Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 327: For Your Majesty (142)

Dragon Raja 5

The Sonia standing behind Auchinez now was completely different. She was young and radiant, more enthusiastic than the Sonia Lu Mingfei knew, with youthful energy emanating from her eyes and brows.

“Does the master intend to use you to take over all the families?” Bunin’s voice calmed down.

“You have lived too long. Most of you no longer have any relatives living in this world. It wouldn’t be difficult to replace you.” Auchinez sighed. “When a person’s friends grow old and die, that person gradually dies as well.”

“And then you’ll come back every year to continue this auction, only to have it replaced by your backup,” Lu Mingfei said. “Knowing this will be the outcome, you’ll still be a dog for your so-called master?”

“If a sheepdog cannot run on the grassland, it will be worthless. Even if it knows that it will eventually be replaced by a new sheepdog, it will still have to kill the old sheepdog to take its place.”

Who is the actual owner?

Auchinez shook his head, pointed at Bunin with the cigarette between his fingers, and said, “Nobody knows, except him.”

Everyone turned to look at Bunin, but the man only hugged his trembling daughter tighter and shook his head. “That’s a demon. Nobody knows who he is. If I did, I’d be dead already.”

“Even if you replace us, you’ll just continue to be that guy’s slaves, desperately making money for him, just to live a few more years.” Anna pointed her rifle at the girl behind the fake Auchinez, because that was another Anna.

The red aiming dot flickered between Anna’s eyebrows, but Anna didn’t dodge at all, her eyes as calm as a dead person’s.

The fake Auchinez shook his head, covered his face and chuckled. Two seconds later, the laughter turned into uncontrollable boisterous laughter.

“How could you, living in this world, understand our backup plan? You think you’re slaves, but if you don’t die, we don’t even have the right to be slaves,” he growled. “Haven’t you lived enough? Then why don’t you die so we can breathe some air and see the real sunlight? Slaves, what are slaves? Under the feet of slaves are ghosts like us.”

The deafening roar concealed untold suffering. Lu Mingfei silently gazed at the distorted, crazed face and suddenly realized that these people weren’t really enemies. At this moment, in City 023 was a ghost in purgatory. The mastermind behind it all had everyone opened a passage to the human world, and these people would frantically eliminate their backups, stepping over their corpses to escape this hellish place.
The fake Auchinez regained his composure, shrugged, and sneered, “Do you all really think you’re still the same person you were before?”

The VIPs stared at each other in horror, and the crowd that had been gathered together suddenly dispersed, each person instinctively clutching their weapons.

“Don’t believe that guy!” Maxim roared. “We’re old friends, how could we mistake each other?”

The fake Auchinez continued to sneer, “Can you really remember your past? You’ve lived for a hundred years, how much can you actually remember? Aren’t some things already very blurry? Aren’t some people’s faces impossible to recall no matter how hard you try?”

Everyone paused for a moment, then looked puzzled.

“Heraclitus said that no one can step into the same river twice. Because when you step in a second time, the water is no longer the same, only the riverbed remains the same. It’s the same with people. Every morning when you wake up, the person you were yesterday is dead. You think you are still the same person you were yesterday, but that’s just a game that memory plays with you. But memories are not unrepeatable, especially the memories of the elderly, which are no different from blurry old photographs. Each of you has used that serum, which makes you return to a youthful state. In that process, each of you went through a period of mental breakdown. Isn’t that the period when you are most easily replaced?” Pseudo-Auchinez said. “Some of you are still the same as you were at the beginning, because those people are strong and greedy enough. As for those who gradually lose their zest for life, it’s time for them to be replaced.”

Lu Mingfei looked at Chu Zihang. Chu Zihang had said something similar: the human brain is like an old hard drive that’s easily demagnetized. When you heal your past traumas and reconcile with the people you used to hate the most, are you still yourself?

But Chu Zihang didn’t have such a profound realization at the moment. He held his twin swords and stared coldly at the fake Auchinez, probably thinking about when to subdue the leader with a thunderous strike. “Yes, my dear Auchinez, life is as meaningless as you say,” Bunin murmured, stroking Christina’s long hair. “But at some point, who you love—that is the proof that you are alive.”

He pressed a button on the remote control, and the sound of countless guns being cocked came from above. Countless dark red sight beams were projected down, and dense dots of light enveloped everyone and every hellhound.

Lu Mingfei lowered his head, looking at the specks of light on his body, then looked at Bunin, “So this is your plan, right? Everyone else except you and your daughter is going to die.”

Bunin distributed chips to each of them. According to Bunin, the security system would not attack those carrying chips, but at this moment, only he and Christina were not being targeted.

Bunin continued to gaze at his daughter in his arms. “Thank you, my dear friend, for saving my daughter’s life. But if even one person escapes from here alive today, Christina and I will have no choice but to keep running until the day we die.”

“Because you simply don’t believe you can get out unscathed.”

“Does someone with blood on their hands expect to retire comfortably? From the moment my retirement application was approved by the boss, I knew I was going to be replaced,” Bunin said quietly. “The one who replaced me was not someone else, but another Alexander Bunin.”

Su Enxi couldn’t pull the trigger because the children automatically gathered in front of the young Alexander Bunin, bravely using their bodies as human shields.

“Hey, Auchinez, come see your brother.” Bunin beckoned to one of the children. The child walked over to Bunin and coldly looked down at Auchinez’s face, which was being trampled under his feet.

That looked exactly like Auchinez’s child. At his age, seeing Auchinez covered in blood should have made him panic, but his young face showed indifference.

“Help me step on your brother’s handsome face.” Bunin slowly raised his foot.

Without hesitation, the child stomped on it hard. Auchinez was seriously injured, but the serum’s strengthening effect was still in effect, and she should have easily dodged the child’s trampling. But the child’s movements were extremely fast and accurate, landing every step precisely, and the first step broke Auchinez’s nose.

“Hurry up and hit harder, let your brother know you’re better than him!” Bunin laughed heartily.

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