Dragon Clan: I'm too lazy to talk to you, you're not worthy to listen!

The first thunder of spring awakens the insects, and all the flowers in the world begin to bloom anew.

The timing of this solar term is always surprisingly precise; a touch of emerald green appears simultaneously in the bushes and grass on both sides of the road.

Amidst the midday honking of horns on the road, Ye Jingchen turned off his sports car for the third time at a red light, pouting slightly. "I'm having some bad luck. I didn't get through any of the three traffic lights I encountered along the way."

In the passenger seat, Li Wuyue was resting with her eyes closed, her long gray eyelashes casting small shadows on her eyelids.

Having not slept all night, Li Wuyue lay down on the leather seat in the passenger seat and fell into a deep sleep. Her short gray hair swayed like ears of wheat in the wind that blew in through the slightly open car window.

What Jormungandr found for Li Wuyue was a casual outfit he had bought for himself in Beiping: a white shirt with black stripes, dark blue denim overalls, and a pair of black canvas shoes with white toes.

The outfit fit Li Wuyue just right, though the shirt was a bit tight. Her body was slightly larger than Jormungandr's.

Ye Jingchen reached out and patted Li Wuyue's fair and bouncy face, as white as a boiled egg. "Hey, wake up?"

Li Wuyue lifted her eyelids twice, but didn't fully open them. She was already extremely sleepy, and being woken up while she was sleeping soundly was very annoying!

He glared at Ye Jingchen with a ferocious expression, and his gray pupils instantly gleamed with a golden light!

"You need to be taught a lesson again?" Ye Jingchen looked at Li Wuyue's fierce appearance calmly, but was not intimidated by her.

After hearing Ye Jingchen's words, Li Wuyue suddenly woke up, remembering the nightmare from last night. The light in her eyes dimmed instantly, and she lowered her head slightly. "Did you wake me up because you need something?"

Ye Jingchen turned the steering wheel, "Two women will be getting in the car in a moment."

The one with long red hair is named Chen Motong, and she is a young lady from the Chen family.

The girl with the white schoolgirl hairstyle is Shude Aki, an executive officer from Kassel College. Call Shude Aki "senpai" (senior) later, but don't give yourself away. Just pretend in front of the two of them for now.

Li Wuyue nodded and pondered, "Hmm, I understand. Do we need to be wary of the two of them?"

"No, they're both on our side, but not entirely." Ye Jingchen shook his head, and seeing the green light, he slowly stepped on the gas. "The white-haired senior, Shudeya, there's not much to say about her. She's just an ordinary mixed-race person. I met her when we were on a mission in Japan."

Based on my deduction, Chen Motong, with her red hair, is very likely Nidhogg's egg. We should be cautious about what she says.

"Nidhogg!" Upon hearing these four words, Li Wuyue's eyes snapped open, and she asked in surprise and urgency, "How much power does Chen Motong wield now? Can he handle her?"

"If she remembers the betrayal I caused her, she'll definitely kill me on the spot!"

"No, I want to get off!"

Ye Jingchen reached out and pressed Li Wuyue back into her seat. "Don't be afraid. It's just a speculation that she is the Black King's Egg. It hasn't been confirmed yet."

Moreover, she doesn't even have any Word Power yet; I only taught her some alchemy recently, specifically about creating spatial domains.

"That's good..." Upon hearing this, Li Wuyue's fear lessened slightly, and then a hint of doubt flashed in her eyes, "Then why not take advantage of her current weakness and nip the Black King Nidhogg's resurgence in the bud?"

As Li Wuyue spoke, she made a downward slicing motion with her hand.

Ye Jingchen shook his head slightly, "You're oversimplifying things. Do you think Nidhogg wouldn't be able to predict your predictions? What if Nidhogg sets up a trigger that, after killing the humanoid Black King's egg, will directly complete the resurrection ritual? How should you deal with that then?"

Upon hearing this explanation, Li Wuyue frowned slightly. "Your guess is too extreme. Under normal circumstances, an egg would not be parasitized on a weaker being."

Just like I had great foresight, at the moment of my death, I chose to parasitize Angers.

That's why it has survived for so many years and is still around.

When Angers, Lushanyan, and the others were trying to kill me, I foresaw that they would find the eggs I left behind and destroy them!

"It's not that I'm overthinking it, but special characters require special handling. You don't know exactly what kind of hidden danger she is." Ye Jingchen parked the car on the side of the road, looked at Jiu Deya and Chen Motong standing at the bus stop in the distance, rolled down the car window, and waved to them!

Chen Motong and Jiu Deya looked over here. The two walked over together, both wearing dark green school uniform tops and Mickey Mouse-colored skirts.

