Dragon Clan: Force me to be reborn and slay dragons

Chapter 273 Sorry, I have to go save the world.

"Why hasn't Lu Mingfei replied to my message yet?"

In China, Su Xiaoqiang returned home after finishing a day of college entrance exams and found that there were still no new messages popping up on QQ. She pursed her lips in dissatisfaction.

After many days, that guy miraculously reappeared. I was hoping to ask him what he was up to, but he came up with the excuse of saving the world and then disappeared again.

I threw myself onto the sofa, buried myself in the cushions, and started mentally estimating my score.

Chinese and math are not difficult, and she is confident of getting high scores. English is a piece of cake for her. The only subject she really needs to pay attention to is the combined science subjects.

However, as long as you perform normally, you're guaranteed to get into Xiamen University.

She had originally considered studying abroad, but her father's health was poor, and the interview at Kassel College dispelled her fascination with prestigious foreign universities, so she decided to stay in the province.

If nothing unexpected happens, after graduating from university, she will follow the established path and enter the company to take over her father's position, a rather dull life that seems predictable from beginning to end.

Lu Mingfei is so carefree. He leaves whenever he wants, disappears whenever he wants, and even gives up on the college entrance examination, which is extremely important to Chinese people.

"Xiaoqiang, don't lie down right after eating, it's bad for your stomach."

Su's mother sat down next to her, correcting her daughter's bad habits while turning on the TV.

"You've been eating for a while now, it's okay." Su Xiaoqiang nestled her head into her mother's arms. Although she was a proud little princess outside, she was just her mother's little darling at home.

"You~" Su's mother affectionately stroked her daughter's hair, wanting to find some news about the college entrance examination to see if any students who handed in their papers early made any grand pronouncements.

Last year, Chu Zihang from Shilan Middle School handed in his paper early and left the exam room. He didn't say a word when a reporter handed him the microphone. He was as cold as a campus idol, which must have captivated countless young girls.

Su Xiaoqiang didn't want to listen to news related to the college entrance examination, so she put her arm around her mother's waist and asked her to change the channel, preferably to a music program, to relax her tense nerves after the exam.

So Su's mother selected from a variety of international channels, and soon a light and sweet Japanese song began to play in the middle of the living room.

Su Xiaoqiang doesn't understand Japanese, but she can tell that the song is definitely about teenage love. She subconsciously wants to picture a handsome boy in her mind, but she quickly suppresses the thought and mentally spits out a "pui".

Judging from the noise, it sounds like a concert, but I don't know which singer it is.

Soon, after a string of incomprehensible gibberish, she heard her mother let out a small sound of surprise:
Wow, what a beautiful girl.

Su Xiaoqiang felt a little jealous upon hearing this. She looked up, wanting to meet her mother's eyes, but all she could see were towering, unreachable mountains. So she muttered:

"How pretty are you? Can you be as pretty as me?"

"Of course, our Xiaoqiang is prettier." Su's mother smiled and comforted her competitive daughter. Her own darling's appearance was definitely unparalleled in the world, but the girl on TV had a very unique temperament, with eyes as pure as a clear lake.

The little girl hummed twice, turned over to face the TV, wanting to see what kind of person could make her mother, who was always impressed by her eyebrows, exclaim in amazement.

That one glance was enough to leave her completely stunned.

On a 70-inch television screen, a neatly dressed young man walked onto the stage, holding the hand of a somewhat nervous but pretty girl. He was poised and confident, showing no signs of embarrassment at being in the sight of tens of thousands of people.

Although his temperament had changed dramatically, his facial features hadn't changed much. Su Xiaoqiang recognized the boy at a glance.

It was precisely because she recognized that person that she stood there stunned.

When Su's mother noticed that the girl stopped halfway through turning around, she looked down curiously and saw her precious daughter half-supported, her exquisite and beautiful face filled with shock and confusion.

"What's wrong?" Following her gaze, Su's mother looked at the two teenagers who were taking the stage together, but there was nothing surprising about it.

Su Xiaoqiang pointed at the feud on the screen that had lasted for three years and was only resolved half a month ago, her words stammering:
"He...he is..."

"The road before the private name is Mingfei."

The television broadcast the boy's self-introduction, which began in Japanese and was followed by fluent Chinese, leaving Su's mother stunned.

The Portuguese woman glanced at the boy on television, then looked down at her daughter in her arms, and finally realized:
"Is this boy your classmate who went abroad?"

In the past few days, Su Xiaoqiang had been mentioning Lu Mingfei's name quite often. She had even pestered her father to ask about him for a long time. So, in just one moment, she connected the boy on TV with the little benefactor who helped her husband discover his health problems in advance.

How did he end up in Japan?

“I want to know too.” Su Xiaoqiang sat up straight. The TV station was showing “live broadcast,” which meant that the guy was currently in Japan.

