Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 482: Eye of Kuimen
"It's classmate Lu." Lu Mingfei corrected and couldn't help covering his face.

"Yes, it's classmate Lu."

It was no coincidence that he met Professor Guderian on the plane. The professor came all the way from the other side of the ocean thousands of miles away to China, and he came to the foggy city with him, most likely because of this mission. Maybe Norma arranged for them to take the same flight on purpose.

Although Lu Mingfei still doesn't know the specific content of this mission, the professor sent by the academy to support him is Guderian. Maybe this is good news for Lu Mingfei?
After all, among the faculty and staff of Kassel Academy, which were mostly combat maniacs, Guderian was one of the few scholars. He was mainly responsible for academic research and had hardly ever participated in any dangerous missions.

Hearing the conversation between Guderian and Lu Mingfei, Mans, Jiude Aki and Ye Sheng, who had just sat in the passenger seat, looked at each other at the same time. Jiude Aki, who was sitting between the two, asked first:
"Professor Guderian...you know Junior Brother Lu?"

"I don't know him. It's just that we were on the same flight just now and I saw him on the plane." Lu Mingfei replied before Professor Guderian.

Aki Sakutoku nodded and said, "It was Professor Mans who asked Norma to book you and Professor Guderian on the same flight. This way it will be more convenient for us to pick you up together."

"Student Lu, are you also a student of Kassel College?" Professor Guderian said with curiosity, "But I don't think I've seen you in the Dragon Genealogy class I teach."

"Junior Brother Lu is currently in high school and is a student in the college's preparatory class. He hasn't officially enrolled yet." Jude Aki explained.

"Can students in the preparatory class now also participate in the missions of the executive department?"

Guderian muttered, and suddenly seemed to remember something: "Wait a minute... Could it be that the genius Lu Mingfei you mentioned who took only two weeks to decipher the dragon text is him?
"Yes, it's Junior Brother Lu." Ye Sheng said.

To be precise, I directly asked a Dragon King to translate for me... Lu Mingfei said silently in his heart.

However, it has been a long time since I heard Professor Guderian call himself a genius. It feels like I have returned to the time when I was studying at Kassel Academy.

Professor Guderian's eyes lit up and he scratched his head happily. If he hadn't considered that there was a drunkard between him and Lu Mingfei, he would have stepped forward and grabbed Lu Mingfei's hand without hesitation.

Mans noticed Guderian's excitement and spoke before he could do anything out of line: "Let's wait for the reminiscence. You are all wet, go back to the hotel to rest and change clothes."

Professor Mans released the handbrake, and the push back along with the roar of the engine cut through the misty rain curtain. The rain curtain outside the window was all yellow taxis and merged into the airport highway with them.

Jiude Aki considerately took out a tissue box from the side and handed it to Lu Mingfei and Professor Guderian, asking them to wipe the places that were wet by the rain outside the airport.

"Let me introduce you to each other first."

After the two of them dried their clothes, Jiude Aki spoke again, facing the direction of Professor Guderian, and spread her hands towards Professor Lu Mingfei with her palms facing up, just like the actions that the two-dimensional girls Lu Mingfei had seen in anime would do:
"This is Junior Brother Lu Mingfei, a prospective freshman in the Imperial Capital Preparatory Class of Kassel College. Although he has not officially enrolled in the preparatory class, Norma has backed up his student file, so he is already a member of Kassel College."

“I know, I know.” Professor Guderian nodded excitedly and addressed Lu Mingfei by name in a familiar manner. “I have repeatedly read the dragon script that Mingfei deciphered many times and benefited a lot from it. It is a genius idea to understand the dragon script from that perspective! I must write a paper after I go back…”

"Okay, Professor Guderian, let's talk about this when we get back."

Before Guderian finished speaking, Jiude Aki interrupted him in time, turned around and stuck out his tongue at Lu Mingfei, with a helpless expression on his face:
"Brother Lu, don't be surprised. Professor Guderian is just like that. Once he starts talking, he will talk endlessly. But don't be fooled by his behavior. He is actually an expert in dragon language and dragon history. Because this mission also involves the study of dragon language, Norma specially assigned Professor Guderian to support our work."

"Hello, Professor."

