Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei returns from Sekiro

"So what happened?" Zero held the bone china cup in both hands and took a sip.

"We were in the deep sea and heard the heartbeat signal."

"The Greenland Sea is home to large creatures such as beluga whales and tiger sharks, so it's not surprising to see heartbeats."

"Yes, at first we didn't think there was anything unusual about this. We followed the original plan and salvaged some ancient bronze fragments at the coordinates designated by the 'Prince'. They were engraved with ancient and complex characters and the secrets of the academy. The collected 'Bronze Column Table of Ice and Sea' is exactly the same."

"Ice Sea Fragments?"

"No, the Binghai Fragments are documents recorded by humans. They contain human records and conjectures about dragons. The Binghai Bronze Pillar Table was built by dragons. It is considered a rare artifact. The antiquities that have been passed down to the present day from the Dragon Era once stood in cities built by dragons. The dragons are accustomed to using pillars to record history. In the center of the city is a huge pillar that stands tall and towering, but the Ice Sea Copper Pillar is just a broken pillar. part, presumably less than a third of its original length.”

"We pretended to be an ancient literature research institution. When we arrived in the Greenland Sea, the 'Prince' generously shared with us the news he had received and the latest salvaged fragments. We have been trying to find the possible ice-sea copper column table. , but that strong heartbeat signal attracted our attention, because its position has not changed for several months, and it will appear on the radar on time every day when we use sonar to explore."

"That might be a sleeping turtle."

"Someone proposed this hypothesis, but the hypothesis was overturned, because if it is an unknown species of giant sea turtle in a dormant state, its heartbeat should not be so strong, and it cannot be a whale or a shark, a large aquatic animal. You need to hunt everywhere to maintain the most basic energy of life.”

Fingel turned his head and said, "You are very smart. Considering that the academy has kept this incident as an SS-level secret, you should be able to guess what it is."

"That is a dragon embryo that is hatching." Zero thought for a moment and said: "The seabed is its burial place. It has experienced death and cocooning and then transformed into an embryo again. It is undergoing a long incubation. .”

"Absolutely correct." Fingel clapped his hands. "There has never been a shortage of smart people among mixed-blood species, so someone soon put forward this hypothesis. Hidden under the sea, there is at least one pure-blood dragon with a bloodline of within three generations. , this is an irresistible temptation for the academy, because for so many years, the only dragon embryo captured alive by the secret party is just a weak dragon whose bloodline is three generations away. Its bloodline is already very weak, weak To the point where it can be shown to every new student entering Cassel College without worrying about the dangers it will create.”

"'Sleeping Red Dragon Prince'?" When Zero was in school, Professor Toyama Masashi showed her the glass jar filled with antiseptic liquid.

This is already a reserved project in Kassel. Not all new students born in mixed-race families will have the opportunity to have close contact with the red dragon embryo. The college uses this to convince the new students that dragons are real.

It has a unique name in the forum, "Sleeping Red Dragon Prince", because someone used this as a template to serialize romance stories in the forum. The story is set that the prince is actually a cursed prince who needs a kiss from true love. In order to wake up and regain the body of a prince, this story is full of patchwork traces. It combines many famous fairy tales such as the Frog Prince, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White, and tells the story of a girl named Cassandina. The forbidden love between a Kassel female freshman and the red dragon prince.

Zero has updated to the latest chapter, and even rewarded the author with 10 US dollars for prompting the update. Although the story is very bloody, it is not bad for passing time.

"Do you also know about the 'Sleeping Red Dragon Prince'?" Fingel became interested in this.

"Do you read romance novels?"

"No, I don't read it, but I am the author of 'The Sleeping Red Dragon Prince'." Fingel patted his chest.

Zero was silent for a moment, then took out his phone and deleted the book from his bookshelf.

"The finale is coming soon. Don't you want to know whether Cassandina will choose to elope with the Red Dragon Prince or accept the confession of the Flame Dragon Slayer!"

"I don't want to." Zero put the author "The Fire Demon Poet" on his blacklist permanently.

