Chapter 487: Searching
At midnight, at Chicago International Airport, a Boeing 747-400 jumbo airliner was waiting for its transoceanic flight.
Only red-eye flights were still flying, and the tarmac was silent, and a shuttle bus sent the passengers under the wings.
"Am you not mistaken? Why did you let us take the shuttle bus to such a remote place to board the plane? Fingal complained loudly, "Isn't it out of tolerance?" How is economy class? Even if you can't sit first-class, at least you have to be in business! We're here to die for humanity! β
"It is said that the tickets for other flights have been sold out, so this is a night charter flight, and it is not easy to grab tickets for this plane, and the last three economy class." Chu Zihang said lightly.
"Didn't give Caesar's group a priority?" Fingal was a little pleased, "It seems that we are very valued this time!" β
"I heard that Caesar requisitioned one of his family's 'Gulfstream' business jets, which had taken off an hour ago."
"Huh? Shouldn't this be said through gritted teeth? You also look like a rich second generation, don't you feel ashamed that you are a rich second generation and Caesar is a rich second generation? You don't even have the slightest sense of fighting him to the death! Fingal commented solemnly, "I don't think our group will lose without this fighting spirit." β
"My dad was just a driver." Chu Zihang handed over the boarding card expressionlessly.
The flight attendant smiled like a flower, took the boarding card and tore it open, and handed half of it back to Chu Zihang. "Welcome, new face."
Chu Zihang glanced at her through his sunglasses, was silent for a few seconds, and nodded. "Got it, hello."
The huge cabin of the Boeing 747-400 is packed, like a charter plane for a tour group, and the passengers are familiar with each other, some chatting, some teasing the children next to each other, and others flipping through the newspapers.
"It's so narrow." Fingal muttered as he peeked at a beautiful woman with towering hair not far away.
Lu Mingfei didn't seem to be touched at all, and after getting on the plane, he didn't talk much, he looked around silently, lowered his head to do his own thing, and no foreign object could interfere with him.
"This time it's a direct flight, and we'll take the route of the Bering Strait, close to the Arctic Circle, about 14 hours away." Chu Zihang handed over two small bags, each with a set of eye masks and earplugs, "It's best to get some sleep, and start working when you land." β
"Oh, what a nurse-like care!" Fingal was happy.
Lu Mingfei took it casually and quickly put on the blindfold and earplugs.
The blindfold and earplugs seemed to isolate him in a separate darkness, and Fingal could be faintly heard shouting.
"Hey, when will the flight attendants be served? Do you have beer here? Can I ask for double meals? β
"Hell! This seat really broke my spine. Fingal muttered as he removed his blindfold and stood up and moved his shoulders.
The plane had risen above the clouds, it was a dark night outside, the lights in the cabin were dimmed, and Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei slept side by side like dead bodies.
After drinking a double beer, Fingal staggered to his feet, humming an out-of-tune rap, and squirmed to the bathroom.
He walked into the bathroom contentedly, and as soon as he looked up, his widening eyes almost broke through his sockets! When he walked to the bathroom just now, he turned his back to the passengers, and now he was facing instead, so he could clearly see that in the dim light, the faint golden pupils were like a pair of fireflies flying together, and even the eyes of the sleeping bear child were flowing with a faint gold.
An old man who was reading the newspaper noticed Fingal's gaze, and glanced up at him coldly, and at a glance, the golden gold in his pupils was as fierce as a sword!
"I must have a fever...... Fingal touched his forehead.
"Sir, can't you find your seat? Hurry back to your seat and sit down, we're in the high-speed airflow. The soft voice of the stewardess sounded behind him.
"You don't know what kind of passengers you're flying to China with a group of passengers, do you? Innocent little white rabbit? Fingal snorted and turned his head to see the beautiful stewardess he had looked at several times...... The golden color is as intense as champagne shining on a gas lamp!
The flight attendant patted Fingal's face, pinched his closed mouth, and smiled: "Handsome guy, don't you know what plane you are on?" People who don't have blood can't get on this plane. β
It's a flying dragon's nest!
