Dragon Clan: Thought So Far.

Chapter 351 342. Zero: As long as it's you, I'm looking forward to it
Caesar didn't know that the Age of Gods city detected under the Abyss had long lost its owner, and the carrier of the White King gene, the Yamata-no-Orochi, who was sleeping there, had been awakened by the ancient dragon embryo that was used as a sacrifice many years ago, and returned to Japan following the direction in his memory.

Although the Ghosttooth Viper, a dragon subspecies that looks more like a snake than a fish, exists as executioners and guardians in the dragon civilization, if their masters leave, these devilish little creatures will become particularly manic and their habits will change drastically.

They still guard the ancient Takamagahara, waiting for the call from their master, but there is no longer anything that keeps them from staying in one area and not expanding outward.

It seems that these ghost-toothed vipers have become the top predators in the dragon subspecies ecosystem in the Abyss.

Kassel College should be thankful that the owner of these dangerous creatures did not give them perfect genes when they created them, otherwise twenty years would be enough for the Devil's Tooth Viper, which has no natural enemies in nature, to spread throughout the Pacific Ocean.

That would be a horrific biological disaster, devastating the biodiversity of the ocean until a way was found to kill them.

Only dragons knew how to control the Vipertooth, but that method has now completely disappeared with the decline of dragons.

The Trieste was still slowly descending, and the No. 1 watertight compartment was already filled with seawater.

The waters outside the observation window that had been stirred like a busy white fog had returned to calm. Thousands and even tens of thousands of ghost-toothed vipers swayed their tails like an equal number of bullets, chasing the mutant shark towards the surface of the sea at high speed.

"Can one shark feed so many monsters?" Caesar took out a cigar from somewhere, but did not light it. He just held it between his fingertips with a slight tremor.

"No, but the ghost tooth viper does not rely solely on meat to survive. Experts who study dragon subspecies believe that they have certain organs in their bodies that can absorb energy from minerals." Chu Zihang frowned and carefully controlled the submersible to dive at a constant speed.

At the current speed, it would only take them twenty minutes to reach the planned depth of 4,500 meters, which was close to the edge of the dragon subspecies' ecosphere.

"There are records in the library that the Sumerians once raised dragon vipers to eat iron ore. The iron in their bodies became increasingly enriched and purified. Then the Sumerians burned the vipers with low-temperature flames to obtain iron of relatively good quality. Transparent crystalline substances can be found in this iron. Those are the teeth of dragon vipers." Chu Zihang continued, "In addition, there are records of the ancient Babylonians raising ghost-toothed dragon vipers. They used these small monsters of the Salmoniformes family to extract extremely pure gold and silver to build that spectacular building, the Hanging Gardens."

"Unfortunately, we have no way to sample these viperfish as this depth is not suitable for underwater diving," said Caesar.

At this time, the sonar screen began to flash red again. The threat was not gone away, and the Ditrieste once again issued a silent warning to Caesar and Chu Zihang.

The thing was approaching very slowly, right above the Trieste.

The shimmering light flowed in from the observation window above and echoed on the inner walls of the Ditrieste's cabin, like the bright moonlight reflected on the lake surface in the middle of the night when there was a breeze.

Caesar held his breath and looked up, and saw a returning ghost tooth viper swimming leisurely outside the observation window.

When viewed up close, the objects are not as beautiful and graceful as they appear when viewed from a distance.

On the contrary, the appearance of that viperfish can be described as the most ferocious and hideous creature on earth.

Its body is only the size of a finger, but is as slender as a ferocious baby snake. Its tail and pectoral fins are small and sharp, and its entire body is covered with densely packed, overlapping and interlocking silver transparent scales.

The most terrifying thing is the teeth of the ghost-toothed viper. They are transparent and sharp like ring-cut diamonds, with a faint metallic luster, curved and long and narrow, protruding fiercely from the lips, and the brutality of the ancient gods is overwhelming.

The little fish swam back and forth outside the thick resin glass, and its eyes, which shone with golden light like fireflies, seemed to be looking at the two people in the cockpit of the Ditrieste through this thick transparent barrier.

"Don't worry, this thing's eyesight is as bad as his hearing." Chu Zihang calmly fiddled with the buttons and switches in front of the operating table, while Caesar pressed his face against the inner wall of the resin glass.

He did not light up his golden eyes, and the fluorescent ghost tooth viper was clearly reflected in his ice-blue eyes.

Suddenly a whole field of stars appeared above the Trieste; it was the school of viperfish that had just passed them in pursuit of the shark.

The fleeing megalodon seemed to be dead, with its skin and muscle fibers bitten by the powerful jaws of thousands of viperfish, like thousands of stars gathering around it.

Other viperfish spun and circled the massive, slowly falling body, like cantilevers around the core of a galaxy.

The silver and fluorescent blue glow illuminated the abyss-like darkness in the waters two thousand meters below the sea, illuminating the entire body of the shark.

