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He flapped his wings again, and the sound of the wind like a ghost's howl echoed between heaven and earth.

"Then, Junior Sister, have you confirmed anything now?" Lu Mingfei suddenly asked.

"Yes." Xia Mi nodded with a serious expression, "The mark on your body is not from this Nibelungen, but from another one. Over the years, Odin has not used this kingdom of God that belongs directly to him to carry out any form of activities."

"has no meaning?"

"The time in this world stopped at the day when Typhoon Dandelion hit Hefei in 2005. The only thing related to my mother on the same day was that Chu Tianjiao and Chu Zihang were attacked by Odin on the elevated road." Xia Mi said softly, "That is to say, after the attack on Chu Tianjiao, something has been preventing Odin from entering his own kingdom of God."

——I heard from Chu Zihang that when Chu Tianjiao first came to this city, he was helpless, had no skills and no diploma, but relied on his superb driving skills and his ability to drink a thousand cups of wine without getting drunk to get a job as a driver for the leader in the tax bureau.

With such a low income, it was impossible to buy a decent commercial house in the city center of a big city like Hefei, so after perhaps five or seven years of wandering around renting houses, the man finally chose to settle down in the suburbs in the south of the city.

It’s the community in front of us.

There was a wire fence outside the community, with a sign above it saying "No Trespassing". It was completely different from the surrounding buildings and their layout, as if someone had just patched it up with some garbage from a building materials market and put it outside.

Everything around was both old and new. The low buildings and cast iron street lamps still maintained the architectural style of the late last century, but both the lamp posts and the building facades were so new that you could see a person's shadow. The wire mesh that completely blocked the entrance to the community was rusty, and the traces of pliers could be seen where the wires met.

"Brother, what have you thought of?" Xia Mi jumped down from Lu Mingfei's shoulder. She put her hands behind her back and jumped with her face raised. The gorgeous dress on her body was burning. The light golden flame wrapped around the girl's body like dancing mist. After the flame dissipated, the girl next door wearing rippled white socks and a bohemian-style long skirt appeared in front of Lu Mingfei.

The girl squatted down in front of the barbed wire, examined it carefully, and even poked it with her hand.

"It's a very simple alchemical matrix, made of dead metals from the Nibelungen, which can simply conceal the breath of the living." Xia Mi nodded, frowning slightly, "In our time, the half-blood thieves used a simple version of this matrix to sneak into the Nibelungen to steal the treasures of the dragon clan."

The dim light made Lu Mingfei's shadow extend from outside the barbed wire to inside the gate of the community.

Although Kassel College has set up alchemy courses, those who can truly understand the true meaning of alchemy are all in the small bell tower of teacher Flamel. Lu Mingfei can indeed be regarded as a genius-level player, but it is obvious that geniuses also have their own shortcomings. His attainments in alchemy are probably equal to that of Li Kai, a classmate who has already gone to Canada for a master's degree. Some people don't know who Li Kai is. He was President Lu's deskmate when he was studying at Shilan Middle School. He once wrote the question of how to alleviate the aging population on the high school geography test paper and received a home visit from the geography teacher.

"You mean there were living people living in this Nibelungen?" Lu Mingfei couldn't make too many expressions, because her cheeks were covered with a layer of hard bones. "Can you tell how long it has existed?"

"No, the time in the Nibelungen is dead, and there is no way to infer its existence." Xia Mi said, "But since this is where Chu Tianjiao lived in the real world, could the person hiding himself in this Nibelungen be him?"

This man was too mysterious, and Lu Mingfei was unable to refute Xia Mi's inference.

He put his arms around Xia Mi's slender waist and placed this illusory girl on his shoulders. The heavy rain that fell on his body was immediately evaporated into white steam by the high temperature on his scales. The steam enveloped them, like a giant bear in the foggy forest and the elf carried on the giant bear's shoulders.

Then Lu Mingfei stepped through the puddles that almost covered his calves, flattened the wire mesh, and walked into the old neighborhood.

Lu Mingfei was quite familiar with this place. After Chu Tianjiao and Su Xiaoyan divorced, they both went to the city center to develop, but this property was not sold to anyone else. Chu Zihang had just obtained his driver's license at that time, and he would drive a Mitsubishi car rented from outside, carrying Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang, bringing canned soda and potato chips bought in the city, and sometimes packaged spicy seafood, driving and chatting on the road, driving all the way from the city center to here.

