Dragon Clan: Force me to be reborn and slay dragons

Chapter 406 Be a grandson before you become a grandfather; slay the dragon before you ride it.
Angers looked at the pretty figure that flashed out from behind Chu Zihang. The girl had bright eyes and white teeth. When she smiled, her eyes were sparkling, as if she had captured the misty rain of the Jiangnan water towns, yet also had the bright and vivid beauty of the northern rouge.

He glanced at the expressionless next president of the Lionheart Society beside him, a faint hint of amusement flashing in his eyes.

Instead of rushing to unpack the big gift Lu Mingfei had prepared for her, she smiled slightly at the girl and said in a gentle and mellow voice, "You must be Xia Mi, an A-level freshman in the preparatory class. You are indeed as beautiful as Fingel described."

Xia Mi's beauty is a kind of non-threatening, pleasing beauty that transcends age and national boundaries; she is almost flawless...

Except for one slightly regrettable aspect.

"Oh my, Senior Brother Finger, you're really something, always speaking such blunt truths~" Xia Mi accepted Angers' praise without any hesitation.

It's hard to say how strong the world's strongest dragon slayer really is, but he's certainly got a silver tongue. He was probably a playboy who knew how to charm girls when he was young. Chu Zihang should stay away from him in the future.

She had actually met Angers before. When Fingel was ordered to come to the capital to interview the new students of the preparatory class, she had followed him to the airport to catch a glimpse of the world's strongest dragon slayer.

I was originally planning to test Angers' background, but the airport was too crowded and the location was too sensitive, so even the slightest movement would be magnified.

So in the end, they could only regretfully give up and watch the two board the plane and head south to recruit Lu Mingfei into the school.

However, that's all in the past. In the current situation, if Angers wants Lu Mingfei to enter Kassel College, he would have to give up his position as principal and make three visits to invite him. Otherwise, Lu Mingfei is unlikely to be interested.

Fingel, who was watching the show with great interest, was caught off guard by being called out. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but seeing Xia Mi's frank and unpretentious look of "I am naturally beautiful and cannot hide it", he swallowed his words and just gave her a thumbs up, everything was understood without saying a word.

No wonder she's a beautiful girl who managed to win over Chu Zihang; she certainly has a thick skin.

Professor Mans and the others had already met Xia Mi when they were in the mountain city, so they were not surprised at this time. They just looked at the body bag on the ground with curiosity. They could vaguely hear the sound of difficult breathing, so the cargo inside was obviously a living creature.

Or rather, it is a living thing for the time being.

"Did something happen?" Lu Mingfei raised an eyebrow in slight surprise. He clearly remembered that the trauma he had inflicted on Friedrich was limited to nightmares and had not affected his physical body in reality.

"Oh, when we went back just now, we found that he had somehow broken free of his restraints and even dared to hide and try to ambush us." Xia Mi patted her chest as if she had lingering fear. "Thanks to my senior brother's vigilance, he noticed something was wrong early on, otherwise we would have been injured just now."

This lie is just as Zhang Wuji's mother said: the more beautiful a woman is, the more likely she is to lie.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes and experienced it firsthand, Chu Zihang would never have believed that Xia Mi, such a beautiful girl, could lie without batting an eye, just like he did when he killed someone.

Only a few people know Xia Mi's true identity. Apart from the two Bronze and Fire Kings who are out in the wild, only Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei know it.

In the eyes of Angers and others, she was a beautiful mixed-race girl who was exceptionally talented, intelligent, and adorable.

"So you beat him half to death?" Fingel spoke up at the right moment, this development was in line with Chu Zihang's style of killing off his protégé.

"No, no." Xia Mi shook her head, holding up three slender fingers to indicate: "Strictly speaking, at most one-third of them will die."

Professor Mans's eye twitched almost imperceptibly, and a pang of inexplicable regret rose in his heart. Such a good girl actually had the same comedic talent as Finger. He hoped that she wouldn't become another source of amusement for Kassel College in the future.

But now is clearly not the time to complain.

He stared at the body bag, its breathing barely visible, and looked at Chu Zihang: "Who's inside?"

Without a doubt, the fact that the principal would make a special detour to Beijing and rush to find Lu Mingfei as soon as he landed must be related to the person in the bag.

