Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei's Bullet Screen Wish Machine

The last day of the college entrance examination holiday.

early morning.

Jing'an Cemetery.

Lu Mingfei picked up a shovel and dug open the grave.

The owner of this cemetery is... the marks of the setting sun.

Perhaps it was some kind of pretentious, artsy sentimentality at play, or maybe it was because there was no harm in not using this found cemetery plot.

In short, after cleaning up the mess in the Lu family, Lu Mingfei deleted the account "Sunset Marks" and made this auspicious spot in Jing'an Cemetery her final resting place.

He took out a "Ring World Exchange Card" from the wishing machine.

With a thought, a silver ring suddenly appeared in his palm, cool and smooth, its size fitting perfectly to his finger.

"The World" is a very special ring. Lu Mingfei had previously checked the information in the wishing machine. In the Tarot card ring set, all the other rings are in pairs, but the World is a single ring.

Lu Mingfei decided to give himself the first ring.

With a solemn heart, he threw the ring into the tomb, resealed the tomb, and buried it again.

It's like... burying a piece of the past.

As the last shovelful of soil fell, silence fell, and time seemed to stand still.

A bouquet of white roses was placed in front of the grave.

Lu Mingfei glanced at the little boy who had suddenly appeared, and casually put the paper bag containing dandelions over the boy's head.

"Brother, don't be so serious."

Lu Mingze reached out and tore open the paper strip, revealing his two eyes. Although they were covered by the paper bag, Lu Mingfei felt that this guy seemed to be making a face at him.

"That's called a sense of ritual."

Placing the dandelion in front of the Sunset Grave, Lu Mingfei said irritably:

"I was finally getting into the mood, and you ruined it as soon as you arrived."

Lu Mingfei wasn't lying. He was probably the kind of person who was quite sentimental. After completing the ceremony, he actually felt a strange stirring in his heart.

"Brother, it's not your imagination."

The little devil suddenly spoke, "Your actions will definitely affect your future destiny."

"That sounds like a pointless statement."

Lu Mingfei said:

"The past influences the present, and the present determines the future... We usually use this kind of rhetoric to motivate students to study hard."

"It's not that simple."

Suddenly, a booklet appeared in Lu Mingze's hand. Lu Mingfei recognized it as the "script" that Little Devil had held when they first met.

"In the world of three-dimensional beings, time is an axis, and various events are arranged along the axis in sequence."

For example, the scroll might say it will rain today, and you get soaked when you get home, only to find an umbrella under your bed... Under predetermined fate, everything on the scroll will come true in sequence.

Lu Mingze raised his hand and drew a straight line in the air.

"Then, as a three-dimensional being, I'm truly sorry."

Lu Mingfei said.

"But if your insight can penetrate four-dimensional space, you will find that fate is actually a book, and all events coexist. They are not sequential; whether they happen depends on which page you turn to first."

Lu Mingze held the script and waved it in front of Lu Mingfei:

"Using the previous example, if you were a four-dimensional being, the situation would be different. You could decide to find the umbrella under the bed first, and then take it to face today's heavy rain, thus changing your fate of getting soaked."

"This seems much better than the previous situation..."

Lu Mingfei pondered:

"But it will still rain today. The cause hasn't changed. I just changed the outcome through my actions."

"Bingo!"

Lu Mingze snapped his fingers:

"You've already answered correctly! The saying goes that ordinary people fear the consequences, while bodhisattvas fear the causes. When insight penetrates four-dimensional space, the 'effect' that has not yet occurred becomes controllable, so bodhisattvas do not fear the consequences."

"However..."

Lu Mingze changed the subject:

"Brother, have you ever thought that when you try to change a given 'effect,' your actions may create a new 'cause'?"

For example, in the ending where you get sick from being caught in the rain, Chen Wenwen will visit you in the hospital. However, because you took that umbrella before leaving, you didn't get sick and hospitalized, thus missing a scene that would increase your intimacy level, ultimately causing the entire side story to close... That's how it is in visual novels.

Lu Mingfei was silent for a moment. He looked at the bouquet of white roses and suddenly remembered that a long time ago, probably in his first year of high school, he had indeed been caught in a heavy rain.

No one brought him an umbrella that day. He had a fever and lay in the infirmary all afternoon. In the end, Chen Wenwen brought him his homework. There was a note tucked into the homework book that read, "Take care of yourself."

He kept that note in the very back of the drawer for a whole year, until the chubby boy casually threw it away when he was looking for something.

"...Although I know you want to express the meaning of 'Bodhisattvas fear the cause,' your knowledge is too scattered."

Lu Mingfei flicked the little devil's forehead and said expressionlessly:

"Also, I don't play visual novels, thank you."

"Alas--"

A sinister expression appeared on Lu Mingze's face:

"On the C drive of the laptop you share with your cousin, go to WINDOWS/system32/wbem/Repository/CacheSys/Sysupdate, double-click the file svchost.exe, and it will launch a dating sim with a beautiful girl. The male protagonist's custom name is 'Mingming,' and the female protagonist..."

"I admit I spoke a bit too loudly just now."

Lu Mingfei affectionately took Lu Mingze's hand, patted the back of his hand, and said earnestly:

"Please keep this a secret, my dear brother."

Playing visual novels is normal, but playing them under your own name... that's something that's a little hard to talk about.

On the other hand, he's been so busy lately that he hasn't played games in a long time, and he doesn't know if Lao Tang's skills have improved...

"Shall we make a deal?"

Lu Mingze revealed a devilish smile, "Sign a contract with me and I'll keep it a secret for you."

"What contract?"

"I'm the devil, what kind of contract could a devil have?"

Lu Mingze's eyes lit up. "Of course, I'll help you fulfill all your wishes. After the final transaction, you'll sell your soul to me."

"...I'll delete the game when I get back."

Lu Mingfei decisively let go, his face cold:

"Little friend, don't try to claim relatives without permission. We're not acquainted."

"Brother, it seems you have already understood the meaning of 'Bodhisattvas fear the cause'."

Lu Mingze smiled:

"Take what just happened as an example. If you hadn't played that game, you wouldn't have been threatened by me. It was because you planted the 'cause' back then that I was able to use you and it developed into the 'effect'... Now you're trying to sever ties with the devil because you've realized that the subsequent cause and effect are too heavy and you want to cut them off in advance, right?"

"...It seems the truth of this world is deeper than I thought."

Lu Mingfei said, "Also, I want to know, who exactly are you?"