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

Chapter 190 Neo

Everyone probably had similar fantasies during their teenage years.

When I have too much homework, or when I feel wronged by other classmates, I always fantasize about being able to defeat the whole class by myself—mostly a side effect of watching Crows Zero.

Lu Mingfei had thought about it, but he hadn't.
I will actually put it into practice one day.

Snapped! !

The tables and chairs wobbled and crashed against the ground with a loud thud. A boy was struggling to steady himself on the swaying tables and chairs. Around him, countless Herzogs had empty, lifeless eyes and mechanical, twisted movements, like puppets pulled by invisible threads, their withered arms reaching out to him weakly yet desperately!
Unlike other NPCs, these toilet grandpas seem to be genuinely aggressive.

But
He's not as good as Lu Mingfei either.

"Don't blame me!"

Lu Mingfei, swaying on the desk, gritted his teeth and suddenly lifted his foot—

boom!
The immense force struck, heading straight for Lu Mingfei. Herzog was hit precisely, but unlike the others before him, he wasn't kicked away. Instead, he was thrown backward, knocking several people down, and then grabbed again using the recoil.

Upon seeing this, Lu Mingfei immediately jumped away. He nimbly stepped on the drooping heads as if stepping over dense reefs, and in a single leap, he lightly jumped from one desk to another.

In the cramped space, all that could be heard were the trembling of desks and chairs, and the sounds of Lu Mingfei jumping and landing.

Every now and then, a puppet would climb onto the heads of other puppets and pounce on them, but Lu Mingfei would easily throw them off like rags!
Puff, puff, puff.

The thrown dolls instantly transformed into a blanket covering their heads, and Lu Mingfei unceremoniously stomped on it! Sorry!
The bridge formed by his body opened a narrow path for his escape. He weaved through the chaotic classroom like a fish struggling in a raging storm, staggering towards the classroom door, and then sliding through the gap between people's heads and the door frame!
During this process, his clothes were torn to shreds, but he managed to reach the corridor.

But Herzog was already everywhere at the entrance.

The Herzogs surging from both sides meshed together like rusty gears, and Lu Mingfei almost suffered from trypophobia just looking at them, but his body still moved subconsciously.

The lone Lu Mingfei collided with the large group of Herzogs and was instantly swallowed up.

But the next moment——

Snapped!
As his left elbow shattered one Herzog's jaw, his right knee shot up and rammed into the face of the other Herzog, the cracking sound of breaking cartilage as crisp as snapping a bundle of chopsticks.

Twist your waist, lower your shoulders, and use your hips to push against the opponent's lower abdomen against the wall. As you feel the reaction force, rotate your body and use your free right arm to knock the two apart.

The fierce wind behind him ruffled his hair. The moment Herzog's clone's fingers grabbed his left shoulder, Lu Mingfei suddenly ducked and spun around!

Using the momentum of the opponent's forward lunge, his hands blurred in the air, instantly forming a grappling hook.

With a snap, the broken body used as a shield to crash into the enemy. When the two twisted faces collided, bloody front teeth burst out. Lu Mingfei let out a battle roar and, with Herzog in his arms, pushed aside a bunch of Herzogs and charged forward like a bull!
Herzog took off one after another, scattering in the air like kapok flowers falling in season!
Pigs are advancing in leaps and bounds, pigs are advancing in leaps and bounds!
Almost instinctively, Lu Mingfei's body naturally embodied the concept of physical techniques.

Before his strength was exhausted, Lu Mingfei forged a path.

But it was just as he kicked Herzog so hard that his head was bent at an obtuse angle that Lu Mingfei's mental path finally began to become clear.

It was the route map that Murphy sent to Lu Mingfei. The entire Shilan Middle School was successfully modeled, with Lu Mingfei as one of only two green dots in the entire area. Apart from him, everything else was red!
The escape routes were also marked out.

Exports are...
[Class 4, Grade 2, Shilan Middle School]

"Isn't this my classroom?!"

[It's like being far away but right in front of you~]

"I just came down from the upper floors!"

[So, your so-called "taking the long way" is your shortcut? Little rabbit, haven't you ever played Fire and Ice Man? If you hadn't attracted the attention of those virus-killing bugs, you wouldn't have been able to pass the level.]

"But I've never seen anything like an exit there!"

No, no, no~ Now that you've activated your current 'perspective,' what you see will be different. This time it will be different, trust me~

Murphy's lively words kept appearing, and Lu Mingfei could only believe it.

However, since I jumped down, if I want to go back, I have to find a way to get around this dense cluster of red dots.

