Dragon Raja: Dragon Slaying Begins with System Hosting

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Xia Mi, Lu Mingfei, and Panpan were playing cards on the balcony.

Looking at her terrible hand, Xia Mi frowned and suddenly said to the two, "Did you know? The relationship between the moon and the stars is actually one of competition. The brighter the moon, the dimmer the stars become—that's what's meant by 'a bright moon and few stars.' And during the day, it's not that there aren't stars, it's just that the sun's light is so strong that it doesn't give the stars a chance to shine at all..."

When Lu Mingfei and Panpan heard her words, they couldn't help but look up at the night sky and found that it was indeed true. The moon was very bright in the clear night sky, but the night sky, which should have been full of stars, only had a few stars struggling to emit their light.

At this moment, Lu Mingfei reached out and pressed down on Xia Mi's hand as she lifted the remaining three landlord cards on the table. He looked at her irritably and said, "Just talk, why are you peeking at the landlord cards?"

"This hand is really terrible..." Xia Mi chuckled and threw her cards onto the table, then took out two strips of paper and stuck them on her face. "I concede."

All three of them had sticky notes stuck to their faces; no one was spared.

There are only 52 cards in total. Memorizing the cards is a piece of cake for Xia Mi and Panpan. Lu Mingfei doesn't need to bother memorizing them either; he just looks at the system analysis.

Panpan was a little small, but she was a clever little thing and not that stupid. So, playing Dou Dizhu became a battle of luck, and luck basically determined the outcome. If luck wasn't on your side, even the Dragon King would lose.

"Cheating on the landlord's cards is too serious. Who knows if you cheated before? Another card will be added!" Panpan turned into a traitor, punishing a hundred for one cheater and demanding additional punishment.

Xia Mi refused to accept this, "I've already admitted defeat, I'm not convinced..."

"Slap!" Lu Mingfei flicked two fingers, like dealing cards, and the sticker was stuck directly onto Xia Mi's small face, right in the middle of her forehead.

"Do you think your refusal to admit your guilt will cover up your crimes?"

Xia Mi blew on the sticky note on her forehead, but found it wouldn't come off. She said unconvinced, "If I admit defeat, won't that speed up the next round? I've contributed to the game and shed blood."

“Turning black into white.” Lu Mingfei rolled his eyes. “With your innate journalistic physique, why don’t you apply to the journalism department in college? The chance to revive the glory of the journalism department is on your shoulders. You can help us regain the public opinion front.”

"Journalism? Forget it. Many journalism professors aren't formally trained in the field. It's an industry anyone can jump into; the entry barrier is ridiculously low, and you don't make much money..."

After shuffling the cards, the next round began, but luck didn't seem to be on Xia Mi's side. Under her uncertain gaze, the sticky notes on her face increased rapidly, even sticking to her philtrum.

"Damn it! I'm not playing anymore! I suspect I've been set up by the capitalists. How come my luck is so bad?"

Xia Mi put down the cards in her hand and started tearing off the sticky notes on her face. She had already covered more than half of the sticky notes; this was unplayable.

"How about we change our seats? Maybe it's bad feng shui?" Panpan said with a smile.

"Then you guys are still my nemesis! I'm requesting a replacement." Xia Mi rubbed her face, removing the glue, and lifted Panpan's chubby little face, saying fiercely, "You're happy these past few days without Old Tang putting pressure on you, aren't you? Humph, I'm going to enter the world of alchemy and put some pressure on you too."

"Okay, okay." Panpan smiled broadly, showing her teeth, when she heard Xia Mi's words.

Everyone knows Xia Mi is an alchemy idiot; she hasn't even crossed the threshold in a month.

Previously, Old Tang's presence had indeed put pressure on Panpan. She thought she was a little genius and could easily guide Old Tang, but the result was...

"This is fire, this is iron, this is advanced alchemy."

"Yes, I've learned it."

Panpan: ? ? ?

Old Tang shrugged: Is this really that difficult?

"Forget it, I won't put any pressure on you." Xia Mi turned to Lu Mingfei and asked, "Isn't Old Tang working on your...you know... plan? How's it going?"

Speaking of Lao Tang's research, Lu Mingfei had to say a few words of praise: "He only sleeps 5 hours a day and spends the rest of his time rushing to meet deadlines. Fortunately, his assistants are all Japanese. If they were from other countries, they might not be used to his pace."

"Only 5 hours of sleep a day? Doesn't that mean your rest time is even shorter? Don't you get any rest at all?" Xia Mi was stunned. What was this all about? Are all human laborers this terrifying?

Xia Mi felt ashamed for a moment; her research on humans was ultimately incomplete.

