Chapter 47: One Against Seventeen, a Record of a Peerless Pro

"That makes sense."

Chu Zihang was always crisp and efficient; if there were a dashboard that could display his various stats, his decision-making and action-taking capabilities would certainly be maxed out.

Therefore, after only a brief moment of thought, he concluded that what Lu Mingfei said was indeed possible to achieve.

However, he still gave Lu Mingfei a word of caution.

"But it is very difficult to achieve this. The nature of dragons is very cruel."

"I know that, but Senior Brother, I feel that no matter how cruel dragons are, they can't be more cruel, perverted, and devoid of humanity than the Japanese, right?"

Lu Mingfei pondered and said, "Looking at it rationally, even among the Japanese, there are comrades who lean toward us and can be won over by us, let alone dragons!"

After weighing it carefully, Chu Zihang reached a conclusion: "You are right."

"But don't say these things to others for now, especially not to the people at Cassel College."

Chu Zihang continued to caution Lu Mingfei.

"Most of them have had painful pasts due to dragon activity; you could say they are martyrs whose lifelong goal is 'slaying dragons.' It is very difficult for them to view your perspective in a rational and dialectical way, and they might even take some radical actions because of it."

Chu Zihang was different; his hatred and anger were directed at "Death Servant" and "Odin." As for dragons, he hadn't seen one yet, so it was hard for him to harbor an irreconcilable hatred.

"I get it, I get it—don't preach kindness to others if you haven't suffered their hardships!"

Lu Mingfei nodded solemnly, then beamed with joy.

"Besides, I'm just talking on paper here. Anyone can see that this is a case of 'easier said than done.' Even if we really wanted to do it, it couldn't be now.

Without strength, there is no right to speak; let's develop quietly first! I'm only saying these things to you, Senior Brother; we're just chatting privately among our own people."

"Mm."

Chu Zihang nodded. He had originally been worried that Lu Mingfei was just having a sudden whim and a burst of hot-headedness, but now it seemed he had thought it through carefully and was prepared to act with caution, so he could rest easy.

"However, speaking of Cassel College..."

Lu Mingfei paused, "Senior Brother, does that side know about what happened last night? Did they discover anything useful?"

Speaking of this, Lu Mingfei felt a bit guilty; he was worried that his "husky mixed into a wolf pack" act would be exposed! Senior Brother Chu hadn't said anything here, but what if they found out over there?

"They know, but the college failed to collect any useful information."

Chu Zihang said, "Most of the surveillance was destroyed in the impact, and the small portion with intact outer structures had their storage disks burned out due to electrical overload. There is no surveillance footage recording everything that happened at the time."

Long-legged Girl was quite reliable as a field agent, not to mention the assistance of Potato Chip Girl on the internet; the two of them, one removing the physical surveillance records and faking the damage, the other erasing the digital data traces, coordinated flawlessly.

Even the Execution Department personnel of Cassel College, plus the advanced artificial intelligence "Norma," were deceived.

Chu Zihang stared at Lu Mingfei and emphasized again: "No matter who asks, last night there was only that Death Servant, nothing else.

You only used your Spirit Speech in a moment of desperation to save me, leading to severe exhaustion as a side effect, and you don't know when you will recover. And that Death Servant was also heavily wounded by me and escaped again."

"Good."

Lu Mingfei nodded. He didn't know why Chu Zihang wanted to do this, but Senior Brother must have his reasons for doing so!

Actually, the reason Chu Zihang did this was very simple—he was a very smart person who had already discovered the faint "little bit" of something wrong with Lu Mingfei.

He didn't yet know exactly what Lu Mingfei was hiding, having at most some guesses, but he still decided to help Lu Mingfei keep it hidden.

If the surveillance hadn't been broken and he couldn't hide it, that would be one thing, but now that the surveillance was broken and the traces at the scene had been destroyed by the violent battle, looking as if the ground had been plowed by artillery shells, it was simply a god-given opportunity!

As for the facts, wasn't it just a matter of what Chu Zihang said?

