Lu Mingfei, become the king of gambling in dungeons!

Chapter 83 The Night of the Assassination Attempt (Part 4)

"You saved me again—it seems we're on the same page for now, right, my two friends?" Miyamoto Shigeo asked somewhat nervously. He was in a completely weaker position among the three, and there was no point in scheming against each other now, so his way of asking the question was very simple.

In this isolated environment, he can't even verify the other party's identity. If he could still contact Kaguya, he would still have the help of his family, so there would be no need to cooperate with others. Right now, he is weak and needs an ally to slay the gods.

His only bargaining chip was that he was the person in all of Japan who knew the most about this excavator.

"Of course, in terms of killing Yamata no Orochi." Lu Mingfei looked at Zero beside him, a little suspicious of the girl's identity. To be honest, he had no liking for anyone who might be spying on him. The girl in front of him was very suspicious, but he didn't feel any disgust towards her.

Perhaps it was the girl's demeanor that made her seem like a loner, completely detached from the world, giving off a sense of threat akin to an expressionless corncob.

Zero replied without hesitation: "My goals have always been aligned with his."

Relieved by the affirmative answer, Miyamoto Shigeo was somewhat convinced that the man and woman in front of him were powerful reinforcements sent by Kassel College. He had heard that the execution department there always paired up a man and a woman for missions, and that the first thing the two members of each team did after retiring from the execution department was to get married.

Still a little uneasy, he made one last tentative move: "Then can I go to my family to apply for protection, or you can send someone from your Kassel College? I can use my communication devices under your supervision."

"I think you shouldn't be too optimistic. The moment you saw me, you immediately put your hands behind your back and asked the Snake Clan for help, right?" Lu Mingfei laid out the cold facts in front of him. "But they didn't respond to you, did they? Their armed forces outside should have come in long ago, but they didn't."

Miyamoto Shigeo was taken aback: "Weren't Ryoma's men dealt with by your people?"

"Why would I need to make a move if I could have gotten in?" Lu Mingfei looked at his watch. "I saw another group approaching from outside; they're probably enemies of your Snake Clan."

"I sneaked in." Zero's implication was that she hadn't clashed with the armed forces stationed outside.

Realizing this too late, Miyamoto Shigeo's throat bobbed. "Right, Kassel is far away in the United States. How could they possibly send a large force over in such a short time?"

"Were they wiped out by the Oni Clan? The outside is full of Oni Clan members now—but the patriarch said that the Kanto branch was transferred here ahead of schedule—" Miyamoto Shio subconsciously glanced at the rock wall above. The Kanto branch was transferred here ahead of schedule because the family suspected that the people who invaded Genji Heavy Industries were plotting against the Red Well.

Even with the Kanto branch and the people belonging to the Ryoma family, they couldn't hold out.

"Don't dwell on it. Maybe you've run into some internal problems again," Lu Mingfei interrupted his thoughts. "I'm telling you this to let you know that time is running out. Turn this machine up to its maximum power."

As expected of one of the high-ranking members of the Snake Clan, Miyamoto Shio quickly decided what he needed to do, putting everything else out of his mind. He exhaled a breath of pent-up frustration.

"Excellent! It seems the three of us are about to save Tokyo from its current turmoil!"

Thinking this way, his gaze towards Lu Mingfei and Zero instantly became more affectionate. Those who were there to fight alongside you during the apocalypse were surely your comrades-in-arms. Right now, they were in a siege, with the fierce ghosts besieging the city from the outside.

Miyamoto Shio is an arrogant madman. He doesn't consider the other surviving researchers present to be human. He's a guy with some mental issues who believes he should associate with the strong, including strong people from all walks of life.

He had been working in the Red Well Tunnel for several days in a row and was unaware of the drastic changes that had occurred outside. He still thought that the Yamata no Orochi was now Tokyo's only enemy.

