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He was very worried that if he used high-level blood burst again, he might really fall into an abyss from which there was no escape.

As for the dragon transformation that can only be triggered with the help of Lu Mingze's ability, it is an even more forbidden power.

Now all Lu Mingfei can rely on are the Seven Deadly Sins, Ame no Murakami and Xia Mi's core sleeping in his body.

Lu Mingfei could feel that Xia Mi's weakness was gradually fading away. Although she was still sleeping, she could be awakened at any time.

However, the authority of Jörmungandr is also a trump card for Lu Mingfei and he cannot use it at will.

Then those dangerous experimental subjects that may still be alive in the world are also a huge threat to him.

"Maybe by the time we find Black Swan Harbor, my physical problems will have been solved. After all, it's just the blood frenzy caused by excessive use of violent blood, not a permanent sequelae." Lu Mingfei put on his clothes and stretched out an arm to Ling, "Want to take a walk around here? I see you can't sleep."

He did have some questions that he wanted answers to directly from Zero.

After hesitating for a moment, Ling reached out and held Lu Mingfei's arm.

"Okay." she said.

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"When I was in Chicago before, Mr. Henkel once told me that Angers was like a man who had made a deal with the devil. No matter how much time had passed, he still looked the same. He never got older, and it seemed that he would never brush shoulders with death." Lu Mingfei and Ling walked side by side across the gold and red carved wool carpet. There were paintings on both sides of the corridor connecting dozens of rooms. The paintings showed Elizabeth, Catherine and Peter the Great.

The roof of the corridor is covered with huge murals, the doors of the rooms on both sides are open, and the deep inside of the house is filled with charcoal-burning fireplaces. Under the warmth of the blazing fire, the entire Elizabeth Palace is as warm as spring in the bitter winter.

Under Lu Mingfei's cashmere coat was a silk nightgown that was the favorite of ancient kings and nobles. The wind came from nowhere and blew from one side of the corridor to the other, slipping into the nightgown through the collar, helping the man to calm down the restlessness in his blood.

"They all say that the principal has a flame of hatred burning in his heart." Ling said nonchalantly, "If a person wants to live in this world, he must have something to support him. The motivation can be friendship or love, but hatred may be the best fuel for the principal."

Lu Mingfei held Ling's soft arm and stood in front of a carved glass window covered with ice crystals. He looked out. The sky outside the window was covered with towering black clouds. The crowded clouds stretched from one end of the sky to the other end of the sky like the scales of some giant beast. The faint gray light seeped through the winding and dense gaps between the clouds.

Moscow in the distance was shrouded in a layer of grayish-white smog, but it was not actually smog, but snow falling at night.

Magnificent churches and gilded domes adorned this solemn city, and every building in the snow was as dim and swaying as a candle in a shrine.

After a moment, Lu Mingfei sighed: "In fact, I think what Mr. Han Gao said may not be some kind of rhetoric. Maybe the principal really has made a deal with the devil. He is the kind of guy who can give up everything for revenge. Only by staying alive and retaining a young body with the strength to continue wielding a sword can he continue to take revenge on those who killed his friends and the dragon."

Before entering Kassel Academy, Angers had been secretly monitoring Lu Mingfei. He obviously knew that Lu Mingfei was hiding some unspeakable secrets, and he had also obviously predicted that this child who looked like a cucumber that had been exposed to the sun for a long time would shine in the future dragon-slaying battlefield.

No matter in which time and space, Angers always believed in Lu Mingfei.

But his trust was without reason.

When Lu Mingfei's bloodline was first rated as S, almost everyone in the school, including the board of directors, professors, and even student clubs, thought that there was something wrong with the bloodline assessment. At that time, Lu Mingfei did not show the excellence that an S-level bloodline should have, nor did he have the ability to subvert the battlefield situation, nor did he have the leadership spirit to compete with Caesar or even crush him.

However, the principal still went against the crowd and firmly welded the S-level title onto Lu Mingfei's head.

