Dragon Clan: Thought So Far

When the snowy field was once again painted with dark golden sunset, they were finally sure that they had completely escaped the academy's pursuit range. City 023 and its wreckage had completely disappeared on the other side of the horizon several hours ago.

Ling parked the snowmobile beside an ice lake. Lu Mingfei's heart moved slightly. Through the several-meter-thick ice layer, he saw the wreckage of a fighter plane frozen under the lake from many years ago. The Nazi Iron Cross emblem could still be recognized on the aluminum wings.

The history of World War II has been distorted, and the Führer's tentacles were once rampant in places like Siberia.

He suddenly stood up and frowned: "Is that a neutron meter?"

Zero nodded without saying anything.

"It's broken... We've long left the range of City 023. Even if the nuclear fusion reactor has exploded and the ruins of the entire city are shrouded in a nuclear cloud, the neutron radiation shouldn't have followed us hundreds of kilometers away." Chu Zihang said, "Is there a Geiger meter? Logically speaking, the neutron radiation here shouldn't exceed the standard."

"No." Zero said. She tapped the side of the glass dial of the neutron meter and the warning light went out immediately. A closer look revealed that the filament inside was actually broken by the shock.

"It keeps flashing, it's really annoying," she said.

Lu Mingfei remembered that Ling had told him that her Word Mirror Pupil could analyze the most sophisticated instruments in a short period of time. In front of Her Royal Highness the Princess, a neutron meter from the Soviet era might be as complex in structure as a piece of black bread.

"Brother, what are you going to do next?" Lu Mingfei looked at Chu Zihang. "If you go further west, you can enter the Kamchatka Peninsula and go through Petropavlovsk to find a way to reach the sea. If Uncle Chu eventually wants to settle in Tokyo, you and Sister Susie should be able to meet him in time if you rush to Japan now."

Few people can enter Chu Zihang's inner world. The students of Kassel College only know that there was a macho man in that class who was able to become the president of the Lionheart Club by relying on his own abilities when he was a freshman, but no one knows why the macho man is so macho.

But there are always exceptions in the world. For Chu Zihang, Su Si is the exception, and Lu Mingfei is also the exception.

About the No. 0 elevated road that only appeared in heavy rain, about the main god riding an eight-legged Pegasus and wielding thunderbolts, about Chu Tianjiao's figure drawing a sword as fast as a meteor...

Hadn't he pushed himself so close for so many years just to return to that rainy night one day in the future and stand again with the man who stood before God and told him, son, run?

Lu Mingfei freed Chu Tianjiao from Odin's mask. Maybe Chu Zihang would have a lot to say to him?

Chu Zihang stood expressionlessly one meter behind Ling, looking out the front windshield at the frozen plane wreckage under the lake.

"Actually, there's nothing to meet. It's enough to confirm that he is still alive." Chu Zihang subconsciously stroked Murasame which was sheathed.

This legendary sword has been with him through battles of all sizes since 2007. The intensity of these battles far exceeds any war that Murasame has experienced in history.

But it was still brand new, and the intricate dragon patterns on the scabbard shone with a dark golden glow.

It looks almost the same as a newly sharpened knife.

This is because the ancient alchemical sword has the ability to self-repair. In fact, Chu Zihang almost broke it several times in battle.

But in the end, Murasame survived and became more and more resilient and sharper, just like Chu Zihang himself who had sharpened himself like a knife over the years.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment.

Just confirm that he is still alive...

Just like Lu Mingfei himself didn’t know why he had to go to the Black Swan Port. Was it for the little devil? Was it for his cheap parents whom he hadn’t seen for almost ten years? Or was it for some bullshit belief?

Neither, right?

Just to confirm one thing, to confirm that he, Lu Mingfei, was not the black dragon destined to bring the end of the world, and to confirm that everything he had done so far was meaningful.

Think about it, there is no such thing as escape in this world. Everyone is rushing towards a predetermined end, just like the collapsed rails when City 023 collapsed. No matter how twisted and struggling they are, they ultimately point to the hellish fire burning deep in the earth's core.

"Junior brother, I guess you are not running away aimlessly. Let me go with you." Chu Zihang said.

