Starting from the Dragon Tribe

The woman in the photo is bright and beautiful, the boy looks only four or five years old, his face is expressionless, the man is wearing a white shirt and woolen trousers, his hair is oily, and he is holding the woman's waist with pride.

There are a few invoices on the table, and there are things like eating, washing feet, and using the sauna, which gives off the atmosphere of a small-time worker.

Chu Zihang closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them again, "Start looking."

He put the family photo in the pocket of his coat. Now was not the time to feel sentimental. Finding the things his father left behind was the most important thing.

If he was a child, he wouldn't have any feelings when he saw this house, and maybe he would think it was normal.

But now that he knows who his father is and has some advice from the principal, this room won't be that simple.

Apart from him, Zero is also a master of reasoning. I believe it will not be difficult to find the clues left by his father.

Sure enough, five minutes later, Zero locked the single bed. Lu Chen lifted the bed, and there was a secret door underneath.

Lu Chen grabbed the edge of the somewhat deformed metal door with one hand and violently removed it.

There is an iron rod underneath for people to lift in and out.

Chu Zihang jumped down first, followed closely by Lu Chen, and the others were waiting above.

This is a silent understanding. Chu Zihang doesn’t necessarily want everyone to see his father’s “relics”

There was a faint aroma of cigars and whiskey in the room, which had not dissipated even after so many years. Lu Chen had not smoked since he met Eri Yi, but because he often hung out with Caesar in the academy, he also had a certain knowledge of these things. With the ability of appreciation, you can judge that the people here must have smoked the best cigars and drank the most expensive whiskey.

On the small cabinet against the left wall is a record player. The cabinet is neatly filled with a row of vinyl records. They are all jazz classics. Each record is an out-of-print collection. You can take out one at will. It fetched a sky-high price, but here it is just one of the men’s collections.

Then there are the cigars, all of which are produced in Cuba. There is not a single brand-name product. It seems that Chu Tianjiao is an experienced cigar smoker.

There are also two rows of wine on the upper floor of the cabinet, including the strongest island whiskey. No wonder there is still such a good smell of smoke and wine after all these years.

There were also various red wines that Lu Chen couldn't name, and they were definitely not cheap.

The cabinets on the other side display various old-fashioned cameras, and there is a complete set of equipment for developing photos next to it. You can tell that he is a senior photographer.

There was fitness equipment in the corner. The dumbbells seemed too small to Lu Chen, but they were really big to others.

These surround the large, comfortable bed in the center, which is upholstered in fluffy Australian sheepskin.

grass!

This is what Lu Chen is thinking now. He feels that Chu Zihang's father is really cool and a top-notch hunk!

Chu Zihang's current thoughts were surprisingly similar to Lu Chen's. He wanted to say, "Give me back the guilt and heartache I just felt!"

He originally thought that his father would live in poverty after the divorce, with enough money to live in the factory, living a miserable life in that simple and small space.

But this is all fake. The next level is where Dad really lives. It’s so sexy!

He is not short of money, but he is extremely self-disciplined in school. According to what senior sister Lutitia once said about him, he could become an ascetic in the Middle Ages.

But his dad’s place is fully stocked with records, cigars, and whiskey, and he really enjoys it!

Chu Zihang always felt that his father was coquettish, but he was a coquettish kind of coquettish, not like an Italian nobleman like Caesar.

There is also a disassembled Beretta pistol on the workbench in the room. It has been modified to increase its power. It can be seen that it was made by the equipment department. The warhead placed next to it has hand-carved crosses engraved on it. The enemy's body can explode immediately.

But when the two of them looked up, they were stunned.

Hanging above the big bed are countless red threads, criss-crossing in the air. The red threads are covered with photos, news clippings or handwritten pieces of paper. Each piece of paper is an event. Some red threads are parallel to each other, and some are entangled and knotted. .

Chu Zihang and Lu Chen's eyes wandered along the red line. Every incident was heavyweight.

On June 30, 1908, the Tunguska explosion...

August 30, 1900, Summer of Mourning...

On the night of December 25, 1991, the night when the Soviet Union collapsed, a violent explosion occurred in the frozen tundra zone of the Arctic Circle and at the frozen port north of Verkhoyansk. A group of fighter jets sent for reconnaissance were attacked by mysterious creatures...

On November 7, 2002, the Greenland Sea incident...

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In the past two hundred years, all major events related to the Dragon Clan have been hung in the air, connected like a spider web.

And in the center of the spider web is always the ultimate predator. Where the red lines converge, the ancient word "Nidhogg" is written in ink.

Chu Zihang imagined his father lying on this big bed covered with sheepskin for countless nights, looking up at the red line in the sky, thinking about the flow of fate.

He finally knew what the principal meant by the watcher. That was his father, who was watching over the fate of mankind.

Dad is an outlier in this city. He came here to protect Nidhogg’s egg. He knows the best cigars and the best whiskey. He loves to listen to Elvis Presley and can do photography. Dad should have been to many places and has Lots of experiences.