Caesar's eyes widened as he saw dense swarms of dragon vipers nailed to the poor guy's body. The ghost-toothed dragon vipers were swinging their long and thin tails wildly to bite its body, but they did not drill into its body to devour its internal organs.

"They just bit the shark's muscles but kept its internal organs and bones intact. It's incredible. Normally, the liver and spleen of animals are usually the first parts that predators eat." Caesar exclaimed.

"Perhaps this is the reason why they chased out of the ecosystem. There is something in the shark's internal organs that they are not allowed to take away." Chu Zihang said coldly, "Maybe it is the flesh and blood left behind when the embryo was hatching, or maybe it is the genetic debris that flew away when the ancient dragon broke out of its shell. In short, it is a divine thing to the Ghosttooth Viper..."

The so-called God's things are treasures that are absolutely not allowed to be taken away from that ecosystem.

Even another god has to respect his own kind, so how dare a beast overstep its authority?

Thousands of stars dragged huge corpses past the Ditrieste. Some viperfish curiously swam around the slowly sinking iron lump for a few circles, but after finding nothing, they followed their own group.
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The black Hummer was speeding on the mountain road at the junction of Yamanashi Prefecture and Kanagawa near the Tama River. The wipers on the front windshield were swinging left and right like crazy, breaking up and clearing away all the falling snowflakes and ice crystals. The bright headlights could only illuminate a distance of less than ten meters ahead in the thick snow curtain. The modified wheels bit the asphalt road surface tightly, and snow dust as high as a person was splashed on both sides.

Sakura, wearing a black ninja uniform and a sheepskin coat, was driving the car, and Gen Chisei was sitting in the passenger seat. There was no one else in the car except for the titanium black weapons box in the back seat.

When traveling from Genji Heavy Industries to Tama River, Genji Chisei did not allow the elites of the Executive Bureau to accompany him.

It is a turbulent time now. The heavy snow has given some time for the underworld war that broke out in the core area of ​​Tokyo City last night to cool down, but the Eight Snake Families have been trapped in a situation where they are surrounded on all sides and isolated and helpless.

They wiped out more than half of the active forces of the Demon Clan, but failed to capture Sakurai Kogure, codenamed Ryoma, nor killed Kazama Ruri. As for the King General, he was even more of a legendary figure.

Not to mention that just the day before, the previous head of the Snake Eight Clan, Tachibana Masamune, issued the last order of his life to the family. That order was to launch a war against Kassel Academy and pull out the academy's nails in Tokyo.

Japan is the Japan of the Snake Eight Clan, and it has been like this for thousands of years. In a sudden attack, they mobilized hundreds of mixed-bloods to participate in this attack, and the Academy had no way to resist in its safe haven in Japan.

But everyone knew that Angers would never give up, and a violent counterattack was imminent.

——"I wonder if Genji has already known that the Yamata no Orochi is hiding in the Red Devil River?" Lu Mingfei squatted under a big tree on the mountain, holding a lit cigarette in his mouth and looking down at the black Hummer flashing by on the winding mountain road. Ling stood beside him holding a big umbrella with a white umbrella, and snowflakes fell rustlingly, landing on the umbrella and then falling to the ground.

The giant tortoise indeed arrived at the Tama River.

What was he doing here? To confirm whether the Yamanashi Institute of Environmental Sciences had already dug a deep well that led directly to the God's Burial Ground?
Or come with a sword and end things with Lu Mingfei?

"It's possible. The boss said that Tachibana Masamune is very strange, and he raised Amaterasu no Mikoto. Maybe the former head of the Snake Family has already known where the Holy Remains are." Ling said, "We have investigated Tachibana Masamune's background. He appeared in the eyes of the Snake Family in 1992. Before 1993, he was still an unknown little man. In 1994, Tachibana Masamune joined the Executive Bureau of the Snake Family and immediately showed extraordinary personal ability and leadership charm. He climbed up from a commissioner of the Executive Bureau within ten years, achieved a class leap, and became the head of the Tachibana family."

Lu Mingfei listened to Ling with a frown on his face. He knew the life of Tachibana Masamune, or Herzog, better than anyone else. He could even recite it by heart.

In 1999, he became the acting director of the Executive Bureau, in 2001 he became the head of the Tachibana family, and in 2003 he became the head of the Sheqi Eight Families.

Judging from his abilities alone, Herzog can be described as a perfect hexagonal warrior. He is personally brave, strategic, and has leadership style. He is almost a perfect politician. Such a person will not necessarily lose to other candidates even if he runs for the US presidency.

"The Lenin sank in the Sea of ​​Japan at the end of 1991, on the eve of the disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Tachibana Masamune appeared in 1992. What do you think of?" Zero asked.

"He came to Japan on the Lenin," said Lu Mingfei.

"He is a ghost in a certain port, but the survivors of that port don't know a person named Tachibana Masamune." Zero said coldly.

