Lu Mingfei Development Program

Chapter 439: Memories of the Ancient Times

Lu Mingfei knocked on the hotel door and waited for a while but there was no response. When he was about to knock for the second time, the door opened.

Seeing the person inside clearly, he was startled: "Old Tang, what's wrong with you?"

"I wanted to take a nap, but ended up sleeping until now." Rona's voice was a little hoarse. She opened the door completely and made way for someone to enter.

Lu Mingfei was about to go in, but then he paused, stepped back, and silently looked away: "...Although I know you treat me as a brother, but aren't you treating me too much like a brother?"

Rona looked at him in confusion, then looked down and suddenly realized. She had just woken up and had been sitting there staring at the rain outside, so she was still dressed the same as when she first got out of bed, a thin vest and close-fitting briefs.

She doesn't like to wear pajamas when she goes to bed. She can sleep comfortably in a simple vest and underwear. This is the case when she lives in a small rental house in New York. After all, she is alone, so it doesn't matter what she wears.

This actually wasn't that revealing. It was much better than a bikini swimsuit that only covered three points and exposed a lot of skin... Although she wanted to say that, Rona silently pulled up her vest that had been lifted up at some point to cover her exposed belly button, and pulled her panties up.

She was educated in the American way, so although she was not open enough to show her body in front of the opposite sex, she was not conservative enough to feel shy if she showed her belly button or thighs. She did this just to cover up the fact that she had a bad sleeping posture.

I forgot to mention that she sleeps very badly, so bad that sometimes she can't find her underwear when she wakes up. This time, she woke up with both of her underwear in good condition, which is very rare.

She quickly returned to the house and casually picked up a coat from the ground and put it on. Luo Na tilted her head and suddenly caught a glimpse of a petite figure behind Lu Mingfei: "Is this the junior sister you mentioned who is interested in games? Wow, so cute."

Lu Mingfei had previously sent her a message saying that a junior sister who liked video games and was very interested in the game they were playing wanted to meet her.

Rona naturally agreed happily. StarCraft is an old game. It has been online for so many years, so there is no shortage of female players. But this is still a minority after all. There is such a lovely girl who shows interest in this game. As an old player, she naturally cannot refuse.

"...Hello." Xia Mi poked half of her head out from behind Lu Mingfei, looking timid.

Lu Mingfei also had no idea what this quirky young Dragon King was thinking. He thought that a nerdy girl who loved games should be shy and introverted, but wasn’t she also a nerdy Dragon King who collected action figures?

"The room is a little messy, don't mind it." After welcoming them in, Rona laughed dryly twice, using a rather happy laugh to cover up her embarrassment.

Lu Mingfei looked down at the empty cans that had rolled away after hitting his shoes, the half-eaten takeaway box on the table, and the clothes, shoes and socks casually draped over the back of the chair...

He fell into deep thought. Only a day had passed. What had happened here?

Rona nodded, raised her thumb and smiled at Lu Mingfei, her teeth still gnashing: "Figel said that we paid a week's rent for this room in advance. I feel that if we keep it clean, then the rent will be in vain, right?"

Why do I always feel like you still have some pride? Lu Mingfei sighed in his heart.

Suddenly, he sensed something and looked up at the extremely quiet air conditioner: "Why didn't you turn on the air conditioner in such cold weather?"

Rona, who can even make a tidy room a mess, obviously has no need to save electricity for the hotel.

"Is it very cold?" Rona asked first, then she looked down at her overly cool outfit and gave an explanation that wasn't really an explanation, "Maybe it's because I experienced the blizzard in New York. I don't think it's that cold here."

Lu Mingfei glanced at her silently without asking any further questions. He turned his head to look at Xia Mi who had been sitting obediently on a chair beside her after coming in.

The latter was unusually well-behaved, with half of her face buried under her scarf. She looked quiet and gentle, not like a StarCraft player who would rush to the opponent's base by pressing the mouse keyboard. Instead, she was more suitable to spend a peaceful time in the library with a book in her hand.

The Young Dragon King still maintains her character as a timid, introverted, and homely girl.

