Chapter 10: Ragnarok (2)
"Does anyone know what this is? Two of them will be rewarded for correct answers. Guderian asked softly when he saw that the two of them were staring at the oil painting intently.
Lu Mingfei wanted to say that answer, but reason still overcame his impulse, and finally heard a cold female voice reply:
"Ragnarok."
"That's right, according to the Norse myth "Old Edda", on this day, the black dragon Nidhogg will rise from the hell that has been suppressed for thousands of years, and his body will be covered with the remains of his enemies, biting off the roots of the World Tree, even if the invincible Odin comes with his heroic spirit and the goddess Valkyrie, it will be useless." Guderian paused for a moment and said the Last Judgment verbatim: "On that day, the world was destroyed. ”
"So, what does it have to do with us?" Lu Mingfei realized that he needed to say a few words of nonsense to break this strange atmosphere: "Could it be that our academy is Valhalla, and we are the descendants of the Heroic Spirit, and we want to save the end of the world?" ”
As soon as the words fell, Zero slowly turned around and looked at Lu Mingfei with a foolish look: "You don't know anything or are you deliberately pretending to be confused here?" ”
"Zero, I haven't told Lu Mingfei the story of the dragon clan yet." Guderian smiled: "His awakening is a little unexpected, I am afraid that he will make some trouble, I have no other way but to take him with me." ”
"Wait, Dragons?" Lu Mingfei took out the acting skills he had practiced in the student union back then, frowned, and leaned back on his back: "What dragon?" ”
"In a narrow sense, it is the dragon totem enshrined by your Chinese nation. But broadly speaking, it was a higher species that once ruled the earth and enslaved humans. Guderian coughed twice: "You may also know these days, we are all half-bloods, and we contain dragon blood in our bodies. ”
"But I thought I had superhuman blood or something." Lu Mingfei actually looked a little lost.
"Anyway, it's almost the same, compared with dragons and supermen, there should be no difference except that they can't fly to the earth, I originally thought that you Chinese would show extremely excited expressions after learning that you are really the descendants of dragons." Guderian clapped his hands: "Come, let me reintroduce you to our academy." ”
The bookshelves hidden behind the walls slowly appeared, rows of delicate bound books appeared in Lu Mingfei's eyes, and the sides of the books were engraved with different words, not Chinese or English, but Lu Mingfei knew, it was Latin, and the names of the books were different, but they all carried a common character.
'Dragon'
"This is the accumulation of thousands of years of the Academy, since the moment of the establishment of the Human Era, from our predecessors, countless generations have searched for dragons, studied dragons, and some of them have established the Kassel Academy. Ming Fei, guess what, what is the purpose of our academy? The old man blinked.
"People with lofty ideals...... It is incumbent upon us to reforge the glory of dragons? Lu Mingfei asked knowingly.
"It's the opposite." After spending some effort to understand the meaning of Lu Mingfei's words, Guderian sighed: "What we want to do is to slay the dragon." ”
"Tu ...... Slaying dragons? ”
"Of course it's dragon slaying." Guderian nodded: "If they are allowed to awaken again and rule the world, aren't we an enslaved race?" ”
"Wait, they can't be pure-blooded dragons when you say they......" Lu Mingfei looked like he suddenly realized.
"Congratulations, you guessed it right, and they're the strongest of the pure-blooded dragons, and we'll call them the Four Great Sovereigns." Guderian took out an illustration from the shelf: "The King of Bronze and Fire, who controls metal and heat, the King of Earth and Mountain, and the remaining two, we have studied them too little, and even rarely observed them, so we don't know what they are capable of." ”
"The secret party?" Lu Mingfei pretended that a good student couldn't understand the teacher's lecture, and asked questions seriously.
"The history you see is only the part of the history that is glamorous on the surface and can be shown to the world." Guderian's expression darkened considerably: "For endless years, we have been fighting against dragons, and we have suffered many casualties as a result. But these things can't be made public, so several families led by several half-blood families have shared this secret for thousands of years, and have taken on the mission of slaying dragons, cultivating excellent offspring, sending them to the battlefield, and burying those awakened dragon kings alive again and again.
As you know in today's era, it is impossible to sustain this kind of business by family inheritance alone, so we have introduced a modern mechanism to pass on the will to slay dragons from generation to generation through university education and protect the status of humanity. Guderian stretched out his hand to Lu Mingfei and smiled: "But you can also think of yourself as a superman, the dragon kings are monsters, and you have taken on a major mission to save the world." Welcome to join us, Lu Mingfei. ”
Lu Mingfei wanted to excuse himself like in his previous life, hesitated for a moment, but gritted his teeth and stretched out his hand, holding the old man's hand red: "If you get on the thief ship, there is no way out, and my scholarship has become a bubble if you leave." ”
"Of course, when you board this train, it is equivalent to signing a confidentiality agreement, but our academy is much more humane now, if you really don't want to go to slay dragons, we will brainwash you, delete this memory, send you back, of course, we will also help you dispose of your bloodline." Guderian's face changed slightly, but it did not escape Lu Mingfei's eyes at all.
What are you sending back for? Go back and find a place to work at random, or watch Chen Wenwen and Zhao Menghua linger and spit on the side? Lu Mingfei laughed twice in his heart, the little devil finally sent him back, he wasted other people's abilities like this?
If he didn't enter the academy, if he didn't know those people, if he didn't go through rigorous training, if he didn't use the resources of the old people in Kassel, he wouldn't have any ability.
Moreover, Lu Mingfei remembered that the half-race contract was not so merciful, and it would be good to send him to a desert island for the rest of his life.
"Actually...... I'd love to try to be Superman. Lu Mingfei scratched his head.
"That's good." Guderian's face was overcast, and he laughed heartily.
"But, Professor, can you let me take a closer look at that painting alone?"
Lu Mingfei tilted his head and proposed what he had always wanted to do.
Not just from the moment he boarded the train, it was something he had wanted to do since he realized he was really back when he was eighteen.
He wanted to see the painting by himself.
"Look at ......" Guderian was obviously stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Lu Mingfei to make this request: "Okay, then you can take a look, I didn't expect you to be so interested in this painting." ”
Zero looked at Lu Mingfei with a surprised expression.
"Your Royal Highness, let's talk in detail in the conference room? Leave some space for Lu Mingfei. ”
"Yes."
……
Lu Mingfei saw the two leaving, and according to his memory, he sat on the seat when he first boarded the train, and slowly closed his eyes.
"It should be here."
The childish face slowly appeared in his mind, and the sound of metal knocking seemed to sound in his ears, slowly becoming real, until finally, Lu Mingfei heard the noisy cheers of countless people, and the sound of them hitting the bones with iron tools.
With a smile on his face, Lu Mingfei looked at the familiar figure that appeared beside him:
"You're here."
"Brother, you've found what I left behind." The corners of Lu Mingze's mouth opened slightly.