Dragon Tribe: Still Thinking Until Now

The people present obviously did not expect Lu Mingfei to ask such a question so blatantly, and by the time they reacted, Ying's expression was clearly hesitant.

"I can't answer this question. You can ask the young master directly after arriving at Genji Heavy Industries," she said.

The look Chu Zihang gave him was clearly unfriendly, and it made Lu Mingfei's scalp tingle.

In fact, before coming to Japan, Lu Mingfei had already had a frank discussion with Xia Mi about the issue of Eri, and it was obvious that he had no intention of giving in on this matter. His junior sister was quite open-minded about this, probably because she was indeed influenced by the values ​​of dragons.

The engine of the black Lexus vibrated slightly, and this luxury car, which was as ferocious as a wild beast even on the track, slid silently into the traffic flow, driving in the light mist in the early morning, passing through the orderly and elegant lead-gray buildings, and heading towards the crystal black towering building like an obelisk at the end of the road.

As the officially designated leader of this action team, Chu Zihang naturally took the co-pilot seat of the Lexus. Caesar was very considerate in this matter and gave Chu Zihang all the face in front of the people from the Japanese branch.

"I said at the beginning that compared to Chu Zihang, you are the one who is more likely to flirt with other girls, right?" Xia Mi sent a grinning expression, "Hey, senior brother, you are chatting and flirting with me so secretly, the head of the Uesugi family will not be angry, right? Unlike my junior sister, I will only feel sorry for you--"

Xia Mi didn't know where she learned the skill of being sarcastic, but she made Lu Mingfei feel very disgusted.

"Don't be angry, Junior Sister. I'll bring you a gift when I return from Japan, and then I'll accompany you to Las Vegas to see the seals."

"Humph, brother, you brag without thinking. Las Vegas is a gambling city and there are no seals there at all." Classmate Xia Mi sent an angry expression.

"Just the two of us?" A few minutes later, Xia Mi sent another message, as if to confirm something. Of course, Lu Mingfei gave a positive answer.

"Then I'll let you off this time, and it won't happen again."

“Don’t worry, junior sister. There won’t be a next time. A gentleman’s word is as good as gold.” Lu Mingfei said solemnly.

"I don't think you are a gentleman, but a pervert."

"What are you talking about..."

"After the mission in Japan is completed, we will take a vacation. I actually want to see this world very much, and I can ask my senior sister to come with me." Xia Mi said.

The corner of Lu Mingfei's eye twitched, "Why do you have to call Senior Sister? Haven't we been in a world of two?" "Lu Mingfei, you are such an idiot." Xia Mi replied, and her tone seemed to imply that she was disappointed in him.

Lu Mingfei blankly typed a string of ellipsis in the chat box, but before he could send it out, he heard Chu Zihang chatting with Ying in the co-pilot seat.

"Before coming to Japan, I did some research on the development of the Snake Family and the Japanese branch in recent decades. The revival of the Snake Family and the rise of the Japanese branch occurred in 1950 after the end of the Pacific War. At that time, Principal Ange integrated the power of the entire Japanese underworld and reshaped the world of hybrids hidden in the dark, led by the Snake Family. But in the 60 years from then to today, there has not been a single dragon revival incident in Japan. Not to mention the powerful second-generation species that have been dormant since ancient times, there is no record of even the little guys after the fourth generation."

Chu Zihang said, "This phenomenon can be called very strange. We are pressing those dragons that crawled out of their graves into coffins all over the world. The academy has to spend billions or even tens of billions of dollars every year to carry out the aftermath. Last year alone, the Executive Department and its various branches paid the price of more than forty lives in order to curb the resurgence of dragons. The remains of dragon civilization and the hatcheries of those ancient species are almost spread over every inch of land, from the Amazon forest in South America to Lake Michigan in North America; from the permafrost in the northernmost part of Siberia to the Congo Basin in Africa. The blood of the Executive Department commissioners and the blood of dragons are shed in every corner."

"Only Japan is peaceful and harmonious. We didn't see any entry about the revival of dragons in the annual report you sent to Norma." Chu Zihang spoke without looking away. His gaze passed through the front windshield and the mist that filled the entire Shinjuku district, and looked directly at the building at the end of the road that was looming in the mist.

Obviously, with Chu Zihang's keen insight, he has realized that the Japanese branch is deliberately hiding some secrets from the headquarters.

