"Dragons?" Lin Nian said, before he could react, Professor Manstein clapped his hands, and at some point Fingal, who had changed into the same school uniform as Lin Nian and Lin Xian and was waiting by the oil painting early, shook his hand and suddenly lifted the canvas on the drawing board next to him!

Lin Nian saw the hideousness hidden in the shadows for a moment, and in an instant, it was as if someone had pushed him, pressing him on the back of the leather seat!

That's the coercion of that painting.

The sky is iron and blue mixed with the color of fire, and the only giant tree stands, and its dead branches stretch in all directions, weaving a dense web to support the cracked sky. The wasteland was covered with dry bones, and black beasts were rising from the depths of the pile of bones, their wings hung with skeletons, spreading their huge membranous wings, and spitting black flames into the sky. (Original text of Dragon: Dawn of Fire)

Dragon.

The first time he saw the creature in this painting, the word popped into his mind, he could vaguely hear something roaring, anger flowing like magma on the scroll, and the golden dazzling in the dragon's eye was like undried colored ink being directly exposed to the sun, giving people the illusion that the painting was alive.

"The Dragon Emperor Nidhogg, the culprit who gnawed down the World Tree in Norse mythology, the end of all things, and the destroyer of the world." Professor Manstein stood in front of the scroll with a red wine glass and stared: "The goal that we have been looking for for countless generations for thousands of years, they are hidden in the shadow of human history, they were the creators, pioneers, kings of this world, they wrote the real history, and we humans play the role of fire thieves and slaves at most. ”

"Is this some kind of tradition? Did you call this admissions counseling? Lin Nian looked at the shocking and beautiful picture scroll and couldn't help but whisper.

Professor Manstein walked to the bookshelf against the wall and said, "Didn't you ask what the specific majors are in our college?" We can tell you now that our biggest topic is the study of dragons, and countless majors have been derived from it, such as alchemical engineering, magic mechanical design, dragon lineage theory, and other different disciplines. ”

"Although our college is a regular university registered with the U.S. Department of Education, we use our own textbooks." Manstein pulled out a book and put it in front of Lin Nian, who picked it up and found that the language on the cover of the book was still written in Latin.

"Why Latin?" Lin Nian ran his finger across the uneven cover of the book to feel the traces of age on it.

"Because we believe that learning Latin is better for understanding the language of dragons." Professor Manstein said.

"Latin is a dead language, and no one uses it as a native language anymore, so I can understand that the "dragon" you mentioned is as extinct as Latin? In fact, you are a group of archaeologists who are similar to the discovery of the 'dinosaur civilization'. Lin Xian took the book in Lin Nian's hand and carefully observed the cover.

"Extermination? No, the dragons are not extinct, on the contrary they are recovering! "The book you are holding now is called Genealogy of the Dragons, and the author is none other than the rector of our Kassel Academy, and it is also an optional course in the first year, and the credits you will receive after successful completion are very good. ”

"Hilbert Jean Angers, is the name of our headmaster?" Lin Nian found the author's silver-plated flower name on the back of the book.

"Yes, Principal Angers, the greatest educator and thinker of the century... and the Dragon Slayer. Manstein's face was full of praise, and Lin Nian could see the respect and admiration on his face, and it seemed that this Hilbert Jean Angers was not ordinarily prestigious in the academy.

But that's not what he's focusing on right now.

"You say our headmaster is a dragon slayer? Slaying dragons? Is that the word I had in mind? Lin Nian asked in a daze.

"Did I forget to say it?" Professor Manstein smiled and said: "The purpose of our search for dragons for thousands of years is not simply to worship and worship them, or to prove their existence, the existence of dragons does not need us to prove, on the contrary, we want to erase them and destroy them, so the biggest topic of our Kassel Academy has always been - slaying dragons!" ”

Professor Manstein's words were resonant and resonant in his chest and abdomen as the words dragon slaying came out of his mouth, and the sound reverberated and resonated in the carriage for a long time.

