Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

The end of Chapter 513...and the seemingly complete truth?
The turtle was so scared that it immediately retracted its body into its shell!
Samson's roar suddenly changed into a trembling sound of fear, and in his huge golden pupils there flowed a changing light, a light of fear! Lu Mingfei's figure was reflected in the light!
Only half of his body was left curled up at the bottom of the river. How could he look like a dragon? He was clearly just an earthworm that had been cut in half, with its upper body desperately twisting in the mud!

It tried to crash into the water wall in a panic, but even a pure dragon could not transcend that absolute rule! There was water on both sides, but it could only jump on the riverbed like a fish in a dried-up pond, letting its corrosive blood soak through the water plants at the bottom of the river and emit thick smoke.

Just when everyone was deeply shocked by the reappearance of the miracle of Moses parting the sea recorded in the Book of Exodus, the raised river water finally fell back together as if it could not withstand the gravity, creating waves tens of meters high.

“This word spirit really takes a lot of effort…” Lu Mingfei thought to himself as he slowly sank in the river.

He was still conscious, and he knew that he should try to slide the surrounding water flow back to the surface. He was a good diver, so this was not difficult for him.

But the miracle of parting the Yangtze River in just a few tens of seconds seemed to have drained all his strength. Now he couldn't even move a finger, and even raising his eyelids was difficult. He could only drink in large gulps of river water uncontrollably.

But Samson did not take the opportunity to attack Lu Mingfei. The first thing this brave warrior in the Bible did after returning to the water was to twist the remaining half of his dragon body and swim towards the direction of the Bronze City with all his strength!

Once the cowardly heart arises, there will no longer be the courage to face the enemy. Even though Lu Mingfei now seems to have no ability to resist, Samson does not dare to attack Lu Mingfei again.

But it seemed that there was no need for Him to do anything, Lu Mingfei would suffocate by drowning in the Yangtze River.

He tried to raise his eyes. There was a flowing light on the water surface, and in the moving light and shadow, he seemed to see a fish swimming towards him.

Do not……

A thought popped up in Lu Mingfei's remaining consciousness.

That's not a fish, that looks like a person, that's...

"..."

Aki's lips covered his mouth.

Lu Mingfei widened his eyes, and then his eyelids drooped heavily.

Aki directly blocked Lu Mingfei's mouth with her lips to stop him from choking on water. At the same time, a pair of hands were wrapped around Lu Mingfei's back, and as Aki's feet moved like frog flippers, the two began to float up slowly.

This fairy-tale scene of a mermaid saving the prince did not exude any ambiguous atmosphere, because the only thought in Aki's mind was to rescue Lu Mingfei.

Her expression was very serious and heroic. Even though she was a mixed-blood, it was difficult for her to float to the surface with the strong Lu Mingfei without any diving equipment. Moreover, Lu Mingfei had choked on water several times and urgently needed artificial respiration to help him expel the water from his lungs.

Fortunately, Ling, who jumped down after her, also swam to her side. Ling swam behind Lu Mingfei and swam with his legs to help Aki push Lu Mingfei's body. With the joint efforts of the two, the three of them returned to the lifeboat at a very fast speed.

Zero looked quietly at Aki beside him, thinking about the scene just now.

The moment the river surface closed again, Ling jumped from the lifeboat into the Yangtze River, but unexpectedly, Aki jumped faster than her. Without even wearing a diving mask, she rushed straight towards Lu Mingfei like an arrow.

Aki didn't notice Ling's silent gaze. She frowned, her eyes fixed on a small floating dot on the river surface. That was where the lifeboat was.

"..."

The vision in front of him was becoming increasingly blurred. The river water that had choked his lungs had already made Lu Mingfei's consciousness begin to blur. His body was already showing signs of hypoxia, and perhaps he would suffocate soon.

In a daze, he once again looked towards the Bronze City that was getting farther and farther away from him.

He may also be hallucinating.

Because he actually saw the Bronze City slowly retreating and gradually collapsing in his field of vision.

The scene before my eyes seemed like an old movie with the rewind button pressed. The water turned into a silvery-white stream of light and merged into the alchemical matrix surrounding the bronze city. The golden lines of the matrix were pushed backwards by the silvery-white stream of light.

