Dragon Raja: Dragon Slaying Begins with System Hosting

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"Lu Mingfei, I didn't quite understand what the teacher was saying about this problem. Could you take a look here..."

"If you plug this formula into your head, you'll understand..."

The system didn't refuse the girl who came to ask for help; instead, it explained things to her "kindly," almost like it was doing business.

After finishing this lesson, they moved on to the next one, and then the school bell rang again.

During Chinese class, the Chinese teacher was explaining the textbook. After class, no girls from their class came to ask questions, but girls from the next class did... After all, the top student in the grade was famous, who didn't know him? Not to mention that they often saw him next door.

The girl who had explained the problem to Lu Mingfei earlier bought him a bottle of Coke as a thank you.

The system waved its hand and refused, saying, "No need, I don't drink cola. I've been working out lately, and I don't eat fried food or anything high in sugar."

"But Coke isn't fried!"

"?"

The system was almost stunned. Shouldn't Lu Mingfei be the one saying these words? Why is this girl imitating Lu Mingfei from the past?

After a brief interruption, the school bell rang, and the students returned to their seats in an orderly fashion...

After school, Lu Mingfei told Xia Mi, "Today I was explaining a problem to a girl, and after class she bought me a bottle of Coke. I told her I work out and don't eat fried or sugary foods, but she said Coke isn't fried."

"Cola isn't fried, and fried chicken isn't high in sugar, right? That's interesting! I've learned the essence of how you used to talk, Boss Lu."

Xia Mi gave a thumbs up to this nonsense. After all, everyone spouts nonsense, so she naturally appreciated this kind of well-crafted nonsense.

After sharing some interesting stories, she told Lu Mingfei, "After the Qingming Festival, it will be May Day soon. If things are alright on the project side, I'd like to go on a trip."

"There's still more than half a month left, how come it's almost May Day again?" Lu Mingfei was stunned. It's going by too fast, isn't it?

"Because I've been really busy with the project lately. They say time flies when you're focused." Xia Mi smacked her lips and said, "I stayed up late again last night organizing things. My body can handle it, but I'm really exhausted."

"By the way, Mr. Lu, Old Tang has had a smooth run of things with this project, and it seems like he can get it done within six months."

“Okay, I’ll give you an extra bonus after the project is completed,” Lu Mingfei said.

"Boss Lu said he would double my bonus after this project is completed, and I made a note of it."

Xia Mi nodded, then asked, "But Boss Lu, haven't you ever suspected anything strange about Old Tang? These days I've noticed that his progress in alchemy has been too smooth, so smooth that it's not like he's actually learning or researching."

These past few days she's been keeping a close eye on Lao Tang, waiting for him to hit a bottleneck in his research so she can secretly help him finish the project quickly, and then get Lu Mingfei equipped with alchemy gear to slay the dragon...

As a result, she discovered something terrifying: Old Tang was incredibly knowledgeable about alchemy. While his work on the Living Alchemy Matrix could be described as enlightenment, his work on regenerated metals was still going smoothly.

Regenerated metals and living alchemy matrices are not on the same level. If living alchemy is the ceiling for human alchemists, then high-level regenerated metals is the ceiling for dragon alchemists.

Beyond that, it's an alchemical realm that ordinary humans and dragons can no longer access.

When asked about this, Lu Mingfei replied with a perfectly normal expression, "He said he just felt that doing it this way would work, and that doing it this way would lead to success. Maybe it's just a genius's intuition."

"A genius's intuition..." Xia Mi frowned, her face full of doubt as she returned home.

If it weren't for Lu Mingfei's watchful eye, she would have definitely tried to find out about Lao Tang's background.

Meanwhile, after Lu Mingfei returned to the system, he opened his computer to check on Lao Tang's latest research progress and discoveries from this morning.

Unlike Xia Mi, who harbored doubts, the system did not have as much suspicion about Lao Tang.

Since the system and Lu Mingfei are not dragons, they do not know the living characteristics and habits of dragons.

For example, if the dragon cocoon is not directly aimed at shaping the dragon's body, but rather requires the dragon's body to develop later, the dragon will develop a very serious "mental illness." It will have self-awareness, but it will be rather chaotic and somewhat dazed.

This is the secret of the dragon. Humans have never known this characteristic. Even if they did, it was only speculation and theory on paper, and its existence has never been proven.

