Dragon Clan: Thought So Far.

The violent storm, lightning and thunder could not cover up the roar of artillery fire coming from the distant elevated road. Lu Mingfei spread his wings and soared into the sky. The world was his furnace as he flew over the city at supersonic speed. All the glass along the way shattered, and Odin, who was submerged in the fierce light in the glass, was still galloping.

Lu Mingfei calculated the time silently. Nearly half of the 90 minutes agreed upon between him and Wa was still to pass. As long as Odin's real body did not descend into this kingdom of the dead, no one could threaten him.

"Since the Black King's bones and blood are actually placed in Chu Tianjiao's residence in Nibelungen, why do we still have to come to the city?" Lu Mingfei asked.

The strong wind blew up Xia Mi's hair, and the hem of her gorgeous skirt fluttered like a wind cape hanging on Lu Mingfei's shoulders. "Confirm something, don't you think it's a bit strange, brother?" Xia Mi held her chin and stared into the distance. Outside the city were continuous mountains, and under the viaduct that stretched across the sky like a ribbon was endless farmland. The brightly lit CBD area and the desolate world outside the city seemed to be in two parallel universes.

"What's weird?"

"Have you not noticed that the city in Nibelungen is far smaller than the real world? Some old urban areas have not been demolished yet, and those newly built buildings in the past two years are still low old buildings." Xia Mi said, "This is a modified version of your hometown that still remains in your youth. Odin intercepted fragments of that time in the cracks of fate and turned it into a high-dimensional space that is difficult for humans to understand, a self-repeating Penrose staircase, and a maze that is difficult to get out of."

"It's too complicated. I thought it had always been like this."

"In fact, it is not like that. Nibelungen is actually a reflection of the real world. For example, my kingdom of God is almost identical in structure to the one below the apple orchard. Every time Nibelungen is connected to the real world, the information of the two spaces will interact. At this time, the architectural structure and layout of Nibelungen will be closer to the real world." Xia Mi said, "You can see that the layout of this city is roughly the same as it was five years ago. This means that since Chu Tianjiao's accident, Odin has never opened the door to this kingdom of the dead again."

Lu Mingfei suddenly rolled up a gust of wind forward, and he flapped his wings to keep himself high in the sky. The thunder, lightning, strong wind and heavy rain were like a painting splashed with ink. The whole world was silent and desolate, and even the rumbling sound of cannons disappeared.

But this is really strange. The elevated road is also on the south side of the city. They are heading in that direction at the moment. Logically speaking, if they can hear the roar of artillery fire in the center of the city, then it doesn't make sense that they can't capture the movement of the battlefield here.

Could it be that Lord Wa and her army were completely wiped out in just a few minutes?
Lu Mingfei had seen the fighting power of the heroes. Their scales could withstand frontal fire from small-caliber pistols or even submachine guns, but they were absolutely unable to tear through the steel barrage fired by an armored cluster.

But he didn't have the energy to think about it now. Lu Mingfei slowly turned his head and looked down from the sky at the river of light and fire that had been left behind. He silently felt his heart sink.

"How is this possible..." he whispered, "If this Nibelungen has never been opened since 2005, then how did Odin come to Kuimen, Chicago, and even Tokyo? And what on earth was that thing I just killed on the elevated road?"

Persi wearing the Odin mask gave Lu Mingfei the feeling that he was seriously injured and unable to exert his full strength. After killing him, Xia Mi confirmed that she could feel the breath of the first generation and the fluctuations of some elemental authority inside the mask.

“But when you entered this space, the Nibelung mark that belongs to Odin did not fluctuate.” Xia Mi said softly, the gold in her pupils spinning like a mandala. “It seems that we can enter here not because of the mark, but because it is accepting you... this world is accepting you.”

Lu Mingfei and Xia Mi exchanged glances, and both saw a hint of shock in each other's eyes.

Endless ravens suddenly rose into the sky from the mountains. The falling rain hit their jet-black wings and splashed into white water. Their dark golden crows' eyes were like will-o'-the-wisp fires floating in the wilderness.

