Volume 1 Hello, Lu Mingfei Chapter 92: Wind, Firefly, and Moon (Part 3)
The Bronze Plan was being prepared in full swing. This mission was almost completely publicized within Kassel College, as all students above grade A had received orders to mobilize. That night, the Dragon King Norton also appeared in everyone's sight, and everyone knew without having to think who the target would be.
This is unprecedented in Kassel's history and can be called an all-star lineup. Based on the failure of the Greenland Ice Sea Battle that year, the school has always been extremely cautious in choosing dragon-slaying missions, but this time, Principal Angers ordered all A-level members to be dispatched, and it seems that they are determined to win.
The school board took this very seriously, and they held a school board meeting to criticize Angers for being crazy. If there was a problem with the operation, then Cassel might lose an entire era of dragon-slaying elites. Weapons can be manufactured and reinforcements can be stockpiled, but if there is a gap in talent, it will be a loss that cannot be made up for decades.
But Angers was extremely tough. His answer was that either Norton must die in the battle, or he would resign as principal and ask the school board to find someone else to take charge of slaying the dragon.
The school board had tolerated Ange's misbehavior for a long time. The annual maintenance fee was ridiculous, the education method was indulgent, and the bills for slaying dragons were flowing like water. They had thought about finding a new person to replace the principal. But unfortunately, there was no one more suitable for this job than Ange. He was a perfect dragon slayer and educator, and could do both things well.
The school board finally allowed this exaggerated action and asked the equipment department to provide full support, on the premise that if a large amount of losses were incurred, then Angers would have to resign and pay the price for this crazy move. As the principal, Angers did not have all the power on campus. The operating funds for the equipment came from the school board, and were under the jurisdiction of Kassel and the school board, the latter of which had greater power. This was a kind of constraint, so as to prevent the entire Kassel from becoming an army in the hands of the principal alone.
Lu Mingfei squatted by the swimming pool, watching the brave dragon slayers jump like Olympic athletes, enter the water, and swim at speeds comparable to mermaids.
She stretched out her fingers and stirred them in the water for a while out of boredom. Even in the underwater combat suit, she was still shivering because the training used cold water. Now it was late autumn, and the swimming pool didn't even have constant temperature air conditioning, and the simple combat suit didn't have much warmth retention. This was specially designed to prevent the trainees from training in an overly comfortable environment, which would lead to a lower level of performance during actual combat due to the cold and complex river environment. Besides, with the average physical fitness of the mixed-bloods, this level of cold resistance was simply a piece of cake.
"This is simply like winter swimming!" Lu Mingfei grumbled in a low voice. Everyone was a hero, but the only bear was suffering. No one around was as lazy as her. It was as if those A-level heroes' sons and daughters were born good swimmers. They were probably half-fish fish fished out of the water when they were born, with invisible gills hidden under their cheeks.
This feeling is really annoying, just like the class division in high school. In the rocket class full of top students, the last one is already excellent compared to students in other classes, but she is surrounded by those great students who can answer the questions quickly without thinking. This makes people feel so ashamed that they want to find a hole to bury themselves.
Actually, if you think about it carefully, Lu Mingfei is not a low-class girl. At least she is much better now than before. With the help of Ling and the support of countless cosmetics and beautiful dresses, Cinderella now has a bit of Cinderella flavor. She even received two unsigned love letters last week. In addition, she loves to eat and play games, but she is not arrogant. She smiles at everyone who talks to her. She is approachable and friendly. In the ranking of the most wanted girls in Kassel on the Night Watch forum, the number behind Lu Mingfei is rising like a rocket. The golden signboard of S-level is getting more and more stable. Many wolf cubs can't wait to wait for the three-month period to expire, so that they can compete with Chu Zihang for the beautiful girl.
Everyone thinks that the pretty S-level girls are great, but only those at S-level know that they are still far behind. Although they want to make progress and try to catch up with everyone else's shining stars, the starting line is too far away and they are almost a lap behind others. After walking the entire 100 meters back and forth in the water, they feel like a frozen fish stuffed in ice. The whole world is cold and it took them a long time to rest before they came to their senses.
