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

Chapter 278 Lu Mingze

Lu Mingfei offered a guess, but Lu Lincheng neither confirmed nor denied it.

“Although it might sound a bit boastful, my parents are practically scientists themselves, so we can’t give you a definitive answer,” Lu Lincheng said. “Based on the information we have so far, this is the answer—that’s all I can tell you.”

"So now, Mingfei, you understand, right?"

"Lu Mingze is the consciousness of the Black King after its evolution. Based on this assumption, we need to further explore the question: what exactly is the [Black King Egg]?"

"Scientists in this city have put forward a hypothesis."

"We believe that the Black King is fundamentally different from other dragons."

Lu Lincheng pushed up his glasses and murmured, "The Secret Party has also given some basic education to the students in Kassel College, right? The dragons below the second generation all have a clear mother and father, which means that the dragons below the second generation are similar to humans and have a clear social structure."

“The first generation is different. They are monarchs directly split from the Black King, so they are different from the reproductive perspective. We tend to think that the four monarchs are all similar to ‘elemental spirits’. Therefore, only the first generation showed a clear tendency to ‘become human’ because they were not dragons in the strict sense from the beginning, but rather a kind of existence close to a natural phenomenon.”

Lu Mingfei recalled Old Tang and Jormungandr; indeed, the two were fundamentally different from the other dragons.

At that moment, Lu Lincheng stared at Lu Mingfei, his eyes filled with scrutiny and expectation, "So the question is—where is the Black King?"

The Black King is something that humans cannot study at all; in fact, it is not even recorded.

All people know is that if the first generation of beings can gorge on their own kind, they can become great elementalists, control a quarter of the world, and destroy the human world.

But thinking about it carefully, Black King was the one who gave away four quarters of his share.

Therefore, if he is resurrected, he will surpass any dragon and control all elements in the world, including concepts such as time and space.

Such beings are less like elemental spirits and more like elements themselves.

If the first generation of species is close to a natural phenomenon, then the Black King itself is a natural phenomenon.

The Black King is this planet.

“The Black King is a planet-level life form—this conclusion is easy to draw.” Lu Lincheng also explained in a timely manner, “While it took the first generation of species a thousand years to exhibit humanity, we believe that the Black King will need an even longer time to complete its 'molting'.”

"Shedding skin?" Lu Mingfei murmured.

“Yes, the process of a dragon evolving into a human is called ‘molting.’” Lu Lincheng said firmly. “During molting, a creature enters its most vulnerable period, and the same is true for the dragon race. They are tormented by both human nature and the nature of the dragon race, and cannot decide their own position. The dragon race, which is already weak in spirit, is at its weakest at this time—even the Dragon King can be killed by us.”

"Lu Mingze is such a person."

Here comes the crucial point: Lu Mingfei's heart pounded like thunder.

"We have conducted two operations in history to capture the Black King's human form, [Lu Mingze]," Lu Lincheng said woodenly, as if reciting lines. "Both times were during his [molting] period, when he was at his weakest. We mobilized a large group of super S-class hybrids and used the composite [Rhine] as our trump card to launch a suicide attack."

Even the Dragon King cannot directly confront [Rhine] head-on; this is common sense. Although the Rhine's blast radius is not as wide as imagined, its core destructive power surpasses that of a nuclear bomb's blast center. More importantly, the essence of Rhine is [the chain-like decomposition and destruction of elements], which is inherently advantageous against dragons composed of elements.

The Black King might be able to withstand a nuclear bomb, but he would be severely injured by the Rhine.

Lu Mingze was captured at a certain point in history—according to Lu Mingfei's speculation, it might be the Tunguska event that occurred in the early 20th century in the Tunguska River region of Siberia, Russia.

The 1908 explosion, according to later estimates, was equivalent to 1500-2000 million tons of TNT, or the power of 2000 atomic bombs. It destroyed 2000 square kilometers of coniferous forest in the region, felling approximately 8 million trees, making it one of the most terrifying disasters in human history.

This timeline coincides precisely with the construction of Black Swan Harbor, and arguably, it's remarkably close to several world wars in human history, making it hard not to speculate. Could these world wars have also stemmed from conflicts of interest arising from the observation of dragons' existence?
Leaving that aside for now—Lu Mingze's second appearance was also due to Rhine.

The elite forces of Perfect City mobilized to capture Zero, Lu Mingze, who had escaped from Black Swan Harbor—and was also the Black King himself. Because of Zero's presence, they successfully forced Lu Mingze to be arrested in order to protect him.

So, that is to say—

Lu Mingze is now in their hands.

After a brief silence, Lu Lincheng spoke.

"I'll take you to see him."

The Perfect City is filled with high technology and a futuristic feel, but in the end, it is also a city built on the dragon race. Beneath its high-tech exterior, there are mysterious alchemical matrices and laboratories designed for dragons that are dazzling to the eye.

Lu Mingfei opened the door to alchemy because of Lu Mingze, but he was only a direct beneficiary and did not understand the principles behind it. He simply followed Lu Lincheng into the depths of the city, unaware of the meaning represented by the strokes around him.

Suddenly.

The world before my eyes suddenly twisted and deformed, and the shadows cast by my body disappeared as if erased by an eraser.

Lu Mingfei stood in this suddenly appearing space, with mercury overflowing from the soles of his shoes beneath his feet—it was spilling out of a huge circular pool in front of him, slithering around like a restless venomous snake.

The mercury in the pool was bubbling and making a faint hissing sound.

This reminded Lu Mingfei of his alchemy class taught by his mentor, Flamel, who had mentioned that mercury was the favorite medium of ancient alchemists. But this was practically a replica of the entire Mercury River!
The cities under the Dragon King's control were indeed so extravagantly designed that they made one's legs weak.

(There are probably only a few things imprisoned within an alchemical matrix of this size.)

Lu Mingfei didn't think any further, but his body had already removed the aura concealment.

Boom——

Four bronze pillars slowly rose from the mercury pool, their surface patterns gleaming eerily as the mercury flowed over them. Lu Mingfei had seen these [Ice Sea Bronze Pillars] on the plateau before, but now they dragged chains, suspending pale humanoid figures.

When the mercury slid down the man's face
Lu Mingfei stopped breathing.

That childlike face.
(Are you kidding me?)

The chains rattled with a sickening sound, but the person hanging there kept his head down, his androgynous face now deathly pale.

Lu Mingfei ignored Lu Lincheng, who was operating the equipment and looking at him with a scrutinizing gaze.

He simply watched quietly, silently observing the suspended human figure.

The sound seemed particularly ridiculous in the empty alchemical matrix.

"This really does look terrible in the light."

My dear younger brother

(End of this chapter)