Chapter 91 Only desperate people can be invincible
Are you not even going to act? Lu Mingfei felt angry.
He escaped from the surveillance of Kassel Academy from Shancheng and Lyon successively, but they turned around and dragged his good friend into the water, forcing him to show up.
"I don't know about that." Old Tang said he was not aware of this. He only knew that he was going to China to carry out a mission, and the specific details had not yet been announced.
The fact that he was selected to participate in the next plan is largely due to his Chinese American identity. With him, there is no need to hire a translator.
Kassel Academy and the secret party behind it are undoubtedly a huge organization, and the members under it must have different divisions of labor. Lu Mingfei didn't know who issued the task and contacted Lao Tang, so he randomly picked the person who impressed him the most:
"Although I know I shouldn't do this, I still want to ask, is your employer a foreign old man who is over a hundred years old and dresses in a flashy way?"
"No, the clients of the Hunter website never show up, and they basically won't reveal their information on their own initiative. It's hard for us to guess even if we want to."
Lao Tang said that these are part of the rules of the website, and it is difficult for bounty hunters like them to bypass the website and find the employers behind the scenes.
"Do the people working with you on this mission speak Chinese? Are there any Half-Decayed World Tree emblems on their clothes and luggage? Do they have the quick and decisive style of a soldier?"
Lu Mingfei described the characteristics of the combatants from Kassel Academy that he had come into contact with, to see if he could match them with Old Tang.
However, these questions have already involved confidentiality regulations. Old Tang replied a little helplessly: "Brother, what you asked is beyond the scope. I have signed a confidentiality agreement. If I leak the information of my colleagues, I will not be able to survive in this industry.
And your description is a bit too detailed. Have you ever encountered tomb robbers dressed in similar attire before?"
"Remember the Kassel Academy I told you about? I suspect they are the ones who hired you." Lu Mingfei had no need to hide anything from Lao Tang and told him his guess directly.
"Then you can relax, it's not them." Seeing this, Old Tang couldn't help but feel relieved.
The people who carried out the mission with him all had Western faces, including Germans, Anglo-Saxons, whites, blacks, and Indians, of all races.
But without exception, they can't speak Chinese.
He was the only Asian.
"But Kassel College seems to be a private aristocratic college, so why is it related to tomb robbing?" Old Tang was puzzled. Could it be that those young masters and young ladies had not caught up with the trend of exploration before and were preparing to make up for it now?
And as soon as I arrived, I was ready to challenge the highest difficulty.
You're just bored because you've eaten too much.
Lu Mingfei hesitated, not knowing whether he should tell Lao Tang the secret of the dragon clan and the hybrids through the hunter website.
Although Potato Chip Girl said that this website is difficult to be invaded by outsiders and even Kassel College cannot break through the firewall, Lu Mingfei always felt a little uneasy.
He originally wanted to change the phone number for contact, but considering the powerful capabilities of Kassel Academy, it is estimated that as soon as Old Tang answered the call, the other party would have started tracking the signal.
Even if he showed the real side of the world to Old Tang in just a few words, they would probably have already located the city they were in.
After all, this risk cannot be taken.
So he suggested: "Are you interested in coming to Japan? I'll take you to visit Akihabara."
"No, don't you think the change of topic is a bit abrupt?" Old Tang was confused. Since when did something as serious and illegal as tomb robbing have anything to do with the second dimension?
"I'm serious. I'm going to Tokyo in a couple of days. I'll probably be there for ten days or half a month. If you're free, come and play with me."
Lu Mingfei had a premonition that if he told Lao Tang the truth directly on this website, something he didn't want to see might happen.
Therefore, if we can meet offline, it would be better to meet offline, so that we can also bring Lao Tang into the team.
At this stage, it is highly likely that his e-sports career will be temporarily blocked, and the agent position reserved for Lao Tang has also become a bubble.
If you can’t take your brothers with you to fly, then just huddle together for warmth.
It's too dangerous to fight alone in this world with dragons. We need a small group to look after each other.
"You're crazy. The college entrance exam is in two weeks. At such an important time, you're actually saying you want to go abroad to visit Akihabara?"
