Chapter 70: Undercurrent
"How did you do this?"
"When I came back, it was raining on the road."
When Flamel saw the missing person pushing the door in, he was not sure that it would be Ange in front of him.
The vice-chancellor has known Angers for almost a century. This man may be wounded, he may be defeated, but his posture is always graceful like that of an old court cat.
At this time, Ange looked like a chicken in the soup. The expensive black suit was covered with raindrops, and the usually neat silver hair was a little wet.
"Don't lie in my chair."
Ange waved his hand to drive out Flamel, who had taken over the magpie's nest, and leaned back in a wide chair.
Usually he pours a cup of black tea and adds a sugar cube, but today he chose a less "gentlemanly" vodka.
"Where have you been this week, it's like there's a war outside, bastards messing around in the school, and the students almost tearing down the academy."
Flamel complained. Although he didn't do much in this incident, it was just because he was incompetent, not because he didn't want to get involved.
"Go find someone. I haven't found it, so I'll calm down in the rain. β
Ange replied lightly, wiping the rain off his body with a dry towel, and slowly reverted to the calm and elegant dragon slayer.
"Is it Friedrich von Long of the dog day?"
Flamel was taken aback.
"I can make you so out of shape, except for the 'prince', I can only think of that bastard. Do you think he has a part in this mess? β
Ange nodded slightly. For 110 years, he had captured Friedrich several times, but each time it ended in failure.
For one of his former "brothers", Ange gathered far more information than the Gattuso family had guessed. He was almost certain that Friedrich was hiding in the hunter's net, but the traitor's umbrella was not just the hunter's net.
The reason why Ange did not properly stand up and preside over the overall situation with an iron fist was because he did not want this hunter war to stop quickly.
It's been nearly a decade since Hunter.com had such a large-scale operation that many people really see it as a mere third-party site for bounty trading.
The disruption was a surprise to him, and the more chaotic it was, the more likely it was that he would have a chance to catch the guy's tracks. In a piece of clear water, big fish will not emerge.
Black card permissions, plus time zero, as long as he wants, almost no one in the world can track Ange's whereabouts.
For the first time in a long time, he operated alone in the United States, and with the help of Norma, he collected and investigated all suspicious people and actions of the Hunter Network.
The more he investigated, the more convinced Ange was that after many years, the traitor had really appeared. Hunter's Phoenix may be Friedrich, who also used the pseudonym Lin Fenglong.
But in this chaos, the seemingly weak side seems to be overpowered. On the third day after the bounty was opened, Hunter.com voluntarily shut it down without any explanation.
Ange had just found some useful clues, but the hunter network died down, and he waited for another two days without any news, so he had to return alone.
"Your students are so good, there's no need to drag your old bones around. Do you hear the cheers outside, the cubs are having a party for the school board? β
Ange just shook his head. Revenge is a private matter, and its main significance is not the result of the death of the enemy, but the process of revenge by wielding the sword.
"Lu Mingfei and Fingal, there's nothing wrong with them, right?"
"That's fine, Fingal is my protΓ©gΓ©, and he's very stable."
Flamel didn't hesitate to spout nonsense. What could Fingal have in mind? After he hung up, the position of vice-chancellor was in addition to Manstein, and the waste wood was considered the second heir.
Ange gave the fat cowboy a deep look, which made him feel a little weak. He and this guy are a united front, but their attitudes towards many things are at odds.
Not only himself, but Flammel, don't you also have a large debt to settle between you and the prince of the hunter's net?
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Africa, end of October, Luangwa National Park, Zambia.
Luo Yin was in charge of photography in the grass, Susie was squatting down, holding a big lion's head, brushing the lion's mane from time to time, and behind her was the prairie that had just begun to rejuvenate.
Before the lion woke up today, he probably didn't know anything about the part-time work he was going to work on camera props. Just as confused and trembling as it was the driver and tour guide with a demented expression on the pickup truck.
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This publicly-funded tour was completely unexpected by Luo Yin, and the fundamental reason was that the hunter network did not play cards according to the rules.
It stands to reason that the two sides will fight in front of each other first, and then fight each other in chaos, and then it will definitely be a decisive battle.
But Master Luo waited until the third day, but found that the hunter had cast the net. The 350 million bounty was withdrawn, and the coffin board of the Heroic Spirit was closed.
"Origins" is back online; Countless users poured into the new hunter network. He received a soft hand just for collecting advertising fees and intermediary fees, not to mention the reputation brought by this "victory".
But will Luo Yin let his guard down? Of course not, it's a fraud no matter how you look at it. The enemy is definitely a deception, and he wants to relax his vigilance and seize the opportunity to give him a ruthless blow.
Then, a week passed, and nothing happened. A group of monsters are waiting in Chicago, and Ruri Kazama's filming schedule has been delayed.
