Lu Mingfei, who had read Dragon Clan before slaying the dragon

The nurses found thick and hard iron chains and fixed the boy's hands, feet and neck firmly to the iron bed. They also used pliers to tighten the openings of the chains to ensure that all the boy's joints could not move. Renata stood there watching this scene. She couldn't help but feel sorry for the boy in her heart. It seemed that she had forgotten the experience of being almost violated just now.

"Still looking! What's so good about it!" The head nurse noticed Renata's gaze and said to her fiercely, "Have you forgotten how you were almost violated by that lunatic just now? Did I predict it was you, a bitch, who took the initiative to flirt with this lunatic and are still reluctant to leave this room?"

Renata was surrounded by a group of nurses and left Ward Zero. When she reached the door, she seemed to have a premonition in her heart, just like two lovers who knew each other well and were stared at from behind when they were saying goodbye. Renata turned her head instinctively and happened to meet the boy's gaze.

Completely different from the numbness and emptiness he felt when injected with sedatives and hallucinogens, the boy was tied to the bed with thick and hard iron chains, but he struggled to turn his head slightly, looked at Renata, and blinked at him, his eyes smart and lively, like a cunning and deceptive little fox.

The boy's lips opened and closed slightly, and he silently lip-synched a word to Renata. Renata was not sure if she understood it. The word seemed to be... zero?

……

Lu Mingfei slowly opened his eyes. His brain hurt as if it had been split in two. His vision was blurry when he first opened his eyes, but Lu Mingfei could vaguely make out that he was in an enclosed building, like a completely sealed room.

Lu Mingfei had just woken up from a dream, and memories came back like the rising and falling tide, bringing with them bits and pieces. He dreamed that he went to Japan and worked as a gigolo, but he could not remember the details, who worked as a gigolo with him, or the name of the gigolo shop where he worked.

It was like this every time he fell asleep. Lu Mingfei would always have some meaningless dreams. When he woke up, he could only remember fragmented fragments. After a while, he could not even remember these fragments. He just lay there drowsy, always in a state of half asleep and half awake.

Lu Mingfei could no longer remember how long this had lasted. His mind was in a mess and his memory was vague. Some important fragments seemed to be shrouded in dark clouds. His life seemed to have only two states: waking and sleeping. When he was awake, he was in a dark, quiet and cold room, and he was fixed to an iron bed by someone.

The time spent sleeping seemed to occupy most of his life, because every time Lu Mingfei woke up, in addition to a headache, he also felt a sense of unfamiliarity with the world. Every time he woke up, he would spend half of his time getting familiar with this strange feeling. Recently, he seemed to be sleeping longer and longer, and perhaps he would never wake up again after falling asleep.

"Are you finally awake?" A tender female voice sounded, and a white shadow appeared in front of Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei's vision was a little dazed. He felt that the voice and the shadow were very familiar, and seemed to be very similar to someone in his dream. But he opened his mouth, but could not call out the name.

"You haven't lost your memory again, have you?" A small white hand waved in front of Lu Mingfei's eyes. "You don't remember me again?"

"Lei...Nata?" Lu Mingfei's vision gradually recovered. He looked at the girl in front of him and called out her name.

"Hey, you still remember me?" Renata seemed very excited that Lu Mingfei could call her name. "Are you the older brother or the younger brother?"

"What do you mean by brother and younger brother?" Lu Mingfei was a little confused. "Didn't we just meet yesterday?"

"Yesterday?" Renata touched Lu Mingfei's forehead. She looked at him and said seriously, "I stayed in my room all night yesterday. The last time we met was three days ago."

"Three days?" Lu Mingfei's mouth dropped open in surprise. "You mean... I slept for three days?"

"Looking at your silly look, you must be the older brother, because your younger brother seems to be more clever." Renata said to Lu Mingfei, "Maybe you really slept for three days, but your brother was awake while you were asleep. But I can't be sure because I was in my room the whole time. I was locked up for three days."

