Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

Chapter 364: Eri? A wizard genius?

Night sky, in the Gulfstream G550.

"Fuck! Where did these missiles come from?! Is the Japanese branch going to rebel?" The pilot couldn't help but swear and started pressing a button. The Gulfstream G550 roared violently, then its speed increased sharply and it turned to avoid the missiles.

"What are you afraid of? The modified aircraft of the Equipment Department must have air-to-air missiles. We can launch and intercept them." Lu Mingfei reminded.

After all, it was something modified by the Equipment Department. It was faster than most fighter jets at full speed, but those air-to-air missiles didn't seem simple either. Their search for the enemy was stronger than one could imagine. They stuck to the rear of the G550, as if there was a pilot inside manually operating it.

"The missiles on board were used up in the last flight, and they haven't been replenished yet!" the pilot yelled. "The missiles on this crappy plane are specially made, and only the Equipment Department can make them. Last time I applied for them, they told me to wait. It's impossible for us to encounter missions that require missiles twice in a row."

Lu Mingfei curled the corners of his mouth and raised his hand. Ice bloomed in the air and transformed into several sharp flying eagles. Each one was the size of an ordinary fighter jet. They flew out and collided with the air-to-air missiles accurately. The explosion illuminated the night sky.

"It's not over yet, more missiles are coming." Chu Zihang said.

"It's never-ending, is it? When I get back I'll ask the Equipment Department for a nuclear bomb to pay tribute to Paul Tibbets!" the pilot said angrily.

But unexpectedly, before the newly appeared anti-aircraft missiles flew far towards Lu Mingfei and his team, several high-speed missiles flying from the side accurately hit them, causing a brilliant ball of fire to explode.

Lu Mingfei and the other two looked in the direction where the high-speed missile was coming from and saw a dark blue Mitsubishi F-2 flying over.

The Mitsubishi F-2 is a third-generation fighter jet launched by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries a few years ago, but Lu Mingfei could tell at a glance that the fighter jet that was flying over had also undergone special modifications like the Gulfstream.

"There is a signal requesting access, and it is using the academy's internal frequency band." The pilot looked at Lu Mingfei - he was the captain and commander-in-chief of this mission.

"Bring it in." Lu Mingfei said.

A voice that Lu Mingfei was somewhat familiar with sounded: "Calling Gulfstream G550, calling Gulfstream G550, this is Mitsubishi F-2, I'm here to pick you up."

"Yuan Zhisheng? Brother Yuan? Is that you?" Lu Mingfei was stunned.

"Yes, it's me," Yuan Zhisheng said, "Mr. Lu, Mr. Chu, long time no see."

"It's you who are here to receive us again this time, but why is your reception so...grand?" Lu Mingfei couldn't help but complain.

He had been to Japan once before, and it was Yuan Zhisheng who received him at that time. Later, he also ran into Senior Brother Chu here by chance, and was attacked by a Japanese mixed-race organization called "Mengguizhong". So he didn't think it was strange that Yuan Zhisheng came to receive him this time, but he didn't expect Yuan Zhisheng to come in a fighter jet.

"This is a mistake on our part. I don't know why, but the news of your coming to the Japanese branch was stolen by the Demon Clan," Yuan Zhisheng said apologetically. "The Demon Clan should be planning to destroy the relationship between the Japanese branch and the academy by attacking you, the academy's special envoys. After we noticed the Demon Clan's actions, we immediately came to support them."

Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang looked at each other and understood each other’s thoughts—although there was no conclusive evidence to prove whether Yuan Zhisheng was lying, he certainly could not be trusted at the moment.

They were attacked by missiles as soon as they approached Japanese airspace. This was too much of a coincidence. Either the Ghost Clan was powerful enough to monitor the entire Japanese airspace and detect their approach and attack immediately.

Or they could get the detailed flight route of the Gulfstream G550 from the Sheqi Eight Families - but the flight route was only shared with the Sheqi Eight Families by the academy shortly before takeoff. How badly would the Sheqi Eight Families have to be infiltrated for the information just delivered to be stolen immediately?
What’s even more coincidental is that after Lu Mingfei showed his ability to not be afraid of missile attacks, the next wave of attacks had just arrived, and Yuan Zhisheng appeared at the right time and provided support.

This coincidence is really hard to believe.

After exchanging glances with Chu Zihang, Lu Mingfei said calmly: "Thank you, Brother Yuan, for coming all the way to support us. Let's find an airport nearby to land first."

"We have prepared an abandoned military training base as an airport. Please follow me." Yuan Zhisheng said.

……

Flying the F-2 and leading the Gulfstream G550 to the emergency airport, Yuan Zhisheng sighed helplessly.

He knew that at this time Lu Mingfei and the others must have suspected that the Japanese branch had bad intentions, and they might even be wondering whether the Japanese branch planned the attack, but God bless, the Japanese branch was really innocent this time!
He admitted that the Japanese branch, or the Snake Eight Families, had wanted to break away from the academy's rule for a long time, but they only wanted to gain independence and freedom from the academy. It would be best to break away in a peaceful way rather than become enemies of the academy.

