Dragon Clan: Reboot Life

Chapter 308 Chicago Has No Sea
The huge alchemy domain was instantly released from Beowulf's body, covering the room tightly. He looked at Angers in shock, and for the first time he said in a daze and puzzled way:

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

Ange took out a cigar, lit it slowly, and took a puff of cigar from his mouth before laughing: "Why are you so surprised? Didn't you already choose Chu Zihang to be your spokesperson?"

Beowulf said without hesitation: "You are the leader of the secret party! There can be as many as a dozen elders, and it doesn't matter if one or more is missing, but there can only be one leader! Do you want to give the seat? To whom? Lu Ming No? He's too young!"

"Mingfei is a good boy, but unfortunately..." Anger scratched his head, "he is not suitable for this seat at the moment, and the important thing is that he may not want to sit. I feel that even if I pull him and say to take you tonight Going to meet the elders to prepare for the succession in the future, he will also tell me with a embarrassed face that I have a date with my girlfriend tonight and I really don’t have time.”

I'm dating my girlfriend at night, so I don't have time to meet the elders of the secret party?
Beowulf's face darkened.

Who are the elders of the secret party?Going on a date with a girlfriend or something... I don't know how many people are willing to break up to prove their love, just to meet the elders of the secret party.

"Hey, what's the fight with girls when you're old." Anger shrugged, as if he had guessed what he was thinking.

And Beowulf grew darker.

He suppressed his anger: "That kid named Lu Mingfei, what kind of card is in your hand?"

"Ace." Angers whistled and said proudly, "Absolute trump card, didn't you already tell you about last year's auction?"

At this moment, Beowulf suddenly remembered the performance of someone at the auction last year.

"His lineage..."

"He is the best, there is no need to question it." Angers smiled in response to Beowulf's hesitation.

"I know." Beowulf sighed. "How could a young man who killed the King of the Earth and the Mountain last year be so bad? Although I don't know what method he used, but if he succeeds, he succeeds."

He paused, as if he wanted to say something, but after hesitating for a while, he shook his head and said, "Forget it, as long as you know what you are doing, so who are you choosing?"

"Caesar for the time being." Angers said frankly, "Honestly speaking, I have been feeling a little bit of a whim recently, and my heart palpitations flustered. The last time I came here, I was negotiating with Henkel at Pearl Harbor in 41. The Japanese bomb almost fell on On my head."

"Do you think someone is going against you?" Beowulf's face sank.

"I'm not sure." Anger said slowly, "I went to Lie Henkel before I came to you, but I couldn't find him. He disappeared. I had a secret meeting with Henkel half a year ago. An invitation letter from the other party, if there is an accident with one party, the other party will appear as the invitee."

"Henkel is missing?" Beowulf's eyelids twitched.

"Choosing Caesar as the heir has two advantages. The first is that I don't have to worry about the Gattuso family obstructing it. Instead, they will vigorously promote and facilitate this resolution. The second point..." Angers smiled, "You may I don't know, Caesar and the family have irreconcilable conflicts. If the old men of the Gattuso family are really tricky, with Caesar's character, he will never go with them. He is proudly like Mene back then gram."

"You don't have to worry about Gattuso using Caesar's hand to control the entire secret party. Once Caesar takes power, in order to counteract the family's interference in his life, he will instead rely on our strength. In a sense, this is a strategy of division .”

Anger said lightly.

Beowulf pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "It's too risky, you're betting, and there's a high chance of losing."

"I had a meeting with Caesar before returning from Japan." Angers said, "Caesar asked me if I knew anything about his mother, and I told him truthfully that I didn't know, but according to our observations, Cato The Suo family readily accepts this matter."

"...His mother's death is related to the family?" Beowulf was startled, "Even if the Gattuso family really did such a thing, how could they make such a low-level mistake and let Caesar know about it?"

"I was also surprised, and asked him where he learned about it, but he didn't say." Angers spread his hands.

Beowulf finally shook his head and denied, "It's still too risky. You don't need to establish an heir so early. Even if you do, I don't think that kid named Caesar can beat Chu Tianjiao's son."

"Caesar's greatest advantage lies in his background." Angers said calmly, "Besides, I asked Chu Zihang, Ming Fei, and Fingel about their attitudes before making this decision, and I attach great importance to the opinions of young people. "

"What's their attitude?"

"Chu Zihang and Finger pondered for a while, and then told me that this is indeed the best choice at present. As for Mingfei..." Anger looked a little strange, "He said that this is really great, and in the future He doesn't need to worry about failing the exam. Oh, and I should add that Caesar's grades are at the same level as Ming Fei's."

Beowulf: "..."

After silence, he sighed: "What kind of person are you entrusting your future to?"

Anger was a little embarrassed and said: "Although it may sound unreliable, it is still very reliable."

Beowulf suddenly said: "It sounds like they have a good friendship?"

"Yes, they are comrades-in-arms." Angers said with a smile, "just like us."

