Dragon Tribe: Still Thinking Until Now

The city and the outside world are two completely different worlds. The wilderness is still cold and windy, and the roadside is still covered with snow, but the city has already ushered in its early spring.

"Let's go to the trail first. Now that we're here, of course we have to go there for a walk." Nono said, holding a Chicago hot dog in her hand. It was steaming hot and contained sausage, cucumbers and onions. It looked very appetizing.

The car stopped in the parking lot outside the trail, and Nuonuo shivered slightly when he got out of the car.

After all, it was still early spring and the snow hadn't melted yet. She was only wearing a khaki windbreaker to keep warm, which was indeed a bit thin.

Lu Mingfei was dressed warmly, wearing warm clothes under his windbreaker.

"Senior Sister, we have never gone out alone before." Lu Mingfei scratched his head. He didn't have much experience traveling with girls. The last time he went to Chicago with Xia Mi, he met the principal and was involved in the Dragon King's revival incident.

Nuo Nuo stretched out her long legs and jumped to Lu Mingfei's side, and her white and slender fingers reached into Lu Mingfei's collar.

The coolness of his fingertips touched the warm skin, and Lu Mingfei couldn't help but shiver.

At this time, Nuonuo had already taken his arm.

"People always have many first times." Nuo Nuo looked beautiful when she smiled, her bright eyes curved, reminding people of a coquettish kitten. When she said this, she moved closer to Lu Mingfei. The boy's body was so warm, like a bonfire that appeared beside her, making people want to get closer and touch him.

Lu Mingfei didn't say anything. He shrank his neck and hid himself completely in his windbreaker.

On the one hand, it was to keep warm, and on the other hand, Chicago was the headquarters of the North American mixed-race people, and it was also the location of Cassell College. The proportion of mixed-race people here was much higher than anywhere else. Today, he was considered a celebrity in the mixed-race society, and it would be terrible if he was secretly photographed by paparazzi.

"Senior sister, have you been here with the boss before?" Lu Mingfei asked suddenly. He didn't think much about it, but in Nuo Nuo's opinion, this guy was really an idiot who didn't understand romance.

It's not normal to talk about your ex-boyfriend when you're on a date with a girl.

"No, our favorite place to go when we came to Chicago was a bar on the shore of Lake Michigan. Actually, it's not accurate to say he and I. It's mainly because I like going there because there is a very handsome bartender in that bar. The cocktails he mixes are delicious. There is a white parrot squatting on the bartender's shoulder, and we can chat with the white parrot while waiting for our drinks." Nono pouted.

“Then I’ll go with you tonight.” Lu Mingfei said. He didn’t have any other intentions. He just thought that since his senior sister liked it, he might as well go and have fun.

But Nuonuo's eyes suddenly lit up. She thought to herself that this boy was not a complete idiot. He even knew how to please girls. He had made progress.

"Come to think of it, you still call him boss. Junior brother, you are the president of the Dragon Blood Society, and you have many brave generals under your command. In fact, it will be no worse than the Student Union in the future." Nuo Nuo joked while holding Lu Mingfei's arm.

Lu Mingfei touched the tip of his nose, feeling a little embarrassed. “Sister, you know me. When I was the president of the student union, I was a hands-off boss, leaving all matters to Isabella. Now I have set up the Dragon Blood Club, and the president is actually just a mascot. Aren’t you, Xia Mi, and Qi Lan the ones who usually handle the affairs of the club?

and……"

Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment before continuing, "The boss was very good to me before. He helped me book the show at Aspasia, sold his body to help me make money to please girls when I was in Japan, and even passed on the student union and the student union's dance troupe to me..."

"You bunch of dogs, have you become so despicable that you even give your harem to each other?" Nono snorted.

She knew that Caesar had been a gigolo in Japan. That was no secret, at least not among those of them who were on good terms with him.

In fact, as a girlfriend and even a fiancée, Nono should be a little angry with Caesar, but somehow, she felt nothing at all.