Ling stuck her head out of the water and took off her goggles with an indifferent expression. She swam five rounds in the 50-meter one-way lane in one breath before she officially took a break. With her level at which she didn't even need oxygen, Lu Mingfei felt that the gold medal in the next Olympics could be directly won by her, and Michael Phelps probably wouldn't be enough to compete.
"You've been resting for an hour." Ling said, "Does it feel good to be slacking off?"
"Comfortable! Very comfortable!" Lu Mingfei said calmly, she was totally unable to keep up with the pace of the masters and she had basically given up.
"If you can't keep up with the pace in the future, you will die in the river. Your efforts now are for your future comfort."
"I understand the truth, but I can't turn into a mermaid in a short time!" Lu Mingfei pouted, "It's not that I can't swim, I can swim a hundred meters in one breath!"
This is not bragging. When she was young, Lu Mingfei was a well-known naughty child. She had short hair and looked like a boy. She was good at wading in the pond near her grandfather's house in the countryside and catching clams. She learned to swim without a teacher from her friends. If she hadn't gone to school in the city and had no chance to slack off every day, she wouldn't have become a frail and easily pushed down lolita now, with both height and physical fitness below average.
"Then why are you still staying here and slacking off?" Ling asked.
"I'm afraid of the cold..." Lu Mingfei whispered, "Every winter I'm the first one in the class to wear a cotton jacket... I'm particularly sensitive to the cold."
A thin but powerful arm handed Lu Mingfei a cup of steaming hot drink from behind. Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment and turned around. Chu Zihang was wearing black goggles and swimming trunks, with nothing else on his upper body. The lines of every muscle were so clear, and he even had four solid abdominal muscles. Water droplets fell along his hair. With his expressionless face and this posture, he looked like a gangster bodyguard taking care of a young lady.
"If you are not used to cold water, you can actually ask for some special treatment." Chu Zihang said, "Not everyone can get used to this method right away. When I first came to the academy, I also used warm water. There is nothing to be ashamed of."
"Oh oh oh... so this can be done..." Lu Mingfei took the cup of specially heated electrolyte water with both hands. This thing is standard equipment in every venue in Kassel College. The water dispensers are all filled with this. Drinking it after exercise is good for health. Ensuring that every student has a strong physique is also the responsibility of the college.
Ling glanced at someone who forgot his friends for the sake of beauty, then quietly dived into the water to continue her self-training. She had no intention of being a light bulb here and emitting discordant light.
Chu Zihang sat down next to Lu Mingfei. Such proactive intimacy made Lu Mingfei's heart beat fast. She couldn't help but steal a glance at Chu Zihang's abdominal muscles, and then at his firmly defined arms. Everyone was sitting in a row without much clothing, and the atmosphere was way too ambiguous!
Thinking of this, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but feel a little sad... As the saying goes, sexy swimsuits are a girl's decisive weapon, and their status is equivalent to the underwear that decides victory! When Lu Mingfei was still a little girl. Sister Mogi Natsuki said, "I bought a very sexy swimsuit," and she killed Fujiwara Takumi without a single drop of hope. Seeing this, Lu Mingfei was so excited that she slapped her thigh and thought to herself that I would use this trick when I have a boyfriend in the future. The lethality is absolutely 1000%!
Now, times have passed and the little girl back then probably never thought that she would become such a pathetic loli figure. She was 1cm away from breaking the 160cm limit, which is really heartbreaking and makes people cry. Add to that her chest which is as barren as a small hill... It seems that her charm as a beautiful girl is only left with this face which has only recently started to look good!
Lu Mingfei covered her face silently. The world was so cold and indifferent, but the cup of hot drink in her hand still gave off some heart-warming warmth.
"Brother, when did you come?" Lu Mingfei had to chat about something casually so that she wouldn't think about those unhappy things.
The swimming pool in Kassel is very big, and it is divided into many different training pools, and even shared by men and women, so Lu Mingfei squatted there and had no idea who was in other places. It seemed that Chu Zihang had been exercising in another swimming pool for a long time.
"Two hours." Chu Zihang looked ahead. Although they were sitting together and chatting, he was still a gentleman at the moment. He felt that it was not polite to focus his eyes on the curvy girl in combat uniform. "I see that you don't seem to like this kind of training very much."