Thanks to that MOSS, apart from Herzog antivirus software, no one here could actually track Lu Mingfei, but even so, it wasn't easy to get up there.

what to do.
【win~~————】

The route map generated by Murphy still pointed Lu Mingfei to the right path, but it led to a dead end at the edge of the corridor.

Are you trying to make me jump off a building?!
But Lu Mingfei glanced at it, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly ran in that direction.

A classic parkour move: a monkey leap over an obstacle, then suddenly stepping onto the edge of the passageway before Herzog catches up!

With a single-leg push, the body rotates around the spine, and just as the person is about to be thrown out, the foot hooks and kicks the edge with a 'diving' motion, causing the body to surge upwards!
Snapped.

In an instant, Lu Mingfei was suspended in mid-air, without any support.

But just as his speed was about to drop to zero under the influence of gravity—

"Brother!"

A knotted curtain was suddenly flung at him!
On the other side of the curtains, directly above the aisle, Chu Zihang was leaning half his body out of the window.

[The entire Shilan High School was successfully modeled, with Lu Mingfei being one of only two green dots; everything else was surprisingly red!]

Yes, they are the only two.

Lu Mingfei knew that he could trust Chu Zihang at this time!

Knowing Lu Mingfei's unique characteristics, Chu Zihang was not controlled. Instead, he spontaneously helped Lu Mingfei. With Murphy's hacking, he prepared a knot in advance and came here to wait.

Lu Mingfei grabbed the end of the curtain, and in the instant Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei exerted force together, he was lifted up.

Snapped.

Lu Mingfei landed rather awkwardly, quickly regaining his balance, but due to the urgency of the situation, he couldn't talk to Chu Zihang for long.

"Brother!"

"I know, go quickly."

Chu Zihang remained expressionless. Even though he deduced from the current situation that he was probably just an electronic signal, a virtual image, he still remained calm and was willing to help Lu Mingfei.

"Go do what you're supposed to do."

He pushed Lu Mingfei in the back, then immediately turned his back to Lu Mingfei and ran in the completely opposite direction.

He had to single-handedly stop the massive wave of 'Herzog' that seemed to appear out of nowhere in front of him.

The red and green light spots collided and instantly engulfed the latter, but Lu Mingfei kept his head down and kept running forward.

He now has things he must do—

They quickly analyzed feasible routes.

The red dots rapidly approached Lu Mingfei, seemingly because they had discerned his intentions from his movements—no, it was because they realized they couldn't capture Lu Mingfei, so they simply returned to the 'danger zone' to begin their escort?!
With no way to avoid it, Lu Mingfei had no choice but to grit his teeth and charge forward.

Then he ducked down, stretched out his leg to brake—and stopped right at the classroom door!
Seamless connection.

The dolls in the class began to attack Lu Mingfei. Lu Mingfei did not hold back. He punched Zhao Menghua, who rushed at him first, and knocked him down on the spot. Then he easily bypassed several people and threw them backward to block Herzog who were rushing towards him.

"Mingfei!"

Most people were no match for him, but Lu Mingfei subconsciously went easy on acquaintances like Su Xiaoqiang because of their appearance.

The most troublesome one is this guy.

Looking at Chen Wenwen, who was almost crying, with red eyes and her lips tightly clenched as she stared at him, Lu Mingfei felt as if his head was about to split in two.

"Obviously not obvious!!"

Moreover, her movements were frighteningly fast. Although she was originally behind the crowd, she managed to approach Lu Mingfei at a speed so fast that she left afterimages, almost like a survival horror game.

"Ughhh!!" Lu Mingfei screamed, but Chen Wenwen still managed to grab him.

At the same time, he understood.

What about The Truman Show?

What cyberpunk?

What future?

What AI? How could I not know what's going on in this situation?

The male protagonist who doubts reality

[A hacker who talks to himself on his computer]

[And the 'one' in that diary]

That's not some Japanese manga artist, it means "the one".

Reversing the letter 'one' creates Neo.

He's the male lead from The Matrix!

In the movie, the protagonist learns the truth by 'following the rabbit.'

—For this orientation event, it seems that our literature society was responsible for providing the script to the drama club, and I was even invited to act in the story of Alice in Wonderland.

These are some of the things Chen Wenwen said.

She played the rabbit who guides the protagonist in Alice in Wonderland.

Subconsciously, she was unwilling to break free from Chen Wenwen's habitual way of thinking.

It turns out the answer had always been right beside me; I had simply gone through a long and winding road to find it.

