Dragon Clan: Thought So Far.

It was snowing heavily, and the cold lights in Valhalla were reflected on the shiny marble floor. The old men who held the greatest power in the world were silently exchanging glances at the table, and everyone's expression was extremely solemn.

Outside the window, the sky was full of dark clouds. The light grey clouds piled up very low, like a reversed black sea rolling against the mountains.

The executive department led by Professor Schneider has already placed the work progress of the past few days in front of every elder. They have undoubtedly read the information. Everyone wants to remain calm, but the uncontrollable twitching in the corners of their eyes betrays the huge shock in their hearts.

"One week. We spent a whole week searching the world for Lu Mingfei and the woman named Uesugi Eri." Another school director from Italy waved the documents in his hand, and the golden pupils in the deep eye sockets under the brown lenses were slowly lighting up.
"The Board of Directors and the Elders have invested more than a billion dollars in this matter. From Oslo to London to Paris to Moscow to Ulaanbaatar, executive departments in more than fifty countries have participated in the manhunt and pursuit. But until now, all we have received is a meaningless mission report. Every word between the lines seems to reveal the incompetence of the executive department."

"We are trying to restart the core program of EVA. As long as we succeed, the academy will be able to regain control of any suspicious events in every country by re-dominating the Internet." Mr. Turing said, "Norma's computing power is actually far behind the supercomputers built by mainstream countries and information powers. Even if we start upgrading the academy's intelligent secretary now, it will take at least three months to complete."

"So what about reawakening EVA? How long will it take?" St. George tapped the table with his fingers, and the crisp sound returned to Valhalla.

"I'm sorry, I'm afraid we can't give you a specific answer." Mr. Turing crossed his fingers, leaned forward slightly, and slowly shifted his gaze from St. George to the school director who had just reprimanded the executive department.

After the Industrial Revolution, science and technology have grown rapidly on this planet and have become the true primary productive force in just a few decades.

This change even affected the world of mixed-bloods that were almost completely isolated from ordinary people. Great strength and astonishing wealth were no longer the only two interpretations of power. The "intellectual faction" quickly rose, such as the Flamel family that mastered the secrets of alchemy. Even the proud Gattuso family had to bow their heads in front of the Night Watchman.

Mr. Turing possesses "information". In a sense, his status in this college is no lower than that of Professor Flamel, and the same is true for any other department head.

They represent power themselves, and the board of directors cannot make them bow down.

Such things are not uncommon in the world of mixed races in the past few hundred years. Almost all the great scientists with names in history, including Einstein, Faraday, Maxwell, John Gauss and Sir Isaac Newton, are mixed races. They have sharp minds and terrifying insights far beyond ordinary people. With the strong bloodline advantage of mixed races, they are like ducks in water and walk on flat ground in the obscure scientific field. Even the mountains of disciplines that ordinary people cannot overcome are repeatedly frustrated by their day and night efforts. They have no dignity. They lead the world to progress, and they should also be respected.

"After the team we trained checked possible hardware and software issues, they unanimously confirmed that if the academy had not been attacked by some kind of cyber attack from alien technology... then the EVA might have been asleep," said Mr. Turing.

"I'm not a computer science graduate, but I know that it's impossible for a program to fall asleep, right?" Baroness Elizabeth Laurent shook the bell beside her.

The vice-president cleared his throat and said, "If it were a genuine artificial intelligence, there would be no feeling of fatigue, but we know that EVA is not a pure artificial intelligence."

There was a strange silence in Valhalla for a moment.

The Greenland coastal incident is a past event that no one, including the school board, wants to mention.

The eight best students of that generation at Kassel Academy formed an investigation team. Under the leadership of Professor Schneider, who was not yet the head of the executive department at the time, they carried out an S-level mission with documents issued directly by the school board and designated participants.

Seven students, led by EVA, entered the Nibelungen of a high-level dragon while diving, and found a door that might be an alchemical creation. If they entered, their life or death would be uncertain.

Von Schneider's lower face was completely shrunk due to an attack by a high-level dragon during a rescue dive, and the six students were buried in the icy sea.

But there is a very dark side hidden in the unknown past.

The reason for the dive was that a mysterious person with the ID of Prince on the Hunter website revealed to the Kassel Academy the remains of the copper plate engraved with the Ice Sea Remains on the seabed. While investigating the remains, the academy's diving bell accidentally detected the heartbeat of a mysterious dragon embryo.

