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

Chapter 49 The Disappearing Prosthetic and Lu Mingze

Swish—swish—

The smoke from cooking oil stirred up the tender green cabbage hearts, and the afternoon sun shone through the window on the side of the kitchen, making the tumbling minced garlic look like white pearls bouncing up and down.

The pure white sheets were straight and smooth after being dried in the sun. They swayed with the green leaves in the wind outside the window. Amid the rustling sounds, people in every household opened their doors to welcome the rising sun.

Lu Mingfei had been sitting at the breakfast table for a while.

He was smiling, while his cousin had a subtle expression.

A few seconds later, the kitchen range hood turned off, and a slightly plump middle-aged woman walked out and brought the dishes to the dining table.

"Come, eat."

The words are concise and to the point, just like feeding pigs.

But surprisingly, the woman's expression was very warm.

"It's just leftovers, just eat some. We'll go out for something nice tonight."

Oh God.

Is this person really Lu Mingfei's aunt? One can't help but ask this question. The woman's current behavior is so strange.

At least her own son couldn't accept it, and what he couldn't accept even more was her cousin's brilliant smile.

"Thank you, Auntie. It tastes delicious."

"Uh-huh."

Lu Mingfei responded with a fully affirmative and positive smile, eating with great relish and a relaxed look. This immersive performance was enough to satisfy the person who cooked. His aunt smiled even more sincerely and went back to the kitchen to take off her apron.

Seeing that his mother had temporarily disappeared, Lu Mingze finally couldn't help but move closer to his cousin, "Lu Mingfei, what are you doing?"

"It's just that I've been feeling healthier lately, and everything I eat tastes delicious."

Lu Mingfei also smiled at Lu Mingze, "Mingze, you can eat too."

".oh oh."

Don't hit a smiling person. Even if Lu Mingze was harsh to Lu Mingfei in the past, he was not really a psychopath. Seeing this, he went to eat obediently.

From his and his aunt's perspective, Lu Mingfei had been acting strange since he woke up this morning.

No, it had been strange since a month ago, but it just seemed strangest this morning.

He changed from being a suspicious and timid boy to a sunny and cheerful boy. But it's also a good thing. After all, it's troublesome to take him to the hospital all the time. Besides, Lu Mingfei is sunny now and doesn't have the aura that makes people want to bully him.

For the first time, Lu Mingze even had the feeling that "if I keep this cousin by my side, the girls around me will envy me."

They had a very pleasant breakfast. Lu Mingfei's jokes made his aunt laugh heartily, and the deafening thunder made the dining table buzz. The atmosphere was very harmonious.

My aunt and cousin were happy, but Lu Mingfei was miserable.
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"Well, come and see."

Shilan Middle School.

The toilet is at the end of the second grade corridor.

Lu Mingfei changed his gentle expression.

When he was at home, although he relied on the skills he learned at the negotiation table in the past three months to show a likable personality, in fact, Lu Mingfei only showed that attitude to people he was not interested in.

Of course.

The memories of those three months were like a carving knife that dug a deep hole in Lu Mingfei's hippocampus. Lu Mingfei would rather forget his parents' faces than forget even a single minute of those three months.

A neon city, two banks separated by a river, beer bottles colliding beside a bonfire, an old man who takes care of his older brothers and sisters and a little girl who accompanies him to watch a boxing match.
They are all closer than uncles and aunts.

Lu Mingfei did not hate the two people, but he did not have any other emotions besides this. He just responded with the classic "I don't care".

Compared to them, he cared more about the other 'changes' after traveling back to this world.

".First, let's organize the information."

Lu Mingfei began to talk to himself nervously.

"The brain-computer interface hasn't disappeared, so at least I can be 100% sure that Night City exists, and it's not just my imagination."

"There was a slight change in the timing. Three months passed there, and one night passed here."

“Then physical fitness.”

Lu Mingfei slowly raised his hand.

boom! ! !
With a casual swing of his hand, the sound of breaking through the air was so obvious that people suspected it was the tail of a long whip.