Xia Mi is also a dragon. She has experienced that kind of confused feeling and understands what it feels like, which is why she suspects Lao Tang.

Chapter 187 Dragon King Confrontation

In the employee dormitory of the smelting plant, Old Tang suddenly jumped out of bed in his luxurious single room, muttering incoherently, "Hiss! Odin!"

Last night he had a strange dream. The whole city was plunged into darkness. When he woke up and went outside, he found the factory quiet and deserted.

When he arrived at the lab, he found no one there, making it impossible to carry out his work smoothly. He took out his phone but found there was no signal. He went outside, but there was still no signal.

Just as he was fretting, a heavily armored knight riding an eight-legged winged horse, radiating supreme holy light, walked into the factory area carrying a fire poker. He pointed at the fire poker and said to him, "Norton, long time no see."

Norton?! Isn't that the name of the Bronze and Fire King? Why are you pointing at me while saying the name of the Bronze and Fire King? I'm not the Bronze and Fire King!

Old Tang was a little dazed, and suddenly felt an itch on his head, as if his brain was about to grow.

However, seeing this scene, he roughly understood where the other party came from. They were obviously not ordinary people, probably a hybrid and a dragon... But Old Tang was just an ordinary person! He had only used an alchemical matrix to maintain his physical strength, and he immediately took off running!

But the other person didn't chase after him; instead, they said in a loud voice from behind, "I'm waiting for you to come back."

What are you waiting for? Who asked you to wait? Boss Lu, come to the rescue! Your top alchemist is being hunted down!

As he ran, he turned back and said, "I don't know you. The Norton you're talking about, you're not the King of Bronze and Fire, are you? You've mistaken me for someone else. I'm not the King of Bronze and Fire. The King of Bronze and Fire is the Dragon King. I'm just an ordinary person! If you have a grudge against Norton, go find Norton. Don't come looking for me! If I run into the Norton you're looking for, you can tell him you're looking for him. What's your name?"

"Odin!"

Old Tang doesn't remember what happened after that, but he suddenly woke up. The fear of encountering Odin in his dream lingered for a long time, and even after he woke up, his body still shuddered.

Why would he have such a strange dream? Old Tang was completely baffled, but after getting up, he immediately went to the laboratory and saw his familiar assistants and helpers still working through the night, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

The factory was completely deserted; it was truly terrifying.

What will he do without a job? When will he be able to raise that $3000 million?

……

Springtime is always rainy, especially around the Qingming Festival, when it can rain non-stop. But it's been like this for so many years, and nobody finds it strange. When it rains, you just use an umbrella; can you really expect the heavens not to rain?

This morning, after the light rain stopped, something unusual happened in the sky; people who got up early didn't know how to look up at the sky.

Xia Mi also looked at the sky where the rain had stopped and frowned deeply.

Although the rain had stopped, the dark clouds in the sky had not completely dissipated, and half of the sky was still black. On those black clouds, a rare mirage appeared...

"Don't sleep, boss." Xia Mi's voice came with a knock on the door, and the system was immediately startled awake from the bed.

"what happened?"

"Come out and look at the sky!" Xia Mi pulled Lu Mingfei's hand, and the two went to the balcony. She pointed to the sky with one finger, but did not say: Look, a rainbow!

Instead, he said, "Is that the Nibelungen that Chu Zihang remembers?"

On this weekend, as dawn was breaking, not many people were awake at this time, and therefore not many people noticed the mirage.

Above the dark clouds, towering buildings loomed in and out of sight like shadows... Chu Zihang had entered Odin's Nibelungen. Although he had been on an elevated road the whole time and almost escaped, that elevated road was not actually too far from the city, and he could see the outline of the city cluster.

The entire city seemed to have turned off its lights, leaving only a dark expanse. They could only vaguely discern that it was a city they knew by the silhouettes of the tall buildings.

"Odin went out last night?" The system was startled. It was exactly what it feared. It had been hiding in this city and felt quite safe because there was basically no risk as long as Odin didn't come out.

But the prerequisite is—Odin doesn't come!

This wasn't the first time their city had experienced a mirage; some of the older residents had seen them before. However, unlike the mirage before, the previous mirages were more complete, showing a huge, faintly visible black viaduct leading directly to the city cluster...

