Dragon Clan: Thought So Far

Zero sat on the smooth pebbles beside the jumping bonfire, and the crackling and exploding red-hot charcoal was reflected in his platinum pupils.

From a far distance, the fog drifted over like a tide, and the white swans in the fog spread their wings and stretched their necks to look far into the sky.

In the hot spring, Constantine had already successfully integrated the boring games between Nono and Xia Mi, and Eri would never find a game boring because her life had only been underestimated.

"What are you thinking about?" Lu Mingfei squatted down beside Zero. He was wearing a hunting suit with gold thread trim, a faded fountain pen hanging on his chest, and his forehead hair was lifted up, revealing his entire face. Probably because he had been hanging out with his little apprentice sister in a bikini not long ago, he was quite excited at the moment.

Zero tilted his head to look at this guy, and the frequency of his heartbeat in his chest was unbalanced for a moment.

Fortunately, this girl is a person who can hide her thoughts, whether she was once called Little Renata or now she has been given the name of Zero.

"Nothing." Zero shook his head, "Did you change your hairstyle?"

"No, my hair is wet and sticking to my forehead, which is uncomfortable." When Lu Mingfei said this, Zero really saw water drops hanging down from his lifted hair.

"Looking like this, you are much more energetic, not like a child." Zero hugged his knees with both hands, turned his head back and stared at the flame in a daze.

"You say that like an older sister..." Lu Mingfei was a little embarrassed. He stretched out his hands above the flame, and wisps of white steam slowly rose from his palms with distinct tendons.

"Yeah." Zero said.

Talking to this girl is sometimes really tiring. Lu Mingfei sighed quietly, fumbled out a delicate little box from behind and handed it to Zero.

"What?" There was no confusion on Zero's face, and he was still as indifferent as a piece of ice on the cold lake.

"Gifts, I brought the same gifts to them all, and of course I'll bring one for you too." Lu Mingfei said, opening the box in front of Ling and showing her what was inside.

"I don't know if you like it or not, but I think maybe you Russians like this kind of thing very much..."

There was a porcelain doll inside, although it looked a little different from the two that Eri and Xia Mi got, but from the expression and facial features, it was still recognizable as a Q version of Lu Mingfei.

Ling was stunned for a moment, lowered his head, and didn't let Lu Mingfei see his eyes.

"It's actually a nesting doll, look--" Lu Mingfei held the porcelain doll in his hand and opened it along the opening in the middle. There was actually a smaller porcelain doll inside, plump and chubby, wearing a camel-colored coat, with long platinum hair tied into a high bun on his head, and his eyes were wide open, like a chubby penguin.

But looking at the platinum hair, Ling still recognized that it was himself at a glance.

She held the two porcelain dolls in her left and right hands, turned her head and said lightly: "Well, it's okay."

But where Lu Mingfei couldn't see, the girl's thin and beautiful lips were slightly pursed and raised, and a flash of joy appeared on her cold and indifferent little face.

"What's the reaction of 'Oh, it's okay'? I thought you would be happier." Lu Mingfei also looked at the jumping bonfire flames. There was a small iron pot above the flames, and the fragrant coffee in the iron pot was bubbling.

"Since my senior sister and I went to Meizu Temple Town, you have been in a low mood. I thought it was because you felt that I didn't bring you a gift."

"Yeah." Ling said.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at the girl's eyes beside him, but Ling was still hugging his knees and staring at the flames, and there was no change in emotion in his platinum pupils.

"Actually, I am very happy, but I don't know how to express it." Ling said lightly.

A piece of charcoal jumped out of the flame with a roar, rolled at Lu Mingfei's feet and lay in the accumulated water covered with a layer of broken ice. Lu Mingfei looked into Ling's eyes steadily.

"No one has ever given me a gift because I am a girl or because I am his friend." Ling said, "Even in Moscow, there will be such and such big figures carrying Fabergé Easter eggs or Cadillac gem necklaces to visit me, the representative of the Romanov family and the owner of the Romanov family's property, but they can only see greed in their eyes."

"Because no one will be nice to you for no reason, all the ties between people are actually a transaction that has been clearly marked in secret." Lu Mingfei's heart moved slightly after he finished speaking.

