Chapter 448 Code Name: Friga
Everything is settled, there's no need to delay.
The setup was the same as when they left in the morning: Lu Mingfei and Erii were in the back with the baby, Nuonuo was driving, and Caesar was in the passenger seat looking beautiful.
Amidst the bustling traffic and flashing neon lights, the Maybach, like a beast emerging from the darkness to hunt, merged into the throng of cars.
The research institute is located in what appears to be an ordinary science and technology park, but its security level is extremely high, requiring special access verification.
When Lu Mingfei and his group arrived at the entrance of the core experimental building, they bumped into an unexpected figure.
Caesar stepped out of the car, looked at Fingel, and a hint of surprise flashed in his icy blue eyes:
"Fingal? What are you doing here?"
When Fingel saw them, he grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and pointed with his thumb to the brightly lit building behind him:
"I'm here to deliver goods. I just delivered them and was just about to head back."
"Delivery?" Caesar was taken aback at first, but then he remembered what Lu Mingfei had said about Percy having already gone to the research institute, and immediately realized what Fingal was delivering.
Furthermore, considering what Lu Mingfei said before, it couldn't possibly be him who kidnapped Percy, nor could it be Chu Zihang, so...
He looked Fingel up and down, who showed no signs of injury whatsoever, and found it hard to believe that this senior, who always presented himself as a good-for-nothing, had so easily taken down Percy.
Although Caesar was unsure of Percy's true strength, Frost, that old man, always valued his life and kept Percy by his side for years, serving as both secretary and bodyguard, so his strength was definitely not to be underestimated.
And Fingel was able to defeat Percy so easily, and judging from his nonchalant attitude, the process seemed quite easy?!
At this moment, Caesar's understanding of Fingel was refreshed once again. Sure enough, shallow ponds have many turtles, and the waters of Kassel College are both deep and full of turtles.
"What are you doing here?" Fingel asked curiously. Why did they come all this way in the middle of the night? Were they going to dissect Secretary Parcy themselves?
"Just a minor surgery." Lu Mingfei didn't reveal too many details and led everyone directly into the building.
It was actually his first time here, but the moment he got out of the car, the entire research institute held no secrets for him.
The cold, metallic corridor, the soft lighting, the air almost too clean.
Before Lu Mingfei set off, he had already informed Su Enxi that she had arranged for a laboratory to be used as an operating room. Two staff members in sterile gowns were standing at the door, guiding Nuonuo and Li Jiatu into the ready-to-go operating room.
Before Caesar could even say hello, the man had already disappeared behind the door.
Turning to look at Lu Mingfei, she saw that he had already pulled Erii along and stepped into the operating room. Noticing that he seemed to be following, she pointed to the "No Trespassing" sign hanging by the door.
"You all stay here and don't move around. We'll be right back."
After saying that, Lu Mingfei and Erii, who were clearly just idle people, went into the operating room together.
The heavy, airtight door slowly closed in front of Caesar, isolating him from the outside world.
Caesar, as a family member in reserve, was left in the corridor, looking at the closed door with a complex mix of emotions: worry, tension, and anticipation, like a husband waiting for his wife to give birth.
Coincidentally, there was indeed a woman and a baby in the operating room.
Fingel strolled over and brought two chairs, telling Caesar not to rush, to sit and wait patiently, and that Lu Mingfei would take care of everything.
But Fingel had no idea what was going to happen inside, so how could he possibly empathize with Caesar? Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, he sat down, took out his phone, opened the e-reader, and prepared to read a novel for a while.
Soon, the corridor fell into a silent silence, with only the faint hum of the central air conditioning system.
Caesar stood at the door, wanting to use his Word of Power, Kamaitachi, to eavesdrop on the surgery to see if anything unexpected had happened, but he was also worried that his power might have some adverse effect on the surgery inside.
It's better to be safe than sorry, after all, he had never even heard of major surgeries like bloodline degeneration and word spirit transfer.
After a while, when no unusual sounds came from inside, Caesar finally suppressed his tension and sat down next to Fingel.
Seeing his fingers flying across the keyboard and the corners of his mouth turned up so wide it was hard to suppress, I was a little curious about what novel he was reading that made him so happy. But remembering what Lu Mingfei had said, I decided to inquire about the feud between Fingel and Gattuso.
So he cleared his throat and asked:
“Finger, Lu Mingfei said before that there are some irreconcilable conflicts between you and the Gattuso family.”
Upon hearing this, Fingel's hand, which was swiping on his phone, immediately stopped. He looked up at Caesar with a surprised expression, but quickly realized that the upcoming actions would inevitably involve Caesar, and he needed to prepare Caesar mentally.
He nodded slightly: "That's right."
"If it's convenient, could you tell me?" Caesar met his gaze.
