Dragon Clan starts from digging the corner of Kassel

Chapter 362: Ling's invitation, Chen Motong's inferiority complex (4K words)
Zero…Caesar remembered that girl.

The student who entered Kassel Academy this year had an A-level bloodline assessment and was introduced to the academy by Chen Motong. His real name was unknown, and the Russian name listed in his information was mostly a pseudonym.

As the president of the student union, Caesar would naturally not let go of the potential seedlings among the freshmen. After Zero, the "new A-level" entered the school, he had an appointment with her and invited her to join his student union.

It was just a one-time meeting, but the other party left a deep impression on Caesar.

She looked about 13 or 14 years old, with a petite figure like a middle school student, but she was surprisingly beautiful, and her skin that was not covered by the uniform was so white that it was cold. She had a head of blonde hair that was almost pure white and was braided into a braid. Her expression was as cold as an ice sculpture, but she was very polite to others. However, it was impossible to tell what she was thinking or her emotions.

On the day I met him in the student union room, Zero even brought a cushion with him, as if he had some mysophobia.

This was the impression that Zero left on Caesar when he was a freshman.

Then, when Lu Mingfei invaded Kassel Academy, she seemed to show an unusual closeness and familiarity with Lu Mingfei, and she dropped out of school almost without hesitation and joined Faos Academy - Kassel Academy has never had the concept of voluntary withdrawal, but Bu Shun, who led Lu Mingfei at that time, showed extraordinary strength, and in the end it ended in nothing.

Caesar was unable to meet her again during the Golden City period, so it is unclear what progress this Ice Queen-like junior has made... But considering the amazing growth of Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang, she will surely not stand still.

"I'm just a stranger, what is there about me that's worth her caring about...?"

The leather seat automatically adjusted its support according to the curve of the spine. Caesar's left hand slowly lifted the black painted wooden cover.

What he saw was a metal object that seemed familiar to him.

The object is similar in size to a larger USB flash drive, with a silver trapezoidal shell covered with light blue blood vessels, and a faint blue light emanating from the red velvet wrapping. The smooth metal shell is seamlessly integrated, without any gaps or joints. Ordinary people might think it is just a piece of glowing metal after fiddling with it.

But there was no way Caesar could fail to recognize it.

He would see the unique rectangular light emanating from this block of silver-white metal every time he unfolded his structural armor. Now it was as familiar to him as the profile of his girlfriend and there was no way he could mistake it.

The same azure light flashed across his left arm, and Caesar silently called upon his own construct weapon, using its built-in scanning function to sweep across the metal block.

The next moment, a familiar female synthesized voice sounded in my mind:
[Authorization confirmed, reading information... Message received:]
[Mr. Caesar Gattuso, thank you for your previous support for the Construction Arms v1.34. I am Zero, one of the developers of the Construction Arms system. I wonder if you have mastered this special weapon? What do you think of it?]
[While you are here in Japan for exchange, I have something to tell you.]
[The construction weapon v1.34 that you have bound has a subsequent upgrade interface when it was originally designed. Considering that according to our Faos's design ideas, the construction weapon needs to have the ability to evolve according to the user's own characteristics and needs, this function has now been completed by me.]
[Put this upgrade component into your construction weapon to update its systems... It is also an invitation to join our team.]
[The evolution of the Construction Armor varies from person to person. I think you may be the first hybrid to evolve it to the next stage.]
[What do you think? If you have made a decision, please contact me through the communication system in the construction equipment.]
What is this? They invite you to join the lab and your job is to be the one being researched?

Caesar couldn't help but feel a little amused. When did the noble son of the Gattuso family fall to the point of having to sell blood in a laboratory?

But scenes of the Gray City, the Red Tide, and the Golden Country flashed through his mind like a series of paintings, and he soon couldn't help but think with self-mockery that in the world of true strong men, his talent, his qualifications, his family... were all meaningless. The fact that the other party politely invited him to be a test subject was already a full manifestation of "goodwill."

She was even willing to explain to him that her situation might be used for follow-up research... Obviously, given the technological gap between the two sides, even if Fals used monitoring software to scan his brain every minute, Caesar would not be able to find out.

——Of course, it is also possible that he is just not that important.

