Lu Mingfei, who had read Dragon Clan before slaying the dragon

Lu Mingfei was stunned again. Obviously, he didn't expect that the girl knew his name. He nodded, and suddenly as if he remembered something, he reached out his hand.

He took the notebook from the girl's hand, wrote the three words "Lu Mingfei" under the pinyin marked by the girl, and wrote the word "Sakura" below.

"Yes, my name is Lu Mingfei, you can also call me Sakura." Lu Mingfei said softly to her as he handed the notebook back to her.

The girl looked at the name "Sakura" written by Lu Mingfei and nodded. She seemed to be more satisfied with the name "Sakura" than "Lu Mingfei". Then she took the notebook and wrote quickly.

"Eri." The girl handed the notebook to Lu Mingfei again.

That was her name, and she thought now was the time for introductions.

"Eri..." Lu Mingfei murmured the name.

He had said this name more than once, but at this moment, as he stared at Eri's face, saying her name out loud felt completely different... It was like waking up from a big dream, with dreams and reality cleverly overlapping, full of contradictions.

Everything is so unreal... yet so real.

Chapter 301 Eri, Let’s Go to the Outside World

Eiry looked at Lu Mingfei and nodded, as if she appreciated Lu Mingfei for calling her name correctly.

Lu Mingfei also looked at Eiry. To be more precise, he was looking at his own reflection in Eiry's eyes. All his panic and anxiety faded away at this moment, and he showed a hearty smile to the girl.

"Nice to meet you, Eri."

After hearing this, Eiry also smiled and seemed happy. Perhaps it was because no one had ever said "Nice to meet you" to her before. Hearing someone happy to meet her for the first time was as happy as receiving a gift for the first time in her life.

Eiry seemed to suddenly think of something, lowered her head, rummaged in the pouch of her pajamas, and suddenly pulled out something and stuffed it into Lu Mingfei's hand.

Lu Mingfei opened his palm...it was a yellow rubber duck.

Lu Mingfei was startled. He turned the rubber duck over, with its head facing the ground and its belly facing up. He saw those familiar words written on the duck’s belly with a black marker... "Eri's Duck".

It's still that ill-fated rubber duck... It was accidentally left in the bathtub by Eiry at first, then taken away by Lu Mingfei, and accompanied the Trieste to dive into the abyss eight thousand meters below the sea. Finally, it fell out after Lu Mingfei lost control, and once again ended up in the hands of its original owner, Eiry, and now it was stuffed into Lu Mingfei's hands by Eiry again.

This rubber duck is one of Eri's favorite toys. Now that she's stuffing it into Lu Mingfei's hand, it means...

"Eri, do you want me to help you put the little yellow duck on your body?" Lu Mingfei asked a very stupid question tentatively.

Eri shook her head and began writing something in her little notebook.

"It's a gift for Sakura." Eiry held the small notebook in front of Lu Mingfei and pointed at the rubber duck.

Perhaps in return for Lu Mingfei's words "Nice to meet you", Eri gave Lu Mingfei the rubber duck that had been with him the longest as a gift.

Lu Mingfei was flattered and thankful that the rubber duck didn't have a beak and couldn't speak, otherwise the poor little duck would probably want to ask, "I'm just a rubber duck. What did I do wrong? Why is I being treated like this by you two?"

Eiry suddenly snatched the rubber duck from Lu Mingfei's hand again... She took out a marker from her purse. She didn't mean to go back on her word, but to erase the three words "Eiry" on the duck's belly and change it to "Sakura's Duck".

In the girl's view, things given to Sakura belong to Sakura. No one likes to have other people's names on their things, just like she will mark her own name on all the things, because this is the only way to prove that those things belong to her.

However, a hand suddenly grabbed Eiry's wrist, and Lu Mingfei stopped Eiry from making any corrections. He took the little yellow duck and the marker from Eiry's hand, and then turned the duck's belly upwards.

Lu Mingfei carefully used a marker to add "Sakura&" in front of "Eriya's Duck" and then showed it to Eriya.

“Sakura&Eriyi’s Duck”… “Sakura and Eri’s little yellow duck.”

"That's good. The little yellow duck is mine, and it's also Eri's." Lu Mingfei smiled and said sincerely to the girl, "Thank you for the gift, Eri."

Eri also smiled happily. She probably smiled more today than she did in the past year combined.

