Dragon Clan: Start by obtaining the Sett panel

Chapter 103 Welcome back, Gu Ye

The sky was filled with iron blue mixed with the color of fire. A giant tree stood straight into the sky, and its dead branches extended in all directions, weaving into a dense net, supporting the cracked sky.

The wasteland was littered with dead bones. A giant black dragon was rising from the depths of the bone pile, its wings full of skulls. After spreading its huge membranous wings, it spit out black flames towards the sky.

Two scorching suns pierced the sky, and all the mixed colors were immediately driven away, leaving only dazzling gold as far as the eye could see. The giant dragon let out a shrill roar, for it turned out that the sun was its eyes.

"Huh...Huh..." Lu Mingfei suddenly woke up from the bed. Looking at the time on the alarm clock in front of him, he subconsciously wanted to get dressed, but suddenly he remembered that it was summer vacation, so he continued to lie in bed.

He took the old IBM laptop from the bedside table, rubbed his eyes and subconsciously wanted to open a game of StarCraft, but he saw the QQ window on the computer screen that was still open.

"Gu Ye seems to be coming back tomorrow at noon. Do you want to pick him up?" Su Xiaoqiang's message was still hanging there, lonely and motionless, as if waiting for Lu Mingfei's reply.

Since the last incident, Lu Mingfei has had strange dreams like this every night, always of various dragons, and he wondered if he had been infected with something dirty. But when he thought that dragons were not considered evil in China, he was not so sure, and... Western dragons should not be under the jurisdiction of China, right?
Complaints aside, these bizarre dreams reminded Lu Mingfei all the time that he was just an ordinary person, not from the same world as Gu Ye, so it was better for him to stay away from him. After all, it would be painful enough if he was affected by any battle.

But is this the end of their friendship? Looking at Su Xiaoqiang's dialog box, Lu Mingfei fell into memories.

In Lu Mingfei's memory, he was always embarrassed and cowardly, good for nothing, his parents abandoned him and ran around abroad for seven or eight years without showing up. He was fostered in his uncle's house, he was a big eater, a real foodie, his grades were not good, he only ate and slept, so pitiful that no one came to the parent-teacher meeting, probably because his uncle and aunt felt that they couldn't afford to lose him.

Even though he hated dogs and hated himself, he had a big brother who never despised him. If he hadn't been in high school, he wouldn't know how miserable he would have been. When someone bullied him, Gu Ye would be the first to stand up. When he went out to surf the Internet, Gu Ye would always pay for him. Almost everyone would call such a good big brother "godfather", right?

Looking at the alarm clock beside him, the time was nine o'clock in the morning. If it was still in time to meet up with Su Xiaoqiang, Lu Mingfei hesitated for a while and typed a line of words on the keyboard.

[I will come to you right away, and go pick up Brother Gu together]

However, just as he was about to press Enter, Lu Mingfei couldn't do it. His mind recalled the ferocious white whale in the aquarium, and he silently put his finger on the delete key.

"Brother, there's no need for you to be so hesitant." The little boy's voice suddenly sounded in his ears. Lu Mingfei turned his head and saw the figure that had not appeared for a long time appear again, this time beside his bed.

He sat on the edge of the bed, swinging his feet, a smile as if they had met after a long separation appeared on his face, and he raised one hand to greet Lu Mingfei.

"Long time no see, brother."

"What else can I do if I don't hesitate? I'm just an ordinary person who just wants to live a peaceful life." Lu Mingfei didn't ask the little boy this time. Instead, he sat down next to him. He had no one to talk to about his troubles, so he could only choose to talk to the illusion in front of him.

"You have never been ordinary, my brother...you just lacked an opportunity." The little boy sighed, stood up and walked to Lu Mingfei and stared at him.

"As long as you take the first step, you will be able to see a new world in the future, which is completely different from this world..."

"Stop joking. I don't have Brother Gu's power to kill anyone who stands in my way." Lu Mingfei no longer hesitated. He pressed the delete key to delete the message and then closed the notebook.

"You have... whatever you want, you can get it." The little boy put his hand on the laptop and looked up at Lu Mingfei's slightly sad eyes.

"Okay, it's about time for you to go, right? I want to be alone for a while." Lu Mingfei scratched his head and turned away from the little boy. It's time to wake up from the illusion, right? He still likes to daydream as much as before. In the past, when he was in class, he always thought that maybe a helicopter would come down from the sky to pick him up. A group of men in black clothes and sunglasses walked into the meeting room with the coldness of CIA agents in the movies, and said in a deep voice, Mr. Lu Mingfei, it's not time for class, the organization is calling you.

They would put on Lu Mingfei's black military uniform and long windbreaker, and escort him out of the venue under the gaze of his classmates. There might be a black helicopter roaring on the playground, and the huge rotor would stir up a strong wind, like a knife cutting the face. At that time, whether it was Chen Wenwen or Zhao Menghua, they would stop and stare blankly at their own receding backs.

But Lu Mingfei actually understood that this imagination was just a way to pass the time. He couldn't find any merits in himself to be proud of. For him, the future should be to go to an unknown university, have a relationship in college, find a job and rent a house, maybe his parents would occasionally urge him to get married when they thought of him, and then he would get married, have a child, and go to work every day.

"It seems like it will take some time, but... it will be soon, brother. You have to make a choice quickly when we meet next time..." The little boy spoke softly as he looked at Lu Mingfei who was escaping like an ostrich.

"What to choose? It's so nice to have an ordinary life like this." Lu Mingfei muttered and turned his head. Sure enough, the hallucination had disappeared. He put the notebook back on the bedside and saw a half-drunk bottle of Nutri-Express.

Lu Mingfei shook his head and closed his eyes. He decided to sleep for a while and talk about it after he woke up.

Maybe... there will never be anyone who can drink Nutri-Express with me again. Lu Mingfei wanted to cry, but he held back his tears. Everything will start over again. It will be too late to cry when he becomes that loser that everyone hates again...

On the other side, outside the airport.

Su Xiaoqiang and Xia Mi were looking at each other. She didn't expect Xia Mi to come so early.

"Are you here to pick up Gu Ye too?" Xia Mi looked at Su Xiaoqiang and spoke naturally.

"Well, Lu Mingfei and I were originally planning to come together, but he never replied to my message..." As if afraid that Xia Mi would misunderstand, Su Xiaoqiang hurriedly explained.

"I guess he slept in again? It's okay, Gu Ye won't mind." Xia Mi waved her hand without caring, and then quickly ran to the exit of the airport and hugged Gu Ye who had just appeared.

"Gu Ye! You're finally back!"

"Well, why did you come to pick me up? I would look for you when I come back anyway." Gu Ye rubbed Xia Mi's head and spoke.

"I want to give you a surprise..." Xia Mi smiled. Ever since she and Gu Ye established their relationship, she found herself becoming more and more like a human little girl.

"Look...she's here too?" Pulling Gu Ye's sleeve, Xia Mi reminded Gu Ye softly.

Only then did Gu Ye see Su Xiaoqiang. He came up to her and spoke to her.

"Thank you for picking me up, Su Xiaoqiang."

Su Xiaoqiang looked at the two intimate people in front of him, with thousands of words churning in his chest. In the end, he just said to Gu Ye in a calm tone:

"Welcome back, Gu Ye."

(End of this chapter)