Ange must know something, something about the little devil.

The old guy knew that even if Lu Mingfei was a complete waste, there was still a monster behind him who was able to kill the king when angry and was gnashing his teeth and sucking his blood.

Ling remained silent and did not respond to Lu Mingfei's words.

"We have known each other for more than two years, right?" Lu Mingfei smiled and looked down at Ling's profile.

In the light of the sky illuminated by the snow, Her Royal Highness the Princess is still as beautiful as ever, with facial features as delicate as if they were carved from marble.

"Yeah." Zero nodded.

The two of them walked down the stairs along the corridor, supporting each other. The first floor was also empty. Although it was not very popular, it did not seem deserted. There were fireplaces with flames burning everywhere, and every once in a while, a regular maid would come to add charcoal or firewood to these fireplaces.

In the flickering light of the fire they passed through an archway, behind which was a desk with a peacock green vase on it.

"Your appearance hasn't changed much in the past two years. It's as if time has stopped on you." Lu Mingfei sat down at the desk, took a grape from the beautifully arranged fruit plate, put it in his mouth, and chewed it slowly.

His eyelids and eyelashes drooped, half of his face was hidden in shadow, and there was a lighthearted tone in his voice, but the words he said seemed to hit Her Royal Highness directly in the heart.

Ling was stunned for a moment, and his face, which originally had little expression, slowly turned cold.

After a while, the girl sat down opposite Lu Mingfei. She also took a grape from the fruit plate, peeled it, and put it into her mouth, chewing it slowly.

Her wrists were very thin and her collarbones were very slender, but wearing that navy blue coat, her body looked extremely slender. The firelight from the fireplace danced on Ling's face, making her look like a hostess.

"I'm an adult, and the bodies of adult girls have stopped developing, so you would think that I haven't changed much." Zero said slowly.

"You're lying to me." Lu Mingfei raised his eyelids, his dark pupils staring at the cold little face so close to him.

"You said you once lived in the library of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, but that building must have burned down before 1991, right?"

Ling stared coldly into Lu Mingfei's eyes. Both of them pursed their lips, and their pupils were as cold as if it was snowing.

The two men stared at each other for a long time, flames leaping in their pitch-black eyes and platinum eyes, and their faces were expressionless, as if they would draw their weapons from their arms and pierce each other's hearts in the next second.

However, like a gust of wind blowing across a calm lake, the still oil painting suddenly shattered.

Ling put his hand on Lu Mingfei's head and ruffled his hair, as if he was stroking a seal or a puppy.

"My former name was Renata Yevgeni Chicherin, and I was born on December 1977, 12, so I'm sorry, I did deceive you." Her Royal Highness the Princess said softly.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment.

He didn't expect that the other party would so easily tell him something that should have been buried deep in his heart for the rest of his life.

"But……"

"As you can imagine, I was sent to Black Swan Port by General Vatutin and lived with the experimental subjects there for many years until the port was destroyed. Zero and I embarked on the road of escape together." Zero said, "According to the archives, Verkhoyansk Air Force Base once dispatched an air force squadron to execute the assets of Black Swan Port."

"I am the asset that was executed."

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Lu Mingfei's pupils shrank slightly. What kind of person would call himself an asset? And what kind of research institution would consider living people as assets?

"There are some things I can't explain to you, and I don't know them myself. But Black Swan Port did exist as an orphanage when it was still in operation." Ling looked silently into Lu Mingfei's eyes. "There we have our own names, and we also have another number that represents the order of entering the port. My number is very low, and most of the children with higher numbers were forced to undergo some kind of surgery to calm them down because of their rebelliousness and disobedience."

Lu Mingfei pressed his temples hard.

He had seen that kind of operation before; Herzog had performed a pontine splitting operation on the young Minamoto Chitose when he was trying to usurp the White King's power in Tokyo.

