Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei Returns from the Elden Ring

Lu Mingze summoned a flat, huge fragment of the bronze city and stood on it with Lu Mingfei.

“Brother.” Lu Mingze’s voice was drowned out by the sound of water, but Lu Mingfei could hear it clearly.

Lu Mingfei intuitively realized that what he was about to say was unusual.

Lu Mingze suddenly moved closer to Lu Mingfei's side, raising the hand holding the umbrella, the size of which was just right to cover the two brothers.

The rain broke through the barrier and crashed down, instantly obscuring the space outside the umbrella. The black umbrella was struck by thousands of raindrops, producing a continuous "tap-tap-tap" sound.

Looking at the torrential rain, Lu Mingze said calmly, "I'm leaving. I won't be here for a while. I think my brother doesn't need me to worry about him now."

Lu Mingfei remained silent, waiting for him to continue.

“But if one day you really are going to die, don’t hold on, brother… try to call for help, whatever will respond to you,” Lu Mingze said softly.

Lu Mingfei nodded, accepting the concern of this potential ally.

“Also, do you remember that 3E exam?” Lu Mingze continued, “Although I don’t know what it is, something did follow you from the depths of your spiritual vision, brother.”

Lu Mingfei's pupils contracted sharply, and he turned to look at him, but Lu Mingze's figure had already disappeared, leaving only his voice.

Lu Mingfei reached out and caught the handle of the black umbrella, leaving half of the space under it empty.

"Water is the medium, go upwards."

Lu Mingze's voice drifted from afar in the rain, as if he hadn't suddenly disappeared, but rather left his umbrella and walked into the boundless downpour.

Lu Mingfei tried calling out to Lu Mingze a few times, and after confirming there was no response, he took Norton and flew towards the "sky".

Logically, raindrops form between clouds, and rain always has an upper limit. However, Lu Mingfei had been advancing for a long time, and apart from the rain becoming increasingly dense and the raindrops almost connecting with each other, he still hadn't reached the rain cloud.

Suddenly, a faint ringing sound rang out.

After searching for a while, Lu Mingfei discovered that the source was on Lao Tang—the clothes that Lu Mingze had left behind.

He took out a cell phone, the one Angers had given him, which had been damaged during the battle against Norton, but now it was miraculously restored to new condition. The lit screen displayed the caller ID, a lone "First Year, Zero" from the "three" contact list.

The Russian girl was now near the border between reality and Nibelungen, calling him. Lu Mingfei pressed the answer button, but no voice came through, only harsh static.

He was not disappointed and began to carefully sense the elements around him. Sure enough, he found the Nibelungen "gate" not far away.

He rushed toward it with Norton, and for a moment it felt as if an invisible wind membrane brushed against their bodies.

Gravity and ambient sounds suddenly changed. On the other side of the door was the bottom of the Three Gorges Reservoir. In the dim light, only a bright beam of searchlight fell from above, illuminating the dark green river water along the way. The beam of light disappeared into the darkness below, and Lu Mingfei was in the beam of light.

His vision pierced through the light and he saw the diver carrying the searchlight—a petite girl.

Words of Power: A Dustless Land.

The water around Lu Mingfei receded, creating a huge cavity.

With zero increase in diving depth, we entered the area.

At this moment, Lu Mingfei's cell phone also got a signal.

"Hook and chain," the girl said softly.

Lu Mingfei took the hook and lock, hung it on Old Tang's bronze cage, and then held onto one of the cage's bars and hung there himself.

He shed his dragon form and used some bronze to cast a skirt-like armor that could cover his private parts.

"Rise up," Lu Mingfei said during the call.

The girl seemed completely unconcerned about whether Lu Mingfei was wearing protective gear, and whispered into another communication channel, "Surf up."

A tremendous force came from the grappling hook, dragging the two people and a bronze cage upwards at high speed.

When they reached the water, it was night, and the helicopter rotor roared above the river. The other end of the grappling hook was fixed to the line reel on the helicopter.

Lu Mingfei remembered that when he and Norton entered Nibelungen in the United States, it was about nine o'clock in the evening. He had not stayed in Bronze City for a whole day. Logically speaking, the time in the Three Gorges should have been noon or afternoon.

"Zero, how long have I been missing?" Lu Mingfei asked, dangling in mid-air.

"Three days."

Chapter 68 Assistant Cheng San

Heavy rain was falling on the river, severely reducing visibility, but the massive helicopter remained motionless amidst the wind and rain.