Chen Motong, who was standing aside, noticed that under the smooth golden hair of Caesar's forehead, there seemed to be a colorless fire burning in his pair of blue eyes.

“…What a great gift.”

Caesar took the upgrade module from the wooden box with his right hand, and the complete structure armor emerged on his left wrist. As soon as the two came close, they changed immediately. Several blue rays of light shot out from the upgrade module, projected into the crystal core of the wrist of the structure armor, and the module itself simultaneously photonized and disappeared at the fingertips of his right hand in a very sci-fi way.

[Construction Armament v1.34 system → v2.11, upgrade started]
[The only DNA binding target has been adapted, Caesar Gattuso]
Pale golden lines slowly emerged on the silver-white shell of the structural weapon, and within just a few seconds, they automatically depicted the pattern of the sun and dragon's eyes, overflowing with imperial majesty under the soft lighting inside the Maybach.

It's clearly just a dead object, but it feels like it's breathing.

Caesar moved his left hand, not feeling any weight or restraint. The armor made of unknown alloy fit tightly against his skin, without any coldness, as if it had become an extension of his limbs, another part of his palm.

The heart and lungs seemed to have been expanded and were functioning extra powerfully. The bones in the body also became stronger with the infiltration of a certain energy, and the consciousness became clearer and more active with the blessing of this energy.

He could feel the sense of peace and relief coming from the "external sea of ​​consciousness" in his heart, the sense of detachment and freedom from the lonely curse of dragon blood, the sense of transcendence of existing purely as "himself"...

Through this seemingly inconspicuous piece of equipment, the sublimation of the whole person is completed silently.

——That’s amazing.

Chen Motong had no idea what the people around him were thinking, but he could see amazement and admiration in their eyes, as well as the stubborn determination to refuse to admit defeat.

The man who was once extremely proud and confident, after enduring blows from terrifying strongmen time and time again, still did not have his upright backbone broken. Instead, his fighting spirit was constantly aroused - perhaps, Caesar, who possessed this mentality, was indeed the leader of revival that the Gattuso family had been waiting for for a long time.

Her eyes reflected the flame of joy in the eyes of this sun-like man, but the shadow in her heart slowly expanded unconsciously.

Chen Motong has always protected herself with the quirky shell that matches the nickname "Witch". Staring at the "sun" beside her, she suddenly felt a turbid emotion slowly accumulating in her chest.

"Does she need you to do something?" Chen Motong asked casually.

Caesar did not answer directly, but just smiled and shook his head, saying: "It's just an invitation. It seems that this classmate Zero still remembers me as the student union president. He agreed to join my student union and now he still remembers our friendship as classmates."

--lie.

Chen Motong's heart ached, but he couldn't say anything to question it.

"Is that so... Then let's go meet this classmate Ling and Chu Zihang together later." She turned her head to look at the right side of the car window. The glass that isolated the outside world was covered with a light mist, but for some reason, it reflected her own image with gray eyes.

She saw herself in the mist opening her lips slightly and mouthing:
"What are you thinking about?"

Chen Motong thought that he had been seeing these strange hallucinations recently, and occasionally had auditory hallucinations. Should he see a doctor and take some medicine after this mission is over?

As a result, after she finished thinking about it, she actually heard a hazy and low voice in her ears: "You think you are not as good as him...right?"

A sour emotion surged up from the bottom of my heart, blocking my throat like stomach acid, causing a burning pain. Chen Motong suddenly understood the true identity of this emotion. It was the thing called "inferiority complex". It was the jealousy and inferiority that unconsciously emerged in the hearts of those who had been standing still and looked at those who were bravely moving forward.

Caesar, who was unaware of all this, thought that she was just having a little temper tantrum for some unknown reason.

He quietly stared at Chen Motong's long red tassel-like hair and profile, following her gaze to stare at the scenery outside the window. He wanted to comfort her, but he was also concerned about the other people in the car and couldn't find a chance to speak.

Maybe it's the little witch's self-esteem that's at work.

But Caesar felt that Chen Motong’s rejection at the time was not a bad thing. After all, he didn’t know what price was marked behind the gift that Faos had given him.

"I will always protect you." He thought to himself.

Once he has mastered the technology of constructing weapons, he will not hesitate to share this power with the hybrids he recognizes. At that time, Nono will no longer have to have doubts about this power, right?