It really doesn't seem like something he would say...

With the cold truth of this world, it seems that the devil is controlling his vocal cords to make these declarations that make people despair.

"Some people give you Fabergé eggs, but what they really want may be the Romanov family's logging business in Siberia. Some people give you Cadillac gemstone necklaces, but what they want from you may be the entire Ukrainian arms trade. The adult world is not so simple."

"What about you, Lu Mingfei." Ling clasped his hands together and placed them on his chin. In the firelight, the glaze color that came through the gaps between his slender fingers flowed with a flickering glow.

"What do you want from me?" She looked at Lu Mingfei with her eyes slanted, her smooth and beautiful face was cold and plain.

However, Lu Mingfei is very familiar with Ling. He knows that this girl is not as calm as she appears. At least from the blush on the tip of her ear, it can be seen that Ling should be a little flustered.

There are indeed many suitors for Her Royal Highness in Kassel College, but even an excellent A-level junior brother from the top mixed-blood family in Portugal has returned empty-handed. Everyone is guessing who will end up with this high-ranking flower from Moscow. At the same time, the suitors are also a little sad, and they wish they could cut the lucky one into pieces.

If these brothers saw the vague coquettishness and arrogance on Miss Ling's face at this time, they would probably hate Lu Mingfei with gnashing teeth.

"Nothing, I think you are very good to me, willing to dance with me, and buy me roasted sweet potatoes. I am also good to those who are good to me." Lu Mingfei shrugged.

"Thank you." Ling said.

"Thank you too." Lu Mingfei said.

"Although I don't actually know what dancing means."

Lu Mingfei opened his mouth, but said nothing. He just reached out and touched the ends of Ling's soft and beautiful long hair.

In this world, Caesar had no chance to invite Lu Mingfei to join the student union in public, because at that time, Boss Lu crushed Master Gattuso's pride on Freedom Day with his genuine S-level bloodline, and quickly established the Dragon Blood Club with the best freshmen of that year as the core.

It is also unlikely that he would invite all the cadres of the student union and the influential figures in the college to attend a grand dance in Norton Hall to help Nono hold a birthday party.

All the past events that Lu Mingfei still remembered had disappeared, and only a cowardly, timid and unlucky child like him was left walking alone in the desolate city of fate.

"But as long as you are willing, we can dance together anytime." Ling said softly.

She quietly turned her gaze from the fire to the man beside her and Lu Mingfei, looking up, her small face was white, and the light and fire flowing reminded people of the Arctic poppies blooming in the sunset, so beautiful that it made people tremble.

The wind blew from the lake, blowing Ling's hair slightly.

The girl seemed to have made up her mind not to turn her eyes away, to gain the upper hand in this mutual gaze that was clearly neither a duel nor a game, and her lips were slightly pursed.

Until Lu Mingfei reached out and touched her head.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"You look like a friend of mine. Sometimes when you stand next to me, I feel like I see him again."

"You are nice to me and willing to get close to me, is it because I look like him?"

"No." Ling said, she looked at Lu Mingfei's cheek, and suddenly realized that this guy actually looked like an adult, with eyebrows like distant mountains and eyes like abyss, looking at those eyes seemed to be sinking into them.

Lu Mingfei usually looks a bit gloomy with his hair hanging down, but now he looks...very good.

"Because I think you look like a puppy sometimes, and I like puppies very much." Ling lowered his eyes, and there was clearly not much emotion hidden in his words, but Lu Mingfei just heard it as perfunctory.

"Are we really alike?" he asked.

"Not so much, you are more gentle, and more...kind." Ling replied, she wrapped the porcelain doll well and put it back in the small box, put the small box close to her body, and then took the small pot with huge heat-proof gloves to pour a cup of hot coffee for herself and Lu Mingfei.

The aroma of coffee hit her face, and the curling white steam hung in front of Ling's beautiful nose. She uttered a low exclamation, and her white little face showed a second of joy.

Lu Mingfei knew that Ling was actually talking about Lu Mingze, but they rarely talked about this topic.

Including how Ling and the little devil met, what exactly Lu Mingze was, or whether Lu Mingfei himself found out that he was the little devil and the little devil was himself at the end...

