Dragon Clan: Thought So Far.

Wait, is the world so disillusioned? Can the plot get any more ridiculous? My life is so full of ups and downs?

So the Young Master Chu who topped the list of those who should be killed back then was actually his half-brother, Lu Mingfei. So Chu Tianjiao didn't accept Angers' mission and was here ready to blow Lu Mingfei's head off at any time, but wanted to watch over his two sons in this city because of his deep love for his children?
Could it be that my mother gave Lao Lu's family such a big hat?

In just one second, Lu Mingfei's thoughts were in a thousand circles. A Qiong Yao drama with his mother Qiao Weini as the protagonist exploded in his mind like a thunder in a dry land. In a breath, the plot had evolved from "My Youthful Years" to "The Domineering CEO Falls in Love with Me" and then to "How should I choose when the two best men in the world pursue me at the same time."

If we measure it by real-world distance, it would be from Istanbul to Rio de Janeiro, then making a huge turn across Chile and into the Pacific Ocean.

"I never thought that you have grown into a real adult, able to shoulder the responsibilities that I hoped you would never have to shoulder." The man who was as cool as Elvis in Lu Mingfei's imagination and in reality showed a gratified expression on his face. Such an expression should only appear on a father.

He shook the glass of whiskey with a slightly golden hue, and his pair of dark brown pupils in his deep eye sockets stared at Lu Mingfei from afar, like a moose stopping in the woods and staring down at its cub.

"I'm sorry that I finally dragged you into this. Remember when you were born, I forced that old guy Ange not to come to China to recruit you into that crazy school... So now you are entering Cassel College, right? After I disappeared from this world, Ange finally broke his promise."

It's more than just a breach of promise, Lu Mingfei thought. When Professor Guderian came to China to interview him, he used threats and inducements all the time. He almost wanted to kneel down and beg him to join Kassel College. Fortunately, President Lu was determined and finally survived the honey trap.

"But it doesn't matter. I knew you were a smart kid. You would definitely be able to find the truth of this world through the clues I left behind. Maybe joining Kassel Academy was not Angers' idea, but you found them yourself." Chu Tianjiao said, "Since you don't want to live like Truman, then as a father, I will of course support your choice."

“I’m not that cool enough to find Kassel College, which was hidden by the vice-principal using an alchemical matrix, by myself…” Lu Mingfei felt a little ashamed.

It is said that before 08, Kassel Hilltop College was an aristocratic college that allowed outsiders to visit. But since 09, a guy named Chu Zihang traveled all the way from the west coast across the Pacific Ocean to Chicago, used the public telephone booth in front of the City Hall to make a private call to Professor Schneider, the then executive director, and drove to the college gate within three days after the call was connected. The college's top management held an emergency meeting and reached a high degree of consensus on strengthening the college's confidentiality.

Since then, the Mountaintop Academy has completely disappeared from any satellite map that could find it, thanks to the advanced development of Kassel Academy in the field of computers. At the same time, the board of directors also allocated more than 500 million US dollars to mentor Flamel to build a super-large alchemical matrix with the entire Mountaintop Academy as the core, which can exert a psychological influence on ordinary people who are close to here to a certain extent. That kind of influence will not hurt them, but will make them instinctively stay away from here.

"Perhaps you have heard from many people about the real Chu Tianjiao who has never been shown to you and your mother, but I want to tell you that what I leave to you is not just the honor of my ancestors and the best bloodline." The man's face showed some undisguised complacency. EVA curled her lips and said, "Shameless."

I think that when EVA and Finkel were still active in Kassel College, the legendary deeds of Chu Tianjiao had not been completely erased by the principal.

“Your father, the strongest, most powerful, and most invincible S-class hybrid in history, left a deposit of 900 million US dollars for you in the Zurich Bank!” Chu Tianjiao drank the wine in the glass in one gulp and opened his arms like a protagonist in a stage play when the plot reached its climax, welcoming the cheers and applause of thousands and tens of thousands of audiences below the stage.

Lu Mingfei raised his head and took a deep breath, a deep breath that seemed to suck the whole world into his lungs, and then he exhaled gently.

"It's only 900 million US dollars. When I was working as an artificial intelligence for the college, I could mobilize more than 2 billion funds every day!" EVA shouted in a low voice. For some reason, this girl who escaped from the information world seemed to have a great prejudice against Chu Tianjiao.

