Lu Mingfei is transforming into the final boss.

Chapter 92 The Earliest Dragon Girl

Lu Mingfei was already waiting for him in the living room.

Today, Lu Mingfei sported long, flowing hair and wore a multi-colored, multi-layered halter dress with a botanical, wabi-sabi feel, along with a dark green cardigan. The overall look was rather simple and gave off a mature vibe, but it suited Lu Mingfei perfectly.

Zero really enjoys the feeling of treating Lu Mingfei like a dress-up doll, mainly because Lu Mingfei herself doesn't resist it. She also likes the idea of ​​having a different look every day, which makes her feel a bit like Haruhi Suzumiya, the leader of the group.

Oh, by the way, this world didn't have The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya yet; she read it in that other world.

"We meet again, Chu Zihang. Have you been thinking about anything since that day?"

Lu Mingfei said calmly.

"I've thought about this a lot."

He believed that lying to Lu Mingfei was pointless, as Lu Mingfei was somewhat like a witch or sorceress in Western fantasy novels, capable of seeing into people's hearts.

Compared to cold reading techniques that utilize the Barnum effect, or language-guided mind reading that relies on trust and sensory cues, he felt that Lu Mingfei could truly see through people's inner thoughts in the literal sense.

Just like a line from Zhang Wuji's mother in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber.

The more beautiful a woman is, the more likely she is to lie.

If we follow this logic, then Lu Mingfei must be the kind of person who is particularly good at lying.

"Um.

""

Lu Mingfei simply replied. She was one of the least qualified people to comment on other people's family situations. She didn't even care about her own family matters. Chu Zihang's situation was that his biological parents were divorced, and his biological father might have never loved him and his mother.

This kind of thing is the most deadly. It's like a girl marrying a boy, only to find out a few years later that the boy is actually a homosexual.

It sounds funny, but it's actually a very scary thing, even scarier than a boy cheating on his girlfriend.

This proves that the boy never loved the girl. All the intimacy and warmth were fake, a result of conforming to societal norms and avoiding being an outcast. It was all just acting. Thinking about it more deeply, the boy was actually engaging in intimate contact with the girl while feeling disgusted. Thinking about it this way is simply nauseating.

This is exactly what happened to Chu Zihang. He felt he shouldn't have doubted it, because doubt is a seed, and once it starts, it will take root, sprout, and spread throughout his body.

The thought that those intimate moments and warm scenes were all fake sent chills down his spine, giving him goosebumps all over. He shouldn't think like that, but he couldn't stop the thought.

Because his father had been avoiding him for several days.

"Alright, let's not talk about those things anymore. Let's talk about something less sad, like power itself."

Chu Zihang paused for a moment, then spoke in a questioning tone.

"strength?"

"Yes, what you should be aware of is the power hidden within you."

"Dragon's blood? I've heard my father talk about it."

"Correct." Lu Mingfei snapped her fingers. "Do you think dragons exist in the world?"

Chu Zihang felt that Lu Mingfei was asking a question she already knew the answer to. She first confirmed the existence of dragon blood, and then asked if there was any dragon blood. He didn't quite understand why she used this order of questioning.

He answered, "It exists."

"Do you think dragons still exist?"

"I don't know, but I think it's at least an endangered species."

He knew quite a lot of things. Whether it was Deadpool on the overpass or his father, they had all proven that dragon blood was the source of supernatural power, which could turn ordinary people into superhumans. Muscles, agility, reaction speed—it was an all-round improvement, a process of becoming superhuman. And such people could only be called hybrids.

Knowing this, he deduced that a fully-fledged dragon must be a being with greater power, and there must be a reason why such beings do not operate on the surface of the earth. It couldn't be that they were kind-hearted and gave up the living space on the surface to humans.

"Endangered species, huh? Your explanation is very interesting and accurate. Dragons are indeed an abandoned race, no longer the masters of all things. They have abdicated as the masters of Earth, the cradle of life, and the baton has been passed on to humans and hybrids."

Lu Mingfei paused for a moment.

"Do you know why I refer to hybrids as the new primates?"

Why?

Chu Zihang didn't mince words, nor did he show any intention of responding to Lu Mingfei's performance; he remained as calm as a block of ice, as a robot.

Because he had absolutely no idea what Lu Mingfei meant by the term "new primate." It was said to refer to hybrids, but apart from the hybrids that could be identified from their names, he knew nothing else about them. And if there was a new primate, then what did the old primate refer to? What did the term "primate" even mean?

He did know about primates, but he felt that the term was definitely not that simple. As a student, he thought that asking questions when you don't understand is a good quality, and there's no need to pretend to know what you don't. However, Lu Mingfei was someone who liked to ask questions with the answer already in mind, and she had already confirmed her answer when she asked.

"Because hybrids possess supernatural powers that ordinary people don't have, and an innate ability to create phenomena using language. Of course, these aren't the real reasons; the real reason lies in mutation."

"An anomaly?"

"Your skin is starting to show some fine, scaly textures. Do you still feel like a human being?"

Chu Zihang nodded, because the difference was actually not that big.

"You've grown scales, do you still think so?"

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Although he has changed, he still thinks he should be considered human because he looks like a human.

"And what about the horn? I'll give you one condition: the face and body must still resemble a human."

"Barely acceptable—I guess so."

Instead of nodding or shaking his head, Chu Zihang chose to speak.

Since Lu Mingfei's condition was that the face and body still looked like a human, he thought it still counted.

But you can still hear that the changes are becoming more and more extreme, step by step.

"Will hybrids gradually transform into other species? For example—dragons?"

He guessed.

"The first half of the sentence is correct, but the second half is wrong. It is not a dragon, but a completely new species that combines dragons and humans."

The concept of new primates isn't about quantity, but about existence. Although using "new primates" directly is inappropriate—it should be that new primates will be born—it doesn't matter; the meaning is clear.

Chu Zihang felt it didn't matter whether the meaning was clear or not, because he didn't understand it at all. Compared to that, he felt that the phenomenon of hybrids turning into dragons reminded him of a legend.

The Tang Dynasty tale of Liu Yi tells the story of a dragon maiden. If you think about it carefully, isn't Lu Mingfei also a kind of dragon maiden? She has an ethereal aura and seems to know everything about the world.

No, he shouldn't be thinking about this. Lu Mingfei can read minds, and it feels rather impolite to think like this.

Lu Mingfei isn't always reading minds; for example, she's not reading minds right now.

Even if she reads it, she will only smile slightly and then comment.

"It's really impossible for a normal person to be liked by the Serpent of Midgard."