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

Chapter 193 The Knife is Good, But the Person is Not (Part 2)

"Oh, how far are you from your goal of eradicating evil and upholding justice?"

Su Xiaoqiang's tone suddenly lost its previous accusatory air and became curious. She was a very reasonable person; if she had to cancel due to important business, there was nothing she could do.

"Far away..."

Lu Mingfei lowered his voice, but it was still quite noticeable in the otherwise quiet conference room.

He wouldn't even consider the feelings of someone he didn't care about, let alone someone who was clearly an enemy sitting across from him.

Lu Mingfei just felt very uncomfortable with this group of people. He didn't know the specific reason, but it seemed that there was no need for a reason to be unhappy with the enemy.

In this situation, the fact that one hasn't directly named names and said the second half of the sentence is already a sign of extremely high moral and polite behavior, isn't it?
"Close?"

Su Xiaoqiang on the other end of the phone added the second half of the sentence for him, and clicked her tongue lightly.

"So relaxed, are you beating up elementary school kids?"

"I would never do such a despicable thing, okay?" Lu Mingfei chose to defend his moral character.

"Don't think I don't know that you once made an elementary school student cry in an internet cafe competition!" Su Xiaoqiang quickly brought up his embarrassing past as evidence.

"That elementary school kid was clearly strong enough! That was a game competition with no age restrictions, and he made it to the finals, so how could I choose to withdraw?"

Lu Mingfei argued forcefully based on reason.

"Besides, elementary school students aren't allowed in internet cafes anyway, I'm helping him break his internet addiction for his own good. Of course, his skills are really good, I still remember his ID is TIME, I think it's from Beijing. To be honest, if he continues playing, he might have the potential to win the world championship..."

Inside the meeting room, the members of the Gattuso family's assessment team finally reached the peak of their anger.

The fact that Lu Mingfei answered the phone when it rang was already surprising enough, considering that they were representing the Gattuso family on this trip! This was like an envoy sent by the ancient Roman Empire, who should be treated with great respect wherever they went, so how could they be treated so rudely?

Lu Mingfei not only answered the phone in front of them, but also openly listed them as targets for "eliminating evil," which was very disrespectful.

That wasn't enough; they even chatted casually in front of them... completely disregarding them!

Of course, they can all understand Chinese. In the world of hybrids, China is an extremely special existence. Looking at the whole world, only this civilization has stood firm amidst the ever-resurgent impact of the dragon race.

Therefore, learning Chinese is a necessary practice in the world of mixed-race people, even the Kassel College adopts Chinese as the sole language for teaching and daily communication.

The others turned their attention to Percy, who was leading the assessment team, and all their actions required his approval.

To their slight surprise, Percy remained calm and expressionless, seemingly devoid of the anger one would expect after being "humiliated," so they could only suppress their anger.

The only one who was eager to make a move was Fujiwara Shinnosuke.

He didn't need Percy's orders to act, because he had already accepted the order to "provoke Lu Mingfei"! Now the situation has changed slightly from what was expected, and Lu Mingfei is now the one provoking them.

Isn't that better?

The script of "an S-class freshman who is arrogant and no one can stand by and watch, so the senior can't stand it and teaches him a lesson" is just too reasonable. He doesn't have to worry about being labeled as "bullying a junior" after taking action. It's perfect!
So he set off without any prior notice. The possessor of Time Zero is the strongest assassin; what assassin announces their intention to act before making a move? What if the enemy becomes prepared?
Of all the many kinds of Word of Power, some are capable of withstanding Time Zero once they are formed.

The long-dormant dragon blood stirs, the golden eyes ignite, the Word of Power: Time Zero, unleash!
Time seemed to slow down suddenly throughout the conference room, but since everyone was sitting in their chairs and not moving, it wasn't obvious. The biggest change was that Lu Mingfei's voice, which was being chatted, was strangely drawn out.

The Word of Zero, also known as Time Zero, has another name: Eternity.

It is said that this power of words was not observed, but was derived mathematically by Euclid, the ancient Greek mathematician and father of geometry. According to his deduction, the theoretical limit of this power of words could be to completely stop time.

