Lu Mingfei Development Program

Chapter 571 A World Where Only Chen Motong Does Not Exist

Lu Mingfei was silent for a moment, then took out his phone. However, after searching for a long time, he still couldn't find the phone number of the other red-haired girl. All the chat messages with her disappeared along with it, as if he had never met this netizen named "Nono" who used a big-faced cat avatar and was not very good at playing games.

"Are you sure you don't remember that person?" He looked at Uesugi Nanryusei seriously, but the confusion in the latter's eyes didn't seem like some kind of prank. "She is your distant cousin, with red hair and eyes similar to Eri's. She likes people to call her by her nickname Nono, and her personality is a bit strange..."

Uesugi Nanryusei's doubts were not relieved by his explanation. She paused and looked at Lu Mingfei with sudden realization, "They made up a non-existent cousin to observe my reaction, and used a hidden camera to record it for fun. Lord Zero, even I would be angry if I were played a prank like this!"

As she spoke, she turned her head and looked suspiciously among the bouquets of flowers around the dining table, as if trying to find the camera that was planning to record her embarrassing moment.

Lu Mingfei turned his head to look at the equally puzzled Uesugi Wangshu: "What about you? In your opinion, don't you have such a cousin too?"

Sensing the seriousness in Lu Mingfei's tone, Uesugi Nanliusheng thought seriously: "No, I am very sure that we are not cousins. If you want to play a prank, you should choose someone who can convince my sister..."

Lu Mingfei looked at Uesugi Eri, who looked up from the game screen with some worry in her cherry-colored eyes: "Is that girl named Nono someone Sakura has just met? Is she in any trouble?"

"...It's okay, I'll take care of it." Lu Mingfei said softly.

He came to the hotel lobby and asked to check the hotel's surveillance. The Four Seasons Hotel attaches great importance to the privacy of its guests, but places like the lobby and corridors are inevitably covered by surveillance. The hotel learned a little about the background of the three Uesugi sisters and did not dare to neglect these guests from the East.

Lu Mingfei did not agree with Chen Motong's idea of ​​complete disappearance. Everything that exists will leave traces. In today's highly developed information age, it is not easy to completely erase all traces of a person's existence.

But to his surprise, the surveillance showed that the three Uesugi sisters were the only ones who came to the hotel yesterday afternoon. The same was true for the surveillance in the corridor. Until Uesugi Nanryusei came to see him last night, he was the only one using the spa room.

Lu Mingfei let out a long sigh; things seemed to be a little beyond his expectations.

……

Passing through the mottled stone arches of the Ponte Vecchio, bypassing Dante's gaze in front of the bronze gate of the Palazzo Vecchio, in the shadow of the dome cast by the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, lies the secret residence of the Kassel Academy in Florence.

The executive department commissioners jokingly called this place the "Florence Office", but this Renaissance-style building with the Gattuso family emblem hanging on it is far more complicated than an ordinary office.

The red terracotta dome echoes the spire of Santa Maria del Fiore, and the Corinthian colonnades carry the afterglow of the Medici era. Although it is an office, the beauty of this building is not much less than that of the Medici, which is still glorious today.

This is a bank registered under the name of the Gattuso family. The Gattuso family's businesses are all over the world, and Florence in Italy is no exception. Passing through the disguised counter in front, Cassel's base in Florence is behind this building.

“…So, is this some kind of prank?” With her long, dazzling golden hair hanging down, Lucrecia put down the teacup in her hand and silently stared at Lu Mingfei in front of her.

Her answer was almost the same as Uesugi Nanryusei's, and he did not think that the friend she had known for many years really existed. At the same time, the latter also noticed the slight dissatisfaction in her expression.

That's right. As the future legal wife, she didn't know about her future husband's arrival until the day after he returned to Florence and played with other girls. The accumulated dissatisfaction of Miss Gattuso can be seen from the fact that she changed the venue for meeting with Lu Mingfei from her bedroom to the living room.

Lu Mingfei was not surprised by this result, and asked other questions: "How much do you know about the Chen family?"

