Lu Mingfei Development Program

Chapter 199: Florence (4k)

Firenze, Florence, the capital of the Tuscany region of Italy.

"Florence..." The silent Patsy breathed a sigh of relief, as if she had finally confirmed where this place was.

Xia Mi looked at the dome-like building in the city center and said in amazement: "Could that be the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore? But why is the cathedral of Florence here?"

She recognized the dome-shaped building. It was the Florence Cathedral, which was said to be one of the five largest cathedrals in the world and a representative work of the European Renaissance. It was also the symbol of Florence during the Italian city-state period.

But how did the first harbinger of the new era, which is so famous all over the world, appear here? Or how did Florence, the pearl of Italy, appear here?
"Something is wrong." Patsy said with a frown, but she couldn't tell what was different. In short, it was a little different from the Florence she remembered.

Lu Mingfei recovered from his long silence. He didn't know that he had fallen into the Nibelung again. He turned around and said to Xia Mi and the others, "Let's go and take a look first, but be careful, it may be dangerous here."

They were now halfway up a mountain next to the city. A river flowed through the mountain and slowly flowed toward the city. On the riverbank, Xia Mi, who was walking on Lu Mingfei's shadow and whose legs and feet had probably recovered, looked sideways.

The sun in the sky had not changed since they left the underground cave, as if it was fixed. It was hard to tell whether it was the rising sun or the setting sun.

Although the sun was strange, it was warm when it shone on people. It was not as scorching as the sun in summer, but more like the warm sun that only appears on slightly cold autumn and winter days. The air was also filled with a warm feeling, which made people feel lazy inexplicably. They couldn't help thinking that it would be nice if it could go on like this forever.

The closer you get to the city, the stronger this feeling becomes.

Xia Mi couldn't help but walk happily, jumping up and down, humming a cheerful tune. Lu Mingfei listened to the song she was humming and found that it was actually "Ode to Joy".

Xia Mi hummed this religious song with unusual joy. The aho-hair on her head swayed along with the melody. Combined with her flawless face and youthful look, Lu Mingfei actually felt that this little troublemaker was actually quite adorable.

Patsy followed at the end. She no longer maintained the proper demeanor of a maid from an aristocratic family. Her expression and posture were lazy and somewhat moving. There was a flash of gold under her bangs that covered her eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

However, the better the atmosphere, the more uneasy Lu Mingfei felt. In the same Nibelungen, Sunan was full of dead air before, as if he had just experienced the end of the world, which made people feel quite depressed.

Although they had not encountered any living creatures in the Nibelungen so far, the entire Nibelungen was filled with a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere, as if it made people forget all their worries and sorrows.

It is so beautiful that one wants to go to the very center of the city, to the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, and admire the glory of God.

Lu Mingfei once again looked at the city called Florence, and he keenly noticed the difference between this city and the real Florence. Compared with the real one, it seemed a little ancient and a little sacred.

Therefore, he preferred to call it the Emerald Green provided by that broken plan.

There is a subtle sense of disharmony between this city and the surrounding area. There are seven different undulating highlands along the river, which seem to have been mountains. This Florence seems to have been built on the remains of those seven mountains after the seven mountains were removed, which looks a bit weird and disharmony.

The mountain where Lu Mingfei and his companions came out was not too far from the city, and the square city gate soon appeared in front of them. The city gate was wide open, and there was no one inside or outside the city, so naturally there was no one guarding it.

Stepping onto the somewhat quaint but clean street, Lu Mingfei looked at the neatly arranged medieval buildings on both sides, his expression somewhat dazed. He seemed to have traveled through time and space and arrived in Italy during the Renaissance. Those closed buildings seemed to be the great artists who left their names in history.

He seemed to hear singing in his ears, as if there was a choir hidden in the corner of the street, singing loudly about the beauty of the city and praising the Lord who brought beauty to the city.

Lu Mingfei bit his tongue hard to pull back his thoughts that had suddenly gone astray. He tried to cover his ears, but found that the song seemed to be heard in another way.

