Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

"I don't know. Ever since the first time this change happened to me, I've wanted to know why my eyes turned gold, but I've never been able to find the answer. I never imagined it was because I'm a hybrid of human and dragon! It sounds like something out of a myth or a novel."

Old Tang's face still bore the shock of hearing the true history and seeing the real world.

But then his face lit up with joy: "I knew gold would always shine!"

"But don't get too excited yet. Hybrids with high-level bloodlines will naturally awaken Word Power. Do you have any sense of what Word Power you can release?" Lu Mingfei poured cold water on the idea.

When Lu Mingfei talked about mixed-race people, he also explained the concept of Word of Power to Lao Tang, who immediately lost heart.

"Aside from being physically stronger than the average person and having a bigger appetite, I have nothing special about me. I've never even experienced the power of words you mentioned," Old Tang said with a mournful face.

“Don’t be discouraged. Not all high-level hybrids have Word of Power,” Lu Mingfei comforted her. “I have a senior who told me that her best friend is of high bloodline but doesn’t have Word of Power.”

"Senior? Best friend? Word magic?" Old Tang looked completely bewildered.

Lu Mingfei hadn't told him about the academy before, so he was a little confused when he suddenly heard Lu Mingfei's words.

"Come on, let me introduce you to two people," Lu Mingfei chuckled.

Old Tang instinctively felt that something was amiss.

"Brother Fei, can I not go?" Old Tang asked timidly, like a shy girl about to be dragged to a blind date.

"What do you think?" Lu Mingfei sneered, like a bandit about to rob a woman.

……

The living room of Chu Zihang and Su Xi's suite in the hotel.

Lu Mingfei led Lao Tang in.

Or rather, they brought Old Tang in under their control.

"Brother Fei, this isn't fair. Didn't we agree that you would keep this a secret for me?" Old Tang twisted his body in Lu Mingfei's hands, but he couldn't escape no matter what he did.

“Don’t worry, I’m going to share an even bigger secret with you,” Lu Mingfei said. “And didn’t you notice that I didn’t even extend my hand when I swore the oath?”

Old Tang said with a face full of grief and indignation, "I never thought you were the kind of person who broke your vows!"

“A friend of mine once told me that vows are meant to be broken,” Lu Mingfei said. “That’s not the exact quote, but the meaning is pretty much the same.”

"Junior Brother Lu, what's going on?" Susie asked from the living room.

"Senior Sister, where is Senior Brother Chu?" Lu Mingfei asked.

“He’s in my bedroom,” Susie said.

Lu Mingfei's eyes lit up, his gossip-loving expression written all over his face.

“He’s using my laptop to look something up,” Susie quickly explained. “It’s a special laptop issued by the college. It’s high-performance and has strong security. I’m in charge of keeping it safe. It’s too much trouble to move it around, so the president just uses it in my room.”

“Oh, I understand,” Lu Mingfei nodded.

Susie felt he had misunderstood.

So she quickly changed the subject and asked, "Junior Brother Lu, who is this person you brought in? Why are you holding him hostage?"

"Senior sister, do you know about the Hunter website?" Lu Mingfei asked instead of answering Susie directly.

“Hmm… I think I’ve heard of it,” Susie said after a moment of thought. “I remember now! It’s a mercenary website where excellent ordinary people and low-level hybrids hang out, specializing in doing shady, underhanded things. The academy occasionally commissions them to do some trivial chores. Although they can’t do anything big, the website is cheap and has a lot of users. People at the school who have used it call them the Cleaners. They’re very useful.”

Hunter Old Tang: ...

Damn it, I feel like I'm being looked down upon!

"Cough cough..."

Lu Mingfei was also a little embarrassed. When Lao Tang told him about this hunter website, he described it as mysterious and powerful. Lu Mingfei thought it was a powerful organization no less than the Solomon Temple.

Who would have thought it was actually a scavenger organization?

“This is my friend, his name is Lao Tang,” Lu Mingfei said. “I just found out that he is also a hybrid, and a hunter on the Hunter website.”

Old Tang thought to himself, "Brother, it would be better if you didn't add that last half-sentence; it would make me less embarrassed."

Susie was also a little embarrassed—even though she had just been relaying objective information.

“By the way, senior, let’s not worry about that for now. Let’s go find Senior Brother Chu,” Lu Mingfei decisively changed the subject. “I’ve discovered some very important information. Let’s go look up some information.”