In the past, she would only show a thin and cold smile when she beat Yuan Zhisheng in games. That was probably the girl's most emotional expression before, but now she smiles even happier than if she had beaten Yuan Zhisheng in games ten times combined.

She has received many gifts, most of which came from Masamune Tachibana and Chisei Minamoto. As the head of the Uesugi family, the underworld under the Uesugi family would also provide various gifts to Eriya every year, and Masamune Tachibana would collect them on Eriya's behalf... but no one has ever shared something with Eriya. She likes this little yellow duck that has been with her for a long time. She also likes Sakura, whom she has met several times, so she gave the little yellow duck to Sakura to express her love, but Sakura told her that this thing is still hers, they own it together, so she doesn't have to lose the little yellow duck. This feeling makes the girl unexpected and delighted.

"Sakura, you are a very nice person!" Eiry wrote on the small notebook and handed the notebook to Lu Mingfei again.

“Very good”…huh?

Lu Mingfei stared at the carefully written words on the notebook and the girl's sincere eyes for a long time. The anticipation of five years burst out from the bottom of his heart, and something made his heart a little sour.

"Eri is also very good." Lu Mingfei's voice was a little hoarse.

He didn't know where the courage came from, or perhaps it was some kind of impulse, but Lu Mingfei couldn't help but stretch out his slightly trembling palm and gently cover the girl's dark red hair. Feeling the soft touch at his fingertips, he said the words he had wanted to say for a long time but had been holding back in his heart.

"Come with me, Eri. Let's run away from home and see the outside world... okay?"

This was the first time that someone other than Tachibana Masamune and Minamoto no Chisei touched Eiry's body, even something as presumptuous as touching her head, but Eiry didn't feel repulsed at all. When she heard Lu Mingfei say that he would take her outside, a dazzling light gradually appeared in her eyes... It was an emotion called "longing" and "yearning".

"Sakura, are you going to take me out to play?" Eri seemed very excited.

Eiry skipped home thirteen times in total, but she never ran far. The farthest she went, she only went to the traffic light below the Genji Heavy Industries building and stopped. Pedestrians were constantly passing by her, and colorful vehicles were flowing at the intersection. She stood at the intersection, feeling a little dazed and at a loss. She felt that the world was too big, so big that she didn't know which way to go. Maybe she would get lost at the next intersection and never be able to go back home. There were many people in this world, but she didn't know any of them... So the girl felt sad for no reason and shed tears silently until Genji Chisei found her and took her home... After that, Eiry didn't skip home for a long time.

But now someone offered to be her guide and take her to see the outside world, just like someone opened the iron cage that imprisoned the canary's freedom. And with Sakura, she no longer had to worry about getting lost or not being able to return home. Sakura was someone she knew, so she no longer had to worry about being too lonely... Of course, Eri was very happy.

"Well, I'll go out and play with Eiry." Lu Mingfei looked at Eiry, his voice soft and serious.

"Let's go to a place where we can see the stars?" After finishing writing, Eiry raised the notebook and shook it in front of Lu Mingfei.

"Yes, there are many stars that can be seen. When Eri looks at them from the ground, they are also looking at Eri in the sky."

"What about the sea? Has Sakura ever seen the sea? The book says that the sea is a very big thing. How big is the sea?" Eri couldn't wait to write.

"I've seen it. The ocean is huge, tens of thousands of times bigger than Eri's bathtub... no, hundreds of millions of times! Eri can't even see the end of it. It would probably take the little yellow duck years to swim to the other side of the ocean."

"I want to go to the sea with Sakura."

"Okay, I'll take Eri to the beach and we'll go see the sea."

"Can I wear a skirt when watching the sea?"

"Of course, I'll take Eri to buy a dress... Not just a dress, but also hairpins, shoes, and a hat... The sea is a beautiful thing, and Eri can dress up beautifully when she looks at the sea."

……

Eiry asked tirelessly, wishing she could pour out all the curiosity about the world that she had accumulated over the years. Lu Mingfei answered patiently. Even though Eiry's questions sounded childish and funny to ordinary people, Lu Mingfei answered each question very seriously. The light in the girl's eyes became brighter and brighter, as if the sun was stuffed into her pupils.

"Sakura is the best person I have ever met." Eri finally wrote this sentence in the little notebook, and then she ran away to pack her things. It was obvious that she couldn't wait to leave this little house and go out and play with Lu Mingfei.

