Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 507 Zero: I want to carry

"I met them! It's Aki and Junior Brother Lu!"

Ye Sheng had just stopped chanting the Word Spirit and retracted the wandering "snake" into his mind. The gold in his pupils had not even completely faded away when Selma beside him pulled his arm and cheered.

Feeling that Selma was almost hanging on him, Ye Sheng suddenly felt like a Mickey Mouse actor taking photos with children in Disneyland, and couldn't help but smile bitterly:
"Yeah, I saw it. So Selma, can you stop pulling me around? I feel a little dizzy."

When Selma heard this, she suddenly remembered that Ye Sheng’s current physical condition was not very good.

In order to find Lu Mingfei and the others, Ye Sheng had been forcing himself to use the "Snake" along the way despite his physical discomfort. The length of time he had spent using the Word Spirit today had seriously exceeded his physical limits.

Thinking of this, Selma immediately let go of Ye Sheng's hand, lowered her head like a child who had done something wrong, looked up at Ye Sheng, and whispered, "Well, sorry. Ye Sheng, are you okay?"

Seeing Selma's apologetic expression, Ye Sheng immediately said, "You don't have to blame yourself... I don't have any serious problems. I just overexerted my brain today and I'm a little tired."

The diving spotlight in Ling's hand illuminated the road ahead. Seeing Ye Sheng, Selma and Dr. Zhou suddenly appear at the opposite intersection, Lu Mingfei realized that he had already joined Ye Sheng and the others.

Lu Mingfei turned his head and looked around, then he saw Aji on his left who was also looking around like him. He immediately understood that Aji was looking for Yin Lizhen's figure just like him.

Yin Lizhen disappeared.

Almost at the moment when he and Ye Sheng met again at the intersection, he disappeared right in front of Lu Mingfei and the others, without a trace.

If Lu Mingfei had not seen the same curious and doubtful expression in Yaji's eyes, he would have suspected that their encounter with Yin Lizhen just now was just an illusion.

After all, the tomb is full of ancient dragon cuneiform characters, and it is possible that one might accidentally read a sentence in them and then have a clairvoyance.

As if noticing the unusual behavior of Lu Mingfei and Yaji, Zhou Li, who was standing behind Ye Sheng, looked at them with a smile and asked softly, "What are you looking for?"

Upon hearing this, Yaji was about to tell Zhou Li the truth about what happened after she separated from them. She was going to repeat to Ye Sheng and the others the story of how she met the tomb-guarding spirit who claimed to be Yin Lizhen, and the story Yin Lizhen told her about the mausoleum.

But before Yaji could open her mouth, she heard Lu Mingfei grab the chance to speak before her. He touched the back of his head and laughed to Zhou Li, "I was looking for where the change was. I didn't see her just now, so I thought she fell behind. I searched for a long time before I found that she was standing next to me. She was so small that I didn't notice her."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Mingfei's body suddenly shook, as if a bowstring was suddenly stretched to its limit, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his back... At that moment, he suddenly felt a chill on his back that was almost like a wave of murderous intent.

"..."

Fortunately, the chill only lasted for a moment. When Lu Mingfei turned around, he saw Ling still staring straight ahead at him, expressionless as always. It seemed that the chill just now did not come from her.

I'm sorry, Zero... In that situation just now, I could only use you as an excuse temporarily.

Lu Mingfei silently apologized to the Ice Princess in his heart.

Zhou Li nodded, and didn't seem to doubt Lu Mingfei's explanation. At this time, Ye Sheng smiled and said, "Okay, let's not talk about the past. Now that we have reunited, let's leave this underwater mausoleum first. My 'snake' has found the exit just now, and it is not far from us."

Ye Sheng's proposal was agreed by everyone.

Although there was no timekeeping tool, Lu Mingfei roughly estimated based on his physical sense... or the feeling of hunger in his stomach that at least six or seven hours had passed since he first went into the water today. He was so hungry that he could finish two whole German roast pork elbows by himself.

Ling turned off his diving spotlight to save energy. The two teams that had reunited shared the flashlight in Ye Sheng's hand to illuminate the way ahead, and they followed Ye Sheng's formation before the team was disbanded.

The footsteps, not neat but not chaotic, echoed softly in the empty and quiet corridor. Perhaps because everyone was very tired, no one spoke after the team merged together. Everyone just walked forward in silence.

Lu Mingfei was still thinking about what happened to Yin Lizhen just now, and then he suddenly felt someone gently bumping into his left shoulder.

