Chapter 21: The So-Called Half-Blood Age
Without hesitation, Ye Yu returned directly to the parking lot in front of the auction venue, and unexpectedly, Xia Mi did not wait for him in the car obediently
Ye Yu circled his head, put the stolen knife into the trunk, and then thought about it and turned around and entered the opera house again
This time he didn't go through the VIP passage again, but walked in from the main entrance, and the auction was over, and many people wearing clothes similar to the last century walked out from the exit laughing, and Ye Yu, who was dressed in formal clothes, looked particularly prominent
"Ye Yu??" Ange saw Ye Yu shouting softly, a little surprised
"Hello principal" Ye Yu waved his hand and slowly waited for Ange to come to his side
"This auction will have my family's participation, so I'll take a look" Ye Yu didn't wait for Ange to speak, and suddenly said, "But it doesn't seem to be fun."
"Indeed, the auction is really annoying, I seem to prefer the tea in my office to the intrigue with others here and carefully bid for what I want" Ange smiled slightly, the feeling of an old gentleman made Ye Yu silent for a moment
"Teacher, you are not old yet, this kind of leisurely life should have to be delayed for two years," Ye Yu said without changing his face
"Haha" Ange patted Ye Yu on the shoulder, "I'm old, and the world in the future will be the world of you young people."
The two chatted as they walked to the other exit
"Congratulations on what you wanted." A faint greeting, as if from an old friend who has not seen each other for many years
The sound of leather shoes stopped abruptly, Ye Yu paused, and did not speak
Ange put his hands in his pockets and stood still
He was about to traverse this narrow corridor, flanked by reproductions of famous paintings, from Van Gogh and Monet to Rubens, with a scarlet ceiling, walls and floors, and a short figure projected on Ange's back, hunched on his back and on crutches
A faint smile appeared on Ange's face, and he said to Ye Yu, "Old friend wants to talk to me, see you outside later"
"No need" Ye Yu shrugged his shoulders and pointed to the lounge next to him, "I think I should be able to rest for a while, if he can do his best as a landlord"
Ange raised an eyebrow and said nothing more
"Of course I want to entertain you, young man," the person behind him said gently, and then his tone changed, "Didn't you say you wanted to talk, why don't you come in and sit down?" ”
"You shot me in Texas in 1899, and when I turned around, I don't know if you were carrying a revolver, 'Fast Henkel.'"
"It's been a hundred years," the one behind him smiled kindly, "At that time, your 'Time Zero' could only delay time by 4 seconds, and now it's more than 10 seconds, right?" The speed of bullets can be slowed down by you, so why care about my fast hands? And I'm also old, and my hands are slow. ”
"Introduction, Hilbert Jean Angers, headmaster of the Kassel School and one of the leaders of the Dragon's Blood Secret Party." Henkel slowly walked to the table and sat down, pointing to Ye Yu beside Ange, "I wonder if this is a student of your Kassel Academy and also your disciple?" I didn't expect you to think about the question of inheritance."
Ye Yu grinned, his face was hanging, and his eyes turned on the other people in the room
"I said earlier, I think you all know him, but we haven't spoken face-to-face, how many years have we not spoken directly, Ange?" Henkel sighed
"The last time was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when you were a colonel in the U.S. Army, and our negotiations were interrupted in the middle of our negotiations by an aviation alert." Ange walked over to the empty high-backed cowhide chair next to him and sat down to relight a cigar
"Why do you suddenly have a sense of déjà vu that the boss of the underworld is sighing face to face... It must be that I think too much," Ye Yu slandered
There were thirteen of these chairs in the small room, and on the chairs were all handsome young men, dressed in about the same costume as Anges, with black suits and leather shoes, white Florentine shirts, and different flowers in their pockets. They all greeted Ange in the same way, raised their right fists, and showed the silver ring on their index fingers, the thick and simple ring, and the huge ring was a different totem
They unveiled their family crests
"Yes, in 1941," Henkel said slowly with a very emotional tone, "if it weren't for your 'Time Zero' that bought us both a few seconds, we would have all been killed by a Japanese bomb, and it was really dangerous in retrospect, the moment you launched your speech, that bomb seemed to hang above the bridge out of thin air." ”
"How many of you can represent the family?" Ange looked at the well-dressed young men and said with an expressionless face
"It's almost the same, it's the best young people from each family, and we focus on nurturing them. Some of the old guys from your generation are dead, some are lying in hospital beds with oxygen tubes in their throats. Bloodline is really tragic for them, cancer, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, myocardial infarction, inflammation and other diseases that can easily kill human beings, so they will not die suddenly, but the organs will slowly fail. After all, the genes are not perfect, just half a dragon. ”
Henkel sighed, "I'm also old, I see that you are still as vigorous as a young man, I really envy you, you go to the bar and a little girl will be tempted by a handsome old man like you, right?" I love that Maserati sports car you drive. ”
Ye Yu pursed his lips, is this kind of thing to promote the glory of the family outside commendable, on behalf of the family? Do they know that they are just pawns of the old man in front of them?