But Old Tang was a little angry when he heard this. He typed on the keyboard and made a crackling sound: "Even if you were fooled by Kassel College, life still has to go on. Do you have to throw away your shoes and walk barefoot just because you stepped on a pile of dog shit?
If you invite me to go to Japan after you finish the exam, I will fly there without saying a word. Even if the visa cannot be obtained, I will swim over to accompany you.
But brother, you have to recognize your identity. Your first priority now is to study.
None of my friends are college graduates, so I am counting on you to get into college to make me proud. You must not disappoint me."
Old Tang is actually a very kind-hearted person. He has been caught in the rain himself, so he is willing to offer an umbrella to others.
Brooklyn's brothers never forgot to take him with them wherever they went. They also helped him get out of the shadow of his adoptive father's death and helped him find a job after he dropped out of school.
Although they were all jobs like washing cars, moving houses, and even selling drugs for gangs, he never felt disgusted and never thought of abandoning them.
He is not a person who likes to reason. In daily life, he always swears when he is laughing and joking with his friends. But when he is with Lu Mingfei, he feels that he should act like a senior brother.
"I checked before, and there is a popular saying in your country called 'the uselessness of college', which actually also exists in the United States.
I used to think that going to college was meaningless. The tuition at community colleges and fake universities was expensive and the teaching was rubbish. After dropping out of school, I realized how difficult it was to find a job without even a high school diploma.
But I had to drop out of school and work to make a living, but you are different."
Old Tang wanted to say that you have a happy family, but his fingertips hovered over the keyboard for a long time, and finally did not fall: "Listen, I am looking forward to our meeting. Whether it is in the United States where I take you on a Greyhound bus to eat two-dollar hot dogs, or in China where you take me to see the university you are about to attend, I think it is great.
But the exception is going to Akihabara in Japan before the college entrance examination.
Brother, listen to my advice, study hard, and don’t rot in the mud like me.”
Like everyone else, he once thought that this world was so fucked up. Why were there a group of people born in Rome while they were born mules and horses?
But he sincerely hoped that Lu Mingfei could live a better life than himself.
Old Tang himself couldn't explain why this happened. Perhaps, as he said before, he regarded Lu Mingfei as his own younger brother.
Since you can't be a positive role model, then be a negative example.
Lu Mingfei didn't expect Old Tang's reaction to be so big. After hearing his reminder, he suddenly remembered that he was still a high school student who had not graduated.
But we’ll talk about the college entrance examination when the time comes.
After knowing the truth about this world, Lu Mingfei even gave up his career in e-sports, so there was no time for him to take care of his already poor academic performance.
With his current knowledge, he might not even be able to pass the college entrance examination, let alone the entrance examination from primary school to junior high school.
However, Old Tang's words still made him feel warm. It turned out that even in a different world, the friendship between brothers was still so sincere.
He once again strengthened his determination to take back everything he had lost with his own hands.
Constance, Uncle Chu, the Xia family, my wife's family, and Aze who is nowhere to be found, all of them must be found! But before that, we still have to keep it a secret from Old Tang for a while.
Sorry Don, this is the last time.
"There's something I don't know how to start." Lu Mingfei made up another lie, "Because of the incident at Kassel College, I was forced to repeat a grade, and I have to wait until next year to take the college entrance examination.
This trip to Japan is also to relax.”
In his previous life, because he wanted to save his younger brother who was left abroad, Lao Tang resolutely gave up his studies and went directly to the research institute for an internship while Lao Tang was busy receiving special training, which helped him find out the internal situation of the institute.
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This favor must be repaid no matter what.
On the other side, Old Tang finished typing a lot of words and saw that Lu Mingfei had not responded for a long time. He must be thinking carefully and was happy that he had successfully saved his younger brother's studies.
The next second, Lu Mingfei said that he was just repeating a year and had no intention of giving up his studies.
Just when I felt that I was being a little too self-indulgent, I saw Lu Mingfei send another message saying that he was indeed planning to give up his studies and go out to work.
But after listening to Lao Tang's advice, I felt that I couldn't give up on life so easily. I planned to take the college entrance examination again next year, and my emotional value was fully raised.