Caesar woke up in bed, and it was pitch black outside the porthole.
There happen to be three full-size queen beds on this Gulfstream business jet, which is enough for the three of them to rest.
He glanced at his watch, and with four hours to go to his destination, they were over the Arctic Circle.
Caesar liked the business jet very much, and the bed was adjusted according to his requirements, but he didn't sleep well, and there was a feeling of uneasiness in his dreams, as if something was approaching.
He looked out of the porthole for a long time, and the red lights on the wings lit up the clouds below, red like a layer of blood poured up.
He estimated that he would never be able to sleep again, and when he opened the box he was carrying, the family gave him the Philosopher's Stone for slaying dragons, the stone that could make all alchemists have long been thrown by him.
He carries arrogance, jealousy, and greed, a dragon slayer crafted by the dragon king Norton himself! He prefers to fight with real knives and guns than bullets, holding a sharp blade in his hand, cutting off the head of the dragon king with his own hands, holding it high, and swearing his majesty!
He took his laptop out of his box and connected to the Internet, and pulled up a frequently visited website from his favorites, "Hunter's Market".
Only a handful of people know Caesar Gattuso's other identity, that he was a hunter.
He had been a hunter before he entered the Kassel Academy, and at the age of fifteen he had the ID of the "Hunter Market". Of course, he didn't have to work for a bounty, and even the most generous bounty would be enough to equal the gas money on his private jet and the tips that were thrown out of his hand.
He just likes to do something adventurous, and there are a lot of fun people among the hunters.
His ID was "Governor of Gaul", and the dictator Caesar conquered Gaul in history.
The post of bounty on the dragon king was pinned, thousands of replies, about a lot of half-bloods have IDs here, they used to be just diving, and now they are all floating.
Some people expressed surprise, some people said they were calm about the rumors, some people speculated how many people would go to Beijing to fight for this high bounty, and some people mixed in with the crowd and said bad things. It's like a church, and it looks like the half-breeds have at least inherited it from humans, and playing games here will affect your work. Senior brother, we all rely on you, the other group are all elites, and you have to drag our two oil bottles. β
"You probably misunderstand the meaning of this word, in Chinese, the child born by a woman after divorce and her ex-husband is called 'drag oil bottle'," Chu Zihang corrected, "For example, I am a drag oil bottle." β
Chu Zihang pressed the enter key, and the data was loaded into the mathematical model he had just completed.
On the projection map on the wall, countless ripples splashed in an instant, as if it was a calm lake, and Chu Zihang had just sprinkled a handful of fine sand into it.
"What are you messing with?" Fingal couldn't understand, "Aren't we here to slay dragons?" But the three of us have our own house methods, the madman is a game nerd, you are a science nerd, and I am a ...... I'm a foodie. Shouldn't we be looking for dragons all over Beijing with equipment? β
"If you're talking about a DSLR camera, that's what Tang Sen and his friends are doing, they have already visited the Forbidden City yesterday, and their goal today is to go to the Summer Palace." Chu Zihang said lightly, "The reason why they have become a complete tour group is because they found that this city is full of traces of dragons. There is a dragon vein in the geography, the dragon and the phoenix are auspicious on the royal stone carving, the descendants of the dragon lie on the four corners of the main hall, and even the turtle carrying the stone tablet is a dragon species, and there is no way to find it. This is a dragon as a totem, and the dragon family information left should be the most, but too much cluttered information hides the core information we are looking for. β
Chu Zihang pointed to the ripples on the map with a pencil, "The messy information I get now is the ground motion data of Beijing and its surroundings since the beginning of this year. β
"Ground motion data?"