Upon hearing this, Fingel swiped the screen twice more with his right thumb. After a few seconds, the smile on his face vanished, leaving only an unusual calm.
"There's nothing inconvenient to talk about. It happened many years ago... Have you heard of the Greenland Sea Operation eight years ago?"
Caesar nodded. The Greenland Sea incident was highly confidential within the Kassel College, but as the heir of the Gattuso family, he had heard of it, though he didn't know the cause, process, or ending of the matter.
However, Lu Mingfei had told him something at the hotel earlier, and he knew that it was an operation with extremely heavy losses. A team composed of the academy's top elites, led by Professor Schneider, was almost completely wiped out, and the professor was left in this inhuman and ghostly state.
Could this be the source of the conflict between Fingel and the Gattuso family?
As he pondered this, he heard Fingel continue in a calm tone, "Then you should know the outcome of that operation."
"Um."
Fingel glanced at him and said in a flat voice, "My girlfriend is one of the specialists in the execution team."
Despite his suspicions, Caesar still felt a suffocating heaviness when he heard Fingel say those words in person.
Fingel has always been a despicable person hated by everyone on the Night Watchers forum, but some people have said that he was originally the best A-class and the ace of the Executive Department, although no one believed it.
But now it seems that it might not have been a rumor.
The fact that he could easily take down Parcy with only a slightly dirty hem of his clothes already speaks volumes.
Moreover, as someone who also has a girlfriend, Caesar couldn't imagine what he would do if Nono were to perish at sea because of a family transfer order.
Just thinking about it makes me feel suffocated with pain.
Köppinger did indeed experience all of this, and one of the culprits responsible for the tragedy was the Gattuso family.
"I'm sorry." Caesar wasn't apologizing for the family's mistakes, but only for reigniting Fingel's pain.
Fingel's lips curled up, and he shrugged, saying, "Why are you apologizing to me? It wasn't your fault, and so many years have passed."
He appeared quite magnanimous, as if he had already let go of the matter, but Caesar, looking into his clear, unfathomable iron-grey eyes beneath his disheveled hair, knew that he still harbored a wound in his heart that could never heal.
Moreover, Fingel only mentioned that many years have passed, not that he has let go of it.
They only said it had nothing to do with Caesar, but didn't say it wasn't the fault of the Gattuso family.
Fingel has acted so normally for so many years, even willingly playing the role of a comical loser. The anger and hatred he has suppressed in his heart have probably exceeded the limits of ordinary people's imagination.
The fact that he didn't direct his anger at Caesar already shows a clear distinction between right and wrong.
Caesar opened his mouth, as if to say something, but before he could speak...
"bite!"
A crisp, short notification sound rang out from the operating room, standing out clearly in the quiet corridor.
Caesar and Fingel were both taken aback and turned their gazes toward the operating room door.
The indicator light on the gate was off.
So fast?!
The two exchanged a glance, both seeing surprise in each other's eyes. After all, it had been less than ten minutes since Lu Mingfei and Erii went in!
Caesar had assumed that such an obviously extremely difficult surgery would be lengthy and thrilling, and he was prepared to wait for several hours. However, he did not expect it to be so quick.
It's really just a minor surgery?!
Fingel still remembered what Lu Mingfei had said, watching the airtight door slowly slide open with a slight depressurization sound.
Lu Mingfei and Erii walked out hand in hand. The former looked relaxed, as if he had just done a fun little experiment in chemistry class.
The latter's little face didn't show any particular expression, but her little head would occasionally look back into the operating room, as if she were a little curious.
"It's over?" Caesar stepped forward, somewhat incredulous, his voice tinged with uncertainty.
Lu Mingfei nodded: "All done. He's awake and seems to be in good condition. Let's go in and take a look."
Seeing his nonchalant demeanor, and then glancing at Erii, who remained equally unmoved, Caesar felt a multitude of questions stuck in his throat.
He hesitated, wanting to speak but holding back, but ultimately his worries about Nono and Ricardo prevailed. He suppressed his many questions, thanked him, and quickly walked into the operating room.
The operating room was not what Caesar had imagined, with doctors, nurses, and a clean, sterile environment. Instead, there was a bloodstained operating table and bright operating lights.
When he came in, he saw Nono sitting on a lounge chair, still holding Ricardo in her arms.
However, compared to when he came in, he was lively and energetic, looking around everywhere. Now, the little guy is sleeping soundly in his sister's arms.
Nono looked down at her hands, seemingly sensing the changes in her body. Her dark red hair fell down, obscuring her expression.
But it seems there shouldn't be any problems; at least it doesn't have horns on its head or a tail behind it.
"Nono!" Caesar strode to her side, took her hand, and his icy blue eyes anxiously scrutinized her face.
"How are you feeling? Is anything bothering you? Ricardo, he..."