Thousands of ravens silently circled around Lu Mingfei in the rainstorm, forming a black vortex. They were silent, but when their wings vibrated, it was like fragments of steel rubbing against each other.

"You've finally been fooled, ha ha, you've finally been fooled." Two hoarse voices sounded alone in the middle of the crows. Lu Mingfei spat, and the domain of heaven and earth as a furnace collapsed beside him. Then another domain that was even colder and more deadly surged around like a tide.

“Die…” The man’s low murmur merged into two short words in the air. The lengthy words could be recited by Lu Mingfei in less than a second.

Jun Yan was just a short word "broken" in Chu Zihang's mouth, while Judgment was just a light "dead" in Lu Mingfei's mouth.

The bloody smell blew silently through the sky, but this domain was so powerful that even the towering clouds in the sky were melted away to create huge holes. This breath set off a fierce gale that only spread in the domain, crushing the circling ravens like countless powerful cutting machines.

These beasts were indeed some kind of alchemical creatures or dragon subspecies with bones as hard as steel and feathers as hard as steel. However, the flesh and blood attached to their bronze bones were blown away by the mere expansion of the Realm of Judgment. Scarlet wind blew in all directions, carrying black feathers that collided like wind chimes and made a slight sound.

The realm of judgement appeared and disappeared at Lu Mingfei's command. In this realm, even the god of death had to obey his will, so thousands of black ravens were all deprived of their lives, and scattered bones fell to the ground like a rainstorm.

Ravens are Odin's messengers, and wherever they appear, death follows.

Lu Mingfei realized that he might have overlooked something, something extremely important that could potentially turn the tide of the battle.

He flapped his wings again, and the sound of the wind like a ghost's howl echoed between heaven and earth.

"Then, Junior Sister, have you confirmed anything now?" Lu Mingfei suddenly asked.

"Yes." Xia Mi nodded with a serious expression, "The mark on your body is not from this Nibelungen, but from another one. Over the years, Odin has not used this kingdom of God that belongs directly to him to carry out any form of activities."

"What's the meaning?" "The time in this world stopped at the day when Typhoon Dandelion hit Hefei in 2005. The only thing related to my mother on the same day was that Chu Tianjiao and Chu Zihang were attacked by Odin on the elevated road." Xia Mi said softly, "That is to say, after the attack on Chu Tianjiao, something has been preventing Odin from entering his own kingdom of God."

——I heard from Chu Zihang that when Chu Tianjiao first came to this city, he was helpless, had no skills and no diploma, but relied on his superb driving skills and his ability to drink a thousand cups of wine without getting drunk to get a job as a driver for the leader in the tax bureau.

With such a low income, it was impossible to buy a decent commercial house in the city center of a big city like Hefei, so after perhaps five or seven years of wandering around renting houses, the man finally chose to settle down in the suburbs in the south of the city.

It’s the community in front of us.

There was a wire fence outside the community, with a sign above it saying "No Trespassing". It was completely different from the surrounding buildings and their layout, as if someone had just patched it up with some garbage from a building materials market and put it outside.

Everything around was both old and new. The low buildings and cast iron street lamps still maintained the architectural style of the late last century, but both the lamp posts and the building facades were so new that you could see a person's shadow. The wire mesh that completely blocked the entrance to the community was rusty, and the traces of pliers could be seen where the wires met.

"Brother, what have you thought of?" Xia Mi jumped down from Lu Mingfei's shoulder. She put her hands behind her back and jumped with her face raised. The gorgeous dress on her body was burning. The light golden flame wrapped around the girl's body like dancing mist. After the flame dissipated, the girl next door wearing rippled white socks and a bohemian-style long skirt appeared in front of Lu Mingfei.

The girl squatted down in front of the barbed wire, examined it carefully, and even poked it with her hand.

"It's a very simple alchemical matrix, made of dead metals from the Nibelungen, which can simply conceal the breath of the living." Xia Mi nodded, frowning slightly, "In our time, the half-blood thieves used a simple version of this matrix to sneak into the Nibelungen to steal the treasures of the dragon clan."