Isn't it great to think you're a half-breed family?
If he shows off, their family is not worth mentioning at all
After all, even if it was the Gattuso family, he Ye Yu was not afraid
"Henkel, don't beat around the bush and save some time." Ange puffed out a puff of cigarette and shook his head, "You've been hosting these kinds of auctions, and I've always been there, and you've never even said hello to me." What is the matter with this exception? ”
"The Kassel Academy has been selling a lot of auctions lately, and we're feeling the pressure. Today, the transaction price of this set of swords is as high as 100 million US dollars, which is a sky-high price that we did not expect. Henkel picked up the champagne from the ice bucket, poured a glass, and motioned for the bodyguard to hand it to Angers
"Then thank you for finally giving up and letting us get what we want." Angers raised his glass
Ye Yu narrowed his eyes and stood behind Ange without speaking
"The man in front of you is part of the auction?" Ye Yu secretly speculated, "And you've been hosting?" It seems that he has never paid attention to this aspect of the problem."
"We don't want to pretend to be generous, there must be potential value in what you fancy that we don't know about, and we don't want you to get your hands on it easily. But your friend, Mr. Lu, he's so good at tricking up that he is completely like a madman when he bids, and it's not your style at all······ You're also a madman, but in a different way than he is. In the end, when he quoted a sky-high price of 100 million, we can't be sure whether you signaled him to do it, or if he was dizzy. Alchemy swords have appeared more than once in our auctions, and the set of swords is very new, not at all like an antiquity, and should not be worth that much money. I hesitated and didn't follow up. But now I regret it, because you're obviously happy with the swords. ”
"Windfall," Ange smiled, "Ming Fei is not a ghost, his character is like that, and he actually bluffs you." ”
"Yes, I'm already an old man, young style, I don't fit in." Henkel paused, "We know that the Kassel Academy killed the 'Bronze and Fire' of the Four Great Sovereigns in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River last year. ”
"Yes." Ange was calm.
The young men looked at each other, and a fair-skinned, blonde-haired young man stood up, "What we want to know is······ Have you acquired him? ”
Ange didn't answer, he lowered his head and played with the glass in his hand, in which the wine rippled with layers of pale gold, and the atmosphere in the room instantly became delicate, and the young people's bodies were tense, and there was a faint golden flash in their eyes
Sometimes the silence is warm, sometimes it evokes hidden hostility
Ye Yu snorted coldly, the bright golden pupils in his eyes opened, and a strong coercion shrouded the group of young people, "Can you ask if we have obtained it?"
Several young people in the room stood up, and the hostility in their eyes was very obvious
"Hmph" Ye Yu's cold snort added mental suppression, "At least when the elders are talking, it is basic etiquette for juniors not to interject, I think your father may be disappointed when he sees you now"
The fair-skinned young man with blond hair turned pale and sat back slowly, his face flushed, and his mouth was open for a long time, unable to say a word
"Enough" Henkel glanced at Ye Yu deeply and smiled, "Our young people are indeed a little reckless, but young, it's always good to be aggressive."
Ye Yu glanced at Henkel and didn't say anything, and stood obediently behind Ange
Ange reached out and carefully picked up a struggling moth from the wine······ Shaking his head sadly
"No," he said casually, "it could have been obtained, but there was an accident during the operation, and one of our cadets rushed to the front and hit him head-on with a storm torpedo, and we didn't find him later, neither alive nor dead." ”
"That is, you killed him, but you didn't get him." The other young man who got up asked softly, staring into Ange's eyes
"We're not even sure if they killed him, but even the Four Great Monarchs are still a creature, and a frontal hit from a storm torpedo can pierce through a cruiser, and the chances of him surviving are all too slim. He didn't have enough time to conceive a gigantic body, so he just used the body of the "Dragon Servant", which couldn't even be compared to one-tenth of the body. You must have done a detailed investigation on such a big matter, and what I said should be the same as yours, right? Ange shrugged
"It's a big deal, it's the first time in history that it's possible for us to actually kill the four great monarchs, and kill both twins on a throne. The dragon's ability to 'cocoon' has been a nightmare for us for thousands of years, and no matter how many times we kill, we will resurrect, and you have solved this problem. Henkel clapped his hands gently
"Congratulations, I think you'll keep up the good work."
