Dragon Raja: I practiced Naruto ninjutsu next to Lu Mingfei.

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“That’s not how it is.” Lu Mingfei and Erii exchanged glances, their expressions unusually serious. “Don’t think that just because you’ve come out to see the world, you’ve come to know what it’s like. You’ve only been out for a few days, do you think you fully understand this world?”

Erii felt a little awkward and uneasy. This was the first time Lu Mingfei had not obeyed her. She didn't know what she had done wrong, and her little hands unconsciously gripped the hem of her skirt.

Lu Mingfei spoke of many principles, but the core message was simply this: the size of a person's world depends on how many friends they have.

Whether the world likes you or not depends on whether your friends like you. Everyone has a few true friends. If they like you, then the world likes you.

Erii asked, bewildered, "What is a good friend?"

“It’s the kind of feeling where I’ll believe in you no matter what, and I’ll stay with you.” Lu Mingfei felt a wave of sadness wash over him for no apparent reason. “If the world doesn’t like you, then the world is my enemy.”

After saying that, Lu Mingfei felt as if someone was maliciously mocking him from behind. He turned around abruptly, but found no one there.

When he turned back to look at Erii, she had already pitifully held up her little notebook, on which was written: "I want a good friend."

Lu Mingfei patted her cute little head, thinking to himself that this girl's thoughts were too easy to guess.

“I’m your good friend, and you’ll have many good friends in the future. As long as we, your good friends, like you, then the whole world will like you.” Lu Mingfei stroked her soft hair. “But as long as we are your good friends, how could we not like you?”

Lu Mingfei spoke very seriously. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that this was the first time in all these years that he had spoken so earnestly to a girl.

He rarely made such promises because he was afraid of breaking his word, but today was the last day he would spend with her, and he wanted to make her happy no matter what, so he was very serious.

It had gotten dark, and the surrounding scenery had become dim, but Erii's eyes shone brightly.

She slowly approached Lu Mingfei like a kitten. In fact, the distance between them was already very close, only a step away. This was the first time she had gotten close to someone, and she would be at a loss if Lu Mingfei rejected her.

As Lu Mingfei watched Erii slowly crawl toward him, he felt a little lost, but because he didn't want to disappoint her, he held back and didn't move until he couldn't hold back any longer. Suddenly, Erii opened her arms and hugged his neck.

Unlike the sympathetic embrace last night, today's hug was warm and soft, and she was still trembling slightly.

At this moment, Lu Mingfei finally realized that Erii's feelings for him were not only trust, but also love!

But he wasn't happy. In the strange wedding dream he had last night, he hadn't chosen Erii.

"So this is Gu Ran's choice? The one who likes you and the one you like, which one will you choose?"

Lu Mingfei thought that no one would ever like him in his life, so he never seriously thought about it. But when someone actually liked him, he was at a loss.

……

Mai Shude's eyes left the sniper rifle's scope, and she asked Chip Girl if she had seen Lu Mingfei and Erii hugging.

“Although it was blurry, I could still see it. The relationship experts were popping champagne,” Su Enxi said. “But will they really go back to Tokyo tonight for the wedding? I received a tip that Caesar has booked a human smuggling ship to send Erii out of Japan.”

"Whatever happens, happens." Mai Shude didn't care.

“It’s beautiful.” After a moment of silence, Su Enxi said.

“Yes,” said Mai Shude. No matter the outcome, this scene was beautiful.

……

On the main street of Meijinji Town, Caesar and Chu Zihang's car broke down again.

Chu Zihang was working hard to find the obstacles when Caesar said he was going to buy some food.

Just then, a Q7 pulled up beside them, the driver's side window rolled down, and a handsome young man smiled and said, "Would you two like to have dinner together?"

The two had been running all day and were starving. When they smelled the aroma of food, they both swallowed hard.

Gu Ran got out of the car and took out several exquisite wooden lunch boxes from the trunk. This was the kind of packaging only found in high-end restaurants for takeout. There was charcoal burning at the bottom of the wooden boxes to keep the food warm.

"Perfect timing, I'm hungry." Caesar took a lunchbox, glanced at it, and exclaimed, "Wow, it's sea bream and mackerel rice, a local specialty!"

Gu Ran prepared a large amount of food in the boxed lunch, because the wooden box was a square with a side length of 40 centimeters. Caesar ate the fish and meat in big mouthfuls, and Chu Zihang, who was covered in engine oil, was also hungry. He said thank you and took the boxed lunch and started eating.

