Chapter 125: Metal City
"Caesar is a genius like a lion, but there are geniuses among geniuses. Caesar is like a qualified genius background board, supporting Chu Zihang of the Lionheart Club, S-level student Zhang Baiqing, S-level student Yuan Zhinu, S-level student Lu Mingfei..."

"For the genius among geniuses, there is no strongest, only stronger. Even someone as strong as Yuan Zhinv could be defeated in two and a half moves. This proves that genius is just the threshold to those who stand at the top..."

In Finkel's post, Finkel made it clear that if he did not conquer Caesar as a stepping stone, he would not be able to stand out from the crowd at Kassel Academy and prove himself to be a genius among geniuses.

After browsing books in the library for a long time, Lu Mingfei had a general understanding of what this dragon blood world was like and prepared to go back to the dormitory for a nap.

"Wow, the Freedom Day champion is back!" Finkel said excitedly, "Your identity information has been sold out, and now you have a small group of fans. Someone suggested that you rise up and form an independent club, or join a club other than the Student Union and the Lionheart Club to become a third force, stir up the situation at Kassel College, and start an era of competition among heroes."

Lu Mingfei felt something was wrong, "My identity information has been sold out?"

"Ah?" Finkel immediately calmed down and said awkwardly, "It was just a slip of the tongue. I just said the wrong word."

"You sold my identity information?" Lu Mingfei approached Finkel and asked, "You are breaking the law, do you know that? According to Illinois law, you have violated my personal privacy. If I take you to court, you will have to pay money and go to jail!"

"Haha, it's not that serious, right?" Finkel laughed. He didn't want to talk to him anymore and wanted to climb into bed to sleep.

"As long as you give me the money, it won't be that serious." Lu Mingfei grabbed his trouser leg and said righteously: "This way I won't pursue your infringement."

Finkel's face fell, he climbed down and said, "No, I'd rather give you all than you sue me and we'll split it 30-70."

"That's fine. Remember to give me the 70% later."

Finkel glared at him and said, "I only have 30% of my strength? Then I am just working for you? 70% is mine."

“I only have 30%, so I’m going to beg for food on my knees?” Lu Mingfei crossed his arms and shook his head: “No, no.”

"You didn't do anything, and I still gave you 30% even though I worked hard to promote you. There are many people who want to kneel down but don't even have this chance!" Finkel said unconvinced.

"Anyway, 30% is definitely not enough. It's too little. I might as well sue you directly and donate all the compensation to the mountainous area." Lu Mingfei glared back at him and said, "How about this, you and I will both take a step back. I only want the full amount and won't sue you, and you can avoid jail time."

"How can this be called a compromise? How can you be worse than those British robbers?" Finkel tried to sit down and reason with him, trying to get more benefits. "At most, we can split it 50-50. From now on, I will also push your exclusive news. How about that?"

"The exclusive news can be published here, but I want to collect the interview fee first." Lu Mingfei also put forward conditions.

Finger asked, "Can the money be paid in installments?"

"Are you planning to run away and refuse to pay?" Lu Mingfei suspected that he would not be able to pay back the installments later. When he entered the dormitory yesterday, he looked like a beggar. People on the campus forum were also discussing how much loan he owed.

"Hahaha, how could that be?" Seeing that he didn't agree, Finkel said, "I only made a few thousand dollars from selling the information this time. I'll transfer the money to you tomorrow."

"Why do we need tomorrow? Transfer today's now. If there's still tomorrow, transfer it tomorrow."

"It's easier to settle the bill if we transfer it all at once."

"Yeah." Lu Mingfei nodded, and then asked him: "Fingal, does the Kassel Academy's Word Spirit Periodic Table still have a lot of Word Spirits that haven't been collected yet?"

"It should be a lot, right? But I'm not sure about this. I'm not studying the Word Spirits. I've failed my courses for several years." Finkel continued to sit back in front of the computer and browse the campus forum.

"Oh." Lu Mingfei lay back on the bed, closed his eyes and went to sleep.

"Lu Mingfei won the Freedom Day Championship." Chu Zihang saw Zhang Baiqing return to the dormitory and said to him: "Caesar was defeated by Yuan Zhinv, and Yuan Zhinv was defeated by Lu Mingfei."

"Oh?" Lu Mingfei defeated Yuan Zhinv with one move, which made Zhang Baiqing feel a little surprised.

Even if the academy is under the control of the vice-principal's Word Spirit and Discipline, Yuan Zhinv should not be defeated by Lu Mingfei, right?
Unless Lu Mingze gave Lu Mingfei some cheats.

