Dragon Race: Lu Mingfei Returns from a Wolf

Fingel lay on the white sheets and stared at the light above his head.

The pure white square room had no female nurses in nurse uniforms or visitors to visit him. It was very quiet, like a quiet forest. The windows were half open, and the thick century-old sycamore tree could be seen through the night.

The sycamore trees in early autumn have not completely withered, but the green leaves are showing a light yellow color, and the water is gradually lost. After a few weeks, the dark green sycamore leaves will dry up and fall from the branches, and the branches will become bare.

,very ugly.

After the lushness of summer, all that remains is the withering of autumn and the dead silence of winter.

Fingel was wearing a white hospital gown, huddled under the quilt, with a plastic ring on his hand and an infusion tube on his right wrist. He was waiting for the transparent liquid in the bag to be delivered. He was chewing something. There was a lot in the trash can.

Candy wrappers without labels.

The pale light bulb is reflected under the gray-blue pupils, just like his pale and bloodless skin. In the blood vessels, the viscous blood flows slowly, delivering nutrients to his cells.

Suddenly, a knock on the door broke the silence.

Fingel turned his head, half sat up with his left hand on the bed board, and swallowed what he was chewing in his mouth.

Lu Mingfei stepped into Ward 201 lightly. The hospital needed to be quiet. This was a public place. Although Fingel lived there, he didn't know if there were any new patients admitted.

It seems not, there is still only Fingel in this ward.

Before arriving, Lu Mingfei went to the cafeteria and made two beef rib sandwiches and two glasses of iced Coke, which was what Fingel ordered.

Lu Mingfei was carrying two pure black cartons, which together were almost as big as a milk carton, and two cups of iced Coke in plastic bags.

"This thing is too expensive, it costs 100 US dollars each." Lu Mingfei put the box and Coke on the cabinet nearby and sat on the bench.

"Then take a look at what the ingredients are." Fingel stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, "There is a beef rib in it. It is selected from the finest fat beef on the West Coast. It is totally worth the price."

"Come on, you've been thinking about eating all day." Lu Mingfei inserted the straw into the Coke cup and was about to hand it to Fingel when suddenly he stopped and took the cup back.

"Wait a minute, can you eat these? Don't you need to be careful?" Lu Mingfei looked at the few nameless intravenous drips left, "Aren't you still putting this intravenous drip on? Don't you eat these high-calorie foods later and get hurt again?"

What's wrong?"

Lu Mingfei doesn't know medical skills, but who has never been sick in his life? He has always been to the hospital.

When you have a cold, go to a small medical clinic and the doctor will tell you to avoid spicy food, smoke, etc.

This beef rib sandwich is smoked and grilled. There are three slices of fruitwood smoked bread, a whole large grilled beef rib, some pickled cucumbers and secret sauce. It is so large that it cannot be assembled together and is scattered.

They were placed in a cardboard box and the waiter told them to put them together again when eating.

Lu Mingfei didn't think much about it when he bought it. He didn't realize it until he walked into the hospital.

"Don't worry, I can definitely eat it. I've almost lost my mouth after eating medical meals these days." Fingel skillfully pulled out the infusion tube, dipped a cotton swab in brown iodine, and pressed it slightly.

I climbed out of bed and reached for the box.

"Wait, let me ask the doctor." Lu Mingfei grabbed the box into his hands first.

"Do you not believe your brother so much?" Fingel sat back on the hospital bed helplessly.

"It's because I trust you so much that I want to ask the doctor." Lu Mingfei took off the white phone that was within easy reach next to the hospital bed.

"What's your logic? If you believe me, you should give me the box." Fingel looked at it longingly and sat with his back against the wall.

Lu Mingfei didn't reply because the call was already connected.

"Hello, do you need anything?" A gentle young female voice came from the phone.

"Hello, this is Ward 201. I would like to ask, does Fingel in bed 1 have any food taboos? Today he asked me to bring him a beef rib sandwich and iced Coke.

The beef ribs are smoked and grilled, and there are pickled cucumbers in the bread. Can he eat it?"

"Um...please wait a moment..." The young female voice paused for a moment, and the sound of mouse clicks and keyboard typing could be heard.

"It's no problem." She said, "Mr. Fingal is just a little anemic and has no taboos about what he eats."

"Okay, thank you." Lu Mingfei nodded and hung up the phone.

