Dragon Tribe: Still Thinking Until Now

But the reason for accelerating this process is not that they unbridled their desires, but that in the process of achieving this goal they had to use the power of the Holy Word granted by the dragon clan, which was far beyond the understanding of ordinary people.

That is the spirit of words.

Every release of the Word Spirit means the dragon blood in the body will surge. Hybrids with stable bloodlines will only feel tired when using the Word Spirit, and their energy intake requirements will become higher.

The fallen hybrids' use of words will push them step by step into the abyss of dragons.

Lu Mingfei couldn't be sure whether Eri's physical condition had completely stabilized or whether the dragon's will was lurking in her body.

If it is the latter, then once she uses the Word Spirit, the suppressed poisonous blood will be pumped by the heart to her limbs and bones.

Even the Nibelungen Plan couldn't save her at that time.

Lu Mingfei looked into her eyes, and the sunshine was reflected in her eyes.

"It's no different from the last time we went there. There are carp streamers everywhere, and the porcelain dolls are still placed under the eaves of the shrine on the mountain. Hermit crabs are everywhere on the beach, and when the tide goes out, they gurgle and spit bubbles to chase the sea that is getting farther and farther away."

“Will fishermen still deliver flatfish to restaurants at night?”

"Well, my sister and I had the freshest disc fish and grilled snapper, and the taste was no different from before. We'll go eat together after we're done here."

"Are you going back to Tokyo by train?"

"No." Lu Mingfei said, hesitating for a moment, "We drove to Haneda Airport and met your brother on the way."

Eri's bright eyes suddenly dimmed for a moment.

She has been staying with Lu Mingfei these days and has been very happy.

Sometimes Gen Chisei would also video chat with Eri, and the man in the video would always smile and say to Eri, "Just have fun, Eri. There's no problem at home. My dad and I can handle it."

But Gen Chisei didn't know that Eri was already a grown-up girl now, and she was no longer the head of the Uesugi family who could be fooled by telling some unfounded lies.

Even just through the mobile phone video, Eriya can see that Genjiro's cheeks have become much thinner, and he looks a little haggard, and sometimes his eyes are always filled with worry.

She did not love Gen Chisei, and even the relationship between the siblings was very cold. However, during the long time before Lu Mingfei appeared, only the giant tortoise would accompany Eri when she was most lonely.

Even though the only way Gen Chisei could imagine accompanying Eri was to play games with her, and he even inadvertently used games and anime to build a bizarre worldview in this girl's mind that had nothing to do with the real world, he was still the only man who cared about Eri before.

"What did my brother say? Does he want me to go home?" Eri lowered her eyes, her thoughts almost written on her face.

She is actually a good girl and doesn't want to make others feel sad for her, so the last time she and Lu Mingfei ran away from home, she took the initiative to return to Yuan Zhisheng on the last day.

This time, Gen Chisei didn't tell her to go home, but Eri knew that she was actually a weapon of the family.

If her brother encounters a bad guy who he can't defeat, she will go to the battlefield.

She was very afraid of Masamune Tachibana, but the bad guy always stayed by her brother's side, and Eri was very worried.

"He won't let you go back there again." Lu Mingfei said. He reached out to rub Eri's head, using some force, as if he was rubbing a kitten's head.

"Gen Chisei and I have a man-to-man agreement. He has handed you over to me... Remember the wedding we saw at Meiji Jingu? Just like the father of the bride handed the bride's hand to the groom's hand, from now on I will protect you."

Eri didn't understand many things, but she understood what Lu Mingfei said, so she raised her head, with a look of naive attachment on her pretty face, and rubbed her head against Lu Mingfei's palm with half-closed eyes.

"Will we have a wedding like that in the future?"

“Yes, yes.” Lu Mingfei said, lowering his voice as if chanting an ancient spell, “We are the ones who have taken back time from the hands of fate. Even the world cannot stop us from doing what we want to do. No one can stand in our way…”

At this time, a light drizzle began to fall from the sky. It was a misty sun shower. In the colorful raindrops, Eri's expression was joyful and her eyes were bright. She reached out and hugged Lu Mingfei's arm. The girl's body temperature slowly warmed the man's heart.

"By the way, this is for you."

Lu Mingfei handed a small thing to Eiry. Eiry took it in her hand, opened the package curiously, and then was stunned.

"Don't you like it?" Lu Mingfei said.

"No, I like it very much." Eiry held the small wrapped porcelain doll carefully in her hands. She raised her face and smiled at Lu Mingfei. Her smile seemed to have slowly dissipated all the past sorrows in the long river called fate.

