Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 511: Samson's Escape
As for Mans, after everyone returned to the ship, they were immediately placed in the decompression chamber for decompression treatment.

Although Mans insisted that he would go back to pick up Lu Mingfei, he had just faced Samson's powerful mental shock not long ago, and now it was very difficult for him to just stand still. In the end, he and the unconscious Ye Sheng were carried into the decompression chamber by the crew under the command of Guderian.

There were limited decompression chambers on the ship, and after allocating them to Ye Sheng and Mans, there were only two left. Originally, the two decompression chambers were to be allocated to the younger Zero and Aki, who had been ill before the second dive. However, both of them stood on the deck and shook their heads to refuse, neither of them was willing to receive treatment first.

Seeing that both of them were very stubborn, Guderian could only arrange for Selma and Zhou Li to enter the decompression chamber first. Ling and Aki could only put on the spare diving suits temporarily, and the pressure relief valve inside the special diving suits would help regulate the air pressure in their bodies temporarily.

"Treatment in the decompression chamber won't last long."

Before leaving the infirmary, Guderian told Aki, "Aki, you are a good child, but good children must learn to be obedient. You and this little girl should stay here and rest. I will arrange treatment for you as soon as Selma and the others have relieved their stress."

Aki was lying on the white hospital bed, and nodded to Guderian through the oxygen mask, and Zero also nodded.

The door of the lounge closed with a snap, and the sound of the deadbolt being locked came from inside. Guderian seemed to have guessed the reason why Aki was determined not to receive treatment immediately, and before leaving, he did not forget to lock the door from the outside to prevent Aki from sneaking out.

The footsteps outside the infirmary left in a hurry. After confirming that the footsteps were too far to be heard, Aki immediately jumped off the bed and half-crouched beside the door to try to unlock it.

"Professor Guderian just told us to take a break." Zero's voice came from behind.

"Yes."

Yaji said without turning her head. She was concentrating on studying how to open the door lock in front of her. The cabin door lock was much more complicated than she thought. "But Guderian said that good children should be obedient. But he didn't know that I'm not such a good child. Sometimes I like to do rebellious things like I do now."

"You don't seem like someone who would say something so willful."

"It's okay for girls to be willful occasionally, right?" Aki said, "And aren't you also willful, Junior Sister Zero? Otherwise, why would you stay here like me? Professor Guderian has arranged for you to undergo decompression therapy first."

After this sentence, Aki didn't hear Zero's reply behind her. No one knew whether Zero was suddenly touched by Aki's words or what. For a while, the only sound in the lounge was the "click-click" of Aki fiddling with the door lock.

It was not until several dozen seconds later that Aki heard Zero's voice again: "This ship does not use a traditional wedge lock. It uses a rectangular lock slot, and there are limit blocks above the lock head and below the nut. This is to prevent the lock head from sliding back when the ship is hit by waves. You can't open the lock like this."

Aki was stunned for a moment, and looked back at Ling with a complicated expression: "Junior sister Ling, do you also know anything about door locks?"

Ling nodded calmly: "Yeah, this is also what I learned with Lu Mingfei in Hawaii."

Until this moment, she had not forgotten that she was learning diving with Lu Mingfei in Hawaii.

Ling dangled his feet, which couldn't reach the floor, and landed gently on the bed, and walked straight to the cabin door. Aki consciously made way for him.

Zero looked around, and finally picked up a metal tongue depressor from the table not far away. He twisted it to change its shape and then inserted it between the door gap and the lock tongue.

Aki couldn't understand Zero's operation. She only knew that after she heard a sharp sound of metal friction, there was a "click" sound from the door lock.

"It's open." Zero turned back and said to Aki expressionlessly.

Aki blinked in shock, looking at the little loli sister in front of her with an expression of disbelief: "Zero...what on earth did you do?"

"It's not difficult. You can do it just by mastering some basic knowledge of mechanical structures."

Ling changed the subject calmly: "Now is not the time to discuss this. We all have things to do, right? You should know where the lifeboat on this ship is placed, right?"

Of course, Aki knew what Zero meant when he said that they all had something to do. She nodded slowly with a serious look on her face, "Yes, it's in the rear cabin of the 'Moniah'. The equipment department has modified the lifeboat and it has a short-range power system. I have the permission to use it, but to get to the rear cabin, I have to pass by the decompression chamber, and we have to be careful not to run into Professor Guderian."