The red-haired witch actually found her fiancé's romantic affairs in Japan merely interesting.

"Actually what I want to say is, Senior Sister, do you know that Chu Zihang treated me well in another world, so I treat him well in this world. Caesar treated me well in another world, so I treat him well in this world. It's just that I made a lot of mistakes, which changed my fate. There are some things I really don't want to do..."

At this time, a finger was raised and sealed Lu Mingfei's lips.

Nuonuo stopped Lu Mingfei from continuing.

The red-haired girl put her hands behind her back and put her other hand on Lu Mingfei's lips. Her face was serious and her red eyes reflected the golden sunlight. At this moment, she was like an angel descended from heaven.

"You did nothing wrong, Junior Brother. Xia Mi and I both accept our current fate. I'm very happy that in this world I knew earlier that it was you who shouted at me not to die underwater in the Three Gorges and who always hid in the dark to protect me. I think this is a kind of luck, and I also think it is a gift from God to me, if there really is a god who can write destiny." Nuonuo said, her lips were pursed, and you can guess from the look of her that she is a stubborn girl.

Lu Mingfei looked into the pair of crimson eyes, and the breeze blew past, stirring his heartstrings.

He was much taller than Nuo Nuo, and could look down at his senior sister's face, which was clean and fair, with a beautiful curve.

His heart moved, as if he remembered something. It was a beam of dazzling light, seeping out from the end of the wilderness. He curled up and shivered in the darkness, but a female knight riding a red horse walked out of the light, she stretched out her hand to him and said, "Come with me, I will take you to the battlefield." So the cowardly Lu Mingfei really stretched out his hand and held the female knight's hand, and rode the same horse with her to the battlefield.

Later, the timid boy became really awesome, and he slowly grew up into a real man, wearing a suit and tie with a gold lining in his collar. He met many girls who were much more attractive than the female knight, including the princess of the ice and snow kingdom, the duchess of the underground world, the princess of the human kingdom... But why couldn't he get out of that dark and cold wilderness?

Because it was the female knight on the red horse who brought him out from there.

After many years, Lu Mingfei would still return to the screening room of that year on some hot summer nights. Nuo Nuo really reached out to him like an angel piercing the darkness. At that time, she said that Kassel College was a door, and once you entered this door, you would close all the other doors.

In fact, Lu Mingfei didn't care whether there was a door or not. He just felt that there was no one outside the door who loved him or cared about him. Maybe there would be someone inside the door, and maybe Nuonuo was the one who would care about him. So he followed Nuonuo without hesitation.

Thinking about it this way, it turns out that the poor kid really is someone who lacks love.

Lu Mingfei remembered someone once told him that there are very few people you love in this world, and there are definitely not many people who love you, so don't let the people who love you down. But he forgot who told him that, and he just felt that this sentence was really sad, because those who loved him were disappointed.

In the end, it all comes back to Senior Sister. Even today, Lu Mingfei would be happy when Nuonuo is happy and sad when she is sad, but he thinks that is probably not love anymore. In fact, he doesn't know, but a person's heart is only so big and can only hold one person. He thinks that he actually loves Eri, so he should not love Senior Sister.

When did you let it go?

Lu Mingfei suddenly stopped, his pupils were trembling slightly.

It was when the academy signed and agreed to Caesar and his senior sister’s marriage application. At that time, he was a junior and had just left Tokyo. He was so fragile and sad. There was a porcelain-white girl who always appeared in his dreams. The girl never called his name. She would only say Sakura, Sakura, where are you, Sakura, I’m scared, Sakura…

But his senior sister was with him at that time.

The loser once thought that maybe he still had a chance, maybe the senior sister would choose him in the end.

No.

Reality is reality.

Fate is always like a mountain, pressing so hard in front of you. You want to crush it but you are powerless, and you want to climb over it but it is so steep.

