Chapter 232 Heroes and Audiences

"You said before that there were several dragons in there?"

"More than ten."

"Tsk, it's already here. There's no need to keep it a secret. How much is it specific?"

"To be specific, thirteen."

"That's it, Article 13."

The little devil glanced at Lu Mingfei, who was in deep thought.

"Why, brother, are you scared?"

"It hurts, it hurts!"

Lu Mingfei snorted and retracted his fist.

The little devil held his head and burst into tears.

"Afraid, ha, just kidding, how could I be afraid!"

"Then brother, who are you?"

"It's just, it's weird."

Lu Mingfei muttered.

"Don't you think so?"

"They keep talking about vassals of bronze and fire, an army and so on, but an army? An army composed of thirteen soldiers? Is there something wrong? The number is too small."

"So brother, you are struggling with this."

The little devil waved his hand.

"It's normal. For this kind of thing, it should be said that it is a miracle that an army of thirteen dragons can exist to this day."

"Oh why?"

"If you want to say why..."

The little devil thought for a while.

"How should I put it? By the way, I have a question. Brother, do you know how long dragons have been around?"

"Hmm...a thousand years?"

"wrong."

"a thousand years?"

"Guess again."

Lu Mingfei rubbed the little devil's hair angrily.

"If you have something to say, just say it, don't beat me around the bush."

"Besides, don't even think about lying to me. The history of human beings is only about five thousand years. It seems that there will be Homo sapiens even further back than that. But five thousand years further back, even if there are humans, they shouldn't be considered as such. Be civilized.”

The little devil looked helpless.

"Brother, have you forgotten, I just said, this is the current era."

He held up one finger and opened the remaining four fingers in sequence.

"It's the fifth era."

"It seems like you don't really understand what the fifth era represents, brother."

"Let's put it this way."

"In the 21st century, mobile phones, computers, the Internet, airplanes, cars, and spacecraft, these elements are added together. How do you feel, brother?"

"Just... developed?"

"Yes, developed."

"Or rather, science."

"This is the crystallization of human civilization, an achievement that mankind is proud of, and proof that mankind considers itself the master of the planet."

With this kind of parallelism and this kind of tone, the next step should be a turning point.

Although he listened carefully with a serious look on his face, Lu Mingfei still instinctively started to wander off.

He is the emperor who talks nonsense.

"but."

said the little devil.

Take a look, I guess you are right.

Lu Mingfei had the guts to open a bottle of iced black tea at the canteen and when he looked at the bottle cap, he was excited to say, "One more bottle."

but.

This small excitement disappeared after the little devil's next sentence.

"Brother, why do you think that the science of this era is unique?"

The little devil looked cold and distant when he said this, like a superior god. In a trance, he seemed to have returned to the night when the two met for the first time. He took Lu Mingfei walking in the sky and told him about dragons. Thousands of years and millenniums.

"Brother, do you think the previous four eras were all about a group of savages stabbing here and there with spears ground from bones, or ignorant monkeys praying to the gods and dancing around the campfire, just like this? Four eras.”

He smiled.

Lu Mingfei couldn't explain the meaning of the little devil's smile. He only felt a little cold. It was obviously just a few light words, but they were so heavy, like a mountain, making people breathless. Almost every decent information from the five eras was All the mixed-race organizations know about it, but who really understands the secrets hidden inside?

Perhaps, it's not that I don't want to understand, but that I don't want to, or in other words, I don't dare.

Because only by not thinking about it and putting it aside can you convince yourself to ignore such a fact.

In other words, human civilization in the fifth era invented science and leveraged the power of the sun through fissioning atoms, which seemed to be unprecedentedly powerful.

But what about the first four eras?

Do humans really have confidence? Are they in the fifth era necessarily the strongest?

Maybe not.

I can only say that it is not certain.

This world is far more mysterious than human imagination. Easter statues, Mayan prophecies, records of the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Book of Changes. There are too many clues to show that before the rise of human civilization today, there once existed a powerful and mysterious civilization. They Or they left some traces, but their final destination is unknown, whether they became extinct or went to other places, the starry sky or the center of the earth, or they never existed at all. The stone statues, prophecies, and the Mysterious Book of Mountains and Seas are just pure coincidences. .