Ying's expression didn't change at all. She continued to drive attentively, waiting for Chu Zihang to continue.

"I have also used my S-level authority to review the information of all undergraduate students from Kassel College in Japan in the past thirty years. Their spiritual words cover almost all elements. This is very unusual. The only ethnic group in the world that is capable of doing this is the Chinese, because the four great monarchs have fought each other on Chinese soil." Chu Zihang continued.

"I am very curious about where your bloodline comes from and which dragon king it comes from."

Lu Mingfei and Caesar looked at each other. He did not see any surprise in Caesar's eyes, which meant that they had prepared this set of interrogative rhetoric long ago.

Of course Lu Mingfei knew the truth. The bloodline of the eight Sheqi families originated from the White King, who was the supreme controller of all elements. Naturally, her descendants would have hybrids of any element.

But Caesar and Chu Zihang didn't know, but the fact that they could perceive this keenly was already amazing enough.

"It is recorded in the family documents that in the distant ice age, the world was still ruled by dragons and Japan was still a peninsula connected to the Asian continent. Our ancestors were immigrants who migrated from China to Japan at that time." Ying said this without changing her expression. It was obvious that the eight families of Sheqi had already reached a consensus on their views long ago.

"It's a very reasonable explanation." Chu Zihang nodded and didn't ask any further questions.

In fact, it is not reasonable at all. During the Ice Age, humans were still in the oldest tribal era. The concept of mixed-races had not yet appeared at that time. How could immigrants come here with the genes of the four monarchs?

But they had no intention of finding out the truth here, after all, Sakura was just an assistant.

"This country is not peaceful. The academy has discovered a corrupted hybrid organization that is completely opposed to the Eight Snake Families. The principal hopes that we can investigate that organization." Caesar said to Lu Mingfei in fast Russian.

They investigated Sakura's background. She was a Japanese girl born in the Middle East and only knew Japanese, English, Arabic and Chinese. She had never learned Russian.

There were no eavesdropping devices on the car, and the college and the branch had not fallen out. Norma's power still extended here, and she had eliminated all possibilities of being monitored for them.

"Does the principal have any awesome guesses?" Lu Mingfei also spoke in Russian. Compared to the taciturn Chu Zihang, Caesar and Lu Mingfei's foreign language proficiency was definitely outstanding. What's more, Lu Mingfei often hung out with Ling when he was in the academy, so his proficiency in Russian was probably not inferior to that in Japanese.

"He said that the mixed-race people in Japan are likely direct descendants of the Black King," Caesar said.

"No, we're not," Sakura said in Russian.

Lu Mingfei: “!”

Caesar: “?”

Chu Zihang: "..."

Three-man tactical retreat.

"I received special training at a mercenary camp run by Russians in Siberia, so I know a little Russian. Not many people know about this, and it's not recorded in my file." Ying looked at Lu Mingfei and Caesar through the rearview mirror, "The two commissioners... seem to be very interested in our family's privacy."

“I can’t really say I’m interested, haha…” Lu Mingfei scratched his head, “curiosity, mainly curiosity.”

"The fallen hybrid organization mentioned by Mr. Gattuso was actually originally going to be reported to the headquarters through this year's annual report. That organization calls itself the Fierce Ghost Clan, and can actually be seen as defectors who have separated from the main family. This kind of thing should actually be regarded as our internal struggle, so we have never told Kassel College." Sakura said,

"I don't know much about these things. You can ask Mr. Masamune questions directly later."

Lu Mingfei and Caesar looked at each other and nodded.

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The Lexus drove directly into the underground parking lot of Genji Heavy Industries. A group of men in suits lined the road to welcome them expressionlessly. A red wool carpet was laid on the ground in a dignified manner, and the specialists from the headquarters were led to the VIP elevator.

"This elevator doesn't seem to fit in with the surroundings," Caesar said.

It's too tall, and Genji Heavy Industries' underground parking lot seems a bit short.

"This is because the construction of this building began in 2001 and was completed in 2004. There was actually no plan for this elevator at the beginning, and it was officially installed in 2006. That's why the colors look a bit inconsistent and the height isn't consistent either." Ying said with a smile. Caesar and Chu Zihang didn't think much about it, but Lu Mingfei frowned slightly.

This elevator...

It seems familiar.

