Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 386: For Your Majesty (201)

Dragon Raja 5

That’s another version of myself. Should I detach myself from it? It feels like the pain of having my arm cut off.

He suddenly coughed violently, and vomit containing blood clots fell into the stainless steel soup glass. He felt dizzy and fainted amidst Giovanni’s exclamation.

When he woke up again, he was back in that familiar hospital room, his body covered with electrodes and IV lines. Giovanni and the German doctor were by his bedside. Giovanni held his hand, her expression sorrowful.
“Mingfei, you’re finally awake. Don’t worry, it’s just a lingering effect of the frostbite. You need to rest well.” Giovanni patted his head.

Lu Mingfei smiled. “I suffered many injuries before coming here. Once, they removed a kilogram of fragments from my body, and I recovered quickly. It can’t be as simple as frostbite, right? And my leg, tell me what happened.”

Giovanni looked up at the doctor, who nodded slightly.

“We have the best doctors in the world, including experts in stem cells and skeletal neurology. As your mother said, even if someone is born with a disability in both legs, we can find a way to help them recover. But your condition is very rare,” the doctor said in a low voice. if we start a certain treatment for you, your own vitality cannot keep up. In Chinese terms, your vital energy has been exhausted.”

“How could this happen?” Lu Mingfei was stunned.

“We analyzed all sorts of possibilities, and it wasn’t until today, when the committee gave us some crucial information, that we reached a preliminary conclusion. The parasites in your body didn’t trade away your soul; rather, they exploited your life in some way. Aging is one of the most complex mechanisms in the human body. After a certain number of cell divisions, the ability to divide weakens, and the skin, bones, muscles, and nervous system all age because there aren’t enough new cells to replenish them. You yourself said you suffered a near-fatal injury, and even after removing a kilogram of fragments from your body, you recovered quickly. Imagine how many generations of your body’s cells metabolized during that process. That’s what I mean by overdrawing your life,” the doctor said. “Zombie ants, driven by fungi, also exploit the last of their energy to meet the fungal’s needs. The mechanism is completely different, but the principle is the same.”

“I didn’t feel anything before I came here.”

“Even a dying individual can appear stronger than a normal person due to the combined effects of dopamine, adrenaline, endorphins, and serotonin, but this is only superficial,” the doctor said. “To use your Chinese way of saying it, you were already exhausted before you arrived here. In this safe haven, the parasite’s will is temporarily suppressed, and your weakness is exposed.”

Lu Mingfei lay there quietly, staring at the ceiling. “So, am I going to die?”

“You are Lu’s son, and we will give you the best treatment, such as trying to replenish your ‘vital energy.’ But I must be frank, those are not mature treatments, just like clinical drugs that haven’t been approved by the FDA, and it’s hard to predict the results. At this stage, what’s more useful is your own will, your will to live. As long as you haven’t lost your will to live, you’ll be fine for now, and you can buy us time for treatment,” the doctor said. “The committee also very much hopes to encourage your will, because your will should be the prison that demon is holding you back. Once your spirit collapses, we don’t know what will happen.”

Lu Mingfei remained silent for a long time before saying, “I’ll have courage when I’m with my family.”

The door to the ward opened, and Lu Lincheng, wrapped in a coat and covered in snowflakes, strode in with a solemn expression. Giovanni glanced at him and immediately wanted to push him out of the ward to talk.

“Can I listen in too?” Lu Mingfei asked. “Dad must be from the committee, right? You guys have been talking about me the whole time.”

Lu Lincheng patted his wife’s hand, signaling her to calm down, then turned to Lu Mingfei, “Don’t worry, it’s not about your residency. The committee gave me a special approval; they allow you to visit the Final Sanctuary. Your friends are waiting for you there.”

Lu Mingfei was stunned. This unknown haven actually contained his friends?

***

The elevator rumbled as it descended, and the father and son were unusually silent since their reunion. Lu Lincheng’s expression was even more solemn than before the evaluation meeting.

“Even Mom isn’t qualified to come here?” Lu Mingfei asked in a low voice.

“She’s never been here before. Even I, your father, can’t enter that space without the committee’s authorization.” Lu Lincheng handed over a mask and a pair of gloves. “Put these on.”

They wore very thick masks and gloves, providing all-around protection, as if the place they were going to was filled with poison gas. Lu Lincheng himself also put on a mask and gloves, and tied his cuffs tightly.

The elevator took much longer to descend than to the first few floors. The final sanctuary must be located very deep inside. Lu Mingfei suddenly shivered, not because of the chill in his heart, but because he clearly felt the turbulent elemental currents below.

There is something terrifyingly powerful down there.

The elevator finally stopped, the doors opened, and the space before them was enormous and high. A deep red light of unknown origin faintly illuminated everything around them, but even brighter was the large matrix beneath their feet, within which flowed a ghostly blue mercury.

He had seen a similar alchemical matrix in the basement of the Cassel College. It was like an amplifier, capable of amplifying a certain Yanling by a hundredfold. Of course, building such a matrix also requires extremely high proficiency in alchemy.

The Vice Principal, or rather, Instructor Flamer, was in charge of the Word of Power Matrix at Cassel College. His own Word of Power was “Discipline,” which renders almost all other Yanlings Words of Power ineffective. Through the Word of Power Matrix, the entire Cassel College was his domain. Therefore, except for a free day and a very few special circumstances, students coudn’t freely use Words of Power on campus; even Anjou was suppressed to some extent. Of course, it’s difficult to restrain Dragon King-level individuals, such as Constantine.

“It’s this matrix that turned the safe haven into Nibelungen, and it also has the effect of suppressing the power of words.” Lu Lincheng pushed Lu Mingfei as they strolled on the matrix.

The surrounding area was filled with high concentrations of mercury vapor, so they needed to wear gloves and masks. Lu Mingfei nodded without saying anything, then turned to look at the somewhat terrifying scene, which truly resembled “the end of the world”.

Milky white mercury vapor spewed out from different nozzles, like hundreds of giant whales breathing beneath the matrix. The area wasn’t deserted; staff in protective suits stood at a distance, seemingly not wanting to disturb their visit.

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