She gritted her teeth, feeling that her good intentions had been misplaced: "That bastard, he talks about going to save the world, but he actually went to Japan to pick up pretty girls."

As Su's mother listened to her daughter listing Lu Mingfei's faults, she found it somewhat amusing. She stroked her daughter's hair like she was petting a kitten, telling her not to be angry.

After the little fairy said a lot, she heard applause and cheers coming from the TV. Looking up, she saw that Lu Mingfei had taken over the role of the main performer and was holding the microphone to sing.

"Is he crazy?!"

The girl stared wide-eyed, somewhat unable to believe what she was seeing.

She knew Lu Mingfei's true worth better than anyone else. In the past, when they argued, she often brought up his tone-deafness, stiff limbs, and dancing like he was being electrocuted.

"How dare he?!"

And who exactly is that girl?
What could possibly make Lu Mingfei muster the courage to embarrass himself in front of so many people?
The little fairy looked at Erii, who was standing next to Chinatsu Aoki during halftime and had a slightly bewildered expression, and felt a little envious.

Although it's just Lu Mingfei, I have to say, the scene is incredibly romantic.

On stage, the lights went out, leaving only a spotlight shining on the boy in the center, with his handsome face on the large screen behind him.

Lu Mingfei sat there, one foot on a footrest and the other casually on the ground, his slender fingers resting lightly on the uniquely shaped dragon guitar.

His face was magnified on the big screen, his handsome features appearing exceptionally clear and fair under the lights, with a faint smile on his lips.

Fingers plucked the strings, and the crisp sound of the guitar echoed in the quiet Yokohama International Stadium. The simple melody had a power that struck straight to the heart.

The boy spoke, his voice deep and gentle:
We cried~ We laughed
We looked up at the sky

A few stars are still shining...

The weather wasn't great tonight; a light drizzle was falling, and dark clouds hung overhead, obscuring the starlight.

But at this moment, the countless glow sticks and light boards waved by the audience formed a dazzling array of stars, echoing the boy's singing.

We sing the song of time.
Only then did we learn to embrace each other.

What was it all for...?

There was silence.

There was no accompaniment, no elaborate arrangement, just a guitar, a young boy, and a simple yet soul-stirring song.

Aoki Chinatsu, who was drinking water and catching her breath on the sidelines, was stunned. She had never imagined that such a scene would unfold at her concert.

A stranger, a young man, sang a Chinese song she had never heard before in the purest way, causing the concert that originally belonged to her to change hands at that moment.

In the audience, some people secretly raised their phones to record, while others held their breath, afraid of missing a single note.

Even though they couldn't understand Chinese at all, their minds could grasp the meaning of the song. It was as if someone had split open their skulls with an axe, shoved in a translator, and forcibly converted the unfamiliar Chinese lyrics into something they could understand.

Erii, biting on a lollipop, gazed intently at the boy singing softly in the center of the stage with her crimson eyes, as if the whole world had shrunk to just his solitary figure.

She couldn't understand Chinese, but she understood every word in the lyrics, and she also understood what Lu Mingfei wanted to say to her—

"Because I just happened to meet you!"

Lu Mingfei's gaze pierced through the spotlight and landed on Erii. His smile deepened, and his voice shifted to a theatrical tone, reaching its emotional peak.

"It is the footprints that make it beautiful"
The wind blows, flowers fall, tears fall like rain.

Because I don't want to be separated..."

The entire audience listened and watched in silence as the young man expressed his feelings to the girl in the most direct way.

Lu Mingfei continued singing, but in the second half, he switched to Japanese:
"Private smile"
Sora を Yang ぎ见 て
まだ九つかの星が光いている

Private たちは歌いながら……”

Watching the boy on TV who was completely captivating the audience with his singing, Su Xiaoqiang was utterly dumbfounded.

She could hardly believe her eyes. How could that jerk Lu Mingfei be so good? No off-key singing, no cracking voices, no tongue twisters, no turning the concert into a disaster...

Damn it, why didn't you say you were so talented before? Now it's always Liu Miaomiao stealing the spotlight at every gala!

You've been reading too many online novels, haven't you? All you do is think about pretending to be weak while actually being strong!

What's most infuriating is that he actually got to eat it!
Kassel College, USA.

While still busy monitoring the Japan Trench, Eva captured information about key figures and reported it immediately.

Surrounded by virtual screens, Schneider and Manstein were still extremely anxious about the situation at sea when suddenly a unique screen popped up, showing a boy singing loudly.

Both of them were taken aback, wondering why Eva was showing them this at this critical moment.

But they quickly recognized who the person in the picture was.

"Lu Mingfei?!"

The two high-ranking middle-aged men were both taken aback, not expecting that the person they had been searching for for many days would actually step forward on his own initiative.

"Quickly, locate Lu Mingfei and have the Japanese branch bring him here!" Professor Schneider immediately instructed Norma's war persona, Eva, to ensure that the principal's orders were carried out properly.