Once, after lunch, Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang were lazily drinking iced cola from glasses, while Chu Zihang was practicing swordplay outside the balcony on the first floor, next to the pond that was always full of reeds.

At that time, Su Xiaoqiang liked to wear long dresses with suspenders. The afternoon sun shone on her round and delicate shoulders, and the girl's skin seemed to be shining with pearl-like fluorescence. The sun shone through the blinds, casting beautiful light and shadows on the waxy leaves of the balcony. Lu Mingfei was dozing on the recliner in the room, squinting his eyes to watch the buzzing electric fan blowing hot air on his body. Chu Zihang saw that Lu Mingfei was sweating profusely, so he brought in iced lemonade from outside. The three of them drove back to the city from here with straws and iced lemonade.

“If the Black King’s blood was not used by Odin, and it was placed here by Chu Tianjiao, does that mean that after putting on the mask there, Uncle Chu also briefly broke free from Odin’s control and woke up from that hypnosis-like state.” Lu Mingfei’s voice was deep and powerful. With every step he took, white mist rose under his feet. Next to the small path made of gravel was a shed made of iron sheets for storing bicycles and motorcycles. The heavy raindrops hit the roof of the iron shed with crackling sounds.

"If this is consistent with the speculation that Odin has never entered the Nibelung since 05, it means that Asgard has been completely closed to the real Odin since 05, and only Chu Tianjiao can enter here." Xia Mi said, "He has gained control of this kingdom of the dead from Odin through some unknown means."

The unit door is locked.

Lu Mingfei pushed lightly, and the lock tongue cracked, and the rusty door opened with a bang.

He took Xia Mi into the dark and damp corridor. At this moment, thunder and lightning exploded in the sky, and purple-white light illuminated the surrounding walls.

"This is all just speculation." Lu Mingfei said. With his current body size, he had to bend down to avoid hitting his head when walking in such a narrow corridor.

"We're here, Chu Zihang's original home." He said, stopping in front of a cast iron security door.

Xia Mi took a deep breath.

"I can feel my father's flesh and blood in it," she said.

Chapter 510 Pompeii

Before Lu Mingfei could even start to break down the not-so-strong door in front of him, the lock popped open silently.

There was silence in the darkness, and the sound of rain hitting the glass could be heard clearly.

Lu Mingfei did not cancel his dragon transformation. The more it got to this point, the closer the danger was. Now this place was full of gods and demons, and ordinary S-level hybrids did not even have the qualifications to set foot on the battlefield.

After crossing the entrance hall, there is an extremely spacious and bright reception room. The huge sofa and the coffee table in the middle surrounded by the sofa are covered with thick dustproof cloth. However, there is no dust accumulated on the surface of the dustproof cloth, only a thin layer of ash, as if the person living here burned something before leaving, and the ashes of those things fell like black tulip petals, all falling on the dustproof cloth. The tiles are as bright as a mirror and spotless. In the hazy skylight, Lu Mingfei can even see his own hideous reflection.

"Damn, compared to the young master's mansion, my old house outside the tenth ring road of BJ looks like a doghouse." Xia Mi yelled in a low voice.

She had never been here, but compared to her house which was converted from a switch room, this was indeed a mansion.

Perhaps the hardest life that the man who loved braised large intestines and double spicy grilled chicken wings could imagine at that time was to own a large house of more than 150 square meters in the suburbs.

Considering that Chu Tianjiao should have some prestige and power in the mixed-race society, a person of such status who could leave 1 billion US dollars in cash for Chu Zihang in the Zurich Bank certainly could not immediately step out of the roles of a super-rich man, a playboy, a girl killer and a super popular rising star at Kassel College, and immediately become a full-time driver with no special abilities, a husband and a father who fits in perfectly.

"What's on the dust cloth?" Lu Mingfei carefully controlled his steps to avoid tearing the tiles under his feet with his sharp claws.

He picked up a handful of black ashes left after something burned. It had floral patterns on it and looked like the feathers of some animal, but it collapsed at the slightest touch.

"It's the raven feathers." Xia Mi said, "Don't worry about it, go to the bedroom next to the pool. We are getting closer and closer to the Black King's bones and blood."

Lu Mingfei nodded, he carried the box of the seven deadly sins on his shoulder, and held the sky cloud cloud that was as bright as moonlight and the lust that was shining with dark golden light in his hands at the same time.

The door was also tightly closed, and there was a whistling sound of wind coming from inside.

Or maybe the sound of the wind wasn't coming from the bedroom, but was whistling outside the window.