Chen Motong, in the reflection of the glass, looked at the blond man who was lost in thought from afar, tilted his head and smiled.

——This is the real rift between Caesar and Chen Motong’s souls.

You can only show off in front of people who are weaker than you, but you will shrink into a ball in front of people who are equal or better than you, protecting yourself with a hedgehog-like attitude and hiding your true heart...

"You are the child who has never grown up."

After saying these ambiguous words, the mist in Chen Motong's eyes disappeared.

The real scene outside the window flew backwards like flowing water, as if the world was speeding and she had been left far behind.

She has no spiritual power, no powerful strength, and her own family is hated by her... The real her is just an ordinary person. Can she still stand by Caesar and regard herself as someone close to him?
After all...why did you reject this power in the first place?

Mingming Lian Jiude Aki and Ye Sheng both accepted it without hesitation.

Chen Motong remembered that at that time, in front of the God's Sleeping Palace where the Bronze and Fire Kings were sleeping, the powerful man who seemed gentle but was actually indifferent to them - the powerful man from another world named Bu Shun said:

"This is a path to suppress dragon blood, in order to have a power that is not bound by dragon blood and is completely beyond the realm of science and technology."

Her subconscious seemed to resist this path of "rejecting dragon blood but no longer being human", as if... the fact of "being human" itself was extremely important to her.

So what kind of power am I pursuing?
Maybe it was because of the hallucination just now that made her mind a little confused, but Chen Motong seemed a little dazed and actually stretched out her hand and put her fingertips on the edge of the car window.

The glass sensed her fingerprint and immediately fogged up to isolate the outside world. Paganini's violin piece "Devil's Trill" sounded in the car - the melodious and slightly weird melody rang in her ears, and finally evolved into a surging tide.

In the sound of the tide, there was a majestic, miserable voice wailing, like the sound of someone bowing his head and knocking on the rocks, shouting:

"Come to me."

"This is your throne."

"Come to me."

"This is the crown you have to pick up."

"——Come to my side!!!"

At the end, the sound sounded like a terrifying roar, like the magma erupting from a volcano on the ice sea, sweeping across the sky and the ground, carrying with it a hint of unforgettable sorrow.

It was like the pain of having your lover's spear pierce your chest, or having your head ruthlessly cut off by a hero while the sirens sang. The sound of hot blood rushing into the waves penetrated through the eardrums into the brain, rippling and echoing in the skull.

Chen Motong suddenly woke up from the hallucination and heard the ancient shamisen tune coming from the car audio. Only then did he realize that the devilish violin music had never sounded before.

“That was just…”

She turned her head suddenly, looking past Caesar, to the other end of the car, to the other direction... The oppressive feeling she had felt on the plane coincided with her premonition at this moment. She remembered her feelings at that time, which were related to the ocean and water, as if something was about to revive in this country... Could it be that what had just called her was——

The King of Ocean and Water?!
Suddenly, a series of meowing sounds interrupted her guess.

Chen Motong and Caesar simultaneously cast their eyes towards the passenger seat. The unknown man who led them into the car took out a cell phone that was making a cat-like ringtone from his pocket and put it to his ear.

Caesar lowered his eyes and turned into dark gold. He frowned slightly and tried to use the ability of Kamaitachi to hear the conversation between the man and the other end of the phone. However, the response from Kamaitachi was that there was no one in the passenger seat? !

After a while, the man put down his phone, turned sideways and looked back. The sunglasses he put on at some point reflected the different expressions of the two people in the back seat.

"You two, I just received news from the family." He paused, and said in a calm voice, "There have been some slight changes over there in the 'sea'. Lord Ling and Lord Chu Zihang are both heading there. I wonder if you two are interested in going there together now?"

"Of course, if you two want to go to the hotel to rest for a while, we can also..."

Before the man could finish, Caesar waved his hand and interrupted, "No need, go over there now!"

He stretched out his right hand and clenched Chen Motong's slightly sweaty palm, and a fierce fighting spirit emerged on his handsome face like the Apollo sculpture:
"I can't ask for it!"

Okay, I have also worked hard to ensure stable updates today! Day 4! I have also recently reorganized the outline. I will work hard! I will work hard!
(End of this chapter)