkina's eyes silently.

Those were a pair of beautiful light blue eyes, as calm and clear as the surface of Lake Baikal when there is no wind.

This girl, who was much taller than Zero, was staring at the profile of Her Royal Highness the Princess, her hands clasped on the table, her knuckles slightly white from the force.

At this moment, Lu Mingfei finally confirmed that the so-called safe haven was definitely related to the Black Swan Harbor, and Khorkina was the ghost that escaped from the Black Swan Harbor.

After everyone was seated, Lu Lincheng, the host, stood up, raised his glass, and smiled. He said, "Everyone here is Mingfei's friend, and you can also treat me and Winnie as your family. Don't be reserved or polite, just enjoy your meal and drink!"

Lu Mingfei was used to British table manners when he was studying at Kassel College, and he was used to Japanese table manners when he was at Sheqi Eight Clan. At this moment, when he suddenly heard his father say such an opening remark, he was actually a little stunned for a moment.

"Aunt Qiao, do you still remember accepting my father's commission to go to a Japanese shrine to help him enshrine an ancient alchemical sword?" Chu Zihang, a ruthless and taciturn person, actually opened up at the dinner table. Lu Mingfei's eyes condensed slightly, realizing that his senior brother also had that strange feeling, always feeling that this safe haven was a conspiracy.

Saying this was obviously an attempt to find flaws in Qiao Weini.

They were already on the run, so it wasn't a bad thing to be more vigilant.

"I remember, it's been almost twenty years. He said that the knife was called Murasame, and it was stained with the blood of too many people. It had to be enshrined in a shrine to wash away the bloody smell." Qiao Weini said, "We had just left the academy at that time. He originally planned to go to Japan to do this himself, but Angers arranged a new mission for Tianjiao. The mission was so top secret that even Lu Lincheng and I were allowed to investigate it in depth."

In this way, the timeline matches, and the puzzle of events that happened to their generation begins to be gradually completed.

As far as Lu Mingfei knew, Angers had been training Chu Tianjiao as his successor, and the purpose of his being sent to Hefei was to protect the black box that survived the Summer Mourning incident.

It’s not entirely correct to say that it was protection. Only a very few people knew that during this process Chu Tianjiao secretly met with the night watchman, and then the box split into two.

Perhaps Ange had already expected that someone would attack Chu Tianjiao. Chu Tianjiao and the things in the box were just baits. What they really wanted to do was to hand over the Black King's bones and blood that had been tampered with by the Night Watchmen to the hands of the mastermind behind the scenes.

The person who did this was Odin. No matter what he used the Black King's bone and blood that he got from Chu Tianjiao, he was ultimately tricked by Angers.

"The last time we saw Tianjiao was in 03. Is he okay?" Qiao Weini hesitated and looked at Chu Zihang. "In fact, I was sure you were his son the first time I saw you. You look exactly like him."

"Dad is an executive officer on the gray list who performs top-secret missions. It's normal that you don't know his intelligence, Aunt Qiao." Chu Zihang said calmly, "On the eve of Typhoon Dandelion's landing in 06, we were led to the Nibelungen of a dragon king on an elevated road. Dad was attacked there, and his life or death is still unknown to this day."

“How could such a thing happen to you…” Qiao Weini was stunned and looked at Lu Lincheng.

Lu Lincheng frowned, not looking at his wife's eyes, and just drank silently.

"Senior brother, you haven't introduced this lady to us yet." Krisja sat next to Lu Mingfei and tilted her head to look at Khorkina opposite her.

Khorkina suddenly realized, "My name is Khorkina, Khorkina Pugacheva, and I am a student of Professor Winnie," she said.

Lu Mingfei secretly gave Chrisga a thumbs up. It was obvious that Chu Zihang was unable to extract any useful information from his mother, so the next step would be for Lu Mingfei to control.

"I heard that Khorkina is the leader of the safe haven. She is the most dazzling one among all the girls." He took over the conversation, pretending to hesitate and looking into Khorkina's eyes. "I passed by a small group of young people on the way to this small building. They were discussing a boy named Anton, saying that he was the only one in this port who was worthy of you."

This sentence was not a lie. Lu Lincheng and Qiao Weini did hear some rumors about Anton on the way home with Lu Mingfei.

But the real reason why Lu Mingfei asked this question was that the word Anton also appeared in Zero's description of Black Swan Harbor.

Ling was very good at hiding her emotions, so Lu Mingfei couldn't even tell anything about her opinion of Khorkina from her micro-expressions.

"Anton Belozovsky." Khorkina hummed, "They all say that we are a perfect match, but I don't like him... The social structure of Haven has not yet developed into a patriarchal society. We advocate free love, so I never spend time alone with him."

"Russian too?"

"Yes, I heard he was from St. Petersburg." Khorkina nodded. (End of this chapter)