Chapter 96: Light Always Accompanies Darkness

"I remember you said you were covering the rear?"

"Mm."

Caesar watched as Lu Mingfei dragged a monkey-faced man, the man's jaw dislocated, limbs twisted at the joints.

"Covering the rear and you wiped out a hundred people?!"

"They're all still alive." Lu Mingfei set down Ma Shengzhen; luckily, he had checked Volume Two of Dragon Clan III: Black Moon Tide to confirm that Ma Shengzhen's crisis stemmed from this monkey-faced man.

"Their conditions are about the same as this guy's, maybe even more charred." Lu Mingfei recalled the pitch-black cement road and the wrecked motorcycles when he left.

Fate could still be changed—at least this time he saved Ma Shengzhen, preventing her from falling off the building and being hit by the Viper sports car inside.

Lu Mingfei suppressed the killing intent and rage in his heart; a voice in his mind told him that such a lowly, despicable scum dared to try killing the person he meant to save.

He should have sliced open this monkey-faced man and these delinquent beasts, torn them apart, chopped them to pieces!

Lu Mingfei threw the monkey-faced man at Caesar's feet; Caesar had no time to care for him, instead staring at Ma Shengzhen with lingering shock—if Lu Mingfei hadn't appeared in time, he would regret it for life! He had brought this girl on this adventure.

Lu Mingfei pressed his hands to his head, trying to purge those voices and thoughts from his mind.

These voices and thoughts weren't his own—he only wanted to save lives.

"Lu Mingfei," Chu Zihang called out.

Lu Mingfei snapped back to awareness and found Chu Zihang staring at him.

"I'm fine, let's go quickly, Senior Brother."

At that moment, Lu Mingfei noticed the monkey-faced man pulling out a phone, as if seeking help.

He snatched the phone before it could connect, before the other side could speak.

"Kill you within three days!"

Lu Mingfei crushed the phone into fragments.

"Sorry," Lu Mingfei suddenly apologized, "I can't control my temper right now."

"This isn't me."

Chu Zihang stepped forward, gripping Lu Mingfei's shoulders, and said seriously:

"I know you're Lu Mingfei—that's enough."

"Let's go."

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"Thank you, Boss, Boss is generous, Boss come again next time!" Su Lin held a silver suitcase containing the remaining six alchemical weapons of the Seven Sins; he opened an extradimensional safe and tossed them inside, near the glass bottles of Witch's Elixir.

He thought about setting up a weapon rack sometime soon.

These collectibles were far more exciting than his old collection of plastic figurines and merch.

Maybe he should get a larger display cabinet later, collecting unique items from various worlds—it would bring immense satisfaction.

"Good," Old Lu stood atop a Western-style building, surveying the floating island with a satisfied expression: "Large enough, sufficient greenery—perfect as a palace."

"What about the teleportation function?" Old Lu looked at Su Lin.

Su Lin pulled a small metal rod from his coat pocket, glanced at it, then handed it to Old Lu.

"Technology and magic?" Old Lu scanned the metal rod, then slipped it into his pocket. "You really do have all sorts of strange things."

"Still, this thing... pfft, it's underwhelming, doesn't meet my expectations. Fine, I'll take the loss and spend some time modifying it."

"Hahaha."

Su Lin had indeed picked only a mediocre-value teleportation device priced at 1600.

"Tag those half-breeds for me, Administrator," Old Lu descended, where Jiu De Mayi had already been waiting. "I don't think this request is too much."

"Got it."

Su Lin pulled out the free phone he'd acquired in this world (sponsored by Lu Mingze).

Early Golden Core Stage God of Light: "@All Members, bring your family members—come alone or with your whole households, your choice. But the Supreme only wants those who can fight. The elderly, weak, and children stay in the dorms on the floating island; gather together at a designated spot."

Zhao Huai Gu: "Received."

Wu Haoran: "Received."

Li Qing: "Received."

After sending the message, Su Lin put away his phone and walked beside Old Lu.

Su Lin glanced at Jiu De Mayi behind them, who kept glancing at Lu Mingfei with a complex expression, and said with a strange look: "In just one day, what did you do?"

"Nothing much, right, Mayi-chan?" Lu Mingfei turned back to ask.

"Shut up!" Jiu De Mayi, for the first time ever, blushed—this woman with legs from neck down, who excelled at manipulating emotions, suddenly spoke in flustered haste: "Who's your Mayi-chan?! Listen! I don't accept it! That... that was fake!"

"..." Su Lin stopped walking, scanning both their faces. "Hypnosis? Brainwashing?"

"Aren't you the pure God?!" Jiu De Mayi gasped, voice rising in disbelief. "How do you even know about such things!"

"Even in light there are shadows," Su Lin said without changing expression, solemnly. "As Tolstoy said, all beauty is composed of light and shadow."

"So you were taken down in just one day?"

"Shall I call the police, Young Lady?"

Su Lin drew a sword of light—blazing bright yet chillingly cold.

"If he violated your personal will, I'd have the perfect excuse—"

"No, I'd have the perfect chance for righteous judgment."

Su Lin was eager to act, ready to end the coming chaos in the Dragon Clan world.

"No, no, no!" Jiu De Mayi shook her head. "He just shoved some strange things into my body—"

Brilliant light pierced through the clouds, shot out from Earth; satellites from every nation captured this moment of beauty.

A few strands of hair drifted down; Old Lu's smiling expression cracked.

"Memories! Those were memories! Don't say things that make people misunderstand!" Old Lu shouted at Jiu De Mayi, then turned to Su Lin: "Do you really not trust my principles?! Do you think I'm that kind of person?!"

"Sorry about that." Su Lin said sincerely, "I thought you'd broken, hahaha. Don't take it to heart, my friend."

Su Lin clumsily changed the subject, "Come on, tell me about this memory thing."

Old Lu gave Su Lin a look. "I passed the memories and stories of a certain world to her."

"How was I supposed to know whether that was real or fake!" Jiude Mayi said, blushing crimson, "Even if—even if those things are real, don't you even think about it!"

Su Lin felt this woman's whole persona had collapsed, and he suddenly became very curious about what exactly had happened in the other world line.

"So you plan to share those stories with every one of your heroines?"

Su Lin had roughly guessed how Lu Mingfei intended to build his harem: "But those are ultimately just things that never happened in this world. Will they actually be useful?"

"As long as I make them form an impression of me in this world and stir up some emotions, that's enough." Old Lu didn't care about the issue Su Lin raised. "Like I said, the protagonist of this world will only be him, not me."

"But I have to prepare this grand romantic comedy for him."

"I'm right, aren't I, Mayi-chan~." Old Lu's tone was flippant.

"Shut up! Shut up! Don't call me that!" Jiu De Mayi completely threw away her persona, and ran off with a red face.

Is a Tokyo Love Story about to become a Tokyo Species Dragon Legend?

Su Lin shook his head. Anyway, having some fun wasn't bad either.

'A one-second pause for Lu, coming up.'

(End of this chapter)