The user will then become a ghost outside of time, something like "transcending the three realms and not being within the five elements," which is true eternity.

Fujiwara Shinnosuke leisurely rose from his seat and took a folding knife from the inner pocket of his suit jacket.

Those who possess "Time Zero" are best suited to use this small, portable, and easily concealable weapon.

Because the length of weapons is meaningless to people like them, and with their extreme speed they can ignore time, and therefore also ignore space.

He chose this weapon for another reason: Principal Angers also used a folding knife, and the way he casually brought death to his opponents with such a dangerous and deadly weapon... Fujiwara Shinnosuke hoped that one day he could grow into such a person.

Let's start with S-rank!

As he thought this, a smile appeared on his seemingly harmless face. It was clear that he wanted to keep the smile in the gentlemanly manner of "everything is under control." But as he took a couple of steps and was about to walk around the conference table, the smile unconsciously became distorted.

"Where should we begin, and to what extent?"

He unfolded his folding knife, its sharp edge reflecting dazzling light under the bright conference room lights. His gaze lingered on Lu Mingfei, who was completely still, his eerie voice no longer uttered.

The gaze finally settled on Lu Mingfei's face.

That's right, it's this face! Even as a man, Fujiwara Shinnosuke had to admit the perfection of this face, but the more perfect something is, the more he felt a desire to destroy it, because... he didn't have one!

He couldn't go too far, after all, this was someone else's territory. As the saying goes, even a powerful dragon can't suppress a local snake. What if he went too far and the Gattuso family sold him off as a pawn? This situation was absolutely possible.

What could be more damaging to perfection, more humiliating, and without causing serious consequences than leaving a scar on one's face?

As Fujiwara Shinnosuke pondered, his smile grew even more unrestrained.

As he approached, the folding knife drew ever closer to its target, now less than a meter away.

But at that moment, he stopped his relaxed pace. The feeling of trying to express himself but actually being extremely excited vanished, and the distorted smile froze on his face.

Because Lu Mingfei, who was originally holding the phone and looking straight ahead, suddenly shifted his gaze to a different angle.

Those eyes were coldly staring at him, without any burning gold illuminating their pupils; their deep, dark pupils seemed like a bottomless abyss! This could not possibly be a coincidence.

It was only at this point that Fujiwara Shinnosuke realized something was wrong.

This abnormality had actually been evident earlier—Lu Mingfei stopped speaking. With time zero activated, the distance he had walked from where he got up was only 0.3 seconds. In such a short time, how could Lu Mingfei have stopped if he was affected by time zero? He hadn't even finished speaking!
But realizing something was wrong at that moment was clearly too late. Fujiwara Shinnosuke's hand gripping the folding knife tightened instinctively, trembling slightly, and his face turned frighteningly pale. For a moment, he didn't know whether to advance or retreat.

"The knife is good," Lu Mingfei said.

The seemingly normal speaking speed shattered the last vestiges of hope in Fujiwara Shinnosuke's heart. All the bright and beautiful future he had built in his mind since hearing Percy's order was about to completely collapse at this moment.

He was about to return to his old life... no, he might not even be able to, because he hadn't fully followed the orders Parcy had given him. The Gattuso family wouldn't waste resources cultivating a useless retainer!

The thought of giving up vanished because the string representing "reason" snapped at that moment, and the madness of a gambler filled his mind.

He pretended to retreat, but then suddenly stepped forward and swung his knife!

With a distance of less than a meter, driven by his furious dragon blood, Fujiwara Shinnosuke felt that his strike was already at its maximum speed.

If Lu Mingfei hadn't reacted in time, he might have succeeded?
But at the same time, the target he was aiming at... disappeared.

No.

It didn't disappear, but rather moved at an extremely fast speed, so fast that it vanished from sight in an instant!
"people……"

Lu Mingfei's voice rang out from Fujiwara Shinnosuke's right, accompanied by an immense force that was completely irresistible. Intense pain focused on the weakest joints... almost simultaneously, ten in a row!

Ankles, knees, shoulders, elbows, and wrists.

"No."

"what!"

