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Nono possesses the magical ability of profiling, and she is convinced that Vincent, the current leader of the Far North, must be looking for something in the Arctic Circle.

Combined with the Greenland Ice Sea incident that Finkel, Professor Schneider and EVA senior encountered in the Arctic Circle ten years ago, Lu Mingfei was almost certain that what they were looking for should be a dragon, a dragon with a crown position close to that of a monarch.

This time, the senior sister chose Greenland as her escape location in order to investigate the Far North.

"But why would the head of the medical department help us..."

"You were injured many times on the dragon-slaying battlefield. That minister is your attending physician. She has tested your bloodline more than once and is sure that you have no connection with pure-blooded dragons." Susie said, "Unlike the school board and Principal Angers, she is neither a conservative who wants the academy to return to the era of the Secret Party, nor a radical like the principal who would do anything inhumane to slay the dragons. She is a typical... truth-teller. She only trusts data and is not interested in politics. She doesn't want to take sides or push Nono into the fire, so she forged the report."

Lu Mingfei was silent for a moment, "Thank you," he said.

"You shouldn't thank me."

"I know." Lu Mingfei nodded, "But at least it has strengthened my confidence in living."

"You really should live. Nono is waiting for you." Susie said.

After hesitating for a moment, she asked, "Is Chu Zihang okay? I heard that he was seriously injured in the decisive battle in Tokyo."

"Odin attacked my senior brother and the principal, but the Gattuso family's combat team supported them in time." Lu Mingfei said.

Those high-level hybrids whose bloodline levels are generally A-level are the confidants that Frost has cultivated for Caesar over the years. They completely obey the young master of the Gattuso family and ignore Pompey's orders.

"When I was in Hefei, I broke into Odin's Nibelung and found Chu Zihang's father." Lu Mingfei said again.

This time, not only Susie, but also Christina raised her head.

As the president of the Lionheart Club, Chu Zihang has always been a prominent figure in Kassel College. From the first day he entered the school until now, the personal resume and family profile of the president of the Lionheart Club have always been listed in the popular section of the Night Watchman Forum.

Everyone knows that Chu Zihang, a super handsome, cool, and awesome guy with golden eyes that never go out, actually comes from a reconstituted family. His mother is a famous ballet dancer, and his stepfather is an accomplished entrepreneur. But there has not even been any relevant entry about his father so far.

But obviously Susie knew.

There are always some people in this world who are as strong as granite statues, but if someone can get into their hearts, they will find that they are actually as fragile and lonely as other poor kids.

Chu Zihang is such a person.

He tempered himself to be as hard as steel, and honed the angle and speed of his sword day after day for revenge. There were very few people in this world who could enter his heart, and Susie was probably the only one besides Lu Mingfei.

Apparently Su Si had already learned about Chu Tianjiao, the typhoon codenamed Dandelion, and the elevated road numbered 0 from Chu Zihang.

"Chu...how is Uncle Chu?" Susie didn't hold out much hope. According to what Chu Zihang once said, when they broke into the elevated road, there were dead bodies pouring in from all directions like a tide, and his father had to face a god bathed in brilliant light.

Under such circumstances, it was a blessing in disguise that Chu Zihang was able to drive the Maybach to escape from Nibelungen. Chu Tianjiao's death had almost become a fact.

Even though the man was later given Odin's mask and became a puppet of God, Chu Zihang only thought that he was dead and what was still alive was just his body.

"He's OK. He's in good condition. He's been taken in by a Chinese hybrid for the time being. But he's going to Japan to join the principal soon." Lu Mingfei said, "I can't contact Chu Zihang, so I can't inform him of this news."

Lu Mingfei knew that the reason why his senior brother had been working so hard was to find his father and avenge him.

Susie nodded, indicating that she understood.

