Lu Mingfei Development Program

Chapter 508 Marston

The colonel came alone. He looked old. Except for the brass prosthetic left hand, he looked like an ordinary businessman. However, ordinary businessmen would not build such an underground fighting arena.

He came alone, old and without guards, no way he looked like a match for the two young men. But Minei, who was holding Lu Mingfei, didn't dare to move, because the colonel's prosthetic limb was pointing at them, with black holes on the two metal fingers. He didn't think it was just a lighter that looked a little better.

"Come on, Colonel, I'm just following your rules and placing bets. You were watching me the whole time, there was absolutely no trick." Minai said helplessly.

Normally, this friend of his would be the first to come forward and explain. But today, he didn't know what happened. The inexplicable change of mind on the stage almost made him miss the opportunity to place a bet. Now he was silent again. He had no choice but to come forward.

"Master Miner, do you think I care about those hundreds of gold coins?" The colonel didn't even look at Miner, but looked at Lu Mingfei silently, "Master Xizel, aren't you going to say anything?"

"If I really have to say something..." Lu Mingfei thought for a moment, looked at the colonel and said, "I just don't like being pointed at by a gun."

The colonel was stunned for a moment, and so was Minet.

The latter was a little mad. No matter how he thought about it now, he shouldn't have answered like that, right? Although everything turned out differently from what César had said to him, in the end they did take advantage of the colonel and made a lot of money.

Before coming here, he was also worried about what would happen if the colonel came to investigate. After all, the colonel controlled such a large underground fighting arena, and he was still quite powerful in Marston. Both the underworld and the white world had to give him some face. No one dared to cause trouble in the colonel's arena, and this was not just a casual remark.

But what César said was clearly adding fuel to the fire! Before coming here, he said he would take care of the colonel. Is this how he would do it?

The colonel looked at César with some surprise. His purple pupils were like an abyss. While he was seeing him, he was also being seen by him.

When the colonel first recruited the boy, he thought he might give him a surprise in the future. As a businessman, he naturally knew how to maximize his profits. Although the Dragon Slayer's ten consecutive victories were a big gimmick, it did not bring him much profit.

On the contrary, if the dragon slayer was really defeated, the huge difference in odds between the two sides would allow him to make a lot of money. Such an amount of money is not comparable to the hundreds of gold coins that the two boys colluded to get.

The purple-eyed boy in front of him was the one he favored. His maintenance and concentration on armor proved that he was definitely an expert, and he definitely came to participate in armor fighting for victory. He was far from being comparable to the Dragon Slayer, a prodigal rich second-generation manipulator who had to fight in the underworld because he couldn't pay back the loan sharks.

The colonel had already instructed his men to place bets when the boy came on stage, but he had not expected that the fight would end before the boy came on stage.

Foxhound became the biggest dark horse. No one expected that this unprepossessing little suit of armor would defeat the dragon slayer who was at the peak of his career... However, the colonel did not believe it. He knew very well that the performance of these tattered suits of armor he had found could never have such mobility.

So the moment after the match ended, he went to the preparation room. The armors and the children who participated in the fight were all on standby here. If someone really did something to the armor, they could only do it here.

Sure enough, under the silent gaze of the colonel, the guard in the preparation room admitted that a boy had left the room after the Foxhounds came on the field, saying that the game was over. All the boys in the room could testify for him about what the boy had said to the Foxhounds' operator before he came on the field.

There was no time to question the guards for their negligence, as the major immediately gave chase and stopped the two boys before they could leave.

To be honest, as the owner of an underground fighting arena, the colonel was not someone who could not afford to lose a few hundred gold coins. However, it was worth noting that a piece of tattered armor that had been worn out for a long time could briefly perform at the same level as an active military armor.

...Especially someone like him who openly does business in mobile armor combat, but secretly has other identities.

To Minet's surprise, the colonel actually took back the prosthetic limb.

"…Relax, it's just a cigarette lighter." The colonel took out a cigar from his clothes, and a flame emerged from the finger of his prosthetic limb and ignited it.

He exhaled a breath of white air and asked Lu Mingfei curiously: "I'm curious, how do you know that Foxhound will win? After all, in my opinion, the one who has the best chance of winning among those children is actually you."

