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

Chapter 8 The king descends from the sky with fury and ferocity

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It's that dream again.

The church bells rang and the full moon fell into the quiet lake, but unlike the grassland climate that was just right last time, Lu Mingfei was invaded by the cold when he entered the nightmare.

The ground beneath my butt was no longer dry, lush grass, but a vast ice field.

A huge expanse of ice spread out, pure white with a slight bluish tint, covering the distant mountains. The sky was a blood-red color, and heavy rain poured down, soaking the giant dragon that was quietly crawling on the top of the ice peak.

Its wings hung down to the foot of the mountain, and its thick, fishy blood dyed the entire ice peak red.

Groups of people were climbing up the dragon's wings, nailing sharp iron spikes into the dragon's skull, prying open the dragon's scales with sharp scimitars, and tearing open the dragon's soft flesh with serious faces.

The bloated flesh and blood gushed out like jelly being squeezed out, and the smelly blood spilled onto the ground with a hissing sound, but was collected by people with cautious and nervous movements.

People pushed each other, their eyes wide as bells, with uneven teeth under their dry lips. People cheered and shouted, shaking the sky, and the terrifying joy dyed the earth red.

Lu Mingfei suddenly felt that this scene was extremely ugly.

He was talking about those people.

It's very ugly, just like the pigs in Spirited Away, or the mob waving spears crazily in Devilman, making people feel physically uncomfortable.

Why did I suddenly dream of a dragon? And these ferocious-looking people? And why is it so cold? Someone give me some clothes!
"Here, brother."

"Thank you."

Lu Mingfei took the coat given by Lu Mingze out of reflexive gratitude and put it on hastily, but the cold feeling did not ease at all. It was as if his whole body was soaked in a mixture of ice and water at zero degrees, and his teeth were chattering.

“Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh!”

"Brother, you should exercise. You can't be so weak." Lu Mingze glanced at Lu Mingfei with a lack of interest, then he took out a fishing rod from somewhere and threw the lure into the crack in the ice in front of them.

Playing lure fishing here?
Lu Mingfei looked at it in confusion and asked, "So where is this? Is this your skill again? Is my good brother actually Aizen Lily?"

"Brother, watch less anime. The anime world isn't well-received in society," Lu Mingze replied while fishing. "Also, this is a technological world, at least on the surface. Can you please stop thinking about those superpowers?"

"oh oh."

"Now it's my turn to ask you two questions. Do you remember two things? First, what was the last thing you did before you lost consciousness?"

Lu Mingfei: "."

At this point, the boy's brain, which had been frozen by the Arctic glacier, finally began to come alive.

Finally? What happened?
I walked out of the alley and should go to the prosthetic doctor Victor. Then
No, the memory was interrupted in the middle.

The moment he walked out of the alley and thought he was safe, he was abducted by a passing car. Lu Mingfei was careless and did not dodge. He thought he was safe after walking out of the alley.
But the entire Night City is filled with pitch-black alleys.

Even if passersby saw someone being abducted, they probably wouldn't call the police. Night City has always been an area where prosperity and poverty coexist, and crime has long been commonplace.

But what enemy would treat me like this?
Arasaka? No, with their power, they don't need to go to such great lengths.

Tanaka? No, how did he determine his position? How could he act so quickly?
A local gang? That's even more impossible. I've never mentioned provoking them in my diary.

Who?
What on earth did I provoke?
As he thought more deeply, the boy's expression became more terrified. Seeing this, Lu Mingze finally raised the corners of his mouth and continued to ask in a magnetic voice.

"Then, second question."

"Brother, do you still remember what I said at the beginning, how to use me?"

“——Haa ...

Lu Mingfei woke up from his sleep, but when he opened his eyes, he was immediately stimulated by the dazzling white light and closed them again.

The circular ring-shaped lamp emits a high-wattage cold light downwards, which is the lighting in the operating room that appears in many film and television works.

Surgery? Operating room?!
Lu Mingfei coughed and struggled violently, his movements accompanied by the sound of broken ice falling to the ground.

"Damn it! Why did this guy wake up?!"

"Fuck! It's all your damn fault! I told you the ice water pitcher was for fresh kidneys, and you poured it on someone!"

"So what?! Didn't we use twice the amount of anesthetic?!"

My eardrum hurt, and at the same time, the old injury in my ribs came back with a sharp pain, and my wrists and ankles felt unusually itchy.

Lu Mingfei endured the discomfort of the white light and tried to turn his head, but found that his mouth was blocked by something like burlap and he could not utter normal words, and his limbs were fixed to the cold bed.

All my clothes were stripped off. The coldness in the dream was not an illusion. Someone really poured ice water on me.

