Dragon Clan: Force me to be reborn and slay dragons

Chapter 401 At eighteen, he mastered the art of slaying dragons, returned home to cleanse the household.

The four sons of the Chen family, who had been so arrogant just moments before, suddenly knelt down and wept bitterly, slapping themselves repeatedly in the face. This sight truly opened Erii's eyes.

She tugged at Lu Mingfei's sleeve: "Sakura, is Nono's family also involved in organized crime?"

She grew up in the main gang of gangsters. Although she had little contact with gang activities due to her health, she would mostly just sit quietly to the side and act as a mascot when the main gang held meetings.

But there are always times when she will witness family members being punished in public for making mistakes, and Genji will not specifically ask her to avoid it.

However, the family's punishment methods are usually more severe, often involving removing parts from the body. Those punished usually grit their teeth and endure it without uttering a sound.

She had never seen anyone cry and wail so desperately, begging for mercy like this before.

"It's... a slightly more sophisticated criminal organization, but the essence is about the same."

After a moment's thought, Lu Mingfei felt that Erii's description was not far off. Although a large business would inevitably have its share of messy and shady dealings, the Chen family's illegal and criminal activities were no less than those of those who made their fortunes, and they were even audacious enough to collude with foreign forces.

Bypassing the four self-absorbed, weeping lunatics who seemed oblivious to the world, the two continued their journey toward the main building.

Because all electronic devices in the entire manor were paralyzed, the security guards scattered throughout the manor noticed something was wrong and rushed over following the sound of slapping and crying.

However, the moment they caught sight of Lu Mingfei, before they could even react, they were struck as if by Adam's hammer, their vision went black, and they collapsed to the ground without a sound, falling into a deep coma.

Meanwhile, in her study on a high floor of the main building, Madam Chen, hidden behind heavy velvet curtains, witnessed the horrifying sight of more than twenty black-clad bodyguards falling to the ground like harvested ears of wheat.

She sensed something was wrong when the four Chen siblings started making sarcastic remarks. This morning, after she went back to see her husband with the keys, he mentioned that brat Nuonuo in a very displeased tone, with a kind of impotent rage that comes from the child becoming too independent and disobedient to his parents, yet he was temporarily unable to punish him.

Under these circumstances, how could Nono possibly return to the manor on her own?

When she left home for Kassel, she packed up all of her birth mother's few remaining belongings, showing a resolute attitude that she would never return.

As she expected, it wasn't Nuonuo who came, but Lu Mingfei, whom she had met once in the mountain city.

This brief encounter, or rather, the back view, was something Lu Mingfei and his group caught a glimpse of from afar as they left the research vessel.

At that time, she also saw Erii and realized that the back view of the head of the Uesugi family of the Snake-Headed Eight Families looked exactly like Nono's.

Seeing those four idiots kneel down upon meeting her, and the other bodyguards also disappear the moment they showed their faces, Madam Chen took out her phone to call her husband for backup. However, the phone, which she had just bought not long ago, crashed and wouldn't respond no matter how she pressed the buttons.

Not only cell phones, but also landlines, computers, and all other devices in the study that require electricity or signal all malfunctioned.

An ominous premonition arose in her heart. She tried to open the hidden door of the study, almost breaking the mechanism, but the hidden door remained unmoved.

Could it be that the manor's security system has been completely hacked and paralyzed?

The thought flashed through her mind: after all, there were three power supply systems inside the manor, one for the children's daily life training, one for security measures, and one for the safe house.

Now, the ones most likely to have problems have problems, and the ones least likely to have problems have also had problems.

Her husband was right. Lu Mingfei did indeed have designs on the Chen family, but instead of heading straight for the main residence as expected, he chose to target this manor first.

Fortunately, there is a hidden alarm system connecting the manor and the main residence. If this place were to lose all contact, the main residence would immediately detect and report it.

By now, the husband must have known that someone had invaded the manor, and may have already sent people to help.

Regardless of Lu Mingfei's motives, the most urgent task is to hide the key, as it is one of the Chen family's most important assets.

Moreover, as long as he has the key, even if the safe house system is paralyzed, he can still enter it by using his words of power.

In a flash, she rushed out of the study and hurried toward the nursery, which was specially prepared for her.

The moment she pushed open the nursery door, Key, who had been lying in the crib playing with the maid, suddenly frowned, pouted, and burst into tears.

The crying was exceptionally loud and had a very strong penetrating power.

When the maid saw her mistress burst in with a grim expression, she was about to ask if there was anything important, but she was caught off guard by the young master's sudden wailing and instinctively reached out to pick him up and comfort him.

However, Mrs. Chen was faster. She picked up the crying baby first, and without saying a word, she quickly took him out the door.

The maid stood frozen in place, only to hear the rapid, crisp sound of high heels clicking on the floor quickly fading away in the corridor, interspersed with what sounded like the mistress's low, impatient reprimands:

"Stop crying, or we'll get you!"

