Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei's Bullet Screen Wish Machine

Chapter 139 The Monster at the Bottom of the Well and the Sound of the Clapper

Kazama Ruri fell silent.

"My initial thought was that he might be some kind of hybrid with powerful regenerative abilities."

He said.

"Path dependence; they tend to attribute anything inexplicable to the power of words."

Lu Mingfei took a sip of tea. Unlike Yuan Zhinu, he had only been in the mixed-race world for a short time and had not yet formed a fixed mindset.

Kazama Ruri nodded. From a feasibility standpoint, the "puppet theory" was more convincing than the "word power theory."

"I have an idea that might be able to prove something."

Lu Mingfei suddenly smiled. "However, Miss Sakurai will need to make a small sacrifice."

He leaned forward and whispered a few words in Kazama Ruri's ear, causing Kazama Ruri to show a look of astonishment.

the next night.

Lu Mingfei, an infantryman from the Fierce Ghost Clan, drove to the warehouse door of the flower shop.

He received a notification that there would be a temporary transport mission at midnight tonight.

A very ordinary Toyota was parked in front of the warehouse, with two people sitting inside.

When the van pulled up, the person in the driver's seat glanced at Lu Mingfei, confirmed that the license plate and driver were correct, and then got out of the van.

The warehouse door was also tightly closed, and several men in black suits stood in front of it, their physiques and demeanors unlike those of ordinary gang members.

"Don't look around."

The Toyota driver was a middle-aged man dressed very plainly. He handed Lu Mingfei a transparent sealed bag containing a mask and a baseball cap: "Put this on, then go drive. I'll give you directions. Don't ask anything, and don't look back."

The middle-aged man spoke in a very stern tone. He was wearing a mask and a baseball cap with the brim pulled low, clearly intending to conceal his face.

Lu Mingfei nodded, took the sealed bag, and didn't say anything more.

Genjiro specifically arranged a job for him, which was obviously not just to have him deliver flowers.

It could be illicit money, or it could be other contraband.

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, sending some frozen pig's feet would be fine, but if Yuan Zhisheng arranged for him to send Shuang Shi (pink), he would definitely hang that bastard's head on the Tokyo Tower.

The man in the baseball cap got into the passenger seat of Lu Mingfei's car, while the other person opened the back door of the van and got in.

Then, Lu Mingfei heard the sound of the warehouse door opening, and someone carried "goods" out of the warehouse and threw them into the bread cart.

Several muffled "thump" sounds were heard.

"Waaah, waaah————"

Something was struggling, but its mouth was sealed and its body was bound.

Lu Mingfei narrowed his eyes.

No wonder when Genjiro recommended a job, he specifically mentioned "courage".

"Let's go."

The baseball cap has an opening.

Lu Mingfei lightly pressed the accelerator and, under the other party's guidance, drove out of the street.

After walking for about twenty minutes, they entered a tunnel, and the man in the baseball cap signaled Lu Mingfei to stop.

Lu Mingfei noticed that there was also a van parked in the tunnel. The rear windows of the van were covered with black film, and the driver was waiting next to the van.

Lu Mingfei immediately understood that this "transportation" was a highly confidential matter. They had more than one driver, and each person was only responsible for driving a certain distance.

The man in the baseball cap handed a wad of banknotes to Lu Mingfei.

A full million, more than a month's salary for delivering flowers.

"Drive his car back, and don't forget about work tomorrow."

Baseball cap.

Lu Mingfei took the money, got out of the car, and drove the van with the black tint out of the tunnel.

after awhile.

"Did that kid leave?"

"He asked, wearing a baseball cap."

"It's no longer visible."

Someone in the carriage answered.

"That kid is pretty well-behaved."

The man in the baseball cap said, "I heard he was recruited by the young master."

The man in the back yawned: "To be honest, I don't think it's necessary to go through all this trouble. We have to change drivers several times along the way. It's just transporting a few people—"

"Shut up! These are the rules set by Mr. Tachibana!"

The man in the baseball cap stopped him from speaking, then said to the driver beside him, "I'll give you directions. Don't ask anything and don't look back."

Unbeknownst to them, Lu Mingfei had been quietly listening to the entire conversation from the roof of the bread truck.

[Holographic Cube]:

A miniature projection device, shaped like a die and about one cubic centimeter in size, is capable of creating incredibly realistic illusions.

Those who have seen the 94 Spider-Man should be familiar with this Mysterio weapon.

