If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

On the evening of March 22, it rained heavily at Narita Airport in Tokyo.

The red-eye passenger plane parked on the runway flashed red beacon light in the black rainy night, and its snow-white takeoff lights cut through the darkness on the runway like a sword. The boarding cabin slowly closed, and the boarding car under the passenger plane turned on its headlights and drove off the runway. The radio in the control tower transmitted a signal that it was allowed to take off in the heavy rain. Then the huge migratory birds embarked on their return home in the rainy night of early spring. road.

In the first-class cabin, Lin Nian adjusted the inclination of the seat. The rain in the dark night was beating against the window. Except for the corners illuminated by high lights, the rest of the airport was dim and could not see anything. Through the thin It's like you can feel the rain falling from the waterfall being blown like smoke and fog by the strong wind on the machine wall.

"Go home, go home, go home!"

In the seat next to her on the passenger plane, Mandy lay stretched out on the half-flat seat, enjoying the dry and warm air blowing from the air conditioner. She then took a sip of hot orange juice held in her hands, which made her whole body warm and comfortable. Twisting in the chair, Lin Nian beside him adjusted his seat and raised his hand to ring the service bell.

After a while, a beautiful female flight attendant walked over, holding a piece of PAD and a cup of warm water with a straw and a small paper fan in her hand. After taking the PAD, Lin Nian nodded slightly to express his gratitude. The female flight attendant wore a professional smile. He nodded in response and turned around without saying a word and left the headlight compartment, leaving Lin Nian and Mandy alone.

This flight was a charter flight specially sent by the Executive Department. Except for Lin Nian and Mandy in first class, there were no other passengers. From the flight attendant to the captain, they were more or less insiders within the "system". This flight was outside Under the guise of a private international airline, every flight around the world is actually just to pick up and drop off secret party agents assigned to various countries. Lin Nian and Mandy naturally enjoy this special pick-up and drop-off treatment. The department specially arranged the latest red-eye flight to Japan just to transport the two of them back to school safely.

Lying in his seat, Lin Nian pressed the PAD and entered a password that was a mixture of thirteen digits, uppercase and lowercase English letters, Roman numerals, and punctuation marks. He answered the unreasonable security questions preset by the execution department, and then verified his fingerprints. I successfully entered the interface and started writing and drawing on it.

"What are you doing? Secretly chatting on Instagram with a girl you know in Japan?" Mandy poked her head out from the seat next to her and peeked at Lin Nian furtively.

"Yeah, yeah, actually, at Genji Heavy Industries, I sneaked out under the pretext of going to the bathroom and had sex with Yui Aragaki, and now I'm saying goodnight to her." Lin Nian turned his body sideways perfunctorily and leaned against the porthole to stop him. She sees the screen.

"Yui Aragaki? The one who acted in "Koisora" in 2007? She is quite beautiful, but the popularity has dropped in recent years. With your conditions, junior brother, why don't you be more bold and say that you hooked up with Keiko Kitagawa?" Mandy hehe smiled.

"Beichuan Keiko is already 23 this year, right? She's five or six years older than me. It's inappropriate. It's inappropriate. Even my senior sister can't like her." Lin Nian simply squatted on the seat and leaned against the porthole, tilting the PAD. Leaning in front of my knees, I write and draw with my right hand, while I hold a water glass in my left hand and drink it in small sips.

"Hey, Nian Shanggong is a good culture, why don't you little boys understand it?" Mandy muttered and sat back in her seat. She probably guessed from Lin Nian's serious look that he was busy. Business.

What Lin Nian is doing now is indeed serious business. After all, no one dares to use the PAD specially issued by the Ministry to flirt with girls. Moreover, there is no redundant software on this PAD for people to use. The only thing that can be opened is a software that can be uploaded and saved in the cloud. Using the notepad function, Lin Nian's main business is to write task reports in the notebook and then upload them to the execution department with his signature as a specialist.

The task report should record the details of the entire task in detail. After the execution department repeatedly reviews and confirms that no missing parts have been missed, the written document will be printed out and stored in the information department's warehouse in the ice cellar. Another electronic file will be Upload to Norma's information database and lock access permissions that match the task level.

