Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Doesn’t Want to Become a Night City Legend

Chapter 158 I Killed Myself (Part 2)

Lu Mingfei stopped writing.

Looking at the three characters "Lu Lincheng" on his whiteboard, he had never felt so clearly the fact that he 'didn't understand his father at all'.

He is an honorary alumnus.

He is a remarkable scholar.

But he
Is he really his father?
Lu Mingfei looked at his birth date again, his thoughts racing.

However, the thinking continued, and there was no time for him to grieve over such trivial matters; the 'crack' of this game had a time limit.

If we consider all the incongruities mentioned earlier in a cumulative way, then it's not hard to draw the conclusion that—

[Lu Lincheng likely has some kind of cooperation with a hybrid organization 'other than Kassel,' and it was there that he acquired the relevant knowledge and status.]

Lu Mingfei immediately underlined this clue.

Although he is currently studying in Kassel, Lu Mingfei knows that the school is essentially a talent training institution under the Secret Service and is not considered a world-class institution.

There are countless mixed-race organizations in the world, but most of them hide behind the guise of conglomerates, such as school boards.

Board of Trustees.
The board of directors cannot refrain from making private investments in talent, after all, Kassel belongs to Angers, and all graduates are loyal only to Angers. How could a mixed-race family allow a general to have his own private army?
In addition, there's the information from Fingel that "S-rank hasn't appeared for a long time."
Using a normal human brain to think, it's not difficult to conclude—

[It's not that S-class students didn't appear; rather, after the school board realized Angers' personal charisma and dominance, they secretly recruited all the S-class students into their organization for training.]

Doesn't that seem strange?

The world's only training base for mixed-race talent is surprisingly like this.
weak.

The students were all incredibly incompetent; many had never even seen a dragon in their lives.

Every day, they either host aristocratic banquets or learn elegant and interesting things like ballet, piano, and violin. The most combat-related content is hand-to-hand combat and arms management, which are absolutely useless when fighting real dragons.

If Angers, Caesar, Chu Zihang, Lu Mingfei, and Zero were removed from the entire Kassel College, and the remaining people were all tied together for an unprepared encounter, they might be wiped out by a sub-genius on the roadside.

Under such circumstances, are the Board of Trustees, these hybrids standing at the pinnacle of the world, really so foolish as to be complacent and believe that there will be no more dragon threat in the future? And instead of developing the corresponding technology?
Absolutely not.

It's easy to see from the Deadpool attack on Lu Mingfei during the plane crash that they were already researching prosthetic technology, using the Dragon Clan's technology to surpass the human world.

Today, under the control of the board of directors, Kassel is no longer a place for nurturing talent, but rather a 'social venue'.

It is a ball where students from various noble families, such as the school board, send out to socialize.

If Lu Lincheng is also a pawn of some powerful family, then everything makes sense.

Therefore, the conclusion of the reasoning is:
[Lu Lincheng does not belong to the Kassel faction, but is a researcher secretly recruited by a mixed-race family that Lu Mingfei cannot currently confirm. Qiao Wenni is most likely the same.]

Let's keep this condition in mind and continue thinking.

【Kara】

As if struck on the head with a blunt object, Lu Mingfei let out a sound of pain.

It's a flashback.

Was it not his own memory, but Lu Mingze's?

A fleeting glimpse of a white lab coat, and a man and woman whose forms are vaguely discernible; a completely black city, and long railway tracks.
Just as I had guessed.

This dream itself was controlled by Lu Mingze, or rather, it was a dream that he intentionally induced.

Lu Mingze, who is usually "unable to give clues," can only help Lu Mingfei in this way through the power of words in the spiritual element, allowing him to think for himself and then have the little devil confirm the answer.

I can't let my younger brother down.
Lu Mingfei put the densely filled whiteboard aside, took a new one, and wrote down the new questions.

The question this time is—

Who is Lu Mingze?

Known information: Souls in Relic.

Known conditions: It is his own back spirit, an elemental manipulator of the Dragon King level or above.

More specific information is needed.

such as
Is Lu Mingze male or female?
Lu Mingze.
How old are you?

"Come to think of it, I've never asked Lu Mingze how old he is."

Lu Mingfei poked his temple with the end of his black pen, feeling a pang of regret.

However, Lu Mingze knows the Four Dragon Kings, and the Four Dragon Kings are ancient beings, which means that Lu Mingze was born a very, very long time ago.

Then why would he call Lu Mingfei "brother"?
Was Dao Mingfei born a long time ago?

Or is this misleading?

When Lu Mingze first returned to the real world and mentioned dragons, the 'Dragon King's' past that Lu Mingfei saw was merely a 'memory'.