Time seemed to have been cut off out of thin air, like a scene produced by a terrible video editor. All that was heard by the audience was a single, or perhaps many, teeth-grinding snapping sounds, followed by a deafening scream, and the scene before them had changed.

One moment everyone was sitting comfortably in their seats, but the next moment Fujiwara Shinnosuke appeared opposite them, unconscious on the ground, his arms and legs bent at an abnormal angle. Lu Mingfei stood leisurely to the side, expressionless, still holding his phone, but with his other hand holding the tip of a folding knife, examining it in front of his eyes.

"I said that kid has the potential to become a world champion, but potential doesn't mean he already has the ability. So just because I beat him to tears doesn't mean I have the ability to be a world champion..."

Lu Mingfei's own people were well aware of his abilities and reacted in the blink of an eye, but the members of the Gattuso family's assessment team were momentarily stunned.

what happened?
Time couldn't have really disappeared; it's just that this drastic change happened in an extremely short time, so short that they didn't have time to react!
In such a short time, even the most outstanding hybrid could not possibly achieve such a visually beyond-seeing attack with mere physical abilities, so there is only one possibility... Time Zero!

They had seen that folding knife before; it belonged to Fujiwara Shinnosuke, who possessed Time Zero.
Yet, even with all that, he was still defeated by Lu Mingfei, so easily, without even a speck of dirt on his clothes, and he was even holding his phone in one hand while... having a long phone conversation!
Could it also be time zero?

For a moment, their breaths caught in their throats, and the first name that came to mind was Hilbert Jean Angers, the man who had subdued the Secret Service with his strength.

The more superior the bloodline, the stronger the power of the Word of Power. Thus, it makes sense that Fujiwara Shinnosuke suffered a crushing defeat despite both having zero time.

An S-rank Time Zero is enough to give all hybrids a headache. People are relatively tolerant of Angers because he is already over a hundred years old. Hybrids are older than ordinary people, but not to an exaggerated degree. How many more years can they be suppressed?
But now it seems there's another person who possesses this power of words, and they're so young! Lu Mingfei isn't even eighteen yet? He could easily do the same thing as Angers, for over... a hundred years!
The members of the assessment team were shocked to realize this. They wondered if the family had sent them to assess Lu Mingfei precisely because they knew this. What you can't have, you must destroy!

It's obvious without even thinking that someone of this caliber would receive the highest level of protection... no, he doesn't even need protection, as Lu Mingfei himself is an extremely powerful force.

How can the task be completed under such circumstances?

A sudden silence fell over them again. Percy stood up, and the other members of the assessment team had no choice but to stand up as well. On Lu Mingfei's side, Ye Sheng and Chu Zihang also stood up.

The scene became tense, with a sense of impending conflict looming.

"Haha, don't get excited, don't get excited, what's going on?"

Zhang Shanfeng, on the contrary, remained calm and sat in his seat, smiling happily as he asked.

"He's going to use this folding knife to give me a beauty treatment."

Lu Mingfei covered the microphone and smiled.

"I'm quite satisfied with my appearance, so I appreciated it. As the saying goes, 'It's impolite not to reciprocate,' so to show my politeness, I gave him a free massage..."

He glanced down.

"He seemed very satisfied; he was so comfortable that he fell asleep."

……

On the way out of the base, Lu Mingfei shivered slightly, snapping out of that state.

The matter was naturally resolved. Zhang Shanfeng agreed with Lu Mingfei's explanation, while Percy did not refute it, but simply characterized it as a normal assessment of strength, and then left with his men.

The tension was so high right from the start, which was somewhat unexpected. According to Zhang Shanfeng, "I thought they would put on a show," but then came a compliment: "That's how you do it, well done! I initially thought you would go easy on me, but I didn't expect you to be such a ruthless guy."

To be honest, looking back on it, Lu Mingfei himself was a little bewildered.

In that instant, he felt as if he had entered a state he had never experienced before.

It was a kind of anger, yet unexpectedly calm. He completed that series of fluent, devastating movements without expression or even thinking, almost instinctively, without even needing to conceive them in his mind... everything was natural.

"Do I have a hidden violent tendency?" he wondered to himself.

(End of this chapter)