Dragon Clan: Thought So Far.

"There is a sudden danger of a mudslide five kilometers ahead. The current traffic jam is expected to last 26 hours and 43 minutes. Drivers heading to Anqing, Chizhou, Tongling, and Chaohu are requested to take a detour or delay their travel plans..."

Lu Mingfei turned off the in-car radio. There were no extra vehicles on the entire expressway. In the still warm midday sun, he could see black columns of smoke rising from behind the hills in the suburbs ahead. The smoke was so heavy that even the howling wind in the wilderness could not blow it away, so it could only rise straight up into the sky, like a long black veil connecting heaven and earth, accompanied by deafening thunder.

It was some kind of extremely powerful artillery being tested before war, and the sound shook the mountains.

As early as last night, the Transportation Bureau, Highway Bureau and City Hall had issued a no-travel warning to citizens, foreign tourists and migrant workers on all channels. All roads leading to Highway 100 were blocked, and the ban was broadcast 24 hours a day at the bottom of the local news column. The nearest regiment-level units were beginning to move towards the city with strong organization and discipline. They announced to the outside world that this was an emergency military exercise of the year, and promised not to target any neighboring countries.

At this moment, Lu Mingfei felt a sense of peace in his heart. Or maybe it was not peace, but a sense of relief.

Eighteen months had passed since he first encountered Odin's spirit in a cinema in this city. The main god from the Scandinavian Peninsula was like a nightmare lingering in Lu Mingfei's soul, and its shadow followed him everywhere and could not be shaken off.

He tried his best to change his fate and to find out the truth, but the closer he got to the true face of this world, the more he was suppressed by the majesty and terror as huge as mountains. Whenever Lu Mingfei felt that he had an advantage, Odin and his puppets would emerge from the turbulent undercurrent of the long river of fate and hit him hard.

But now it's time for them to show their hand.

Master Yue, Genjitsu and the man who compared himself to a Pinta Island tortoise dealt a fatal blow to Odin's puppet in Tokyo. According to the little devil's theory, the puppet's body should contain the power that Odin had finally seized from the corpses of other supreme beings after thousands of years.

In this final game concerning the fate of the world, Lu Mingfei has never had the upper hand over Odin, but this time is different.

Lu Mingfei originally thought that he was destined to fight alone, but the appearance of Wazhu and Zhengtong made him see a glimmer of hope.

In order to completely replicate the scene when Chu Tianjiao broke into Nibelung many years ago, the local hybrids even got Lu Mingfei an identical Maybach. On the back seat of the Maybach were light and heavy weapons and ammunition that Lu Mingfei had obtained through his own channels. On the passenger seat was a box of the seven deadly sins and a weapons box that had belonged to Chu Tianjiao and was found in the basement of Media Asia Group.

Lu Mingfei took a deep puff on a cigarette, and the veins on his hands holding the steering wheel were throbbing like snakes.

He has not yet set foot on the battlefield, but the vigorously beating heart in his chest has already awakened like a mad dragon, and the hot blood is rushing to every part of his body. Every nerve is bursting with intense burning pain, and every muscle fiber is biting tightly like a taut steel cable.

The cloudless sky was filled with sunlight that seemed a little dazzling in this season. The sunlight illuminated Lu Mingfei's cheeks. The fine black scales on his cheeks grew like inflorescences.

He exhaled slowly and then exhaled slowly, and every breath seemed to suck the whole world into his lungs. This powerful Maybach was filled with the sound of strong wind.

The blood burst started directly from the second time, and the long-lost power instantly spread to every bone and every inch of Lu Mingfei's skin. At the same time, a lonely and sad soul awakened in his body. The girl with a golden crown and a trailing red dress seemed to hug him tightly from behind.

“From now on, for a thousand years, the earth will be your sword, and the mountains will be your armor.” The girl’s voice was high-spirited and proud. She was like a huge cloud, and Lu Mingfei was a chaos floating between heaven and earth. All the scales on his body cracked open, and the light that had never been foreseen by mankind since ancient times poured into his body through these cracks.

It was a torrent of lava, carrying with it intense pain and supreme authority and power that no one in the world could match.

Lu Mingfei suddenly felt that the land had become a part of his body. When he was angry, the plates squeezed each other, and the granite melted by the high temperature and high pressure deep in the crust burst out and turned into a rain of fire that filled the sky; when he roared, the earth veins raised waves tens of meters high like the tide, and the frenzy of destruction would sweep across the entire Jiangnan region within 30 minutes.