Chu Zihang moved the computer screen to show him, "This is the video of Lu Mingfei defeating Yuan Zhinv. It was three quick and clean strikes. Is there something wrong with Lu Mingfei? Yuan Zhinv couldn't handle him at all."

"He does have problems." Zhang Baiqing nodded.

"He is also a Dragon King?" Chu Zihang was surprised, and subconsciously thought that Lu Mingfei was the Dragon King just like Xia Mi.

"That shouldn't be the case, right? Or maybe it's more likely that he is an ancient god."

Lu Mingze is Lu Mingfei's younger brother, and Lu Mingze is probably an ancient god with naturally powerful mental power.

"Ancient God?"

Chu Zihang thought about the spiritual core of the ancient god in the White King’s memory, which could restore and enhance mental strength. The ancient god was a kind of natural treasure, and its torso could also be used to make alchemical props, just like Kungunir in Odin’s hands.

"Don't have any thoughts about him." Glancing at Chu Zihang who was thinking, Zhang Baiqing had to remind him, "Lu Mingfei's identity is special, so I have to treat him with caution."

Chu Zihang asked: "What's the special method?"

"Behind Lu Mingfei is an existence that surpasses the eight dragon kings."

He couldn't tell Chu Zihang directly about Lu Mingze's existence, but netizens in his previous life speculated that Lu Mingze was the Black King. Behind this speculation was that Lu Mingze's strength was at the level of the Black King in the eyes of netizens, not at the level of the Eight Great Kings.

"Surpass the Eight Dragon Kings?"

Chu Zihang stopped talking and did not continue to inquire. As he was not strong enough, it was useless to know this information. He could discuss it again after he broke through the limitations of the first generation and reached the Dragon King level.

In the waters of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, a white boat was floating on the water, and on the deck were debris salvaged from the bottom of the river. After throwing away those useless things, Professor Mans picked up a piece of patterned pottery and examined it carefully.

"Looking at the pattern, it looks like the style of Shu culture before it was assimilated by the Central Plains culture. It has at least a thousand years of history." Ye Sheng, the ace specialist of the Executive Department, said on the side: "Before Baidi Gongsun Shu became emperor, one of his advisers claimed to have seen a dragon rising from a well and crawling in front of Gongsun Shu's mansion. He called this a good omen of dragon luck."

"In China, Shu is located in the west. Gongsun Shu claimed that his luck came from metal. Perhaps it was because metal was an important resource at the time? And metal is represented by white, so he called himself the White Emperor." Mance continued, "This White Emperor does not refer to the White King. The White King is in Japan. To be more precise, he should be the King of Metal. Among the Dragon Kings, there are also Dragon Kings who forged their thrones with metal and flames. They are the noble Kings of Bronze and Fire—Norton and his brothers."

"Norma, did the sonar scan anything?" Mans put down the pottery fragment, which was thousands of years old and could not explain anything. If there was dragon characters on it, it would be fine, but unfortunately it was not. Norma replied, "Nothing at the moment. Even if there was anything, it would have been buried deep in the mud under the water for thousands of years. The best way to find it is to send a specialist to search in the water."

"Well." Mans said to Ye Sheng, who had been on the boat for a while, "Let's go into the water again later."

The underwater temperature is very low at a depth of several dozen meters. Walking on the riverbed and resisting the current is very exhausting for the hybrids. After being in the water for a certain period of time, they need to go on the boat to rest.

"Roger that, Professor."

Ye Sheng is one of the aces of this generation of Kassel Academy. Yan Ling is a vacuum snake, which makes him very suitable for going into the water to search for things sunk into the mud. His teammate is Shude Aki, who is also an ace specialist. The two of them have become an ace combination.

During her break, Aki Jude gossiped about the news inside Kassel College. At the end of the day, the results of the college's free day activities traveled halfway around the world and landed in her hands.

"Caesar, do you still remember him?" she asked Ye Sheng who came over to rest.

Ye Sheng nodded: "Yes, he is a very good young man, and the future heir of the Gattuso family."

"During today's free day activity at the academy, he was defeated by the S-class freshman Source Girl." said Shude Aki.

"Genjitsu is an S-rank student, so it's not surprising that she can defeat him."

Ye Sheng also knew that there were three new S-level students enrolled this year. After all, S-level students were so rare, and three of them appeared at once. This news soon spread to the ears of Cassel specialists around the world.

Both of them were very concerned about these three S-level ones. Since Jude Aki was Japanese and Lu Mingfei was Chinese, they were their fellow countrymen, so they paid more attention to them.

Jiude Aki added: "But Yuan Zhinv was quickly defeated by Lu Mingfei in a few moves."

Ye Sheng thought about it and said, "Could it be that Lu Mingfei was defeated by Uesugi Eriya who came to avenge his brother?"

