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Caesar quickly covered Lu Mingfei's mouth to prevent this big mouth of the King of Complaints, which had been suppressed for four years, from bursting out today.
Inside the door was a thug-like guy, wearing only a hurdle vest in the heating of a high-power central air conditioner, exposing a bulging muscle that was no less than that of Fingel, with light red hair trimmed close to his scalp, and the tattoo of the Angel of Death on his scalp was not enough to cover it, and it was still clearly visible. This guy, whose upper body looked like an enhanced version of Schwarzenegger's Terminator, held a US Army standard Ontario cavalry sword in his hand, but his lower body was only wrapped in a tight Scottish red plaid skirt, with a sexy buttocks that almost occupied the entire field of vision of Lu Mingfei and the other two.
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"Don't scream and howl! This is the Oslo branch's specialty in welcoming distinguished guests from the headquarters. The special envoys always like this activity and usually join them the next day." Caesar whispered.
Lu Mingfei covered his face, "Is mental illness really an infectious disease?"
"If we want to sneak into the YAMAL, we need these people's help. You'd better try to be infected." Chu Zihang said lightly. He had taken off his jeans and was only wearing pure black boxer shorts. He was ready to put his lower body into a red plaid skirt that didn't look like it fit him well.
They were welcomed into the real office area by the branch director. The branch director, who was also quite sturdy, had already put on his skirt and excitedly invited Lu Mingfei and the other two to join in today's carnival. Before Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang could say anything, Caesar had already agreed on their behalf.
"Two-thirds of the Oslo branch's specialists are from Scotland. You can tell by their hair color that it's very common for Scottish men to wear skirts." Caesar said, hesitantly picking up his skirt. "Let me exchange with you. Mine is a bit too big." Chu Zihang said. Caesar immediately took off his pants and put on his skirt at a speed that shocked Lu Mingfei. "Sorry you said it too late. Say it earlier next time." Caesar said.
Chu Zihang looked at Lu Mingfei again, and Lu Mingfei's Adam's apple rolled, and he followed suit.
"I'm sorry, senior brother. I will definitely switch with you next time." Lu Mingfei shouted.
Although Chu Zihang hid it well, Lu Mingfei and Caesar still saw a hole in the middle of the skirt in his hand. Chu Zihang's face became even uglier, and he was ready to accept his fate.
At this moment, the three of them's cell phones suddenly lit up. Caesar and Chu Zihang's faces changed abruptly, and they simultaneously looked down at the text message that was sent to their phones.
It was sent directly by Norma to all members of Kassel Academy. There were no requests or instructions. It was just such a short sentence, but it was shocking enough.
"The latest bounty on the Hunter Market: A dragon named Fenrir has awakened in China. Someone is recruiting hunters to try and kill him. The bounty is $100 million."
Lu Mingfei's brows suddenly frowned, but before he could do anything, another text message was sent to his mobile phone at the same time. The sender of that text message was blank. Inexplicable panic occupied Lu Mingfei's consciousness. He knew that this was the work of Lu Mingze.
"The YAMAL will dock at the Oslo port in one day. Brother, it's time to make the first important choice in your destiny."
"Do you choose this world, or..."
"Junior sister?"
It was as if the devil's laughter rang in Lu Mingfei's ears. His pupils suddenly contracted and turned into red gold like an angry dragon. The majesty and anger like a mountain and a sea almost made his blood boil.
At this moment, Oslo, which was originally sunny, suddenly began to rain heavily. The rain poured down from the sky like a lake, and it was like countless silent ravens. In each drop of rain, there was a majestic and strange golden pupil, looking at Lu Mingfei who was bowing his head and not speaking through the huge carved glass window. Those pupils were wrapped in the brilliant light, and the whole world seemed to be lit up.
Chapter 134: The Crossroads of Destiny (Subscription Request)
Endless green suddenly spread out before his eyes. The wind blowing across the wilderness approached from behind, blowing his clothes and hair forward, and finally making the green like mountains and seas in front of him surge.
It was a vast sea of trees, yet it was dead silent. No cicadas chirping or birds singing could be heard. The only sound was the rustling of leaves in the wind.
"Look, brother, this world is so quiet. It's so quiet that you can even hear what those little people in your heart are saying." The little devil, wearing a khaki sweatshirt with Doraemon's portrait printed on the chest, had his hands in his pockets and something that was probably dogtail grass in his mouth. He was wearing shorts and sneakers. He was still a very handsome little boy, as handsome as if he came out of a cartoon.
