“TRYAWEEKWITHOUTRAILWAY!!!”

Lu Mingfei stood in the church-style waiting hall of Chicago Railway Station, looking up at the giant white banner hanging from the dome, and felt like he wanted to cry without tears.

"Try a week without railroads!"

If an environmentalist would say that, it's nothing.

What they mean is to stay at home for a week, not go far, save energy, stay away from the noise of the railway station, and feel the quiet beauty of living in a simple place, Lu Mingfei will raise his hands and feet to support, as long as he prepares enough Coke potato chips and a WII or PS3 or something, it will be no problem for a month.

But the banner was hung by a railroad worker from the Chicago Railroad Authority, and the meaning was completely different.

They went on strike.

The specific reason is probably that they are dissatisfied with the high intensity and low salary of railway work, and demand more reasonable treatment.

Lu Mingfei is a young man who grew up under the red flag of socialism, and his grades in high school were politics in addition to English, because the latter relied purely on pre-exam assault.

"What a spiritual impact of the strike! How strong is the influence of the example of those partners who have been temporarily freed from slavery and put themselves on an equal footing with the rich! Every strike gives the workers a great impetus to think of socialism, of the struggle that the whole working class needs to carry out in order to liberate itself from the oppression of capital! ”

In a certain political examination, Lu Mingfei affectionately quoted this passage written by Comrade Lenin in "On the Strike" in 1899 to express his support for the strike, and showed his good political consciousness by showing his hatred for the evil capitalism.

But to use his wallet to support the worker brothers of the Chicago Railroad Department, Lu Mingfei will be in pain.

The CC1000 feeder express train is operated by the college itself, but there is no trigger worker and dispatch center, and all trains are suspended.

They are sure that they will not be able to report on time, although it is a natural and man-made disaster, and they will not deduct grade points because of this, but the cost of staying in Chicago for a week is not out, and the most important thing is that it interferes with his trip to see zero.

It's hard to coax it, but I didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing, how can it be repaired!

"Nothing, just a week in Chicago." Chu Zihang was very calm, "If it's inconvenient for you, just share it with me, and I'll pay for the room." ”

"You don't understand how I feel, this trip hasn't been on time for me once!" Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth, thinking in his heart whether to get a helicopter, with Caesar's relationship should be easy, but fuel consumption is a big problem and regular maintenance, you have to find the wrongdoer, Caesar is not impossible, you can't stare at a sheep.

"Not really, right? You're the 'S' class, and they arrange the train to be the bloodline class priority, so you should be the first priority. Chu Zihang frowned and expressed puzzlement, "I have sat about seven or eight times, and every time I entered the station according to the time Norma said, the train waited on the platform, checked the ticket and entered the station, and it left in a few minutes." I'm just 'A' grade. ”

"The first time I was waiting for zero, and this time it's zero waiting for me." Lu Mingfei was a little funny when he thought about it. "Once during the winter vacation, the road was closed due to heavy snow, and the number of times I took this car was only a handful, but every time it was late."

"Excuse me, where can I find the train schedule?" A faint voice came from behind him.

"Look up for yourself! Strike! Strike! Lu Mingfei angrily raised his middle finger to the top of his head, and when he looked back, he saw a pair of clear pupils that illuminated himself, and a flawless face.

Lu Mingfei was stunned, this smell was a little familiar, but Lu Mingfei dared to use his own discipline to guarantee that he had never seen this girl, as a man, Lu Mingfei was not surprised by the common problem of seeing beautiful women unable to walk, not to mention that he was still a half-breed with S-level blood.

The beauties he has seen will basically not forget, not to mention this flawless face, even Zero and Nuo Nuo are compared, and people like Chen Wenwen and Liu Miaomiao fell directly into the dust.

"Hi youkai!" Lu Mingfei felt that the girl was shrouded in a layer of fog.

Chu Zihang stabbed him with his elbow. "It's a classmate."

The girl bared her teeth. "It's not a monster, it's a soft girl!"

