pertwk Chapter 51 The Philosopher's Stone
Chapter 51 The Philosopher's Stone
The potato chips were both delighted and surprised. Delighted that the long legs hadn't disappeared, but surprised because—
—In just a moment, the long-legged girl's location had changed several kilometers. She was originally supposed to be in Yangcheng Lake, but now she was on a street several kilometers away.
"Huaihai Hotel?"
As soon as Potato Chips started looking up the location information, her worried expression immediately turned strange. She remembered the name, or rather, she had placed an order at this hotel before.
I booked a lake-view room for someone.
That person's name was—
"Lu Mingfei!?"
................
"Lu Mingfei!?"
Inside the hotel, the same shouts rang out almost simultaneously in two different locations.
Despite her shock and disbelief, when she saw Lu Mingfei's familiar face, Mai Shude, who had been struggling subconsciously, stopped struggling.
Her voice instantly changed, taking on a lazy yet teasing tone.
"What, are you interested in your sister's body?"
She took off her diving mask, revealing her stunningly beautiful face.
As she struck a pose that accentuated her figure, her long legs appeared even longer thanks to the black wetsuit. She stood tall with her chest out and waist cinched, the tight-fitting black shiny wetsuit outlining a breathtaking curve to her slender waist.
Her slender waist and long legs create a striking contrast, like a black hole that draws the attention of every normal man.
But Lu Mingfei remained unmoved, simply carrying the other person to the sofa.
He threw it down.
Without even the slightest hesitation.
Mai Shude clearly hadn't expected this kind of "landing." Coupled with the aftereffects of her rapid ascent after diving, her reaction was a beat too slow when she landed on the sofa, and she ended up rolling off the edge of the sofa and landing solidly on the ground.
"Ouch..." She gripped the edge of the sofa, gently rubbing her face, and shook her head as she stood up, her tone tinged with reproach, "Don't you have any chivalry at all?"
If it were in the past, if Lu Mingfei had encountered a woman like this in front of him, he probably would have blushed and been at a loss for words, or even turned around and ran away... No, or with his small frame, he might have been crushed by her weight.
Well... the past is the past, and the present is the present.
But clearly, Lu Mingfei wasn't falling for her honey trap now. He'd seen plenty of beautiful women; in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, an era of ruthless exploitation, even women themselves were a resource.
Lu Mingfei can now be said to have lost his allure for women, after all...
Thinking of... the human market...
Shaking his head to clear his mind, Lu Mingfei sat on the sofa and looked at the much-recovered Mai Shude and spoke.
"Tell me, what were you doing there?"
"Looking for something, what else could I be doing?" She rolled her long, narrow eyes, her tone tinged with helplessness. "Besides...the thing...is already in your hands, why are you asking me?"
"That's because I don't know anything if I don't ask you. I have to get the information out of you, right?"
Lu Mingfei thought to himself, but his face remained tense, adopting a "leniency for those who confess, severity for those who resist" attitude.
"Speak," he changed his tone, pointing to the latter's ear, "Don't think I don't know you turned on your headset. I advise you to confess honestly."
As soon as she finished speaking, two fingers emerged from a small ball of fire that suddenly appeared beside her ear, precisely pinched the miniature earpiece, gently removed it, and placed it in Lu Mingfei's palm.
He placed the headset on the coffee table between the two of them.
"I'm listening," Lu Mingfei said, raising his chin. "Go on, speak."
"Alright, alright," Mai Shude collapsed onto the sofa, completely resigned to her fate. "So we've discovered that a dragon died at the bottom of Yangcheng Lake."
Although the area has been placed under martial law by the Zhou family, we decided to try and salvage something because the dragon's body is full of treasures.
that's all."
She shrugged, her tone nonchalant, as if she were talking about something perfectly ordinary.
"Then what is this?"
Lu Mingfei took out something he had intercepted from the bottom of the water beforehand. It was a red crystal the size of a soybean. He could clearly feel the energy contained within it, a very familiar energy.
Rather than asking a question, he was searching for a definitive answer.
"Dragon bone," Mai Shude's eyes fell on the red crystal, as if to distinguish it from the white bones. She explained, "Of course, it has nothing to do with normal bones. The bones of dragons also refer to the condensation of their spirit, the pure spiritual element—the Philosopher's Stone."
"Say that again?" Lu Mingfei held the red crystal up to his eyes, his tone incredulous. "This thing is the Philosopher's Stone?"
"Yeah, what else?"
Lu Mingfei was somewhat dazed upon receiving the reply.
So after all this time, this thing is the Philosopher's Stone?
What makes him want to steal this thing from Kassel?
As someone who witnessed the event firsthand, Lu Mingfei naturally knew how this thing was formed; the energy it contained was nothing more than the essence formed from the residual energy of that bloodline origin.
So this thing... is equipment that can be dropped by dragon slayers?
In that case, Lu Mingfei suddenly understood why those mixed-race families in the data were so enthusiastic about slaying dragons.
It's not just hatred towards the dragon race; more importantly, it's about interests.
The simplest chain of interests constitutes this hatred that spans thousands of years.
He dared not even think about the profits involved in obtaining something that basically only existed in alchemy literature, but could be obtained directly after killing a pure-blooded dragon.
"What can this thing do?" Lu Mingfei looked at the small red crystal in his hand, which was about the size of a soybean, with some doubt.
"Isn't that far too little?"
Although Lu Mingfei 'borrowed' most of the dragon's bloodline essence, he estimated that nearly 30% of the essence remained.
In other words, isn't that equivalent to three Philosopher's Stones the size of soybeans?
Looking at Lu Mingfei's expression, Jiu De Mai knew what he was thinking and said in a rather annoyed tone.
"Do you think this thing is some common commodity?" She pointed to the Philosopher's Stone. "This thing is a weapon, not a regular consumable. Using it as a projectile is enough to kill any dragon... even a dragon king."
"The Dragon King? With that?"
He was puzzled. Although this thing contained spiritual energy, it was just a tiny bullet.
That would be far too hasty and dismissive.
"Feed...?"
Lu Mingfei didn't get a reply from the long-legged girl. He turned around and saw that her narrow eyes were completely closed, and Jiu De Mai had fallen into a coma.
"Asleep?" Lu Mingfei immediately dismissed the idea.
"No, is it decompression sickness?"
He suddenly remembered a video he had seen, which said that divers had to decompress after long periods of diving, otherwise they would suffer from severe decompression sickness because the nitrogen in the oxygen tank would dissolve into their bodies.
Even mixed-race people can't withstand it?
Lu Mingfei has fallen into a misconception. After all, as a seeker of the Dharma, he can even achieve internal breathing with his magic power, so he doesn't need to worry about such a problem at all.
He suddenly looked up at the doorway. A mixed-race person?
At this time.........
"Thump... thump... thump..."
Just then, a knock sounded on the door, accompanied by a cold female voice.
"Serve."
"I don't need room service."
"Thump...thump...thump..."
"You'd better not be here to cause trouble..."
Lu Mingfei opened the door, but before he could finish speaking, a figure had already passed him and walked straight in.
The platinum blonde hair reflected the light, leaving an arc in the boy's eyes.