Volume 2 Hello, Xia Mi Chapter 172: Embracing the World with Warmth (IV)
Lu Mingfei's face was covered with rust and lubricating oil. She had disassembled the circuit boards in the control room at the head of the train and was checking the lines one by one to see what went wrong.
Logically, she shouldn't be able to repair this thing, but when she picked up the little black dragon just now, she subconsciously teased it for a while, and the little thing accidentally fell under the seat. Lu Mingfei bent down to look for it, and when she grabbed the little black dragon's tail and pulled it out of the gap, the little thing was dragging a yellowed book with "Circuit Emergency Repair Manual" written on it.
Lu Mingfei held the little black dragon on her head and flipped through it. She was pleasantly surprised to find that this booklet was actually used to repair the circuit boards in the train control room. When the Nibelungen was created, it was perfectly copied according to the appearance of the subway line at that time, so the things left behind in the train also had the same copy. It seems that although the maintenance personnel of that time had received training, they were still not , so they carried such a booklet with them and accidentally dropped it in the car.
With the mentality of trying her best, she checked the instructions in the booklet one by one to see what went wrong. Weak sparks flickered between the old circuit boards, and each knob was turned to the state suitable for starting. She remembered that when she first entered Nibelungen, there was also such an unmanned subway waiting for passengers on the platform. It seemed that this was the end of that train at that time.
The dashboard that had been silent for decades suddenly lit up and the indicator lights flickered. Lu Mingfei continued to flip through the booklet in confusion, but in such a short while she had already checked all possible questions. The booklet ended with a record of the status of the train when it officially started.
She closed the cover of the dashboard and turned the knob. The needle of the instrument began to swing. A strange barbecue smell came faintly from somewhere, as if the plastic on some circuit was burnt.
"It's over!" Lu Mingfei felt a chill in her heart, thinking that she shouldn't try to operate something she didn't understand at all. Damn, the entire dashboard began to emit sparks everywhere, and she didn't know if it was a power leak or really on fire. It looked like it was about to explode.
The train shook violently, and the entire dashboard lit up. The lights in the carriages lit up one by one from the front to the back and slowly started in the opposite direction. Lu Mingfei quickly carried the seven deadly sins and ran to the platform. Fortunately, it seemed that the door would not close now. Lu Mingfei did not completely repair the train, but she successfully turned it into a wild bull that could only accelerate and rush out.
The train was getting faster and faster until it reached full speed, like a meteor hurtling out in the opposite direction of the tunnel. Lu Mingfei stood on the platform and watched the train scurry away, feeling quite a sense of accomplishment, as if she had just built a train and was now preparing to put it on the track for the first time.
It entered the tunnel and there was a turn ahead. The train began to make a rattling sound, like a machine that had run out of springs. After shaking violently a few times, it derailed and turned into a pile of scrap metal in the tunnel, emitting sad black smoke and flames.
Lu Mingfei covered her face silently, thinking to herself, I really didn’t mean it. I also want to fix you, but who let you block my way...
After a brief mourning for the train, she jumped off the track and looked at the tunnel that was originally blocked by the train. There was no track for the train to run on . The tunnel was dark and every time she stomped her feet, there was an echo. The lighter she picked up came in handy again. Lu Mingfei lit the lighter and walked deeper. She had a strange feeling in her heart. Maybe this was the last section of the road. After passing through the tunnel, everything would be answered.
Esther knelt on the ground, staring blankly at the bag of potato chips in her hand.
"Potato chips are the most delicious thing in the world." Beside her, the real Fenrir, curled up like a kitten in his nest, taught her in a low voice like a king.
"Your Majesty is right! Potato chips are the most delicious thing!" There were voices of agreement coming from all around. Some had tiger heads, some had white elephant trunks, and some had pig heads. In short, there were all kinds of animals. They were all wearing strange linen clothes or animal leather, and they were cheering with pierced swords in their hands. The most distinctive feature was that their skin was black or gray like the earth.
Esther is Irish, so she has not seen Journey to the West which is well-known in this city. If Lu Mingfei were here, she would exclaim that this must be the filming site of Journey to the West. The one with the pig head is clearly Zhu Bajie, the tiger is Huli Daxian, and the elephant trunk is the White Elephant King.