It was a large multi-purpose helicopter, the AC313, also known as the Z-8F 100. It was a typical single-rotor helicopter with a tail rotor and a side-by-side two-pilot configuration. The fuselage was mostly painted white, with only the nose being red, and the sides of the fuselage had sky-blue wing-like markings.

This helicopter is a derivative of the Z-8, much like many transitional pieces of equipment in China, modified to resemble the original only in appearance. It features a composite material spherical flexible rotor system, full-authority digital engine control, a large-area composite material structure, and an integrated avionics system. It is also equipped with three turboshaft engines, has a maximum takeoff weight of 13.8 tons, a maximum range of 900 kilometers, and can carry 27 passengers or transport 15 wounded personnel at a time.

This is a replica of the prototype. Originally, this model was scheduled to have its public test flight early next year. However, since it is mainly a civilian modification of the Z-8F, achieving stable flight and transport functions is not actually a problem.

With the retractor working, Lu Mingfei, Zero, and the bronze cage finally reached the spacious transport cabin.

A girl in a black combat suit stood at the hatch.

She had an Asian face, but didn't look like someone from the executive department. She had long chestnut-colored hair and exuded a lazy air from her posture to her expression.

When Zero reached the hatch, the girl reached out and pulled her up.

When it was Lu Mingfei's turn, he gripped the bronze cage with a little force, and like a nimble swift, he leaped into the air. He then used the bronze cage as leverage to step onto the ground and landed lightly in the cabin.

"Wow!" the chestnut-haired girl exclaimed. "Spider-Man, are you?"

Lu Mingfei is not Spider-Man; he only has a suit of armor on him. If he were wearing leaves instead, he would look exactly like a caveman.

Zero, still wearing his deep-sea pressure-resistant diving suit, sat down silently.

"You're not from Kassel College?" Lu Mingfei was initially puzzled as to why Zero would appear in the Three Gorges, assuming that the Executive Department had located the Nibelungen from halfway around the world.

"Let me introduce myself. I'm Su Enxi, the boss's chief assistant. You already know this one; she has another role in our team—the boss's special assistant. And the one piloting the plane is the long-legged girl, the boss's second-in-command assistant," the girl who identified herself as Su Enxi explained to Lu Mingfei.

"So you're Lu Mingze's people." Lu Mingfei immediately guessed who her boss was. The clothes were left by Lu Mingze, and it was Lu Mingze who guided him to the exit of the Nibelungen. "He sent you to rescue me?"

“That’s only a small part. The main reason is that the boss said he has to go on a long business trip and asked the three of us to take your orders temporarily.” Su Enxi was not surprised at all that Lu Mingfei could guess the boss’s identity. “In short, you are our boss during the time he’s away.”

"I think I understand." Lu Mingfei nodded. "Give me some clothes to wear first."

Su Enxi seemed to have been prepared, taking out a complete set of underwear, pants, coat and boots from a box on the seat next to her.

When Lu Mingfei took the clothes, he noticed a faint fragrance on them, which seemed to be perfume. He glanced at Su Enxi with a hint of doubt.

Su Enxi keenly caught that look in her eyes. "Don't misunderstand, it's a new outfit, it's just that the box is old."

Lu Mingfei wasn't particularly bothered. Long ago, even when his armor was filled with the smell of blood and sweat, he had to endure it because most of the time there were no objective conditions to clean it. Only when he reached a place with water and relative safety could Lu Mingfei take out the accumulated dirty clothes from the Blessing and wash them all at once, then light a campfire to slowly dry the clothes and armor.

Those were rare, heartwarming moments; the whole world consisted only of wet clothes and crackling campfires, and there was nothing else to worry about.

He turned around and changed into the clothes Su Enxi had given him.

He wore a long-sleeved black shirt and black straight-leg pants, with an oversized coat that was almost like a cape. Su Enxi had deliberately chosen this outfit, partly out of personal preference, to make Lu Mingfei look like Kirito, the male protagonist of the anime "Sword Art Online." However, the weapon on Lu Mingfei's back wasn't the famous black and white twin swords—the Dark Chaser and the Elucidator—but a majestic two-meter-long curved sword.

Su Enxi discreetly took photos with her phone.

At this moment, Zero took off her diving helmet and then removed her diving gear piece by piece. Her expression showed a hint of fatigue, indicating that she had been waiting underwater for a long time.