"Of course, the purpose of the existence of the secret party is to put an end to the dragon clan."
"Who's next?"
"I can't say anything about this, if I leak the college's plan, the school directors won't let me go."
"Very well," Henkel nodded slightly, "at least we know that you have a complete plan for cleaning out the last dragons, and that it will be an important day in human history." With that, Henkel nodded to the young man who had gotten up
"We have some ideas that we would like to convey to the Kassel Academy." The young man puffed up his chest and slowly took in Angers
He learned the majesty of his father, graceful and vigorous
"I'm just here to hear what you think." Ange waved his cigar and, to put it mildly, was like a conversation with a young man at tea time
"Mr. Angers, if it weren't you who came to the auction today, but Frost Gattuso, we might not be able to sit down here, have a drink, and talk well." The young man stared into Ange's eyes without a moment's eye, "I think you understand why. ”
"Frost Gattuso is one of the current leaders of the Gattuso family, he is proud of his bloodline, he is very radical, he is always 100% oppressive to the other families, if it were him, he would not talk to you at all." Ye Yu stepped forward and said indifferently
"And you want to contact us because we Kassel are more gentle than before, as the Dragon's Blood Secret Party, we Kassel can accept other opinions, and the Gattuso family, which you think can't communicate, is stronger than us" Ye Yu grinned the corners of his mouth with contempt, "So you came to us to talk about your plan, right?"
The young man took a step forward, "We are not an underworld, we don't have the habit of bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, looking for you is just able to cooperate, after all, who doesn't want their partner to be a very unreasonable bull"
"Then what do you want to say" Ye Yu did not refute
The young man was satisfied with this answer and took another step, "We are all half-breeds, and we should be good friends. It's just that there are some differences in the attitude towards the dragons, you think that you are humans, and the dragons are mortal enemies, and we think that our group is between humans and dragons, and there is no need to always be entangled in the matter of dragon slaying. But it's not a big deal, you now have the power to kill the first generation, and we'd love to see it. We want you to put an end to the history of the dragons once and for all, as long as it doesn't expose our common secrets and make humanity fear us. If you need anything, we can help. ”
"Sounds good." Ye Yu didn't evaluate and nodded lightly
"After the dragons, it will not be the world of humans, but the world of our half-bloods. But don't expect any branch to be an absolute leader, we share power," the young man took another step, and his breath could spray Ye Yu's face as he spoke, "Kassel had better remember this, so that between us, there is always a chance to sit down and have a drink and resolve differences." ”
Ye Yu sneered, "You just said that you are not the underworld, and now you are thinking about killing the enemy and allocating 'territory'?" ”
"It's not about dividing territory, it's about sharing power. We are far better than ordinary humans, we are supposed to be rulers, and for so many years, we have chosen to live in secrecy and not let the outside world know about our existence, an important reason is that the shadow of the dragon clan is still there. They could be resurrected at any time, and we are always on our guard, so we don't want to be seen as enemies by other human beings. But we're going to get out of this shadow, when there's nothing to restrain us, we can stop being cautious, we're going to have more and more power, and there's enough to share. As long as the Kassel Academy does not mistakenly think that it will enjoy all the fruits. ”
"What do you mean... It's that we are responsible for slaying the dragon, and after the dragon clan is wiped out, you can pay such a small price and get the right to share? Ye Yu's sneering became more and more frequent
"It's not a piece of the pie, it's sharing, there is no difference between you and us, we are not 100% human, nor are we pure-blooded dragons, our difference is just the concept, we don't want to get a piece of the pie from the fruits inside, we have also been hostile to dragons in history, we don't need to distinguish between each other." Young people talk in the tone of Wall Street junk bond brokers
"How do I share?"
"First and foremost, if you get those dragon kings······ I mean, their corpses······ You cannot take it for yourself. ”
"Hehe" Ye Yu narrowed his eyes, "Is that thing food?" Want one and a half? Do you want to cuff it and eat it, I think the roast dragon meat may be more delicious, after all, they look more like lizards in appearance, but will they be poisoned?? ”
"Yes, half of you, half of us" The young man's face was gloomy, and he didn't care about anything else in Ye Yu's words
"Can our half be bigger? We contributed a lot, and there were a lot of people at the Kassel Academy, so if it wasn't enough, we had to stew soup and drink a spoonful of it per person. Ye Yu slowly sank his face
"We are showing goodwill to cooperate, not bargaining!"