Nono looked up at Caesar, her face showing a mixture of confusion, curiosity, and excitement.
She shook her head: "I don't feel anything special, it's just that I feel like there's something more in my body, and something less. If I had to find a word to describe it, it would be that I feel much more relaxed."
easy?
Is it physical relief or mental relief?
Caesar felt that both were true, but whichever it was, as long as she and Ricardo were alright, that was all that mattered.
Outside, Fingel also stood up, his gaze sweeping past Lu Mingfei as he looked back, but he couldn't see anything.
However, out of trust in Lu Mingfei, he wouldn't ask any questions.
He simply smiled and said, "Junior brother, could you please help review Eva's future recovery plan?"
"What's the point of being so polite? What kind of relationship do we have?" Lu Mingfei slapped him onto the chair and winked.
Did Caesar just ask you?
"I asked."
"What did he say?"
"Say I'm sorry."
"Not bad, no wonder he's the only normal person in the Gattuso family." Lu Mingfei praised, when suddenly his phone vibrated slightly.
He took it out, opened it, narrowed his eyes slightly, and then a cold smile appeared on his lips.
"Aze is always reliable when he gets things done." He murmured to himself, put his phone away, turned around and went back into the operating room, looking at the two still holding hands, and said:
"The bloodline imprint cannot be seen by observation, listening, questioning and palpation; we need to find a place to test it to truly know."
Nono looked up at him: "Where?"
Lu Mingfei didn't keep them in suspense: "I just received news that your biological father's hiding place has been found."
I'm prepared to go and drag him out right now, and depending on the circumstances, decide whether to execute him on the spot or hand him over to the people for trial.
If he was merely blinded by greed and unaware of the truth about the Dragon King behind the scenes, and was not the Dragon King's lackey, then Lu Mingfei would hand him over to those who had caused his family to be destroyed and killed for trial.
But if he knows he is serving the Dragon King, and is aware of all the consequences yet still helps him do evil... then he will only face death.
Upon hearing this, Nono's body visibly stiffened.
Although she no longer felt any fatherly affection for Chen Tianmu and was even filled with hatred for him, her heart still contracted violently upon hearing the words "execute him on the spot."
It was a throbbing sensation originating from one's bloodline.
She remained silent for a few seconds, took a deep breath, and when she looked up again, her eyes had become cold and resolute.
"Let's go!" Her voice wasn't loud, but it was exceptionally clear.
She needed to witness that person's downfall firsthand, and she also needed to use this method to completely sever ties with the past, and use this newly acquired power to seek justice for herself, her mother, her brother, and those innocent victims of persecution.
Caesar remained silent, but reached out and took Nono's hand, giving her strength.
He had a bad feeling, as if everything that happened today was just a rehearsal for the future.
If he were really in the same situation as Nono, would he be able to make such a resolute choice?
In front of the building, five adults and one child squeezed into a car. Lu Mingfei took over the driver's seat and directly enveloped the Maybach with his Word of Power: Dark Illumination, showing no fear of being stopped by traffic police.
Everyone fastened their seatbelts, but the car didn't start. Instead, Lu Mingfei's eyes lit up with golden light, and the Maybach, hidden in the thin mist, took off and soared into the sky under the control of the Word Spirit Sword Control.
The night wind howled outside the car window, and the city below shrank rapidly, transforming into a dazzling sea of light.
Caesar had already experienced a thunderstorm-like flying ship once before, so he didn't feel anything this time in the moonlit flying car. However, it was Nono's first time, so she couldn't help but hug Ricardo tightly, afraid that Lu Mingfei might accidentally crash the car and die.
The Maybach flies at extremely high speeds, even exceeding its top speed.
Lu Mingfei's goal was clear: the Taihang Mountains!
In just a few minutes, the Taihang Mountains, undulating and sleeping like a black behemoth in the night, came into view.
Lu Mingfei maneuvered the Maybach like a precise guided missile, heading straight for one of the seemingly inconspicuous mountain peaks.
As he approached the mountain peak, he pointed his fingers like a sword and gently tapped forward!
"Buzz—!"
Words of Power: Judgment!
A destructive force descended from the sky, like a thunderbolt from the heavens, instantly traversing hundreds of meters and slamming into the mountain!
There was no deafening explosion, only a dull, eerie roar that seemed to tear space itself apart!
The mountain struck by the trial was instantly annihilated and pulverized by an invisible force, leaving a huge hole with a diameter of more than ten meters, exposing the secrets hidden inside the mountain!
It was not solid rock, but a sturdy, man-made structure that shimmered with a metallic sheen.
A giant fortress hidden inside the mountain.
The power of judgment did not cease; following the breach blasted open, it directly destroyed the bunker's solid walls, carving out a passage.
The bunker was severely damaged, and alarms blared inside, while red warning lights flashed wildly.