"Our departure from Kassel Academy means we have completely broken with the secret party. They won't attack us in Russia, but the executive department will arrest us immediately if we leave this country." Christina sighed, "Caesar is unwilling to submit to the school board. It's not hard to imagine that Chu Zihang and Caesar are the same person...so the school board chose to use me and Sister Susie as hostages to force them to hunt you down."

Lu Mingfei knew what Christina wanted to say. Since they had already left Chicago and returned to Moscow, they were out of the control of the secret party. So Caesar and Chu Zihang no longer had to hunt down Lu Mingfei as relentlessly as they had in the past.

If he encounters some unsolvable crisis on the way to escape, Lu Mingfei may choose to ask his senior brother for help.

But Lu Mingfei was not prepared to do so. This escape was a war of his own and he was unwilling to involve more innocent people.

"Mr. Bunin said that you plan to take our special train into Siberia, and then turn north to Verkhoyansk." Christina added, "Sister Susie and I will accompany you for the first half of the journey."

"What are you doing in Siberia?"

"Trade," Christina said. "Arms trade. I don't want to do this. I think this is what warmongers do... But he told me that if we don't do this, he won't send you to your destination."

Lu Mingfei was silent for a moment, "Thank you," he said.

Chapter 569 Sale Time

"There is some unfriendly information that I have to tell Her Royal Highness." Bunin clapped his hands, and the maids came out from the shadows of the small hall that could not be illuminated by the fire and quietly collected the remaining food scraps on the long dining table.

Although they were called leftovers, they were actually hardly touched. Even a heartless person like Lu Mingfei couldn't eat much in such a situation.

"What information?" Zero asked.

"The power of Kassel Academy is far greater than you think. Perhaps the Romanov family, as the former masters of this country, believes that our government today will not be infiltrated by an organization from across the Pacific Ocean. But I have to tell you that more than three platoons of GRU special forces have received secret missions after you entered Moscow and disappeared in the vast wilderness of Siberia." Bunin said.

"There are many people in the Kremlin who are my friends and they told me not to get involved in your affairs."

Ling drank coldly, and after a moment she said: "But you finally decided to stand on our side. Was it because of the business in Siberia? Or was it because of the pressure from China?"

"The land of the Far East is not the land of the Slavs. The cold wind of Siberia is as sharp as a knife when blowing on the faces of Russians as it is when blowing on the faces of Mongolians." Bunin said, "You are right. Almost more than 80% of my business in that frozen land depends on my Chinese friends who come from the other side of the port. Unfortunately, this is not the reason why I choose to stand on your side."

Ling raised her eyes, and there was no fluctuation in her expression in her platinum pupils. She just looked at Bunin's old face coldly.

"This room is in a strong magnetic field environment. Any communication equipment will be ineffective around us... I chose to receive you and Mr. Lu here not because I don't want to break the rules. In fact, the respected Romanov family deserves to be treated with any standard specifications." Bunin sat in his high leather chair until the maids who were cleaning up the mess stepped silently through the door of the room, and a clicking sound came from the originally thick door niche.

He took out a box from under the table, and Zero's pupils contracted slightly when he saw it.

It is black and is probably made of aluminum alloy. It looks no different from the equipment box of Kassel Academy.

There was nothing strange about this, the identical boxes didn't mean anything, what really shocked Zero was the huge gilded emblem on it.

A tree with vine-like branches and leaves wrapped around every edge of the box.

It was a world tree in full bloom.

The emblem of Kassel Academy is a half-rotten world tree, half dead and half alive, symbolizing the gap between life and death, and also symbolizing the nature of hybrids. The Half-rotten World Tree aims to tell every student and executive department commissioner that they are a species between dragons and humans, and are not accepted by either group.

So what does the flourishing World Tree mean? Zero made a judgment almost immediately.

"This is why I am willing to help Your Highness and Mr. Lu." Bunin patted the box, and a dull sound came from the box.

Zero hesitated: "What's in here?"

"Time." Bunin said coldly.

