Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Doesn’t Want to Become a Night City Legend

Chapter 10 The Conscience of Night City
This time, Lu Mingfei did not dream about Lu Mingze.

Or rather, at least this time, he didn't see the little boy in the suit chattering beside him, and the scenes in his dream played slowly like a slide show.

Those are the backs of two people.

In the vast world, the full moon has not yet set. There are boundless grasslands, vast ice fields, endless oceans, valleys spewing fire, and in countless magnificent scenes, two figures, one tall and one short, always exist.

They must be brothers, hugging each other's legs, watching the world change silently. There is no other life around them. In the lonely and long time, they only have each other.

It's as if their world is each other.

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Kara.

When Lu Mingfei opened his eyes, his eyelids felt heavy as if they were coated with a layer of metal film.

When visual signals returned, he saw lights, similar to the large, circular lights in an operating room.

"!!!"

With a sudden start, ptsd urged Lu Mingfei to reach for his waist - where he had placed the scalpel he had snatched.

However, what was waiting for him was not the patient whose kidney was to be removed, but an "old man" eating fried noodles from a plastic box, and a narrow, dimly lit room with a TV showing a program in one corner.

He is called an old man, but only because he gives people the aura of being old and steady. In terms of appearance, he is just a handsome uncle wearing black-framed glasses.

His arms are so thick and strong that one wonders if he practiced boxing or something like that when he was young.

Coincidentally, the program broadcast on TV was a boxing match. Judging from the old man's actions just now, he must have been watching TV with great interest before being interrupted by Lu Mingfei.

However, after seeing Lu Mingfei wake up, the old man's expression became relieved and relaxed, and he focused his attention on the young man.

"Ming Fei, you're awake."

"Ahh. I'm awake."

Foolishly repeating the other person's words, Lu Mingfei tried hard to get his brain working.

"Doctor Victor"

"Yes, Victor, it seems that at least you haven't lost your memory. I'm relieved." The old man smiled kindly. He stood up on his knees and walked behind Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei followed the other person with his eyes, his spirit tense.

Although he arrived at the destination, he actually didn't understand this cyborg doctor. To be honest, he regretted why he fainted in front of him. If the other party had any intention of selling him out, he could go to the kidney-cutting base again and stage "The Last Stand".

This vigilance reached its peak the moment Lao Wei picked up the tool tray.

But the next moment-

"I checked your prosthesis. The cruise control system was a little garbled, but it's a minor problem. I helped you restore it and updated it."

Lu Mingfei felt relieved when he heard this, and felt that the old man in front of him was really kind and amiable.

"There's a record of a chip being connected to your neural socket. I don't know what it is. Initially, I suspected it was the main cause of your coma, but now it seems that your connection to it is very stable."

Lao Wei calmly told Lu Mingfei the secret about relic, which made Lu Mingfei feel anxious again.

"Don't worry, I didn't look closely. In this city, everyone has their own secrets." Victor moved the tool tray aside and took away the cup noodles soaking underneath.

"Japanese tonkotsu ramen flavor, I hope you like it."

Lao Wei handed the instant noodles to Lu Mingfei, and the boy was stunned.

In 0.5 seconds, or maybe even shorter, Lu Mingfei's brain went from 'If Lao Wei wanted to harm me, there would be no need to go through so much trouble' to 'I'm so hungry, ...

He quickly took it, remembering that he hadn't eaten in a long time. After his golden eyes were opened, he felt that he could eat a whole cow! Kobe beef, or even the Bull of Heaven would be fine!

He took the noodles, stirred them briefly, and then slurped the carbohydrates and the boiling hot soup into his mouth. To be honest, the taste was terrible. It was the worst instant noodles Lu Mingfei had ever eaten. The noodles and the seasoning seemed to be inharmonious, but he still ate it with relish.

Victor couldn't help but smile when he saw Lu Mingfei wolfing down his food. "Your body has been severely damaged. Although I gave you nutritional supplements, they're still not enough."

"I saw that you had wounds on your body. They didn't look like normal machete wounds, but rather surgical incisions. Fortunately, when I examined you, your internal organs were intact. You looked so healthy that you didn't look like a pristine person."

"Can you tell me what happened, Lao Wei? Oh. You've finished eating."

While Lao Wei was trying to connect with him, Lu, the reincarnation of Taotie, had already finished his meal. The moment he finished drinking the soup, he subconsciously gave Lao Wei a frightened look as if to say "is there nothing left?", but he quickly retracted his expression, becoming serious with a hint of shyness.

At this moment, he no longer had the ferocious look he had when fighting with the kidney-stripping man, and seemed to have returned to being the loser he used to be.

Shuaizai is very shameless, but his shamelessness is only used to create awkward situations when interacting with people of his age. Facing a gentle elder like Lao Wei, Lu Mingfei is speechless.

The crazy look he had shown towards the scavenger was gone, and Lu Mingfei was as docile as a little pig.

"Um... Sorry, I have money! I can pay you back for these instant noodles and all those surgeries! I'll pay you back now!! Go!"

Lu Mingfei hurriedly reached into his pocket, but suddenly froze in place.

Gone.

"..It's terrible, my eyesight has deteriorated to the point of no return, I opened my wallet and couldn't see any money (horrified)"

Not blind.

——In fact, Lu Mingfei had all his money in his jacket, but it was taken away by the kidney-stripping man.