Aki said as she tiptoed out of the room carefully. The way she walked in her diving suit was quite funny, and it gave me a sense of déjà vu of the suspect Xiao Hei in Detective Conan. However, Ling followed behind Aki with a normal walk, and while Aki was carefully looking ahead, he gently pressed his hand on the wall.

The golden eyes flashed, and countless "snakes" instantly swam all over the "Moniach". Just as Aki was about to walk to the decompression chamber and was about to observe the situation inside the decompression chamber through the small window of the room, Zero walked around her and walked through the window.

Aki paused, then lowered his voice and shouted, "Hey! Junior Sister Zero, you will be seen by Professor Guderian..."

Without even turning his head, Ling said in a cold voice: "Professor Guderian is not in the decompression chamber now. He has returned to the captain's room on the upper deck of the research ship."

Aki stared at Zero blankly, with a dazed expression on his face, as if he was curious about how Zero knew that Professor Guderian was not in the captain's room. But after a moment, he immediately remembered that he had more important things to do, so he immediately quickened his pace and followed.

The road to the rear cabin was smooth. Zero walked and stopped frequently. Aki, who was following behind Zero, felt that the road was smooth and she didn't even encounter a sailor. It was too smooth...

But she didn't think it was too strange. After all, there were too many strange things about Ling and Lu Mingfei. Compared with other things, this was nothing.

For example, what Aki found most strange was... what was the relationship between Lu Mingfei and Ling!
Of course, Aki didn't believe that the two of them were just friends or classmates, because the two of them worked so well together that they could instantly understand each other's thoughts with just a word or a look, as if they were in tune with each other...

This was not only the case in the Silver Underground Palace, but also in the "Dustless Land" just now! As long as Junior Brother Lu called out Ling's name, Ling would immediately understand Junior Brother Lu's intentions and immediately persuade Professor Mans to return to the "Moniach" first. It was like they were partners who had worked together for many, many years!

How come they are so skilled? Junior Brother Lu and Ling have known each other for how many years!
And Ling's concern for Lu Mingfei... Aki was 100% sure that Ling refused to accept the decompression chamber treatment because she was worried about Lu Mingfei. She wanted to sneak back to Lu Mingfei when no one was paying attention and bring Lu Mingfei back with her.

He already has the little girl from Valentine's family as his girlfriend, but he is secretly hanging out with such a cute girl.

But Aki apparently forgot that she was no different from Zero. They both refused to receive decompression treatment and sneaked out.

With extremely complicated emotions surging in her heart, Aki and Zero successfully arrived at the rear cabin, even though she herself didn't know why.

The two of them sat in the lifeboat's main and co-pilot seats. Aki took off her diving mask, gathered her wet and messy hair with her hands, and then looked at the iris and voiceprint recognition system on the control panel.

"I'm Aki Sakutoku, a specialist in the Executive Department. My student number is AI122452A. I'm applying for the use of a lifeboat now."

The iris lock on the console flashed blue, and a few seconds later, a female voice similar to Norma's sounded: "Voiceprint verified; iris verified. A-level specialist of the Executive Department, Aki Shude, will now unlock the vehicle lock for you."

The rear hatch was opened with a metallic clang, and the lifeboat was lowered onto the landslide track, and with the help of the booster system, it successfully entered the water level of the Yangtze River. Amid the roar of the engine, the rear hatch slowly closed.

...In the captain's room, there was no picture on the monitor in front of Guderian. To be more precise, the picture had been blocked by the thick steam rising from the flames. The only thing that could be seen was the occasional flashes of light of different colors in the thick fog. That was probably the only evidence that Lu Mingfei was still alive at least for now.

Guderian thought for a while, and finally slammed the surface of the operating table.

"hiss!"

Guderian grimaced in pain from the recoil from hitting the metal table, but then his face drooped again.

He finally decided to drive the lifeboat closer to Lu Mingfei himself.

In fact, it would be safer to drive the "Moniah" closer, because the "Moniah" has been modified by those crazy people in the Equipment Department. When sailing at full speed, its speed can reach more than 30 knots, which is no less than some modern warships.

But he is now the acting captain of the "Moniah", and he has issued an evacuation order to the surrounding search and rescue ships. He is responsible for all the personnel on this mission, and there are other people on the "Moniah", and he cannot take risks with other people's lives.

But he could take the risk with his own life. Although he didn't have combat skills, he had some experience in driving a yacht. Moreover, he was responsible for all the personnel in this mission, and Lu Mingfei was one of them.

