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

When the family Toyota car, which had run for 500 kilometers continuously and was about to be scrapped and could no longer withstand the long journey, arrived here, it was almost dusk. Caesar and Chu Zihang did not even have time to visit the most authentic Japanese scenery of this small town in the southwest of Shikoku. Caesar even went so far as to fully open the power of the "Kamaitachi" field just to find the location of Lu Mingfei and Uesugi Eri, and then locked onto the coastal cliff.

Although the black cliff was not high, it stood by the sea, at least two hundred meters away from the horizontal plane of the town. There was almost no place in the town with a suitable angle to peek at the scene on the cliff. Caesar first looked at the remote watchtower in the corner of the town. There was no doubt that the watchtower was the best place to observe the cliff, but Caesar immediately shook his head. For some reason, he gave up the peeping place with an excellent view and chose the second best, the Ferris wheel, which also had a wide view but was closed.

The Ferris wheel in the small town had indeed stopped running, but this was not a difficult task for Chu Zihang, who was proficient in mechanical engineering. He quickly found the control center of the Ferris wheel. Two minutes later, the stationary Ferris wheel began to slowly turn again. Caesar entered the cabin with a high-powered telescope and a telephoto camera. Chu Zihang stopped the Ferris wheel accurately when he sent Caesar's cabin to the best observation point, and climbed to the top cabin with his agility to meet up with Caesar.

Caesar is responsible for coordination and command, Chu Zihang is responsible for operation and implementation, and Lu Mingfei is responsible for picking up girls and providing them with fun. The division of labor among the three-person team is very clear.

"How's the situation now?" Chu Zihang came to Caesar's side. "Is Lu Mingfei's condition stable?"

"Unstable, too unstable!" Caesar stared through the telescope at the two gradually approaching figures on the huge rocks on the opposite cliff. His tone was serious, "Not only is Lu Mingfei's condition unstable, but Uesugi Eri's condition also looks dangerous!"

Chu Zihang was thinking that Lu Mingfei had just woken up from a two-day coma and had been driving for more than four hours in a row. He asked Caesar whether Lu Mingfei looked more stable than the out-of-control state he was in when fighting with General Wang two days ago... So when he heard Caesar's answer, Chu Zihang's face changed instantly.

"What's going on? They shouldn't have encountered any accidents along the way, right?" Chu Zihang frowned deeply. "Could it be that Lu Mingfei hasn't fully recovered yet? What's going on with Uesugi Eri? Did Lu Mingfei's condition irritate Uesugi Eri?"

"Well...it's understandable that you can't control your emotions in such a remote and romantic place. If I were to bring a girl to such a beautiful place alone, I wouldn't be able to help but hug her and kiss her." Caesar said seriously, "Not to mention that Lu Mingfei used to be just like you when it came to getting along with girls, living a life like a Buddhist monk."

"But it's hard to say who provoked whom." Caesar frowned slightly, his tone as serious as an expert appraiser of an antique. "It's true that Uesugi Eri looks taciturn and doesn't seem like the type of girl who would actively seek love, but Uesugi Eri just doesn't understand these things. Unlike abstaining from desire like you, for an ignorant girl like her, love is like a deadly Pandora's box. Once the box is pried open, it's out of control, just like Eve first tasting the forbidden fruit in the deserted Garden of Eden..."

Listening to Caesar's endless chatter, Chu Zihang finally understood what he meant when he said "Lu Mingfei's condition is not very stable, and Uesugi Eri also looks dangerous." Chu Zihang took a deep breath and suppressed the urge to punch this showy Italian in the handsome face.

He just peeked, but he actually used a bunch of high-sounding words from the Bible to whitewash his shameless behavior. The reputation of the Gattuso family is about to be ruined by this guy.

But if Chu Zihang really spoke his mind, Caesar wouldn't be angry. The Gattuso heir would probably tell him that he had never ruined the Gattuso family's tradition, because the Gattuso family's tradition was shamelessness! This ancient European mafia made its fortune by being shameless. Caesar seemed to have not yet learned the essence of shamelessness in his family. If his bastard father Pompey Gattuso were here, he would probably bring one of his mistresses here with him to spy on them and experience the excitement firsthand!