Zero left the driver's seat but did not turn off the engine. This steel behemoth that they relied on to survive in the ice and snow world still had enough energy. If the heating system was turned off, the people in the cabin would be very cold.

She skillfully found a few blankets from the closet and distributed them to everyone. Then she wrapped herself in the largest blanket and sat next to Lu Mingfei, wrapping the man in it as well.

The girl beside him had a soft body. Lu Mingfei put his arms around Ling's slender shoulders. She curled up and stretched her slightly cold little feet into Lu Mingfei's arms.

Lu Mingfei then discovered that Ling's silver hair was covered with ice. She had just gotten out of the car and walked around to check the surroundings to avoid parking in a place with loose geological environment. The ice crystals on her hair were formed at that time.

The ice chips looked like melting platinum under the warm light. "Take a few hours' rest," Ling said. "I found a map left by Bunin near the control desk. It has more than a dozen routes and supply stations marked on it. We can replenish supplies at those supply stations first, and then transfer to another train on a secret special line to reach our destination."

Lu Mingfei gently rubbed Ling's feet, which were trembling slightly due to the cold, and shared his excess body heat with Her Royal Highness the Princess.

Her ankle was very beautiful, as if it was carved out of jade by a master, and Lu Mingfei actually couldn't let it go.

Chu Zihang took a glance and turned to apply antifreeze oil to the guns in the weapons box.

In the farthest corner from them, the last Alexander Bunin left in the world was staring out the window in a daze, wrapped in a thick military quilt with a blanket filling every gap.

In fact, he was the one who provided guidance along the way. The old man was like a migrating mandarin fish, and he could find a certain coordinate without any reference.

They rushed all the way to Black Swan Port and were now close to Verkhoyansk.

Bunin's deal was about to be done, but he had no intention of leaving.

He sent away Christina, the child who might not even be considered his daughter, because he loved Bella deeply, so after Bella's death, this love continued to her flesh and blood.

But now everything is over. After the real Bunin died, the bigwigs in Moscow would no longer buy his account, and the huge empire he originally owned would soon disappear. Perhaps Okinets and others who escaped from City 023 would still do business with him because of their past friendship, but the Alexander Bunin who was famous in the circle of power and nobility is already history.

As if realizing that Lu Mingfei was looking at him, Bunin raised his cloudy eyes and looked over.

He gave the man a forced smile and nodded.

Lu Mingfei rested Ling's head on his shoulder. The wound he suffered in the battle with θ yesterday had almost healed, except for a faint mark on his throat.

The girl hugged the man beside her tightly, a small ball, and gently stroked the mark with one hand.

The flames in the gas stove were dancing. Chu Zihang was sitting alone beside the stove, staring at the flames in a daze. His back was slender and his profile was angular. The flames and shadows cut off deep proportions on his face.

"Don't be afraid, Faust, you will not be alone even if you die..." Ling whispered in Lu Mingfei's ear. Her voice was very soft, as if she would fall asleep in the next second. Lu Mingfei patted the princess' back as if he was coaxing a baby to sleep, and soon Ling really fell asleep.

Lu Mingfei looked at Chu Zihang's profile. They hadn't seen each other for a long time. During this period, many major things had happened to each of them. Logically speaking, they should have had endless things to talk about after settling down.

But it seems that both of them just want to be quiet for a while.

His eyelids were twitching, and Chu Zihang's figure in the firelight became increasingly blurred. Lu Mingfei finally couldn't bear it any longer, and fell asleep in the slight drunkenness that gradually emerged on him, snuggling up to Ling.

——

When Lu Mingfei opened his eyes, he saw the faint green fluorescence of the dashboard flowing on Ling's eyelashes.

The snowmobile curled up like a frozen shell in the long dark night. The car was silent, with only the occasional light snoring heard.

Something outside the window caught Lu Mingfei's attention. He looked over and saw a warm glow gathering together beyond the horizon.

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"Aurora?" He was a little confused. Could it be that at this longitude and latitude, he could see the skirt of the legendary goddess?

"No, the car's positioning system is too old. In fact, it took us a hundred kilometers longer. That direction is Verkhoyansk. I roughly calculated that it is still about thirty kilometers away." Chu Zihang was also awake, and his eyes without contact lenses were flashing a creepy golden light in the dark.