Because he guessed that even if his memories were altered, he would still remember the movie "The Matrix," was it because his past self gave him this roundabout hint?
wrong.

and many more.

I would never beat around the bush like that, using a method that's more like "giving the answer in advance, but never letting that answer guide the player correctly. Instead, I want the player to realize the truth at the last minute, and then I'll laugh at the player from the game developer's perspective."

Moreover, even if it were my future self, it wouldn't be possible to conclude so quickly that 'The Matrix' is someone else?

This kind of perverse sense of humor.

This ability to foresee the future.

Was there something in this space of memory that I hadn't yet recalled reminding me of something?
An existence I can never forget.

That is
【elder brother.】

The afternoon sunlight blurred the edges of the glass, and as the white gauze curtains were lifted by the wind, a boy in a dark suit leaned against the dark wooden window frame.

His left shoulder was bathed in warm golden light, while his right side was shrouded in the shadows of the classroom, his porcelain-white skin gleaming with a pearly sheen at the boundary between light and shadow.

With his back to the light and shadow, he leaned back slightly and waved to Lu Mingfei.

"You won again. I don't even want to count how many times I've lost to you~"

It's an illusion.

The moment his memories returned, Lu Mingfei's first thought was—

This was the brightest smile he had ever seen since he met Lu Mingze.

He fell backward, but just as he was about to fall, he suddenly grabbed a rope hidden behind him. Then the whooshing sound of helicopter rotors filled the entire classroom.

【Murphy】silently indicated to itself a forward green arrow.

jump, neo.

Lu Mingfei had heard of a theory.

If the protagonist travels back in time, especially if they suddenly return to the three-dimensional world in isekai anime, there must be a special purpose behind it.

For example, it tests whether the protagonist has the will to break through the dream and return to reality.

So does Lu Mingfei have that kind of thing?

Answer: Nonsense.

Lu Mingfei is that brat. He has no courage, no ideals, and no matter what, he just pretends to be mature, but in essence, he is still a brat who thinks, "I want it, I want it, I want it all."

So when he was questioned about why he rejected the dream, he simply answered with 'intuition'.

But now, it seems there's a clue.

By stabilizing his memory with Chu Zihang and obtaining the answer through Caesar's reminder, Lu Mingfei finally understood what he had been unwilling to let go of the moment he saw his brain-computer interface.

Just as Caesar said.

Since you're from the future and there's a sense of 'incongruity,' the first step is naturally to confirm whether 'this world exists—something that only your future self feels you recognize, but your present memories don't recognize at all.'

I am from the future.

Therefore, this dream contains something that 'one should have'.

Lu Mingfei didn't reject the dream because he didn't want to be the kind of person who coveted other people's girlfriends—oh no, he really didn't want to be! He was the God of Pure Love!

But more importantly, something that should have belonged to Lu Mingfei was also taken away.

What is it that you can't let go of?

That's not okay.

Children want both.

so.
That cyberpunk experience was good too.

Lu Mingze is also good.

None of these are things I can give up.

Ignoring those who want to embrace the beauty of the past is really—

"Too small."

Lu Mingfei pushed Chen Wenwen away with one hand, and then started running.

The moment his memories returned, he was enveloped by an electric current that didn't belong to this 'worldview'.

The tip of the current itself burst open the bluish-white thorns, and the electric arc clung to the back of the neck, bursting open a dense network of light.

The golden pupils were illuminated, as if they had been melted into liquid metal.

(Come to think of it, this is pretty much what I once dreamed of.)
Ricardo, we're running out of time. Do we still want to participate in the activity?

(Someone said this, and I put on the black trench coat amidst the astonished gazes of all my classmates.)
As my feet stepped over the desks, tiny specks of light kept falling from the edges of my trousers, like sparks from a blacksmith's hammer, scorching the ground and my classmates' faces.

(Then! Saying goodbye to the classmates by helicopter ——————)
As the action continued, Lu Mingfei's Shilan Middle School uniform gradually 'dissolved', transforming into a very smart black trench coat, which was the signature of mercenary L.

And at that moment, the faces of those puppets showed expressions of surprise, their mouths agape and their eyes wide open.

【Bang!!!!】

With the final tremor, Lu Mingfei leaped out of the window, shattered the glass, and sped forward!
He was at Shilan Middle School.

He was outside the classroom.

He was wearing his school uniform.

He was wearing a trench coat.

He has everything.

And from this moment on, he is about to fight for everything.

As their figures intertwined, Lu Mingfei reached out to Lu Mingze.

Snapped.

Hold tight.

(End of this chapter)