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

"The Kuimen area has been officially blocked and will not be opened as a tourist attraction in the next three years. The official will subsidize the impact of the tourism industry. The specific plan is probably to implement some effective regional preferential policies as usual." The principal came up with a plan The stack of documents was placed on the glass table and pushed in front of Lin Nian. He tapped the corner of the photo exposed in the document for him to take a look.

Lin Nian opened the file and took a few glances at the photos inside. What caught his eye were several red maple mountains. But now it was the dawn of spring. Where did the mountains full of red maple leaves come from? He flipped through some more and realized that this was Fengshan. This was Kuimen after a heavy rain and the tide receded.

The mountains on both sides of the river that were originally submerged were dyed blood red by the dragon's blood of the Red Sea. The dragon's blood soaked into every inch of soil on the mountains like fingers inserted into a woman's waterfall hair, leaving behind the maple red color now everywhere.

"Is something going to go wrong?" Lin Nian said subconsciously.

"It must be a big problem. If even the soil is completely submerged by the river water contaminated by dragon's blood, then it is difficult to imagine what the animals and plants raised on these two mountains will look like in the next three years." The principal leaned on his chair. His hands were stuffed into his pockets on his back.

"Even the mountains on both sides of the bank are like this. Is the situation underwater probably even worse?"

"It's better underwater. Because the Dragon King is plundering, no fish dare to approach the polluted waters. It is a natural restricted area for underwater creatures, just like minefields for humans. But where is the orthodoxy like this? Adequate fish blocking measures have also been taken, and a draft of the three-year fishing ban plan for the Yangtze River has been submitted, which is now being adopted."

"Treating the symptoms rather than the root cause, of course I am referring to the ban on fishing." The principal shrugged, "For those who really like fishing, the ban on fishing is probably just a joke that they scold. Those guys can't even cross the Naihe Bridge. People who can’t help but want to throw away two poles. But if the people who steal the fish bite the hook and don’t let go this time, most of the people will be the ones who get away from the fish in the end.”

"It's a hell of a joke, but it's true, but this is also something that the orthodox side should worry about." Lin Nian put down the document, "But compared to stealing fishing, the orthodox side should be busy with other more important things during this time. ?”

"Like the Dragon King at the foot of the Kuimen River?" Angre asked.

"The legendary alchemy sword combination, the fusion of real bronze and the remains of the Fire King, regardless of position, it is difficult for anyone not to be tempted by this temptation."

"It's one thing to be tempted, but it's another thing to have the ability to fish it out for your own use." The principal shook his head gently, "At least right now, neither the orthodox nor we have the ability to touch the area under the Kuimen River. Treasure.”

"Are you sure Norton is dead?" Lin Nian asked.

"Now, whether in the orthodox or the secret party, the slayers of Norton, the King of Bronze and Fire, and Constantine have been recorded with your name. I think the answer to this question is best answered by you." The principal chuckled. He looked at Lin Nian.

"At least in my eyes he is dead."

"Then he is dead." Angers nodded slightly, "Now his state is no different from death. Orthodoxy passed back an underwater video and a copy of the secret party when cooperating and communicating with the secret party two months ago The secret experimental observation report proves that although the behemoth underwater still has physiological activities that a living thing should have, it does not mean that he is still alive. Various tests and experiments have shown that he looks like a behemoth Dragon King. It is indeed just a 'monster' now."

"Although it is unbelievable, one of the four great monarchs known as the terminator of human civilization, our Highness Norton, is now in a state of brain death, and the estimated period of this state will be forever!" Angers said, "But dragons will always be great creatures that we cannot understand, not to mention the existence of the Dragon King standing on the top of the mountain. Even if he is brain-dead, his dragon body still maintains complete functions, from the beating of the heart, blood supply, to water The circulation of the lower respiratory system, the metabolism of the body, etc. are all still proceeding in a balanced manner."