The mission report that Lin Nian is writing now will probably be locked with 'S' level access permission once it is uploaded. After all, this mission itself is a genuine 'S' level mission. Although they were not asked to blow up the Pentagon or kill a resurrected second-generation or third-generation pure-blood dragon, after all, the confidentiality of spy-type missions was always two or three levels higher than that of ordinary missions.

For example, if a backdoor virus is implanted into Kaguya's computer room this time, once the mission fails and is discovered by the Japanese branch, the relationship between the branch and the headquarters will deteriorate. The subsequent negative impact on the overall situation will be immeasurable. If Lin Nian still Therefore, if he is captured, the academy headquarters will probably deny the existence of this mission, directly abdicate all responsibility, and let the commissioner alone take all the blame.

Lin Nian did not delve deeply into these twists and turns of political issues, but he knew the stakes inside like a mirror. Unlike other 17- and 8-year-old young people, although he was young and energetic in a few things, he still He is a rare mature person in such important matters. He knows what should be pointed out and what should be ignored. In other words, he has the awareness to step into the mud with half a leg.

But fortunately, the 'S' level mission has been successfully completed, and all the negative effects have disappeared. Kaguya's computer room was blown up, all monitoring information was completely scrapped, and the backdoor virus has been implanted in Kaguya's core cabinet. Hidden at the bottom of the information database, the Japanese branch's actions in the cyber field were completely exposed to the headquarters.

Lin Nian was very curious about what kind of reward the school board would give him during this mission. Without formal classes, it was impossible for him to fool him with something like GPA_4.0. Could it be that they would just give him a reward like last time? A bank card?

It seems good to use people's money to do things for others at your own risk?

When Lin Nianhua held the PAD and chewed the straw to blow bubbles into the glass, the passenger plane shook slightly, and the heavy rain outside the window slanted on the window. In the night, the giant white bird split the rain curtain and slid forward, announcing The end of this trip to Japan.

Mandy honestly put down the orange juice and didn't want to repeat the same embarrassment she had when she came to Japan. Lin Nian was concentrating on writing the mission report. He put an eye mask and headphone cable on the armrest of the seat next to him. Ato Fang's music was faintly playing in the white headphones. In Shi's "Tripping", the gentle female voice seems to urge people's thoughts to return home, and to sink quietly into the puddles where the city lights are reflected in the ripples on the rainy night.

The huge passenger plane flew into the sky of Tokyo. Lin Nian, who was leaning against the porthole, inadvertently turned his head to look at the city outside the window next to his shoulder. Rain curtains came from the thick dark clouds on the horizon, wrapping the city lights in a thick fog. Not far away, the colorful lights on the Rainbow Bridge, which was getting closer and closer to the passenger plane, were dimmed into colorful blocks of different sizes. It's a pity that the driveway was closed due to heavy rain, and no one could appreciate this particularly beautiful scene in the heavy rain.

——Actually, there are still people, but this person is the only one standing in the middle of the bridge that has been closed for a long time, looking up at the passenger plane roaring past the bridge and flying into the dark clouds in the sky where the city lights are not illuminated.

The man's black kimono with red flowers loosely exposed his delicate collarbone. He raised his head and looked at the flashing red passenger plane flying towards the sky without sadness or joy. The heavy rain flowed down from his beautiful face without makeup and hit his shoulders. The handle of the long red sheath knife slung across the waist gathered and flowed into the wooden shoes on the feet.

He was the only one standing for a long time in the center of the colorful bridge in the heavy rain, like a young samurai who had strayed into modern society. Standing in the rainy night during the wrath of spring, the rain falling around him was dyed with a feeling of loneliness. odor.

He watched the passenger plane fly over the bridge until it disappeared into the dim light of the sky.

The white headlights shone behind the man, stretching his shadow on the empty bridge. On the bridge, which was originally closed to traffic, a black Maybach car slowly slid to his side.