Lu Ming was not happy, there were still people who understood his complaints, he had long noticed that the girl was holding a black ticket in her mouth, he was very familiar with it, it was the ticket for this regional express.

"Chu Zihang, Department of Mechanics." Chu Zihang reached out to pull the girl.

"Senior brother." The girl jumped up, "I'm a freshman, Natsumi." ”

"Don't get in my way," Lu Mingfei arched Chu Zihang aside with his shoulders and stretched out his hand to Xia Mi, "I'm also a senior brother!" Lu Mingfei, Department of History. ”

"Yo, it's a liberal arts man?" Xia Mi's eyes widened and he looked Lu Mingfei up and down.

"Only by understanding the past can we better face the future, isn't it?" Lu Mingfei said that in fact, the history department was chosen by him if he wanted to paddle in the water, and the history department was the easiest among all the disciplines.

"Wow, that's so right." Natsumi's eyes glowed. "I wonder how Senior Brother will respond to this strike?"

"It's very simple, stay here for a week, and when the strike fever subsides, they will come back to work."

"Cut, that doesn't mean you didn't say it." The disappointment in Xia Mi's eyes was not concealed at all.

"Actually, you don't mind staying with us, we're going..." Chu Zihang hesitated for a moment.

"Open a room?" Xia Mi turned his head sharply and glared at Chu Zihang.

Chu Zihang was stunned for a moment, and was frightened away by that fierce look.

He also realized that his invitation was not suitable, although it was a classmate, but he was not familiar with it, not to mention that one of them still had a family, if it was passed on, not to mention whether other people's parents would throw gas canisters if they knew, but the majesty of the tigress was not allowed to be blasphemed, no, it was not accurate to use the tigress, it should be the frost dragon!

"It's a big deal, I'm so happy! Ask for support! The next moment, Xia Mixu lay on Chu Zihang's chest.

Chu Zihang stood silently, thinking about whether he met this is a female version of Fingal, or a female version of Lu Mingfei, well, in fact, there is not much difference between the two species except for the difference in force.

In the guest room of the Hatt Regency Chicago, Lu Mingfei lazily leaned on the sofa and watched TV.

"Senior brother, I said that this is not okay, okay? I approve of the money you help your sister to pay for the house. Lu Mingfei said, "But two men and one woman live in one room, and the Discipline Commission members don't come to arrest me, and I'm afraid that Zero will attack and kill me after he knows it." ”

"The Discipline Committee members don't care about this, Professor Manstein should be ready for another day of freedom this year." Chu Zihang said lightly. "I don't think it's appropriate, but he said that if I owe too much money for her room, she'd rather go to the park and pitch a tent."

"Then you and her will be in one room, and I will be in a separate room." Lu Ming said hatefully. "I deliberately created a time for you to try to be a light bulb, and that's how you turned out?"

"A room for a lonely man and a widow is not suitable, and Zero asks me to watch you." Chu Zihang don't overdo it.

"I didn't expect you to be tempted, Susie worked so hard, I didn't expect the little junior sister who just came to capture our Chu Dashao's heart. So soon I found the female dragon I was interested in. Lu Mingfei sighed, "Sure enough, Qingmei is invincible to the sky." ”

"She can't hear it, she's taking a bath, and the sound of the water will drown out your voice."

Chu Zihang stood against the wall, flipping through an ancient book annotating the "Jade Record", a reference book of "Alchemy Chemistry Level 3", the so-called "Jade Record" is a book engraved on an emerald plate in 1900 BC, the author is the Egyptian mythological Trinity of the god Hermes, it is one of the oldest alchemy classics handed down, there are only 13 sentences in total, but it contains all the truths of alchemy.

Professors at the Kassel Academy believe that this is in fact a fragment of a dragon book.

"You admit that you are moved, what a surprise, but you are so shy and blushing, you poker face." Lu Mingfei looked at Chu Zihang, who was focused on studying, and couldn't complain.

