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She was stunned for a moment, and suddenly burst into sobs.

Lu Mingfei heard Su Xiaoqiang crying quietly behind him.

He hesitated and didn't look back.

The love in that wild era many years ago was actually just a girl's fantasy about the future. She and I were not from the same world. If a girl insisted on stepping onto the devil's battlefield, she would only be courting death.

"I'm scared, brother, I'm scared..." Su Xiaoqiang sobbed, tears streaming down his face.

"They all bullied me. They all bullied me because I had no one to rely on. I was really scared..."

pat.

Lu Mingfei stopped.

He knew who Su Xiaoqiang was talking about: her relatives and veterans in the company who had seen the power vacuum and were trying their best to climb up.

He sighed and turned away.

The girl's eyes were red, all those charming expressions disappeared, leaving only the stubborn stubbornness and sadness in her eyes. Snowflakes hung on the ends of her hair, and a strand of hair was bitten tightly in her mouth.

She looked up at Lu Mingfei, and when she saw him turn around, she pursed her lips and burst into tears.

"Brother, I'm scared to be alone." She was so calm and composed before, as if she had let go of everything, but now she was crying with tears in her eyes. She stood gracefully in the snow, looking at Lu Mingfei pitifully. The hem of her plain long dress fluttered in the wind, and she looked like an iris swaying in the wind and snow.

It's strange to say, but Su Xiaoqiang knew how to control Lu Mingfei before. She would throw a tantrum and even beg in a coquettish manner. If it was something unreasonable, Lu Mingfei would not be willing to accompany her to do it. But as long as the girl showed a slightly aggrieved expression, Boss Lu would soften his heart, even if she was called out of bed in the middle of the night to ride a bike out of the city to watch the stars.

“I’m so disappointed to lose to you…” Lu Mingfei wiped away the tears from the corners of Su Xiaoqiang’s eyes with his fingers, “We’ll move here when Aunt Sophia goes abroad, but let me make it clear first, it’ll only be half a month at most. During this half month, I’ll find a friend to help you solve all the problems.”

"Senior Brother Mingfei is so nice!" Su Xiaoqiang's expression changed very quickly. Tears were still in her phoenix eyes as she looked at Lu Mingfei. Her soft arms had already embraced Lu Mingfei's arms. This girl was probably a little too proud of herself. She actually stood on tiptoe and gently touched Lu Mingfei's cheek with her lips.

Lu Mingfei was stunned.

The next moment, Su Xiaoqiang covered her face with a shy look and turned around to run away. Before running away, she put the car key of the Rolls-Royce Phantom back into Lu Mingfei's hand.

"Hey, aren't you afraid that I did something illegal outside and just ran back?" Lu Mingfei asked from behind.

"No matter how big the incident is, it happened abroad. Can the police station still send people to search my house?" Su Xiaoqiang said from a distance.

Chapter 445: The World Doesn’t Remember Them (Part )

The honorable Mr. Gattuso was pale and trembling all over, but his eyes were so hot and bright that it was as if molten steel had been poured into them.

Pompey naturally and shamelessly occupied the most prominent seat at the conference table in Valhalla. In the past hundreds of years, that position was usually occupied by the same person, whose name was Gilbert Jean Angers.

However, after the Japanese branch reported that the principal was seriously injured and temporarily placed in a life-support cabin with an extracorporeal circulation device replacing the opened heart for blood transportation, it was obvious that the college, in name only an educational institution, had fallen into a situation of leaderlessness. At this time, the seat at the conference table no longer explained anything, so let Pompey occupy it if he wanted.

Who made the Gattuso family suffer such a heavy blow this time?

Acting patriarch Frost Gattuso walked out of the Night Watch's alchemical matrix carrying a part of Norton's dragon bone cross, and used it as bait to lure Odin, who was still not sure which throne he sat on, into the trap. The moment Odin showed up, the orbital weapon called the Sword of Retribution, a supreme creation that combined technology and alchemy, was released. A full six speech spirits, Rhine, were released directly into the wilderness east of Chicago along with high-density tungsten rods that were accelerated to dozens of times the speed of sound. The elemental turbulence and geological damage caused were no different from a medium-yield nuclear explosion. Even half of Chicago's old city was devastated in this bombing. Those buildings that were built in the last century collapsed one after another in the terrifying shock wave, and the dust raised was almost hundreds of meters high.

Fortunately, the arrival of the Sword of Retribution triggered the prevention and control system deployed in Chicago. Citizens were evacuated to the maximum extent in a short period of time, and a large number of air-raid shelters built during the Cold War were utilized, so the casualties were not as serious as imagined.

This level of attack was used to kill the Dragon King. There was no chance that Frost would survive. The people from the academy conducted a carpet search of the explosion center before the Pentagon, but they could not find even a bit of human tissue. As for whether the god who was hit head-on was still alive, it was still an unknown.

