Lu Mingfei Development Program

Chapter 579: The First Nibelungen Plan

"...I took one last look outside the cave, and saw something far more terrifying than the end of the world." Angé's cloudy eyes were trembling, as if even after a hundred years, the scene that he could not understand and was so terrifying that it appeared in every nightmare was still reflected in the depths of his eyes.

He said in a hoarse voice: "Such a 'crack' not only appeared near us, but also affected the entire world. The dead earth disappeared into the void, and the fog in the sky was stirred, allowing me to see the huge mountain in the distance clearly..."

Ange would never forget that desperate day. Menech's death was the last straw that broke the camel's back. He got up from the ground crying and came to the sealed iron door, wanting to see what had killed his companion.

The crack that killed many of his companions stopped in front of the iron gate. Angé didn't know what was going on, but it was definitely not the effect of Rasputin's seal.

They were running in the right direction! Menek was only one step away from reaching a safe place. But this surprising discovery did not make Angers happy. What good would it be if he found a safe place? He was the only one left in the Lionheart Society. He could do nothing but watch the world being destroyed quietly.

He looked outside numbly. The gray haze in the air was disturbed, as if a storm was brewing. But in this world where all elements were dead, where was the wind? A huge sound came from the distant horizon, and something heavy fell from the sky, which seemed to be the mountain connecting the sky and the earth in the mist.

Angers heart was numb, he felt that there was no emotion that could make him collapse again. But the fear brought by the huge uneasiness at this moment kept reminding him to close his eyes and turn around! Don't look at the falling object!

But it was too late, the thing had already appeared in his field of vision...

After waiting for a long time without hearing his next words, Lu Mingfei glanced at the old man who was stunned by his memories. His eyes were dull and gray, like a dead person.

If he didn't know that he was still breathing slightly, Lu Mingfei would probably have thought he was dead.

"What did you see?" he reminded softly.

Angers came back to his senses, took a long breath, and said slowly: "A...corpse..."

"Whose body is it?" Lu Mingfei continued to ask.

"...I don't know. He is really too huge." Angers whispered, "The 'mountain' we saw in the fog earlier was actually just a part of His limbs that hung down to the ground."

That was the scene that Angers least wanted to recall. Even the scene of his companions' tragic deaths seemed so insignificant compared to the huge corpse falling from the sky.

The tall mountain was just a part of His limbs, maybe a tail, or maybe a hind leg, because it was too huge for Angers to judge. He was like a falling star, smashing the dead earth into pieces like glass shards before the nothingness in the cracks completely swallowed the world.

Then, He sank into the endless abyss along with those fragments of the world.

Young Ange witnessed the deathly silent world being destroyed again, and at that moment he saw the eyes of the huge corpse. The pupils that should have radiated brilliant golden light were like a dead star, emitting a cold and terrifying aura.

At this moment, he understood the so-called ultimate of the world.

"...I fainted after seeing His corpse. It is definitely not something that humans can understand. If He was not already dead, I would have been dead the moment I saw him." The old Ange sighed deeply.

After he revealed these secrets that had been buried for a hundred years, he collapsed on the chair as if his soul had been taken away. His complexion was still not good, but it was much better than the look just now that made people suspect that he would die in the next second.

He had kept these secrets for a hundred years, and had been trapped by them for a hundred years. Now that he had spoken them out, he felt much more relieved.

"How did you return from that world?" Lu Mingfei asked again.

He vaguely felt that Angers and his companions had entered a Nibelung a hundred years ago, but somehow he also felt that the "destroyed" world was not as simple as he imagined.

"I... don't know either." Angers shook his head and said, "When I woke up again, I was already back in Kassel Manor in Germany. It was the people who stayed outside the cave who found me."

The expedition team a hundred years ago was not only composed of the elite members of the Lionheart Society, but also a lot of logistical personnel. Without their support, Angers and his team would not have been able to accomplish the feat of crossing the entire Arctic Ocean.

After Menek decided to go down and check, the logistics personnel were left outside the cave.

Ange continued, "The people who brought me back said that they risked going down the cave to check because they couldn't wait for us to come back. They found me unconscious in a corner of the cave, but they didn't find anyone else."

What was destroyed was not the real world, which surprised and delighted Angers at the time. However, when he explored the cave again and still could not find other members of the Lionheart Society, his joy that the world was not really destroyed was extinguished.

After that, he returned to the cave several times, and each time he found that it was just as the explorers had said, nothing strange. He tried to find the destroyed world, but he could not enter it, nor could he find his companions who had died in the destroyed world.

He once secretly found Rasputin, hypnotized him without the latter's knowledge, and asked him about the situation in the cave, but the answer he got made him very disappointed.

Rasputin was just a lucky ghost who got into that world by chance, then fled back to the cave out of cowardice, and left there by accident. He told the nearest church that he had seen hell, and the iron gate was built by the church, and then transported to that snowy plain and installed.

Everything was telling Ange that it was over. He could not go back to that dead world, nor could he bring back his dead companions.

Everyone was also advising him to forget about this matter, because in the eyes of outsiders, he who was searching for that world was like a madman who wanted to hollow out the world.

Their reaction surprised Angers and even frightened him a little. Because in the eyes of others, the people who died in that world were not the elite of the Lionheart Society, nor the young leader of the Secret Party, Menech, but a group of nameless minions.

It was as if Menek and the others who had disappeared into that world along with it were also forgotten as the world was destroyed.