Lu Mingfei was already accustomed to Lu Mingze's mysterious appearances and the style of his appearances, so he was not surprised. He just sat down on the slightly inclined hillside, facing the sea of trees, with the soft grass under his butt.
"Can you hear what they are saying? If you can, please tell me, because I can't hear anything." Lu Mingfei reached out and touched Lu Mingze's hair, ruffling the delicate hairstyle that was probably made by a Parisian fashion stylist. Lu Mingze did not resist, but gently rubbed his head against Lu Mingfei's palm, like a little seal being stroked by a keeper.
At the end of the sea of trees, white light was falling, and the shadows of the world were slowly being dispelled. The wind suddenly stopped, and even the rustling sound of leaves disappeared. It was as peaceful and quiet as the land of the dead. "Now, brother, can you hear me?" Lu Mingze smiled sweetly.
Lu Mingfei lowered his head, and his thick eyelids cast a shadow that covered his eyes. "Lu Mingze, do you want to tell me something?" he asked softly.
“Brother, do you know that you are now standing in front of a maze created for you when a big guy in the torrent of fate rolled up a whirlpool. You have made the first choice, but every choice you make next time will be crucial. There are many BEs in the open, and you will encounter traps that lead you to those BEs, but there is still a chance to achieve the only HE.” Lu Mingze also looked towards the end of the sea of trees, seemingly just talking to himself, but Lu Mingfei could sense from looking at his profile that the little devil was clearly secretly watching him out of the corner of his eye.
As Lu Mingze spoke, he stretched out his hands and waved them gently like a conductor in the Sydney Opera House who was leading a large jazz orchestra to push their performance to a climax.
The passionate music was really played, as if it fell from the clouds torn apart by the sky. It was the Croatian Rhapsody played by Maksim Mrvica!
Dust was floating in the beams of light that fell from the gaps in the clouds. The quiet forest seemed to be really affected by the war in Croatia and immediately became boiling. The towering tree trunks shook vigorously, like countless people who had been harassed by the war were shouting and struggling. The lush and vigorous leaves withered and dried up and slowly fell. Before they touched the ground, they could no longer maintain their original appearance. With a slight crackling sound, they shattered in the air. For a moment, the whole world was enveloped by the crackling sound of shattering.
Lu Mingfei's eyes suddenly widened. When all the leaves fell, the truth appeared before his eyes. It was not a forest with no end in sight at all, but a maze made of felled trees. It was winding and complicated, as if once you got lost in it, you would never be able to get out. It reminded people of the prison where the Minotaur was imprisoned.
At the end of the maze, a sea of yellow flowers bathed in white sunlight swayed in the breeze. It was a whole field of tulips.
Lu Mingfei suddenly stood up and looked into the distance. He saw a figure in a white dress in the flower field. She was slender and lonely, with black hair dancing in the wind.
The figure seemed to be walking towards the depths of the flower field, getting farther and farther away, gradually becoming blurred, as if about to be lost in the light.
"There's someone over there, there's someone over there! Over there—" Lu Mingfei started yelling, but his voice stopped immediately. He looked at Lu Mingze fiercely, and his voice was like the low growl of a lion or tiger suppressed in his throat, "That's my junior sister, isn't it? That's my junior sister, isn't it?"
He wasn't asking Lu Mingze, he was roaring angrily.
At this time, the little devil held a black game controller in his hand and handed it to Lu Mingfei's nose. Lu Mingfei took it suspiciously. It was just an ordinary game controller. The cross direction key and ABXY function keys were intact, but the power key and pause key were missing.
"What do you mean, you want to play games at this time?" Lu Mingfei blinked.
"Let's try to see if we can get out of the maze first. Brother, you are a game master. There is no game in the world that you can't pass." Lu Mingze also blinked.
A huge fluorescent blue electronic screen appeared in front of Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze. It actually displayed the screen of a game, but the style was so simple and the lines were so rough that people couldn't help but wonder if the guy who made this game hadn't graduated from school yet.
It was a very crude maze map, with countless crooked lines that seemed to be drawn casually with a pen, interlaced and twisted to form a maze so huge that even the entire light curtain could not fit in. The character controlled by Lu Mingfei was a pixelated little man, whose appearance and height could not be seen, but he was wearing the dark green school uniform of Kassel Academy and carrying the sword box of the Seven Deadly Sins. It was obvious that he was based on Lu Mingfei.