Lu Mingfei was a little dazed.

Thirty kilometers away, Verkhoyansk was burning with an orange halo below the horizon. It was the last wick of human civilization left on the snowfield.

Ling curled up in the cotton chair next to Lu Mingfei, hugging his arms tightly, with his cold little face buried in the camel hair scarf.

She was worthy of the title of Her Royal Highness the Princess. Even in this situation, there was still not a single flaw to be found. Her whole body maintained aristocratic elegance and almost enchanting beauty.

"What's outside?" Lu Mingfei suddenly realized that they were surrounded by a layer of white steam, which was firmly wrapping the snowmobile inside.

Chu Zihang hesitated for a moment: "This machine is not turned off, so there is no need to preheat when it is started again. There is a layer of water vapor from the melted snow outside."

Lu Mingfei thought of the boiling metal pipes in City 023, where scalding distilled water gushed out from the cracks and condensed into scorching rain on the huge reinforced concrete dome of the underground civil air defense project.

Suddenly, the eyes of both of them turned cold.

Amid the howling of wind and snow in the middle of the night, they heard the roar of some wild beast.

"Behind, the direction you came from." Xia Mi appeared beside Lu Mingfei like a ghost. Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment and turned his head suddenly to look.

There was a vague shadow deep in the snowfield, like clouds torn apart by the aurora.

Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang looked at each other and reached for the night vision binoculars. The cold metal shell immediately stuck to the skin of their palms.

It turned out to be an anchored hovercraft, with its hatch open like a black cavity. Accumulated snow climbed up the anti-skid tires, weaving a spider-web-like ice silk in the cabin.

Hazy hot air was emanating from the open hatch and the roar of the engine was still heard, but the thing failed to start after several attempts.

It was two kilometers away, at the bottom of a low slope, so Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang could see him but he couldn't see here.

No one has passed by this kind of place for decades, so it is impossible that two groups of tourists would come at the same time today. Lu Mingfei woke Ling up, and Chu Zihang woke up Su Si. The moment the two girls woke up, a telescope was stuffed into their hands.

"What is that? Are they pursuers from the academy?" Susie asked solemnly.

Ling suddenly grabbed Lu Mingfei's wrist.

"Go and have a look," she said.

Lu Mingfei was about to speak when he turned around and saw the princess's firm and unquestionable gaze.

"Okay." He nodded and clicked the safety of the Desert Eagle.

After entering Siberia, Lu Mingfei always kept the good habit of applying antifreeze oil to his weapons, so whether it was the bolt of the Desert Eagle or the knife case of the Seven Deadly Sins, they could be used normally.

——When the aperture of the tactical flashlight pierced the darkness, Jiude Mai was leaning in front of the console, her tight black combat uniform blending into the shadows, only some kind of communication device wrapped around her neck was emitting a faint metallic glow.

Lu Mingfei's expression changed drastically, but Ling took off his coat first and wrapped it around the girl who was only wearing a thin combat uniform.

It can be imagined that the layer of fabric should be a cold-proof material developed by the best scientific research institution under the name of the little devil, but the temperature outside is as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius, and no matter what kind of cold-proof material it is, it is difficult to help the human body retain body temperature.

"Do you know each other?" Chu Zihang asked puzzledly.

"My friend is trustworthy." Lu Mingfei nodded.

Ling's boot heel rolled over the frozen fuel surface in the car. Lu Mingfei frowned and bent down to pick up the brass shell that was half buried inside.

There were unrecognizable alchemical matrix residues engraved on the inner wall of the shell. It was obvious that this was the mercury core warhead developed by Su Enxi to imitate the Frigga bullet in order to deal with the threat of dragons.

The heating system of the hovercraft should have failed long ago. Lu Mingfei stepped forward, picked up Jiude Mai, stroked her wrist, and felt a weak pulse.

"Her body temperature is too low. She needs emergency treatment immediately." Lu Mingfei said. He hugged the girl tightly. The dragon blood in his body boiled. In a moment, a thin layer of steam lingered around him.

Ling searched around and found a black box in the corner.

The three of them checked again to make sure there were not many missing and returned to the snowmobile. (End of this chapter)