"Have you seen enough?" Chu Zihang couldn't help but interrupt Caesar's peeping, with a hint of impatience in his tone.

Caesar put down the telescope and turned to look at the expressionless face of the Chinese man. Caesar thought that Chu Zihang couldn't help but get angry because he had peeped at his junior brother and the girl being intimate for too long. He thought about it and realized that his behavior was indeed a bit too extreme and contrary to the etiquette of a gentleman, so he apologized to Lu Mingfei and Uesugi Eri in his heart.

Before Caesar had time to feel guilty, he was just about to put away the sinful telescope in his hand, but Chu Zihang reached out a hand to him the next second.

Caesar reacted quickly after a moment of daze... Chu Zihang's action was obvious. He asked Caesar for the telescope, meaning "You've seen enough, it's my turn now."

"You said that earlier." Caesar suddenly realized, "That's right, it's really selfish of me to monopolize this scene."

Caesar used brute force to break the telescope in his hand, turning a pair of binoculars into two monoculars. He generously slapped one of them into Chu Zihang's hand and said, "You Chinese have a saying that happiness is better shared than happiness alone, right?"

Chu Zihang didn't waste any time talking to Caesar. The moment he got the telescope, he walked to the window quickly, raised the telescope to his eyes, and looked towards the cliff opposite in the distance.

Caesar also came to his side, and the two of them had the same view in their telescopes. They stood side by side at the portholes of the Ferris wheel cabin, like a pair of groundhog brothers standing side by side and looking into the distance.

"How's the clarity?" Caesar pointed at the telescope. "Not bad, right? I bought it on the black market. It's the same model used by American reconnaissance officers during World War II."

"Not bad." Chu Zihang nodded, "But why don't you buy another pair?"

"Come on, do you know how expensive an antique military telescope like this is? That black market girl didn't understand the market and simply sold it as a well-made, high-powered telescope. Given our current financial situation, how can we spare the money to buy a second one?" Caesar complained. "I bought it purely for its collectible value. The girl kept trying to sell it to me, so I bought it. I brought it with me today on a whim. When I bought it, I never thought of using it for something as obscene as peeping!"

"The value of the collection is debatable, but I believe the telescope seller is a girl." Chu Zihang asked again, "There's an observation tower in the southeast corner of the town. Why not use the observation tower as an observation point instead of going to the trouble of choosing the Ferris wheel? The view from the top of the observation tower to observe Lu Mingfei and the others is clearly better than from here."

"The watchtower is of course my first choice, but unfortunately, it's already occupied by a beautiful lady. A proper gentleman wouldn't compete with a lady for territory." Caesar sighed slightly. "If you turn your telescope thirty degrees south now, you might be able to spot that beautiful shadow on the watchtower."

Chu Zihang was stunned for a moment, then realized: "You mean Jiude Mai? She's here too?"

"It was expected that Jude Mai would come. She's like Lu Mingfei's companion beast. Wherever Lu Mingfei is, she'll appear there." Caesar nodded. "When I activated Kamaitachi to search for Uesugi Eri, I heard a familiar voice from the watchtower. Jude Mai seemed to be talking to someone. I didn't listen carefully to the conversation. I just judged the direction she was facing based on her voice waves. Sure enough, I soon found Lu Mingfei and Uesugi Eri on the cliff she was facing."

"It's normal for girls to have gossip-loving thoughts." Chu Zihang said with deep emotion.

Because Chu Zihang remembered that when he met Xia Mi in Takama-ga-hara, Xia Mi's first reaction was not to ask him why he was a gigolo in a gigolo club, nor to ask about his experience in Japan, nor to hug him or kiss him, but to keep asking him about the gossip about Lu Mingfei and Uesugi Eri.

"Barvo! Did you see that?" Caesar suddenly burst into excited cheers.

"I saw it. Lu Mingfei kissed her. I'm not blind." Chu Zihang reminded in a low voice, "Be quiet."