【memory.】

Having memories doesn't necessarily mean that one has actually lived that much time.

Let's keep this clue for now.

There are very few clues about Lu Mingze. Aside from that, all that is known is that [even though he is inside Lu Mingfei's body, he can still communicate with the outside world, indicating there must be a medium, meaning Lu Mingze himself also possesses a 'physical body,' making him a different, independent person from Lu Mingfei.]

[Since this independent personality was able to recruit Zero, it means that its actual existence time is much longer than Lu Mingfei's—at least, much longer than Lu Mingfei's existing memories.]

A long time ago.

Lu Mingfei quickly wrote down the text below.

[Bangzi sound]

【King General】

A brain-computer interface showing signs of long-term installation.

It was previously known that Lu Mingfei would retain his brain-computer interface regardless of whether he was in Night City or not, and Lu Mingze's physical refresh ability as a Relic would not cancel the brain-computer interface—this indirectly proves that Lu Mingze's body likely already had this interface when he was born. This is why Lu Mingfei's brain-computer interface was not refreshed for the sake of 'fit rate'.

Furthermore, the sound of the clapper can control this body—therefore, it can be concluded that Lu Mingze and Wang Jiang lived together during the same period, and that Wang Jiang modified Lu Mingze to a certain extent.

Renovation.
Is it a renovation, or...?
【create】?
Lu Mingfei covered his mouth, his expression constantly changing.

The mere existence of memories does not necessarily mean that one has actually lived for that much time.

[The king also possesses relic technology.]

Doesn't that mean
If a king possesses "Dragon King-level materials," would he be able to directly create his own "Dragon King" using the Relic replication technology?
Let's assume.

If he were a king, a super genius who developed Relic and dragon prosthetic technology, and was also proficient in psychological suggestion and hacking, possessing the Dragon King's corpse or other materials, how could he not 'create a body capable of carrying the Dragon King'? Let it receive the Dragon King's memories and then be controlled by him?

But Lu Mingfei couldn't help but reveal a sinister smile.

There's no need to confirm this hypothesis; a hypothesis is just a hypothesis, and there's no evidence to back it up.

Moreover, there's no need for me to dwell on this point.

[Based on the current information, we cannot determine Lu Mingze's true form definitively, and it is of no use in helping me escape this dream.]

The conclusion is inferred based on existing intelligence.
Assume, prove, eliminate.

We arrive at a definitive answer.

This information does not belong to Lu Mingze himself.

The people imprisoned here are Lu Mingze and Lu Mingfei.

That's right, the question isn't who Lu Mingze is.

It's actually about the relationship between Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze!
(Although the assumptions above are all assumptions, there are certainties—Wang Jiang definitely performed brain-computer interface surgery on Lu Mingze and implanted a virus, which means that Lu Mingze is in a state of being controlled.)
(It is estimated that Lu Mingze's personality was copied at that time and then implanted into Lu Mingfei's body.)
That's right. The answer is—not just Night City.

Even in this real world, in this world of dragons! ———— Lu Mingze is also Lu Mingfei's relic! He is an electronic ghost that existed even when Lu Mingfei was an infant, possessing information equivalent to that of a dragon king!
Nothing happened.

As if mocking Lu Mingfei's judgment, the world responded to him with only a prolonged, deathly silence.

Lu Mingfei's excited expression instantly cooled down.

".I knew it."

While it may seem surprising that "even in the Dragon Raja world, Lu Mingze is Lu Mingfei's relic," upon closer examination, this isn't actually that hard to guess after confirming that Night City represents the future of the Dragon Raja in some sense.

If this were a story, then this part would lack the so-called 'impact'.

But
What else is there?

Do I have any other information about myself at this point?
Wang Jiang, Japan trip, Lu Mingze, Angers, parents couldn't get anything out of them.

The approach of deriving the relationship between Lu Mingze and Lu Mingfei by identifying "what is Lu Mingfei" and "what is Lu Mingze" is absolutely correct. But why is the final answer wrong?

wrong.

Even if it's wrong, this solution isn't entirely wrong, because no part of the conclusion uses a complete assumption.

If this is the question, then you already know the information.

The only technique I know of that can be used to attach a personality is Relic.

Therefore, Lu Mingze must be Lu Mingfei's relic, he ——————————

and many more.

[Relic is definitely correct.]

[Lu Mingze is definitely Lu Mingfei's relic.]

Is there any logic between these two sentences?
[Because Lu Mingze is Lu Mingfei's ghost, I subconsciously thought this way, but upon closer reflection, isn't there another possibility?]

