Dragon Raja: Starting with acquiring Orochi, a counterattack against the gods.

Chapter 403 Found it in a flash?!

A black Hummer sped along the highway. It was late at night, and a torrential downpour had shrouded the world in darkness, with only the headlights piercing through the endless black curtain and shooting into the unseen distance.

Genjiro was driving, and Uesugi Kotsugi, who had already woken up, was sitting in the passenger seat. There was no one else in the car.

Logically speaking, this situation shouldn't have happened, especially now that there are wolves all around. If any mixed-race family had received the news and successfully ambushed the car on the road, the landscape of the Japanese underworld, and even the entire mixed-race world, would have been rewritten.

However, neither Genjiro nor Uesugi Kotsugi were worried about this at all. This was not only because their mood was too complicated at the moment and they did not have time to think about such messy things, but also because the hybrid race in this world that could ambush them had probably not yet been born.

Given their bloodline and the power of their words, Lu Mingfei couldn't understand who else, except for Dragon Kings, could pose a threat to them. Seeing that they seemed to have come to their senses, he let them leave, as long as they didn't cause trouble for the Snake Clan.

Even Lu Mingfei didn't expect that his few words would be so damaging. He was clearly prepared to fight, and obviously the three senior brothers on the other side were also prepared for it.

But with just one sentence from him, just one question about where the knife was, Yuan Zhisheng lost all his fighting spirit. How to describe his expression at that time? In Lu Mingfei's words, it was as if he had lost all his strength and means, and suddenly felt that there was no point in living, and even thought about jumping off a building.

The rapid change in emotions affected even Chu Zihang and Caesar, leaving them unsure whether to fight or retreat, and they had no choice but to reluctantly lay down their weapons.

Genjiro clearly had no intention of explaining. He took the still dazed Uesugi Kotsugi with him, stepped on the gas, and drove off without saying a word.

So Lu Mingfei didn't actually know where they were going or what their purpose was.

Uesugi Yue regained consciousness shortly after setting off. He didn't ask anything, and Genjiro simply drove in silence. The two looked at each other without saying a word, and the atmosphere in the car was so heavy that it was almost suffocating.

Both of them had something on their minds, and it seemed to be about the same person.

They drove along the Meishin Expressway toward Kobe, and as the vehicle traveled, the surrounding scenery became increasingly desolate and dilapidated.

Finally, the headlights briefly illuminated the "Shikatori Shrine" sign. Genji drove the heavy steel machine along an inconspicuous side road, leaving the highway and turning onto a winding mountain road.

The further into the mountains you drive, the narrower the roads become, with winding mountain paths and swollen mountain streams everywhere. The road surface is covered with gravel, showing that this place is desolate and has been in disrepair for many years. It seems that no vehicles have passed through here for a long time.

Uesugi Koshi frowned, and finally asked, "Where is this?"

“This is where my daughter and I grew up,” Genji said. “It wasn’t like this before; it wasn’t this dilapidated.”

“At first, there were quite a lot of people here, many tourists, but later the business deteriorated, and the number of tourists decreased year by year. The priest who presided over the shrine passed away the year after I left, and the shrine declined. Without the shrine, the people in the town gradually moved away.”

The road ahead was too narrow for the car to pass through, so the two got out. Genji held a black umbrella in one hand, while Uesugi Kotsugu listened quietly as he looked down to find his way. Apart from the man's deep voice, there was only the sound of raindrops falling on the umbrella and the crisp sound of footsteps on sand and dry branches.

"But the chief priest did choose an heir at the beginning; he chose one very early on."

Genji paused here, his voice a little hoarse and dry. Uesugi Koshi, with his keen premonition, sensed something was amiss, and sure enough, the next moment he heard him say:

"It's a young girl."

Yuan Zhisheng closed his eyes and said the name. His hand gripping the umbrella handle tightened so much that his knuckles bulged and veins bulged on his forehead like earthworms. It was hard to imagine how much effort he had to suppress the emotions in his heart.

“I also think that the young girl is very suitable to be the next priest. She is so beautiful, her smile is so lovely, and she learns everything very quickly. If she were to inherit this 800-year-old shrine, this place might not be so dilapidated and desolate.”

"But unfortunately, it was all too late, because she died."

Uesugi Koshi remained silent for a long time before slowly speaking: "You brought me here so late at night, is there something you suspect?"

"You think..." The old man chose his words carefully, his voice also becoming low, "Is what Lu Mingfei said true?"