The Hunters are close to retiring from the stage. Even many people publicly posted on the forum, saying that this broken website has no way to live, and no one cares about it.
Luo Yin was a little confused, could it be that he had been fighting wits and courage with the air?
Unwillingly, they began a fishing plan.
Chu Zihang, who bears the brand of Odin, took the initiative to act as a bait and carried out the mission alone, and Konstantin, who could cut off the power of the Nibelungen, followed in ambush. But I couldn't catch it.
The strength of the organization flourished in an eerie atmosphere that lasted until three days ago.
The half-dead Hunter Net suddenly cheats the corpse, and the administrator Nido pins a trading post to the top. Sell a piece of information about the dragon relics, starting from 10 million, only sell once.
The number one unjust party decided to believe it again and spent 20 million to buy the information. And the content turned out to be genuine, it is a large metal-looking ruins in the rainforest of the Congo Basin, and the surface of the building is engraved with carvings similar to dragon inscriptions. Approximate geographical coordinates are also attached at the end.
This piece of information does not mean that it is a little suspicious, but that it must be deceitful.
It is better to throw this thing on this kind of knot, it is better to directly mark it with "I am the bait". It's not the first time that the academy has suffered a loss, and it knows that caution is the best. Before dispatching the top team, the executive department first contacted the local forces and organized the pioneer team to explore.
The Reserve Commissioner sent Caesar, Lu Mingfei and Xia Mi, and the S-class brought to A. Chu Zihang rarely did not apply to join the team of the executive department, but followed Luo Yin's team to Zambia.
He, the bearer of the brand, stays in the academy team, which is about the same as a group annihilation engine that can be triggered at any time.
During this time, Luo Yin learned a lot about the Nibelungen from Constantine, and in return, he gave the dragon king part of the dragon model of the Judgment of Words and the Mask of Odin.
At the very least, he had to be able to sense the precursors of the Nibelungen's appearance, and be able to quickly get out of his way when he first appeared. Otherwise, one day he will be inexplicably dragged into the Nibelungen group and beaten, and it is estimated that his life will be in danger.
Chu Zihang, a good student, has always learned quickly, as for Lu Mingfei...... He Ji people have their own natural appearance.
This time, it looks like a trap operation, so let the professional secret party be a pawn. The enemy does not move, they do not move, first look at the wild animals on the prairie with peace of mind.
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Susie pats the lion's head and frees the king of the steppe. The African lion walked with his tail between his legs and ran away with a puff of smoke, and it seemed that he did not have much interest in being a domestic cat.
Susie took out a small notebook, and the African lion plus one was about to reach the Ten Lions Slash.
"Are you really druids?"
The tour guide Luo Yin is looking for is a medium-sized black brother, a local, who knows Chinese, English and Russian, and is definitely a top talent in this land.
"I've said it several times, why don't you believe it? The descendants of the Druids of the East, genuine. β
The two returned to the car and continued to look for the next unlucky guy to force a group photo.
This black brother's name is AK, AK-47 is AK, and it's not a nickname. His full name is specialty, but in the long list of non-intermediate names, there is a Kalashnikov inserted.
His grandfather spent several years in the Soviet Union and was deeply influenced by this legendary Soviet-made rifle. AK's parents are also cultural people, and they insisted on finishing junior high school and working as veterinarians at the zoo.
According to AK, he is a hybrid of mind and soul.
Luo Yin and Susie have little interest in highly artificial zoos, so AK uses his extensive knowledge of the prairie to take them on a road trip in a pickup truck in a very underdeveloped area.
AK is very familiar with the distribution of lions and wildebeests, and he also understands the habits of hippos and rock pythons, and has never overturned in his three years in the industry.
But he couldn't bear it, he suffered from two neuropathies this time. These two people don't want to appreciate nature from afar, they just want to embrace it.
"When I was six years old, I bought a little yellow duck at a stall and it died three hours later. I bought another one, but the second generation was murdered by a wild cat in the middle of the night.
I haven't had a pet since. In fact, I've always wanted to find some kind of hard-hitting breed to do the scourge. β
Susie deeply sympathizes with Luo Yin's sad childhood story, except that she raised two kings to death.
When her five fingers ran over the lion's warm mane and felt the trembling muscles of the big cat, Susie found that petting the cat was indeed effective in lowering blood pressure.
Only people who deal with large cold-blooded reptiles every day can fully realize the goodness of felines.
In addition to lions, try zebras, black-footed cats, giraffes. Only the land of Africa can allow dragon slayers to regain their love for wild animals.
AK listened to the two tourists discussing which male lion or female lion was more comfortable to stroke, and knew that he was completely careless. The two in the back seat of the car sounded higher in the food chain than Bell Grylls.
What he probably never knew was that by airdropping these two men to a small country on the African continent, they could help change the dynasty in three minutes.
