“If you’re here to talk nonsense, then you can go away. I don’t mind giving you a ride.” The Source Girl drew out her knife, and Levatin began to emit a dangerous red glow.

“Really? You have no patience at all. I came here to say goodbye to you.”

“Goodbye? Is there a need for us to say goodbye?” Yuan Zhinv sneered: “If you are ready to die one day, you can tell me. I prefer a permanent farewell.”

“Maybe this really is a farewell forever.”

The devil tilted his head towards her. The afternoon sun shone behind him. His long shadow was cast all the way to Yuan Zhinu’s feet. There was a faint smile on his pretty and tender face.

Yuan Zhinv frowned: “What do you want to say?”

“I didn’t want to care about you at first. You were someone outside my plan. I wanted to kill you before because I was afraid that you would interfere with my plan. But then I realized that if you really died, there would be one less interesting person in the world. That would be a pity.”

“Do you need to say it so pompously?” Yuan Zhinv leaned against the wall, with a hint of sarcasm in her red pupils: “If you can’t kill me, just say it directly.”

She had finally realized that this devil couldn’t kill her so he started to attack her mind. However, she was never easily persuaded. The only regret was that the devil’s real body was still in the polar regions and now it was just a phantom and she couldn’t kill it with one blow.

“I think you have a deep misunderstanding of me.” Lu Mingze smiled: “But whether you believe it or not, my coming to you this time is a good thing for you.”

Yuan Zhinv didn’t even bother to raise her eyelids to look at him. She treated all his words as nonsense. She didn’t believe that this guy could bring anything good.

“I know you don’t believe me, but I still want to say it.” Lu Mingze blinked and his voice became very soft: “What you see is not necessarily true. In this illusory world, don’t believe anything, including yourself.”

“What do you mean?” Yuan Zhinv was a little impatient: “What’s the purpose of saying a bunch of nonsense?”

“What purpose can I have? I just don’t want things to get more difficult.” Lu Mingze sighed: “Although you have a bad temper and are impulsive and irritable, you are still a good person if you do it reluctantly.”

“If you continue on the path you’re on now, you’ll probably turn into a devil like me, and that won’t be fun at all. If I could, I would definitely choose to kill you to eliminate your future troubles, but unfortunately, as you said, I can’t do anything about you for now.”

“So I have to remind you, lest everyone can’t play anymore.” Lu Mingze still had that faint smile on his face, with a hint of coldness in his smile: “Compared to the devil, you are more pleasing to the eye.”

“Girl, let me remind you one last thing. Don’t believe anything, including yourself.” The boy waved slowly at Yuan Zhinv and whispered, “Don’t do stupid things. You will hurt yourself and everyone else.”

Yuan Zhinv was about to speak, but the devil’s figure had disappeared without a trace, and there was only some dust floating in the sunlight left where he had just sat, as if a boy had never appeared there.

The dormitory was still the same as when she left, with no extra belongings.

But it makes sense. In the eyes of Kassel Academy, Xia Mi was just missing but not dead. It has only been a few days. How could she give her room to someone else? Sure enough, Ling’s words were just to lure her back at this time.

So all this trouble was just to let the little devil say a bunch of incomprehensible things to her?

Actually, this is somewhat similar to what Norton said, but these riddlers just refuse to explain it clearly. However, Yuan Zhinv can roughly guess it. Isn’t it because they are afraid that she will become the white monarch?

But why did Lu Mingze say that she would eventually become something like a devil? Could it be that she would lose her humanity after becoming a dragon king like Old Tang?

Could it be that simple?

Yuan Zhinu only felt that the matter seemed to be becoming more and more confusing. There seemed to be a thick layer of fog ahead, and she could not see what was inside, nor could she see the way forward.

Forget it, Yuan Zhinu thought.

No matter what lies ahead, we have to move forward.

Chapter 234 It is impossible to go to sea

Ange closed his notebook and glanced at the men on both sides of the conference table.

This is a conference room 120 meters underground in Kassel College. Those attending the meeting are the elite of the Equipment Department, but Angers does not want to meet with them at all.

These mainstays of Kassel College are all wearing fully enclosed biochemical protective suits, rubber boots, protective glasses, respirators, and even portable oxygen tanks!

The heavy “wheezing” sound of the respirator echoed in the conference room. More than a dozen pairs of eyes looked at Angers through protective glasses, as if they were looking at a dirty pathogen. They were even unwilling to breathe the same air with Angers.

Ange endured it again and again, but finally couldn’t stand it anymore: “Gentlemen, before the meeting, I want to ask a question, why do you have to wear oxygen masks in every meeting?”

“Please don’t mind, Principal. We are just allergic to your body odor. To be honest, you are a source of pollution in Watt Alheim. Every time you come to a meeting, we turn the ionized air purifier to maximum power, but your smell is too strong!”

Ange began to regret coming to Watt Alheim for the meeting. Every time he came here, he felt like he was trapped in a sea of ​​lunatics. Here, lunatics are the mainstream, and one cannot survive without being crazy.

