Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei Returns from the Elden Ring

Su Enxi frowned. “An investigation is certainly possible. Taking a long-distance bus will definitely leave all sorts of traces. But since he dared to follow the two of you, he must have made thorough preparations. I’m not sure if we can find anything useful.”

“Let’s get started,” Lu Mingfei said. “This is my second order. As for Kassel College, we can leave them alone for now.”

......

After the meeting, Su Enxi and Jiu Demai went back to their respective rooms to handle their business, while Lao Tang went to the luxurious gaming room next to the master bedroom to while away the time.

Zero left the luxury apartment. She was in the Three Gorges because she was participating in an internship mission. She took a few days off under the pretext of visiting relatives and was now returning to the dive team of the Execution Department.

The internship courses at Kassel College are very flexible in terms of difficulty. If dragons happen to awaken, students will be assigned to a certain operation. If they are unlucky and do not encounter the awakening of dragons, they can only do grave-robbing work such as digging up dragon relics. If there is really nothing to do and there is not even a dragon's grave to dig, then they can go to the Chicago Zoo to volunteer to take care of the alligator pool and study the evolutionary history of reptiles on the side.

Lu Mingfei sat alone on the balcony.

The balcony features tempered glass railings on three sides, offering a wide view. It includes a rattan lounge chair and a small round table, facing a mountain landscape with rows of buildings opposite. The rain clouds have almost completely dissipated, leaving only loose, isolated cloud fragments, allowing sunlight to filter through and create a magnificent curtain of light.

There was a cell phone on the small round table; the SIM card had been changed.

He did not contact Angers because he believed that Angers would contact him on his own initiative and would keep it confidential.

After waiting for a short while, someone called. It wasn't Angers or any other contact. There was no number or caller ID on the screen, only two words: Unknown.

After Lu Mingfei pressed the answer button, the sound coming from inside was slightly smoky.

"Hey, is this Mingfei?" Angers' voice was processed, with a harmonic background tone, but the cheerful tone was unmistakably his own. "Did you resolve Norton's issue?"

"It's resolved," Lu Mingfei reported truthfully. "Now, should I not show my face?"

"Oh?" Angers seemed slightly puzzled. "Your information network is quite extensive."

Could you explain the current situation?

“Actually, it’s nothing. What happened on the Panhandle Plateau has made those paranoid guys on the board of directors a little uneasy. They’re now sending a formal investigation team to impeach me.” Angers spoke casually, showing no sign of the tension of being dismissed.

But Lu Mingfei knew he wasn't having an easy time. Su Enxi said he might not be able to handle it this time. "Do you need any help from me?"

“Don’t worry, they won’t find any substantial evidence on campus. This is just a pressure tactic,” Angers said. “You should stay out of the spotlight for now, otherwise it will make you seem unreliable. However, you might need to come to the Board of Trustees with me in a while.”

“Okay,” Lu Mingfei agreed.

"Actually, you can keep hiding. As long as I am still the principal, I can still provide you with support from the Executive Department and the Equipment Department."

“No, actually I also want to see this ancient council of elders,” Lu Mingfei said calmly.

“It seems you’ve learned a lot lately,” Angers said softly. “In my original plan, you wouldn’t need to learn these things for a long time.”

"Do you have enough money? I won't be able to contact you for a while." But he immediately switched to a cheerful tone, "This is a virtual IP and number created by Norma, so you can't contact me in return."

“I have plenty of money,” Lu Mingfei said. “Could you let Constantine come over to my place for a while?”

Angers was silent for a moment on the other end of the phone, seemingly thinking that Lu Mingfei's question was a test. "Is it 'Norton's' request?"

No, it's mine.

"I'll be tied up with that investigation team soon, and I can't guarantee the timeline."

“You can deal with it when you have time,” Lu Mingfei said.

“No problem.” Angers readily agreed, but then added earnestly, “Mingfei, I hope you haven’t misunderstood. I am a reliable ally, not a shameless blackmailer.”

"That's not what I meant."

“I’ve been arguing with those guys on the board of directors for too long, maybe I’ve lost my mind. Never mind what I said,” Angers said with a faint smile.

Chapter 79 Similarity

This apartment has four floors. The first floor has a living room, kitchen and dining room. The second floor has a master bedroom, a small living room and a bar. The third floor is all bedrooms, and the fourth floor has a storage room and a huge operating room.

