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

Chapter 44 I am so soft, I really died this time

When he woke up again, Lu Mingfei saw a familiar light.

Too bad Lu Mingfei has always felt like Yodo Shinji since he was a child, but now he has no chance to say the famous line "strange ceiling"
This is obviously the ceiling of the storage room that Old Wei built for himself.

"Well"

After regaining consciousness, Lu Mingfei began to try to activate his body. He supported himself on the bed and tried to get up, but it was just a thought. The moment his muscles exerted force, a tingling sensation spread throughout his body, causing his elbow to go limp and he fell back.

boom!
Falling back onto the bed, Lu Mingfei was a little panicked for a moment.

What's wrong? Am I useless?
After the panic, there are more persistent and clearer pain signals.

“Ah, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts!!!!————————”

My eyes, nose, chest, back, arms, neck, calves, and any other place I could name were all aching, as if I had been beaten by a polar bear for three days.

Enduring the pain, Lu Mingfei could only make inhaling and exhaling sounds.

"Helphelp doctors, nurses, angels in white"

"There are no angels in white, only the elderly cybernetic doctor can do it?"

When Lu Mingfei was feeling the pain, the door was pushed open from the outside, and the familiar voice of Old Wei came into his ears, causing the face of the young man who was twisting and turning like an earthworm on the bed to freeze.

The door creaked open and Old Wei walked in with instant noodles.

"Hmm, eat first, then take the medicine. Although I gave you a painkiller, I think the effect should have worn off. Do you want another shot?"

"No, no need for desuwa."

Lu Mingfei, lying on the bed, had put on a tough face without knowing when. His eyebrows became thick and his facial curves became extremely hard, as if he was completely unafraid of pain.

"Hmm," Old Wei said as he sat down next to Lu Mingfei with an ominous look on his face. He put down his instant noodles and said casually, "I heard you took on a dangerous mission."

"That's not the case at all."

Lu Mingfei, who had a tough face, had a drop of sweat dripping from his forehead.

"And he was seriously injured."

"It's a complete rumor."

Tough guy Lu Mingfei closed his eyes and spoke in a deep voice.

"That cyberpunk buddy of yours told me that what you did was truly earth-shattering, enough to vault you into the top 50 of the All-Time Mercenary Rankings. You and your boss engaged the main gang members at the Vortex Gang's headquarters, slaughtering them all. You two took down Night City's most powerful gang—pretty impressive, wasn't it?"

“Fake news.”

Lu Mingfei's eyes twitched.

Old Wei frowned and poked Lu Mingfei's arm with the end of his wooden chopsticks.

“His ...

The pain hit him and Lu Mingfei lost his composure instantly. He gasped and looked serious.

"I never thought that my adopted child would go from being a top student at Arasaka Academy to a prominent figure among cyberpunk mercenaries in just one month. This probably means you are indeed very talented." Old Wei didn't bother to laugh at Lu Mingfei, but changed the subject. "Get up and eat something. Even if it hurts, you have to bear it."

Upon hearing this, Lu Mingfei immediately stood up, gritted his teeth, and straightened up, then couldn't wait to stuff the instant noodles into his mouth.

In this Night City, poor people all eat this stuff, not because it is healthy, but because instant noodles are the only ones that are delicious and filling - of course, Lu Mingfei also occasionally eats octopus balls and Japanese ramen at the stalls outside.

The kind mixed with cockroach antennae.

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Old Wei looked at Lu Mingfei wolfing down the food without saying anything, just watching quietly.

But even such a calm emotion made Lu Mingfei more uncomfortable.

To be honest, he was actually quite afraid of seeing Old Wei.

After all, he almost died in this mission.

If there was anything Lu Mingfei regretted, it was probably that he had not yet had time to pay off the debt to Old Weitou - although Lu Mingfei did not intend to die, and although he had set up a program code that would automatically transfer all money to Old Weitou in the event of death, the money he earned as a mercenary in a month was really not enough.

I almost defaulted on my debt. "Ming Fei."

"Yes!"

Just like the Japanese colonel whose name was called, Lu Mingfei immediately straightened his back and obeyed the order.

"Do you remember what I said?" Lao Wei ignored Lu Mingfei's antics and asked gently in his steady, magnetic voice, "I believe you will be the one to change Night City. However, I never imagined how you would do it."

"Old Wei."

"I believe that this company and this city cannot be defeated. He is too powerful. Even if he kills the most powerful officials, there will always be someone to replace him and replace him, and once again sit on the throne covered with iron thorns."

The old man said slowly, "I thought you would meet some like-minded people at Arasaka Academy. Although the probability is slim, I want to believe that there are people willing to change from within the company, to transform this city, this world. But now, you have become a mercenary, wasting your life in the sound of gunfire and bullets."

".Old Wei, are you very opposed to me becoming a mercenary?" Lu Mingfei lowered his head.

"Not good, at first, but now I think there's probably no one more suitable than you. I've lived for quite a long time, but this is the first time I've seen someone grow as fast as you."

"It's just..." Old Wei didn't say anything else, but Lu Mingfei already understood.

The old man in front of him really didn't want Lu Mingfei to be like those legends of Night City, lining up one after another to report to the grave.

【Legend, or ordinary person? 】

Lu Mingfei thought of David's question.

"Can't there be a living legend?" Lu Mingfei said to himself.

"Hmm?" Old Wei didn't hear Lu Mingfei's words clearly.

Coincidentally, Lu Mingfei had no intention of delving further into this topic.

"Don't worry, Lao Wei, I won't die."

He just endured the pain and patted Lao Wei's shoulder.

"I haven't paid you back yet."

".Oh, then you better take it easy. I don't have much money to spend."

Lao Wei also patted Lu Mingfei's shoulder gently.
it hurts.
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【I couldn't wait for you to come clear the cupboards】

【But now you're going to leave with nothing but a sign】

【Another evening I'll be sitting reading in between your lines】

Burning bonfire.

Music that fits the occasion under the neon lights.

The dancing people cast their shadows on the ground, interweaving with each other above the gravel. The slightly drunken warm colors add a touch of unreal tenderness to this corner of the city.

Lu Mingfei put his hands in the pockets of his large sweatshirt and walked into the familiar abandoned factory.

I don't know when his back started to look wider than when he first walked in here.

On the outside of the sweatshirt, a lightning-like symbol was engraved using green electronic jets.

Edgerunners

Facing the music and light, Lu Mingfei took a step forward, although he still clearly remembered his fear of Night City and his hesitation to step into the mercenary territory.

but now.
"Hey, our big star is here!!"

Before Lu Mingfei even stepped through the door, he was recognized by the mercenaries. Regardless of their seniority, almost everyone gave him a thumbs-up or raised their glasses.

"Nice job, L!"

Their movements were so natural, just like Lu Mingfei raising the corners of his mouth.

It's like coming home.

(End of this chapter)