"This is the headquarters of Genji Heavy Industries, Ltd., and also the office center of Kassel Academy's Japanese branch in Tokyo. Normally, there are more than 1,500 employees working here." The VIP brought four people to the ground. A girl in a high-slit cheongsam pushing a silver dining cart was already waiting at the door. The dining cart was filled with drinks prepared for the guests, hand-ground coffee or Moët & Chandon champagne, and hot milk.

Lu Mingfei picked up a cup of coffee and smelled the fragrant aroma.

There were many elevator shafts in the lobby on the first floor. All the footsteps were hurried. Everyone was wearing a well-dressed suit. The hurried men or women often held a large number of folders in their arms. The bells at the top of the elevators kept ringing, and more people began to come and go.

Chapter 160 Tachibana Masamune (2)

"Maruyama Construction designed and built this building. It is a property under the name of Mr. Masamune, but it actually has a very long history. It was active in Tokyo hundreds of years ago during the Toyotomi Hideyoshi era and built the Edo Castle." Sakura led the three specialists from the headquarters to apply for long-term visitor cards at the front desk and introduced them to Caesar and Chu Zihang beside her.

Lu Mingfei fell behind a step, holding a cup of hand-ground coffee and looking around.

Apart from the official business being handled by the employees around him, the interior of Genji Heavy Industries is actually not much different from the top business center in Ginza. It feels like it is full of white-collar women with thin waists and long legs in OL uniforms and bald middle-aged men running around. Everyone is busy and they wish they could finish some of the things at hand while walking.

Genji Heavy Industries is the office center for the Japanese underworld bosses, but in fact most of the employees here are good citizens, and many of them enter through normal recruitment channels.

Ordinary people still make up the vast majority of employees at Genji Heavy Industries.

"Ms. Sakura, you said that Maruyama Construction is a property under the name of Mr. Masamune?" Lu Mingfei suddenly asked.

In the previous period of time, he was not very involved in the Deadpool attack on Genji Heavy Industries. He only remembered that there was a Deadpool breeding pond under this building, but he didn't know that Maruyama Construction was actually the property of Tachibana Masamune.

"That's not entirely correct, because it actually belongs to the Tachibana family, one of the three families within the eight families of Snake. But now that Mr. Masamune is the head of the Tachibana family, it is tacitly regarded as his private property." Sakura said.

The eight Sheqi families seem united, but in fact there are many factions. Each family holds the financial power in its own hands, and others have no right to interfere.

Not only Masamune Tachibana, but other family heads all have some large and small businesses. These businesses are spread throughout Japan, providing them with huge amounts of funds.

Lu Mingfei said nothing more.

They stepped into the elevator again. This VIP elevator had probably just been modified, and there was actually a floor map of Genji Heavy Industries displayed on the advertising screen.

It is said to be the office center of the supreme leader of the Japanese underworld, but judging from the floor map of Genji Heavy Industries, it is more like a large multinational company with a well-developed organizational structure.

The entire building has a total of thirty-two floors. The top two floors have no numbers and no departments. The twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth floors are the logistics department, the twenty-ninth floor is the liaison department, and the thirty-third floor is the strategic department.

Lu Mingfei vaguely remembered that the so-called logistics department consisted of hundreds of operators who constantly answered calls for help from all over Japan. These calls for help were not limited to gang members, but ordinary people could also make calls. They were more like the operators of the Metropolitan Police Department.

The Liaison Department is responsible for handling conflicts between gangster societies. The entire department is composed of highly prestigious cadres from the same family. The atmosphere in the department is strict. It is the busiest department of the Sheqi Eight Families except for the Logistics Department.

In comparison, the strategic department on the 30th floor is more like a retirement home for Japanese gang bosses. The old men in kimono drink tea and play chess on the tatami in the Japanese-style room built specifically for them inside Genji Heavy Industries. They also take time out of their spare time to handle matters assigned to them by the family, most of which determine the survival of a gang.

These old men are the most important backbone of the Sheqi Eight Families. If they are lost, the family will lose nearly half of its control over the underworld.

"We usually place important documents and Kaguya-sama's host computer on the 24th, 25th, and 26th floors. The family will move those things back and forth between these three floors from time to time, and the normal office area is below." While Sakura was speaking, the elevator had already arrived at the th floor of Genji Heavy Industries.

