Lu Mingfei, why are you slaying dragons if you're not involved!

Chapter 248 Yuan Zhisheng’s rush

Is this really appropriate?

The closer they got, the clearer the conversation between the two men and one woman responsible for greeting them became to Yuan Zhisheng amidst the surrounding noise and commotion.

"Of course it's appropriate, Senior Sister Susie. Such a large welcome sign is easy for anyone from the Japanese branch to spot. This is to minimize the chance of us making any last-minute mistakes!"

The boy who answered said it in a very serious tone.

"It was Teacher Zhang's last-minute decision to have us pick them up at the airport, so we've already done our best to make these preparations! Don't you think so, senior?"

"Hmm," the other boy replied casually.

Genjiro's anger only intensified, but this time it wasn't directed at those few staff members, but at the entire China branch.

The last-minute arrangement means disrespect. Even if we ignore his status as the young master of the family, he is still the executive director of the Japanese branch. If we don't expect a red carpet to be laid out when he is picked up at the airport, shouldn't we at least send some professional staff?
In his rage, his evil eyes grew even colder and more piercing. At that moment, the boy who had answered last seemed to sense something and turned to look at him. Another boy also turned his head and glanced in this direction.

The piercing, sword-like eyes stared directly at the boy who was the first to turn his head. The boy had a pair of ethereal, moist eyes like a deer's, but his expressionless face made him seem as indifferent as if he were frozen in ice. The sharp intent he pierced was as useless as facing a ten-thousand-year-old iceberg! As for the boy who came after him, it was as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss, and he could not be aroused in the slightest.

On the contrary, Genjiro himself paused, because he saw the face of the boy behind him clearly.

Seeing a photo in a document and seeing the real person in reality are two completely different things. No matter how realistic a camera is, it will eventually have some distortion and lack the most crucial charm. But now, he saw it.

When beauty reaches a certain level, it transcends gender. Upon first meeting, both men and women will instinctively marvel at it. This marvel is devoid of any superfluous emotions; it is simply an instinctive awe of perfection.

The boy quickly turned back, and Genji could even hear his deliberately lowered voice... the kind that ordinary people couldn't hear, but to a mixed-race person it sounded no different from shouting: "Are we talking too loudly and disturbing people? That guy looks really angry."

"This is a public place."

The expressionless boy also turned his head back... The girl didn't look this way at all from beginning to end, seemingly preoccupied and completely unaware of the task at hand.

And so, Genjiro was ignored.

"That's true, other people are talking too."

Lu Mingfei frowned. "Could it be that they're bullying the weak and fearing the strong? They're trying to take advantage of our youth?"

"Is there a possibility..."

Chu Zihang pointed to the sign they had pinned to the railing, a pink sign for people to wait for, with Yuan Zhisheng's name written crookedly on it.

Yuan Zhisheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He himself was not quite sure why he felt relieved, but he thought to himself that at least there were still some sensible people among them.

"No way, Senior Brother? If it really is him, would he come alone? How unpopular must he be? Doesn't he even have a single subordinate willing to go through fire and water with him?"

"Haven't you seen his picture?"

"No, I didn't read the materials carefully at all... I only read the first half, glanced at the name, and then I was thinking about practicing calligraphy."

Lu Mingfei shook his head. Normally, he would have checked it, but the topic suddenly turned to gossip. Gossip is more interesting than any information! So he only had time to finish reading about the Japanese branch.

"Senior brother, you didn't see it either?"

"No."

Today's events were quite eventful, leaving virtually no room for maneuver, to the point that even Chu Zihang, who is usually as meticulous as a precision machine, was somewhat careless.

"Practicing calligraphy?" Chu Zihang noticed what Lu Mingfei was referring to.

"Yes, I'm going to start practicing from oracle bone script!"

"I'll help you find some information later."

Chu Zihang agreed without asking why, then paused halfway through his sentence, "Perhaps Teacher Zhang can help you get the original directly."

"Wow, that's an antique! Is that even allowed?"

"I'll just give you a certificate for being a staff member in the restoration and maintenance of cultural relics," Chu Zihang said.

"I love the feeling of abusing my power!" Lu Mingfei exclaimed with delight.