"The Earthquake Department has set up a lot of small monitoring equipment in the city. It is located in the Yanshan earthquake zone in North China, and there are hundreds of small-scale earthquakes every year, but the magnitude and intensity are too low to even be detected. But the monitoring device faithfully records every movement. Ground movement can be a change in the earth's crust, or it can be something hidden in the earth's crust. But this year, the frequency of ground movement suddenly increased tenfold, and I built a simple mathematical model, substituting this data, using various calculation methods and screening conditions, so that we may be able to find the hypocenter, the king of the earth and the mountain. β
Fingal listened blankly for a long time and nodded. "It's amazing!"
"It's normal that you don't understand, my subject is biased towards science, and your subject is biased towards dragon genealogy." Chu Zihang said lightly, "That means that I am a science major, and you are a liberal arts major." β
"Damn, I didn't know I was a liberal arts student until I went to college for nine years!" Fingal took a sip of red wine, "That is, this irascible dragon king always works in one place, what if he moves while doing work?" β
"Why did the dragon king move? Does he go to work? β
"Also, he should be hiding somewhere to recuperate, and after his strength is completely restored, he will destroy all of us." Fingal nodded, "With these stats, we're ahead of Caesar's group?" β
"It's hard to say. There are so many factors that can cause ground shaking in the city, such as heavy trucks passing by, subway passing, construction machinery, and even holiday flowers, which are also recorded. In other words, there are hundreds of times more invalid data mixed in the ground motion data, and it takes an unknown amount of time to eliminate them, and we have limited time. Chu Zihang stared at the projection screen, "Senior brother, did you have a girlfriend before?" β
"Hey...... What kind of god twist is this? Isn't there a need for some cohesion between the preamble and the afterword? You science students are really stupid! Fingal was taken aback.
"I'm sorry, I suddenly remembered, it's inconvenient to answer."
"What's inconvenient? That's my glorious war history! An immortal monument to love! Fingal sat up suddenly, "I was once a 'A' class that everyone loved!" In my first few years in school, I was also an invincible guy like you! The girls who admired me lined up to give me chocolates on Valentine's Day, so much so that I had to make them into chocolate sauce enough to smear a year's worth of breakfast bread! β
"So you have a girlfriend? Later broke up? Chu Zihang looked at him seriously.
"You poked the wound!" Fingal covered his chest.
"I'm sorry, I just wanted to consult, if you like a girl and have never confessed that she is going to get married, will you tell him?"
"Are you talking about yourself?" Fingal looked at Chu Zihang in surprise, "I didn't expect that the president of the Lionheart Club would also have a day when he couldn't get the girl's heart, tell me who that girl is, I want to record it!" β
"Nope." Chu Zihang's face didn't fluctuate at all, "What will you do?" β
"Why should I tell her?" Fingal glared, then like a deflated ball, "I'll choose to blow the groom first!" β
Chu Zihang pondered for a few seconds. "If he doesn't say it, the feelings that have been concealed will be worthless. One day he will die with this feeling, and no one even knows about it. So why not? β
Fingal fell on his back on the bed. "Feelings are a thing that some people are very valuable, and some people are very rubbish. For example, the payment of licking the dog is worthless, but it is just a bank card without a password for other girls. Affection is a sacred word, but it is not hard currency, and it cannot be exchanged for food. Don't feel that your feelings are very precious because you like someone, friend, his useless feelings, it's better to forget them as soon as possible. β
"But you just said you'd blow up the groom."
"Everybody is different. For example, if you are a psychopath, once you fall in love with a girl, it will be earth-shattering, if she wants to get married, even if the float has already started, you will shoot off the axle to rob people. Fingal said, "This is everyone's personality is different, if Lu Mingfei heard that Zero was going to marry someone else, I wouldn't dare to imagine the tragic situation of the wedding, with my knowledge of his temper, I'm afraid it will be an apocalypse!" β
"Feelings that don't go crazy have no value?"
"It can be understood that way." Fingal shook his head and sighed, "A coward who can only please and dare not say it silently, his feelings are very cheap!" No, it's not cheap, it's stupid! β
"Stupid?" Chu Zihang chewed on the meaning of these four words, "Who can be regarded as stupid?" I know that these four words are used to scold people, but it seems that anyone can scold, does it have no specific meaning? β
He is a person with a habit of language cleanliness, and basically everything that comes out of his mouth can be written into middle school textbooks without abridgement, and it is a science textbook, and the tone is purely factual and the tone does not fluctuate.