"I also prepared a portion of teriyaki eel rice for you two." Gu Ran gave each of them a portion of eel rice, and then the three of them leaned against the hood of the Q7, watching the sea as they slowly ate their meal.

"Eel rice is delicious too, is it also a local specialty?" Caesar asked.

Gu Ran explained, "No, such fat eels are obviously imported from fish farms in China."

Eels, known as "white eels" in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions of China, are a type of fish that spawns and reproduces in the sea and then grows in freshwater. Humans have not yet fully mastered the technology for breeding this fish, so farming can only be done by catching wild fry or wild adult eels.

Compared to China, a country with vast territory and abundant resources, Japan obviously does not have enough freshwater areas to farm eels. Therefore, more than half of the eels on the Japanese market are imported from China.

Chu Zihang leaned against Gu Ran's hood and suddenly realized that the hood wasn't hot: "Have you been here a long time?"

Chapter 461: Accomplice

“It’s been a long time. I arrived around the same time as Lu Mingfei,” Gu Ran said, chewing rice. “While they went up the mountain, I searched for local delicacies. Here, what you’re eating is what I found.”

Chu Zihang was taken aback; having accepted the favor, he felt obligated to say something more.

Gu Ran smiled and took out a thermos and disposable paper cups: "I almost forgot about the seafood soup. Let's have some together. Before Japan starts discharging nuclear-contaminated water, let's eat as much seafood as we can."

"What nuclear-contaminated water?" Caesar asked.

"Oh, the Fukushima nuclear power plant had a nuclear leak, right? Japan used a lot of water to cool the core of the power plant. This water is nuclear-contaminated water, which has been in direct contact with the nuclear reactor. It has strong radiation and is different from nuclear wastewater."

Although Caesar's academic performance was mediocre, he still understood these basic common sense questions. He asked, "Then why do we need to drain the sea?"

"Because nuclear-contaminated water can't be discharged indiscriminately, but the more it's used, the more there is. Japan's land area is small, and there's nowhere to put it, so in the future, it will only be able to be discharged into the sea!" Gu Ran said. "So it's not impossible for Godzilla to appear in the future, and it might even be more ferocious than the dragons!"

"Only a despicable Japanese would do something like dragging the entire world down with them." Caesar took a big bite of eel, wanting to eat a few more bites while he could.

As the night deepened, Chu Zihang gave up on repairing the car, while Caesar took his binoculars to continue monitoring Lu Mingfei and Erii.

Calling it surveillance isn't quite accurate; he was more like an old father watching his son flirt with girls, and the uncle just kept laughing as he watched.

Lu Mingfei took Erii to eat all the delicious food in the town. Lu Mingfei also spent a lot of money to buy a fresh flounder, just to give Erii the best.

Afterwards, they strolled around the town, bought a lot of souvenirs, and finally bought tickets to enter the tram station, seemingly planning to take the tram back to Tokyo.

Chu Zihang specifically checked the train schedule. The train returned to Tokyo at about 3 a.m., which should be just in time to catch the 4 a.m. human smuggling ship.

As for the Porsche rental deposit, it's estimated that Lu Mingfei doesn't intend to get it back, or he'll let the other party come and pick up the car themselves.

"I have a feeling that someone is following us all along?" Chu Zihang suddenly turned around and looked into the mountains.

On the viewing platform halfway up the mountain, where forest fires are detected, Mai Shude is holding an AS50 anti-materiel sniper rifle and has loaded a Philosopher's Stone bullet.

She had just glanced at Chu Zihang out of curiosity, only to be sensed by his powerful intuition.

Mai Shude wasn't worried about being discovered because she used the Netherworld to conceal her form, nor was she worried about Caesar hearing her heartbeat because she was currently about 800 meters away from Caesar and his men.

Gu Ran then opened the window of the Audi Q7 and sat on the roof to enjoy the sea breeze. The car was parked next to the cabin that Caesar was monitoring.

He stretched and lay on the roof of the car looking at the sky. The dark clouds were starting to gather again, and it looked like it was going to rain again.

"Such a beautiful place, I should really bring my girlfriend here too. When the weather is nice, we can camp on the beach together and watch the stars and the moon. It would be so much fun," Gu Ran said, yawning.

"You're lucky you know where your girlfriend is. I can't even find Nono now." Caesar was also a little worried. He hadn't been able to contact Nono before, and now it was even more impossible.