"Like a vegetative person...or a plant dragon?" Lin Nian felt that his metaphor was a bit ridiculous, but he believed that when anyone saw the huge but lifeless dragon body in the darkness below the river, he would feel uncomfortable in his heart. It will be ridiculous, but it will only be boundless fear and awe of the giant beast full of wild atmosphere.

"Whether a brain-dead person is alive or dead, and whether the life of a living thing is determined by consciousness or matter, this has always been a hotly debated and enduring topic. But whether from the perspective of the secret party or orthodoxy, what we are facing today is fundamentally It won't be a matter of debate. They and we have always only valued one thing, and that is what this dragon body can bring to us." Angers raised his head and looked at Lin Nian.

"It's not surprising. After all, this is the fused Dragon King. It can be called the ultimate form even in the entire dragon civilization. It is normal for humans to covet this." Lin Nian nodded.

"You seem to be reacting very calmly to this, Lin Nian," Angers said.

"It's hard not to be calm, after encountering so many things." He reached out to the waffles sprinkled with rose water on the table.

"The orthodox tried to study the living dragon body, but they failed." Ange stood up and took out his hand from his trouser pocket, picked up the knife and fork, cut the waffles for Lin Nian first, and laid them out. On the porcelain plate in front of the other person.

"The issue of the seven deadly sins?" Lin Nian did not reject Ange's kindness.

"It's hard for me to say whether the alchemy sword combination in that state can still be called the 'Seven Deadly Sins', and you have to give me an explanation for this question." Angers retracted his hand and leaned back on the chair.

"It's just another form. Norton re-smelted it. It was a brand new field of alchemy. If I had been less lucky that day, I might be the one lying at the bottom of the river being studied." Lin Nian used a knife. He was cutting the waffles with his fork, and his tone was calm, but there wasn't much fear in it.

"In short, orthodoxy cannot crack the alchemical field that has been formed in the Dragon King's body. The new form of the Seven Deadly Sins is extremely difficult and vicious. Any creature that tries to get close to the Dragon King's body will be attacked by the Seven Deadly Sins. Orthodoxy has sacrificed for this. There are multiple divers. It is an alchemical field that we have never seen before. Maybe the Dragon King could not bear the cruelty, so he chose the ending of brain death. Of course, this is also one of our conjectures." Angers said and looked at Lin Nian At a glance, "After all, we can only guess this way. According to your report, the battle ended at the moment when the Seven Deadly Sins penetrated Fury Norton."

"Then it seems that the ending now is the best. The Dragon King is no longer a threat, and his legacy can no longer cause a second battle. This not only solves the problem of external aggression, but also ensures that there will be no internal struggle because of it." Lin Nian He said while chewing a muffin.

"Perhaps one day in the future, when Orthodoxy finds the secret to cracking the alchemy field of the Seven Deadly Sins, the civil strife will officially begin?" Angers asked.

"But that's for the future. Norton's masterpiece full of rage before his death is not so easy to study and decipher. The hybrids should understand the marginal alchemy skills left by the Dragon Clan before talking about the high-level affairs." Lin Nian looked like He is extremely confident in the alchemy attainments of orthodoxy and the secret party.

"So the secret party is very dissatisfied. They think we have lost more in this dragon slaying." Angers said.

"They really treat dragon slaying as a business."

"After all, we are the party that has paid the most this time." Ange spread his hands gently, his eyes lowered with meaning.

Lin Nian bit the muffin without saying anything, and swallowed the food in his mouth with the sweet black tea. Ange also poured him another cup.

"But no matter what, this dragon-slaying battle was successful. No one can question Norton's death." The principal said, "The biggest voice on the school board was just questioning what happened underwater that day. You need to know what happened underwater that day." There seems to be some discrepancy between the mission reports received by members of Tianxia Diver for the Executive Department."

"In and out?" Lin Nian wiped the corners of his mouth with a tissue and looked up.

