Dragon Clan: I am Lu Mingfei, the Intelligence Strategist, the God of Concepts!

Chapter 86 Lu Mingfei! You're a bastard, a fraudster! (4k)

Due to limited space, Kassel College has always adopted a co-ed student dormitory system.

Mixed living usually refers to 'same floor, different rooms', meaning that men and women can live on the same floor, but rooms are allocated according to gender, and it is strictly forbidden for men and women to live in the same room.

of course there are exceptions.

Couples can share a dormitory room, provided they apply in advance and obtain approval from the college.

However, the difficulty is roughly equivalent to applying for marriage registration—everyone in the college who wants to get married has to go through this process.

First, there is a pedigree analysis, then an evaluation by multiple parties including the principal, vice-principal, and supervising professors, and finally, depending on the applicant's status, it may even escalate to the board of trustees.

This process is quite lengthy, and in the past, the relationship between the couple has often undergone subtle changes before the approval results are released, leading to an awkward situation.

At this moment, in room 304 of dormitory area 1.

"If you had applied to live together when you first got together with Caesar, you might be living a good life now."

Susie had just finished showering, with a towel wrapped around her head and a steaming cup of coffee in her hand.

She plans to stay up all night to study academic topics.

But a good-for-nothing girl next to him was getting in his way.

The soft, rustling sound of a stainless steel razor scraping against her long, white legs might be interpreted as 'sexy' by some, but Susie felt that showing her how to shave was a mistake.

"Speaking of which, if you and Chu Zihang had applied to live together, you might already be living a good life by now," Nuonuo said lazily.

"No, Chu Zihang and I are not in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship."

Susie pointed out her problem: "Sometimes he's willing to do things for me just because he feels I've helped him, but otherwise he never takes the initiative to contact me. Like this time after the winter break, he was a few days late, but he didn't share with me what he was doing during those days."

"Perhaps Chu Zihang and I aren't even good friends, at most we're just ordinary friends, far from what you're talking about about submitting an application."

Nono blinked innocently.

Her roommate is actually a very cold girl, otherwise outsiders wouldn't pair Susie and Chu Zihang up as a couple. The "ice couple" is just too funny. But now she suddenly said such a long thing, even with some emotion, which is undoubtedly taking the blame for herself... Well, actually it can't be called taking the blame.

Since she knew exactly what Chu Zihang had been doing those days, why did she have to?

But after that night, everyone had reached a tacit understanding that it was inconvenient for Susie to know about those supernatural matters.

"Actually, I haven't decided whether or not I want to take things to the next level with Caesar."

Nono put down the razor and changed the subject, saying, "I'm serious. Of course, it's not that Caesar is bad. He's been very, very good to me. But marriage... what's the reason? Love between a man and a woman is enough. Why add this kind of constraint?"

“I asked my mom this question too,” Susie said. “My mom’s answer was… only married couples can register their children’s births!”

Nono covered her face: "That's an absolutely irrefutable reason!"

"Actually, there's nothing fancy about it. To put it simply, if you like someone, if someone treats you well, and if you want to be with them forever, then marry them and keep them by your side."

Susie said, "It's like a socket; once you plug it in, the next person doesn't have a chance."

Nono stared at her roommate's pretty face for a long time, making sure she didn't have any deeper metaphorical meaning.

"...I'll think about it some more, after I get home this time."

"You're going home again? Didn't you just go back once? You don't want your credits anymore?" Susie looked at her in surprise.

“I have other things to do.” Nono rolled her eyes. “It doesn’t matter. Anyway, the principal is away recently, and that old man from the disciplinary committee can’t handle so many things. Professor Mans doesn’t care much about this.”

"The same reason as last time?" Susie asked suspiciously.

“There’s always a reason!” Nono gave a firm answer instinctively.

Ding-dong-

Suddenly, the screen of the pink-cased phone on the table lit up.

"I'm going to pick up a package!" Nono glanced at the message and her expression brightened.

"what……"

Susie glanced at Nono, who was startled and quickly changed her clothes before leaving the house, and shook her head helplessly.

After a while,
Nono returned, carrying a small courier box with a FedEx seal on it.

"What's this? Did Caesar send it to you?" Susie turned her head away nonchalantly.

"No, it was sent by another friend."

Nuonuo answered casually and happily opened the express box.

however,
Her face quickly fell.

"What the hell is this?!"

The box was filled with a lot of foam, cotton, and raffia, and wrapped around a pitted crystal stone. It looked like an amethyst, but the mottled white crystal powder on the surface suggested that it had been hammered. It exuded a rough and careless feel inside and out.

There was also a note attached to the side.