"This ......," Fingal scratched his unkempt head, "a Chinese asked a German how to explain stupidity...... It's stupid in itself...... This word can basically sum up all the annoying and despised, and it is probably ...... The kind of person who knows that something is impossible, but still has to hold hope, and keeps coercing, sometimes he will be enthusiastic about this kind of thing, like a madman, but when it is time for him to be brave, he is cowardly...... It's the kind of dead kid who doesn't understand anything, and he's still fucking stubborn, and he's still a soft egg, damn it! He has all the shortcomings, don't you think he is stupid? β
Chu Zihang was silent for a long time and nodded slightly. "I see, it's stupid. How did you break up in the first place, brother? β
"Holy! Another twist of mind, you are like consulting an expert for plastic surgery, but the expert suddenly asked if your appendix is still there! Fingal muttered, "Well, it's because I was stupid at the time......"
"Everybody's stupid sometimes, right?" Chu Zihang said lightly.
There was a knock on the door, followed by the sound of pinching throats. "Mole mole, I'm a sweet potato!"
Chu Zihang got up and opened the door, and Xia Mi, who was carrying a large bag and a small bag, came in and gestured to Fingal: "Wow, what a mess!" The legendary boys' dormitory? Is there a boys' dormitory where cockroaches are pets? Can I come in? Can you get your pets out of the way first, I'm afraid I'll step on those cute little animals......"
She wore a bohemian plaid maxi skirt and straight-leg buckskin boots, as well as a burgundy sheepskin jacket with a long purple scarf around her neck.
No one can figure out her style of dressing, anyway, every time I see her, it will make people's eyes shine, probably because there is a whole walk-in dressing room at home for her to compare and match.
"Senior sister is so beautiful! Come and let the senior brother see if your waist is long......" Fingal opened his arms.
Xia Mi smashed a piece of cheesecake in his face: "I'm afraid that you will starve to death, so I'm here to send you food!" Huh? Why don't you see Lu Mingfei? β
"Your senior brother Lu has gone out to practice, and he won't come back for a while, and he will meet us again in the Chambord Islands in two years. It's good to give us a share of the food, is it a snack? Fingal's eyes lit up.
"Uh-huh," Xia Mi sat down and groped in the big bag, "I'm a local, I'm going home to see my parents today, so I went to buy a circle of things, and bought you some food by the way, although there are two Chinese in your group, it seems that Senior Brother Fingal's self-care ability is the best." β
"Winning prizes is the survival instinct that can find food wherever you go, and it's innate." Fingal was proud.
"The dim sum and candied fruit of Daoxiang Village, and the twist of the 18th Street...... This is Tianjin's ...... And the elbow of the Tianfu, "Xia Mi took it out one by one," enough for you to eat for a few days. β
Fingal pressed his chest. "Ahh With this surging sense of happiness, you really sent an undercover agent by our group, right? I know that junior sister, your heart is still towards us. β
"Because Brother Fingal, you're the most handsome." Natsumi grinned.
Fingal turned to Chu Zihang and patted his chest hard. "Look! Senior brother, you still have to rely on my hue to get rid of the miserable life of eating junk food all day long! β
Chu Zihang was too lazy to take care of these two living treasures, and after nodding to Xia Mi to say hello, he kept staring at the map on the wall and thinking.
"Ground motion data for the region?" Natsumi walked up to him.
Her major is science, which is clear at a glance.
Chu Zihang nodded. "But there's too much junk data and too much interference. It's like the wind blowing the surface of a lake, and the lake is full of waves, and we can't find the bubbles that the fish spits out. β
He patted the map, "That fish is hiding under the surface of the lake, and the day it wakes up will suddenly break through the water in the form of a dragon, and then it will be too late." β
"He's still in human form, and he's supposed to be transforming into a dragon body in order to fully awaken." Xia Mi said.
