Volume 3 Hello, Eri Chapter 353: The Girl Will Become the King (Part 2)
Lu Mingze feels a bit like a big boss narrating his life story in a smug manner. According to the development laws of any game, if a huge conspiracy is exposed, the next plot will either be a knife or a sudden turn, and the ending will be here soon.
"You're telling me this only now, and you don't want to resurrect the Black King, so what exactly do you want to do?" Lu Mingfei stared at Lu Mingze cautiously. If she made any offensive move, Lu Mingfei would fight back without hesitation.
"I'm a person who never lies. It's the same as always. Half of the Dragon Bone Cross of the Four Lords is in Odin's hands, and so is your dearest brother, so you have no reason to refuse to cooperate with me. I appear at this time only for this final war. That is a powerful enemy you have never experienced. His strength is beyond your cognition. We can't fight against that kind of thing without thinking of some special methods." Lu Mingze said, "I'm here to buff you."
"That sounds really nice, but I think I still have the right to refuse. You only tell me that you are a serious person, but you don't tell me your real goal. If I work with you to deal with Odin, and you pick up the Dragon Bone Cross and transform into the second stage, then wouldn't I be the biggest sinner in the world?"
"We have cooperated so many times, don't you have this little bit of trust?" Lu Mingze smiled.
"I have tried to give you my trust, and you indeed didn't do anything threatening to me, but the more powerful and immeasurable you become, the more in my eyes you become like the Kyubey beside the magical girl. You make me more and more dazzling and have the ability to achieve things that I couldn't do before, but at what price? The two become one? You never told me seriously. Do you know what Kyubey is?" Lu Mingfei looked into Lu Mingze's eyes, trying to find some fluctuations in them, but she found nothing.
"The lustful beast in Puella Magi Madoka Magica has no emotions, so it never thinks there is anything wrong with what it does. It has tricked countless girls into signing contracts with it to become magical girls. In the end, these magical girls will become the monster witches it once fought against." Lu Mingze said lightly.
"You are just like this in my eyes. I really want to save my brother, and I am not sure I can hide it from Odin, but I will try anyway. Now you come out and tell me that I can realize my dream by signing a contract. How can I dare to give you the last chance to decide my fate?"
"You weren't like this before. When I proposed a deal to you, you accepted it without saying a word." Lu Mingze said.
"I don't remember that happening." Lu Mingfei shook her head. She had always been wary of Lu Mingze.
"I'm talking about you long ago, another you." Lu Mingze looked up at the distant sky. There were no stars in the world of Nibelung. It seemed that Odin was not a romantic guy.
"Another me?" Lu Mingfei didn't understand. She always felt that Lu Mingze was a little weird at this moment, like a half-immortal who was good at lobbying in the world, and the next moment he would take out a string of Buddhist beads and say, "Girl, let me tell you a fortune."
"This moment has happened countless times in places and timelines unknown to you. Although there are changes every time, they all end up in the same way ." Lu Mingze said, "Have you ever wondered what the dragon race is? Modern human science can answer many questions. Evolution and genetics can trace the changes of species over the past hundreds of millions of years. However, human genetics can only steal the power of the dragon race, but cannot answer where the mysterious words and alchemy technology of this creature come from. They are simply alien high-tech creatures."
"Are you going to tell me that you are from the M87 Nebula?" Lu Mingfei stared. According to the tone of Lu Mingze's current speech, it seemed not surprising at all that such news would break out in the next moment .
"That's not the case. We are indeed creatures that were born and raised on Earth, but we are different from all the creatures you know. Your timeline is always moving forward, from birth to death, from infancy to burial. The timeline of the dragon race is an eternal closed loop. The dragon race can even try to transform infinitely in this closed loop and even go back and jump to create infinite possibilities, but their ending can only be back to the starting point. The long life of this race is nothing more than an eternal prison. They are an abandoned race."
"Abandoned? Who can abandon you?"
"The will of the whole world."
"Oh my god, you suddenly bring up such a grand topic. Are you trying to discuss academic matters with me or just to stall for time? Why don't you start with the Big Bang?"
"Okay, okay, I know this does sound incredible, but you will find it very reasonable after listening to it." Lu Mingze waved his hand, signaling Lu Mingfei to stay calm. "It has only been 8,000 years since the beginning of prehistoric civilization. It is these 8,000 years of changes, evolution and exploration that have allowed humans to have the so-called highly developed modern society. Since humans can reach this point in 8,000 years, then other intelligent creatures, who have developed for more time, why can't they be better than humans?"
"Are you saying that the power of the dragon race is gained slowly in this way?"
"That's right. You have to know that this earth has a history of 4.6 billion years. The 8,000 years of human civilization is not even a tick mark. Long before this race appeared, the most intelligent creatures in this world were the dragons. They developed their so-called technology in their own way, that is, words and alchemy, and created their own magnificent civilization. Looking at the tens of thousands of years of the dragon race from the perspective of 8,000 years of human beings, of course, you will find those things incredible, but if you are given the same amount of time, you can definitely do it."
"Then what do you mean when you say that the dragon race is an abandoned race, living in an eternal closed loop?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"In fact, the civilization of the dragon race is far more than tens of thousands of years old, so long that even I cannot estimate it. The ever-expanding power of the Word Spirit has finally been able to have a huge impact on the entire world, and even destroyed it. The dragon race has even broken the shackles of the three-dimensional world and can intervene in the timeline from a higher dimension. But it is this power that has led to the self-destruction of the dragon race."
Lu Mingze said, “I don’t know if you have ever watched some science fiction movies. Of course, it would be very scary if the power to predict the future became something that everyone could reach. If you found that something was going to happen that would have an adverse effect on you, or even cause the environment you depend on to collapse, you would of course try to stop it from happening. If it was a bad guy attacking, you would kill him. If it was a natural collapse, you would fight it.”