For a moment, Ling saw a kind of indifferent hatred in the old man's eyes, but then that hatred immediately turned into deep greed.

Ling was stunned for a moment, and suddenly a smile appeared on her plain little face. The smile gradually turned into a kind of mockery. "You can say that it contains the lost crown of the Romanov family, or you can tell me that the box stores the bones left after Jesus was killed, but you told me that time is placed in the box..." She sneered disdainfully, "Don't be ridiculous, Mr. Bunin. We all know that the only fair thing in this world is that time will flow through everyone. It will not change because of power and wealth. No matter whether it is Tutankhamun buried in the pyramids of the Valley of the Kings in the Nile River Basin or the medieval beggars whose bodies may have decayed so far, death will eventually come... If time can really be put into a box and sold, then China should still be ravaged by the iron hoof of the Qin Empire, and Attila, the Whip of God, is still lashing every piece of land from the Ural Mountains to the west."

"I know you don't want to believe me, but I think you must have heard the story that every winter Alexander Bunin and his friends would take a train to Siberia and disappear on the vast ice field, right?" Bunin shook his head and pressed his hands on the so-called treasure that hid time.

"Every year, young people with different faces would accompany me on the journey eastward. Huge amounts of money would disappear in the Moscow market, as if a monster that devoured money was sitting on a throne on that plain waiting for our tribute... In fact, there was no difference. Every year, we would trade time in a city in Siberia. The young people seen by the outside world were actually their ancestors. They were just old men who had regained their youth. They set out on the journey eastward again only because the time they bought from God had been used up, and they were eager to have a new life."

This is an incredible story, even Zero is unwilling to believe it.

Time was indeed stagnant in her body, but she knew why. It was a miracle that was difficult to replicate and an honor that no one else could obtain. Even people like Angers who had made a deal with the devil were constantly aging, but new vitality was still radiating from their aging bodies.

"You and Mr. Lu were once core members of the Kassel Academy, and the Romanov family is also a behemoth that controls the syndicate... I know many big shots in Moscow, and they are willing to be my umbrellas, because I spend hundreds of millions of dollars as my protection fee every year. Some of them are customers who have bought time from me... But I guess it's not difficult to find out with your methods that there is actually not much liquid funds in my personal account that I can actually use myself." Bunin smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Alexander Bunin, who is so famous in the circle of the rich and powerful, is actually just a puppet pushed to the front by a big shot. Isn't this ridiculous?"

"You mean you're actually working for someone else." Zero frowned.

"This is why, even though time is sold in my hands, I can never get it myself." Bunin nodded.

"I'm still skeptical of what you're saying." Zero remained unmoved.

"Then let me show you." Bunin unlocked the box and pressed a certain mechanism. There was a sound of gears turning inside the thing. After a moment, the box was slowly opened with a click.

It made a teeth-grinding squeak when it opened, and the rust on the wheel fell onto the birch table that looked to be two hundred years old.

Ling stared closely at the dark space in the gap of the box, as if he could sense a pair of eyes filled with cruelty and hideousness looking at him.

A pair of hands as old as dead branches opened the lid of the box and took out the things inside.

It turned out to be a sealed quartz jar. Probably it had been placed in an extremely cold environment, and the surface of the jar was covered with thick frost.

Ling slowly put a hand under the hem of her navy blue coat. She never had the habit of going out without a weapon. A Glock pistol was fixed to the hem of her coat, ready to fire at any time.

As if he didn't notice Zero's action, Bunin wiped the frost off the surface of the quartz jar and handed it to Her Royal Highness the Princess.

There was some kind of transparent liquid in the jar, and in the center of the liquid a yellow-green mollusk was slowly wriggling in an inert state. It was a leech that was so large that it was somewhat scary.

But this leech was slowly entangled by the dark gold and blue-silver chains, and the ends of the chains were connected to every corner of the quartz jar, like a cage specially used to imprison this insect.