This bunch of lunatics got together and called themselves the Equipment Department.

Vatraheim, which means “Land of Dwarfs” in Norse mythology, is home to the world’s top dwarf craftsmen, and the weapons of the gods are made by them.

The Equipment Department named their underground base Watt Alheim, showing great pride and honor. “Equipment” is just an abbreviation, and the full name is the lengthy “Institute of Alchemy and Scientific Engineering Applications”.

However, although it is called a research institute, the elites of the Equipment Department do not engage in theoretical research. Their job is to transform the theories of science and alchemy into practical applications.

Although 90% of these practical applications are explosives, they are also called the “bomb maniac concentration camp”. What they are most passionate about is making various bombs.

But even though he is a bomb maniac, the guys in the equipment department pay great attention to their own safety protection, even to a point of being crazy.

The water they drink must be distilled and filtered 13 times, the air they breathe must be dust-free, ionized, and humidified, and even the places where they live have layers of protection. Even if the Dragon King comes, unless he activates a super spirit like Shiva’s Karma Dance, he can’t do anything to Watalheim…

In short, they are a bunch of psychopaths, and some of them are seriously ill.

Angers sighed and said, “Okay, okay. I promise you all that I will try to reduce the number of meetings here in the future to avoid polluting the air for everyone.”

The psychopaths then showed a satisfied look. Director Akadula nodded and spoke for everyone: “Then the meeting can begin. It will end soon so that you can leave sooner, Principal.”

“Wait a moment.” Ange said, “Someone hasn’t arrived yet.”

Everyone immediately showed a puzzled look, and Director Akadullah asked: “Aren’t all the participants here? Who else is there?”

Before he finished speaking, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and the girl with white hair and red eyes walked in silently. She glanced at the group of researchers who looked like they could be used to film Resident Evil, and frowned.

When Ange saw her, he immediately pointed to the empty seat next to him enthusiastically: “Come, Liuli, sit here.”

Yuan Zhinv walked over and sat down nonchalantly. The researchers were whispering to each other, and they didn’t seem to understand why a student was called to such an important meeting.

Director Akadullah frowned and said, “Principal, what I want to say is very important. How can you let students come? This is too…” This is nonsense.

But before he could finish his words, the girl with white hair and as cold as an ice sculpture calmly threw a knife onto the table, making a crisp sound of metal collision. Director Akadullah’s words suddenly stopped, and the whole conference hall was instantly silent.

“Is there any problem?” Yuan Zhinv said calmly: “This is too much?”

Director Akadullah glanced back and forth between the girl’s cold face and the knife thrown on the table, and swallowed his saliva: “This, this is such an honor.”

“How can we have the honor to have a meeting with such a beautiful girl!”

For a moment, all the researchers nodded repeatedly, with excited expressions on their faces saying “I’m so honored”. Yuan Zhinv didn’t bother to pay attention to these cowardly lunatics and looked at Angers.

Ange coughed lightly and finally spoke: “I declare the meeting officially open now. Let’s get down to business. What happened that made you ask me to fly back from China overnight? I’m catching up with an old friend.”

“And Director Akadullah sent an earnest… I should say threatening email. To be honest, when I read that email, I felt that you were urging me to come back and make a will.”

Ange is still looking for the old friend he has been thinking about, but when Yuan Zhinv entered Nibelungen, she lost control of the snake, and when she came out, there was no trace of that person. Ange can only look for him on his own, with a friend who appeared out of nowhere following him.

Logically speaking, after finally getting some information, Angers would never come back easily without getting to the bottom of the matter. However, he had to interrupt his search because the email from Director Acadula urging him to come back for a meeting started like this:

“Death is approaching you…” If Angers didn’t know Director Acadora too well and knew that he never expressed himself clearly, he would undoubtedly understand this email as a death threat.

But he still immediately ordered to change the itinerary and return to the academy, because there were only two situations in which Director Acadula would look for Ange: either Watt Alheim wanted to increase the budget again, or the crisis was beyond the control of the Equipment Department and Ange had to make the decision.

The conference room suddenly became quiet, and the psychopaths looked at each other with serious expressions.

“Can anyone speak? You are so serious that it scares me.” Ange said, “Seeing the word serious on your faces is like seeing the word thinking on the face of an Argentine sloth. It makes me uneasy.”

“Let me give the report.” Deputy Director Al stood up and said, “Let’s listen to an audio clip before we begin.”

The sea breeze swept through the conference room. If you closed your eyes, you would mistakenly think you were on a small boat in the middle of the sea. Angers frowned slightly. It sounded like just an ordinary recording of the sea breeze.

“Listen carefully. This is the audio that the Japanese branch just sent to us. They recorded it in the waters off Japan. It’s not just the sea breeze.”

Angers eyes suddenly widened. Indeed, if one listened carefully, there was a powerful sound in the sea breeze: dong dong, dong dong, dong dong… its rhythm was so strong and distinct.