"Our little Sakura has finally taken a brave step! I'm so happy for you, my friend!" Caesar applauded Lu Mingfei from afar, smiling sincerely. "It seems his training in Takama-ga-hara was not in vain. I'm sure if the store manager knew that his male-style flower arrangement was so fully demonstrated on his subordinates, he would be so pleased that he would be moved to tears."

"I have to correct you. The word 'heartily' is inaccurate here. You should say 'exquisitely'. Secondly, Lu Mingfei's feelings for Uesugi Eryi are genuine, and this has nothing to do with the male-style flower arrangement of Takama-ga-hara. Also..." Chu Zihang paused, "Be quiet. Uesugi Eryi has a very keen sense of hearing. If the current atmosphere is interrupted, with their vigilance, it will be difficult for us to see such a scene again in the future."

"You're always so thoughtful." Caesar smiled and added, "Also, you're always so gossipy."

"Because it's really beautiful." Chu Zihang said slowly, "I don't know much about art, but in my eyes, this picture is very artistic."

Even Chu Zihang, who was famous for his expressionless face at Kassel Academy, and Takama-ga-hara's "cold-faced Ukyo", couldn't help but smile knowingly on his stone-carved face when he saw the kissing couple on the cliff.

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Night falls in the small town of Umezuji-machi. Japanese-style lanterns are hung in front of the shops on every street. The warm yellow light of the pairs of lanterns looks like glowing chess pieces scattered along a neat chessboard from a distance.

In an authentic seafood restaurant in the small town, all the customers including the boss couldn't help but glance at the five young people (three men and two women) who looked like tourists in the corner, because the appearance of these five young people was really out of place in this remote town.

Some people guessed that the golden-haired man must be a foreign star, and the black-haired beauty with long legs and a proud figure must be a supermodel, and the girl in a shrine maiden costume must be a new actress... But no one knew why these five elegant young men chose to gather in such a down-to-earth small restaurant in the town, when there was obviously a high-end three-star hotel in Matsutaka Town not far away.

"It's heartbreaking! It's truly heartbreaking!" Lu Mingfei slammed the solid wood table, his eyes sweeping over Chu Zihang, Caesar, and Jiude Mai. "My good brothers! My good team leader! My good comrades! I trusted each and every one of you so much! Are you worthy of my trust? Tell me honestly, are you worthy of my trust?"

"I really didn't mean to peek. It was Potato Chips who told me to follow you closely to prevent anyone from the Snake Eight Clan or the Ghost Clan from finding you." Jiude Mai spread her hands. "You know, I'm not a stay-at-home girl like Potato Chips. I'm not a gossipy person. I followed you just to protect you."

"Yes, us too. When Chu Zihang and I learned you woke up and left Takama-ga-hara, we were so worried about you that we didn't even have time to wait for the store manager to approve our leave. We quickly rented a Toyota." Caesar said righteously, "You know Chu Zihang and I don't have much savings left. Chasing the Porsche in our family Toyota was already difficult, and the car had a lot of problems along the way, so we arrived in Umezuji-cho very late and met you not long after."

What Caesar meant was that they arrived very late and had no time to peek at the intimate scene between Lu Mingfei and Eiry.

Chu Zihang wasn't as good at talking nonsense as the other two, so he just nodded silently.

"Hmph, is that so?" Lu Mingfei threw a miniature camera and a memory card on the table. "These were found from Jiude Mai's sniper rifle scope and the boss's camera. How do you explain these things?"

Chapter 499 Tell It Frankly

Looking at the irrefutable evidence on the table, Jiude Mai and Caesar remained calm, as if gamblers who had lost all their chips at the table were still confident.

"It's the potato chip girl. You know how gossipy and annoying that potato chip girl is. She's not in Japan right now, but after she found out you took the head of the Uesugi family, Satoshi Takama-ga-hara, away, that girl insisted on asking me to follow you and secretly record your intimate actions." Jiude Mai spoke first, "You also know that potato chip girl. If I don't agree to her wish, she will keep bothering me. She also said that if she missed the kiss between Lu Mingfei and the head of the Uesugi family, she would die in the chaotic artillery fire in the Middle East."

