Lu Mingfei Development Program

Chapter 582 The Final Sanctuary
"Explain why you came here." Lu Mingfei had a lot of questions in his mind that he wanted to ask this little witch, but he was still curious about how she came here from his spiritual world.

"Hehe, are you surprised? Your sister is much more capable than you think." The little witch's proud voice came from the radio, "As long as I want, there are really few places in this world that I can't go."

"Answer me." Lu Mingfei said again.

There was no immediate answer, and no more sound came from the broadcast. The elevator started automatically and began to move downwards. The only sound in the silent elevator car was the elevator running. It seemed that the little witch's cheerful voice just now was just another hallucination of his.

After a long while, a sigh came from the radio: "It's all for you to ascend the throne."

The little witch put away her contempt, and her voice was more serious than ever before: "Brother, although I don't like Ange's statement that the world might explode tomorrow, what he said is true. Time is running out."

"...Answer me another question." Lu Mingfei said, "What is the old world? Why did this place appear again?"

The little witch replied: "The old world is just a failed attempt. Most of the things related to the old world have disappeared... The remaining small part still exists for various reasons."

She didn't explain too much, but Lu Mingfei already understood what she meant by "a small part". This fragment of the old world with Black Swan Harbor was just one of them, and the others were the girls with memories of the old world.

Even... Lu Mingfei looked up at the broadcast. This witch might also be a relic of the old world.

"There is another question." Lu Mingfei looked at the broadcast.

The little witch sighed again: "Brother, you will be able to see me soon. I will answer you no matter what you ask..."

"What's wrong with this elevator?" Lu Mingfei looked down at his feet. "It doesn't fit in with Black Swan Port. It's like two things from different eras were forced together."

"It was just pieced together randomly." The little witch answered honestly, "It's all fragments. It must have been pieced together randomly, one on top of another, and it became what it is now."

There might be more than one fragment of the old world, which Lu Mingfei knew when he stepped into Black Swan Harbor. And according to the little witch's explanation, this elevator is connected to another fragment.

"What do the other world fragments look like?" he asked again.

But this time no one answered, and the broadcast really stopped making any sound. The elevator had stopped running, and the tightly closed door slowly opened, and the little witch arrived at the place where he was told to come.

The warm wind coming out from the crack of the door surprised Lu Mingfei. If there was anything similar between this fragment of the Black Swan Port world and the destroyed world that Angers mentioned, it was that their time had stopped.

The wind stopped flowing, the air was frozen, even the snowflakes had lost their temperature... Everything was dead, everything in this fragment of the world seemed to have stopped at the moment of its destruction.

But there was wind flowing here, which was only connected to the surface by this elevator. Lu Mingfei could even smell the slightly cold air outside the elevator. Time was still flowing normally underground.

The elevator door was fully opened, but Lu Mingfei did not walk out immediately. He stood in the elevator and looked outside silently, waiting for those who were looking at him in surprise in the corridor to regain their composure.

It was impossible for Lu's father and mother to be alone when they went on the scientific expedition. They brought a team with them, and now, they are all here.

"Lu...Lu Mingfei?" Someone in the crowd stood out in surprise. It was a girl with a gentle temperament.

Lu Mingfei looked at her and found that she looked familiar. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Eva Lawrence?"

Eva is the prototype of Norma, the school's supercomputer virtual character. She is a classmate and friend of Figel, and her biggest rival in the Kassel Campus Star event. She is also a student of Lu's father and mother, and their assistant during the Arctic operation.

Eva stepped forward and looked at Lu Mingfei in surprise: "You really came!"

Lu Mingfei raised his eyebrows slightly: "Did you know I would come?"

"The teachers said so," Eva explained. "They said that if we were trapped here and couldn't leave, you might come and save us."

Lu Mingfei was silent for a moment, not surprised by such an answer.