The Bronze City was also retreating. The endless bronze wall seemed to be being pushed back to the other end of the space connected to the Nibelungen by an invisible force.

He even had a vision of the scene inside the Bronze City! The bronze statues kneeling on both sides of the corridor were walking backwards. The bronze gear set with a diameter of one kilometer inside this super machine was meshing in the opposite direction. The sound of metal meshing was like the sound of chimes, echoing throughout the entire river area, as if it was the sound of someone's funeral.

Lu Mingfei paused.

He realized that it might not be the current.

That's right, it wasn't the water. He saw it clearly, it was just fireflies coming out from the fragments of the silver mausoleum that sank to the bottom of the river.

Not only him, Aki and Zero also saw this romantic scene before their eyes.

The entire riverbed was lit up with stardust, as brilliant as the night sky in midsummer. Countless points of light flowed out from the wreckage of the ruins, and they were rushing towards the Bronze City, one after another. It was just like what Nuonuo had once described to Lu Mingfei, the scene of countless fireflies rushing towards Guixu.

They are preventing the alchemical matrix from being repaired and blocking the entrance to the Bronze City. They are pushing the Bronze City back into the Nibelungen!
This is why Samson suddenly withdrew from the battle just now. He wanted to go back and kill these light spots!

Kill these "lowly" living spirits that have sealed them for thousands of years.

……

Lu Mingfei closed his eyes.

……

When he opened his eyes, the first thing Lu Mingfei saw was a hazy white. The white light was spinning above his head, and in front of his eyes there was a layer of shadow as pure as mist.

It reminded him of a morning at Kassel Academy long ago.

There is always fog on the top of the mountain in the morning. The mist in Lu Mingfei's memory is just as hazy as the one before his eyes. In the morning of the morning class, the girls always wear white silk long skirts as school uniforms, holding brown cowhide small school bags or poetry books, and walk by the library in groups of three or two, laughing and joking.

The breeze was like a hand, deliberately lifting the skirts of the girls who hurried by, revealing their white calves and delicate ankles. Mr. Finger would deliberately wait for Lu Mingfei at the door of the library, in fact, to see the girls' slender calves. The sound of the white-soled high-heeled shoes stepping on the brown stone floor of the library seemed to still echo in Lu Mingfei's ears.

It seemed like many years had passed, yet it also seemed like it was not long ago. Lu Mingfei lowered his eyelids, and the pure white illusion turned into the black reality.
When he opened his eyes again, the mist had disappeared. An overly bright incandescent light pierced into Lu Mingfei's pupils. The Latin girl in school uniform stretched out her hand and waved it in front of him.

Before Lu Mingfei could speak, the girl said to the person next to her in a joyful voice: "Professor Guderian, Junior Brother Lu is awake."

Lu Mingfei was suddenly pulled back to reality from his memories by these words. He supported himself to stand up with his arms and finally recognized that this was the infirmary of the "Moniach". Then he saw Professor Guderian walking towards him with a nervous look on his face.

Selma and some of the crew of the Moniah surrounded him.

"Ming Fei, you finally woke up!"

Professor Guderian grabbed Lu Mingfei's hand. His fluffy hair had not been combed for who knows how long. He looked Lu Mingfei up and down excitedly as if he were a national treasure observing a cultural relic: "How do you feel? Do you feel like you are missing any limbs?"

Lu Mingfei blinked blankly, and immediately understood what his professor meant: "I think... Professor, are you going to ask me if I feel uncomfortable anywhere else?"

"That's what I mean!" The professor waved his hands excitedly.

"It's nothing serious, I just feel a little dizzy." Lu Mingfei said, recalling, "I remember... I was drowning before..."

"Well, you fainted immediately after you split the Yangtze River! Mingfei, you have to thank Aki and Ling for this. It was they who rescued you from the bottom of the Yangtze River in time and gave you artificial respiration."

Professor Guderian said joyfully: "But before that... we should thank you first. It was you who saved everyone on the 'Moniah'! We all saw from the monitor that you reproduced the miracle of 'Moses Parting the Sea'! You are a true genius! Some people! Only one!"

Lu Mingfei didn't pay attention to the second half of Guderian's words praising him joyfully. After hearing the words "artificial respiration", the scene he saw before he fell into coma emerged in his mind.