As soon as Ange detected the strong rhythm from the sound of the wind, he was attracted to it. The sound of the sea breeze gradually faded away, and the powerful sound became more and more obvious, boom, boom, boom, as if on an ancient battlefield, the barbarians were beating drums to declare war.

“That’s the sound of a heartbeat,” said Ange. He had a medical degree and was familiar with the rhythm of heartbeats, but he had never heard such a strong heartbeat.

“This is the heartbeat of a dragon, hidden deep in the Japan Trench,” said Deputy Director Carl. “Just yesterday, the Rock Flow Research Institute of the Japan branch sent us this audio.”

“This is obviously some kind of large creature. Although we cannot determine its size, the depth of the Japan Trench is more than eight kilometers. Its heartbeat can penetrate eight kilometers of seawater. You can imagine how huge it is. This heartbeat signal is neither that of a shark nor a whale. It has the heartbeat characteristics of a reptile.”

Angers hand that was playing with the folding knife suddenly clenched, and the veins on the back of his hand were exposed, like a warrior hearing the horn of war.

“Luckily, it’s not an adult dragon, but a dragon embryo. So for now, it won’t suddenly surface to attack humans. But its heartbeat is slowly getting stronger, and its incubation level is getting higher and higher. It’s only a matter of time before it breaks out of the shell.”

“Can you estimate how long it will take for him to hatch?” asked Ange.

“I’m not completely sure, but generally speaking, the bigger the animal, the longer the gestation period. The gestation period of a dragon is much longer than that of a human. This embryo should still be in the early stages of incubation.” Deputy Director Karl thought for a moment and said, “It will be safe for at least a year.”

“Because the bloodline can only be confirmed after successful hatching, we are not sure of the level of this thing. It may be a high-risk target at the level of an ancient dragon, so we ask you to return to the headquarters for a meeting immediately.”

“How should I put it? Although it’s bad news, it’s good that we knew it in advance.”

“It’s like your doctor telling you you have early-stage lung cancer,” added one researcher.

“This is not a very good consolation.” Angers said, and suddenly turned his head to look at the silent girl beside him: “Liuli, do you know about this?”

Yuan Zhinv propped up her head and said calmly, “I know.”

The Ganliu Research Institute notified the Snake Eight Clans as soon as it received this clue, and Minamoto no Chitose received the news almost at the same time, informed by Norton himself.

It was also Yuan Zhinu’s idea to send this audio clip to Kassel College. It can be said that without her approval, this audio clip would not appear here at this time.

If Yuan Zhinu had followed her previous idea, she would definitely not tell Kassel Academy. After getting the heartbeat location, she would kill it herself and take all the benefits for herself. However, Norton’s words made her cautious after all.

As she was unsure of what influence the kingdom of God would have on her, Yuan Zhinv felt that whether she went or not, she could let Kassel Academy test it out first. Anyway, the original trio would have no problem handling such a small situation.

I just didn’t expect that Angers would actually invite me to attend such a meeting. Old Deng doesn’t look stupid.

Angers didn’t seem surprised by Yuan Zhinv’s answer. He nodded and asked Deputy Director Carl: “What’s the situation now?”

“The situation is still relatively stable. The embryo will not hatch for a while, but we must get rid of it immediately. It is developing, but it will not grow into a curvy girl. Instead, it will become a tricky monster.”

“Does the Japanese branch have any opinions on this?” Angers asked. “The Rock Flow Research Institute under the Japanese branch is comparable to the Equipment Department in terms of technical strength. They can continue to monitor that sea area.”

“How can those guys at the Rock Flow Research Institute be compared with the Equipment Department?” Deputy Director Carl said disdainfully, “It is true that they have made breakthroughs in their research on alchemy recently, and it seems that they have been guided by an expert, but so what?”

“They are just a bunch of hardworking idiots. They can only compete with us by working late into the night without sleep. No matter how powerful the experts who guide them are, they can’t compare with our research on alchemy!” Deputy Director Karl showed a proud look.

Yuan Zhinv looked at him thoughtfully, wondering whether she should record a video for Norton to see.

“Anyway, the equipment department’s opinion is to deal with the embryo as soon as possible, but the guys in the Japanese branch are still hesitant and say they want to wait for our analysis results. What’s there to analyze? We can be sure that this is not a deep-sea animal.”

Deputy Director Carl said, “I think you remember, President, this is not the first time we have heard a heartbeat in the deep sea. We compared this heartbeat signal with the previously saved heartbeat signal and found that they matched perfectly. That is why we determined that it was a dragon embryo.”

“Do we have an absolutely safe way to kill embryos?” asked Angers.

“Theoretically, there is no absolutely safe method, but we already have several ideas with a high safety factor for the principal to refer to.”

“You actually have a reference plan?” Ange showed a look of joy. “It’s beyond my expectation. In the past, you guys would just throw a bomb at me and tell the executive department to send a specialist to blow it up.”

“Ah… this is a bit regrettable. Although there are several reference plans, they all use bombs. The difference lies in how we use the bombs.” A researcher said: “For example, in plan A, we can remotely control the explosion.”