The moment the door was pushed open, a crisp sound of charcoal breaking came from the inside, and then it collapsed into dust like the ashes that Lu Mingfei had just grabbed.

At this moment, a bolt of lightning struck vertically into the pool not far from here, illuminating the dark bedroom. There was no extra furniture in the empty room, except for a huge corpse lying in the center of the space. It was the corpse of an eight-legged horse, the flesh and blood had decayed, leaving only bronze bones, which were curled up and piled up like an altar like a throne of thorns.

The huge French window was broken, and the several-meter-long curtains were dancing wildly in the wind and rain, as if a painful dragon or snake was trying to break through the air.

A howling wind was pouring in through the window, and a torrent of rain was slanting across one side of the bedroom.

The second lightning bolt landed in almost the same place as before, and the sharp purple-white light illuminated everything around again. Now there was no need for Xia Mi to remind him, Lu Mingfei saw a black aluminum alloy box lying on the altar made of bones, with the emblem of the Half-Decayed World Tree on it.

"It's the badge of Kassel Academy." Lu Mingfei said, "Even if Odin's true identity is Pompey Gattuso, he wouldn't be so malicious as to leave traces of the academy in his lair... So this thing should belong to Chu Tianjiao."

Now all the clues have been gathered at this moment. The box contains the blood of the Black King. It once belonged to Chu Tianjiao, but was later taken away by Odin on the elevated road. But for some unknown reason, it appeared here again, as if Chu Tianjiao's ghost is still silently guarding the ultimate answer of this world. In the kingdom of God, the ghost and his dead body are playing a game of chess.

"Chu Tianjiao hides too many secrets." Xia Mi ran barefoot on the slippery tiles. She circled around the altar made of bones, then squatted down. Her little face seemed to be reflected by a faint golden light.

"After we overthrew Nidhogg's rule, we searched every corner of the world for his embryo or flesh and blood, but in the end we found nothing. The supreme being's unparalleled power seemed to have fallen... I'm really curious about where Kassel Academy got this thing from."

She stretched out her slender white fingers to touch the box, and slight golden ripples appeared on the surface of the box. Some kind of power was preventing the spiritual elements from the Dragon King from invading it.

At this moment, a deep sigh sounded between the wind and rain of heaven and earth. Lu Mingfei narrowed his eyes slightly. The light outside the broken French window made it seem like daytime.

He exhaled a stream of blue air silently and stood upright facing the sharp white light outside the window. He knew something was coming.

Sure enough, men and women as hard as rock stood in the rainstorm, wearing long windbreakers, with collars fluttering in the wind. Each of them had a golden badge on their collar, which was emitting a red flame under the direct white light. On those badges were lush world trees, and each branch of the world tree was as sharp as a thorn.

"Is it someone from the academy? Or the hound of the Gattuso family?" Xia Mi hid behind Lu Mingfei, completely forgetting that she was in a ghostly state at the moment. There was no weapon in the world that could hurt something that had no entity.

"They are not from the academy. The world tree on their badges is lush." ​​Lu Mingfei's voice was hoarse, and heavy breathing came from his mouth and nose. The panting sound was accompanied by the high temperature that drifted like a dark blue mist.

"My senior sister and I found a man-made small Nibelung in the laboratory built by Herzog under Genji Heavy Industries. We saw a similar emblem there."

In the same Nibelungen, Lu Mingfei also found Herzog's corpse, which was later confirmed to be a clone that was completely copied from the original body at the genetic level. In order to smoothly carry out the subsequent plan, Herzog directed and acted in a scene where he was executed by a powerful dark organization. The person responsible for executing him in this scene should be Friedrich von Long, who is Lin Fenglong who fled from China to Japan.

But in fact, the traitor of the Lionheart Society was like an innocent sheep compared to Herzog. He was captured shortly after arriving in Japan and used in cruel human experiments. Eventually his body was transformed into a dragon-shaped corpse. He was eventually killed by Herzog, and his bronze bones were left in the corridor leading to the small Nibelung.

Odin, Herzog, Friedrich, and even the boar Neo, they all came from the organization whose emblem is the Golden World Tree.

The fierce white light outside the window was emitted from a terrifying creature, a canine that was much larger than the North American gray wolf. Its body was covered with mottled scales, its eyes were dark gold, its facial bones were uneven, and it looked like a skeleton with shriveled skin. The muscles that stretched and tensed silently on its body were as tangled as the roots of an old tree.

Their size is beyond the range of canines and is closer to lions and tigers, and their vocal cords can make a loud sound like a whistling wind passing through a room.

