Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 357: For Your Majesty (172)

Dragon Raja 5

He suddenly bent down and picked up the discarded “Child’s Cutter” from Bunin, turned around, and approached Chu Zihang with lightning speed. Lu Mingfei didn’t even see his movement clearly, only feeling a gust of wind pass by him. He originally looked down on these Russian country bumpkins, thinking that calling second- or third-tier bloodline evolutionaries “Supreme” was truly short-sighted. However, even heavily injured, he could still unleash such astonishing speed. He himself, without transforming, or Chu Zihang without his Bloodlust, might not be a match for him, even if he was uninjured and had a weapon in hand. Old Bunin used the hilt of the “Child’s Cutter” to strike Chu Zihang’s shoulder and back powerfully. Each strike was accompanied by flying transparent shards. He was able to control his strength far more accurately than Lu Mingfei or even Zero, neither injuring the stiff Chu Zihang, but shattering the hardened layer on his body.

When the hardened layer on Chu Zihang’s body became riddled with cracks, Old Bunin slammed him hard with his right shoulder, knocking Chu Zihang out of that thick, hard shell. Lu Mingfei leaped over and caught him in his arms. The Chu Zihang was no longer as hard as iron; he was elastic, warm, and sleeping soundly.

It was truly a mystery; everyone was injured together, and he was still dragging my broken leg around, while Chu Zihang seemed to have drunk some free super-potent tonic, healing most of his injuries. He really don’t know who the monster was in this little team; there’s nowhere to reason with him.

Before the blue flames reached their feet, they all climbed onto the high steel cables. At this moment, the dragon’s breath was sweeping across the air-raid shelter with the force of burning the city, while Little Bunin screamed and kept spitting out slime to create threads, trying to climb onto the black snake’s back and deliver a fatal blow.

Black Snake clumsily dealt with Little Bunin’s attacks, always raising its broken wings to prevent him from getting past it and getting close to Lu Mingfei and the others.

Lu Mingfei glanced at Black Snake, then at Zero. He didn’t want to ask about the relationship between the two. He already knew that Zero was mysterious and might have other motives for helping him, but he chose to trust Zero, and Zero never betrayed his trust.

“We have to get out of here.” Zero looked at the gap where the high-rise construction elevator had descended. “Alexander Bunin, you still have a hovercraft, don’t you?”

At the end of the passage, Su Enxi found a door made of alloy. It was completely welded shut, and the rough but strong welds showed how much the engineering team responsible for sealing this place wanted to completely shut down the reactor.

Along the way, she saw many small rooms with metal walls and rough iron frames, completely without windows. Only the drooping vines and the icons hanging on the walls gave them a touch of life.

Those children grew up in such a space, drinking filtered underground river water, eating machine-made paste, following inexplicable beliefs, and never having seen the outside world, like hamsters kept in a cage.

This reminded her of Milton’s *Paradise Lost*, in which God used a golden compass to draw the structure of the world, and from then on, this was heaven and earth, and you lived in peace and prosperity in this paradise. But for those who had seen beyond the heavens and earth, such a paradise was a prison.

In front of the alloy gate was the “communication system” that Auchinez mentioned, which consists of many bent iron pipes. The principle was incredibly simple: two people shout to each other through empty pipes, yet it perfectly avoids interference from strong magnetic fields on electrical communication. One has to admire the engineers who built City 023 and this reactor.

Su Enxi sat down with her back against the door, took a deep breath, and gathered her strength until a metal pipe started clanging.

She leaped up, pressed her ear against the different pipes, and found the one that led to the reactor core.

Auchinez seemed to be panting heavily. “Oh! Woman, you really should look here. It’s so beautiful, like… the birth and death of stars.”

It sounds like the tokamak device in City 023 has a transparent inner shell, allowing Auginitz to look directly at the plasma vortex containing astonishing energy.

Su Enxi also wanted to see it for herself, but her tone still sounded disdainful, “Just do your job! Looking at it too much will blind your eyes! What’s in front of you is a luminous object with a temperature of one hundred million degrees!”

The first-generation deuterium-tritium reactor did indeed reached temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees, but that heat flow was firmly bound by a closed toroidal magnetic field; otherwise, Auchinez would have turned to ashes in an instant.

“Wait a minute, let me take a good look… That clever bastard Bunin has indeed installed a new control system on it… No problem, the underlying system is still the same after removing it… Damn it! He even added his own mechanical lock, I need to figure out how to remove that mechanical lock first… A neodymium alloy anti-magnetic shield, Bunin really has a group of pretty good engineers…” Auchinez said intermittently and incomprehensibly while operating the machine. I hadn’t asked him if he had enough professional knowledge, but now he seemed to be an expert.

Su Enxi leaned against the alloy door to recover her strength. Auchinez was right across from her, and she could hear clanging sounds coming from inside if she pressed her face against the door.

“I’m telling you, we’re all bosses. I work for my boss to survive. What are you doing it for?” Auchinez was busy with her work but still had the leisure to chat with Su Enxi.

“Love and peace!”

“For the most intelligent of men, love is a deceptive word, because you can see right through what lies behind it.” Auchinez was surprisingly serious about discussing this issue.

Su Enxi was taken aback for a moment. “Okay, okay, let’s be serious. It’s rare to have developed a revolutionary friendship with a scumbag like you. I actually have a few buddies. Some people work for their boss out of gratitude, some work for their boss because they have ulterior motives, but I’m different. I work for my boss because this world is just too boring, and I want a few partners to do bad things with. I’m not doing this for that showy guy. Of course, sometimes he can be considered my partner, but a boss is ultimately something you can’t completely see through.”

So you need friends?

“Yeah,” Su Enxi shrugged. “I’ll follow whoever I consider a friend, even if it’s a dead end. Anyway, this world is pretty boring, and it would be even more boring without my friends.”

“Oh, what a boring answer. It doesn’t sound like something a smart woman would say.” Auchinez sighed softly. “Just now, I entered the password. The mechanical combination lock hasn’t been modified. Now I have the device in my hands. I’m going to start increasing the power.”