Dragon Tribe: Still Thinking Until Now

It’s a pity that even Lu Mingfei couldn’t save Beowulf’s life before the owner of Time Zero, who deliberately hid himself, launched an assassination.

When the black triangular dagger pierced Beowulf's heart, it injected a huge amount of mercury into his body, and death came almost instantly.

"There should be a low river underground in City 023 leading to a valley dozens of kilometers away. That was the escape route prepared when this place was built... If the Americans bombed the rear cities in Siberia with nuclear bombs, scientists and workers would evacuate to the vast frozen soil through these extensive underground pipelines. After the nuclear war, they would be the main force in rebuilding the country." Alexei said.

His arm was wrapped in bandages and one of his ears was shattered by a stray bullet during the breakout.

Telling Lu Mingfei about this matter was obviously the result of the immortals' meeting and discussion. They had already got what they wanted, and there was no need to continue to fight with the elites of Kassel Academy.

With those serums, everyone here can live in this perfect state for hundreds of years, and a good life is waiting for them.

But he could only stand at the door of the office and look at Lu Mingfei, because in front of this Chinese man, the Princess of the Romanov family was like an angry lioness, staring at everyone who came at the end of the corridor with cold eyes.

Alexei had no doubt that if he overstepped his bounds even a little, a bullet would pierce his skull in the next second.

The Romanovs were known for their tyrannical ways when the country was still ruled by the Tsarist family.

"Mr. Henkel and Mr. Valentin, do you have any other tasks besides bringing these two bodies back?" Lu Mingfei looked at the old men who were drinking vodka on the side.

Han Gao shook his head: "My purpose is not to bring them back... Since we can temporarily escape the pursuit of the academy by leaving here, I think you can leave immediately."

"We will take the things back." Valoya stared down at Beowulf's body under the white cloth.

When he died, his body almost collapsed, all the blood was drained out, and it was so dry that it seemed like it would crumble into dust if it fell.

Lu Mingfei was also a little sad.

He had always thought that old Beowulf was not a good person...

"How did you leave?"

"If we go by sea, someone will come to pick us up as soon as we cross the strait," said Valentin.

This is not a problem for them.

As for Caesar, Chu Zihang and Susie, they were now guarding a branch floor of the downward staircase behind the office.

No one knows whether Christina will exist as a human being or turn into something like a dragon after using the serum. Caesar has already prepared for the worst.

Bunin was already waiting for Lu Mingfei, and he decided to fulfill his promise and send him where he wanted to go.

The place where all tragedies began, the harbor where the tragedies of the gods began to emerge.

Black Swan Harbor.

"In order to prevent further pursuit, we decided to completely destroy the city before leaving." Alexei saluted.

Lu Mingfei looked over in confusion.

"We originally planned an explosion test of a new intercontinental missile in the center of this city, but that test will be held in three months. If we want to destroy City 023 before that, the only thing that can do it is what's under our feet." Alexei stomped his feet, and the hard uppers of his shoes made a heavy, crisp sound as they struck the cement tiles.

"You mean the nuclear fusion reactor?" Han Gao frowned and puffed on his cigar. "It's useless. The purpose of the Tokamak device is to prevent the nuclear reactor from becoming an unstable nuclear bomb."

"Before entering City 023, you saw the river around the city that never freezes even in a temperature of minus degrees Celsius, right?" Alexei sneered.

"The nuclear fusion reactor here is the largest in the world, and it should also be equipped with the largest Tokamak device and heat exchange device in the world... But apart from a few cooling towers, there are not many similar things in City 023 because they are used to cool the nuclear reactor core. The huge amount of water vapor is actually produced by an underground river under the rock layer. When the reactor is started at a very high power, the whole river is boiling."

"To destroy City 023 based on this premise, we have two options. One option is to close the cooling valve of the reactor to increase its power and turn it into an unstable nuclear bomb. The other option is to increase the power of the reactor and turn the underground river into a super steam engine locked under the rock. The high-pressure gas will tear the earth's crust apart within a few hours and swallow everything here into the abyss underground."

