Dragon Clan: Thought So Far

The heavy bulletproof patent locomotive was running at high speed on the dilapidated railway. The tracks in front were completely submerged by heavy snow, but the steel plates on both sides of the front of the locomotive used strong power to lift all the snow into the air.

This military route once carried countless heavy freight trains during the Cold War, loaded with tanks and engines for intercontinental missiles.

When the steel wheels rolled over the frozen sleepers, it was like a dying steel beast coughing up sparks in the wilderness. Lu Mingfei and the young people around him, whose eyes had a century of vicissitudes, drank vodka together. Outside the car window, the snowfields of Siberia were flying backwards at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, and the continuous coniferous forests turned into countless inverted black spears in the twilight.

Outside the window, a group of heavy helicopters had been following the special train like flying dragons for a full half hour, and no one in the dining car cast their eyes on those huge helicopters.

"This is crazy," Suzy whispered.

Zero looked at her.

"As long as we use a helicopter to lift all the carriages to another section of track before this section of track reaches the end, no one in the world will know where Bunin and his friends go every year." Susie lowered her voice.

Compared to the laxity of Lu Mingfei and Her Royal Highness the Princess, the vice president of the Lionheart Club, who was known for his rigor even in the academy, did not touch a single bite of food or the vodka in the wine glasses during the entire dinner.

There were blades as thin as cicada wings hidden under her coat, and when necessary, Yanling.Jianyu could help Susie cut them into the throat of everyone present.

As early as when these old guys who had taken dragon serum and regained their youth got on the bus, Ling had already discovered that the purity of the dragon blood in their bodies was terribly low. It was not even C-grade according to the academy's standards. Such a group of low-level hybrids were nothing more than lambs to be slaughtered in front of Susie even if they were experienced in battle.

"Before I commit the final sin, I would like to confirm with everyone here one last time." Bunin tapped his wine glass with his fork, making a crisp sound to attract everyone's attention.

The dining car suddenly became quiet.

"The boss has already given the news. Maybe the auction of City 023 will be completely terminated after the next one. Some of us still urgently need time to continue his family." Bunin stood up and scanned the eyes of everyone at the table with cold eyes. A kind of tyrant-like majesty burst out from the old guy's body.

"Maybe there is still a lot of stock, but he is not going to sell it to us. My daughter needs this medicine... You need it too. You have spent all your wealth on this matter over the years, but in the end you still have nothing... So, are you determined to go all out?"

There was a crisp sound of metal colliding under the dining table, and Lu Mingfei saw Valodia applying antifreeze oil to an SV-98 sniper rifle. He treated his weapon as if it were a charming woman and hummed the tune of Katyusha in his throat; Okinets had started playing with some terrifying special bullets for anti-material sniper rifles, and the copper shells were engraved with Orthodox scriptures.

There are all kinds of weapons hidden under the tablecloth, and Lu Mingfei can find a single-soldier rocket launcher from it if he wants.

No one spoke, but it was clear that everyone had made their choice.

Bunin laughed loudly. He unbuttoned the brass buckle of his mink coat, and the chain of his pocket watch shone a tiny golden light on his vest. "Very good, we will never abandon each other!" He stretched out his hand and knocked heavily on the wall of the carriage inlaid with ebony decorations. "It's time to change trains!"

The knocking sound spread from the dining car to the back, and then to a certain compartment. There was a faint rustling sound in that compartment. Dozens or even hundreds of death row prisoners pardoned from the Black Sea Prison huddled in the shadows. The ceramic daggers on their waists glowed with a unique bluish-gray color after being quenched with poison, and the muzzles of the weapons in their arms glowed with a ferocious cold light.

Lu Mingfei and his friends' guess turned out to be correct. Bunin's guests took their carriages to City 023, and there were really thousands of troops hidden in these carriages.

Then the entire carriage suddenly made a teeth-grinding sound of metallic twisting.