At this point, she smiled bitterly and said, "I guess you have discovered it. The experience taught by the principal does not work in this world. We stayed in that cave for a long time, but found that we could not go back, so we had to venture in and explore here."

Lu Mingfei nodded, even though he hadn't tried to go back through the cave yet. But the fragments of this world were a bit strange, and Angers' experience was not applicable here.

He looked around at the crowd with different expressions, trying to find Lu's father and mother, but found that they were not there.

"Don't worry, teacher, they are safe." Eva knew what they were looking for and said with a smile, "They are heading to the deepest part of here, and there seems to be something else there."

"I understand." Lu Mingfei nodded, looked at the quiet girl and said, "Take me to see it."

This was probably where the little witch wanted him to go.

……

The underground space of Black Swan Port was much larger than Lu Mingfei had imagined, like a maze hidden deep underground. The passages were crisscrossed and divided into many areas in an orderly manner, with signs in Chinese, Russian, and English.

The facilities are very comprehensive, and some of the rooms for growing crops are completely self-sufficient shelters. It is hard to imagine how such a facility was built on the permafrost where it is difficult to walk on the land.

This huge underground facility must require a lot of people to maintain it, but at the moment, there are no other living creatures here except Lu Mingfei, Eva and other people who rashly broke in.

Because of the air flow, there was a lot of dust in the place, as if it had been abandoned for a long time. However, the neatly arranged and even usable materials showed that this facility was not abandoned, but at a certain moment, all the people in it disappeared.

The failed old world... Lu Mingfei recalled what the little witch said. What does this failure mean? Did it mean that they failed to prevent the end of the world? Or that the future king failed to be born?
He was also confused by the little witch herself, who kept saying that she was his sister, like the twins of the dragon kings on the same throne. But her state was very strange, as if she did not exist in reality.

And no one could see her except herself.

Lu Mingfei had a vague guess in his heart that Black Swan Port and this underground facility existed because of the existence of the witch. There was no trace of her anywhere, but her traces were everywhere. Perhaps the reason why this strange world existed was entirely because the "real body" of the little witch was here.

She seemed to have been waiting for him here all the time, from before the end of the world to after the end of the world, from the old world to the new world.

"Isn't this place magical?" Eva, who was traveling with them, said to Lu Mingfei, "What's even more magical is that the teachers seem to understand this place and think it's safe enough, otherwise they wouldn't let all of us in."

Understand this place? Lu Mingfei paused for a moment, then understood something. The old world and the new world are extremely similar. Everyone has a corresponding existence in the old world, and Lu's father and mother are no exception.

Although such speculation is somewhat unrealistic, they in the old world may have participated in the construction of this facility.

On the way here, Lu Mingfei saw a notice board which seemed to have the information of the facility manager. He saw a somewhat vague name on it, which was a Chinese name, and he could only see the last name was Lu.

This could also be the reason why Lu's father and mother came to this fragment of the world - they had left their footprints here before. It was also the reason why they ventured to explore deeper.

No matter how much he thought, it was just speculation. Lu Mingfei continued to move forward while communicating with Eva. Following the footprints left by the people in front of him, he soon reached his destination.

It was a huge iron door with a cross relief on it, as if trying to prevent something behind the door from escaping. There was a sign next to it with the name of the door - the Final Sanctuary.

It was like another door to hell, but it had already been opened. The people in front of Lu Mingfei opened a crack that allowed people to pass through, and white steam was pouring out of the crack, emitting an uncomfortable smell like hell.

"It seems that the teachers have already gone in." Eva said uneasily.

Lu Mingfei did not answer. He walked silently to the door and pushed it open.

Inside the door was an even larger space with white steam overflowing from densely packed pipes. The metal floor was engraved with complex patterns and dark blue mercury flowed through it.

Eva looked at all this in amazement. She was once the vice-principal's student and had studied alchemy for a period of time. She knew that the floor in front of her with complex patterns was actually a huge alchemy matrix.