The little notebook was left on the dressing table, the page frozen at the last sentence.

The girl's world was simple. She had met Lu Mingfei several times, and every time they had physical contact. Lu Mingfei was probably the person she had the most frequent contact with recently, besides Tachibana Masamune and Minamoto no Chisei. So in a sense, Lu Mingfei could be considered an "acquaintance" of Eri's.

This acquaintance came to her room today and patiently told her about the outside world, saying that he would take her to places with beautiful scenery... Before this, Eri had learned about the world through playing games and watching anime. No one had ever told her so patiently what the stars looked like, what the sea looked like, what the crabapple flowers and crabapple trees looked like... But Lu Mingfei did this, so in Eri's view, Lu Mingfei was the best person she had ever met.

Lu Mingfei looked up at Eiry's busy back... The girl was opening the closet against the wall and took out a one-meter-long cardboard box from the closet.

Inside the cardboard box were all sorts of dolls, stuffed animals, and small items. There was a small notebook filled with notes she couldn't bear to throw away, a furry, white-bellied Rilakkuma, palm-sized Ultraman and monster figurines, and her favorite game cards. Each item had a small white label on a prominent spot. Some read "Eri's Hello Kitty," some "Eri's Little Monster," and some "Mickey Mouse."

Each item is labeled with Eri's name. These are probably all her "belongings". She will take all her belongings with her when she goes out so that the girl will feel safe and these toys will not be lonely.

Lu Mingfei looked at the girl who was busy counting her belongings and the toys that had appeared in the dream story one by one. The dream and the past five years flashed through Lu Mingfei's mind like a passing scene. The unreality gradually disappeared, and he realized that all this was happening in reality. He had come to this point with his modified destiny.

Lu Mingfei lowered his head again and looked at the last sentence Eiry wrote in the small notebook... "Sakura is the best person I have ever met"... His pupils suddenly felt sore and his eyes seemed to be sweating.

"What's wrong with Sakura? Is she unhappy?" Eiry was holding a huge box. When she saw Lu Mingfei's appearance, she suddenly put down the box and asked in the notebook.

Lu Mingfei shook his head slightly, wiped his eyes, and helped Eiry pick up the box and the toys that the girl treasured.

"No... I'm not unhappy. I'm very happy... Today is probably the happiest day of my life."

……

On the other hand, the situation on Caesar and Chu Zihang's side is not very good.

Gen Chisheng, in the dragon bone state and the secret of Shinto Wunianliu, and the visualization state of the entire sword path, was searching for their figures in the Shinto of the shadow wall layer. This was probably the strongest state of the emperor of the Eight Snake Families without using the words. No enemy had ever forced Gen Chisheng to this point, so the true strength of the number one in the Japanese branch had always been a mystery.

Yuan Zhisheng walked along the long Shinto Road, with the chopped-off banners and candlesticks behind him. These were traps set by the two guys for Yuan Zhisheng, but none of them could hurt Yuan Zhisheng in this state. Just like he himself said, all the dirty tricks are futile in the face of absolutely powerful strength.

But what Yuan Zhisheng didn’t know was that he dared to say such words...that was because he had never seen the dirty tricks of Caesar and Chu Zihang.

When Yuan Zhisheng walked past a curtain somewhere, the gauze curtain suddenly caught fire. The flames leaped violently, casting Yuan Zhisheng's shadow like a ghost. Suddenly, a vague black shadow passed by behind the curtain!

Spider Cut suddenly attacked, and the curtain was cut into pieces by the invisible sword light and fell down. There was no one behind the curtain, as if the ghost shadow seen just now was just an illusion of Yuan Zhisheng.

It was this shameful trick again. Yuan Zhisheng's eyes became gloomier again... Caesar and Chu Zihang did many similar tricks along the way. They never thought of using these tricks to bring down Yuan Zhisheng. However, if similar tricks were used too much, it would definitely affect Yuan Zhisheng's mentality, making him irritable or overly nervous.

Playing psychological warfare?

Yuan Zhisheng took a deep breath, slowly adjusted his state, and stepped on the fragments of the curtain to move forward. Because the curtain was still burning, light and shadows were mottled and intertwined on the wall, and he failed to notice the figures hidden behind the statues of gods and demons on both sides.

"Beta, it's now!" A voice exploded on the left side of Yuan Zhisheng, echoing throughout the long Shinto.