At that time, Kassel College had never obtained a complete dragon embryo specimen. The board of directors showed great interest in Professor Schneider's discovery and urgently hoped that the executive team at that time could dive immediately to bring the embryo back from the sea and transport it to Kassel College for preservation.

The students had just carried out a near-extreme diving mission a few hours ago, relying on diving equipment to even reach the seabed 500 meters underwater. For this reason, Professor Schneider proposed delaying the capture of the dragon embryos.

But the school board responded to von Schneider almost immediately with extremely harsh words, ordering the team members to carry out the task immediately.

Then tragedy struck, and only Fingle survived because he had pleural effusion due to long-term deep-sea walking.

The top leaders of the secret party all knew that the tragedy was caused by the board of directors' error in command. Professor Schneider and those students' experience and equipment at the time were not enough for the job. Similar tasks should be handed over to more experienced specialists.

The impact of that accident was far beyond the imagination of many people. Those who participated in the operation were the best young people of that generation in the academy, but seven students including EVA died underwater. The A-level student Finkel von Frings, who did not participate in the operation, was also deeply shocked by the incident and was unable to graduate from the academy, and his authority level was continuously downgraded.

The families of the sacrificed students also jointly filed a lawsuit and protest against the college, demanding the reorganization of the board of directors. Although their demands were not met in the end, the power structure of the college began to completely shift to the president Hilbert Jean Angers from then on. The board of directors, which still had a say in the core affairs of the college, was completely expelled from the power center by the deans of departments and the two presidents. Angers acted as a dictator for a very long time afterwards.

Due to the above reasons, the Greenland Coast Incident has been a taboo in Kassel Academy for a long time. The mission report has been sealed in Norma's core archives and only the holders of the highest authority are allowed to access it.

As a result, the name EVA.Laurence also became a taboo.

"There is no evidence that the human spirit needs sleep to maintain metabolism and organ maintenance like my body does," said an elder.

“But there is no evidence to prove that our spirits don’t need to sleep, right?” The night watchman scratched his hair with a bottle of beer at hand.

The elders looked at each other in silence. They really couldn't prove whether EVA's spirit needed to sleep in order to continue working, but after losing the main personality of this artificial intelligence, Norma alone was simply not competent for the crisis that Kassel Academy needed to deal with at this time. "It really takes at least three months to update our supercomputer, right?" Miss Charlotte Gottingen said timidly.

Mr. Turing nodded slightly. "This is the shortest time," he said.

The elders fell silent.

In fact, with just Norma's computing power, it should be possible to monitor almost every camera in the world, but they got too much wrong intelligence in just one week. Obviously, even the secret party is not monolithic, and someone is secretly helping Lu Mingfei escape from Kassel Academy. At the same time, there should be information threats from the outside world, such as Kaguya of the Snake Eight Clan.

Without being able to fully utilize the Sky Eye, the secret party could obtain very little intelligence. They could not accurately locate Lu Mingfei or even determine where he was active. Was he in the United States? Or was he in China? Norma could not find him, and the academy could not find him either.

"Where is our think tank? Lu Mingfei took Uesugi Eri away from Tokyo. Don't you have any idea where he might go? The place where they disappeared was at the intersection of Kanagawa and Tokyo. The only place they could go was Tokyo Bay."

As the only person who needed to stand to attend the meeting, Professor Schneider was visibly stunned.

"Everyone here should have read Lu Mingfei's personal information more than once. After entering Kassel College, he quickly grew into a leader of the younger generation. He killed the second generation in Kuimen, Sanxia, ​​killed Norton in Six Flags in Chicago, repelled Odin in CC1000 Express, killed the King of the Earth and the Mountain in the Beijing subway, not to mention that he recently ended Herzog's attempt to steal the power of the White King." Professor Schneider said, "We really can't imagine what his motives were for betraying us, and we don't know if he had any goals when he was on the run."

The elders fell silent again.

In fact, the possibility of Lu Mingfei's betrayal is as high as the possibility of Ange choosing to join the dragon clan. His hands are stained with the blood of dragons, and his feet are on the wreckage of more than one throne. What position does he have to choose to stand with the dragon?
"Our topic is not to discuss whether Lu Mingfei is guilty, but how to hunt him down." The one who broke the silence was Pompey Gattuso, who had been silent the whole time. "Wake up EEVA, update the supercomputer, and send more specialists to hunt for Lu Mingfei worldwide."

