Lu Mingfei, become the king of gambling in dungeons!

Odin, the king of the gods in Norse mythology?

You've wandered onto the wrong set...

Lu Mingfei stared stiffly at the deity on the overpass. He wasn't a fan of foreign mythology, but he could recognize the other party's identity at a glance because the guy in front of him was covered in the characteristics of "Odin" from head to toe.

The deity exuded an unparalleled sense of oppression, his eight-legged steed treading on thunder, the ancient god's might making it difficult for mortals to breathe.

They sensed each other, and around the gods, the wind and rain suddenly stopped, and the spiritual realm of the king appeared, with dark energy forming a barrier.

The water on the ground flowed with the sound of ocean waves, submerging low-lying areas and breaking through the rain curtain, the power of the sea seemingly confronting the power of divine thunder.

Unconsciously, his face turned cold. Lu Mingfei tilted his head slightly, his golden eyes feeling a kind of provocation that compelled him to retaliate, and a dark light like molten gold flowed in his eyes.

The invisible wall is exactly the same.

Stand users of the same type.

Was Odin unaware that his "forbidden zone" was merely a prototype, a mere facade, and therefore chose not to take action, or was there another reason?

Their golden eyes met, and the atmosphere almost froze.

The pressure is immense.

Or... we could just go all out against them.

He's also someone who... often goes crazy.

His eyes flickered, and Lu Mingfei's throat bobbed twice.

If he finishes all two hundred bottles of evolution potion and that vial of ancient dragon fetal blood serum... he will probably lose himself and break through the bloodline threshold. I don't know how much chance he has of winning against the god in front of him.

The moment the thought arose, it took root and sprouted like weeds, growing wildly. The dragon-like part of his blood was eager to try, and the steel shackles of his bloodline seemed as fragile as paper in the face of the tyrannical dragon heart.

He didn't move an inch, and Odin on the other side stood as imposing as a mountain.

Time ticked by, and the two sides, unmoved, stared at each other like two armies facing off, with the low-flying thunder transforming into a vast army.

"I burn my ship,"

Afraid of the dark,

You overlooked it

I wait with burning desire.

I can't turn back now.

Is it willing to help me?

Where do you drift? To whom do you stay?

My horizons and my dreams still need your help to save them.

The watch with the alarm set in his backpack went off at just the right moment. The alarm music was Xiong Tianping's "Fool's Wharf," a song that Lu Mingfei used to like to listen to while sitting on the rooftop.

It was time for Lao Tang to play StarCraft with him.

The atmosphere eased slightly.

As if offering each other a way out, in the boundless rain, the god and the man turned around at the same time and left in completely opposite directions.

……

……

Inside an internet cafe.

"Boss, a free glass of water, five free tissues, half a scallion pancake, and two free packets of ketchup, please."

When he turned on Windows XP, the blue sky and green grass made Lu Mingfei feel relieved, as comfortable as if he were at home... Here, home refers to his warm home from elementary school. Anyway, the salaries of these monitors depend on him, so he was at ease.

Under the internet cafe owner's horrified expression, he boldly raised his glass of water and gulped it down. Since things had come to this, he decided to play a game of StarCraft with Lao Tang to relieve stress. This time, he was going to give it his all and show respect to his opponent.

He essentially stood Lao Tang up, but it seems Lao Tang stood him up too—the evidence being that Lao Tang had just logged into QQ as well.

If we stand each other up, doesn't that mean everyone keeps their promise?

The panda icon flashed.

"Mingming, there was a reason why I stood you up, and you definitely won't believe it if I told you."

"Old Tang, I've just run into some trouble, you might not believe it."

The two sent QQ messages almost simultaneously; their fate was truly wondrous.

"Huh?" Lu Mingfei asked curiously. "Old Tang, you go first. Didn't you say in your self-introduction on your homepage that you're the Brooklyn King of Punctuality? What could possibly hold you back?"

"The King of Punctuality... What's most famous about our line of work is 'instability.' Some of our colleagues might have been enjoying Neapolitan pizza in the ambiance of Lucca yesterday, and today they're eating instant noodles in the dead of winter. There's only one legend in this line of work, a legend who never makes a mistake, a man strong enough to live a stable life. Can you guess who it is?"

"Do I even need to guess? You've already used such an obvious self-praise style." Lu Mingfei chuckled and responded with an amazed and admiring emoji.

