The moment the metal collided with the shrapnel, time slowed down, and the firelight solidified and came to a standstill.

What am I doing here?

Lu Mingfei pulled the trigger, and the desert eagle that Caesar had left her was long gone, and she filled in the fragments of the wall that had collapsed, and the activated bronze accelerated in the chamber of the gun, pulling out a blue-gold trail.

Red-hot bronze, cracked shards, solidified fire.

Norton swung his lance, slicing through the wall as he deflected shrapnel, the blade shattering, and he stepped forward, scattered debris embedded in the blade, mixed with blood and quickly fused with the gap.

Metallic blood, murderous hot air, flowing fire.

It's a fight to the death.

Lu Mingfei remembered.

The winner takes all, and the loser has nothing.

The wound on her arm reminded Lu Mingfei that even if she gained the power of words, her body was still as fragile as a mortal.

The other side must be the same.

It's like two blades that have been tempered to the extreme, and they must ensure that they are not broken before smashing each other.

But the faces and voices in front of them are so familiar, countless nights, they have fought on the battlefield of StarCraft, you come and go, happy revenge.

How so?

The trigger was unprecedentedly heavy, and Lu Mingfei looked at that face, and a moment of hesitation was enough to stretch the difference between life and death. The horse lance sliced through Lu Mingfei's wrist, the gun fell with blood, and Norton took a step forward and slashed it with the lance.

At the last moment, Lu Mingfei clenched his fist with his intact left hand, and a beam popped out of the metal above his head, and the horse lance slammed against the raised wall, and the blade cracked and broke.

Before Lu Mingfei could catch her breath, Norton kicked her to the ground, his knee against the girl's soft abdomen, and the broken horse lance trembled at an extremely high frequency, gradually retracting into the shape of a long sword.

"You have the power of a dragon, but you only have a human heart." Norton looked at her condescendingly, the tip of his sword hanging down to his throat, "You lost." ”

Lu Mingfei was silent for a moment and said, "Yes, but you will die." ”

Her right eye was like a golden mirror, reflecting Norton's grim countenance and sharp sword, as well as the unfamiliar room.

I don't know when the passage under my feet led to this room.

Norton heard the sound of the tide crashing against the walls, the edge of the Bronze City, the bottom of the Yangtze River, where the power of fire was most weakly suppressed.

At the same time, Norton felt a chill.

A chill that invades the body from the lower back.

Norton looked back.

Caesar stood behind him, holding the broken head of the lance and stabbing into the dragon king's body, the wound deep into the bone. Smoking dragon blood trickled down the tip of the lance, burning Caesar's hands, but he seemed unaware. The eyes of the Italian young man's wooden face were surging with golden flames, as if two eyeballs were burning.

That's right...... Norton looked back at Lu Mingfei.

Her heterochromatic right eye was as beautiful as a touch of sunset, with an inhuman texture and a terrifying intellect, as if a gentle glance cast by fate.

Under the gaze of this eye, Norton's red gold eyes gradually faded to iron gray, and the dragon-slaying weapon he had created was killing his soul, thousands of tiny shears wriggling in the flesh like a death knell.

All the great deeds, all the waiting, all the long-cherished wishes, all ended on the backstab of mortals.

As if joking, as if fate.

Norton could no longer hold the sword, and the long sword slid down against Lu Mingfei's neck, cutting a small wound in her neck.

Lu Mingfei suddenly hugged her head and howled, she covered her right eye, the power that had been firmly suppressing the Bronze City disappeared, and it began to operate again, disorderly, chaotic, and self-destructive. There was a loud reverberation outside the walls, and a huge amount of water pressure was cutting through the ancient underwater city from within.

The golden light in Caesar's eyes dissipated in the turbulence, and he woke up to look at his hands, then at Norton and Lu Mingfei, and in less than a second he made a decision.

He kicked Norton away and pulled Lu Mingfei up, as the floor shattered and water rushed into the room like a python, enveloping them up.

Norton's body slowly sank in the water, inky blood spreading.

