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Chapter 54 All that has passed is but a prologue
"Senior brother, why do I feel like you're different from before?"
Xia Mi watched as her senior brother walked out of the room and headed straight for the dining table. Just as she was about to go up and greet him, she sensed a strange aura...
"What do you mean?" Wang Anzhi looked at Xiaolongnu peeking over, then turned his head with some curiosity. He looked at the thoughtful expression in Xia Mi's dark pupils and was equally curious.
Compared to not long ago, he only gained the ability to "transcend the Three Realms and be outside the Five Elements," making him roughly equivalent to Sun Wukong or an evil sword immortal.
According to the Dragon King's lore, dragons are four-dimensional beings, living in a world with an additional dimension of time compared to humans...
Wang Anzhi expressed his doubts about this.
He felt that the so-called four-dimensional life form of the Dragon Clan and the five-dimensional God King of Tang Dynasty were similar in that they were just casually dressed up in a science fiction guise.
However, it is undeniable that dragons are much more sensitive than humans or hybrids, especially when it comes to certain illusory laws.
After all, this is a race that treats prophecies as historical records.
Xia Mi then sat down next to Wang Anzhi, carefully examining him from head to toe until he turned away uncomfortably before speaking leisurely:
"That's the problem, senior brother. I can't see any secrets about you."
In addition to the large amount of "spiritual elements" that had silently gathered around him once again, Xia Mi added to this in her heart.
Even in the world of dragons, the spiritual element remains one of the most mysterious elements, far surpassing the four elements of earth, fire, water, and wind, which seem closer to "creation."
The reason is simple: the four elements of earth, fire, water, and wind exist in nature, while the spiritual element only exists in life.
According to the Dragon Clan's philosophy, the spiritual element holds the ultimate secret of this world. The four elements of earth, fire, water, and wind, which correspond to the material world, are like the "knowable" and "agnostic" theories in science—they are theories that even the Dragon Clan themselves cannot fully comprehend.
Even though Xia Mi is the queen of the earth and mountains, her understanding of spiritual elements is extremely limited.
"Just because I can't tell doesn't mean I'm perfectly fine. Am I the same as you, Junior Sister?" Wang Anzhi said with a smile as he cleared the food off the table, but he couldn't continue.
"Senior brother, why are you not saying anything?" Xia Mi's expression was melancholy. Just like her, didn't that mean there was a major problem?
“Alright, junior sister,” Wang Anzhi said helplessly. He glanced at Xia Mi, who remained silent with a cold expression, and whispered in the girl’s ear, “I’ll tell you…”
Xia Mi's expression shifted slightly. Although she didn't think her good senior brother would suddenly back her up like this, she was happy to learn more. She perked up her ears, pretending to be nonchalant, but in reality, she had already begun to listen attentively.
"...Actually, I am an uncle you have never met."
"Then I'm your grandpa!" The Dragon Girl flew into a rage and knocked the prey that had come to her doorstep to the ground with a single chop.
Wang Anzhi rubbed his neck, looked at his junior sister who was finally coming to life, and complained, "Junior sister, this time I'm really being completely honest with you."
"Heh," Xia Mi chuckled coldly twice, then fell silent.
"Junior brother and sister, you two have such a good relationship!" Chen Motong came out of the room at this moment and looked at the two of them playing around, and couldn't help but sigh.
She held a few movie tickets in her hand and waved them in the air a couple of times. "Gentlemen, would you like to see a movie?"
"Is it just the two of us? Senior sister, are you going too?" Xia Mi quickly took the movie ticket, her movements so swift that even the priestess who could read minds couldn't react in time.
Before Chen Motong could react, the movie ticket in her hand was snatched away by her beautiful and dazzling junior sister. Just as she was about to say something, she saw Xia Mi feign a slight bow, imitating the Japanese custom of putting her hands together and lowering her head slightly.
"Thank you, Senior Sister Nuonuo," Xia Mi said, her clear eyes innocent like those of a pure white rabbit.
Chen Motong looked at Xia Mi, who was bending over, and then glanced at Wang Anzhi, who was watching the show from the sidelines, with annoyance. "Junior brother, aren't you going to do anything about your girlfriend?"
Before Wang Anzhi could answer, Xia Mi had already counted the movie tickets herself: one, two, three, four. Then she looked at Chen Motong with some confusion, "Senior Sister Nuonuo, whose is the extra one? Is it your friend's?"
