Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 483 The reception banquet

In the overwhelming rain, the black Land Rover Range Rover circled down a road that was not sure whether it was a mountain path or a road, and stopped at the Regent Hotel.

The Regent Hotel is an international hotel chain. Although Lu Mingfei felt it was a bit of a coincidence that they were staying at the Regent Hotel for this mission, he was not too surprised.

Waiters wearing white gloves hurriedly opened umbrellas and ran down the steps, bending over to open car doors for guests who arrived in the heavy rain, and shielding the upper edge of the doors with their hands to prevent the guests from accidentally hitting their heads.

Mans refused the waiter's offer to help park the car, lowered the passenger window and stuck his head out, and told Ye Sheng: "I'll go park the car first. Ye Sheng Yaji, take Lu Mingfei and Professor Guderian back to their room."

After Ye Sheng replied "yes", Mance rolled up the car window and drove away in the Land Rover.

The hotel's elevator took off. In the sightseeing elevator, Lu Mingfei looked at the business district that was gradually shrinking in his field of vision. The outlines of the buildings were looming in the rain and fog, like a meticulous painting on a blank piece of celadon.

Ye Sheng smiled with his back to Lu Mingfei: "It must be tiring to travel such a long distance. Professor and Junior Brother Lu can take a rest and recover after returning to the room. Today is only the first day, so there is no need to push yourself so hard. There are many delicious foods in Fog City. It's a rare trip here, so Professor and Junior Brother Lu can go and try some."

"Delicious?" Professor Guderian's eyes lit up. "Is there such a thing as a food stall? I heard about it on the news."

"As for food stalls...it seems that they are usually only open at night?" Ye Sheng was stunned. "That's a place for midnight snacks. But if you want to go, we can accompany you at night."

"A food stall?" Yaji next to him suddenly said, "Ye Sheng, you can just go with your junior brother and the professor. Selma and I won't go."

"Why? Didn't you and Selma keep asking me and Professor Mans to accompany you to the night market a few nights ago?" Ye Sheng asked curiously.

"Well, maybe it's because of the jet lag. Selma and I haven't slept well these past two days. The mission is about to begin, so we're going to go to bed early tonight." Aki said seriously.

Lu Mingfei, who was standing behind the two of them, looked at Aki's profile, which had a little more baby fat than the last time they met, and thought that this might not be the reason why Senior Sister didn't go to the food stall?
I guess it’s because the food in Fog City is too delicious. The two sisters had midnight snacks every night in the past few nights and lost their self-control, so…

The elevator stopped at the hotel's executive floor. Ye Sheng and Yaji took Lu Mingfei and Professor Guderian through the corridor to the end of the executive floor.

Of course, the standard equipment for executive specialists starts at the presidential suite, and Lu Mingfei is of course no longer surprised by this.

It seemed that for the sake of convenience, the suite next to Lu Mingfei was Guderian's. Ye Sheng, Professor Mans, Jiude Aki, and Selma's suites were also on the same side as Lu Mingfei and his friends.

Lu Mingfei walked into his suite carrying a suitcase and a backpack. He smiled and waved to Aki Shude who said, "See you tonight, junior brother." Then the heavy metal door closed, and the sound of the lock tongue biting shut was heard.

Lu Mingfei lay on his back on the big bed in the suite, looking at the exquisitely shaped and intricately patterned chandelier on the ceiling, and sighed.

"'The Eye of Kuimen'..."

Lu Mingfei stared at the chandelier and muttered to himself.

He still remembered that in his previous life, when Professor Mans and his team were exploring the Bronze City underwater, the mission codename was "Kuimen Project". And the underwater cave they were about to explore was called "Kuimen Eye".

Lu Mingfei was no longer a rookie, and his experience in carrying out missions might be much richer than Ye Shengyaji and the others. He guessed that the two similar names were probably not a coincidence.

This time, the mission of exploring the "Eye of Kuimen" is probably a prerequisite for the subsequent Three Gorges Bronze City.

However, this sudden appearance of "Lord Wa" was completely beyond Lu Mingfei's expectations.

This world must be really big. Even the world of mixed-bloods is not small. What he has come into contact with may be just a glimpse of the truth of the whole world.

The mixed-blood forces in Europe, the ancient mixed-blood families in China, they are all hiding in the shadows of the past...

For example, it was because of the information about the "Eye of Kuimen" provided by Lord Wa that Professor Mans and his team were able to carry out the mission of exploring the "Eye of Kuimen" this time.

