Early the next morning, the snow was still falling.
Snowflakes were falling in the yard.
Lu Mingfei stood in the courtyard wearing the scarf Qiao Weini forced him to put around his neck, looking up at the snowflakes falling in front of him.
Lu Lincheng and Qiao Weini got up and ran away early in the morning. They packed up their things and contacted some people who had relatively good relationships here, preparing to evacuate together.
Lu Mingfei gave them a clear answer last night.
As Giovanni said last night, there are some people in this safe haven who should not die here. They should have a better life and make more contributions to mankind and the world.
Lu Lincheng went to the expert building to find the old treasures who had been hiding in their respective laboratories all year round.
These people are all academic leaders who are obsessed with research and changing the world. It would be a pity to die here.
Qiao Weini went to look for young people. Perhaps it was because her son was not around these years. This woman who could slam the table and scold and challenge the former chairman of the committee was pretty good to children around the same age as Lu Mingfei, especially girls.
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She always thought about picking up a beautiful and obedient girl to be her son's wife when she and Lu Lincheng went home one day.
It's a pity that it seems unnecessary now, and all her investment in the past seven years has been wasted.
But this is not the fault of the girls. In addition, those beautiful girls did nothing wrong. They were just chosen by the Twilight Church and lived here since childhood.
Lu Mingfei had no objections to their decision.
No matter who they want to take back, Lu Mingfei doesn't care.
After all, there are fewer and fewer things in this world worth caring about.
He stood on the side of the road with his hands in his pockets. From time to time, passers-by passed by, mostly young boys and girls, holding thick books and information, trotting all the way through the wind and snow.
The wind blew off a girl's hat, scattering her golden long hair. When she was arranging her hair, she accidentally made eye contact with Lu Mingfei for a moment. Her skin was as radiant as snow, and her bright blue eyes were moving.
That should be a Ukrainian or Belarusian girl. Even in a place where beauties abound, she still looks like a movie star.
He suddenly thought of Zero.
To be honest, he should say thank you to Zero for being willing to stand by their brother's side.
Life is a very long journey, and you will meet many people on the way, but not everyone will be willing to choose you, and not everyone who chooses you can accompany you to the end. Lu Mingfei’s biggest gain in these years is
Learn to cherish everything you have now.
He raised his head and glanced at the clock hanging on the top of the building. There was still some time left.
He was going to walk around and take another look at the Nibelungen built by Lu Mingze's subconscious.
So he shouted seriously: "Where is the God of the Earth?"
"Here, how are you doing, the Great Sage?" A very doggy voice came from the side.
Lu Mingfei didn't even look at it, and cleared his voice with his hands behind his back: "Lead the way, I'll see what this place is like."
"Okay!" Lu Mingze yelled and walked in front to lead the way.
I met many people along the way, and they nodded to Lu Mingfei in a friendly manner, but no one seemed to see Lu Mingze.
"Tell me, when did you become what you are now?" Lu Mingfei suddenly asked.
"Brother, what are you referring to?" Lu Mingze turned around.
"I'm referring to your funny side now. You were not like this before. They called you the King of the Earth, but it was not because of your power, but because of your cruelty. You always regarded this world as a game.
, and the only player is you, and everyone else is an NPC controlled by you."
"How could it be? There are always two people in the player, one is me and the other is you." Lu Mingze shook his head, "The other person will always become. I have understood so many people's hearts, and I have become human without knowing it.
But this is mainly to take care of your feelings, brother. A devil trader who is flattering and cute all day long has more market than a devil with a green face, fangs and a sneer, right?"
He said it plausibly and said that I changed all for you, brother!
Lu Mingfei smiled silently: "Whether there is a market for it remains to be seen, but it is indeed much cuter now than before."
Lu Mingze's pupils were shocked and he said in shock: "So, brother, you like cute style? Do you like my brother wearing Lolita?"
"Can you please stop disgusting me?"
"It seems that I don't like it." Lu Mingze said regretfully, "Actually, I really have collected several exquisite Lolita sets."
"Wear it for Ling." Lu Mingfei shrugged, "Didn't you buy it for her?"
"Well, actually..."
"Let's go." Lu Mingfei said nonchalantly, "I don't want to continue shopping. Take me to where you live."
Lu Mingze suddenly fell silent.