It is said that in the ancient times when hybrids could still awaken normally, alchemists would construct a huge alchemical matrix to cover the secret party's base to prevent a group of hybrids with extraordinary powers from abusing their power.

The alchemical matrix in front of him was similar to the one described by the vice-principal, but its effect was more like a seal than suppressing the words.

Lu Mingfei also understood the purpose of this alchemical matrix in an instant. Compared with a seal, this matrix is ​​more like supporting the operation of a certain "world". Perhaps it is the existence of this alchemical matrix that allows the time of this underground facility to flow normally.

In the center of the alchemical matrix was a huge mercury pool. The faint blue light illuminated the entire hall, as well as the silent figures of the two people standing in front of the mercury pool.

Hearing the noise behind them, they immediately turned around and looked at him in surprise: "Ming Fei!"

Lu Mingfei nodded to his parents whom he had not seen for a long time: "It's me."

Last time in Italy, he only had a quick encounter with Lu's mother, and never met Lu's father. Seeing him again now, he was somewhat impressed. He was a little older than he remembered. Although he still had a bookish air, his hairline had visibly moved upwards.

Lu Mingfei walked forward silently, stood on the platform with the horrible mercury spots, looked at the pool of mercury, and said softly: "Can I be alone for a while?"

Father Lu and Mother Lu looked at each other. The family had not seen each other for a long time and they should have a lot to talk about. But this place was obviously not suitable for conversation.

"Well, we'll wait for you outside." Father Lu nodded, walked over and patted Lu Mingfei on the shoulder, "Don't stay in here for too long. The mercury vapor here is not good for your health."

"I understand." Lu Mingfei nodded, and said with a smile to his mother who was looking at him with concern, "Don't worry, I won't stay here for too long."

Lu's parents left, taking Eva away from the door, who was looking worriedly, and helped to close the door. They wanted to do something for their son, but they also knew that some things he had to face alone.

The hall fell into silence again, just like it had been for decades or even thousands of years.

Lu Mingfei didn't know how long this fragment of the world had existed, nor how long the girl who claimed to be his sister had been waiting for him. But he knew that now was an important time to complete what had not been completed in the old world.

With bright golden light in his eyes, Lu Mingfei looked towards the mercury pool and gave a cold order: "Come up!"

A harsh sound came from the mercury pool, like a deafening thunder. Many elevators that had not been started started to operate awkwardly, slowly pulling up the objects soaked in the mercury pool.

The first four to rise were huge bronze pillars. Lu Mingfei knew that dragons liked to use bronze pillars to record history. He had seen something similar in Izanami's Takamagahara.

These copper pillars did not serve the purpose of recording history, but were linked by red-gold chains, hanging a pale human figure in the center of a mercury pool.

Lu Mingfei stared at the pale figure that looked like a sculpture. It was a beautiful girl. But she closed her eyes tightly, and there was no longer a bright golden light in her eyes. The beautiful little skirt was also stained pale, and the lively hair no longer fluttered, but was heavy like metal.

"I'm here to see you." He said softly, expecting a response from the girl.

However, the girl did not open her eyes, her lively eyes did not move, nor did she cunningly ask him if he was frightened by this prank? She seemed to have stopped pestering him to call her brother, and would no longer reach out to him for a hug.

...This is the true appearance of the witch, the biggest fragment of the old world, a girl who has turned into a sculpture and is also waiting for her brother to come.

A twisted dark golden spear was inserted into the girl's body. Even after being soaked in the mercury pool for many years, it still exuded a deadly luster.

Lu Mingfei stepped forward and grabbed the twisted spear. At the same time, in his spiritual world, the Spear of Destiny obtained from the world behind the gate was cheering, as if eager to get this dark golden spear.

He silently prepared to pull out his spear and free the girl who had been lonely for who knows how many years.

But just as he was about to move, the witch opened her eyes and shouted in panic: "Don't pull it out yet! It will really kill people!"

(End of this chapter)