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

Chapter 183 Resistance
I crossed.

It took Lu Mingfei about fifteen minutes to go from trying to doubt reality to confirming it.

In the first minute, he slipped away from the crowd of his classmates, went to the restroom, and locked himself in.

From the second to the fifth minute, he tried to calm down, to recall, and to recognize the true nature of the 'incongruity'.

fail.

His memories are filled with his sweet love with Chen Wenwen, and the more he recalls them, the more those memories accumulate.

Driven by a nameless fear, Lu Mingfei stopped recalling. Instead, from the sixth to the tenth minute, he slightly detoured around the area where his classmates were gathered and went to the teachers' office—to avoid being found by the other students.

After getting the draft paper and pen, Lu Mingfei found a corner, sat down cross-legged, and quickly completed the confirmation of reality within five minutes.

I've traveled through time.

The reason for this theory is the 'contradictory nature of memory'.

Lu Mingfei's memories at this moment are very disjointed and incongruous. He instinctively feels panicked about his current situation, but when he tries to recall, logically coherent 'past memories' help him fill in the gaps.

For example, he could recall his past with Chen Wenwen. He could even remember their first meeting, their first attempt to strike up a conversation, his successful request to date her, and even the details of their dates. Chen Wenwen was huddled in the deepest part of the reading room, her white cotton dress casting shadows on the hem. The sunlight just stopped on her fingertips, making her small pink nails look slightly red.

Lu Mingfei stopped reminiscing and instead began recording.

The human brain can deceive itself, without a doubt, but 'reality' cannot.

In a state of near-blankness, he suddenly and without warning wrote down several nouns. He didn't know who was controlling his body, but words did indeed appear on Lu Mingfei's paper.

【Arasaka】

【Ottercanin】

【ai】

【one】

[Black Wall]

【Dream】

【Mirror】

Mercenary L

It's all fragmented and I can't make sense of it.

The world keeps trying to make Lu Mingfei admit his mistakes, but Lu Mingfei is an oddball; he believes in himself more than the world does.

So he quickly found the flaw in the dream.

——————That means if Lu Mingfei hadn't traveled back from the future, he wouldn't have been able to analyze and dissect himself so cautiously and efficiently, because Lu Mingfei was an absolute idiot when he was in high school.

The entity that kept feeding Lu Mingfei 'memories' seemed to have crashed; he hadn't expected this way of refuting it.

Even if the memories he instilled in Lu Mingfei were embellished in countless ways, as long as he hadn't experienced cyberpunk and Night City, he would still be that cowardly, useless loser at heart.

This is an immutable fixed point.

Once it was confirmed that he had traveled through time, things became much easier.

Lu Mingfei spent some time tricking his teacher into giving him the information, and then checked it over. Hmm, his phone number was correct, but there was a problem: he couldn't find his uncle and aunt's phone numbers, and the phone numbers on the file were two numbers he had never seen before.

Forget it.

Lu Mingfei didn't care about any of that.

Inside the office, Lu Mingfei was still pondering his next move, ignoring the discussion among his teachers and senior students behind him.

"Ye Sheng, are you confident about this math competition?"

"Ah."

"Aki, have you settled into life here?"

"Um"

"I will help her!"

"I didn't tell you to speak, so don't flirt in front of me! You really have the nerve to hook up with an exchange student!"

"Ahem—Hey, isn't that Mingfei over there? What brings him back to the office? What a rare guest!"

Hearing the greeting, Lu Mingfei was forced to look at the other person.

One male and one female.

I don't recognize the person, but their name sounds familiar.

(Oh no, I can't think like that.)
Lu Mingfei shook his head. He had just had this feeling of 'not recognizing' someone when his memories started to fill in the gaps.

Ye Sheng and Jiu Deya are my seniors. They helped me a lot when I worked in the student council. They are a very capable couple and are well-known throughout the school.

"Hello, senior."

Lu Mingfei put on a smile, but his hand was writing down [Ye Sheng, Jiu Deya Ji - fake] behind his back, and then he made an excuse to leave.

As he stepped out of the office, he almost bumped into a figure.

“!!” Lu Mingfei looked at the other person, who was timid and pale, with a hint of malice.