Before he could finish speaking, Chu Zihang came out with his laptop: "I heard you in there. What do you want to investigate?"

"Senior brother, could you check if there's a mixed-race family in Portugal with the surname El Salvador?" Lu Mingfei asked.

Susie and Chu Zihang were both a little surprised. Having been entertained by Su Xiaoqiang's family for so long, they naturally knew what the family's surname was.

Chu Zihang quickly typed the information into the computer, accessed Norma's database, and got the results a moment later.

“I’ve got it. There is indeed a mixed-race family here called Salvador, but it’s very small and their bloodline is low. The current head of the family should be of D-level blood. The academy has no dealings with them,” Chu Zihang said.

His statement was relatively euphemistic; to put it bluntly, such families were not worthy of having any dealings with the academy—the lowest bloodline level in the academy was D-rank.

But then Chu Zihang added, "However, this family was once prominent on the Iberian Peninsula. At that time, they were mainly active in Spain, and their surname 'El Salvador' means 'savior'."

"That sounds pretty impressive," Lu Mingfei said.

The title of savior sounds quite impressive.

“But that was in the twelfth century,” Chu Zihang said, “when Portugal had just gained independence from Spain.”

Lu Mingfei: ...

P.S.: I'd like to recommend a friend's new book. Those interested can check it out; the link is in the author's notes below.

I'd like to recommend a friend's new book. The link is below. Feel free to check it out if you're interested. Recommendation: Seeing the peerless female immortals, demonic enchantresses, and Confucian sages from later generations seeking me out... I never imagined that the history I experienced would come true!

Chapter 85: Fake Identity

In the living room of Chu Zihang and Su Xi's suite at the hotel.

“The Salvadoran family was mainly active in 12th-century Spain. Well… at that time, there was no concept of modern Spain. A more accurate term would be the Iberian Peninsula, which is the combined territory of present-day Spain and Portugal, plus a small country called Andorra and a British-colonized city called Gibraltar,” Susie explained, staring at the information displayed on her laptop.

“Around the 8th century, the Arabs who converted to Islam occupied the Iberian Peninsula and established the Umayyad dynasty. In the 11th century, the Umayyad dynasty disintegrated, and the small Muslim kingdoms that splintered from it were called ‘Taifa’,” Susie said. “The Salvadoran family was one of the kings of Taifa in the 11th century.”

"So she's a little celestial maiden or a royal descendant?" Lu Mingfei was taken aback.

"It's not wrong to say they are descendants of royalty, but at that time the Salvador family was just an insignificant one among the kings of Thailand, and could not be considered a prominent royal family. It wasn't until the 12th century that a high-ranking mixed-race person with suspected S-class blood appeared in the Salvador family."

Susie said, "Before the Arabs came, the main religion on the Iberian Peninsula was Christianity. After the Umayyad Caliphate was established, most Christians chose to submit to its rule, but some retreated into the deep mountains in the north and established several new Christian kingdoms in an attempt to 'reclaim lost territory,' which eventually led to the Kingdom of Aragon."

“When the Umayyad dynasty disintegrated, the Thaiphs who split off from it were preoccupied with fighting each other, and that was when the Christians had their chance to counterattack,” Susie said. “Unfortunately, some of them used the wrong methods.”

"You used the wrong method?" Lu Mingfei asked, puzzled.

“Around the twelfth century, some of the rulers of the Kingdom of Aragon reached an agreement with a third-generation race that held a title…” Susie said.

“Wait a minute,” Lu Mingfei raised his hand, looking surprised. “Dragon would actually cooperate with someone? I thought everyone would start fighting as soon as they met, a fight to the death.”

“Dragons are highly intelligent beings, even more so than humans, and their behavior often depends on their bloodline,” Susie said. “The Secret Society generally refers to dragons with a bloodline of three generations or higher as ancient dragons. There are two reasons for this classification. First, according to the history of dragons researched by the Secret Society, during the period when dragons ruled the world, only dragons with a bloodline of three generations or higher were generally qualified to be granted titles.”

“Secondly, dragons of the third generation and above possess a wildfire-like desire for conquest and destruction, while dragons of the fourth generation and below are not as frenzied or powerful,” Susie said. “The records don’t say how the Kingdom of Aragon reached an agreement with an ancient dragon, but they must have promised conditions such as territory and people.”

"In short, with the help of that ancient dragon, the Kingdom of Aragon launched a powerful offensive against the Taifa," Susie said. "At the time, the Secret Society seemed to be distracted by something important, so they didn't discover the ancient dragon immediately."