After leaving their sight, Lu Mingfei shoved the new van into the Great Snail Cave, then circled back into the tunnel, successfully hitching a ride by using the holographic cube to conceal his true form.

The van got onto the elevated highway and meandered through Tokyo for over an hour, changing drivers four times.

The plane, and eventually even the baseball cap and his passenger seat were replaced.

They handed the bread cart to two young men, one of whom had a spider embroidered on his clothes, and the other had a red demon embroidered on his clothes.

The spider is the crest of the Fuuma family, while the red oni is the crest of Inuyama.

The van drove into an underground tunnel near Tokyo Bay.

A somewhat counterintuitive fact is that coastal areas tend to build more underground tunnels.

This is because coastal cities are generally economically developed, with land being extremely valuable, and the construction of highways would damage the coastal scenery and affect the development of tourism.

In contrast, the technical barriers to building underground tunnels are much simpler.

This is a very remote underground tunnel. The van stopped in front of a maintenance door for an equipment room.

The two people in the car first observed the surroundings and got off the car only after confirming that no one was following them.

The Inuyama family went to open the iron gate, while the Fuma family members opened the back door of the bread truck.

There were five burlap sacks in the carriage, and the moment the doors opened, all the sacks struggled violently.

Having probably done this kind of mission many times before, the two looked relaxed, and the man with a spider embroidered on his clothes even lit a cigarette.

He let out a breath, his expression slightly mischievous: "It's time to choose the lucky one again. Let me think—whoever is the most obedient, I'll let them go, okay?"

Upon hearing this, the five sacks fell silent, as if they dared not even breathe, and the entire carriage fell into a deathly silence.

Seeing this, the man laughed and said, "Just kidding, even a good girl will die."

He stretched out his strong, powerful arm and ripped off the nearest sack.

Inside the sack, the face of a middle-aged man was revealed.

At this moment, his mouth was sealed and his eyes were covered, but Lu Mingfei could still see deep fear on the other person's face.

Not only his mouth and eyes, but also his hands and feet were bent in an unnatural position, clearly broken. Although it wouldn't be called a "human pig," he was completely powerless to resist.

"Yokota Yusuke had an affair with the group leader's wife and attempted to conspire with the adulterous woman to murder the group leader. After the affair was exposed, he fled but was captured by the main family."

The one who spoke was the Red Demon, and his voice was extremely cold: "Since you refuse to commit seppuku, then we'll have to execute you."

"Seducing his sister-in-law, three cuts and six holes"—Lu Mingfei thought of this phrase.

"Our family is very kind."

The spider flicked cigarette ash onto the minotaur's face: "Originally, I was going to slice you two, you dog and you bitch, into sashimi and throw you into Tokyo Bay to feed the fish!"

Now, with just a snap, you can all go to your next life.

"Actually, it's about the same."

The Red Demon has absolutely no sense of humor: "[The well] is connected to Tokyo Bay through an underground tunnel. It's low tide now, so we'll throw people in. When the tide comes in and out, the sea will carry the bodies away, and they'll still end up in Tokyo Bay."

Lu Mingfei: "?"

Dumping garbage into the sea, is that a traditional Japanese skill?

After chatting for a few more minutes, Spider retied the sack and placed Yokota Yusuke on Akagi's shoulder.

The sack struggled a few times, but to no avail. The strong red demon carried him into the equipment room.

The spider didn't go inside; his task was to stay put and guard the bread cart, while also keeping watch.

From the conversation between the two, Lu Mingfei was able to deduce that there was a very deep, dry well in the equipment room—it was a dry well because Spider had just mentioned the word "fell to his death."

The dry well was used to execute traitors and criminals. It contained underground tunnels that connected to Tokyo Bay, allowing for the destruction of evidence.

Lu Mingfei sensed something was wrong. Why go through all this trouble? Why not just bury the living people in concrete and then sink them in Tokyo Bay? The deterrent effect would be much stronger than simply dropping them to their deaths.

After a while, the Red Demon returned carrying an empty sack. After executing the Minotaur, they then tried the traitor, the lackey, the ambitious, and the chameleon in turn.

In short, after finishing their business, Spider and Red Demon drove away, and it's unknown whether they will return the bread to Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei stood in the tunnel and waited for a while.

He took out a Noh mask from the Great Snail Cave, put it on, and walked towards the maintenance door of the equipment room.