The moment Yuan Zhisheng heard the voice, he subconsciously looked to the left, but the huge golem on his right suddenly fell down and smashed towards him.

Gen Chisheng was in a state of full visualization of kendo, and his sword skills could be instantly released at a speed three times faster than usual. His arms bent at an incredible angle, and the Spider Cut slid silently behind him, and the blade turned into a phantom.

Chapter 302 The Beast in the Boys’ Bones

The huge golem sculpture pushed open the gauze curtain, revealing a ferocious face with ferocious fangs on its face that looked like both a human and a demon. Its huge body smashed towards Yuan Zhisheng, as if it was going to bend down and swallow Yuan Zhisheng into its stomach.

Yuan Zhisheng turned his back to the colossus, and the blade of the spider cut through the middle of the huge solid wooden golem at an invisible speed. The arc of light was like a straight lightning falling from the sky to the ground. The huge body of the golem and the banners wrapped around it were smoothly cut in half by this arc of light, and the cross-section was as smooth as if it had been cut by a cutting machine.

The statue split in half and fell to the ground on both sides of Yuan Zhisheng. With a loud bang, the floor shook violently and the thousand-year-old cherry wood shattered into pieces and flew in all directions.

Another insidious little trick like this!

Yuan Zhisheng was already a little annoyed. He no longer had the patience to play hide-and-seek with these two little mice. Allowing these guys to mess around on this floor would not only damage the property of the Sheqi Eight Families, but would also infringe upon his own dignity as the head of the Sheqi Eight Families!

As soon as the golem was smashed to pieces, the statue on the other side suddenly fell towards Yuan Zhisheng... Yuan Zhisheng didn't even need to think about it, this must be another trick of those two little mice!

This statue is much heavier than the golem. Although they are both equally huge, the golem is carved from cherry wood, while this statue is carved from hard stone. When it falls down, it carries the force of thunder.

It was impossible for Yuan Zhisheng to use Spider Cutter to withstand the stone statue weighing several tons. Even if Spider Cutter was a refined ancient knife, it would definitely bend the blade if it was hastily chopped at a huge stone with extremely high density... But Yuan Zhisheng did not choose to dodge, but made an extremely surprising move.

Yuan Zhisheng expressionlessly nailed the spider into the ground beside him, planted his feet firmly on the floor, lowered his body, and raised his arms above his head as if to catch the collapsing sky.

The extremely heavy statue did not really fall down, because Yuan Zhisheng's hands were holding up the statue's chest. His legs exerted force suddenly, and the bones all over his body made crackling sounds. The bone lines of his whole body were closed and connected into one line, which was Yuan Zhisheng's dragon bone state. In this state, the hardness of his bones was even comparable to steel. After stimulating the dragon bone state, Yuan Zhisheng could even further compress the bones of his whole body. At the moment of compression and then stretching, he could burst out with ten times the strength of his normal state!

The statue weighing several tons that was falling down was actually pushed back by Yuan Zhisheng with his shoulders and arms. This is the power that a super hybrid can burst out in its prime, which is completely beyond the scope of human beings. Yuan Zhisheng in this state is indeed an absolute monster!

But even a monster cannot be without flaws, and this moment is his flaw!

At the moment when Yuan Zhisheng pushed the huge statue back, a black shadow suddenly jumped up from behind the statue. The black shadow fell from the sky, holding a broad hunting knife that was flashing with white arc light.

It was Caesar holding Dick Tudo, falling towards Yuan Zhisheng's head.

Gen Zhisheng subconsciously wanted to grab the Spider-Cutter that was stuck in the floor next to him, but he missed... While Caesar pushed the statue down, making a huge noise, another black shadow had already silently sneaked behind Gen Zhisheng and took away the Spider-Cutter that was stuck in the floor next to him.

Caesar used the Assassin assassin's inch-hand cavalry slash, and his whole body turned into a high-speed sharp arrow and dived down. This sword technique was used by the Assassin assassin to rush into the enemy's camp and use exquisite sword techniques to cut off the warhorse's carotid artery. It pays the most attention to surprise and speed, and can catch the enemy off guard in an instant. It is a unique trick with a very high winning rate in sneak attacks.

This kind of swordsmanship can even cut off the neck of a warhorse, so it is naturally no problem to use it against people.