Before the principal went into business, he emphasized that he must find Lu Mingfei, as he would be the key to winning this battle against the gods.

The situation there is getting worse and worse. Tens of thousands of corpse guards may break through the defenses of the Snake Clan at any time and rush towards Japan. At that time, the dragon civilization that the hybrids have painstakingly concealed for tens of thousands of years will be exposed to the public!
Someone must emerge to break the deadlock and turn the tide!
Upon receiving the news, the Snake-Headed Eight Family also immediately focused on the Yokohama concert. Fuma Kotaro and Ryoma Genichiro saw the Uesugi family head, who had been kidnapped, listening to his lover sing up close with a smile they'd never seen before on his face. They were so anxious they were practically scratching their tin cans.

My dear young lady, my beloved Uesugi, your brother is practically surrounded by zombies and could die at any moment. How can you still have the leisure to attend a concert?!
Both family heads knew Erii's role in the family—the ultimate biological weapon. With her intervention, the predicament at sea would be resolved.

There was no need to urge them; the head of the Sakurai family personally took charge, drawing over a hundred elite officers from the remaining law enforcement personnel to welcome the head of the Uesugi family back home and quell the chaos on the sea.

"Because I just happened to meet you"
Make a lifelong promise
Having seen all the sights in the world

"To be with you every day and night..."

At the concert, as the song came to an end, Lu Mingfei's fingertips swept across the guitar strings, and the last note slowly disappeared into the air.

There was a three-second silence, followed by deafening applause and cheers.

"Siguoyi! Siguoyi!"

"This kid is so handsome!"

"One more song! One more song!"

The thunderous cheers startled Aoki Chinatsu, who was still lost in the song.

She first glanced at the girl next to her, who had a happy smile on her face and seemed to be still in a daze, a hint of envy in her eyes. Then she smiled and stepped forward, praising Lu Mingfei's wonderful performance and asking about the origin of the song.

However, before she could speak, a strange noise came from the sky.

"Rumble--"

The roar of helicopter rotors came from outside the stadium. Everyone looked up and saw a black helicopter hovering above the stadium, with no TV station logo on its fuselage.

At the hatch, a burly man with gray hair leaned out, holding a heavy camera in his hand, the lens pointed at Lu Mingfei in the center of the stage.

"puff--"

Inside the executive hall of Kassel College, Guderian, who had just returned to the college after handing over his duties, was conscripted into the workforce and spat out all the coffee in his mouth.

He had just learned that Lu Mingfei had appeared and that the Japanese branch had sent someone to invite him. He thought the situation was finally turning around, but he had only been happy for less than ten seconds when he saw his good-for-nothing student, Finger, make a dazzling appearance.

As an executive officer, instead of doing his job of slaying dragons, he's become a paparazzi taking pictures of people?!
Guderian felt a sudden dizziness and realized that his hopes of becoming a tenured professor were now dashed.

Beside him, the red-haired girl who had come with him to help in the execution department felt a slight relaxation between her brows. Her boyfriend, who was stuck at the bottom of the sea, should be able to return safely.

"what's the situation?"

"Whose helicopter is this? NHK's?"

Inside Yokohama International Stadium, everyone was bewildered by the sudden appearance of the helicopter. Backstage, Aoki Chika's manager was furious. Such an explosive program was interrupted because of this; it was practically a crime!
Chinatsu Aoki was also stunned. She subconsciously looked at Lu Mingfei, only to find that the boy had already stood up and put his guitar on a high stool.

Amidst the noise, a cool, mature female voice came over the helicopter's onboard loudspeaker:
"Lu Mingfei, we're running out of time. Do we still want to continue the concert?"

Upon hearing this, the entire audience erupted in uproar!
Lu Mingfei simply chuckled and reached out his hand to Erii.

The girl, her eyes sparkling with excitement, practically skipped over and grabbed his outstretched hand tightly.

The boy led the girl away from the center of the stage, brushing past Aoki Chinatsu, who was standing there stunned.

The latter looked bewildered, opened his mouth as if to say something, but didn't understand what was going on and didn't know where to begin.

On the helicopter, a gray-haired, burly man carrying a camera tossed down a rappelling rope.

Lu Mingfei put his arm around Erii's waist, gripped the rope with one hand, and smiled slightly under the gaze of over 70,000 people:
"Sorry, I have to go save the world."

As soon as he finished speaking, the helicopter roared up and took off, carrying the boy and girl into the air!

The entire venue fell silent once more. Everyone stared wide-eyed as the stunning couple, who had just given them such an unprecedented shock, disappeared into the night as the helicopter flew away, leaving them speechless for a long time.

Chinatsu Aoki stood on the stage, the microphone nearly slipping from her hand, muttering to herself:

"This...this is my concert...how come you've stolen all the limelight?!"

(End of this chapter)