"Since Potato Chips has said this, how can I refuse? I can only agree to her request." Jiude Mai sighed and said to Lu Mingfei, "I know this is too much for you and the head of the Uesugi family, but Potato Chips is my comrade who I have known for so many years. I can't really let her die on the battlefield in the Middle East, can I?"

"I admit that I did buy a pair of binoculars at the black market, but I brought them with me out of a sincere wish for good fortune. However, it was Chu Zihang who put the camera in the trunk of the car. Xia Mi said it was a pity that she couldn't see the progress of Lu Mingfei and the head of the Uesugi family with her own eyes, so she asked Chu Zihang to help her record it." With Jiude Mai's demonstration, Caesar followed suit. "It was Chu Zihang who hurriedly dragged me away from Takama-ga-hara before the store manager approved my leave. Your senior brother really cares about you."

Chu Zihang was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Caesar coldly. If looks could be used to kill, Caesar's head would probably have rolled around the table by now.

Who at Kassel Academy started the rumor that this guy was fair and righteous? Would a righteous guy sell out his teammates with just a few words? It's true that Chu Zihang had put the camera in the trunk of the car, and he had indeed been instructed by Xia Mi, and it was his idea to leave Takama-ga-hara without the store manager's approval... But you, Caesar, didn't do anything?

Did you just buy a pair of binoculars on the black market? With the hope of blessing?

Didn't you rent the car, not drive it? Didn't you personally choose the Ferris wheel for the spying spot? Why did you hog the telescope while spying, unwilling to look away? How could a truly fair person expose the dirty laundry of his teammates while remaining silent about his own shameless behavior?

"Have you all forgotten how sharp Eri's hearing is?" Lu Mingfei sighed. He slapped a small notebook on the table. This was the notebook Eri used to write. "The entire town of Meizuji Town is within Eri's territory. Every word you say cannot escape Eri's ears. So everything you discuss about Eri and me is recorded in her notebook."

Jude Mai and Caesar finally put away their previous fearless attitude. They looked at Eiry beside Lu Mingfei at the same time. Eiry cooperated with Lu Mingfei and blinked. Then the expressions on Jude Mai and Caesar's faces became ugly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Lu Mingfei swept his gaze over everyone with a look that said, "I treated you as brothers in vain." This time, even Chu Zihang felt guilty for no reason. The three most rebellious young men in the mixed-blood world were like students who had made a mistake and were waiting to be punished by their teacher.

Lu Mingfei sighed in pretended disappointment and suddenly opened the small notebook on the table in front of him. Just when Caesar and others thought that Lu Mingfei was going to publicly punish them for their shameful acts of stalking, peeping and talking behind their backs, Lu Mingfei, who had originally had a serious expression, suddenly laughed out loud.

"I didn't expect you three to have such expressions." Lu Mingfei teased them. "I was just kidding. Eiry doesn't have the habit of eavesdropping on other people's conversations. She just told me that she heard you three talking about us, but she didn't listen carefully. In fact, Eiry noticed Jude Mai when we were on Qingmei Street."

Jude Mai rolled her eyes. Even a senior female ninja like her who possessed top-level anti-reconnaissance awareness was completely unaware that her every move had already been noticed by the other party. If the two parties were hostile to each other, she, the tracker, would have become a prey in the enemy's control from the very beginning... Thinking of this, Jude Mai couldn't help but curse in her heart, the super hybrids are really perverted creatures that make people helpless!

The owner of the restaurant served local specialties, sea bream rice and grilled Cape mackerel, along with four cups of the restaurant's homemade shochu and a glass of juice.

"Everyone means well, I understand. There's no need for me to get angry with you over such a small matter. Eriyi wouldn't get angry about something like this either." Lu Mingfei was the first to pick up his glass and raise it to everyone. "We've survived so many life-and-death situations over the years. It was you who helped Eriyi and me escape the predators a few days ago. I should have thanked you long ago."

Instead, a few people felt a little embarrassed by Lu Mingfei's solemn thanks, and they raised their glasses and drank the liquor in the glasses.

While everyone was drinking, Lu Mingfei quickly grabbed the micro-camera and the camera memory card on the table and put them in his pocket. "Let's be fair, I thank you all, and we have a good relationship... but secretly filming is still shameless. I don't encourage it. I will confiscate this evidence!"