"What exactly do you mean by brother and younger brother?" Lu Mingfei frowned.

Renata looked into Lu Mingfei's eyes and told him everything that happened in Ward Zero after they met three days ago, including what the boy said to her, the two things he asked her to find, and how the boy tried to rape her but was stopped by the nurses.

As Lu Mingfei listened to Renata's narration, his expression became more and more surprised. After Renata told him everything, he still had a dazed expression on his face and was unable to come back to his senses.

"What brother...what younger brother...you said I wanted to rape you...how is that possible?" Lu Mingfei murmured in disbelief.

"The bandages on your body have been changed. Look down. I saw the head nurse ask someone to change them that day." Ling pointed at Lu Mingfei's hands and feet.

Lu Mingfei lowered his head, his pupils trembling. Indeed, he still remembered that before he woke up this time, he was tied with cowhide straps, but now they were replaced with cold iron chains... Had the nurses replaced them after he fell asleep? If he had done nothing, why were they replaced with harder chains for no reason?

"And here." Renata stood up and lifted up her trouser legs and hem in front of Lu Mingfei.

Renata's snow-white skin was covered with red and black marks, which were caused by violent pinching. Renata also showed Lu Mingfei her lips. There was a crack that had not yet healed completely, and the scar looked like a tooth mark.

"Did I do all this? Did I really try to...violate you?" Looking at the "ironclad evidence" presented by Renata, Lu Mingfei seemed to have suffered a huge blow and fell into deep self-doubt.

"Everyone said it wasn't you, it was your brother. I was so scared at the time, my mind was in a mess." Renata said to Lu Mingfei, "But after I calmed down during the three days of solitary confinement, I figured it out. You were trying to help me. The alarms on the entire floor were blaring, and I couldn't escape. If the head nurse found out I had sneaked into Ward Zero, she would definitely not let me go. It wouldn't be as simple as just three days of solitary confinement. She would definitely have the doctor perform surgery on me!"

"So it was me...my brother who helped you?" Lu Mingfei looked at Renata.

"Yes, I was friends with him from the beginning. He has a completely different personality from you." Renata nodded.

Chapter 682: Memory Error

Lu Mingfei still couldn't believe that he actually had a younger brother, and that he was hiding inside his body.

But whether it is the chains on Lu Mingfei's body or the bruises on Renata's skin, these are undeniable objective facts, and the date cannot be deceived. It has been three days since Lu Mingfei and Renata last met.

No wonder Lu Mingfei felt that the world was filled with an inexplicable sense of strangeness when he woke up, because he had slept for too long and dreamed for too long. For three whole days, Lu Mingfei was immersed in the fictional dream world, which caused him to have a dizzy head when he woke up, and for a while he could not distinguish between reality and illusion.

If Renata's description is true, then the person who met her the first two times were her so-called younger brother, it was him who made friends with Renata, it was him who asked Renata to come to him every day, and it was him who told Renata that she had lost two things and she had to find them back... But why did he tell Renata all this? The boy who claimed to be her younger brother did these things and said these words. He must have done it to achieve some purpose, right?

What exactly did his so-called younger brother want to do? What were the two things he had lost? What irreversible consequences would occur if he couldn't find them? Lu Mingfei fell into silent thought.

Renata looked at Lu Mingfei with his head down. She thought that Lu Mingfei did not believe her words, or was afraid or unable to accept the fact that there was another person living in his body. People with schizophrenia or multiple personalities often feel that they are different and appear out of tune with others.

"Don't worry, you're different from everyone else. Everyone here is like this. I often see Yakov talking to himself at night, as if there are two people living in one person's body. Khorkina sometimes likes to play with boys, but sometimes she gets scared and screams and cries when a boy gets close to her. Alice is the same. She often forgets what she said the day before and whether she had eaten..." Renata comforted Lu Mingfei, "If there really are two people living in your body, then you're in the same situation as everyone else. Maybe I'm the weirdest one. When I'm with Khorkina, Yakov, and Alice, I always feel like I'm different from everyone else..."

