Dragon Clan: Thought So Far.

After the meal, both of them were warm. Eri didn't want to hold an umbrella, so Lu Mingfei left it with the girl who gave them the egg custard. The girl said timidly, "Brother, you have to come back early to get it because we won't wait until late to close the store." Lu Mingfei said, "Let's go shopping in the pedestrian street and go back to the hotel to rest after that."

This city is different from Tokyo, Chicago and Sapporo. Although the city is brightly lit at night and the street lights are on all over the city, it is far from as dense and bright as in Tokyo, as if you had fallen into a candlelit shrine, nor is it like Chicago where steam is wafting from the sewers. Time and years are frozen on the sturdy buildings, and the sense of time filled with old photos is very down-to-earth. The melody of Christmas songs is overwhelming. On the streets, there are not only young people who sneak out of their homes to celebrate the snow that came earlier than in previous years, but also fathers and mothers walking in the snow with their children.

The thin layer of ice on the road was crushed again and again, and soon the whole street was wet and a little slippery underfoot. Eiry held Lu Mingfei's arm and walked with her steps as light as a deer jumping on the thick snow in the winter forest. The hem of her long windbreaker rose and fell, as if to lengthen the scale of this winter.

"It's so lively, it seems like everyone knows each other." said Eri.

Hefei is not a big city, but the Chinese people's unique familiarity and nostalgia for their hometown are still there. Along the way, you can see strangers and young people mingling together everywhere. There is snow piled in the long flower bed in the middle of the road, and some people use small snowballs stacked together to make small snowmen.

In Tokyo, everyone has a strong sense of boundaries. Everyone is like a mountain cat with his own territory. If anyone breaks into this territory, he will be so angry that his teeth are bared and his hair stands on end. But Hefei is different. If you pick up anyone on the street, you can talk about everything from family matters to the international situation, and then from the international situation to this year's Spring Festival Gala.

"Does Eri like this kind of city?" Lu Mingfei had a loose but warm scarf wrapped around his neck, with both hands in his shirt pockets, which contained a few mints that the girl had given them just now.

"Better than Shinjuku." Eri held the mint candy in her mouth and sipped it slowly. She rubbed her cheek against Lu Mingfei's shoulder. There were sparkling snowflakes hanging on her hair, exuding a warm fermented fragrance.

"My brother said that people in our country don't like to disturb others. Everyone is on guard against each other. I didn't seem so strange in such a place before." The girl walked around and looked around, feeling that everything around her was new. Lu Mingfei remained silent. He thought, "So you have always known that you are a different species from others. You try hard to pretend to be an ordinary person just to appear less strange..."

The Sorrow of Blood silently tore a hole in the depths of his memory and crawled out. With just a few words, Lu Mingfei could imagine the loneliness that Eri once felt.

"Someone once said that I'm the biggest monster in the world, but I don't think I'm weird." Lu Mingfei held Eri's small hand in his palm. The hand was cold, but Lu Mingfei's hand was almost hot. The warm breath was continuously transferred into Eri's body. "Because I always know that you are waiting for me in a corner of this world. We are the same creatures. We are not alone." Lu Mingfei said.

"I thought you wouldn't come to find me." Eri said casually, "Many years ago, I woke up from a dream and found myself still a child. I was so happy, as if starting over could change a lot of things, but I found that I couldn't resist at all... So I waited for you, and then suddenly one day I thought, what if you don't recognize me? This world is not the world in the anime and games that my brother showed me. Who can guarantee that you really still remember me... Then I thought that if you really don't remember me when we meet again, I will knock you out and take you away when I take that boat to the sea to find you. We can go anywhere, to the mountains of Kanagawa or the uninhabited areas of Hokkaido. I have never been to those places, but I just want to take you away. I will only run away, and I can only run away. I muster up the courage to do this, even if we still have to separate in the end, at least we won't regret it... Fortunately, the world is so gentle, it sent you back to me."

"So Eri is such a brave person..."

"Because my brother told me that sometimes if you don't muster up the courage, you can't even stick to your own justice." Eri said softly.

That tortoise...

Lu Mingfei still has no idea what happened in the final battle. He just killed Susanoo in Hongjing, and then fought Herzog in Tokyo Bay. What happened in the Night Food Field, what Uesugi Yue did, the roles of Minamoto Chisei and Minamoto Chijo in everything, and...