Although the purpose was to find out how to make the worn-out armor perform super functions, the colonel would not rush into it. Before the ten-game winning streak, the children needed to train with the armor for a month. He also observed the boy with purple eyes for a month and knew very well that he was not the kind of person who could be easily tricked into talking.

"Why? Actually, I want to ask that, too." Lu Mingfei looked at the colonel and said, "Maybe they thought she might win, so they chose her."

Not to mention the colonel, even Minet might not believe this reason.

The colonel was almost laughing out of anger. He was willing to speak so calmly out of a little respect for Xizel's future identity as a mechanic. Coming from Florence, he knew very well that these capable mechanics were all crazy, but he couldn't do anything about them and had to shamelessly ask them to debug the armor.

But this is not Florence, there are no crazy people from Minerva Agency. Xizel is just a student, he will be a mechanic in the future... provided that he can return to school from here.

Someone quickly approached from the corridor. It was an employee of the underground fighting arena. He whispered something in the colonel's ear. The colonel glanced at Lu Mingfei and waved his hand to let the employee leave.

"All the internal parts of the Foxhound are scrapped, and the outer armor is also completely damaged. It's hard to imagine that it was teasing its opponent in the fighting arena with ease just a few minutes ago." The colonel looked at Lu Mingfei.

He said coldly, "Master Cesar, are you going to explain something? As far as I know, before the Foxhound came on the scene, besides its operator, you were the only one who had come into contact with it."

The furnace of heaven and earth can manipulate metals at will and enhance their performance. However, with Lu Mingfei's current bloodline power, he cannot give too much blessing to the foxhound, so he has to sacrifice the life of the metal itself to obtain performance far beyond the usual level.

Lu Mingfei suddenly laughed. He was weak now, but his hearing had recovered a little. The employee just now told the colonel about Qiukadu.

The girl did not disappoint her, and after winning, while the employees of the fighting arena and the audience who lost money were in a mess, she jumped out of the scrapped Foxhound and took the winning prize.

Perhaps in order to motivate the challenger to hold on a little longer and make the fight more exciting, the prize money that the challenger can get after winning is placed outside the ring, and the winner can jump out of the ring to take it away.

Because Qiukadu was the winner, the guard who was guarding the prize money didn't think anything was wrong when she took it. By the time he received the message from above and stopped Qiukadu, the tomboy had already disappeared into the chaotic crowd with her size advantage.

"Why don't you ask the operator of the Foxhound about this?" Lu Mingfei asked even though he knew the answer.

The colonel looked at Lu Mingfei deeply, and suddenly made way for the body blocking the corridor: "You are a smart boy, you should know what I am asking you. But I am not a person who likes to force others, go back and think about it, I think you will remember the answer."

This was not because he suddenly became merciful. He retired from the Florence Inquisition and was still working there. He was the one who didn't know what mercy was. Otherwise, he wouldn't have found a group of young boys to fight in armor. He knew where the boy was taking classes, and he also knew from the gossipy Master Minei that he had a beautiful sister... He would find the boy, just like the boy knew the meaning of his asking him to go back and think about it.

“Thanks.” Unfortunately, Lu Mingfei had no idea what was going on in his mind.

Even after leaving the fighting arena, Minet was still wondering whether the colonel had arranged dozens of gunmen in the alleys on the street, waiting for his order to appear and shoot them into sieves with brass pistols.

Lu Mingfei did not have such concerns. His bloodline power had seriously declined, but he could still confirm that the colonel did not go back on his word.

"You actually let us go?" Minei asked with some confusion.

César said he would take care of the colonel, and although he did in fact do it, looking at the colonel's attitude, it didn't look like it was over.

"It's useless to think about these things at this time, let's go back." Lu Mingfei said.

For him, the matter of the underground fighting arena was over. He couldn't wait to see the world behind the door... As for the outside of the fighting arena, forget it, there was nothing to see here, and it was a bit subtle.

Although Minei said that everyone in this city, whether in the white or black world, has to give the colonel some face, but the underground business like armor fighting cannot be exposed, so the entrance to the fighting arena must be placed in an inconspicuous place.

