Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

Chapter 348: Nibelungen in Tokyo, Japan

Lu Mingfei was at home.

Xia Mi held the silver oak sword used for lie detection. Although she sat obediently on the sofa, her eyes always revealed a murderous look as if she wanted to bite Lu Mingfei to death.

"A legion of Deadpools...if it is large enough, it is indeed a terrifying force." Lu Mingfei has seen Norton's legion of Deadpools. As long as the number reaches a certain level, they can indeed cause a tsunami-like force.

“But except for a few particularly powerful individuals, most of the Deadpools will be controlled by the Dragon King, right?” Lu Mingfei asked the fatal question.

Most of the Deadpools are beasts without intelligence. When two armies confront each other, if both are Dragon Kings, they can even command the opponent's Deadpools or even low-level dragons. This is why Dragon Kings rarely use the Dragon Sea Tactics and always decide the outcome with brutal fights.

Although there are a few powerful individuals among the Deadpools who have the ability to think, no matter how much they think, there will never be enough of them to form a legion.

In Norton's memory, during the war between him and Huangdi, there were not many Deadpools who were powerful enough to possess intelligence and release the power of words. Each of these Deadpools was a very high-level commander in Norton's Deadpool army.

A legion made up entirely of thinking Deadpools is as ridiculous as an army made up entirely of generals.

"Of course there aren't so many high-level Deadpools. In fact, those individuals you mentioned who can resist the Dragon King's control are almost as important as some low-level dragons," Xia Mi shook her head. "That army will certainly not be disturbed by anyone other than the controller, but they can do this because those Deadpools... are Corpse Guardians."

"Corpse Guardians?" Lu Mingfei recalled. "It's mentioned in the records of the secret party. They are mummies made by your dragon race, right? They hollow out the internal organs of deadpools or even pure-blooded dragons, and use alchemy to transform them into tireless killing machines. They usually remain dormant, and once there is an invader, they will immediately activate and destroy the invader. Specialists who have entered the cocooning place or cemetery of pure-blooded dragons will occasionally encounter Corpse Guardians."

Xia Mi nodded.

"No, I remember that corpse guards are uncontrollable. They can only be given simple commands when they are made, and then they will obey like machines. Corpse guards that can only execute a single simple command cannot be used in combat."

Lu Mingfei said: "And the fact that Corpse Guards are tireless does not mean that they can move forever. As a corpse, the energy that alchemy can provide to them is limited. Most of the time, Corpse Guards have to rely on hibernation to save energy. If they continue to move, their energy will be quickly exhausted. Therefore, they can only guard a certain place. That's why they are called 'Corpse Guards', which means they are made into guards."

"Indeed, most corpse guards are like this, but the corpse guards in Helheim are not. They have the blood of the White King and the mythical alchemy performed by the Black King himself," Xia Mi said, "Their souls are eternally imprisoned in their corpses. Even if only the dragon bones are left, they can move freely."

"They were originally descendants of the White King. After the White King rebelled, the Black King, our father, used the most brutal method to cleanse the White King's people. He turned them all into these corpse guards and engraved the control of the corpse guards in the core of the Nibelungen, turning them into his private army."

Xia Mi said softly, "Of course, Father doesn't actually need this army. He just wants to use this method to torture the descendants of the White King, and by the way, tell this story to us children to warn us of the fate of betrayers."

"What about the energy consumption issue? The corpse guards in Helheim can't have infinite energy, right?" Lu Mingfei said.

"If ordinary Corpse Guards are disposable dry batteries, then the Corpse Guards in Helheim are reusable batteries," Xia Mi said. "The alchemy that created Helheim and the Corpse Guards came from the same source. They can recover their strength in Helheim, and Helheim, as a complete giant Nibelung, is able to bear this consumption."

Lu Mingfei was curious: "How big is Helheim?"

"A city," Xia Mi paused and added, "It's a dragon city, much larger than a human city."

"How many zombies are there in Helheim?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"I don't know, I can't get in." Xia Mi said frankly.

"That's right," Lu Mingfei nodded, "If you had gotten the corpse guard inside, would you still be so cowardly now?"

Xia Mi took a deep breath and held it.

"Then Norton said that you stole the inheritance. What's the matter?" Lu Mingfei asked again.

"It's not quite accurate to say I stole it," Xia Mi shook her head. "I just found the intersection of Helheim and reality, that is, the coordinates of its entrance in reality, and then destroyed all information related to the coordinates."