"Okay, let's not discuss this topic for the time being." Fingel said helplessly: "But the reason why the 'Red Dragon Prince' has such a high reputation among students is because the college can only come up with this one Dragon embryos, one can imagine how tempting a third-generation, or even second- or first-generation dragon embryo would be to the academy."

"So you dived?"

"The safest way is of course to use underwater unmanned robots or remote-controlled submarines. Legend has it that during the hatching process, the ancient dragon will develop a certain field to protect itself, and people who step into its field will have fatal hallucinations. If that is really the case, It will be a very dangerous behavior to dive into the ancient dragon embryo hastily."

"There was a problem with the robot, and you had to send a specialist to dive down?" Ling thought that if things went as planned, the Greenland incident would not become a secret. There must have been some major change that led to a tragic result. .

"You guessed it right, we sent out underwater robots, but they would lose control every time they approached the seabed. We recovered the underwater robots and found that their circuits were burned out inexplicably. This is why the things on the seabed are A dragon embryo adds to the evidence, because biologically speaking, hallucinations are ultimately caused by stimulation of the cerebral cortex, and the easiest thing to stimulate the cerebral cortex is electrical current."

"There are six people in the dive team, including me." Fingel lifted his hair from his forehead, revealing a hideous scar that had never been shown to outsiders. The wound extended from his hairline. , you can see the old wounds hidden in his thick iron-gray hair, "Among the six people, I was the only one who came back alive. Among the professors who participated in the rescue, one was disabled for life, one remained in hell at the bottom of the sea forever, and one had a temperament. Big change.”

"Executive Director Schneider, he always wears a gas mask, not because he looks scary or deliberately pretends to be mysterious. His respiratory tract was completely shattered in this incident, and half of his face was necrotic. That mask In fact, it is a special oxygen mask. He must replace the plastic trachea every three years. Professor Heidi is one of the few people in the college who has obtained a tenured professorship at the age of only 32 years old. As a woman, she is really She was brilliant, but she has sunk to the bottom of the sea forever, and as for Mance, he is on the Monyach, waiting for revenge."

Fingel put down his bangs, "Since that day, the college launched the EVA personality system plan and the Norma artificial intelligence programming plan, and relaxed its militarized management."

"What exactly did you encounter under the water?"

"A door, and a dragon shadow hidden in the deep seabed." Fingel said slowly: "The place where we dive is 300 meters deep on the seabed. There is a fifty millimeter thick ice layer on the sea surface, and the sunlight cannot reach it at all." When we arrived at the bottom of the sea, it was supposed to be pitch black. Spotlights were of little use in a place like this. Everything was turbid and the visibility was less than 15 meters. But each of us saw that door. The glowing door floating in the sea seems to lead to heaven."

"You are hallucinating."

"No, that's not an illusion." Fingel shook his head, "I don't know how to explain it to you, but it's definitely not an illusion. The door is real, but among the people present, I was the only one who was not deceived by the door. "

"We originally dived in the diving bell, but everyone else left the diving bell as the first protective barrier and swam towards the door. Their rapid breathing came from the communication channel, and I was also moved in my heart. The desire to enter that door aroused itself as if it held the most precious treasure in the world, but I restrained myself, and before I could warn them not to enter, the door opened."

"What came out of the door?" Zero asked.

"A shadow that was too fast to be seen." Fingel took a deep breath, "When it appeared, everyone was awake. The hybrids who joined this dive operation were all 'A'-level, and their bloodline allowed us to sense fatal Danger, each of us was equipped with an underwater rifle, and the communication channel rang with chaotic gunshots and Schneider’s shouts from the ice.”

"That guy is definitely a dragon. It is soaring under the water as if it were in the sky. We are just the prey it teases. Within just a minute, my earphones lost their sound. In the beam of light illuminated by the spotlight, there were floating Bloody Mist, I saw with my own eyes that they were held hostage by Long Ying and entered the door. The only thing I could do was to get out of the diving bell and hold EVA's hand tightly."

"But the moment I escaped from the diving bell, I suffered a heavy blow to the head. Before that, I opened the Bronze Throne, so the blow did not kill me, but I still felt a splitting headache. I knew we The chance of survival was very low, but at least I wanted to get her back to the surface. The only way was to stuff her into my diving bell. The people on the ice had already received the signal, and the empty diving bells of the others were The hook rope connected by the mechanical wheel was tightened and pulled upwards, but I was the only one who still maintained communication with the ice."