At this time, Professor Guderian had already flown to Russia to represent Kassel College in negotiating the enrollment of one of their little princesses into a local mixed-race family. Ye Sheng and Jiu Deyaji, as representatives of the college in this negotiation with the orthodox authorities, also went to the Three Gorges with Professor Mans to discuss matters with the Zhou family, a local mixed-race family.
Of the people from Kassel College who remained here, only the three of them were left.
Wang Anzhi thought for a moment and asked, "Is it Senior Brother Chu Zihang?"
He thought of the Lionheart Society president. Although it wasn't a holiday season, and Chu Zihang didn't have a recruitment task like Nuonuo, Chu Zihang should have returned to Kassel College long ago.
However, Wang Anzhi did not believe that after witnessing yet another trace left by his father, Chu Tianjiao, in this world, Chu Zihang would still have the mind to return to Kassel College to continue his studies.
Ultimately, Chu Zihang's purpose in going to Kassel College was to seek revenge against "Odin." Everything else was secondary in comparison. Even after wasting a year at Kassel College without finding any trace of Odin, the Lionheart Society president revealed a deeply hidden self-destructive tendency...
"Junior brother, do you think the famous Lionheart Society president is the kind of person who likes to stay in the movie theater watching romance movies?" Chen Motong pointed to the words "WALL-E" on the movie ticket and couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"So, what about you, Senior Sister? Why did you suddenly decide to go to the movies?" Xia Mi forcefully blocked Wang Anzhi's gaze from Chen Motong, and asked the outsider who had suddenly appeared and interrupted her and her senior brother's heart-to-heart talk.
Chen Motong shrugged. "There's nothing I can do. Today is the day S-rank confesses to his first love. If he succeeds, he will give up poetry and distant places, dragons and youth, and choose to enter the grave of love prematurely, refusing to step into the gates of Kassel."
That's not a big deal, but the problem is that my mission failed!
As he finished speaking, a strange light seemed to flicker in Chen Motong's eyes.
"So, my dear junior brothers and sisters, would you like to witness an S-rank's spectacular confession?"
Chapter 55 Angers
Wanda Cinema.
"Those must be Lu Mingfei's classmates, right?"
Looking at the groups of men and women gathered in twos and threes, full of vitality, Wang Anzhi could almost immediately discern the identities of these people with their clear eyes.
Two identical twins, each carrying a large bag, followed closely behind a well-dressed man in a suit. A girl in a white dress stood with her hands casually placed in front of her chest, surrounded by a large group of admirers who dared not approach. There was also a girl dressed in fine clothes, looking arrogant and expectant, her eyes occasionally glancing at the well-dressed boy in front of her, who was deliberately positioned to block the admirers' view...
Twins, Chen Wenwen, Zhao Menghua, Su Xiaoqiang...
These are probably the people.
"Yes!"
Chen Motong pressed down on his baseball cap, glancing back every now and then, looking somewhat uneasy.
"What a winner in life!" Wang Anzhi remarked with some emotion as he looked at Zhao Menghua, who stood out among the students in his suit.
Compared to the cunning and ruthless Lu Shenren, Young Master Zhao has been quite the dashing and debonair figure. That "List of Deadly Scoundrels" is just for fun; when it comes to real strength, you have to look to Young Master Zhao…
The so-called "little devil" closing the gates of Kassel College for Lu Shenren—isn't that just Zhao Gongzi's daily life?
"Senior brother, are you envious?" Xia Mi also saw Zhao Menghua surrounded by the three beauties of Shilan, but her eyes remained calm as she asked with a smile.
"How could that be?" Wang Anzhi vehemently denied.
He looked around but couldn't find Lu Mingfei. It seemed that Lu Mingfei had once again isolated the entire class by himself, and he still hadn't changed his mind even on the eve of the scheduled confession.
"What about S-rank?" Xia Mi asked curiously.
"He's probably rehearsing his confession in the restroom!" Wang Anzhi recalled the scene. He looked at the Shilan High School students who had already started to enter and Lu Mingfei, who had not yet come out of the restroom, and nudged Chen Motong's arm beside him.
"Nono, who's the last person? They're all about to enter."
Chen Motong glanced at her phone, turned around, looked at her junior brothers and sisters beside her, and sighed.
