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Dragon 3: Tide of the Black Moon (1)

Chapter 48: Shadows of Greenland (1)

By Carmen W KeithPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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Dragon 3: Tide of the Black Moon (1)
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The black clouds pressed low and the sea undulated uneasily. The black boat sliced through the black water, leaving a white trail of water.

"You disguised it as a fishing boat!" Caesar spoke loudly to drown out the sound of the gas turbines.

"No, it's a scientific research vessel!" Wakasa Genji also said loudly, "We are a scientific research vessel engaged in studying the confluence routes of precious marine fish! We are now on the surface of the high seas, but this is Japan's exclusive economic zone, and we have applied for 12 hours of channel control, and no ship will pass through that sea for 12 hours!"

The Japanese branch disguised the Moniah as a fishing vessel, with three white letters "Mani Maru" painted on the bow and a trawl net hanging from the stern boom. They had been sailing for three hours from Pier 4 in Tokyo harbor. The weather forecast for the evening said that tonight there were force 8 winds and 2-meter high waves in the nearby waters, which were not suitable for sailing, but the rare channel restriction was only for 12 hours tonight, and they could not dive to explore the dragon's embryo while the ships were coming and going on the surface. They left the port just as the sun was setting and the sea was blowing a gale, a large number of fishing boats returned to the port to avoid the wind when the sides of the boats met the sailors on the fishing boats waved at them so that Lu Mingfei had a kind of wind XiaoXiaoXiao YiShui cold strong man out of the sea never return to the sense of sadness. Caesar, however, was very relieved to wear the captain's white uniform, leaning on the railing of the ship's side to look into the distance, waving to the fishermen, and jumping on the other side of the fishing boat to buy a fresh king crab, as if the Mani Maru was their family yacht, and he was taking the whole boat of supermodels ready to go to Genoa Bay to enjoy sunbathing.

The searchlight hit the sky, black clouds rolled in the distance with faint thunder, it looks like there is not only high wind and heavy rain tonight. Lu Mingfei felt a chill coming on, although the Moniah's technology is advanced, only a medium-sized ship, the stability of the ship in the sea depends mainly on the self-weight, not heavy enough hull, and then advanced technology does not work. He was a little doubtful whether the ship really can carry the storm.

"Don't worry." Genchiyo saw his worry, "The Japanese branch always has everything ready to do things, and soon you will know."

Caesar uncovered the lid of the steamer and the orange-red king crab came out of the pot. He copied the Dick Pusher Duo and demolished the crab, yarding the snow-white crab meat on ice with a seasoned wasabi puree and seafood soy sauce on the side. He jumped on the fishing boat to buy this crab for this night's snack, although the mission is about to open he still want to take time to enjoy life, in addition to the king crab he also bought a silver-red wild real snapper, on the bow of the Month set up a steamer stew fish soup, with square bamboo shoots and plums to remove the fishy taste of real snapper, spent a full 3 hours stewing snow-white fish soup. The whole way Caesar sat on the bow with the wind in his face, looking over the thick manual and taking care of his fish stew.

"He's very patient." Genchiyo leaned over the side of the boat, smoking a cigarette, and said to Chu Zhang.

"Patience in certain things, like waiting a long time for a girl to fall in love with him, and another long time for a girl to marry him." Chu Zhang wiped the long knife in his hand, "but there are also some things you let him wait a minute he can not stand."

Lu Mingfei is bored looking at the sky, thinking that you wait a long time to wait for a girl to fall in love with you. Don't be silly, in your silly waiting time she is holding someone's arm walking in the same moonlight, just you don't know.

He had no reason to think of Lu Mingze. The little devil pretended to meet with him under the white moon above the ice sea as if there was some kind of hint, and he was indeed sent to the sea to carry out the task, but now the dark clouds over the ship in the wind and waves, and the quiet ice sea white moon difference is huge. Always felt that there was something wrong here, but could not say.

"Gentlemen and gentlemen," Caesar raised his hand for a high-five, "come try the Hokkaido style king crab, the technique of cooking seafood, Japan is number one in the world."

"I thought you were going to say second in the world, just a little bit behind the Italians." Lu Mingfei stuffed the demolished crab leg meat into his mouth, the natural primitive sea flavor filled his mouth with a hint of sweetness.

"Italian men are all born to be chefs, but there is still a gap in cooking seafood than the Japanese. Japan is an island country, not suitable for grazing, before the Meiji Restoration all rely on fishing to provide protein, only the daimyo banquet will appear the beef, and the small people can only fill their stomachs with seafood. So they concentrated all their cooking skills on cooking seafood because there was nothing else for them to cook." Caesar was happy to show off his understanding of the culinary arts.

Genchiyo's face was expressionless. He didn't bother to try to understand whether Caesar was praising Japan or mocking it; every time he tried to understand the singing and dancing two hundred and fifty, he was wrong, and in that case, he might as well not try to understand.

Caesar opened a bottle of noble rot and poured the golden, honey-like liquor into four glasses.

"The noble rot of Chateau d'Yquem is preferred with lobster and crab." Caesar raised his glass, "We have a complicated team this time, some people do not agree on their positions, but I hope we will not implode before the end of the mission. After we finish this mission, we can fight and kill each other on Freedom Day and spare no effort to put each other to death, there are plenty of opportunities. Use this toast to wish us a successful mission together."

A bit of a strange toast, but it was still a good wish, Lu Mingfei, Chu Zhang, and Yuan Zhisheng clinked their glasses and drank it all in one go.

"Young master, we're about to reach Sumeru ahead." Crow came up behind Gen Zhisheng.

"Send a light signal for Sumeragi to open the dock," Genchiyo said.

He turned to Caesar's group, "Now allow me to invite you all to enjoy the project, 'Unsinkable Sumeru', a collaboration between Iwarui Research Institute and Maruyama Construction."

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