“Ugh!! Ugh!!!————”

In Lu Mingfei's dizzy perspective, the outlines of everything disappeared. With the gradual dizziness, he could only vaguely see several people standing on both sides of him.

They look like ordinary street thugs, but the common feature is that they have devices on both sides of their temples that just cover their skin.

The pitch-black device was a projection mask. Its principle was similar to the large swimming fish that Lu Mingfei saw on the subway today. However, unlike a work of art, these guys only projected a blue-gray mask mixed with blood-colored mosaics in front of their faces.

Bloodshot eyes, tears flowing from the holes in the prototype.

“——!!!! Ugh!!!”

Lu Mingfei struggled even harder.

He really didn't know much about Night City, but he had done some searching online to gain a rough idea of ​​the city's power.

The Haywood Gang, the Tiger Claw Gang, and the Whirlpool Gang are all well-known gangs in the city, and they need to be avoided.

However, in this city, there is a group that is worse than the gangs, more despised and more terrifying.

【Scavenger】

Estimated number of people: Unknown

Key members: Unknown

Faction Location: Unknown

Most of them are low-class, brutal scum who are accustomed to attacking unsuspecting passers-by or hooligans, harvesting their cybernetic prostheses and organs and selling them on the black market. In their eyes, human life is just a pile of commodities to be exchanged for money on the black market.

Also known as: Kidney-reducing guest.

A group of monsters who have absolutely no humanity and no warning before committing crimes!

Unlucky.

Meeting such a guy is pure misfortune.

Like dominoes, Lu Mingfei's misfortunes kept colliding, triggering new misfortunes, and the chain dragged him into the abyss with a hissing sound.

The air was filled with the smell of anesthetics. God knows how much these animals had used on themselves.

“Woo!—”

He wanted to struggle, wanted to remove the devices that fixed his limbs, wanted to shout loudly, wanted to negotiate with these beasts to exchange money for his life, but it was all in vain. The inhumane madmen quickly calmed down after the initial infighting.

In the blurry white halo, those [bloody crying faces] approached Lu Mingfei.

With a silver scalpel, he cut open the defenseless flesh.

The tip of the blade was dyed a dazzling red.

“Uoo ...

The pain made Lu Mingfei wonder, "Did these guys really have anesthesia?"

But he was no longer able to think about this.

The long tinnitus, the visual signals flashing between blue and purple at an ultra-high frequency, the fear and pain tortured his spirit crazily, constantly approaching the limit of a normal human. No, maybe it had already been exceeded, and was only lingering on the edge of causing shock and death.

Lu Mingfei remembered, exchange, yes, he and Lu Mingze.

The burlap was caught between his upper and lower teeth, and his tongue pushed it open to create some space. Lu Mingfei shouted in panic, "Lu Mingze! Swap! --"

【exchange】

That was the last treasure left to me by my parents.

That electronic ghost who claims to be able to do anything will definitely save himself!

Sure enough, the moment Lu Mingfei finished shouting, Lu Mingze appeared in a corner of his currently blurry display panel.

He sat on a white cabinet in the corner of the operating room, his legs hanging outside, swaying slightly. Time did not stand still. Lu Mingfei tried his best to pull his reason to listen carefully to every word Lu Mingze would say next, as this was related to his life.

He says--

"Exchange? Of course, brother. Although it's a shame to waste your life in such a place."

what did he say?
life?

Lu Mingfei didn't need to continue talking, because Lu Mingze continued to explain with understanding.

"Didn't I ask you before, brother—[Do you really know what the chip you inserted is?]?"

"The answer can be revealed now—this thing is called the Relic Chip, formerly known as the Soul Killer. In this era, there's probably no large-scale advertising, but only product previews and other information. So, let me kindly introduce this product to you, brother."

Lu Mingze pinched the fake fluorescent pink chip he had conjured between his index and middle fingers and said, "This device copies a human's soul and mental data, stores it in a chip, and then uses the chip as a medium to overwrite the data in the chip with a new body."

"Well, that might be a bit complicated, so to put it simply, this chip stores my soul. Inserting the chip actually causes my soul to gradually devour yours, and the transaction will only speed up this process."

"in conclusion--"

When Lu Mingze smiled, his eyes narrowed like crescent moons, and he said with a hint of sincere tenderness.

"Brother, you are going to die."

"Not at the hands of the scavengers."

"But he died at the hands of his own parents."

ha?
At that moment, Lu Mingfei felt something being pulled out of his body.

Is it blood? It can't be the kidneys or the heart or lungs, right? Those kidney-stripping guys aren't that fast, their technique is terrible.

Is that the soul? Or something else Lu Mingfei couldn't explain.

Perhaps because he was about to die, he actually began to play a slow kaleidoscope in his mind.