The dim light made Lu Mingfei's shadow extend from outside the barbed wire to inside the gate of the community.

Although Kassel College has set up alchemy courses, those who can truly understand the true meaning of alchemy are all in the small bell tower of teacher Flamel. Lu Mingfei can indeed be regarded as a genius-level player, but it is obvious that geniuses also have their own shortcomings. His attainments in alchemy are probably equal to that of Li Kai, a classmate who has already gone to Canada for a master's degree. Some people don't know who Li Kai is. He was President Lu's deskmate when he was studying at Shilan Middle School. He once wrote the question of how to alleviate the aging population on the high school geography test paper and received a home visit from the geography teacher.

"You mean there were living people living in this Nibelungen?" Lu Mingfei couldn't make too many expressions, because her cheeks were covered with a layer of hard bones. "Can you tell how long it has existed?"

"No, the time in the Nibelungen is dead, and there is no way to infer its existence." Xia Mi said, "But since this is where Chu Tianjiao lived in the real world, could the person hiding himself in this Nibelungen be him?"

This man was too mysterious, and Lu Mingfei was unable to refute Xia Mi's inference.

He put his arms around Xia Mi's slender waist and placed this illusory girl on his shoulders. The heavy rain that fell on his body was immediately evaporated into white steam by the high temperature on his scales. The steam enveloped them, like a giant bear in the foggy forest and the elf carried on the giant bear's shoulders.

Then Lu Mingfei stepped through the puddles that almost covered his calves, flattened the wire mesh, and walked into the old neighborhood.

Lu Mingfei was quite familiar with this place. After Chu Tianjiao and Su Xiaoyan divorced, they both went to the city center to develop, but this property was not sold to anyone else. Chu Zihang had just obtained his driver's license at that time, and he would drive a Mitsubishi car rented from outside, carrying Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang, bringing canned soda and potato chips bought in the city, and sometimes packaged spicy seafood, driving and chatting on the road, driving all the way from the city center to here.

Once, after lunch, Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang were lazily drinking iced cola from glasses, while Chu Zihang was practicing swordplay outside the balcony on the first floor, next to the pond that was always full of reeds.

At that time, Su Xiaoqiang liked to wear long dresses with suspenders. The afternoon sun shone on her round and delicate shoulders, and the girl's skin seemed to be shining with pearl-like fluorescence. The sun shone through the blinds, casting beautiful light and shadows on the waxy leaves of the balcony. Lu Mingfei was dozing on the recliner in the room, squinting his eyes to watch the buzzing electric fan blowing hot air on his body. Chu Zihang saw that Lu Mingfei was sweating profusely, so he brought in iced lemonade from outside. The three of them drove back to the city from here with straws and iced lemonade.

“If the Black King’s blood was not used by Odin, and it was placed here by Chu Tianjiao, does that mean that after putting on the mask there, Uncle Chu also briefly broke free from Odin’s control and woke up from that hypnosis-like state.” Lu Mingfei’s voice was deep and powerful. With every step he took, white mist rose under his feet. Next to the small path made of gravel was a shed made of iron sheets for storing bicycles and motorcycles. The heavy raindrops hit the roof of the iron shed with crackling sounds.

"If this is consistent with the speculation that Odin has never entered the Nibelung since 05, it means that Asgard has been completely closed to the real Odin since 05, and only Chu Tianjiao can enter here." Xia Mi said, "He has gained control of this kingdom of the dead from Odin through some unknown means."

The unit door is locked.

Lu Mingfei pushed lightly, and the lock tongue cracked, and the rusty door opened with a bang.

He took Xia Mi into the dark and damp corridor. At this moment, thunder and lightning exploded in the sky, and purple-white light illuminated the surrounding walls.

"This is all just speculation." Lu Mingfei said. With his current body size, he had to bend down to avoid hitting his head when walking in such a narrow corridor.

"We're here, Chu Zihang's original home." He said, stopping in front of a cast iron security door.

Xia Mi took a deep breath.

"I can feel my father's flesh and blood in it," she said. (End of this chapter)