Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

"No, no," Lu Mingfei shook his head repeatedly.

Su Xiaoqiang gave a soft snort.

Lu Mingfei stared at the girl in the ballet dress in the photo.

From a public perspective, she was a very pretty girl, bright and charming, but compared to the two other beautiful and almost flawless girls beside her, she paled in comparison.

Of course, this is not the point.

The key point is that the Elena that Lu Mingfei met a few days ago, although he could recognize that she was the same person as in the photo, was much prettier, almost only slightly less beautiful than Little Fairy.

……

late at night.

Su Xiaoqiang slept in the suite's bedroom, while Lu Mingfei quietly slipped out of the suite and walked down to the hotel. Like a hazy phantom, he suddenly and silently drifted into a small alley in the dim light.

Then he froze.

Yesterday, Norma discovered a place that seemed to be holding those girls, so they planned to go and investigate tonight. If they could find the girls directly, the evidence would be irrefutable.

In the alley were Tulio, the old clan chief, and his fellow disciples, whom he had arranged to meet there. They were already waiting, as he had expected, but…

"Hiss... Captain, why are you dressed like that?" Lu Mingfei asked Old Tang as he walked into the alley.

Blending in with the crowd, Old Tang's tight-fitting night clothes stood out from the crowd.

“Work clothes,” Old Tang said matter-of-factly, “help to conceal our operations.”

"Then why the hell is your belt glowing in the dark?" Lu Mingfei asked, puzzled.

"Ahem, I accidentally lost my original outfit with my other luggage when I first arrived, so I rushed to buy a new one today. But I ended up buying a cosplay craft item instead, a specially made glow-in-the-dark belt. It's pretty." Old Tang scratched his head a little embarrassedly.

Lu Mingfei: ...

How the hell did you not die during the mission?!

"Can't you just take that thing off?" Lu Mingfei covered his face.

“You can’t take them off,” Old Tang shook his head, “If you take them off, your pants will fall down.”

"Then hurry back and change your clothes!" Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth.

"Oh, oh." Old Tang clutched his belt and ran towards the hotel.

The old patriarch and Tulio exchanged a glance, both seeing the doubt in each other's eyes—is this guy really the captain of this team?

P.S.: Chapter 2 is still being written and is expected to be updated before 7 PM.

Chapter 90: Infiltrating the Demolition Site

In the alley next to the Temple of Our Lady of Antonia in Fort Vienna.

Fort Vienna is not a commercial center or a bustling metropolis that never sleeps. At night, the streets are almost deserted. Even if people want to enjoy the nightlife, they all gather in bars or nightclubs.

"Are you sure this is the place?" Lu Mingfei asked, somewhat surprised.

“Yes, the information Norma sent indicates that a group of people with several girls appeared in this area late at night a few days ago,” Susie said. “Then Norma used hacking to find the construction data of all the buildings in this area. This temple was renovated ten years ago, and the cost was extraordinarily high. Not to mention renovation, even building three more temples wouldn’t cost that much.”

“Coincidentally, the one that funded the renovation of this temple is the Sacred Heart Cathedral on Mount St. Lucia, which is the open identity of the branch of the Temple Association here,” Susie said.

"It seems they did something during the renovation," Lu Mingfei said.

He remembered that a few days ago when they went out to sea on a yacht, the old captain had told him that the cathedral was very wealthy and had invested in many properties in Vienna Castle, and that even the clergy in the Temple of Our Lady of Angonia were now their people.

It now appears that this branch temple has been cultivating its influence in Vianaburg for a long time.

"Let's go, let's sneak in and take a look. Senior brother, could you please knock out those people on night duty?" Lu Mingfei said.

Although no one usually comes to the temple to steal things, there are always one or two guards on night duty.

“No need, no need,” Tulio said. “My Word of Power is Sequence 17, ‘Sleep.’ Although it doesn’t have the magical effect of hypnosis like in the movies, it can make targets within its range feel sleepy. If they are not on guard, they will fall asleep quickly, which is why Grandpa brought me here.”