Lu Mingfei greeted him politely. Although he was very familiar with his future mentor, in the current timeline, he and Professor Guderian did not know each other yet, so he could only pretend that they were meeting for the first time.

"Okay, the unnecessary self-introduction session is over. From now on, we are a team." Mans, who was driving, said without turning his head: "I hope our cooperation will be as pleasant as the one in Portugal."

"Portugal?" Guderian asked doubtfully.

"It's not important, don't worry about it." Mans said, "Ye Sheng, give them the things."

Ye Sheng nodded, took out two brown paper document bags from the co-pilot's storage compartment, turned around and handed them to Lu Mingfei and Guderian respectively.

It was raining heavily outside and the sky was dark. Mans turned on the ceiling light in the car for them. With the help of the light from the ceiling light, Lu Mingfei saw the red seal "S" on the seal of the file bag, which meant that the files inside were highly confidential, second only to the "SS" level of the academy's highest confidentiality level.

Although he knew that Ye Sheng took the initiative to hand him the file, which should be for him to open and read, but out of caution, Lu Mingfei still asked Yaji again: "Can I open it?"

"can."

After receiving a positive reply, Lu Mingfei unsealed the document bag. The contents of the document bag were not very rich, only a photo, a memory chip and a dragon text with a translation.

The Dragon Script was the one that Lu Mingfei had asked Xia Mi to help translate before. It recorded Liu Xiu's deeds of defeating the King of Bronze and Fire, and there was not much to read.

What attracted Lu Mingfei's attention was the photo. The whole photo was blue, as if it was taken underwater in very dim ambient light. It was almost impossible to make out what was in the photo. One could only vaguely make out a door-like outline.

"The photo in your hands was taken by a senior cave diving enthusiast from China in a cave under the Kuimen water body. People in the circle call this cave the Eye of Kuimen. Looking up from the cave, the bright cave entrance is like an eye staring at the people in the cave."

At this time, Ye Sheng, who was sitting in the passenger seat, began to speak in a voice that was neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for everyone in the car to hear clearly.

"About half a year ago, this cave diving enthusiast rented a research vessel and came to Kuimen with several other senior cave diving enthusiasts, intending to challenge his deepest cave diving record. Last time he dived to a depth of 172 meters. This time he plans to dive to at least 180 meters and make an attack at a depth of 190 meters." "For this cave diving, they made sufficient preparations and chose a sunny day to come to Kuimen. At the beginning, the cave diving went smoothly. They dived along the guide ropes that had been laid out before, and reached the depth target of 15 meters after 100 minutes. After staying for 30 seconds, one of the three people stayed here with a supply of oxygen bottles as originally planned to provide support, and the other two continued to dive."

"But when floating down to 160 meters, the accident happened. The cave diver's companion suddenly found that his guide rope was lost, and the worst thing was that the oxygen tank also reached the bottom at the same time. They had replaced the oxygen tank once at 120 meters, and the oxygen consumption should not be so fast."

"The situation was critical, so the cave diver decided to share an oxygen tank with his companions. However, the underwater terrain of the 'Eye of Kuimen' is very complex, with many small caves. Without the guide rope, they lost their direction underwater and were pushed uncontrollably by the current into a cave. They soon fell into a semi-dizzy state due to the fluctuating air pressure."

"Just when he thought he was doomed, he suddenly saw a door open in front of him. The light from the door instantly brought him back to consciousness. When he looked up, he suddenly saw the guide rope they had lost not far in front of them, so he immediately swam towards the guide rope with his companions."

"While swimming upwards, we happened to meet our companions who were waiting 100 meters away and also dived down. It turned out that their companions saw that they had only changed three oxygen cylinders and realized that one of them might have forgotten to change the oxygen cylinder, so they immediately dived down to help them. In the end, all three of them escaped from the Eye of Kuimen without any danger."

Ye Sheng paused after he finished speaking, then slowly said, "The photo in your hands was taken by the underwater recorder that the cave diver carried with him. It is suspected to be the door that the person said he saw while he was unconscious."

"You can't tell anything from this photo alone."