"Hehe" Ye Yu smiled, "We are desperately paying the price of our lives to kill the pure-blood dragon clan outside, and we are not even qualified to bargain, and you will fool us by expressing the goodwill of cooperation?" ”
"Okay, okay," the young man took a deep breath, suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, and put on a gentle smile again, "We are happy to admit that Kassel and the secret party have sacrificed for this war, and we will pay a fair price for it." ”
"Reasonable price?" Ye Yu squinted and nodded
The young man felt that there was hope for a talk, and his smile grew stronger, "Yes, the people will accept you again, you will no longer be isolated, the trade routes of the whole world will be open to you, and we will intermarry to strengthen our bloodline and have better offspring." ”
"And the most important thing is the assistance we will provide to you next, just with the current strength of the secret party, killing one of the four great kings is a life-and-death challenge, once you make a mistake, awakening the dragon king in advance and failing to kill him will be a problem for the whole world. In today's era of information explosion, if there is another war of the Huns invading Europe, the secret will never be covered. ”
"We remember the dead who say to ourselves, but don't overcharge them because of the dead."
"History is the wheel of steel, there are always some people under the wheel, for the individual, it is a tragedy, for history, it is inevitable. Their names will still be passed down for many years to come, but our greatest remembrance is to enjoy the peaceful life they brought us. ”
"It's time for us to look forward to the future together, what are we doing with the differences of the past? Once the dragons are erased from history, the hybrids are at the top of the evolutionary tree, and pure-bloods can't compare to us,"
The young man took a deep breath and prepared to end this magnificent speech with the strongest sentence, "Together we will become the new dragons!" ”
"New Dragons??" Ye Yu laughed angrily
Inexplicably, I remembered the memories of the Snake Eight Family when I was in Japan
There is never peace between half-breeds, the desire for power and cannibalism with their own kind, and they have half the blood of the dragon in their bodies, there is no way to avoid it
"Who are you to speak these words to us?" Ye Yu moved, and the bracer on his hand derived a sharp blade in an instant
An incredible scene happened to the young man, his elegant black suit and white shirt burst into dozens of broken steps and scattered in all directions, and only scattered fragments remained of his beautifully trained upper body
A terrible pressure pressed down on his head like a huge wave of a tsunami, and the young man did not even have the strength to move a finger, and he clearly heard a small crack in his skin, and then the crack became longer and longer, across the entire face, and a line of blood slowly emerged, and the scalp exploded, as if a knife had been wiped over the scalp, and a cold sweat broke out
Ye Yu still stood in place and said to him, "Do you know what you are in front of the dragon? ”
"It's a dwarf, it's an ant, he can kill you with a flick of his hand, and you will never understand what you pay for every dragon you kill, while the gold you stole from the Indians was shipped back to Europe, made into gold jewelry and worn on bitches, danced and flirted with them, and bought an estate for the family"
"You're still here to talk to us about how to distribute power and share power after killing the dragon queen."
"When you say this, please think about who we are, we are red-eyed on the battlefield, but you want us to calm down and talk to you about the future?"
"Your grace is like a clown to me, you know?"
Ye Yu took a step back, "Teacher, it's too late, I think we should leave"
Ange chuckled twice, "Well, it's about the same."
Ye Yu followed behind Ange, turned around and went out, without saying another word
The room was silent, and the sound of a needle hitting the ground could be heard
The young people were all conceited of their blood, and each of them had different speech abilities, some of which could make their vision extremely sharp, and they could see everything like a magnifying glass, but none of them saw how the young man standing next to Ange did it
The front and back of that moment were truncated, and it felt like watching a movie when the middle was cut out by a bad editor for a few seconds, regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, and it couldn't be coherent
The only thing they could feel was the instantaneous, eyebrow-piercing pressure
Dragon Might, born with the release of the dragon spirit realm, terrifying majesty
"Wipe your face?" Henkel dipped a handkerchief in the ice bucket in front of him and handed it to the injured young man
The young man took it and lowered his head and pressed it on his face, but suddenly felt a chill on his scalp, and when he raised his head, he saw that the faces of the people around him were wrong
"Your... Hair," one of them said hesitantly
"Hair?" The young man reached out and touched it, but directly grabbed a hand of hair, and picked up the mirror in a daze, only to find that his hair had already been shaved, and at that moment, Ye Yu shaved his hair
Nian Qiangren's heart suddenly felt a burst of fear, if at that moment Ye Yu aimed at his neck······