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

Chapter 857 Utero (Two in One)

Eleven time zones away, at the headquarters of Kassel College in the United States, late at night.

Faculty dormitory building, in the quiet corridor through the solid wood door, you can hear the vague dialogues of cartoon characters coming from dormitory 201, and the blue light from the TV is faintly visible in the crack of the door below. s color.Let us jump slowly through the crack of the door and we can see that a huge figure is projected on the ceiling. It is Manstein lying on the decorated sofa, watching his favorite "The Simpsons" on the TV screen.

The picture quality of the animation is very blurry and the production is very rough. It is not difficult to see that this is the first season launched by Fox in 1989. This is the season that Manstein never tires of. He likes nostalgia and classics, especially the old ones. The black humor and satire that never goes out of style, especially when the target of the satire is culture, society and the whole world, he always respects those yellow-skinned little people who are joking but express their feelings directly.

But tonight, Manstein's movie-watching condition seems to be not good, because half of his eyes are not on the TV within one minute, but on the coffee table in the dark.

The phone rang.Manstein quickly looked away from the TV, put down the coffee in his hand, and touched the microphone on the coffee table. The whole process was as fast as lightning, as if he had been waiting for this call all night.

"Something went wrong." Professor Schneider's first sentence on the other end of the phone was concise and straight to the point.

On the other end of the phone, Manstein took a deep breath with a blank expression on his face, the yellow cartoon character still speaking his lines was reflected in his eyes, but the comedy inside could no longer interfere with his emotions.He was silent, he had been so silent since he picked up the phone, he had known that such a call would come, but he didn't expect things to be so bad.

As far as he knows, when Schneider dealt with the commissioner in the Middle East and the armed conflict in Palestine, he said lightly to the above reports that "we are in trouble, but it is far from worth the trouble", which can make him say' Something went wrong' these three words must have occurred in an extremely serious situation.

Manstein spent the whole night imagining how bad the situation would be. From the moment Schneider dragged him into the water, he knew that the current scene would happen, but when the situation actually happened, the blood pressure that went straight to the forehead remained the same. Let his emotions explode.

Even though the door was blocked, the old man's furious abuse still echoed in the corridor. The neighbors who were awakened from the dream opened their eyes and thought they were still in the dream. Otherwise, why would they hear the director of the Disciplinary Committee who lives next door? Affectionately calling the executive minister a 'son of a bitch' (Manstein's probably dirty word Mother-Fword) late at night?
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Manstein in a suit and leather shoes pushed open the door of the central control room, but every overtime worker who turned his head and stared at him had respect in his eyes, and there was no way to disrespect. Just 5 minutes ago, this huge control room The old man scolded the head of the Executive Department full of tiger-wolf words, which was considered to have done something that everyone in the entire Kassel Academy thought about but never dared to do.

At the end of the control room, Schneider and Guderian were already waiting there. The former's usual lethargy made people want to frown and hide when they saw it, while the latter was still so happy. It was the second time for the old friend to appear in such a serious place as the central control room in pajamas and that eye-catching red hat. (The last time was when Kassel defended the war)
Manstein quickly walked through the aisle with a sullen face, and glanced at the crowded central control room from the corner of his eye. The more he walked in, the more he felt depressed, because he knew that this matter should have been hidden in the dark under the stage. It was dealt with secretly, but now the situation here is clearly clear that the matter is several times bigger than he imagined, so big that Schneider can't hold it back at all, so he can only put it on the bright side and gather the strength of the entire Kassel Academy to solve it .

"What's the situation over there now." He said concisely, without mentioning any emotional issues.This battle can only be caused by a big problem with Lin Nian's mission related to the 'SS' level. Although he was bewitched and coerced by Schneider in this matter, he knew very well that he stepped in. Just don't ever think about getting rid of yourself first when something happens, and dealing with the root cause of the problem is what he should do.

"The file is lost." Schneider's voice was hoarse as usual, but today it was more gloomy than before.