"I'll fly the plane," she said, walking into the cockpit.

"Can your body handle it?" Su Enxi asked.

"Leave the wind to me now that it's getting colder," Zero said calmly.

The "long-legged girl" in the pilot's seat first activated the Z-8F 100's AFCS (Automatic Flight Control System) and SAS (Stable Augmentation System) before leaving her seat to let Zero take over.

"Hey, little monster!" The woman in the pilot's seat greeted Lu Mingfei loudly as soon as she entered the cabin. "I'm Mai Shude, and I'm your second assistant now."

Mai Shutoku's most striking feature is her stunning figure—curvaceous, with long, enviable legs and two straight-bladed ninja swords tucked into her slender waist. She wears her long hair in a ponytail, giving her an athletic look, yet she possesses a radiant face with long, slender eyes, lightly powdered, like the sharp edges of a scarlet blade.

"Hello," Lu Mingfei replied casually.

He was already a little tired.

The cabin door was not closed. We were passing through a wooded area, pitch black, with the city lights in the distance reflected in the rain streaks illuminated by searchlights.

“You can give me any orders, even if it’s to serve someone in bed. That’s the role of an assistant.” Mai shrugged, not displeased by Lu Mingfei’s coldness. Instead, she thoughtfully reminded him of the broad scope of an assistant’s job, and then sat down opposite Su Enxi in a very generous manner.

"Only you, I wouldn't agree to such an unreasonable request." Su Enxi pouted and complained after hearing what Jiu De Mai said.

“The princess will obey your every word.” Mai Shude looked at the petite figure in the driver’s seat with ill intent.

Lu Mingfei did not participate in the banter between the two girls.

Even his core team was entrusted to him, so it seems that Lu Mingze has truly left—in an unimaginable way, truly entering his "memory" world, perhaps through the power of that dream.

Of the three girls, Zero is an informant planted in Kassel College, Mai Shude is probably a warrior, and Su Enxi seems to be the highest-ranking one in terms of title, but she doesn't seem to have any combat ability. Perhaps she is a strategist or manager.

Chapter 69 Secret Talk

Ye Sheng's exploration work was nearing completion, with almost no valuable information found. Following instructions from the academy, he also had the on-site personnel use drones to photograph the cleaned alchemy matrix ruins in different areas.

These photos will be sent to the vice principal, Nicholas Flamel.

Flammel's family was a mixed-race family; what they inherited was not bloodline, but knowledge. The first Flammel was a Parisian scribe who rediscovered ancient alchemy from lost documents and suddenly became a master of alchemy, and the only person on record to have successfully created the Philosopher's Stone.

The 76 dragon script phrases he summarized represent all the dragon script phrases that the Secret Service can currently decipher, and they are selected as questions for the 3E exam at Kassel College every year.

He joined the Secret Society in the early 15th century, and the successors of his surname were also members of the Secret Society. Each generation of Flamel would pass the name on to his most valued student.

Flamel in this generation is the vice principal, and it is said that he was a formidable figure in his youth.

If even the vice-principal can't discover anything, then all the clues will run dry, and it can only be classified as an unsolved case of dragon resurgence. There are many similar unsolved cases: the Tunguska explosion, the Summer Mourning, the explosion at the frozen port north of Verkhoyansk, the mysterious heartbeat in the Greenland ice sea...

The biggest loss in this incident was S-class Lu Mingfei, who is suspected to have disappeared along with the dragons.

Ye Sheng firmly believed that if Lu Mingfei could grow up, he would become a dragon-slaying leader who would amaze an era, not only because he defeated Caesar and Chu Zihang, but also because of the look in Lu Mingfei's eyes that left a deep impression on Ye Sheng... It was the look of an eagle, a lion, a powerful figure as dazzling as the sun.

Such a man, how could he have fallen so hastily?

Did dragons really awaken secretly a long time ago and then deliberately assassinate geniuses among humans?

"Principal Angers has just arrived at the scene." The voice on the communication channel interrupted Ye Sheng's remembrance and thoughts.

“Okay, I’ll be right there,” Ye Sheng said.

He exchanged a few words with the staff on site about continuing the work, and then left to meet with Angers, who had come specifically for this purpose.

Perhaps the vice principal really discovered something. The principal values ​​Lu Mingfei highly, and his personal visit indicates there is hope.

Angers is in the hospital.

Those officers who sustained serious injuries were all transferred to a private hospital in Amarillo in the early hours of the following day.