Dragon Race: Lu Mingfei Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 399 "Family Dinner"

Dragon's Back Estate, Tuscany, Italy.

This luxurious manor located on the top of the Fiesole hill is the summer palace of the Gattuso family. Grand banquets are often held here, and celebrity guests invited by the Gattuso family toast and enjoy the coolness of the night.

But tonight was obviously not a good day for a banquet. With thunder and lightning and heavy rain, the reddish-brown limestone on the manor's exterior walls, which was unique to the area, seemed to have turned into flowing dragon blood.

The small banquet hall in the west wing of the manor was brightly lit. Dozens of Corinthian columns supported the Baroque dome painted with the mural "Twilight of the Gods". The crystal chandelier cast a golden light. The St. George riding a white horse and slaying a dragon in the oil painting hanging on the wall seemed to be looking at the only guest of tonight's dinner.

"The appetizer is Prosecco, and the appetizer is cold cut salami and red sausage with focaccia bread. Please enjoy it, young master."

A waiter in formal attire brought a silver plate with a gold-rim, on which sliced ​​sausages and toasted bread formed a not-so-beautiful hill; another waiter filled a large glass goblet with light golden wine.

"Uh-huh. Thank you."

Caesar simply nodded, his eyes still on the tablet in his hand, and his other hand's fingers quickly swiping across the screen, reading page after page of reports.

He sank slightly into the brass chair, looking a little more lazy than usual, like a dozing lion. The wide V-neck of his white silk robe revealed his chest muscles that undulated like mountains. Before the transformation, the pectoral muscles of the young master of the Gattuso family were known for being "exaggerated", and they became even more so after he joined the Legion and underwent transformation surgery:
After all, in addition to the second heart and multiple lungs, the three new special organs: the Furnace of Faith, the Furnace of Words, and the Furnace of Rage, also took up a lot of space, causing the legion soldiers' chest structure to expand horizontally.

Caesar returned to Italy to visit his mother, lay a bouquet of flowers at her tombstone and bid farewell to her:
Tell her that the child she had raised with great difficulty has grown up - although he may have grown a little too big, even when half-kneeling, he is still a head taller than an ordinary person; but he has obediently followed his mother's instructions and worked hard to become a righteous person.

Soon, he will go to a far, far place to fight for a higher goal and ideal. Don't worry about him, because he has a large group of like-minded fighting brothers who can fully trust him, and there is also a great human master who protects these loyal warriors.

Caesar's love and memories of his mother have not faded at all because of the surgery. As Lu Mingfei said, it is this emotion that is unique to humans that anchors their precious humanity as humans.

As for Pompey Gattuso...their previous contempt and disdain turned into indifference.

In other words, apart from his love for his mother, Caesar would have no extra affection to waste on Pompey.

However, he still accepted Pompey's invitation to the dinner party - the other party seemed to have guessed his schedule for the day and waited for him in the cemetery early. In name, the dinner party was to "enhance the relationship between father and son"...

But who knows?
From the moment Caesar stepped into the manor until the start of the appetizers, he, the host of the dinner, had not yet appeared.

Caesar simply continued to review the action application and read the action report. As the highest staff officer of the legion, he formulated a series of plans to integrate all the mixed-blood forces and pave the way for the unification of the Earth's political system.

He is well versed in the art of politics and uses both hard and soft tactics - bloodshed is inevitable, but it depends on how much.

For example, the North American mixed-race family that refused to be integrated into the Legion, on the third day, all of their 37 listed companies suffered precise short selling, which triggered a chain collapse and paralysis of the economy; after the ambitious rulers who wanted to become the "new dragon clan" disappeared mysteriously, "Fast Hand Henkel" followed by Angers finally arrived and announced that he would take over the position of family leader again and express his submission to the Legion.

In places like South America and Africa, violent leaders who were worshipped by gangs and became villains, or hybrid forces that were themselves drug trafficking armed forces and warlord armed forces, all suffered devastating blows from the Legion.

Trying to fight the Legion? Go fight the Legion's bolter.

The name "El diablo de meta (metal devil)" is spreading wildly in these chaotic places. The drug trafficking armed forces who are usually arrogant and domineering and committing many evils are beginning to feel fear, especially when they find that the pistols, rifles, Gatling guns, car-mounted Brownings and even RPGs in their hands can't scratch the armor of these "metal devils";

The warlord armed forces were even worse - they saw with their own eyes that the "Javelin" missiles they had shot out were caught by the giants with their bare hands, and then turned around and thrown back!

The super-powered leader with golden eyes, who was worshipped as a god by the villains, and his cronies, knelt in front of the giant and dully explained their crimes with a posture no different from stray dogs on the roadside; when the fierce firearm in the giant's hand roared, the so-called leader was left with only a headless corpse, no different from the other villains who attacked the giant and were beaten to death.

Some people still wanted to fight for territory and become the new leader after the "Metal Demon" withdrew, but they were soon horrified to find that the giant's gun was pointed at themselves.

