Dragon Clan: Force me to be reborn and slay dragons

Chapter 282 The Mystery of the Dragon King, The Man Behind the Scenes, Father and Son's Dialogue
Divine Retribution System.

To be honest, when Lu Mingfei first heard Angers' description of this thing, the first image that came to his mind was the space-based kinetic weapon known as "Project Zeus" in the movie "G.I. Joe: Retaliation".

The movie portrays it in an exaggerated way: a tungsten rod falling from near-Earth orbit penetrates the atmosphere at eight times the speed of a bullet, with kinetic energy comparable to a tactical nuclear weapon, yet leaving no radioactive contamination.

Unfortunately, this wasn't the kind of backdoor gun that the Union Jack foreign lords preferred; one blow and the whole of London would be blasted to pieces.

When Lu Mingfei first watched this movie, he thought, "Wow, that's awesome!" But that was all. After all, this kind of thing is too expensive to make, and you really can't afford it without some financial resources.

The following year, the year after he led his team to victory at the Bird's Nest, the Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering published a research report entitled "Theoretical and Experimental Study on the Penetration of Rocks and Ground Impact Effect of Ultra-High-Speed ​​Long Rod Projectiles".

The title is so long it's almost boring, but the conclusion is so clear it's laughable:

一根直径11厘米、长84厘米的钨棒以4650米/秒的速度撞击戈壁滩，最终只在荒漠上留下一个直径4.6米深3米的浅坑。

This result left everyone speechless.

Well, how should I put it? It's amazing, right? The hole it created is only big enough for a few Yamcha to lie in.

It's rather underwhelming; this kinetic rod is only a "tiny" 140 kilograms, far from being as imposing as the six-meter-long Sword of Damocles, which weighs in tons.

However, this is a world where supernatural powers exist, including not only the power of words but also magical alchemy. Who dares to say that the Heavenly Punishment System is equipped with an ordinary high-density metal rod?

What if this thing is actually an alchemical creation, and upon hitting its target, the alchemical matrix is ​​triggered, releasing an explosion comparable to the "Rhine"?

Fortunately, Schneider stopped the countdown to Eva in time; otherwise, Lu Mingfei might have faced the trolley problem created by his incompetent teammate.

"Sakura, who are you talking to?"

Erii tilted her head to look at Lu Mingfei, her beautiful hair falling down her side, gently caressing his face in the cool breeze.

"Unrelated brothers from different fathers and mothers." Lu Mingfei's words left Erii completely bewildered.

She looked at herself in confusion, then at Lu Mingfei, and finally at Yuan Zhisheng, her little head almost steaming.

Uesugi Kotsugu, Angers, and Inuyama He huddled together, their eyes constantly glancing furtively in their direction, their expressions filled with conflict.

He had witnessed his daughter and the blond-haired boy's grand entrance. Erii was a royal descendant, so it was perfectly normal for her to be a little special. But he really couldn't understand the blond-haired boy.

It was understandable that he was beaten up by the other party at the Ebisu French restaurant. The person that Angers took a liking to must not be an ordinary person. He might be a human dragon like him. That night, he just suffered because he was afraid of the young and strong.

But tonight, the other party can fly, control swords to kill enemies, and turn rain into ice. Is this really something a hybrid can do?
Are you sure it wasn't that kid who chewed up and swallowed the White King, or that he was actually a person on the surface but had been parasitized by the Holy Relic?

But he dared not speak or ask, after all, everyone present combined might not be enough to beat that blond-haired guy, and once he started fighting, he would be on the blond-haired guy's side.

Good news, the strongest person is already in the team.

Bad news, on enemy territory.

I wanted to talk to Yuan Zhisheng, but that kid was a bit dim-witted. What kind of time is this to be discussing post-war compensation?

His frequent sidelong glances, his impatient yet forced demeanor, caught the attention of Angers and Inuyama He beside him.

"What happened? Did you twist your neck just now?" Angers suddenly asked, interrupting Uesugi Kotetsu's random thoughts.

"A bit, that kid doesn't hold back." Uesugi Yue had been beaten by Lu Mingfei once before, so he naturally didn't mind teasing him subtly at this moment.

But Angers gave a mysterious smile and a mocking look.

"why are you laughing?!"

"Thinking of happy things."

"What's the happy thing?"

"You've been hit by a child."

Uesugi Koshi almost jumped up: "Damn it, Angers, you old bastard, why are you so mean? Why do you have to bring up the one thing you don't want to talk about!"

Inuyama Kazuya looked at him. This man was extraordinary. Even though Tachibana Masamune had committed such a heinous crime, he was still far superior to him on the list of shameful patriarchs of the Snake Clan.

