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

Chapter 317: Changing the Heaven and the Sun
With the shift in the timeline, Lu Mingfei's actions became more swift and decisive.

He swiftly brought V along, and after confirming the equipment that might be needed for this mission, they went to the Laisheng Hotel to make a final check together.

"Hello, Mr. L, it seems you're sure you want to accept our mission."

Blue Eyes was already waiting in the private room. He spread his hands, looking as if he had expected it.

"Where is the 'helper' you mentioned?"

Lu Mingfei looked around but didn't see anyone.

"Or are you going to do it yourself?"

"Haha, please stop joking. If I had to categorize it, it would be the type that likes to stay in one place, and this body isn't very mobile either. You see, it's just like a typical corporate elite, isn't it?"

Mr. Blue Eyes waved his hands up and down, a smile spreading across his face.

"Your help is already behind you."

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Lu Mingfei was frowning, but the next moment, his expression changed.

At the same time, V also narrowed her eyes slightly and suddenly reached out to her right. Even though there was nothing there to the naked eye, she did not miss.

The palm is loosely clenched, and the five fingers are pulled inward with force, as if they have really grasped something, and a creaking sound comes from the palm.

【Holy crap!!】

A shrill female voice rang out.

Lively and cheerful, yet with a hint of anxious sharpness.

Something familiar.

Lu Mingfei tried to recall for a moment, and then said.

"Are you... the one who showed me the way from outside the black wall?"

Yes! Yes! Yes!

【You can call me Little Spider, Miss Spider, or Spider Lady, since I'm a little older than you. But right now, instead of thinking about that kind of thing, shouldn't you first ask your girlfriend to let me go? It hurts so much!!】

The playful goddess spoke incredibly fast, giving the impression that her brain was working very diligently. Lu Mingfei patted V's shoulder, signaling her to relax her hand.

V did as she was told. She didn’t actually know what she had grabbed. Her prosthetic eye couldn’t detect the other party’s presence. It was her bionic skin that gave her a perception that surpassed that of wild animals, so she grabbed it instinctively and pinched it with one hand.

Under immense pressure, the thing that should have been invisible finally revealed its true form.

Man as his name suggests.

It's a small spider.

This electronic spider is about the size of an adult's palm, and its entire body is a deep black with a frosted glass-like texture.

Its eight mechanical legs are slender and long, with fine seams visible at the joints, and they fold and extend slightly when moving. The round head is fitted with two glass-like compound eyes, and the abdomen is rounded, covered with neatly arranged hexagonal scale-like shells, each with an extremely fine silver edging.

cute.

Even V, who has a girlish, well, in short, female aesthetic, has to admit that the little spider in her hand has a rounded and cute overall shape, without any sharp edges, just like a kind of electronic doll with a somewhat retro aesthetic.

Is this a helper?
Hey! Beautiful lady, I see doubt in your expression! Perhaps you should show me a little more respect, then I might consider adding a zero to your payment.

"Ah!"

V laughed, and she said with great interest.

Do you know our quote, and what that extra zero means?

In the electronic world, an extra zero is just an extra zero; it doesn't mean anything. The spider raised half its body, making a preparatory gesture like a sumo wrestler kicking his leg, but it only looked cute and silly.

[I will be in charge of all the electronic hacking and route marking in this operation, as well as being the visual representative. You can mostly put me in your pockets, but be gentle with me.]

"Shall we discuss specific actions?"

Lu Mingfei then turned to ask the blue-eyed man.

"of course."

After saying that, the blue-eyed man spread out a roll of paper in the center of the room.

But after the four corners were flattened, the holographic projection naturally projected upwards, revealing the appearance of the top-shaped, bustling cosmic metropolis, the Crystal Palace.

When the blue-eyed person touches the fingertip, the Crystal Palace is drawn to it, and when the finger is slid to one side, the Crystal Palace begins to rotate.

“The Crystal Palace is a heavily guarded place, and in 99.999% of cases, we cannot break in.”

After he finished speaking, the entire Crystal Palace was marked with red stars, as if it were draped in a blood-red curtain.

"These are all self-defense weapons, with a chain structure. Once they are destroyed, hacked, or lost contact, the Crystal Palace will react within a short time, eliminating the weapon itself and imposing a state of martial law on the surrounding area."

"Do you remember that Arasaka Tower used Relic to register a large number of mercenary Deadpools as combat personnel? In Crystal Palace, such beings can be mass-produced completely by mechanization. Although they are expensive, they are almost inexhaustible in Crystal Palace. It is almost impossible to force your way in."

Lu Mingfei was about to interrupt, but the blue-eyed man quickly cut him off.

“We have recorded your combat data in Arasaka Tower. Your strongest attack methods are [Alchemy Sword] and [Word of Power: Judgment] - I hope I did not mispronounce their names, but even these two attacks cannot cause direct structural damage to Crystal Palace.”

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I don't know how many times this has happened, but the other person has once again revealed knowledge about mixed-race people that people of this era shouldn't know.

Thinking about it carefully, both Adam's Hammer and Arasaka Upper Layer only had a general understanding of the past and profited from it, which is completely different from the guy in front of me.

"So, this Crystal Palace itself is an alchemical tool?"

The Arasaka Building also only has a secret chamber on its first floor made of alchemical materials; if the Crystal Palace were entirely made of alchemical materials...
That's simply unbelievable.

Even the Dragon King wouldn't be this extravagant.

Although Nibelungen is full of alchemical materials, transforming alchemical materials into alchemical buildings is a completely different matter. Perhaps the Crystal Palace should directly compare itself to the Bronze City at its peak.

“I understand the impossibility of breaking in head-on, and then what?” Lu Mingfei said, “So, you’ve grasped that 0.001 percent.”

【correct. 】

This time, it was the little spider who spoke.

By training my AI with the Crystal Palace algorithm, I have discovered the only flaw in the Crystal Palace—that it is not a 'locked room'.

Since it's a paradise for the rich, then there's a necessity for 'entering and exiting' it.

V quickly came up with a solution.

“relic”.

【correct. 】

Electronic images of tiny flowers appeared on the little spider's head.

[Replacing a wealthy person with access to the Crystal Palace with a Relic, and then entering the Crystal Palace directly through the main entrance—this plan is actually quite safe and can avoid danger, but using a Relic means giving up your 'bloodline,' which makes it pointless.]

[Therefore, we're considering another approach: let the wealthy cause chaos, and then you can take advantage of the situation to launch a rocket and use micro-thrusters to reach the target location at the appropriate coordinates.]

"As for the stars we need to choose, the ones who can grace the Crystal Palace—"

(End of this chapter)