Lu Mingfei was stunned.

He knew that Herzog had worked in an unnamed port in Siberia as a scientist captured by the Soviets from Germany, restricted in his movements and ordered to engage in an... unknown research for life.

But he didn't expect that Zero also knew about that port.

"That port was once the property of the Romanov family, but the Republic of Estonia obtained the research materials there after the collapse of the Soviet Union," said Zero.
"That's not accurate either. A more accurate statement is that in the 1980s my family and other ancient families provided information for that port."

"People are really different from each other." Lu Mingfei shrugged and spit the last cigarette butt into the snow. He stood up and stood shoulder to shoulder with Ling, watching the Hummer disappear from sight.

"In the 1980s, our family still lived in the Khrushchev Building. In order to raise tuition for my father, my uncle had to drop out of school early and go to work in a big city." Lu Mingfei's heart moved slightly. The home that seemed to have nothing to do with him anymore suddenly broke into his memory quietly.

The uncle who always had a slicked-back hair, couldn't even take out two hundred dollars from his pocket before he went into business, and was very concerned about his reputation was actually a man who gritted his teeth and walked out of hardship.

If it weren't for my uncle, my dad probably wouldn't have the money to go to college or Kassel College, right?
Actually, when I think about it, my uncle is very good to me, he is just afraid of his wife.

But why isn't he afraid of his wife?
Lu Mingfei heard from his aunt that when she first married into the old Lu family, Lu Gucheng was just a small civil servant. He had difficulty supporting himself, let alone supporting his family and sending living expenses to his brother every month. So his aunt took out the dowry that had been saved to subsidize the family expenses.

Thinking about it this way, it is understandable that he deeply dislikes him. In other families, the eldest son takes on heavy responsibilities, but in Lao Lu's family, the second son becomes the one who has to shoulder the responsibility.

My uncle didn't say anything, but sometimes he would say that he also wanted to study at that time, but he had no money, no money to study...

"Let's go back to the camp and see what Yuan Zhisheng wants to do here." Lu Mingfei stretched, took the umbrella from Ling's hand, and naturally stretched out his arms. Ling took his arm and walked forward leaning against him.

There was a thick layer of snow on the road, and the bottom layer was pressed into ice. Zero's hiking shoes and Zero's boots made crackling sounds on it, along with the sound of ice cracking and the sound of fallen leaves and dead branches breaking.

The communication with Nuonuo has been restored. The senior sister welcomed Ling's temporary joining of the mission and warned Lu Mingfei implicitly that if he dared to have any evil thoughts, he would be torn into pieces by six horses.

"You must have had a hard time as a child, right?" Zero asked suddenly.

Lu Mingfei scratched his head, feeling a little embarrassed. “It’s not that bad. It’s like this when you live under someone else’s roof. My parents are unreliable, so there’s nothing I can do about it,” he said.

He looked at Ling, wondering why she suddenly brought up this, and continued the conversation.

"What about you? Your Highness must have had a happy childhood, with twelve-layer cakes on her birthday and hundreds of presents at Christmas."

"My parents died when I was very young, so I had to be the head of the family when I was very young. At that time, all the oligarchs in Moscow knew that the Romanov family had a little girl who was not even as tall as a tire and was worth billions. Many people wanted to become my guardian, but General Vatutin warned them not to take advantage of me." Zero said.
"I live in Elizabeth Palace, I have no family, only a butler and a group of servants, no one will celebrate my birthday, and no one will give me gifts at Christmas."

Lu Mingfei was speechless for a moment, thinking that every family has its own problems. He wanted to reach out and touch the little girl's head, but his dominant arm was still held by Ling.

"If only we had known each other at that time, you wouldn't have to live in your uncle's house, but with me. I would pick a bedroom in Elizabeth Palace for you. You would be responsible for buying me a cake on my birthday, helping me cut a Christmas tree at Christmas, and stuffing the socks under the Christmas tree with gifts."

"But people say Lu Mingfei is a fool. I don't know what girls like. Maybe they'll stuff Gundam models into their socks."

Ling continued to walk at a leisurely pace, holding Lu Mingfei hostage on the rugged mountain road.

She didn't say anything for several minutes, and Lu Mingfei thought the topic was over.

Zero suddenly said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter, a Gundam Ultraman figure or even just a piece of candy doesn't matter, you're with me, so I'm looking forward to it as long as it's you."

Lu Mingfei looked a little embarrassed for a moment.

Ling suddenly laughed, as if she had never laughed in front of Lu Mingfei before. Her eyebrows and eyes were curved like the bright surface of a lake. At this moment, Lu Mingfei was actually a little stunned.

She stood on tiptoe and reached out to pinch Lu Mingfei's cheek. "You're very funny when you're embarrassed, like a little seal." Ling said, and then in an instant she returned to her usual indifference.

Lu Mingfei blinked, not knowing why he was associated with the seal.

(End of this chapter)