This operating room has everything from a small room for changing surgical gowns, shoes, masks, and head coverings, to a contactless disinfection area, and then to an anesthesia machine, monitor, operating table, shadowless lamp, and surgical timing system. Around the room are some functional cabinets, which contain dressings, gloves, disinfectants, syringes, saline, and anesthesia supplies, etc.

When we entered, Mai Shude explained that the operating room also had an emergency power supply that could be activated automatically in case of an emergency.

Lu Mingfei looked around the room.

"Why set up an operating room in an apartment?" he asked.

"The nearest branch of a top-tier hospital is only ten kilometers away. Don't you think that's a bit redundant?" Mai Shude didn't rush to answer, but instead asked in return.

"Preparing a medical kit for emergencies is understandable, but preparing an operating room like this that requires maintenance is too cost-effective," Lu Mingfei said, expressing his opinion.

"If it's for routine emergencies, it's indeed not cost-effective, but it's prepared for specific abnormal situations. In those situations, when you're isolated and facing life or death, the medical kit is certainly not enough," said Mai Shude as she prepared to anesthetize Old Tang.

"If hospitals can't be used, will human social order completely collapse?"

“That’s right, in that situation the operating room might not be needed, but as long as there’s one in every ‘fortress,’ the person who needs treatment will definitely be able to use one of them, and that’s the point,” said Mai Shude.

"Do you firmly believe that the entire world is destined to be plunged into a world-ending war?"

“Yes,” Mai Shude admitted, “at least it used to be.”

......

It was Lu Mingfei who suggested performing surgery on Lao Tang, including the type of surgery—installing an arterial lock.

It was Angers' request to operate on Constantine, and Lu Mingfei recognized its rationale. Now he believes that rationale still applies to Lao Tang.

Lu Mingfei originally intended to perform the surgery himself. He had read the information on this type of surgery and the surgical procedure performed by Angers, but Old Tang refused. This coward was willing to believe that Lu Mingfei was a powerful mutant warrior, but unwilling to believe that he was a qualified surgeon.

For Old Tang, mutant warriors were an unknown concept, while being a surgeon was a real profession. He could imagine the superhuman strength and abilities of mutant warriors, but he couldn't imagine a freshman undergoing rigorous medical training.

Fortunately, Mai Shude also knew how to perform this minor surgery, so Lao Tang decisively chose to trust Mai Shude.

The minor surgery was over quickly. Old Tang sat on the operating table, blankly pressing the wound with hemostatic gauze. There was no obvious foreign body sensation there, but a bomb powerful enough to disrupt the blood circulation system was buried inside.

Lu Mingfei handed him one of the remote controls, saying, "If Norton ever tries to take over your body again, just press the button. He won't give you a second chance to hide."

Old Tang held the black remote control, which looked like a car key, with utmost care, as if it were his lifeblood. He didn't even dare to close his fingers, for fear of accidentally touching something.

"Won't this thing get hacked?" He felt completely insecure, filled with paranoia. "If someone presses a button remotely, I'll be dead."

"You've been watching too many movies," Mai Shude complained. "This thing uses frequency modulation communication. The carrier frequency of the signals transmitted by the sender and receiver changes discretely according to a predetermined rule. It uses more than 75 frequency hopping signals, and the maximum frequency hopping time interval is only 400ms. The amount of computation required to crack this signal is ridiculously large."

"That's good." Old Tang finally felt a little safer.

......

That afternoon.

The group was on the top floor, and Su Enxi and Jiu De Mai boarded the helicopter.

The two had already completed their handover with their new boss, Lu Mingfei, so there was no need for them to stay. They had several thousand mixed-race and ordinary people under their command, and a large amount of work had piled up that needed to be done.

Before leaving, the two left Lu Mingfei a bank card with an eight-figure balance.

Lu Mingfei expressed his understanding, saying that managing a large organization is a very tiring task.

Tarmac.

Lu Mingfei and Lao Tang waved goodbye as the Z-8F 100 slowly took off.

Compared to Lu Mingfei's indifferent demeanor, Lao Tang seemed somewhat reluctant to part.

"Sigh, even if she's a half-human, half-dragon, she's still a beautiful girl." He sighed, "Now it's just the two of us grown men staring at each other."

"Get ready," Lu Mingfei suddenly said. "Your 'brother' is coming over in a few days."