She revealed very little about Chen Motong's family, and more of a casual remark when they were all dead. Lu Mingfei only knew that the family behind her was a hidden mixed-blood family that was no less large than the Gattuso family.

"The Chen family..." Lucrecia frowned and thought, then slowly shook her head, "I didn't know there was such a mixed-blood family. I'm sure others would give you the same answer."

Lu Mingfei fell silent again. This result was within his expectations. The only member of the Chen family who was active outside was Chen Motong. Now that the latter had disappeared, this secretive family that was originally like a ghost had evaporated from the face of the earth and there was no way to find them.

It is even hard to say whether this family exists.

There was a knock on the door, and Chu Yuyi pushed it open and came in. She looked at Lu Mingfei and nodded, the joy of seeing each other again was expressed without words, and then she led the girl behind her into the living room.

Susie looked at Lu Mingfei with some confusion as he stood up to greet her. After the Florence incident, as an outstanding temporary specialist, she was also sent to Florence and has stayed there until now.

"...I don't have a friend like 'Nono'." Su Si shook her head in confusion, and shook her head in response to Lu Mingfei's other questions. "Before the preparatory class came to Sunan, my roommate was only Yu Yu, no one else."

Lu Mingfei silently looked at the girl who was in great confusion. Last night, Chen Motong was still sighing to him that it was a waste to have a girl like Susie as her friend. But this also indirectly showed the sincerity of their friendship.

But even Susie didn't remember the existence of that girl.

"Really? Thank you for coming here." Lu Mingfei sighed.

Susie, confused, left, and Chu Yuwei went to see her off. Lucrecia stayed in the room, and came behind the silent Lu Mingfei with some concern, reaching out to gently massage her head.

She said softly, "Maybe you've been too tired recently, so you remembered some things wrongly? Maybe that girl doesn't exist. She's just a person you imagined based on the girl named Eri and mixed with other people's impressions."

"Eri seems to be very important to you, so much so that you worry too much about her and create the person called 'Nono'." Lucrecia comforted the boy softly, relaxing her delicate fingers on him.

For her, whose pride was as blazing as the summer sun, admitting that there were other important girls in her future husband's heart was like wearing high heels and trampling hard on her dignity. But looking at her fiancé's silence like stone, she still couldn't bear it.

"...You're not going to send me to a mental hospital funded by the Gattuso family, are you?" Lu Mingfei suddenly said. Lucrecia was stunned for a moment, then laughed out of anger: "Do you think I'm the kind of person who would send her husband to a mental hospital because of his prank?"

"Until now, you still think this is a prank." Lu Mingfei sighed, "This already explains the problem. You should have believed in me, but you doubted me."

"I'm not..." Lucrecia hurriedly explained, but Lu Mingfei held her hand.

He put the girl's hand on his face and kissed it gently, trying to comfort the girl who was flustered by his questioning: "I know that your trust in me is unconditional. But now, you would rather believe that there is something wrong with my brain than believe that Chen Motong really exists."

Lu Mingfei continued, “Some force has distorted your perception, making the perception that ‘Chen Motong does not exist’ take precedence over ‘trust in me’. The sanatorium is just a metaphor, and that force may still make you do something to force me to accept the fact that ‘Chen Motong does not exist’.”

Lucrecia was stunned. Her trust in Lu Mingfei was unconditional, just as he said. But just as he said, until now, she still felt that the existence of "Chen Motong" was just a prank to embarrass herself.

Lu Mingfei hugged the stunned girl, let her sit on his lap, and gently stroked her unusually soft golden hair: "I want to find Chen Motong. Her asking me for help is certainly one of the reasons, but more importantly, I want to solve the culprit who made her disappear."

Now that he thought about it, the conversation last night was probably Chen Motong secretly asking him for help. At this point, he was too lazy to blame the girl for not speaking clearly, saying that if she wanted to ask for help, she should have said it out loud.

The most important reason why Lu Mingfei pursued this matter so relentlessly was that the ability to silently disappear from everyone's memory was too terrifying.

