Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 242 Mission: 02-2 Cutting off the memories
"Help, help!"

Lu Mingfei was answered by a hoarse signal noise. He had never believed in any god in his life, but if someone told him there was a god of radio signals, he would definitely pray to him.

Fortunately, his inner prayer of "hold on, hold on" was still effective. The girl's slow and elegant voice followed the recovery signal from the other end: "Have you decided?"

What the hell is this question? I'm screaming for help, can't you hear me? Lu Mingfei huddled up nervously and whispered to the other side, "I'm going to die soon. Have you made up your mind?"

The words sounded a bit incoherent, but the meaning was easy to understand. After a pause, the voice asked him in confirmation: "In other words, are you ready to say goodbye to your past life completely?

"Farewell to an ordinary life, a stable future, and a young secret love?"

Hearing the word "secret love", Lu Mingfei was stunned. He was unable to answer for a moment.

It sounds like he's about to become the protagonist of a story, but the protagonist's story always begins with gaining the strength to say goodbye to the past. Everything before that is just a dispensable background embellishment for the story.

In other words, if he said "I'm sure" here, he would no longer exist in Chen Wenwen's world. She would find a boyfriend who was even more handsome than Lu Mingfei, a second-generation rich man, marry, have children, and become the envy of everyone. And perhaps, much later, she would meet Lu Mingfei again, now the ruler of the other world. She would then look at him with awe, but they would no longer belong to the same world.

The girl's voice, tinged with a hint of electricity, put this future very directly before Lu Mingfei and asked him, "Do you accept it?"

Lu Mingfei couldn't answer immediately. He could hear the sound of claws digging into the elevator car from outside the door. He was facing the threat of death, but he refused to give up, as if this unspoken love was more important than his life.

That's ridiculous. To Chen Wenwen, Lu Mingfei was just a director of the literature club. Upon hearing the news of his death, Chen Wenwen, as the club president, could only lead everyone in a moment of silence. Was he crazy enough to think that this was more important than his own life?
But he still didn't say it.

As the saying goes, true love is revealed in life and death, and it seems that Lu Mingfei's feelings are quite genuine.

Really stupid.

As if sensing his hesitation, the girl's voice turned cold. "If you're going to refuse, hang up now and destroy the letter and your phone. I told you, you only have one chance."

letter?
Lu Mingfei, reminded, then remembered that there was a letter along with his phone. But wasn't that a rejection letter from the University of Chicago? Lu Mingfei still remembered the beginning: "Dear Mr. Lu Mingfei, thank you for your interest in the University of Chicago..."

He frantically took out the letter from his pocket and looked at the contents below with the light of his cell phone.

“But we always say there’s more than one way.”

Lu Mingfei's eyes widened in surprise: This letter wasn't from the University of Chicago, but from a college called "Casel"! The letter said that they, as a fraternal school of the University of Chicago, had approved Lu Mingfei's application and asked him to prepare for an interview!
He picked up the phone again and asked timidly, "You...you are the 'Professor Guderian'? Isn't the content of this interview a little too dangerous?"

Lu Mingfei's guess also stemmed from his own thoughts. "Guderian," with his heavily German-sounding name, was said to be Lu Mingfei's interviewer.

There was no answer. The other party was still waiting for Lu Mingfei's decision, to hang up or nod. She wanted to hear one of the two. It was as if they were saying, "We're interested in you. Either you join us or die"—wasn't this academy a bit too villainous? If she joined, would she really not be beaten to a pulp by the awakened heroes?

Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth. He certainly didn't want to die, not even for the upcoming release of Resident Evil 5. But in his heart, he felt that even if Chen Wenwen didn't know he liked her, nodding here still felt like a betrayal.

The two different breathing sounds, steady and rapid, were converted into radio signals and transmitted to the other phone. While Lu Mingfei was still in the midst of a fierce psychological struggle, Nero on the other end of the phone was still silently waiting for his answer.

She had arrived at Lu Mingfei's residential complex after tearing through space. It was completely silent. Someone had used some kind of force to disperse the crowd, inducing a widespread coma. In Lu Mingfei's blind spot, the security guard was snoring behind a screen, but Lu Mingfei was too frightened to notice.

That's why Nero guessed that the admission notice to Kassel College had arrived. Perhaps it was this knowledge that prompted "someone" to suddenly attack Lu Mingfei. Unlike Nero, Lu Mingfei was indeed a dragon half-blood, but he didn't look like one at all.

He was too ordinary. Dragon blood was extraordinary, granting longevity, fewer illnesses, handsomeness, and versatility. Throughout the history of this world, almost all renowned geniuses were descended from the dragon race. Throw ten stones at a gathering of scientific giants, and at least eight of those who returned would likely be mixed-bloods—even if they themselves might not know it.

But Lu Mingfei is different. So he is an outlier, a kind of...

Something even scarier.

Nero walked silently into the underground garage and watched from afar the crashed elevator car surrounded by vague black shadows.

A monster must have the awareness of a monster. So even when Nero came to Lu Mingfei's side, he still didn't save him. She didn't intend to force Lu Mingfei to change, but he at least had to think carefully about who he was and what he wanted.

If Lu Mingfei really hung up on her and tore up the admission letter, it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing for him. It would just mean that Nero and the people who sent her to the small garden would be even busier in the future.

And if he could really make up his mind and give up some things...

Nero actually scoffed at the theory that "one becomes stronger by discarding useless things," but from Virgil's belief in this principle, we can see that the pain of loss is indeed a good way to quickly strengthen people. The premise is not to become dependent on it, and not to misidentify what is truly important.

"I……"

Finally, Lu Mingfei slowly opened his mouth. His voice changed from hesitation at first, to pain, and finally to regret and relief: "...I should still have a chance to say goodbye to them, right?"

Nero raised the corner of his mouth slightly and chuckled, "Of course."

The next second, knife flashes raged in the underground garage.

(End of this chapter)