He remembered those spots of light and Yin Lizhen.

Those living spirits guarding the tomb fought against the Dragon King when they were alive, and were willing to automatically become living spirits after death, guarding the seal of the King of Bronze and Fire for thousands of years. Even if the mausoleum collapsed for unknown reasons, they still remembered their mission and performed their duties to prevent the connection between the Nibelungen and the Three Gorges of the Bronze City.

as well as……

Lu Mingfei subconsciously raised his head and looked around, and saw Aki and Ling sitting against the wall far away from him.

The two people were originally looking in the direction of Lu Mingfei, and wrinkles could be vaguely seen between their relaxed brows. They must have been worried about Lu Mingfei not long ago.

As soon as she saw Lu Mingfei turn his head, Aki quickly turned her eyes away, and their eyes only met for a moment. But even without looking at Aki's face, Lu Mingfei could see some reasons and clues for Aki's reaction from the reddened ears.

Lu Mingfei smiled bitterly and scratched his face.

How should I put it... Senior Sister Aki is still a girl after all.

I was probably so eager to save people at the time that I didn't care about so many things... But when I thought about this incident afterwards, it was indeed more or less embarrassing.

Ling's reaction was quite normal. She stood by the wall with her hands behind her back, her expression as calm as ever. Her icy blue eyes stared straight into Lu Mingfei's sight without any hesitation.

Lu Mingfei smiled and nodded at Ling, thanking him silently.

Ling also nodded to Lu Mingfei tacitly, as if responding to his thanks.

Then she stood up from the wall and left the ward without looking back.

"?"

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, somewhat confused about Zero's sudden departure. Professor Guderian was still reporting the results of the battle, as if he was the NPC responsible for summarizing the mission after a mission was completed in an RPG game.

"By the way, Norma said that dragon was not Norton, the King of Bronze and Fire, but his dragon servant Samson. But it was also a second-generation dragon. Ming Fei, you were able to defeat him head-on, which is enough to prove that your ability is no less than that of the principal and those legendary dragon slayers! It is my honor to have a student like you!"

Professor Guderian said: "But Mans and Ye Sheng can't come to see you yet. They are fine now, but their injuries are no less serious than yours, Ming Fei, especially Mans. He suffered a direct mental shock from Samson. Both of them are still resting in the room."

Lu Mingfei naturally knew that the dragon was Samson. He paused and asked, "Is Samson dead?"

"Probably not. Although you used 'Sea Wall' to cut off one-third of Samson's body, he still had enough energy to escape back to Bronze City. It seems that he was not injured in the vital parts by you, Ming Fei. Dragons have powerful self-repair abilities. Samson is a second-generation species and even has the ability to be resurrected through 'eggs'."

Guderian paused and said, "But even if Samson is a second-generation species, it will take a long time for him to recover from such injuries. The rescue ship dispatched by the academy is trying to salvage the remaining part of the dragon's body for research."

Lu Mingfei asked: "Where is Bronze City?"

Guderian said, "The Nibelungen in Bronze City has been resealed. It is estimated that the seal will not be opened again until a set time. This incident caused quite a stir. Many people witnessed a huge fire rising in the middle of the Yangtze River. There was even a rumor on the Internet that the monster Gorzan that caused the earth to crack had awakened. But you don't have to worry. Doctor Zhou said that the Zhou family will help us settle these things."

Lu Mingfei nodded silently. Since the Zhou family was the largest mixed-race force in China, they naturally had such connections and capabilities. After all, they could even transport the "Moniah" research vessel modified by Kassel Academy to the Yangtze River.

Things have developed to this point, just like a long task has finally come to an end. Everything has returned to dust, and all the plots and characters are about to enter a happy dumpling-making ending.

Although all this seemed long, it was actually only three days since Lu Mingfei left his hometown to participate in the "Eye of Kuimen" mission.

Lu Mingfei turned his head and looked at the scenery outside the porthole.

It was already dark, and the night sky above the river was bright with stars, just like the heroic spirits floating up in the water below.

But there was a feeling rising from the bottom of Lu Mingfei's heart, making him feel that this matter was not over yet.

It seems that there are some details...hidden beneath this seemingly complete surface.

……

(End of this chapter)