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

Chapter 178 Betrayer

"What does it mean?"

Jack immediately raised his hand. He was flustered, but more than that, he felt wronged. He could tell that the people who were pointing guns at him were people he usually got along well with. It felt terrible to have a friend pointing a gun at you.

Lu Mingfei's expression didn't change much, not because it was expected, but because he was confident in his own strength.

These weapons were useless against him, and Roger knew that, so it was all just a deterrent.

"Put down your gun, Roger. Just say what you have to say. There's no need for this."

Ignoring the gun barrel, Lu Mingfei sat down and invited Jack to sit down with him.

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Seeing this, Roger clicked his tongue, shook his hand, and the surrounding mercenaries lowered their guns and gave Jack an apologetic look.

“What’s going on now?” Jack dismissed the acquaintances and immediately approached Lu Mingfei. “Why did Roger point his gun at us? And I have this nagging thought. Johnny keeps telling me to switch bodies so he can negotiate with Roger.”

“Tell him to behave. You know how impulsive that guy is. If Johnny uses your body to pounce on Roger and force a kiss, we'll end up fighting even if we weren't going to.

Jack glanced at Roger's still-attractive face, shuddered, and immediately started a mental meeting with Johnny.

Lu Mingfei continued his conversation with Roger.

He knew that Roger must have a lot of resentment towards him.

First, there's the current situation. Lu Mingfei has clearly provoked Arasaka Company. Regardless of the truth, as long as the news reports it this way, Lu Mingfei will inevitably become a troublemaker.

Lu Mingfei dared to swagger into Laisheng to drink, which was obviously a provocation to Roger's authority. She had to make a show of it to maintain her prestige.

Besides that, do you remember how all of this started?

"You're quite capable, bypassing me to take on tasks from the company. What, are you planning to go solo?" Roger took a sip of his drink and sneered. "Or have you become a legend now and feel there's no need to go through the middleman anymore? You want to go independent and even kick over Night City's traditions?"

Lu Mingfei knew that Roger was referring to what had happened before.

Before traveling back to the Dragon World, Rogge told Lu Mingfei about Arasaka Yoriyuki and the Relic technology he had stolen.

Lu Mingfei initially said he wouldn't take the job for the time being, but then he turned around and collaborated with Arasaka Yorinobu himself.

This incident, involving bypassing intermediaries and directly cooperating with the opposing party, was a major blow to Rogge.

Lu Mingfei did nothing wrong, but it wasn't exactly ethical.

Normally, that's how it is.
"But Roger, you know why I did this, right?"

".What do you mean."

Roger frowned; she suddenly had a bad feeling.

And soon, her premonition would come true.

"Don't you know at all why I wouldn't dare ask you to act as an intermediary for a company mission related to Arasaka?"

"!!"

The atmosphere suddenly turned cold. Roger looked at Lu Mingfei with a somewhat gloomy expression.

"L, what do you mean?"

Lu Mingfei's expression remained unchanged. "The Arasaka Tower bombing incident 23 years ago caused the Arasaka Company's reputation to plummet and its credibility to be severely damaged, which dealt a real blow to it. Because of this incident, the mercenaries who participated in the operation became heroes and legends."

"But in the legend, you are the only one who survived."

Rogge:
Roger remained silent, but the faces of her henchmen turned completely dark. However, the person who spoke was Lu Mingfei, the current legend, and they dared not, nor could they, raise their guns.

Moreover.

Who hasn't thought about this question?

"Why, Roger, after all these years, hasn't anyone asked this question—?"

Intentionally, the tone of the sound is drawn out.

"The Arasaka Corporation dealt with everyone else, but why did they spare you, Roger?"

“Night City has no living legends.” Lu Mingfei waved his hand. “Why is it that everyone subconsciously ignored you, Rogge, who was involved in the Arasaka Tower demolition incident?”

"Why is the title of Queen in the Afterlife so much greater than your title of 'Living Legend'?"

"Is it because people don't actually recognize you as a legend, because of you..." "Enough! L!"

Finally, unable to bear it any longer, he aimed the gun he had lowered at Lu Mingfei again. The black iron net surrounded him, bullets crisscrossed, and the red dot for aiming flickered on Lu Mingfei's face.

The area suddenly became a storm zone, with a chilling atmosphere filling every crevices. Jack was speechless and motionless. In his vision, even the annoying rock musician had suddenly fallen silent.

Johnny Silverhand's existence in Jack's eyes was like Lu Mingze's presence in Lu Mingfei's vision—a lingering influence like an electronic ghost.

He always appears on one side of my field of vision, then crosses his legs and speaks cynical remarks and various Tibetan phrases that never repeat themselves.

Johnny was sarcastic the whole time when he came into the bar, until he met Roger. He was quiet for a while, then started clamoring to switch bodies again.

Johnny only fell silent after Lu Mingfei said those words.

He was wearing sunglasses, but even the large, dark glasses couldn't hide the man's handsome face. He sat calmly beside Roger, gazing at the woman.

There is no hatred.

No questioning.

Just calm.

The deathly silence was completely different from when I first saw it.

Lu Mingfei and Luo Ge, the two in the eye of the storm, also did not respond to each other immediately.

After a chillingly long time, Roger finally spoke.

“This isn’t something you’d think about.” Roger pulled a cigarette case from his jacket pocket and deftly pulled one out. “I was wondering why you didn’t bring your little sister in. That last line was what that bitch named V told you to say, wasn’t it?”

Lu Mingfei: "."

Lu Mingfei tacitly agreed.

He was never supposed to be a strategist.

V had already shown suspicion about Rogge back when Lai Xuan first mentioned the middleman.

"She's not the only one who's tricked me. She's such an annoying girl."

Roger lit a cigarette, inhaled, and exhaled a long smoke ring. "Think what you want to know, but you didn't come here to provoke me, did you?"

"I'm here to talk to you about Relic."

"You got your hands on that thing?"

Roger's eyes flickered. "Congratulations. It's a pity you only have the finished product. But even so, giving it to military technology companies would be enough to keep you safe for life."

"Aren't you curious about whose soul imprint I got my hands on?"

"Is this related to what we were just discussing?"

"Ah."

Lu Mingfei and Jack looked at each other.

The latter nodded.

When he opened his eyes again
"Long time no see, or should I say it's our first meeting, like in 2015?"

the same person.

The same face.

But Jack's subtle changes in body language made Roger feel as if he had stepped beyond the illusory body and seen a deeper soul.

She trembled all over.

"Boss?"

"You guys go out first."