[Crush it, and you will gain permanent memories for approximately 3 minutes, which cannot be erased by any means. The exact time varies depending on individual constitution. You will receive a reward of 1 million yuan.]

"No! Where is my huge piece of recycled metal?"

Nono's eyes widened immediately.

Then she noticed another note underneath it.
It was as if a prophet had foreseen her confusion.

[P.S. This is your recycled metal. Alchemy makes anything possible; you could also call it turning lead into gold. Remember to leave a five-star review after you've used it.]

After looking at the two sticky notes that looked like they were crawling on a dog's tracks.

Deathly silence.

After a while.

A girl screamed as the explosion occurred in room 304 of Zone 1 at Kassel College.

"Lu Mingfei! You're a bastard who's committing fraud!"

"Nono, you..."

……

The Zhou family, Tang City.

The old general was happy recently, but not entirely.

The good news is that Nuwa's interest in games seems to be declining sharply lately, but the bad news is... why is there no movement at all in that area?
After unanimous deliberation by the elders, the latter is now of paramount importance!

The game... play it or not! I'll just create an alt account!
What if it's another exceptional SSR with even stronger talent attributes?
But how exactly can a girl who loves esports transform into a girl in love?

This is a problem!
Forget it.

The old general shook his head.

I'll go back and ask some experts on Zhihu.

……

In the bedroom.

Nuwa is very happy recently, but not so happy.

The good news is that Lu Mingfei has integrated very well into the Zhou family and basically no longer considers himself an outsider.

But the bad news is that she knows some of the thoughts of her family elders... which is the source of her occasional worries.

The Zhou family has held the legitimate leadership position for thousands of years, but in the last one or two centuries, under the influence of science and technology, the speed of human society's leap forward is almost comparable to the sum of the past few thousand years.

Change is inevitable.

Whether it's the strict and complex rules and etiquette, the harsh and conservative intermarriage system, or the requirements placed on the head of the family, from her knowledge and learning to her posture and demeanor, these are all things that have only gradually changed in recent decades, or even the last ten years or so. Naturally, this is inseparable from the vigorous promotion by her, the current Nuwa Master, and the previous Nuwa Master.

She, as the contemporary Nuwa, deserves the greatest credit for continuously developing and expanding upon the concepts proposed by the previous Nuwa, even transforming them into reality.

She seemed to be born with knowledge, possessing amazing learning ability, outstanding vision, and powerful bloodline from a young age. She was the only strong person in three hundred years to be recognized by the Dragon Slaying Platform, and almost single-handedly changed the Zhou family's situation. The Zhou family that Lu Mingfei saw now was not the same as the Zhou family in the traditional sense!

But as the saying goes, a wise person doesn't fall in love.

love.

What does that mean to someone like her?

When she was a child, Nuwa listened to the elders of the Zhou family tell the legend of the "Goddess of the Han River" in Xiangyang at the Zhou family private school. According to Liu Xiang's "Biographies of Immortals" in the Western Han Dynasty, a man named Zheng Jiaofu from Zhou met the goddess while playing on the Han River. The two fell in love and eventually left behind the romantic love story of "untying the jade pendant on the Han River" and "swearing love with a stone".

Influenced by this story, the unique Chuantian Festival flourished in Xiangyang during the Tang and Song dynasties. At the same time, this romantic tale also gave the sandbar near Wanshan a beautiful name – Jiepei Isle.

However, the clan elders recounted that this legend contained many errors. The original goddess of the Han River was not a celestial being, but rather the head of the Zhou family. She was a member of the Nuwa clan with a human head and a snake's body, and was known for her skill in swimming. When people saw her, they often mistakenly identified her as the goddess of the Han River based on these misconceptions.

The final outcome was not a romantic ending where the two fell in love. A wrong love will inevitably end in a wrong one. The eight characters, "The jade pendant is wasted, and the shadow is gone," perfectly encapsulate the story.

What outsiders perceive as extraordinary talent is nothing but a source of sorrow for the person involved.

When the clan elders told Nuwa these things, their intention was to warn her not to sneak out of the house, and even more so, not to secretly date outsiders!
As a result, Nuwa didn't react at all after hearing this.

What's with all this dating nonsense! All this dawdling and wishy-washy stuff, is it any more fun than a game?
My elder immediately stroked his beard and laughed heartily, feeling greatly gratified...

cough cough.

Although it may seem like the wind is shifting now, Nuwa doesn't actually care about these things at all.

Making sacrifices for the family is not something completely unacceptable; it is simply her responsibility.

Moreover, Lu Mingfei and she share similar interests, and Nuwa does not reject him.

only.

You guys seem to have overlooked another girl...

Nuwa rested her chin on the soft cushion, an angelic face flashing through her mind. She sighed for no reason, and her snake-like limbs swayed gently behind her.