"What accident happened, can it be recovered?" Manstein stood in front of Schneider and looked up at the huge blue earth projection, but he didn't see the pulsating dots that were so red as he imagined.

"Documents are trivial now," Schneider added.

"Small things?" Manstein was stunned, with a huge sense of foreboding in his heart, "Lin Nian, where are Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang?"

"Survive."

"Survived?" Manstein suddenly turned his head to look at Schneider.

Schneider nodded, "Encountering the Dragon King head-on without preparation can indeed be called survival."

Dragon King.

The air pressure in the entire central control room seemed to drop. Manstein exhaled twice, and the skin on his forehead turned red visibly with the naked eye. Guderian, who hadn’t woken up yet, was refreshed, watching his old friend’s tumbling emotions. Change hurriedly said, "They are all fine. Lin Nian withstood the first wave of attack launched by the Dragon King, but the train station is gone."

Well. It's just that the train station is gone.Schneider on the side also nodded, as if this was a small thing to be thankful for.

Manstein glared at his old friend with glaring eyes. He had done enough homework to know how huge the South Railway Station was. Its size was basically comparable to that of Chicago Union Station, although its artistry was not as good as Buza Art. The main waiting room "Grand Hall" is as gorgeous as it is, but it is definitely a giant in terms of scale and land occupation. How can it be said that it is gone!
Suddenly, Manstein, who realized what was happening, shivered and stared at Schneider and quickly asked, "How did China react? Did Lin Nian go to war with the suspected 'Dragon King' enemy? Are there any surviving witnesses?" What about the surveillance video on the streets? What about the photos taken by orbiting satellites?"

Even at this time, he used the word "suspect" in front of the dragon king. The madness of the battle between the bronze and the fire king seemed to be just yesterday, and a new dragon king appeared suddenly after only a summer vacation. accept.

"There are no witnesses, or even if there are witnesses, they have unfortunately died in that disaster." The large screen behind Schneider lighted up just right, and a shocking and devastated real photo appeared.Manstein just glanced at the whole person and froze, because he couldn't connect the terrible scene like the CG of the doomsday movie in the photo with the South Railway Station.

"You must have mistaken the photo of the canyon somewhere with the South Railway Station?" Manstein whispered.It is so difficult to say.

How to describe it.It can only be said that this is the most ferocious and wanton wound on the earth that Manstein has ever seen, just like "disaster" took up the paintbrush and made a satisfactory self-portrait on the ground, full of barren and The atmosphere of doomsday, not an inch of intact land can be seen, and the so-called South Railway Station has completely disappeared, occupied by a huge natural moat, looking inside is like visiting the abyss, the most important thing is that the ravine gives people It feels that it is not the uncanny workmanship of nature, but the terrible consequence of strong man-made tearing. The whole earth was torn apart by one's own power!
"This is indeed the trace of the 'S' class student Lin Nian fighting the enemy who is suspected to be the Dragon King. This was also the place where the mission was originally scheduled to be handed over, the South Railway Station. Until the enemy appeared, after the battle with Lin Nian, he used it to escape from the battlefield. The power that we can't understand at all—the possibility of 'speaking spirit' is not ruled out—destroyed everything on the scene, and set off a major earthquake that radiated the entire city." Schneider also studied Manstein's use of Words, iron-gray eyes reflecting the black crack in the photo.

Manstein raised his head and looked a little scary, "How is Lin Nian now?"

"There is no problem, it's just that the high-intensity battle may not be possible for the time being due to excessive physical exertion—this is his original words. Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang are also safe and sound, but the B007 commissioner in charge of the handover suffered a gunshot wound and lost blood Too much is undergoing blood transfusion therapy, but it is basically fine. Believe your student, after all, he is the first "Dragon Slayer of Destiny" who actually killed the Dragon King in history," Schneider's fast and steady words made Manstein A few blood vessels on the top of the head that were about to burst went down a little.

