Chapter 522 Red Well Project
“A distinguished guest from Kassel College?”

Yuan Zhisheng frowned when he heard this: “I haven’t received any news from the academy. Why did they come at this time?”

He is the head of the Yuan family among the eight families of Sheqi. The Yuan family runs the Yuanji Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., which is also the office center of Kassel College in Tokyo. Therefore, all matters that usually connect with Kassel College must first go through his hands.

Logically speaking, if Kassel College really wants to send someone to visit the Tokyo Branch Executive Bureau, it will definitely send a letter to them through Norma first, because the Tokyo Branch Executive Bureau is nominally affiliated with Kassel College, but in fact the two are not superiors and subordinates, but just a cooperative relationship.

It is impossible for Kassel College to suddenly visit without saying anything, and this has never happened in the past few decades.

Every family head present knew that this uninvited behavior… could even be tantamount to a declaration of war.

“Head, is the news accurate?” Inuyama He asked with his arms folded, turning his head. It was obvious that he still found it hard to believe that Kassel Academy would suddenly attack the Tokyo branch.

Moreover, even if the academy intends to declare war on the Tokyo branch, how can they come here so openly on an airline plane? Are they really not afraid that the plane will suddenly “crash” in the middle of the flight?

Tachibana Masamune closed his eyes. “It was a message from Princess Kaguya. She monitored several special names from the entry data at Narita Airport.”

This sentence made Inuyama He speechless. Since the news came from Kaguya-hime, he knew that it was almost certain that Kassel Academy sent someone to the Tokyo branch.

As an intelligent central host computer built by the Snake Eight Families imitating “Norma”, Kaguya-sama manufactured by Ganliu Research Institute controls almost all gateways in Neon, and the throughput of all data flows in Neon cannot escape her monitoring.

The heroine Kaguya in “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter” is the reincarnation of the gods and Buddhas on Mount Hourai, and Kaguya, the central host of the Snake Eight Clan, can be said to be a god and Buddha in the virtual world.

It was not difficult for Kaguya to filter out the information of the specialists sent by Kassel Academy from the massive amount of airport entry information.

At this time, Sakurai Nanami suddenly spoke up. She was the only female patriarch among the seven patriarchs present: “Who did Kassel Academy send?”

Tachibana Masamune picked up a remote control from the side and turned on the projector on the table. Then a person’s information was projected onto the giant screen covering the entire wall.

“The leader is Mans Rundstedt.”

Tachibana Masamune slowly introduced, “He comes from the ancient dragon-slaying family, the Ronderstadt family. His bloodline is rated A-level, and his Word Spirit is from the Dustless Land. He is not very old, but he is already a senior professor at Kassel College. As for his personal qualifications, he is also very rich. When he was a student, he served as the vice president of the Lionheart Society and participated in many dangerous missions. After graduation, he has been working on the front line of the execution department. Not long ago, he also solved a high-risk incident involving human alchemy in Portugal.”

Sakurai Nanami nodded solemnly: “It’s an experienced executive department specialist. What about the others?”

“His deputy should be Professor Guderian.”

Tachibana Masamune pressed the remote control, and the slideshow moved to the next page. Guderian’s identity information popped up. His photo in the upper left corner looked a little funny, and his upward-curled white beard always reminded people of KFC’s Kentucky Fried Chicken.

But no one present was moved by this slightly festive photo. They all knew what Kassel College was like. Although Professor Guderian looked humorous and friendly, he probably had a heart like a lion underneath.

“In Kaguya’s database, there is very little information about Professor Guderian. All we know is that Professor Guderian is an expert in dragon history and dragon writing. He once worked at Harvard University and was one of the youngest tenured professors at Harvard University. But a few years ago, he suddenly joined Kassel College and only taught one student during his years at the university.”

Fuma Kotaro spoke up: “Compared to Professor Mance, his qualifications seem a bit ordinary?”

Tachibana Masamune sighed softly: “The more unknown something is, the more dangerous it is, Master Fuma… I guess you must have heard about the Greenland Sea incident a few years ago?”

Fuma Kotaro nodded: “I’ve heard of it. Kassel Academy detected a special heartbeat in the Greenland Sea, so they sent an elite team to the Greenland Sea for an exploration mission, but in the end only one student survived. This was the only scheduling error that Angers had made since he became the principal. It is said that the Greenland Sea mission involves the first generation of dragon kings…”

“And the only survivor was the only student ever taught by Professor Guderian.”

The other family heads present were all shocked when they heard this, and they were all glad that they did not underestimate Professor Guderian.

A mentor who could escape unscathed from a mission involving the first generation of dragon kings and teach such an outstanding student must be no ordinary person. The reason why he only taught one student was probably because his conditions for accepting students were too strict. He only taught the real elites!