Chapter 382 Renata's Dance Floor Strategy

Ling sat on the smooth pebbles beside the jumping campfire, the crackling and exploding red-hot charcoal reflected in his platinum pupils.

From far away, fog was drifting over like a tide, and white swans in the fog spread their wings, stretched their necks, and looked into the distance towards the horizon.

In the hot spring, Constantine had already successfully integrated the games between Nono and Xia Mi, which were actually a bit boring. Eri would never find a game boring because her life had only been underestimated.

"What are you thinking about?" Lu Mingfei squatted down beside Ling. He was wearing a hunting suit with gold thread trim, a faded pen hung on his chest, and his hair was lifted up, revealing his entire face. Perhaps because he had been hanging out with his junior sister in a bikini not long ago, he was quite excited at the moment.

Ling tilted his head to look at this guy, and the frequency of his heartbeat in his chest was unbalanced for a moment.

Fortunately, this girl is someone who can keep her thoughts to herself, no matter when she was called Little Renata or now when she has been given the nickname Zero.

"Nothing." Ling shook his head. "You changed your hairstyle?"

"No, my hair is wet and sticking to my forehead, which is uncomfortable." When Lu Mingfei said this, Ling actually saw water drops hanging from his lifted hair.

"Looking at it this way, he looks much more energetic, not like a child anymore." Ling hugged his knees with his hands, turned his head back and stared at the flames in a daze.

"You say that like an older sister..." Lu Mingfei was a little embarrassed. He stretched out his hands above the flames, and wisps of white steam slowly rose from his palms with distinct joints.

"Yeah." Zero said.

Sometimes it's really tiring to talk to this girl. Lu Mingfei sighed quietly, fumbled out an exquisite little box from behind and handed it to Ling.

"What?" There was no confusion on Ling's face, he was still as calm as a piece of ice on the cold lake.

"Gifts. I brought the same gifts for them all, and of course I will bring one for you as well." Lu Mingfei said, opening the box in front of Ling and showing her what was inside.

"I don't know if you like it or not, but I think maybe you Russians like this kind of thing..."

There was a porcelain doll inside. Although it looked a little different from the two that Eri and Xia Mi got, it was still recognizable as a Q version of Lu Mingfei from its expression and facial features.

Ling was stunned for a moment and lowered his head so that Lu Mingfei could not see his eyes.

“It’s actually a nesting doll, look—” Lu Mingfei held the porcelain doll in his hand and opened it along the opening in the middle. There was actually a smaller porcelain doll inside, round and plump, wearing a camel-colored coat, with long platinum hair tied into a high bun on its head, and eyes wide open, making it look like a chubby penguin.

But looking at the platinum hair, Ling recognized that it was himself at a glance.

She held the two porcelain dolls in her left and right hands respectively, turned her head away and said calmly, "Well, it's okay."

But where Lu Mingfei couldn’t see, the girl’s thin and beautiful lips were slightly pursed and curled upwards, and a fleeting joy flashed across her cold and indifferent little face.

"What kind of reaction is 'Oh, that's good'? I thought you would be happier." Lu Mingfei also looked at the jumping bonfire flames. There was a small iron pot placed above it, and the fragrant coffee was bubbling in the pot.

"Ever since my senior sister and I went to Umezuji Town, you've been in a low mood. I thought it was because you felt that I didn't bring you a gift."

"Yeah." Zero said.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, then turned to look into the eyes of the girl beside him, but Ling was still hugging her knees and staring at the flames, with no emotion visible in her platinum pupils.

"Actually, I'm very happy, but I just don't know how to express it." Ling said lightly.

A piece of charcoal exploded and jumped out of the flames, then rolled over at Lu Mingfei's feet and lay in the puddles covered with a layer of broken ice. Lu Mingfei looked steadily into Ling's eyes.

"No one ever gave me a gift just because I was a girl or because I was his friend," Zero said. "Even in Moscow, some big shots would come to visit me, the representative of the Romanov family and the owners of the Romanov family's wealth, carrying Fabergé Easter eggs or Cadillac jewel necklaces. But all they could see was greed."

“Because no one will be nice to you for no reason. In the final analysis, all the ties between people are a transaction that has already been clearly priced in secret.” Lu Mingfei’s heart moved slightly after he finished speaking.

That doesn't seem like something he would say...

With such a cold truth of this world, it seemed as if the devil was controlling his vocal cords to make these declarations that made people despair.

