Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

A series of clanging sounds rang in her ears, like shards of glass colliding. In the pitch black, she sensed Lu Mingfei crouching down, then standing up again less than half a second later.

A terrifying, piercing scream rang out, and another round of leaps into the air ensued. Su Xiaoqiang knew that Lu Mingfei was once again jumping up to dodge the attack of the monster called the Snake Deadpool.

A boy's voice rang in my ears.

"Cover your ears!"

Su Xiaoqiang was only stunned for a moment before she immediately obeyed and took her hands off Lu Mingfei's neck, covering her ears.

Suddenly losing her grip on something, Su Xiaoqiang felt a little uneasy. But she knew Lu Mingfei would never abandon her. She had to listen to him.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the little fairy covering her ears. Having successfully lured the snake-like Deadpool back into the restaurant, Lu Mingfei, who had jumped into the air, immediately relit the ST Dupon windproof lighter he had picked up earlier in the restaurant, and casually tossed it. The lighter spun through the broken glass curtain wall and landed precisely next to the deformed gas cylinder behind the cabinet.

Su Xiaoqiang felt her body and the back of her head suddenly being tightly embraced by those arms.

The next moment, a huge explosion rang out. The shockwave shattered the glass curtain walls of all the surrounding shops in an instant.

……

A muffled explosion came from somewhere.

Whether it was her imagination or she was too sensitive, Aki could feel a slight vibration coming from under her feet, even through the soles of her little leather shoes.

The explosion was clear and realistic. Judging from the distance and direction of the sound, the explosion must have occurred not far from their current location. The direction of the explosion was also the same as the direction from which the panicked people fleeing before Aki's eyes had come.

He turned his head and exchanged a glance with Ye Sheng, then the two of them immediately ran towards the direction from which the explosion had come.

The two ran against the flow of people while also trying to avoid the panicked and disorderly passersby.

"What kind of accident do you think it might be?" Ye Sheng asked.

“I don’t know,” Aki said. This was her honest opinion. The sound of the explosion alone was not enough to determine what kind of accident it was. “It could be a regular explosion, or it could be related to the mixed-race incident. But whatever it is, I just hope that not too many people are injured.”

Ye Sheng paused for a moment, then nodded without saying anything more. In his mind, Riagi was the kind of girl who should say such things; she was exactly that kind of girl.

"Ye Sheng, look over there." Aki suddenly raised her hand and pointed to a certain spot.

Ye Sheng looked in the direction Aki was pointing. Two blocks away from them, thick black smoke was billowing from a building, standing out starkly against the azure sky. It was clearly the black smoke from the explosion they had just heard.

Turning the next corner, a river, not very wide, suddenly appeared before them. The glass curtain walls of the shops facing the street were all shattered, seemingly affected by the aftershocks of the explosion not far away. Ye Sheng was stunned for a moment. He had just seen this river on the map and knew that walking along it for a while would lead to Tagus Street. They had originally planned to follow this road to meet up with Professor Mans.

Shattered glass curtain walls, a ground deformed by a severe impact, and a half-collapsed stone arch bridge. The closer they got to the explosion site, the more somber the scene became for the two men.

The two of them already knew who could have caused this destruction.

Aki stopped a dozen meters away from the explosion site. The explosion site appeared to be a restaurant, but Aki's judgment wasn't based on the signboard or the interior facilities. In fact, the storefront had long since lost its signboard; it was only from the scattered fragments of tables, chairs, and tableware scattered on the ground that Aki determined it had once been a restaurant.

Black smoke billowed from what could not yet be called a door and window, with faint flames visible within the smoke.

"We should go to..."

Aki glanced around, then her expression suddenly changed, as if she had seen something astonishing. Before she could finish saying "了," she swallowed the word back down.

Dozens of meters away from her, the boy named Lu Mingfei was carrying the little girl from the Valentine family in a princess carry.

Before Aki could figure out why they were there, the boy turned around without warning and looked at her.

Golden Eyes and her gaze met in mid-air.

……

Chapter 230 Mysterious Aid

Aki was stunned, feeling as if there were unfathomable vortexes hidden in those golden eyes, and her gaze was firmly drawn to them the moment they met.

The invisible attraction only disappeared abruptly when Lu Mingfei deliberately looked away.

Aki was panting heavily when she suddenly felt a pang of heart palpitation.

As a student of Kassel College, she naturally understood what golden eyes meant. That ancient and mysterious eye color symbolized the nobility and majesty of the dragon bloodline.

Of course, not everyone with golden eyes is necessarily of mixed race. Some people are indeed born with eyes that are amber or golden in color.

It is said that 2% of Slavs and Germans have green or amber eyes, and the famous actress Elizabeth Taylor even had world-renowned violet eyes, which would turn blue, green, or gray under certain lighting. The reason for such naturally occurring heterochromia is that the iris contains less melanin and more lipochrome.