Perhaps it was because something was discovered during this "Eye of Kuimen" mission that led to the subsequent "Kuimen Plan" to infiltrate the Three Gorges Bronze City.

It's like a big world game with a dark map. When you fumble your way from the beginning to the end for the first time, you think you have completed the whole game and look back happily.

At this time, you realize that you don't really know the true appearance of this world. You just think you have walked all the roads.

But for the whole world, you don’t know much more than you who knew nothing at the beginning.

“What’s there to think about?” Lu Mingfei shrugged and said to himself, “Since we’re here… let’s just let it be.”

Who knows why God made him reincarnate again, but since he was able to learn some things he had never known before, Lu Mingfei felt that this mission was not in vain. At least he gained something.

Lu Mingfei looked at his watch, the time was three o'clock. Yaji had just told him that they would meet again at dinner time, if they had dinner at six o'clock, there would still be three hours.

"It's so sticky and uncomfortable, let's take a bath first."

Lu Mingfei jumped up from the bed, turned the suitcase over to the floor, opened it, took out the clothes that Xia Mi had prepared for him, and walked into the bathroom humming a song while wearing a bath towel. The sound of water running in the bathtub could be heard.

……

At exactly six o'clock in the evening, there was a knock on Lu Mingfei's door.

When I opened the door, as expected, it was Aki Sakutoku standing outside.

Aki Sakutoku was wearing a very Japanese-style cream-white cardigan, with a loose cut that fluttered in the wind. She wore a corduroy vest dress underneath the cardigan, the hem of the dress didn't reach her knees, and a hairpin pinned her hair by her ears into a playful arc. She was waving at him from outside the door, with one hand behind her back.

"You have good taste in clothes, Junior Brother."

Yaji glanced at Lu Mingfei and nodded approvingly, "Professor Mans asked me to call you to dinner."

Lu Mingfei looked down at himself and said, "My girlfriend helped me put it together."

"The little girl from Valentine's family?"

"Um……"

Lu Mingfei said "hmm" ambiguously.

Of course, the fact that he has several girlfriends cannot be exposed in front of Jude Aki and the others. After all, looking at Professor Mance's appearance, he is probably close to the little girl's mother and the Valentine family. If they knew that he was playing with several women and letting the little girl and other girls serve one man, who knows what would happen. After all, the Valentine family is one of the seven school board families of Kassel College.

Lu Mingfei put on his shoes and walked out of the room. After Lu Mingfei closed the door, Jiude Aki walked in front to lead the way.

Seeing Jiude Aki passing directly by the door of Guderian's room, Lu Mingfei asked curiously: "Don't we need to call Professor Guderian?"

"Oh." Yaji replied, "Professor Guderian went to the restaurant with Ye Sheng an hour ago. The professor said that the airplane meal was not tasty and he had been hungry for a whole day. He also asked Norma not to book a flight with this airline next time."

Hmm...how should I put it, should I say that he is worthy of being his off-the-wall mentor?
The elevator descended to the executive lounge level. The moment the elevator door opened, soothing symphony music flowed into the restaurant.

Lu Mingfei followed Jiude Aki out of the elevator and his eyes quickly found Professor Guderian, Professor Mans, Ye Sheng, Selma and others sitting around a dining table next to the floor-to-ceiling window.

On one side of the square dining table sat Professor Mans, Professor Guderian and Ye Sheng. There was an empty seat between Ye Sheng and Professor Guderian, which seemed to be reserved for Lu Mingfei.

On the other side, sitting opposite Professor Mans was a strange woman whom Lu Mingfei had never seen before.

Or is it more accurate to call her a girl? Because she doesn't look too old, in her early twenties, with a typical oriental face, wearing a pair of frameless glasses, a pair of peach blossom eyes that look quite charming, but with a rather cold expression, with a depth and calmness that doesn't match her age, like a deep well into which you can throw a boulder without seeing a splash. Lu Mingfei always felt that this look was familiar.

Thelma, a Latina girl, sat next to the woman.

"This way."

Seeing Lu Mingfei and the others coming, Professor Mans, who was sitting in the seat at the edge, waved at them from a distance.

Lu Mingfei followed behind Jiude Aki, and Ye Sheng thoughtfully pulled out the chair next to him, letting Lu Mingfei sit between Professor Guderian and him. The Latin beauty Selma, who was sitting opposite him, immediately smiled politely at Lu Mingfei.

