Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 396: For Your Majesty (211)

Dragon Raja 5

“The phone rang…” Chu Zihang scratched his head.

“How could someone be making a phone call in this godforsaken place?” Bunin was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat. He used to always contact his boss behind the scenes by phone, and the ringing of the phone was like a death knell to him.

But what Chu Zihang pulled out of his backpack was “Finger,” which was buzzing. Lu Mingfei not only kept it but also set it to vibration mode.

Chu Zihang answered the phone, but before he could even say hello, he heard a thunderous shout from the other end, “Are you deaf? Are you deaf? Barking dogs! Barking dogs! There’s barking dogs everywhere, can’t you hear it?”

Chu Zihang was startled and listened intently again. Sure enough, he heard barking dogs, but it was easy to confuse with the sound of the wind. It sounded eerie, as if countless ghosts of wolves were crossing mountains and passing by the hovercraft, but he couldn’t see them.

Bunin suddenly stood up, and Su Enxi also woke up, rubbing her hands excitedly.

***

A hazy light swept across the frozen lake, accompanied by the roar of engines. Lu Mingfei instinctively raised his hands to cover his face, thinking that the pursuit team had discovered them.

But he immediately realized that it was just an illusion. All around him was wind and snow, and the engine roar seemed to be just the wind blowing through the bushes.

But the next moment he exclaimed in surprise, “Mom! Mom! I heard a sound, it sounds like a hovercraft!”

That’s right, that’s the sound of a hovercraft engine. It sounds a lot like the sound of wind because it’s powered by a wind-driven propeller.

“Great!” Giovanni cheered. “Focus! Focus! We’re getting closer to the interface! In this area, you’ll feel like you’re in a prism. At certain angles, you’ll see flashes and hear sounds, but they’ll disappear immediately. Don’t rush, listen carefully and look closely, and you’ll find the passage. Your friends are nearby; they might brush past us, but we won’t be able to see them!”

Just as their joy was beginning to ignite, the expressions on the mother and son’s faces changed simultaneously, because the sound of dogs barking could be faintly heard mixed in with the gust of wind coming from behind.

Lyudmila grewled from behind the sled, but because she wore a muzzle, the growl only rolled softly in her throat. The St. Bernard had been following them, and thanks to its guidance, they hadn’t lost their way on the vast, icy lake.

Its roar was filled with fear. It may not know what was going to happen next, but its animal instincts made it feel that it was very scary.

***

“I wonder what kind of expression Giovanni will have when her husband, who understands her best, catches up with her,” Natasha said with a smile.

She no longer doubted Lu Lincheng; her suspicions vanished when they found the hellhounds on the frozen lake, reduced to mere skeletons. Gunshot marks were easily found on the bones—Philosopher’s Stone bullets, piercing and exploding simultaneously—undoubtedly the work of Giovanni.

“If she gets angry at me and threatens to throw the wardrobe on my head,” Lu Lincheng said, “that would be better. I’m just worried that she’ll just stare at me without saying a word or making any expression.”

Natasha placed her long, slender hand on Lu Lincheng’s shoulder, her delicate waist curving gracefully. She whispered in his ear, her breath cold yet sweet, “Do you need to care? Even if this is the end of the world, petty family matters don’t matter here. We either die or we revel. There are plenty of people here more suitable for you than Giovanni. You know very well why the committee assigned me to you; we can produce perfect offspring.”

If Lu Mingfei had the chance to overhear this conversation, he would have been deeply impressed by his own keen observation skills, truly befitting his mother’s trusted henchman. He had a strange feeling the first time he saw this assistant calculator. A woman who dealt with numbers all day, even if she cared about her appearance, didn’t need to wear that semi-transparent white blouse and that tight-fitting pencil skirt. Her gait was also overly swaying, not because she was unsteady in high heels, but a kind of swaggering display of beauty, because Giovanni was waiting outside… But girl, you’re young, beautiful, and incredibly flirtatious, why bother with a middle-aged man? The person outside was just an easily angered housewife.

“I don’t mind what kind of woman the old guys want to place by my side,” Lu Lincheng said calmly, “but don’t consider Winnie a rival. You can’t compare to her in any way, from head to toe, and you never will.”

Natasha was so angry she couldn’t speak, her beautiful eyes glaring angrily at Lu Lincheng.

“So she’s my wife, and you’re just my assistant calculator,” Lu Lincheng added.

The barking intensified, and Lu Lincheng’s expression hardened. “They’ve spotted Winnie and Mingfei!”

Natasha also suppressed her anger and coquettishness. “How did you know?”

“Hellhounds usually don’t bark. Barking reveals their location, scares away prey, or makes them targets for other predators. There are only two exceptions: one is when a pack wants to claim its territory and scare away competitors, and the other is to call on its companions to attack a large group of prey,” Lu Lincheng said. “Continuous barking is a call to its companions; they’ve caught up with Winnie and the others…

Forward! Full speed ahead!”

The members of the pursuit team looked at each other, their eyes filled with fear, and they dared not carry out Lu Lincheng’s orders.

“Don’t get too close to the hellhounds!” Natasha said. “You’ll become their prey!”

“My wife and kids are on the other side of the lake!” Lu Lincheng said coldly. “Even if you don’t care about Winnie, you still care about Mingfei, right? Nobody can push my son too far, because nobody can predict what he might do! Full speed ahead!”

The snowmobile started up again. This time, they removed the dust covers from the machine guns and turned on all the headlights. From above, it looked like a giant beast covered in glitter, crawling at high speed across the ice. At this moment, Giovanni was pulling the sled forward with all her might. Ahead was the high snow-capped mountain. In the darkness, they shouldn’t have had such a far field of vision, but Lu Mingfei could see the lights sweeping across from time to time, sometimes illuminating the trees on the snow-capped mountain.

Giovanni said that approaching the interface felt like navigating through a prism, but more like running through a cursed forest where you are running and your friends are running, and you may be passing each other without being able to see each other.

The roar of the hovercraft grew clearer, as if countless hovercraft were shuttling at high speed from all directions. The people on the hovercraft probably realized that they were approaching the interface, and they were anxiously searching for a passage.

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