The authority of the King of Earth and Mountains was completely opened to him at this moment, and the supreme energy surged between his fingers.

"Brother, this is not the end of you." The feeling of being hugged from behind disappeared, and in Lu Mingfei's vision, Xia Mi suddenly appeared in the passenger seat next to him, with the seven deadly sins and the weapons box placed at her feet.

Lu Mingfei opened his mouth, but all that came out was a low roar.

The Maybach drove into the tunnel at this time, the strong wind whistling in his ears. When this luxury car pierced through the long shadows, what appeared in front of Lu Mingfei was actually an anti-aircraft gun array arranged in a matrix in the field.

The elevated road lies across the long river in the distance, and from a distance it looks like a strangled black dragon.

"Boy, I'll give you a rain!" After the crackling sound of electricity, the car speakers turned on automatically, and then the voice of Lord Wa echoed in the car, unprecedentedly serious and unprecedentedly cold.

At this time, the anti-aircraft guns on both sides of the road started up, and with a low roar, the position was shrouded in white smoke.

Lu Mingfei knew that those shells were not traditional rain bombs, but alchemical shells that combined the method of geomancy, that is, Chinese alchemy.

Ordinary rain bombs take 3 to 6 hours to take effect after being launched, but this type of rain bomb takes effect immediately.

Sure enough, light grey clouds immediately pushed over from the southeast, like a shadow rolling towards Lu Mingfei.

Then there was a lightning bolt that spanned the entire sky like a silver dragon, and tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of tons of water fell in the south of the city. In the pouring rain, Lu Mingfei turned on the wipers on the front windshield, and then he saw hundreds or thousands of silent figures standing neatly like sculptures on both sides of the road ahead.

They were closely spaced, standing in four rows, wearing the same military uniform. Rainwater formed small streams and slid down the brims of their hats. In the rain, everyone's back was straight like a sword pointing to the sky, and the weapons in their hands were automatic rifles that reflected a fierce light. Thousands of military boots stepped on the asphalt road that was already flooded with rain at the same frequency, making a deafening roar.

Lu Mingfei thought for a few moments that he had seen it wrong, but then he laughed at himself. In this country, everything seemed possible. It made no sense that the Wa Lord and the Zhengtong could develop such a huge force without any connection to the military. The people who appeared here were actually a real army.

Because only true soldiers can remain silent and orderly in such an environment like them.

The half-bloods call themselves geniuses, but so-called geniuses are just cannon fodder on the battlefield.

Then Lu Mingfei saw the main battle tanks lying on both sides of the road like ancient giant turtles, one after another, as if there was no end. They were moving forward in the rainstorm, wrapped in the huge water splashes rolled up by the tracks, and the fierce arrow-shaped turrets were always pointing in the direction of the elevated road. There were also piercing screams shuttling back and forth in the depths of the clouds. There was no doubt that some extremely advanced fighters were flying air-to-ground missiles in formation and circling above the rain clouds.

"You've already activated the blood burst, right? Very good, that's what you should do, because no one knows what you will face after entering Nibelungen. It's better to be prepared in advance than to be torn into pieces by an ancient zombie dragon." The interior of the car was obviously installed with some kind of monitoring equipment, which could broadcast the situation in the car to Lord Wa in real time. The little girl's voice was always echoing in Lu Mingfei's ears.

Lu Mingfei had no way to respond to her, because he had already advanced to the third level on the road to becoming a god. In this state, his physical characteristics had completely lost their human nature and were closer to that of a dragon. His vocal cords, a fragile tissue, could no longer make any human sounds after the second blood burst.

"I left my own beacon on you, or you could say the beacon of Xirang. As long as you're alive, we can continue to crack Odin's Nibelung. So your primary task this time is not to consume as much energy as possible from that space and kill enough heroes, but to escape. Keep escaping and don't let Odin find you. No one can be sure whether his holy spear of fate that can decide life and death is in the hands of this puppet." Wazhu spoke quickly.
"The Maybach you are riding in now has been modified by us. Its safety measures are no less than those of the Russian President's special car, the Aurus. When necessary, you can trigger its self-destruct mechanism, which can produce a force equivalent to that of a 600-kilogram TNT explosion. After that, you can use the modified motorcycle on the roof to continue your escape."

"Remember, survive. If you survive, you can kill him." Lord Wa hung up the voice.

Or maybe it wasn't that she hung up the call, but some powerful force cut off the car's connection with the outside world.

A branch-shaped lightning flashed in the clouds as tall as mountains, and then the sound of rain exploded in Lu Mingfei's ears. The already violent rain seemed to become even more fierce after he passed a certain boundary.