“He said that if you work 8 hours a day, you only work 240 hours a month. If you work 16 hours a day, you can complete three months’ worth of tasks in one and a half months, which would double the speed of progress. If you work one more hour, you can save a few more days.”

His theory was fully accepted by his Japanese assistant, who then worked with him to develop Lu Mingfei's complete human body alchemy matrix.

After all, if the experiment is successful, as a reward, they will be the first to have this technology applied to themselves.

"Working more than 17 hours a day? He's just an ordinary person, isn't he afraid of suddenly dying?"

Xia Mi wondered, "Is this what humanity is? Isn't this pushing the wheels of history backward?" It seems she needs to re-examine the modern history of human development.

"School starts tomorrow, go to bed early."

"Ah."

But back in her own house, Xia Mi spent the night rereading modern human history to gain a deeper understanding of human nature.

Although both humans and dragons have some emotions and desires, their biological levels are not the same, and what they seek is not the same. She can only roughly understand the weak humans and cannot fully empathize with them.

Chu Zihang returned home the day before school started.

With the support of his bloodline, he didn't seem very tired even after working for so long, at least Su Xiaoyan and Lu Tianming didn't notice.

Upon seeing him return unharmed, Su Xiaoyan eagerly approached her son and asked, "How were you when the volcano erupted in Japan?"

When Chu Zihang answered his mother's call, he told her that he had received advance notice and had already fled Tokyo. He was on his way to the airport to catch a flight back to China, and told her not to worry. He also attached a few photos that he had taken casually earlier.

Su Xiaoyan had no doubts. Her son hadn't gone missing, and the disaster in Japan wasn't too severe. As long as he wasn't missing, nothing major could happen.

Lu Tianming was a little puzzled as to why Chu Zihang went to other cities to play after returning to China, since Chu Zihang was not the kind of person who liked to travel around.

Chu Zihang could be considered a homebody, but his obsession wasn't with anime or manga.

"The situation in Japan was quite chaotic at the time, mainly due to widespread panic, but I had already left Tokyo by then, so I didn't know much about it," Chu Zihang said softly to Su Xiaoyan.

"That's alright. I have a friend who was in Tokyo at the time. She saw the thick smoke from the eruption of Mount Fuji, the tsunami, and the earthquake. She said she almost thought she was going to die. The Tokyo power system was paralyzed, there was no cell phone signal, and she couldn't make any calls..." Su Xiaoyan felt a little regretful that her son hadn't suffered any major disaster and hadn't witnessed the situation at the time.

Lu Tianming coughed and said, "It's good that everyone is alright. The losses in Tokyo this time were just smaller than expected, but the actual damage was quite significant. Let's eat first..."

"Hmm." Chu Zihang gave a simple reply and walked towards the dining table, while Su Xiaoyan followed behind him like a little girl, telling him about her friend's experience.

The situation in Tokyo at that time was a once-in-a-century event, since the theoretically highest threat could have directly wiped Japan out of the list of "powerful nations" in the world.

It just ended abruptly and poorly.

While listening to his mother, Chu Zihang was thinking about the major breakthrough that Lu Mingfei had mentioned. If it succeeded and was applied to him, he would most likely be able to bypass the bloodline limitation to some extent.

His bloodline was average, but with this plan, he could reach the level of a top-tier hybrid... but his years of effort seem to have been in vain.

If you put him in front of Odin now, he would most likely be a character like Deadpool.

Xia Mi learned all the close-combat sword techniques and hand-to-hand fighting skills that Lu Mingfei had practiced for years in just a few days. Lu Mingfei may be mysterious, but he is indeed a top genius.

Old Tang is an absolute genius. Alchemy, a technique that others can't even grasp in a lifetime, takes him by days. His progress in a day is faster than others' in a year, as if a day in heaven is a year on earth. According to Lu Mingfei, his progress is like riding a rocket, directly sending bricks flying into the sky.

His brilliance shone like the sun and moon among the stars, completely overshadowing the light of all the other stars. If he, an ordinary hybrid, hadn't been lucky enough to meet Lu Mingfei, his greatest achievement in this life might have been facing Odin directly.

And then? Then he died.

The golden eyes of hybrids have a suppressive effect on ordinary people, while the golden eyes of the Dragon King can cause people to explode and die instantly. In the history of the Secret Society, only a few dragon slayers have survived close encounters with the Dragon King.

He had heard Lu Mingfei tell some things he had learned from Angers: the Kassel College used to be a fortress, but after the incident, its educational policy was changed, and it was transformed from a military base into a real campus.

