Dragon Race: Lu Mingfei Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 354: Eri: Katos, you can't recite the Holy Words, Katos, you are not loyal enough

Japanese branch, Genji Heavy Industries underground, Rock Flow Research Institute.

The sound of waves crashing filled her ears. Sakurai Kogure, wearing a special black night-weary outfit, was sneaking in the darkness where the lights could not reach, as if blending into it.

She followed the safe route in her mind that she had explored dozens of times before, and headed deeper into the Rock Flow Research Institute.

Half a year ago, Kaguya erased all information about Sakurai Kogure from the database and also gave her a new identity.

Now her name in the Snake Eight Family is "Miyamoto Yumi", and she works as a research assistant in the Ganliu Research Institute. She conceals her fascinating and gorgeous appearance through disguise and makeup so as not to be too outstanding and conspicuous. Even her biological father, Sakurai Kosaburo, cannot recognize that she is his missing daughter whose bloodline was judged to be an evil spirit.

No one would have thought that this inconspicuous girl in the research institute was actually the new "Dragon Horse" of the Ghost Group——

Even though she, the "Dragon Horse", had only been in office for less than two days, she ran away with the former "Dragon King".

But no matter what, Sakurai Kogure has been carrying out the task of "secretly monitoring the Eight Snake Families" assigned by Captain Lu Mingfei very seriously;

The man she loved deeply was atonement for the sins he had committed in the past, so she had no reason to escape.

And... Captain Lu Mingfei is obviously more worthy of following and loyalty than that terrifying and gloomy "King General".

Relying on her memory of working at the Ganliu Research Institute, Sakurai Kogure moved forward with ease through the blind spots of the surveillance cameras. Soon she heard a vibrating buzzing sound. That was the underground dock of the Ganliu Research Institute. The Snake Hachika smuggled or transported contraband through this huge pipeline that connected to the "Iron Dome Temple" in Tokyo and the sea.

The security here is tight, with dozens of guards in raincoats patrolling. The guns on their waists are all large-caliber revolvers like "King Cobra". Even if they are used for hunting, they are quite brutal and cruel, but gangster killers are particularly fond of them. They regard people as prey and insist on killing with one shot.

Sakurai Kogure hid in a dark corner and waited patiently. After about a few minutes, a cigar-shaped submarine with a length of about ten meters and a diameter of no more than three meters appeared at the dock of the Rock Flow Research Institute with a white waterline. The guards blew their whistles and ran towards the dock from all directions.

Taking advantage of the guards' distraction, Sakurai Kogure quickly moved to the next hiding place and continued to observe and wait for an opportunity to act.

The crane lifted the unmanned submarine into the air, and the robotic arm took out two metal tanks about the thickness of two people's arms and three meters long from the cabin. They looked like extended crude oil barrels.

The purpose of Sakurai Kogure's trip was to find out what was in these cans and where in the building they were to be transported.

It sounds like this is more like the job of the Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Division police or the internal inspection team of the Sheqi Eight Family. It is not her job to check the transportation of contraband from the Sheqi Eight Family...

But what if those guards... are all members of the Ghost Clan?
After the death or disappearance of the three high-ranking members, "Ryoma", "Dragon King" and "Wangjiang", the demon clan suddenly became leaderless and scattered. The eight families of Sheqi, led by Tachibana Masamune, launched a war of annihilation against the demon clan with thunder and lightning, sweeping across one city, one road, two prefectures and forty-three counties. The bloodshed and casualties alone have caused the Japanese parliament to plan to introduce a new anti-gang bill...

At that time, Sakurai Kogure had become "Miyamoto Yumi", an intern assistant who had just entered the Ganliu Research Institute. She bowed and nodded to her seniors to familiarize herself with the environment. She did not take the demise of the fierce ghosts too seriously. Now she was powerless to help her compatriots who were judged as "ghosts" by their family.

It wasn't until last month that she suddenly discovered some familiar faces among the new security team from the Rock Flow Research Institute.

Sakurai Kogure was once a core member of the Oni Clan, and she had some impression of the "ghosts" under her in the past. She soon determined that these people were former members of the Oni Clan.

The fierce ghosts who were thought to have been destroyed under the attack actually sneaked under the noses of the Eight Snake Families... How did they do that?
"Princess Kaguya" saves the information of every "ghost" who has defected from the family - unless they are like herself, and someone asks Princess Kaguya to delete it and arrange new identities for them.