“The girl is dead. I killed her with my own hands. I am very sad and in great pain.” Yuan Zhisheng did not answer the old man’s question, but only said: “I once thought that the pain was because I paid the price for justice.”

"I killed my only family member, the one I depended on for survival, for that ridiculous sense of justice. But I can't forgive myself when I dream at night. I always see that painful and desperate face. She stares at me blankly, as if she can't believe that I would really stab her in the heart."

“I remember it very clearly. She was the first demon I killed, and also the first time my Spider Cutter and Child Cutter were drawn. I used my own sister’s blood to sharpen them.”

"But now, my knife is gone."

Uesugi was taken aback, not understanding why Genji had suddenly changed the subject from such a heavy topic, and why he had brought up the sword.

“There are many things I can’t remember,” Genji said. “I can’t remember where I got these two swords. I only remember using them to kill my sister.”

“I have never told anyone about the girl. Even you only told me because you found out some things yourself.”

"But if we haven't mentioned it, how did Lu Mingfei know? Why does he know Yuan Zhinv? And why does he know about my sword?"

He took a deep breath, suppressing the tremor in his voice: "I hid the girl's body in the well. We'll know whether she's still alive or not when we see her."

Uesugi remained silent for a long time, seemingly unsure how to begin or what to say. In the end, he simply sighed helplessly and patted the man's shoulder.

He said, "Chishin, I know what you feel guilty about, but the dead cannot be brought back to life."

"No, you don't understand. You have no idea what she means to me."

Genji interrupted the old man in a hoarse voice, and Uesugi Kotsushi also stopped talking. The two walked in silence until they came to an open space.

Genji asked Uesugi Koshi to help him hold up a lamp, and began to dig in the open space with a knife. Because of the rain, the soil was very wet. After digging down about half a meter, the tip of the knife hit something hard.

Yuan Zhisheng expressionlessly cleared away the debris, revealing the wellhead buried underground. Rusty iron chains were crisscrossed to lock the well cover, and the large lock on it had rotted into a piece of scrap iron.

The man let out a long sigh, his tone devoid of emotion: "It's exactly the same as when I sealed this well years ago; it looks like it's never been opened."

As he spoke, he drew his knife, cleaved the rusty lock in two, unlocked the chain, and finally lifted the heavy manhole cover.

The well was pitch black, and the stench of blood, both foul and damp, filled the air, making it almost impossible to breathe.

The dim light of the lamp illuminated the dark bottom of the well, and the two men froze at the sight of what was at the bottom.

……

"Make way, make way, you useless junior brother, you're blocking the way. If you have nothing to do, go play somewhere else, what do you think?"

In the messy control room, Fingel, with his messy hair, was shouting loudly. As he spoke, Lu Mingfei retreated in confusion, making a series of "oh oh" sounds.

"Stop talking the talk, stop pretending to be a big shot, go away, go away."

Fingel waved his hand dismissively, shooing Lu Mingfei to the door and then ignoring him. Lu Mingfei rarely saw him so busy, and it was rare to see him so reliable.

With a Coke in one hand and fries in the other, along with his uniformly messy hair and greasy clothes, he perfectly blended into the equipment department, making one wonder whether he was a tech geek or a chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur).

Or perhaps both.

The not-so-spacious conference room was packed with people, including those from the equipment department of Kassel College and the Ganryu Research Institute of the Snake Clan. Eva's projection was on the conference table, and Princess Kaguya was operating at full power, projecting the entire Earth onto the giant screen.

The screen was covered with countless red dots, which were the locations that the two supercomputers had calculated under extremely tight time constraints, suggesting a connection to the dragon race.

What Fingel and his team had to do was to investigate each location one by one and finally find the most likely suspicious spot.

Nibelungen is not without traces. Just like the Nibelungen in Beijing, which connects to the subway station, blurring the lines between reality and the past, there are still some anomalies at the entrance. Ordinary people may even mysteriously disappear, which means they have wandered in by mistake.

Events and locations like these that are scientifically inexplicable and suspected to be related to dragons are all marked by supercomputers. Many of them are actually just false alarms, but they do indeed contain many secrets about dragons.

In just ten or twenty minutes, Fingel and his team had investigated quite a few things related to the dragon race, but unfortunately, none of them were what they were looking for.

Unable to understand the dense data, Lu Mingfei turned his head to look out the window.

It was still raining outside, and the raindrops were pattering down, hitting the roofs of the black convoy of vehicles.