"But before that, we have to arrange for Aki and the little girl to enter the decompression chamber. Selma and the others should be almost done with their treatment."

Guderian was talking to himself, and suddenly, he saw a small black dot moving slowly on the surveillance screen in front of him, like a small insect lying on the screen.

Guderian was about to reach out and shoo the little bug away, but he was suddenly stunned. That was not a little black dot at all, it was a small speedboat, the lifeboat on the "Moniach"! Aki and the others had pried open the door lock and drove the lifeboat away before him!

The water vapor rising from the river surface disappeared before her eyes like smoke, and the river breeze made Aki's short hair flutter.

The closer she got to Lu Mingfei, the higher the temperature around her became. It reminded her of the time when she and her sister went to Hakone to soak in the hot springs when they were little. The flames from the Kuilong turned the nearby waters into a small hot spring. It was hard to imagine that Lu Mingfei could actually confront such a monster.

There was a deafening explosion from the bottom of the sea, and the flames illuminated half of the river, but then went out in an instant. No one knew what kind of battle was going on there, the only thing we knew was that the battle there must have been very fierce.

"Is this the ability of an S-class?" Aki held the lifeboat's operating lever with both hands and thought, "It's a world of difference from an A-class..."

This kind of confrontation had naturally happened a hundred years ago. As a member of the Lionheart Society, Shude Aki naturally knew the first eight members of the Lionheart Society and had also heard the story of "Summer Mourning".

Although the results of the investigation into "Summer Mourning" have always been the top secret of the Secret Party, no one knows the truth of "Summer Mourning" except the Secret Party's top leaders and the school board. But it is known that except for the principal Angers, the other seven members died in that incident.

Including Meinecke Cassel.

And Lu Mingfei’s great-grandfather Lu Shanyan, who was also an S-class hybrid who once confronted the first-generation Dragon King.

Lu Mingfei didn't know that Aki and Ling were driving the lifeboat towards him, and Samson's howl covered the roar of the engine.

The steamy river obscured most people's vision. It was different from what Aki imagined. In Aki's imagination, Lu Mingfei should be the passive defender. But she obviously didn't expect that in the actual battlefield, it was Lu Mingfei who took the initiative.

And she obviously could not have imagined that as Samson's words were cancelled one after another by Lu Mingfei, a rare thought of retreat suddenly emerged in those arrogant and angry golden dragon eyes, like a hyena meeting a lion.

Samson in the Bible is a warrior born with supernatural powers. He listened to the slander of villains and was a classic image of a reckless man in the story. But now this reckless man actually took the lead in retreating in the confrontation with Lu Mingfei, roaring in anger from his huge mouth, and his metal-jointed body stretched flexibly in the water, and in an instant he swung his tail and left.

Samson's sudden withdrawal also made Lu Mingfei stunned.

"So spineless?" Lu Mingfei said. To be honest, this was the first time he had seen a dragon actively running away from a battle. After all, in all the stories he had heard, dragons seemed to have always fought to the death.

For example, Xia Mi would pester her every night until she died and wanted to rest...

Cough cough cough...

However, after Lu Mingfei took a look at the direction Samson retreated, he suddenly understood why he decided to quit while he was ahead.

In the vision enhanced by the golden pupil, he saw that more than half of the Bronze City had passed through the "Nibelungen Gate".

Perhaps Samson's original duty was just to drive away all the foreign enemies near the "Nibelungen Gate" to ensure the smooth establishment of the connection channel between Bronze City and the Three Gorges, and then quietly wait for the King of Bronze and Fire to wake up again.

As for the sudden attack on him and Professor Mance, it was probably because they happened to see them, and it was a temporary impulse that was not planned.

Now that Samson found that he could not defeat the enemy, and the Nibelungen Passage in the Bronze City was almost repaired, he could naturally return to the Bronze City first.

But Lu Mingfei couldn't help but frown at this time.

He didn't know whether the early appearance of the Bronze City was a bad thing or not. But it was obvious that... it was definitely not a good thing.

People can anticipate things that are within their plans, but cannot anticipate things that are outside their plans.

If things had developed in accordance with the history he knew, he might have had a great chance of changing the tragedies he wanted to change.

But if the development of things deviates from the history he knows...

After hesitating for only a few seconds, Haiyuan split the water in front of him and took him in the direction Samson left.

He was thinking, if Hai Yuan had the ability to cut through all alchemical fields...

Then can the alchemical field of Nibelung also be cut open by it?

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(End of this chapter)