Chapter 455 Life is precious, but love is more valuable.
When Percy saw the masked thug suddenly appear and announce the results of his surgery, claiming that he had become a girl, he was completely taken aback and instinctively wanted to use the Word of Power: Dustless Land to protect himself.
However, when he opened his mouth, he found his throat unusually hoarse, as if it had been deeply choked.
Moreover, even though he forcibly recited the dragon script, the dragon blood that was surging within him and needed to be suppressed with medicine did not react at all, like a lost scholar who had fallen into a succubus's cave and been drained dry.
Percy was shocked by his own state. Looking at the masked bandit whose smile was becoming increasingly perverted—no, it should be said that he had always been perverted—he subconsciously checked his lower body, not to see if he could still feel anything, but to feel if there were any unspeakable sensations!
Fortunately, everything was normal, and there were no signs of anyone entering or leaving Ping An.
Most importantly, Percy Jr. is still alive.
Just as he was wondering where he was and what this masked pervert had done to him, he saw the pervert suddenly stand up straight, turn around, put his hands behind his back with an air of absolute authority, and speak in a serious voice:
"Comrade Percy, I was just joking with you. Actually, it's already 2019. I originally wanted to invite you over, but I accidentally went a little too far and made you a vegetable. It took ten years before I finally managed to wake you up."
Percy's lips twitched slightly as he listened to his nonsense, but he quickly realized something was wrong.
Although both were wearing black stockings covering their faces, this time the pervert didn't disguise his hair. You could see a messy head of silver-gray hair hanging down behind the "hood".
He certainly remembered who the hair belonged to, and his eyes widened in surprise: "Fingal?"
With the clues, he naturally connected Fingel with the ruthless thug who attacked him. His burly physique and despicable methods were indeed very much in line with the style of that good-for-nothing repeat student.
Percy felt it was absurd. He thought that the ancient mixed-blood clan had sent their secret blood warriors to ambush him, but he never expected that the one who defeated him was Fingel, a good-for-nothing from Kassel College who could be trampled on by anyone.
The contrast is like walking down the street and seeing a speeding truck about to hit a pretty girl. In a moment of hot-blooded excitement, you rush over without a word, push the girl away, and close your eyes to wait for your luck to change. But the driver brakes at the last second, helps the girl up (who has injured her knee from being pushed), and then, along with the onlookers, watches as Sato Kazuma, who scared himself so much that he wet himself and even died of fright, performs a heroic act.
How could it be you?!
How could it be you?!
Parsey had a million questions in his mind, but all he could say was, "The most beautiful Chinese fuck!"
Fingel had no idea what Percy was thinking. Seeing his identity exposed, he stopped pretending and instead decisively removed his black stockings, tossed his greasy hair (which hadn't been washed in three days), and turned back with a dangerous expression.
"Now that you've discovered it, I have no choice but to kill you to silence you."
As he spoke, he pulled a syringe from a white coat that didn't quite fit—clearly something he'd pilfered from somewhere—and proceeded to flick, squeeze, and inject it with a mocking air. He then glanced at Percy with a sinister, malicious smile.
"Sorry, blame yourself for knowing too much."
However, Percy remained completely unfazed as Fingel approached with an increasingly distorted expression and a wicked grin.
If someone else had kidnapped him, whether it was a member of an ancient mixed-blood race or a dangerous mixed-blood lurking in the shadows, he would have to worry about his safety to some extent.
But it's different for Finger.
On the surface, this guy is still a member of Kassel College, but anyone can see that he has already latched onto the world's strongest backer and will never let go. He is an open accomplice, not a lackey.
Therefore, his actions must have been permitted by Lu Mingfei, or even instigated by Lu Mingfei.
No wonder they were kidnapped right under Lu Mingfei's nose and did nothing; they were in cahoots with the kidnappers.
Since it's Lu Mingfei, his situation should be relatively safe.
After all, if it was just suspicion before, it's now solid evidence. Lu Mingfei's words, "Don't risk your life, be good to yourself," were an implication for him.
Lu Mingfei must have somehow seen through his physical condition through some channel or with some kind of ability, and was planning to extract some information from him.
With this thought, Percy's mind opened up instantly, and countless possibilities surfaced in his mind.