Lu Mingfei's thoughts suddenly regressed, no longer staying in the present moment, but returning to a much more distant past.

King, Constantine, Old Tang, Adam Hammer, Arasaka Tower, David Martinez, the Vortex Gang, the Cleaner. Time is rewinding, endlessly, endlessly, until his intuition tells him the answer.

That [moment].

Lu Mingfei reached into the envelope and his fingertips touched a square chip and a round pocket watch.

The former is an empty shell [information chip]. Lu Mingfei had already read its contents in the previous week. It was probably the address of the prosthesis mentioned in the letter and the passcode.

And the other piece.
Lu Mingfei looked at the pocket watch in his hand. The case was entirely pinkish-gold, and the engraved patterns resembled a half-withered, ancient tree.

—This pocket watch is not moving.

The current time is 2.15: in the morning in Night City, but the pocket watch is stuck at :, and the second hand shows no signs of moving.

2.15.
It's only one day different from Lu Mingfei's birthday—February 2.14th.

At that time, Lu Mingfei originally thought that it was just a reminder to him.

but.
But
What if that's what it means literally?

Is February 2.15th actually Lu Mingfei's birthday?
Then scroll back through the information.

[Angers made the following statement regarding the Constantine affair.]

[—When your parents got married, everyone advised against it, saying that it was impossible for an S-class couple to have a healthy baby. Fortunately, they made the right bet.]

[Guderian said this when Lu Mingfei enrolled.]

Because they both possess S-class bloodlines, their offspring is almost certainly Deadpool. After Jovie became pregnant, the two insisted on having the child. In a room filled with TNT, Lu Lincheng personally delivered the baby, a boy named Lu Mingfei. After examination, it was discovered that the boy was not Deadpool, but a hybrid with the same S-class bloodline as his parents.

This is not a hypothesis, but a 'speculation' based on existing intelligence.

The reason people are trying to dissuade them is not because of the 'great risk,' but because of the 'impossible.'

Logically, it's impossible for children of S-class rank to be born normally; this is a mathematical and biological issue.

Lu Mingfei's appearance proved this wrong.

But if...

There were no mistakes in either mathematics or biology.

The professors in Kassel did not make any mistakes either.

Human experience to date has not been wrong.

Did Lu Mingfei really not have a smooth birth?

—Lu Lincheng and Qiao Weini are different from a certain mixed-race family in Kassel that possesses important technologies.

—Even knowing that they might give birth to Deadpool, Lu Lincheng and Qiao Weini still insisted on having Lu Mingfei.

—A natural brain-computer interface, bionic skin.

—Lu Mingze was once controlled by some force.

Logically speaking, the most reasonable answer is that Lu Mingfei was born from the blood of two S-class individuals.
Then, he died.

An impossible baby.

A dead infant?

A Deadpool in a biological sense.

However, he used some kind of technology to repair his physical body and then attached some kind of consciousness to it.
[Relic technology! Protecting your soul!]

[[Ottkening] is a genius hacker second only to Barthes, and perhaps even on par with him. She is beyond being described as legendary or extraordinary; she has indeed proven herself by replicating the formula for 'the existence and digitization of the soul'.]]

That kind of thing is completely fake. All that talk about protecting souls is essentially just soul replication, which is then used to kill those you want to kill, achieving immortality!

Correct.

From the very beginning, relic technology was a tool used by the 'dead' to bring themselves back to life.

It is a drug for achieving immortality.

Is Lu Mingze Lu Mingfei's relic?

wrong
That's the opposite.

Why does Lu Mingfei possess a bloodline that surpasses the limits of normal mixed-race individuals?
Why does Lu Mingfei have Lu Mingze, this electronic ghost, attached to him?
Why did Lu Mingfei trust Lu Mingze so readily?
Why does Lu Mingze call Lu Mingfei "brother"?

There is only one answer.
His pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints, the whites of his eyes became bloodshot from excessive dilation, and his jawbone emitted a faint, frequent tremor.

February 2.14th was the day Lu Mingfei was born, but it was also the day he died.

And February 2.15th.
"...I am the one."

His facial muscles twitched uncontrollably, revealing bluish-purple veins beneath his pale skin. His Adam's apple bobbed up and down but he couldn't make a sound. His fingertips dug deeply into his palms, and drops of blood seeping from under his nails mixed with cold sweat, spreading into dark red patches on his trouser legs.

"I am someone who died on February 14, 1992, and on the 15th, I used Relic technology to overwrite the consciousness of a human with 'a quantity of materials equivalent to a Dragon King'?"

"Am I the Relic?"

[Click]

next moment.

The dream made a shattering sound.

(End of this chapter)