Dragon Raja: Reboot

21st floor of Runde Building.

All the windows were covered with thick velvet curtains, making them completely dark.

The client sat on the sofa, his face pale and his red hair disheveled; he had dressed himself up as Ronald McDonald.

"Whiskey on the rocks? Camus XO? Or...would you like a Chicken McNuggets meal?"

Tang Wei swirled the glass of whiskey in his hand, unable to resist cracking a joke.

Having worked in this industry for so many years, he had met all sorts of people and thought he was used to big scenes and could remain calm in the face of chaos. But when the client was Ronald McDonald, he couldn't help but feel a sense of awe.

Once upon a time, when Tang Wei was a child, he would look up at the McDonald's logo and drool.

"Camus XO, on the ice," the client said in a low voice.

After receiving the Camus from Tang Wei, the client opened the briefcase he had brought, which contained neatly stacked large-denomination US dollars.

"Things," he said simply.

Tang Wei also picked up the box at his feet and placed it on the table.

Upon opening the box, inside was a sealed paper bag covered with some kind of emblem—a half-decayed giant tree.

The client stopped Tang Wei from cutting the paper bag with scissors.

"That's enough, no need."

He pushed the heavy suitcase toward Tang Wei, and at the same time raised his eyes. The moment their eyes met, Tang Wei was so shocked that he almost jumped up!

There seemed to be a symbol in each of those golden eyes, slowly rotating. Tang Wei felt dizzy looking at it, yet he couldn't look away.

A strange, magical force compelled him to stare directly into those majestic and mysterious eyes!

"I'm very satisfied with your efficiency, bye-bye." Ronald McDonald downed the drink and ice in one gulp, got up and walked towards the door.

"Hey, you didn't take your things!" Tang Wei shouted, nearly collapsing from exhaustion.

"A courier company will come to pick it up at 7 p.m., just hand it over to them then. Remember, it's FedEx." The person who made the request didn't even turn around.

Tang Wei slumped onto the sofa, looking at the clock on the wall.

"What courier company is working so hard? Offering door-to-door service at 7 PM?"

He muttered to himself, unaware that the time on the wall seemed to have sped up by a few minutes.

There were still two and a half hours until seven o'clock. In two and a half hours, he would retire from hunting and leave the hunter's circle.

……

"The other side are hunters, and a hunter group at that, some of whom may have bloodlines," Professor Schneider said. "This mission is also in China, and we don't want to cause trouble. We want to finish this quickly, so we've deployed a team of up to nine people. The team leader is Chu Zihang, but he is not in charge of command. Orders are issued directly from headquarters."

After the protective wall was removed, a giant screen displaying a movie-style display took up an entire wall of the central control room, showing a 3D structural diagram of the Runde Building.

"The core objective is to storm the top floor of Building A of Runde Building and retrieve the stolen data."

Professor Manstein nodded. The Runde Building was a twin tower, and the top floor of Tower A was entirely marked in red.

Millennium Labor Export Company bought the entire top floor as its headquarters.

"Where's Mingfei?" Guderian flipped through the entire project plan. "I don't see any section where Mingfei is in charge."

The other two exchanged a glance and nodded slightly.

Manstein began, "Control and command are very important tasks."

Guderian immediately nodded in understanding.

Schneider waved his hand out of thin air, erasing the 3D structural diagram on the giant screen, and pulled up a cross-sectional view of the building from the database.

This time, all passageways are marked in red, including staircases, elevators, fire exits, and ventilation ducts.

"Look closely, I set the mission time to five minutes. If it exceeds five minutes, the police will arrive, and the hunter will have time to transfer the data."

"Five minutes? The elevator might not even arrive in five minutes."

"We won't take the elevator; we'll take the direct route. Every building... needs its windows cleaned!"

……

Chu Zihang stood on the rooftop of the building, wearing a FedEx uniform. As the sun gradually set, his shadow stretched long in the sunset.

He was wearing sunglasses, and the reflection in the sunglasses showed the Escalade with its massive 22-inch chrome wheels in front of the parking garage's main entrance.

The time has come to 18:15.

A static noise came through the headphones.

Professor Schneider's hoarse voice rang in his ears.

"Have you finished reading the action plan?"