"The rules of the game are very simple. You have to walk from the starting point to the end point within the specified time. You cannot turn back halfway. And you have a one-time skill that can blow up a section of the maze." Lu Mingze said to Lu Mingfei with a smile. Lu Mingfei's heart moved. He thought that Lu Mingze didn't make it clear. The skill of blowing up a section of the maze can actually be used four times on him, because in each transaction he only sells a quarter of his life to the devil, and he can sell it four times.
"Also, brother, I have to remind you that the Minotaur's labyrinth is not a static and inanimate object. The high walls that make up this prison are constantly moving, and you have to learn to adapt to changing circumstances. Also, on the way to the end, you may encounter things that are more attractive to you. Choosing between the end of the maze and those things is equivalent to closing a door to fate. Fate has forked the road in front of you, and once you have made a choice, the other road will of course no longer exist." The little devil suddenly became serious, with a golden light flashing in his eyes.
Lu Mingfei shuddered slowly, realizing that this was not the first time he had heard Lu Mingze talk about the crossroads of fate. In his damned and fucked-up life, he had actually had many such choices.
The first time was in the screening room on the day of the literature club's graduation party. He faced the choices of an unknown world and an ordinary life. Lu Mingfei finally chose to get in the red Ferrari with Nuonuo. Under the complicated looks of Zhao Menghua and a group of younger brothers, he rode away towards the brightly lit CBD, like a moth heading to its death.
The second time was in the Aspasia restaurant. The atmosphere was quite stylish and filled with an ambiguous air. Chen Wenwen's eyes had already begun to have a faint feeling of love growing slowly like a towering tree. Lu Mingze said that he could open the door for Lu Mingfei again. If he chose to stay, he could return to a normal life, holding hands and hugging thin waists and strolling on the tree-lined path after the rain. But Lu Mingfei chose to sit in the blue Panamera of his senior brother. He once again closed the door between him and the normal world. This door has never been opened since then.
The third time was probably on that rainy night in Tokyo that still often appears in Lu Mingfei's dreams today. He made his own choice in the wine cellar in Takamagahara, and this choice made him still hate his cowardly self to this day.
“As for games, as long as I can load the save file, there’s nothing I can’t complete!” Lu Mingfei moved his wrists and encouraged himself in his heart.
"Destiny is not a game, brother. You don't have the chance to reload the game. If you lose, you lose. You burn hope and everything just to play once. If you are willing to burn your life, it's not impossible to overturn the table. But brother, are you really willing to trade with me for my junior sister?" The little devil's voice was very bewitching. Lu Mingfei didn't say anything, but his hand holding the game controller became tighter.
Of course, destiny is not a game. If you choose, it is chosen, and if you make a wrong choice, it is wrong.
Lu Mingfei's sight began to focus on the huge light screen in front of him. Before the game started, he could slide the screen at will to find a safe way to the end, so he stretched out his hand and swiped on the light screen, finding the only happy ending from the maze of messy lines.
When Lu Mingfei's eyes swept across every corner of the game map, the vision on the screen suddenly shrank, and he could only see a very small area around the pixelated man.
"Let's start, brother. You've been watching for a long time." Lu Mingze said, spreading his hands. "It doesn't matter how long you watch, because the Minotaur Labyrinth is in constant change. If you remember a route, that route will soon become a dead end. At the end is a Chimaera that spits venom. Then the Chimaera spits venom at you, and you die." He said it lightly, but Lu Mingfei's eyes were red.
He knew that Lu Mingze would never do meaningless things for no reason, and everything he did had his own reasons.
Since the little devil said that he would soon face an important choice in his life, Lu Mingfei believed what Lu Mingze said, and he was willing to seize any opportunity and hope.
The game began with a classic Nintendo opening song. Lu Mingfei was completely focused, with a bright blue light flowing in his eyes. The light seemed to form characters of 0 and 1 that kept rolling. A huge amount of information poured into Lu Mingfei's head, and the panoramic view of the maze he had just browsed seemed to be presented in full before his eyes. The pixelated man in the dark green school uniform and carrying the seven deadly sins started running wildly in the maze, with no obstacles all the way. He didn't encounter any monsters blocking his way and didn't encounter any side events. It was as if all the difficulties and obstacles in the world had chosen to retreat when facing Lu Mingfei. He was the child of destiny, and he was the protagonist of this world.
But with a bang, the straight corridor where the pixel man was running suddenly slammed together like a metal door. Lu Mingfei didn't even have time to use his only skill, and the game failed.