Senior brother and the principal, are they still alive?

He had no way of getting in touch with anyone in the other world. Any means of communication would be monitored and then locked and located by the academy's Sky Eye to find them hiding in this city.

But he was still very confused as to why EVA was offline in the end, and why he seemed to see Genshiro fighting against the alchemical zombies transformed by the red-armored knights on the high bridge in the crack between the Night Food Plain and the real world. That man should have died after the blood transfusion with Herzog. His body served as a temporary container for the Green Hun, and his blood was completely drained. How could Genshiro survive in this situation?
At this time, they happened to pass by a grocery store that was decorated with a strong Christmas atmosphere. A dim and warm light was projected from the glass window. Under the light, toys and cigarettes and alcohol in shiny packaging were placed. A Santa Claus doll was lying on top of the cigarettes and alcohol like a monkey.

"Christmas bunny." Eri blew on the glass window, wiped it, then lay on it and looked inside with wide eyes. She was curious about everything in this city, and also about everything in this strange world.

In the past, Eri had to pay a huge price to get a moment of freedom. Now that she is truly free, the price is to flee to the ends of the earth with the man she has been thinking about for a long, long time.

For her, this may not actually be a price, but rather a long-awaited journey.

Lu Mingfei also looked inside.

The atmosphere in the grocery store was quite warm. There was a small bar connected to it at the deepest part. Young boys and girls were telling jokes loudly in front of the bar. The beer cups in their hands were colliding in the air, and beer foam was splashing everywhere.

The Christmas bunny that Eri mentioned was sitting in front of them. It had a cute little Christmas hat on its furry head, and soft bunny ears drooped down beside its cheeks.

"Do you like it?" Lu Mingfei asked.

Eiry shook her head, and Lu Mingfei shook off the snow on his shoulders. He chuckled and rubbed the girl's head, helping her brush away the snowflakes on her hair.

He took Eri into the grocery store and asked the owner to take out the rabbit. Then he asked for a decorative ribbon, tied it on the rabbit's soft ears, and wrote a string of words on it with a marker.

"Merry Christmas, my dearest little girl, and happy birthday to you too."

"Love you, Lu Mingfei."

Eiry clasped her hands in front of her chest, her eyes sparkling with little stars. It was clearly not an expensive gift, and she had just said she didn't want it. But when Lu Mingfei solemnly put the rabbit into the gift box, she couldn't hide the excitement in her heart.

She couldn't pretend to be indifferent. If she liked someone, she liked him. If she was happy, she was happy. When Lu Mingfei was with Nuonuo or Xia Mi before, he felt that he would never understand what girls were thinking. They might not really hate you when they said they hated you, and they might not really like you when they asked you to join them in everything. But now that he was with Eiry, he only needed to look into her eyes to know what she was thinking and what he should do.

After they bought two cups of coffee at the Starbucks next door, they suddenly had a change of heart and looked at each other at the same time. It turned out that the core of the pedestrian street was in front of them. There was a huge Christmas tree there. Under the tree, young people were sitting in a circle around wooden tables. A girl in a pink bunny doll costume jumped onto the table and used a corkscrew to open the champagne for the people at the table one by one.

When the champagne was opened, everyone cheered and sang Jingle Bells together. Everyone gathered under the tall Christmas tree to sing. The coldness of this winter was dispelled by the singing. Eri took Lu Mingfei's arm and sang along, shaking her head and humming. The candlelight illuminated the girl's eyes, and the deep brown was stained with a light wine red.
They stood there for a long time, and more and more people joined the chorus under the Christmas tree. People from a TV station quietly appeared around and started filming the crowd with their cameras. The host, who was dressed like a fat penguin, was introducing something to the camera with a red nose in the strong wind.

Lu Mingfei smiled silently and pulled Eri away.

Although they wear masks, the academy's eyes will always find a way to identify your identity, including irises, fingerprints, big data, and even missed DNA. Any flaws will cause them to expose their identities.

If you are accidentally captured by a TV station's camera, even if it's just a blurry shadow, there is a risk of being exposed.