In fact, Inuyama Kazuya hated Uesugi Kotsugi from the beginning. If he hadn't openly supported the war, his dead father wouldn't have dared to directly bet the entire Inuyama family on it, ultimately causing the Inuyama clan to die out.

But later, when he came to power, he realized that things were not so simple. Uesugi Kotsu, the supreme leader of the Snake Clan, was just a fool who had been misled, and the person who misled him was his father, a fanatical militarist.

Therefore, even after Uesugi Kotsugu burned and killed a large number of people in his rage and burned down the family shrine that enshrined the "war hero", he did not feel much resentment, and even felt a faint sense of satisfaction at having achieved his revenge.

For more than sixty years afterward, he helped Uesugi Koshi conceal his identity; it was far too easy for the first head of the Japanese branch to hide someone.

However, soon, Inuyama He seemed to realize something, and suddenly turned to look at Lu Mingfei with a shocked expression.

He remembered that Su Sang had previously asked the Snake Clan to find a gang called "Black Sun Gang," but no one met their requirements, and the matter was eventually dropped.

But now it seems that things are not so simple.

After all, Black Sun can also be called Black Sun.

Combined with the fact that Lu Mingfei had previously taken people to the street behind the back gate of Dongda University, it turns out that everything had already begun to take shape back then.

It's unclear why they're targeting Uesugi Kotsugi. Is it because of that street, or because of the White King's bloodline he carries?

Or...

Watching the boy and girl fooling around together for some unknown reason, Inuyama He, the top dog in the sex industry, had a sudden realization.

Sure enough, people can't live without astringency.

On the other side, Genjiro had already dealt with the relevant matters and came over with three retainers.

"How is the girl? Has anything else happened to her?"

His information was still based on what happened before the war. He only knew that the high-ranking members of the Kanto branch had collectively betrayed the government and colluded with the Oni Clan to try to capture Takamagahara, but their attempt backfired and they were all wiped out.

"It's alright. If you're worried, you can come back with us to check on things."

Lu Mingfei stayed here because Herzog had planted a mole on the Sumeru pedestal, but after a thorough search, no suspicious persons were found.

After all, most of the more than a thousand people were dead, and even if the remaining few had the intention to harm others, they had no power to do so.

Genjiro glanced around, his gaze landing on the sly Uesugi Kotsugi, before shaking his head.

"I have something else to do."

Lu Mingfei knew from their positions that Uesugi Koshi and Genjiro already knew each other's identities, so he wasn't surprised. He took Erii's hand and turned to leave.
"Let's go back and play games~"

Today's rescue wipes out all the damage he did to the Snake Clan, no matter how badly they were harmed before; they even owe him a favor.

Who knows, once they return to Tokyo, the heads of the families will probably have to throw a banquet to thank him.

Seeing that Lu Ming insisted on taking Erii away, Uesugi Yue instinctively wanted to follow, but had no reason to, so he could only nudge Angers with his elbow, signaling him to step in.

But Angers gestured for him to calm down, saying that Lu Mingfei shouldn't be leaving Japan so soon. Wouldn't it be better to wait until the whole family was back before discussing and resolving the matter?

So Uesugi could only watch his daughter and her blond-haired friend leave.

The helicopter was ready to be refueled, and Cheng Shuangfan and Caesar sat in the pilot's seat.

"We meet again." Cheng Shuangfan nodded to Lu Mingfei with a smile on her face.

After the principal's explanation, he now knew that Lu Mingfei was actually the hunter he met while hunting the dragon girl Lilith in Spain, and he couldn't help but sigh that this was fate.

"Hmm, we meet again." Lu Mingfei wasn't surprised that he recognized him. "Weren't you hunting dragons in Europe? What are you doing here?"

"Life is unpredictable, like the big intestine wrapping the small intestine." Cheng Shuangfan explained her transfer back to China and earnestly invited Lu Mingfei to join the Chinese branch, only to be cleanly and decisively rejected, as expected.

The legend of Kassel College's swift defeat against Lu Mingfei continues.

It doesn't matter. Cheng Shuangfan had already asked the principal about Lu Mingfei and learned that the boy's hometown happened to be in his jurisdiction. He could take advantage of the proximity and show his face to Lu Mingfei every day to build a relationship. Sooner or later, he could get to the point where they were intertwined.

After dealing with the enthusiastic Cheng Shuangfan, Lu Mingfei turned to Caesar in the passenger seat and asked, "What's the scenery like below the Abyss? Isn't it spectacular?"