Lu Mingfei suddenly saw a hideous ice ridge rising on the horizon from the car window, and the rusty railway track suddenly broke into two parts hundreds of meters away. This military dedicated line built during the Cold War could not escape the fate of being swallowed by permafrost.

As the Mi-26 heavy helicopter tore through the lead-gray clouds, the blizzard was mixing the sky and the earth together into a milky white vortex.

The titanium alloy cables hung down like spider silk, and with the assistance of groups of engineers who were lowered along with the cables, they were accurately fastened to the military-grade rings on the top of each carriage.

It is obvious that the engineers are quite skilled in this operation as they have been repeating the same work day after day, year after year for many years.

Then the Mi-26 began to slowly climb in altitude. Its horizontal speed was exactly the same as that of the train. As it rose, it carried each carriage into the sky. Before the track came to the end, the entire train meandered dozens of meters in the air like a soaring iron snake.

Lu Mingfei held Ling beside him with one hand during the violent shaking. He looked up and saw that every old fellow had a calm expression, but beneath the calmness there was a terrifying ferocity.

Their golden eyes lit up unconsciously, and green scales opened and closed under the skin on the back of their necks. After the skin was torn, warm blood flowed down their necks.

Glass after glass of iced vodka exploded into golden waves on the dark green carpet. The rotors of more than a dozen helicopters stirred up snow tornadoes. The dining car was suspended in the air steadily like a crystal ball held in the palm of a giant.

Lu Mingfei pressed zero, Susie held down Christina, and they simultaneously reached out and grabbed the carved copper railing fixed to the bottom of the carriage to divide the space.

Tons of snow outside the window were blown up by the air currents, and then turned into heavy snow and fell down again more than ten meters above the ground. Except for the vodka, foie gras and deer hearts on the table, no one in this carriage panicked because of the sudden rise.

Everything that Lu Mingfei experienced when he and Xia Mi boarded the roller coaster called Atrium Serpent at Six Flags Chicago flashed before his eyes like a video.

The cheers of my junior sister that were blown away by the wind emerged from the depths of my memory.

The sudden weightlessness and sudden overweight really felt like riding a roller coaster.

More than a dozen monsters who were undergoing rejuvenation exchanged glances with each other. They must have been waiting for this day for a long time, right?

Perhaps Bunin already knew how dangerous Lu Mingfei was. Only with such powerful external support did he dare to frantically summon his allies for a final counterattack.

Gold-inlaid porcelain plates whirled overhead, and caviar and ice chips mixed into black snow.

Bunin used his withered but bulging palm to slap open a new bottle of vodka, and the amber liquid was poured into a new high-heeled wine glass. The old man's face was reflected in the wine, reflecting the dead gray in his eyes and the death knell that had already sounded in the wrinkles.

"Christina..." he murmured.

As if she sensed something, Christina, who was curled up hugging Susie, suddenly looked at her father.

She felt irritated and panicked for no reason.

It was as if some great tragedy was waiting for her ahead.

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A few minutes later, the carriage suspended in the air stopped shaking, and the waiters came in one after another, replaced the tablecloth with new one, and placed steaming hot food in front of each guest.

The dinner continues.

Bunin stood up and sat down next to Lu Mingfei. Sonya nodded and left.

"Mr. Lu, you should have guessed what we are going to do, right?" Bunin asked with a smile. He looked at Ling again, "This is what His Highness promised. Help me get what I want, and I will send you to where you want to go."

"You want to attack a city with just a dozen guns and a dozen artificial low-level hybrids injected with evolutionary drugs?" Lu Mingfei shook his head.

"Mr. Bunin, you are a lunatic."

At this point, everything can be said openly. The secret of the dragon clan is actually not a secret to many people in this world. It’s just that the general public does not know that in the dark corners, there is another intelligent race thriving under their noses.

For someone like Bunin, he may not know who those guys hiding in the shadows who hold the power of the world are, but he knows that there is indeed such a group of people standing behind this dining table called the world, greedily gnawing at everything.