But the hybrids know that Maya's prophecies are true, and so are the four lost ages. And those strange creatures in the Book of Mountains and Seas, such as snakes with eight arms and tigers with two heads, look at these descriptions, Does it feel familiar?

Dragon blood pollution. .

They are simply creatures that mutated after being contaminated by dragon blood.

Apart from descriptions of the appearance of these strange creatures, what else is the most common in the Classic of Mountains and Seas?

It’s the texture, taste, and effects after eating.

To be honest, it's a bit like a monster version of... Materia Medica.

This is a very interesting thing. If you use the position of an encyclopedia to read the Classic of Mountains and Seas, who would write about the taste and efficacy of food in the encyclopedia, unless it is not an encyclopedia at all, but a recipe.

The idea that the Classic of Mountains and Seas is a recipe may seem unreasonable, but what if we consider that it was not written for humans?

Or a hybrid, or... a dragon.

…………

The little devil seemed to sigh.

But his voice was too soft and shallow, making it difficult to hear clearly.

"This is the fifth era, brother."

He said.

"But for dragons, these five eras all belong to them."

"A thousand years, ten thousand years?"

He smiled again.

That uncomfortable smile.

"The history of dragons' existence far exceeds human imagination."

"In that case."

Lu Mingfei pursed his lips.

"I mean, if that's the case, then why are there only thirteen troops here?"

"Don't dragons transform into cocoons?"

"They can come back from reincarnation."

"Isn't this what eternal life is?"

"Why are there so few left?"

As he spoke, Lu Mingfei became quiet.

He looked at the little devil's lonely face.

That great unspeakable loneliness.

It's not like he hasn't heard of it before, that mixed-race people suffer from blood sorrow, loneliness, and so on.

At that time, he only thought it was the mongrel's innocent moaning.

Until now, he was looking steadily at the little devil in front of him.

the boy asked him.

"Brother, is eternal life good?"

"elder brother."

The little devil said sadly.

"Eternal life is a curse."

Lu Mingfei felt his heart aching.

He blurted out subconsciously.

"Since it's a curse, why should we continue to live and end it ourselves..."

He froze.

The little devil looked at him sadly and smiled lightly.

"Have you noticed, brother?"

"This is why there are only thirteen dragons left in the army of bronze and fire."

Lu Mingfei murmured.

"Eternal life...is a curse."

The little devil turned around silently. He faced the bronze door leading to the Nibelung. His noble golden eyes lit up and he ordered in dragon language.

The runes on the bronze door woke up. They were like twisted snakes, stretching their bodies bit by bit. This was a creation from the bronze and fire series. The alchemy technology used on it was no less advanced than modern hybrids. Miracle, among these thousands of runes, even the vice-principal can only recognize a few scattered ones, let alone the matrix formed by their arrangement and combination.

The rune snakes began to swim on the gate, they devoured each other, and then split, more rune snakes of the heart appeared. This is a theory that modern hybrid scholars have never seen before, the self-derivation of the matrix, simple Under the surface is data as terrifying as the starry sky. A brand-new matrix appears, connecting the overlapping spaces. The secrets that have been dusty since ancient times are about to be revealed.

Nibelungen.

This is the holy land that every alchemist dreams of.

right here.

The bronze door opened.

The dead wind wandered out.

The wind element inside is also dead.

"Go, brother."

The little devil gently pushed Lu Mingfei.

"This is your stage. You have to fight handsomely, but there will be a lot of spectators."

"Hey Hey hey."

Lu Mingfei, who was pushed and staggered two steps, tried his best to turn around and look at the little devil.

"Let me be clear, audience, why don't I know there are other audiences? Wouldn't it be better to enter the Nibelungs and fight the dragon?"

"This."

The little devil smiled slyly.

But with his head lowered and the angle, Lu Mingfei couldn't clearly see the little devil's expression at this moment.

"I remember what I told you, brother, live broadcast, live broadcast, super handsome live broadcast."

"live streaming?"

Lu Mingfei remembered.

It’s that stick figure with a kindergarten graffiti level.

Alas, helpless.

He really wanted to sigh.

The little devil is like this. Sometimes he behaves so childishly. What kind of live broadcast is this? And the swimsuit he bought for Zero, the kind of clothes that only Japanese elementary school students would wear. Is it really, should I say it is a bad taste? ?

