26. Oil painting
"Well, I want to ask, is this really an official train?" Lu Mingfei couldn't help but say, "Why is it not on the train table, why don't you arrive on time?"
"Of course, Chicago's special, direct to Cassel College." The conductor explained patiently, "there is no train on the train table because it is a branch train, which leaves from time to time, like the special train that goes from public railways, but leads to some mines and factories."
Lu Mingfei nodded without understanding.
"Nine and three quarters of the platform." Gu Chen suddenly said.
Or the 9? Platform. It is the location in the series of the magic novel "Harry Potter" by British J.K. Rowling. It exists on the ninth and third pillars of the King's Cross Station in London, England. The Hogwarts Express will be departing from this year.
Lu Mingfei said softly.
The conductor couldn't help but glance at Gu Chen for a long time, but he didn't say anything.
They stepped onto the platform, and the high-speed train stopped on the tracks, with dazzling lights on. On the black streamlined body, the dazzling silver-white vines were spread out on the black paint surface, as gorgeous as a work of art.
Outside the only sliding door, Professor Guderian looked here with his hands behind his back and smiled. As he did when he first met, his eyes stopped on Gu Chen's face.
The greeting was when the train was driving. The dark night was quickly retreating. Through an oak strip table, Guderian politely said: "I've met again, this time it's Teacher Gu."
"The honor is so great." Gu Chen also said polite words.
Guderian looked at him calmly, but he really didn't expect that the person in front of him would have the means of the Gattuso family. It was the harsh and old-fashioned Frost who called him himself.
When an ordinary person is looked at by another person, he is absolutely not ordinary. It is hard not to be curious about what secrets are hidden in the other party.
But Gu Chen just looked out the window and didn't seem to be very interested.
After a while, Lu Mingfei and Finger changed into school uniforms and walked over. They had a white shirt, dark green suit with silver thin edges, a dark rose-red scarf, and the World Tree School emblem of Cassel College embroidered on their chest pockets.
Lu Mingfei obviously felt that he had been a top-notch person since he stepped on the train and changed into this dress. He stood in front of Gu Chen, pulled his clothes in a slutty way, and then turned a small circle to show him, raising his eyebrows proudly, obviously waiting for good words from him to praise.
But this time Gu Chen didn't cooperate very much. He held his chin and seemed to have glanced up and down, but in fact his eyes were always on the World Tree School Emblem.
"Red and green are really not good-looking."
"Uh..." Lu Mingfei's face suddenly froze with pride.
"Coffee or hot chocolate?" or Goodrian thoughtful.
"Hot chocolate!" Finger raised his hand.
"I didn't ask you, be serious. This is the time for freshmen to tutor in school." Guderian said, looking at Lu Mingfei, "You can also ask for a glass of strong wine or something."
"...serious?" Lu Mingfei was speechless. It was not like he was entering school, but like Gu Chen was talking about business. It seemed that he could take out a few bottles of fake wine in the next second for everyone to taste it.
Finger coughed lightly, "It's to let you drink something calm so that you won't scream loudly during the tutoring."
"Then I need a cup of Coke mixed with sleeping pills. What do you think Lao Gu?" Lu Mingfei was completely holding on, and he was thinking about getting the support of his good brothers.
Gu Chen said with great shame: "Then you better stop drinking, if you urinate again."
"..." Lu Mingfei, you are really brother.
Next, Guderian briefly introduced the school system, and the only thing that could give way to Lu Mingfei was the so-called "3e" exam, because if he couldn't pass, he would have to go home and the scholarship would not be settled.
Afterwards, Guderian handed over a document, "There is a confidentiality agreement here, you can sign it first."
Faced with this strange Latin document mixed with English, Lu Mingfei read it for several minutes and finally confirmed that he couldn't understand it. He quietly touched Gu Chen's feet under the table, and rubbed the document to him as a hint.
Gu Chen sighed helplessly in facing Lu Mingfei's nervous eyes.
Only then did Lu Mingfei remember that the guy in front of him was also an English idiot.
After a while, under the gaze of the two foreigners on the opposite side, his hands trembled and signed.
The express train he took was heading to the mysterious and unknown academy at a high speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour. However, this was the path his parents pointed out to him, so what else could he refuse? Besides, Gu Chen was also by his side.
Goodrian carefully put away the document, and his expression was obvious.
Lu Mingfei suddenly had the illusion of signing a contract to sell his body.
"Then it's Mr. Gu Chen." Guderian's tone became a little serious, "If you can come to our college as a teacher, I must have already understood our subjects and research topics. I still hope you can consider it carefully."
Lu Mingfei blinked, "Teacher Gu?"
No, Gu Chen was not going to be a teacher, right? When he thought about it, he couldn't help but feel that the future was dark - what is this university doing? Is it a transit station for training second-hand dealers?
"I've thought about it a long time ago." Gu Chen's gentle smile was like the cup of hot chocolate in front of him. "Compare the shops, our college has the best prospects!"
Guderian considers himself a scholar. Although he has been in a mental hospital, he has never seen such an angry guy in the market. He compares Cassel College with all kinds of stores. He is really brave to say it.
"So how biased is the college?" Lu Mingfei asked after he was determined.
Goodrian took a deep breath. He had sat on the dark green sofa near the wall of the car, behind which was a huge painting covered by canvas. He suddenly uncovered the blocked canvas.
The paintings are very large, exquisitely mounted, but the paintings are hideous.
Fire floated under the iron-green sky, and black dragons were rising from the depths of the pile of corpses, with their wings hanging over the bones of the dead. Behind the huge membrane wings was a towering tree. The dead branches extended in all directions, as if they were weaving a dense net supporting the cracked sky.
"Dragon?" Lu Mingfei only felt a buzzing sound in his head.
Gu Chen was looking at the giant tree in the painting, which was about to die like a water exhausted, and the black dragon inevitably went to the same fate as it.
The drawings are a bit abstract, which is much worse than his sketches.
Just as Guderian was watching Lu Mingfei, Finger, who seemed to be doing nothing, has been observing Gu Chen's reaction, but he received normal feedback.
"To be precise, it's the Dragon Emperor and Niedhog." Guderian said: "According to the Nordic myth "Old Ai-Da Sutra", at dusk, this big guy will bite off the roots of the Tree of the World. Kassel Academy studies dragons. Of course, you can choose different disciplines, but in the end we have only one purpose."
He paused: "Slay the Dragon!"
Lu Mingfei's legs became weak and then his consciousness became pitch black.
There was a loud bang like the sky collapsed and the earth cracked. The whole train swayed, and all the lights jumped and flickered. The two words seemed to be a spell, awakening the king who was sleeping in the darkness.
In a heart-pounding darkness, a pair of golden eyes that looked like apocalypse were slowly opening.
Looking at Lu Mingfei who was just asleep, Gu Chen reached out to straighten his shoulders.
"It seems that Ming Fei is not a very strong person." Guderian sighed.
Gu Chen nodded, "Well, but he has a strong ability to accept."
I guess at this moment, Lu Mingfei's ocean of consciousness happened again, and was stained with blood and fire.
Outside the galloping window, clouds were moving, but the stars were scattered.
Chapter completed!