“That’s an old friend of mine. I’ve been looking for him for a long time, but I haven’t been able to find him.” Angers looked at the bulging bag, his lips still curved in that elegant smile, but deep in his eyes, it was as if a crack had quietly appeared in a frozen pool, revealing a chilling coldness that had settled there for nearly a century, giving one a sense of dread.
"It's all thanks to Mingfei, otherwise I don't know how much manpower and resources would have been needed to reunite with him."

Upon hearing this, Professor Mans immediately understood; this must be the mysterious person the principal had been searching for for so long.

He was a descendant of German nobility, whose ancestors had worked under the German Emperor alongside Marquis Gambet, Angers' teacher. Long before entering Kassel College, he had heard about the first generation of the Lionheart Society being wiped out, leaving only Angers.

At that time, all the elders and future leaders of the Secret Party were killed in action. When Angers, who had been seriously injured and in a coma for a year, awoke, he alone carried the hopes and hatred of all the deceased and climbed step by step to the top, becoming the leader of the Secret Party and the world-renowned avenger and the strongest dragon slayer.

Later, when Mans became a tenured professor at Kassel College and joined the Executive Department to lead missions, he gained higher authority and learned the whole story of the "Summer Mourning" incident, realizing that the tragedy stemmed from a despicable betrayal.

Over the years, the principal has never given up on finding the other party. As for what he will do after finding him, it is hard to say. In any case, Angers has mastered hundreds of interrogation methods of torture. He studied medicine at Cambridge and knows how to make people die in the most painful way, ensuring that the traitor will repent every second of his breath in extreme pain.

In contrast, Caesar, Nono, and other unsuspecting younger generation members looked at each other with puzzled and curious eyes, thinking that their friend, the principal, was probably a bit shady.

However, they now understood why Angers had come here.

“I thought you came for that dragon named Fenrir, Headmaster. What a disappointment.” Fingel sighed, feigning disappointment. In reality, he was an excellent reader and keenly sensed that the headmaster was unwilling to discuss the matter further, so he took the opportunity to change the subject.

Sure enough, as soon as the topic of slaying the dragon came up, everyone's attention was immediately drawn to it.

"With Mr. Lu Mingfei here, slaying the dragon shouldn't be a big problem, right?" The intern, Selma, had witnessed Lu Mingfei's awe-inspiring feat of slaying a dragon with a single sword in the mountain city, and her tone was filled with almost blind confidence.

“That’s not how it works,” Ye Sheng shook his head and retorted. “We were able to defeat the King of Bronze and Fire smoothly before because we had located the Bronze City in advance.”

But now we have no clue where Fenrir is hiding, and we have no way to use our strength.”

Professor Mans had already brought up this issue at the airport, but Fingel, the information king, did share a strange urban tale:
"Speaking of which, I overheard people chatting this morning that the Beijing subway originally only had two lines, Line 1 and the Loop Line. After the last train left and the subway stopped operating, an empty train would run along the entire line once more, in order to send the disturbed souls back to their resting place. Otherwise, all sorts of strange things would happen."

He looked at the others and asked, "Do you think this might be related to that hidden dragon?"

“This…” Lu Mingfei’s eyelids twitched slightly, and he subconsciously glanced at Xia Mi out of the corner of his eye. How careless must this guy have been to create such a widely circulated urban legend?

Xia Mi, with her incredibly thick skin, didn't seem to realize that the person was talking about her. Instead, she put on a serious, thoughtful expression and asked, "Senior brother, where did you hear this from? I've lived in the capital for so long, how come I've never heard of this strange tale before?"

“Online,” Fingel said matter-of-factly. “I discovered this yesterday when I was online. Chinese netizens are all so talented, they speak so well, and they can talk about anything and everything. I love chatting with them.”

"I told them I was a foreign tourist visiting Beijing and asked them for some tips. They were very enthusiastic and told me that I must try douzhi (fermented mung bean juice), ma doufu (fermented bean curd), and chao gan (stir-fried liver). They also told me not to be silly and just follow the queue at the main gate when visiting the Forbidden City, as there are shortcuts. And I should never let a local friend take me to climb the Great Wall..."