The deal between the Chen family and the Gattuso family was exposed, and the scheme behind it was discovered by Lu Mingfei. Since he couldn't get to the Chen family head, and Caesar was a good-for-nothing who knew nothing but rebellion and acting as a leader of the kids, he could only target the acting family head's senior secretary who had access to many family secrets!
In the Gattuso family's intelligence, what Lu Mingfei's Word of Power is has always been a mystery. Although everyone saw him cross the sea on his sword and turn the tide when he was in the Sea of Japan, some people also saw his unparalleled style of slaying a dragon with a single sword. Even Percy personally witnessed him using unknown means to assassinate the head of the Chen family, causing him to lose face in front of his juniors and subordinates.
Percy didn't know how Lu Mingfei had done it, but judging from the current situation, it was highly likely that, as the rumors said, he had not only taken the White King's Dragon Bone, but also the White King's Power.
Therefore, his current state of being unable to absorb nourishment was not due to being drained of medicinal residue by an unknown succubus from the Hehuan Sect, but rather because Lu Mingfei may have used the power of the White King to torture him and extract the information he wanted without him realizing it.
The reason he wasn't killed after his usefulness had been completely exploited is simply because a living person is always better than a dead corpse.
No matter what, he was one of the representatives sent by the Gattuso family. The Gattuso family would definitely demand an explanation from the Chen family for his unexplained disappearance.
The mixed-race people of East Asian descent certainly wouldn't give a damn about the Gattuso family, and the latter wouldn't dare to send people to search for them as openly as Kassel College did when Ye Sheng and Jiu Deya disappeared. Times have changed, and they're easily beaten to a pulp.
Therefore, the only option is to ask the Chen family to intervene.
Keeping him around would indirectly cause some trouble for the Chen family.
If Lu Mingfei really thinks that way, then he's probably overthinking it. After all, his position in the Gattuso family is nothing more than a tool. When it's useful, he'll use it extensively, and when he doesn't, he'll decide whether to put it away... put it in the warehouse and leave it idle or choose to scrap it.
Therefore, confident in his abilities, he ignored Fingel's approach, only struggling to twist his neck, which seemed welded shut, and moving his eyes, trying to find Lu Mingfei's figure:
“Mr. Lu Mingfei, there’s no need to put on an act with me. Let’s discuss things face to face.”
His Chinese is quite good; he speaks clearly and fluently.
Upon hearing this, Fingel raised an eyebrow: "Oh my, even on the verge of death, you still find time to act. It seems your will to survive isn't very strong."
He brandished the syringe in his hand, slightly adjusted his expression, and his wicked husky grin transformed into a ferocious wolf's snarl: "Since that's the case, then die!"
Without waiting for Pasi's indifferent gaze, he plunged the needle into Pasi's neck and, under the latter's wide-open eyes, slowly injected the entire contents of the medicine into her pale neck.
As the cold medicine penetrated his body, Percy felt a tingling sensation all over his body, followed by violent muscle spasms, as if he were a fish thrown ashore struggling to return to the sea.
However, this was just a subconscious muscle reaction. Percy didn't feel like he was dying at all. On the contrary, he felt that his body was slowly regaining control of itself through the convulsions.
After the medicine was fully injected, Fingel noticed that even though Percy's facial muscles were compensating, he remained calm and composed, showing no surprise at his exaggerated performance. He couldn't help but purse his lips and pull out the needle: "Boring, he doesn't know how to cooperate with others at all."
He casually tossed the syringe into the trash can, sat down on the chair next to it, and took out his phone to start sending messages.
Soon, Percy regained control of his body, sat up, looked around, and found that, just as he had expected, he was in a clean and tidy hospital room.
"Stop looking, it's just me." Fingel didn't seem worried at all that Percy might suddenly attack and hurt someone. His posture was extremely relaxed, and his whole body was full of openings, making people feel an urge to attack him with knives and axes.
However, Percy remained unmoved, knowing he was no match for him. His gaze fell on Fingel, whose appearance was slightly different from his usual self, but not drastically so, and he said calmly:
I don't think so.
"What do you mean?" Fingel looked up at him, frowning. "Am I not human?"
Percy remained silent, only looking up at the surveillance camera above the corner of the wall. The camera was lit up with a red light, indicating that it was running. Lu Mingfei was probably observing his reaction from behind the scenes.