This is obviously the product of genetic modification. Someone used the genes of dragon blood to modify the bodies of dogs, making them more dangerous and bloodthirsty than lions and tigers.

There is a place for the Dragon Blood Hound in the battle sequence of the academy's executive department. Professor Schneider has used similar things more than once when facing those dangerous enemies.

But this beast can be very effective against ordinary out-of-control hybrids, but it is as ridiculous as a Chihuahua when facing Lu Mingfei. Their physical strength is not even as good as that of the snake-like Deadpool, and Lu Mingfei can kill dozens of snake-like Deadpools with ease.

They have heavy metal collars around their necks, and each metal collar can instantly release high-voltage electric current when necessary, which can immediately destroy the nerve center of the dragon blood dog.

This is the technique the Academy uses to control their raging beasts.

Dozens or even hundreds of fierce dogs, crawling slightly on the ground and growling and panting, surrounded the broken French window like an iron barrel. High-powered xenon lamps were fixed on their backs, illuminating the surroundings brightly.

The figures in black windbreakers stood between the fierce dogs with their hands behind their backs and their legs apart, like soldiers enforcing orders.

“Who is behind this?” When Lu Mingfei spoke, the whole world fell silent. The dragon-blooded fierce dogs that could compete with lions for dominance on the grassland completely crawled down, with their bellies pressed against the muddy ground.

"Who do you belong to? Kassel Academy or the so-called Dark Monarch?" he asked.

He stretched out his hand, and the spirit of words unfolded silently like a furnace of heaven and earth. The black aluminum alloy box containing the bones and blood of the Black King flew into Lu Mingfei's hands as if pulled by some force.

From the moment they entered Nibelungen, a kind of insoluble fog has been surrounding them, as if no matter what activities they carry out, they are being watched by a mysterious existence.

There was applause piercing the storm from the depths of darkness, and dozens of dragon-blooded mastiffs and soldiers in black windbreakers separated along a cobblestone path.

A sound of footsteps that was neither shocking nor deep sounded from the end of the cobblestone path. At this moment, the rain that had just covered the entire Nibelungen suddenly stopped, and the air was filled with the smell of soil after the rain. "You actually know the Dark Lord? What an interesting kid." The shadow on the path became clearer and more real. Lu Mingfei slowly clenched his teeth, and the dragon-slaying sword named Lust was struggling fiercely in his hand as if it had come alive.

His voice sounded familiar, and when that handsome face, which seemed even gentle, emerged from the darkness, Lu Mingfei's pupils shrank slightly.

He was the man who had seized power from the Conspiracy from the Board of Governors and the Elders in Valhalla.

His name is Pompeo Gattuso.

At the same time he has another identity.

Odin.

The guy was wearing a white suit with a red rose on his lapel, hand-made leather shoes on his feet, and his hair was shiny. He didn't look like he was here to kill anyone. It was obvious that he was going to accept an invitation from a noble lady.

Pompey waved his hand to drive away the surrounding fierce dogs and soldiers. He stepped over the broken French window and came in front of Lu Mingfei. He waved his hand again, and a chair appeared behind him.

The moment this man appeared, a sense of crisis like a thorn in the back surged fiercely from Lu Mingfei's tailbone to the top of his head.

Xia Mi has disappeared. It is certain that Odin has devoured his brother's blood and bones, and is now the only Supreme in the world. Hela has never been born, so Xia Mi doesn't know whether the Supreme can see the spiritual element that appears beside Lu Mingfei. At this time, she can't help much, so it's better to hide.

Behind Pompey was a window soaked with rain. He frowned, slowly lit a cigar, held it in his mouth, and looked up at Lu Mingfei's scaly face.

He smoked slowly, and the smoke rose in a thin line up to the roof.

"I want to know what you know?" Pompey broke the silence after a moment.

The only response he got was a flash of sword light from top to bottom. That sword light was the line of death drawn by Ama Murakami, the sharpest blade in the world.

Lu Mingfei suddenly jumped up, hoping that he could kill the enemy with one blow with his current blood-filled state.

But Ame-kun was hanging one centimeter above Pompeii's eyebrows and could no longer move down.

He used two fingers to hold back Lu Mingfei's all-out attack.

"You don't know the difference between humans and gods yet, kid. The great restraint-level event of history is right before our eyes. I have no interest in fighting with you..."

Another ray of knife light tore through the air from the side and slashed towards Pompeii's neck.