In addition, the direct and indirect economic losses caused by the Sword of Retribution system owned by the Gattuso family may exceed 50 billion US dollars. The Pentagon also suspects that hostile countries are experimenting with hypersonic nuclear weapons in space and conducting test bombings on the US mainland. Now Washington is considering entering a level one combat readiness state.

If not handled properly, this matter will eventually evolve into a very serious international dispute, or even develop into a super war as large as World War II.

The only weapon in human history that could cause that kind of damage to Chicago is the nuclear bomb. The Pentagon will soon realize that its nuclear arsenal is still intact and sealed, and will naturally attribute the attack to a hostile country.

In addition to the martyrdom of the acting head of the family, there were also losses in Japan.

Caesar Gattuso, who had long been confirmed to be the next leader of Gattuso, was suspected of having a tendency to betray. In the end, when the immortals released by various families surrounded Lu Mingfei and Uesugi Eri, who was suspected to be the second generation or even the first generation, he helped them escape from the scene. All the immortals belonging to the Gattuso family were destroyed. After closing the Night Food Field, the Japanese branch immediately carried out a targeted elimination of the Gattuso family's industries in Japan and killed and imprisoned more than one hundred direct cadres, with economic losses exceeding 5 billion US dollars.

Therefore, even an old guy like Beowulf, who was completely opposed to the new generation, did not rebuke the head of the Pompeii family for his insolence.

Even someone as crazy as Pompeii would be extremely anxious at this time. His eyes were bloodshot and it was obvious that he had not slept for at least a day and a night.

"Ahem." Baroness Laurent shook the bell beside her, reminding the participants in this way that this meeting had actually been held several minutes ago. Everyone present had taken time out of their busy schedules to come to Chicago from all over the world to solve problems, not to come here to stare at each other and wait for the Bavarian chef in the cafeteria to serve them pork knuckles on the conference table.

"Why did Master Flamel refuse to participate in the meeting? Has the greatest alchemist among us completely given up on humanity?" Saint Cadmus whispered.

Compared to his appearance at the last meeting held here, the old man now looked in much worse condition. Fine, iron-blue scales had begun to grow on his cheeks, and his entire body was covered in a priest-like robe. However, it was obvious that his figure was more muscular than before, and sparse, thick scales were visible on the back of his hand placed on the table.

The Cadmus family's surname is inherited from the ancient mythological era. The unique skills that each generation of this powerful and low-key family relies on to slay dragons are actually powers borrowed from the devil.

They use extremely high concentrations of alchemical potions to enhance their bloodline, which is similar to how the descendants of Saint Beowulf use highly poisonous dragon blood to make themselves closer to pure-blooded dragons.

But whether it is taking dragon blood or using potions that can refine bloodline, very few people in history have had a good ending. The vast majority of people who dared to covet the power of the devil would eventually be dragged into the abyss by the devil. This generation of Saint Cadmus is obviously about to reach his end.

"After hearing that his good friend, Principal Angers, was seriously injured in Japan and had to use an extracorporeal circulation device to maintain his life for a long time, Professor Flamel fell into great sorrow." Charlotte Gottingen, who was young but had beautiful features, hesitated for a moment. "I heard that he fainted in the bell tower before the school board meeting and is now receiving treatment in the medical department."

The first person to express doubt was the monk-like man.

“As far as I know, even compared to ours, Master Flamel’s bloodline is definitely superior. Is it possible for someone like him to faint from crying, something that sounds unrealistic?” he said.

"I don't know. Anyway, the vice-president refused to participate in this meeting and asked us to complete the handover ceremony of the principal's position as soon as possible so that he can move into Principal Angers' office as soon as possible." said Baroness Laurent.

"Our top priority now should be how to solve the problems we are facing, rather than focusing on an old guy who is keen on pornographic films shot by cowboys and prostitutes in the American West in the 70s." Pompey's voice was hoarse, and he took a heavy breath every time he spoke, like a terminally ill old man.

This womanizing man suddenly revealed his ferocious side on this day. When he was speaking in the meeting hall of Valhalla, all the elders of the secret party had to sit up straight and listen to his opinions.

The Gattuso family, which suffered heavy losses, was like an enraged lion group, and Pompey was the leader of the lion group.

In fact, there has always been an undercurrent in this conference room, and every participant's heart is covered with a thick layer of haze.

The battle that took place in Tokyo Bay was restored by the academy's artificial intelligence using 3D deduction technology. There is evidence that Herzog von Rong, who used the alias Tachibana Masamune, succeeded in stealing part of the White King's authority after a very long period of planning, and finally embarked on the path to deification that had been coveted for thousands of years.