However, before the guards could gather, the Maybach had already fallen into the hiding place that Chen Tianmu thought was absolutely safe.
Lu Mingfei started the car, stepped on the gas, and rushed towards the core of the mountain fortress.
Any automatic defense weapons or armed personnel that attempted to block the way were instantly shattered by an invisible force before they could even aim. The guards, who possessed dragon blood, were severely injured by the exploding weapons and posed no threat whatsoever.
The Maybach traveled smoothly all the way to the core area of the bunker, where a heavy alloy door stood, requiring special authorization to open.
Lu Mingfei got out of the car, turned around and looked at Nuonuo, gesturing, "Try your 'key'."
Nono handed Ricardo to Caesar, took two steps forward, looked up at the sturdy door, and with a sudden thought, slowly began to recite the ancient dragon script.
For the first time, she felt as if some power within her blood was responding to her call.
She focused her mind and, following that strange feeling, subconsciously raised her hand.
There was no chanting, no light effects.
But the moment she focused her mind, a series of complex mechanical locks clicked open from inside the heavy alloy door.
Immediately afterwards, the doors slid open silently to the sides, revealing an extremely luxurious room behind, a combination of a classic study, a modern command center, and a five-star hotel presidential suite.
On the leather sofa in the center of the room sat a middle-aged man with a square face, his expression solemn as a rock, seemingly trying to maintain his composure in the face of danger.
But the extreme shock and disbelief in his eyes, along with the uncontrollable fear, revealed that he was not at peace inside.
Chen Tianmu!
He is not a stand-in, but the real head of the Chen family!
Chen Tianmu was still refining his plan, racking his brains on how to unite with the Gattuso family to help the Chen family get through this crisis. At the very least, he had to find a way to get rid of Lu Mingfei, the biggest variable.
But he didn't expect that before he could come up with a solution, the other party had already descended upon him like a divine army.
But that wasn't the most terrifying thing for him. What truly surprised him was what he had just seen on the surveillance footage: Nono had used her key's power to open the door that was already locked!
His gaze was fixed on Ricardo, who was in Nono's and Caesar's arms, and then he looked at Lu Mingfei.
"You..." He opened his mouth, ready to talk first.
However, Lu Mingfei was too lazy to listen to his nonsense. As someone who had been through it all, he even knew the adage that villains die from talking too much. His figure flashed like a ghost and instantly appeared in front of Chen Tianmu.
The latter instinctively felt a blur before his eyes, and then the biggest variable in the world appeared in front of him, staring down at him.
Chen Tianmu felt a surge of crisis and was about to fight back, but before he could even get off the sofa, a large, iron-like hand pressed down on the top of his head.
In an instant, Mr. Chen lost all ability to resist.
He was forced to look up and meet those golden eyes that shone like the blazing sun. He felt as if the world was spinning along with the mysterious patterns in those golden eyes, and his consciousness seemed to sprout wings and spiral into the sky.
Lu Mingfei's powerful mental strength was like a raging torrent, instantly shattering all of Chen Tianmu's willpower defenses, forcibly digging out the deepest memories in his mind and browsing them at lightning speed.
Countless chaotic and fragmented images and information flashed before Lu Mingfei's eyes like fast-forwarded film reels.
Chen Tianmu achieved fame at a young age but went astray, purging the stubborn, conservative, and dissenting factions within his family, leading the Chen family on a reckless path toward becoming the new Dragon Clan...
The Chen family and the Gattuso family have a decades-long secret cooperation and exchange of interests...
For example, Chen Motong's meeting, getting to know, and falling in love with Caesar was not a coincidence, but a carefully planned marriage!
The Gattuso family had long ago chosen Chen Motong, who possessed special blood, as Caesar's bride, and the Chen family was happy to see this happen.
Both sides used their own methods. Chen Motong thought that coming to Kassel College was an escape from her family's cage, while Caesar thought it was a romantic encounter on his dragon-slaying journey and a love he actively pursued.
Little did they know, the two of them were on a pre-set track from the very beginning!
Moreover, even deeper and darker memories were unearthed...
Regarding Chen Motong's "special nature," she is not an ordinary descendant of the Chen family.
During her mother's pregnancy, she received a "blessing" or "contamination" from a mysterious being.
There are many others like her, but in the end, only Chen Motong stood out and met the requirements of the Gattuso family!
She was named—Frigga!
It is one of the vehicles for a massive plan!
In this memory, Lu Mingfei also saw a scene that he never expected.
It was a dark space where a girl dressed in blood-stained white clothes was hanging upside down and submerged in a pool of water, struggling violently as she suffocated.
She was pulled from the water when she was almost suffocating.
The girl had long, wet, red hair and only one eye—a blood-red eye.
That's—Chen Motong?!
(End of this chapter)
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