"The heir of the next generation of the Gattuso family turned out to be a warrior?"

"Otherwise, where would their ambition come from?"

"Have you... thought it through?"

"Almost." Ange nodded slowly, "I still need to confirm some details, and I have to talk to Caesar again."

"Then do it." Beowulf said indifferently.

Feeling Angers' determination, he no longer tried to persuade him, but calmly expressed his support to him.

"Are you going back to prepare for the meeting next?"

"There is still some time, don't worry, I may have to go to Egypt."

"Egypt?"

"Our people over there said they found a meteorite that just fell, and I'm going to have a look."

"Meteorite?" Beowulf was stunned for a moment, then remembered something and asked, "By the way, what was the origin of that comet overhead a few days ago?"

"According to the equipment department, it is somewhat similar to the Julian Star in history, but we are not sure. After all, we all thought it was a non-periodic comet before, and there is no reason for it to return to the solar system and pass by the earth."

"Julian... the star of Caesar?" Beowulf took a deep breath and said, "I really don't know if it's a good omen or a bad omen."

……

……

Chu Zihang led Xia Mi to rent a Porsche 911 at a car rental shop.

After Chu Zihang finished the formalities, Xia Mi jumped up and down in front of him, staring wide-eyed and said: "Brother, our plan has come to naught."

Chu Zihang looked at her quietly without saying a word.

"Chicago doesn't have a coastal highway. You can't take me along the coastal highway to chase the sunset. It's a pity, but I will remember it and make up for it later." Xia Mi reached out and pinched his nose.

Chu Zihang was stunned.

There is no sea in Chicago, but the vastness of Lake Michigan always makes people ignore this subconsciously.

"By the way, I just inquired about an interesting story. Have you heard the story of the Chicago oyster?"

Chu Zihang thought for a while and said, "In 1954, the biologist FABrown dug a batch of oysters from the seaside of Connecticut and brought back the story of Chicago?"

Xia Mi sighed, "You really are a small encyclopedia."

Chu Zihang said calmly, "Professor Schneider told this story in class."

"Oysters will open and close with the ebb and flow of the tide. The biologist is a biorhythm researcher. He specially kept the oysters brought from the sea in an aquarium in the basement of Chicago thousands of miles away from the sea. .”

"For the first two weeks, everything was normal. The oysters continued to live according to their old routine. They retracted and opened their shells, catching plankton in the seawater and feeding themselves. Everything followed the distant Connecticut coast. The ebb and flow of the tide, that is their hometown."

"But two weeks later, an inexplicable thing happened."

"These oysters from Connecticut still ebb and flow like the tide, but their behavior no longer follows the ebb and flow of the Connecticut tide, nor Florida, nor California, nor Dover, at all against anything known to science. A tide table."

"And after repeated calculations, the biologist suddenly realized that they were actually following Chicago's high tide time, but..."

"Chicago doesn't have an ocean."

The throbbing that was born at that moment, even Xia Mi, who had just learned the story, couldn't help getting goose bumps all over his body again.

Her eyes were slightly staggered, looking at the distant and blue sky outside the car rental shop, and said softly: "Chicago doesn't have a sea, but they imagined a sea."

"These oysters live in an aquarium in the basement with artificial seawater. According to the biologist's speculation, maybe the oysters sense the change in air pressure and deduce from it the time when the tide should come and the time it should come." Chu Zihang said in a low voice.

"Are oysters so smart?" Xia Mi tilted his head, his black hair hanging down.

Chu Zihang raised his hand to pull up her falling hair, shook his head and said, "According to the biologist's speculation, none of the oysters did all this consciously, and their ancestors lived by the sea for a long time. Hundreds of millions of years, this should be an instinct imprinted deep in their genes."

"But in other words..." Chu Zihang paused, and said softly: "They really imagined a sea, a sea that doesn't exist in any corner of the earth, and they imagined the ebb and flow of the tide there. set, adjusting its own cycle to the rhythm of this ocean."

After saying this, Chu Zihang suddenly froze.

He looked at Xia Mi, and Xia Mi looked up at him blankly, with a dazed expression, but two lines of tears flowed down his face.

A kind of sadness permeated, filled her heart, and flowed in every corner of the air. It was so soft, yet so heavy, like an illusory sea, trying to drown people completely.

"What's wrong with you?" Chu Zihang frantically took out a napkin and wiped the tears on her cheeks.

Xia Mi raised her hand in disbelief, touched her fingertips lightly, a tear rolled down on her fingertips, crystal clear, reflecting the sunlight in the air.

Her voice was a little distorted, and she didn't believe that she would cry at this moment.

"I cried?"

……

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Sears Tower, the tallest building in Chicago, was officially renamed the Willis Tower the year before last. It has 110 floors in total, and there is an observation deck on the 104th floor for tourists to overlook the city.

The observation deck is 412 meters above the ground, and when the weather is clear, you can see 4 states of the United States.

