During the Chinese New Year, the red lantern swayed gently in the cold wind, sat on the stone steps in front of the house, and lit a cigarette. Dad drank too much and fell asleep, Aunt Xue is busy making dumplings, because my family is not a real Shanghainese, and the ancestors of the family also have northern relations, so the custom of making dumplings on the Chinese New Year's Eve and eating dumplings on the first day of the new year has not changed.

The smoke was thick, and I looked at the figures walking on the road and was a little stunned, as if I had suddenly traveled back to the mortal world from the cruel and strange world in the book. It's just that this dream without boundaries can't be stopped, but I just took a break to go home once, and most of the half a year just let us complete a goal that is not particularly fulfilling.

When the cigarette butt burned out, I stood up, but I saw a car driving on the side of the road, and the old red flag headlights were facing my face, shining on my eyes in a trance. I frowned and covered my eyes with my hand, but I could already guess who was coming for me.

Sure enough, after the car door opened, Uncle Jia walked out, followed by several people, all of whom were staff members of the 507 base in Shanghai.

"You are not at home for the New Year in the thirties of the Chinese New Year's Eve, why are you running here to me, uncle." I knew that Uncle A would definitely not be good when he came to me, so he didn't speak very politely.

"Naturally, I'm looking for you."

"We have a seven-day vacation this time, and I also want to accompany my dad more, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to take me back to train now." I thought he had come to take me back, so I deliberately emphasized the seven-day holiday.

"I'm not here to take you back, but to inform you of something." I showed a suspicious expression in Uncle Jia's words, "After the holiday, we will arrange for you and Cui Zhen to go abroad once, on the one hand, to help 507, and on the other hand, as an assessment of this half a year's training, through this assessment, we will score your current situation, and at the same time, we will analyze your next stage of training and formulate a new training plan according to the actual situation." ”

"It's a business trip." I took the order and said it plainly.

"Almost. I'll let you know when you return to the base after the holiday. ”

I wondered, do you need to come to my door once for this? Isn't that full? A phone call was not over, so he asked strangely: "Just to say a few words?" Nothing else? ”

"In addition, on behalf of Sha Lao and the 507 Institute, I will give you a New Year's greeting." Uncle A hugged his fists, I hurriedly returned the salute, he really didn't say anything, turned around and got in the car and drove away. The more I thought about it, the more strange I felt, and I wondered what deep meaning might be hidden in Uncle Jia's special move.

It is indispensable to visit relatives during the Spring Festival, and there are a few better colleagues on my father's side, and Aunt Xue has a lot of relatives in Shanghai, and I am not very familiar with her relatives over there, so I didn't follow. The fat man and Luo Qiong came to worship the New Year, and after eating at home, the father saw the fat man and said in amazement: "Xiao Cui, why have you lost so much weight, you are out of shape." ”

This is estimated to be the most and happiest words that the fat man heard during the entire Chinese New Year, and couldn't help but nod and said: "The benefits of exercising, but it's still a little heavy, and losing weight is not something that can come down in a day or two." ”

Seven days, passed quickly, the brothers cleaned up and returned to the base, Yuan Feng and Tang Yuyan spent the New Year at the base, after all, these two people had nowhere to go. Because of this, they seem to be informed a little bit more and know a lot more than we do.

"I've heard that there seems to be a problem over there that asks us to go abroad to help a few friendship agencies abroad. Uncle A seems to have been busy with this matter recently, and I heard that this task was assigned to Team Zero at first, but then Uncle A thought it was a good opportunity for us to practice on the spot and took it. Yuan Feng said what he knew, I nodded slightly, and sat in the barracks waiting for Uncle Jia to come.

"It's weird, why don't you just make this matter clear? It can also allow a few of us to prepare for the Spring Festival. The fat man muttered.

At this moment, Uncle Jia came over with a few people, and when he saw us, he glanced at everyone, nodded and said, "Everyone is here, how is the holiday?" ”

I lit a cigarette, smiled and said, "Uncle, you better get straight to the point." ”

This kind of unnutritious greeting doesn't seem interesting to me.

"Okay, then I'll get straight to the point, the place I'm going to send you to this time is Japan, and it's your old job." We were all slightly surprised by this, the words "Japan" and "old bank" already contain a very large amount of information.

"Going to Japan to hunt demons?" Luo Qiong asked suspiciously.

"Yes." Uncle Jia nodded, and things finally came to an end.

Relations between China and Japan have been slowly recovering since the establishment of diplomatic relations in the late seventies, and of course, decades have passed since the end of the war, but the terrible effects of the war still remain. To put it bluntly, Chinese people like to call each other "devils" when they see Japanese.

The situation has not improved much, but with the contact of import and export trade and culture, in the 90s, a relatively strong Japanese trend gradually emerged in the big cities of China, including learning Japanese dress, liking Japanese stars, listening to Japanese songs and watching Japanese movies.

Under the influence of this trend, the number of Chinese tourists and students in Japan gradually increased, which was the background of the society at that time. And it was in such a context that something happened to the family of a financier who had been cooperating with 507 for a long time. This financier has strong financial resources and a deep background, so he has always been a guest of the 507 Institute and Sha Lao, but it is a pity that he only has one daughter under his knees, so he loves this daughter very much. Unexpectedly, the younger daughter was very obsessed with the Japanese trend, so she ran to Japan twice in three days, which was the same as many rich children liked to go to Japan or the United States at that time.

However, this time the eldest lady went to Japan and did not come back on time, and the personal bodyguard sent by the big financier to his daughter also lost contact.

"According to our investigation, this girl was captured by an old dragon in Japan." Uncle A didn't react to what Uncle A said, and the fat man asked strangely, "Old Dragon?" Flying dragons? Or is this person's surname Long? ”

"It's an old dragon about a thousand years old, the kind you said could fly. It's just that it's not our Chinese's dragon, but the kind that grows wings in Western Europe. ”

"The big flying lizard?" Luo Qiong's words are very apt.

"Sort of, dragons in Western society represent evil for the most part, devils and monsters. Unlike our Chinese dragon representative Xiangrui, in the myth of hope, evil dragons like treasures, that is, golden and shiny things, and beautiful women, the more beautiful they are, the more they can arouse their desires. It's not surprising that they live for hundreds or even thousands of years, but logically speaking, the ancient dragons in China and the flying lizards in the West should be extinct. Every year, boring people in Western society will make up some news about the so-called encounter with the evil dragon of the West, but in fact they are all fake news that attracts people's attention. Is this thing still alive? "While explaining the difference between Chinese and Western dragons, I asked Uncle Jiayi about it.

"There are indeed survivors, and there are not a small number of them. Dozens of them survive in the interior of Romania, in the permafrost of the Soviet Union, and in the dense forests of East Germany alone. Of course, they are also very intelligent, knowing that they will become the target of public criticism once they appear in this era, so most of them live in seclusion and do not show their heads much. And even if it is predatory, it will not attack domestic animals, and try to keep a low profile and mystery. Even the thousand-year-old dragons fall into a deep sleep, which is like hibernation, waiting for the next ice age to come, and they will wake up. Japan was supposed to have no Western dragons, and Japan's own Yin-Yang Liao had been maintaining Japan's protectorate barrier. But something went wrong, and a volcanic activity on Mt. Fuji woke up a sleeping old dragon. ”