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, "I didn't realize you were so useful, brother."

In fact, at first, he refused to bring the father and son along, since with their bloodline, they would only be a nuisance.

However, since they were now nominally their employers and were being very forceful, saying things like "This is a mistake I made, and I should pay for it myself"—the kind of things anime characters about to die would say—and even saying things like "You only need to rescue Amber, you don't need to worry about our lives," Lu Mingfei and his companions really couldn't refuse.

However, it now seems that low-level hybrids and low-level words of power are not entirely useless.

“My domain is very large,” Tulio said. “With the help of my grandfather’s Word of Power, the Kamaitachi, I can tell whether the guards inside are asleep by their breathing.”

"How long will it take?" Chu Zihang asked.

“If all goes well, an ordinary person will fall asleep in about fifteen minutes,” Tulio said. “Provided they are unaware that they have been affected and are not stimulated by anything that would make them sleepy, otherwise my words of power will not work.”

"Too slow." Chu Zihang shook his head, then stood up, crouched low, and his figure quickly disappeared into the night.

Running to the closed gate, Chu Zihang pushed it open and went inside.

"This temple doesn't even lock its doors?" Old Tang exclaimed in surprise. "Are the Portuguese people really that simple and honest?"

“It must be locked,” Susie said. “The president’s elective combat course is Tai Chi. He can break the lock core with a short-range force.”

"Elective course? What school teaches such advanced skills? I want to learn it too." Tulio was very interested.

Having already obtained all the necessary information by posing as a hunter, Lu Mingfei was about to explain that they were actually from Kassel College when Chu Zihang's voice came through his tactical headset.

"The guards are all taken care of, come on."

"Resolved in just three sentences?" Tulio was stunned. He suddenly felt that they weren't the same kind of mixed-race people.

Or perhaps these people are the mixed-race individuals, while he is actually just an ordinary person.

"Let's go." Lu Mingfei and Susie took the lead.

……

Inside the Temple of Our Lady of Angonia.

“Logically speaking, the Temple of Solomon would have spent a huge sum of money to renovate this building, so they must have dug a dungeon or some kind of tunnel,” Lu Mingfei said. “Do we have anyone who can use a detection-type Word of Power?”

“If someone’s Word of Power is ‘Snake,’ they should be able to detect the surrounding environment. Although snakes are best suited for low-resistance environments, in this ordinary environment, their domain radius should be over seventy meters,” Susie shook her head. “However, it’s clear that we don’t have that kind of technical talent here.”

The old patriarch also shook his head: "The snake is a mid-level Word of Power of Sequence 37, and it is a very rare type among mid-level Words of Power. It is not easy to encounter. Moreover, how high must one's bloodline be to support a 'snake' with a radius of seventy meters? Being able to expand one's domain to more than forty meters already indicates a very powerful bloodline..."

Susie instinctively wanted to retort, even a B-grade hybrid could extend its domain to a radius of one hundred meters, and in a low-resistance environment like underwater, it could expand to a radius of five kilometers. But she quickly realized that for the old patriarch, B-grade bloodline was indeed "unattainable".

“Since that’s the case, there’s nothing we can do. Let’s split up and search,” Lu Mingfei said. “Everyone, hurry up.”

Susie hesitated for a moment and said, "My sword can detect the surrounding metal. I'll give it a try. If they used metal to forge security doors or something, I should be able to detect it."

Having said that, Susie stood still, and the domain of her Word of Power quietly unfolded.

The old patriarch stared in horror at the seemingly harmless girl—Jian Yu? Wasn't that a high-ranking Word of Power with a sequence number of 82?

A moment later, Susie opened her eyes: "We've found it, it's about twenty meters away. Everyone, follow me."

Tulio had no idea what Sword Control was, and naturally had no concept of it.

