If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

"It's rare that my senior brother would ask me to take a walk at night. Did you eat too much at night? Oh. I'm not saying that you are full and have nothing to do. I'm just asking if you want to walk at night to digest your food."

Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang walked side by side on the stone road, which was a path leading to the artificial lake. Every five meters on the side of the stone road, there was a bronze pillar with a street lamp on top. Due to the over-perfect greening, there were also abundant nocturnal creatures at night. The chirping of partridges and crickets in the grass was like a concert. Moths gathered on the street lamps and cast foggy shadows. The two figures walked steadily side by side.

"I didn't eat much at night. I had to drink a glass of milk after my walk."

"What did you eat at night?"

"The main course was mashed potatoes and pasta, and the side dishes were eggs, bacon, Parmesan cheese, black pepper seasoning, and a plate of fruit prepared by Susie."

"The fruit prepared by Susie tasted good. I guess the milk you took back was also prepared by her?" Lu Mingfei turned his head and looked at Chu Zihang and said jokingly, "Why haven't you made an official announcement yet?"

Chu Zihang was silent for a moment and looked at Lu Mingfei, "You seem to know a lot of things."

"I only know what I should know." Lu Mingfei shook his head, "It's not as magical as you think. If you really think it's a bit strange, then treat my words as a 'prophet' like those people, so it will be easier to accept."

"So your ability to predict does not come from the power of the 'word spirit'." Chu Zihang said.

Lu Mingfei nodded to admit it. He had never thought of using this statement to hide it from the people around him. It was just an official statement to deal with the public and the school board. In some small circles within the academy, most people believed that Lu Mingfei was secretly cultivated by Ange for a period of time before being discovered by the school board and could no longer be hidden, so he was slowly sent to the stage for display.

Everyone has their own guesses, but they cannot affect the current situation, because no matter what the truth is, Lu Mingfei is already here, like a meteor across the night sky of the mixed-blood world.

"Is the Norton Hall thing what you meant?" Chu Zihang said, "I received the email forwarded to me by Susie. You transferred the one-year use right of the 'Norton Hall' in the Freedom Day Bet to the Lionheart Club. The appendix mentioned that the use of Norton Hall can only be used for the daily activities of the Lionheart Club and cannot be transferred. I am very curious about what drives you to do this."

"A sense of belonging." Lu Mingfei said bluntly, "If I really have to choose a club to join between the Student Union and the Lionheart Club, I will only choose the Lionheart Club."

"Can I know the reason?"

"Didn't I talk about a sense of belonging?"

"How can you say you belong to the Lionheart Club if you have never joined it, or do you know the history of the Lionheart Club, and you have seen the same characteristics of what you identify with or the environment you have been in from the history of the Lionheart Club, which leads to the sense of belonging you mentioned."

"Brother, let's just chat, don't cut me with a scalpel, okay?" Lu Mingfei sighed, "There are some things I really can't explain, just like when I said I was actually reborn, do you believe me?"

"What is rebirth? Does it mean to come back to life literally? Have you died once?" Chu Zihang lowered his head to analyze the words Lu Mingfei uttered.

"Not dying once, you just understand it as returning to a certain fragment of the past time, just like when you suddenly returned to Shilan High School, what would you do and what would you think?" Lu Mingfei used an example that he thought was easy to understand.

Chu Zihang was stunned, his steps did not stop, but his thinking was unusually sluggish. He had always been teased by Caesar as a "robot", and his brain that ran calculations according to fixed logic finally got stuck. He stopped and looked at Lu Mingfei who had walked one step forward and stopped. He seemed to want to say something, but couldn't.

"It seems that you understand what I mean." Lu Mingfei showed a helpless smile, "Just like you said before, I know a lot of things. When Lin Nian chatted with me in the dormitory, he certainly talked about you. He mentioned your past to me, so I am also half an insider."

"Does anyone else know about this?" Chu Zihang asked, looking at Lu Mingfei's eyes that turned back.

"Maybe only me, Lin Nian knows? When we talked about those things that night, Finger fell asleep. I'm not sure if he heard that story."