"But after losing the help of the supercomputer, how are we supposed to find the super dragon slayer who wants to hide himself in the vast crowd?" Charlotte rang the bell.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do not forget how hard we have been chasing the scent of dragon's blood, just to kill a dragon that crawled out of the grave and could follow it all the way from Europe to Asia!" Pompeii shouted.

"We are born stronger than humans. We were able to crush the dragons in their former glory before artificial intelligence and firearms and artillery. Everyone here can run faster than Bolt, swim farther than Phelps, and have nerve reaction speeds that beat gymnastics world champions. Even traditional martial arts, boxing, and swordsmanship can surpass world-class athletes who have practiced hard for more than 20 years. If we lose everything we have now, can we no longer fight against darkness? Have you forgotten the blood shed by our ancestors?"

"I have to correct you, Mr. Gattuso. Lu Mingfei is definitely not the darkness we are fighting against. In the long history of slaying dragons, his name is enough to shine through all the history before and for thousands of years to come." Baroness Laurent raised her slender eyebrows slightly. "Besides, times have changed. When our predecessors slayed dragons all over the world, there were no airplanes or ships on Earth. Even if a dragon wanted to escape too far, it would be impossible. But now the world has changed. Lu Mingfei may be in Hong Kong today, and appear in San Francisco on the other side of the world tomorrow. Even if each of us is Spider-Man, we can't catch him."

"But in addition to this, we also control more than 50% of the political and economic lifelines of various countries. Every giant organization in the world that dominates the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people and is closely related to them, including but not limited to the World Bank, the World Wildlife Fund, the World Trade and Health Organization, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, etc., has branches established by our hybrid organization and senior leaders who can take charge of decisive matters." Pompey spread his hands in an even lazy manner.

"It can be said without hesitation that the whole world is like a shaky moth that is completely unaware that it is about to fall into the nightmare web that we have been tirelessly weaving for hundreds of years. The leader-level mixed-race organization that controls all of this is called the Secret Party. We use the half-dead and half-lush world tree as a symbol to spread dense tentacles of power to the whole world, just like the Holy Rainbow Serpent God who can manipulate the tides and water sources in the eyes of the natives. They usually live in the ancient holy springs. If they are stimulated by the residual menstrual blood of the young girl, they will immediately crawl out of the cave to stir up trouble. If a sinner appears in the local area, he will be swallowed by the cruel snake god and will never be reborn."

"We can't possibly use all our strength on searching for Lu Mingfei!" Baroness Laurent stood up suddenly, frowned, and looked down at Pompeii.

"I'm afraid you'll have to do this, Lady Laurent." Pompey smiled and slowly straightened up.

He sat quietly, leaning back slightly, against the wide back of the chair. The beam of light falling from the dome just covered him. This scene was like an emperor sitting up silently in the darkness, looking down mockingly at the helpless traitors in the court.

Everyone saw what was on Pompey Gattuso's mind.

It was a badge, a black badge that symbolized the ultimate power of the Camarilla, the World Tree badge.

Not long ago, Pompeii used the unparalleled alchemical matrix to make the whole world forget everything that happened in Tokyo, and all the logical and causal loopholes were filled in by natural disasters.

As a price, Pompey became the leader of the Secret Party.

Now, he is the emperor.

"Now, stop all unnecessary actions and tasks, and put all your strength into the pursuit of Lu Mingfei." Pompey said softly, so softly, but so coldly,
"He can kill the Dragon King. Why haven't you thought that he might be the end of this world?"
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At the same time, far away in China, Mr. Zhongyan was stamping his feet in the snow wrapped in a down jacket. The strong wind made the man's hairstyle quite messy, making it look like a small nest casually built by some bird.

Su Xiaoqiang held a class reunion in her own villa.

Lu Mingfei was waiting downstairs for Ling and Eri to pick him up.

Oh, those two girls went to the hair salon to get their hair done.

Lu Mingfei was not brought along.

According to Eri, it was to give him a surprise.

But I should be thankful as long as it wasn't a shock... Lu Mingfei thought. (End of this chapter)