The goal is yourself.

That face looks so familiar, it's—

"Zhao Menghua! Why are you glaring at Lu Mingfei?!"

The crowd helped Lu Mingfei supplement his 'intelligence'.

Zhao Menghua is the class's scapegoat. He has poor grades, likes to talk nonsense, his parents are often away and don't care about him, and he was a loser who once competed with Lu Mingfei for Chen Wenwen but failed.

Without hesitation, Lu Mingfei wrote "Fake" on the paper behind him.

But in the blink of an eye, he was surrounded by his classmates.

This time, memories flooded in for no apparent reason.

This is my friend, that is my friend, and that one over there is too, they are all friends.

In his own 'memory', Lu Mingfei seemed to be a very popular guy. He was good at sports, had good grades, got along well with everyone in his class, and had a clear future plan: to become a professional e-sports player after graduation.

Fake][Fake][Fake]

Based on a split-second intuition, Lu Mingfei sentenced all of them to death.

In fact, in Lu Mingfei's eyes, these extras were stripped of their facial features and were pushed away as if they were just moving puppets.

until--

"Mingfei."

His hand was being held.

Turning his head, he saw his 'girlfriend Chen Wenwen'.

Lu Mingfei also marked the other person as "fake," but when he saw that face, his fair face was filled with worry, his eyelashes drooped like extinguished candle wicks, and his lips were bitten into crescent moon marks as he stared straight at him.

An immense force swept over Lu Mingfei, seemingly preventing him from going against the 'role' on this stage.

Lu Mingfei stood still.

He suddenly remembered that he had made plans to have dinner with Chen Wenwen that evening.

He clearly wanted to refuse, but seeing the corners of her eyes reddening as if because of Lu Mingfei's unusual behavior, Lu Mingfei had no choice but to stop.

Is this the "rule" of this world?

Forget it.

Lu Mingfei slowed down his pace and then put on a smile.

"Sorry, something urgent just happened."

"Anyway, let's get out of here first."

Lu Mingfei led Chen Wenwen away by her delicate, boneless hand, leaving behind only the whistling and cheering behind them. He turned around to look.
Is it an illusion?

Even the faces of these passersby seem to have undergone subtle changes.

After school, the young couples always need to find a place to get together, so Lu Mingfei had no choice but to take Chen Wenwen to a family restaurant.

While ordering food, he also chatted with Chen Wenwen for a bit. This time, while remaining vigilant, he planned to memorize all the settings of 'this world'.

This strike truly terrified Lu Mingfei.

This version of myself in this world is simply outrageous.

He was the second most popular student at Shilan Secondary School, a second-generation rich kid, excelled in both academics and sports, had good interpersonal relationships, played basketball, and was a member of the student council.

He fell in love with Chen Wenwen when he entered high school and launched a fierce offensive. In less than half a year, he won over the literary fairy and the two entered a honeymoon period.

The two were famous throughout Shilan Middle School for their close relationship; they were inseparable, almost always together like conjoined twins. That's why his actions of shaking off Chen Wenwen, which weren't exactly rough, had hurt the sentimental Chen Wenwen.

Oh, it wasn't just because of that. She was also sad because Lu Mingfei was too popular. There were rumors that Lu Mingfei had an ambiguous relationship with another school beauty in Liu Miaomiao's class, which made Chen Wenwen very worried.

Am I that powerful? Did I awaken some kind of world modulation system?

Lu Mingfei sighed, dealing with Chen Wenwen in front of him, and thinking to himself that, in his current situation, besides investigating, he should at least find someone who wouldn't keep feeding him wrong information.

Uncle and aunt? Surely they haven't been romanticized too—wait, romanticized? From the moment I was just now until now, is my real self actually the opposite of my current situation?

Lu Mingfei secretly made notes on a piece of paper.

That appearance only fueled Chen Wenwen's suspicions. She clutched her white dress tightly, and just as she was about to say something—

[Ring ring ring]

The phone rang again.

Lu Mingfei sighed, annoyed by the trouble; he didn't want to cause too much trouble and trigger new memories.

But just as he was about to hang up the phone under the pretext of a 'date,' he saw the contact's name on the phone.

【Mother】

(End of this chapter)