"Some diver members described the mission as very dangerous, while others described it as very relaxed. For example, most of Chu Zihang's mission reports were about the siege of the corpse guards and the chaos of underwater blasting. An article was even derived from this. A combat paper on the underwater tug-of-war; Caesar reported that he arrived at the Bronze City leisurely carrying a coffin of unknown origin. During this period, he even recorded some ecological and environmental problems of the Yangtze River, and he was quite knowledgeable about river management issues. Insight; in the end, Lu Mingfei’s side, um, in his original words, he sneaked into Baidi City with you and killed people indiscriminately. He was responsible for the killing, and you were responsible for the killing. As soon as he saw the Dragon King, he started fighting, and the fight was so screaming. The sky is dark and the earth is dark, and the sun and moon have no light.”

"Did he really use the two idioms 'the sky is dark and the earth is dark' and 'the sun and the moon have no light' in his report?"

"Yes, the whole story looks like a novel. You and the Dragon King even have lines with each other in it."

"for example?"

"For example, 'You humble human being, you have to pay for the mistakes you made!' 'Come on! Dragon King! It's time for us to settle old scores!' Something like that."

"It does sound quite confusing." Lin Nian commented sincerely.

"Does that mean you didn't say those words? Neither did the Dragon King?"

"No, I forgot, maybe I said that."

"They all insisted that the report was what they saw, and there was absolutely no fraud." Angers raised his eyes and glanced at Lin Nian with interest, "In the end, it seems that only your mission report has a beginning and an end, and even the details are explained in place—— Therefore, in the end, the execution department can only use your mission report as the final version entered into the information database."

"This is what I should do." Lin Nian nodded, "I want to know if my GPA this semester can reach 4.0 after this mission is over?"

"Can students who have won the Nobel Prize be admitted to graduate school?" Angers asked with a smile, "Even if you take the internship course this semester, you will pass it with full marks."

"Then I probably won't worry about the scholarship being delayed due to the use of funds for school reconstruction." Young Lin exhaled softly and looked at the jumping red squirrels on the bookshelf outside the guardrail. "After all, the school board probably won't let them." The hero is heartbroken."

"One last thing." Angers said, "You should know that the name Dragon King Norton once used was Ronald Tang, right?"

"Chinese American, born in an orphanage, living in a slum area of ​​Brooklyn, dropped out of high school." Lin Nian said slowly.

"Where did you learn about it?"

"You may not believe it, but Lu Mingfei and he were netizens. I mean before Norton realized his true identity." Lin Nian said.

Anger nodded and said, "According to the records in "Ice Sea Fragments", these brothers have been living in bronze palaces in Northern Europe. But starting from a certain year BC, they suddenly decided to cross the Eurasian continent and go to China, supported Gongsun Shu as king, but was defeated by Emperor Liu Xiu with the support of the mixed-race family. Before they died, they also cocooned their souls. The brass jars you found in the Bronze City were not actually bone jars. Rather, they are the 'eggs' used by the Dragon King to reproduce new bodies."

"Their new bodies grew again in the eggs. The dragon king's body grew like the cultivation of a towering tree. Over the course of thousands of years, Norton, as the elder brother, left the 'egg' first and wandered in human society with the loss of memory. , got the name 'Ronald Don,' and the story we all know began."

"I don't have much interest in dead things. Maybe if you tell Lu Mingfei about this, he will be more willing to listen. Norton was once his acquaintance, not mine." Lin Young said in a low voice.

"I just want to explain one thing to you, Lin Nian." Ange's voice was low, "The process of the Dragon King retrieving his memory is a step-by-step process. The moment he truly retrieves his memory is when his dragon body grows perfectly. The moment of success, but according to calculations, he should still be a hundred years away from this moment, but he revived early and was in perfect condition to meet and kill you. This is contrary to common sense. "

"Perhaps Constantine's death stimulated him. There is always a common blood connection between brothers."

"You guessed it right." Anger nodded and handed over a document again, "When Norton was still the individual 'Ronald Tang', he had mental problems for a period of time. The specific manifestations were: He suffered from insomnia, severe headaches, and nightmares. We have found his consultation records in the psychological departments of major hospitals in New York. That period also happened to be three months after Constantine's death when you conducted dive training. between."