"Maybe you're the only normal person, Renata." Lu Mingfei looked up at Renata and shook his head again. "Thank you, Renata. I'm not really shocked. I was just thinking that the guy living in my body who claimed to be my brother wouldn't hurt me, but he also told you that I lost two things."

"Yes, he said that if you can't find those two missing items, something serious and irreversible will happen!" Renata nodded, "before the full moon night."

"Full moon night... what day is today?" When the baton bearer Renata reminded him, Lu Mingfei's expression suddenly changed. "The last time we met was on the 8th. Today is the 11th, right?"

Lu Mingfei still remembered that the last time Renata saw him was at midnight on the 8th. According to Renata, he had been in a coma for three days, so today was the 11th, and there were only four days left until the full moon night on the 15th!

If the two lost items are not found after four days, something irreversible will happen... Lu Mingfei didn't know what was lost, he had no idea at all, but he didn't think his brother was deceiving him, because every time he heard this sentence, he would feel an inexplicable throbbing and panic, as if he had really lost something important, but he couldn't remember it.

"Your brother asked me to help you find those two things." Renata said to Lu Mingfei, "But the head nurse has locked my door every night for the past three days. I can't open the locks and there's no way for me to get out."

"There's no way. This isn't your problem." Lu Mingfei shook his head slowly. "I've been in a deep sleep for the past three days, but even if I woke up it wouldn't be any use because I'm tied to a chair and can't move. Plus, I can't imagine what the two things I lost are. I have no idea."

"No, no, no, I think you misunderstood me. I meant that I couldn't go out at night, so I couldn't tell you, but I was helping you look for it during the day." Renata gave Lu Mingfei a sly smile. "Actually, I found out something the next day. Remember? The clue you told me last time about something you lost... a German."

Originally, Renata would never make such an expression. Her face was always clear whether she was happy or sad, and she would never show such a meaningful smile... Renata learned this from the boy with no name and number "Zero" when they met last time. People will always subconsciously learn or imitate the person they like.

In fact, Renata herself did not realize that the time she spent with the boy was only a few hours in total, but the boy's appearance and behavior had left a deep impression on her heart. Perhaps it was due to some kind of liking for the opposite sex, or perhaps it was due to the strange contract the boy mentioned last time, Renata showed the same cunning smile as the boy showed when he last looked at her.

"A German?" Lu Mingfei was stunned. He didn't understand what this sentence meant. What kind of inexplicable clue was this? He had the impression that he didn't know any Germans at all.

"During our first two meetings, your brother gave me two other clues," Renata said to Lu Mingfei. "One clue is that the things you lost might not be physical objects, but to find them you must search for them in this building. The other clue is that you both forgot a lot of things, some of which are very important. It doesn't matter whether he can remember them or not, but you must remember them."

Lu Mingfei's frown deepened, his mind became more and more confused, he simply did not understand the meaning of these clues, perhaps because he had lost important memories, so he did not understand the words said by the boy in his body, and had no way to get back what he had lost.

But the boy said that he must remember, and if he couldn't find what he lost, something irreversible would happen... This is basically a vicious circle. The cause and effect are all because Lu Mingfei lost important memories. If he can't find his memories, he can't understand these clues to find what he lost. But if he can't find the lost things and can't remember those important things, the ending will lead to an irreversible point.

"So I'm wondering if someone you know is German, and maybe he's one of our 38 children!" Renata excitedly told Lu Mingfei her analysis. "I've been locked up for the past three days and can't leave my room, but when Anton came to visit me, I asked him to find out for me."

"Does that boy named Anton listen to you so much?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"Because we have a good relationship, asking about his nationality isn't a big deal. We might even talk about it when we're together." Renata quickly evaded the question, her eyes slightly evasive. "I promised Anton I'd give him half of the meat for tomorrow's lunch, and he agreed."