"It's alright, quite impressive." Caesar nodded. After all, the ancient city of Takamagahara was a relic of the dragon civilization, and the information recorded on the bronze pillar standing in the center of the city was no less than that of the Ice Sea Bronze Pillar.

Although time was limited and I couldn't film everything, I still managed to record nearly two-thirds of the content. I'll show it to the dragon history professors at Kassel College, and I expect they'll make some great discovery soon.

"Did you see the embryo of the Lenin? What has it become?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"It was almost fused with the Lenin. We can't see where the baby dragon is, but we're sure it can't hatch anymore. Someone killed it and used it as a sacrifice to awaken Takamagahara."

Lu Mingfei nodded slightly, pondering for a moment. Noticing a slight change in Caesar's gaze, he asked him what the problem was.

When they boarded the plane earlier, Caesar noticed that Erii's hair roots and eye color looked somewhat familiar. Now, after taking another look, he asked curiously:
"Miss Uesugi's hair and eye color are very similar to Nono's. Could she be Chen Xiyuan, the woman you're looking for?"

For various reasons, he had never been able to meet Erii before, but now he remembered a little thing that Nono had told him.

She met Lu Mingfei once when she went to Shilan Middle School to pick up the interviewee information. He asked her if she had any distant relatives abroad who looked very similar to her.

Lu Mingfei nodded, then shook his head: "Right now, she's just Erii."

He raised his hand and gently stroked the girl's soft hair. Erii had originally dyed her hair, but after being modified by the power of the White King, her body underwent some changes, and her hair grew a little longer, with a dark red hue showing at the roots, which is why the difference was noticeable.

Caesar neither confirmed nor denied this, but there was clearly more to the story than it was worth investigating.

"It's quite surprising, really. Your Gattuso family has a collaboration with the Russian Space Agency, and you've even managed to develop a space-based kinetic energy weapon," Lu Mingfei asked casually.

Herzog himself admitted that it was a KGB officer named Bondarev who told him that a dragon king was sleeping in the Japan Trench, and that he knew the specific methods to steal the power of the White King.

It can be said that everything from the sinking of the Lenin into Takamagahara to the successive births of the three royal siblings was orchestrated by Bondarev himself.

The great and cunning Dr. Herzog merely inherited Bondarev's legacy and, based on it, devised a very vulgar conspiracy that would inevitably end in tragedy for others.

Little did he know that his seemingly successful life was actually under the control of Bondarev.

After all, the ancient dragon embryo hidden at the bottom of the sunken Lenin came from the remains of a dragon king in Black Swan Harbor.

That was the cocoon of a dragon king.

Bondarev, who was willing to offer the Dragon King's embryo as a sacrifice, could really be killed by Herzog with a single burst of bullets?
It was obviously impossible, but Herzog believed it anyway.

This shows that someone manipulated his perception, but he was completely unaware of it and was complacent about his gains.

However, he was, after all, a cunning and ambitious man. Herzog's subsequent investigation revealed that the KGB did not have a person named Bondarev. He came suddenly and died suddenly, leaving only a mysterious trace.

But Lu Mingfei knew that those who knew so many secrets of the dragon race either came from a long-standing dragon blood family or were simply pure-blooded dragons who had transformed into humans.

And coincidentally, the appearance of the Divine Punishment System came to his attention. It turned out that an Italian mixed-race family had actually reached a cooperation agreement with the Russian Space Agency to bring a space-based kinetic energy weapon that only existed in the imagination into space.

The relationship here is probably quite deep.

Now that we can be on the same side as the Russian space agency, could we have borrowed the KGB's coattails decades ago?

Caesar, however, was completely clueless about this. Addicted to rebellion, he rarely paid attention to family affairs, and the space-based kinetic energy weapon was obviously a top-secret project, something he couldn't possibly have access to at this stage, so naturally he couldn't offer any insights.

Lu Mingfei nodded slightly and did not press further. Once the direction was determined, they could delve deeper; asking too many questions would only arouse suspicion.

At least from what he sees now, Caesar definitely has conflicts with his own people, but he doesn't know the specific reasons. He'll ask Chip Girl to help him find out later.

Of course, there is another very important question—was the embryo destroyed in the nuclear bomb?
The foolish little brother told him that the ancient dragon embryo that sank to the bottom of the sea was a king, and one of the best among the first generation of species. Even if it was used as a sacrifice and its blood was continuously drained, it could not be killed.

Nuclear bombs are weapons developed by mankind to slay gods, and it is unknown whether they can destroy the Dragon King, who was worshipped as a god by ancient humans, hybrids, and dragons.