Yuan Zhisheng stood silently in place, suddenly realizing that his trip to China might be far more troublesome than he had anticipated.

The plan was disrupted from the very beginning. At this moment, he recognized the boy's identity from his memory: Lu Mingfei, an S-level freshman who had not yet enrolled, was the enemy he needed to "break through" this time.

Before coming, he had carefully studied the information. In just over ten days, Lu Mingfei had reversed his previous decline and achieved an astonishing level of success. There was no doubt that he was a rising star, and it was hard to imagine how far he would grow if given more time. Therefore, from any perspective, "cutting off his momentum" was something he had to do. He could not allow such a powerful enemy to appear among his enemies and grow so easily.

Despite Lu Mingfei's significant progress, Genji still believes he can do it. He has the ability and confidence, and before his formidable rival has fully matured, he remains merely a potentially threatening enemy.

But at this moment, he felt that Lu Mingfei had become an unprecedented formidable opponent... The most terrifying enemy sometimes does not come from the comparison of strength, but from being completely unpredictable and illogical. You never know whether your opponent will play a pair of threes or a royal flush next.

He could understand that the temporary assignment meant he didn't carefully review the materials, but the problem was that the purpose of not carefully reviewing the materials was to practice calligraphy? And he was even practicing oracle bone script!

Yuan Zhisheng has a deep understanding of Chinese culture. Oracle bone script was popular during the Shang and Zhou dynasties and is the earliest mature writing system discovered in China to date. It is the source of Chinese characters that have been passed down to the present day... But who started practicing calligraphy from oracle bone script?

No, the fundamental logic is flawed from the very beginning. What's with this half-blood practicing calligraphy? Are you suggesting that if you encounter Deadpool, you'll be forced to sit down and say, "Let's have a calligraphy contest. If I win, you'll commit suicide!"
However, this absurd and illogical thing happened so badly that another boy agreed without even asking and even used his authority to help arrange it. The only possible explanation is that Lu Mingfei had done many similar things before...

Yuan Zhisheng's expression was serious. He was considering whether his enemy might have developed mental illness symptoms due to his high bloodline. If so, perhaps he wouldn't even need to take action this time, and could simply wait for the enemy to collapse naturally in the future.

Similar situations are not impossible. In Japan, many mixed-race individuals are prone to becoming "demons" due to "unstable bloodlines." However, Genji knows that this is unique to Japanese mixed-race individuals. For mixed-race individuals from other regions, the instability of their bloodline is generally due to their bloodline being too high, exceeding the limit.

As his thoughts raced, Yuan Zhisheng decided to stop waiting. There's an old Chinese saying, "One should strike while the iron is hot, but the second attempt will be less effective, and the third will be exhausted." His previous evil eye hadn't worked, and then he was even more shocked by the other person's face. Next, he overheard their conversation and was thrown into a state of confusion, unable to make sense of the logic at all...

Fortunately, this combo was extremely tight, and Genjiro's mental fortitude was strong enough, so he didn't reach the point of "exhaustion after three moves," but the stage of "going all out in one go" was definitely over.

If we continue to wait passively like this, we might soon face a decline!
"My name is Yuan Zhisheng. I graduated from the 2003 class of the Kassel College's advanced studies program. I am very happy to be in China." Yuan Zhisheng stepped forward, extended his hand, and spoke in fluent Mandarin without bowing deeply.

Lu Mingfei was taken aback. He really didn't expect that this man was actually Yuan Zhisheng, and that he really came alone.

However, since the other party, a Japanese person, was speaking Chinese, shouldn't he use Japanese? It's only fair to reciprocate! You can't hit a smiling face... Lu Mingfei thought to himself, but his Japanese was all learned from watching anime, not through serious and systematic study. After all, he wasn't this diligent before, so he only learned the pronunciation of a few everyday phrases, which was far from enough to support normal communication when needed.

"Your...Chinese...is really good!" He subconsciously shook hands with Genjiro, then gave him a thumbs up in praise.

Yuan Zhisheng's eyes twitched slightly. He suspected that Lu Mingfei was doing it on purpose... By chance, he had watched several anti-Japanese war dramas. Some were of good quality, while others were low-cost products. The latter, because they couldn't afford a Japanese translator, would have the actors playing Japanese officers speak Chinese in this tone. It was a product of fusion.

