Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 497 Aki's Abnormal Emotions

"Come to think of it, these patterns on the wall look quite exquisite. I didn't expect that ancient people already had the technology to build such complex buildings underwater."

Aki Shude swept the wall inch by inch with the light of his flashlight, and sighed as he looked at the intricate patterns on the wall.

"I suggest you not to look at the patterns on the wall. Those are dragon characters. If you continue to look at them, you may resonate with the dragon characters and have clairvoyance," said Ling.

"Junior Sister Ling, you said those are dragon characters on the wall?"

Shude Aki raised her head, and the complex patterns illuminated by the flashlight kept coming into her sight, reminding her of the scenes she had seen when she had "clairvoyance" in the 3E exam.

If she hadn't been afraid of experiencing clairvoyance and hallucinations from continuously reading the dragon characters as she had told Ling, she might have been unable to help but want to imprint more impressions of these ancient characters in her mind.

"Ye Sheng, did you bring your portable camera? We need to quickly back it up, these are unexpected gains! Such a huge amount of dragon text information is a great discovery!"

Ling shook his head: "The portable camera can't take a clear picture. The light in here is too dim."

Shude Aki took the camera that Ye Sheng took out of the diving bag and took pictures of the wall.

However, after seeing the image on the camera screen, Shude Aki immediately showed an expression of disappointment on his face.

As Zero said, the picture taken by the portable camera without flash was just a dark mass. And if a high-lumen flashlight was used to shine on the wall and take a picture, the halo in the picture was too obvious, and the light reflected from the silver wall made it impossible to see the inscriptions on it clearly.

"We can only wait until we get out this time and come back with more professional equipment to collect materials." Ye Sheng said helplessly, turning to look at Ling: "We have been walking for about an hour. Junior sister, how long will it take us to leave here?"

"Not necessarily." Zero said.

"Not necessarily?" Ye Sheng frowned.

"I have only explored this mausoleum a few times. But every time I come in, the passage inside the mausoleum is different."

Ling looked at Ye Sheng expressionlessly: "Just now, when Lu Mingfei and I were looking for the exit, halfway through the journey, the passages and walls inside the mausoleum suddenly moved on their own, rearranging themselves into a new path. Not long after, we met you inside the mausoleum. So I speculate that there may be some rules in this mausoleum. Every time the entrance door is opened, the path inside the mausoleum will be randomly shuffled and reorganized."

"I see." Ye Sheng nodded: "Then how do you know which way to go, Junior Sister?"

"That's it..."

At the end of the team in the dark corridor, Selma looked at Jiude Aki, Ye Sheng and Ling who were walking in the front of the team and talking. She put her hands behind her back and slowly approached Lu Mingfei, and asked in a low voice:
"Hey, Junior Brother Lu, are you familiar with Ling?"

Lu Mingfei was stunned: "Senior Sister, why do you say that?"

"How should I put it? Junior Sister Ling looks quite young, but she knows a lot..."

Lu Mingfei followed Selma's gaze and looked over. Ling, who was standing at the front of the team, was explaining to Aki how she used the five elements in Chinese Feng Shui to deduce where the entrance and exit of the mausoleum was. Gold generates water, so the direction of gold is the way of life, and water restrains fire, so the direction of fire is the way of death...

With that childish face and petite body, she really does look like a little adult.

Lu Mingfei felt that the reason Selma asked him this was probably because she had not completely eliminated her vigilance against Zero.

After all, reality is not a JRPG game. You can't just drop in a high-combat loli female character and say a few words, and everyone can safely let her join the team.

After all, Senior Sister Selma is also a specialist in the executive department of Kassel Academy and has received professional training from the academy. I heard that her Word Spirit is the brain-boosting "Word Spirit·Difference", a lower-level Word Spirit of the "Word Spirit·Evolution", and she plays a think tank role in Professor Mans' team.

It's normal for her to remain wary of Zero for so long.

Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment, and then spoke to dispel Selma's doubts: "I'm quite familiar with Ling."

Selma said "Oh" softly and continued to ask, "Have you known each other for a long time?"