The result of this was that Genjitsu gave birth to another more paranoid and crazy personality, Ruri Kazama. Herzog, disguised as the leader of the demons, used a specific clapperboard sound to control Genjitsu's personality switching.

Lu Mingfei himself and Eri were also affected by the sound of the clappers, but after leaving Tokyo, he used the medical facilities in Xirang to conduct a comprehensive examination of himself and the little monster.

Eri's brain had indeed been tampered with, but after being baptized by the blood of the White King's fetus, it has been gradually healing. Lu Mingfei's own brain was intact, with no signs of surgery.

"The first experimental subjects in Black Swan Port were all young wild hybrids that were stranded outside the various republics at the time. However, bloody genetic experiments are not without risks. For a period of time, the consumption rate of experimental subjects increased suddenly. They conducted clinical trials in the order of their numbers. When those experimental projects were about to take my turn, the first child who died in the pontine splitting surgery reappeared beside us..."

Lu Mingfei shuddered violently.

He realized what kind of story Zero was telling.

For the children sent to Black Swan Harbor, that place is an inescapable, endlessly repetitive hell.

Herzog would conduct cruel human experiments on those disobedient children, and these human experiments would eventually kill them, but they were not really dead, because all the genes of everyone were kept in the database of Black Swan Port, and before the materials were exhausted, Herzog would re-clone the dead children and continue the next research.

"At that time, the doctor would call me little Renata. I knew how to hide myself and disguise myself as an obedient and well-behaved paper doll." Zero's eyes were deep, as if hiding a distant abyss. She placed her hands on her knees, sat up straight, and her eyelashes trembled slightly in the warm air.

"Other children would cry and yell on the first day they were sent to Black Swan Harbor. Some would even attack the medical staff who entered the iron cages where they were held... They disappeared very quickly, and when they returned to our sight, they had become plastic dolls that could neither cry nor laugh. But I never cried, and I would not make a painful expression even when the nurses whipped me. It wouldn't take long for them to stop paying attention to me."

For Herzog, the greatest value of those young hybrids whose words could control the direction of elements or strengthen their limbs, or even those who had no words at all, was to provide enough experimental samples. Even if their brains were damaged, it would not affect the research progress of their limbs. Under the premise that they could not be tamed in a short period of time, performing pons separation surgery was actually the most appropriate choice.

After experiencing so many things, Lu Mingfei thought about much more than before.

If what Zero said was true, then perhaps the reason why Dr. Herzog did not use that cruel and inhumane surgery on her was more because of her words.

Word Spirit. Mirror Pupil, the rarest and most special miracle in the world. When it is not copied from other types of Word Spirits, there is no need to recite specific dragon texts. The owner of this Word Spirit seems to have inherited the brain and eyes of the purest ancient species.

Even a demon like Herzog would be careful to protect this special ability.

Maybe he also thought about taking Zero with him when he left Black Swan Port.

But in the end, for some unknown reason, he obviously didn't do so.

"For a while I thought I was hallucinating because a black snake as thick as a corridor often appeared in the enclosed space of Black Swan Harbor. It always appeared when everyone else was asleep, and its scales would squeak as they scraped against the iron railings." Ling said softly, looking up at Lu Mingfei's eyes. "It always appears on full moon nights, and every time it appears it has some kind of strong mental impact. All the children and medical staff would stand behind the iron railings and clap their hands, and the applause would echo like thunder in the building. But no one would ever remember that the black snake had appeared after waking up the next day."

Lu Mingfei's pupils flickered slightly. He remembered that in another time and space he had read the archives left by Herzog. In those archives, he clearly recorded that Black Swan Port was built on the ruins left by a demon monk from the Tsarist era.

Under the naval port is a devil's graveyard, where a dead dragon is buried deep in the frozen soil. The embryo that Herzog transported to the top of the Japan Trench via the Lenin and eventually sank into the abyss came from the corpse of that ancient dragon.

But the dragon had died before Herzog discovered the body, while in Zero's description the black snake seemed to still be alive.

