Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 274: For Your Majesty (89)

Dragon Raja 5

Lu Mingfei nodded. His previous doubts were answered. The reason why this noble ancient dragon failed to use its extraordinary self-healing ability to restore its legs and wings was because it was already dead in a sense.

“I’ve spent my entire life trying to find that mysterious research institute.” Bunin leaned over the railing, watching the black snake passing by below. “At first, I wanted to make a fortune. Later, I made a lot of money, and money meant less and less to me, but the light of that research institute in my heart grew stronger and stronger. Even if I could go there just once and see the body of the god lying there, I would be satisfied. Before you showed up, I had already given up hope. I was originally planning to sell this secret at this year’s trade fair to prevent me from constantly thinking about it and regretting it. But you came to me with the coordinates, and it’s on the banks of the Yana River. I guess it has a more accurate version, right? Your Highness. If you are willing to tell me, we can split the proceeds from the sale of the research institute in half. You also need my trading channels.”

Zero didn’t answer. Lu Mingfei realized that Zero had been silent all the time he was talking to Bunin. She squatted there, curled up in a small ball, holding the railing, staring blankly at the huge creature crawling aimlessly.

She looked very small like this, basically just a child, the kind of child who stared blankly at the bears crawling around in Bear Mountain, with empty eyes.

For a moment, Lu Mingfei mistakenly thought that tears would flow from those empty eyes. Those were the tears of a child feeling sorry for the bear.

“If no one’s offer satisfies you, I’ll buy it. You name the price!” Bunin raised his voice and the price. His eyes were eager, hoping for an answer.

Zero suddenly recovered from his trance, his scattered gaze refocused, still on the arrogant princess.

“Army General Vatutin asked me to come to you. Has he been to the air-raid shelter in City 023?” Zero asked slowly.

Bunin was stunned for a moment. “Of course, he’s one of the few customers who’s been here. I’ve heard of your relationship with Army General Vatutin, but you probably don’t know that man as well as I do.” Bunin seemed a little complacent. “We’re business partners, and he’s also a VIP on my special train.”

“If I tell you that he was executed secretly, do you still think you are safe?” Zero looked directly into Bunin’s eyes.

Bunin was stunned for a moment. “Executed? Who executed him? Who has the right to execute Army General Vatutin? If someone wants to harm him, why doesn’t he come to me? As long as we are old friends, I will still help you.”

“His name has long been on a list of people to be executed. If there really is a God-related research institute in this world, anyone who knows about it must die. I went to find Army General Vatutin, so he died, and now I’ve found you.” Zero said coldly, “That research institute is not ownerless at all. After all these years, it is still secretly monitored. Anyone who wants to touch that secret must die.”

Bunin and Lu Mingfei’s expressions changed. Bunin was probably shocked by Zero’s words, but Lu Mingfei was upset because of the death of Army General Vatutin. Zero had never mentioned this sad thing along the way.

The old man paid the price of his own life for showing him the way.

When the three of them were silent, something suddenly fell from the sky and hit the concrete trestle heavily. Bunin immediately shone his mining lamp over there.

Lu Mingfei’s head buzzed. It was a sophisticated MP-443 “Raven” semi-automatic pistol. Although it was not as powerful as a fully automatic pistol, it was the standard firearm of the Russian security department because of its reliability and stability.

“It seems that we haven’t really gotten rid of those GRU idiots.” Bunin said coldly, holding up the mining lamp and shining it upwards.

However, the dome of the air-raid shelter was too high, and the light from the mining lamp dissipated into the darkness before it even touched the dome.

Bunin took out a remote control-shaped device from his pocket and pressed a button. Dense dark red light beams crisscrossed and blocked every inch of space in the air-raid shelter.

Bunin certainly wouldn’t be so careless as to keep a dragon in an abandoned air-raid shelter. This seemingly dilapidated concrete structure must be a well-designed fortress, and the fact that unauthorized intruders would be shot was not just an empty threat.

The dome was filled with dense “clicks”, as if a thousand guns were loaded at the same time. It was not that Bunin had deployed a thousand gunmen on the dome, but that countless automatic weapons were installed on the dome, automatically controlled by the security system. They had been dormant before, but now they were activated.

Those dim red lights are their aiming beams. They’re not lethal in themselves, but when they detect an intruder, they immediately unleash a hail of bullets. A very old-fashioned security measure, but crude and effective.

Zero stood quietly, like a statue staring with its head down. Lu Mingfei didn’t dare to move a finger. The dark red beam net also enveloped them. He really didn’t know what the conditions for triggering it were.