The waiter got out of the car under a black umbrella and silently opened the door for him. In the luxurious and warm back seat sat an old man wearing a pale white mask that looked like a minister. The warm yellow light in the car illuminated the fine details of the mask from top to bottom. The result is chilling.

The old man held the black stick with both hands and looked sideways at him without saying anything. The cigarette he was holding in his mouth flew out and was immediately shattered by the heavy rain.

"The Sheqi family has been tracking me for fifteen days, and you didn't come to pick me up until today."

The young man did not get in the car. He stood next to the Maybach in the heavy rain and looked at the place where the passenger plane disappeared. The rolling clouds hid the fleeting white python.

"Where are you talking about? In the past fifteen days, while the Sheqi family was chasing you, they also did not forget to closely monitor the fierce ghost strongholds along Tokyo. From the beginning, they never thought about actually capturing you, but wanted to capture you. Use you as bait to lure out more tentacles of the fierce ghosts, and then devour our flesh and blood one by one to support their growth."

Wang Jiang took off the cigarette, put it out on the black stick and put it into the ashtray in the car: "I care about you very much, little girl."

"I thought I had finally become your abandoned son." Kazama Liuli turned sideways and looked down at him condescendingly, her golden eyes shining brighter in the rainy night than the neon lights hanging on the bridge.

"Everyone in the Fierce Ghosts is a chess piece that can move. They will not be abandoned so easily until they have enough flesh to support the movement of the skeleton. You are of great significance to the Fierce Ghosts, and of course you will not be so easily. You have become an abandoned son. On the contrary, your failure this time was unexpected." Wang Jiang raised his head and looked at Liuli's chest in the rain and wind. The water flow merged into the loose kimono and left a mark on the chest in the shadow of the clothes. Fifteen days have passed on the sunken bruised pit, but the self-healing ability of the "Emperor's Blood" has not yet smoothed over the wound.

"It's rare for things to surprise you. It seems that from the moment that boy appeared in Tokyo, the direction on the chessboard was completely out of your control." Kazama Ruri let the rain fall on herself, His eyes fell on the king's mask through his wet forehead, as if he wanted to see through the bone-white mask, licking the innermost stinking soul like a knife.

"Accidents will always happen. Although it is somewhat unsatisfactory, at least half of the purpose of this operation has been achieved. There is intelligence information that Kaguya's computer room exploded, and you and the group of mercenaries were on the fifth floor. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Information Department on the eighth floor, the Communications Department on the 28th floor, the Liaison Department on the 29th floor, and the Strategy Department on the 30th floor have carried out varying degrees of destruction. The eight Sheqi families may no longer have energy in the near future. They are here to bother us again. After stirring up the rebellion of the restless gangsters, they already have too much time to take care of themselves." Wang Jiang laughed twice, and even his laughter was a bit more refreshing than the rain hitting the bridge. , "On that day, there was more than one force opposing the Sheqi Eight Families. Your brother was blocked and delayed by a powerful enemy, which is proof. Recently, the forces of the Fierce Ghosts have begun to develop in an all-round way, as well as the development of evolutionary drugs and the plundering of elite talents. It was done a little more blatantly.”

Kazama Liuli looked at Wang Jiang quietly for a while and said: "So that boy is insignificant to you? You just want to use a reason to attack my family, but you don't want the other party to be provoked and start a full-scale war with the fierce ghosts. The reason?"

"What does the mercenary attack on Genji Heavy Industry have to do with us, the Fierce Ghosts?" Wang Jiang said, "Your intervention was just because the Fierce Ghosts couldn't help but tear off a piece of meat from the bloody wounds of the eight Sheqi families and devour it. They could Barking at us, but having absolutely no reason to pursue us for vengeance.”

"The reward is false, but the attack on our family is real. Everything is just for the dormant ghosts. This heavy rain has hit the Sheqi family. How many bamboo shoots will spring up in the mountains after the rain. General Wang said calmly as he looked at the water as dark as a python outside the bridge.

"So that boy is of no importance and he is allowed to leave Japan?"