"I have been preparing for many years. If Christina could be free from the hereditary disease in her family, perhaps I would never do such a crazy thing..." Bunin sighed.

Christina bit her lower lip and lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking.

"My friends have reached the end of their rope. If the auction could continue like this and be held every year as usual, maybe they could continue to exploit themselves, but the boss is actually preparing to terminate the transaction. For some people, this has become unacceptable." Bunin said, "No one likes violence when the problem can be solved peacefully, but sometimes violence is the only way to get what you want."

Lu Mingfei didn’t know whether he was talking about what was about to happen in City 023 or if he had some other intention. He nodded thoughtfully.

"But it doesn't matter. No matter what you want to do, I will help you because Christina is my friend." He patted Bunin's shoulder.

About an hour later they saw the railroad tracks again. This area was located in a river valley, so the raging snowstorm around them could not affect the lines.

The Mi-26 put the eight carriages back on the rails one by one, and then a new heavy locomotive came from a distance. A moment later, the reassembled train rumbled into motion, and the whistle sounded throughout the surrounding wasteland.

"The boss you are talking about holds an auction in City 023 at a fixed time every year. If you and your patent appear here at this time, will he arrange a motorcycle to pick you up?" Lu Mingfei looked at the circular city surrounded by rivers under the slope in the distance. Even in the climate of dozens of degrees below zero, the river was still not frozen. The water was gurgling and white steam was floating on the water.

"He always thinks that he is the one who holds absolute power and violence. Even if he knew that this special train came from afar fully armed with swords and spears, he would just open the door to welcome us, and then use heavy machine guns and flamethrowers to grind everyone to ashes in the depths of that city." Bunin frowned and whispered.

The banquet was over and everyone returned to their respective carriages to make final preparations.

Only Lu Mingfei and his group remained in Bunin's carriage.

“If you knew that, why did you come?” Lu Mingfei was chewing a piece of beef jerky, which was a specialty he bought when he passed through Ulaanbaatar before. The food at the banquet just now was really not to his taste at all. After eating it, his stomach was still empty.

Bunin's body swayed slightly as the train moved forward: "Because there are unknown factors in our train that he has never known."

Lu Mingfei was silent for a moment, "Is it me?" he asked.

"We all know that the Kassel Academy is a group of very powerful people. Some of the executors they sent out can even reach or even exceed the physical fitness of the final product of the super soldier project that was close to success back then." Bunin said, "But even such people are helpless against you and have to issue a bounty worth more than 100 million US dollars worldwide... They even hoped that I could help them convince the Ministry of Defense to completely open the Russian firewall to the academy's smart secretary. This is really unbelievable. An academy actually wants to invade the database that the most powerful country in the world is proud of."

"When we left Moscow, we were attacked by some mutant creatures and well-trained soldiers." Bunin smiled and took a sip of vodka. "I used my connections in the army to send them away, but even with the local military strength shown by the Americans in the Gulf War, they might not be able to get that kind of biological weapon. This shows how dangerous you are in their eyes... If a character like you joins our game, the outcome is still unknown, right?"

"You are seeking the devil's help." Lu Mingfei said.

"You call yourself a devil?" Bunin smiled.

“No, that’s not a figure of speech.”

silence.

After a moment, Ling said, "It looks like we have crossed the vast Central Siberian Plateau and are heading north along a route that has been buried in decades of snow and wind... According to the time, we should still be a long way from Verkhoyansk, the northernmost city." She held a paper map in her hand.

A platform appeared in front of us. It should not appear on civilian maps because this place has no name only a number "023".

The train slowly slowed down, and a certain solemn and cold atmosphere filled the enclosed space.

"Just do it right away?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"Let's talk about the terms first," Bunin said, nodding his chin towards the platform. "Looking at the traces, either some heavy troop carriers ran here, or a large number of tanks were parked here. A strong attack is our second option."

Lu Mingfei looked over and saw traces of tracks on the platform with a roof that protected him from wind and rain.