The elevator dinged and opened in front of them. The oxygen-rich air with a light scent of red sandalwood and a very light scent of cherry blossoms blew in. This place was indeed like a nursing home, but probably because it was a day off, the elderly did not come to work, so it seemed quite empty. The red cherry wood floor was so expensive that some people would only buy it as a collection. Potted four-season cherry blossoms were placed in every corner. The climate here was very stable, and the cherry blossoms were in full bloom all year round. When no one was around, they would quietly hang on the branches. When the elderly drank tea and played chess here, there was an artificial natural wind that lifted and dropped them like in a Shinto temple, as if it was raining pink and white.

"The old men who work here rarely show up in public. They all have wanted warrants from the Japanese government or the Tokyo metropolitan government. If they show up outside, they will probably be thrown into jail very quickly." Ying said, "But these people are all retired leaders of the Japanese underworld. Although they have left their respective gangs, they still hold power. As long as they are here, this building will be safe, and their status in the underworld is irreplaceable."

"We have a Valhalla outside of Rome. Those who live there are the most respected and powerful people in our family. With those elders, we can call on any Italian army to serve the Gattuso family. If necessary, my uncle can even send fighter planes of the Italian Royal Air Force to take off from the US air base in Japan and cruise over the city." Caesar said, "Then your strategic department is our Valhalla."

"Almost, but our family doesn't have the ability to mobilize the Self-Defense Forces." Sakura said, a little ashamed.

To be honest, the power of the Sheqi family in Japan is actually not as strong as the Gattuso family in Italy, nor as strong as the Kassel family in Germany.

But if a full-scale war were to take place with any other family, the Eight Clans of Sheqi would probably not be at a disadvantage.

Since the Pacific War, the power of the Eight Snake Families has grown increasingly powerful. Today, they are already on the verge of becoming the third mixed-race society capable of being independent from the Secret Party after the Chinese mixed-races and North American mixed-races.

Genji Heavy Industries, Ltd. is not just a mafia-coordinating company. It has many heavy industries, light industries and chemical industries under its umbrella. It is also involved in the military industry and aerospace industry. However, it started relatively late and still needs to catch up.

"The heads of the families are waiting at the Awakening Temple. Mr. Masamune was forging iron at the shrine earlier, so he should have arrived by now." Sakura led the three of them through the entire 30th floor and found the terrace in a corner of the building.

The so-called Keishinji Temple is not a Buddhist temple, but a native Japanese Shinto temple dedicated to Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi and Susanoo.

Lu Mingfei touched his waist and frowned slightly.

Today he was wearing a long windbreaker, and he stood there like a spear rising from the ground, with pink and white cherry petals falling on his shoulders. For no reason, Sakura looked at this man who hadn't said much along the way and could even be described as taciturn.

With the intuition of a ninja, Sakura seemed to be able to sense the fleeting cold murderous intent.

It was indeed an extremely cold murderous intent that few people could detect. It was not some kind of energy field that could be emitted and captured by the naked eye, but rather subtle changes in expression and a look that suddenly became solemn and ferocious.

Even Caesar and Chu Zihang failed to notice it, but Ying observed it.

Lu Mingfei's murderous intent came from the upcoming encounter with Tachibana Masamune. The lust that was the most convenient to use and the most suitable to hide among the seven deadly sins was now pressed against his waist, which was why Lu Mingfei stood straight.

As distinguished guests of the headquarters, the Sheqi Eight Families would certainly not conduct body searches or scans on Lu Mingfei and his companions. Moreover, in the eyes of the family heads, even the most elite specialists of the headquarters would not act recklessly against them in Genji Heavy Industries.

The only person in this study group who was truly capable of making the entire Japanese branch fear him was Lu Mingfei, who had fought Wang head-on, even though he had done this by using some techniques that were considered taboo by the Abraham Bloodline Contract. But the Japanese branch didn't care how he did it, they only cared whether he did it.

But that kind of murderous intent only flashed by in a flash. Lu Mingfei chuckled and looked at Ying, "Why did you stop, Miss Ying?" he asked.

Chopping off Tachibana Masamune's head with one knife is indeed a very tempting option, and Lu Mingfei does have such an idea.

But can he dare to say that the Tachibana Masamune he killed at this time is the real Herzog? Now the enemy is in the open and we are in the dark. Herzog does not know that the real enemy he is about to face has already arrived in the territory he has run in Japan for many years. He is still hiding in the dark corners and fiddling with his pathetic conspiracies and calculations, but once Lu Mingfei takes action, he will probably be alerted immediately.

There is only one chance, Lu Mingfei doesn't dare to gamble.