"He ascended from the earth to heaven and descended from heaven to attain power above and below him. In this way, you may receive the glory of the world, far from the darkness and the clouds. Chu Zihang read the obscure two sentences in "Jade Record" in a low voice, and took notes casually.

"What the hell is this translation? The meaning of the original text is very different, and the translator did it on purpose! Lu Mingfei discovered the error of this sentence for the first time, as for why he found out now, it will never be because Lu Mingfei is lazy.

"Newton's original text is 'Itascendsfromyeearthtoyeheaven&&&inferior.&therebyallobscutityshallflyfromyou.' Your Chinese translation lacks a subject, and Newton's 'it' refers to the 'only miracle' he mentioned earlier, or 'Taiyi'. This phrase can also be translated as: 'The One ascended from the earth into the sky and then descended back to the earth, thus absorbing the power of the upper and lower realms, so that you would have the glory of the whole world, far from the clouds.' ”

Natsumi came out of the bathroom and wiped her long hair with a bath towel, "If 'Taiyi' refers to the spiritual world, then it can be explained that the half-breed can try to enter the spiritual realm of dragons and then return to the human realm, thus gaining full power. ”

Lu Mingfei applauded and snapped, "I didn't expect that the little junior sister is so terrible now, she already knows about dragons, and even comes into contact with "Jade Record". ”

"Hey, hey." Xia Mi was a little embarrassed, "After all, I'm an A-level, I say I'm a freshman, I mean I'm a freshman in the university department, but I studied in the preparatory department in China for two years before entering the university department?" Natsumi shrugged.

"Hell, I'm S-level, why didn't I know there was a preparatory department, and you didn't look for me until I graduated?" Lu Mingfei said.

It is an exchange program jointly organized by the college and Peking University, and first-year high school students with special talents are selected from all over the country to enter the preparatory class. This is a method of screening hybrids, which tend to show unique talents due to their ancestry and have a greater chance of being selected. The college will arrange the 3E exam in advance, and if it is confirmed that it is a mixed race, it will be arranged for a special version of the course, and after graduation, it will be directly offered by the department, otherwise, it will arrange a general high school course and enter a normal university. Chu Zihang said beside him, "Xia Mi, born on October 30, 1993 in Beijing, China, female, studied in the High School Affiliated to Peking University before entering the preparatory class, nicknamed 'Shrimp', Beijing urban household registration, parents and a younger brother at home... ”

"Hey, hey!" Xia Mi waited for her eyes, "Check the household registration?" ”

"It's Norma who sent you information from the headquarters, and we can't go with you without confirming your identity." Chu Zihang picked up his ipad tablet from the side.

Above is a headshot of Natsumi, with her hair dyed dark brown and yellow contact lenses, turning her head in the sunset, and her yellow bow headband flying.

"Hey, it's really not mainstream!" Lu Mingfei commented.

"You're just a fat pig, and your whole family is a fat pig." Natsumi glared, "That's me at the anime club cos Haruhi Suzumiya." ”

"Where are you like Suzumiya Haruhi, Suzumiya Haruhi is a Lori." Lu Mingfei glanced at Xia Mi as he spoke.

"I also don't think I'm like Haruhi Suzumiya, I originally applied for cos Asahina, but they all said I wasn't like it." Xia Mi said.

"Asahina? You? Lu Mingfei bared her teeth, and looked Xia Mi up and down with her eyes recklessly, so frightened that she hurriedly circled her chest to guard against it.

"They don't think you're big enough." Lu Mingfei said happily, he regretted it when he said it, and he would not think that he was molesting the little girl in his ears, although it was a fact.

Xia Mi was stunned for a moment, looked down at her chest and was silent, Lu Mingfei shrank into the corner of the sofa in fright, waiting for her face to sink or be furious, hell, could it be that the bust is really her heart knot, right? Lu Mingfei's head was buzzing, and he was definitely pumping his brain when he said this bad sentence.

"I hate girls with big busts the most!" Natsumi was unusually serious, and after a second, she changed her face in frustration and tilted her head, "They bully people!" ”

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a long time, imagining a huge bead of sweat slowly pouring out from the back of his head, and then falling to the ground with a "pop".

