Chapter 1496 Atlantis
Lu Mingfei paused with the tequila in his mouth, slowly turned his head to look at the girl, and then swallowed the wine instead of spitting it out (after all, he was someone who had seen big scenes).
He was silent for a moment, looking at the Spanish girl up and down with a rather unreadable look, from head to toe. The inspection of his eyes also made Anna feel slightly embarrassed, and she sat upright.
"Do you know what you are talking about?" Lu Mingfei thought for a while, then put down the tequila cup and asked her in a low voice while glancing at the small bar.
"I know." Anna nodded.
Lu Mingfei fell into deep thought. He was thinking about the situation in which this Spanish girl asked this question. It was obvious that she was the prey of the so-and-so family.
He had preconceivedly thought that this girl must be a mixed race, but now that the other party asked such a basic question, it really made him confused.
"Come sit here." Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment before standing up, picking up the last glass of vodka, and walked to the sofa some distance away from the bar.
Because this is no longer a matter of not dragging this girl into the mixed-race world, but that this girl has already stepped into the mixed-race world with one leg, and now she even looks confused.
The situation was dangerous, and for this girl it was like dancing with her eyes closed on the edge of a cliff.
Anna's eyes suddenly brightened when she saw Lu Mingfei's attitude. She picked up the glass of whiskey and immediately followed him and sat next to Lu Mingfei.
"How much do you know about hybrids? Since you can say this word, it means you have a certain knowledge." Lu Mingfei asked with a soft breath.
"I don't know much, just a vague concept. It seems to be a special group of people hidden in human society."
"Why?" Lu Mingfei asked, "Why do you want to know about hybrids? Do hybrids have any appeal to you?"
"A group of people suspected of being of mixed race are chasing me. Isn't that enough?" Anna looked at Lu Mingfei.
"Not enough." Lu Mingfei shook his head.
"My mother's death was related to the Wittelsbach family, the bastards who were chasing me." Anna said slowly.
Lu Mingfei started to have a headache. Well, this reason was really tough.
But on the topic of mixed-races, he remained tight-lipped, "Then you should have done your own research on mixed-races. What do you think mixed-races are?"
He wanted to know how much the girl knew about hybrids, so he could consider how much to say next.
"I searched the entire Internet, searched every corner of the dark web, traveled to many cities and asked countless people. According to my research, the 'hybrids' are like an urban legend that is smoke and mirrors. Some people say that they They are the prototype of the 'lizard people'. Some people say that they are some kind of cult. Some people say that they secretly control the ruling class of human society. Some people say that the Illuminati is composed of them. There are many strange theories about 'hybrids', but they are all Can’t get a definite answer.”
Anna shook her head helplessly, "I also tried to investigate the Wittelsbach family that my mother worked for, but all I found was that they were a huge family business in North America, and nothing else. ”
The world of mixed races is completely separated by a thick barrier for ordinary people. Whether it is the Internet or visiting, unless you have blood yourself, even if you are lucky enough to meet a real insider, they will remain tight-lipped.
When you, as an ordinary person, know the information about the mixed-race world, it is usually when misfortune comes to your door. It is hard to say whether Anna is lucky or unlucky.
"Mixed races are not something you should know about. If no one comes to you and takes the initiative to tell you everything about mixed races, then you'd better not know what they are for the rest of your life." Lu Mingfei still sighed and persuaded.
"The group of people who are chasing me, those people from the Wittelsbach family, are the so-called hybrids, aren't they?" Anna stared at Lu Mingfei and asked, "They can do some things that others can't do. They are better than ordinary people." They are faster, more powerful, their eyes can turn golden in the dark like the legendary lizard men, and some of them even have super powers! They are not human at all!"
She could feel the energy and professionalism of the group of people chasing her. If it hadn't been for those two years of running around the world and encountering various dangers, she would have grown up with countless minds. She might have encountered those people for the first time. He was caught in a crowd.
In fact, she should have fallen into the hands of those people when she was at Doha Airport. It was just that she was lucky enough to choose Lu Mingfei's room among the six rooms, so now she had the opportunity to sit on this flight and ask for help. .
"Then you should know that I am not an ordinary person who can drive away those mixed-race people. You are afraid of those people, why are you not afraid of me? How dare you come in front of me with this notebook?" Lu Mingfei was very worried. I tried to intimidate this girl by putting on an "I'm dangerous" face, but the result of my efforts was a poker face.
"You are not interested in this notebook. If you were, you would have chosen to snatch it when I took it out for the first time." Anna said.
So can I automatically translate this sentence as "You are a good person"? Lu Mingfei felt complicated.
"You know more than I expected." Lu Mingfei looked at the girl complicatedly and said, "But I still want to know the word 'mixed race'. Where did you learn about this concept? When you come to mixed-race species, they will only think of them as a group of monsters, and will not use such a defining word as hybrid species.”
Anna picked up the notebook, and the meaning was self-evident.
Lu Mingfei was puzzled and asked subconsciously, "What is written in this?"
"I'm glad you asked that, but it starts with my mother. This notebook is the last relic she left to me." Anna picked up the cowhide notebook and nodded.
Depend on! Lu Mingfei knew that he had said the wrong thing, but it was too late, and he inevitably entered the plot CG.
