Dragon Tribe: Still Thinking Until Now

"I'm actually a little carsick..." Lu Mingfei took a long time to squeeze out these words.

"If you're afraid, you're afraid. There's nothing shameful in saying it out loud." Xia Mi winked. "We went to an amusement park with Chu Zihang before, and I wanted to ride a roller coaster at that time. But he took us to the Snow White Castle. I think Chu Zihang is also a little afraid of roller coasters, and his favorite attraction might be the Snow White Castle."

"No, it was actually me who asked to go to Snow White's Castle that time. My senior's favorite project should be 'Winnie the Pooh and Friends'." Lu Mingfei said righteously.

Xia Mi held her chin with her hands and opened her eyes wide. She was shocked by Lu Mingfei's frankness.

"I've already looked up information on the train coming to Chicago. There's a big one among the roller coasters at Six Flags. Its name is Atrium Serpent. It's the fastest roller coaster in the world! It's 150 meters high and has a maximum speed of 250 kilometers! I've been looking forward to it for a long time! Brother, can you just go with me?" Xia Mi hugged the arm inside and acted coquettishly. Lu Mingfei took a deep breath. He felt that maybe choosing to come to Chicago this time was a mistake.

"Okay, but I have to state in advance that my favorite attraction is actually Snow White's Castle. Roller coasters and the like are still too difficult for me to accept." Lu Mingfei sighed.

"Senior Brother is the best!" Xia Mi happily bounced on Lu Mingfei's body like a little sandalwood scented pig.

Lu Mingfei scratched his hair and looked at the guy in the mirror. He was well-dressed and handsome. He was probably much better looking and more attractive to girls than he was a long time ago.

However, he always felt a little blocked when he was with Xia Mi.

He didn't know why, but he felt like a jerk.

He felt that he had done something wrong and felt very sorry for his senior brother, so he didn't want to go on that roller coaster.

After having the Chinese breakfast provided by the hotel, Lu Mingfei and Xia Mi walked out of the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

“Wait, we must have opened it incorrectly. Let’s start over.” Lu Mingfei turned around expressionlessly and was about to return to the hotel.

The first thing he saw was a black Maserati parked on the side of the road. It was so dazzling, with a long hood and sharp curves. The black body seemed to hide the scabbard of a peerless sword. The anti-peep glass blocked the view inside. This thing appeared on the side of the road and it should be the focus of the whole scene. There were plump girls posing and adjusting the angles for selfies next to this car.

But the Illinois license plate on this damn Maserati is cas001.

Lu Mingfei recognized this car.

It was one of the cars used by the romantic old schoolmaster Hilbert Jean Angers.

"Wait a minute, senior brother, it seems that the person in that car is the principal! He is greeting us!" Xia Mi said with a grin.

Lu Mingfei covered his face.

"Actually, what I want to say is, Mingfei, no matter how many times you reopen that door, you will see me and my Maserati parked on the side of the road waiting for you to come out." Principal Angers said generously, and he laughed heartily, "Actually, I'm not a feudal and stinky old guy! I really like being with young people!"

Lu Mingfei turned around expressionlessly.

An old but still handsome face appeared in the window of the Maserati. This guy had a head full of oiled silver hair that could serve as a mirror. He was wearing a straight black tailor-made suit. There was no fresh and delicate red rose stuffed on his chest anymore. Instead, there was a handkerchief carnation stuffed there.

"I heard that little Xia Mi likes carnations very much, so I asked for one from the flower shop." Angé handed the carnation and the handkerchief to Xia Mi.

Xia Mi took the flower and her smile was prettier than the flower.

She turned around and stuffed the carnation into Lu Mingfei's hand.

"Brother, this is for you. I like carnations the most." Xia Mi smiled sweetly, so sweetly that it seemed as if she wanted to cover the boy's heart with honey.

Lu Mingfei took the flower blankly.

Girls all over the world are the same, even if they are actually female dragons.

Whatever she likes, she will think her boy likes it too.

When she shares her favorite things with you, she is sharing her whole world with you.

Ange laughed out loud.

"Ming Fei is very charming, very much like me back then." The car door opened automatically, and Angé said loudly.

Xia Mi pulled Lu Mingfei into the back seat of the Maserati.

Lu Mingfei saw a box in the middle of the back row. He was very familiar with it. It was the sword box originally used to hold the seven deadly sins.

