Lu Mingfei, why are you slaying dragons if you're not involved!

Chapter 189 Lu Mingfei... You're a monster (5K)

"At once……"

Father Liu watched helplessly as Little Cabbage swayed and ran off with the wild boar to the other side, without even turning her head back!

Only when the door across the hall opened and closed, the distant yet clear "click" of the lock echoing through the room, did he turn to look at Liu's mother. His voice was somewhat unsteady, as if he were doubting whether all of this was real, or if it was just a nightmare he hadn't yet woken up from.

"Are you just going to let Miaomiao go like that?"

"if not?"

Liu's mother turned and walked towards the dining table, saying in an annoyed tone.

"Things have come to this point, forcibly stopping her will only backfire. You can stop her from going there, but can you stop her heart from wandering there? Can't you see that Miao Miao can't even eat properly? The situation will only get worse!"

"Then... what can you do?" Liu's father had no choice but to close the door and come over.

"First, we need to find out what the situation is like at home."

After thinking for a moment, Liu's mother said.

"We haven't seen his parents for so long, and we don't know who they are or what they do. It's not appropriate for us to talk to a child about this. If you want to talk, talk to his parents..."

……

"My mom found out."

Only when the door opened and closed repeatedly, blocking her view, did Liu Miaomiao, who suddenly relaxed, finally dare to mutter to herself.

She didn't dare to look back at all on the way here. It was already hard to bear the feeling of being pricked by needles. If she were to face them directly, wouldn't she be so scared that her legs would go weak?

"Your father knows too," Lu Mingfei added unconsciously, throwing in a rubbish remark.

“Thank you for the reminder!”

Liu Miaomiao tried her best to stare at him.

She wanted to look a little angry, but her well-behaved eyes just couldn't muster the aura of a "glare," and even her deliberately pursed lips couldn't last more than two seconds before crumbling into a beautiful curve.

In the blink of an eye, she threw all her worries and anxieties to the back of her mind, excitedly looking around at the place she had been curious about for a long time but had never been able to enter, and happily asking questions.

"Why did you think of inviting me to dinner?"

"To be honest, I didn't expect that."

Lu Mingfei scratched his head. He instinctively didn't want to "take credit," so he honestly explained the situation: "It was Ling who suggested it. She said she saw your parents at last night's party."

"zero?"

Liu Miaomiao was taken aback.

This time she wasn't too surprised, because something similar had happened yesterday. Lu Mingfei had contacted her on her phone to ask if she wanted to go out for breakfast... but at the time she didn't have the guts to come over and assumed it was a trap, so she passed it on to Su Xiaoqiang.

Surprisingly, Su Xiaoqiang actually managed to get a room and even check in! She still owes him a favor for this...

This time, Liu Miaomiao's courage hadn't actually increased much. It was just that Lu Mingfei personally came to her door and shared most of the pressure, so she gritted her teeth and came along.

As for the consequences that followed, she didn't think too much about them!
That’s it for now, let’s eat first.

"what's up?"

Ling was carrying sweet and sour pork ribs out of the kitchen when she heard Liu Miaomiao's voice. Her gaze swept over, and her tone was as indifferent as ever.

"without……"

That invisible pressure suddenly arrived, and Liu Miaomiao's voice immediately became much softer. "Thank you."

"You're welcome."

Ling Zhenzhen argued, "It's only right for neighbors to get along well."

Her gaze fell on the plate of spicy chicken that Lu Mingfei had brought over, and she tilted her head slightly.

"Oh, this is..."

Lu Mingfei already knew that this was Zero's habitual little gesture when expressing doubt, which was quite cute when paired with her expressionless face, so he explained it to her immediately.

Watching the two interact so tacitly... Liu Miaomiao didn't feel a pang of jealousy at all.

They probably already knew, or perhaps they were used to it?

Whether sitting in the front row in the classroom or living across the window at home, she was the one who had personally witnessed and heard the most interactions between Ling and Lu Mingfei. If she got jealous every time, she would go from a piano-playing beauty to a jealous beauty.