"It was also he who reported to us the suspected conflict with the 'Dragon King'. His reaction was very flat. Even after experiencing a real war, he was calm and even called 'cold'. Much calmer than your mentor. So I don’t think there will be too many mistakes in his judgment, so he preliminarily and boldly concluded that what he encountered in this mission was an attack from an enemy at the level of the Dragon King.”

"He has long been used to these crap things happening under your command!" Manstein said coldly.

"In other words, I have long been used to these shitty things happening under the command of the secret party." What Manstein did not expect was that Schneider actually repeated his words in a rather flat tone with a different subject, but this The inexplicable words surprised Manstein, and there was a slight weirdness in his eyes when he looked at Schneider.

"Forget it, let's not talk about it. Lin Nian has his own plans. I have always been very reassuring on his side. Are you sure the secrets of the Dragon Clan have not been leaked? That's a train station, a crowded place! As long as a photo is needed, If a photo spreads out, the secrets about the Dragon Clan in the newspapers tomorrow morning will spread wildly in this huge country with a population of 14 billion!" Manstein changed the subject, raised his hand to press his temple, he really is I never dreamed that things would deteriorate to this point, but now even if it collapses again, I can only sort out the status quo first and then deal with it.

"The train station is still in the trial operation stage. There was only one train line to pick up Raymond that day. There were not many passengers and passers-by except the staff. Besides, if there are really accidentally leaked photos about the secrets of mixed races and dragons or Video, the secrets of the dragon clan will not be leaked out so quickly. You forgot to consider the influence of 'orthodox' in the local area." Schneider shook his head, his eyes flickering, "and fortunately, after this accident happened, orthodoxy immediately In the end, public opinion control was carried out, and after actively dealing with the situation of satellite observation and all possible ways of leaking secrets, this matter was finalized as a sudden natural disaster, a local small-magnitude high-intensity earthquake that swept through the coastal city."

"Small-magnitude high-intensity earthquake?" Manstein frowned. His major was 'herpetology'. If the 'Introduction to Dragon Genealogy' taught by Guderian was to understand dragons from a sociological perspective, then he His major is to analyze the origin and lineage of this race from the perspective of biology, and his geographical knowledge related to seismology is not his advantage.

"Earthquakes of the same magnitude, the shallower the focal point, the greater the damage, and the smaller the spread, and vice versa. Therefore, destructive earthquakes with full intensity are generally shallow-focus earthquakes. The explanation given by the China Earthquake Administration is that rare earthquakes have occurred in coastal cities. Although the earthquake with ultra-shallow source and destructive intensity only lasted for a few seconds, the unprecedented focal intensity of 12 degrees (intensity is not on the Richter scale) caused this phenomenon.” Schneider explained.

"." Manstein breathed heavily. He didn't know much about geography, but he was relieved because he was really convinced by Schneider's explanation. It will be a lot more logical.

After all, it is easier to accept a superficial earthquake that is rare for thousands of years than a monster suspected of being a dragon king punching at the train station and changing the terrain. After all, nature is full of wonders.Yellowstone Park and the Grand Canyon of Colorado can exist, and a rare earthquake is not unacceptable.

Hope so.

But soon, Manstein's thoughts turned to the other side, focusing on some weird points in the large amount of information that Schneider revealed in a short period of time, "You say orthodoxy? Why did Orthodox react so quickly, those guys Isn't he indifferent to everything except the 'Ice Sea Fragments' in our library? How can he be so kind to deal with our mess, instead of taking the moral high ground to put pressure on us to get benefits before acting. "

"You seem to have misunderstood something. The method you mentioned has always been used by us." Schneider said lightly, "You don't know enough about orthodoxy. In the face of real disasters, saving the people from fire and water and helping the people in distress is something engraved in their genes. Before a disaster, it is always the secret party's patent to think of conflicts of interest."

"." Guderian, who had been silent for a while, reached out and grabbed the Little Red Riding Hood on his head and held it in front of him. He was probably a little numb from the words. Did the monitoring place say it?Still, as the head of the executive department, he started his treason.