Sakurai Kogure couldn't help but feel a chill all over her body. She remembered what the king had said before:

"The fierce ghosts are the shadows of the Eight Snake Clans. No matter how sharp the blades in their hands are, they cannot erase the shadows under their feet."

The king general...isn't he still alive?

She even subconsciously wanted to send a message to the reliable man on the other side of the ocean, fearing that General Wang would appear behind her the next second...but she had to have more evidence.

Who could have arranged, through Princess Kaguya, more than one group of "ghosts" into the Snake Eight Families?

In an era when other Japanese office companies were still using fax machines to order takeout, the Snake Eight families had complete trust and reliance on the intelligent system Kaguya built into Genji Heavy Industries;
However, apart from using the more powerful intelligent system of the US headquarters to perform simple and crude insertion and hard modification on Kaguya like Captain Lu Mingfei and his team did, those who want to delete or modify Kaguya's internal data need the highest authority. In Sakurai Kogure's knowledge, there are only two such people:

The youngest current director of the Executive Bureau in history, Minamoto no Chisei, and the patriarch of the Snake Eight Families, Tachibana Masamune.

The matter is complicated and confusing. Sakurai Kogure does not want to disturb Lu Mingfei rashly, so he decides to investigate it in depth on his own first.

The transportation of goods in the underground dock was the starting point for the investigation. She noticed that the guards composed of these ghosts had a unified schedule and rotated with the normal staff of other shifts. Every time it was their turn to be on duty, the goods that came down from the unmanned submarine were all these uniform long metal cans;
Then these jars seemed to have disappeared in Genji Heavy Industries. No one knew where they went, and there was no information about them in the Ganliu Research Institute. Recently, the frequency of the transportation of these jars has become higher and higher, with one trip every night. Therefore, this group of ghosts have been divided into two shifts to take turns in supervision.

The heavy airtight door on the wall of the tube opened, and a man in a white coat hurried out, passed the guards and came to the side of the metal tank. After confirming that they were intact, he used an alcohol spray to disinfect the surface of the two items of cargo. Obviously, they were quite important and quite dangerous.

Sakurai Kogure seized the opportunity and sneaked into the unclosed airtight door like a ghost. She hovered above the door with her hands and feet. As she expected, the cans were loaded onto a cart and pushed through the airtight door by two guards. She followed the man in the white coat towards the unknown depths of Genji Heavy Industries.

She followed them silently like a spider, secretly memorizing the new route.

The two jars were finally transported to an elevator, and a guard escorted each jar into the elevator one by one and went down. When it was finally the turn of the man in the white coat to enter the elevator alone and the elevator door was about to close, Sakurai Kogure, who was hiding in the dark, quickly got into the elevator.

Before the other party could even react, all he could see was a pair of dazzling golden eyes. Accompanied by the soft and sleep-inducing dragon chanting, the man in the white coat suddenly sat limply on the ground against the elevator wall and fell asleep in a daze.

Word spirit. Hypnosis. This is the word spirit of Sakurai Kogure.

Judging from the time it took to get on and off the elevator, Sakurai Kogure would not have much time to ask questions. She whispered to the man:

"What's in the jar?"

"It's... that lord's warrior." The hypnotized man said vaguely.

That adult? A warrior? Sakurai Kogure was confused.

"Who is that adult?" she continued to ask.

"Our great leader... we will become flames with him... and burn to death all those who want to imprison us..."

When the man talked about the latter part, he suddenly became agitated and almost woke up from his hypnotic state. Fortunately, Sakurai Kogure quickly knocked him unconscious.

"It's useless to ask."

She was somewhat helpless, so she lifted up the unconscious man, supporting him to pretend he was standing while hiding her own body.

The elevator door opened, and the two waiting guards realized belatedly that something was wrong, but before they could pull out the king cobras from their waists, Sakurai Kogure rushed out first, and the dagger in his hand wiped across the throats of the two men one after another.

"I'm sorry, both of you...I'm really sorry."

Sakurai Kogure squatted down and spoke softly, stroking their eyelids to cover their eyes whose pupils were already dilated.

She didn't want to kill anyone anymore, but if she didn't kill fiercely at this moment, she would most likely be the one to die in such a narrow space fighting with two "ghosts" that were much larger than her.

After a brief apology, Sakurai Kogure regained his attention. There was no doubt that this was the destination of the metal cans.