"By the time the Secret Party reacted and sent out its dragon-slaying team, the Salvador family had already killed the ancient dragon, while the Secret Party's dragon-slaying team arrived late," Susie said. "And that's why the Salvador family, with its dragon-slaying achievements, was famous throughout the region at the time."

"Slaying dragons?! The Little Celestial Maiden's family is so powerful!" Lu Mingfei exclaimed in amazement.

"The Salvador family later declined, and by the time Spain entered the imperial era in the 16th century, the Salvador name had long since disappeared," Susie added.

Lu Mingfei: ...

Did he lose all his wealth by slaying a dragon?

"But no matter what, the fact that a family could destroy a third-generation hybrid with its own power shows that El Salvador was undoubtedly a powerful and prestigious hybrid family at the time. It's truly lamentable that they've fallen to such a state," Susie said.

"What's there to be so lamenting about? My great-grandfather was also an S-rank, but my family still declined later. If it weren't for my father being an S-rank, my family would probably be worse off than Little Fairy's family." Lu Mingfei acted as if it were nothing.

Old Tang, who was standing to the side, suddenly felt out of place in the room—it seemed like everyone else was a big shot with a powerful background, while he was just a novice hunter.

If it weren't for her own high standards, Susie would have loved to slap her laptop across Lu Mingfei's face.

"In that case, does the Little Fairy's family know our identities?" Lu Mingfei raised an even more important question.

“Unlikely,” Chu Zihang said. “The Secret Party maintains different levels of confidentiality regarding the identities of its agents. Even the lowest level of confidentiality can prevent interference from the vast majority of unrelated individuals.”

Are ordinary mixed-race families really just like ordinary people in the eyes of the Secret Society?

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, feeling more and more like he had really joined an incredible organization.

“Could we try to contact the Salvador family in a private capacity?” Lu Mingfei suggested. “I’ve checked the school rules; contacting them in a private capacity is permitted.”

“It’s possible, but unless there’s a valid reason… I don’t recommend doing it.” Susie looked hesitant.

"Why?" Lu Mingfei asked, puzzled.

“Because you are an S-class, and the Salvador family may have reached the point of extinction,” Chu Zihang explained. “According to some cases recorded by the academy, families in this situation may take extreme measures in order to continue their bloodline.”

"How extreme could it be? Would they kidnap me and force me to join their family?" Lu Mingfei shrugged.

“If they dare to do that, the principal will probably have to come with a folding knife and talk to them,” Susie complained. “Although they can’t kidnap you, they can send you a few girls from their families in the hope of producing offspring with superior bloodlines.”

"Senior sister, you must be joking, right?" Lu Mingfei was horrified.

"The higher the bloodline of a mixed-race individual, the harder it is for them to have offspring, but for a family that is at its wit's end, it should be worth a try," Chu Zihang added.

Old Tang, standing to the side, looked on with envy.

“Actually, there are quite a few cases like this,” Susie said, opening a series of blacked-out files on her laptop screen. “These are all agents who have been scammed. Most of the information is encrypted, but the bloodline section is still visible. They are mostly A- or B-grade mixed-race individuals, with a few C-grades. They’re really desperate…”

"No S-rank?" Lu Mingfei asked.

“Because they are so rare, let alone S-rank, even a super A-rank like the chairman is not something a small family like this can get in touch with,” Susie looked Lu Mingfei up and down and laughed, “You might become the first S-rank in the history of these files.”

"Hey! Senior sister, don't make it sound so scary," Lu Mingfei shuddered. "It's not something to be proud of, and what if the person has high moral character?"

“It’s basically impossible,” Susie shook her head. “While the quality of bloodline is important, whether a family has bloodline at all is a hundred times more important than the difference in bloodline level. After all, this is the only thing a family can rely on to remain in the real world.”

“Generally speaking, families whose lineage is on the verge of collapse will instill in their members from a young age the idea of ​​‘continuing the bloodline at all costs’,” Susie suddenly realized, “No wonder Mr. Tulio liked it so much… um cough.”

Being a girl, she coughed lightly and brushed off the word, but Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang instantly understood what she meant.

Lu Mingfei frowned subconsciously: "The Little Heavenly Maiden wouldn't also..."

“I don’t know about that. If you’re really worried, you can try contacting that family,” Susie said. “Remember not to eat anything they offer you, even though with your bloodline, you should have a high resistance to drugs.”