Turning his head, Yaji was standing beside Lu Mingfei with her hands behind her back. Although her bright eyes were not looking at Lu Mingfei, but at the road ahead, the distance between them was less than five centimeters. It was obvious that the slight impact Lu Mingfei felt just now came from her. He didn't know when she suddenly came over.

"Senior Sister Aji, what can I do for you?" Lu Mingfei asked in a low voice.

Maybe it was because the environment was too quiet, so he didn't dare to speak loudly to disrupt the rare tranquility, and deliberately kept his voice very low, so low that it barely vibrated the air. He was even a little worried whether Aki could hear what he said.

However, Yaji probably heard what he said. She turned her head towards Lu Mingfei, stretched out her right hand and gently put it in front of her mouth. She asked in a voice that was almost as weak as a thread: "Junior brother, why did you hide the matter of Yin Lizhen from Dr. Zhou and the others just now?"

After all, she is an elite student of Kassel College. Although Aki sometimes feels like an ignorant junior sister in front of Lu Mingfei and Ling, she is not really ignorant. Of course, she can see that the reason Lu Mingfei just found was just to evade Zhou Li's question. Lu Mingfei did not want to tell Ye Sheng and the others about Yin Lizhen.

"Emmm... intuition, right?" Lu Mingfei answered thoughtfully.

"Intuition?" Aki was stunned for a moment, "What intuition?"

"I feel like Yin Lizhen suddenly disappeared because he himself didn't want so many people to know about his existence."

Lu Mingfei whispered, "Besides, this matter actually has nothing to do with this mission. We were able to find the underwater ruins from Liu Xiu's time in the 'Eye of Kuimen', isn't that a major discovery? Let those who rest in peace rest in peace."

Aki had originally thought of writing what she had heard from Yin Lizhen into a mission report and handing it over to Professor Mans. After all, whether it was a living spirit that could retain its own thoughts, Yin Lizhen using living people to build a tomb, or the Chinese alchemy heritage behind the Yin family, they were undoubtedly amazing academic discoveries.

It is even possible that they will leave their own names in the history of hybrids because of these discoveries... Of course, what Aki wants more is to let Yin Lizhen and others leave their names.

Even when thinking back on it now, Yaji is still shocked by the fact that Yin Lizhen and others built a tomb with their own bodies and transformed themselves into living spirits to seal Baidi City.

Just after hearing what Lu Mingfei said, Yaji also realized something belatedly... If some people knew that the walls of this silver tomb contained the bones of an ancient hybrid dragon, it would be hard for them to guarantee whether anyone would want to dig these bones out of the tomb and conduct research using modern science and technology.

Although life in Kassel Academy seems sunny and bright, Aki knows in her heart that the world of mixed-bloods is not cleaner than the society in the outside world. Kassel Academy is probably a real school, protecting every student in it like a flower.

Only once you leave the flower garden of the college and come into contact with the outside world, you will know how dirty the rain outside is and how filthy the air is.

In the world of mixed-bloods, there are many people like Father Bernardo... no, there are many people who are more disgusting than Father Bernardo.

If something like that really happened, Yin Lizhen and the others would probably never be able to rest in peace.

not to mention……

Looking at Lu Mingfei's sincere, clear and hopeful eyes, Yaji's heart was jumping for some reason, and she felt that she couldn't refuse the request of this junior brother. Yaji pursed her lips and finally spoke hesitantly: "...Okay. I won't put this in the mission report now."

"Thank you, Senior Sister! I will treat you to a meal if I have the chance."

Seeing that Yaji agreed to her request, Lu Mingfei immediately thanked her. However, Yaji always felt that there was something strange in Lu Mingfei's smile, as if it was the flattering and happy expression that a gigolo would show when he heard that you agreed to buy his drinks and flower tickets.

From the muscle memory developed in Takamagahara.

"Then I will give you a good beating!"

Aki looked away and muttered, then noticed Zero's silent gaze looking at her.

However, Lu Mingfei obviously did not notice this and continued, "It's okay, it's okay. Senior Sister, you can eat whatever you want."

……

The only two people in the team who were talking also ended their conversation for some unknown reason.

At this time, Ye Sheng in front suddenly said in surprise: "We seem to be almost at the exit!"

Lu Mingfei looked forward, and sure enough, the road ahead illuminated by the flashlight suddenly became clear, and the narrow corridor suddenly became spacious. After walking a distance further, Lu Mingfei gradually felt that the surrounding environment seemed not as dim as before, as if there was light coming in from the other end.