"Since it's a live broadcast, they are all stick figures anyway, so they can't see anything. It doesn't matter to me."

"That's not what I said. It's a live broadcast, and many people will watch it. My brother must conquer everyone with his heroic posture and surprise them all."

"Well, there's really nothing we can do about you."

"whee."

"Oh, by the way, there is also this. Brother, take it and put it on now. It is my gift. It is a very important prop."

"what for?"

"Proof of a hero."

"Huh? Proof of hero? I don't need this..."

As he spoke, Lu Mingfei lowered his head and his eyes fell on the prop in the little devil's hand. His words stopped abruptly and he couldn't take his eyes away.

He smiled slowly and simply accepted the prop without saying any more words of rejection.

"I'm determined."

"I knew you would like it, brother."

"Um."

Lu Mingfei played with the props and stepped into the bronze door.

Thus, the fourth ring mission begins.

The heroic epic was put into writing.

He entered the Nibelungen.

The little devil's voice sounded from behind.

"I wish you good luck in martial arts, brother."

Lu Mingfei waved his hand.

He replied triumphantly.

"of course."

…………

What happened to the stickman! What happened to the stickman!

The stickman is eating your rice!

Amber thought angrily.

She had just browsed the forum, originally planning to check if there were any new teaching posts so that she could learn the King of Fighters' fighting skills.

But after walking around for a while, little Amber almost got angry to death, let alone studying.

She just saw someone discussing the live broadcast on the website, and the protagonist of the discussion was the Big Devil. After all, the Big Devil had not appeared for a while, and his ranking in the invitational competition had dropped several places. As a man of the same name as the little monster, the Big Devil The devil's every move naturally attracted a large number of eyes.

When people found out that the big devil ignored the King of Fighters Invitational Tournament and didn't pay attention to the 10 million US dollars at his fingertips. Instead, he started a live broadcast of some kind and didn't know what to do there with a rough model of a stickman. Suddenly, everyone All came to the spirit.

You know, in a place like the Internet, everyone hides behind a virtual account. There is an illusion that no matter what they do, they are not responsible, so they can do whatever they want without restraint.

So naturally some people started to sneer and make irresponsible remarks about the big devil.

In fact, this is not a big deal. Don’t take the news on the Internet seriously.

But Amber is still young, and creatures like children are particularly prone to being serious.

Then she went off to argue with others.

As for the outcome of the debate, you can tell by looking at it. How can a kid who stutters while typing win an argument?

Little Amber really wanted to rush to the other side of the screen and beat up that annoying guy.

They say the stick figures are funny, they say they are afraid of the big devil, huh, how could they be afraid of the big devil who is so powerful!

In the eyes of little Amber, the big devil and the little monster are the two most powerful people. His own King of Fighters learned from them. Dad once told Amber that he must respect the teacher. The teacher imparted useful knowledge to Amber, so Respect them well.

The big devil and the little monster are Amber's teachers.

At least if the King of Fighters fights well and gets a good ranking, she will get a bonus. When the time comes, then...

The girl curled up in a small ball in the chair of the dark Internet cafe.

Then you can buy a blanket.

Amber thought longingly.

The kind of blanket that can wrap your body warmly.

After thinking about it for a moment, the corners of his mouth curled up.

Ah, what a yearning.

Therefore, for Amber, the Great Devil is a very important teacher.

It is really unforgivable that someone is speaking ill of the teacher.

Little Amber was bulging with anger.

Even if it is a stick figure, the teacher must have his own considerations. Maybe it is something very powerful. Just like the hero in the anime saving the world, the teacher must also have something that he must do.

Little Amber thought, and clicked on the big devil's live video.

Um...what is this link?

She clicked curiously.

A strange picture popped up.

It was a silhouette of a rooftop, with row upon row of high-rise buildings, and the setting sun in the background. The two boys were facing it, sitting side by side, leaving Amber with a lonely back.

What's this?

Amber blinked, and his golden eyes lit up uncontrollably. In a daze, he passed the blood test and the rating test.

She just felt in a trance.

Little Amber suddenly realized that she was no longer in the familiar black Internet cafe.

She saw a dead world.

And the boy at the center of the world.