“This seems to be worse than stealing, right?” Lu Mingfei complained.

"But after all, that is something left behind by our father. Although I know the coordinates, I can't get in." Xia Mi said.

The Silver Oak Sword, which had been silent until then, suddenly emitted a yellow glow.

Lu Mingfei struck the same pose as Commander Ikari again and stared at Xia Mi.

Xia Mi looked away guiltily.

"Go ahead, the polygraph test result won't be wrong." Lu Mingfei said.

"I have a way to get in, but I just can't do it." Xia Mi said unwillingly.

"What method?" Lu Mingfei asked curiously.

"You know that twins have to devour each other to reach their most perfect form, right?" Xia Mi said, "As long as I devour my brother, I can evolve into 'Hela' and have the power to open the door."

"Why can you open the Nibelung after evolving into the perfect form?" Lu Mingfei was curious.

"After evolution, my authority will be sublimated once again," Xia Mi said, "My authority was originally only able to act on physical entities and manipulate the 'force' within them, but after evolution, it can act on intangible things, even the Nibelungen itself. Although it is difficult to destroy the Nibelungen, it is still very simple to just pry open its entrance."

"So you can use your authority to pry open the door lock of Nibelungen?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"That's right." Xia Mi nodded.

"Can Norton's seven deadly sins open the Nibelung?" Lu Mingfei asked.

He still remembered that when he was interrogating the dragon soul imprisoned in the Silver Oak Sword, the other party said that the dark monarchs wanted to obtain the seven deadly sins in order to enter the Nibelung.

"The word 'open' is not quite accurate. You should use 'smash it open'. It really opens the entrance passage by destroying the Nibelung. You compare my authority to picking a lock, then Norton's seven deadly sins should be considered breaking down the wall." Xia Mi explained.

There was nothing wrong with her explanation, and the lie detector test of the Silver Oak Sword did not call the police, but what Lu Mingfei couldn't understand was that when Xia Mi said this, her face suddenly turned into a ferocious one with gnashing teeth.

"You seem unhappy. Can I ask you the reason?" Lu Mingfei picked up a slender water cup and handed it to Xia Mi as if it were a microphone.

"I have to evolve into Hela before I can pry open the lock of Helheim, but Norton and Constantine don't even need to devour each other. They can directly smash the wall of Helheim just by building a set of weapons. Why? Who said that the distribution of power among the four monarchs is fair!" Xia Mi's face was full of grief and indignation.

To Lu Mingfei's surprise, the Silver Oak Sword still did not react.

In other words, Xia Mi was expressing her true feelings? Although there was definitely some acting involved, she was definitely not lying.

But thinking about it carefully, Lu Mingfei also felt that it was not fair. Norton and Constantine were obviously a little too strong - perhaps this was the victory of alchemy.

“Look at the bright side. Apart from Norton and Constantine who were lucky enough to be assigned to alchemy, aren’t the other three pairs of monarchs about the same?” Lu Mingfei consoled.

Xia Mi glared at Lu Mingfei with the look of a poor student who got the last place in the exam but was comforted by a top student who said, "There are others at the bottom like you."

"The most important question," Lu Mingfei asked, "Where is the entrance to Helheim in real space?"

Xia Mi took a deep breath and showed an unwilling expression: "If we compare it with modern maps, it is roughly in the Tokyo area of ​​Japan."

“Tokyo?” Lu Mingfei was stunned. He really didn’t expect that Helheim was in Tokyo.

"Yes, in the eyes of dragons, Japan is nothing more than a few isolated islands suspended in the sea, very suitable for being a prison," Xia Mi said, "and it was originally the holy city of the White King, where a large number of the White King's descendants gathered."

"The descendants of the White King are in Japan..." Lu Mingfei murmured in a low voice.

He suddenly remembered something - the last time he went to Japan, he saw several murals at the headquarters of the Snake Eight Clans. The murals depicted the White King, but his knowledge of the dragon clan was limited at the time, so he could not fully understand the meaning of the murals.

"Not exactly. During the heyday of the White King, her descendants were all over the planet. But after she was executed for her betrayal, her direct descendants were driven to Japan by my father, and then..." Xia Mi wiped her neck horizontally with her palm, the meaning was self-evident.