It was a convoy of countless black cars, with a luxury vehicle clustered in the center.

The streets were unusually deserted, with all the shops closed and signs saying "Temporarily closed, please forgive us" posted on the doors. Traffic control had been implemented on the main streets of this bustling area an hour earlier, and in such a short time, almost all irrelevant people had been cleared out.

This ability to mobilize resources for a rapid clearing of the area is something even the Tokyo Metropolitan Government might not be able to achieve; only the Hebi-hachi family could do it.

Sakurai Kogure sat gracefully in the Rolls-Royce, her long silver hair styled into a beautiful bun. She wore a bright red kimono, and the car door was open. One after another, yakuza members in trench coats stood guard beside the car door, holding black umbrellas and shielding it from all the wind and rain.

The beautiful girl seemed to be sitting on a dark throne, casually looking at the uninvited guest in front of her.

They were clearly a group of foreigners. Their waists were bulging with weapons, and the rings on their hands, the necklaces around their necks, and even the patterns on their clothes all proved their identities.

They were spies sent by other mixed-race families.

Sakurai Kogure dealt with the Snake Clan so quickly that it was almost imperceptible. By the time they caught wind of the situation and rushed over, Sakurai Kogure had already become the head of the household.

Lu Mingfei originally wanted to go down and help, but Sakurai Kogure said that it was more important for the higher-ups to find Genjiro, and that he must protect these people and the two supercomputers. As for the other small fry, she would handle them.

At the time, Lu Mingfei wasn't quite sure how Sakurai Kogure could handle the situation. But now, looking down from his vantage point, he could clearly see the girl surrounded by countless gangsters.

She was so composed, her features so striking they were almost aggressive, like a deadly flower blooming from a dark tomb.

She slightly reached out her hand, and someone immediately handed her a knife. It was a plain white wooden knife with no decorations, except that the scabbard and hilt were dyed a luxurious dark red.

"All guests are welcome; it is we, the Sheqi Eight Families, who have failed to provide adequate hospitality."

Sakurai Kogure spoke calmly, without even getting out of the car, her posture haughty as if she were sitting on a cloud, looking down at ants from a high place.

The uninvited guests exchanged bewildered glances. They still couldn't understand why, after only a short time since receiving rumors of something amiss from the Snake Clan, everything here seemed to have already settled down.

They had never even met Sakurai Kogure, yet this seemingly frail woman easily controlled the entire Japanese underworld.

It hadn't even been three hours since she started her rebellion.

The men were shocked, and Lu Mingfei found it unbelievable as well.

He was even with Sakurai Kogure the whole way, but now, looking back, he can't remember how Sakurai Kogure managed to do all that.

He only knew that he could never do it, and...

This once gentle and charming girl, as sweet as wine, is now becoming more and more like his senior, almost identical to the bloody and violent girl in his memory. Even their arrogant attitude of looking down on the world as if they don't care about anything is exactly the same.

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath, unsure whether to feel happy or worried. He felt at ease having such teammates, and it seemed that finding his senior sister wouldn't be a difficult task.

But seeing how much Sakurai Kogure had changed, he couldn't help but feel worried. He still preferred the gentle and kind Sakurai Kogure from before.

He also believed that Yuan Zhinv liked her because of her gentleness and kindness, since they were both very beautiful girls. At most, the beauty of the senior sister was not very obvious, her personality was a little impatient, and her hands-on ability was a little stronger, but it was not a big problem. She was still kind and gentle at heart.

But Sakurai Kogure is genuinely gentle and kind, without a single bad habit.

So the timeline has been altered too much. Did the disappearance of the senior sister really have such a big impact on this girl?

Lu Mingfei was deep in thought when he suddenly heard the cheers of the madmen. Just as he was considering whether to jump down and help, he heard them cheering.

He turned around abruptly and saw a red dot on the big screen flashing wildly. At the same time, the lunatics cheered and jumped for joy. Fingel even jumped onto the table and tried to hug the virtual girl.

Of course, he found nothing, but he didn't care. He looked at the stunned Lu Mingfei, winked excitedly, and shouted, "We found it! We found it!"

Lu Mingfei, who originally thought it would be a long time: "?"

He glanced at the time and realized that only three hours had passed since he accompanied Sakurai Kogure in their rebellion...

The boy rubbed his eyes, feeling as if three months had passed instead of three hours.

So what about all that mental preparation he did beforehand for a long battle? Does that mean he was diligent?!

Chapter 404 The Stupid Method is Also the Smartest Method

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