Miyamoto seemed unconcerned about Caesar and Lu Mingfei's comments on their flags, and he explained to Caesar, "This is your father's request. He said the submersible must be painted with the Japanese flag. He also said that the sunrise in the east is a good omen, and wished my son's trip to Japan every success."

"When I locked him in, I knew he was always going to find a way to get revenge on me." Caesar frowned, "When are we going to dive?"

"Tomorrow night, we applied to the Maritime Safety Bureau for a restraining order in the name of scientific expeditions to prohibit all civilian vessels from passing through the nearby waters tomorrow night, and this prohibition order is valid for 12 hours, starting at 6 p.m. and ending at 6 a.m., so we only operate for 12 hours." Yuan Zhisheng replied.

"Are you in such a hurry? Time is too tight." Caesar said.

"The operation of the submersible is not complicated, and one day is enough time for you to master." Yuan Zhisheng picked up a thick operating manual and handed it to Caesar, "We will also prepare other matters, there is not much time, but enough."

"I mean, in addition to our mission, we have a few other attractions that we want to visit in Japan, and by the way, I have a few pages of shopping lists." Caesar said.

"I want to go to Akihabara." Lu Mingfei raised his hand, and then patted Chu Zihang's shoulder, "Senior brother said that he wanted to go to Ueno Park to see the cherry blossoms."

Chu Zihang nodded expressionlessly.

Gen Zhisheng was silent, as the first person to contact the trio, he felt that he should have accepted their jump, but this kind of brain circuit that prioritized shopping in the face of tasks still made him understand that he couldn't, just like a diligent student couldn't understand why his roommate stayed up late to play games on the night before an exam, and a sad thick barrier had formed between them.

After lunch at the three-star Michelin restaurant at noon, the trio returned to the Peninsula Hotel, and in Lu Mingfei's room, Chu Zihang looked at Caesar after carefully checking that there were no bugging cameras or anything like that.

"There's a problem." Caesar frowned and said, "It's a big problem, this snake Qi Eight family is very abnormal."

"For example?" Lu Mingfei asked as he raced against time to play the game.

"This kind of courtesy is still too much, we are just commissioners sent by the academy to carry out tasks, and we are not the principal and vice principal, and even the rest of the heads of the eight families who don't handle the affairs of the Japanese branch have come to meet us, do they really have so much free time on weekdays?" Chu Zihang said.

"Indeed." Lu Mingfei echoed continuously, "I don't see the need for them to engage in such a big battle at all."

"The patriarch of the Eight Snake Clans, Tachibana Masamune, he is not a Japanese, at least not entirely Japanese, and is likely to be of mixed race." Caesar said.

Chu Zihang was stunned for a moment, he didn't question Caesar's judgment, but fell into thought: "The Snake Qi Eight Family, the only mixed-race wealthy family in Japan, is not a pure-blooded Japanese?"

Lu Mingfei slapped his thigh: "Didn't Yuan Zhisheng say it, he is a half-hung Japanese, no wonder he uses boiling water to make tea, I thought he was deliberately embarrassing us and wanted to give us a dismount!"

"His accent is characteristic of the Slavic language, and he distinguishes between hard and soft palateal sounds." Caesar added, "This shows that he has lived in Russia for a long time, and his mother tongue is actually Russian." ….

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"Russia, according to his age, was the time of the Soviet Union." Chu Zihang said.

Lu Mingfei paused and said, "...... Lenin?"

"Maybe it's just a coincidence." Caesar hesitated for a moment and shook his head, "The Japanese and the Soviet Union fought in Northeast China, and after World War II, there were quite a lot of Japanese-Soviet mixed blood, and Tachibana Masamune behaved very openly, not like he was hiding some secrets."

"Boss, then you're wrong, everything we know about the Eight Snake Families comes from their own descriptions." Lu Mingfei said, "Maybe some things are not a secret to them, and they are naturally open, but as long as we don't know, they are all secrets."

"But it's not too important to us if it's secret or not." Lu Mingfei added, "As long as there is no obstacle to our mission, then they can protect it

Keep your own secrets."