"Well... about four or five years?" Lu Mingfei answered without blushing or beating his heart. He didn't lie. If you count the last life, they have known each other for about four or five years.

"Four or five years? I remember that Junior Brother Lu, you are only in the first year of high school this year. In other words, you have known Junior Sister Ling since elementary school, longer than you have known the girl from the Valentine family?"

Selma widened her big gypsy eyes, and an expression flashed across her face like an old lady at the village entrance who had heard some new gossip. Her eyes seemed to glow with excitement: "...So Junior Brother Lu, you and Junior Sister Ling were childhood sweethearts?!"

"?"

Lu Mingfei was stunned, his eyes fixed on Selma's pretty face which was full of "I want to eat melon, let me eat melon", and he wondered how on earth did you come to this conclusion, senior sister.

Selma tilted her head and said to herself, "But you and Zero have known each other for such a long time, but you two haven't been together. Could it be that you, Junior Brother, like girls with better figures instead of cuter girls? Yes, after all, Junior Brother, you are also a man. Girls with cute figures always make people feel like they are taking care of children..."

Senior sister, if my junior sister heard what you said, I might not be able to protect you...

"But speaking of which, Junior Brother, your aesthetic preferences seem to be all foreign girls? Zero is the same, and the little girl from the Valentine family can also be considered a half-foreign girl."

This is a complete misunderstanding! Among the four girls in my family, three are native Chinese girls, okay? Uh... No, does Junior Sister count?
Looking at Selma who was talking to herself, Lu Mingfei tried hard to suppress his urge to complain, wondering if he had overestimated the level of this senior sister.

What is "Word Spirit Difference"? What is "the think tank role in Professor Mance's team"?
This senior sister is just a love gossip brain, okay? !
The reason why she asked him about Zero was obviously not because she was still wary of Zero, but because she simply wanted to hear gossip!

Lu Mingfei finally suppressed the burning desire to complain in his heart.

At this time, Selma next to him asked another deafening question: "Hey. Is Aki considered a foreign girl? She should be considered a foreign girl in terms of nationality, but her appearance is similar to that of Chinese girls..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Selma let out a lovely "Ah" and her forehead bumped into the back of Ye Sheng who was walking in front of her.

Lu Mingfei almost didn't pay attention and bumped into Zhou Li in front of him.

"Are you okay?" Ye Sheng turned around and asked Selma.

"It's okay." Selma said with a smile, rubbing her head and waving her hands.

Looking up, she realized that the team had just come to a forked intersection, so they stopped. She was so focused on Lu Mingfei's gossip that she didn't even look at the road.

But the next moment, she regretted looking up, because her eyes met the gaze of Shude Aki.

Selma grinned and broke the silence first, forcing a smile on her face: "A, Aki, what's wrong?" Jiude Aki glanced at Selma indifferently: "You are also a foreign girl, and your figure is better than mine."

"..."

Selma's heart skipped a beat, and she thought that Aki must have heard the jokes she made behind her back.

But what happened to Aki today? This is the first time I saw Aki with such a scary look in her eyes. Normally, it’s okay to make some jokes with her... Could it be that thing has come?

Selma felt that Aki was different today. Aki actually felt the same way.

As soon as she said that to Selma, she actually felt a little regretful, thinking that what she said seemed a little too harsh.

Having been with Selma for a long time, she also knew that Selma was actually like this. She had no ill intentions. It was just that Latin girls were naturally passionate and unrestrained, which was different from the reserved East Asian girls.

They are girls who grew up on the streets, girls who grew up dancing, they like passion, yearn for love, and express their feelings between men and women more directly.

Normally, Aki didn’t mind some of Selma’s jokes...but she always felt that she seemed to be particularly angry today.

He obviously didn’t come today…Aki muttered to herself.

To be more precise, after entering the silver tomb, she felt a little uncomfortable.

Before entering this underwater ruins, her state of mind was still the same as usual, peaceful.

She has always been this kind of girl, rarely being swayed by external emotions. She can always stay calm no matter what situation she is in, which is why she can become one of the best underwater mission specialists in the Executive Department.