“Is this game for humans to play?” Lu Mingfei yelled at Lu Mingze.
Lu Mingze looked aggrieved, "This isn't a game, brother. This is fate. Are you destined to have a catastrophe one day where a dead bird falls from the sky and you get hit and have a concussion? Does fate have to tell you about this first?"
The light screen flickered and disappeared, Lu Mingfei's hands dropped, and the game controller fell to the ground.
He felt the ground shaking and heard the roar hidden in the Croatian Rhapsody. He didn't even have to look far to see that the high wall composed of two rows of huge trees suddenly and fiercely closed together, and a thick layer of smoke and dust was raised in the thin skylight.
Everything that happens in the game is also happening in this world.
Lu Mingfei's expression and eyes didn't change much, he just watched quietly, but soon his quiet expression turned ferocious, with unspeakable anger in it!
The dazzling red-gold eyes, as dazzling as gas lamps, brightened up in front of Lu Mingze. The man who had been sitting there quietly just now suddenly became majestic and terrifying, just like an evil ghost who had walked out of hell and killed his way through heaven and then fled to the world.
The torn clouds suddenly closed, and the scattered light from the sky disappeared completely. The darkness before the rainstorm enveloped the world, and the red golden pupils in Lu Mingfei's eyes became almost the only source of light.
He slowly moved away from Lu Mingze, and his decadent rage was slowly fading away.
Lu Mingfei knew what he was angry about. He was angry about some kind of helplessness. He hated his helpless self, which was why he became like this today. But that feeling of helplessness found him again like a demon.
A black snow began to fall in this world. It was a very sad snow. The snowflakes were like raven tail feathers, dark and curved. Each snowflake was actually a completely dead tulip petal. At the moment when the game failed, the pale yellow flower field at the end of the maze started to emit low black flames. Those were not flames, but the breath of death. All the tulips were dying and then swept up to the sky by the violent wind.
Each petal is as black as burnt ash.
The wind smelled of ashes, the smell of tulips still in bloom, and the smell of blood from somewhere.
There was also a faint, familiar scent, but I couldn't remember where I had smelled it before.
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Lu Mingfei suppressed a low roar between his teeth, and Caesar and Chu Zihang, who were sitting on both sides, were awakened. Caesar, who was sitting on the inside, immediately checked on Lu Mingfei's condition, while Chu Zihang, who was sitting on the outside, got up to look for the flight attendant.
But the man who had lost all his composure suddenly opened his eyes, and it seemed as if there was blazing magma flowing in his eyes, and the depths of the magma were rendered blood-red. Caesar suddenly looked into those god-like pupils, and felt as if a knife was hanging over his heart!
Lu Mingfei realized his own gaffe and immediately lowered his head and rubbed his eyes. He did not raise his head again until the golden color in his eyes completely faded away.
His whole body was soaked in cold sweat and veins on his forehead were throbbing.
At the last second of the dream created by Lu Mingze, Lu Mingfei realized what the familiar fragrance was. It was the smell of Xia Mi, the smell of the shampoo that her junior sister often used. She was also burned to ashes along with the tulip field.
"I had a nightmare." Lu Mingfei wiped the sweat from his forehead and explained to Caesar in a low voice. It was indeed a nightmare for him.
"I see." Caesar nodded towards Lu Mingfei. The pair of fierce golden eyes just now seemed to still float in front of his eyes, and he was still a little scared.
They were flying from Oslo to China on a Boeing 747-400 large passenger plane. This flight was destined to be not peaceful because they were on a Hermes Airlines flight. This airline was owned by the college, and most of its customers were mixed-race people from all over the world. Today, the plane was almost full, with no seats left. Most of the passengers knew each other. They were wearing black windbreakers and carrying huge bags and suitcases on their backs or in their hands. Everyone was whispering to the people around them, and the air was filled with the noisy hum of voices. Everyone's eyes were faintly flowing with a faint golden color. Caesar even noticed that the golden color in the eyes of the tall German woman sitting in the seat in front of them was so strong that it was like champagne illuminated by a gas lamp!
"After the bounty for Dragon King Fenrir was posted on the hunter website, reports from more than twenty crustal movement monitoring agencies immediately confirmed the authenticity of the news. The frequency of earthquakes has increased more than thirty times in the past eighteen years, and the epicenters of most earthquakes are within urban areas. According to the records in the Ice Sea Fragments, Fenrir's throne is the earth and the mountains. He is the king who controls power and land. The frequent earthquakes may mean that the king is recovering." Caesar explained to Lu Mingfei.