He said with a serious look: "Be careful, this place is very strange."

No one responded behind him, Lu Mingfei looked back and was startled. He saw Xia Mi standing on the window of a building, as if she was going to climb up. She wrapped the scarf that Chu Yuyi had given her before on her head, covering her hair and the upper half of her face, making it into a hood.

Startled, Lu Mingfei quickly pulled her back. She looked serious and said with dissatisfaction on her pretty face: "Why did you pull me back? Are you trying to test my creed?"

"What's your creed?" Lu Mingfei held her tightly, because she looked like she was about to go back to climb at any time.

Xia Mi said in an extremely serious tone: "Everything is empty, everything is permitted. I hear my faith calling me. It's time to do what we should do."

With a "knife" sound, a knife emerged from her sleeve. It was the one Lu Mingfei had given her before, but no one knew why it was hidden in her sleeve, with the blade facing outwards.

Xia Mi showed his knife and said, "The Templars thought they could control the city by killing my family, but they were wrong. I, Xia Auditore Mi, will let them know that even if the men of the Auditore family die, there are still women. Our creed will not die because of this!"

She pointed at the towering bell tower, her eyes burning with passion: "Let's go, jump down from it and test our beliefs!"

"Bang!" Lu Mingfei, expressionless, chopped her head with a knife to check if she was awake. The answer was no. This little troublemaker had long been invaded by the strange singing here, and the whole person seemed a little dizzy.

"Please be careful, Mr. Lu Mingfei, this is not the Florence I know." On the other side, Patsy put away her lazy look and said seriously, "The air here seems to have the ability to relax people's vigilance, and the singing has the ability to seduce people."

Lu Mingfei was startled again when his name was suddenly called. He looked back at Patsy and found that there were some small wounds on her hands, with a faint blood flowing out. She was holding a dagger in her other hand, as if she was regaining consciousness through the pain.

Noticing his gaze, Patsy looked down at her hands, then smiled and said to Lu Mingfei, "Please don't worry, I avoided the vital points, it won't affect the operation."

This was no longer a question of whether the shadow would affect the action. Lu Mingfei frowned as he looked at her, even putting aside the issue of being called by his name. Patsy, who had finally shown some signs of life, had returned to the state of self-harm with a blank expression, returning to the feeling of being a tool. Somehow, he didn't like this feeling.

"There's no other way. I can't think of a quicker and more convenient way than this." Patsy said helplessly, and then saw Xia Mi, who was restrained by Lu Mingfei and was still struggling and clamoring to practice the creed.

Then she said, "Miss Xia Mi seems a little confused. If you want, I can let her calm down for a while. Of course, the process may not be something you like."

"No." Lu Mingfei said, picking up Xia Mi with one hand and holding her under his arm.

Xia Mi would naturally struggle during this process, but she could only reach the three-dimensional limit of an ordinary person, so she couldn't cause any trouble. This also allowed Lu Mingfei to experience the feeling of carrying a little chicken like Chu Yuyi did before.

To Lu Mingfei, a silent Xia Mi might be cuter, but if he really wanted to make her shut up physically, he couldn't do it himself, and naturally he wouldn't let others do it.

Lu Mingfei looked at Patsy again and took off his mask. His golden eyes like the sun stared down at her silently.

Patsy's breathing seemed to pause, and there seemed to be a hint of gold in her eyes that appeared outside her bangs. The faint sound of hymns in her ears seemed to fade a little.

"Please rest assured, I won't tell anyone who I saw under this mask." Patsy suddenly spoke first, leaving Lu Mingfei at a loss for words.

Patsy looked up and said to Lu Mingfei with a smile: "My mission in Sunan is just to assist Miss Lucrecia. The tasks assigned by other families are not as high in priority as this one. Naturally, as her fiancé, you theoretically enjoy the same priority as Miss Lucrecia."

"But..." She paused here, looking at Xia Mi who was struggling under Lu Mingfei's arm and shouting to overthrow her, the Knight Templar, and said, "I promise to keep your secret, but there may be some unstable factors as to whether your identity will be leaked."

