Lu Mingfei Development Program

Chapter 529 Train
The sun pierced the sea surface, driving away the fog that had been silent all night. The huge fleet floated silently on the sea of ​​​​Daqin. Whether it was the Daqin citizens looking at this side from the shore or the Western spies peeping in the dark, they were all amazed by this East China Sea Fleet that was invincible in the East.

Apart from the land routes that were either completely blocked or too old to be marched on, the only way for a large-scale army to travel to the west was to cross the Storm Gorge at the end of the Sea of ​​​​Sarif.

Like the Caucasus Mountains, the Storm Gorge is also a natural barrier that separates the East and the West. Even though mechanical technology has been developed for a hundred years, there are still very few ships that can pass through the Storm Gorge. As the leaders of the East and the West, Xia and the Papal States have this ability.

Four years ago, the iron ship of the Papal States passed through the Storm Gorge and destroyed the capital of Ceylon overnight like a straight knife. Today, the East Sea Fleet waiting outside the Storm Gorge made the entire West nervous.

The emergence of mobile armor has changed the way of war, but at sea, these heavily armored ships still rule the world. These giant ships, like the behemoth Leviathan, are definitely worthy of the title of national treasures.

Chu Shunhua cancelled the military support from Xia's vassal states, but no one could doubt his determination to use troops in the West. He was definitely not the kind of person who would suddenly become stupid, but the Western monarchs thought about it for a long time and couldn't figure out why he would do that.

Lu Mingfei stretched his body in the sunshine. He came alone to watch the sunrise. Last night, he whispered to the exhausted girl, "Do you want to watch the sunrise this morning?" The latter agreed in a daze. But in the morning, the girl was so asleep that she couldn't be woken up no matter how hard she tried.

Helplessly, he had to kiss the girl on the lips who was very tired last night, and went to the deck alone.

Lucrecia stepped onto the deck somewhat unhappily, and as expected, she found someone on the bow watching the sunrise.

Last night, after the dinner hosted by Chu Shunhua, she went to the room arranged for them to look for someone. However, no one was in the room. She originally thought that he was just away for a while, so she waited in the room, but this wait lasted all night.

When she touched the cold quilt in the morning, she felt so angry that her newlywed husband didn't come home the next day. She hated him so much that she wanted to scratch someone's face like a cat.

Lu Mingfei turned around and saw Lucrecia standing behind him like a bullied wife. Her pretty face was like a neglected cat, with an expression between wanting to be angry but not being able to be angry.

He couldn't help but smile.

Lucrecia, who was already angry, heard the laughter and said unhappily: "How dare you laugh?"

"It's kind of cute when you laugh at me like a punching bag." Lu Mingfei replied with a smile.

Lucrecia was choked, not knowing whether he was saying she was stingy or praising her for being cute. She asked, "Do you know that I waited for you all night last night?"

"You should have told me last night that you were coming. How would I have known if you hadn't told me?" Lu Mingfei replied.

"You all know this without me telling you, right?" Lucrecia crossed her arms, which made her stand out in a certain way and made her look very imposing.

Lu Mingfei smiled, did not answer this, and stretched out his hand to her: "Come up, the sun is shining brightly now."

Lucrecia looked at him silently, then suddenly sighed and held out her hand to him. It seemed that she still had a long way to go to make him a qualified husband like her mother.

The two of them faced the sun together, and Lucrecia exclaimed. She had seen countless sunrises and sunsets over the Mediterranean in Portofino, and she had also suffered the sun's torture in the desert of the Turenne.

Strictly speaking, this was probably the first sunrise she had ever seen with someone, excluding yesterday, when someone was sleeping soundly beside her.

"After we go back, let's consider the Persian Gulf as one of our wedding travel destinations." Lucrecia leaned on Lu Mingfei's shoulder, and the golden morning light made her bright blonde hair even more dazzling.

Lu Mingfei sniffed the scent between her hair and said softly, "Okay."