Natsumi grimaced at him, casually cut half of the peeled orange to him, and his eyes fell on the TV screen, which was playing "The Simpsons", and looked at Natsumi pointing at the screen and giggling.

Lu Mingfei ate oranges, and had a very strange feeling, everything was so natural, there was no jerky when they first met, Xia Mi seemed to have known him for a long time. He also felt that Xia Mi also seemed to know, as if he and she knew each other in a time that was more distant than ancient times, what the hell is this, friends and wives can't be bullied, Lu Mingfei shook his head and tried hard to get rid of this idea.

"Whether 'Taiyi' refers to the spiritual world or 'the most fundamental truth of the world', academically it is a controversial matter, although your translation can explain many problems, but there is the biggest problem, if the upper realm and the lower realm refer to the different spiritual worlds of dragons and humans, then the previous part of the Jade Record says that there is no difference between the upper realm and the lower realm in essence, the upper realm and the lower realm are born from the same origin, will the dragons admit that they have the same origin as humans?"

The strong senior brother who didn't understand the amorous feelings buried his head in contemplation for a long time raised his head and started the topic in a very academic tone.

But what surprised Lu Mingfei was that Xia Mi was not as annoyed and angry as an ordinary girl, but scratched her long chestnut hair that had not yet dried, rolled her eyes and thought about it, "But the author of "Jade Record" may not be a dragon, but may be a half-blood, but he lived very early, and it is easier to come into contact with the civilization of the dragon clan." If so, "Jade Record" can be understood as a study for half-breeds trying to gain the power of dragons through the laws of spiritual alchemy. ”

"Like a yoga tutorial?" Chu Zihang asked.

"A yoga tutorial written in secret language." Xia Mi said, "Some researchers of the medieval Jade Record once thought that it was a work in the name of a god, but the author was 'infinitely close to God' and was 'stealing the law of God', and he used secret words for fear that this law would be understood by ordinary people." It is likely that the true explanation of it is not the English translation we see today at all, because the ancient Egyptian script was divided into different kinds, and the profound sacrificial bodies were only in the hands of monks. In the seventh century A.D., Arabic replaced Egyptian as the lingua franca of Egypt, in part because the sacrificial body was in fact monopolized by monks and was difficult to circulate, and the writing itself was imbued with a sense of homage to the gods of nature, just as in the Middle Ages it was often the clergy of the Church who could decipher Latin, so as to prevent ordinary people from accessing secrets. The original version of the Jade Record, which was written on a jade slab, must have been a sacrificial body, but even at that time, there were very few people who could understand the sacrificial body, so the translation may be full of errors. ”

"Yes, the decipherment of ancient Egyptian began with Champollion, a Frenchman in Napoleon's time." Chu Zihang nodded.

"Yes, imagine what sign would be used in a sacrificial document to indicate the name 'Hermes'?"

Chu Zihang pondered for a while, "Animals, most of the Egyptian gods have animal symbols, and they appear in the murals in the image of human animal heads, such as the tomb god Anubis is a wolf, the god of fertility is a cow, in addition to a large number of animal gods, they especially worship birds, such as eagles, with Hermes as the identity of the messenger god. His symbol is most likely some kind of bird. ”

"Yes, in the translation of hieroglyphs, once there is a mark that is difficult to explain, it is often translated as the name of a god or some kind of totem."

"Do you mean that the original translator may have translated a certain mark as 'Hermes' because he did not understand all the sacrificial bodies, and thus assumed that the author of this book was Hermes, but the original text did not mean that?" Chu Zihang understood.