The deadly blade of Dickrudo was infinitely magnified in Yuan Zhisheng's pupils. Caesar had already realized how powerful Yuan Zhisheng was, so he aimed at Yuan Zhisheng's neck with almost all his strength. Even the emperor with a strong physique could not remain unharmed under Dickrudo's attack.

Yuan Zhisheng seemed to have reached the end of his rope. Just when Caesar thought that his attack was about to succeed, he suddenly felt a pain in his forearm as if he was hit by a huge hammer.

It was Yuan Zhisheng. Although his arm was temporarily unable to move, facing Caesar's oncoming knife, he did not retreat but instead advanced and met it with his head. The blade cut his cheek, and he hit Caesar's forearm hard with his headbutt.

Yagyu Shinkage-ryu·Swordless·Dragon Head Hammer!

The only sword move in Shinkage-ryu that does not use a sword, this move borrows the concept of unarmed combat and combines it with kendo, transforming the body into a sword. The swordsman's head is the blunt and heavy back of the sword, and the swordsman uses the headbutt to attack the opponent's weak points to deprive the opponent of his sword.

Caesar cursed in his heart that this guy was so cruel. He heard a "crack" sound from his forearm bones... probably some bones were fractured.

Dick Tuduo lost control and flew out.

Caesar fell on Yuan Zhisheng, knocking him over. The two of them rolled around in each other's arms, struggling with each other, just like the boys in kindergarten fighting for the right to play house with the girls they liked... except that their attacks were hundreds or thousands of times more ruthless, leaving almost no room for maneuver.

Their bodies rolled over the thousand-year-old cherry wood fragments, breaking through layer of curtains. When the curtains fell, they rolled up the specimens of the corpse guards hidden behind the huge golems. The gauze curtains were ignited by the mermaid oil in the bronze candlesticks. These corpse guards were actually mermaids in Japanese mythology. Their corpses were very flammable and could burn for a long time. The moment the flames touched the bodies of the corpse guards, the flames burst out as dazzling as the scorching sun.

Chu Zihang also pounced forward, Murasame raised his sword high, aiming at Yuan Zhisheng's body, wanting to nail him to the wall. Yuan Zhisheng happened to be facing the direction of Chu Zihang, and he caught a glimpse of Chu Zihang's figure on the wall, which was magnified several times by the firelight. So he showed his profile and deliberately gave Caesar a flaw.

Sure enough, Caesar seized the moment when Yuan Zhisheng was relaxed, suddenly bent his body, and punched Yuan Zhisheng hard on the cheek with a swinging fist. The force was so great that the recoil made his finger bones hurt... But Caesar happened to have his back to Chu Zihang at this time. When he jumped up, his attention was all focused on punching the elephant tortoise hard in the face, and he didn't notice the tip of the knife that suddenly stabbed at him from behind.

"Caesar, get out of the way!" Chu Zihang yelled.

He had no way to change his trajectory in mid-air, and didn't even have time to retract his sword. He could only try to avoid Caesar's vital points with Murasame's blade.

It was too late to look back, so Caesar suddenly looked up and saw the reflections of several people on the screen wall in front of him illuminated by the firelight. In the reflection, the figure rushing towards him from behind was holding a long knife, and the tip of the knife was almost stabbing his shoulder.

The "no-sword attack" move that Yuan Zhisheng had just used on him flashed through Caesar's mind. He stared at his reflection on the screen wall and slammed his head hard into the wrist of the black shadow holding the knife behind him.

Caesar's ear was cut, and Murasame flew out of Chu Zihang's hand. Caesar felt a sudden pain, and Chu Zihang fell into the situation where Caesar and Yuan Zhisheng were rolling and wrestling.

"Damn Beta, you almost cut off my ear, did you know that?" Caesar yelled.

"Your headbutt is pretty powerful, Alpha!" Chu Zihang twisted his wrist.

He almost dislocated his arm because Caesar hit his wrist instead of his forearm. The bones in the wrist are joints, and injuries there are much more painful than those in the forearm.

Taking advantage of the two men's daze, Yuan Zhisheng, who was pushed against the wall by Caesar, kicked Caesar hard in the lower abdomen, and then used his arm to elbow Chu Zihang's waist hard. This move was... just a simple elbow and kick.

"Damn tortoise! ​​I'm talking to Beta. Don't you know that sneak attacks are shameful?" Caesar roared in pain and hit Yuan Zhisheng's chest hard with his knee.