Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 280: For Your Majesty (95)

Dragon Raja 5

This was indeed quite unbelievable. As a fugitive with an uncertain future and constantly in danger, and with Susie having died not long ago, he should be depressed and frowning. But Lu Mingfei has actually developed the good habit of not thinking about anything, or perhaps he has become numb.

“Thinking about it won’t help,” Lu Mingfei said.

“Do you think you’re going to die in Siberia?”

Lu Mingfei was taken aback. He had never mentioned this to Zero, but he had a vague feeling that the mysterious coordinates, even though his father had told him about them over the phone, would have a tombstone there with his own name on it.

“I don’t want to die, but I always feel that whether I live or die isn’t something I can control.” Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment before confessing, “But I still want to know what I really am. If I really die and my senior brother’s matter is still unresolved, could you please take him to a safe place? He’s a bit mentally challenged right now, and without me, he’ll die too.”

“If you still don’t want to give up, I can help you.”

“Help me with what? You’ve helped me so much already, and I haven’t even asked you why you helped me.”

“No,” Zero shook his head, “I haven’t helped you; you’ve been helping me all along.”

She suddenly stopped, looked up and gazed out, gesturing with her lip towards the distance. Lu Mingfei followed her gaze; ahead lay a frozen river, the streetlights on the small bridge spanning it exceptionally bright, and a short, stocky man leaned against a lamppost, smoking a pipe.

Alexander Bunin.

Lu Mingfei’s heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly realized that this was not a chance encounter; Bunin had deliberately waited for them here. Bunin had not shown his face since the incident at the air-raid shelter, but he had been the organizer for everyone along the way, always present for drinks.

Ling and Lu Mingfei stopped under the lamppost. Bunin looked ahead along the stream, his gaze unfocused.

“Christina is my daughter.”

This was probably what is meant by “a single sword strike to the throat” in the martial arts world. Along the way, everyone’s conversations have been cryptic, like business deals. Now, the old man has revealed his true intentions, and his first words have completely baffled Lu Mingfei.

However, upon careful reflection, it actually makes sense.

The drinking party on the train was so noisy, and it was common for anyone to come and go, yet Christina disappeared, and Bunin came out to look for her. This could certainly be explained by Bunin already suspecting Christina’s identity, but if that were the case, Bunin could have simply refused her boarding.

Before opening the wardrobe door, Bunin looked fierce, but once he opened it, he was dumbfounded, while Christina seemed completely fearless.

And that casual arm around her waist—the old man wasn’t trying to take advantage of the girl, but rather to tell his daughter, “Look, look, this is where your dad fought!” That smugness! That pride!

But the daughter was a righteous intelligence agent, while the father was an arms dealer who goes astray.

The two of them was on different paths and couldn’t work together. They barely even exchange glances along the way.

Tonight, Bunin looks particularly depressed and old, exuding the air of an old man from Northeast China. If you changed his clothes, he could star in “Country Love”.

“My father was an arms dealer, doing a precarious business. My daughter can’t follow in his footsteps,” Bunin said in a low voice. “The best arrangement I can make for her is to send her to a trustworthy family to grow up in, and to raise her in a respectable manner. But I don’t know many respectable people. There’s only one guy, who is now the military and political leader of the Republic of Tatarstan. Right after the collapse of the Soviet Union, he sold me an arms depot. I have dirt on him. But I know that guy is a good man. He doesn’t even sleep around with women, and he has no children. Only he can protect my daughter.”

“It’s better if we don’t know about the love-hate relationship between the virtuous father and daughter.” The three of them could speak Chinese, which allows the princess to fully display her sharp tongue.

“Just keep an eye on an elderly person living alone and have a chat.” Bunin smiled bitterly. “I told you before that I wanted to leave City 023 because I saw a little Moscow girl in a plaid skirt in a movie. Later, she went from being a child star to a movie actress, and I made some money in Moscow and won her over.”

Lu Mingfei was dumbfounded. This love story was truly too legendary: a boy from a small town ran away from home for a girl in a movie, and after a long period of unremitting struggle, finally won the heart of his beauty.

“There are many beautiful girls in Moscow, isn’t there anyone better than her?” Zero asked.

“Of course there are better ones than her, but I’m a stubborn person. The one I met first, no one can compare to her,” Bunin said quietly. Hearing this, Zero turned to look at Lu Mingfei. Lu Mingfei immediately turned his head away, avoiding her gaze. He knew without a doubt that Zero was hinting at Nuonuo’s matter again.

“We had a few happy years, and at that time I even thought about quitting this line of work,” Bunin said. “People don’t want to take risks when they have a safe place to go, but when that safe place is gone, they feel that taking risks doesn’t matter.”

“Your wife has passed away?” Lu Mingfei thought of the yellow diamond that Christina always wore. An honest official shouldn’t have the money to buy such jewelry for his wife, but if it came from his arms dealer father, then it would make perfect sense.

“She has a hereditary disease and knew from a young age that she wouldn’t live past 40. But she definitely wanted to have a child with me. She told me, ‘Alexander Bunin, you heartless bastard, the only person you’ve ever loved in your life is me. If it weren’t for me, you would have destroyed all of humanity! So I’m going to have a daughter for you, so that even without me, you will still love someone in this world.’”

When Bunin said these words, his tone was still calm, but it was clearly the voice of a strong-willed person, just like Christina.

Lu Mingfei was overwhelmed with mixed feelings, and Zero also stopped her sharp tongue and remained silent.

“Pregnancy was dangerous for her; she had a few more years to live. When it came time to decide whether to keep the mother or the child, she signed the papers herself, deciding to save Christina first.” Bunin paused. “From then on, I didn’t care what bad things I did; nobody cared.”

“Your daughter should care,” Zero said.

“Yes, her adoptive father probably instilled too much sense of justice in her.” Bunin looked a little annoyed.

“In her eyes, her biological father is the first villain in the world to be eliminated, and I am an indelible stain on her reputation.”