"Oh, have you watched too many shows with brain-twisting twists?" Shude Aki was a little disgusted with his idea.

"There are so many unexpected twists and turns. Uesugi Eri did not participate in Freedom Day, and the champion of Freedom Day is Lu Mingfei. Finkel wrote a post saying that Caesar is a background board for fame, and if you don't defeat Caesar first, you can't really gain a foothold in the forefront of Kassel Academy. Just like Chu Zihang, because he has never been able to defeat Caesar, he has never been a top figure in the academy."

"Fingal has failed again?" Ye Sheng sneered, then sighed: "The quality of students in recent years is very high, with many talented people. Caesar, Chu Zihang, Zhang Baiqing, Lu Mingfei, Yuan Zhinv, and Uesugi Eri are all talented people with great prospects. Our time was relatively peaceful, with the seniors always suppressing the freshmen steadily. Only after the seniors graduated did we get ahead."

They were also praised as geniuses and the best in their class. But the younger students behind them were more ruthless than the others. When Caesar entered college as a freshman, he beat up the seniors who should have made it after the departure of the old seniors, won the championship of Freedom Day, and founded the Student Union in Norton Hall to lead the way.

Zhang Baiqing came in and knocked Caesar down with one punch. Now Yuan Zhinu came in and defeated Caesar as well. However, Yuan Zhinu was not the final winner. Lu Mingfei jumped out and defeated Yuan Zhinu with a few moves.

"Genius is just the starting point. When faced with a more talented genius, one can only surrender." Shude Aki is more open-minded.

After chatting for a while and resting for a while, they put on their diving suits and went into the water.

In many countries, in some dangerous work areas, things have to be done by two people working together, even if it is only the workload of one person, in order to prevent accidents from happening.

Diving at Kassel Academy also requires two people to go down together, because there are too many unexpected events in the dark underwater, whether it is the diver's inner thoughts or unexpected environmental conditions.

A thin nano-material steel cable pulled the two people as they sank into the water. The steel claws of their diving suits penetrated the mud and stepped on the underwater rock. They struggled to maintain their body shape to avoid being washed away.

After taking only two steps, Ye Sheng bent down to dig out the mud under his feet and dug out a piece of broken pottery that was similar to the broken pottery on the boat, both of which carried the patterns of pottery jars of the Shu culture thousands of years ago.

"I picked up a piece of Shu pottery."

"I picked up a piece of it, too."

Shude Aki, who was not far in front of him, also picked it up.

"Ye Sheng, use the Vacuum Snake to explore the surroundings." Mans on the boat gave instructions.

"receive."

Ye Sheng received the order, and Shude Aki in front turned around and walked back, stood beside him, gripped the rock with his steel claws, and then tried to hug Ye Sheng.

Amid the underwater waves, Ye Sheng's body was shaking and it was not suitable for him to release the Vacuum Snake. He needed to stay fixed so that he could easily send out the Vacuum Snake to search for information and bring it back to him.

The vacuum snakes can easily swim several kilometers in this water flow to search for information for Ye Sheng.

There are mud, sand, stones, rotten wood and some man-made relics lying dormant under the water.

He ignored these useless information. The vacuum snake passed through the cracks in the rock strata and drilled into the ground, constantly branching out and constructing a 3D underground model in his mind.

His body quickly cooled down and became weak, and his heartbeat slowed down. Shude Aki could feel that his heartbeat had dropped to 30 beats per minute. He was now very weak and in danger. Although he was the leader of the two-person team, he now needed her protection.

"There is something." Ye Sheng said softly, "40 meters below the riverbed, there is a huge group of metal creations, like a city. The vacuum snake swam faster after entering. It is a place with very good conductivity. Only metal can have such an effect."

A huge metal city!
Mance gasped. This was most likely where the King of Bronze and Fire rested! Only the Dragon King, the noble King of Bronze and Fire, could be so generous as to directly build a metal city!
After thinking for a while, he said, "The Azure Dragon and the Fire King built their home 40 meters below the rock? An underground palace? The 40-meter rock layer is too deep. We can't break through the 40-meter-thick rock layer now. You guys come up first. I'll report to the principal immediately."

"receive."

Although Ye Sheng and Jiude Aki under the water were very tempted by the metal city, the 40-meter-thick rock layer really made it impossible for them to enter.

When Ye Sheng was about to retract the spreading vacuum snakes, he suddenly discovered that his snakes had consciously moved around an area, leaving a blank space in the 3D model in his mind.

Not an insulator, he could feel that his snake was frightened!
"There seems to be a living creature in the Metal City! It's causing fear in the Vacuum Snake!"

Ye Sheng immediately reported the situation.

(End of this chapter)