The moment he saw the bug, Ling believed what Bunin said.

The Word Spirit. Mirror Pupil was activated in an instant, and the structure of the leech was like a slice, displayed in detail and bloody in Zero's eyes.

But what really caught her attention was not the thing's nondescript soft tissue, but the fluid stored in its body.

It looks like blood and some kind of cell extract. To put it another way, it's serum.

A dragon's serum, a noble first-generation serum.

A strengthening medicine extracted from the black snake's body.

But the method was too crude, even inferior to the Molotov cocktails used by the ghosts. If it had not originally come from a noble king, this thing might have been the most unsuccessful one among evolutionary drugs.

"Leech is not special. What's important is the serum stored in its body. It was originally a biological tool for storing serum. The active liquid will not deteriorate in a short period of time. When it sucks someone's blood, it will also inject the serum back into that person's body." Bunin said softly, "During the Soviet era, the Super Soldier Project and the God Project were researched. This thing is the legacy of those two projects."

The serum extracted from the body of the first generation may indeed have a certain degree of similarity with the real golden holy serum, but after all, it cannot completely eliminate the toxicity of dragon blood, so the side effects are huge.

The real blood of the Dragon King's fetus can indeed make a dying old man return to his youth, just like Herzog in another world line, who shed his aging shell after becoming the White King.

But serum can't do that.

Before Zero had time to observe the leech in the quartz jar for too long, Bunin stuffed it back into the box.

"This thing is not complete. It is the first generation and has huge side effects, so the boss will put this sample in my hands." Bunin said with a smile.

"I know that Christina accepted a transformation plan called Nibelungen at Kassel College. She told me about it after it happened. Otherwise, I would never agree to her doing this... It is said that the Nibelungen Plan can completely eliminate the hidden danger in Christina's body, that is, ALS. Unfortunately, the plan did not go smoothly. The second phase has been delayed, and she broke up with the college."

Zero realized what Bunin was trying to do.

She also learned about what happened to Christina from Lu Mingfei. This girl from Moscow, like her, was actually a patient with a rare genetic disease. The ALS lurking in her body would end Christina's life when she was around 20 years old.

The reason why Caesar had to take the Deliaste to dive into the Abyss and make some achievements was to strive for the opportunity to restart the Nibelung Project from the Academy and apply this opportunity to Christina to completely heal her.

"Do you want to get a new serum to heal Christina?" Zero asked.

Bunin was silent for a moment. "According to the boss's plan, I should have retired this year, that is, I should have quit the game after the next trip to Siberia with those aging young people and presided over the transaction. But he did not allow me to participate in the competition... I know that all the serums were produced at the beginning of the year. Your Highness Romanova, you and Mr. Lu are both courageous and capable people. I hope you can help Christina take the latest serum from the depths of that city. This is my condition. As long as you can do it, the whole Siberia will be unimpeded for you. My army will become your highness's sword. No matter whether it is the GRU special forces or the pursuers from Kassel Academy who are blocking your way, they will only be greeted by PPSh submachine guns and hypersonic shells."

Rushing into a heavily guarded city and taking away the most valuable things in it was a huge test even for Lu Mingfei and Ling. Moreover, they urgently wanted to rush to the Black Swan Port north of Verkhoyansk as soon as possible to find out the truth of that year.

"I really want to reject you." said Zero.

Bunin's face showed joy.

"But your daughter is Caesar Gattuso's daughter, and Caesar Gattuso is Lu Mingfei's friend." Ling sighed, "I know him. People like Lu Mingfei actually have very few friends. Maybe he has experienced too many things. He hopes that everyone around him lives well. Even if they had their own ulterior motives when they first met... In fact, even if you don't put this condition into our deal, as long as he knows that this serum is necessary to cure Christina's ALS, Lu Mingfei will definitely do it."

“I am grateful that fate has allowed my daughter to meet friends like you.”