Lu Mingfei suddenly thought of the Peach Blossom Spring that he had learned in middle school.

After walking a few dozen steps, the view suddenly became clear...

Seeing that they were about to reach the exit, the group of people's pace also quickened a bit, and finally stopped in front of a wall. This wall was clearly different from the surrounding walls, because the surrounding walls were engraved with dragon characters, while the wall here was embossed with a phoenix totem. The totem was vivid, and even the wings and tail were still moving.

"It's a living spirit. This is the exit of this mausoleum."

Zero explanation: "The Han Dynasty believed that the phoenix and the dragon were mythical beasts of the same level and could suppress the dragon. In 1978, a phoenix and blue dragon tomb wall was unearthed in the Eastern Han Dynasty tomb in Wangkan Village, Suicheng Town. The pattern on the tomb wall was a phoenix stepping on the dragon's head. Making the living spirit into a phoenix totem was probably also hoped to suppress the bronze and fire king in the tomb."

Lu Mingfei was just about to put his finger in front of the living relief, but he saw Ling had already stretched out his right hand, and his frosty fingertips silently touched the tip of the phoenix's beak.

The next moment, mercury-like ripples suddenly appeared on the surface of the relief. The originally flat relief totem suddenly raised its outline, and the dark silver phoenix beak stretched forward like a snake's tongue, gently pecking at Ling's fingertips.

The moment the blood drop fell into the phoenix's beak, Lu Mingfei saw the phoenix totem flapping its wings and circling on the wall. Then the silver rust on the entire wall began to peel off at a speed visible to the naked eye, and lines like molten gold flowed along the phoenix's tail feathers.

With the sound of metal hinges like the cry of a phoenix, the wall slowly opened in the middle.

The beam of a high-lumen flashlight pierced through the falling silver rust, illuminating the stairs that spiraled upward behind the wall.

Ye Sheng, who was standing at the door, took the lead and stepped inside. He raised his head and shone the flashlight upwards. The light of the flashlight disappeared into the endless darkness.

"The U-shaped staircase makes it hard to tell how many floors there are." Ye Sheng turned around and said to everyone.

"It's probably between 33 and 35 stories high." Ling said calmly, "If you keep going up from here, you'll eventually reach a small village by the river next to Kuimen."

Ye Sheng nodded: "Then let's go up."

As everyone entered one after another, the door guarded by the living spirit closed again with a roar.

"So smart." Lu Mingfei couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the door. At this moment, he felt someone pulling his right hand.

Lu Mingfei lowered his head and saw the Iceberg Princess looking up at him.

Silent silence.

"What, what's wrong?" Lu Mingfei felt a little uncomfortable under Ling's gaze. That gaze was just like Justice Bao staring at Chen Shimei.

Then, he heard two deafening words from the Ice Princess's mouth.

"Carry me on your back." Ling said something similar to what a girlfriend would say to her boyfriend after getting tired from shopping.

After these words were spoken, not only Lu Mingfei was stunned, but Ye Sheng, Selma and others beside him also stared in the direction of Lu Mingfei and Ling with wide eyes.

Aki stared at the couple with the "cutest height difference" in a daze, thinking to herself, have you stopped pretending now... Junior Brother Lu, you clearly have a girlfriend, but you are still out there messing around with other girls, what a scumbag!

Ling was still expressionless as always, as if he didn't notice the stunned gazes around him. He pointed his finger at Lu Mingfei and said, "I lost too much blood just now trying to open the door. I feel a little dizzy now."

Lu Mingfei: "..."

Good reason.

If you don't go to the hospital with those two drops of blood, I'm afraid the scab on the wound will fall off, right?

Looking at the stairs that spiraled up dozens of floors, Lu Mingfei remembered that Ling had just pressed his finger on the living spirit, and wondered if this was all planned by Ling?
Could it be that she was angry because I just said she was too small and I didn’t see her, so she wanted to take revenge on me?
Thinking of this, Lu Mingfei immediately shook his head in his heart. No, no, it shouldn't be like that! Ling has never been such a stingy girl. That was the righteous... righteous brother who copied the answer for me! How could I question my good brother? !

Although I don't know why Ling wants to carry her on her back, but since Ling said so, it doesn't matter if I carry her up.

After all, the height of just over thirty floors is nothing to Lu Mingfei now. He can just treat it as a weight-bearing aerobic exercise.

"Ok."

Lu Mingfei turned around and squatted in front of Ling. Ling gently leaned on Lu Mingfei's back, and his hands naturally hugged Lu Mingfei's neck.

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(End of this chapter)