Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 44: Old Friend (13)

Dragon Raja 5

The waiter rushed to the lady’s side and opened his umbrella. The doorman immediately pulled open the carved brass door. As the door swung open, a bold bass voice rang out, “Ladies! Welcome to this paradise on earth… Takamagahara! Tonight our flowers bloom for you!”

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed.

Although he lost an arm, he is still so heroic, worthy of being a man who is determined to be the best Hwarang in the world.

Lu Mingfei also knew that elegant lady. He forgot her last name, but vaguely remembered that her name was Sanae and she was an architectural designer. She always came to drink with him at that time, and when she drank too much, she would hum songs and cry.

It seems that Sanae has found a man who will take care of her, so she doesn’t need to come to places like Takama-ga-hara to seek comfort anymore. However, she still visits there, so she must be a nostalgic woman.

The music started, and the orchestra began to play a lingering love song, and the brass-clad door closed behind Sanae.

“Let’s go.” Lu Mingfei said.

“Are you really not going in to say hello?” Crow raised his eyebrows.

“No need,” Lu Mingfei smiled, “I don’t want to cause him any trouble.”

In fact, there was a moment when he wanted to walk in, not only walk in, but also hug the one-armed man, tell him that he came back to see him, and tell him that he was still as great as he was back then.

It was when the music started playing, that familiar song, “Friends” by Koji Tamaki, which is probably now a signature song of Takama-ga-hara.

Takama-ga-hara was no longer a place where he could hide. Now it was the throne among all the nightclubs in Kabukicho Ichibangai, but it could not shelter him, a dangerous monster.

He really miss that time, on a rainy night in Tokyo, when they had nowhere to go, but unexpectedly found such a shelter, and a warm big bath. Now he has a deadly blade hidden in his sleeve, from China to Mongolia, and fought his way here, but he can’t go in and say hello to him.

“If you don’t want to see the manager, go see your other friends.” Crow said softly, “Anyway, you won’t have the chance to cause trouble for that person.”

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The construction elevator rumbled down, and it was pitch black below, with milky white mist rising in the darkness.

“Put on mask.” Crow handed the prepared mask to Lu Mingfei. “There’s a large amount of mercury in the well. With your bloodline, this little mercury vapor shouldn’t be harmful to you, but inhaling too much is always bad.”

Lu Mingfei nodded, took the mask, but did not wear it.

“After that incident, our family bought the well from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and sealed it permanently. We also bought all the surrounding mountains,” said the crow. “That way, no one would disturb her.”

Lu Mingfei looked up and saw heavy rain pouring down from the sky, as if all the water in the world was flowing into this huge water storage well.

Hongjing, he finally returned here.

He once thought that he would not have the courage to come back, even though he had stood in this well in his dreams countless times and watched the scene repeat itself.

When Crow mentioned it, he knew he would come here, but he got into Crow’s car without saying anything. The two drove on the mountain road for a full hour without saying a word along the way.

The engineering elevator reached the bottom of the shaft. It was pitch black, and Crow groped for the power switch.

A blindingly bright spotlight shone down from above. Deep grooves were carved into the ground, forming a huge and complex pattern, with mercury flowing in the grooves.

A kind of alchemical matrix. There was also a similar arrangement in the ice cellar of Cassell Academy. Through the flow of mercury, a certain spiritual effect is stimulated to suppress those alchemical products that have their own activities.

“These guys are getting lazier and lazier. They don’t even clean up the garbage properly.” The crow said angrily.

There was indeed a lot of garbage at the bottom of the well, mostly branches, probably washed in by the rain. The crow kicked aside a few dead branches and led the way.

The bottom of the well was very large and the spotlight could not illuminate it completely. Crow led Lu Mingfei into the darkness, where something was glowing faintly.

Crow fumbled around again and found a control console. He glanced at Lu Mingfei and turned on the power on the console.

The faintly glowing object in the darkness lit up. It was a huge cylinder cast entirely of quartz glass, like a cylindrical house.

Inside the quartz glass house, a porcelain-white girl knelt. She had dried up completely, yet showed no signs of decay. She was still wearing the dress that Lu Mingfei had personally put on her that year, but now she was wrapped in coils of paper rope, and on these ropes hung talismans written in cinnabar.

The end of the paper rope is fixed to the inner wall of the quartz cylinder. It is some kind of Shinto ritual used to suppress demons or evil spirits.

“She should have been buried in the cemetery of the shrine, but who knows what she is? Wouldn’t it be troublesome if she revived again? It would be better to bury her in this well full of mercury vapor. There is a lookout on the mountain five kilometers away, watching this place with a telescope 24 hours a day. But it doesn’t matter, I sent that guy away.” The crow muttered, lit the incense sticks he brought, and bowed to the porcelain-white girl.

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