"Yes, otherwise he can't make the two incidents at the South Railway Station and Six Flags Amusement Park. He can't fly to America in dragon form. Chu Zihang said, "But the ability of dragons in human form will be restricted, which has been proven in Dragon King Norton." β
Natsumi stared at the map. "It takes time to transform into a complete dragon, which is equivalent to another hatching. I told my father and mother that you take good care of me, and they said that they wanted to invite you to the house for a meal. β
Chu Zihang was stunned for a moment, and before he could answer, he heard Fingal's loud voice. "Is it another divine turn for you science students? Hey, is this the legendary 'meeting your parents'? β
Fingal covered his face, "Shamefully cute!" β
"Cute your sister!" Xia Mi turned his head and said viciously, "It's just that please eat!" β
"Then why not me?" Fingal jumped up and asked.
Xia Mi was stunned.
"Apparently not me, right? It's clear that you're not ready to call me! The heart is empty and the face is red! No way! I know that you little girls think that I am an uncle! Saying that the most handsome senior brother is lying to me! Fingal's face was full of anger. I don't know you......"
Natsumi covered her face and turned her head.
Chu Zihang coughed and hesitated for a few seconds. "You can see it, it's already busy here, and I probably don't have time to pass, thank you parents for your kindness."
"It's just a meal, there are always a few hours, my brother really wants to see you after hearing about it," Xia Mi covered his ears, "Say what sister sister I want my big brother to play with me on the phone or something, noisy dead people, noisy dead people, I can't help but invite you!" β
Xia Mi put her face in front of Chu Zihang, "Reward a face, a face, a face?" "Shaking his head, his eyes and bones rolling.
"I ......" Chu Zihang was speechless, "I'm not very good at playing with people......"
"Isn't he your brother? Why do you call you sister? And you used to say it was your brother? Fingal was curious.
"It's the sister of the royal sister!" Natsumi stuck out his tongue, "He was born with a little slow development, and his intelligence is like that of a child, so he always thinks that I am his sister." β
"Speaking of which, helping minors is a traditional virtue of our Kassel Academy!" Fingal held his chest high, "I can't shirk it!" Chu Zihang, you are also duty-bound! β
Chu Zihang was helpless: "When?" β
"It's noon the day after tomorrow, what do you think of making dumplings?"
"Okay." Chu Zihang nodded.
"Huh? But I have an arrangement at noon the day after tomorrow. Fingal suddenly said, "Although I would like to accompany you, it is unfortunate that you should go to my sister's house for dinner by yourself." β
Chu Zihang was dumbfounded. "You...... What is the arrangement. β
Fingal shook his long, fluffy hair, making it look a bit maverick, full of clothes and head high. "Visit the 798 Art Center."
"You're kidding me, aren't you?" Chu Zihang said in his heart.
"Ah, senior brother, are you going to 798? There are a few good art museums there, I'll draw you a map......" Xia Mi had already sat on the bed, drawing a map for Fingal on a blank piece of paper, and no one paid any attention to Chu Zihang at all, as if this matter was settled, which was natural and reasonable.
At noon the day after tomorrow, Chu Zihang, who has the unshirkable responsibility, will go to Xia Mi's house for dinner on behalf of the Kassel Academy, an aristocratic college with a fine virtue tradition, and take her brother to play.
Chu Zihang suddenly understood why the word "fall" was always used on the Internet. It's the feeling of wanting to drop the keyboard on the faces of these two people!
It was a scam from the beginning! When did the Kassel Academy have a tradition of helping minors? When did those embryokillers manage minors?
"Hey, undercover sister, what is Caesar doing?" Fingal asked suddenly.
"It seems that from yesterday to today, I have been drinking tea, taking Finnish baths, doing SPA or something, and today it seems that I went to visit the glass factory." Natsumi's eyes rolled for the first time, "I guess I should surprise his fiancΓ©e." β