This was a sign of guilt, because Renata lied. What she promised Anton was not that she would give him half of the meat at lunch tomorrow, but that she would sit next to him at lunch for a week.

Renata didn't like Anton very much. In fact, she was very smart and thoughtful. She could see that the boy who seemed honest but was always attentive to her did not have such pure thoughts about her. But she had no other choice. She was put in solitary confinement, but she wanted to help her friend. If she wanted to find out some things from other children, she could only ask Anton to help her, because Anton was the only one who would come to visit her these days.

In fact, the condition Anton gave at the time was that he hoped Renata could sit next to him at lunch for a period of one month, but Renata insisted on only sitting for a week, otherwise Renata would rather not let Anton help. Anton knew Renata's stubborn character and nodded in agreement.

Perhaps Renata didn't realize that she didn't want to tell the truth to Lu Mingfei because she was afraid that the other boy in Lu Mingfei's body would know that she had promised Anton to sit next to him and have lunch with him for a week. In fact, this was not a difficult thing to say, and even if Lu Mingfei knew, the boy might not know it, but Renata just didn't want to say it. She would rather cover up the past with lies.

"During the three days, during lunch and breaks, Anton talked to everyone." Renata waved her hand at Lu Mingfei and put away a finger. "Apart from those children whose surnames clearly showed they weren't German, and the children who didn't know their nationality or origins, there were four children with German surnames."

Lu Mingfei seemed to be thinking about something without saying a word, but he didn't say anything to Renata. He just nodded to her without comment.

"I'll tell you their German surnames now, maybe you can remember them." Renata read out the surnames of the German children she learned from Anton to Lu Mingfei one by one, "Andreas... Michel... Sebastian... Niklaus."

"I don't know them." Lu Mingfei shook his head. "I haven't heard of any of these names."

"How could that be..." Renata's excited expression gradually turned to disappointment. "Is it because you haven't seen them in person? If you saw them in person, would you remember anything?"

"I don't know, but I really don't have any impression of these names. I might not be able to remember anything if I saw them." Lu Mingfei shook his head truthfully. "Besides, I can't see them. I'm imprisoned here. I have no chance to leave. No one is allowed to approach this room, and they have no chance to see me."

"Isn't there a chance now?" Renata said anxiously. "When I came, the door was unlocked. I can go to the duty room and steal the key. I'll bring Michelle and Sebastian here. You'll definitely recognize them if you see them!"

"The risk is too great. If those children report the secret to the head nurse, your punishment won't just be three days of solitary confinement." Lu Mingfei shook his head slowly at Renata. "And I have a feeling I don't recognize any of those children you mentioned. If you call them here, the situation tonight will only get worse."

"Could it be that there are Germans among the other children, but Anton has overlooked them?" Renata added quickly. "And what about those children who don't remember their nationality or origins? Maybe there's a German hidden among them? Perhaps the person you know is one of those children?"

"The clue about the Germans is too abstract. This island is under the jurisdiction of the Soviet Red Army, and there may be German prisoners of war among the soldiers and medical staff." Lu Mingfei still shook his head. "The area is too large. It's difficult to find out any information about those soldiers and medical staff. Even if you can find out their names and origins, you can't bring them to me."

"There's nothing we can do about it... There's nothing we can do about it..." The initially excited light in Renata's eyes gradually dimmed, and her face turned gray.

Lu Mingfei looked at Renata's expression and felt inexplicably depressed. He knew that Renata was helping him... or rather, helping both of them, and he didn't want to discourage the girl's enthusiasm, but the facts were indeed as Lu Mingfei said. Lu Mingfei didn't want to get this innocent girl into trouble because of his senseless actions.

"That's not right!" Renata suddenly exclaimed. She looked at Lu Mingfei's face, "You said your memory has always been confused and you can't remember a lot of things, right?"

"Yes." Lu Mingfei nodded in surprise. He didn't know why Renata, who was depressed a second ago, suddenly became extremely excited, like a groundhog that found an empty cave.