"I heard that the Adler Planetarium is the best place to appreciate the Chicago skyline." The veiled woman suddenly said.

Lu Mingze responded perfunctorily, "Yeah."

"I told Erika." The woman continued indifferently.

Lu Mingze finally looked away from the binoculars. He looked at the woman playing the role of a human superior in surprise, and said in confusion, "What's the matter? This is, you want to compete with my brother for the title of the number one matchmaker on Earth?"

The little devil said seriously: "I tell you in advance, I will definitely help my brother, we brothers are of one heart, you are doomed!"

The woman glanced at him, and said in a flat tone, "I'm here to remind you that time is running out."

"Why not too many, isn't there still one year left?" Lu Mingze said dissatisfied, "We are not in a hurry for you, the emperor is not in a hurry for eunuchs, is it?"

The woman didn't get angry, but thought for a while, and asked, "Should I have turned against you just now, in order to be in line with a normal human reaction? Because you seemed to scold me just now."

"Who said that?" Lu Mingze said seriously, "Isn't this inappropriate nonsense? You should applaud at a time like this, applaud yourself vigorously,"

"Really?"

"It's more real than real gold and silver!"

"I don't believe you, I'll ask Erika when the time comes."

"Tsk." Lu Mingze thought to himself, you might as well ask me about my cheap sister-in-law.

"Have you heard the story of the Chicago oyster?" The veiled woman suddenly changed the subject.

"I've heard a little bit." Lu Mingze said lazily, "You want to share it with me again?"

"Why do you think Xia Mi is crying?" The woman continued on her own, "Because this is the sadness imprinted deep in the genes, there is no way to escape, no way to dodge, it can only be endured."

"Chicago doesn't have the sea, and there shouldn't be dragons in this world."

Lu Mingze lay down in front of the telescope to adjust it again. He seemed to be in a good mood today, humming a familiar tune.

He didn't seem to hear what the woman said, or maybe it didn't matter if he heard it, and he didn't bother to pay attention to it. He adjusted the viewing angle of the telescope, looking for the figure belonging to his brother in the city.

Oyster?

It seems to taste okay?

……

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"The king of ancient Babylon... engraved on black basalt, more than 700 years ago..."

"You stare at the words on the inscription in front of the window."

"But I was quietly admiring your face that I love so much..."

Under the rosy sunset, the sports car was running slowly on the road near the lake.

A brisk rhythm was playing in the car, and it was Jay Chou's "Love in BC".

The skyline in the north is breathtakingly beautiful under the burning sunset. The lake water at dusk is no longer a glazed blue, but reflects large swaths of burning clouds in the sunset.

The boy in the driver's seat hummed a song, kicked the accelerator, and the sports car sped out amidst the roar of the engine.

The crimson of the sunset gradually faded, the sun sank more than halfway over the distant horizon, and the last light burned the clouds in the sky to the color of flames.

The girl on the side was holding a large bag of nuts, and the oncoming night wind blew her dark red hair. She turned around and handed the peeled nut pulp to the boy's mouth. The boy swallowed it with a groan, and the girl smiled sweetly. Even more gorgeous than the sunset tonight.

They drove from early morning to dusk, went to Jackson Park and saw the white tung flowers in the Japanese garden full of branches, tall trees reflected in the quiet pool, passed by Millennium Park, saw the Crown Fountain, and went to the Navy There is also a Ferris wheel in Pier Park, but instead of sitting on it, they sat in the car and watched for a while, because today they are challenging the task of not getting out of the car for a day.

They sat in the car and bought two hot dogs from a roadside stand. They had to say that the taste of the food at the roadside stand was really mediocre. After taking a small bite, Erika couldn't help frowning, and Lu Mingfei stretched out his hand to soothe her. The corners of her eyebrows were eliminated for her with the attitude of not wasting food.

They drove slowly in this strange city, went to many places, looked at the sycamore trees on the street, and watched people coming and going say goodbye to each other.

On the way, Lu Mingfei told Eliyi that many people in this world are saying goodbye, every morning and dusk, under every tall and lush plane tree, at every corner where the sun comes and goes...

Some people really never see each other again. They obviously live on the same earth, but they seem to live in two different worlds. They never see each other again, or they meet without saying a word.

After hearing this, Erika felt a little sad, she quietly reached out and grabbed Lu Mingfei's sleeve, just like on the train back to Tokyo.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, and held the girl's delicate and soft hand in the palm of his hand, holding the steering wheel with one hand, stepping on the gas pedal with his feet, and laughed and said that Erika and I were different from those people.

In the end, he drove his beloved girl along the Linhu Highway to chase the sunset.

Just like their future life.

　My assessment is, remember today's oyster story.

　　In fact, this chapter shouldn’t have a dialogue between Lu Mingze and Xiaoya, it’s too obvious and straightforward, but as I mentioned before, this is a fanfic after all, and I won’t make many settings too cryptic.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)