Dragon Clan: Thought So Far.

Chapter 388 376. The Ninja Girl Chasing the Light

The executive department has its own unified dispatch mechanism. Although Lu Mingfei is nominally the core of the team and all specialists and all weapons need to cooperate with his actions, the real command authority does not actually lie with him.

For an S-level mission of this kind of unprecedented scale, comparable to a military operation, the school board would usually give the command of the action team to someone they trusted. Although because of Ange and Lu Mingze, Lu Mingfei was able to gain the support of a certain number of seats in the school board, such as Ms. Elizabeth of the Laurent family and Miss Charlotte of the Gottingen family, who have always been his supporters.

But this does not mean that Lu Mingfei can have enough say in the core center of the secret party's power to attract the attention of the rulers.

It has been the case since ancient times that those who have power in a stable regime will not be allowed to have excessive power.

Power and authority are fertile ground for ambition. I'm afraid that in those meetings that Angers didn't know about, even Ms. Elizabeth, who stood firmly behind the principal, had expressed her concerns about everything Lu Mingfei had.

Who can guarantee that a twenty-year-old boy will not have some unrealistic thoughts in his mind after suddenly possessing such huge power, so huge that it is even enough to subvert the existing order?
So no matter whether it was after Lu Mingfei accepted the Nibelungen Plan in another world, or in this world when he stood out as soon as he entered Kassel Academy and was even hailed as the man with the greatest chance of ending the history of the dragon clan, the executive department never let Lu Mingfei be responsible for operations that required the mobilization of a large amount of manpower and material resources.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Professor Schneider was always reluctant to hand over the power of the Executive Department, the core department of Kassel College, to Lu Mingfei. He seemed to always be the knife of the college rather than the person holding the knife.

Lu Mingfei acknowledged and understood these concerns and the school board's vigilance towards him, but few people in the world truly understood him.

Those who truly understand him know that Lu Mingfei's ambition is not to control the power and benefits of this world.

All he wants is for those who love him and those he loves to live well.

In short, the person in charge of the operation against the Yamata no Orochi that is about to be launched in Hongjing is actually Professor Schneider who does not appear here at all.

This is not because of the serious bureaucracy within the executive department, but because Professor Schneider's physical condition is much worse than ordinary students imagine.

His respiratory system was almost completely damaged and he needed an extracorporeal device to maintain his life. His entire left lung was replaced with an artificial lung lobe and his trachea was replaced with a plastic hose.

It is said that after the Greenland Ice Sea incident ten years ago, the college's medical department spent three full days and three nights rescuing Professor Schneider, who had been issued a critically ill notice at the time. This man who had been active on the dragon-slaying front for half a century eventually survived by relying on his own will.

“…Based on the abnormal phenomena that have appeared, it can be judged that what you are about to face, Lu Mingfei, may be the first generation of Odin that once appeared in Chicago and Kuimen in the Three Gorges.” A hoarse and low male voice, with a whistle-like sound like air flow seeping out of a broken bellows, came from the headset. Although it was very difficult to hear and made people feel like the devil was whispering in their ears, the signal was obviously very stable.

This is not like the situation you face once you have entered the Nibelung or are close to the edge of the Nibelung.

The so-called Nibelung is a subspace structure opened up by dragons on the basis of the real world through alchemy that has been pushed to the extreme. Because life cannot be born autonomously in it and it is filled with killed metals and fallen hybrids that have been transformed into deadpools, it is also called the Kingdom of the Dead.

So far, Lu Mingfei has seen four Nibelungen. The first one is the bronze city that fell into the real world after the space structure collapsed. It is the palace of Norton and Constantine, the kings of bronze and fire; the second one is the Beijing subway Nibelungen that Xia Mi tinkered with, with inexplicable rules. Fenrir was hatched in the depths of that Nibelungen, and thousands of ghost car birds guarded the gate for the king of the earth and the mountain; the third one is the kingdom of the dead that Odin descended on Chicago through heavy rain. This Nibelungen seems to have thoroughly understood the essence of alchemy, and can even summon the dead pool in the shape of fantasy creatures through lifeless dead objects.

