Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 404: For Your Majesty (219)

Dragon Raja 5

“How come that’s not a video you’ve faked?” Lu Mingfei said. “You won’t let me go over there to confirm it with my own eyes.”

Lu Lincheng sighed deeply, stood up, and took down the phone from the wall. “Notify all the medical staff in Winnie’s ward to pinch their right ear with their left hand, turn around to face the camera, and stick their tongue out.”

A moment later, everyone on the big screen, except for Giovanni, made strange movements as Lu Mingfei had asked, and Lu Mingfei nodded in satisfaction.

“Mom is still alive, in your hands, she’s your hostage,” Lu Mingfei said. “What do you want me to do?”

“Complete the cut, kill that parasite deep within your mind.”

“Once I kill the parasite, I’ll be of no use anymore. How am I supposed to know you’ll actually wake Mom up?”

“I’m your father! I want to save your mother too!” Lu Lincheng suddenly roared. “It’s the two of you who made things this way! Everything would have been fine! The separation would have gone smoothly under my arrangement. You would have been free, you would have become a member of this safe haven, you would have been Lu Lincheng’s son, and you would have been respected by everyone here. I could have chased Natasha away like a dog, moved back home, and we could have pretended to be an ordinary family again! But you didn’t believe me, you didn’t consider me a member of this family!”

Lu Mingfei listened silently as he finished yelling. “I’m sorry, but between Dad and Secretary-General Lu, I think you’re more like Secretary-General Lu.”

“What did you say?” Lu Lincheng’s eyes were fierce.

“If I had to choose between saving 10,000 people and saving Mom, I would choose to save Mom. Although it would be very painful for me, I can’t not save Mom.” Lu Mingfei smiled silently. “Dad, you would probably choose to save 10,000 people, right? You are Secretary-General Lu, a person who is destined to do great things. being your son. Thank you for tolerating me all these years.”

Lu Lincheng remained silent for a moment, his face ashen, then without stubbing out his cigarette, he pushed open the door and left.

Before leaving, he turned his back to Lu Mingfei and uttered his last words, “Natasha only used an ordinary bullet, and it avoided your mother’s vitals. Although she doesn’t know her place, she wouldn’t dare to kill your mother in front of me. What truly harmed your mother was the power of your Yanling words. We don’t even know the name of that power, but it inflicts genocide on all life within its domain. I were only able to survive because your anger wasn’t directed at me and your mother, but even your thought of ‘killing’ was enough to severely damage your mother. Don’t think you’re the savior; you are the source of this tragedy, and you’re foolish enough to believe in that parasite that bewitched you!”

The machine hummed as it operated, and Lu Mingfei was laid back down. In the darkness, he stared at the ceiling, which he couldn’t actually see, silently thinking about Lu Lincheng’s last words.

The memory returned to the moment on the frozen lake, when the pack of hellhounds pounced on Giovanni with ecstatic jubilation, eager to feast on his flesh and blood. He was overwhelmed with grief over his mother’s death, so terrified that he could not control himself and could not even breathe.

To outsiders, it appeared as if he had immediately summoned the blood-red gale with a wave of his hand, but in reality, the illusion was still present for a brief moment.

In Lu Mingfei’s view, Giovanni, who had been some distance away, suddenly lay in his arms. But time hadn’t completely stopped; blood was gushing from the bullet hole in her chest, and her face and body were covered in wounds torn by the fangs of hellhounds. The pack of hellhounds surrounded them, lunging in slow motion. Natasha, who had already been shot in the head, miraculously returned to the roof of the snowmobile, hand in hand with Lu Lincheng, a picture of mutual affection and a perfect couple. She even seductively blew on the gunpowder smoke from the muzzle of her gun, while the machine gunners on the snowmobile slowly turned their guns towards them.

He seemed to have suddenly become that child who struggled to even run 5000 meters, clinging to his mother with sadness and fear, feeling the weight of the world pressing down on him, with no one answering his cries for help.

But there was still a savior. A huge ice tree grew with a rumble, and the frozen lake was instantly covered with jade trees and flowers. Lu Mingze, whom we hadn’t seen for a long time, came in rhythm, his white trench coat fluttering, and the sound of his heels tapping on the ice was light and beautiful.

“Why are you still so useless, brother?” He suddenly appeared in front of Lu Mingfei from afar, speaking in a reproachful tone, “Leave the things you can’t handle to me. Leave them to me, and you can sleep peacefully. The people you love will be happy.”

“Are you really that concerned about whether you’re the owner of this body? Aren’t you the kind of person who’d risk your life for your friends?”

“Leave it to me, I can save your friends, I can save your family, I can save everyone you care about.”

“In the end, it’s because you’re too selfish. You’re unwilling to give up your own existence, and as a result, you’ve messed everything up.”

“In that world without you, the people you love will be happy, so why not? Between you and me, why must the weaker one live on? Just because the stronger one is evil?”

“In the world of a kind and timid child, everyone will die in the end, leaving him all alone.”

Lu Mingze transformed into the wind and snow swirling around his ears, whispering repeatedly. He was in so much pain that he wanted to cover his ears, but he couldn’t let go of his mother in his arms.

Now, lying here silently reflecting on those words, each one vivid and clear, reveals the devil’s malice, yet they are also irrefutable truths.

He always felt that he was silently sacrificing himself, that his sacrifices had saved the world time and time again, but perhaps the one who saved the world was actually the devil, and he was at best just a blood sacrifice to the devil.

He was so afraid to trade away the last quarter of his life, perhaps not for any noble purpose, but simply because this cowardly and pitiful soul wanted to continue to occupy this body.

When this soul falls asleep and the devil awakens, the world may become a better place. The devil may grind his teeth and suck blood, but the devil loves the same people as he does. He will be good to his mother, good to Nuonuo, and good to Chu Zihang. The devil may even pretend to be well-behaved in front of them. They will not even realize that the soul in the body has been replaced by the devil’s.

Isn’t this better? Why should the evil and powerful one be allowed to slumber? Why should the self-righteous and weak one selfishly occupy the body? No one really needs him; he is the real burden.

He slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep. Strangely enough, he slept so peacefully, just like his first night in this safe haven.

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