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

Chapter 321 The game begins

—Lu Mingfei had heard the saying, "The world is a giant makeshift stage." As a child, Lu Mingfei did not believe it. His understanding of human elites came from foreign movies, where the elegance, composure, wisdom, and competence of the powerful and wealthy were etched into his mind.

But as I grew up and saw a lot of international news, that filter shattered completely.

In the end, they are just 'humans'.

Those 'people' on top of their own heads aren't much better either.

The same goes for the Crystal Palace.

Even now that we know the leader is a one-in-a-million like Caesar, the other board members are just 'ordinary people', and even outstanding talents will inevitably become corrupt and blinded if they hold high positions for too long.

So, thanks to Kerry's sacrifice, the group successfully infiltrated the Crystal Palace.

Upon entering, Lu Mingfei was still somewhat immersed in tension, but when he came to his senses and looked around, he was able to marvel at the magnificence of this 'palace'.

Golden gates scanned the encrypted protocols of each guest's prosthetic body, so fine they were almost invisible to the naked eye, while swarms of riot control drones patrolled the gaps in the laser net.

Even Lu Mingfei and his group couldn't possibly wander around here undetected. To find the information and destroy the Crystal Palace, Lu Mingfei and his group needed to infiltrate for a short period of time, hence the need for 'disguise'.

After the outer layer of identity verification, the probability of people inside this Crystal Palace being checked a second time is almost zero.

The inspection itself was perceived as aggressive and offensive to the group of guests.

If only surveillance cameras perform facial detection, and touchscreens and thin-film receivers in various corners are used for fingerprint and voiceprint verification, Lu Mingfei and V have a million ways to get away with it.

Meanwhile, after Kerry won over a crowd with his rock music, he suddenly blushed and exaggeratedly clutched his kidneys, saying he needed to go to the toilet.

Having already passed the identity verification, the gatekeeper, whose cybernetic body looked even more advanced than Takemura Goro's, did not stop him but stepped aside.

Taking advantage of this moment, Lu Mingfei and V teamed up.

They swung out molecular lines and hung in the air, clinging to the gilded trim of the ceiling like ninjas. Then, they suddenly swung across, the two of them bouncing apart in mid-air with each other as the point of force, landing in different places without making a sound.

The two quickly caught up with Kerry.

Meanwhile, Kerry arrived at the restroom with his female companion.

My female companion is from a well-known idol group in Japan. We've gotten to know each other because we've worked together before. However, she's a heavy drug user, so she's unsteady on her feet and doesn't seem to be in good spirits.

This is exactly what Lu Mingfei needs.

He and V went to the restroom, and Kerry also came to the restroom with his female companion.

The four nodded to each other.

[Crystal Palace] The only loopholes are in 'letting people in' and 'entering the park', so all procedures must be completed in this instant. Let Lu Mingfei and V sneak into the Crystal Palace gate by taking advantage of the commotion caused by Kerry, and then let Kerry himself complete the strict identity verification. Finally, the two sides will switch identities inside the park.

All Lu Mingfei and his team needed was the fact that Kerry had indeed entered the Crystal Palace.

Then simply place Kerry in the toilet.

Although it was somewhat cruel, neither Lu Mingfei nor V intended to stay at Crystal Palace for long, nor could they. The mission would be completed within a day, and Crystal Palace security personnel did not check the toilets very frequently, so they could find a way to delay it. The drone could not enter due to privacy issues.

Soon after, the toilet door was opened.

'Kerry' and 'his female companion' came out.

Beneath those loose skin were two elite mercenaries from Night City.

"Please go this way."

Security found nothing amiss and simply led the way, and V and Lu Mingfei arrived at the lobby without incident. The Crystal Palace is divided into several areas, with the banquet hall being the first, a place for VIPs to relax and chat, and the most "light" area in the Crystal Palace.

But even so, it already surpassed the splendor in Lu Mingfei's memory.

When he was a child, Lu Mingfei was taken to Macau by his aunt's family. Of course, minors are not allowed to enter casinos. Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze were left in the childcare area. Lu Mingze stared blankly at the beautiful young lady who was spending money like water in the distance, while Lu Mingfei propped his face up and looked at the big black bodyguard at the door with amazement.

At that time, he was also able to glimpse a corner of the so-called "debauchery" and saw trees made of gold rising from the bottom of the valley. Later, that place seemed to have been turned into a tourist attraction.

But it is far less glorious than it is at this moment.

As the gilded doors slid open, the light reflected from the chandeliers fell like a shower of gold coins, and fiber optic cables were embedded beneath the handmade carpet on the floor, blooming with a breathing lotus pattern as guests walked.

Gold, gold, gold.

People often say that gold is the color of the nouveau riche, but when this extravagance and waste are displayed in an absolutely exaggerated way, it is hard not to be shocked.

The light fell to the ground and shattered into pieces of liquid gold. Lu Mingfei couldn't see anything amiss with the wall paintings that were supposed to be 'decorations'.

It seems the legend is true.

Those original artifacts that disappeared from the surface of the earth are indeed all inside the Crystal Palace.

"We're a little tired, let's go to the guest room first."

Lu Mingfei snapped out of his daze, put his arm around V, and spoke naturally to the 'butler'.

The butler looked on with understanding.

Although Kerry has never had any scandals with anyone in the media, in the Crystal Palace, anything is possible. Judging from the way Kerry is holding this girl, he is clearly going to make a big splash.

The relationships between world-class stars—these would be huge revelations if made public, but unfortunately, these sensational revelations are everywhere in Crystal Palace, so they don't even warrant attention.

Many celebrities use the Crystal Palace as a rendezvous place, and the butler is used to it. He then led the two to their guest room.

The interior decoration—no need for much introduction, Lu Mingfei simply said that he had only ever seen this kind of setup in the room he shared with Caesar.

"No drones."

With Lu Mingfei in his arms, V transformed from her drunken state into a tall, upright figure, her gaze sweeping over every corner of the secret room.

"This place isn't worth monitoring," Lu Mingfei said casually. "Could we use this place as the origin to build a spatial model?"

【uh-huh. 】

Although Crystal Palace has never experienced a safety incident, fire escape routes have still been built. The blueprints are not difficult to obtain, and combined with the data recorded along the way, a portion can be generated.

No one knows the full extent of the Crystal Palace's internal structure. Even Murphy the Spider and others only know the approximate blueprints of its 'newly built' state.

They still need to explore to reach the central hub where the information is stored.

Soon, a large black electronic blueprint was sent into Lu Mingfei's brain. With him as the origin, there were several intersecting white passages around him, similar to the maze exploration in an adventure game.

Just like a game.

Lu Mingfei recalled the game panel that Lu Mingze had made for him, and in a daze, he realized that so much time had passed.

A fledgling newcomer, and now a legendary mercenary planning to blow up the Crystal Palace?
—Watch me clear the game in one life.

It's time to keep the promise I made to the little devil.

(End of this chapter)