The maid was still in shock and uncertainty when she suddenly noticed something unusual: the corridor lights were off, and the air conditioning seemed to have stopped.

Combined with the abrupt and incoherent rebuke she had just heard, the maid suddenly panicked. Someone had broken in!

Moreover, anyone who dares to break into a private residence in broad daylight, especially the Chen family's residence, is no ordinary bandit; they must be a formidable ferocious beast.

Alone in the suddenly gloomy and empty nursery, she became increasingly anxious and disoriented.

After a brief hesitation, she took a few steps in the direction the mistress and the child had left, but then suddenly realized that the safest thing to do at this moment was to stay as far away from the mother and child as possible!

So she decisively turned around and ran towards the nanny's room.

Just as she was about to meet up with her friends, the door to the nanny's room was locked from the inside, and no matter how much she knocked, no one answered.

Just as I was getting annoyed with my plastic colleague, I suddenly heard two clear footsteps approaching, followed by the sound of something falling to the ground, which sounded like someone had fallen to the ground unconscious.

She panicked and turned to run away, but the clattering sound of her low heels was particularly jarring in the quiet corridor.

She hurriedly kicked off her shoes, stepping barefoot onto the cold floor. But just then, the footsteps clearly approached from behind.

She froze, her movements halting as she lifted her skirt in preparation for a mad dash. Her back was instantly soaked with cold sweat, the white, sheer fabric becoming translucent and clinging tightly to her skin.

Hearing the footsteps approaching slowly, she didn't even have the courage to turn around.

She knew all the rules; they were all shown on TV. If she didn't see the robber's face, she was still alive. But if she saw his face, it meant he didn't intend to leave any survivors.

So she decisively shrank behind a large vase about half her height at the end of the corridor, burying her head deep in her knees like an ostrich, hugging herself tightly with her arms, adopting an absolutely defensive posture of "you can't see me, and I can't see you," completely cowardly.

After assuming this self-deceptive pose, she keenly noticed that the footsteps behind her paused slightly, as if they were showing a hint of... curiosity about her strange behavior.
Just as her heart was pounding and she thought she was going to die, a gentle, boyish voice rang out softly, tinged with a hint of teasing:

"Look how scared you've made them crouch down with their heads in their hands in a standard defensive stance."

Then a clear, ethereal voice, like a mountain stream dripping into a deep pool, rang out, retorting with a hint of dissatisfaction: "No, it's clearly you."

Are these two powerful figures from across the river a husband-and-wife team? They're even flirting with each other.

And he sounds quite young.

While the maid was puzzled, she prayed that the two would continue to maintain their unprofessional manners and just walk away, ignoring her, an invisible little maid.

Perhaps her prayers had worked, for the footsteps sounded again and gradually faded into the distance. Only when she estimated the person was far away did she dare to slightly raise her head and peek out through the gap between her arm and head.

The person was indeed gone; the corridor was empty, with only a wisp of fiery red hair flashing by at the corner.

Ok?
That hair color...

Could it be Miss Nono?
A hint of surprise and uncertainty flashed in the maid's eyes. Although her voice had changed slightly, her red hair was too conspicuous. Among the dozens of young masters and ladies in the entire manor, there was no other one with that hair color.

Even if some young masters and ladies wanted to follow suit and dye their hair this color before, they would not please the master and would even displease him, so they would dye their hair back to its original color.

Miss Nono was studying abroad, why did she suddenly come back?

Could it be that he is preparing to learn the art of dragon slaying at the age of eighteen, and then return home to clean house?

Thinking of the cold treatment and targeting that hot-tempered, rebellious young lady had suffered in the manor, the maid silently buried her head back down, feeling that today the manor was likely to be stained with blood.

……

A little earlier in time, Madam Chen returned to the study with the key. She tried her best to stop the little rascal from crying incessantly on the way, but to no avail. It wasn't until she stepped back into the relatively familiar and enclosed study environment that the heart-wrenching wailing gradually subsided, turning into a sob of grievance.

"Good girl, baby, be good." She softened her voice to an almost dripping level, holding up the key towards the alloy security door behind the bookshelf.

"Please help Mom open this door, okay? There are bad people outside, it's dangerous."

Seemingly sensing the approaching danger she spoke of, Key's face, which had been tantrums like a baby's, suddenly lost all expression. From the depths of his large, tearful eyes, a majestic and dazzling gold surged forth like molten lava, instantly swallowing all his childishness.

The tiny infant's golden eyes ignited, and an invisible domain spread out. He stretched out his small, white, tender hand, like a lotus root, and spread his slender fingers forward.

With a slight tremor in his small body, immense power surged forth from his hands.

"boom--"

A series of muffled, loud noises came from inside the heavy alloy security door as a complex mechanism was forcibly activated, and then it burst open with a tooth-grinding metallic scraping sound!

A look of relief flashed in Madam Chen's eyes. Without hesitation, she grabbed the keys and slipped inside.