The reason why Kaguya couldn’t find more information about him might be because Kassel College deliberately blocked the relevant information about this professor, just like few people have seen the mysterious night watchman of Kassel College so far!
Yuan Zhisheng even wondered if he could request to select Professor Guderian as his instructor if he went to Kassel College for further studies.

Miyamoto Shio sighed: “I’m afraid Professor Guderian is the real leader? Mans Rundstedt might be his deputy.”

Next, Tachibana Masamune introduced two elite students brought by Professor Mans, namely Aki Sakutoku, whose bloodline was rated A, and Selma, who possessed the “Word Spirit Difference”. In the team of four, Selma, whose bloodline was slightly worse, also had a very rare Word Spirit. And Professor Guderian’s bloodline was probably above A level.

Three A’s and one B, a very high team configuration. This made several family heads gradually believe that Kassel Academy was indeed coming with bad intentions this time, at least it was not possible that they were simply coming to Neon for tourism.

The conference room was quiet for a while. Everyone was facing the table in silence, their eyes briefly exchanged as they stared at each other. The dust in the air dissipated in the beam of light from the projector spotlight.

Yuan Zhisheng knew the reason for the silence in the conference room. After confirming that the news that Kassel Academy sent people to Tokyo was true, the next step was to discuss the corresponding response strategy.

Should they greet them with a smile as they usually do when receiving every specialist, or should they accept that the academy has declared war on them and draw their swords?

But no matter how they deal with the team sent by the academy, they must first figure out one question: why did the academy send people here this time?
Each family head was trying to guess the other’s intentions… but in fact, they all had the same guess in their hearts.

Finally, Inuyama He slowly raised his head and looked at Tachibana Masamune, his brows trembling slightly: “Could it be that Kassel Academy already knows what we are going to do? Did they send someone here to warn us?”

What Inuyama He said was also the guess in the hearts of every family head present.

Just last year, Maruyama Construction, a subsidiary of the Snake Eight Company, officially took over the construction project of Tokyo’s underground drainage facility “Iron Dome Temple”.

On the surface, this was a political achievement project approved by then Tokyo Governor Yukio Midorishima in order to whitewash his resume during his term. Because another large underground drainage system in Tokyo, the “Metropolitan Area Outer Discharge Channel”, was built not long ago, the “Metropolitan Area Outer Discharge Channel” is fully capable of dealing with super-large rainstorm disasters, and there is no need to build another “Iron Dome Temple”.

But in fact, only the senior staff within the Sheqi Eight Families knew that the construction project of the “Iron Dome Temple” was actually promoted by the family.

They actually just wanted to have a legitimate reason to dig in a mountain range in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, without arousing suspicion from the outside world, especially from Kassel Academy.

According to Kaguya’s calculations, that mountain range is the burial place of the legendary Yamata no Orochi, and the “Iron Dome Temple” project is essentially just a cover-up for this excavation operation.

This excavation operation was internally codenamed “Red Well Project”.

The “Red Well Plan” was absolutely top secret to the Sheqi Eight Clan. The Sheqi Eight Clan mobilized a large amount of resources to promote the “Red Well Plan”.

Genji Heavy Industries even reduced its overseas business and terminated cooperation with many foreign companies in order to invest all its heavy industry resources into the “Hongjing Project”, and paid a large amount of liquidated damages for this.

The work had just begun to be officially promoted, and Kassel College sent a group of uninvited guests to Neon, making it difficult not to connect the two things together.

…The storm is coming.

Just as Inuyama He finished speaking, Tachibana Masamune frowned, shook his head and said, “Don’t scare yourself yet. The Red Well Project is top secret even among the eight families. Only you family heads and your trusted retainers know about it. Kassel Academy cannot know about it.”

Logically speaking, it is impossible to know.

Yuan Zhisheng slowly clenched his fist and thought to himself… Unless there is a traitor among the eight families, and the position of this traitor is quite high.

“Although we don’t know the purpose of our guests’ unexpected visit.”

Tachibana Masamune said: “But we are the host after all. Although our guests are not very well behaved and suddenly broke into our home, we still have to fulfill our duties as hosts.”

As he spoke, he looked at Yuan Zhisheng who was sitting next to him: “Zhisheng, just like usual, you should go and receive these guests first. You were originally planning to study at Kassel College for a year, so you can get in touch with them in advance. Remember, don’t quarrel with Kassel College first, mediate with them and find out what their purpose is in coming to Neon this time.”

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Gen Chisei bent his waist and lowered his head. After a few seconds, he slowly raised his head and asked Tachibana Masamune: “But Dad, if they really came to Neon because they learned about the ‘Red Well Project’, what should we do…”

Tachibana Masamune took a deep breath and said, “Then you should know what to do.”

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(End of this chapter)