The newly born White King Herzog and the Yamata-no-No-Snake Izanagi who escaped from Takama-ga-hara jointly started the prelude to conquest. Their first step was to destroy Japan and establish a kingdom of gods, or dragon kingdom, on the basis of Japan, with the kingdom of the dead "Yoghurhara" as the center and radiating influence outward.

In the end, it was Kassel Academy sophomore Lu Mingfei, Xia Mi, and the head of the Uesugi family of the Yamata no Orochi family, Uesugi Eryi, who destroyed the conspiracy of Herzog and the Yamata no Orochi in Tokyo Bay.

The impact of this battle was so widespread that it reached an appalling level. Hundreds of thousands or even millions of people witnessed with their own eyes the scene where Eri Uesugi's near-miraculous words descended on the sea and destroyed the Yamata-no-Orochi.

At the same time, relevant video materials have begun to spread widely among major network platforms. However, the academy's intelligent secretary, EVA, known as the uncrowned king of information, malfunctioned at the most critical moment and fell into a state of freeze. It could not be reawakened no matter what. When the technical department rushed into the central control room and forcibly awakened EVA's surface personality Norma and shut down the wartime state to allow her to completely take over the academy's existing information advantage, those impacts had been witnessed and preserved by at least hundreds of millions of people.

In addition, the disasters that befell the Japanese archipelago and surrounding waters, which were caused by elemental turbulence and completely violated the laws of nature, are also being questioned by experts and scholars around the world. The eruption and silence of Mount Fuji are too weird, so weird that it seems as if there are really such things as gods in the world. The achievements made by human beings with all their efforts are nothing more than ashes that can be wiped away by gods.

Even though the academy and the Eight Snake Clans had joined forces to recover all dragon-related remains and residues in Tokyo Bay and downtown Tokyo as quickly as possible, the impact caused by the dragons and dragon subspecies that were summoned by Herzog and the Yamata-no-Orochi and awakened from their slumber and returned to the world could not be concealed in any way.

The alchemy zombies that escaped from the Night Food Field, the deformed subspecies that entered the Tama River from the Red Demon River and appeared in the coastal areas of Kanagawa and Tokyo, the ghost-toothed vipers that stretched for hundreds of meters like a sea of ​​stars falling into deep water, and the huge dragon-shaped corpse guards that destroyed buildings... everything was telling the world that everything they once believed in had been destroyed.

Humans are by no means the true masters of this world, and the forces of darkness are stirring.

The Great Wall of Despair, which the ancestors of the secret party spent hundreds and thousands of years to build, collapsed overnight, and all the secrets will be revealed to the public.

What the academy will face next will not only be the hatred of the dragons that have crawled out of their graves, but also the greed that is unique to humans.

No one would be willing to believe that there is another ethnic group superior to their own lurking around them. What awaits the hybrids is definitely not peaceful coexistence, but only real genocide to the death.

History has told everyone a truth through one event after another.

Not my kind...

His heart must be different.

The war is about to begin. The only reason why no bunker-buster missile has directly hit the outer wall of Kassel College is that every government in the world is still in great panic and their intelligence systems have not yet started to operate.

Once they realize that the aliens are here, in Chicago, there is no doubt that the leaders have the courage and determination, and the secret party will inevitably face a devastating blow.

When Pompey mentioned the problems faced by this academy and even the entire mixed-blood world, everyone present fell into deathly silence.

No one expected that the situation would develop to this point. In comparison, Lu Mingfei's defection seemed to be a trivial matter, even though he might be accompanied by a Dragon King using the alias Xia Mi and the most powerful and dangerous descendant of the White King in history.

"The most urgent task we are facing now is to eliminate the impact of the Tokyo incident on the entire world. No one can guarantee how other people will view us outliers when the secrets of the dragon clan are completely exposed to the eyes of ordinary people." Mr. Turing and the heads of the departments who usually do not show their faces in public also appeared in this meeting.

"It's easy to say to eliminate the impact, but why don't you tell me what I should do?" Pompey looked desperate.

In Italy, the Gattuso family is certainly the uncrowned king among the mixed-races, but it is by no means the largest owner of the means of production. Regardless of other capital consortiums and ancient families that possess huge wealth, the Italian government is not an easy task to deal with.

After the secret of the dragon clan was exposed, there was no shortage of traitors among the mixed-blood group. Soon all the governments of the world would know how many forces capable of overthrowing their rule were hidden within the territories under their jurisdiction. The French and Belgians had already given their answer in Africa. Those who had the power to resist and disobeyed their rule were all massacred.

Gattusos and others may be able to cause great harm to that country or even the world, but in the end all threats will only become inducements for the government to be determined to eradicate them.

Almost no one here is truly alone. Even those department heads who have not stepped out of the laboratory for decades have their own children and grandchildren and even an entire prosperous family.

"We have our own power in the government. Whether we choose to continue hiding or to be completely open and honest is not a dead end." said a middle-aged man who looked like Ryoma Genichirō.