Maybe Ling knew the truth of some things, but is the truth really that important?

After all, even if Lu Mingfei grew up to be the man he is today, and could hold a sword made of steel and wave it at God, there was still a wetland called cowardice in his heart. There were always boys crying in the wetland, and that was the cowardly soul crying under the hard mask.

The truth, once it is said, loses its target, and Lu Mingfei knows that he cannot lose his target.

He still has a lot of things to do.

"You should know that EVA has issued a task to all the commissioners in Japan. This is the largest group task of Kassel Academy in recent years." Ling said.

The Executive Department of Kassel College was born out of the hunting team of the secret party. They were just a secret force operating in the dark at ordinary times. But now, this violent organization that obeys both the board of directors and the principal has completely awakened.

Professor Schneider, Principal Ange, and a few directors including Mr. Frost have appeared in Japan. Even those powerful elders who have been active in the battlefield of slaying dragons for hundreds of years have a tendency to go to Japan.

Such a big move means that the war between Kassel College and the entire Japanese hybrid race has begun.

The task assigned by Eva to the Japanese commissioners and combat-ready undergraduates is to assemble nearby and carry out a devastating clearing of the nearby Snake Qiba family base and the Fierce Ghosts base in small groups. Fortunately, the influence of the 1948 "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" was not limited to ordinary people in the pan-society. It also had a huge impact on the mixed-race scheming elements who had been reorganized from the Camarilla to the Kassel Academy at that time. The violent maniacs headed by the principal conducted a profound review and introspection of their past actions, and included many regulations to protect human rights in the course of action against hostile mixed-race species.

The most important thing is to "do not use speech spirits and deadly weapons before your life is threatened." Although the Snake Qiba family and the Menggui clan are all madmen, most of them are still afraid of Ange, so when facing the academy's They were not so bold in attacking.

This saved many lives.

"According to the mission instructions, we should be put into the same temporary group, and under the leadership of the person with the highest pedigree authority in this group, we should clear out the members of the eight Sheqi families and the fierce ghosts nearby." Zero said.

"There are no valuable targets marked on the holographic map Eva sent us." Lu Mingfei said, "And my authority is S-level. I have the right to refuse to execute the ordinary tasks of the execution department, and I also have the right to help you refuse to execute. "

Zero nodded.

S-level is a special privileged class in Kassel College. Historically, students with S-level permissions due to their bloodline have been a pivotal political force in the college during their undergraduate years. Sometimes the words of these people are even more effective than the school board of directors. .

"Are you planning to send Eri out of Japan before Christmas?" Zero suddenly asked.

Lu Mingfei was caught off guard and his fingers trembled, causing the coffee in the cup to overflow.

"As expected of a science student from the Department of Alchemy and Mechanical Engineering, you and Chu Zihang's brain circuits are terrifyingly clear."

Lu Mingfei sighed, "Not just Eri, everyone who comes to Hokkaido this time, except me, must leave Japan before Christmas."

"Did you make the decision for me?" Sitting in front of the campfire and drinking hot coffee, Zero felt that the coldness in his body was dissipated. But she didn't know whether this feeling was because of the warmth of the fire and coffee, or because it turned out that Lu Mingfei had not forgotten to bring her a gift.

She opened the collar of her coat, and Lu Mingfei saw that the girl was only wearing a white velvet low-necked T-shirt under the coat. Under the T-shirt, she was probably wearing the beautiful swimsuit that almost gave Lu Mingfei a nosebleed.

Although Zero was short in stature, he was well-developed, and his skin was so white that it was cold. At this moment, he was braiding his blond hair, which was almost pure white, and tied it into a bun on the top of his head.

She had her slender neck raised, and her whole body looked like an ice sculpture, and she was looking at Lu Mingfei coldly.

"I would be very worried if you stayed in Japan."

"Am I among the people you're worried about?"

"Yes." Lu Mingfei nodded and said seriously, "No one was kind to me before, only you were kind to me."

"I will be kind to you in the future." Ling nodded. She put her hand on Lu Mingfei's chest, as if signing a contract, "So you must survive."

"Okay." Lu Mingfei pressed the cold, soft catkin to his heart, and the contract was successfully concluded.