It would be strange if the two of them didn't have this level of tacit understanding.

Of course, she was still very envious, and wondered when she would be able to have that level of understanding with Lu Mingfei.
"By the way, where's Su Xiaoqiang?"

She suddenly realized that someone was missing and asked instinctively.

"She has some business to attend to at the company, so she won't be coming back for lunch," Lu Mingfei explained.

With Yu Ji's work abilities, she is certainly capable of handling things independently; the learning ability of pure-blooded dragons is truly astonishing. However, Su Xiaoqiang definitely cannot completely relinquish control at this stage. Even if she were willing, the others in the company wouldn't accept it, would they?

The three of them sat down around the dining table and began their meal.

Liu Miaomiao suddenly felt that she had an appetite again, and even the spicy chicken tasted much better.

……

"Son, is the food not to your liking today?"

Su Xiaoyan rested her chin on her hand, looking curiously at her beloved son.

Unless there are guests, or she occasionally goes to some "fashionable kitchen training class" with Aunt Annie and then goes through a "cooking spree," she generally doesn't cook. The housekeeper, Aunt Tong, usually asks what the family wants to eat before buying groceries and preparing meals.

Chu Zihang usually eats normally, with a normal amount of food and speed. But today was different. He ate slowly and deliberately, and the amount of food he ate was much smaller.

"No, I just didn't sleep well last night."

The excuse of not sleeping well was just to avoid worrying his mother; in fact, Chu Zihang couldn't explain his current situation either.

Kassel College has an elective course called Physiology, which is similar to but different from the popular science courses on male and female anatomy in junior high school. The main difference is that it teaches people how to judge the current state of a target and where the fatal weakness is. It is said that the teacher is a famous retired "Assassin". Compared with him, the non-human assassin masters controlled by the protagonist in the game Assassin's Creed are far inferior.

In short, that physiology class was quite rigorous, and it was through the knowledge gained from that class that Chu Zihang was able to determine that there was no structural damage to his body.

But I'm just tired, I have no energy, and I don't want to move.

In all the years that have passed, apart from the time when he was a child and had a cold and fever that caused him to feel weak all over, Chu Zihang has never experienced this feeling under normal circumstances. It has even led to his current loss of appetite.

Could it be because of that mysterious dark figure from yesterday?
Chu Zihang recalled the scene again. He was driving in the driver's seat when, accompanied by the sound of shattering glass, before he could react, a force came from his neck.

The force was not theoretically a heavy blow that could knock someone unconscious instantly; on the contrary, it was extremely slight, as slight as a teasing caress of a lover's body.

But Chu Zihang just fainted like that, as if the power button had been pressed.

This doesn't seem very scientific... Could it be that it's not targeting the body, but rather the mind?
It was rare for Chu Zihang to have such random thoughts.

The sudden ringing of the phone interrupted his thoughts. It wasn't a special ringtone, so he didn't rush to answer it. He simply picked it up normally, glanced at the caller's name, and then answered.

"Susie, is something the matter?"

"President, are you still playing basketball with Lu Mingfei every afternoon? Nuonuo's here, and she's got nothing to do. How about I bring her to play basketball with us this afternoon?"

He paused, stunned, as the girl's voice came through the phone.

"Yes, there is this arrangement, but she..."

……

"Doesn't she have any tasks assigned to her?"

Lu Mingfei, who had just finished lunch, scratched his head and said with a strange expression.

"Isn't she a member of a special operations team sent by Kassel College? How come she's in a state of 'having nothing to do'? I remember that according to Kassel College's system, this should be considered official business, right? Isn't this considered being a public-funded embezzler?"

"I asked the same question you mentioned back then."

Chu Zihang paused for a moment, waiting somewhat awkwardly for his breath to catch, which was still unsteady after speaking only a few words, before continuing, "She said the official start of the operation is tomorrow. Today is rest day, theoretically to adjust to the time difference, so you can arrange it as you see fit."