"She was the one who disappeared silently this time, so what about next time?" Lu Mingfei said dimly, "You, Patsy, Senior Sister... If it were you who disappeared, then I think more people might think that I should go to a mental hospital to rest."

"I agree with this issue as well..." The door was pushed open again, and Patsy led Figel in. The latter was holding a laptop and rudely occupied Lucrecia's beloved small table.

The useless senior sister typed on the keyboard for a long time, pushed the display screen in front of Lu Mingfei, and then looked at him proudly: "... But before that, you have to take a look at this."

Lu Mingfei moved closer with a puzzled look on his face. There was a table on the screen, but the contents were all garbled.

"What is this?" Lucrecia, who came over, asked in confusion.

"It's the background of the editing of the Nibelungen Project list." Patsy explained with a smile, "Miss Figel has the editing rights of the Nibelungen Project list... Although she cannot really control the direction of the plan and the selection of personnel, she is still one of the administrators of the list."

"Nibelungen Plan!" Lucrecia's eyes gradually turned unfriendly.

If she remembered correctly, if there was no such plan, she would be Lu Mingfei's legitimate and only wife, his future queen. Instead of now, everything had to be followed by a suffix of "one of"!

Figel glared at the interrupting maid, then looked at Lu Mingfei and explained, "Junior brother, I was asked to look up the school records of a girl called 'Chen Motong'. Whether it's the records of the school's founding a hundred years ago or the list of students to be admitted in the future, there's no such person."

"But!" She tapped the display screen. "I found this unprocessed application form in the application review records of the Nibelungen Project, which turned into a bunch of garbled text."

"If even the student records managed by Norma can be tampered with, then leaving a little tail here is wrong in any way." Chu Yuwei, who had returned, came to Lu Mingfei and said while looking at the form that could not make out anything.

Some invisible force wiped out the records in the supercomputer, deleted a person from everyone's memory, and then left such a small loophole... This makes no sense no matter how you think about it.

In response, Figel just smiled smugly: "You don't know this, right? This application came from the secret channel I left behind. Even Norma and the plan builders don't know about it, let alone interfere. Only I can see and handle it."

Then, she met Lu Mingfei's deep gaze, and her proud voice immediately became stammering: "Junior brother, please don't misunderstand me. I will never use this to make a profit or pay off a debt! I just want to give a chance to those who are obviously not qualified to be on the list but are still stubborn and insist on being on it."

"Are you sure you're not talking about yourself?" Lucrecia asked expressionlessly.

Figel was angry: "Hey, do you know who the first person on the list is... Never mind, let's not talk about this. If it weren't for this record in this passage, I would have suspected that Junior Brother should be sent to a mental hospital to rest. Now it seems that we are the ones who really need to rest."

When Lu Mingfei approached her and asked her to find a person who didn't exist, her first reaction was that the other person should take a rest. But when she found this garbled code, everything changed.

If you want to submit an application through this secret channel, you can only do so through Figel herself. In other words, she personally told a girl about the existence of this channel and waited for the other party to submit an application.

But now, Figel has no idea who she told this passage to, and everyone has forgotten who it is... This mess is really big.

"Can you still repair this data?" Lu Mingfei said to him.

"Junior brother, who do you think I am?" Figel looked at him proudly.

She pressed the Enter key on the keyboard, and the chaotic data in the table began to flash rapidly, gradually turning into characters that could be interpreted. Under Lu Mingfei's calm gaze and the girls' surprised gazes, the electronic photo of the girl in the table was regenerated.

The girl's smile in the photo is not peaceful, it can even be said to be playful. The conspicuous crimson hair is like the fallen leaves in autumn, and the crimson eyes are like the lake covered with fallen leaves in late autumn. It is impossible to tell what kind of emotion is hidden in the depths of those smiling eyes.

"Chen Motong, age: 18; height: 170cm; weight: 49kg..." The detailed information appeared again. The girl who was wiped out by some force appeared in this world again in this way.

(End of this chapter)