It was from that time that Lu Mingfei began to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, commonly known as PTSD.

If you think about it this way, he actually still loves his senior sister, it’s just that he is sick.

Lu Mingfei suddenly turned his head and stopped looking into his senior sister’s eyes. The girl’s eyes were always as deep and beautiful as Lake Baikal, making people unable to help but immerse themselves in them.

He was afraid that he would be immersed in those wine-red eyes again.

The last time I had this feeling was when I faced Xia Mi.

But even Lu Mingfei himself was a little confused. He always believed in Eiry and he always chose Eiry.

But as time goes by, the girl who accompanies you is no longer her, but Nuonuo and Xia Mi. Their laughter, their crying, and every little detail of theirs is imprinted in Lu Mingfei's mind.

"There is a hot pot restaurant opened by a Chinese in front. Do you want to try it, senior sister?" Lu Mingfei tried to change the subject. There was indeed a very good hot pot restaurant in front, but it was in the United States after all, and it was definitely not comparable to the ones in China.

Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingfei, you have to wake up.

He warned himself in his mind.

The intersection of fate is still in the distant future. Think about what you are going to do and think that there is a little monster like you in the well waiting for you to pull her out.

"Since we're already in Chicago, you still want to eat hotpot! Of course I have to try something new!" Nono was as happy as a little madman.

She can profile and see through people's hearts.

Lu Mingfei was a man who couldn't keep a secret, so she noticed it as soon as he looked away.

Nuonuo was very happy that her junior fellow apprentice really didn't give up on her completely. This feeling was great and made her feel relieved.

"Sister, have you read The Fall of Edward Barnard? It's a novel written by Maugham. It's quite old. I read it a long time ago when I was in the literature club." Lu Mingfei suddenly said.

Nuo Nuo wrinkled her pretty nose, revealing a canine tooth, and made a grinning expression, "No, do I, your senior sister, look like an artistic girl like Chen Wenwen?"

Lu Mingfei scratched his head. "Not really, but... this novel is about a story that happened in Chicago. I remember a short paragraph in it, 'I searched in the complicated and unfamiliar streets and buildings, comparing them with the images in my memory. I was confused and didn't know where, in which sky, there was still a trace of the old address and old friends?' After returning to this time and space, I often felt this kind of confusion, and always felt that the future was empty and sad."

There was a street vendor selling cheap red wine, so Nuonuo took out some coins from his pocket and bought two glasses.

Each of them took a sip from a cup as they walked from the tree-lined Riverside Theater in front of it to the Centennial Fountain in the Water Square.

"With so many people around you, Junior Brother, you don't have to be confused." Nono said, "Old friends are still old friends, but you have grown up."

Chapter 97 Nono's Spring Strategy (2)

Lu Mingfei was walking along the bank of the Chicago River with his senior sister, holding a glass of red wine. The sky was clear and warm, but a thin cloud was floating from a far distance.

When passing by the spire church on the bank of the Chicago River, a young man with black curly hair carrying a canvas, paintbrush and paint bucket jumped out of the alley. He grabbed Lu Mingfei and Nuonuo and said, "You two are really a perfect match. We have the honor to meet here today. Why don't I paint a portrait of you two?"

Lu Mingfei said that his buddy speaks Chinese very fluently. If this trend continues, in a few decades his buddy will definitely be a Beijing-style uncle wearing a Tang suit and having a buzz cut.

While he said this, he held Nuonuo's wrist and slowly backed away.

Lu Mingfei recalled some past events, which were stories that happened in Tokyo in the previous time and space.

At that time, he took Eri to visit Sensoji Temple. When they passed by a roadside painting stall, the painter Tiger jumped over and stopped them, and said with burning eyes, "Can I draw a picture for you two?"

Lu Mingfei was moved by this ardent gaze... Actually, it was because the other party said he would give a small gift by drawing his portrait, so he and Eri stood still obediently.

As a result, when the artist opened the canvas, Lu Mingfei was almost blinded by the light.