"What are you going to do?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"Sunk it into the ground," Alexei said. "We know that Bunin's daughter, Christina, is in the process of cocooning and regaining her life. This process will be very long. Their only choice is to take the cocoon with them. But I don't think Mr. Lu and the guards around the princess are capable of running wildly in the extreme cold of Siberia with such a thing."

Lu Mingfei fell into silence.

In fact, Caesar has made his decision. He will compromise with the Gattuso family in exchange for Christina's new life.

Just as Lu Mingfei expected.

"Then prepare to retreat." Lu Mingfei looked at Han Gao, "We will go our separate ways after we leave. Thank you, Mr. Han Gao."

"I don't owe you any favors anymore." Han Gao nodded.

"You haven't owed it for a long time." Lu Mingfei smiled.

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The steel tomb behind us, known as City 023, was emitting a dying roar.

Ling's hair fluttered in the cold wind. She grabbed Lu Mingfei's wrist and ran wildly in the corridor. Her slender boots splashed a series of water wherever they stepped.

"Three hundred meters to go." Bunin's voice seemed to come from a very far distance.

As they rushed into the shaft leading to the surface, the first wave of collapse began.

The underground space of City 023 is a giant honeycomb built by the former Soviet government deep in the permafrost. At this moment, this Far Eastern city supported by reinforced concrete and karst cave structures is beginning to disintegrate from the core.

Lu Mingfei saw a boiling underground river gushing out from the cracks in the lower tunnel, with steam filling the passage.

The elevator in the shaft had already stopped working. Zero pulled out the hook on his tactical belt and shot at the maintenance ladder on the wall of the shaft.

Lu Mingfei heard a slight dislocation sound from her shoulder blades, but she simply pursed her lips and used the force to swing higher like a white bird.

The old people and immortals around looked at each other, but could only wait for the next move.

A suffocating roar was coming from below. Everyone looked down and found that the hot underground river water was climbing along the wall of the well, squeezing and deforming even the rusty alloy wherever it passed.

"Come up quickly!" Ling's voice was still cold.

She had already reached the ground, and the rappelling ropes were thrown down one by one. Chu Zihang and Su Si looked at each other, stepped forward and pulled to make sure it was stable, fixed Lu Mingfei on it, and sent this guy up through the pulley structure.

When they finally broke open the airlock door on the surface, the Siberian blizzard rushed in like a silver-white beast.

Lu Mingfei’s retina still remembered the pitch-black darkness just now, but now he felt the sting of ice and snow.

Her Royal Highness's eyelashes were frosted, and around her were seven or eight steel behemoths covered with rainproof cloth.

They were snow shuttles painted black, with laser transmitters on their roofs flashing faint red lights in the blizzard.

Without any extra conversation, everyone who escaped from City 023 looked at each other and said goodbye, then each of them boarded a shuttle with their companions.

After the vehicle started, the engine let out a dying roar. Zero stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and the temperature needle on the dashboard vibrated wildly in the red zone.

In the rearview mirror, a huge snow hill was rising at the location of City 023, and then countless steel beams and pipes pierced the ice like black thorns, turning the frozen soil within a radius of five kilometers into a hideous metal forest.

"They won't do anything to Caesar and Christina." Ling suddenly spoke, her face coated with a layer of cold glaze by the blue light of the dashboard. "If it is true as Hen Gao said that the Gattuso family needs a carrier to awaken the Dragon King, then Caesar must be the perfect key."

"We still have time." Lu Mingfei said.

Before City 023 was destroyed, Caesar had surrendered to the Gattuso family, and those elite soldiers would accompany him to transport Christina's cocoon.

Bunin was wrapped in a military coat and remained silent. He was tightly clutching a black aluminum alloy box, which contained the last serum extracted from the black snake.

And the Black Snake...

It escaped.

We headed westwards from the boiling underground river, not knowing where we were going.

Chapter 590 Emperor Caesar

Caesar stood in front of the only airlock door of the super-heavy transport train carriage, and the blizzard with ice particles whipped his windbreaker.

He leaned against the rotten beech stump and heard Christina's breathing in the earphone, the sound as light as a snowflake about to break.

"Your body temperature is dropping rapidly." The golden-haired young man behind him was standing in the blizzard with Caesar, but his body was emitting a burning air current, which was like the warmth emitted by a natural hot spring in the extremely cold winter, slightly dispelling some of the coldness on Caesar's body.