After a long time, Lin Nian put down the book "Genealogy of the Dragon Family" in his hand, looked up at Manstein, and said, "Before arriving at the Chicago train station, Senior Brother Fingal said that you and another professor named Guderian are patients in a mental hospital. I didn't believe it before, but now I seem to believe a little. ”

Manstein was stunned for a moment by this sudden remark, and after a while he turned to look at Fingal and asked, "Did you really say that?" ”

Fingal was also stunned and subconsciously replied: "I just mentioned it in passing... The last time Guderian was drunk and told me, he said you are his patient! ”

"What a patient... Hell, did you know that this kind of irresponsible remarks can cause freshmen's first impressions of our college to collapse! Freshman counseling is hard enough to do, and you're still making such a mess. I knew I shouldn't have asked you to pick up Lin Nian! I should have given Mandy a leave of absence to come in person! Manstein said angrily.

"Then the junior girl will not be able to finish her studies, and she will be deducted almost as many grades as she survives Japan under you." Fingal whispered.

"But the professor." Lin Nian raised the "Dragon Genealogy" in his hand and said in a loud voice: "I haven't said that I don't believe you at all. ”

"You mean you're willing to trust us?" Manstein was stunned for a moment, and his face suddenly softened a lot.

"No, I believe that this kind of thing is based on a certain foundation, after all, the things we are talking about now are too surreal, if I say that I believe in the existence of 'dragons', I think you will also think that I am perfunctory to you." Lin Nian flipped through the books full of Latin and said: "But I assume that everything you said is true, and there really is a legendary species called 'dragon' in the world, so you must have 'examples' or 'evidence' to convince me to believe it, right?" ”

"Yes." Manstein nodded: "After arriving at the academy, I can take you to see some artifacts, those artifacts are the best proof of the existence of the dragon civilization, after you see those perfect creations that humans can't touch, you will completely believe in the existence of dragons." ”

"I need to verify this, but the professor said that the subject of the Kassel Academy is dragon slaying." After digesting this information, Lin Nian raised his head and said, "Why? ”

"Why?" Professor Manstein didn't quite understand what Lin Nian meant.

"The means of slaying dragons, dragons are extremely powerful species in any fantasy literature, and if you want to slay dragons, you always need to rely on machine guns and heavy artillery? Or planes and tanks? So the Kassel Academy is actually a military academy? Is there the UN or the P5 standing behind you? Lin Nian made inferences based on his own perception of the world and his current hypothesis and asked.

"You didn't veto the existence of dragons, and I'm glad that you think of so many things and then ask questions, which means that you are a very calm and rational person." Professor Manstein said: "Behind us is not the support of the whole country, our group of people is called the 'secret party', once the 'secret party' is a family composed of 'blood', in the past thousands of years jointly held this secret secret, and took on the responsibility of slaying the dragon to send future generations to the battlefield to protect the secret of the dragon family, we believe that once the secret of the dragon family is leaked, it will be irreversible harm to the world." ”

"So you keep your own secrets and don't release them, but it's stupid to do so, and you can get the maximum amount of human resources and scientific research by cooperating with the United Nations, and can't the power of modern weapons deal with the so-called 'dragon'?" Lin Nian shook his head and said.

"Don't think about a problem one-sidedly, in the words of your hometown, it's called 'blinding'." Manstein raised a finger, his eyebrows were full of seriousness: "You don't know what kind of existence the 'dragon clan' is, to deal with the dragon clan, thermal weapons are naturally an indispensable help." But it's not enough to rely on thermal weapons, so we have developed more powerful alchemy weapons on the basis of thermal weapons! But what really matters is the people who use the weapons. ”

"The students of Kassel Academy are actually a group of dragon slayer warrior reserves?" Lin Nian came to this astonishing conclusion.

"You can say that, but we collectively call ourselves the 'secret party.'" Professor Manstein said, "The Secret Party is looking for these people who have the qualifications to slay dragons - do you remember what I said about you before?" ”

Excellent.

Lin Nian still had this word in his mind.

He fell silent for a long time before asking, "When did you find me?" ”

"I only recently received word that I knew of your existence, and I didn't know about you until then, but some of us have been following you." Manstein said lightly: "Maybe you think that your 'giftedness' since childhood is a genetic mutation, but in fact it is not, there is only one word to call us people." ”

Looking at Lin Nian, who was staring at him, Manstein said slowly: "'Half-blood'." ”