"Do you believe those things?" Chu Zihang asked.

He rarely mentioned the past stories to others. The typhoon on the viaduct in the coastal city buried too many unwilling roars and tears. When he went to Kassel College, he emphasized countless times the experiences he had with that man. However, whether it was the gods on the viaduct, Odin who controlled Kungunir, or the eight-legged divine horse, they were all regarded as memory inversion after stress trauma by those senior professors and psychology teachers.

They did not find the road numbered "000" on the viaduct, nor did they find the body of the man and the Maybach. If Chu Zihang had not opened the bloodline that night, they would have thought that the boy was simply unable to accept the fact that he had contracted mental illness after losing his father on a rainy night.

"Why don't you believe it? And whether I believe it or not, those things really happened, right? I don't think Lin Nian would lie to me, especially in this regard." Lu Mingfei said.

"Many people think I'm crazy, or that I remembered it wrongly." Chu Zihang stared at Lu Mingfei, his golden eyes that never extinguished sparkling under the butterfly black lenses. "You are the first person who believes in me."

"The first person who believed in you was not me, but Lin Nian." Lu Mingfei turned his head and continued walking forward. Chu Zihang paused and followed him, listening to him say, "This is the first time I heard this. My reaction was no different from those of those people, and I also thought it was ridiculous, so senior brother, please don’t impress the wrong person. If Lin Nian hadn’t emphasized that what he said was true, I might have thought you were crazy. The person you are talking about is Lin Nian, and it’s because of Lin Nian that I believed you. At least that was the case at first, but after being in contact with you for a long time, I gradually began to believe the things you said, because if those things happened to others, I would think he was bragging and trying to impress people, but if it appeared on you, I would feel it was very real inexplicably. Who told you to have the face of a leading actor?"

"The Lin Nian you are talking about, many people think that he does not exist and was invented by you." Chu Zihang said suddenly.

Lu Mingfei paused for a moment, then continued walking forward as usual, "Senior brother, what do you think? Do you also think Lin Nian is fictional?"

"From your description, it seems that Lin Nian and I have a very good relationship." Chu Zihang said.

He is actually very particular about his choice of words. Generally speaking, if he is willing to tell someone about the past on the viaduct without any purpose, then it can only mean one thing, and that is that he is willing to entrust his life to that person. , that thing is the navigation beacon that supports him for the rest of his life. It is his unique obsession in life. If he wants to share it with others, it means that deep down in his heart, he hopes that after he dies, that person will take his place. At the end of that road, pull out the road sign that symbolizes the life of the boy "Chu Zihang".

"It should be considered a close friend." Lu Mingfei was also careful about his choice of words.

"How does his relationship with you compare to his relationship with me?" Chu Zihang asked again.

Lu Mingfei stopped immediately and turned to look at Chu Zihang, his face speechless and choked.

Chu Zihang also looked at him, wondering what was wrong with the other party, but some of the "interpersonal interactions" he had cultivated in the past two years still made him realize that he seemed to have said the wrong thing, and then whispered, "If you think I said the wrong thing, If so, you can ignore me."

"It's not that I said something wrong, I just suddenly felt that the senior brother is still the same senior brother." Lu Mingfei touched his forehead and added in his mind: except that you are a little less good, the basic characteristics are the same.

"I can't answer this question, but if you look at it subjectively, maybe my relationship with Lin Nian is a little better than that between him and you." Lu Mingfei coughed twice and pinched his thumb and index finger carefully. There is a little distance between them, "After all, we have known each other since high school, and we have the three most important friendships in life."

"The three pillars of life?" Chu Zihang heard the new words.

"We skipped class together, surfed the Internet together, and peeked at the girls' physical exam together." Lu Mingfei said seriously.

"In your opinion, don't you think Lin Nian and I have had these experiences?"

"Absolutely not, because senior brother, you are a very rigid person, and Lin Nian is a boring person. Only I can match his radio waves. I'm afraid you can only do homework and play basketball together!" Lu Mingfei said in his words. Somewhat proud.