The next second Lu Mingfei suddenly stood up, and this action scared her.

The guy choked slightly and his whole body was shaking.

EVA had a puzzled look on her face and pouted to see what this junior brother was trying to do.

"If I hadn't been wandering for half my life and never met my biological father, would you..." President Lu's body trembled and he burst into tears.

"Where is your moral integrity? Where is your moral integrity?" EVA interrupted the spell and stared at Lu Mingfei with wide eyes and puffed cheeks.

"Moral integrity was completely thrown away when Finkel and I were fighting over the same pickled cabbage and pork elbow." Lu Mingfei was filled with righteous indignation.

"Besides, who are you? Why are you trying to stop us from meeting? Are you trying to steal my $900 million deposit in a Zurich bank?"

“I say, junior brother, where is your cleverness when you were hooking up with your girlfriends? What’s wrong? Can’t you see that Chu Tianjiao is just a 3D projection? It’s just a video plus a simple artificial intelligence composed of images of the past. Can you just bow down and acknowledge a thief as your father?” The senior sister said with a snort. At this time, the projection of Chu Tianjiao had stagnated like a network signal wave that was interfered with.

"I don't allow you to insult my dear father who has a deposit of 900 million US dollars!" Lu Mingfei blew his beard and glared.

"Can't you tell that those words were originally meant for Chu Zihang? It was because I activated the artificial intelligence that was still running but had lost its recognition function that this video was able to see the light of day again." EVA was a little helpless.

"Although Norma Lawrence, who was created from my spirit and soul, is also an artificial intelligence, thanks to the supercomputer of Kassel College, she can still simulate human thinking and emotions even after leaving my spirit. However, the equipment here is isolated from the outside world, and it is even more impossible for the college to spend a huge amount of money to build a supercomputer in such a place. So the Chu Tianjiao you see is just a simple video material and the lowest level of artificial intelligence."

Lu Mingfei suddenly sat back on the bed like a deflated ball.

He reached into the bedside table and rummaged around for a while, finally finding a relatively dry cigarette. He hesitated for a few seconds but did not light it, instead he held it in his mouth.

"When I entered this space, I had already hacked into the personal system of the artificial intelligence left by Chu Tianjiao. He recorded three different videos at the same time. Different people will be identified and different projections will be unlocked. The one we have unlocked now is the one that was supposed to be opened by Chu Zihang." EVA waved her hand, and the projection beams that made up the illusory Chu Tianjiao began to change irregularly. Then the man sitting there reappeared in front of them, but this time he was no longer holding a whiskey glass, but a lit cigar.

Lu Mingfei sighed, "So who did he originally leave this video for?" he asked.

"It's been many years since we last met, Angé, you old bastard. Are you here to bury me this time?" The person who answered Lu Mingfei's question was Chu Tianjiao.

The answer is already obvious.

Lu Mingfei was not surprised.

If Chu Tianjiao had already anticipated his own ending, he might have left a touching projection to his son Chu Zihang under such circumstances, and told his child that he actually had a deposit of 900 million US dollars in the Zurich Bank.

As a super executive, it makes no sense for Chu Tianjiao not to leave clues that could help his only superior break the impasse.

From the fact that he would rather send his wife and children to another man than terminate the mission, it can be seen that Chu Tianjiao is a very responsible dragon slayer. He may be more philanthropic and more just than Chu Zihang imagined, but his justice is not as selfish as Caesar's.

There is no doubt that Chu Tianjiao's justice is based on the safety of the entire human race. Su Xiaoyan and Chu Zihang are just the small price he pays for justice.

Such a person would definitely leave clues for Ange no matter what, whether it was about Odin or the holy spear of destiny called Kungunir, or something in the box that looked like the bones and blood of the Black King.

It's a pity that Angers never found this place.

"I hope you can tell me the time now, old friend." Chu Tianjiao still looked down at Lu Mingfei's eyes, and he exhaled a long puff of cigar smoke.

"December 2010, 12." Lu Mingfei said softly.

"So the child has grown up safely, right? I haven't failed my mission, have I?" Chu Tianjiao turned his head. It seemed that when he filmed this video, he was not sitting in this room, but in some very open place. Because the man's pupils were reflecting the brilliant rays of light.