His face instantly stiffened and became awkward, but luckily Lao Wei reached out to stop him.

"Okay, there's no rush."

His tone was very calm. This cyborg doctor must be someone who has seen a lot of ups and downs.

"You need money more than I do. As a rookie starting out in Night City, you need at least some start-up capital." "A gun for self-defense, prosthetics, and a firewall program. Speaking of which."

"I'm not saying anything bad about you, Mingfei, but who hasn't installed a basic prosthetic body yet?"

"Not only did you not install it, but even the anti-hacker program on the brain-computer interface is the most outdated. As a doctor, I can't just ignore it. You have to update it for me this time. You can even pay for it. I don't need your money."

The old prosthetic doctor kept talking incessantly. He spoke slowly, so he talked for a long time and Lu Mingfei listened for a long time.

The stiff body gradually relaxed, and finally the shoulders sank, and the bad boy returned to the appearance of a hapless bear with his head hung and eyebrows lowered.

He was a little dazed. After all, this was the first time someone cared so much about Lu Mingfei.

Strange, but warm.

"And let's talk about the topic just now. What happened to you that caused the surgical injury, and it healed in such a short time?" Lao Wei brought the topic back to the beginning, and Lu Mingfei quickly organized his words after coming to his senses.

"Uh... I was kidnapped. I was a kidney-stripper. I was unlucky, but I was lucky enough to escape later." Lu Mingfei did not lie, but he deliberately blurred some parts. It's a pity that this crude technique could not be hidden from someone who has lived in Night City for decades.

"'Escaped', huh?" Victor smiled after rereading it deliberately.

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Looking at Lao Wei's gentle gaze, Lu Mingfei felt ashamed. The other party was the best person to him in Night City so far. Wait, no, he was probably the person who treated him the best in Lu Mingfei's life. Apart from Lao Tang, Lu Mingfei had never felt such sincere kindness from others.

Oh no, stop talking, my eyes are going to curl up.

"Okay, it's okay if you don't want to talk about it. I've already told you that everyone in Night City has a few secrets. It's normal. It's just..." Old Wei Xiaoli patted his knee, leaned back slightly, and said with emotion, "It's just that this day has finally come. I knew that sooner or later, Mingfei, you would reveal your talents."

"Me?" Lu Mingfei pointed at himself.

Lu Mingfei's perception of himself is that he has no talent and no moral integrity. His intelligence may be strong, but he probably doesn't have much chance to show it to Lao Wei.

Lao Wei and himself seemed to be half-acquaintances, but judging from the contents of the diary, they should not be that familiar.

The other party's unprovoked kindness to oneself can be understood as his innocence and kindness, but what is this expectation?
"your eyes."

Lao Wei pointed to his eyes, and Lu Mingfei subconsciously thought they were golden pupils, but the next moment he was stunned by Lao Wei's answer.

"Very beautiful, unlike anyone else in this city," Lao Wei said calmly. "Although you also harbor madness, you're able to hide it well. Some may think this is cowardice, but I think you seem to have a hidden reason for doing this. You're not hurting yourself for your own sake."

"I think it's a lovely kind of stupidity, and there's nothing more precious in this city than that."

Lao Wei seemed to have known Lu Mingfei for a long time.

Although it wasn't him, Lu Mingfei felt the same way. He asked with an expression as if he had eaten a fly, "Is this a compliment?"

"Of course, silly boy."

Lao Wei smiled.

"You are special, Mingfei."

"I even think you'll change this city, this world—wow!" Lao Wei said this with a sudden sound of surprise. Lu Mingfei thought he was watching a wonderful boxing match on TV, but it seemed like a sudden thought. "So, if you become a great person who changes the world in the future, then perhaps this will be the first chapter—[Lu Mingfei and the Cyborg Doctor]."

"Doctor, you have too much confidence in me."

"You are too self-deprecating. You have deceived yourself for too long, Mingfei."

He shook his head and waved his palm upward.

"Okay, let's get down to business. I can guess why you're here. I understand your situation, so my answer is—"

Lu Mingfei became nervous.

Of course I am nervous, I have to be nervous.

Although he seemed to have killed the kidney-stripping man with a burst of energy, Lu Mingfei realized that he could not enter that state frequently in a day, and that there were side effects if he did.

If this were some fantasy world where the princess could take you back after defeating the boss, it would be fine, but this is Night City, and explosive skills are the last thing you need to consider as your 'last life-saving' thing.

Lu Mingfei needs a stable job, more than college students who are about to graduate!
What's more, this was the first "good person" he met in Night City, someone who showed kindness to him. Lu Mingfei didn't want to hear a disappointing answer from the other person.

The tense mood stretched out the time, and just when Lu Mingfei was about to gasp for breath——

"of course can."

The prosthetic doctor smiled the warmest smile.

"I suppose there's no reason to refuse a good boy to help me."

Been through so much.

Witnessed so much.

I was already disappointed with this dilapidated city and was planning to strangle the dead child in my heart and let the devil Lu Mingze help me destroy this city.

But seeing Victor's outstretched hand.
The broken string was about to fall, but it was still hanging in the air, unable to fall.

The poor kid laughed foolishly twice, then straightened his chest and took a deep breath.

"Old Wei."

"Ok?"

"Your mother."

"Stop talking nonsense. Come on, let's go to the kitchen and get two more boxes of instant noodles."

(End of this chapter)