"So...?" Lin Nian did not accept the document. He looked at the word 'Top Secret' on the cover of the document and the blood-red winding 'S' mark with scale-like lines and remained silent for a long time.

"After the invasion of the Wuni Opera House and Constantine's students, I was often wary of third-party forces that were eyeing the enemy, so I also conducted research on the time point when 'Ronald Don' awakened as Norton. After a comprehensive investigation, I thought I could find out some lists of the masterminds who coveted the Dragon King's inheritance, but in the end I only got a rather intriguing piece of information." Angers pushed the closed document to Lin Nian in front of

"I think there is indeed some kind of connection between the individual Ronald Tang and Constantine that transcends time and space. This is the privilege and mystery of the dragon clan. They are connected by blood, even if they are far apart, they will feel sad because of each other's demise. , so Ronald Tang will have serious mental problems during those three months, which almost drives him crazy. If there is no accident, this kind of pain will continue to haunt him until the body matures completely - which also means With the achievement of a point, that was the day Ronald Down was cured of his mental problems, that is, the day he died and Norton was resurrected."

"But in your report, he appeared in Baidi City as a perfect Dragon King."

"Yes."

"Then it seems that his illness is cured ahead of schedule."

"Principal, do you want to say that he has found a doctor in New York who is good enough to solve Dragon King's mental illness?" Lin Nian looked down at the document and whispered, "Who is that living Bian Que?"

"In terms of psychotherapy, it should be considered a living Hippocrates, right?" Angers also whispered.

"Good." Lin Nian put his hand on the cover of the 'S'-level secret document to open it. At this moment, Ange reached out and gently pressed the back of Lin Nian's hand while looking into his eyes. , “The school board will be unhappy with the Keel Cross issue.”

Lin Nian raised his head and looked at Ange. He didn't know why the old man would bring up another topic just when one topic was reaching its climax. But when he looked at the old man's eyes that were full of light, he gradually relaxed his right hand on the document. "Actually, I'm still very curious, principal, how you convinced the school board to use the Dragon Bone Cross as bait to invest in the 'Bronze Project'. In the eyes of those old guys, this is a ridiculous thing."

"I have never told them about the Dragon Bone Cross. If it weren't for your mission report, they probably thought the Dragon Bone Cross was still lying in the Well of Annihilation." The principal said with a smile, "Has anyone told you, Hilbert Jean Angers is a lunatic who is willing to give up everything valuable in life in order to slay a dragon?”

"More than one person said that." Lin Nian looked at the cracks etched by time on the old man's smiling face, as if he could see the quagmire-black past from there.

"So they call me the Destined Dragon Slayer. The so-called Destined Dragon Slayer does not depend on the level of blood, but on how much you can dedicate yourself to the mission of slaying the dragon." The principal held up the bone china cup with one hand and drank. The sweetness inside made his eyes pass over the rim of the cup and stop on the boy's face, "And you are everyone's favorite to be the next destined dragon slayer."

"Destined dragon slayer?" Lin Nian chewed the word and chuckled to himself. He looked up and saw the principal's silent face again.

"Shall_we?"

The old man grabbed Lin Nian's hand. The old hand was warm and strong, and he helped them open the cover of the document. Two pairs of eyes fell together with different emotions and light, illuminating the familiar photo and the familiar name that appeared on the first page of the top-secret document.

The principal's office was quiet for a long time. The sunlight falling from the skylight left clear traces on Lin Nian's head and side face, until it blurred the photo of the beautiful girl on the white paper. The red squirrel stopped at the edge of the bookshelf holding a pine cone and looked at it. The dark pupils of the drooped head reflected scattered light.

"She has always been an excellent psychiatrist, hasn't she?" the old man asked.

The boy's fingers gently traced the girl's cheek in the photo, leaving shallow wrinkles on the page.

"always like this."