"I asked Fingel to send Lust from your bedroom to my office, and then put it in this box with other swords. Now it has returned to its original owner." Angers said, "But the pride and greed in it are still in the hands of the Gattuso family. Do you know Pompey? He is Caesar's father. I told him about this matter. Pompey promised me that after this period of time, Pride and Greed will return to your hands. For this, the Gattuso family owes you a favor."

"Pride and greed." Lu Mingfei recited the names of the two swords softly.

Angers looked at Lu Mingfei's eyes through the rearview mirror, and it was hard to tell what emotion was in the old man's iron-gray eyes.

"This is a very complicated political deal. We had to make some compromises, me, you, other families on the board, and the elders hiding at the end of the old era. When you were fighting Odin, you used a certain bloodline refining technology, which is absolutely forbidden. Frost forced the board of directors and the elders to separate the seven deadly sins at the cost of not pursuing the matter. This is an era of order, and we all have to abide by the rules."

"I understand, Principal." Lu Mingfei nodded slightly.

The Seven Deadly Sins are certainly important weapons for him, but they are not unique nor irreplaceable.

He had killed one dragon king after another, not relying solely on the seven deadly sins.

"The Ice Sea Fragments record that if this weapon is fully gathered, it can mobilize the realm called Sin and Punishment. That is the great alchemical realm and the power to fight against the king. You may have already used it." Angé said.

"The Gattuso family believes that a great ancient being will awaken in the near future. They don't want you to continue to achieve this level of merit and honor. That would shake the deeply rooted ruling model of the mixed-blood society."

Lu Mingfei did not say anything. He just gently covered the surface of the Seven Deadly Sins Sword Box with his hand. The ancient motto inscriptions then emitted a faint golden glow, as if cheering for returning to the hands of the person who was truly qualified to own it.

At this time, a melodious aria was playing in the Maserati's audio system, and there was actually a bottle of ice wine in the slot where a Coke should have been inserted. The skylight above the head was open, and wisps of cigar smoke were flying up.

"Hey, hey, hey, is it really okay to say these things in front of me?" Xia Mi finally had the chance to interrupt.

Ange laughed softly, "There's nothing wrong with that. You all have to grow up, and someone has to enter the political circle."

Chapter 64 To my dear readers:

When I was writing this, my fat cat at home was circling around my calves. The soft and dense touch made me want to think of beautiful things, so I put down my pen.

Green Zijin, Youyouwoxin.

But for the sake of the king, I have been pondering it so far.

Each phrase can make people imagine so many stories that happened in spring or summer. Looking back at the silly boy in the cinema when I first met him, ten years have passed.

So when should we start?

Let’s start from ten years ago.

Oh, I was fifteen years old that year, in the first year of high school.

I was born in a small town. I was very similar to Chu Zihang in the first half of my teenage years. I mean, we had similar families. My mother was very beautiful when she was young, and my father was a full-time driver for big shots in the CBD of coastal cities. It was very chaotic there at that time. He often had a small axe in his car. I still remember that it was a Porsche.

Sometimes I go out with my father. The bosses are big shots in Taiwan or Hong Kong, and they are all very nice people.

One day, a very slender and beautiful girl left Teacher Jiangnan’s “The Dragon Tribe” on the back seat of that car. I still remember it vividly. There was a bookmark made of a red rose specimen in the book, and its faint fragrance always came out when I opened the pages.

Not just florals.

And the scent of that girl is very unique. I think it is the scent of love, because some people say that only when you meet a girl you like will you be attracted by the body odor of that girl, and only you can smell the scent of that girl.

Unfortunately, I never saw her again, which was quite regretful. I also felt that I was not a man like Caesar, who thought that if I liked someone, I would pursue her no matter where she was.

I read along the line where the girl had left her bookmark, then started over again from the beginning.

Later I brought it back to the small county town and shared it with my friends. They are all very interesting people. There is a guy we called Zamao. I don’t remember the reason at the beginning. I only remember that this guy likes to put himself in the role of Caesar. He often shouts that men’s friendship is as strong as diamond. When he was young, he was a very immature person. He got married last year.

It seems like everyone likes that book very much, because everyone in the small county thinks that he is Lu Mingfei, so everyone hopes that Shuaizai can become tough one day, because when he becomes tough, we will want to become tough too.

All our expectations for Lu Mingfei are expectations for ourselves.

All our anger and disappointment towards Lu Mingfei are actually our anger and disappointment towards ourselves.

So do I.

But as I grew up, I slowly realized that I was not Caesar or Chu Zihang. At the beginning, like everyone else, I thought I was a loser like Lu Mingfei, but later I found out that I was not.