"Already arrived."
She turned around, closed her eyes, and clasped her hands together as if in prayer.
The prayers arrived as scheduled.
"Hello, Nono," a voice reached her ears.
Chen Motong opened her eyes and looked at the elderly man with a full head of white hair in front of her. "Principal Angers."
Xia Mi also looked at the old man who was over 130 years old. He was the undisputed leader of the Secret Party, the strongest dragon slayer among the hybrids, and the parasite of the egg of Loki, the King of the Sky and Wind, as mentioned by his senior brother.
Xia Mi still remembers that the last time she met Loki was a thousand years ago. At that time, his name was Li Wuyue, and he was the last of the four monarchs, after the King of the Ocean and the King of Water, to reach the East.
At that time, her brother Fenrir suffered severe brain damage from the injury caused by Odin, becoming mentally impaired. He went from a disabled 20-year-old man to a child with the intelligence of a six-year-old. He failed to recover even after two attempts to cocoonize, and the aftereffects of that injury continue to this day.
It can be said that at that time, the status of the Earth and Mountain King lineage in the eyes of other dragon kings had been reduced to the lowest level.
It was at that time that she joined forces with the local mixed-race families to imprison the Dragon King, who was using the alias Li Wuyue, in a golden coffin, sealing his body completely with nails, keeping him in a half-dead state.
She could neither send her spirit away through the "egg" through death, nor could she bring any further harm to her while she was alive.
That was one of the few victories Xia Mi had ever achieved in her life.
After falling into a deep sleep four hundred years ago, Xia Mi lost track of the coffin, and Li Wuyue, or rather "Loki," escaped from her clutches by sheer luck.
After awakening in modern times, Xia Mi learned that Li Wuyue had been reburied by a hybrid. Even as the strongest second-generation being, Xia Mi had to look down on Loki, who was once almost on par with Odin.
As for the fact that she was deceived by Loki in ancient times and was defeated and fled by Li Wuyue three times in a row 1,500 years ago, Miss Dragon Girl naturally turned a blind eye to it.
She raised her head, looked at the old man in front of her, and carefully scanned him.
Yes, I didn't see any trace of Loki.
At most, Xia Mi sensed a very "strange" bloodline in Angers.
Among the dragons, there is a Word Spirit called Bloodline Jieluo, which can sense the aura of dragon blood.
As the Queen of the Earth and Mountains, Xia Mi was even more adept at this. Since she had long suspected that Angers was suspicious, the girl confirmed it as soon as she saw a clue.
She even began to think about how to quietly get rid of Angers, and also get rid of Loki inside him, in order to obtain the Dragon King's authority.
What? You mean Loki is also a dragon king, and we could consider a collaboration?
Xia Mi could only say, "Defeated opponents are nothing to worry about."
Upon realizing this, the Dragon Girl's gaze toward Angers became strange—it was the look of a shark staring at its prey.
Meanwhile, Wang Anzhi had been chatting with Angers for a while.
"I didn't expect it would be you, Principal, who entrusted Senior Sister Nuonuo to book the movie tickets?" Wang Anzhi couldn't help but sigh. He had indeed thought that Angers might come here in person to handle things, and Angers hadn't actually tried to hide that.
After all, an S specialist from Kassel College mysteriously disappeared in this small town, and no one, including the college secretary and the world's most powerful AI, Norma, had any record of it.
This is clearly related to the Dragon King, which is like giving Angers' aging body another dose of excitement.
This small town is also the place where Angers meticulously crafted the secret dragon-slaying weapon "Luminfi".
This aroused suspicion in Angers' heart: who in this small town was connected with the Dragon King?
Don't mention Odin; he doesn't know that yet. What he does know is that boy who calls himself "Zero," whose identity is mysterious but who is very likely related to the Dragon King.
Even if they reached a cooperation agreement, Zero was not a trustworthy person to Angers. He was also a remnant of the dragon race that had to be eliminated. The only relationship between the two of them was one of self-interest.
Angers glanced at the loser who was trailing behind the crowd as he entered the cinema. His eyes held a mixture of excitement and...regret that was hard to discern, as if he were examining a well-painted sword that could not only be used to make a show but also be taken to the battlefield.
"There's no other way. I knew Mingfei's great-grandfather, and his parents were also my students. Since I'm here, I also want to see his confession ceremony."
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