"Yes, the Jade Book is considered to be the work of the god Hermes, because it says at the beginning of the translation, 'I saw a piece of jade with words written on it, and it was written from between Hermes' hands. From there I found these words below. ’。 But this translation may be fundamentally wrong, and when the jade tablet was still alive, 'Hermes' was only a bird-shaped emblem on it, and it may not represent Hermes. Later translators thought it was Hermes, probably because Hermes was a special being as a god, and he had pranks and messenger symbols, so it makes sense to interpret a bird-shaped symbol symbolizing the god as Hermes, indicating that the secret of the book comes from a messenger from the divine realm. ”

"No, there is not much chance of translation errors, you are right, ancient Egyptian is a dead script, but the jade slab with the Jade Record was found in the 13th century B.C., when there were still many monks in Egypt who knew the sacrificial body, and at the height of alchemy in the Middle Ages, there were translations of various languages, among which there must be translations based on earlier translations. Newton's translation appeared very late, but he must have consulted various translations to find the perfect translation in his mind. If Hermes's name may have been a translation error, it is unlikely that Newton's knowledge would have been unrecognizable. He lived much earlier than we do, when there was much more alchemy than it does now. Chu Zihang said, "The author should be 'Hermes' undoubtedly." ”

"Hmm, what you said makes sense, senior brother, you are very strong." Natsumi propped her chin in her hand and looked at the ceiling in thought.

Chu Zihang took out his ipad and began to retrieve the literature from the library, and the room fell silent for a moment.

"Hey, you're touching the taboos of this world." Lu Mingfei watched the situation go violent, "Can you not talk about it?" ”

"I thought of it!" Natsumi suddenly said loudly, "There is another way to understand! It shows that the author of "Jade Record" is not a pure-blooded dragon! ”

"I also thought of it," Chu Zihang said, "the identity of Hermes." ”

Xia Mi jumped out of the sofa and high-fived Chu Zihang, "Yes! The identity of Hermes! ”

"Hermes was an Egyptian pharaoh before he was called a god, but because Egyptian history does not have a clear chronology to determine when and where he became a pharaoh, he lived in the flesh for 300 years and then realized the truth and became a god, then another explanation is that Hermes was not a pure-blood dragon, but a half-blood. His long life was due to his bloodline, and what he had learned in 300 years was not the truth, but the way to break through the bloodline differences, so that he could purify his bloodline and become a pure-blooded dragon. So "Jade Record" tells the story of ......" Chu Zihang was rarely excited.

"How a half-breed evolves into a pure-blood dragon!" Natsumi said loudly.

"That is, there is a real possibility." Chu Zihang's voice lowered.

"Hey, do you really want to become a dragon servant?" Lu Mingfei said, "The completion of "Jade Record" is to teach people how to improve the purity of their bloodline, which means that dragon blood pressure produces human blood, but even if human blood is crushed into scum by dragon blood, it cannot eliminate human blood, you all know this matter, and the birth of the dragon servant is also the result of the backlash of human blood." ”

"How do you know?" Xia Mi and Chu Zihang agreed.

"Senior brother, do you have a way to completely eliminate human blood?" Xia Mi posted Lu Mingfei asked with a smile.

"Nope. I think the author of Jade Lu is because of the result of close relatives in Egypt, which led to the lack of strength of human blood, and when he became a dragon servant, his sanity was also retained. Lu Mingfei said to himself, he knew the real secret, and Chu Zihang and Xia Mi had deduced infinitely close to the truth.

But what they don't know is that Hermes is a pure-blooded human, he greedily desires the power of the half-blood, alchemy gives him capital, history has witnessed his success, but the half-breed still has a life limit, and he set his sights on the dragons who have a longer life, but unfortunately he failed, but his way cannot be said to be absolutely wrong.

Lu Mingfei hurriedly went to the bathroom after explaining, avoiding this dangerous topic, and when he came out, he saw Xia Mi and Chu Zihang leaning against the wall by the window and talking, both of them were in high spirits, and they used pencils to draw on the same piece of paper when they talked about important places.

Xia Mi casually peeled the orange and handed half of it to Chu Zihang, and Chu Zihang also took it casually.

Lu Mingfei sighed for no reason in his heart, he was very optimistic about this pair, but he was not optimistic, maybe his nerves were too sensitive, after all, he had just finished the trial.