However, Lu Mingfei's original eye color was brownish-black, not amber.

Dark brown eyes could never turn golden from any angle. For Lu Mingfei's eyes to change from their original dark brown to their current golden pupils, in Aki's understanding, there was clearly only one possibility—

Lu Mingfei is a hybrid like himself, and has already awakened his dragon blood.

Only those with dragon blood flowing through their veins and who have successfully achieved "spiritual vision" are qualified to ignite their golden eyes.

……

When Aki saw Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingfei also saw Ye Sheng and Aki.

"Sister Aki and the others are here." As the explosion subsided, Su Xiaoqiang, who was in Lu Mingfei's arms, opened her eyes.

“Yes, I saw it,” Lu Mingfei said.

"That what..."

Su Xiaoqiang gently bit her full lips, hesitated for a moment, but still didn't dare to meet Lu Mingfei's extremely intimidating golden eyes. Instead, she looked down at Lu Mingfei's engorged, perfectly muscular chest and whispered almost pleadingly, "You...you should put me down. They're all watching..."

“No.” Lu Mingfei refused decisively. “We’re not sure yet whether we’re out of danger.”

"Gulp... Okay, alright..."

Seeing the boy's firm denial, Su Xiaoqiang paused for a moment, then resignedly continued to cling to Lu Mingfei's neck, nestled in his arms like a submissive wife. However, she also shrank even further into Lu Mingfei's embrace, avoiding their gaze. It seemed as if as long as she didn't look at Ye Sheng and the others, they wouldn't see her.

Lu Mingfei was unaware that Ye Sheng and Ya Ji had been on a mission nearby and only arrived after hearing the explosion. He assumed that Xiao Tiannv's uncle had contacted them after receiving a phone call.

However, before he could explain the situation to the two of them, the sound of metal clashing together rang out from the black mist.

Ye Sheng and Aki had just arrived and were unaware of what had happened before, nor did they know that Lu Mingfei had been fighting a snake-like dead servant. They only instinctively turned to look at the black mist after hearing a sound coming from within it.

"Don't just stand there!" Lu Mingfei immediately shouted in the direction of Aki and the others, "Get out of there!"

The two were startled at the same time, clearly not understanding the meaning of Lu Mingfei's sudden shout.

Then, in the next moment, a fierce, ghostly wail was accompanied by a sonic boom that shattered the air.

"Woo——"

The black shadow burst out of the ruins almost in a flash, carrying with it a thick fog. Its figure, leaping into the air, was several meters high, and its ten knuckles, which had been transformed into dragon claws, stabbed towards Aki like ten sharp scimitars.

Seeing the suddenly appearing bluish-gray monster, Aki's face was filled with helplessness and confusion, but her body had already moved instinctively. Like an agile feline or a professionally trained female ninja, she nimbly jumped, fell, and rolled in one smooth motion. Ye Sheng also reacted almost simultaneously and jumped away from his spot.

The two lived up to their reputation as elite students of Kassel College, reacting instantly to the sudden attack from the snake-like Deadpool in less than a second. They nimbly dodged away from their positions, avoiding the extremely threatening and swift strike.

After a flexible backflip, Aki rose from her half-squat position on the ground. Looking at the ground that had been smashed so hard that it had created a huge crater, Aki was stunned, but she finally had time to examine the dark figure in front of her.

The face, hair, and joints generally possess certain human characteristics, but the upper limb joints are deformed in a reversed way, while the lower limb joints have disappeared. Only at the rear of the organ resembling a genital organ is there a thick, python-like tail.

The skin shimmered with a bluish-gray hue in the sunlight, but upon closer inspection, it became clear that the shimmering substance was not actually skin, but rather layers upon layers of tiny, fragmented scales covering it. However, in many places, these scales had curled up and split open, revealing the blood and flesh beneath, seemingly related to the explosion that had just occurred.

Even more noteworthy is that this bluish-gray monster, which resembles a deformed lizard, also has a pair of golden eyes.

The word "Deadpool" flashed through Aki's mind instantly.

As an outstanding A-level student at Kassel College, Aki achieved a remarkably high straight A+ in her first-year courses. She demonstrated a thorough understanding of every required course. Although neither "Introduction to Dragon Genealogy" nor "Reptilia" directly introduced the concept of Deadpools, the school library offered a wealth of supplementary materials.

She had never seen Deadpool in person, only heard about the creature in books, but the moment she saw the monster in front of her, she immediately knew that it was Deadpool.

Although I don't know why this Deadpool is different from the one described in the book... since its joints have undergone a deformed transformation similar to those of dragons, becoming a form somewhere between humans and reptiles, then this Deadpool must be quite dangerous.