"Wouldn't this be considered a leak?"

Lu Mingfei's lips twitched slightly.

"For an operation of this level and with such elaborate procedures... is it really appropriate to just reveal the operation's timing like this?"

Chu Zihang remained silent.

Firstly, the academic atmosphere at Kassel College is indeed not rigorous enough in these matters, and this lack of rigor has even spread to the Executive Department. Among them, Chu Zihang, as a student who was exceptionally admitted to the Executive Department, is "the most outstanding among them."

When carrying out missions, to put it nicely, he was "free to do as he pleased"; to put it bluntly, he was a typical example of "disorganization and lack of discipline"... In other words, the executive department was indeed very powerful, and his mentor, Professor Schneider, was the head of the executive department, which was why he was able to successfully cover for him every time.

Secondly, he had just finished speaking at length and hadn't recovered yet.

Lu Mingfei on the other end of the phone didn't seem to care that Chu Zihang had suddenly gone silent. After all, this was a common occurrence for the Iceberg Senior, especially when faced with his nonsensical complaints.

So he changed the subject on his own and started talking about serious business.

"I don't care about playing basketball, but how are four people supposed to play? Is it a basketball game? If it is, how are we going to divide into groups? I seriously suspect that Senior Sister Nuonuo is after me, she's definitely here for revenge!"

Lu Mingfei hadn't forgotten that his words had been reposted from the Shilan Middle School campus forum to the "Night Watchers Forum" of Kassel College by that guy named Fingel. After learning about this, he even asked Chu Zihang to find it and show it to him.

The entire text is filled with two words: "stirring up trouble"!
Anyone with a normal temper would be furious after this, right? Given that Nono is Caesar's girlfriend, and Caesar is Chu Zihang's "arch-enemy," Lu Mingfei naturally already sees her as the opposing side.

What's that saying again? If you can't have it, destroy it!
Since the student council can't recruit S-class freshmen, it's perfectly normal for them to resort to underhanded tactics to prevent their rival Lionheart from getting them, right? Not to mention they now have such a plausible excuse!

In basketball, it's perfectly normal for someone to use an elbow strike in secret. It's also perfectly reasonable for someone to be preparing for a mission, carrying guns, ammunition, or hidden weapons like knives, and to "accidentally" forget to take them off, leading to an "accidental discharge" or "collateral damage"!
Lu Mingfei secretly thought to himself, although he knew it was unlikely, he still tried to match the villainous tropes he had seen in comics to the character.

There probably won't be any basketball games.

Chu Zihang thought for a moment, and compared to his weak and powerless body due to unknown reasons, his mental state was quite good.

"Do you remember what I told you about Nono's special ability?"

"Senior brother, you mean..."

Lu Mingfei replied, "Profiling?"

"Yes."

Chu Zihang explained.

"The profiling you are familiar with refers to inferring a psychological state based on the behavior of a counselor, thereby analyzing their personality, living environment, occupation, upbringing, etc... But if Nono's profiling were really like that, she wouldn't have been specially sent here. Her profiling is quite special."

"so?"

"So she... is very likely trying to profile you. There are too many possible motives, whether it's just curiosity or someone else's mission."

Chu Zihang said in a low voice.

"But you can run away, but you can't hide forever. You might escape this time, but there will always be another time you meet. Will your situation... have any impact?"

Lu Mingfei immediately understood what Chu Zihang meant. His senior brother was aware of something amiss about him, but he wasn't sure if this amiss would lead to exposure, so he asked specifically.

"It shouldn't be possible."

Lu Mingfei thought for a moment before answering.

Even if this kind of "profile" is very powerful, so powerful that it can see through his inside and out, know what he has done and what kind of person he is... so what?
I was simply following the schedule exactly!
As for terms and such, they have never actually existed, so theoretically they are even more impossible.

"Okay, see you this afternoon."

Chu Zihang replied and was about to hang up the phone.

"Wait a minute, senior brother, why do I feel like you're speaking haltingly?"

Lu Mingfei asked curiously.

