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

Chapter 325 Lu Mingfei's Location

"Upon reflection, I should have realized this a long time ago."

Once, during their first meeting, Lu Mingfei learned from Caesar the method of 'deliberately revealing information to others in order to determine whether the other party knew about the information in advance'.

Throughout his subsequent mercenary career, Lu Mingfei frequently employed similar tactics.

But Lu Mingfei used this method precisely because he had traveled back in time and met the Caesar of the past.

During his first conflict with Arakawa, wasn't it precisely during that he that a convenient and suitable opportunity was created for him to use the knowledge he had learned? In other words, Lu Mingfei should have realized, in some mysterious way, that from that moment on, he was already under the surveillance of 'Caesar'.

What Adam Hammer said was almost an 'explicit revelation'.

Why didn't we think of that sooner?

Lu Mingfei faced the man on the throne and watched him quietly.

He was somewhat different from the boy he remembered. Although the man still maintained his aristocratic elegance, the years had left undeniable marks on him.

Her golden hair had lost its youthful brilliance, turning into a more subdued light flaxen, with a few strands of silver visible at her temples. Her icy blue eyes remained sharp as knives, but now bore fine lines at the corners, like the marks left by years of gazing into the wind and snow.

With the technology of 2077, he could have had countless ways to slow down aging.

drug.

Use non-combat prosthetics to achieve more efficient body metabolism.

The internal organs of a healthy person are directly replaced, thus completing a blood transfusion.

It doesn't even need to go through that much trouble. Those nobles kept by Caesar have already changed their bodies directly with Relic and are enjoying their own entertainment on the surface world.

Caesar did not choose to do that.

His body aged like an ordinary human, reaching the age of about forty.

If one were to insist on saying so, it would indeed be remarkable that a person would only appear to have aged twenty years in the past sixty years, but in this era, such an appearance is already quite remarkable.

"So, who are you?"

"Ok?"

Caesar's smile still carried the arrogant and domineering air of a young man looking down on the world, but perhaps it was just my imagination, it also carried a faint warmth.

He didn't seem like a boss who schemed against Lu Mingfei to this extent, nor did he seem like the culprit who caused the human world to degenerate to this state. He seemed more like someone who simply wanted to see an old friend he hadn't seen in a long time.

"I mean, what's going on with this world?"

Lu Mingfei pointed to his head, his movements somewhat rough and exaggerated, and his face was unusually impatient, not even paying attention to V beside him.

"I'm completely baffled! Everyone who knows is unwilling to tell me the answer! What's going on? Is this world the future of my world? Is this world the past of my world? Is this world a completely independent parallel universe? Or am I just an NPC in your so-called 'free' game?"

Lu Mingfei let out a heavy sigh, his expression unpleasant.

"To be honest, the answer doesn't matter. But I need to know the answer! I don't understand the relationship between you and me at all right now. Is it possible that you've been acting since we met? Honestly, I don't believe it at all—it feels strange to say this at this point, but I still want to believe you for now. For example, is someone else living in your mind right now using Relic technology? Pompeii, is it Pompeii? Or is it just a clone of Caesar? I remember you had a brother named Percy, right? Is that him?"

"It seems you really have a lot of questions that need to be answered."

Caesar sighed as he listened to Lu Mingfei's relentless barrage of questions.

But he calmly snapped his fingers first.

hum.

hum.

Soon, blue candles lit up the two rows of candles in the room, and the thick flames flickered and cast shadows on the ground. The light source came from the long, hollowed-out iron pillars, which made the already cramped room feel even more like the Demon King's castle.

"Speaking like this would be more romantic, wouldn't it?"

"What a weirdo," V thought to himself.

But this action also convinced Lu Mingfei that this guy was either someone else impersonating Caesar, or the person he knew.

"First of all, the first question is—where is this place? Well, to be honest, none of the answers you listed are quite right. If I had to say, they're closer to 'the past world' and 'parallel world'."

"And I, just as you can see, although I don't act, I have indeed been deceiving you from beginning to end."

"The story itself is going to be long and, to be honest, I don't know where to begin. Let's start with a question."

Caesar pondered for a moment before speaking.

"You must have thought about this too, Lu Mingfei."

"If this is the future, why are you here?"

"First of all, there shouldn't be an eighteen-year-old Lu Mingfei in the future. So, perhaps we can try to more simply and bluntly conclude that [you were just absurdly transported to the future world, like something out of a web novel]?"

"If it's about time travel, setting aside the underlying principles, it might indeed be explained by the question of 'why is there an eighteen-year-old Lu Mingfei here,' but beyond that?"

"You must have thought about a very basic question, right?"

His breathing quickened, and Lu Mingfei clenched his fists.

That is--

Why doesn't Lu Mingfei exist in this world?

Ultimately, Lu Mingfei had concluded that his 'parents' in this world were almost entirely fabricated, that they had never met him, and that the persecution he had suffered since transmigrating was all due to Caesar's surveillance.

So, Lu Mingfei in this world is just an existence that appeared out of thin air? And not some conveniently explained 'soul transmigration'?

"No, it's more accurate to say it's a soul transfer."

As if he had guessed Lu Mingfei's thoughts, Caesar stroked his chin and muttered to himself.

[The 18-year-old Lu Mingfei who should never have existed]

[The original Lu Mingfei who disappeared]

Explaining these two points is not difficult, or rather, it is not difficult to make assumptions.

That is--

"I am not Lu Mingfei now."

Lu Mingfei replied.

He said with a gloomy expression.

He had already seen it on his way here.

Within this palace, where androids are nearly fully developed, all human characteristics can be fabricated. Even a 36E-cup, large-breasted Black man can be created at will. If one doesn't want androids, there are also 'natural humans' born through genetic engineering.

"There are many methods, such as genetic engineering production and Relic implantation. It is not difficult to create an existence that is almost indistinguishable from Lu Mingfei."

"So the answer is—[An eighteen-year-old Lu Mingfei who shouldn't exist can easily be created, and the Lu Mingfei who disappeared isn't 'disappeared' but rather 'unseen'.]"

That is to say, Lu Mingfei is either dead or in a state of being unable to see.

The former is the simplest, while the latter...
[Also on Earth]

But no matter what, I can't see him.

the answer is.
"Black Wall".

"The real Lu Mingfei should be outside the Black Wall."

(End of this chapter)