Caesar and Jude Mai looked at each other, both of them with a look of regret. After all, they did capture the precious scene, but they were helpless because they were the ones who took the photo first, so they were not in the right in this matter.

Purely hand-made sushi and rice balls were served on the table one after another. Unlike the expensive sushi rolls in Tokyo that are often decorated with foie gras and black truffles, the sushi here is adorned with very common ingredients such as orange crab roe and cherry blossom paste, but the colors are bright and the styles are beautiful and exquisite.

Eri had enjoyed the Cape mackerel just now with gusto, and now she was even more surprised after tasting the sushi. She wrote "very delicious" to Lu Mingfei in her notebook. Although a single dish in the Michelin restaurants that Eri usually used as canteens was almost worth the price of a whole table here, the underworld princess seemed to have a special liking for the special snacks in such small towns.

"Oh, what a wash! Tasty food!" Even the noble son of Gattuso's family couldn't help but sigh that there were exquisite delicacies in the food of common people. He spoke in awkward Japanese and gave a thumbs up to the proprietress in praise. His golden smile made the proprietress, who was over 40 years old, dizzy.

"The moment of decisive battle is about to come, right?" Chu Zihang suddenly asked in a low voice.

Everyone at the table heard these words, and the originally relaxed and harmonious atmosphere suddenly became solemn, as if the air had become inexplicably heavier.

"Yes, 'God' is about to awaken, maybe today, maybe tomorrow, but soon." Lu Mingfei nodded. "An unprecedented disaster is about to sweep across Japan. This may be the last quiet dinner we have together before the war."

"I'm not talking about 'God', I'm referring to Herzog." Chu Zihang looked into Lu Mingfei's eyes. "In the final battle, our enemy is not 'God', but Dr. Herzog who has achieved a certain goal, right?"

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment. He looked at Chu Zihang deeply and lowered his voice very low: "I can't hide it from you, brother. You are really smart."

"No, you told us about Herzog. In your description, you saw through all his tricks, as if our ultimate enemy is only 'God'." Chu Zihang shook his head, "But this is exactly where it is full of contradictions."

Lu Mingfei didn't say anything, but just looked at Chu Zihang quietly. Others were also looking at Chu Zihang, and everyone was waiting for Chu Zihang to give his analysis.

"You know Herzog very well, and you know 'God' very well too. You should have had countless opportunities to kill Herzog or find 'God', but you didn't do it," Chu Zihang said to Lu Mingfei. "If you just wanted to stop Herzog's plan at the last minute, you wouldn't have had to call Xia Mi and Old Tang to Japan."

"The reason you gave us was that that bastard Herzog shouldn't have died so easily. You wanted to completely crush all his schemes just when his plan was about to succeed, making him fail at the last moment and plunge him into the abyss of despair." Chu Zihang shook his head. "But that reason is really far-fetched. You've always been a cautious person. You wouldn't be the kind of person who would let everyone take risks with you just to get revenge on one person."

"Brother, you know me." Lu Mingfei nodded and admitted, "I really didn't intend for Herzog to die before the plan. I wasn't in a hurry to find 'God', nor did I kill Herzog because I wanted to see his plan succeed."

"You mean, the ultimate goal of the Herzog Plan is not limited to the resurrection of 'God', right?" Caesar suddenly asked.

"Since you've asked, I won't hide anything from you anymore. You're all trustworthy people." Lu Mingfei glanced at Caesar and the other two. "Let's start with Herzog's plan. He's an extremely ambitious conspirator, or rather, a madman. He's been plotting for twenty years. His ultimate plan isn't to have the 'God' destroy Japan or create an unprecedented disaster. Resurrecting the 'God' is just one part of his plan. His ultimate goal is... to steal the 'God's' power."

"You can steal something like this?" Caesar was stunned. "Is the power of 'God' just a lobster seafood pie at a party?"

"No... but it's almost the same," Lu Mingfei explained. "The power of the 'god' is entirely contained within the 'Sacred Remains,' a piece of spinal bone with parasitic abilities. Any host parasitized by this bone undergoes a genetic evolution from a hybrid to a dragon, becoming the destination of the 'Road to the Underworld,' sought after by the fierce ghosts parasitized by the 'Sacred Remains.'"