【Coming to a strange world】

Lost all family, relatives, and friends

What kind of brain remodeling surgery was performed?

[The first time I saw a person's brain being blown up by a shotgun]

The air I breathe stinks to death.

[The road surface I walked on was extremely dirty]

The room wasn't comfortable at all, and there weren't any games I liked.

Why do I have to be beaten up because of a guy I don't know?

[Why did I have to suffer such misfortune? Why did these kidney-stripping gangs choose me?] [The family members I care about, my own biological parents, left me with a chip before they died, but it turned out to be an experimental tool to kill me?]

[Do they really remember themselves? Or are they just part of an experiment?]

[So the world I live in is like this too? ]

Falling, falling, and falling.

Although I was lying on the operating table, my body felt an immense sense of weightlessness.

[I couldn't be with the girl I liked, my youth was dark and humble.]

[After my parents left me, I got into a fight with a classmate because they made malicious assumptions about me. My aunt held my head down, as if to break my spine, and forced me to apologize.]

My parents' money became the foundation for my aunt and uncle's upward mobility, and also became a source of bragging rights for Lu Mingze's fat cousin.

Before I could even tell my only friend, Old Tang, how I'd let him win, I was about to die in an operating room in another world. My organs would be scattered across Night City, waiting for their useful life to expire before being dumped into the soil and gradually degraded by microorganisms.

Hahaha
Something is disappearing, cowardice, rottenness, pessimism, fragility, self-pity, all emotions are beginning to melt, like a mask crumbling.

Buzz.
Click, click, click, click.

From the boy's perspective, a warning of a program error popped up.

it says
Relic failure

At the same time, Lu Mingfei's eyes were filled with an indescribable darkness, chaos and madness, just like a madman painting with a pencil on pure white draft paper, the lines running through each other, gnawing madly and entangled.

pitch black.

Crazy.

Messy.

absurd.

【why? 】

I have endured this.

【You guys are unwilling to give me a little respect? 】

The boy's eyes widened, bloodshot gathered in his eyeballs, and kept moving out of a densely packed and winding path like a maze. In the core of his pupils, black kept spinning.

His eyes were fixed on the blood-red projection of the scavenger, and he saw his own miserable appearance reflected on the screen.

Don't want to die.

Don't want to die.

I don’t want to die. ...

It's not that I'm afraid of death, but I can't tolerate what's happening now.

He could not allow himself to die as a scavenger, and could not tolerate himself seeing only cowardice and stupidity when looking back on his life.

Humiliation. The boy who should have been able to tolerate such humiliation felt at this moment that his heart, brain, and all the organs in his body were poured with gasoline and set on fire.

wrong.

It's not that I don't want to die, but——

【do not die】

I command you, Lu Mingfei——

【Live】

That's right.

"Live!"

The operating room was filled with murderous intent. However, in that bloody and heavy space, the devil seemed to have seen some tempting jewels, and the corners of his mouth, which were already difficult to suppress, were completely raised.

He spread his arms wildly, letting his tuxedo flutter in the wind, grinning grimly, and encouraged his contractor to stand up.

"Brother! I really can't bear to see you abandon yourself like this. Being soft on you might be my only weakness."

"Well, then let me see what you will become in this world where I can't interfere."

"And from now on, brother——"

"The spirit of the word [Don't Die] has been released for you."

The red gilt light surged up with terrifying murderous intent. The golden light reflected from the side of the scalpel and re-entered Lu Mingfei's pupils.

At that moment, something changed.

"--What's this?!"

The kidney removal surgeon who was operating on the machine caught a glimpse of the golden figure staring at him, but he felt that what he saw was not a monotonous color in the optical sense, but a burning volcano, pouring hot and thick magma all over his body.

"Ahhhh!!!"

The kidney cutter instinctively took a step back, and the scalpel in his hand fell.

He subconsciously wanted to pick it up, but the moment he squatted down, he heard a sharp explosion.

He raised his head and looked up with a bloody, crying face.

There, there was shattered flesh and blood.

Literally, at the moment when time froze, in the image of the kidney-removing patient, the young man had broken free from the constraints of the operating table and was floating in mid-air.

But how could that be possible? The operating table had all his limbs tied up!

But if you look closely, the boy's arms and calves in the picture have been pulled into vertebrae, and their hardness seems to have disappeared. He has been ravaged by himself into an unimaginable posture.

—He broke all his limbs? To free himself?

"Hey?"

Click! !

The bed board blocked the light of the operating lamp, casting a shadow, but the kidney removal patient could see it clearly.

Seeing Lu Mingfei’s red golden eyes and his surging muscles, he was like a wild beast ready to hunt!
Snapped!Snapped!
You could even see the bone stumps of the broken arm, but in the next second, it was like a spring restarting, and the broken arm actually connected together on its own and then recovered quickly!
monster! ! !