The soldier patrolling on the deck tilted his head and looked at the man and woman who seemed to treat them as if they were not there. If he remembered correctly, the boy had hugged the princess here last night, right?

……

The cargo tightly wrapped in wooden boxes was sent into the cabin. The heavy hatch was light, and the sound it made was like the burping of a giant beast after eating. The Xia army returned to the ship, and these fleets, like stranded giant beasts, began to move out. The Dashi army that had been escorting them all the way could only watch them go away.

Before setting off, the Caliph had asked them to find out what the goods were, but the Xia soldiers were too strict and they had no chance.

This made them even more curious. What were these goods that came all the way from Xia Country, specifically from Chu Shunhua's fiefdom? He had been waiting here for a month, apparently just for these things.

The Arab Empire is a member of the Xia Kingdom Alliance, close to the east-west border, and is the strongest country here. Its national strength is unmatched by Zhongshan and Ceylon. As Chu Shunhua's ally, the Caliph was very curious about his sudden change of heart.

However, Chu Shunhua had no intention of telling them about his plan. His secrecy was also the reason why many Xia ministers criticized him, thinking that he was too arrogant and wanted to eliminate the threat of the Papal States by himself.

Chu Shunhua did not explain to anyone, not even Emperor Xia, because there was no need.

In the dark cabin, a huge wooden box was opened, and a warrior in black armor was half-kneeling inside. It had a ferocious ghost face and was holding a two-meter-long sword.

The general in charge of escorting them all the way half-knelt in front of Chu Shunhua: "There are a total of 300 initial forms of Oni Warriors, delivered on time!"

"Three hundred?" Chu Shunhua was a little surprised when he heard this number, because there were originally only one hundred prototypes of the Onimusha.

The general looked towards the center of the cabin, where tall red armored figures were surrounded by Onimus, like their generals: "Thanks to the armor brought by Her Highness the Princess."

"Our mechanics were greatly inspired after seeing it. Many problems were solved and even the production volume was greatly increased." The general's eyes were full of enthusiasm. "In addition to the 300 that have been delivered, there are another 200 Onimusha being assembled in the workshop, but I am afraid that there is not enough time and I can't wait until they are completed."

"Three hundred are enough." Chu Shunhua said softly. This is already the size of a large armored knight group, enough to influence the outcome of a battle on a large battlefield.

He turned his head to look inside the cabin. Armor alone was not enough, but also required people who could operate it. The soldiers who were both guards and armored knights were looking at him, waiting for his orders.

"Westerners think they control the world because they have mastered armor." Chu Shunhua said softly, "My Great Xia could scare all Westerners a hundred years ago, and it is still the same now. It is time to let them know that Great Xia has awakened." The Great Sea was no longer calm. The huge fleet rushed into the Storm Gorge at full speed like an arrow shot from a bow. At the same time, the monarchs of Western countries appeared in the study, listening to the report about this fleet.

The Papal army began to move, heading towards Marston. The dark train shuttled silently like a giant python, and the dark demon was sleeping inside.

……

Xizel shuddered and suddenly woke up from the darkness. He went to the bathroom and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead in front of the mirror. Purple and gold flickered in his eyes, like two great wills fighting on his body.

The violent will that had been suppressed by the devil-like existence began to riot again because of his absence.

Xizel felt a little irritated, because in addition to the discomfort caused by the clash of two wills, he could sense that something unpleasant was approaching. The hymn-like voice should have been calming, but it made him feel even more irritated.

Standing in the dark room, he looked towards the campus shrouded in darkness. The dark campus was so clear in his eyes, and he also found a man and a woman secretly meeting under a laurel tree.

After the violent will awakened, Xizel felt that his senses were strengthened a lot, and even his physical strength seemed to have increased a little... but compared to other people, it was still too weak.

While he was thinking, he heard a shouting coming from there. The school guard on night patrol discovered the couple who were secretly meeting.

Césaire's heart moved. He knew this school policeman, one of the few friends of Dean Poincare in the college: Heifetz. He had seen them gather together many nights and leave on the Stein heavy motorcycle.