"I have a question." Chu Zihang suddenly interrupted Lu Mingfei, "Will the person who is parasitized by the 'Sacred Remains' retain his consciousness, or will it be replaced by the will of the 'God'?"

"Brother, you've hit the nail on the head," Lu Mingfei said. "The 'Sacred Remains' are toxic. They affect the host's hematopoietic system. The new blood produced is dragon blood, but the power contained in dragon blood is too much for ordinary hybrids to withstand. The host will either die from the backlash of this power, or lose control and become a monster similar to Deadpool, but countless times more powerful. Only one kind of creature can withstand the might of the 'God', and that is... the super hybrid."

"Filter?" Chu Zihang suddenly realized, "So the way Herzog was able to safely obtain the power of 'God' was to use a super hybrid to filter the toxicity of the 'Sacred Remains', right?"

"That's right." Lu Mingfei nodded.

"Wait a minute, what do you mean?" Caesar interrupted, frowning slightly. "What filtering? What super hybrid? Can you guys switch to a language that everyone can understand?"

"You can imagine the power of 'God' as a turbid liquid. It contains both immense power and an extremely toxic substance. The toxicity is the impurity in this liquid." Chu Zihang used a scientific analogy. "And the super hybrid is a container with a precise and tough filter. It won't be penetrated by the toxicity, and it can filter the poison on the filter. What flows out of this filter is pure liquid, which is the non-toxic power of 'God'."

"Oh, so Herzog plans to find a super hybrid to withstand the toxicity of the Sacred Relics, while he inherits their power, right?" Caesar nodded. "So who is his choice? The Elephant Turtle or Kazama Ruri? What will be the fate of this super hybrid?"

"It's Eri." Lu Mingfei suddenly spoke up. "Herzog's original choice for vessel was Eri. If his plan succeeds, Eri's fate will be... death by having her blood drained."

The atmosphere around them suddenly became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Everyone's eyes fell on Eiry at the same time, with surprise, pity, and sudden enlightenment in their eyes... Now they finally knew why Herzog was so anxious after Lu Mingfei took Uesugi Eiry away, because this girl was the most important part of the conspirator's great plan. Without this girl, Herzog's plan would collapse completely.

But when we think about the fact that this simple girl had no freedom in her life to begin with, and now we know that she has such a tragic fate, it is hard not to sigh.

Eri just ate her dessert quietly, with no expression of fear or sadness on her face, because she knew everything an hour ago on the cliff, but she was not afraid of bad people or fate, because Sakura would protect her.

"But I will make Herzog realize that Eri is not the best container." Lu Mingfei said in a deep voice.

"Who else could it be?" Caesar frowned slightly. "You've ruled out the elephant tortoise and Kazama Ruri. Besides these three super hybrids, are there any other monsters in Japan?"

"Are you talking about Uesugi Yue?" Jude Mai suddenly asked.

Chapter 500 "Eating People"

Mai Jude suddenly remembered that on the day when Deadpool attacked Genji Heavy Industries, she and Su Enxi took Lu Mingfei and Uesugi Eri to leave Genji Heavy Industries. They visited Master Yue's ramen stall in the middle of the night. After talking about the topic of Genji Chisei and Genji Chijo, Lu Mingfei stayed alone and had a secret conversation with Uesugi Yue.

When talking about that conversation later, Lu Mingfei only said that he had made a deal with Uesugi Yue, but when Jude Mai asked about the specific content of the deal, Lu Mingfei remained secretive about it... Now it seems that Lu Mingfei persuaded Uesugi Yue to replace his daughter Uesugi Eri and act as the vessel of Herzog's plan?

"Uesugi Yue?" Caesar and Chu Zihang looked at each other, and the image of a noisy and grumpy ramen master with a hand-held colander and a rolling pin appeared in their minds at the same time.

Isn't that the tortoise's father? Caesar and Chu Zihang also know that Gen Chisheng and Uesugi Eryi are siblings, so Uesugi Yue is also Uesugi Eryi's father... Does this mean Lu Mingfei is planning to sacrifice someone else's father for the girl he loves?