"So you mean you can consistently eat Neapolitan pizza at that fancy restaurant?"

"I can eat instant noodles regularly."

To be honest, although he earns a lot, he doesn't use most of it for himself.

"Sometimes you can get potato hot dogs in your instant noodles, and Lucali isn't exactly a high-end restaurant. I'm using it as an example because their garlic burritos and Margherita pizzas are huge, and the location is great for enjoying the night view of the Brooklyn Bridge..."

"Old Tang, you seem to have gone a bit off-topic?" Lu Mingfei realized that Old Tang must be quite short of friends, because once he started talking, he couldn't stop.

If he weren't curious about Lao Tang's reason for being late, he would have been happy to hear more about his experiences in foreign countries.

Although they didn't know each other at all in reality, and weren't even in the same country, he subconsciously felt that Old Tang had no ill intentions towards him. It was as if the two had known each other for a long time, and they could easily talk about things that they wouldn't easily tell outsiders.

From this perspective, even though they've only just met, Lao Tang and he are already considered friends.

That's great, I gained a friend just like that, without any bumps along the way.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I mean, I was confident I could be on time because I've never messed up before, but I messed up today... My lifelong reputation is ruined."

Old Tang kept it a secret.

"Have you ever heard of Norse mythology?"

His tone shifted rather abruptly.

Lu Mingfei's heart skipped a beat: "I've heard of it. I didn't read the translated Edda Prose in the school's literary society, but I do know about people like Odin, Loki, and Jormungandr."

He had taken bits and pieces of Teacher Chu's crash course on dragon knowledge at Genji Heavy Industries, so he had a basic understanding of hybrids and dragons. He knew about the four monarchs, the Black King and the White King, and the half-dead World Tree Yggdrasil. The history of dragons was also full of the shadow of Norse mythology.

Not to mention that he also collided with Odin on the overpass today.

"That's enough. The grave I entered today belongs to a high-ranking Nazi officer. The original location was Cologne in western Germany. The burial complex at the officer's ancestral home had a major design flaw. The underground passages were very deep and close to an underground current in the Rhine River basin... But when we came out, it was probably near Augsburg in Bavaria, at a latitude shift of 2.57°."

Old Tang kindly added, "If you don't believe what I'm about to say, just listen to it as a bedtime story. There's no need to take it to heart. When I tell my colleagues this, they're all skeptical."

He sent three crying emojis in a row.

The tomb... Old Tang's job is indeed unstable.

"Is it okay for you to talk to an outsider like me about the specifics?" Lu Mingfei wasn't too worried about his own safety. He had some martial arts skills, but he was afraid that Lao Tang would be punished according to the rules of their trade.

Disliking causing trouble for others is a habit he has developed, and it is also his instinctive way of dealing with the outside world.

Sending a smiley face emoji, Old Tang explained without embellishment: "Generally speaking, you can't just reveal the details of an employer's mission, but the employer for this mission died suddenly after we came out from underground."

"In cases of sudden cardiac death, if the website does not encrypt the relevant information after the employer's death, it doesn't matter who it is told to; this is considered publicly available but discarded information."

Since Old Tang had said that, Lu Mingfei, who was already curious, naturally had no reason not to listen. He could tell that Old Tang seemed to be in a bad mood. He forgot which short story it was that said people in a bad mood choose to chat with friends and confide in them as a way to regulate their emotions.

"The bounty that the employer posted inside us was a bit strange, or rather, bizarre. It asked us to find a coffin made entirely of gold that had been lost for more than a hundred years and was carved with red vine-like patterns all over its body. The reward was very generous."

"The patterns on the front of the coffin resemble Mesopotamian cuneiform script. Each line looks like an angry snake, with no discernible pattern. The client once commented that it was an artifact from the Parihart civilization. However, in the eyes of us experts, it is a very clumsy forgery because... it doesn't match up in any way, and it's too young."

"The long passage of time will leave traces of change on any object, and time will erode many things that seem immortal."

"Therefore, we believe that the 'gold' used as a 'coffin' is most likely not genuine. The employer actually spent $250 million to find a poor fake in the tomb. Before going down into the tomb, everyone talked about it, thinking that she was foolish and had too much money... When I saw the photos, I acted on impulse and, as if possessed, took on the task."