The instinct of countless times of life and death urged him to raise his arm and swing the scalpel at Lu Mingfei - at the same time, blood exploded and splattered in every corner of the operating room.

It’s a pity that that was the blood of the kidney-chopping man.

The arm that stretched forward was broken from the side in an instant, and the fallen scalpel was caught by Lu Mingfei seamlessly. He turned the knife with his backhand and cut the neck of the kidney-cutter.

Time seems to be just beginning to flow.

The two kidney-reducing people behind Lu Mingfei tried hard to reshape their worldview and realized the seriousness of the problem. They reached towards their waists.

Lu Mingfei kept his back to the two of them and took a sudden step forward.

The pistol on the waist of the kidney-cutter whose neck had been cut was kicked up by Lu Mingfei, and it spun towards Lu Mingfei's left hand at an extremely fast speed.

pat.

He caught it, yanked the pistol down, and placed it under his right armpit, raising the dark muzzle. Lu Mingfei's skeleton operated with mechanical precision, the spring uncurling, the bullet sliding into the magazine, and his finger tightening on the trigger.

Boom!

Bang, bang!
Continuous gunfire.

There were two crisp sounds, which were the sounds made by the bullets passing through the hardest part of the human body, the skull, and moving through the blood and brain matter.

The sidearm of the neck-slitting and kidney-chopping guy is the [DR5 Nova], which has a firing rate of exactly 2 times per second.

Lucky, I stood next to Lu Mingfei for the first time.

The bullet grazed Lu Mingfei's cheek, splashing blood, and ricocheted off into the distance.

"."

Second time lucky.

It seems as if I can feel that moment just now, when I held the scalpel in my hand.

The wind of victory blew from behind.

The young man hung his hands and lowered his head. He breathed in small sips of air, taking the smell of blood and gunfire into his lungs, and then exhaled.

The surgical scars on the upper abdomen were repaired at a speed visible to the naked eye, with granulation tissue swaying and drilling into the inner side of the skin and flesh, gluing together.
Da da da da da da
Lu Mingfei listened to the chaotic footsteps and realized that the other kidney-cutters had heard the gunshots and were preparing to come over.

ha.
But at this moment, Lu Mingfei recalled all the grievances and misfortunes in his mind.

The untouchables who fought at my doorstep, Arasaka, the principal, Tanaka, and the parents who seemed to want me to die, and the kidney-cutting customer
Haha, one by one.
As if to vent his anger, Lu Mingfei roared and cursed out the most disgusting memories in his heart.

"That stinky fat guy I was having sex with is real! So fucking ugly! Ugly!" A trembling and bloody shout came from the depths of his throat, finally expressing what he was thinking in his heart. Lu Mingfei fired several more shots at the corpse in anger.

The reaction force caused blood to splatter onto Lu Mingfei's face, making the boy's expression even more ferocious.

——For some reason, after pulling the trigger, Lu Mingfei felt that his current emotions seemed unable to be accurately described in words, but he did not feel angry.

Looking at the broken head, Lu Mingfei kept gasping for breath.

then
"Hey hey hey"

He couldn't even hold back, and a few broken laughs leaked from the corners of his mouth.

No, no, you can't laugh.
What the fuck am I doing? I killed someone and I'm laughing?
How could I, Lu Mingfei be such a person? No, no, I, I, I——

laugh.

"Hehehehehehe hahahahahaha!——"

A sudden laugh escaped from his mouth, and his golden eyes flickered, coupled with the poorly wired light flickering in the middle of the road, making the boy's figure even more hideous, terrifying, scary - and incomprehensible.

Snapped!
As if he was aware of the strangeness of his own condition, Lu Mingfei suddenly slapped his own mouth, stopping his laughter. His face was covered in darkness, but his eyes remained bright and sharp.

However, once the flames that have not yet burned out have a way to vent, things will never stop so easily.

(I'm sorry, Dad, Mom, and the teacher whose name I forgot. I feel ashamed of your teachings. I haven't felt any sorrow for the sin of killing for even a moment.)

The corner of the boy's mouth twitched nervously between his fingers. He raised the gun in his hand, wiped the blood on the side of his face with the back of his hand, turned his head, and murmured slowly.

".Look at me, I'm going to kill you all."

Well.

——He now feels that this world is so pleasant to live in.

　[Currently available information]: Although Lu Mingfei is generally considered to be a hopeless case, I think this is a problem arranged for him by the plot.

　　Apart from the character's retreat (in a derogatory sense), it is also because everyone in the Dragon Clan is backing up Lu Mingfei.

　　That's why I chose Night City, a place with a groove (
　　
　
(End of this chapter)