"Yes, he has grown up and is studying in our Kassel College." Lu Mingfei did not need to learn Ange's tone and expression. Although the EVA senior sister had obtained a human body, she seemed to be the god who dominated the information world. The simple artificial intelligence that Chu Tianjiao relied on to leave these images was like a child and had no power to resist in front of him.

"We have some questions for you." Fluorescent blue runes flowed in the girl's pupils. The runes were like binary codes in the information world, and also like the ancient texts left behind when the dragon civilization flourished thousands or tens of thousands of years ago.

"It's you, that poor kid." Chu Tianjiao nodded, but didn't look in the direction of EVA.

His expression went from soft and human to rather dull in a second.

"Your permissions are written into my repository, so you can get answers from me about any question I know of." Chu Tianjiao said.

Lu Mingfei watched in silence as Chu Tianjiao's expression changed from dull to lively.

"In your base, you used red threads to connect all the major events in history and in recent years that were suspected to be caused by the dragon clan, and finally tied a knot at the end of all the red threads. The knot was connected to a card named Nidhogg." EVA said, she returned to Lu Mingfei's side, sat down, and together with Lu Mingfei, raised their heads to look at the man who seemed to be lost in thought.

Only then did Lu Mingfei look up at the red silk threads that were densely intertwined above his head like a spider web. Cards of various sizes were tied to the threads, like bells swaying slightly in the slowly flowing air. All the threads finally converged into one place, right above Lu Mingfei's head. He only needed to stand up and reach out to take the card in his hand, on which was written the name of the Black Supreme.

"Yes, he is the originator of everything and the end of everything. Some people say that he is the restraint of history, waiting for us who are struggling to cross the river at the other side of fate, and then he will kill us one by one and build a bronze kingdom on the mountains of corpses."

"You speak so beautifully, like a wandering poet." Lu Mingfei said, "You and Chu Zihang are really different. He is not as reserved as you."

"So you have met my son. How is it? Does he have a girlfriend now?" Chu Tianjiao's expression suddenly changed again. His eyebrows raised slightly, as if he was showing off something.

Lu Mingfei was silent for a moment, then smiled.

"He's in Tokyo now, and his girlfriend is in Chicago." He didn't know why he chose to respond to the questions of a projection that had no self-emotions or self-awareness, but facing such a lifelike projection, he always had a feeling that he was really talking to the man who had sat next to this workbench and enjoyed braised large intestines and double spicy grilled chicken wings.

As expected, Chu Tianjiao did not respond to Lu Mingfei.

"What exactly do you want to do by accepting Angers' mission and wandering around this city?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"The S-rank mission 'Legacy of the Holy Dynasty' requires me to guard a black box that cannot be opened even with my authority. I don't know what's inside, and I don't have the authority to open it. But it seems that as long as I carry that box, all the revived dragons and fallen hybrids in the world will come to me. This is the reason why Su Xiaoyan and I are getting divorced."

The black box contains the Black King's bones and blood. Chu Tianjiao may not know this, but Xia Mi had lived in this city for a long time, and she could clearly feel that the thing was here.

"Where is the box?" Lu Mingfei tried hard to suppress the restlessness in his heart.

"I'm sorry, I can't tell you the answer, because I always carry that box with me. If I had already disappeared from this world when you appeared here, Ange, then that thing must have been lost in Odin's hands by now."

Damn.

If even Xia Mi can sense that thing is the Black King's bone and blood, then there is no reason why Odin, who is also a first-generation species, would remain indifferent.

"In addition, I am also responsible for another S-level mission, to protect Qiao Weini's son Lu Mingfei and ensure that he can grow up to be a dragon slayer who shoulders the fate of mankind." Chu Tianjiao said, frowning, "But he is a very gentle child, Ange, I'm serious, maybe he is not suitable to be involved in our world. We have shed enough blood to slay dragons... If you are listening, then I hope you will let him go."

Lu Mingfei was stunned.

His mouth was slightly open, as if he was gradually sinking into the comfortable plush mattress.

"This city is Odin's lair. The puppet that chased you on the day you escaped from Tokyo was attacked by Minamoto Chikōnō, Uesugi Yue, and Minamoto Chikō and was severely injured. He must be recuperating in the lair now." EVA patted Lu Mingfei on the shoulder, "Junior brother, this is a good opportunity."

Lu Mingfei lowered his eyebrows and looked at her.

"To the Nibelungen."

EVA said, "Kill Odin and take the box back." (End of this chapter)