Lu Mingfei fell into deep thought - he still remembered the last picture of the mural, where the White King broke out of the shell of the "Emperor" of the Eight Clans of Sheqi and roared at the sky.

The Sheqi Eight Clan is most likely a hybrid created by the White King's bloodline, and as a branch of the academy, it is highly independent. Japan was once the White King's holy city, and the corpse guards in Helheim mentioned by Xia Mi are also descendants of the White King who were executed and tortured by the Black King...

There must be some hidden connection between them!

When these elements came together, Lu Mingfei gradually formed a bold guess in his mind - could it be that the mastermind behind all this was also one of the Eight Clans of Sheqi?
Although a bold hypothesis was generated in his mind, Lu Mingfei did not show it. Instead, he looked at Xia Mi and said, "That's pretty much all I need to know. Thank you for your cooperation. Thank you very much."

Xia Mi was dismissive of Lu Mingfei's thanks.

This kind of gratitude is just like the beekeeper taking away all the honey from the bees and then saying "Thank you, hardworking little bees"!
"In addition to these, there is another important issue - Hela can release the army of the dead from Helheim. This is the content of Norse mythology. In other words, someone must have spread the news that you can open Helheim, and it gradually evolved into a myth."

Lu Mingfei reminded: "Norton definitely doesn't know about this, because he has always only known that you stole the Black King's legacy, but he doesn't know what the legacy is specifically, so it's impossible for him to spread this matter, so...could it be that the Dark Lords spread this matter to plot against you?"

Faced with this question, Xia Mi's expression changed again.

But this time it wasn't anger or worry or fear, but an expression very similar to "hate iron but cannot make steel".

"I only told this to my brother. I told him that after I ate him and became Hela, I could get an army of the dead and build our world," Xia Mi said, covering her face. "Then I was killed and cocooned before my brother. After I cocooned, my brother leaked this matter..."

"Your brother... is quite simple?" Lu Mingfei wiped the sweat off his forehead.

He heard from Norton that, for the sake of balance, Xia Mi was the third smartest dragon king after him and Constantine, and also the weakest dragon king, while her brother Fenrir was the dragon king with the strongest combat power without equipment, and correspondingly, Fenrir was also the most mentally retarded dragon king.

Xia Mi showed a tired look as if saying "I don't want to answer this question, my heart is so tired, my heart is so tired too."

"Oh, one last question," Lu Mingfei asked casually, "You don't like Senior Brother Chu, right?"

"Of course, I am the Dragon King! How could a great dragon lord fall in love with a mere half-blood?" Xia Mi sneered.

"Om-"

The Silver Oak Sword trembled slightly, and the yellow light it emitted was brighter than ever before, even brighter than the time when Xia Mi said she was a beautiful 17-year-old girl.

In the bright and somewhat dazzling yellow light, Lu Mingfei and Xia Mi looked at each other.

The light cast a shadow on Xia Mi's brow and covered her eyes.

"You..." Lu Mingfei said.

"What a broken sword! It's not accurate at all. I'm giving it back to you!" Xia Mi angrily threw the Silver Oak Sword on the table.

After the Silver Oak Sword left Xia Mi's hand, the yellow light instantly disappeared, leaving Lu Mingfei and Xia Mi staring at each other.

There was an awkward atmosphere in the air. Lu Mingfei and Xia Mi said nothing, like two cowboys who had agreed to a duel but realized upon arriving at the scene that they had forgotten to bring their guns.

"Your sword is not accurate, right?" Xia Mi said.

"In theory, it won't go wrong..." Lu Mingfei said.

"It's obviously wrong, and it's extremely wrong." Xia Mi said seriously.

“Is it possible that you really like Senior Brother Chu…” Lu Mingfei shook his head, “No, it’s unlikely.”

The Dragon King falls in love with humans?
This isn't even a fairy tale, it could just be some absurd comedy like "Waiting for Godot"!

"So it went wrong." Xia Mi said seriously again.

“But that doesn’t make sense…” Lu Mingfei scratched his head.

"Anyway, it's wrong!" Xia Mi bit her lower teeth with her fangs and spoke word by word.

"Are you threatening me?" Lu Mingfei picked up the Silver Oak Sword.

The sword rang happily, as if it was ready to avenge Xia Mi's throw.

"Actually, after I thought about it carefully, Chu Zihang is quite good. It just so happens that I am still in need of a concubine." Xia Mi changed her tone.

Lu Mingfei:...

(End of this chapter)