Caesar pressed the communicator, "When will the family's support arrive?"

"It will take at least twelve hours. Fortunately, we found a supply point." The young man whispered.

When City 023 was destroyed by the boiling underground river, the expedition team sent by the Gattuso family to Siberia was also destroyed.

But the real Bunin was an old fox, and he was cunning enough to leave two escape passages underground in City 023. One was the underground river that Lu Mingfei and his companions had chosen, which led further north. The exit of that passage was a barren wasteland with no human habitation for hundreds of miles. Only hybrids, whose physical fitness and vitality far exceeded those of ordinary people, could travel a long distance back to the human world using only their legs.

The other is an underground track opened in the rock by the engineering team that built City 023 many years ago. This track directly connects to the military line to Novosibirsk. An old but stable diesel locomotive is parked near the platform at the deepest part of the experimental layer in a brand new state.

Perhaps Bunin had already anticipated that this city deep in Siberia was about to be destroyed, so Christina's cocooning process took place directly in the carriage.

According to the original plan, the diesel train would head west until it entered Novosibirsk to get supplies, and then Caesar and Christina would be picked up by the Gattuso family on a private plane and taken back to Rome for recuperation.

But when they had traveled about 200 kilometers, the military line ahead had been completely obliterated. Black sleepers were piercing the sky in all directions. When they shoveled away the snow with tools, they could see rusty or completely corrupted metal parts scattered in a curve hundreds of meters ahead.

It seems that there was a serious collapse or mudslide accident here a few years or more than ten years ago.

"Are you outside, Caesar..." Christina's voice was accompanied by the noise of the radio waves, and was also filled with some panic and grievance.

Her cocooning was not as quick as that of a real dragon. Instead, it was an extremely slow and painful process. The white nutrient delivery ducts pierced the skin like spider silk and grew out of the flesh and blood. It was a heart-wrenching pain.

At this moment, Christina was curled up in the nutrition cabin of the second carriage, and the silk threads covered her like the softest silk quilt.

The muscle spasms caused by ALS have caused the girl's fingers to curl up like dead branches.

Looking at her, Caesar would be reminded of his own mother. When Gullveig died, she could neither hear nor see anything. She curled up in a small ball on the huge bed like a baby.

No one in the Gattuso family would come to visit her, and Caesar could only hold his mother's hand to let her know that she had not been abandoned by the world.

"I'm here. Do you want me to come in?" Caesar asked softly.

"It's good to hear your voice, it's good to hear your voice..."

"I've always been here." Caesar's sickle-weasel caught the roar of metal breaking coming from underground in the distance. He knew that the city they had just escaped from had been destroyed, and along with the ambitions and greed of those Russians, it was buried forever in the permafrost of Siberia.

He slowly lowered his head, his golden eyes burning like torches in the darkness.

——In the nutrition cabin, Christina’s spine had twisted into a strange arc, as if she was transforming into an enchanting beauty snake.

The ALS inherited from her mother Bella worsened rapidly due to the contamination of dragon blood. When the dragon bloodline was only a recessive trait in Christina's body, the powerful genes would help her stabilize her body. However, when the bloodline was activated, this powerful bloodline would make her step on the accelerator on the highway to hell.

The white silk thread was as hard as steel and far more resilient than spider silk, and lighter than mist. When the girl twisted her body like a snake, dark blue blood vessels appeared under her skin, like a gradually tightening net.

This net trapped the white snake that was undergoing a tribulation in the clouds.

The vibration of gears turning came from the walls of the carriage, followed by the sound of hard boots hitting the metal floor.

The footsteps were getting closer, but Christina couldn't open her eyes.

The hot dragon blood was being pumped by her heart to every part of her body. The burst of power from within almost burned her retinas to ashes.

Caesar saw leeches placed in glass jars and soaked in formalin solution on the operating table next to the nutrition cabin. The leeches were still plump, but already dead.

After completing the blood exchange with Christina, the mission of this lowly creature as a syringe was completed. The serum maintained its life for a long time, but once all the serum was forced out of the body, the activity of the leech was stripped from its soft body like a withered leaf.