The last Nibelung was found in the Deadpool breeding pool under Genji Heavy Industries. It was suspected to be a temporarily constructed subspace, narrow and silent. The structure inside it looked more like a meeting hall for the Knights of the Round Table than a fortress.

It was there that Lu Mingfei and Nuonuo found Herzog's body. A bullet fired from a pistol of terrifyingly large caliber hit the fox-like cunning man directly in the face, destroying his facial features and most of his brain.

But until now Lu Mingfei couldn't be sure whether what he and Nono saw in that small Nibelung was really Herzog's body, or was it actually one of that guy's shadow warriors.

The truth seemed to have been revealed. Friedrich von Long, who was found by the principal and Finkel, fled all the way from China to Japan. With the support of the organization behind him, he killed Herzog and replaced his position among the Snake Eight Families and the Demon Clan.

That organization was once a supporter of Herzog, but apparently they had realized the man's ambition and meanness, so between Friedrich and Herzog, these people chose Friedrich without hesitation.

The complete replacement of Tachibana Masamune and the King's identity should have occurred between October and November. Before that, Herzog probably realized that he had become a discarded pawn, so he spared no effort to introduce the power of the academy, trying to stir up a whirlpool in the peaceful lake of Japan. But in front of the mysterious organization that has not yet fully revealed its identity, all of Herzog's efforts are as ridiculous as a child's resistance. He and his ambition were easily crushed to pieces, just like God waving his hand from the sky and wiping out a country on earth.

But something was wrong. This all happened so naturally, like a perfect script...

"…If you really have to face that ancient god in the end, then your first priority, Lu Mingfei, will be to do your best to delay Odin while ensuring your own safety, and prevent him from appearing on the battlefield over there with the principal." Professor Schneider's voice was flat, low and smooth, like a typewriter that never stops.

The man who was lingering on in the world like an evil ghost finally paused for a moment. After a few seconds, he slowly said, "You are a very valuable asset to us and to mankind. If something unexpected happens... the principal and I hope you won't make any unwise choices. You can't die there."

Lu Mingfei held a lit cigarette between his teeth. The purple-white lightning flashing like a dragon in the distant sky made his face look ferocious and solemn.

"Professor, I think you have realized that, at least until now, we have not entered or even approached Nibelungen." Lu Mingfei said softly, "But you and the principal are right. If something unexpected really happens, I may make a choice that is not wise for many people."

In the real Nibelung, you cannot feel the flow of wind, nor can you feel the dust particles that should be floating around randomly in the air. It should be so quiet that it seems as if everything is dead.

Even at the edge of the kingdom of the dead, at the border between reality and fantasy, any existing means of long-distance communication by humans should have been completely ineffective.

However, the convoy that was still moving towards Hongjing was still able to communicate with the executive department, and the communication signals between the two sides were completely unaffected.

This means that perhaps Odin's Nibelung did not unfold here at all, and that space that only existed in fantasy had no intention of coming to the world.

Artillery fire roared on the mountain road under the heavy rain, and the blazing flames became hazy and unreal through the rain curtain.

Thousands and tens of thousands of ravens with golden lights flashing in their pupils like will-o'-the-wisp were flying through the low dark clouds, letting out creepy screams. Even if hit by bullets, their bones would not necessarily shatter, but would sometimes make a roar like the collision of metal.

The purity of dragon blood in these dragons is far inferior to that of the ghost car bird, also known as the sickle weasel. But their number seems to be endless, coming from all directions. In the rain curtain, apart from the frenzied rain and deafening thunder, there is only the scream of wings tearing through the air.

A thin layer of dark golden boundary wall covered Lu Mingfei's head like a circular air membrane, and the entire jeep was within the protection range of this air membrane.

It was as if a torrential rain fell on the boundary wall and was quickly evaporated into white steam, and the ravens whose bones were as hard as alloy were immediately burned to ashes when they hit it.

If it was just a standard five-man squad facing these ravens, and this squad did not carry enough ammunition and weapons of mass destruction, they would inevitably have a hard time in such an environment and might even suffer casualties after running out of ammunition.

However, the number of specialists dispatched by the Operation Execution Department this time exceeded two hundred, and each jeep was equipped with a flamethrower and a military shotgun.