"I mean, why did Orthodoxy know so quickly? This operation should be extremely secretive. Don't tell me that it was leaked again!" Manstein immediately pointed out that Schneider had misinterpreted his meaning, "Don't take me for a fool .”

"You guessed it right, the operation was indeed leaked." Under Manstein's somewhat desperate gaze, Schneider nodded, "According to Raymond's mission report before sending the ambulance into a coma, his train is 10 minutes ahead of schedule Arrived at the station, and within 10 minutes, he was attacked by an unknown mixed-race force. In his original words, the group of people were well-trained killers, and the target was clearly aimed at the documents in his hand. All the accidents at the South Railway Station started from that accidental 10 minutes, and then various forces came on the scene, resulting in the current situation that is hard to recover."

"10 minutes? That's impossible! Only you know the details of this mission, and I don't even know the specific handover time. How could there be such a mistake, let alone calculate the 10 minutes in advance. Manstein opened his eyes wide.

"I also find it unbelievable, but when I think about it carefully, no matter what the plan is, it is impossible to be perfect, and there will always be mistakes. Even if I control the overall situation by myself, I will inevitably hand over some affairs that I cannot personally arrange to other people. , For example, I can arrange the timetable of the train station, but I can't actually drive the high-speed train." Schneider said, "Everything that changes hands, there must be a gap. Obviously our enemy seized this gap and succeeded. Made those 10 minutes."

"But Raymond is not dead, that's what you said."

"Yes, thanks to a temporary semi-finished body armor with 'A' level authority that I called up from the equipment department before he performed this mission, the trial works worth more than 50 US dollars were collected as consumables and happened to be saved. It killed him. But even so, he was seriously injured, in Lin Nian's words: he lost enough blood to make a table full of blood."

"Can you feed Lin Nian?" Manstein was stunned.He knew how terrifying his student's appetite was. Raymond lost blood to that extent and didn't die. He could only say that he was blessed by blood.

"What is Maoxuewang? Is it Chinese food?" Guderian found an entry point and asked, not because he likes to interrupt, but because he was really hungry when he got up in the middle of the night, and he also smelled pizza and food from Manstein. The smell of coffee made him even hungrier.If he was not one of the professors on duty, and he had to be present according to regulations, he would have gone straight to the night cafeteria, where there should be pork knuckles left over from the students at noon.

"Don't interrupt," Manstein snapped at him, adding, "You still haven't explained what this has to do with orthodoxy."

"Orthodox people are also present, appearing in the South Railway Station. Li Huoyue, you should have heard of this name. The orthodox 'month' corresponds to the Japanese 'Emperor', and the secret party's 'S' level. Although She appeared at the South Railway Station with the purpose of clearing out the dangerous hybrids, but Raymond confirmed in the report that she had something to do with that document."

"Orthodox 'Yue', the manipulator of the sword." Manstein frowned again, "According to her performance in the "Kuimen Defense War" led by Orthodox, even if Raymond is a speech 'Blazing Sun' can only kill her in seconds, right? B007, did he create a miracle?"

"It's your students who do the magic," Schneider said.

"Lin Nian arrived in time?" Manstein stretched his brows, so it's not difficult to understand. No matter how strong the orthodox 'Yue' is, it can't be stronger than the 'Destiny Dragon Slayer', who is ruled by the power of the entire mixed race world. The ace of trumps that we recognize and awe.

"Lin Nian arrived when the Dragon King appeared. He was late because Lin Xian, a staff member of the psychology department who lived with him, had an accident. He had already arrived at the train station at that time, so he had to turn back temporarily to deal with those Accident." Schneider looked at Manstein.

"Is Lin Xian alright?" Manstein asked quickly.

"It's okay. Lin Nian didn't elaborate on what happened on the phone. It fits his personality very well. There are other secrets in this matter. I will ask him separately, but whether he will choose to report it or not will be discussed separately." Schneider said.