Principal Ange once commented on her, saying that her heart was like the water in a very deep ancient well. No matter how much trouble there was outside the well, it could not affect the water surface in the deep well.

Even though it was concerned about Lu Mingfei's safety today, this ancient well only showed a slight sense of nervousness and panic, just like a light rain that happened to fall, and the tiny raindrops created a few shallow ripples on the water, nothing more.

But after reuniting with Lu Mingfei, he was no longer worried about Lu Mingfei's safety, but he felt even more depressed. It was like someone suddenly threw a big rock into the deep well, and with a "pop" sound, a large splash of water was created at the bottom of the well, and it didn't subside for a long time.

Jiude Aki shifted his gaze away from Selma and subconsciously looked at Lu Mingfei beside him.

At this moment, Lu Mingfei suddenly raised his head.

A second of stunned silence.

Shude Aki turned around and looked away calmly.

However, Ling beside her kept his eyes on Lu Mingfei and met Lu Mingfei's gaze.

"..."

For some reason, Lu Mingfei felt that Ling’s emotionless eyes seemed even colder than usual... ?
Those words just now were said by Senior Sister Selma! I didn't say anything!
Aki Sakutoku used a flashlight to shine through the forked roads in front of him one by one. Each road was bottomless, and the light from the flashlight shone into it, only focusing into a spot of light far away. This kind of place would be perfect for shooting horror movies or tomb-robbing movies.

"Another fork in the road... but there's no way to the left?" Aki Sakutoku looked at Zero: "Which way should we go this time?"

Ling's calm eyes swept along the forked road one by one. After a moment of silence, he asked, "How long did we walk just now?"

Ye Sheng took out a timing device from his backpack and said, "Well, just like the last fork in the road, this one took about twenty minutes."

Ling lowered her head, as if this answer was not unexpected to her.

"Well, we've been walking for about an hour. How about we take a break here?"

"Is it necessary to rest?" Selma asked, "We are not tired yet, so it is better to leave here as soon as possible?"

"It's okay, Selma."

Aki Sakude, who was already sitting on the ground in a standard kneeling position, raised his head and smiled at Selma, still thinking about the harsh words he had just said to Selma. "It's important to hurry on, but sometimes it's also important to take a break. It's okay to sit for a while. Let's sit together?"

Selma's eyes lit up and she sat cross-legged next to Aki Sakude: "Okay, okay."

"By the way, I was a little harsh with you just now, I'm sorry. I don't know why, but I seem to be a little off today..."

"It's okay, it's okay. I didn't take it to heart. I should be the one to apologize. I didn't consider your feelings when I was joking..."

Ling looked away from Aki and Selma, who were sitting close together, and turned to look at Ye Sheng and asked, "Brother, do you have any water in your backpack?"

Ye Sheng nodded: "Yes, just one bottle per person."

Ye Sheng took out some purified water from his backpack, walked to Lu Mingfei first, and handed the purified water to Lu Mingfei with a smile: "Junior brother, here you go."

Lu Mingfei thanked him and took it. Ye Sheng walked to the side and handed purified water to Zhou Li, Ye Sheng, Selma and Ling one by one.

Lu Mingfei looked at the handsome autographed photo of his idol Wang Erge on the bottle of purified water in his hand, and wondered whether to say that Senior Brother Ye was considerate or what... It would be fine if he carried such a big diving bag when diving, but there was even purified water in the bag.

Is this the professionalism of an excellent executive department specialist?
But this bottle of water came just in time. He had been under the water for who knows how long without drinking a drop of water, and now he was a little thirsty.

Lu Mingfei had just unscrewed the bottle cap and was about to drink some water when a light and cold figure suddenly sat down next to him and naturally handed the unopened bottle of water in his hand to Lu Mingfei.

"..."

Obviously, he can go in and out of the eight families of Sheqi all by himself, but he still needs to help open the cap of the mineral water bottle...

Lu Mingfei sighed silently in his heart, consciously screwed the bottle cap back on, and handed the opened bottle of purified water to Ling. He took the purified water from Ling's hand and unscrewed it again.

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(End of this chapter)