Ye Jingchen turned to look at Li Wuyue, "You are the Dragon King, so your perception should be stronger than mine. Take a good look at Chen Motong later and see if there is anything extraordinary about him. Anyway, Norton and Jormungandr didn't sense anything before."

Li Wuyue nodded and said, "Okay, I'll be careful!"

"Long red hair..."

Chen Motong and Jiu Deya walked over at the same time and stood by the window next to the driver's seat.

Chen Motong immediately noticed Li Wuyue, who had delicate features, sitting in the passenger seat. She thought to herself, "Who is this? She looks a bit unfamiliar. But so far, Ye Jingchen hasn't had any ordinary companions with him. I'll ask her after we get in the car."

Chen Motong: "Ye Jingchen."

Jiu Deya: "Commissioner Ye."

"Okay." Ye Jingchen nodded. "There's room in the back seat, get in!"

Chen Motong and Jiu Deya sat down in the back seat one after the other.

"Ye Jingchen, is this a male student from the academy?" Chen Motong asked, reaching out to pat Li Wuyue's black leather backrest.

Ye Jingchen shook his head, "Not yet. She's an old friend of Lao Tang and Xia Mi, named Li Wuyue. She's a girl."

"Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were a boy because you're so handsome!" Chen Motong covered his mouth and apologized to Li Wuyue.

"It's alright, many people have misunderstood me like that." Li Wuyue smiled at Chen Motong, her eyes filled with vigilance, her inner monologue: "I can't sense the Black King's aura from Chen Motong at all, which is perhaps not strange. However, as a hybrid, she should have dragon blood in her body, so why can't I sense the blood of the other Dragon Kings from her?"

Li Wuyue guessed, then silently turned her head away.

Looking in the rearview mirror, Ye Jingchen noticed that Shude Aki closed her eyes as soon as she got in the car, and her eye bags were also a bit dark and swollen. "Shude Aki, did you not sleep well last night?"

“Oh, yes.” Jiudeya yawned, her eyes feeling heavy. “Yesterday I borrowed some books about the history of dragons from the library and read them. Before I knew it, it was dawn.”

Ye Jingchen stepped on the gas pedal. "Didn't you already graduate? Why are you still reading history books? Do you think the executives in the execution department get tested every now and then?"

Shudeya shook her head. "No, I just suddenly felt like learning about some things that happened in history when the Dragon King entered human society."

When I graduated, I barely passed the Dragon History course thanks to my teacher; otherwise, I would have had to retake it… I've forgotten so much about Dragon History.”

"Okay, then you should rest for a while. We'll wake you up when we get to our destination," Ye Jingchen said, then turned to Li Wuyue, "You should rest for a while too."

After about half an hour of driving, both Jiu Deya and Li Wuyue fell asleep with their heads tilted back.

Seeing that the two of them had fallen asleep, Chen Motong leaned closer to Ye Jingchen and asked in a low voice, "Ye Jingchen, where did you find this girl named Li Wuyue? Did you force her to come home like last time?"

“No.” Ye Jingchen shook his head. “Li Wuyue, Xia Mi, and Lao Tang are all the same people. They just happened to meet in the academy.”

Ye Jingchen's inner monologue: "I can't very well say that it was extracted from Angers' body, can I?"

"Huh?" Chen Motong was stunned. "No way, you can run into someone like this at Kassel College?"

Ye Jingchen: "It's nothing, it's quite normal to run into someone like that. By the way, what do you think the main focus of your investigation will be this time at the Port of Chicago?"

Chen Motong: "I took a closer look. They are all unnamed goods, which should be experimental products related to dragon research. You know, the Dragon Kingdom is very suitable for manufacturing."

After about a three-hour drive, we finally arrived.

The salty sea breeze of Chicago Harbor swept over the container ships, etching damp lines on the rusted metal surfaces.

After getting out of the car, Li Wuyue squatted in the shadow of the number twelve crane, twirling a rusty rivet between her fingers, and turned to look at Ye Jingchen and the other two who were talking.

As sunlight pierced through the clouds, she saw bronze-colored dragon patterns etched on the rivets—a special mark on this batch of unnamed goods from the Chen family, an alchemical symbol etched with special dragon blood while on the cargo ship.

“There’s a problem with container number L-107,” Jiu Deya suddenly pointed downwards.

The cherry blossom hair tie on her short ponytail fluttered in the wind, and the tablet in her hand displayed a thermal image.

Inside the 40-foot-long container, hundreds of spherical objects are rhythmically contracting and expanding.

Chen Motong, chewing on a lollipop, flipped through the shipping manifest: "Strange, the customs record says Jingdezhen ceramic handicrafts."