There is no such process as arrest, evidence, and sentencing. The giant has a mysterious stone in his hand that glows, and when it is shone on it, it will confess all crimes. The only ones who can escape are those new recruits who have not had time to work, or those "cowards" who have never done any dirty work, and some police undercover agents among them.

The others all had their heads blown off on the spot.

The villains were so frightened that those who were able tried to flee to the United States, while those who were not were rushing to the police station to surrender themselves, fearing that if they ran too slowly they would lose the opportunity to confess and be directly tried.

Then came the entry of the "Revelation Foundation" established by Caesar, which aimed to clean up the chaotic land after the cleansing and establish an effective order.

Caesar also plans to communicate with external countries and political systems through the foundation to promote the stable and peaceful development of the world as a whole; this may not be a problem. After all, in addition to military force, the Legion itself also possesses technology that is ahead of the current era, from the alchemical knowledge of the dragon clan to the many technologies of another human empire. In the future, there will even be a superluminal navigation technology called "quantum slingshot".

There are certainly those brainless, short-sighted and greedy people like those in movies and TV shows, but ultimately, the majority are humans who desire the leap of civilization and yearn for the stars and the sea.

"Propose to the group leader to add a new 'Cultural Department'!"

Caesar raised his eyebrows when he saw such a title popping up among many routine post-war reports. He clicked on it and found that it was written by Finkel. In summary, the legion's warrior brothers would inevitably be subjected to various aspects of visual and auditory pollution after going to another universe, and they needed to be influenced by various excellent cultural works on Earth to ensure that the legion's atmosphere was not polluted.

"I wrote this while listening to the song 'Beijing Welcomes You'. Can the Chief of Staff try hard to get the Corps to appear at the Olympics? Of course I'm joking."

Caesar laughed in silence and quickly typed out a reply, "I will propose this to the legion commander." Just as he was about to click send, a few bright red words suddenly popped up on the tablet screen:
"Signal connection interrupted."

"Is the appetizer not to your taste? Then I hope you will like the main course. After all, it is a bit troublesome to buy fresh ingredients in this weather."

A sudden voice sounded, and Caesar looked up and found that the man was sitting at the other end of the long walnut table, shaking the scarlet wine in the tulip glass in his hand. The sea-blue eyes that had bewitched countless women were staring at him with a smile.

Pompeo Gattuso, his biological father.

When did you come?
Caesar frowned. Words like "didn't notice" should not appear in his description, especially after he underwent transformation; with the passive "Sickle Weasel" field plus the "Ear of Leman", no movement could escape his ears.

But the other party appeared out of nowhere like a ghost, silently and without a trace.

"The most tender part of the black pig from the Alps is marinated in agave lees and served with black truffles. But it may be a little too small for your appetite now."

The waiter brought a silver plate with a large piece of fragrant fried pork chop on it, but Caesar's attention was not there.

He had expected that this so-called family dinner would not be as heartwarming as the leader had expected.

Pompey's existence has always been a mystery. On the surface, he is a "stud" arranged by the Gattuso family, a playboy who is addicted to women and has affairs everywhere. But in fact, he has extremely high control over the family. As long as he arrives, the usually arrogant Frost will have to give up his position.

But when Caesar took over the Gattuso family as a soldier of the Sword of Revelation Legion, Pompey did not show up at all. It was said that he was studying the so-called "dual cultivation" somewhere in China, and seemed to be unconcerned.

At first, Caesar thought Pompey really didn't care about the family, but he soon noticed something wrong: it seemed that he had taken control of all the power, wealth, knowledge and secrets belonging to the Gattuso family, but in fact there was still a large unknown blank -

It's like taking over a department store, only to find that the store is missing shelves for several different categories of merchandise, as if these categories of merchandise had never existed. This doesn't make sense.

Caesar launched an investigation but found nothing. Frost sincerely told him that this was all the wealth of the Gattuso family that he knew;

Those old guys in the Pantheon should know a lot of secrets... Oh, I forgot they were all kicked to death by the captain, so it's okay.

After that, with the appointment of "Chief of Staff", Caesar became increasingly busy, and this matter was briefly put on the list of items to be investigated until the appearance of Pompey today.

This is also the reason why he accepted the other party's dinner invitation.

Caesar glanced at the man sitting at the other end of the table, then grabbed the bread and sausage slices from the plate and stuffed them into his mouth. His eating manner showed no aristocratic style or etiquette at all.

"Tsk tsk," Pompey shook his head and took a sip of red wine. "Your mother will be disappointed if the heir of the Gattuso family becomes like this. Doesn't your legion even give you enough food to eat?"

"First of all, my mother never taught me how to become the heir of the Gattuso family," Caesar swallowed the food in his mouth and said seriously, "She only taught me to be a righteous person and to have enough food to eat."

"Secondly, I am now preparing for the upcoming battle."

(End of this chapter)