In Lu Mingfei's own words, this painting should be named "Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I and His Royal Highness Empress Princess Sissi".

In the painting, Lu Mingfei is wearing a military dress like that of a German aristocrat, and Eri is wearing a low-cut palace dress with a crinoline. The background is St. Paul's Cathedral in London. They look like they have just walked out of the church after their wedding and received the blessings of thousands of subjects.

Lu Mingfei took out his phone and sent a text message to a contact with the note "Little Devil", "Lu Mingze, are you the one who is playing tricks on me again?"

Lu Mingze replied to the text message quickly, "Brother, what are you talking about? I'm in Jerusalem right now, having a long conversation with the nuns. If you have nothing else to do, can you please not disturb me?"

Lu Mingfei curled his lips and moved his fingers quickly, "Don't fucking think I don't know, the nuns in Jerusalem are all middle-aged women, and a girl like her is good enough to be your stepmother."

"Aunties all grew up from young girls, so don't the monasteries in Jerusalem have trainee nuns?" Lu Mingze replied frivolously, "Brother, you are getting tough now. The girls chasing you at Kassel College can line up from Norton Hall to the school gate, but think about how your brother is still a bachelor, and it feels very unfair. But my performance in recent years has been too poor, and other female demons really look down on me, so they have no choice but to set their sights on nuns."

"What's wrong with this guy? Is he still using the same old tricks?" Lu Mingfei said with a dark face.

"Don't worry, don't worry. Do you still need me to push your relationship with Senior Sister? If you want, you can have sex with Senior Sister tonight. If you don't want, even if I lock you two up together and feed you two bottles of aphrodisiac, there won't be any sparks." Lu Mingze's tone was nonchalant, but what he said was true. "I haven't heard of a TV series called The Chicago Love Project. That's too weird. Just enjoy your vacation."

After saying that, Lu Mingze unilaterally cut off the connection.

Lu Mingfei hung up his phone with a gloomy face. It seemed that the Barcelona artist in front of him was indeed not someone Lu Mingze had invited.

Seeing that this guy was indeed a bit too kind to refuse, Nuonuo scratched Lu Mingfei's palm. She leaned close to the boy's ear and lowered her voice, "Why not ask him to draw a picture for us? Anyway, this kind of street sketch won't take up much time."

Lu Mingfei looked at the young man from Barcelona with suspicion and nodded hesitantly.

It really is worthy of being called street sketch art. Lu Mingfei and Nuo Nuo had just sat down on the bench by the river holding hands, and before their butts had even warmed up, the artist had already completed his portrait.

Lu Mingfei took the painting and his expression was as if he had received a dead mouse as a gift on April Fools' Day.

If the painting that the Japanese painter drew for him and Eri was "Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I and his Queen Princess Sissi", then the painting that the Barcelona man drew for him and Nono was "Nohara Shinnosuke and his rich girlfriend Suotome Ai" or something like that.

Lu Mingfei in the painting is short, fat, and round, clearly in the style of Crayon Shin-chan, while Nuonuo is quite realistic, with long legs, a thin waist, and an oval face. The background of the two people is the Chicago River today, with sparkling waves and sailboats passing by.

But they don't look like senior sisters and junior brothers who secretly come out for a tryst. They are clearly a graceful lady and her good-for-nothing son.

Lu Mingfei was so angry that his hands were shaking. He pointed at the Barcelona artist and said, “You you you you you you you…”

The young man from Barcelona also jumped up and said, "I, I, I, I... 200 dollars, thank you for your patronage!"

At this moment, the red-haired artist who had been so sincere just now suddenly changed into a profiteer, and stretched out his hands in front of Lu Mingfei, "We are honest and fair, and we clearly mark the prices. We are a ten-year-old shop and we do not accept credit. Do you want to pay by card or cash?"

Lu Mingfei retreated strategically, "How dare you charge 200 for this?"