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"Shall I make a call and ask what's going on?"
Xia Mi called Lu Mingfei.
The call was quickly connected, but it wasn't Lu Mingfei's voice that came through.
A woman's voice said softly, "Hello?"
"Huh?" "Huh?" "Hmm?"
Xia Mi immediately covered the phone's speaker. The three of them looked at each other in confusion. She couldn't help but ask, "What's going on?"
"Answer the phone first," Chu Zihang said.
Xia Mi removed her finger from the phone's speaker and put it back to her ear, saying, "What did you say? My signal is bad here, I didn't hear you clearly."
After a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, the woman's voice spoke softly in Japanese: "Lu Mingfei is asleep and hasn't woken up yet. If you need to find him, call him again tonight or tomorrow morning."
Her voice was very soft; you could tell she was trying to lower her tone to avoid disturbing those around her.
If you listen carefully, you can indeed hear a faint snoring sound in the background...
The three of them looked at each other again.
Xia Mi pressed her finger against the speaker again and said, "What the hell? It's understandable that Boss Lu is asleep, but how come his phone is in a woman's hand? Did Boss Lu sleep with a woman?"
Sakurai Akira thought of something, but dared not speak.
Chu Zihang also fell silent.
After thinking for a moment, Sakurai Akira said, "Is it possible that it's Erii?"
But even if it's Erii, something still doesn't seem right...
"Isn't it inconvenient for Erii to speak? If she speaks, the power of her words might overflow uncontrollably..."
Xia Mi suddenly realized something: "Our boss Lu played the hero and helped Erii suppress the dragon blood? And then..."
If a hero saves a damsel in distress but the damsel doesn't reciprocate with her body, how heartbreaking would that be for the hero? Zigong redeemed the woman, do you understand?
No one responded to her.
Sakurai Akira didn't dare to pry into Lu Daren's private life, and Chu Zihang remained silent as always.
“But we can’t just believe this woman’s side of the story. Maybe I should go back and see what’s going on…” Xia Mi suggested.
It's only a three-hour drive from here back to Tokyo, and it's only early afternoon now. Theoretically, it should be just getting dark when she gets back. If Lu Mingfei is sleeping... oops, I mean, sleeping, judging from what that woman said, Lu Mingfei will most likely sleep for quite a while.
In the time it took her to go back and forth, she could find Lu Mingfei, wake him up, ask him what happened, and then come back.
Chu Zihang did not object. Sakurai Akira hesitated at the thought of potentially disturbing Lu Mingfei's affairs, but the suffering compatriots at the Aoyama Charity School were still enduring hardship... so he did not express his opinion either.
"Since no one objects, I'll head back to Tokyo to find Lu Mingfei and ask what happened." Xia Mi slipped into the car, stepped on the gas, and the car quickly disappeared at the end of the road...
……
Lu Mingfei originally thought he would sleep soundly for a long time, but he suddenly woke up in the evening.
I was still very sleepy, but I suddenly woke up with a foggy mind, clearly because I hadn't fully recovered from my sleep.
But he woke up unconsciously.
A sticky note was shoved in front of his eyes:
"You're awake! Someone just called you. I don't recognize the two characters, but it sounded like Xia Mi's voice."
Her phone uses Simplified Chinese, and Erii hasn't studied it, so she definitely won't understand the notes in her phone's contacts.
But Xia Mi called me?
After calming down, Lu Mingfei vaguely remembered what had happened with Xia Mi.
The system's plan was for Erii to fake her presence in Tokyo before leaving for a trip, thus drawing all of the Snake Clan's manpower and firepower to Tokyo.
Then, in their anxiety, the Snake Clan will surely mobilize all their forces, striving to turn Tokyo upside down in the shortest possible time.
This will require a large number of people, and those outside will likely converge on Tokyo, allowing Xia Mi and her team at the Love School to take action...
When did she call?
Using his brain made Lu Mingfei much more clear-headed. He reached for his phone and glanced at his call log.
The call was at 3 PM, and it's past 6 PM now.
But then another note was shoved in front of him: "Eri can speak now."
She can speak now?
Lu Mingfei glanced at Erii, whose face was still somewhat pale.
After her bloodline was suppressed, her dragon blood was no longer so active and dominant, so her words would not easily trigger the power of her words, causing the power of her words to overflow.
"Oh." Lu Mingfei dialed Xia Mi's number and said to Erii, "Then say something to me."
"Where shall we go tonight?" Erii's voice was somewhat unnatural, a little stiff, almost like a robot mimicking a human...
She hadn't spoken for so long that she felt a little out of sorts when she tried to speak.
"At night..."
Before Lu Mingfei could figure out how to answer Erii's question, Xia Mi answered the phone.
He asked, "Hey, Xia Mi, how's the situation over there?"