The door was locked, but for Lu Mingfei, it was practically useless.

Invisible threads burrowed into the keyhole; this telekinetic ability allowed him to directly manipulate the mechanical mechanism of the lock cylinder.

The structure allows for unlocking from the inside, essentially giving you a master key.

Once inside the equipment room, Lu Mingfei discovered that there was another door at the very back.

It was an ordinary metal door, but Lu Mingfei used his Insightful Hand to examine it and found that the material used to make the door was an extremely strong alloy that was difficult to break using ordinary methods.

Even so, the door was wrapped with thick chains, and Lu Mingfei had to unlock three locks in one go to open the metal door.

He could have simply destroyed the metal door, but there was no need. It was good to have this execution ground. Once he took over the Snake Clan, he could open this place up for others to visit.

It was pitch black behind the metal door. Lu Mingfei turned on his flashlight. Ever since returning from the Three Gorges, he had always kept a flashlight with him.

This is also a tunnel, but it is relatively narrow and low, making it difficult for two people to walk side by side.

After walking in the tunnel for a while and going around several bends, a fork in the road appeared.

Lu Mingfei randomly picked one, walked for a while and felt that the route was wrong, so he turned back and took another one.

Before long, a spacious area appeared before us.

The entire space is approximately several hundred square meters in size and about four meters in height. The ceiling and walls of the underground cave are covered with smooth cement.

In the center of the underground cave is a very large vertical shaft, about ten meters in diameter, with a heavy bronze well cover over the opening.

A metal chain was welded to the manhole cover, and a huge hinge was mounted on the chain. Near the door, the end of the chain hung down naturally.

Lu Mingfei studied the structure of the hinge, walked to the doorway, and tentatively pulled the metal chain.

The hinge rotated slowly, which must have been some kind of labor-saving device, but even so, dragging the chain was not an easy task.

Lu Mingfei estimated that it would take two adult men working together to pull the chain down.

As he moved, the bronze manhole cover was lifted little by little. There was a special anti-reverse mechanism on the wall, so the manhole cover would not close again due to gravity after it was lifted.

Lu Mingfei had a strange sense of déjà vu. This seemingly simple yet sophisticated technical approach was completely different from the stereotypical image of Japanese products, and it was more like the design style of the Russians.

Lu Mingfei stopped when the bronze well cover was half open.

He took a step and came to the well.

Under the flashlight's beam, Lu Mingfei saw that the walls of the giant well were made of smooth metal, and there was no water at the bottom of the shaft; instead, there were flat and sturdy metal plates.

There is at least a 30-meter distance from the wellhead to the bottom.

Lu Mingfei's dark eyes narrowed slightly.

The smooth metal well walls seem more like they're designed to prevent anything from climbing up than to waterproof them.

Several corpses were piled up at the bottom of the well; they were the same people who had been thrown down by the Red Demon earlier, and they looked miserable now.

Lu Mingfei's heart stirred, and invisible threads descended, wrapping up the minotaur's corpse.

The maximum range of the Silk Magic Technique is ten zhang (approximately 33 meters), which is more than enough to deal with a well that is thirty meters deep.

He reached out and pressed on a spot on Yokota Yusuke's body that wasn't stained with blood, activating the Secret-Seeking Hand.

They are mixed-race —

Lu Mingfei's forehead twitched.

According to the information from the Secret Hand, Yokota Yusuke's bloodline level is C, or more accurately, C+.

However, even though the C+ grade hybrids are physically stronger than ordinary people, they couldn't withstand falling from a height of thirty meters, and they are now dead beyond any doubt.

Lu Mingfei changed to another body.

Bloodline Rank D —

Bloodline grade C —

Bloodline Rank D+ —

Four bodies in a row, all of them mixed-race!

Just as he was retrieving the fifth body, he suddenly heard a very faint sound of a clapper.

The sound of the clapper came from down the well.

Lu Mingfei listened carefully for a while. As the owner of the [Mastery of Classical Instruments] skill, he recognized that it was a Central American tribal instrument, invented by Native Americans.

The clapper sound ended, followed by the heavy sound of a sliding door opening, and then the sound of claws scraping against metal, as if some monster was running wildly through the well at an extremely high speed.

After a few breaths, he felt the thread sink, and a downward pulling force appeared.

Something bit the corpse.

Lu Mingfei lowered his head, and when he saw the true face of the "monster" in the well, his expression suddenly became strange.