"Look, I'll just say it." Fingel spread his hands.

Lu Mingfei rolled her eyes at him and handed one of the beef rib sandwiches over, "Speaking of which, how long are you going to stay in the hospital?"

"It's almost time." Fingel picked up the Coke cup and took a sip, "It should be more than a week later, and I will be back with you by then."

He opened the carton, took out the stick bone, sandwiched the whole piece of browned and juicy steak with bread, then opened his big mouth and took the first bite.

The steak was topped with light black sauce, and the smell of smoke and meat penetrated the nose, making people want to eat. Lu Mingfei also opened his portion, followed Fingel's example of how to assemble the sandwich, and took a big bite.

.

The sauce was all over your mouth, and the three slices of bread were like decorations. You only had the taste of meat in your mouth. However, the beef ribs were grilled just right, with a slightly crispy outside and tender, juicy and soft inside.

It can be swallowed into the stomach with just one sip. It is not sticky at all and the stick bone can be easily pulled out.

According to the waiter, this sandwich is limited in supply every day because the beef ribs need to be grilled with fruit wood for 18 hours, so the quantity to be sold has to be prepared a day in advance. Usually, it will be sold out after the evening class.

"This tastes really good." Lu Mingfei finished chewing the food in his mouth and drank an ice-cold Coke, "I didn't even know this dish existed, and it's not on the menu in the cafeteria."

"How many years have you, Brother Fingal, stayed in the academy?" Fingal licked the sauce from his mouth, "This is a hidden menu. Many freshmen have been in the academy for a whole year without knowing it, because they are all

All bought by old students."

"The students at Cassel College are really rich, that's 100 US dollars a share," Lu Mingfei said.

"There are a lot of poor people like me. Just knowing the menu is of no use. If you want to eat meat, you have to rely on my S-class roommate." Fingel flattered him.

"Don't do this with me." Lu Mingfei said, "I remember your bill. This meal is what you asked for, not mine."

"Brother, please forgive me this time."

"Brothers have to settle accounts openly."

"That's because they are not close enough. They are not as good as the two of us."

"Sooner or later I will be eaten into pauper by you." Lu Mingfei took a bite of steak meat.

"Hehe." Fingel smiled playfully.

While they were eating meat, they occasionally chatted.

Thinking back to the day we first met, I also drank Coke.

A strong man with disheveled hair shouted "just one r! just one r!" and ran over and held out his hand. You thought he was starving after not eating for a few days and gave him a coin so that he could buy some bread to fill his stomach. But you just got it.

Money, he said thank you to the kindhearted person for giving me money to buy a Coke.

Such a crazy guy is actually your senior brother and your roommate. It really makes people sigh that things are unpredictable.

Gradually, the two of them finished the super-large sandwiches, leaving only an empty box in a mess.

Lu Mingfei bit the Coca-Cola straw and looked at the empty carton. Fingel didn't say anything. He pulled off a piece of paper and wiped his mouth.

"Old Tang gave me his bank card." After a long time, Lu Mingfei said, "The password is 912323. He told me personally. There is 10,632.32 US dollars in it, which is probably all his savings."

"..." Fingel silently picked up the Coke.

"It's probably the meal money left for us. He said he would treat us to a high-end restaurant in Chicago to eat spaghetti with black truffles and caviar." Lu Mingfei said in a low tone.

This was the first time he told others about the bank card.

"He is the Dragon King Norton." Fingel looked at his slightly trembling right index finger, "'Old Tang' is just a sub-personality derived from Norton. How can a short twenty years of life compete with the Dragon King's almost endless memories?

?”

"But I can't tell who is Old Tang and who is Norton." Lu Mingfei said: "We have obviously seen him in person, played cards with him, and played voice chat with him. Have you forgotten? You lose in poker.

I gave him 231 yuan, but I still didn’t have the money to pay, so I had to write an IOU and stick it on my face to pay off the debt, and get a small change of 31 yuan.”

"Lu Mingfei, it's best not to have any sympathy for dragons." Fingel shook his head, "They are completely different creatures from us. It is inappropriate to use human moral standards to regulate them."

"Those guys are all beasts whose strength is paramount. Their souls are filled with wildness and animal desires. In their world, there is only surrender or death, only killing and blood."