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Lu Mingfei slowly opened his eyes, and everything was blurry in front of him. As a promising young man who grew up under the red flag, she naturally did not believe in God, and of course did not believe in heaven, but the face that came over was pure and flawless, dyed with a layer of warm light, like an angel bowing his head and kissing the forehead of a sinner, and the cross flashed on both sides of the sky.

For a moment, Lu Mingfei was in a trance, and tried to move forward, trying to see that face clearly. She smelled the warmth of the angel, with the smell of sunshine.

"You look pretty energetic." Just as she was about to put her whole face up, the other party said slowly.

"Nono?" As her vision cleared, she lay in an intensive care unit, the sun shining through the white curtains, the sterling silver four-leaf clover pendant on the red-haired girl's earlobe, the diamonds embedded in it dazzling.

"You're lucky, the symptoms of the gas embolism are shallow, and it seems that the bloodline protects you." As if seeing what Lu Mingfei wanted to ask, Nuo Nuo sat on the edge of the bed and helped her fix her hair that fell on the pillow, "It's over." Caesar killed Norton, though he couldn't tell what was going on, presumably because the lack of oxygen and gas embolism had broken his brain. But from his hands, the purity of dragon blood was indeed detected. We excavated the surface of the ruins of the Bronze City and found Norton's bones, and inquiries about Dragonsman 1 led to the same conclusion: one of the Bronze and Fire Kings has fallen. ”

"One?" Lu Mingfei asked with a dry throat.

"We did not find Konstantin's keel, the bronze city is buried deep under the water, it is difficult to organize a large-scale operation, and we cannot be sure if he is still alive until his remains are found. But after all, his body was not fully developed, and the huge water capacity of the Three Gorges Reservoir suppressed the fire element in all directions, and many professors were convinced that it was only a matter of time before Konstantin's keel was found. ”

Nuno poured a glass of water for Lu Mingfei.

"Rejoice, you have slain the Lord of Bronze and Fire."

Lu Mingfei didn't take the glass of water, the deep water, the trial, the trade, the death, everything was illusory like a dream. It seems that what happened here is the reality, Caesar has single-handedly killed the dragon king, and she is just a passerby clapping desperately on the side.

That's right.

Lu Mingfei blinked, she always felt that there was something wrong with her vision. She reached out to her right eye and swung it in front of her eyes, but only half of her fingers could be seen.

Nono grabbed her wrist, "The retinal artery is blocked. She tried to make her tone as relaxed as possible, "It's just a temporary loss of vision." ”

"I see." To Nono's surprise, the girl, who was too scared to go back to her bedroom alone at the time of the dragon invasion, accepted the fact that she was blind in one eye with unusual calm.

"Are you hungry?" Nuno scratched his head to change the subject, "Although the doctor said that the diet should be light recently, even if it is to celebrate, we should have a good meal." ”

"Are we still in China?" Lu Mingfei looked sideways at the shift schedule written in Chinese on the wall.

"Hmm."

"Order takeout, I want to eat yellow braised chicken rice and put more chili peppers."

"That's it?"

"That's it."

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In the plain white room, the girl opened her golden brown eyes, picked up a piece of hot chicken mixed with rice and put it in her mouth, and her face was expressionless the whole time.

Nuno held another lunch box next to him and stuck out his tongue, panting like a dog, "It's so spicy." You're not from Sichuan, how can you eat! ”

"It's fine." Lu Mingfei said.

With a paralyzing pain spreading in the mouth, there was nothing but pain. The toughness of the chicken, the deliciousness of the soup, and the fullness of the rice...... None of these. She doesn't feel anything other than spicy.

Because only spicy is not a taste, spicy is only an irritation of the mucous membranes.

Lu Mingfei felt like he was swallowing a piece of thorny plasticine. Chew mechanically, swallow mechanically, just to eat, to live.

I don't know why, she thought of Old Tang again.

When he was playing Interstellar, he said that one day she came to the United States, he could take her to eat hot dogs, and he knew that the hot dogs at a roadside stall in New York were delicious.

There were unfamiliar emotions that slipped in Lu Mingfei's heart, like rain falling on a burning red anvil, which evaporated in an instant.

Lu Mingfei subconsciously wiped his eyes.

Her eyes were dry, and not a single tear came out.