"It's a very easy task. If the other party doesn't have a high bloodline concentration, I can complete it independently without this cooperation. Besides, the people from the school's public affairs department are too conspicuous."

"Follow orders. We've told them to dress casually and keep a low profile. They'll meet you in thirty minutes."

"clear."

"Let me reiterate, this is China, not the unsupervised areas where you previously carried out missions. Don't make too much of a fuss!"

"clear."

"Then that's settled. Stay put and wait for the right opportunity."

"clear."

Chu Zihang looked up at the sky.

In the afternoon, the clouds lingering in the west gradually pressed down on the city, their color turning darker, seemingly a harbinger of a storm.

Is it going to rain?

He recalled the weather forecast he had seen that morning, and his brows furrowed involuntarily.

There shouldn't have been heavy rain today.

……

……

Lu Mingfei left his uncle's house with a simple bag on his back.

This time, because we communicated with the "professionals" in advance, everything went smoothly and it didn't end badly like last time.

After politely declining his uncle's offer to give him a ride, Lu Mingfei packed his things and left home.

"Mingfei!"

A voice from behind called out to him.

The uncle jogged up to Lu Mingfei and handed him an umbrella.

"Take your umbrella, this awful weather looks like it's going to rain. The weather forecast is so wrong. Are you really going back to school early? Or is it just an excuse to go on a trip with your classmates? Well, a trip is fine too, it's better than you staying at home all day being bossed around by your aunt. Do you have enough money?"

As the man spoke, he pulled out a Goldlion wallet from behind his back.

He opened the hidden compartment, and there were seven or eight hundred-yuan bills inside.

After a slight hesitation, the uncle first took out four bills, and then simply pulled out all the large bills at once and stuffed them into Lu Mingfei's hand.

"Boys should be generous when going out, and not let girls pay! You're not getting any younger, it's time to find a girlfriend. I was just discussing with your aunt today what kind of wife your brother should find in the future. As the older brother, you can't fall behind your younger brother in this kind of thing, right? Alright, hurry up and go, or you'll miss your flight."

Lu Mingfei stared blankly as the man hurriedly ran back, as if he was convinced that the man didn't want to be bossed around by his aunt and had made up an excuse to sneak off on a trip.

He looked down at the hundred-yuan bill in his hand, his smile tinged with sadness.

He recalled that time in Tokyo.

Just like today, this man, who had practically no money and had saved up everything he could from under his fingernails, stuffed all the things he could give him into his hands.

He always considered himself a descendant of the Lu family.

so good……

A drop of rain suddenly hit his hair.

Lu Mingfei looked up at the sky, where countless raindrops were falling from the sky, and a layer of white mist was spreading over the ground.

The rain started and quickly reached its peak.

It's raining.

"Brother, it's raining. Do you like rain?"

The little devil suddenly appeared beside him, still dressed in his finest attire, holding a black umbrella.

He stood beside Lu Mingfei, but his gaze was fixed on the far distance, his golden eyes filled with coldness and disgust.

Lu Mingfei followed his gaze.

That was the city's bustling area, with towering buildings standing side by side. He used to yearn for that place, believing that the people living there were all social elites, fundamentally different from a loser like him.

"Whether I like rain or not depends on you. If you like rain, then I like rain; if you don't like rain, then I hate rain," Lu Mingfei said softly.

Lu Mingze looked up at his brother, but didn't get the answer he wanted from his eyes.

He sighed, "Brother, are you so wavering in your stance? When will you truly become independent?"

"Misunderstanding." Lu Mingfei opened his umbrella, lowered his head and smiled. "What I meant to say is that I don't care about rain at all, just like I don't care about this world. Whether this world is worth my liking depends only on whether the people around me like it."

Lu Mingze was stunned.

He looked at his increasingly unfamiliar brother and smiled brightly.

"Brother, want to go there for fun? Something for Nothing, remember? We're giving away a free trial version to both new and existing users as a thank you!"

Lu Mingze's smile was innocent and pure as he pointed to a building standing in the rain in the distance.

That's the Runde Building.

Lu Mingfei, holding an umbrella, said with a deep gaze, "Free things are always the most expensive, but this time... I really want to play with Him."

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