"What's wrong?" Lu Mingfei said with a smile, "Are you still nervous? It's not your first time here. You should know that. Are you afraid that I will be shocked when I see your current appearance?"
Lu Mingze looked at him deeply and said softly: "Brother, you suddenly make me a little scared."
"What are you afraid of?" Lu Mingfei laughed, stretched out his hand and rubbed the little devil's head, "Am I going to eat you? And even if it is, isn't this what you think about day and night?"
Lu Mingze shook his head: "I'm not afraid that you will eat me. What I'm afraid of is that you won't want me anymore."
Lu Mingfei was noncommittal, and without waiting for him to lead the way, he headed straight towards the final sanctuary in the eyes of Lu Lincheng and others.
He actually didn't need Lu Mingze to lead the way.
Because he had really been here before, led by Lu Lincheng, he went to the underground sanctuary and saw a familiar figure.
It's just that he failed to take Lu Mingze away that time.
But this time...it seems to have the same ending.
Destinies are always surprisingly similar, achieving similar goals in different ways.
Lu Mingfei felt as if he was in an uninhabited land. He took the elevator all the way down without any pass or the guidance of anyone else.
The elevator stopped and the door opened. The space in front of him was huge and high. A deep red light from an unknown source vaguely illuminated everything around him. What was even brighter was the large matrix under his feet, with faint blue mercury flowing in the matrix.
A giant alchemical matrix.
He had seen a similar alchemical matrix underground at Cassell Academy. It was similar to an amplifier and could increase the power of a certain word spirit hundreds of times. Of course, building such a matrix also required extremely high attainments in alchemy.
Lu Mingfei glanced at the alchemy matrix and knew that there was a little kid hiding in this Nibelung, but it was not important anymore. It didn't matter whether the kid appeared or not, whether he knelt in front of him or not.
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He looked through the rusty metal railing, like looking at an ancient Roman marble sculpture in a museum.
The surrounding thick mercury vapor filled the air. Lu Mingfei frowned slightly and snapped his fingers.
The circular pool of mercury in the center of the matrix is solidified.
The basic structure of mercury changed at this moment. Someone used their own will to erase the basis of their existence and change their composition. The mercury that could cause harm to dragons became a puddle of water.
This is simply a scene from a myth. It is similar to alchemy's pursuit of turning stone into gold. The difference is that what alchemists can't do even if they die is just a snap of their fingers in front of him.
Interfering with reality with the spirit is only the most superficial step.
The power of the Dragon Clan really showed off at this moment.
He snapped his fingers again.
A rumbling sound came from under the bridge, and huge things rose from the mercury pool. They were four broken bronze pillars. They were undoubtedly from the ruins of a dragon city. They had been soaked in mercury for so long.
There is no trace of rust at all. After the mercury on the surface has flowed away, the red gold-like body is shimmering with light and engraved with incomprehensible totems.
There is a red gold chain hanging on each copper pillar, hanging a pale human figure in the center. A twisted dark gold spear is inserted into the human figure's chest.
He had been soaked in the mercury pool for an unknown length of time, and the mercury had penetrated deeply into his skin, so he turned a strange gray-white color, as if he were carved out of limestone.
The mercury flowed away from his face, revealing a childish face.
Lu Mingfei's face twitched several times.
He took a deep breath, slowly crossed the railing, walked towards the boy out of thin air, and pulled out the dark golden spear stuck in his chest.
At that moment, countless thoughts rushed towards his brain along the spear. It was anger, murderous intent, despair...a series of negative emotions such as the mental shock, which was the price that had to be paid for mastering this forbidden weapon.
Lu Mingfei stood there, closing his eyes and feeling the spiritual fluctuations continuously coming from Kungunir.
In just a few moments, he vaguely understood the roots of this forbidden weapon, and by contacting the [Distant Utopia] in his senior brother's hands, he roughly understood the reason why these two weapons could communicate with the elemental sea.
He threw it casually, and Kungunir was nailed to the wall behind.
There was no blood from the place where the spear was pulled out, the boy's face was still gray-white, and he didn't even move at all.
He was hanging there alone, with his head lowered.
Lu Mingfei caressed the boy's cheek tenderly, cut off the chains hanging his limbs with his fingers, and held him in his arms.