These monsters in Journey to the West were made by Fenrir to play with him. They all had a certain IQ and even got some of Fenrir's power. They would cater to Fenrir and say things like "Long live the king". This all came from the old-fashioned small TV next to it. God knows why there is a TV signal in such a place, but according to the picture of Monkey King doing somersaults on it, Fenrir made all the monsters that appeared in the 1986 version of Journey to the West, including Bajie and Sha Wujing, but not Tang Sanzang and Sun Wukong.
This is the deepest part of Nibelung, a space so huge that even the complete form of Fenrir can use it as a cat's nest. Everywhere are strange snack bags and toys, as well as many little black dragons and monsters from Journey to the West. Groups of three or four sit together playing cards. The sickle-weasel queen that had been seen before is also acting as a dealer here. Only now does Esther understand why Garin didn't just kill the sickle-weasel queen at that time, because it was also made by Fenrir, and Fenrir made a lot of them.
Este thought that she would be eaten when she was brought to Fenrir, but Xia Mi just put her in front of Fenrir and said that this was a snack prepared for her, and then went to sleep aside. After working together to release Shiva's Karma Dance, Xia Mi was still very exhausted even though it was an incomplete miniature word spirit, and she urgently needed rest.
Fenrir looked at Esther for a long time, and suddenly waved his membrane wings. Esther thought he was going to slap her to death, so she quickly closed her eyes, but Fenrir just threw a bag of potato chips in front of her and said that potato chips were the most delicious thing in the world...
Well, Esther had to admit that Jörmungandr was right. Fenrir did have a low IQ. He probably thought that Esther was someone brought by her sister to play with him, and was even willing to share potato chips.
"Your sister asked you to eat me." Esther looked up at Fenrir. She was certainly not in the mood to eat potato chips with a dragon. Now she just wanted to die quickly. If Rhine succeeded in slaying the dragon, then even if she was sad, she would at least bring the dragon bones back. But Rhine failed, along with all the family members she brought with her. She no longer had any reason to live.
"Why should I eat you..." Fenrir actually looked a little embarrassed, just like an adult telling a child to steal money. He said it was wrong, "It's terrible to eat a person alive. Even monsters have to use a pot to cook Tang Monk."
Esther's mouth was twitching. A dragon told her that he was afraid of eating people. Did you, the King of the Earth and Mountains, really kill a few humans in the past few thousand years? Not to mention eating people, you must have bitten a lot of your own kind to death, right? !
"How about you kill me and cook me?" Esther felt that her life was so disillusioned. She actually took the initiative to tell Long about her own way of eating.
"You're not as delicious as potato chips..." Fenrir showed a look of disgust.
Oh... the third daughter of the Arnolds family, the focus of all the men's attention at the party, is not as good as a bag of potato chips. Esther had to look down to see if there was a brick. She wanted to hit herself to death with a brick. It was a shame to continue discussing her own death with this guy. She would rather die proudly.
"Then can you let me go?" Esther thought for a moment and said, she actually had given up hope, but Fenrir was so stupid and Jörmungandr was sleeping, so she felt she could struggle.
"No, what my sister brought is for me. You are already mine, so you can't leave." Although he has the IQ of a three-year-old child, Fenrir still vaguely revealed a bit of the fierceness of a black dragon when he said this. Esther could clearly see the sharp teeth that were as sharp as guns, all white, without even tartar or breath. In her imagination, if a dragon exhaled at close range, it would definitely smell fishy, just like a wild animal.
Maybe it was Jörmungandr who taught it to brush its teeth? After all, he was a dragon king who lived like a human being. If Fenrir opened his mouth and stank while they were sitting together and talking, Jörmungandr probably couldn't stand it.
Thinking about it this way, Esther actually thought for a moment that this pair of Dragon King siblings were quite cute. The sister was taking care of the brother who was so demented that he could only call her sister. In human society, the media would probably find out and make a big fuss about it, saying that some poor brother and sister were asking for help for donations, etc., and then make up a terrible life story for them, and finally split the donations 50-50. The worse ones would even give a small fraction. Esther had seen some people in the family do this kind of thing.