"In this case, the most likely scenario is that they need our cooperation on something." Chu Zihang suddenly said, "We'd better figure out what's going on."

"But our every move is completely under the supervision of the Japanese branch, and it is difficult to do anything." Lu Mingfei said.

"Still have to be still," Caesar said, "but they probably won't play any tricks on their missions, dragons are the common enemy of all half-bloods, and it won't do them any good to get in our way."

"That's not a big deal." Lu Mingfei turned his head and continued to play the game, "Anyway, the soldiers are coming to block, and the water is coming to cover the earth, so it's enough to keep our tactics of seeing the moves."

When night falls in Tokyo, the long streets are lit up with neon lights from east to west, and Tokyo at night turns from the bustle of the day to the bustle of the city.

The trio's dinner was at the Awakening Temple, where tatami mats covered the terrace, and a bluefin tuna weighing more than 200 kilograms was displayed on the long table. A sashimi is called a grand and gorgeous, but Yuan Zhisheng can see that the three people on the other side of the table don't understand the splendor of summer flowers at all.

It's true, no matter how exquisitely the sashimi is made, in the final analysis, it's just raw food, it mainly depends on the freshness and deliciousness of the raw materials, and at most the taste is different depending on the part, the knife skill may affect the taste, but the difference between the top and the secondary knife skill is just like that, plus the trio is discussing the afternoon shopping harvest, don't say that you are born like a summer flower, you are dead like an autumn leaf They don't care.

Chu Zihang bought a Kansai iron teapot, Lu Mingfei bought a limited-edition figure of Asahina Minoru Kuru, and Caesar was more about buying goods than buying things, and his shopping list had several pages that were not bragging, and the goods he bought filled a van because he posted on the night watchman forum that he would go back and bring a gift to everyone in the student council.

"This stripper is your favorite Asahina Minoru Kuru? Tsk, what an astringent wolf toy." Caesar looked curiously at Lu Mingfei's unopened figure and was amazed.

"First of all, it's called a figure.,Or it's called a dressing doll, let's put up with it.,Please don't call it a stripping doll.,Secondly, this isn't an astringent wolf toy.,You can take off your clothes because it has a dress-up function.,It's not for doing weird things!" Lu Mingfei was a little powerless to complain. ….

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"I saw a store that sold something like that, which was as big as a real person and could be dressed up." Caesar said as he sipped sake, "It's just inflatable, like a humanoid lifebuoy."

"That's something that will be blocked when you say it.,Anyway, boss, don't dig into it.,That thing and a figure are not the same thing at all.。 Lu Ming is not supporting.

Gen Zhisheng really didn't want to listen to them discuss such a non-nutritious topic anymore, but it was against hospitality to get up and leave, so he had to bow his head and wipe the ancient knife called "spider cut".

"Can you see your knife?"

Yuan Zhisheng raised his head, and it was Chu Zihang who had not participated in the discussion of the topic that he had never participated in, he remembered the Japanese knife that Chu Zihang was used to using and never left his body, so he held the spider in both hands and handed it over, Chu Zihang took it with both hands, and stared carefully from the blade to the blade.

"It's an ancient knife, right? Such an expensive thing is not sent to the museum, but is it used as a weapon?" Chu Zihang returned the spider cut and said.

"It's a very old antiquity," Gen said, "but the knife still needs to be forged to be called a knife, and the knife put in the museum can already be declared dead."

"I see you using a Japanese sword, too." Yuan Zhisheng said again.

"Daddy's leftovers." Chu Zihang said.

"Your father?"

"Passed away." Chu Zihang said expressionlessly, "Can I ask you for something?"

"Please."

Chu Zihang slowly pulled out the village rain and showed it to Yuan Zhisheng: "This is an alchemy sword, whether it is an antiquity or a contemporary work, it can create this knife

There aren't many people, but I've heard that the Japanese sword has a clear heritage, and I might be able to find out where it came from."

Gen Zhisheng took the village rain and observed carefully: "It should be an antiquity, made of iron, and the blade pattern is in the shape of electricity, and this blade pattern is called 'Inazuma, which means thunder. It may be more than 300 years old, and it can fetch hundreds of millions of yen when it is auctioned, and the people who use it as weapons should also have strong financial resources. Does it have a sword inscription?"