"Ye Sheng!" Aki shouted.

"Roger that!"

The moment she finished speaking, a Walther PPK pistol was thrown at her from over ten meters away. This old-fashioned 7.65mm pistol is frequently seen in many movies and fictional novels, and is also 007's favorite gun.

The guys in the Equipment Department clearly really like the 007 movies. Most of the agents in the Academy's Executive Department have this as their standard-issue pistol. The Walther PPK they modified has become as powerful as a revolver shotgun.

Aki leaped up like a nimble cat, ready to catch the gun Ye Sheng threw at her. However, just as her fingers were about to touch the handle, the snake-like Deadpool suddenly moved, soaring into the air and baring its hideous, thick fangs.

The expressions on the faces of everyone present changed simultaneously. In this situation, it seemed that Aki had no way to avoid it. No matter how agile she was, she couldn't change her movements in mid-air without any foothold, not to mention that Deadpool's explosive power after exhibiting dragon-like characteristics was obviously far stronger than hers.

Just as the snake-like Deadpool's jaws were about to bite Aki's waist.

With a "whoosh," something seemed to grazed Aki's forehead, instantly severing a few strands of hair from her forehead. Then, Aki saw the snake-like Deadpool in front of her suddenly close its eyes, and blood bloomed from its right eye.

Aki gripped the pistol's grip in mid-air. Almost simultaneously, Deadpool flipped backward, rolling several times before crashing into a tree a few meters away, its yellowed leaves rustling as they fell with the impact.

"What was that just now?"

After landing safely, Aki pursed her lips. She was certain that something had indeed flown past her forehead and struck the snake-like Deadpool's eye just moments before, saving her from being bitten in half by the Deadpool.

She turned around and looked behind her, but saw nothing. Only something seemed to flash on the roof of a building not far away.

Although she was very concerned about what had saved her, there was clearly something else that was more important to her now.

She took a deep breath and looked at Lu Mingfei, who was standing beside her, having taken a few steps back and was half-squatting on the ground with Su Xiaoqiang in his arms.

While holding the pretty little girl from the Valentine family, he was still able to react so quickly and run over from dozens of meters away, kicking the Snake Deadpool several meters away as his eye was hit.

The destructive power of the snake-like Deadpool was undeniable; a sudden attack could instantly create a crater in the ground. Even considering the soft soil near the river, that would require at least several tons of impact force. And yet, this guy kicked that snake-like Deadpool away?

That would require an incredible burst of power...

Although Aki possesses an A-rank bloodline, she doesn't believe she can do it. And Ye Sheng and Selma's types of Word of Power are clearly incapable of it either. Professor Mans might be able to, but if you add the prerequisite of holding someone while ensuring their safety…

Could it be that his Word of Power is some kind of power-enhancing Word of Power?

Lu Mingfei, of course, noticed the surprise in Aki's eyes. Although he would rather play dumb than pretend to be weak, he preferred to hide the fact that he was a half-blood and live a peaceful, ordinary high school life for a few years.

But the situation was critical and life-threatening just now, so he couldn't think about being exposed. Besides, they should have seen his golden eyes after activating his bloodline, so they should have guessed his identity.

They can't exactly say that it's not that I have golden eyes, but that I was just wearing gold contact lenses while cosplaying and they've misunderstood, right?

Taking advantage of the moment when the snake-like Deadpool was knocked away, Ye Sheng quickly grabbed his bag and joined the others. Clearly, Ye Sheng was in charge of managing the equipment in this team, because Lu Mingfei had just glanced at Ye Sheng's backpack and seen disassembled gun components. And it was the same pistol Ye Sheng had just given to Aki.

Lu Mingfei glanced at the gun in Aki's hand; it was indeed the classic Walther PPK model from the Equipment Department. Back when he first enrolled, Professor Guderian had given him this very gun, tasking him with designing the fixed black dragon scale. However, the immense recoil had sent him flying.

"Senior brothers, do you guys still have any pistols?" Lu Mingfei asked Ye Sheng, without looking him in the eye. "How about you give me one too?"

Ye Sheng was taken aback: "You want one too?"

"Uh-huh."

“Lu Mingfei, Portuguese law prohibits minors and people without gun licenses from carrying guns. If you foreigners are caught, you’ll be deported,” Su Xiaoqiang, who was in Lu Mingfei’s arms, suddenly twisted her body and whispered.

Lu Mingfei secretly thought to himself that he had carried guns in countless countries during his dragon-slaying missions in his past life... If he were to really be so serious, he would probably be blacklisted worldwide by now...

However, he didn't say those words out loud. Lu Mingfei simply patted Su Xiaoqiang on the back of the head, smiled, and said, "Little Fairy, don't you believe me?"