I am not Lu Mingfei.

Of course, he will have a red-haired senior sister who will drive a Ferrari to pull him out of hell like a sharp angel, and of course there will be a little monster with flickering light in Umezujimachi's eyes who will hug him tightly.

I have nothing.

To be honest, it's probably the same for Teacher Jiangnan.

In comparison, we are more like the little kid who struck an Ultraman pose that Zhao Menghua saw in BJ Nibelung.

We were all little kids and we all liked Ultraman.

On August 2019, 8, I took the train from Osaka to Umezuji Town to look for traces of the dragons, but I didn't find them. Today, Umezuji Town is deserted. The Umezuji Town where Lu Mingfei and Eri watched the sunset was the Umezuji Town 19 years ago. There are very few people there. The Ferris wheel was dismantled long ago, and the cliff for watching the sunset was closed because someone jumped into the sea. Only the parking lot and the beach at dusk are left.

I was a little disappointed, and from that time on I hoped that Teacher Jiangnan could finish telling the story of the unlucky kid as soon as possible.

Because although I no longer think that Lu Mingfei and I are the same type of people, seeing his growth still makes me feel like I am seeing my own growth. We both locked ourselves in the red well of the Tama River in Tokyo, waiting for someone or a story to redeem us.

In the end, I couldn't wait, I'm very sad.

So I followed the teacher’s words “but for your sake” and wrote down the story of “I have been pondering until now”.

At first it was just a manuscript, not even intended to be posted online or shown to other people. My friends shared the first few pages of the manuscript, found it very interesting, and told me that more disappointed people should see it, so I wrote it out.

I hope that readers who read this can understand how I felt when I wrote every word of this book. It was a wonderful experience.

In conclusion, I have returned home. Ten years ago, my father saved some money and opened two very small factories in Guangdong. We live a rich life. Now I am learning how to manage these industries, but I often think of Tokyo on a rainy night, and I wonder what I would do if it were me.

I do not know.

Because I am a coward too, we are all cowards.

Chapter 65: A Inn in the World (2)

"I happen to have something to deal with in Chicago, so come and see what my best students are doing." Ange chuckled, "And if we are free today, we can spend the whole day together in Chicago."

"Okay, okay. We are planning to go to Six Flags. Principal, come along!" Xia Mi invited.

"Oh, little Xia Mi, do you like roller coasters too? I like roller coasters too, but I haven't tried the Atrium Serpent yet. I heard that it was designed to make people feel the sense of loss from hell to heaven and then from heaven to hell." Angé seemed to know a lot about roller coasters. Xia Mi nodded, looking eager to try it.

"I say, Principal, you are over 130 years old, right? Aren't you afraid of having a heart attack by playing such exciting things?" Lu Mingfei covered his face.

"Although I hate everything about dragons, I have to admit that thanks to their bloodline and genes, we are much healthier and live longer than ordinary people. A speedster like me has a super strong heart and will never suffer from heart disease. Most of us will not get cancer... If I were to die, it would be that every organ would go on strike and become completely paralyzed, or I would have my head chopped off on the battlefield of slaying dragons." Ange is quite free and easy.

Xia Mi pouted, "Principal, I think the Dragon King may not chop off our heads. Their dog-head guillotines are probably not suitable for our bodies. If the war fails, we are more likely to be crushed to death."

Ange was stunned for a moment, then laughed heartily.

The old man flicked the ashes of the burnt cigarette off the car window. With his other hand, he took out a bottle of vodka that was still emitting white cold mist from the slot and drank it all in one gulp.

"Passengers, please fasten your seat belts..." Angé held the steering wheel with one hand, with such a youthful smile on his face. He looked at Lu Mingfei and Xia Mi through the rearview mirror. There was no fatigue and decay of old age in his eyes, only the calmness and ferocity of a tiger.

"Our journey is about to begin." He suddenly stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and the black Maserati roared out, piercing into the dense traffic like a sword entering the body.

"Oh oh oh!" Lu Mingfei wailed in fear. At this moment, Lu Mingfei remembered that the old man probably liked more than just roller coasters. Ange liked all things that were fast, express cars, roller coasters, yachts, and even if possible, he wouldn't mind trying the aerospace plane that had long been out of service.

"Oh oh oh!" Xia Mi shouted with joy. The oncoming wind lifted her hair and blew it towards Lu Mingfei. The faint sandalwood scent drowned him like a gently rising tide.

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