"Hey! Speak up! Am I even human? Am I even human?!" Fingel had been waiting for Percy for ages and was getting impatient. Now that he was finally free, he was going to have some fun with him.
However, Passy remained unmoved. Although Fingel was a very cunning person, he was, after all, a famous genius student in the past. It was not surprising that he deliberately disguised himself as a clown to deceive everyone, and there might be Angers's scheme behind it.
Moreover, Percy himself knew his situation: he wasn't close to the dragon, but he was already some distance from people.
Even so, he still narrowly lost to Fingel, which shows that the latter was a monster.
However, rather than explaining why Fingel pretended to be weak while actually being strong and why he stopped acting, he still preferred to confront Lu Mingfei in person.
So, after a brief period of adjustment to his body, he removed the tubes and patches from his body, rolled over and got out of bed, ignoring Fingel beside him, and took off his hospital gown to change into the suit placed by his bedside.
However……
"Snap!"
The crisp sound of the shutter made Percy stop what he was doing and turn around to look at Fingel, who was openly taking pictures with his phone.
Seeing him stop, Fingel raised his hand to signal him to continue: "What's wrong? Don't worry about me, I'm not human, keep changing."
I didn't treat you like a human being, but you don't need to treat yourself like a dog.
Percy's eyes twitched slightly. Remembering that the person in front of him was the shameless king of paparazzi, he took a deep breath, grabbed his clothes, went to the bathroom, and closed the door.
"Tsk, stingy." Fingel sent the photo to Caesar, indicating that his cousin was alright and hadn't been cut into pieces, so he could relax and have fun with Nono.
In the not-so-large bathroom, Percy took off his clothes and looked around his body. He couldn't see any cuts, missing parts, or any strange extra parts.
He's still a bit weak, probably because a lot of his essence and blood were drained while he was unconscious.
Sure enough, they discovered his secret.
After changing his clothes and going outside, Fingel was still sitting there, holding his phone and talking to someone.
Seeing him come out, she immediately tossed her phone towards him.
Percy answered the call and glanced at the person on the other end—God Road. Even though he knew Fingal had no bottom line, he couldn't help but twitch his lips slightly when he saw the nickname.
He held the phone to his ear. The sound on the other end of the line was a bit noisy. He could clearly hear children laughing and adults shouting, and there was even some upbeat background music.
It sounded a bit like an amusement park, especially when they heard kids shouting "Giddy up!", Percy instantly realized that they were on a carousel.
No, you guys went out to play?!
The Gattuso family's war machine felt that their previous guesses and calculations might have been a bit too much of a stretch or even an overemphasis on idealization.
Unexpectedly, Lu Mingfei, who seemed to be riding a carousel on the other end of the phone, didn't speak in profound and obscure terms like a schemer; instead, he immediately asked a question of concern:
"Hello, Secretary Percy, how are you feeling?"
Percy could feel that everything in his body was normal, even a little too normal. The sword of Damocles that had been hanging over his head, which could have caused his bloodline to go out of control and turn him into Deadpool, and then throw him into the Gattuso family's bloody laboratory, seemed to have disappeared.
"Thanks to you, I feel pretty good."
To be honest, this was a level of comfort he had never experienced before, even after taking medication. The injection Fingel had given him earlier had a strong reaction, but the effects were still amazing. It was like a tired office worker getting a full-service massage, followed by... cough cough, a super nourishing chicken meal!
He has been taking medication for so many years that he has long since developed drug resistance, and the speed of his family's new drug development is far behind the speed of his dragon blood purification.
This is the first time I've felt so comfortable and relaxed.
and……
Well, he had just realized that his loyalty to the Gattuso family wasn't as high as he had imagined.
Oh no, are we going to have Cantonese food?
Could this also be the work of the White King's power?
Or perhaps, during the time he was unconscious, someone not only tampered with his physical parameters but also modified his brain's database?
Percy felt that this person was a bit careless. Hacking would definitely get him caught, since only work requires leaving traces, while committing crimes doesn't.
Lu Mingfei, on the other end of the phone, couldn't possibly know what Percy was thinking. He said, "Life is precious, but love is more precious. What's the next line?"
“For the sake of freedom, I would give up both.” Percy answered almost without thinking, his heart suddenly pounding.
Lu Mingfei smiled and said, "Pompeii chose to spread life, Frost chose power, Caesar chose love, and what about you?"
(End of this chapter)
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