He was also a school director from Sicily, the second Italian on the board of directors besides Pompey.

"If EVA was still around, we could still wage an information war to discredit all those video materials as fake, but now we only have Norma, and Norma's computing power is less than one-third of EVA's." Pompey sighed.

The mystery of EVA's death remains unsolved until now, and no one knows what happened to her.

There were no problems with the hardware and software systems, Norma was operating normally, and Mr. Turing even retested it, but EVA could not be activated.

It was as if the girl's soul had left.

Chapter 446: This World Doesn’t Remember Them (Part )

"I wonder if our Miss EVA can still be restarted and put into work, Mr. Turing." The old man with long silver-gray hair showed a peaceful smile like a priest on his face. Behind him was always the silent man in black, who was holding a narrow metal box in his hand.

The dragon slayer of this generation, St. George, is of incalculable age. There is evidence that this man has been active in Kent, England since 1867. At that time, the revived dragons in the whole of Europe had to remain silent in the face of the reputation of a man like St. George, otherwise they would inevitably die completely.

Faced with such a distinguished predecessor asking him questions at the conference table, even Mr. Turing, who held real power at Kassel College, had to stand up, take off his hat, and nod slightly to show respect.

"I think that with the authority of everyone here, you can easily understand where the war personality of EVA, the academy's artificial intelligence, comes from." Mr. Turing looked around, and everyone straightened their backs involuntarily, as if they were in a panic.

This is one of the ultimate secrets of the academy. It is not even stored in any form of data, but is only kept in the minds of the elders of the secret party.

"In the fall of 2001, during the Greenland Ice Sea incident, due to leadership errors by the executive department, a seven-member elite team conducting deep-sea exploration was almost wiped out, with only Fingel von Frings surviving." Mr. Turing said, "Professor von Schneider, who led the team at the time, urgently carried out the rescue mission. He encountered an unknown dragon under the sea and suffered severe injuries, but he did not see the door described by the team members during the dive, nor did he see the body. He only brought back a crystal of the Philosopher's Stone with a volume of 3.14 cubic centimeters and a weight of 21 grams. The Night Watch analyzed the Philosopher's Stone and extracted a pure spiritual element from it that was very different from that of dragons."

When the old secrets were mentioned, every elder's face was as cold as the arrival of winter.

The fifth element, "spirit", is concentrated in the bones of dragons. It can be used to refine the legendary elixir of immortality and the philosopher's stone. Ancient alchemists called it the "philosopher's stone". This mysterious crystal is a weapon that can kill the first generation. It is the ultimate achievement of alchemy and the fifth element that surpasses the four elements. The dragon kings and their descendants who master the laws of the four elements cannot give orders to this element that commands rules. It is invincible and penetrates everything.

"Its structure and resonance with the rules of this world are no less impressive than the dragon bone cross we extracted from dragon skeletons in the past. However, it does not come from a certain god, but from humans." Mr. Turing looked across the long conference table and met everyone at the table. Everyone in the room was silent.

Mentor Flamel took over the research and analysis of the Philosopher's Stone, and eventually communicated with the soul inside through powerful alchemical techniques, confirming that the Philosopher's Stone belonged to EVA. Lawrence, an A-level student who enrolled in 1999. In the system of the academy's executive department, her code name was Norma, Norma. Lawrence.

What really made almost all the top leaders of the entire secret party boil was that during the research process, Mentor Flamel actually communicated with the EVA in the Philosopher's Stone and established a stable connection.

This discovery, which was a landmark discovery in the world of hybrids, caused a commotion beyond imagination. Ancient alchemy had clear records that fluctuations of spiritual elements could be clearly observed in the bodies of humans or hybrids, but these elements could not be utilized. In layman's terms, the most intuitive manifestation was that hybrids did not have the ability to separate their spiritual core from their bodies like dragons and plant a cocoon outside their bodies that would allow them to be reborn.

For the vast majority of second-generation and above dragons that transfer their nuclei in advance and leave behind embryos, death is nothing more than a lonely long sleep. After the long sleep, they will hatch again and return to the world with their own power and strength.

The current technology and alchemical knowledge of mankind cannot explain the principle of the dragon's cocooning, but everyone knows that the reason why the dragon can cocoon is because they can transfer their own spiritual elements.

Since ancient times, how many kings have pursued eternal life, but from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to today's Windsor royal family, who can escape death?

Even if the lifespan of those powerful hybrids could reach two hundred or even three hundred years like St. George, which is unimaginable for ordinary people, how many heroes who assassinated kings and killed their kings in history died in the end?

EVA, who condenses her own spiritual elements into the Philosopher's Stone and exists in the form of a soul in a religious sense, gives hope of eternal life to the elderly who hold almost all the power and authority in the world.