No one would suspect that this thick-browed, big-eyed, poker-faced ice mountain, the soon-to-be-inaugurated president of the Lionheart Society, and an excellent student who was the earliest in history to join the Execution Department... would lie!

Even if this meant going against Cassel College, and to some extent, if one were to put it severely, it was betrayal...

But Lu Mingfei was one of his own.

One's own brother was definitely closer than Cassel College; treating him differently was a matter of course!

"Also, about last night, when you were practicing Tai Chi and had that 'Spirit Sense'."

Chu Zihang was a bit like a human Schedule, having already arranged all plans, finishing one thing and then doing the next until everything was completed. Unlike Lu Mingfei, he relied entirely on self-discipline.

"I told Zhang Laoshi this morning, and he will come over sometime soon."

"Eh? Is it necessary to make such a big fuss?"

Lu Mingfei was stunned, "But maybe I really just had indigestion or something at the time... Taking an international flight for this is too extravagant. What if it was just my imagination?"

Lu Mingfei of course knew it wasn't his imagination; he might have an imagination, but the Proficiency dashboard of the Schedule would not.

But who practices Tai Chi and ends up with 【Ming Jin: First Layer】? Lu Mingfei didn't yet know the operating principle of the entry, and if it was related to the "Spirit Sense" in his body, what if that teacher saw something wrong?

"Zhang Laoshi is working a part-time job."

Chu Zihang explained, "His main job is being a Daoist on Wudang Mountain, and now it is winter break. Cassel College doesn't hold make-up classes during winter break, so he only needs to come over from Wudang Mountain."

"Part-time job... The commuting distance between these two workplaces for a regular shift change is a bit too long, isn't it!"

It was the first time Lu Mingfei had heard of such an exaggerated part-time job; it had a sense of déjà vu, like Ultraman going to the neighboring Kamen Rider set to work a side gig after getting off work.

"... His part-time job involves staying for a slightly longer time."

Chu Zihang was already used to the fact that Lu Mingfei's focus often differed from others, and he pulled the topic back to business.

"In short, Zhang Laoshi coming to check on your situation is just something he's doing while he's at it; his main target is that Death Servant."

"So Zhang Laoshi also works a part-time job as an action specialist for the Execution Department of Cassel College? Truly, the capable have more work to do!"

Lu Mingfei felt a sense of awe. Through Chu Zihang's account, he now had some understanding of Cassel College, knowing that the Execution Department was a violent organization that tossed about all over the world, and Senior Brother Chu was one of its members.

Having experienced the witnessing event last night, Lu Mingfei believed that, if nothing else, on the item of "violence," Senior Brother was absolutely qualified, and should even be considered excellent!

"This time it should count as a secondment..."

Chu Zihang felt a bit ashamed; there was no other way.

As an Execution Department specialist, he had already gone through two battles for this mission without resolving it; logically, it should be the turn of a higher-level specialist to act.

But the fact was that after evaluating the post-battle traces, the conclusion reached by the Execution Department was—if someone else had come, they might have failed the mission long ago and the specialist would have been killed.

The Execution Department was full of hidden talents; it wasn't that there weren't specialists with higher ranks and stronger abilities than Chu Zihang. But China was a special place; Execution Department specialists could carry out missions, but they had to be Chinese nationals.

Or they had to specifically submit a special application to the "Relevant Special Department," but that required time for review and processing, and the time would inevitably be extended.

In this way, the available options become very few, and if you remove those currently executing other missions, there are none at all.

No matter how awesome Cassel College is, it is only a dragon-slaying academy jointly established by European Hybrid families.

And when facing a sovereign state, especially one that has a verifiable record of taking on seventeen alone and winning, even if they are dragons, they must coil up and behave!

PS: For the sake of plot logic, some settings from the original work will be changed and added to; I hope everyone understands and supports this~

(For example, the matter of a foreign warship entering SX and firing live ammunition... I was young when I read it and didn't realize it, but looking at it now, it's a bit... ahem, anyway, I have to change the original setting in this regard!)

Working hard on typing~~~ Next chapter at six in the afternoon!

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