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"It's a bit difficult. In the power vacuum, the Secret Party has selected a new leader at the speed of light. Even if the principal returns to Kassel Academy intact, it will be difficult for him to become the leader of the Secret Party again as he did in the past." Zero said.
"I can serve as a peace ambassador between dragons and humans, and I have made great contributions to promoting bilateral relations."
"There are no innocent people in this war, nor is there any so-called justice or evil. It's just that everyone has different positions. Everyone has reached the point of a fight to the death, and no one will stop." Ling shook his head. "Humans don't trust God. They think God will want to restore the ancient glory and turn the world into their pasture. Dragons don't trust humans either, because humans are developing too fast. Maybe the next time they wake up, they will find themselves locked in a cage, guarded by super gene warriors and interstellar mechanical combat units."
Lu Mingfei listened to Ling's words while gazing at the city covered in snow. He seemed to be walking aimlessly with the girl beside him on this ancient and noisy street. Everyone was going in the opposite direction from them.
An urgent bell rang from the direction of the school. The stone-paved road seemed slippery amid the crackling snow. There were breakfast shops everywhere, with white steam rising from the front of each shop. In the distance, a bus was wobbling as it started. Looking out the window, the sleepy office workers were crowded together like a can of sardines just out of the oven, and the driver was honking the horn hard.
"After you left Shilan Middle School, this area should have been rebuilt due to government regulations, right?" Ling suddenly asked.
Lu Mingfei shook off the snow on his shoulders and looked around: "It seems to be true. The layout of the surrounding buildings is a little different from what I remember... But how did you know?"
"The road surface, this used to be a place for worship, it was crowded and narrow, and the road surface was paved with bluestone slabs. After decades of wind and rain, the slabs have become smooth, and the gaps between the slabs are almost invisible. In some places, there are grooves of varying depths but all very smooth due to the long-term presence of vendors." Ling said, "When we entered this street, the slabs under our feet were the same as I said, but there was a section of bluestone just now that was new and had traces of artificial excavation. Although it has been tried to blend in with the surroundings, the difference is still quite obvious."
Lu Mingfei was silent for a moment.
"Sometimes I think you and Senior Sister are very similar in terms of observing the details of something."
"This is why I have to be by your side. You lost both Nuonuo and Xia Mi at the same time. You must have another person calm enough to replace them." Ling said lightly.
"I think Eri is pretty calm, too."
"Think carefully about what you said. If the head of the Uesugi family knew about this, wouldn't she feel ashamed?"
Lu Mingfei sighed. In his eyes, the little monster really had a thousand and ten thousand advantages, but even if it was true that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, Lu Mingfei had to admit that Eri had nothing to do with the word calm.
Sometimes, Eri would have to squeeze into the same bed with him because she was afraid of the dark, and would look at Lu Ming with grievance and insist that he hold her in his arms while she slept. Whenever this happened, President Lu always felt guilty as if he was secretly bringing a child bride home.
Lu Mingfei considered himself a local in this wholesale market, at least he was much more familiar with it than Ling.
He and Su Xiaoqiang had eaten at almost every food stall and roadside barbecue here, and had visited every video arcade and internet cafe. But now thinking back, Lu Mingfei really felt that he was not a good person. The little girl was eager to be a little tail, of course she wanted to go to the amusement park, the cinema, and the aquarium, but she was actually taken to play Three Kingdoms and StarCraft together...
As she walked, Lu Mingfei suddenly found herself being led by Ling towards those paths. She seemed to be looking for something, but she walked very fast and didn't pay attention to the buildings on both sides. People avoided them, and great loneliness was hidden in the hustle and bustle.
"There must be a place nearby. Chu Zihang used to appear there often." Ling said.
Lu Mingfei thought that Chu Zihang was like a robot. If you didn't see him in the classroom on campus, he must be in the library or the playground. And if you walked out of the gate of Shilan Middle School, he must have met their driver.
So the place where it often appears around here is the parking lot, right?
wrong.
Lu Mingfei suddenly reacted.