After all, there was a secret party behind the academy, a behemoth that ruled the entire mixed-blood world of Europe and most of America, the world's top mixed-blood organization - even as the emperor, he had no confidence in being an enemy of such an existence.

After all, no matter how powerful the emperor is, he can never be stronger than the Dragon King, and the secret party has buried the resurrected Dragon King several times.

There is no way to explain anything just by realizing it, otherwise it will only make things worse.

I just hope that Lu Mingfei can have more trust in the family because of the family’s hospitality and help to him in the past.

At the same time, he was a little confused.

Ever since Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang were attacked by the Ghost Clan in Japan, he has conducted strict inspections and investigations on the Executive Bureau and the Eight Snake Families, uncovering a large number of undercover agents from the Ghost Clan. Logically speaking, it hasn't been long since that happened, and the family should still be clean. How come important information was leaked again?

Could it be that the fierce ghosts are really the shadows of the Eight Snake Clans as the "prophecies" handed down from ancient times, the enemies and nightmares that can never be gotten rid of?

……

The two planes landed one after another at the abandoned military training base.

Yuan Zhisheng got off the Mitsubishi F-2. He was not wearing pilot equipment, but a standard long windbreaker of the Executive Bureau. After learning that the ghosts were going to attack Lu Mingfei and others, he immediately boarded the F-2 to provide support because he was worried that something unexpected would happen, causing the academy to think that the family was provoking or even declaring war.

The door of the Gulfstream opened, and Lu Mingfei and others filed out.

Yuan Zhisheng couldn't help but glance at Lu Mingfei. He knew that S-level was very strong, but wasn't it a bit too outrageous that he could be so strong that he could easily destroy anti-aircraft missiles with words?

Even though he was the emperor of the Eight Clans of Sheqi, Yuan Zhisheng didn't think he could do what Lu Mingfei did - of course, part of the reason was that his words were special.

Yuan Zhisheng strode over, but before he could speak, a girl with some baby fat on her face next to Chu Zihang said, "Hello, do you have any motion sickness medicine?"

Yuan Zhisheng was stunned.

"Motion sickness medicine, thank you." Xia Mi said palely.

Chu Zihang supported Xia Mi and reminded her, "Motion sickness medicine can only be taken before boarding a vehicle. It is useless to take it after getting off."

"Yes, junior sister," Lu Mingfei came over and said, "If you really feel uncomfortable, let me carry you." Chu Zihang glanced at Lu Mingfei.

"It's okay, I'm much better now," Xia Mi leaned softly against Chu Zihang, "I'll be fine after a while."

Yuan Zhisheng stood aside, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself.

He had originally planned to first ask if Lu Mingfei and the others were okay, and then explain that the attack had nothing to do with the family - well, it was definitely related to the family in terms of leaking information, but the attack was really not planned by the family!

But after being interrupted by Xia Mi, he didn't know where to start.

"Brother Yuan, long time no see," Lu Mingfei stepped forward and shook hands with Yuan Zhisheng, "We are here on behalf of the academy, and we hope that we can have a pleasant cooperation."

His purpose of coming to Japan was to find Odin, the other two dark monarchs and the army of the dead in Helheim in Nibelungen. The academy sent them here to find Odin, but these could not be told to the Snake Eight Families, so the academy gave the following reason: the executive department discovered a dangerous goods trading network with Japan as the transit center. A large number of dangerous alchemical items, dragon materials and living Deadpools from all over the world were transported to Japan, and then forwarded to various countries through a certain underground hybrid organization in Japan. The buyers and sellers were all shady organizations.

The academy believes that these transactions are not only extremely inhumane, but also greatly undermine the peace of the mixed-blood world. They even suspect that someone is secretly using this to collude with the dragons, so they must get to the bottom of it. So they sent their elite specialists to Japan to form a joint investigation team with the Eight Snake Families to destroy these illegal transactions.

And it is indeed not the academy that is slandering the Eight Snake Families. This kind of transaction does exist and is quite serious. The academy did not take care of it before because the Japanese branch is highly autonomous, and secondly, there are actually quite a few families within the secret party who buy or sell some shameful things in this way, so it is not easy to directly intervene on their own family members.

Thirdly, this is a trick of the Sheqi Eight Clans that the academy has in its hands, and the academy has been keeping it to defeat the Sheqi Eight Clans at the right time - such as now.

"The branch will definitely do its best to cooperate with your actions," Yuan Zhisheng said, "My assistant is already waiting outside and will take you to the hotel to rest. The family will hold a meeting tomorrow and all the family heads will be present to discuss the matter of thoroughly investigating underground transactions."

Lu Mingfei and his three companions followed Yuan Zhisheng out of the military training base and saw two low-key off-road vehicles parked at the entrance.

A tall OL woman was standing next to one of the cars.

"Ying, thank you for your help." Yuan Zhisheng said.