"Sorry, I'm late."
Lu Mingze appeared beside them silently, looking at himself in his brother's arms with a dull expression.
He raised his head slightly, then lowered his head and looked down at his feet, just like Satan returning from hell. When he comes out, he will deceive the nations on all sides of the earth, even Gog and Magog, and make them gather for war. Their numbers are as numerous as the sand on the seashore.
Lu Mingfei carefully handed the gray-white body to Lu Mingze who was standing aside, looking at him expectantly, as if he would see the intact Lu Mingze in the next second.
But Lu Mingze didn't answer.
He allowed his body to fall from a height, hit the mercury pool below heavily, and fell to the bottom of the pool.
The expectation on Lu Mingfei's face disappeared.
After a long time, he sighed, feeling a little tired, but as if everything was as expected.
"Brother, do you still remember our second meeting?" Lu Mingze said slowly.
His tone and expression were completely different from before, and there was a hint of coldness in the slowness, just like the cold wind in the heavy rain, biting to the bone.
And behind him, a veiled woman stood quietly.
"What you want to say is, do you hate me sitting next to you now?" Lu Mingfei said with a smile.
Lu Mingze's eyes were slightly stunned, as if he didn't expect his brother to tell him the trick he had prepared.
After successfully cheating on the 3e exam, that was the second meeting between Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze.
Lu Mingze started with "Sunset, come up", which shocked Lu Mingfei for a while.
At that time, he said, everyone in this room is sad because they have seen the deepest things in their hearts, and the reason why you are not sad is because I am sad for you.
Then he looked up and shed tears under the falling sun. He kicked Lu Mingfei out of the illusion and said, "I hate you sitting next to me now."
That year and that month.
Today.
It seems that a lot has changed, but it seems that nothing has changed.
"Brother, do you still remember the chips you paid to restart your life?" Lu Mingze raised a smile, "Now, it's time to pay the chips."
His smile was so warm and caring. He no longer had the stubbornness and flattery of the past, and what was left was purity and gentleness.
It was as if the boy who had treated the entire world roughly gave all his tenderness to his brother.
Lu Mingfei didn't look at the masked woman. He casually pulled out a napkin from nowhere. There was dripping blood on the paper and a bright red heart shape, as red as if he had just drawn it.
It was still a scene in his memory, and Lu Mingze's eyes narrowed.
"It's ketchup. It was painted on purpose." Lu Mingfei chuckled, "Do you want it?"
"Then I'll give it to you."
Without waiting for Lu Mingze's reply, he tossed it gently, and the bloody napkin slowly flew towards Lu Mingze.
"I remember you said that if you don't seize power, anyone will feel inferior, just like a stag without antlers, which has no place in the herd." Lu Mingfei paused, "I don't like this statement, either.
I don’t think power allows us to embrace everything, but if you want it, I’ll give it to you.”
At this moment, Lu Mingfei's eyes were dark, but his calm tone was full of force.
"Naruzawa, I have traveled a long way, met many people, and experienced many things, and finally I understood what I was pursuing."
"I came back with power again, not to win anything, just for the people I love."
"And you are naturally one of them."
"Of course I can give you everything you want, power, authority, and even a name."
"The premise is that you are already prepared."
"Naruzawa, let me confirm again that you have made your choice and prepared the corresponding awareness, right?"
Lu Mingfei spoke softly and looked at Lu Mingze with a smile, without the anger or questioning that the latter had expected.
Lu Mingze nodded silently.
He has already made preparations.
"That's it."
Lu Mingfei raised his head slightly and closed his eyes, but this time no snowflakes fell on his eyelashes.
"I understand, then do what you want to do. But you must also remember that you are also part of the life I long for."
He reached out and rubbed Lu Mingze's head, turned around with a smile, put his hands in his pockets and walked in the direction he came from. On the way, he took out a hand and waved it in the air, and said casually,
"Take it! Take everything you want! Then do whatever you want! The ending of this world cannot be worse anyway, so why not be bold?"
that moment.
There seemed to be another outline emerging from Lu Mingfei's side.
They walked side by side towards the door from which they came, heading in the opposite direction to Lu Mingze, but at the end they looked back and said in unison:
"Remember, you are never alone."
"We will be watching you from somewhere in the world."