Dad is born to be a beast who is good at disguising. He can pretend to be a yuppie in the United States, a lothario in Europe, and a mafia in Italy. But when he came here, he pretended to be a driver who loves braised intestines and spicy chicken wings. , No... Dad seems to really like braised large intestine.

Dad and mom fell in love. He never understood how a coward like dad could pursue mom before, but now he completely understands that a man who has traveled south and north, slain dragons, and dared to kill gods, wants to It’s too easy to chase beautiful but stupid female dancers like my mother.

But Dad has always been a man who licks blood at the edge of a knife. He has an important mission, or he has noticed the danger hidden in this city. In order to guard the Black King's egg, and to protect him and his mother, he finally reluctantly signed the The divorce agreement was signed.

He once asked who initiated the divorce, but neither his mother nor his father answered him. Now he understands that maybe things are not what he thought.

It was not the mother who filed for divorce because she disliked the father for not being motivated or making money, but the father.

He walked to the sink in the corner of the room where photos were developed. There was a cork board on the workbench with photos pinned all over it.

Those were all stolen photos taken in amusement parks, shopping malls, and restaurants, separated by grass, glass, and rain... it was me and my mother.

He never thought that his mother would look so different, laughing, gazing, lonely, like a mother, like a girl, like a wife. Only when you love someone so much can you notice every moment of her and take pictures of her. The various forms of beauty, right?

He looked at the words on the cork board, filled with longing.

Chu Zihang pursed his lips and murmured to himself: "You obviously don't have to leave."

Father Deer is also very kind to him and his mother, but what kind of man can compare with his father's charm?

He doesn't understand, doesn't understand why his father pretends to be so deep, when he can obviously let himself and his mother live a better life, and then his mother won't have so much resentment.

Did you already decide to leave the moment you and your mother gave birth to me?

Is that why you pretend to be so cowardly to make it easier for your mother to accept divorce?

He knew that his father staying away from him and his mother might be a kind of protection, but he still couldn't calm down after all.

But what he couldn't accept the most was...the days when his father was away.

"Your dad is great."

Lu Chen sighed and said that everyone has different opinions. If Lu Mingfei came down, he might feel so lonely and awesome.

But Lu Chen simply felt that Chu Tianjiao was great. Although it might not be the best solution for the family, he did not starve Su Xiaoyan, mother and son, and retreated bravely at the right time.

The feeling of loving someone and having to let them go is unimaginable.

Facts have proved that Chu Tianjiao may not have done anything wrong. If his family of three encounters Odin when they are together, the result may be even worse. Su Xiaoyan is not a mixed race and is far inferior to Chu Zihang. The probability of death is extremely high.

Chu Tianjiao wants to be a good husband and father, but he is a watchman.

He had made so many promises to that woman, but was forced by his mission to shatter them one by one. Seeing these things, Lu Chen had a deeper understanding of how serious people in this world were about dragon slaying. learn.

Perhaps it was because Chu Tianjiao knew too much, he knew that no eggs could be left unfinished when the nest was overturned, and he could not selfishly give up on his mission. The day he left, it was not to watch the Black King's eggs, but to watch himself. wife and children.

He became a watchman on another level. Even though Su Xiaoyan would complain and Chu Zihang would be confused, he still left.

Chu Zihang sat on the big bed covered with sheepskin and was speechless for a long time.

It turns out that my father loves me and my mother so much, but the prophecy of the end still overwhelmed that invincible man...

But it's different now.

Chu Zihang's dazzling golden eyes ignited, "Brother Lu, take a look at the box, and I'll look for other clues."

If he has anything to say, he can wait until he sees his father.

This time the mission of slaying the dragon no longer needs to be shouldered by my father. He will undertake a new mission... together with Brother Lu.

Lu Chen took the black card thrown by Chu Zihang and placed a silver box under the workbench with the half-decayed World Tree emblem printed on it. This box was produced by the college's equipment department and was used to store equipment.

He used a black card to slide across the slot at the seal of the box. The box opened with a snap. Lu Chen was slightly disappointed by the things lying inside. They included a Beretta 92F pistol, an American-made M4Super90 tactical shotgun, and an Israeli-made Uzi submachine gun. ...and alchemy bullets of various calibers.

It was simply a small arsenal, but Lu Chen was not interested. To him, these things were just small toys.

Lu Chen and Chu Zihang groped around in the room, but couldn't find any clues that could be useful in finding Chu Tianjiao.

Could it be that this man didn’t leave anything behind?

Obviously he knew that he was performing a mission where he could die at any time, but he didn't even leave a last message to his family. He should at least leave some message to the college, such as "Don't tease my son again."

Based on what they saw here, Chu Tianjiao should be a super elite in the execution department. How could someone like him not do things well?

Chu Zihang rummaged around and finally stopped in front of the cork board. Looking at a photo with a thumbtack on it, he hesitated and took down a photo.

There is writing on the back of the photo, something like a diary, describing what happened on the day when my father took the photo, but they are mostly words expressing his longing.

Chu Zihang felt a little emotional, but was not disappointed. He took down the photos on the cork board one by one until he got to the rare photo of only the little boy. Chu Zihang's hand paused.