As her red hair brushed against the pages, a dragon-shaped symbol suddenly glowed faintly.

Ye Jingchen reached out and pressed down on the character "霁" (ji), and the seal script strokes instantly reformed into an ouroboros totem the moment they touched his palm.

“Look at the seventh letter,” Li Wuyue suddenly said.

Her grey pupils reflected the flock of crows perched on the cargo ship's mast, their tail feathers all pointing due north. "It looks a bit like deliberately placed road signs, refracted through bird pupils... Don't you think?"

Before the words were finished, a sharp metallic scraping sound tore through the air.

The lead seal on container L-107 suddenly broke, and twelve bronze chains shot out like living snakes.

Chen Motong instinctively took a half step back, but saw a flash of green light on Ye Jingchen's sleeve, and the chains suddenly stopped three centimeters away from her nose.

"Don't touch these chains." A pale blue magnetic field coiled around Ye Jingchen's fingertips, and a dense array of alchemical matrices appeared on the chains' surface. "Each chain is embedded with a fragment of the Philosopher's Stone; touching it will trigger..."

He suddenly turned to look at the cargo ship deck, where a short, stout figure dressed in a frog mascot costume had appeared.

Li Wuyue's pupils suddenly contracted.

She saw that the eyes of the mascot costume were flashing with a lava-like red light, and what the other person was holding was not a toy water gun at all, but a mercury vapor jet that had been modified by the equipment department.

Even more bizarrely, this person's heart rate was perfectly synchronized with the spherical object inside the container.

"Watch out!" Suddenly, Shudeyaki tackled Chen Motong.

Almost simultaneously, the deck beneath the frog doll's feet collapsed with a roar, and containers weighing several tons toppled over like dominoes.

The moment Ye Jingchen raised the Word of Power barrier with one hand, Li Wuyue smelled a familiar scent carried on the sea breeze—the unique, decaying bronze scent of the Black King's bloodline that she had smelled in her memories of Angers.

In the chaos, Chen Motong's lollipop fell into the sea.

Just as she was about to bend down to scoop it up, she suddenly noticed half a piece of yellowed parchment stuck to the candy stick.

In the glow of the setting sun, she could see that it was written in dragon script: "No one can stop the arrival of the Black Sovereign. Ragnarok, dawn on earth."

"Ye Jingchen!" Chen Motong shouted, holding up the candy stick, "Did you give me this candy?"

Her response was a deafening explosion.

The top cover of container L-107 was completely blown off, and hundreds of transparent culture chambers rolled off the deck.

Li Wuyue finally saw the true nature of those spherical objects—each cabin contained an embryo with a dragon's tail, their umbilical cords connected to a bronze-colored mechanical uterus.

“These are mutant Deadpools,” Angers’ voice suddenly came from the top of the crane.

He appeared there unnoticed, watching the chainsaws dismantle the containers, revealing the outer shells of the cultivation chambers inside. "Inferior clones made with dragon blood and bones, but their genetic sequences have been modified."

Ye Jingchen flashed over, picked up an embryo, pried open its thin eyelids to reveal a jet-black vertical pupil inside. "I know someone is trying to create a hybrid monarch. Is the Chen family also considering this?"

Angers: "Almost every large mixed-race family has this idea."

These Deadpool embryos suddenly emerged from the container, letting out a piercing roar!

In an instant, Li Wuyue saw countless bronze-colored blood vessels bursting out from under the skin of those Dead Servants embryos, their originally short and stout bodies swelling into three-meter-tall dragon-shaped monsters.

Even more terrifying, all the babies in the incubation chambers opened their eyes at the same time, and Chen Motong's figure was reflected in their dark pupils.

"Is that so..." Ye Jingchen suddenly chuckled, noticing the gazes of these Dead Servants. "Chen Motong, it seems you've become a discarded pawn of the Chen family!"

Ye Jingchen maintained the Word of Immortality with his left hand, while his right hand drew out Nameless from inside his trench coat.

Li Wuyue finally understood Ye Jingchen's plan, her inner monologue: "Saying they came to inspect was all a pretense. Ye Jingchen and his people must have planned this for a long time..."

As the setting sun dyed the sea blood-red, Shudeya, who was watching Ye Jingchen slaughter the dragon-shaped monster from behind, secretly stuffed a micro memory into the lollipop remnant, thinking to himself: "This thing inexplicably appeared in my pocket. Oh well, I'll just leave it here and wait for the other executors to gather information."

What she didn't notice was that Chen Motong was wiping her glasses at that moment, and the reflection in the lenses showed the Old Norse code on the surface of the memory:

Nidh?gg……