If only it was as quiet as usual, Lu Mingfei thought to himself, and then suddenly smiled. If the Dragon King Girl wasn't noisy, his life would lose a lot of fun.

Lu Mingfei did not disturb Xia Mi. They had agreed before coming that he and Rona just needed to do their own things and she would watch it herself.

In response, Lu Mingfei had to pull Luo Na over and said that her junior sister was a little shy. But she was not a novice in the game, so they just played their own games and she would watch from the side.

Luo Na expressed some regret about this, which was quite rare. She, who usually didn't like children, was quite concerned about this junior of Lu Mingfei.

The girl's cute appearance and quiet personality might be one of the reasons why she had a good impression of her, but more importantly, it was because Rona seemed to see someone in this girl in a trance.

"After a day's rest, my condition has recovered to full. You have to be careful, the title of first place will soon be mine." Rona, who finally changed her clothes to cover her exposed belly button and large areas of thighs but was still dressed quite coolly, said her usual tough words before the game.

"Really? How about you guess how many times your base can explode?" Lu Mingfei didn't care. He had heard similar words countless times.

The human army assembled, and a large number of machine gunners and nurses rushed over, fighting and defending! Rona was delighted, and her face, which was still able to fight without makeup, showed anticipation. This was a really good start. This time she seemed to have a chance to win back a game!

She clicked the mouse very quickly, and the sound of the keyboard was like she was commanding an army. In fact, it was true. Her machine gunners killed one Zergling after another. The enemy's base was right in front of them, and the defense force was not enough for her army to touch.

The long defeat appeared in Rona's eyes. If she eliminated the base in front of her, she would stand up and sing. From then on, it was Lu Mingfei's turn to be tough with her!
Suddenly, Rona was stunned. In the army that was sweeping the Zerg, a nurse character suddenly stopped moving. She subconsciously selected the nurse, and the operation bar at the bottom of the screen showed the nurse's detailed information.

She saw that in the character's portrait frame, the model of the nurse who was supposed to charge with the human army had changed. She was no longer the cool nurse in heavy combat uniform, but a girl whose appearance could not be seen clearly.

The girl's entire face was hidden in the shadows, with only a pair of beautiful eyes with bright golden color looking at her.

In a trance, Rona heard the sound of the base being breached, but it seemed to be her own.

...The flames that ignited from the ground were spreading outward, as if they were going to engulf the entire world. For some reason, the flames were a strange blood red, as if someone's tears of blood had fallen into the fire and infected it.

The sky, reflecting the flames, was also blood red. The low clouds that seemed to be falling from the sky were rolling like flames, and sprinkled blood rain, as if trying to extinguish the flames.

But in the end, nothing happened except a layer of blood-red mist covering the sky and the earth.

The dragon covered in an iron mask tore through the mist and slammed into a mountain with flames all over its body. Its hot breath burned the enemies, and its huge body caused physical destruction to them.

However, the dragon wearing the iron mask also suffered a devastating blow.

The black light emitted from the muzzles tore apart his only remaining intact wing. His other wing had already been broken into pieces when he was in the sky, and there was no possibility for him to fly back to the sky.

The sharp swords broke his scales and cut his flesh. The wounds quickly stopped bleeding and scabbed under the flames, and then were cut open again. The intense pain almost made Iron-faced Dragon pass out, but his goal had been achieved.

More intense roars and explosions came from far behind him. This was the enemy's hinterland. Using the forbidden word spirit Rhine bestowed by the king here could effectively strike them.

The only regret is that Iron-faced Dragon himself has not left behind a cocoon for returning, and will die under the influence of the words, never to wake up again.

The king once told them that this would be a battle that would determine the fate of their race.

If they win, they will have a wider sky to fly freely. If they lose, it will be useless to leave their cocoons, as the enemy will find their cocoons one by one, pierce and tear them apart, and nail the larvae inside to the cross and burn them.

With determination and regret that he could no longer serve the king, Iron-faced Dragon triggered the forbidden words.