"It's like humans and cats. In humans, if the children born to the same mother get married and fall in love, it would be an affair. But in cats, it is normal. Humans will take good care of their children, but female cats even

She will eat the embryos of her own children to supplement her nutrition after giving birth, and this is not an exception, it is very common. If you use human standards to judge a female cat that eats her own children, do you think this is appropriate?"

"The gap between dragons and humans is much greater than the gap between humans and cats. They have their own moral standards and their own set of rules, and this set of rules is incompatible with the human world.

It is completely contrary to the laws known to mankind."

"Either they are separated from humans and live alone in another world, living according to their rules, or they are tamed by humans like kittens and cannot resist. Otherwise, if they both exist in a shared space at the same time, there will inevitably be one.

will be violated.”

"In the past, when dragons dominated the world, humans were lower than kittens. Our ancestors went through countless struggles and shed a lot of blood before humans could stand up. In that dark era, countless people died.

On the road of slaying dragons, we have the youth we can spend on campus today." Fingel continued: "There are conflicts between people, and people and dragons are even more incomprehensible."

Lu Mingfei lowered his head and remained silent, without responding.

"The personality of 'Norton' before he woke up was not actually a dragon, but a human being. Because he thought like a human, but when he woke up, he changed from a human to a dragon," Finger said.

Er continued: "At that time, he was no longer 'Old Tang'. You did the right thing. Killing Norton was the right thing to do, because when Norton woke up, 'Old Tang' was killed by Norton."

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"But I didn't kill him." Lu Mingfei raised his head and looked at Fingel: "He committed suicide and stabbed his own heart with his own bone spurs."

"Stop lying to yourself." Fingel said coldly, "He is the Dragon King and our enemy."

For the first time, Lu Mingfei saw hatred in those pupils, like a dead rose with thorns, which made people sad.

Lu Mingfei discovered once again that no one could truly empathize with another person.

He and Fingel had only known each other for two weeks. He didn't know Fingel's past, and he didn't know why this senior who had been reduced to an "F" grade after studying abroad for four years was hiding in a corner.

There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, and everyone sees it differently.

"It's getting late, you should go to bed early." Lu Mingfei sighed and stood up, "I'll come visit you in a few days. Is there anything else you want to eat? I'll bring you one when I come.

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"Bring me some pasta," Fingel said.

"Yeah." Lu Mingfei nodded, turned and left.

Fingel watched his back disappear until the sound of the door closing was heard.

He stared at the blue-grey iron door, and after a long time, he sighed.

Lying on the pure white hospital bed, he stretched out his right hand, palm facing up, to cover the white lamp.

Under the light, the outline of the five fingers was clearly visible, but the index finger was trembling. He clenched his right fist and opened it again. After a second, the index finger began to shake uncontrollably again.

He sat up and squinted his left eye, with his left hand in front and his right hand behind him, as if he was holding a non-existent sniper rifle.

His index finger made the motion of pulling the trigger. Before he finished, he lowered his hands, opened the drawer, took out a round candy, peeled off the white candy wrapper, put it in his mouth to chew, and lay on the bed again, looking at the pale

light bulb.

"Eva, is it worth it?" Fingel asked softly.

The phone next to the pillow vibrated and lit up, and a pattern like an electrocardiogram wave appeared on the screen.

A plain female voice came from the screen, and the wave diagram vibrated with the voice, "Do you regret it? In order to kill the Dragon King, you paid such a heavy price."

"It's just two weeks of lying in bed, nothing to regret."

"Life is a treasure that needs to be cherished. Although I am just a personality program, I still hope to see you for a while longer in the remaining time."

"I haven't killed the 'Prince' myself yet, how could I die so easily, but maybe I'm a little tired and need a good rest."

"This is a normal reaction. Your blood sugar monitoring result today is still very low. It is easy to feel tired and weak. Pay attention to supplementing nutrition. The sugar and 'spirit' in the blood are still being 'annihilated', and the rate is only decreasing.

0.3.”

"No way, this is the price, Eva, help me turn off the light, I want to sleep."

"Before you go to bed, you need to replenish enough nutritional fluid for the whole night. I will notify the nurse to come and change the special infusion bag."

"Go on, I'm going to sleep first. Ask the nurse to be gentle and don't wake me up." He closed his eyes, breathing weakly, and his head sank into the pillow.

At the same time, the lights in the room were turned off, everything returned to darkness, the light on the mobile phone screen was turned off, and it was completely quiet.