The train was about to arrive at the station when Lu Mingfei called back Erii, who was playing in the sand at the beach. Erii picked up a hermit crab and placed it in Lu Mingfei's hand. The hermit crab huddled in its shell, too afraid to show its head, only daring to secretly blow bubbles.

When they went to the beach, Erii wore Lu Mingfei's shoes. Now that they've changed back, Erii wrote in her notebook, "Are we going back to Tokyo?"

She looked at the mountains and the sea, her words revealing her reluctance to leave.

“Yes, it will take several more hours to get to Tokyo.” Lu Mingfei put on his shoes.

The rain started again, and the two ran to the platform. Just then, an old tram pulled into the station, and they boarded. The carriage was empty except for the two of them.

Erii pressed her face against the car window, seemingly unable to get enough of the scenery, as if she wanted to remember it all. Perhaps she was thinking that this was her last trip.

The tram's loudspeaker began announcing the stops, and the tram doors were about to close. Lu Mingfei, who was holding a porcelain doll as a souvenir, suddenly got up, placed the porcelain doll next to Erii, and then quickly got off the tram.

The tram doors closed at that moment.

Chu Zihang immediately realized that Lu Ming was determined to let Erii go, so he ran to stop him, but stopped after only a few steps.

Because the tram doors will open once they close, unless he stands in front of the tracks and blows up the tracks and the train with his Junyan, he will have no way to stop Erii from leaving.

Lu Mingfei had planned everything out.

Chu Zihang turned around and got into Gu Ran's Audi Q7. Caesar's Land Rover was completely unusable, so the only one that could be driven was Gu Ran's Q7.

"Don't even think about it, the car's out of gas." Gu Ran got out of the sunroof and sat in the passenger seat.

Chu Zihang glanced at the dashboard and, sure enough, the fuel tank was flashing red, and the car wouldn't start.

……

Erii was on the tram, looking at Lu Mingfei through the window. She knew that Lu Mingfei would not accompany her back.

Although Erii had undergone a blood transfusion, by evening, when Lu Mingfei held her wrist, he could still see the dark veins, which began to look menacing again.

Without the serum, even if they left Japan on a human smuggling ship, Erii would probably still die, or become a Deadpool.

He couldn't accept either ending, especially becoming Deadpool, which would mean he would have to kill Erii with his own hands.

This was the ending he most wanted to avoid.

Over the past seven days, Lu Mingfei's initial fear of Erii has turned into pity. He simply cannot bear to watch this innocent girl die in front of him.

That girl has always liked you. She trusts you, likes you, and is obedient and well-behaved. Lu Mingfei has never been needed like this before in his entire life.

How could he bear to watch this girl die in front of him?

At that moment, Erii stuck her little notebook to the car window. On it was written a line: "Who exactly is Sakura? How am I supposed to find you now?"

Her face was filled with fear; she was truly afraid that she would never see Lu Mingfei again.

Lu Mingfei then realized that she had never known his true identity. For so many days, she had been sleeping in the same room with a strange man without any restraint, and she didn't even try to hide it when changing clothes or taking a shower.

What a silly girl.

"Names don't matter, I'm just a male escort with a righteous heart." Lu Mingfei finally said something lame, not wanting to leave in a miserable way, with a professional male escort's smile on his face.

The tram started moving, and Erii, who had been standing by the window, held Rilakkuma's paw in her little hand and waved goodbye to Lu Mingfei.

……

Gu Ran sat in the passenger seat, while Chu Zihang glared angrily at him.

Chu Zihang knew, of course, that Gu Ran was doing it on purpose. How could someone who had driven all this way have run out of gas? It was clear that Gu Ran didn't want to chase after them and deliberately found a place to drain the gas from the tank.

Caesar too, he must have tampered with the engine. Race car drivers are responsible for their own cars, he couldn't possibly be bad at repairing them, so he knew without even going there that the Land Rover was completely unusable now.

Caesar is now sitting on the hood of the car.

Gu Ran and Caesar looked at Chu Zihang, whose eyes suddenly flashed with a fiery light, the fierce light in his golden pupils seeming to shoot lasers and kill them both at the same time.

"Are you crazy? She's just one person. There are over ten million people in Tokyo. Do you know what the consequences will be if you let her go back? You're risking the lives of everyone in Tokyo, even the entire country of Japan!" He roared at Gu Ran and Caesar outside the car.