"You just said there were a lot of German prisoners of war here... Then how did you know Germany and the Soviet Union were at war?" Renata asked, looking Lu Mingfei in the eye. "None of us knew about this. The nurses and soldiers never talked about politics in front of us. You've never left this room, so who did you hear that from?"

Lu Mingfei was stunned. He searched his existing memories in his mind... Indeed, he could not find the source of this memory. No one had ever mentioned to him that the Soviet Union and Germany were at war, nor had anyone told him that Germany was a defeated country.

This memory seemed to have appeared... out of thin air!

"Have you ever been in contact with many girls?" Renata suddenly asked Lu Mingfei another nonsensical question.

“No…” Lu Mingfei subconsciously denied it, then shook his head and changed his words, “…I don’t remember.”

Chapter 683 The Root of the Error

"Why do you ask that?" Lu Mingfei said to Renata, "Do I have many relationships with girls...? Is that also a clue?"

"No, it just suddenly occurred to me that you once mentioned menarche to me." Renata looked into Lu Mingfei's eyes. "If you had been locked up here all this time and didn't have any memories, how would you know what menarche and menstruation are? You're not a girl, would anyone tell you this? The nurses wouldn't even teach us girls this."

Lu Mingfei was stunned again. Indeed, when Renata told him that she wet the bed, Lu Mingfei naturally corrected Renata and said that it was not bed-wetting, but his daughter's menarche, which symbolized the process of a girl transforming from a child to a real woman... But how did Lu Mingfei know all this?

Lu Mingfei thought about it carefully and found that he had no memory of all this. No one told him what a girl's menarche was or what a girl's menstruation was. The only people he came into contact with here were the nurses, but the nurses would never tell Lu Mingfei about girls' menarche and menstruation. Lu Mingfei had no memory of this. This knowledge was like the history of the Soviet Union defeating Germany. It was as if someone had stuffed it into his mind out of thin air, which made Lu Mingfei fall into deep self-doubt.

"And... the night of the full moon." Lu Mingfei looked straight at Renata. "You once told me that the other person in my body told you that if I can't find the two things I lost on the night of the full moon, some important things will be irreversible, right? So, we still have four days?"

"Yes, there was originally another week, but you said you slept for three days, so I was also put in solitary confinement for three days." Renata nodded.

"But how do I know the 15th is the night of the full moon?" Lu Mingfei murmured softly, his voice echoing in the empty room. "As far as I can remember, I've never left this room, nor have I seen the moon in person. How can I accurately tell when the full moon will be?"

Renata was stunned.

"When you mentioned the night of the full moon, the 15th came to my mind subconsciously, without hesitation," Lu Mingfei said. "But when I think about it now, I can't remember who told me that the 15th was the day of the full moon, and I don't even remember seeing a full moon."

"It's not just these few things, there are so many more. Now that I think about it, I can't find the source of my memory for almost everything I know..." Lu Mingfei said slowly, "Is it really just as simple as amnesia... Is it possible that I am fake?"

When he said the last sentence, Lu Mingfei's voice was very low. He seemed to be asking Renata, but also seemed to be asking himself a question... This question was like a lingering devil, wandering in Lu Mingfei's mind and could not be dispelled.

"Aren't you right here?" Renata touched Lu Mingfei's forehead with her finger. "I can see you and touch you, so why do you say you're fake?"

Renata couldn't keep up with Lu Mingfei's train of thought. No matter how smart she was, she was just a little girl in her early ten years old, and she had never received a decent education. So Renata couldn't keep up with Lu Mingfei's thinking at this time. She didn't know that what Lu Mingfei couldn't distinguish now was his self, his id, and whether he was a free conscious being.

Now Lu Mingfei couldn't even begin to process what he'd lost. He fell into deep self-doubt, unsure of the meaning of his own existence. Perhaps he'd been created by someone, a mere specimen for others to observe. If that was the case, did what he'd lost matter? He had nothing to begin with, so what irreversible loss could possibly occur?