With nothing to do, Esther picked up the bag of potato chips she had given up not long ago, and ate them with Fenrir while watching Journey to the West. They were surrounded by monsters of all sizes. The monsters seemed to know that the black and white screen with snowflakes was their prototype. Whenever a new monster appeared, everyone would point at the one that looked similar and laugh, and Fenrir would also laugh at this time.
It was really a laugh, a very happy one, with the corners of its mouth stretched to its ears. A dragon's mouth structure is much larger than that of humans. As a reptile, its laugh is a bit like that of a cat like a leopard, with a very large mouth that trembles, making it look a little crazy, just like the human adjective of a belly laugh.
Esther should have been in a bad mood at this moment, but Fenrir handed her a bottle of orange-flavored Arctic Ocean soda. His huge paws carefully held the glass bottle, which was very small for him, and he looked particularly funny.
When Esther received it, she thanked him subconsciously. She saw Fenrir opened a bottle for her and even shared some with the monsters. She wondered if such a bottle of soda would be as insignificant to Fenrir as a drop of water licked by a human. The sweet and sour taste of oranges, the crunchy potato chips, and the Chinese fantasy stories she had never seen before made Esther forget her situation and pain for a while.
Because she knows a lot of Chinese, she can understand most of Journey to the West. The scene on the screen is exactly the part where Sun Wukong encounters the Green Bull Monster, and no matter the golden hoop or the weapons of the immortals, everyone's weapons are taken away by the diamond ring. She found that Fenrir and the monsters didn't like Sun Wukong. They liked to look at the story from the perspective of the villain. Whenever Sun Wukong was defeated, they laughed very happily. Over time, Esther also found it very funny. When she encountered something interesting, she was very sunny. She never thought that someone would look at the story from this perspective, and laughed with them.
During this time, Xia Mi turned over in her little bed and made an impatient groan, which scared the monsters and Fenrir. After looking at each other to confirm that they were safe, they nodded and lowered their voices. Fenrir even knew to turn down the volume of the TV.
What an unforgettable day... The girl who failed to slay the dragon became the dragon's friend, and they watched TV together and lived a fat house life. If you tell this story to others, no one will believe it, right? Esther herself felt it was magical. The Arnolds family was not a radical dragon slayer organization like Cassel, but as a mixed-blood, they also believed that the Dragon King was the enemy of mankind. Esther couldn't help but wonder if they didn't come to slay the dragon today, but she accidentally entered such a place and met Fenrir, would Fenrir still treat her as a playmate like he did now, as if he had seen an unexpected treasure.
She immediately kicked the idea out of her mind. She shouldn't think like that. Fenrir is just not smart enough to think that much and doesn't understand. His sister Jörmungandr is a good example of a dragon king. Who knows how many people Fenrir has killed in the past? He said now that he doesn't like to eat people alive, but that doesn't mean he didn't do it before. Didn't the puppet he created bite Belon to death when it first appeared? Doesn't the puppet swallowing people count as his killing?
So she stopped laughing. This feeling was like that ancient proposition. It was hard to tell who was righteous and who was evil. Everyone was just standing on different positions. The Arnolds wanted dragon bones so they came to slay dragons, and Jörmungandr wanted to protect his brother so he killed humans. If we go back thousands of years, who can guarantee that the history that has been passed down is correct? Maybe the history was written by someone who had seen many Tyrannosaurus Rex and hated dragons? Later people took it as the truth.
Esther would not imagine that those were ridiculous conspiracy theories, but sitting with Fenrir made her suddenly have different discoveries and think a lot. These were different from what she knew before. She looked at them from various assumptions and different directions. Maybe one day she would get evidence to support one of the claims. Would there be other dragons with the same IQ as Fenrir? She began to be interested in these things and wanted to know more about this race that even her family coveted.
If she could survive, maybe Esther would consider this as her future path. There is a place in the world where people make a living by studying dragons. According to her original life trajectory, after this event was successful, Esther should apply for a music school. She is a good performer and likes violin and piano, but now she thinks that a place called Kassel might be good too. It is said that people there love to study dragons.