"Not long ago, the boss asked you to use your power to save Jiude Mai on the dead embryo from the depths of the abyss in exchange for saving her. The dragon that lost its power and regained its life was named Li Wuyue in human history, and in the world of dragons, he is the noble king of the sky and wind." Ling said, "It's strange to say this, but I have a feeling that the embryo and the black snake seemed to be one and the same."

Neither Lu Mingfei nor Her Royal Highness the Princess are pure-blooded dragons, and their knowledge of dragons is very limited.

They didn't know what steps and processes the Dragon King had to go through to be reborn, so even if Ling had this vague feeling, Lu Mingfei couldn't come up with a self-consistent explanation.

"But all this can't explain why your age seems to be frozen at fifteen or sixteen, nor can it explain why you are the only one who escaped from Black Swan Harbor." Lu Mingfei looked far away at the golden hall at the end of the corridor where a huge portrait of Lenin was hung. He had made up his mind to dig deep and find out all the details about Zero.

Ling looked coldly into Lu Mingfei's eyes, and after a moment she said, "Come closer."

Lu Mingfei did not hesitate, and moved the chair under his buttocks almost to the side of Her Royal Highness. They were so close that Ling could even feel the frighteningly high body temperature of Lu Mingfei.

Under that chilling gaze, Ling suddenly leaned her head heavily on Lu Mingfei's chest, her hair filled with the scent of honeysuckle.

"On Christmas Day in 1991, at the stroke of midnight, a vacuum bomb exploded in the core of Black Swan Harbor. The shock wave destroyed almost all the structures of the entire building. Prior to that, a fire started from the inside had already washed through every room along those dark corridors like a flood." Ling's voice was very low and dense. She murmured in Lu Mingfei's chest, and the sound seemed to be transmitted to the man's ears through his bones.

"Someone told me how to get out of there before this."

She spoke so carefully, her lips opening and closing so slowly that they were barely noticeable, as if she felt that there was a demon hiding beside them that could hide itself in the shadows. Every word she said would be heard by people other than Lu Mingfei, and the princess didn't want those people to hear her, so she spoke so softly.

Lu Mingfei's heart moved slightly. He knew that he was very close to the answer to everything, but he subconsciously didn't want Ling to say the next words.

"Who is that person?" But he still asked.

"Number Zero." Her Royal Highness the Princess said softly.

These two words sounded like a thunderbolt to Lu Mingfei's ears. He was stunned for a moment, and a huge fear flooded his soul like a tide.

Fire, long corridor, black snake, number zero...

Everything seemed to be right. Lu Mingfei pressed his temples hard. In front of his eyes, sometimes there was a corridor covered in flames, sometimes there was a fireplace with flames crackling. Sitting next to him was sometimes the cold and dignified princess, and sometimes there was a little girl holding a dirty teddy bear, wearing a white shirt with embroidered edges and a camel fur-trimmed skirt. They seemed to be the same person, with exactly the same hair and eye color, but the princess's eyes were deep and cold while the little girl's eyes seemed to be praying.

What is she praying for? What are her lips saying?

Lu Mingfei couldn't hear anything. He just felt that breathing became difficult and the raging dragon blood in his blood seemed to be burning.

"Go on." After a moment, Lu Mingfei opened his eyes and raised his head. Without him knowing it, his golden eyes were silently ignited.

Zero said, "I told you that the children who entered Black Swan Port all had their own numbers. The higher the number, the more likely they would be used by Dr. Herzog for those bloody genetic experiments... Zero had no name. When I found him, he was tied up in a straitjacket and imprisoned in the deepest room of the port. There was no light there, it was pitch black, and the only lighting was candles. He was the first experimental subject of that port. Herzog would inject various drugs into Zero's body every day. Similarly, he also underwent pontine splitting surgery."

Lu Mingfei seemed to hear a child's cold laughter. He didn't know if it was an illusion. It seemed as if the little devil was right behind him.