"Actually, there are few things I like about the entire academy's training... But shooting is okay, I'm a top-notch shooter! Bang, bang, bang!" Lu Mingfei clasped his hands together, made a pistol gesture, and fired twice at Caesar in the distance, as if he was reenacting the scene of a free day.
"It's a bit of a rush to strengthen swimming training now. Some people are born with an aversion to water. But that's Cassell's style. Problems can be solved through training."
"That's your own style, isn't it, Senior Brother!" Lu Mingfei was amused when she heard this. She shrunk her neck slightly and smiled charmingly, revealing a little bit of her fangs. "Senior Brother, have you ever slayed a dragon before?"
"No." Chu Zihang shook his head. "I've only dealt with some corrupted hybrids before. This is my first time slaying a dragon. I think it's the same for most people here. This is the first time for all of us to actually fight."
"This is a raid instance that has never been played before." Lu Mingfei exclaimed, "I have always heard the academy talk about it in a grand manner. I thought they had killed many dragons."
"The awakening of the Dragon King is not common, and the academy can probably only rely on very old information in this regard." Chu Zihang said, "Are you afraid?"
"It seems there's nothing to be afraid of. Even though that guy is a Tyrannosaurus that can spit fire everywhere, aren't we going to beat him up under the Yangtze River? According to the theory of the Five Elements, water overcomes fire, so we have the advantage!" Lu Mingfei waved his little fist and made a boxing gesture.
Chu Zihang swallowed back all the words that were about to come out of his mouth. He actually came here to comfort Lu Mingfei, but he didn't expect her to be so optimistic. Maybe it was because Yan Ling's previous victory over Norton gave her a lot of confidence.
From ancient times to the present, every dragon-slaying operation is accompanied by sacrifice. Before, Ye Sheng and Jiude Aki didn’t even encounter the Dragon King directly. They died just after going to the Dragon’s Nest. Not to mention that this time it is the Dragon King Norton’s home court. There must be difficult-to-crack mechanisms and traps in that bronze city, otherwise the Han army in history would not have had such a hard time fighting.
This is an absolutely dangerous mission. I don't know how many A-level students in this swimming pool will be able to come back by then. Principal Angers has put almost all his cards on the line to fight this decisive battle. Maybe he is very confident. Chu Zihang can only believe that his confidence is not groundless.
"If anything happens, I will..." Chu Zihang thought for half a second, "protect you."
He originally wanted to say something like "protection", but then he thought it sounded a bit too serious, like the hero in some cheesy romance novel giving himself a death flag, so he changed the word, but this word obviously didn't suit his style. Saying this with goggles on, he sounded like a gang leader lecturing his younger brothers.
Lu Mingfei chuckled: "Brother, you didn't come here just to say this to me, did you?"
Chu Zihang didn't quite understand what was so funny about this sentence, and nodded a little embarrassedly: "Yes."
“Hey, senior brother, you are too serious. Even if you don’t say it, I know you will do this because you are that kind of person.” That’s why I like you like this, Lu Mingfei added in her heart.
"Am I nosy in your eyes?" Chu Zihang's understanding was obviously a little biased, and his expressionless thinking probably wouldn't change.
"No, you are a hero in my eyes. Without your help, I would not be standing in Kassel today." Lu Mingfei tilted her head to look at Chu Zihang's calm profile. "I also want to be an excellent person like you, brother. When I have spare time, I will help others and be a popular central air conditioner. So don't say anything about protecting me. Aren't we comrades-in-arms? If you have any problems, I will definitely help you, and if I have any problems, you will definitely help me!"
She held out her hand. "A pre-departure swearing-in ceremony? Forget about saying things like "I'm safe" or something like that. Anyone who says that will surely die halfway through. A Hero should just keep quiet and do what he says!"
Originally he wanted to comfort and remind the little girl, but unexpectedly he was comforted by the little girl instead. Chu Zihang smiled self-deprecatingly and reached out to hold the hand of the increasingly dazzling girl. The so-called change always requires an opportunity. After coming to Kassel, Lu Mingfei has indeed grown very fast. Perhaps this is the most suitable place for her, no doubt about it.