"No, when my dad gave it to me, he said it was called Mijin Knife Murayu, and if you wield it for a long time, dew will condense on the knife, and every swing of the knife will be like splashing rain." Chu Zihang said.

"This is indeed the characteristic of 'Murayu, mentioned in "The Legend of the Eight Dogs of Nan Zongzato", but Murayu is fictional, and the condensation of dew on the knife is probably a characteristic brought about by some kind of alchemy technique, which is a unique clue enough, if it is made in Japan, it should be possible to find out who created it, and even find out its inheritance. This matter can be entrusted to the Japanese branch, and it should be able to give you a satisfactory answer." Yuan Zhisheng handed the village rain back to Chu Zihang.

"Thank you." Chu Zihang put the knife into the sheath, "Your knife is also a family heirloom?"

"It's a family collection, but it's not a family heirloom," Gen said, "I haven't met my father, and he hasn't left me anything. I was an orphan who was adopted with my younger brother at an early age, and it wasn't until I grew up that I was recognized as a member of the Gen family."

"Like lonely George." Gen Zhisheng's gaze was far-reaching, "Do you know the lonely George?"

"Who's the lonely George?" I came over to talk with sake.

"It is a giant tortoise, the Pinta Island tortoise that has always been called George, mainly inhabits the Galapagos Islands in South America, among which the subspecies of the tortoise on Pinta Island is almost extinct, and the last male tortoise is left in the recorded Pinta Island tortoise, so this tortoise is the last Pinta Island tortoise in the world, people call it the lonely George, and some people say that it is the loneliest animal in the world." Chu Zihang explained. ….

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"Loneliness is just the definition of human beings, maybe George himself lives comfortably as a turtle," Lu Mingfei said, "If you think so, then I think that 52 Hz whale is the loneliest animal in the world."

Lu Mingfei is talking about a special baleen whale, its sound frequency is 52 Hz, while the normal baleen whale's sound frequency is only 15 to 25 Hz, which means that in the eyes of other kinds, it is a mute that only makes strange sounds, and when it sings, it will not be heard by its kind, and it will not be ignored when it is sad. 52 Hertz" left his own people, sang alone, traveled alone, and had no place in his community.

Shouting in the crowd no one can understand, so he can only leave his hometown to the vast world to find out if there is his own kind, in Lu Mingfei's opinion this is the most bitter loneliness, the first time he read the story of "52 Hz", he was sad for an afternoon, although this is just a human empathy, but at that time the feeling of loneliness wrapped in the endless sea is like the boundless sea, it is simply suffocating.

"Lu Jun is right, loneliness is just an emotion that humans give to George. Everyone hoped that George would give birth to offspring as the last Pinta Island tortoise, even if it was a female tortoise of any other subspecies, but the news said that George was reluctant to get close to the female tortoises that humans had found, so zoologists were anxious and didn't know what kind of female tortoises George liked." "But when I read the news, an idea popped up that it wasn't that George didn't like the female tortoises that zoologists had given him, but that George didn't want to be with the female tortoises at all, and it didn't matter to him whether he had offspring or not, he just wanted to leave Galapagos National Park and crawl to his puddle and wallow in the mud."

"That's what you think?" Chu Zihang asked.

"That's what I think." "The Gen family is an ancient family, and it has a special meaning among the eight clans of Snake, but since the Edo period, there have been fewer and fewer people in the Minamoto family, and the family elders once thought that the Gen family was extinct, but they found me and my brother in the mountains, and we were confirmed to have the lineage of the Gen family, and the Minamoto family's seat in the family was restored

I'm called the head of the Gen family, but I'm actually the only one in the Gen family. So I feel like I'm like that tortoise, and if I get a chance to travel around the world, I'd like to see it."

"You mentioned you have a younger brother." Chu Zihang said.

"He's probably dead."

"You like to travel?" Chu Zihang asked.

"Yes, but I rarely get the chance to travel." "I would like to go to France, where there is a famous naturist beach, and I want to get a job selling sunscreen. That's what I think."

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