"If everyone has this ability and tries this behavior, the interference with the timeline will be a completely uninterrupted destructive blow. That kind of thing is unpredictable, but it is the truth of the operation of the universe. If even it is destroyed, the world you know as yourself will collapse. Imagine that you are still eating in one second, and you have returned to yesterday in the next second. In the third second, you are buried in a coffin, and in the fourth second, you have just been born. How would it feel if you lived in such a world?"
Lu Mingfei thought about this horrible and absurd scene, and she felt that she would go crazy in a few minutes.
"Therefore, the dragon race was punished by its own power. The collapsed timeline created an infinite nightmare for this race. The dragon race's cocooning and resuscitation ability is not a powerful regeneration, but a means of fighting against fate countless times. Any dragon, no matter how many times it is revived, will be killed due to various possibilities in the predetermined fate. Humans are still very weak compared to the dragon race, but they are always moving forward, science is getting greater and greater, and the power of the dragon race will never grow. They keep repeating the fate of opening their eyes and being killed by humans. This is the meaning of the dragon race's life now. They are an abandoned race abandoned by the will of the world."
"Are you... one of them?" Lu Mingfei looked quietly at the person, or dragon, in front of her. She didn't know what would be able to kill Lu Mingze in the future. Powers like the Four Lords or the White King were nothing in front of Lu Mingze, but the fate of such things was to wait to be killed from birth.
"Yes, the entire dragon clan is a group that is resisting this fate. Believe me, if your whole life exists for this, you will go crazy. You will become bloodthirsty, violent, and murderous. Any creature will be like this if it goes crazy. If we don't kill the Black King first, he will kill us first because he is crazy." Lu Mingze said softly, as if she was just telling someone else's story and she was not one of them.
"Then why do you want to cooperate with humans? Humans will destroy your enemies. Giving the power of the dragon clan to humans is like giving weapons to humans and asking them to kill you." Lu Mingfei asked.
"Because humans were too weak at that time, they were in desperate need of power. Even if I didn't do this, they would still kill the dragons, and the result would be the same. The fate had already been written." Lu Mingze said, "The dragons have fallen into an infinite cycle of death. They can't resist such a fate on their own. No matter how hard they struggle, the will of the world will make certain people or things appear to kill them. So I put my hope in my enemies. Those who can kill us are also the hope that can help us get rid of the nightmare."
She sighed, "I have been searching for many years, jumping countless times in different timelines, and trying countless variables for each target. I have done this for Zero, Jiude Mai, Su Enxi, and you, and every chosen person around me. After so many cycles, I finally found a way to get rid of the nightmare. It's funny to say that we could have tried this method a long time ago, but no one dared to take that step from the beginning to the end."
"The dragon bone cross of the four great monarchs?"
"To be precise, they are the four ultimate elemental words, Zhulong, Shiva's dance, Guixu, Tianwen, and the descendants of the Black King themselves. These can control all the power of the words."
"What will happen after you obtain all the Word Spirits? Will you be free from the nightmare?"
"When the day of Ragnarok comes, the Black King will revive at that moment, and the world will usher in the end of the world." Lu Mingze said, "Remember that sentence? Praise the awakening of my king. Destruction is rebirth. I will cut off the fate that has lingered around us for countless days and nights in the blazing flames of doomsday."
"This plan sounds like the final battle of an RPG game, full of epic feeling. But have you ever thought about a crucial question..." Lu Mingfei's face looked extremely ugly.
"What's the problem?"
"The Black King has awakened!" Lu Mingfei tried hard to restrain the urge to dance with joy, "The world is coming to an end! Is the price of saving your dragon race the destruction of us humans? If this is the ending, no one would cooperate with you!"
"Do you think I haven't thought about this problem? If we want to negotiate a deal, we must show sincerity that both sides can accept. At the time of Ragnarok, it is time for our super cute girl Lu Mingfei to take the stage!" Lu Mingze patted Lu Mingfei's shoulder carelessly. She was still that lolita, but when she did this, she looked very mature, just like a Liangshan hero, except that she was short of muttering a few words "my good sister".
"You're not going to say something like dating her makes her shy, are you?" Lu Mingfei always felt that Lu Mingze looked like a brothel owner who was trying to persuade a prostitute to quit. "Is he a black king or a domineering CEO?"
"I didn't expect that you, sister, would actually like the human-dragon relationship... It's not a big problem. If you really have this idea, I can try my best to match you up. If it doesn't work, I can use my ability to transform into your favorite type and enter your dreams, and it won't be a problem to satisfy all your perverted desires!" Lu Mingze looked solemn.
“Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah! God knows how long you’ve lived and you’re still so dirty!” Lu Mingfei crossed her arms and dodged backwards, raising her legs and pressing her feet against Lu Mingze’s face to prevent her from doing anything presumptuous. “If you have something to say, say it! If not, leave! I’ve heard enough of your stories. Now the client is very satisfied. As the client, you have to come up with a reliable plan before I can agree to invest!”
"Simple!" Lu Mingze waved his hand. "Let me tell you this. Although Nidhogg's awakening is an inevitable event, the exact time of his awakening can be controlled by us. Even a thing like that would only be a child when it was first born. As long as we solve the problem before it has a chance to show its power, it will be fine."
"Your plan... sounds unreliable and random. Can it work?" Investor Lu Mingfei expressed concern.
"If it really doesn't work, I'll just go up and die with him." Lu Mingze curled his lips, "I made the plan, so I have to bear the risk, but you still have to operate the machine yourself. Based on your past performance, I believe you are absolutely a man of courage!"