Angers didn't tell Lu Mingfei what it was about, so he didn't know. However, based on the secret story of slaying the dragon at Kassel College that Angers revealed, and combined with the timeline, he and Lu Mingfei roughly deduced what the event was—the Greenland Sea Incident.

That was the only time Kassel College had ever come so close to the Dragon King since its founding, and the elite agents they sent down almost suffered total annihilation. Later, at the bottom of the Japan Trench, Kassel College learned its lesson and sent only those with superior bloodlines, and even then, things almost went wrong…

The facts are undeniable: the world revolves around geniuses, and ordinary people like him, mixed-race individuals, are merely fuel.

However, Chu Zihang didn't care. As long as he could burn Odin to death, he didn't mind being used as fuel.

……

When the spring semester of 2008 began, Shilan Middle School, which had been quiet for a month, became lively again. The flowers, plants and trees that had been trimmed before the start of the semester looked neat and tidy.

After not seeing each other for a long time for a month, the atmosphere in the class was lively, with everyone chatting enthusiastically with familiar classmates.

"Lu Mingfei, where did you go during winter break?" a classmate asked Lu Mingfei. "I haven't seen you say anything in the QQ group."

"I went to Tokyo, Japan for a trip," Lu Mingfei said. "And then I lost the mood to talk."

Were you on the scene when the earthquake, tsunami, and volcanic eruption occurred in Japan?

The classmate was somewhat shocked.

When that incident happened in Japan, it was Chinese New Year in China. Only a few people and families were traveling abroad, while most people were staying in China to celebrate the New Year, visiting relatives and friends.

Although the number of students is small, there are quite a few students at Shilan Secondary School, including some war correspondents. There weren't any in their class, but now there are.

"Yes, it was quite chaotic at the time," Lu Mingfei nodded slightly.

"How were you feeling at the time?" the classmate quickly asked.

The conversation between the two also attracted the attention of some people.

"You weren't injured at the time, were you?" Liu Miaomiao walked over and asked. "I saw on the news that Tokyo was in chaos at the time, and many people were killed or injured, but not all of them were caused by the earthquake and tsunami. Some were injured in the chaos."

In response to Liu Miaomiao's question, Lu Mingfei said, "I left Tokyo directly by helicopter."

"Given the situation in Tokyo at the time, how were you able to get a helicopter?" Su Xiaoqiang chimed in. "A friend of my dad's was in Tokyo at the time, and he said the roads were completely jammed, and there was no way to call a helicopter."

“It’s my friend’s private helicopter.” Lu Mingfei glanced at Zhao Menghua, who was eager to join the conversation, and said, “His family has quite a large business in Japan and owns a private helicopter in Tokyo. Knowing I was in Tokyo, they sent a helicopter to pick me up.”

"Wow, Lu Mingfei, you're so lucky! Who's your friend?"

"..."

Chapter 173 Alchemy Formulas

The students were very curious about the war correspondent who came from their class, but Lu Mingfei didn't seem to care much about it. He would answer questions when asked, but there was no boasting or excitement about surviving a disaster on his face.

Such a grand scene is something most people might never witness in their lifetime, and even adults might struggle to contain their excitement. Yet Lu Mingfei... remained completely unfazed.

"That's true. If Lu Mingfei wanted to say it, he would have said it in the QQ group long ago. He wouldn't have kept it to himself for half a month."

"correct."

"..."

"Lu Mingfei, are you going to Japan for the New Year?" Su Xiaoqiang said, "My dad almost took me to Hokkaido, Japan for the New Year, but in the end we went to Portugal instead."

"Your maternal grandfather's house?"

The arrogant little fairy's family background was known to everyone in the class. After all, the little fairy did not hide her family background at all, and was quite proud of it.

She is of mixed Chinese and Portuguese descent. Her father is a coal mine owner and her mother is Portuguese. Her family has assets worth hundreds of millions. She is generous and often treats people to meals to maintain her position as the eldest sister.

Lu Mingfei had eaten at her meals before, so he was naturally well aware of this information. If he hadn't offended her at the beginning of his first year of high school, he probably would have become her lackey. There's nothing wrong with being a lackey; Su Xiaoqiang is a qualified big sister... Unfortunately, because of personal grudges, she looked down on Lu Mingfei, this loser.

However, now that Lu Mingfei has stood up, he no longer needs to depend on others for his livelihood. In terms of assets alone, there are few people in the entire city who are richer than him.

“Yes,” Su Xiaoqiang said, “we’re going to my maternal grandfather’s manor for the New Year.”

Lu Mingfei just stared at the other person, making Su Xiaoqiang swallow back the words she was about to use to flaunt her wealth.

She felt that Lu Mingfei now was quite different from the Lu Mingfei of last semester.