"Hi, long time no see." Selma greeted.

Lu Mingfei politely greeted him, “Long time no see, Senior Sister.”

I have to say that the seats they chose were very good. The view from the double-sided floor-to-ceiling windows was as if you were behind the clouds, with a panoramic view of the night scene of the neon lights of the two rivers.

But for some reason, Lu Mingfei seemed to feel that the strange woman sitting opposite Professor Mans seemed to be staring at him. It was hard to tell whether her eyes were kind or malicious. Or was she just looking at him?
"..."

Lu Mingfei remained calm and pretended not to notice the woman's gaze.

The visitor is not good.

Oh, so I'm the one who came? That's fine.

Perhaps she noticed something. After a moment, the woman's eyes silently moved away from Lu Mingfei and turned to look at Professor Mans opposite her. She smiled and said, "Is this your new student, Professor Mans? Don't you want to introduce him to her?"

"Haha, I also hope he can be my student, but the principal seems to think that I already have enough outstanding students and wants me to leave him to other professors."

Professor Mans smiled heartily and continued to introduce:

"Aki has met you before. He is the last member of our mission team and I specifically asked the principal for him. Lu Mingfei. He is currently only a student in the preparatory class of Kassel Academy and has not yet officially enrolled. Although he is young, he already has the ability to be independent in the mission. The principal rated his bloodline as 'S'."

When she heard Professor Mans say the first half of the sentence, the woman's expression was just her usual polite smile. It was not until she heard Professor Mans say that Lu Mingfei's "bloodline rating is 'S'" that the woman's delicate eyebrows moved imperceptibly.

"S-level bloodline? The last time Kassel Academy had a student with S-level bloodline was several decades ago, right?" the woman asked Mance.

"Yes. So you know why I feel sorry for not being Mingfei's mentor?"

Professor Mans sighed and smiled, then turned to look at Lu Mingfei: "This is Miss Zhou Li Zhou, a member of the mixed-race Zhou family in China, and the spokesperson for 'Lord Wa'. Her every word and action represents the will of 'Lord Wa'. For this survey mission, Miss Zhou will be in charge of the connection between 'Lord Wa' and us."

Zhou family?

Lu Mingfei was curious about the relationship between the Zhou family and Wazhu. Professor Mans said that this young lady named Zhou Li was the spokesperson for Wazhu. So, did that mean Wazhu was also a member of the Zhou family? Or were they just partners?

Although he was somewhat confused, Lu Mingfei reacted immediately and looked at Zhou Li and nodded in greeting. After all, he had been trained as Caesar's successor in the Student Union, so he still had some social etiquette.

"Hello...Miss Zhou?" Lu Mingfei said hesitantly.

This name always feels a bit weird when it is spoken, but Lu Mingfei doesn't know what to call the other person more appropriately.

Zhou Li shrugged and shook his head: "Professor Mans likes to use this kind of social etiquette to address me. Mingfei, you don't need to learn his bad habit. It makes our relationship seem like a distant one."

"That……"

Zhou Li smiled faintly: "I also studied at Kassel College for a year when I was in college, so I should be considered half of your senior sister. Or you can call me Doctor Zhou, my main job now is a doctor."

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and suddenly understood why he felt that the look in Senior Sister Zhou Lizhou's eyes seemed familiar. Isn't this kind of young, indifferent, yet caring and compassionate look like the look of a doctor looking at a patient?

Lu Mingfei couldn't help but imagine Sister Zhou in front of him, dressed in a white coat with a stethoscope around her neck, and wearing a pair of slightly mature frameless glasses. She looked so perfect... She must be one of the hardest to get a specialist appointment in the entire hospital.

“Hello, Senior Sister Zhou!” Lu Mingfei immediately changed her address.

"Hello, Junior Brother Lu." Zhou Li said, "Junior Brother Lu, if you need anything, you can come to the hospital to see me. I won't charge you for the diagnosis fee."

Lu Mingfei thought, forget it, it's better to go to the hospital as little as possible. But he was indeed curious about what kind of department this Senior Sister Zhou specialized in. Since she was a member of a local mixed-race family, maybe she studied Chinese medicine?

"What department is Senior Sister Zhou a doctor in?" Lu Mingfei asked.

Zhou Li rolled his glasses and said with a smile, "Psychiatry."

……

(End of this chapter)