"You said that it was my student who saved Raymond? Could it be that Su Xiaoqiang also went to the scene?" Manstein took a breath, "How could Lin Nian let her appear in such a priority task! And She is not on Norma's task list at all!"

"Manstein, besides Lin Nian, please pay more attention to your other students. Your focus is too obvious. If you are reported by students, it will affect the evaluation of tenured professors." Schneider replied blankly. Manstein said from the bottom of his heart, "Do you think Su Xiaoqiang is an ordinary person with no power to restrain a chicken? Her 3E exam results are rare 'A' grades, and she is also an outstanding student in her grade."

"But you know her physical test results. I don't deny that she is very talented in other courses, such as "Introduction to Dragon Genealogy" and "Dragon History". Guderian and Ferdinand have given She has enough credits to prove her excellence. You know what I mean, even if Su Xiaoqiang has received systematic fighting and close combat teaching, she is still far behind the level of mixed races in real combat! Her physical fitness is complete An ordinary person! Coupled with her body that is prone to diseases, she is not even as good as an ordinary person most of the time." Manstein felt his head ache again.

"That's why I said that you have too much affection for Lin Nian, and you don't even know your other students." Schneider's expression did not change, "I ask you, do you know that Su Xiaoqiang passed the early batch call from the executive department Exam?"

"What did you say?" Manstein was stunned for a moment, because he knew what Schneider was talking about.

"Pay more attention to your other students, otherwise there will always be some unexpected things happening in the future. Just like last time." Schneider said indifferently.

It was at this time that Manstein's expression finally changed.He understood Schneider's implication, and also understood why the head of the executive department, who had never been a mother at this stall, spent so much time educating him about teaching students.The head of the executive department never talks nonsense, so it was clear that one of the accidents that occurred this time had something to do with the topic they had been talking about from beginning to end.

"You said it was my student who saved Raymond." Manstein lowered his voice.

"It was a former student. Mandy Gonzalez. Solomon was imprisoned in Chernobyl Prison for life without parole after the referee, and disappeared from everyone's eyes after the riot in Chernobyl Prison , we sent several experienced 'hounds' to track down her whereabouts, but in less than a month, we found that all the 'hounds' were stuffed into pets and sent back to the executive department by the airline "Schneider stated slowly, "This is the 'B' grade student you have never been optimistic about, Mandy Gonzalez, who you think is a failure."

"I never thought she was a failure!" Hearing the end, Manstein froze for a moment and suddenly let out a lion-like growl, but suppressed his emotions after Guderian quickly stroked his back He broke out not because his emotional control was too poor, but because Schneider's tone and sharp words were too sharp, cutting his chest like a knife, looking at and commenting on the color of his heart indifferently.

"She shot Raymond." Schneider still didn't have any emotional waves and threw out again, and before Manstein's expression changed, he added slowly, "Using Friga bullets. It seems that she got Friga somehow. The production method of Jia bullets, I can think that this is one of the secrets she stole from the equipment department when she was lurking in Kassel College. How many horrible things have been done in the Academy."

"She also wants that document?" Manstein patted Guderian's hand away as if he was coaxing a child. Schneider's eyes asked, "Did you hide something from me?"

"For example?" Schneider looked Manstein up and down carefully. Those silver-gray pupils almost made people think that he would consider what to say and how much he said according to the result of Manstein's answer. He didn't tell the whole story at all. Give the most basic mutual frank preparation.

This is the style of the head of the executive department, the spy chief of a violent agency, Manstein suddenly felt a little tired looking at those eyes, maybe he shouldn't have been involved in any affairs led by Schneider in the first place, he himself eventually It's just the director of the Disciplinary Committee, or a faculty member who is also in charge of finance, and there is no comparison with a black-and-white organization like the Executive Department.

"It's the Dragon King who appeared this time! The Dragon King!" Manstein raised his voice as much as possible, and he decided to get some information to clear the fog in his heart, "That's the Dragon King, not some damn dangerous hybrid. Or a pure-blooded dragon with less than three generations. Why, tell me, Schneider, why a dragon king appeared in that city, and even attacked my students."