"When will you start the next phase of your mission? If you have time, come to Japan to meet me. I just happen to have something very important to tell you in person."
"I have enough time, but it may be difficult for me to apply for a Japanese visa based on my conditions." Old Tang doesn't even have a passport, and he usually only accepts missions within the United States and never leaves the country.
The world outside is too dangerous, and he doesn't dare to go there alone.
"It's okay, I'll ask my friend if he can help you with it then." Lu Mingfei felt that this should not be a difficult task. Jiude Mai and the others were helping him to get a fake identity anyway, so it should be easy to get one for Old Tang as well.
So he took out his cell phone and dialed the contact with the note "Potato Chips".
"Hey, what's up? Are you hungry, thirsty, or just bored?"
The voice of Potato Chip Girl came from the other end of the phone. She sounded busy, and the background noise was all about the sound of typing.
"It's like this, I have a friend..." Lu Mingfei used a classic opening move to truthfully recount the agreement he and Lao Tang had made to date offline.
"He..." The potato chip girl hesitated for a moment, and finally gave an ambiguous answer: "I'll see if I can do it first."
After saying that, she hung up the phone and went about her business.
Lu Mingfei didn't know whether this was an agreement or a rejection. He looked back at the screen and saw Old Tang asking him where he got such a powerful friend from, and if she was a rich woman, would it be convenient for him to introduce her to him.
"I don't know if she's rich or not, but she's definitely rich."
The atmosphere relaxed again, and the two continued chatting and talking, as cheerful as ever.
The Hunter website has very good privacy protection for registered members. Once someone tries to remotely monitor the computer or log in from a different location to replace the person online, a pop-up warning will be issued, so Potato Chip Girl has no idea what Lu Mingfei talked about with Lao Tang.
But these are all trivial matters. As long as she wanted, there were countless ways to know the content of their conversation, but there was no need to do so.
She was on the phone at the moment: "Boss, Lu Mingfei said he wanted to take Ronald Tang to Japan, what do you think?"
In the boss's script, this Ronald Tang also played an important role, so he had long been on their watch list.
There were even several times when the missions Ronald Tang took were issued by her.
The person on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment, as if he was reading a script that had been changed beyond recognition by the male lead. Finally, he sighed helplessly: "Remember what I told you before?"
"Try your best to meet all the requirements of VIP customers." The potato chip girl understood in her heart that Lu Mingfei was indeed the man the boss could not refuse.
After getting the answer, she did not rush to solve Lao Tang's visa problem. Instead, she was like a curious baby: "By the way, boss, do you know who Lu Mingfei is looking for? I always feel like he has become a completely different person. His behavior, thinking patterns, and even cognition seem to be problematic, as if..."
She stopped talking halfway through, as if she realized that her remarks were a bit offensive.
The "boss" helped her finish the sentence she hadn't finished: "It's like having another person's memories stuffed into your mind?"
The potato chip girl hummed softly, she knew that she couldn’t hide her thoughts from the boss.
He could always easily see through his and Long Legs' thoughts, but he could never understand what he was thinking.
"This is what he really is like." The boss sighed, "In our original script, Lu Mingfei would try very hard to play the role of a dragon-slaying hero, until one day he realized that even sacrificing himself would not save the world, or he was no longer willing to sacrifice himself to save the world.
Then he will awaken from his cowardly shell and turn into a reckless madman, setting the world on fire."
"So now he has awakened ahead of time?" The potato chip girl said to herself. This was the first time she knew the boss's script.
Before this, the boss always acted like a riddle teller, and liked to leave half of the answer unsaid for employees to guess.
“There is a devil in everyone’s heart, and happiness is the cage that holds it.
When all happiness turns into nothing, the devil will break out of his cage and emerge singing a bloody hymn.
Only the desperate can be invincible."
The boss's voice was very soft, as if he was afraid of disturbing some devil that had broken free from its restraints.
He hung up the phone and walked to the window. His eyes seemed to have traveled through time and space, returning to the battlefield filled with blood that was about to turn the glaciers into a sea of blood:
“I won’t lose again this time.”
(End of this chapter)