"You can see the Children's Palace if you go around the Chenghuang Temple Small Commodity Wholesale Market. Chu Zihang used to practice swordplay there, practicing Japanese swordplay." His voice became serious. "Could it be that the teacher at the Children's Palace is actually a swordsman from Japan?"
"My eyes can see certain things that you can't, such as the flow direction of elements." Ling suddenly stopped in the crowd. She held Lu Mingfei's hand and looked back. Her sight gradually swept across the street, and then looked in the direction of the Children's Palace in Lu Mingfei's memory.
"It's very strange. It doesn't seem like alchemy that has only been developed by hybrids in modern times, but it is indeed a super alchemy matrix built with buildings and earth veins as the basis." Ling said softly, "When the layout of this street block was not destroyed, I am sure that there must be an alchemy matrix with unknown function near the City God Temple. Even though its structure has been destroyed now, those elements are still converging in a certain direction according to the predetermined trajectory."
Lu Mingfei couldn't help but feel horrified.
The so-called alchemical matrix is definitely not just a super defense system built with the clock tower as the core like Kassel Academy.
Some alchemical matrices have unparalleled lethality. The bronze city that emerged from the bottom of the Three Gorges was full of such alchemical crystals. However, without the king's energy infusion, most of the alchemical matrices were not activated when the academy explored the city.
Before he was 18, Lu Mingfei's outlook on life and the world were both positive to the point of being evil.
But now someone suddenly told him that there was an alchemical matrix that could kill tens of thousands of people in a few seconds at the place where he skipped classes every day to play StarCraft and buy steamed dumplings in the morning. It was really hard for him to accept.
"I guess that alchemical matrix is either related to you, or to Chu Tianjiao, or to both of you." Ling said.
Chu Tianjiao was holding a box containing the Black King's bones and blood, while Lu Mingfei was, in a sense, a weapon raised by Angé to kill the Dragon King. It was difficult to judge which of the two of them was more valuable.
"This is not good news. The power of the secret party is not enough to support them to carry out such a large-scale reconstruction of the City God Temple and the nearby blocks. This means that there must be local mixed-race forces involved in this matter. If it really has something to do with us, it means that the academy and the orthodox people have reached some kind of consensus a long time ago." Lu Mingfei frowned.
He seldom dealt with the mixed-bloods in the country, but he knew that even a small group like the school board, which was so obsessed with power, would find it difficult to extend its tentacles deep into the country.
Moreover, Ange had asserted that the five families that had received the Sky and Wind King's Cross thousands of years ago were still active in this ancient land. It was hard to imagine how powerful they were, and how terrifying they were. They were pure mixed-bloods comparable to the White King's descendants, with blood more noble than anyone else.
Perhaps among them there will be an "emperor" like Gen Chisei.
In this situation, if the secret party and the local mixed-race forces have an alliance, it will not be a good thing for Lu Mingfei.
"I am also worried about this. If our enemies include local hybrids, the situation will be very difficult."
They have seen the sign pointing to the Children's Palace.
The architectural style that seemed quite cheerful before suddenly seemed a bit solemn at this moment.
Chu Zihang told Lu Mingfei that he had studied for two years at a kendo training center called "Musashi", and that he learned all the other moves by watching kendo competition videos. It was strange that Lu Mingfei had never doubted why a wild swordsman could fight with a guy like himself who grew up under the training of a swordsman-level master, and even not lose. Angers' swordsmanship was definitely unique even in Japan, where there were many masters.
Could it be that after seeing Su Xiaoyan and Chu Zihang off, Chu Tianjiao was still using the power of the mixed-blood world to take care of them?
In fact, the teachers at that Jian Musashi Kendo Training Center are sword masters that Chu Tianjiao collected from all over the world?
"The flow of elements is so dense and so regular that it is almost forming an artificial elemental turbulence above this area. With the academy's algorithm, it is impossible to ignore this alchemical matrix with a huge risk of exposure." Ling lowered her voice and looked up. There were other voices mixed in the wind and snow.