It is true that neither Caesar nor Chu Zihang liked the ramen master that much, but pushing the man's father into hell without even saying hello... is this really a manly behavior?

And it is true that the ramen chef gave birth to three monster-like children, but Master Yue has been a ramen chef for so many years. He looks so old that he even has difficulty rolling ramen. Can such an old man really make Herzog decide to change the container?

Caesar and Chu Zihang may not be aware of how powerful the bloodline of the ramen master is, but Jude Mai has investigated Uesugi Yue's background in detail. She knows that this gangster from sixty years ago possessed unparalleled bloodline. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the hybrid with the strongest bloodline. Uesugi Yue is the real "emperor" of the hybrid world. Even Gen Chisheng, the strongest of the eight snake families today, is just an "inferior emperor" who inherited the old man's incomplete genes compared to Uesugi Yue.

"I do want to use Master Yue's bloodline to attract Herzog." Lu Mingfei paused, "But the container itself is not Master Yue."

"What do you mean?" This time even Jiude Mai was confused.

"Kazama Liuli once said that Herzog believed in a theory of 'ghouls.' That crazy conspirator said the world was cruel, and the essence of the world was cannibalism, except that it wasn't the flesh that was eaten, but the value of the other person. For example, capitalists exploited workers, gangs collected protection fees from street shops, and lenders demanded endless interest from those who couldn't repay." Lu Mingfei said, "Herzog was very good at disguise. His favorite thing to do was to fatten someone up and then devour them in one bite. He enjoyed this kind of gluttonous delicacy. Those who had lost their value could be sacrificed at will. Everyone around him could become his food. Those who didn't want to eat others could only wait to be eaten. Only by being ruthless and eating people without scruples could he become stronger. The bones of the dead would become stairs for the living. Climb higher on that towering Tower of Babel, and everyone under his feet would become his food."

"What a disgusting theory," Caesar said with a look of disgust. "If such a disgusting charlatan were born in the Middle Ages, he would be a termite sent by Satan to the human world. He would be burned in the church dome and his ashes poured into the stinking gutter."

"Herzog is implementing all his plans based on this crazy theory. Minamoto no Chisei, Minamoto no Chijo, Eri, including the Eight Snake Families and the Oni Clan, everyone will be abandoned without regret after he has used them all." Lu Mingfei whispered, "Herzog has his plans, and I have mine. In my plans, I will not allow anyone I care about to die. If someone really has to face that man-eating ghoul... that person can only be me."

"You don't mean to..." Jiude Mai looked at Lu Mingfei with an expressionless face, and her eyes widened involuntarily.

"Yes." Lu Mingfei said calmly, "Doesn't Herzog want a container? I will give him a better container than Eri, so perfect that he can't refuse... and that container is me."

As soon as Lu Mingfei finished speaking, all eyes fell on him. Even Eiry put down her cutlery and looked at him with worry.

"Let's not discuss the dangers of this matter for now, but the individual the 'Sacred Relic' is inhabiting must at least be a descendant of the White King, right?" Caesar frowned deeply. "Your 'S'-rank bloodline is indeed rare in the world, we all know that, but you don't have the blood of the White King flowing through your body at all. Why does Herzog think you are the perfect vessel?"

"Do you want a blood transfusion?" Chu Zihang asked Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei said that he wanted to use Uesugi Yue's bloodline to attract Herzog, but the real container was himself... This sentence reminded Chu Zihang of the precedent when the principal and vice-principal had exchanged blood for him when the school board investigated his bloodline.

"Yes, Herzog needs a vessel, so I'll create the best one for him. Master Yue's bloodline plus my body—such a combination is right in front of him. Herzog has no reason to refuse." Lu Mingfei nodded. "In the battle with the demons and the king, my performance must have been enough to attract Herzog's attention. As long as Eri doesn't appear in his sight for a day, Herzog will scratch his head like a monkey who has lost its favorite banana. Next, we just need to show him that my bloodline is just as excellent and more stable than Eri's. I am a more preferable vessel for the 'Sacred Relics'... In the end, Herzog will choose me."