"I didn't have time to think, so I hugged her and protected her in my arms. She was wearing a diving suit. Compared to my height of two meters and two, she was a petite little girl. But before I could close the door of the diving bell, I suffered another heavy blow to the head. I was almost unconscious. There was a big hole in my diving suit. The 300-meter-deep sea pressure and the gaping wound made me breathless. Fortunately, I finally stuffed her in. Diving Bell.”

"Then why was you the last one alive and not her?" Zero asked.

Fingel drank the bitter coffee in the cup, "This is the thing I regret most in my life. We are using the latest diving bell from Germany, which is completely enclosed. Compared with the old diving bell, it is more like It is a submarine without a power system. During the initial debugging, the college added a password lock to the diving bell. Each of us set a password to open the hatch. We must enter the correct password three times to open the hatch. This is for To prevent us from falling into hallucination and misoperation, all my passwords are her birthday."

Fingel fumbled for a cigar box from his school uniform bag. This was the most authentic Cuban cigar. He stood up, left his seat, took out his cigar scissors, and skillfully cut a cigar.

The golden flame lit up on the old zipper lighter. He leaned against the sidewalk window and smoked silently.

Zero saw Fingel smoking for the first time. At this moment, she even mistook Fingel for Caesar, because from the side, Fingel looked too much like a nobleman with a noble education.

"All the money you earned from writing 'The Red Dragon Prince' was used to buy cigarettes?" Zero also stood up and leaned against the railing opposite Fingel.

"In addition to cigarettes, there is also wine, and we have to have some late-night snacks every night." Fingel stubbed out his cigar in the iron ashtray on the trash can.

The train broke out of the red pine forest, and in the distance were the winding mountains. There was pure white snow on the top of the mountains, and the melted snow water gathered into clear rivers. From top to bottom, wild camellias bloomed under the sunlight, which was stunningly beautiful. .

"EVA, is that the EVA in the academy?"

"Have you ever heard of personality transplant OS?"

"A system that transplants a personal personality into a computer so that it can think is a science fiction. Is this technology used in the control of EVA?"

"EVA is probably the first one. This is a technology that Mansi and I jointly developed. After Norma's programming ended, I continued to develop EVA for some reasons. Don't look at me now. Back then, I was in the Department of Mathematics. But in the first place, programming technology actually relies heavily on mathematical talent. Almost all famous milestones in computer history have made significant achievements in the field of mathematics."

"So, does it mean that EVA's personality has been transplanted?"

"It can also be said to be her brain itself." Fingel said lightly, "At least it makes me feel that she is still with me in another way."

"Do you love her?" Ling brushed a lock of pale golden hair from his ear.

"Of course I do." Fingel lit another cigar and quietly looked at the scenery outside the window.

21:42 US time, Gulf of Alaska, one of the nine most famous bays in the world. It is located at the southern tip of Alaska, between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Islands. There is a petroleum management center in the coastal port of Anchorage. The United States has announced , during the war the Gulf of Alaska was the first of the sea lane chokepoints that had to be controlled.

The Port of Kodiak is located in an archipelago in the Gulf of Alaska in southern Alaska, USA. It is a non-major port among inland ports. A huge tugboat is parked at the port, and cranes continue to lift unmarked wooden boxes onto the deck.

Fingel dragged his salute and waved to the ship, while Mance stood with a serious face and his hands behind his back.

"Why did the academy let him come? Class F, just to cause trouble." Thelma complained. No one in the academy didn't know that Fingel was a famous trash.

"Do you really think this guy is a loser? Wrong. Fingel von Flins was a former 'A' student of the academy. He had participated in many missions and was the most experienced commissioner among the students. Later. There is only one reason why he no longer performs missions. He was seriously injured in a certain mission, which even affected his sanity. What you see now is not his true state... although it is true that he was very messy before... but not like this ." Mance turned around and said, "If he can return to his former state, the only person in the academy who can rival him is Lu Mingfei."