It was a faint sound of wind coming from the sky. It was a helicopter hidden in a corner of the sky. The sound of wind and snow just happened to be its best concealment. At this moment, the thing should be landing in a certain direction of the City God Temple.
The girl raised her eyebrows and glanced at the man beside her. "Are you shocked?" Ling said, "With your eyesight, you can't even catch the silhouette of the helicopter in the sky with almost no cover at the moment."
She held Lu Mingfei's hand tightly as she spoke, and her whole body was tense.
"Why is that?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"Because the sound of that thing came from another world." Zero whispered.
"Nibelungen?" Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth.
In his understanding, there should be only one Nibelungen in this city, and that is the kingdom of Odin.
"I don't quite understand the principles of the kingdom of the dead, but that is indeed Nibelungen. It's just that the barrier between this area and that space is very weak, so the sound can be transmitted to our ears." Zero nodded.
"Is it Odin?"
"I don't know, but it is definitely related to Chu Tianjiao. I can observe the gaps of the Nibelungen. His bloodline is stronger and should be more sensitive." Ling said.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier. Lu Mingfei was anxious to find a place to shelter himself and Ling. People on the road began to run, busy returning home before the snow became so heavy that they could not move.
"Let's go to the Children's Palace first. Maybe we can learn something." Lu Mingfei said, "When my senior brother practiced sword there before, he was usually accompanied by the driver, but I guess Uncle Chu should be watching nearby."
"Sounds like a pervert who likes boys." Ling could hardly keep up with Lu Mingfei's speed, and had to hug the man next to him tightly like a koala.
It was actually not difficult to do this, and Zero was as light as a leaf.
Behind them, an old man in Tang suit was staring at the two people's backs, his eyes were red-gold.
Chapter 479: Queen Wa (2)
As Lu Mingfei ran, his heart suddenly sank.
He realized that the distance between him and the Children's Palace should have taken him five minutes to reach it at his current speed, but the wind blew round after round, and the plane trees on the roadside passed one after another, but the Children's Palace was still there, like a mountain you see on the plains, which is just a dot from a distance, and even if you ride the fastest horse for a whole day, it is still just a dot.
The hurried footsteps gradually died down, and the bustling crowd around disappeared without a trace.
Those without a strong enough bloodline were unaware of the Nibelungen's existence, and those who noticed the anomaly were left in the Nibelungen.
When the tide rises, it overflows the sandbank and submerges the reefs, and people look at it as if it is all water. When the tide ebbs, the water recedes, but the reefs are still there.
Lu Mingfei stopped on this bluestone path that suddenly became unfamiliar. He held Ling's wrist tightly, and in his other hand he had quietly grasped the handle of the lustful knife that he had drawn from his sleeve.
The sky and the ground were all white. Looking back, I couldn't see the way I came. Looking forward, I couldn't see the Children's Palace. On both sides were retro blue brick buildings with pairs of big red lanterns hanging on them. At first glance, they looked very strange in the misty snow.
With the help of the lantern light, Lu Mingfei could still vaguely see ancient murals carved on the facades of the blue brick buildings. However, they were not the kind of things like human sacrifice that often appeared in horror movies and would make people feel psychologically uncomfortable.
Instead, it is an ancient mythological story that is illustrated with pictures, such as Suiren making fire, Gonggong touching the sky, Kuafu chasing the sun, Dayi shooting down the sun...
Ancient chants were heard from all directions at the same time, not in the tunes of humans but in the language of dragons.
Lu Mingfei and Ling exchanged a glance, and the short arc blade was immediately transferred to the girl's hand. Lu Mingfei leaned over slightly and took out the crescent-shaped bone sword Ten Murasakibara that was fixed there from the calf.
Even the most slow-witted people would know that they had entered a dragon's lair hidden in the city after hearing the music chanted in dragon script.
The world of dragons is so strange, the rules of each Nibelung are completely different. Some dead kingdoms are there, and if you don't realize this, you will never find it. Once you realize that another world is growing silently around you like a vine, you will be immediately pulled into it.