Xia Mi said, "Boss, you're awake! You haven't given us any signal, we're practically going moldy."
"There was a little mishap. So where are you now?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"I thought something had happened to you, Mr. Lu, and that you were on your way back to Tokyo. I wanted to check on you to see how you were doing."
Chu Zihang and Sakurai Akira remained where they were. Only one enforcer from the Snake-Headed Eight Family remained at the Love and Care School. They were eager to act, but without your orders and retreat route, boss, they couldn't bring themselves to do it.
“The evacuation route was planned, and I told them to get in place within 12 hours to provide support.”
"Oh, when do we make our move? I'm almost in downtown Tokyo now, should I head back immediately?"
When to make a move...
Lu Mingfei glanced at Erii. The system had given him a timeline for the plan, which was best started 24-48 hours before Erii's bloodline went out of control, to divert the Snake-Headed Eight Families to Tokyo...
Erii said she has a week, and it's the fourth night now. The best time to be is tomorrow...
Lu Mingfei said, "We'll start tomorrow night. Now that we're almost back in Tokyo, let's come back and rest for a bit."
"Okay, is there anything else, Mr. Lu?" Xia Mi asked.
"No more at the moment."
After hanging up the phone, Lu Mingfei asked Erii, "Where do you want to go tonight?"
Now that she's free, though this freedom may end at any moment, she's starting to feel a little resentful of her previous tight schedule...
“Anywhere is fine,” Erii said softly.
"What kind of place do you like?" Lu Mingfei asked.
Erii fell into thought.
The system analysis concluded: "[...Eri's knowledge is rather limited, and she has little understanding of the outside world. Her previous travel plans were likely learned through limited channels; perhaps she doesn't know how to describe what kind of places she likes...]"
...You can show Erii a Tokyo travel brochure or open a Japanese travel website and let her choose the places that catch her eye. The host can also infer her preferences from this...
The system analysis seemed to be correct. Lu Mingfei got up, turned on his computer, and searched for promotional images of Japanese tourism.
He turned to Erii, who was deep in thought, and said, "Here are some pictures. Take a look and see what kind of scenery you like."
"Okay," Erii replied softly.
Then she got up and went to his side, and began browsing through those travel photos of Japan...
Her gaze lingered most on the colorful, brightly lit pictures.
For example, shopping streets, amusement parks, and famous Japanese-style tourist spots...
She only glanced at Senso-ji Temple, the Imperial Palace, and Meiji Shrine before taking a picture.
The system understands.
The photos that caught her eye all shared one thing in common: they were lively. She preferred bright, vibrant, trendy, and bustling places...
...Judging from the fact that the Snake Clan had to clear the area in advance when she went to Senso-ji Temple, she had almost never experienced the atmosphere of crowds and liveliness...
"Then why did she choose to go to Senso-ji Temple?" Lu Mingfei asked, based on the analysis of the possible systems.
"...The information we currently have is still insufficient to give a highly probable answer, but based on the information she received before and after her trip to Senso-ji Temple, there are two possibilities..."
...One reason was that she wanted to go back to the place where she had escaped the control of the Snake-Headed Eight Families...
...Another thing is that she received information that the host had visited Senso-ji Temple...
P.S.: I'm tired and inexplicably irritable. I'll start with 4,000 words today, and make up for the 4,000 I owe later. I won't break my promise to update 8,000 words a day this month.
Chapter 109 Young man, you must be careful to exercise restraint!
The winter evening breeze was not gentle, still carrying a chill. Old Tang, wearing a cotton coat and with his arms crossed, walked the streets of Tokyo, looking around suspiciously with a shifty expression. Even the passing police couldn't stand it anymore and stopped him for a questioning.
There were no problems with his documents and identity. After checking his documents, the police exchanged a few words with Old Tang, who had a 100-sentence Japanese crash course, and lost the desire to question him.
After the police left, Old Tang, who spoke Japanese haltingly, glanced at the book of 100 Japanese phrases again and memorized the sentence patterns more thoroughly.
A whole day has passed since he flew from the United States to Japan.
The good news is that the bounty is still up, and the Snake-Headed Eight Family even raised the price for the girl by 500 million yen today.
The $900 million girl has become a $1350 million girl; if you can find her, an ordinary person can immediately achieve financial freedom.
Old Tang felt like a gold prospector who went to San Francisco to pan for gold; if he succeeded just once, he would be set for life.
Although the probability is small in the vast population of Japan, there are no easy ways to make money in the world.
It is precisely because everyone is struggling that things seem precious, and that we have the opportunity to strive.
Compared to finding an innocent girl, Old Tang simply doesn't have the ability to capture "Bin Laden"...
"Eri Uesugi..." Old Tang muttered the name, his desire for the $1350 million growing even stronger.
Actually, Old Tang was also a genius, but unfortunately he lived in the evil capitalist country.