"Let's talk to Chu Zihang first," Xia Mi said. "Let's see what insights he has gained from his experience with Odin and Nibelung."

"Hmm." The system took out its phone and called Chu Zihang, who was still fast asleep, while saying to Xia Mi, "Ask the people downstairs who didn't sleep last night if they noticed anything unusual."

"Okay." Xia Mi also took out her phone.

After the call was connected, Chu Zihang's voice came through: "What's wrong, boss?"

"Look at the sky outside, the Nibelungen mirage has reappeared."

Chu Zihang didn't reply; only the sounds of clothes and blankets being moved came from the phone. Then he asked, "Did you see that? Was there anything unusual in our city last night?"

"I'm not sure. We're still asking the people downstairs who aren't asleep. Could you come over here?"

"Okay, I'll be there right away."

……

"Nothing seemed out of the ordinary last night..."

After questioning everyone below, including those who were asleep, and even recounting their dreams from the previous night, no one noticed anything unusual.

“The opening of Nibelungen is for guests. We are not guests, so we were not affected at all, because we can’t even see the door…” Xia Mi said, “If Odin’s Nibelungen had opened last night, it would mean that someone had entered Nibelungen. But the current situation is that the person who entered Nibelungen is most likely not one of us, and we are not even sure if the person who went in came out alive.”

In fact, she wasn't even sure if Nibelungen had opened for business last night, because she hadn't noticed anything.

The opening of Nibelungen must be accompanied by elemental turbulence. If there were a sudden elemental turbulence, she should have felt it. But she slept soundly last night, didn't even dream, and didn't react to the outside world at all.

"Let's investigate further. It's not necessarily true that everyone who went in died; there's a possibility that they escaped," Chu Zihang said.

Those who enter that land of the dead are not necessarily destined to die; this is evidenced by Chu Zihang's testimony... The system believed him.

However, Xia Mi found this very strange. She had always wondered why Chu Zihang was able to enter Odin's Nibelungen, and not only that, but he was also able to escape alive!

She had been secretly observing and getting close to Chu Zihang, but Lu Mingfei, a variable among variables, suddenly appeared, causing her to quickly change her target.

Otherwise, she would definitely study Chu Zihang carefully.

After all, it's one thing for a person not to know the Nibelungen, but she knows it very well. Once you go in, it's hard to get out. If a dragon can open a door specifically for you, it means that a dragon can also close the door tightly.

She had already gone in, yet she still managed to escape, and even escaped from Odin's Nibelungen. She once thought that Chu Zihang had some Odin foreshadowing in him.

Then she encountered Lu Mingfei, whose foreshadowing was even more subtle than that of Odin...

After the small meeting adjourned, Lu Mingfei softly called out the little devil's name: "Lu Mingze, Lu Mingze."

Suddenly, everything around him seemed to stop, and a little boy in his pajamas appeared before him, still sleepy: "Brother, what's wrong? Why did you wake me up so early in the morning?"

"The mirage showed a phantom of Odin in the Nibelungen," Lu Mingfei said. "Did Odin come out last night?"

"Oh, so that's what it was about." Lu Mingze yawned and said, "Buddha."

Because they were communicating in words, neither Lu Mingfei nor the system quite understood what he meant. Lu Mingfei asked, "Tathagata? What Tathagata? The Tathagata Buddha?"

"It's Tathagata, the Tathagata of the Tathagata Buddha. He came, but not completely; he only opened the door a little. The guests he invited didn't go in." The little devil patted his chest and assured him, "But don't worry, brother, Odin didn't come out this time to target you. You're perfectly safe here!"

[…Does Odin have other targets in this city? Why did he come out to invite guests in?…]

The system immediately analyzed it.

The reason why Chu Zihang and his father were invited in was quite simple: there was a box that Odin wanted in the car, so Odin invited them in.

"Why did Odin open the Nibelungen?" Lu Mingfei asked as well. "Has something he wanted come to us again?"

“That’s true,” Lu Mingze said with a smile. “But he suddenly realized that the other party wasn’t someone to be trifled with either, and that he might not be able to force them to go in. So when the other party didn’t go in, he didn’t come out to solicit customers either.”

"...There are still beings in this city that Odin finds troublesome?" This analysis in the system log is somewhat chilling upon closer examination.