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

Chapter 243 North American Hybrids

In North America, in the cyberpunk world, this area is the territory of military technology companies.

This company should have entered the historical stage long ago, accumulating wealth, developing technology, and expanding its scale as the war between humans and dragons began.

However, after Lu Mingfei traveled back in time, he could not find any relevant information.

Now it seems that, as Fingel said, in this world, "military technology" is still just a design concept, not an actual company.

However, in terms of technology, research and development had already begun long ago.

Fingel then went on to reveal the true nature of "military technology" to Lu Mingfei.

That was a group led by the North American mixed-race Henkel, which united 70 percent of the mixed-race nobles on that continent. In terms of combat reserves, the number of available armed personnel was even comparable to that of the Executive Bureau.

Henkel himself was a mixed-race individual who was as famous as Angers in his early years. However, he has spent most of his time developing his power and has not continued to travel around the world to make a name for himself like Angers, so he has gradually been forgotten by history.

Fingel himself is also an important fighting force there, and his true abilities are far greater than what he has shown so far.

The reason they cared so much about Lu Mingfei was because of the mixed-race people from their side.

—It is worth mentioning here that there exists a kind of power of words called "Prophet" among hybrids.

Those who possess this power of words are mostly historically famous precognizers who can observe the future in ways whose principles are unknown.

Therefore, they were able to know that the "singularity" in this world was a boy named Lu Mingfei.

In any future, he is the key to saving the world.

It was only then that Lu Mingfei remembered that there seemed to be an Indian classmate in his grade who also possessed this power of words, so he often struck up conversations with him. But unfortunately, Lu Mingfei was too busy to have a serious chat with him.

However, it's practically impossible for a prophet to see a clear future or the causes and consequences, so asking them is pointless.

In short, after learning of Lu Mingfei's existence, the North American side appointed Finger, who was originally a student in Kassel, as a 'spy' to protect Lu Mingfei at all times and to roughly observe what kind of person he was.

For Fingel, a true internet expert, it's easy to draw a conclusion about what kind of person someone is.

A lonely, dead child.

Until high school, Lu Mingfei was still a kid who never grew up. Such a person was so weak that it was pitiful. Fingel was not a pushover, but when he saw this little white rabbit, he couldn't help but lend a hand.

There was no way around it; he was just too desperate for help.

But at some point, everything changed.

When Lu Mingfei reappeared in his sight, he had become a capable and experienced man, much like a seasoned mercenary.

But where does he find the time to grow up? Everything about him from birth to the present has been recorded electronically.

The only answer is
“relic”.

Fingel looked at Lu Mingfei and said.

“We also have some understanding of this technology. It once appeared in the dark side of hybrids, as something akin to an urban legend. But I later found some clues and confirmed that such a thing did indeed exist.”

“I also found out about Herzog and Black Swan Port, but when we went to investigate, we found that it had been completely destroyed.”

“We originally thought that Relic technology had been completely destroyed, but what we saw led us to two conjectures: one, you were recently used by Relic, and the current Lu Mingfei is not Lu Mingfei, but [someone else].

This is the most reasonable guess, even Lu Mingfei himself nodded in agreement.

but--

"But I went to pick you up in person and then ruled out that possibility."

Fingel stuck his head out of the upper bunk, gripping the railing with both hands, his upper body 'hanging' down, his long gray hair drooping down, and he grinned to reveal two rows of big white teeth.

"After all, I've followed your life online for over a decade and know what kind of person you are. When I first saw you, I thought, 'This is definitely not Lu Mingfei, but it is indeed Lu Mingfei.'"

"That's really convoluted."

Lu Mingfei responded with a wry smile.

"Yes, but all in all, I don't think it was 'other people'."

"So I made an assumption."

Fingel's eyes darted around. "Actually, there's more to this than that. Since we're so focused on investigating Lu Mingfei, our first target is you, and our second target is naturally your parents."

coming.

Lu Mingfei listened attentively.

“I think you’ve probably also vaguely realized that your parents aren’t students in the conventional sense in Kassel. They’ve been to Kassel and even served as acting teaching assistants, but they weren’t students or teachers.”

"We couldn't find out exactly what forces were involved in training them; it was as if they appeared out of thin air and then disappeared just as suddenly. But the region should be Europe."

"Around that time, news about [relic] among mixed-race individuals became popular—its origin was also Europe."

“We suspect that your parents implanted a relic at the time of your birth, and that the concept of [Lu Mingfei] may be a person preserved in the past.”

Lu Mingfei clenched his fist, thinking to himself, "That's exactly what I was thinking."

"If that's the case, it means that the real Lu Mingfei goes back even further. So far, are there any points to refute?"

“No.” Lu Mingfei was silent for a moment. Although Fingel’s derivation was slightly off-track, the conclusion was surprisingly correct.

As for the fact that I was able to travel to the cyberpunk world, it's inexplicable and meaningless.

"In short, I can also vaguely sense what you are looking for."

Fingel said, "We all know that in today's world, we are more afraid of the internal strife that will follow the resolution of the dragons than of the dragons themselves. I can't guarantee that the North American organization won't fight for this right, but at least I can assure you that [Han Gao] is a person similar to Angers."

"North America has no intention of being your enemy, therefore—my existence is merely a security measure that allows us to potentially become allies in the future."

Fingel awkwardly reached out to Lu Mingfei, “Han Gao really wants to gamble that Angers can’t control the board of directors and other European forces. In his own words, it’s like this: ‘When that time comes, you’ll be ours.’”

".Um."

Lu Mingfei leaned forward and shook hands with Fingel.

He knows it himself.

Military technology in the future is roughly on par with Arasaka's, but neither of them has the right to access the true nature of the Crystal Palace.

However, the conversation with Fingel was still meaningful.

At least we learned about the other party's position and gained access to resources from North America.

If a Dragon King appears in that jurisdiction, I should have a chance to make contact with him in advance.

Delay, continuously delay the arrival of the 'cyberpunk' era.

at the same time--

"So, what are your plans next?"

Seeing that Lu Mingfei had agreed to his request, Fingel grinned and said, "Our workaholic must already have a plan for the next step, right? I saw it; you bought a plane ticket before you even got back to Kassel, didn't you?"

"Don't peek at my flight information."

Lu Mingfei sighed.

Indeed.

You are about to enter the next side quest.

Fuzhou, 2004.

I want to go to the place where [Existence X] clearly influenced history.

They reunited with Chu Zihang and found his trail.

Before that, he needed to find another 'source of information' different from Fingel's.

The woman I met unexpectedly during that trip to Japan.

King of the earth and mountains.

He calls himself Jermungandr, the one who calls himself Xia Mi.

(End of this chapter)