Ying bowed and took Xia Mi and Su Xiaoqiang into an off-road vehicle, while Yuan Zhisheng took Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang to another one.

As they walked, Yuan Zhisheng explained, "Girls have more common topics. Let Ying and the other two come together, and the three of us can talk about the content and details of this mission on the way."

"Well, the two of them are also here to carry out the mission. Shouldn't we wait for them?" Lu Mingfei pointed at the little angel and Xia Mi.

"Those two girls should be assisting you. The three of us can just talk. They will listen to your commands anyway." Yuan Zhisheng said.

"Huh? Brother Yuan, can't you see that you are a bit sexist?" Lu Mingfei complained.

Yuan Zhisheng shook his head, too lazy to explain that this was not gender discrimination, but bloodline discrimination - he had read the information. Lu Mingfei was S-level, and although Chu Zihang was A-level, he was recognized as a super A-level by the entire Kassel Academy. As for the two girls, the information sent by the academy showed that they were both A-level, and one of them was an A-level who was admitted in advance. It was obvious that the leaders of this action must be Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang.

At an angle that Yuan Zhisheng couldn't see, Xia Mi and Su Xiaoqiang turned their heads slightly almost at the same time and glanced at him unkindly.

"Bang——" Yuan Zhisheng fell flat on the ground.

Lu Mingfei glanced at Xia Mi and Su Xiaoqiang secretly, and complained in his heart, "Is it really that serious? Women are really narrow-minded." He never considered that his own mind was no bigger than those two girls.

Chu Zihang looked at Yuan Zhisheng who had fallen to the ground in confusion, not knowing whether he should help him up or pretend not to see it for his own sake.

Weird, can mixed-bloods also fall on their faces?
Yuan Zhisheng stood up from the ground with a stern face, and looked down without saying a word - strange, he clearly felt that he had kicked two hard objects that should be asphalt bumps, and the positions of the asphalt bumps were very clever. After being tripped by the first one, he could have easily regained his balance, but he accidentally fell on another one. His balance was broken at once, and he fell down without paying attention.

With a stern face, Yuan Zhisheng didn't dare to look at Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang. He walked quickly to the SUV and opened the door: "Come in."

"Brother Yuan, did you get hurt just now?" Lu Mingfei asked with concern.

"Please come in," Yuan Zhisheng said, gritting his teeth slightly.

Chu Zihang patted Lu Mingfei on the shoulder, and Lu Mingfei gave up the idea of ​​teasing Yuan Zhisheng again.

As soon as he got into the car, he felt something was wrong - why was there an acquaintance sitting in the back seat?
The red-haired girl in a witch costume was sitting in the corner of the back seat. When she saw Lu Mingfei sitting in, her eyes lit up. She waved at him and held up a small notebook: "Mr. Ghost, you finally came to see me?"

Lu Mingfei then realized that although the Eri in front of him looked solid, it was still translucent if you looked closely.

Is it Eri's spirit body?

Lu Mingfei couldn’t help but widen his eyes slightly - when he taught Eri mental magic before, he knew that she was very talented, but he didn’t expect that she was so talented!

Although the magic he taught Eri can indeed enhance a person's mental strength, the state she is currently displaying can only be achieved by very few senior wizards even in Kamar-Taj.

This can no longer be described as genius; in another world, she would be qualified to compete with Strange for the qualification to inherit the title of Sorcerer Supreme!

But after thinking about it carefully, Lu Mingfei felt that this was normal. In addition to talent, the practice of a wizard also has a lot to do with mentality. Eri's ethereal and highly pure mentality is almost the top mentality for learning magic.

To use the terms from martial arts novels, she is Xiao Long Nu, a genius at the mental level who can comprehend the art of fighting with both hands after reading the novel only once.

Taking the two into account, Lu Mingfei estimated that even if Strange had the potential to be the Sorcerer Supreme, his speed in learning magic would be far slower than Eri's - but correspondingly, with her personality, it would be impossible for her to shoulder the responsibility of "leading other wizards as a leader" as the Sorcerer Supreme, so she could not compare with Strange in this respect.

But then again, the magic in that world is generally "Daigaole", so it doesn't matter if this kind of wizard is not suitable.

Seeing Lu Mingfei sitting next to her without saying anything, Huili stretched out her hand and waved it in front of him, then raised the small notebook again: "I came here secretly, and my brother didn't find out."

Lu Mingfei nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.

In another SUV not far away, Su Xiaoqiang turned her head to look at the car Lu Mingfei was in and frowned slightly - she didn't know if it was an illusion, but she always felt like there was something inside?
"Sister, what are you looking at?" Xia Mi teased, "We've only been apart for a short while, and you can't help but miss Brother Lu?"

"No way. It's just that in this remote wilderness, there's nothing to see except that car." Su Xiaoqiang retorted, still staring at the car.

Xia Mi stretched out her index finger, blocked Ying's view from the driver's seat with the back of the chair, and quietly wrote on Su Xiaoqiang's hand - it seems that Yuan Zhisheng has bad intentions, how about we give him a lesson?
(End of this chapter)