The noise of the propellers disappeared into the howling wind, and gradually the shadows completely blended into the night.

Uesugi Kotsuki stood there gazing into the distance, his expression one of utter dejection, like an old father who had been abandoned by his daughter and watched helplessly as she rode off on a yellow-haired ghost fire.

But everyone present knew what kind of person he really was.

As Genji approached, before he could speak, Angers nodded to Inuyama He:
"Ahe, let's go. Let me test your swordsmanship and see if you've improved over the years."

Inuyama He was taken aback by what he heard, and looked at Angers, who was unusually disheveled: "Teacher, don't you need to rest?"

"Hehe, people have plenty of time to rest after they die, so we should cherish the time we have while we're alive."

Two old men, one nearly a hundred and the other over a hundred, left, leaving Uesugi Kotsugi, who was in the middle, standing there watching Genjiro stand before him.

Uesugi looked at the handsome man who resembled him in his youth, a man with an androgynous charm. His tongue, once eloquent and capable of flirting with female college students and making young women tremble with delight, was now surprisingly clumsy. After struggling for a while, he could only manage to utter this one sentence:
"Um, hello."

Compared to Uesugi Kotsugi's complex emotions, Genji's were much simpler and clearer. He placed his hands on his thighs, displaying the spirit of a craftsman, and spoke calmly:

"thanks for your help."

This polite manner made Uesugi Kotsugi's heart tighten, thinking that he was trying to distance himself from him, but his years of hard work at the roadside stall made his body react subconsciously, and he bowed in return:

"You are welcome."

"..."

The atmosphere froze for a moment. The yaksha and crow, who had been secretly watching the commotion from a distance, covered their mouths, unsure of what to say. But soon, two slender arms reached out from behind and dragged them away.

After a moment of silence, Genji straightened up.

He wasn't one to beat around the bush, so he simply got straight to the point:

“Tachibana Masamune said that my daughter’s father and I were powerful figures who could command the entire Japanese underworld.”

Uesugi Kotsu nodded: "If I hadn't run away from my family back then, I would still be a big shot in the underworld today."

He also said that our father had passed away.

"If he's referring to that big shot, he has indeed been dead for many years. The only one alive now is a ramen chef with over sixty years of experience in the industry."

Uesugi looked at him with a bitter expression.

Things that come too easily are often not cherished, but he realized this too late.

Despite possessing combat power that stands at the pinnacle of hybrid races, he has never successfully protected anything. This is both a tragedy and a punishment.

Just like now, he could have simply called out "Son, I'm your father" and the father and son could have recognized each other and been overjoyed, but he didn't have the courage to make it clear. He could only follow Yuan Zhisheng's lead, afraid that if he made a wrong move, he would never be able to recognize them again.

Yuan Zhisheng looked at his slightly dark skin, the marks of years of exposure to wind and sun: "Didn't you take a lot of valuable things with you before you left?"

"Times are changing too fast, and it's too difficult to sell those antiques." Uesugi Yue felt a pang of heartache thinking about those priceless Tang-style swords that were treated as disposable items. After a major battle, he was left with only two swords.

"However, I still have an entire street that someone offered $12 billion for. Although it's a place I keep to reminisce about my youth, I can sell it anytime if I need to, and the buyer will handle all the formalities."

"Sell your place of shelter, where are you going?" Yuan Zhisheng pulled out a crumpled pack of cigarettes from his pocket. Luckily, it wasn't wet and could still be lit.

He handed one to Uesugi Kotsugi, who took it and put it in his mouth.

Yuan Zhisheng lit one for him, then lit one for himself. The father and son stood by the broken railing, enjoying the sea breeze and smoking silently, like any father and son who are not good at expressing themselves.

“I’ve saved up some money over the years, originally planning to buy a house in France and wait for death to knock on my door, but now…” Uesugi Koshi gazed in the direction of Tokyo, his voice betraying a hint of bewilderment:
"Let's try to clear up the misunderstanding between you and the girl first."

Upon hearing the first half of the sentence, Genji thought, "You're a legitimate emperor, I wouldn't dare say you'll live as long as Mount Nanshan, but you should at least be able to outlive the principal and vice-principal of Kassel College." But upon hearing the second half, he was taken aback:
"What misunderstanding is there between me and the girl?"

“You two aren’t…” Uesugi Etsushi recounted all the grudges and feuds he knew, which made Genji Shiki burst into laughter:
"Between brothers, misunderstandings can be cleared up."

He exhaled a smoke ring and extinguished the cigarette by pressing the butt against the railing.

"We've all made mistakes, so let's just share the responsibility."

(End of this chapter)