The current situation forced him to extend his thinking along these lines. Could it be that Lu Mingfei's words implied that the two were irreconcilable enemies or that he knew the purpose of his visit and therefore showed hostility from the beginning?
But looking at Lu Mingfei's bright smile, he felt it was unlikely. Could it be that this boy was good at pretending?

The more he tried to reason with them, the more confused he became. By the time Yuan Zhisheng followed them out of the arrival hall and into the car, his mind was a complete mess and he still hadn't come to a conclusion.

But at that moment, Lu Mingfei suddenly spoke again.

"Um... cough cough, Yuan-kun, you heard our conversation just now, right?"

"Hmm? Oh, I heard you." Genjiro answered subconsciously.

He had barely finished answering when his body tensed. This wasn't a sudden flare-up of some hidden illness, but rather an instinctive reaction to a perceived threat! A sharp, menacing aura emanated from Lu Mingfei, brimming with killing intent!
Genji was completely stunned, wondering what was going on. Could this guy change his expression so quickly? And they were on the highway, and he was already about to attack?

In fact, Lu Mingfei hadn't thought too much about it. He was just trying to advance from multitasking to tripletasking. As his studies became increasingly demanding, he felt that this skill was something he would need to unlock sooner or later. Rather than waiting until later and suffering the consequences, he decided to start trying now.

The matter concerning Genjiro was also included in the "temporary schedule" phase, probably because it was related to the Gattuso family. At this time, mistakes would not result in electric shocks, but it would be different in the formal schedule. Lu Mingfei did not want to waste such a great opportunity.

The consequence of making a mistake while trying to do three things at once is a short period of mental confusion. Lu Mingfei just experienced such a mistake. When his mind was confused, he suddenly remembered that Yuan Zhisheng might have overheard his conversation with Chu Zihang.

Everything else is fine, but what if the plan to abuse power is inadvertently leaked and gets reported later?
His instinctive choice was—of course, to cut off the leaked information!

As the saying goes, "He who possesses a sharp weapon will naturally harbor murderous intent." Before he had the ability, Lu Mingfei's subconscious thought when faced with this situation was something like "how to bribe the other party to shut them up" or "if I'm being threatened, I can only obediently listen." But now that he has the ability, if he still thinks like that, then wouldn't he have gained this ability for nothing?
As for how to cut it off...

Dead men tell no tales!

Under normal circumstances, Lu Mingfei wouldn't have come to this conclusion. But it just so happened that it was a brief moment of mental confusion when he thought of something, so it's not surprising that he came up with anything; it's like a bug in a program.

So he instinctively revealed a murderous intent.

All told, Lu Mingfei has never killed anyone or Deadpool so far. The first time he used excessive force against someone was when he broke all of Fujiwara Shinnosuke's joints.

Logically speaking, for a teenager who has never experienced life-or-death combat, the idea of ​​"murderous intent" should be a joke.

This murderous intent seemed to be innate, but it had been so well concealed that Lu Mingfei himself hadn't even noticed it.

It seems that when he's fighting, he subconsciously enters another state. His brutality and decisiveness at that time come entirely from instinct. When he breaks Fujiwara Shinnosuke's joints, he's as calm as if he were deboning a chicken wing.

At this very moment, this killing intent was directed at Genjiro!

Genjiro felt he had experienced a lot. Since becoming the executive director of the Japanese branch at the age of 17, he had killed countless "demons" in the past few years. But when faced with this killing intent, he was like a lake hitting the sea. His newly raised sense of resistance was crushed completely and irrationally!
But the murderous intent came and went quickly. Before Yuan Zhisheng could react instinctively, Lu Mingfei had already reverted to being the seemingly harmless boy, and even said dryly, "Oh, so your hearing is pretty good..."

The vehicle continued to drive smoothly, but his mind was in turmoil. It took Yuan Zhisheng a full half minute to calm himself down.

For a moment, he didn't know whether he should react aggressively or politely reply, "Thank you for the compliment"... What kind of useless nonsense is that! How could a half-blood's hearing be bad? This guy next to him really is a lunatic, isn't he?
(End of this chapter)