After getting on the plane, Lu Mingfei quickly closed his eyes to rest, but Caesar and Chu Zihang could not be so calm. They had never really faced a Dragon King-level opponent like Lu Mingfei, so any bit of information was invaluable.
"Mr. Lu? Mr. Lu? Mr. Lu Mingfei, do you need anything?" At this time, Chu Zihang had already called the young and beautiful flight attendant. She was obviously a reserved and shy Danish girl, with silver hair cascading down like a waterfall, a slender waist and long legs. She was the most beautiful flight attendant on this flight and had attracted the attention of the men since boarding the plane. However, the Danish girl seemed to be someone who kept up with current affairs. She obviously knew Lu Mingfei, the young dragon-slaying hero who had been in the limelight in recent days. She had taken good care of the trio along the way. When she heard Mr. Chu Zihang say that the respected Mr. Lu seemed to be in a bad state, she hurried over.
Lu Mingfei smiled politely. "Excuse me, I'm fine, I just had a dream. If possible, could you please pour me a glass of ice water?" President Lu used to be the president of the student union. Although the Dragon Blood Society was only a new fraternity and its style had not yet been cultivated, the student union was an old aristocratic fraternity. The attitude towards women, especially beautiful women, was one of the most important criteria for testing the gentlemanly demeanor of the student union president.
The ice water was quickly brought over. Lu Mingfei put the glass of iced mineral water against his forehead. The chill that penetrated his bones quickly soothed the messy thoughts in his mind. Lu Mingfei exhaled deeply.
Apart from the roar of the engine, he could only hear the sharp whistling sound of the hard and sharp wings tearing through the air. Only then did Lu Mingfei begin to observe the surrounding environment carefully.
Chu Zihang and Caesar were reading a paper mission file faxed by Norma in the dim light of the reading lamp above their seats. The appearance of the suspected Dragon King Fenrir certainly attracted the attention of the academy, and the directors sent a powerful force to China. The Chinese half-bloods expressed strong dissatisfaction with this, but they still relaxed the control over the entry and exit of half-bloods.
When facing the threat of dragons, any conflicts among humans will be put aside, because this is a war between two civilizations and two races. It is a fight to the death between humans and dragons, and only the one who survives is qualified to enjoy this world.
Among the undergraduate students, Kassel College formed three three-person teams to go to China. They were Lu Mingfei and three others who were originally in Oslo. The second team was composed of A-level students Xia Mi, Nuonuo, and Ling who stayed in the college. The third team had a more complex composition, including Young Master Fingel, the former paparazzi of the Student Union and today's attendant of the Dragon Blood Society, Lancelot, the former number one figure of the Lionheart Society and today's vice president, and Susie, another vice president of the Lionheart Society.
It seems that the student union is really in decline, and Caesar is the only one who can perform well in this kind of mission.
But it is really unbelievable when you think about it, that useless dog Finkel is actually on the list of the action team. It's like the emperor summoned the Jinyiwei to secretly kill Wei Zhongxian. Everyone knows that Wei Zhongxian has many powerful men under his command, so the emperor must have summoned the top masters of the Jinyiwei. It is not surprising to see Shen Lian, Lu Jianxing and others among the masters, but His Majesty the Emperor actually stuffed Qian Qianyi, the third place winner, into it. This is very intriguing.
Of course, Tanhualang could not defeat Wei Zhongxian's lackeys, nor could he be a first-class teammate of Lu Jianxing and Shen Lian. That was because he had displeased the emperor, so the emperor sent him to die.
There are dark clouds outside the porthole, but a brightly lit city can be seen right before our eyes; that is Tianjin.
The hunter website announced an extremely high-risk mission called "Hunting Dragon King Fenrir" with a bounty of $100 million. This news was like a flood sent from heaven by God to submerge the Golden Age, and it swept the entire world in just one day.
Those big shots who had always been hiding under the iceberg woke up one after another. Their henchmen sniffed the scent of dragons and pounced on the ancient city like sharks smelling blood. Lu Mingfei could sense that there were always some eyes watching him, and those eyes came from the henchmen of those big shots.
But he sat upright, ready to meet the impact of the torrent of fate with a straight back.
A sudden rainstorm almost submerged Oslo. Lu Mingfei felt a familiar aura from the rainstorm, as if a god was looking at him through every drop of rain. A mocking laugh almost tore the boundary between the two worlds and reached his ears.