Almost the instant she entered, the massive alloy door slammed shut swiftly and heavily under the action of the automatic closing system, completely isolating her from all external sounds and dangers.

"Click." A reassuring click of the lock came through.

Only then did Madam Chen's tense nerves relax slightly, and she let out a long sigh of relief.

The emergency lights inside the safe house also seemed to be malfunctioning. They could still be powered by batteries even when the power was off, but now they couldn't emit any light, leaving the room completely dark.

"The key is great." She kissed the baby's sweaty forehead with lingering fear, and subconsciously patted his head as a reward.

However, it was too early to breathe a sigh of relief.

Almost as soon as she finished speaking, the key that had made such a great contribution in her arms seemed to have exhausted all its strength. Its extraordinary golden eyes instantly went out, and its small body trembled slightly. The dissatisfaction and discomfort that had been forcibly suppressed surged back like a rebound.

In addition, the environment is completely dark at this moment...

"Wow--!!!"

A louder, more aggrieved wail suddenly erupted, sounding particularly jarring in the confined metal space.

Madam Chen was so disturbed by the noise that her scalp tingled. She frantically tried to soothe her, saying, "Stop crying! My little darling! Please stop crying! What if you attract the enemy here again?!"

Meanwhile, outside the study, Lu Mingfei, holding Erii's hand, strolled over leisurely as if he were visiting his own backyard.

All the defenses inside the Chen family manor were useless to him. Madam Chen tried to hide with the key, but she couldn't escape his senses at all.

Pushing open the door, Lu Mingfei stopped in front of a mahogany bookcase that almost reached the ceiling. His gaze swept over the exquisitely bound, gold-embossed books, and he curled his lips slightly.

These were all bought to make a show of things; they hadn't been opened since they were unpacked. In his previous life, he and Uncle Chu had many similar desks, but they had never opened them to look at them.

He stretched out his free hand and casually placed it on the edge of the bookshelf. Without any apparent effort, the incredibly heavy bookshelf, which even had an automatic reset mechanism, seemed to be grasped by an invisible giant hand.

With a tooth-grinding creak, it was forcibly torn open from the wall, brutally exposing the incredibly heavy alloy security door.

"Tsk, this thing again." Lu Mingfei smirked and politely knocked three times on the alloy door panel.

"Boom, boom, boom."

The crisp knocking sound echoed in the quiet study and clearly penetrated into the deathly silent, supposedly completely silent, safe room behind the door.

Key's crying stopped abruptly as Madam Chen covered his mouth.

The latter looked terrified, not understanding how he had been exposed so quickly.

The next second, a voice carrying a gentle smile pierced through the door and clearly reached the ears of the two people inside:

"Fellow villager, open the door, the community is bringing warmth."

I don't believe you for a second! You little brat, you're really bad!
Madam Chen bit her lower lip tightly, not daring to make the slightest sound.

The boy, whose mouth and nose were covered, was already crying and short of breath. His little face was flushed red, and his big eyes were filled with terrified tears. His little hands weakly gripped Mrs. Chen's wrist that was covering his mouth, and his eyes gradually showed a look of despair.

Outside the door, Lu Mingfei waited a few seconds but received no response, and seemed somewhat disappointed.

"They won't open the door..." he sighed. "Well, it seems I'll have to come in myself."

As he finished speaking, he extended a finger and gently touched the spot where the seemingly indestructible alloy door panel met the wall.

There was no earth-shattering roar, no dazzling burst of spiritual power, only a chilling, pure, and utterly brutal violence!
Under his touch, the thick special alloy began to twist and deform like wax melted by high temperature. The sturdy track supporting the giant gate groaned under the weight and was instantly twisted into a pretzel by an incomprehensible brute force!
Immediately afterwards, the entire incredibly heavy security door, along with its surrounding twisted metal frame, was pushed by an invisible, immense force, and suddenly dented to one side!
"Creak—Boom!!"

The mechanical blocking device, designed to lock in an emergency and withstand explosions, was forcibly broken off from the inside of the wall, just like the taste of the sea – I know it's seaweed!
Amidst the rising dust, the security door, along with part of the twisted metal wall, was roughly pushed open, creating a gap large enough for a person to pass through.

Light streamed into the safe house through the opening, revealing the vast interior, which was decorated like a high-class lounge, complete with everything one could need.

Clutching the key, almost suffocating and with tears streaming down her face, Mrs. Chen huddled in the deepest corner of the room, her face ashen, her eyes filled with utter horror as she looked toward the door.

Lu Mingfei leaned down slightly, bringing his face close to the opening, revealing a kind smile, and greeted the two trembling figures in the corner:
"Here's Johnny!"

Upon seeing this suddenly appearing smiling face, Key, already weakened by fear and exhaustion, and with his stepmother tightly covering his mouth, was on the verge of suffocation and fainting. Seeing that malevolent, predatory smile, he finally couldn't hold back and his eyes rolled back as he fainted.

A small Lao Tzu, a great tragedy.

(End of this chapter)