Lu Mingfei is not afraid of the academy's pursuit. He can recover to his peak state after a few days of rest. In his peak state, he is unmatched in the academy's active combat power. Even the legendary dragon slayer Hilbert Jean Ange cannot suppress him in a frontal battle.

What's more, Xia Mi took the initiative to separate his spiritual elements from the dragon bones and completely transferred them into Lu Mingfei's body. From the perspective of the dragon clan's worldview, he is now the orthodox king of the earth and mountains, and even a king of the earth and mountains who possesses some of the power of the White King.

If he wanted to, Lu Mingfei could destroy a city overnight, or trigger geological changes deep in the earth's crust to create a disaster that would sweep across a country. The academy's pursuit was nothing to him.

The real trouble is the organization called "Holy Palace Medical Society". It has been confirmed that Odin is a member of this organization, and Herzog and Boar Neo are just non-staff working for them.

If even a first-generation being like Odin cannot become the leader of an organization and can only discuss matters with other beings, then the Holy Palace Medical Society must have monstrous power, and the Immortals may be just a group of insignificant hounds to them.

In addition, the Elders' Council and their hunting teams are also very troublesome. Lu Mingfei is unwilling to fight with those old men, let alone kill them, but the elders including Beowulf are out-and-out revengers and racists. They advocate killing all dragons. If the power in the board of directors infiltrated by the Holy Palace Medical Society eventually convinces others to issue a warrant for Lu Mingfei's arrest and finds evidence that Lu Mingfei is colluding with the Dragon King or even that he is the Dragon King himself, these old heroes who once stood with Lu Mingfei as allies will become sharp swords to hunt him down.

"I want to eat cake." Eiry was led by the hand and ran behind Lu Mingfei. Her long hair fluttered like seaweed in the wind. Her eyes, which only captured the back of this man, were as gentle as a cloud.

"Okay, let's ask the waiter to go to the next street and buy it back." Lu Mingfei said.

Fortunately, when Sister Mai left, she still remembered that President Lu was penniless and had a clean face, so she left a lot of cash for him. Otherwise, this guy would have gone shopping with the beautiful girl and returned empty-handed tonight.

"I also want Sakura to sing birthday song for me. No one has ever sung it for me before." Eri said.

For some reason, Lu Mingfei suddenly thought of the image of the tortoise wearing a colorful striped top hat and singing the birthday song in a cheesy way. He shook his head and nodded. "Okay, I'll sing for you," Lu Mingfei said.

"I want another kiss." Eri said.

"No problem, it doesn't matter how long you kiss me."

"Tonight, tomorrow night, and every night after that I will sleep with you." Eri pouted.

Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.

Eri's situation is very special now. With such power flowing in her body, Lu Mingfei doesn't want her to leave his sight in the short term. It shouldn't matter if they just sleep together...

They passed by men and women who were walking into the pedestrian street. Only Lu Mingfei and Eiry went against the sea of ​​people, in which the sound of singing was like a tide.

But at a certain moment Lu Mingfei suddenly stopped, turned his head sharply and looked in the direction he had just walked behind him.

Everyone turned their backs to show him, but Lu Mingfei felt inexplicably dazed because someone turned around in the crowd at the same time.

She was wearing a plain long trench coat and plain high heels, but her skin was so cold and white, with a thin layer of snow on her shoulders.

They looked at each other in the crowd, but this chance encounter was a whole year since their last meeting.

The girl's long flowing hair was tied up on top of her head, and Lu Mingfei's jersey from that year was changed to a long black windbreaker.

Ten seconds later, Lu Mingfei suddenly laughed.

"What a coincidence," he said.

"Yes, what a coincidence." Su Xiaoqiang smiled with his eyes narrowed, but there was not much unnecessary expression on his fair little face.

"My girlfriend, she's Japanese, Uesugi Eriya." Lu Mingfei showed the girl his and Eriya's hands holding each other, but he was carefully observing Su Xiaoqiang's eyes.

"Senior Brother Ming Fei is really a romantic wanderer." Su Xiaoqiang said. She held up a huge umbrella, and the crowd under the umbrella automatically parted. The girl tilted her head, and the silver earrings on her earlobes jingled.
"Want a drink?" she asked.

"Okay, I'll be staying at the Regent Hotel recently." Lu Mingfei did not refuse. (End of this chapter)