Lu Mingfei guessed correctly, the mark of Odinibelung on his body had not faded yet, and the kingdom of the dead was still an unguarded iron gate to him.

He stepped on the accelerator hard and turned on the high beam at the same time. The xenon lamps drew out two bright beams of light. The heavy rain falling in the beams were like countless iron wires connecting the sky and the earth.

Lu Mingfei grinned. He thought that many years ago, on the same road in such heavy rain, Chu Tianjiao turned onto the elevated road just to avoid the crowded road ahead, right?

The speed of the car continued to increase, 120, 140, 180, all the way to 230!

The raindrops were so dense that they looked like bullets hitting the windshield cut from bulletproof glass. Even in the short area of ​​a few dozen meters illuminated by the two xenon lamp beams, the road ahead was already white.

Lu Mingfei turned the steering wheel and stepped onto the fork in the road, which led directly to the viaduct, like a gray rainbow, leading into the white fog.

The heavy steel monsters behind him had disappeared, and when he looked back he could no longer see the anti-aircraft gun positions.

Lu Mingfei stared coldly at the gray rainbow ahead. He saw the road sign with Elevated Road No. 000 written on it.

It was indeed the place in Chu Zihang’s memory. The elevated road stretched out in front of him, as if leading to heaven, or to hell.

Lu Mingfei stepped on the accelerator again, and water walls as high as a person were splashed on both sides. After the sound of the car speakers disappeared completely, it was really silent inside. The only sounds were his heartbeat and breathing, and the sound of rain surrounding him from all directions.

The speed of the high beam seemed to be shining on a wall, but Lu Mingfei did not slow down. He saw that the wall was actually another more terrifying rain field, just behind the entrance of the elevated road. The raindrops were even shattered in the air, and the water splashed with white foam when they landed on the ground.

Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth and smiled, his face, which was already covered with fine scales, looked extremely ferocious.

That is the Nibelung and the real entrance, and there is a faint sound of thunder coming from behind.

Then the rain curtain lit up, and at the same time, the Maybach crashed into the kingdom of death like an angry rhino. Lu Mingfei heard the sound of glass breaking, and he stepped on the brakes hard. The steel beast weighing several tons and six meters long spun forward on the slippery road, and the bumper, body, and windshield were all cracking, and black blood mixed with the rain splashed out.

Many years ago, Chu Tianjiao also ran into this road of no return.

Many years later, Lu Mingfei came with his own knife and sword to kill the god.

There were pale figures all around, skinny, long and narrow, like devils crawling out of hell, and they were bathed in a rainstorm that shone with golden light like lava. The rain washed the windows of the Maybach clean in a few seconds. Lu Mingfei was still smoking his cigarette, and hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of figures were staring at him through the windows, looking down at him, just like they had stared at Chu Zihang many years ago.

Golden light shone in, and Lu Mingfei slowly exhaled a puff of smoke. His sight penetrated the army of thousands of heroes, and through the gap he saw the eight-legged horse in the distance that seemed to stand tall and upright.

The beast's face was covered with an iron mask, and lightning debris was spewing out of its eye sockets and nostrils. Lu Mingfei kicked open the car door. He never intended to escape on this elevated road.

Every Nibelung is a Penrose staircase.

The so-called Penrose Stairs means that no matter where you escape, you will eventually face your fate.

He held a long and narrow knife in his hand, and the rain flowed down the blade. The heroic spirits raised their heads, and dark golden light flowed in their eyes under the hoods.

“Logically, I should say something harsh at this time.” Lu Mingfei’s voice was very low, but he knew Odin could hear it.

He swung his sword slowly, and the dead earth elements in the space began to boil. The mountains that had always been used as a backdrop suddenly came alive. Huge, sharp thorns up to a hundred meters long grew from the mountains, then pierced through the underside of the elevated road from all directions and crisscrossed in front of Lu Mingfei.

The heroic spirits that awakened before this catastrophic force were torn into pieces in an instant.

More granite thorns crisscrossed under Lu Mingfei's feet, supporting him to rise to a height of more than ten meters. The man looked down at the god sitting astride Sleipnir, who was full of the smell of decay. The beast transformed by dragon blood was covered in shadows, and was snorting and tapping the ground with its front hooves. It and its master were still emitting a glow.

"But we all just want to kill each other, so those harsh words are meaningless." Behind Lu Mingfei, the black iron wings suddenly opened, and the rain curtain was blown away by the violent airflow, like sand flying backwards. (End of this chapter)