...But, this place looks like a red-light district, isn't it a bit inconspicuous?
When passing by an alley, Lu Mingfei suddenly turned his head and caught the bag thrown at him. He turned his head and saw a pretty girl with long hair looking at him silently.

"This is your share," the girl said. "We're even now."

"Jukadu?" Lu Mingfei said with some surprise.

There was a reason for his surprise, the current Jukadu was no longer the dirty tomboy in the preparation room before.

She was smart and knew that the people in the fighting arena were also looking for her, so she changed out of her worn-out men's clothes, tore off her gray headscarf, and changed into a skirt that she found from somewhere...According to the characteristics of this street, the thing that should be most abundant here is women's clothing.

Her long hair was a little wet, and it seemed that she had taken the time to wash her hair to cover up the smell of motor oil on her body. Combined with her light body fragrance, it was impossible for people to associate her with the challenger who defeated the dragon slayer.

"Qiuka, my name is Qiuka." Qiuka corrected Lu Mingfei's mistake. In her hometown, the name Qiukadu for a girl is Qiuka.

"Qiuka? I see." Lu Mingfei weighed the bag in his hand. He was a little surprised that the girl would wait for him outside the fighting arena.

This bag of gold coins was not as good as the one that Miney brought him, but it was also a considerable sum of money. With it, even if Qiuka still had to pay for medicine in the future, he would be able to live a comfortable life.

Qiuka walked in front of Lu Mingfei. She knew that the people in the fighting arena were still looking for her, but she couldn't help but ask, "How did you do that just now?"

She didn't think that she was like the protagonist in the Xia country's martial arts stories and novels, who had an epiphany and mastered the magical skills to beat the Western iron golems into a mess, making them cry for their parents.

"You can't tell me that." Lu Mingfei said. The colonel didn't even know the answer to this question, and so did Qiu Ka.

"...Really? Then just pretend I never asked." Qiu Ka said as he moved closer to Lu Mingfei and suddenly stood on tiptoe to kiss him on the face.

Lu Mingfei, who was curious about why she was so close to him, was stunned for a moment and looked at her sideways. He was not concerned about Qiu Ka's bold move, but the moment the girl kissed him, he felt an indescribable sense of guilt from his heart?

But he helped Qiu Ka win the game and got the money, so why should he feel guilty? After a moment of hesitation, Lu Mingfei understood that it was not him who felt guilty, but "himself".

Qiuka was not shy about her action, as if it was a natural thing in her hometown: "The gold coins I gave you just now are what you promised to give you. This is my way of thanking you... I am very poor, and this is the only way to thank you."

Having said that, she had just won some money.

Qiuka left without telling Lu Mingfei why she needed the money. However, Lu Mingfei had guessed a little bit and just advised her family not to blindly use medicine, but to see other doctors, maybe there would be different results.

At the same time, he was also a little curious. How did Qiu Ka, who looked like an oriental person, end up in this city that was more Western-oriented? Fortunately, Minai answered his inner questions.

"She's a pretty good girl..." Minai sighed. He was a talkative guy, but he didn't interrupt when Lu Mingfei and Qiu Ka were talking. "It's a pity that she's from Ceylon, which no longer exists."

Later, Lu Mingfei learned that the Eastern country of Ceylon had been destroyed.

As he and Minai returned to school, Lu Mingfei understood the name of this city. Marston, there is such a city in his own world.

The only slight difference is that it is more inclined to the East than the opposite world, located on the border between the East and the West, so that some people from the lost Eastern countries have collectively flocked here, and Qiuka is one of them.

He returned to school in silence, and paid the tuition with the company of Minei... Only then did Lu Mingfei realize that the reason he risked his life to go to the underground fighting arena to make money was actually to pay the tuition.

He didn't know what to say for a moment. Should he praise the boy for being a good student who paid his fees on time or a dangerous person who was keen on underground fighting?

Under Minei's guidance, they returned to a temporary dormitory that was converted from a warehouse. Lu Mingfei was not surprised by this. When he returned to the campus just now, he had already understood that "he" was probably not welcome in this college.

Without having time to look at other things in the room, he was looking for something like a book, preferably something about history or geography.

Then, suddenly a voice sounded from his heart: "Devil, what are you looking for?"

(End of this chapter)