"Huh?" Old Tang was stunned, but only saw Lu Mingfei's retreating figure. He quickly followed, "When did this happen...?"

Lu Mingfei had just received news from Angers.

A week had passed since his last conversation with Angers, and Angers sent good news—the investigation team had been defeated, and Fingel and Constantine's team was once again carrying out the tasks assigned in the internship course, setting off for China.

Angers kept his promise, but with the bonus of a Finger.

......

The helicopter roared forward, cutting through the low clouds, with Mai Shude still in charge of piloting.

Su Enxi sat in the spacious cabin, with an LCD screen fixed to the fuselage in front of her, displaying the changes in the New York Stock Exchange.

Wearing black-rimmed glasses, she quickly scribbled on a piece of paper with one hand and held a satellite phone in the other, her tone stern: "Raise the price by 1.5% and buy up all the shares of the wind power companies we've selected! I'm authorizing you a quota of five hundred million US dollars."

She grabbed a potato chip and stuffed it into her mouth. "Don't question my decision! Five minutes ago, a 200,000-ton oil tanker ran aground and sank in the Gulf of Mexico. This oil spill will lead to severe criticism of the oil economy by environmentalists, and new energy companies will have a huge opportunity to rise in the next three months!"

Among the boss's three secretaries, Su Enxi is the busiest. Her Word of Power is Heavenly Evolution, which enhances the brain's thinking and calculation abilities, rapidly constructing huge models in the mind, putting hundreds or thousands of numbers or other information into them, and performing high-speed calculations.

With this ability, she can strategize and operate in the international financial market. She can be said to be a person with tens of millions of US dollars in a minute, and the hundreds of billions of US dollars in her hands are the foundation of the entire team's operations.

Therefore, she often referred to herself as the accountant or the maid in charge of accounts.

A moment later, Mai Shude heard the commotion in the cabin stop before she spoke up, "Potato Chip Girl, is the change in Lu Mingfei really just the awakening of dragon blood?"

"We've been monitoring him for at least as long as Angers, so besides the Dragon Blood Awakening, is there anything else unusual? Zhao Menghua's scheme? For Lu Mingfei now, that's nothing at all." Su Enxi ate potato chips, unconcerned.

“I know that the assessment of him has already been made.” There was a strange emotion in Jiu De Mai’s tone. “But the impact of this personality change after getting to know him closely is completely different. I even understand why Chen Motong is a little afraid of him.”

"What do you want to say?" Su Enxi asked, puzzled.

"I teased him because I thought he looked like a boss when he put on a serious face. The chance to tease a boss is extremely rare," Mai Shude said quietly. "But I didn't dare to continue later, because for a moment when we made eye contact... it really felt like the boss was looking at me."

Chapter 80 Reunion

When the doorbell rang, Old Tang rushed to the door. He took a deep breath, his face twitching, trying to project a calm and world-weary demeanor, like those scenes of long-awaited reunions in movies. The weathered uncle, with his stubble and unkempt appearance, inadvertently revealed a gaze that cut through time like a knife, taking his old friends and the audience back to his glorious past.

Thinking of this, he suddenly slapped himself.

Damn it, all I can see in my mind is Lu Mingfei's paralyzed face.

Without background music and editing in real life, posing like that would be too silly, unless you could actually pull out a two-meter-long sword like Lu Mingfei.

Old Tang glanced at the curved sword on the fishing rod holder from afar and had an inexplicable sense of foreboding. It was as if, even when it sat still on the wall, it was a sleeping beast in the dead of night, its sharp blade gleaming coldly, ready to awaken at any moment and devour its prey.

From that time on, he never went near that sword again.

"Forget it." Old Tang knew he would probably never become that kind of arrogant person in his life. "Even if I look like a comedian, silly and unreliable, it's better than becoming something that isn't me."

However, when he opened the door, full of anticipation, he was met with a pair of wolf-like eyes that gleamed with a green light.

"I'm a special...person assigned by the principal?" Fingel's voice trailed off halfway through his sentence, his eyes widening in shock.

"Fingal?" Old Tang was also stunned.

"The principal has betrayed us again!" Fingel immediately shouted in grief and indignation, and then saw Lu Mingfei appear behind Old Tang.

"Come in, senior brother." Lu Mingfei ended the noisy meeting.