"Rather than letting him go, it's better to say that he escaped. Even the Sheqi Eight Family couldn't keep the boy. How could the weak Fierce Ghosts keep him? Just let him change seasons here like a migratory bird. Fly your wings and return home in the new year. After all, the wrathful cherry blossoms of spring are left to us to appreciate. There is no place for strangers under the tree."

"I have a hunch that he will come back in the future." Fengjian Liuli said softly, "When the time comes, he must be here for the 'god'."

"Then let's entertain him with solemn etiquette. After all, there are as many pilgrims as cattle and sheep. Not offering enough lambs for the awakening of the 'god' would be a failure of those of us who guard the tomb." The king general smiled lightly. .

Fengjian Liuli looked at Wang Jiang quietly, as if wondering how much of his words were true and how much of them were false, just like what he did, as fierce and fierce as a hyena, but cunning as a red fox. Cave to avoid disaster.

"I've been talking for a long time. The wine I heated for you is getting cold. It will rain for a long time. Why don't you come in and take shelter for now?" Wang Wei left a place for Fengjian Liuli and looked at him with a smile. It was really warm in the car. With a pot of shochu, the whole workshop is filled with the warm and flowery scent of wine.

Kazama Liuli's gaze at the general changed from indifferent to indifferent, but just when he was about to react, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the front of the Maybach.

The beautiful golden eyes reflected the rain curtain falling from the sky and the neon lights of the bridge. In this hazy beautiful light curtain, a figure with a paper fan appeared in the center illuminated by the Maybach headlight.

It was a woman, wearing a white hospital gown. Her blond hair was splashed in the heavy rain. Her plain white skin was more transparent than the white lights of a Maybach. She was holding a black paper fan with silver-white landscape patterns printed on it in her left hand. Her right hand gently With her back behind her, a smile as pale as her skin color hung on her face.

"It seems that even if you are as cunning as you, there will be a day when your whereabouts are exposed." Kazama Liuli watched the woman lightly mocking the king general beside him, but was shocked to find that the latter was filled with an air that he had never seen before. , the distant and unfamiliar atmosphere.

In the Maybach, Wang Jiang was silent for a long time. He sat in the car and looked through the windshield at the woman who was so white that she suddenly looked like a ghost. The white python crossing the horizon only now brought a rolling roar, which had been dusty for a long time. The memory was also awakened in the thunderous wind and rain.

The heavy rain at this moment was like wind and snow, and it was extremely cold.

He looked at the white woman like daisies and poppies, her bright golden eyes frozen with centuries-old frost reflecting his slowly cracked black teeth and evil smile in the car.

"It's been a long time no see."

Why not cook wine with green plums, talk about swallows, and quietly enjoy the scenery of spring anger that we once looked forward to seeing.

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The passenger plane seemed to be affected by the airflow. The plane shook and there were circles of water in the glass. Lin Nian, who was about to put on the eye mask, suddenly paused, took off the eye mask, looked around for a while, and then looked at Mandy aside. Say, "Did you hear that?"

Mandy, who was shaking her head and playing with her mobile phone, noticed Lin Nian's mouth shape, immediately took off the earphone from her right ear and asked, "Junior brother, what did you say?"

"Did you hear the sound just now? I feel like my DNA has moved." Lin Nian looked at the black clouds and heavy rain outside the window.

"It's okay after the DNA was moved. Junior brother, are you guilty of PTSD?" Mandy teased without paying attention and looked down at the phone. When she was about to put on the headphones, she suddenly turned around and asked as if she remembered something, "Oh yes. Okay, junior brother, do you have a line account?"

"Line? Are you talking about that popular chat software in Japan?" Lin Nian asked.

"Yes, did you add me?"

"No account registered."

"Register one. The head of the Uesugi family just asked me to add her on the line!"

"Uesugi Eri? Is she still so trendy in playing line?"

"Junior brother, you're behind the times. Bring me your mobile phone and I'll help you download it before you leave Japan."

The passenger plane continued to fly into the depths of the dark sea. Under the thick dark clouds, thick smoke rose from the colorful Rainbow Bridge in the distance. It connected to the sky and merged with the ink-stained clouds. The grand firelight illuminated under the cloud flames. The whole sleeping Tokyo.