The painting style here is different from that of Bronze City and Night Food Plain. It seems that there was once a tribe of ancient dragons living among the humans in this city. They gathered here and built a settlement with blue bricks and ancient tiles in their own paradise.
"This is the border between reality and fantasy. If you hold your breath and listen carefully, you can still hear the bustling voices in the wholesale market." Ling said softly. Her voice sounded like floating leaves in the wind, and Lu Mingfei could not hear it clearly.
But he still nodded and said, "There is a feeling that there are eyes everywhere and we are on a stage. All the concealment and vigilance seem like a farce to people outside the scene," he said.
When the bloodline reaches a certain level, the mixed-bloods can really feel the gazes of other people, which is a manifestation of the extreme enrichment of spiritual elements.
The secret party has not yet mastered the method of opening up the Nibelungen. The closest Angers had ever come to owning a kingdom of the dead was when he opened up the Bronze City. But the ancient city that had been dormant since time immemorial quickly fell apart after the death of its owner, collapsing along with the kingdom of the Bronze and Fire Kings, and eventually slid into the depths of the earth's crust along the newly cracked ground, and no one could find it anymore.
In view of this, most of the students who graduated from Kassel Academy actually only had a vague understanding of Nibelungen. Even though an alchemy idiot like Lu Mingfei had personally experienced many journeys to the kingdom of the dead, he still knew nothing about this illusory space.
Perhaps this really is an unknown stage, with unknown corners filled with guests, and guests coming from afar in the depths of the white snow curtain all chatting and laughing, with red-gold lava flowing in their pupils.
But the tangy aroma of beef noodle soup wafting out from nowhere slightly ruined the solemn atmosphere.
"Be careful, we are not facing an old dragon that just crawled out of the grave and can only scare people with its teeth and claws." Zero whispered.
"I know."
Before breaking into the boundary between Nibelungen and the real world, Lu Mingfei and Ling had heard the sound of helicopter rotors turning as they fell from the sky. It was obvious that this was not the abandoned paradise in the story books, but a fortress that had long been built by a local hybrid organization or a dragon hiding in the human world.
The owner here flies a helicopter over the city, which means that he is at least an "integrator" who has received modern education or has fully understood the basic logic of modern society.
A dragon that can fly a helicopter is far more dangerous than a dragon that stupidly breathes fire and wants to burn you to death. After all, how can you guarantee that he doesn't have other vehicles prepared in his lair besides helicopters?
For example, a tank or an armored vehicle or an entire reinforced armed platoon or something.
"What should we do now? Can you find a way out?" Lu Mingfei asked.
Odin's kingdom should not be of this kind of architectural style. If the god from the Scandinavian Peninsula really built his lair in such an antique style, the impact it would bring to people would undoubtedly be no less than that of encountering the Three Altars and Sea Assembly God on the streets of London, or becoming a disciple of Erlang Zhenjun in Guanjiangkou under the witness of the Pope of the Vatican.
Since it has nothing to do with Odin, Lu Mingfei doesn't want to get involved in other people's affairs.
Zero opened his platinum eyes wide and slowly took in every detail of the street he was on.
Zero had never been here before, but when the word spirit named Mirror Eye began to activate, her eyes seemed to begin to overlook the entire world.
In an instant, everything was far away from her. Only the white snow and Lu Mingfei, who stood in the snow like a reef and guarded her, remained on the long street.
When the word spirit Mirror Eye is used at full power, the user is very vulnerable, just like Nono who enters the profile state accompanied by the smell of benzoin and loses all ability to resist.
But she trusted Lu Mingfei without reservation. When she had his back, she felt like she had the whole world on her back.
The long street in the void turned into a 3D model with a light golden glow. Countless cross-sectional views poured into Zero's mind like rivers. In an instant, the entrance to the Nibelungen was analyzed thousands of times with an incredible algorithm.
Back off, back off, die!
No matter how you analyze it, the elements at the end of the road they came from have become chaotic. It has become a dangerous forbidden area. Anyone who breaks in will be torn into pieces by reality and the Nibelungen.