Dragons begin with courage

Just then, as if guided by some intuition, Nuonuo's gaze passed over the crowd and landed on the black-haired boy standing behind Chu Zihang, who seemed somewhat silent. Lu Mingfei had his head slightly lowered, his brows furrowed, as if he were engaged in a fierce internal struggle, completely out of place with the surrounding noise.

Could things have changed with him? This thought suddenly popped into Nono's mind.

Lu Mingfei's struggle actually lasted less than a minute.

He has already entered Kassel College and come to this world. If he doesn't even dare to touch this world, he might as well go home and farm.

"If I'm going to be so hesitant, why did I even get into that Ferrari in the first place?"

The thought of retreating was crushed by something more direct and intense—the "responsibility" felt when the blades of the Gobi Desert were stained with blood at night, the "belonging" that quietly grew after joining the Lionheart Society, and the "compassion" that remained in Lu Mingfei's heart, perhaps naive but never extinguished.

"Since it's been given, even if it's poison, we have to swallow it and see."

He suddenly moved. Without asking for permission or explaining, amidst the astonished gazes of the crowd, he walked a few steps to a backup terminal connected to the central projector and quickly sat down.

Someone tried to say something, but was silenced by a glare from Chu Zihang.

He turned on the computer, the blue light illuminating Lu Mingfei's expressionless face. He typed on the keyboard, Win + R, bringing up the Run window, typed cmd, and pressed Enter. The black command prompt window popped up, like a deep well.

For a moment, the library seemed to fall silent. Many eyes were fixed on him, filled with confusion, bewilderment, or a hint of impatience.

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath, his fingertips landing on the keyboard, typing out that string of seemingly magical characters:

blacksheepwall

Press Enter.

Time seemed to stretch out.

One second, two seconds... The screen went black, with only the cursor blinking alone in the upper left corner.

Just as someone was about to voice a skeptical sneer—

brush!

The entire central light screen, along with the terminal screen in front of Lu Mingfei, suddenly changed!

Against a deep black background, countless eerie blue lines, as if imbued with life, emerge from the void, extend, intertwine, and construct! From top to bottom, a grand, precise, and intricate three-dimensional structure, so complex it sends chills down your spine, is being refreshed and formed at an astonishing speed!

It was an anatomical diagram of a city. The colossal bronze walls were dissected into countless interlocking gears and rails, the deep passages transformed into clear streams of light, and the intricate labyrinth revealed distinct layers and nodes. One could even see the giant mechanisms that were slowly moving and opening and closing! Where were the dead ends, where were the hidden exits, where was the structure changing, where was the support relatively stable... everything was clear and understandable.

This is not a static map. This is a real-time, dynamic, living analytical diagram of the Bronze City's mechanics!

"This...this is...?!"

"Map! Complete map! Dynamic map!"

"My God... how did he do that?!"

The deathly silence was broken by incredulous exclamations. Everyone stared intently at the miraculous blueprint on the screen, and then, almost simultaneously, they turned their heads sharply, their gazes like tangible searchlights, fixing on the black-haired boy still sitting in front of the terminal.

Lu Mingfei slowly raised his head from in front of the screen, meeting the gazes filled with shock, horror, inquiry, and ecstasy. Under the brilliant lights of the library, his profile was calm, even somewhat indifferent, except for his eyes, which reflected the dark blue lines flowing on the screen, unfathomable.

A thought, like a thunderclap, rolled through everyone's minds:

Is this... an S-rank Word of Power?!

However, Lu Mingfei's eyes held no joy, only a chilling suspicion. The instant he pressed Enter and witnessed the blueprint unfold, he sensed something amiss—

It's too "quiet".

It wasn't the quietness of the environment, but the "quietness" within his body. He had carefully inquired about the experiences of the Lionheart Society's senior brothers and sisters regarding the use of Words of Power. Whether it was Chu Zihang's description of the scorching heat of his blood surging like molten lava when "Monarch's Flame" rose, or Su Xi's mention of the sharpness of her spirit extending like a thread when "Sword Control" manipulated metal, or the unique, slight "throbbing" or "humming" that originated from the depths of her blood when other auxiliary Words of Power were activated... using Words of Power was by no means without any awareness.

But he didn't feel anything just now.

There was no surge of passion, no focused attention, no tangible feeling of power being mobilized. Fingers tapped the keyboard, the screen responded with a change, as simple as opening a pre-set hidden file on a regular computer.

Therefore, there is only one answer:

This is not the power of words at all.

Lu Mingfei narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze piercing through the flickering blue lines and landing on the pitch-black computer screen, yet it seemed as if he were looking behind the screen—that omnipresent "being" that controlled every data nerve of Kassel College.

"Norma..." He moved his lips silently, uttering the name.

The central hub of Kassel College, the ultimate masterpiece combining modern alchemy and supercomputing technology, is the artificial intelligence operating system—Norma.

To outsiders, Lu Mingfei was gazing at a miraculous map; only he knew that what he "saw" was something deeper—how an authorization command silently penetrated the academy's multiple firewalls and precisely accessed a database that should have been top secret, and which even the executive department might not have fully grasped.

The boy who called himself "Lu Mingze" didn't give him the power to awaken his bloodline, but rather a key—a backdoor command that could unlock Norma's deep database and obtain specific top-secret information.

Lu Mingze didn't give him any incantations. This so-called "black sheep wall" was merely a password to activate a preset retrieval protocol. This astonishing dynamic analysis diagram of the Bronze City might already be lying in some encrypted corner of Norma's vast database.

The map problem seemed to be solved, but Lu Mingfei's heart sank suddenly. Doubts, like cold vines, coiled around him, tightening their grip even more.

First, why does Norma's database contain such a detailed and up-to-date structural map of Bronze City? Where did this map come from? Who entered it?

Secondly, how could that mysterious and enigmatic "Lu Mingze" know about such a high-level access order, which might even involve the academy's core secrets? What is his connection with Kassel College and Norma?

Third, and most importantly—what is the true purpose behind this seemingly timely help? Was pushing him into this position, allowing him to "accidentally" save his companion, to gain his trust, or to... draw him deeper into a pre-woven web?