What kind of exercise are you doing?

"..."

Chu Zihang remained silent for a moment.

"I didn't sleep well and caught a cold."

……

"Senior brother, you... really have a cold?"

Around 3 PM, Lu Mingfei arrived at the Qingning Basketball Arena. He pushed open the door and went straight in, completely ignoring Su Xi and the red-haired girl Nuonuo chatting in the audience. He went up to Chu Zihang, looked him over for a moment, and then asked.

In his opinion, Chu Zihang's complexion was still quite normal, but seeing that he had no intention of changing his clothes, it was obvious that he really didn't have the strength to play basketball anymore, and his senior brother wouldn't lie to him about something like this.

"Yes, a mild cold."

Chu Zihang sat properly in the chair, afraid that Lu Mingfei would see through his disguise... otherwise, who knows what shocking things would come out of his mouth!
What if someone says something like, "Senior brother, do you have kidney deficiency?" Even Chu Zihang wouldn't know how that could happen... mainly because, judging from the symptoms, he himself felt that this situation was quite consistent.

But how could that be? I'm perfectly fine, I didn't do anything wrong!

As the two were talking, Susie in the audience gently nudged Nono next to her.

"Hey, hey, did you spot anything?" she asked in a low voice.

"Don't bother me..." Nono's voice was like a dream.

Susie was taken aback, only then noticing that Nuonuo was staring straight at Lu Mingfei, her pupils as deep as an ancient well.

This is the expression that appears when her profiling abilities are at their peak. At first glance, it really does look like a witch possessed by evil, no wonder she has the title of "little witch".

Nono focused her attention on the boy. She obtained a lot of information about Lu Mingfei from Finger and heard a lot of retellings from Susie. Although the results might not be as good as the information from the boy himself, it was enough for her profile.

“I can feel him…” she whispered, as if the witch could sense a ghost descending upon her.

This is what it feels like when profiling skills are brought to their fullest potential. In that instant, she felt as if she had become Lu Mingfei, the guy in the data who had been incredibly unlucky for the past five and a half years but had suddenly undergone a miraculous transformation in the last ten days or so.

What did he do in the past ten days or so?
Early mornings, morning runs, studying, studying... nonstop, focused on studying to the point of ignoring everything else... wait, something's not right!
How could a loser like him actually become so serious and hardworking just because of a girl he has a crush on? Nono had seen Lu Mingfei and Chen Wenwen's chat history, and similar things had been said before... It's just a passing fad!

Something is missing, something more crucial, something hidden within.

But what is it?
Thinking this, she gradually sank in. In that instant, she felt as if she had fallen into a lake and was inevitably falling to the bottom. Firelight rippled on the surface of the lake, and many people were calling her name, but she didn't know who those people were... because it didn't matter.

In this world, no one is important to her. The only person who was important to her is dead, and she is all alone. Her father and friends are no longer important to her.

Her profiling had spiraled out of control. Nono was well aware of her situation, but unlike when she was dreaming and realized she was dreaming, she couldn't break free from this illusion on her own.

Memories come rushing in and then vanish in a flash. This momentary experience is like a revolving lantern before death. This is what death feels like: the whole world leaves you, and you can't hold onto anything... powerless.

It was during this process that she came into contact with that deeper inner self.

Lu Mingfei, the driving force that propelled that boy all the way to where he is now... came to mind.

Dark clouds rolled across the sky, and faint glimmers of light appeared, eventually gathering together.

Thunder roared and crashed down, striking him... and also striking her, who was in the midst of the "profile"!
excruciating pain.

An unprecedented pain struck Nono's entire body, a pain that permeated her soul and body, omnipresent!
Her consciousness began to fade away almost instantly.

But just then, everything was interrupted.

"Sister?"

The profiling was interrupted due to a disturbance.

Nono regained consciousness.

“Lu Mingfei…”

She stared blankly at Lu Mingfei in front of her, murmuring almost subconsciously.

"You're such a monster."

(End of this chapter)