"Some people give you Fabergé eggs, but what they really want may be the Romanov family's logging business in Siberia. Some people give you Cadillac jewel necklaces, but what they want from you may be the entire Ukrainian arms trade. The adult world is not simple like this."

"What about you, Lu Mingfei." Ling clasped his hands together and placed them under his chin. In the firelight, the glaze color that shone through the gaps between his slender fingers glowed with a flickering glow.

"What do you want from me?" She looked at Lu Mingfei with squinted eyes, her smooth and beautiful face cold and indifferent.

However, Lu Mingfei was very familiar with Ling. He knew that this girl was not as calm as she appeared to be. At least from the blush on the tip of her ear, it could be seen that Ling was probably a little flustered.

There are indeed many suitors for Her Royal Highness the Princess in Kassel Academy, but even an outstanding A-level junior who comes from a top mixed-blood family in Portugal has returned empty-handed. Everyone is guessing who will eventually win the heart of this beautiful girl from Moscow. At the same time, the suitors are also very sad and wish they could cut the lucky guy into pieces.

If these brothers saw the subtle coquettishness and arrogance on Miss Ling's face at this moment, they would probably hate Lu Mingfei with gnashing teeth.

"It's nothing. I think you are very nice to me. You are willing to dance with me and buy me roasted sweet potatoes. I will be nice to people who are nice to me." Lu Mingfei shrugged.

"Thank you." Zero said.

"Thank you too." Lu Mingfei said.

"Though I don't actually know what dancing means."

Lu Mingfei opened his mouth and said nothing. He just reached out and touched the ends of Ling's soft and beautiful long hair.

In this world, Caesar had no chance to invite Lu Mingfei to join the Student Union in public, because at that time, Boss Lu crushed Master Gattuso's pride on Free Day with his genuine S-level bloodline, and quickly established the Dragon Blood Society with the best freshmen of that year as its core.

It is also unlikely that he would invite all the student union cadres and the college's influential figures to a grand dance at Norton Hall to help Nono hold a birthday party.

All the past events that Lu Mingfei still remembered had vanished into thin air, and in the desolate city of fate, only a cowardly, timid and unlucky child like him was left wandering alone.

"But if you want, we can dance together anytime," Zero said softly.

She quietly turned her gaze from the fire to the man beside her and looked at Lu Mingfei, with her face raised. Her small face was white, with light and fire flowing on it, which reminded people of the Arctic poppies blooming in the sunset glow, so beautiful that it made people's hearts tremble.

The wind blew up from the lake, causing Ling's hair to sway slightly.

The girl pursed her lips slightly, as if she had made up her mind not to look away, to gain the upper hand in this mutual gaze that was clearly neither a duel nor a competition.

Until Lu Mingfei reached out and touched the top of her head.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"You look a lot like a friend of mine. Sometimes when you stand next to me I feel like I'm seeing him again."

"You are nice to me and willing to get close to me because I look like him?"

"No." Ling said. She looked at Lu Mingfei's face and was suddenly surprised to find that this guy actually looked like an adult. His eyebrows were like distant mountains and his eyes were like the edge of an abyss. Looking into those eyes seemed to sink into them.

Normally, Lu Mingfei would look a little gloomy with his drooping hair, but now he actually looks... good-looking.

"Because I think you are like a puppy sometimes, and I like puppies very much." Ling lowered his eyes, and there was clearly not much emotion hidden in his words, but Lu Mingfei just heard it as perfunctory.

"Are we really alike?" he asked.

"Not really. You are gentler and more...kind." Ling replied. She wrapped the porcelain doll up carefully and put it back into the small box. She put the small box close to her body, then put on huge heat-proof gloves to take out the small pot and poured a cup of hot coffee for herself and Lu Mingfei.

The aroma of coffee filled her face, and the curl of white steam hung in front of her tall and slender nose. She uttered a low sigh of admiration, and a second of joy appeared on her plain white little face.

Lu Mingfei knew that Ling was actually talking about Lu Mingze, but they rarely talked about this topic.

Including how Ling and the little devil met, what kind of person Lu Mingze is, or whether Lu Mingfei found out at the end that he was the little devil and the little devil was himself...

Maybe Zero knows the truth about some things, but is the truth really that important?

After all, even though Lu Mingfei has grown into the man he is today, able to wield a steel sword and wave it at God, there is still a wetland called cowardice in his heart. There are always boys crying in the wetland, which is the cry of the cowardly soul under the hard mask.