Finally, someone mentioned this urban legend, telling me not to wander around late at night, saying that foreigners are considered to have a lot of ghostly energy and are easily haunted by them.

Upon hearing this, Caesar looked thoughtfully at Ye Sheng and asked, "If it's a subway route, Ye Sheng, your 'snake' should be able to explore a wide area along the tracks. How far can it cover?"

They currently have no further leads, but since Fingel has found a piece of information that may be related to dragons, it provides a direction for their investigation, so why not give it a try?

After all, the Dragon King's hatchery may not necessarily be in the real world. Some dragons may hide their eggs in Nibelungen, which is also known as the land of the dead. This fits the urban legend that an empty train sends the dead back to their resting place.

Their ability to detect and perceive over a wide area is Ye Sheng's Word of Power: Vacuum Serpent. They only need to have him take a ride around the Beijing subway, and he should be able to identify several suspicious targets. Then they can send people out to investigate them one by one.

Ye Sheng was still thinking about how he could get Professor Mans to give them a few days off so he could take Aki around and introduce her to his parents, when he was suddenly reminded of this and replied:

"Snakes are more active in metal environments, allowing for a search range that is about twice as wide as in water."

In water, his domain extends for a radius of five kilometers, while in a metallic conductor, his domain can expand to a radius of ten kilometers.

Of course, this is not the limit of the power of words, but rather his limit.

In the relatively simple Yangtze River waters, he could easily construct a mental map of the riverbed structure. However, in urban environments, especially the intricate subway network, the amount of information was far too overwhelming. If the "snake" were allowed to spread unchecked, the sheer volume of useless information would instantly overwhelm his senses and rapidly deplete his physical strength.

But, if someone else were to do it...

Ye Sheng looked at Lu Mingfei. This copy of Lucas the Dragon Slayer's Word of Power, Vacuum Python, was much stronger than his little snake. He probably wouldn't even need to move to scan the entire subway line of Beijing.

However, this idea only flashed through his mind for a moment. Lu Mingfei's abilities were obviously top secret and could not be known to outsiders.

Now, he and Lu Mingfei are on the same side.

I'm really not familiar with Kassel College.

The group then began to discuss how to find Fenrir, while Xia Mi listened from the sidelines, not in a hurry to participate.

Fenrir's message was posted on the Hunter Market website, and she knew, without a doubt, that it was the work of some old Bitden who was hiding behind the scenes.

But no matter how hard the other party racks their brains, they can't possibly know that Fenrir has already undergone a complete transformation, and it will conservatively take ten years to hatch.

Since that's the case, let's just use my brother's corpse to add some merit to Chu Zihang's record.

Anyway, Lu Mingfei already carries the fate of two Dragon Kings, so the fate of the Earth King and the Mountain King won't make a difference.

First, let Chu Zihang become a dragon-slaying youth, then he can be promoted to Dragon Q later...

Ahem, that will make it easier to set conditions later. I can say that I also contributed to killing the King of Earth and Mountains, and that this contribution will probably get me a direct admission to Kassel College.

As for Lu Mingfei's previous suggestion...

Participating in the dragon-slaying mission as a genius and beautiful rookie, and being personally recruited by the leader of the Secret Party to enroll in the college, sounds better than helping the principal guard the traitor he has been longing for and getting him into Kassel College through the back door.

Having made up her mind, she immediately decided to take Chu Zihang back again later, and borrow her brother's remains before Lu Mingfei sent people to collect the body.

In other words, Lu Mingfei doesn't have mind-reading abilities, otherwise he would definitely praise the brotherly and sisterly affection.

However, after listening to so much from the group from Kassel College, and seeing that it was getting late, he decided to end this tedious discussion.

"It's just Fenrir, don't worry, leave it to me."

There were no grand pronouncements, no resounding vows, only a kind of ordinary calm that seemed almost taken for granted.

After all, Xia Mi had personally handed Fenrir over to him just yesterday.

Upon hearing this, Selma's eyes lit up immediately. Ye Sheng and Aki exchanged a glance, both seeing the joy of another easy victory in each other's eyes. With the Boss taking action, they certainly didn't need to waste their energy on futile efforts.