No problem at all.

His physical fitness is also very different from that of the weakling Lu Mingfei in this world.

Night City does exist; otherwise, this sudden increase in physical strength in a single day would be unexplainable. But why did he travel through time again? Or was it simply his nature to constantly travel between these two worlds?
If this is the case
[How long do I have to spend in this world before I can go back? ]

Lu Mingfei looked at the countdown.

【2159:34:17】

Almost three months.

The same time as when I went to Night City.

[And how much time will pass in Night City compared to the time I spend here?]

(If David and his friends encounter any danger during my absence.)

Lu Mingfei once had all-round and unconditional "trust" in David, but that changed after the Whirlpool Gang incident.

He began to realize that this man was just a 'human'.

I can't just be a newcomer looking up to him from behind, but I have to contribute as a member of the team.

In fact, he did the same during the three months he stayed there.

But this was his first time "leaving the team".

(Based on the current situation, it would take about three months here and one night there?)
Lu Mingfei walked out of the cubicle, rinsed his palms and arms with cold water, and finally splashed it on his face, wetting the tips of his hair.

In a sense, it's like a vacation.

Compared to Night City, this world is ridiculously peaceful.

You don't have to worry about drunks appearing in the restroom and shooting people with guns, you don't have to worry about a gangster's black car suddenly passing by on the side of the road, and you don't have to keep your nerves tense and worry about life and death.

what is this?
Paradise?
(There's a problem, though.)

Lu Mingfei was slightly distracted as he looked at the spirals gathered in the groove of the washbasin, then looked up at himself in the mirror.

Suddenly, the boy inserted his fingers into the inside of his collar and pulled it to the side, revealing his well-trained muscles and a large area of ​​fair skin.

It was the healthy body of a young man - but it lacked something that Lu Mingfei should have.

"No."

Lu Mingfei frowned, then put his hand on the hem of his shirt and pulled it hard.

The clear six-pack abs were exposed to the cold air, showing their arrogant vitality in the light, but the boy became more and more dissatisfied as he looked at his body.

"There are no suture marks on the prosthesis."

That’s right, this is what Lu Mingfei found strange.

In three months, Lu Mingfei had completely renewed his body.

The [Death Dance Club Massacre] alone made David's team a fortune, because after Jack returned, he praised Lu Mingfei highly and even fanatically promoted him, and the amount increased by more than 30%.

Lu Mingfei immediately rushed to Victor's place to update his prosthetic body.

As if it was a tacit understanding, neither of them mentioned paying back the money. Lao Wei quietly arranged a series of the best goods on the market for Lu Mingfei - of course, Lucy and others also helped and selected a batch of good goods for Lu Mingfei.

There are ten parts of the body that can be updated, including the nervous system, face, hands, circulatory system, legs, epidermis, and bones, and Lu Mingfei has installed prosthetics in all of them.

His fighting ability continued to improve during this process, even to the point where David described him as "no less powerful than himself."

Although it is not an obviously extravagant installation, there are at least traces of it.

But those prosthetics have disappeared at this moment.

The ability is retained, but it seems to have changed.

what is the reason?
Lu Mingfei suddenly remembered what Lu Mingze had said -

[It's not a replacement. These prosthetics aren't enough to cover my 'refresh rate'. Hmm. Rather than a replacement, it's more like they've been stained with something cheap and unclean.]

[Brother, let me put it this way, would you like to put a sticker on your body that says 'I have no regrets about entering the second dimension'? ]

Lu Mingze. Tore off his own sticker?

Lu Mingfei wanted to find the person involved to question him, but an accident happened at this time.

"Brother, please answer if you hear me."

Lu Mingfei tried his best to keep his voice calm, but the silent echo still made him grit his teeth.

Yes.

in this world.
Lu Mingze disappeared.

　Although he returned to the dragon clan, it is not that relevant to the original plot (
　　Returning to the Dragon Clan is mainly related to the integration of world views.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)