049. Breaking the cocoon
When he heard the first news, Lu Mingfei could still spare part of his mind to worry about the safety of Nuo Nuo and Zero.
The second and third messages were like hammers slamming into her skull, and she felt no emotion other than numbness.
War.
The word has the breath of blood and fire, distant as if it came from another era, but it is exactly happening in the present.
Lu Mingfei slowly squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, his fingers digging deep into his hair.
She screwed up. Or maybe it's all over.
She couldn't stop Norton.
She didn't get Caesar back with her.
She let Uyu escape.
She took Konstantin with her, but dragged him into the abyss of mortality.
β¦β¦
Just like in her life, nothing is satisfactory, and she always has a way of messing up every task.
Because she's a waste of wood.
Lu Mingfei chuckled quietly.
Now, she's dying.
Probably a cremation.
The kind of multi-person box.
"In a little while, maybe Caesar will die." Lu Mingze reminded in a friendly manner.
"Shut up!" Lu Mingfei yelled.
"Shut up, shut up, shut up!"
The girl roared and exhaled all the suffocating anger in her chest until her lungs ached uncontrollably, her hands on the ground, her chest shivering, and droplets of water falling down the ends of her hair in strings to form water stains on the floor of the diving bell.
Lu Mingze looked at her silently, his expression was complicated, like disdain, and like pity.
After a long time, Lu Mingfei stood up with the bulkhead and wiped the water marks on his face with his hands, his eyes were as cold as ice.
"What do you want?"
"A quarter of the spirit and the flesh, I'll help you settle everything." Lu Mingze smiled, "Give a quarter of your life, and you can become a hero who saves the world." β
It's a trap.
Lu Mingfei was very clear.
It's a downward spiral.
Once you start, you can't stop, you can only fall deeper.
But ah...... Lu Mingfei remembered that the red-haired girl was standing in front of him, and said with a smile, I cover you; Silver-haired Russian beautiful girl comforts herself with clumsy words; That stupid big brother-like blonde man kept his promise until the last minute......
She had nothing before she came to the Kassel Academy, and the people who had nothing barely got what belonged to them, but they faced the fate of losing them again, so what was there to be afraid of?
Lu Mingze waited quietly, he never seemed to be impatient, and always remained patient.
Lu Mingfei looked at this child who looked normal, but revealed abnormalities everywhere. Is he a devil or something else? Why can't anyone else see him? Does he really exist? Or is he just an imaginary image of his own imagination? Maybe she had gone crazy a long time ago, since the day she received the notice, earlier than everyone else had gone crazy......
Lu Mingfei opened his mouth, and his voice sounded dry and cracked.
"What do you mean by a quarter of the spirit and the flesh?" Lu Mingfei asked.
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1~3. Pledge a quarter of your life in exchange for a wish, and settle it after four transactions, before that you are free, but I have the right to requisition your body and soul at any time. (Increases the chance of great success/great failure to 1/5 for all behavior modes)
β4~6, the literal price, part of the emotion (fear/joy/anger, etc.) and part of the flesh (hands/feet, etc.), but I can consider customizing a prosthetic limb for you, of course, to pay a monthly fee.
7~9, a quarter of the memory of being "Lu Mingfei" and a quarter of "carnal desire" (feminization acceleration)
10. Big success/big failure
ROLL : d10=d10(5)=5
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Lost spirits
1~2. Fear
3~4. Anger
β5~6, sadness
7~8. Joy
9. Love
10. Big success/big failure
ROLL : d10=d10(6)=6
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Loss of meat
β1~3, right eye
4~6, left leg
7~9. Nerve damage (increased pain perception)
7~8. Aphasia
9. Growth arrest (does not get old, and cannot increase strength through exercise)
10. Big success/big failure
ROLL : d10=d10(3)=3
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"Emotions are the elements that distinguish the dead from the soul and the body is an extension of the spirit, proof of the existence of life in the world."
Lu Mingze's voice was full and loud.
"I will take away part of your emotions and part of your flesh, of course, after fulfilling your wishes. If I can't, I'll take nothing. β
"You are quite professional ......" Lu Mingfei was powerless to complain, "Can I choose by myself?" β
"Dear, you don't support your choice here."
"You're not going to just take the heart, are you?"
"Dear, in fact, if you don't have a heart, you don't necessarily die......"
Lu Mingfei looked at the smiling boy in front of her, although she was helpless, she had to admit it.
He's got on his own.
"Ready to take it? Then stretch out your hand. Lu Mingze said, "Come on, there is not much time left for us." β
Lu Mingfei stretched out his hand and gritted his teeth. I don't know why, at this time, she suddenly began to be afraid, she was so afraid that she was about to tremble, what would she lose? Hands and feet or memory? What will become of her? Is she still herself who has lost a part of her soul...... It turns out that the unknown is the greatest fear.
But she was even more afraid that she would not be able to hold on and take her hand back, and if she took it back, everything would be over, and everyone would die. Losing part of your mind and body or losing everything, it's obviously a good choice, isn't it?
Lu Mingfei only hopes to complete this transaction quickly, cut off the back road, and there is nothing to be afraid of without the back road, who said it, if you want to climb over a high wall, the best way is to throw your hat over first, so that you naturally have the determination to climb over the wall.
Lu Mingze stretched out his hand and slapped it loudly on Lu Mingfei's palm, "Deal!" β
The next moment, she was out of sight.
As if looking directly at the sun, the world is enveloped in blinding bright light, and even closing the eyes cannot stop the light from flowing into the eyelids.
The light was blazing, scorching, strong enough to pierce the soul.
The sharp pain irritates the tear ducts, but the tears evaporate the moment they flow, and a huge amount of heat swells in the eye sockets, like a red-hot iron rod stirring in the skull.
Lu Mingfei let out a high-pitched, terrifying, inhuman howl.
The indescribable streamer danced around her, as if the soul was dancing, singing, washing away the blood stains from the sacrifice, and cheering for a grand festival.
Lu Mingze's penetrating juvenile voice sounded from top to bottom.
"Gold is your crown, the flame guides the way to sublimation, you are a king without tears, but fate has already carved a mark on you-"
The flames in her eyes were finally extinguished, and the maddening pain passed away with the streamer, and she was thrown into the boundless darkness, and in the bottomless darkness, a golden pupil slowly opened.
It was a huge pupil that took up half of the sky, and in contrast to it, she was like an ant on its eyelids, trembling in the dark golden glow of that eye......
The electric and fiery images flickered uncontrollably in front of her eyes, those messy lines like ink lines twisted like snakes, forming a picture, a huge dragon spreading its wings on the top of the sea, the world tree sprouting, the rooster singing on the top of the tree, the giant snake rolling in the sea, the lonely eyes of the girl floating in the stormy waves.
"βThis is the beginning of dusk!"
A huge force pulled Lu Mingfei up from the ground.
All illusions shattered, and Lu Mingfei stood in the bell-shaped palace cast in brass, opening his eyes.
Her left eye is a dull brown, and her right eye is a brilliant gold.