Lu Mingfei tried his best to raise his head. His neck was tightly bound by the straitjacket, but Lu Mingfei was not trying to break free. He didn't want Renata to see his expression.

Lu Mingfei looked at the ceiling blankly and melancholy. The light in his eyes dimmed bit by bit. His eyes were empty and numb. There seemed to be a bottomless whirlpool in them. The whirlpool of despair swept away all his emotions, as if even his self was gradually being swallowed up.

“You live this way here and now, and this is how you live every moment of your life.”

"If you are awake, be awake; if you are asleep, be sound asleep. If you are doing one thing, you should not be thinking about other things. If your hands are here, your thoughts should also be here. If you start to act, do not hesitate."

“When you live in life and die in death, in harmony with yourself and the entire universe, there is nothing left to fear.”

“If you doubt, you stop believing in yourself. And when doubt begins, faith ends.”

Poetic language rang in Lu Mingfei's ears, reciting and chanting... It was Renata who was whispering some strange sentences, just like a bard chanting the words he had just created to encourage the world.

Lu Mingfei, who was still staring at the ceiling in a daze, was brought back to his senses by Renata's words. He turned his head and looked at Renata in surprise, as if he didn't expect this girl to be able to say such philosophical sentences.

"I didn't say that. I just heard it from others. You said all these things." Renata looked at Lu Mingfei's surprised eyes and said a little embarrassedly, "Oh, it was another boy... It was Zero who said all these things."

"Did Zero tell you that?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"No, he was just talking to himself." Renata shook her head. "Before, when I couldn't sleep at night, I always heard someone reciting poetry in this building. I asked Zero, and he said he couldn't sleep at night either, so he could only recite poetry to pass the time. But he also heard these words from others."

"Zero also said that truly intelligent people don't fall into self-doubt. If a person doesn't even trust himself, he will eventually lose everything." Renata added to Lu Mingfei, "But Zero said this himself, not something he heard...Zero said he would rather doubt the world than doubt himself."

"I always feel that these sentences sound familiar, but I can't remember where I heard them." Lu Mingfei recalled and started to have a headache again. He felt helpless.

Every time he finally had some thoughts and wanted to think about it, his head started to hurt inexplicably. It was as if someone had set up a huge cage in his brain, and all important memories were locked in that cage. In the cage, pain was used as a door lock. Whenever Lu Mingfei wanted to explore what was in the cage, he was blocked by an unbearable headache.

"If you really can't remember, don't force yourself. I only remembered these words and told you because you were so depressed," Renata said quickly to comfort Lu Mingfei. "They sound familiar to me too. They seem very famous. I've heard them many times. Zero would often recite them in the middle of the night, and I think the Doctor said the same thing when he was standing in the garden looking at the sky."

"'Doctor'..." Lu Mingfei fell into a brief silence. He suddenly asked an irrelevant question, "By the way, Renata, have you ever met this 'Doctor'?"

"Yes, all the children here have met 'Doc'." Renata nodded to Lu Mingfei. "'Doc' is very patient with everyone. He often asks the nurses to be nicer to us. He also occasionally tells us stories about his school days when he was young. 'Doc' says that children who are obedient and have good performance will be sent to study in Moscow. The children all like and admire him. Yakov and Sergei both say that 'Doc' is their idol."

"Do you like 'Doctor' too?" Lu Mingfei looked at Renata's face.

When Lu Mingfei asked this question, Renata's eyes dodged unnaturally for a few times. She hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"No one here dislikes the Doctor... The Doctor is very good to me..." Renata hesitated for a moment and then suddenly lowered her voice, "But actually, I'm a little afraid of him..."

"Who are you afraid of?" Lu Mingfei asked, "Doctor?"

"Hmm..." Renata nodded slightly.

She didn't dare to admit it, but she spoke her mind reluctantly in front of Lu Mingfei, because all the children here liked and loved that doctor. Saying anything bad about the doctor here would be like advocating support for witches' black magic in the Middle Ages, an unforgivable crime.