Professor Mans's tightly furrowed brows relaxed slightly. Although he was still worried about the increasingly sharp conflict between Nono and the Chen family, as long as she stayed by Lu Mingfei's side, he could find a way to give her some prestige, and then say that the reason she took the key was to open the Dragon King's Nibelungen or something like that...

Principal Angers looked at Lu Mingfei and raised his teacup: "In that case, we'll wait for good news."

He was arguably the person on the Kassel side who trusted Lu Mingfei the most.

Now that their primary target, Friedrich, had been secured, and with Lu Mingfei's promise to find Fenrir, Angers had no intention of lingering there any longer.

The Chinese branch of Kassel College has a lot of things to deal with, but more importantly, he needs to "settle" his old friend as soon as possible, on his own.

Professor Mans and the others naturally got up to say goodbye. Nono, holding the keys, looked at her mentor, her lips moved, but in the end she just whispered, "Professor, thank you."

Mans sighed, waved his hand, and said nothing more.

The group headed towards the elevator. Ye Sheng was in charge of carrying people, while Lu Mingfei and Angers lagged behind, discussing their compensation.

Because Xia Mi had secretly sent a message and secretly decided on the person to kill the Dragon King, he abandoned the idea of ​​exchanging Friedrich for Xia Mi's degree and instead asked Angers to find out the whereabouts of his parents.

Since that kid Aze won't tell us, then he'll do it himself.

Angers readily agreed, but couldn't guarantee they would be able to find out, given that they travel all over the world.

For this, he will also prepare another reward, which will definitely be commensurate with Friedrich's status.

Lu Mingfei also provided some inside information, such as the unclear entanglements between Friedrich, disguised as Lin Fenglong, and the Gattuso family over the years. The fact that he kept it so well hidden suggests that he must have had a lot of support behind the scenes.

“You’ve got the person, but they’ve been missing for so long, they’ve probably realized what’s going on over there.” Lu Mingfei didn’t give Angers the things Friedrich had revealed; he had picked them up himself.

"Thank you." Angers' voice remained gentle, but only he knew the chill in it.

The elevator went directly to the underground parking garage. Ye Sheng opened the trunk and unceremoniously stuffed the still unconscious Friedrich inside.

The two groups said goodbye, and Ye Sheng, the only one with a domestic driver's license, continued to drive. The vehicle smoothly entered the traffic on Chang'an Avenue and headed towards the branch base.

However, after driving for a while, a temporary traffic control checkpoint appeared ahead, with flashing police lights and police officers wearing reflective vests signaling passing vehicles to stop for inspection.

Ye Sheng slowed down the car. Professor Mans frowned slightly. Although their group had all the necessary paperwork, the "guest" in the trunk was a big problem.

The consequences of opening the inspection would be unimaginable.

The atmosphere inside the car instantly became tense.

Just then, Angers, sitting in the back seat, suddenly let out a soft "heh" and said to Professor Mans, who was sitting in the passenger seat:
"You guys handle this for now, I'll go first."

The moment the words fell, an invisible domain expanded, and everyone in the car felt as if time had frozen. The principal, dressed in a black suit, unbuckled his seatbelt, pushed open the door, got out of the car, glanced at the traffic control post in front of him, slowly walked to the back, opened the trunk, picked up the black body bag containing the person with one hand, and walked towards a taxi that had already passed through security.

After he had moved about five meters away, everyone felt a blur before their eyes, and the principal's tall figure disappeared, leaving only the traffic police officer outside the window who walked to the car and knocked on the window, signaling them to accept an inspection.

The domain of Word of Power: Time Zero quietly closed, and in less than a second, Angers, along with Friedrich in the trunk, disappeared into the traffic, so fast that they left no trace.

Inside the car, Professor Mans, Ye Sheng, and the others exchanged bewildered glances. It was the first time they had experienced the domineering power of Time Zero and understood the terror of the world's strongest assassin.

"Knock knock—" The traffic police knocked on the window again, and Ye Sheng rolled down the window and cooperated with the inspection.

The traffic police checked his documents, then asked him to open the now empty trunk, before waving him off.

The vehicles rejoined the traffic and headed towards the branch base.

A reckoning that spans a century has quietly begun in some unknown corner of Beijing.

(End of this chapter)