Guderian scratched his head. "I also played diving when I was young. Water is a skilled craftsman of nature. There are all kinds of strange-shaped reefs under the water. I picked up a heart-shaped stone in the Blue Hole of Saipan and gave it to my wife as a proposal gift. Maybe this is a very ordinary underwater reef, but it happens to be shaped like a door."

"You're right. So we asked Norma to use technology to enlarge the photo and at the same time increase the exposure as much as possible while retaining the details, and then we got another photo."

Mans looked at Ye Sheng, who nodded and took out two photos and handed them to Lu Mingfei and Guderian. Lu Mingfei took the photos and was stunned.

Guderian next to him murmured: "This is..."

"Yes." Mans said, "The door leaf in the photo is engraved with an inscription that looks like 'Dragon Script'. And the content of the inscription coincides with part of the content of the Dragon Script you translated earlier. Guderian, do you still think this is a coincidence?"

"Okay, I take that back," Guderian said. "This memory chip contains the contents of this mission, right? Do you have a walkman or a tape recorder with you?"

"I brought a notebook." Yaji took out a laptop from the backpack behind him, "Brother Lu, please pass me the chip in your hand."

Lu Mingfei handed the memory card to Yaji, and Yaji inserted the black chip into the card reader slot of the notebook. A few seconds later, Norma's voice came from the speaker of the notebook.

"Lu Mingfei, your mission this time is to investigate the 'Eye of Kuimen' cave. The 'Kuimen Cave' is located in the Three Gorges Basin. In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu fought with the King of Bronze and Fire in the Baidi City area and eventually defeated the King of Bronze and Fire Li Xiong.

According to records, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu once sent people to salvage the remains of the King of Bronze and Fire near Kuimen. It is said that they discovered the hiding place of the King of Bronze and Fire, but the matter was left unresolved.

The door in the photo of the 'Eye of Kuimen' is engraved with dragon characters related to the incident, so the academy suspects that there are dragon-related relics in the 'Eye of Kuimen'. This action is led by the academy, and 'Lord Wa' will cooperate with your actions. The chip will be automatically formatted in three seconds, good luck. "

Hearing the cold and pleasant female voice suddenly disappear, Lu Mingfei counted to three in his mind. Three seconds later, the words "Memory card cannot be recognized" appeared on the notebook.

Yaji pulled out the chip, gently broke it and threw it into the file bag in Lu Mingfei's hand. Guderian followed suit and tried to break it for a long time but found that he couldn't break the memory card. In the end, Yaji saw what Guderian did and smiled and helped him break it.

"This is the content of our mission this time. Have you remembered it?" Mans asked.

Lu Mingfei raised his hand: "I have a question."

"ask."

"'Lord Wa' is..."

"It's a local mixed-race family in China. It's not under the jurisdiction of the academy, but it has a cooperative relationship with the academy. It's of the same nature as the Temple of Solomon. In fact, the photo of the 'Eye of Kuimen' was provided to us by 'Lord Wa'." Mans explained.

Lu Mingfei nodded thoughtfully, but he was a little surprised. In his previous life, he had never heard of the existence of "Lord Wa". This was the first time he heard of this name. In the 21st century, there were still aristocratic families?
But think about it, which of the directors of Kassel College is not from a mixed-blood family? The Gattuso family, the Gottingen family, and the little girl are also half of the Valentine family. It is normal for China to have mixed-blood families.

Even his old Lu family is a mixed-blood family. The ancestor of the family, Lu Shanyan, is the core of the secret party, the first generation of the Lionheart Society, and the deputy of the great Lin Zexu! In Lu Mingfei's generation, including his father Lu Lincheng, there are two S-level bloodlines. You know, there are only two S-levels in the entire Kassel Academy!

The car smashed the dense raindrops, and the wipers swayed left and right. In the hazy rain and fog, the brightly lit city suddenly appeared.

The destination of their journey - the fog revealed his outline in the mist.

Guderian then withdrew his gaze from the window and raised his hand: "I also have a question. Why doesn't 'Lord Wa' investigate the dragon ruins under the 'Eye of Kuimen' herself? As far as I know, 'Lord Wa' has always been unfriendly to Kassel College."

"I have asked this question before. This is what 'Lord Wa' answered -"

"In front of dragons, humans always have only one stance."

……

(End of this chapter)