Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 361: For Your Majesty (176)

Dragon Raja 5

A blurry mountain silhouette appeared in the fog ahead. Zero pointed in that direction and said, “Go uphill.”

Lu Mingfei immediately followed the advice, which was undoubtedly the right strategy. Areas with mountains have thicker crusts, making them safer.

The hovercraft parted ways with the boiling river, and the high-speed machine guns carved a path through the dense spruce forest. They finally stopped on a gentle slope and looked back at City 023, still shaken.

Looking at it this way, you realize it was actually built in a sheltered valley. The entire city was distributed along the railway line, with a steam station at regular intervals. At this moment, these steam stations were spewing thick, white, soup-like columns of steam into the sky, emitting sharp whistles, like countless pipe organs playing a chaotic, apocalyptic symphony. The boiling underground river had already broken through the earth, and amidst the continuous explosions of steam, City 023 was slowly sinking. The permafrost had softened into mud, no longer able to support a city. The city center was already a steaming lake, and its area was still expanding. The rushing hot water formed river waterfalls in the distance, making a thunderous sound.

Everyone wrapped themselves in blankets and left the cabin, silently gazing at the sinking of the city, burying some people’s ambitions, as well as some people’s relatives and friends.

This reminded Lu Mingfei of Sodom in the Bible, which was destroyed by God with sulfur and fire, and only the righteous Lot and his family were saved by angels.

But who knows if the one who escaped this time is a righteous person? Perhaps he deserves to be buried even more than little Bunin.

Lu Mingfei was lost in thought when he suddenly heard footsteps behind him. He assumed it was Chu Zihang and didn’t react. However, the person behind him ripped the blanket off him. After floating on the steamy hot river for so long, everyone was soaked. When the blanket was ripped off, Lu Mingfei immediately started shivering in the cold wind. He turned around and saw that the other person was shivering even more than him. He was soaked as if he had just taken a Finnish sauna, but his face was also pale from the cold. His long, straight hair was covered with ice crystals, but his lips were a fashionable purple-black.

The “old boss lady” Lu Mingfei was dumbfounded.

“Your boat was rocking like a jerk, it almost shook me into the hot water river!” Su Enxi didn’t bother to explain why she was there. She wrapped herself in a blanket and went into the cabin as if she were in her own home.

Hovercrafts race across the vast snowfields, the world desolate and lonely.

They traversed rolling white hills, crossed vast U-shaped valleys, and then more rolling white hills and U-shaped valleys. It was as if this were the end of the world, and everything would cycle endlessly.

“Have you seen Groundhog Day?” Lu Mingfei skillfully piloted the hovercraft.

“No.” Chu Zihang sat in the passenger seat, wrapped in a thick blanket.

“There was a weatherman who went to a small town to interview a ceremony where groundhogs emerged from their burrows. The ceremony predicted how long winter would last. But he got stuck in a vicious cycle, always waking up on the morning the groundhogs emerged, facing the same town every time. He was the only one in town who remembered yesterday; for everyone else, it was a brand new day. Only he knew it was a vicious cycle, and winter would never end. He tried countless ways to break the cycle. He could love or hate anyone he wanted, do bad things or good things, and even try to kill himself, but the next morning everything would reset, and everything would be meaningless.”

Chu Zihang remained silent for a long while. “Is Senior Brother talking about philosophy?”

“I don’t know anything about philosophy,” Lu Mingfei shrugged. “I just feel that maybe everything we do is meaningless, and we ourselves are meaningless.”

Chu Zihang pondered for a moment, then nodded solemnly.

Lu Mingfei was getting a little exasperated by this guy. He was feeling down because he had originally hoped this simple-minded senior brother would encourage him, but it seemed that he was the one who had convinced Chu Zihang instead.

“Don’t you feel frustrated? It’s all meaningless, all an illusion. We kill one Alexander Bunin, but there will be another Alexander Bunin. As long as those so-called dark side figures exist, there will always be people willing to be their lackeys. Humans are just such greedy bastards. No matter what we do, we can’t change that.”

“Then let’s go to the dark side of the world and kill those guys too,” Chu Zihang said slowly.

“Hey, hey, hey, can you please speak with some logic? You clearly agreed with me just now, saying that everything we did was meaningless.”

Chu Zihang paused for a moment, then poked a hand out from under the blanket to rub his nose, which was red from the cold. “I don’t really care whether it’s meaningful or not. Anyway, I’ll do what I want to do.”

Lu Mingfei forgot that this senior brother, who looked like a tall and sharp man like a mountain peak, was actually quite silly and eccentric. He basically acted on instinct, and his body was often faster than his brain.

But for no reason, he felt much lighter. Of course, what’s the use of worrying? Looking back on his journey, he was full of worries, but when he cursed and charged at Bunin, he still felt the exhilaration of having a knife in hand to chop him down.

He slightly twitched the corners of his mouth, not even realizing he was smiling. “This time, it was all thanks to you that we turned the tide. Your blood seems to be poisonous to Christina; she was poisoned as soon as she drank it. I thought you were dead.”

“I don’t know anything,” Chu Zihang yawned, looking a little dazed. “My mind is full of hallucinations, like I’m playing basketball.”

Lu Mingfei was taken aback when he heard “play basketball”.

“It was the court behind our school, surrounded by a wire fence, and lit up at night. I played the whole court by myself, all the school buildings were dark, and only one girl was standing in the stands watching me play.”
Lu Mingfei was silent for a moment, then asked, “Which girl? Do I know her?”

“I didn’t see her face clearly, but she looked like a cheerleader. I think I know her. She cheered me on every time I scored, but I couldn’t hear her voice.” Chu Zihang turned to Lu Mingfei. “Do you remember her?”

Lu Mingfei thought for a moment, then smiled and said, “I remember now, that cheerleader, your girlfriend in high school. Lots of guys in the whole school were after her, but you didn’t even know each other when you were fifteen.”

Chu Zihang was stunned for a while, his expression a little strange, whether from embarrassment or shyness, it was hard to tell. “I don’t remember, what was her name?”

“Her surname is Xia, Xia something again, I can’t remember.” Lu Mingfei frowned and waved his hand impatiently. “It’s okay if you don’t remember, anyway you two broke up later, it’s better if you don’t remember. She’s a real scumbag, but she’s quite pretty.”

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