……

Inside the weapon-refining pavilion.

Lu Mingfei is very happy lately, but not quite.

He knew the Zhou family coveted his body, but he didn't realize it was in this way.

No, I'm not an adult yet!
And... and will this even work?!

Fortunately, the Zhou family was not in a hurry, giving him plenty of time to continue enjoying his happiness.

But what truly made him less happy was something else...

"Old Tang, can't you stand up straight?"

Beside a precision handcrafted table, Lu Mingfei uttered a voice of disappointment and frustration.

"Mingming, why don't you just let me go back to playing games? Who knows anything about alchemy anyway!"

Old Tang looked utterly devastated, his thick eyebrows almost pressed together.

These past few afternoons, Nuwa has said she's not feeling well and doesn't want to play games with him or listen to his strange questions.

Lu Mingfei simply started messing with Old Tang, who had just woken up.

Take Old Tang to the Zhou family's weapon-refining pavilion and let him try some basic alchemical crafts.

He was saying, "It's hard for a man to resist a thoroughly enjoyable hands-on activity, and alchemy is undoubtedly the most lucrative one. Learn a skill, and you'll never have to worry about food and drink. Since you're already here, it would be a waste not to learn..."

In reality, Lu Mingfei took the opportunity to activate the [Deep Intelligence Extraction Permission].

At first, he thought that now that he had finally become wealthy, he could also learn some basic alchemy (weapon crafting) knowledge from the Zhou family and see if he could extract some more advanced knowledge from Old Tang.

Unfortunately, the information displayed was still the same as before, with no new 'Elementary Alchemy Knowledge'.

but it does not matter.

Lu Mingfei decisively chose one of them.

Upon contact with ****, Ronald Don regained some of his alchemical memories.

[Answer: The Philosopher's Stone of Fire, the "Qin and Han Dynasty Alchemy and Metallurgy Manual", the Seven Deadly Sins, the Bronze Throne...]

Lu Mingfei was immediately shocked. He was no longer the ignorant man he once was, and naturally knew that the Philosopher's Stone was a materialized 'spiritual' element, which was extremely rare!
But here's the problem: isn't the Philosopher's Stone a pure spiritual element? A fire-attribute spiritual element? Do you want to hear what you're saying?
Lu Mingfei always felt there was something fishy going on.

As for the other items, [Permissions] provided pictures for them. They were either the Nine Yang Divine Skill manual, which looked like it wouldn't cause any ripples even if it were just thrown on a magazine stand, or a brand-new iron box from a metallurgical factory, or simply computer-rendered Western fantasy-style pictures.

Well, at least we have a direction.

[Deep intelligence extraction privileges] are activated again!

This time, Lu Mingfei still didn't get what he wanted.

But that’s okay.

There are alternative options!

[Norton, the Dragon King, was the most skilled alchemist among the four monarchs, leaving behind countless masterpieces of alchemy, one of which is located in ****.]

Answer: Baidi City.

Damn, it's a series of interconnected problems, just like a performance.

Lu Mingfei gave a thumbs-up, speechless, and continued activating the [Deep Intelligence Extraction Permission].

[The White Emperor City is the ruins left behind by the Bronze and Fire King during his last period of activity; its exact location is ****]

This time, the intelligence extracted was a map...

Despite consuming his access privileges three times in a row, Lu Mingfei still failed to obtain the 'basic alchemy knowledge' he had hoped for.

He suddenly realized that the last time the information about the dragon script 'Gqotoh' appeared in the panel was because Old Tang was manually triggering it. Since copying it now was not working, could it be because the Zhou family's knowledge of weapon crafting was too weak?

Lu Mingfei devised a plan.

Why not teach him back the alchemical knowledge extracted from Old Tang, and then try reverse triggering... This might create a perpetual motion machine of alchemical knowledge?
Just do it!

However, Old Tang is really a disappointment.

He can't even carve the simplest basic dragon rune 'Gqotoh'! Something he learned in one go, Old Tang couldn't master in three days! This is simply beneath the dignity of the Bronze and Fire King… oh no, his dragon dignity!

But Lu Mingfei couldn't say whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

Think positively.
Perhaps this also reflects Lao Tang's unwavering character.

at last……

As evening fell, Lu Mingfei and a worried-looking Old Tang walked out of the weapon-refining pavilion.

Outside.

Zhou Minhao had been waiting there for a long time.

"Brother Lu, Brother Tang, Nuwa invites you."

"Oh? Is Nuwa in a better mood again and wants to play games tonight?"

Lu Mingfei looked surprised.

Zhou Minhao's expression immediately turned awkward: "Uh, no... it's about the Chen family. They're preparing for war soon."

(End of this chapter)