"Professor Manstein, what exactly do you want to ask?" Schneider tilted his head.

"That document." Manstein looked straight at Schneider and didn't dodge any more. "What the hell is that document! It's worth a pure-blooded dragon that can change local terrain to expose itself to the eyes of mixed races all over the world." risk to snatch!"

"I shouldn't know."

"you"

"Norma, clear out the central control room, and get out of here everyone with authority lower than mine, except Manstein and Guderian." Schneider said lightly.

The lights in the central control room turned to a dim red, and the blockade of the half-decayed world tree appeared on every screen. Dozens of staff got up at the same time and pushed their seats to stand up, all maintaining a very high quality without saying a word walked out.The three on-duty professors didn't argue loudly about the details of the mission before. They could hear Manstein's roar at most from the problem, but it is clear that no unrelated personnel will be allowed to be present in the following conversation. .

Soon the venue was emptied, leaving only the red light and the projection of the earth that was also dyed red. Against the background of the half-decayed World Tree computer screen, Manstein watched Schneider and remained silent for a few seconds until the other party asked, "What did you want to ask just now?"

"Do you know what's in the document, that's why you chose Lin Nian to carry out this mission." Manstein said coldly, "You told me that the content of this document is related to Lin Nian, so I That’s why I intervened in this matter and became your lobbyist. But now I don’t think so anymore.”

"Why?" Schneider still had the look of deciding how much truth he would reveal based on how much truth Manstein could deduce.

"Do you want me to be clear? If the really important part of that document is related to Lin Nian, then why did the Dragon King still show up at the South Railway Station to snatch that document instead of directly looking for Lin Nian in that coastal city?" Residence?" Manstein pointed out the most critical core of the problem, "Orthodox has taken a fancy to that document, and Mandy Gonzalez has also taken a fancy to it, which means that the forces behind her are also eager for this document , not to mention the 'dangerous mixed race organization' that you sent Chu Zihang to investigate. This document is definitely not as simple as you said! What is in it, it is worth the school board to set his priority as ' The unprecedented level of SS' class?"

"Do you really want to know?" Schneider asked.

Manstein said nothing.

"Are you really ready to know?" Schneider asked again in a different way, still getting Manstein's direct gaze.

So he stopped talking, didn't speak for a long time, suddenly coughed in a low voice, and then breathed heavily, the hissing sound from his lungs made people feel that it was possible for him to die here next moment, and Manstein was still cold Looking at him coldly, he looked at the pair of steel gray eyes that never left his pupils even though he was inhaling oxygen.

When the cough stopped, Schneider took off the oxygen mask, slowly raised his head and said, "With very careful logic, it seems that high blood pressure is not enough to make you a beast of emotional control. But I am not deceiving you, this The document is indeed related to Lin Nian, but not completely related to him, but related to the close and indistinguishable person beside him."

He paused for a moment and then let out a low laugh that made Guderian and Manstein shudder (in fact, Ned just laughed normally, and the two professors just shuddered because they had never heard Schneider laugh in any form), "Actually, I also Curious why this document has attracted the prying eyes of so many monsters, and what kind of secrets she has to qualify as the center of such a terrible storm."

"She (her)?" Manstein noticed Schneider's words, and the bubbles in his mind popped up and then shattered, as if thinking of a horse, and a sense of uncertainty suddenly rose in his heart.

Schneider nodded and said slowly, "This document numbered 'SS-778' is the document code-named 'Utero (womb)' that the 'Solomon Temple Society' has been searching and exploring all over the world for the past 50 years. ' list."

"What's that?" Guderian asked subconsciously, "It sounds very dark."

"You don't need to know what that is." Schneider hissed, "You just need to know that there is a name on that list, which is listed separately and marked in red. That name is one of the few Chinese names: 'Lin string'."

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