"That was another nightmare of mine. The elders of the Secret Party acted as if Menech and his men didn't exist. Otherwise, the Lionheart Society was almost completely destroyed, which would have shaken the world at that time." Angers said puzzled. "I forced their names to be recorded and their deeds that were almost forgotten were supplemented. Although the elders were puzzled, they did not interfere. Because in their eyes, I was the leader of the Secret Party." He continued.

"But even so, the elders don't believe that they died in an expedition. In their records, Menek and the others died in an accident." Fatigue once again crept onto Angers' old face. "In the late autumn of 1900, an unknown dragon attacked Cassel Manor, and all the Lionheart members except me died in the battle..."

“…I see.” Lu Mingfei said softly after being silent for a long time. Angers story fills in the truth of the world bit by bit.

"As for the last thing I saw in that world, until now, I am still not sure whether it was Him." Angé raised his head and looked out the window. "So, I built a scientific research station above the original cave. For a hundred years, I have never stopped investigating there."

A white line appeared at the end of the field of vision. The special plane was crossing the frozen soil that had been there for thousands of years, heading to the place where it all began.

"If what you saw was really His corpse, then the world is really in trouble in some sense." Lu Mingfei said softly.

Ange replied: "I think so too, so I have to go back to that world to check and confirm whether He is really dead. And whether the end of the world can be avoided. And your parents are helping me find Him."

He used the word "avoid". In his opinion, the world here might become like the dead world.

Lu Mingfei raised his eyebrows: "How can you be sure that the world will end?"

"Because I think that might happen in the future." Angé answered softly.

Lu Mingfei asked again: "What you saw couldn't be the scene of the past?"

Ange suddenly froze, staring at him silently with cloudy eyes, and then murmured: "...Since it has happened once, it is possible that it will happen a second time, right?"

He looked out the window again, looking at the end of this journey. He had had an inexplicable sense of crisis since a long time ago, as if time was running out for this world. But he had never felt the end of the world so close as he did today.

The world was still peaceful, but he could already smell the scent of a destroyed world.

"Thank you for telling me so many things, but..." Lu Mingfei looked at Angers who was staring out the window and said, "You haven't finished talking about the seeds."

Angers realized it later and looked back awkwardly: "...Ah, sorry, you have to understand that a centenarian's memory may not be that good."

"... Let me tell you about this." The vice president, who had been drunk since boarding the plane, sat up, took out a wine flask from his pocket and took a sip, then said, "I am more professional than him in this regard."

The vice-president burped with a strong smell of alcohol: "Regarding the seed... In fact, it is hard to say whether it can be called a seed, because we once suspected that it might be an egg."

"But it wasn't until a hundred years after we got it that we figured out how to really use it." He continued, "Thanks to the advent of embryo transplantation, although we doubted whether the seed that seemed impossible to grow anything could actually give birth to a life."

He glanced at Lu Mingfei, then at Ange: "But this guy insisted on doing embryo transplantation, which led to the first Nibelungen Project."

The Nibelungen Project at that time was the same as the current one, aiming to breed excellent mixed-blood babies to save the mixed-blood world whose bloodline was fading. To this end, the Kassel Academy at that time brought together the best young men and women in the mixed-blood world at that time.

Pompey Gattuso, Chu Tianjiao, Lu Lincheng, Qiao Weini... If the bloodlines of these young men and women can be awakened normally, then they will definitely all be S-level. At the same time, they are also the most likely to give birth to mixed-blood babies with better bloodlines or even awakened ones.

The plan is going on in full swing, and some people jokingly call it the largest blind date event since the founding of Kassel College... although in fact it is indeed true.

To everyone's surprise, the first person to be eliminated was the playboy Pompey. It is said that when he knew about the existence of this plan, he had a strong interest in it and made a bold statement that he was the only man who would be required to participate in this plan.

But his family had arranged a wedding for him, and the bride was beautiful enough to make him give up the forest and willingly become a good husband and future father.

Everyone was relieved when this cancer withdrew, and then Chu Tianjiao's withdrawal surprised everyone. Unlike the playboy Pompeii, the equally successful Chu Tianjiao was extremely serious about relationships and had almost no scandals in the school.

When someone asked Chu Tianjiao why he quit, he answered like this. I didn't expect this plan to be a blind date. I already have someone I like. She is not from the school, nor from the mixed-blood world.

I was originally planning to propose to her, but I hurried back because I heard that the college was going to launch some plan. If I really participate in this plan, wouldn’t you be harming me?
...The withdrawal of another favorite confirmed the planned candidates: Lu Lincheng and Qiao Weini.

Everyone was not surprised by this result, because since entering the school, these two young people have been model students, model specialists, and model lovers in their eyes, and they will definitely become model parents in the future...

"Wait a minute." Lu Mingfei interrupted the vice principal, "Regarding the matter of 'model parents', I think you should remain skeptical."

The vice-principal did not answer immediately. He looked at Ange and suddenly smiled.

Ange tidied up his messy hair and said, "In fact, I have already discussed your education with them. I want to give them some easier work so that they can spend more time with you."

"But Winnie refused." Angé looked at Lu Mingfei and repeated what Lu's mother had said at the time, "I watched my child grow up. No one knows him better than me. He is not as fragile as you think."

Lu Mingfei sighed: "This is exactly what she would say..."

(End of this chapter)