The two people looked at each other and suddenly laughed for no reason.

After he finished laughing, Zero asked again: "You are going to send us off on Henkel's ship, right?"

Lu Mingfei choked.

Except for Nono, no one else should know how Lu Mingfei’s plan to send Eri Yi out of Japan should be implemented.

The fewer people who know, the lower the risk of exposure.

It's not that Lu Mingfei doesn't trust the people around him, but since even gods can become their enemies, what else is impossible?

"Don't get me wrong, there are very frequent business contacts between the Henkel family and the Romanov family. The leader of the North American mixed race knew that I was with you and invited us to attend the party in Sapporo tomorrow night." Zero hesitation After a while,

"It should be a commercial dance. If you want, we can go together. If not..."

"Yes, why wouldn't you want to?" Lu Mingfei tilted his head to look into the girl's eyes.

There was no sparkle in those eyes, but they were shining.

——

"It feels like I'm in Chicago."

As he said this, Lu Mingfei looked back at the corridor he passed when he entered this luxury hotel.

At the end of the corridor are the dim skylight and the tall gray walls of skyscrapers on both sides of the road. The surface of the limestone is peeling off like the hair of an old man eroded by time.

Rusty steel street lamps stand beneath those buildings, like old and loyal guards firmly guarding the glory of the city.

It does look like Chicago's Pennsylvania Road, which has fallen into decline after the golden age. The end of that road is the Chicago Opera House, and the end of this road is the low-key but luxurious Sapporo Keio Hotel hidden in the corner of the city. It is the center of the city. The sister property of the Sapporo Keio Plaza Hotel is an asset of Henkel.

Hokkaido is a barren land, and neither the Snake Qihachi family nor the fierce ghosts are willing to come here, so the North American hybrids took advantage of it.

The North American hybrids who are more like businessmen than warriors have been active in this generation since the 1970s and once controlled the largest coal mines on the Pacific coast. But now those coal mines have been abandoned, leaving only bare railroad tracks and huge and desolate mines.

Lu Mingfei said that this place is like Chicago because he couldn't even see a Japanese nearby. They were all white-skinned, blue-eyed or gray-eyed Ansaris and Germans. On the contrary, Lu Mingfei, an East Asian face, and Ling, a delicate Slavic girl, seemed a bit different.

"Because Henkel's home is in Chicago, he decorates the place like Chicago wherever he goes." Ling was standing next to Lu Mingfei.

She was wearing a dark red silk evening dress with thin straps. The hem of the skirt covered her feet. The same color silk long gloves covered the girl's upper arms. On her thin wrists, she wore a luxurious women's watch with a thin chain.

In order to attend this ball that may involve billions of dollars of business, Ling dressed up and even wore ten-centimeter stilettos. Although she was still cute and lovely like a bird snuggling next to Lu Mingfei, the aura of the queen had already begun to spread outward.

Lu Mingfei took the arm of the princess and glanced around casually.

Henkel also told him that he would hold a ball here, firstly to allow the outstanding people in North America to meet the best young people of the time, and secondly, there were some things that he had to ask Lu Mingfei in person.

So even if Ling didn't invite him to come, Lu Mingfei would come.

The decoration of this hotel is luxurious, with light green tulip-patterned carpets covering every inch of the floor, and the walls are hung with the original works of world-famous painters, and there are even marble sculptures standing on both sides of the corridor, all of which are world-class well-known politicians, from China, the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom...

The magnificent and luxurious crystal chandelier hangs from the fifty-foot-high dome, like an inverted crystal pagoda.

As soon as he was led into the dance hall, Lu Mingfei immediately confirmed that this was indeed the work of Hen Gao.

There were people in elegant clothes and a constant stream of people.

The waiters were dressed in black evening gowns and could speak standard English, French and Chinese. They passed through the crowd lightly, like flexible fish. The old-fashioned jazz band in the middle of the dance floor was playing lazy romance.

A hunchbacked old man noticed that Lu Mingfei and Ling had entered the main venue and immediately came up with a smile on his face.

"Long time no see, Mr. Hen Gao!" Lu Mingfei and the old man hugged each other warmly. (End of this chapter)