Luo Yin and Susie put their hands out of the window together, and the hot and humid wind blew in their faces, temporarily blowing away the dark clouds overhead.
Susie felt the bump on the potholed ground and was considering whether to use her sword to get the car to take off directly.
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While the two were on vacation in the Zambian savannah, the college's second exploration team had already set off towards the coordinates of the intelligence.
The first exploration team is composed of the elite of the African branch and the special specialists of the alchemy department and the archaeology department of the headquarters, and has been stationed at the target site.
Caesar clearly knew that the elite of the branch could just listen to this kind of words, and it was basically used as a tool.
For many years, the Africa division competed with the South American division for the title of the weakest division. In the darkest of times, the Africa Division was forced to apply for support from its headquarters to prevent itself from being wiped out by local armed separatist forces.
In the history of the secret party, there have not been a few fierce men in the African branch, and the density of half-breeds is extremely low, which is two extremes of the hell mode in Japan.
If you explain it from the perspective of the history of the dragon clan, the origin of the dragon clan is located in the North Pole, it may be that the road is too far away, and the ancient dragons are too lazy to run here.
Therefore, the Academy took this operation very seriously, and this was the first time that the Secret Party had discovered a suspected dragon ruins in Africa outside of Egypt.
"Nkacha, how is the survey going over there?"
"It's almost certain that it's a dragon relic. It's so remote that the Rainforest Development Company doesn't even have any foot in it. Radioactivity tests showed no anomalies and no signs of survival of the dragon subspecies. β
The tall, thin black man wearing goggles replied to Caesar. Graduated in 2004 with a degree of Genealogy from the Dragon Family, and is a B-level commissioner of the Executive Department, Nkacha. Because the headquarters was too volacy, he decided to return to his hometown to inherit the family property after graduation.
One thing to say, Nkatsa never thought that he would be used by the secret party one day. He was originally going to inherit his father's chieftain position and compete for the fat difference of the African branch in the future, but he never expected that there would be a chance for archaeology in his hometown.
Caesar observed the surrounding situation, and looked back at Natsumi, who was taking pictures everywhere with a serious expression.
"Senior Sister Xia, have you found anything?"
"No, I'm just trying to keep it serious."
A question mark popped up above Caesar's head.
"Why?"
"According to Riman, you and Chu Zihang are lifelong enemies. As the rumored girlfriend of the boss, I can't be too kind to you. β
Caesar:?
Lu Mingfei, the complaining machine on the side, gave Xia Mi a thumbs up, worthy of you. The spitting machine and the brain pathways of neuropathy are connected, but the Italians can't.
It didn't take long for Natsumi to reveal her true nature, and she began to jump up and down excitedly in the rainforest, posing for pictures with strangely shaped vines, and wondering about letting the Wind King's pupils fly up.
She simply regarded this mission as a publicly-funded tour supported by the secret party, looking at her flexible posture, like a monkey who has lived in the rainforest for many years.
If interpreted in the way of Journey to the West, Lu Mingfei is a spit version of Hanhansha monk, Xia Mi has both the lazy ability of the second senior brother and the flexibility of the senior brother, and Caesar takes over all the professional work of the team, and he has to educate these two like Tang Seng.
At this moment, the Italians actually missed Chu Zihang a little. It was like air when the face was paralyzed and quiet, and it was more reliable than the Italian guns in battle.
The group finally arrived at the ruins. Professor Rundstead, who led the team, was having a difficult conversation with three or four local residents who had been involved in the neighborhood with the assistance of the interpreter.
Caesar carefully lifted a corner of the tarpaulin, revealing a badly damaged piece of metal the size of a grinding disc underneath. Although he is a scumbag compared to Chu Zihang, he can judge that those strange and complex symbols do not belong to the primitive religion of Africa.
The ruins were supposed to have been hidden by thick vines, but the new tributaries that appeared during the rainy season made a corner of it apparent.
Because of the relationship between the ruins and the Hunter Net, the academy shows an extraordinary level of importance. After the follow-up team and equipment are in place, it is almost the highest standard, and it is not arranged as an archaeological operation at all.
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At midnight, the moonlight in the clear sky is like water.
When the moon rises to its highest point, the light shines through the heavy forest, penetrating the barrier, and enveloping the ruins.
Above the empty ruins, the moonlight distorted and refracted slightly, as if something existed there.
There was a momentary flicker in the moonlight, but the high-speed camera set up by the survey team did not catch the figure at great speed.
On the barren white earth, Lin Fenglong completely released his dragon power towards the decaying and collapsed pure white palace, and a loud rumbling sound came from under the palace.
"The time has come to fulfill your promise and offer your loyalty to Odin."
Outside the Nibelungen, Natsumi stepped out of her tent and looked at the moonlit ruins. There was anger in her golden eyes, and there was also a hint of nostalgia.
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