He took a final look at the enemy camp and was genuinely shocked by their size. With so many people, how many of those enemies behind the gate had come here?

The other kings would never have imagined the tragedy within the Nibelungen. These foreigners regarded their king as the biggest threat.

That's right, the King is the King of all metals. They are wearing iron armor and should obey the King and fight for the King. All he needs to do is give the King a little more time to crack the alchemical matrix on their armor, which is different from alchemy, and find out why they can resist the King's orders on their armor...

Unfortunately, there is no if. The alien race obviously knows the threat the king poses to them, so they have dispatched such a large number of troops, almost half of their total number, in order to stain their swords with the king's blood before the king can break their armor!

How dare they! The Iron-faced Dragon's anger turned into strength, and the blood-red flames between heaven and earth became more intense. A large number of enemies were twisting, and the exquisite and gorgeous armor was shattered in the twisting.

The Iron-faced Dragon successfully executed the last order, but unfortunately, the gap he tore was quickly filled. The battle that was destined to be tragic continued, and the damage at every moment was enough to move the two races.

"What is this?" Lu Mingfei, who suddenly appeared in a corner of the battlefield, looked at the fierce battlefield in front of him and asked the Dragon King beside him.

"It's just the resentment of a dragon servant before he turned into a spirit." The dragon king, with white hair and white clothes, almost all of which was snow-white, said softly, without a trace of regret for the dragon servant in his words.

Compared to the dragon servant who died for the king, those tall knights in gorgeous armor attracted Izanami's attention more.

Yes, it was not Xia Mi. The Dragon King beside Lu Mingfei at this moment was not Jörmungandr, the King of the Earth and Mountains, but Izanami, the High Priest of the Dragon Clan who was supposed to be imprisoned in his spirit.

Just when Xia Mi was about to peek at Rona's true form, Izanami, who was in the mental prison, suddenly sent a message to Lu Mingfei, saying that she felt an interesting mental fluctuation and that if he missed it, he might regret it for a long time.

In fact, she didn't need to remind him. Lu Mingfei, who used her spirit as the material for evolution, also felt a trace of inexplicable spiritual fluctuations. However, it was somewhat unexpected that this fluctuation did not come from Rona, but from her belongings that she had thrown around.

Lu Mingfei had curiously asked Luo Na what was in her heavy-looking boxes. She proudly said that they were naturally the bargains she had picked up when she first came to China.

Then, she showed Lu Mingfei the bronze ware from the Shang and Zhou dynasties that she had bought at a 10% discount using her bargaining skills.

Lu Mingfei silently looked at the words "Made in China" written on the bottom of the bronze artifacts, which he was too lazy to wipe off. He estimated in his mind that even if Rona bought them at a 10% discount, these bronze artifacts from last week were still not worth the price.

However, a dark, inconspicuous bronze fragment that looked like a failed smelting failure made him look at it more carefully. It was recycled metal, but it was ruined.

Rona said that she picked it up last night when she couldn't sleep and went for a stroll along the Yangtze River.

Lu Mingfei caught the mental fluctuation, and when he checked it, he found that it was not the Nibelung Key he was looking for, but just a memory from ancient times.

Back to the present, Izha's light golden eyes reflected Omega's figure. Even though there were tens of millions of years between them and even though this was just a memory, she seemed to have descended into that era in person and looked at these foreign visitors in person.

There were some remnants of Omega in the Roman Nibelung, but unfortunately she was in the early stages of awakening at that time, and was still busy leaving the means of return on the three Uesugi sisters, so she had no time to look for these things that turned the ancient times of the new world upside down.

"I see..." She said softly, "No wonder the Bronze and Fire Kings, who were given the power over metals, were unable to command them."

Even though she had been trapped in the execution ground for tens of millions of years and had lost 99% of her mental strength, she was the High Priestess of the Dragon Clan who looked down upon even the kings, so it was not surprising that she saw something.

"Power ultimately lies in strength." Izanami sighed and looked towards the end of this memory from ancient times.

There, the Queen of Bronze and Fire drew her sword, tears of blood on her face.

(End of this chapter)