The elevator indicator light behind me wrote "ならく" with a deep red light - this is a foreign word, derived from the "Naraka" in the Buddhist scriptures. It is the deepest part of hell, the infinite falling void. The evil spirits in Naraka can never return to the world, and can only live forever in endless falling.

Standing in front of her was a rusty iron door that was not closed tightly. The smell of blood coming from it was stronger than that of the two people she had just killed.

She tightly grasped the dagger that was still dripping with blood in her hand, took a deep breath, and gently pushed open the iron door.

Although he had prepared himself mentally, Sakurai Kogure still felt his scalp tingling and his whole body chilled when he saw the scene inside the iron gate.

This is a room filled with tools, a stained iron operating table, sharp knives, gears for cutting bones, iron hooks hanging from the ceiling, and the pungent smell of blood in the air... This place looks like a slaughterhouse!

What is even more shocking is the huge wall opposite the door, which is seven or eight meters high and emits a faint blue light - this is a huge water tank.

Sakurai Kogure walked into the room cautiously. Although the smell of blood was pungent, she did not see any slaughtered species or body parts. She walked into the water tank. From the reflection of the glass, it could be seen that the wall of the glass tank was half a meter thick, just like the giant fish tank in the aquarium.

A big fish swam by, she took a look and almost subconsciously wanted to scream.

She recognized this thing—the Deadpool trained by General Wang!
As if alarmed by Sakurai Kogure's arrival, more and more "big fish" swam out from the darkness deep in the tank, peering at her through the glass wall with their pale human faces.

Compared to the species she had seen before, the Deadpools now in the water tank were undoubtedly more terrifying and dangerous; their body length was more than two meters, and some were even three meters. Their lower bodies were completely replaced by long tails covered with purple-gray scales. Their huge sharp claws and blade-like bony fins made people worry whether they would break through the glass of the water tank and rush out to hunt all living things for food.

"We have to inform Captain Lu Mingfei immediately! General Wang may not be dead yet! He is raising Deadpool under the ground of the Sheqi Eight Clan!"

Sakurai Kogure didn't dare to stay here any longer. When she turned around, the scene she saw almost made her breathe stop.

"What a coincidence, my lovely Ryoma. I thought you had already gone far away with the Dragon King."

It was a familiar face of a noble with white face and fangs, like a demon emerging from the sky. A pair of pupils that seemed to be burning with purple flames reflected a captivating light from behind the mask, seeing through all of Sakurai Kogure's disguises.

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Genji Heavy Industries, ξth floor, Uesugi Erie's room.

Looking at Eri, who was in good health, wearing a red and white shrine maiden costume and writing and drawing in a small notebook, Lu Mingfei had a strange expression... and uncomfortable.

Lu Mingfei first came up to check on the child's physical condition - there was nothing abnormal or unusual so far, and he also felt a power of the same origin from Eri -

That was the power of faith from His Majesty the Emperor, which seemed to be secretly stabilizing the unstable bloodline in Eri's body.

This is good news. The bad news is...Eri really knows the Japanese version of "Eri & Katos's Holy Words" by heart.

When Lu Mingfei saw what Eiry wrote in the notebook, such as "His Majesty the Emperor has protected a little monster like Eiry again today", "Eiry is always loyal", "Purify! Crush! For the Emperor, let Eiry bring death to the Emperor's enemies", "When the Emperor walks in the world, Eiry is His loyal follower", he didn't know why he had a very strange feeling, so much so that he had to maintain the expression on his face.

Soon he understood why he had this feeling: when Eri took the "Eri & Katos's Holy Words" and asked him about it and supplemented the words in it...

Only then did he realize that he had completely forgotten the sentences that he had once said and translated into Japanese... he had no recollection of them at all.

Normally, Lu Mingfei's memory was not affected after the transformation surgery. He still remembered every detail of his hundred years of service in the Weepers, but the holy words and prayers that he should have memorized by heart... he couldn't remember any of them.

The only explanation... is that His Majesty the Emperor intentionally deleted this part from his brain when he underwent the transformation surgery.

So when Lu Mingfei looked at the holy words in the notebook with a sad face and was speechless again and again, Eri, with a puffy face, wrote the following words on the notebook and pasted them in front of Lu Mingfei:

"Katos you can't recite the Holy Word! Katos you are not loyal enough to the Emperor!"

(End of this chapter)