Miyamoto Shigeo jumped onto the giant machine, which was four people tall, and threw himself onto the control panel. He adjusted the machine's fuel valve to temporarily double the output power, and he made the water cooling system run at full power to solve the problem of the drill bit overheating. He pinned his hopes on this foreign-made machine to be more powerful.

While operating the equipment, he kept talking non-stop. Miyamoto Shigeo was undoubtedly a neurotic scientist. He was close friends with many members of the Kassel Equipment Department. Neurotics can only hang out with neurotics.

Lu Mingfei and Ling listened silently as he laughed wildly and explained his ideas; they were hardly good listeners.

Zero, expressionless, helps Miyamoto Shigeo operate the equipment. Lu Mingfei, a complete novice, uses Genji's authority to lock the tunnel steel door, sometimes clapping and sometimes staring blankly.

"I really want to play a game of StarCraft," Lu Mingfei thought to himself.

"Do you really think mercury can kill Yamata no Orochi? In mythology, the poisonous mercury wine only weakens monsters like Yamata no Orochi. What ultimately kills it is the legendary weapon, Ame no Habakiri. Where are we going to get such a divine weapon?" After his initial excitement, Miyamoto Shigeo became a little apprehensive. He might be about to accomplish the feat of killing a god.

Lu Mingfei didn't answer whether he could get his hands on Ame no Habakiri. No one present was a close friend of Susanoo and could borrow the sword, so it was a pointless question: "Two hours isn't enough time to dig a tunnel, is it?"

He didn't have much time left, and he desperately needed Yamata no Orochi.

Miyamoto Shigeo didn't understand why he cared more about time than he did, and answered truthfully: "There's simply not enough time. Two hours isn't enough to dig through the Akakiri River, and it's unrealistic to lure out the Yamata no Orochi completely in a short time. Even at maximum power, it would probably take at least five hours, and at normal power, it would take another twenty-one hours."

Lu Mingfei nodded, no longer dwelling on these issues.

"Miyamoto-kun, I see that many documents related to the Red Well Project are signed by you. You were the proposer and staunch supporter of the Red Well Project within the Snake Clan. Now, even you are starting to doubt yourself?"

"Your will!" Miyamoto Shigeo regained his fighting spirit. He didn't reply to Lu Mingfei, who was comforting him, but to Genji, who had given him his trust.

After comforting the person who had been eaten as a meal replacement, Lu Mingfei closed his eyes and silently counted the time, as if he had fallen asleep.

The icy red water flowed over his knees, and he could hear thunderous sounds. Listening to the thunder and the sound of the water, he closed his eyes to rest.

Legend has it that one half of the Well of Hidden Bones is filled with cold water, while the other half is filled with flames, which mix together.

Magma and groundwater converge in the Akagi River, which is the source of the thunderous sound. The Akagi River perfectly matches the legend of the Snake-Headed Eight Families.

Five minutes later, he opened his eyes again and stepped deeper into the tunnel. He observed the cracks in the stone wall ahead, and the echoes of the wind passing through the cracks told him that he was getting closer to that behemoth.

Lu Mingfei opened the glass bottle containing half a bottle of blood. Royal blood was fatally attractive to the Yamata no Orochi, which desperately needed to replenish its genes, but this amount of blood might not be enough to make the Yamata no Orochi smell the fragrance and become restless—moreover, Genjiro's bloodline seemed to be a bit lacking.

When the time came, Lu Mingfei, overcome by lust, cut his own wrist to bleed.

The blood flowing down the fingers released pheromones that lured dragons, even more potent than royal blood, making it a feast for the Yamata no Orochi and the dragon subspecies.

The royal blood (holy blood) and the genes of other high-blooded individuals—the very things that Orochi needs most right now are all here. The former can complete its genes, and the latter can enhance its power.

The increasing number of Gyrodontidae appearing in the tunnel undoubtedly indicates that the cracks in the rock strata are widening.

While they were working hard to dig a tunnel, the Yamata no Orochi on the other side was also doing its best to break through the rock layers to hunt for prey.

Two hours is enough to open up the passage below the Red Well; this is a two-way scam.

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