For example, a red-haired girl in Lucrecia who didn't want to reveal her name and suggested that she should not meddle in other people's business. Or, Lucrecia herself who didn't know what kind of surprises the person in front of her would bring to her.

"You don't need to worry about that. Even though she is usually very annoying with her chattering, she will be quieter than anyone else when it comes to things she doesn't want to say." Lu Mingfei glanced at Patsy and put on his mask again.

"What an enviable trust." Patsy said to him with a smile, "If you want to go to the Florence Cathedral, I think I should be able to lead the way for you."

She looked up at the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, of which only the dome could be seen behind the city, and said, "Although this is not the Florence I know, the terrain seems to be the same. I have just confirmed on the mountain that some basic routes have not changed."

Two lonely footsteps sounded on the empty wide street. After being silent for who knows how many years, Florence welcomed guests from the outside world. Lu Mingfei looked at both sides of the street in surprise. Only after entering the interior of the city did he find that this Florence was indeed very different from the Florence he had in his mind.

For example, there are metal pipes on both sides of the street connecting various shops, like some kind of energy transmission channel. You can even see ancient-looking vehicles on the roadside, but they also have similar energy transmission channels, which look quite advanced.

In short, this Florence has an inexplicable cyberpunk feel. But, in the Renaissance period of the 14th century, where did the advanced vehicles and energy pipelines come from?

Lu Mingfei glanced at Patsy in front of him again. She seemed to be surprised by this strange street scene. The faint hymns in his ears continued. Patsy did not use self-mutilation to stay awake, but her expression was a little unhappy.

Lu Mingfei didn't know whether she was surprised by the weirdness of this city or was affected by the strange and beautiful singing.

Lu Mingfei lowered his head and looked at the inexplicably quiet little troublemaker with some worry. As they got closer and closer to the church in the center, she became unusually quiet. At this moment, she closed her eyes silently, becoming a quiet and beautiful girl.

If she hadn't bared her teeth at Lu Mingfei when he pulled her eyes, Lu Mingfei would have worried that she had been physically silenced.

After crossing a certain street corner, the view in front of us suddenly opened up. This is a small square, and the majestic Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore is just opposite this small square, which is also the center of the city.

Lu Mingfei looked up. The cathedral, which was a symbol of the Renaissance, was so magnificent that she could only see it when she was in front of it. The fixed sun in the sky cast gentle sunlight, and the towering bell tower and the magnificent church were emitting halos in the sunlight, as if emitting the glory of God.

Compared to the streets outside that had been transformed, this place retained its original simple and elegant feeling. It seemed that this holy place illuminated by the light of the Lord did not need any changes, it just needed to stay like this.

Lu Mingfei stopped talking, Patsy also fell silent, and Xia Mi, who was already quiet before, became even quieter.

Suddenly, the golden color in Lu Mingfei's eyes froze, and a melodious bell sounded from the towering bell tower. The bell sounded like a welcoming bell, and also like an alarm clock, and the whole city suddenly came alive.

The sun that was frozen in the sky began to move and slowly rose into the sky. The sound of high-speed air flowing through the metal pipes of the shops on both sides of the street was heard, and white steam overflowed from the heat dissipation vents, making a slight roar.

At the same time, the hymns that were faintly ringing in their ears suddenly became louder, as if the choir that was singing continuously was right in front of them!

Patsy subconsciously raised the dagger and stabbed herself to keep herself awake. Lu Mingfei grabbed her hand and stopped her from hurting herself. His golden eyes looked at her quietly, and the golden meaning in her eyes became stronger and stronger until the hymn in her ears disappeared.

Lu Mingfei handed the already unconscious Xia Mi to Patsy and asked her to go to an alley on the side. He himself watched the church door slowly open.

"Click, click" the sound like metal feet rubbing against the ground came from behind the door, and the iron knight like a messenger from heaven appeared vaguely behind the door.

　Caught up...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)