"Well." Chu Zihang took another look at Lu Mingfei, and had a new evaluation of the relationship between Lu Mingfei and the boy named Lin Nian, "But I have never known such a person, whether he is a classmate or a basketball player. On the court, I’m pretty sure I don’t know the person you call ‘Lin Nian’.”

Lu Mingfei was silent for a while, then turned and stepped forward, "He's gone."

"Gone?"

"Disappeared, no longer existed. It was like a bowl of beef noodles with vinegar was brought down, and when it was brought back up, the vinegar in it was gone. Although the beef noodles were still the same bowl of beef noodles, without the vinegar, the bowl of noodles would not be the same. "It's delicious." Lu Mingfei said slowly, "So I want to find him at all costs. This is my original intention of entering Kassel College, and it is also what I will always do in the future."

"For you, Lin Nian is that typhoon." Chu Zihang suddenly said softly.

Lu Mingfei paused and was speechless.

Chu Zihang finally knew where his inexplicable sense of identification and exploration for Lu Mingfei came from. Fundamentally speaking, he and Lu Mingfei were the same kind of people. Both of them were fighting for something that would not be ignored. People or things recognized by the whole world live hard and keep moving forward, intending to prove that it is the world that is crazy and not themselves. This is their only motivation to walk on this road, and it is also a mission that they cannot give up.

For some reason, he has never believed so much in the existence of "Lin Nian" mentioned by Lu Mingfei. Even now when he chews on this name in his heart again, he can even outline a vague outline in his mind, a person walking in front. Looking back at the image of the big boy reaching out to him, he felt an unusual sense of peace of mind, a sense of peace that he had never felt since the day of the typhoon.

He somewhat understood why Lu Mingfei was obsessed with finding that "Lin Nian", because if that sense of peace of mind was true, then no one would reject him. After accidentally losing him, they would naturally try their best to find him. .

It's an integral part of their lives.

"I have asked some friends I know to help you find the person named 'Lin Nian'. If possible, you can send more detailed information about him to the Lion Heart Club. With that information, it may be faster. I can help you find some clues," Chu Zihang said.

"Thank you, senior brother." Lu Mingfei nodded.

The two of them fell into silence and walked around the illuminated lakeside in the shadow of the chirping insects.

"By the way, senior brother, I have a question. Aren't the freshmen taking the 3E exam tomorrow? Have you participated in Fingel's bet on the forum, which was about whether I could pass the 3E exam?" Lu Ming Fei asked suddenly.

"No one makes a bet on whether you can pass the 3E exam, because in the eyes of most people, it is certain that you pass the 3E exam. A certain thing cannot open the odds." Chu Zihang paused for a moment. "Someone is making another bet on you, whether you will be expelled from the academy because of the 3E exam and be classified as a dangerous bloodline. I heard the odds are exaggerated."

"Senior brother, have you placed a bet?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"No." Chu Zihang looked up at his back, "Do you want me to place a bet?"

"Try to buy some?"

"Which side should I buy?" Chu Zihang asked in the familiar rigorous manner.

Lu Mingfei looked back at Chu Zihang's eyes, smiled, and said, "If you can, bet on me to win! I can't lose this time, so I want to win, and I must win. I will find Lin Nian , prove that I am not a madman, and then return to where I should go and continue to complete my mission, no matter how much it costs, no matter how long the journey is.”

"What if you fail to find him in the end?" Chu Zihang asked softly, as if he was asking Lu Mingfei as well as himself.

Lu Mingfei stood under the street lamp, looked at him across the stone steps, smiled nonchalantly and said, "I would rather throw away the whole bowl of beef noodles without vinegar than take a bite."

Chu Zihang looked back at the boy's eyes. The emotions hidden deep in those brown pupils were so complex, angry, stubborn and full of determination, like a solitary lion, lonely and fierce.

ps: Let’s get on with it, Lu Mingfei, who has a zoo in his eyes, makes a grand appearance. Kill the Dragon King and blow up the palace!