He turned the photo over, and there were densely packed small words on it, which were not in the same category as the previous literary and artistic love words!

"Oh, the person who saw the content behind this photo should be my son. If you are not, then why did you peek into other people's privacy? The person who peeked into my privacy is my son!"

The corner of Chu Zihang's mouth twitched. This was the father he knew, with a slightly unruly look.

But he also cheered up that there might be a message from his father behind this photo.

"Zihang, if you see this photo, then maybe my mission failed, and that damn old thief Angers even admitted you to the academy!"

"I really don't know what an excellent commissioner you are now. Well, after all, you are a descendant of my old Chu family. Being excellent is normal..."

He is as inexplicably confident as ever, but dad actually has a lot of pride.

"Of course you are most likely not Zihang, but after all, since you have seen it, it means that you should be from the academy. You should immediately find my replacement and retrieve the box. That thing has been kept by the secret party for hundreds of years, so you can't It was lost at the time of the due date.”

"I may be dead, or I may have become a deadpool. If you have found my body, don't send it home, and don't tell my son and wife. They should live a peaceful life."

"If you can't find my body, then I was either bombed to pieces or missing. When I had tooth decay, I had a transmitter implanted into my tooth. The receiver is on the second floor of the wine cabinet. Inside, you can use that clue to find the box, remember, be sure to get the box back!"

This "suicide note" was very brief and a little cynical, but in the end, what Dad was thinking about was the box.

He placed a transmitter on himself, but did not mention saving him in the past. In his opinion, the mission was far more important than his own life.

But... Dad, it’s really me who sees this suicide note now. I’m not interested in that box, I just want to find you.

"Brother Lu, we found a clue. Dad left the transmitter! It's on the second floor of the wine cabinet. Just open it."

Chu Zihang said, there is probably a secret door or something there, but they don't have to search so carefully.

When Lu Chen heard this, he took down the wine and used his strength to embed it directly into the partition behind him. After pulling it out, a square display screen was hidden inside.

"It seems your father still has a back-up plan."

Lu Chen was just thinking about how someone like Chu Tianjiao could be so unprepared.

He took out the instrument, found the power button on it, and pressed it, but there was no response...

Chu Zihang came over and took the instrument and checked it. He was a little nervous. After fiddling with it for a few times, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's probably just out of power. Just charge it."

This thing is the same as the charging socket of mobile phones. Chu Zihang has seen it in the house before. After finding it and turning it on, the instrument display lit up.

"Where is the transmitter? Odin should find it, right?"

Lu Chen was a little unsure. He felt that unless the transmitter was buried inside his body, it would be easy to find. Chu Tianjiao seemed to have changed all his clothes.

Chu Zihang shook his head, "The probability of discovery is very small. Judging from Eryi's experience, Odin is not omniscient and omnipotent. He will omit things that he cannot see. Dad's transmitter was installed during tooth decay surgery. ,Internal."

Lu Chen was a little puzzled, "S-level hybrids can still get cavities?"

Chu Zihang explained: "I also have tooth decay, probably due to genetic factors. I also had it done before..."

At this point, he paused and suddenly remembered that he had also undergone tooth decay surgery. When he was lying on the bed under anesthesia, he couldn't see clearly what the doctor was doing in his mouth due to the angle. Could he have been faked as well? Transmitter?

When the instrument is turned on, a map of the world is displayed. There is a conspicuous red dot at a location that flashes every few seconds, indicating that the signal is being transmitted intermittently.

"And there's a signal!"

Chu Zihang clenched his left hand hanging on the side, unable to conceal his excitement. He had not had high expectations for this signal tracking before.

Because even if Odin didn't notice it, the transmitter might have run out of power after so many years.

Now it seems that the transmitter must have been produced by the equipment department, and the quality is very good!

"It seems we still have to go north..."

Lu Chen glanced at the location and felt a little emotional.

"To the northeast of Siberia, it seems to be moving."

Chu Zihang frowned slightly, wondering what his father was doing there. He originally thought that his father was the current "gatekeeper" among the Nibelungs in this city.

Either they couldn't find anyone because the Nibelungen blocked the signal, or Dad should be here, but he went to the North Pole.

"Is this going back to Avalon?"

Lu Chen thought about it, and it was reasonable for Odin to let Chu Tianjiao steal the knife and send it back to his hometown.

"It's not like this is heading towards the Greenland Sea. There are only vast ice sheets on this route."

Chu Zihang felt that something was wrong, but he still put away the transmitter and prepared to go up with Lu Chen first. Everyone was waiting for them.

The two jumped to the simple room on the upper floor, and everyone gathered their eyes.

"How about it?"

Xia Mi asked with interest. She was full of energy now.

After helping out for the first time and being half-bought by her stupid brother, she has been letting herself go a little bit recently.

The so-called helping to the end, sending the Buddha to the West, she felt that it was okay not to fight against her, but to open a door or something like that in the Nibelungs on the way.

In this way, it will be much safer when the day comes when you are ready to reveal your identity.