Apart from the possibility that might break the heart of a single female teacher in the academy who had a crush on Poincare, the only possibility was that they actually worked for the same institution.

Despite the disguise, César still recognized the mobile armor that Poincare was driving. The Blazing Iron Cavalry Type IV, the main armor of the Papal States... He had defeated many of them.

Poincare's identity is not difficult to guess. He is from the Inquisition, the Military Headquarters of the Crusader Guards, and nothing else.

Cesare silently watched what was happening in the dark campus. Heifetz drove the man and woman back to their respective dormitories, and then patrolled around until the shift change came. Then he left on the Stein motorcycle.

A shrill bell suddenly rang in the campus. Although it was already dawn in the east, it was not yet time to ring the wake-up bell. The same scene was happening all over Marston.

Although countless people complained, they could only get out of bed because they had been told a few days ago that this bell represented an emergency, and no matter when or where they heard it, they should get up immediately and go to the nearest church for shelter.

César looked up to the east. Although he could not see anything, he knew that the Eastern army was coming. Heifetz's actions were probably related to this.

He hesitated for a moment, looking towards the entrance of the church. Only when he saw his sister entering the church under the protection of Anne did he leave the room silently and follow the school police who were walking forward silently.

Cesare had already asked Anne to take care of Adele in his absence.

Heifetz was in a bad mood. Poincare's operation failed and he ended up in the hospital. He had some beautiful single female teachers to visit him, but the work that was originally his responsibility fell on his shoulders.

To ensure that a train passed without being noticed, and to ensure that the train left without being noticed, they put Marston under martial law and sent everyone to the church, nominally for protection but actually for imprisonment, to prevent anyone from appearing on the street and seeing the train passing.

Suddenly, Heifetz parked the Stein motorcycle across the middle of the road and quickly pulled out his musket and pointed it at the back. Naturally, there was nothing.

He set out on his journey again, but the inexplicable feeling made him alert, so he chose to take a detour. Behind him, Xizel appeared silently, patted the Stein heavy machine under him, and asked it to be quieter.

Strangely, the Stein heavy machine responded to his request, reducing the noise to a minimum and moving forward like a ghostly warhorse.

This Stein motorcycle belonged to Poincare. After he was hospitalized, it was parked outside the college and the key was naturally in his hands.

But when César came to the motorcycle and said he needed to go out, the motorcycle started strangely. At that time, César discovered that he had the ability to issue orders to inanimate objects, but it was limited to metal objects.

This bizarre ability appeared together with the violent heart, and the restart of the Chakravartin, whose energy was exhausted, was due to it.

Heifetz had disappeared, but Cesare was not in a hurry, as he already knew the other party's purpose. Stein's heavy motorcycle drove silently between the streets, bypassing the Papal spies who were still patrolling the streets, and left the city, waiting at the fork in the railway.

He didn't have to wait too long, as a completely black train came from the opposite side of the railway.

If anyone other than him saw the train, he would have been surprised because it was so quiet and covered with frost, like a wild hunt rushing out of the land of the dead. In Western legends, the latter is a cavalry composed of ghosts.

The Serpent Train of the Earth, Xizel's eyes flashed with faint purple and golden light. He knew this train, carrying the Seraph, and as the black appearance of the train indicated, it was a train that brought death.

And the person he wanted to see was on this train.

The train was approaching at a frightening speed. César decisively abandoned the Stein heavy machine, threw himself on the train, and grabbed an exposed pipe.

His heartbeat quickened, and unprecedented strength was surging from his body. This experience was quite amazing for him, who was born with poor physical fitness. But he also knew that this was just an illusion, and his physical fitness was still too poor compared to ordinary people.

His basics were so poor that his strength didn't increase much, but it was enough for him to complete these extreme moves.

César put his ear close to the car body and was surprised by the roar inside the car. The whole train seemed to shake, as if a demon was running wildly inside, and he knew that was the person he was looking for.

At the same time, the uncomfortable feeling he felt was coming from the deepest part of the train.

(End of this chapter)