The old patriarch, following behind the group, felt his worldview being shaken—how high must this girl's bloodline be to be able to unleash such a powerful incantation as Sword Control to a radius of twenty meters?!

This seemingly harmless little girl is probably the strongest fighter among these people, right?

Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang followed Susie through the doors and passages of the church, finally entering a room and standing in front of a wall.

“There’s a metal door behind it; it probably requires a mechanism to open,” Susie said.

"A mechanism? Let me look for it." Lu Mingfei was about to release his Word of Power to thoroughly search the room.

"No need, I'll do it." Chu Zihang stepped forward, drew his sword, and slashed down.

A continuous line of blade light swept across the wall, leaving a thin line, or rather, a wound that had been forcefully cut open.

With the sharpness of a high-level alchemical weapon like Murasame, ordinary brick walls can be easily cut open with a little more effort.

Tulio and Old Tang stared wide-eyed.

The old patriarch remained calm—he was used to it, and now he wouldn't be surprised no matter what happened.

Chu Zihang swung his sword with a deep breath, the blade flashing continuously like a tide, even the dust and smoke it stirred up were shattered in the flash, like thin clouds swept up by a gale.

A moment later, Chu Zihang sheathed his sword. A gap about the height of a person had appeared in the wall, and the ground was covered with fragments of the wall, each fragment as smooth and flat as if it had been ground with an angle grinder.

A metal door was visible behind the wall. Although there were obvious slash marks on the metal door, it was clear that even an alchemical weapon like Murasame could not cut through iron like mud.

Cutting open a wall isn't difficult, but cutting open a wall made entirely of metal is a bit of a challenge.

“Why don’t we go around the wall and break down the side?” Lu Mingfei raised his hand and suggested. “As the saying goes, when a door is harder than a wall, the wall becomes a door.”

“That makes sense, but any sensible designer would make the surrounding walls very thick or add metal interlayers to compensate for this,” Susie said. “Unfortunately, both methods were used here.”

"Damn it!" Lu Mingfei said angrily. "Quick, senior brother, it's time for you to show your prowess. Blow this door up!"

Chu Zihang stepped forward, tapping lightly on the metal door with his finger while pressing his ear to listen to the sound. After a moment, he took two steps back and shook his head: "No, this door is too thick. The force that could blow the door open would also damage the main structure of the temple."

The old clan chief's face twitched—you actually carry explosives with you?

"Let me do it." Susie stepped forward and took out a tube of toothpaste-like paste from her small bag.

"What is this?" Lu Mingfei asked curiously.

"It's a scar removal cream developed by the Equipment Department," Susie replied, deftly applying the cream to the metal door.

"Senior sister, are you trying to help it with its skincare?" Apart from Chu Zihang, Lu Mingfei and the others were all puzzled.

"The equipment department is unique in that whatever they invent, regardless of its primary function, usually has an additional effect: it can explode," Susie said calmly.

"Holy crap! This thing can explode?!" Lu Mingfei exclaimed in shock. "Senior sister, you dare to apply this?"

"The good news is that this scar removal cream is one of the very few things that won't explode." As she spoke, Susie had already applied the entire tube of scar removal cream to the metal door in a mesh pattern, with crisscrossing application marks covering the entire door.

Susie took a few steps back, bent down and picked up two pieces of brick: "The other good news is that it burns."

With that, she flung the brick fragments against the metal wall. Although they weren't flint and steel, the impact was violent enough that some sparks still flew out.

A spark landed on the scar removal cream on the metal door's surface, and almost instantly, a pale blue flame spread to all the parts of the metal door covered with the cream, creating an inconspicuous pale blue fire net.

"It looks ordinary, like a gas stove..." Old Tang said, looking at the fire net.

He wasn't entirely wrong; the pale blue flames rose less than half a centimeter high and were very dim.

Just as Lu Mingfei was about to nod in agreement, he saw the part of the fire net attached to the metal door turn red and light up at a visible speed, and even begin to melt.