Lu Mingfei even saw someone throwing a huge number of incendiary bombs into the holly woods on both sides of the road. The flames formed a long river that stretched for thousands of meters in the rain. Countless black spots smashed the river of fire and continued to charge towards the convoy, and then were torn into pieces by bullets.

The incendiary bomb contains thermite, which can immediately explode into a high temperature of 300 degrees after detonation. It is equivalent to carrying a super weakened version of Chu Zihang with you.

It is obviously not enough to use it against Deadpool or pure-blooded dragons, but if the opponent is just a group of ravens that can't even use their words, then the lethality is really inhumane.

The ravens that can fly out of those flames are all small elite monsters, and their health bars in the game are thicker than those of ordinary monsters.

The snow on the treetops of the holly forest and the heavy rain allowed the executive department's specialists to use weapons that might normally cause irreparable damage to the environment without restraint.

The convoy moved forward steadily and unshakably like a rolling torrent, silently crushing all the ravens that tried to block it.

"Beheader, my code name is Heron." Jiude Mai maintained the Vajra Realm's Word Spirit Domain within a moderately large area, so that neither the ravens nor the rainstorm could affect Lu Mingfei who was rushing to the battlefield. Then she turned around and showed the other people in the car a nameplate with a silver chain passing through it.

The senior specialist leading the team was full of doubt. He had never heard of the code name Heron in the battle sequence of the Execution Department, but looking at the nameplate, it was indeed a symbol used to identify the identities of the beheaders.

"My name does not appear on the list of the executive department." Jiude Mai patted the senior specialist's shoulder, turned around, leaving behind a graceful back, and stood next to Lu Mingfei.

The senior specialist suddenly realized.

There is indeed a gray list in the Executive Department. The people on the list are all super hybrids with dangerous bloodlines. Among them are even monsters like Chu Zihang, who is nominally A-level but actually has close to S-level in terms of the effect of his spiritual power and physical fitness.

Usually, super executives on the gray list are carrying out secret S-level or even SS-level missions around the world, and rarely appear in the secret party's action sequence.

Have even these kinds of guys been sent out this time?
A slender white hand reached out from the side and snatched the cigarette that Lu Mingfei was holding. By the time he reacted and wanted to take it back, Jiude Mai had already taken a long puff and exhaled a cloud of smoke.

"How did you get that thing?" Lu Mingfei asked in a low voice.

"Every school board has placed people on the gray list. Does Chu Zihang's father Chu Tianjiao know about this? They are people from Angers." Jiude Mai blinked, and there seemed to be a glimmer of light in her bright eyes.
"We are also a big force with a seat at that table, isn't it easy to get me an executive department identity?"

"I couldn't contact you the other day, and I wanted you to leave Japan with Zero."

"The potato chip girl will cry her heart out if she finds out. You, a pervert, thought of everyone but forgot about her." Jiude Mai wrinkled her pretty nose and leaned towards Lu Mingfei.

The others looked at each other in surprise that Lu Mingfei was so close to this mysterious beheader. Could it be that the two were actually siblings?

It's not that no one has speculated whether there is some hidden relationship between the two, but there are already too many scandals about Lu Mingfei. Even a mature and steady middle-aged man like a senior specialist is jealous and envious, and is unwilling to label this new beautiful lady as "Lu Mingfei's scandal girl".

"My boss asked me to do something, so I was delayed. It's normal that you can't contact me." Jiude Mai said, she shrugged, "But I can't leave, how can you leave me?"

“Hey, don’t underestimate me.” Lu Mingfei smiled.

"I'm not looking down on you, but there are some things I have to do." Jiude Mai said softly.

At this time, the convoy had completely broken through the blockade of the ravens and appeared on the road near the forest where the Red Well was located.

Like a long snake made of steel.

Lu Mingfei glanced at Jiude Mai and sighed softly.

"Sister Mai, you shouldn't be here." He jumped out of the car. The water on the ground was like a stream, but the water in this stream was jumping slightly as if it was boiling.

It's not the water that's boiling, it's the mountain that's shaking.

The vice-president's alchemical matrix is ​​as powerful as a super tunnel boring machine, and is transmitting the majesty of those skeletons to the Red Demon River filled with dragon blood subspecies.

(End of this chapter)