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Anna A. Campbell sat next to Lu Mingfei, holding the glass of whiskey, and told her story:
".I am a single-parent family. Since I was sensible, I have been staying with my aunt and living in a small town in Madrid. My mother left home and me when I was a child, and went to the sea. She often sends postcards back from overseas, all of which are photos she took of underwater sites and photos of herself posing with marine life.”
"My aunt told me that my mother is a marine archaeologist who has devoted her life to studying marine cultural heritage and exploring and excavating historical relics and cultural relics in the ocean through underwater archaeological technology. So I don't often see Mom, she exists for me in postcards, letters, and on the other side of the distant sea.”
"When I grew up, I took the initiative to look up things about my mother and found that she was an outstanding marine archaeologist in the industry. She often participated in public welfare activities to protect the ocean. She also received a certificate of honor for protecting the ocean. She had many achievements in her life. More than half of her time was spent at sea, but everyone who knew my mother said she was a great scholar, and I should be proud of that.”
"She kept insisting on writing me letters in those years. Every time she went to a new place, she would send postcards from there. The letters wrote about various things she encountered at sea. In those letters sent back, my mother She also explained to me countless times that she left me because she had something very important to do, and when that was done, she would come back to live with me.”
Lu Mingfei, who had worked hard on CG, gently scratched his eyebrows and thought to himself, what kind of life is this for me? Is your mother also an archaeologist? Are you also staying with relatives? Then you should receive an acceptance letter from the Mystic Academy next.
"My mother doesn't live with me, but that doesn't stop her from still being my idol. My dream since I was a child is to be admitted to Ocean University and become a marine archaeologist like my mother, so that I can go to sea with her. I went everywhere to experience the wonderful stories I saw and heard in letters and postcards." Anna smiled when she said this.
"My favorite thing to do when I was a child was to have my aunt take me to the aquarium to see the marine life on weekends. After every visit, I would feel that my mother was doing something meaningful outside, so even if she She doesn’t come back to see me very often, but I always support her work.”
Lu Mingfei suddenly felt frustrated as he listened. His parents are also archaeologists, but his dream since he was a child was to have endless Internet cafes and endless drinks. As for being admitted to the University of Archeology Digging ruins all over the world with your parents? It can only be said that "StarCraft" ruined his archaeological dream that he had been passionate about for three minutes.
"On my 18th birthday, I wrote to my mother that I was going to apply to her old alma mater to study the same major as her. She wrote back to me and said that she was proud of me and supported me in taking the path she had taken. And she was very happy to tell me that the "important thing" she had been running for finally had a clue. An incredible force discovered her investigation results and invested heavily in supporting her research work. They all I think that the work that my mother has been working on for many years is an amazing and great project, and once it is published, it will definitely shock the whole world.”
"That force is the Wittelsbach family, right?"
"Yes. My mother mentioned in her letter more than once that with the support of the Wittelsbach family, her work efficiency has become many times faster. She may be able to successfully complete that important thing in the next few years. Come back and meet me Reunion.”
This is a really bad flag, Lu Mingfei thought, while taking a sip of vodka from the glass.
As expected, Anna's next words made Lu Mingfei shake his head slightly:
"But since that reply, I have never heard from my mother again. Postcards, letters, phone calls, all contact information have been cut off. I have looked for my mother's friends in the archaeological community and also called the police. I even sought help from international rescue organizations, but there was no way to contact her. It was like she suddenly disappeared from the world.”
Lu Mingfei looked at Anna with a somewhat complicated look. What happened to this girl was his biggest nightmare before he was 18 years old. He was afraid that one day his parents, who had been working outside all year round, would suddenly disappear from the world, and all his 18 years of expectations would be wiped out. For nothing, we can never wait for the day of real reunion.
"Everyone said that my mother encountered a shipwreck, or had an accident somewhere where communication was impossible, but I have always refused to believe this statement. After the police also announced my mother's death, the Wittelsbach family They kept silent about my mother’s affairs and insisted that my mother’s disappearance had nothing to do with them. This made me feel crushed.”
"Until one day, I made up my mind, gave up my university studies, and used the pension from the Marine Conservation Association to embark on a journey alone to find her traces." Anna said slowly, and the determination in her eyes made Lu Mingfei look sideways.
"I went to all the places she had been to and met all the people she knew. I felt that her disappearance must be related to the 'important thing' she had been talking about all these years, but no matter who I asked, they didn't know what that thing my mother was talking about."
"I searched for two whole years and traveled to no less than twelve countries, but found nothing. My money was almost gone, and when I was almost desperate about this matter, a transatlantic package was sent to my aunt's house."
Anna's voice became low,
"I returned home as soon as I received the news. The package said that this was something my mother left for me, and I could only open the package myself. After opening it, I found this notebook inside. There was also a suicide note."
"What was written in the suicide note?"
Anna did not answer directly, but untied the rope on the cowhide notebook. A wrinkled light yellow paper taken out of the notebook was already spread out in front of him. There was only a crooked sentence on it, which was the last handwriting left in dried blood:
[Atlantis is real. 】
"Atlantis?" Lu Mingfei read out the name in surprise.
"This is the 'important thing' my mother has been running around for." Anna raised the leather notebook in her hand, "She thinks she has discovered the legendary Atlantis."