Red Hot Lao Tang

Lu Mingfei had been fostered at his aunt's house since childhood, and he never had many friends. His only two pleasures were teasing his cousin with a smurf account and playing StarCraft.

His StarCraft level could be said to be unmatched in the world. He had dominated the top of the rankings in the circle for several years. He could even beat the second-place player using the red dot on his laptop.

And that second place was naturally Lao Tang.

Since a duel several years ago, the two had become kindred spirits, mainly because their loser vibes were too similar. They added each other as friends and chatted for several years.

From this, he learned that Lao Tang was actually an American-born Chinese, an orphan.

When he came to interview for Kassel, Lao Tang also video-chatted with him remotely for a whole night to practice his spoken English, and they agreed to meet in the United States, where he would treat him to a Greyhound bus tour around America.

But now, why was the other party appearing here, on the other side of the world, and in this form?

"You know him?" Caesar was shocked. There was actually someone with a wider network than himself, the young master of the Gattuso Family, who even knew a Dragon King. Whose subordinate was this? "Uh," Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment, choosing his words carefully, "I knew him before, he's my online friend."

The reason he said "before" was because the current Lao Tang looked like his mom was loading a transformation sequence.

The pressure emanating from Lao Tang was even greater than that of the previous Dragon Servant. All that was missing was a health bar and a grand orchestral piece to go to the next-door Dark Souls game as the final boss.

"If I'm not mistaken, he... no, He should be a Dragon King," Caesar said with a slightly solemn expression. "Judging from his appearance and this high temperature, it should be Norton, the King of Bronze and Fire who controls the authority of metal and fire."

"What the hell?!" Lu Mingfei also understood at this moment, it seemed like that was indeed the vibe.

Wait, bro, how did you become the leader of the other side? Perhaps it was sudden, Lu Mingfei's brain hadn't turned the corner yet, and he subconsciously used trash talk to cover up the panic of seemingly losing a friend.

"Let's do it, while the other side's Bloodline hasn't been fully activated," Caesar glanced at the hesitant Lu Mingfei and decided to be the bad guy himself. "He's no longer the friend you remember."

"There's no saving him?"

"No saving him." Caesar shook his head. "At least with our methods, we can't interfere with the Dragon King's Spirit activities."

Alchemy might be able to do it, but the premise was that the Dragon King had to actively accept their destruction of his Spirit, and they needed enough time to prepare, not to mention that the existence in front of them was the one who possessed the strongest Alchemy technology of the dragon civilization—the King of Bronze and Fire, Norton.

Obviously, this was a pipe dream.

After saying that, without waiting for Lu Mingfei to react, he stepped on the water and rushed out.

Lu Mingfei stood in place, his fists clenched slightly.

Caesar's words just now broke his last fantasy. He, Lu Mingfei, had never been a very courageous person. Just relying on the power that the so-called Magical Girl gave him, being able to be fearless all day today was already the limit of what he could do.

From actively going into the water to bursting out and wildly carrying the Dragon Servant, these actions may all be his subconscious trying to show that he was no longer the loser kid of the past. He, Lu Mingfei, could also become a Magical Girl senior who gave people a sense of security.

Indeed, with power, those seemingly about to sacrifice innocent people such as Ye Sheng Aji could be saved with a turnaround.

But facing his only friend, the so-called power was not strong enough to reverse time and save Lao Tang, who was destined to "become a Dragon King."

What could be done was probably only a miracle.

"Damn it!" Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth and decided to go up and see what was going on. If Lao Tang had really become a Dragon King, then he would slap him twice to wake him up! Taking a step forward, Lu Mingfei rushed closer to the high-temperature Lao Tang before Caesar.

At this time, the surrounding water had been heated to hundreds of degrees Celsius. Without the blessing of the Magical Girl, even a real S-level Hybrids would have to shed a layer of skin.

Looking at the pair of emotionless, cold, and tyrannical Golden Eyes that "Lao Tang" was looking at him with, Lu Mingfei's heart skipped a beat.

It really was... like Caesar said.

"Damn!" Anger rose from the bottom of his heart, and Lu Mingfei threw a punch.

"Bang!" Seemingly still awakening his Bloodline, Norton couldn't dodge and took the punch with his abdomen.

The water was instantly torn open, creating a vacuum as the immense force sent Norton flying like one of His Dragon Servants, embedding Him into the bronze wall.

"Lao Tang, why are you so useless? At least resist, damn it!" Lu Mingfei roared, unsure whether he was telling Lao Tang to resist Norton's consciousness or telling Norton to dodge his fist.

As he spoke, Lu Mingfei was about to continue his pursuit when Caesar beside him paused.

"Mingfei, wait!" Caesar suddenly stopped Lu Mingfei, who was about to pursue, and shouted, "Hey, why don't we ask the Familiar?"

Lu Mingfei's iron fist, halfway through its swing, suddenly froze.

That's right, since current science can't do it, why not turn to metaphysics? Miracles and magic, isn't that exactly what a Magical Girl specializes in?

Just as this thought arose in Lu Mingfei's mind, he felt his body sink into a quagmire, unable to move.

Right, this is the standard for the Familiar's appearance, that invincible Time Stop!

"Ta-da!" A dark figure appeared out of nowhere, Chu Ke providing his own sound effects and confetti: "You finally remembered you're a Magical Girl!"

Chu Ke pulled out a large book and began flipping through it.

"Are you looking for a way to reverse time?!"

"What is this?"

Lu Mingfei and Caesar asked at the same time.

This was Caesar's first time entering the so-called Time Stop space, but fortunately, he was very adaptable.

"First of all, this is Time Stop, Little Lu, you explain it." Chu Ke patted Lu Mingfei's head. "Secondly, I'm looking for how long it's been since I last appeared."

Chu Ke seemed to see something in the book and exclaimed, "Wow! Damn it, I haven't appeared for a full three and a half chapters! Who's the main character here?!"

Lu Mingfei's mouth twitched. He was used to his Familiar saying crazy things from time to time, so he asked, "Chu Ge, what's wrong with my friend Lao Tang? Can you take a look?"

"Huh? Where is he?" Chu Ke looked around and asked.

"The one embedded in the wall over there."

Chu Ke trotted over and pulled Norton, who was still in a Red Hot state, over.

"This one?"

"Not quite." Lu Mingfei shook his head. "He's not that red."

"It's okay, just play a few more rounds of that four-character game on your phone, and you'll be as red as him."

"That's not what I meant. I mean, he was a person before, how did he turn into a dragon?" Lu Mingfei corrected his slip of the tongue.

"Oh, you should have said so earlier. Him? Just think of it as two systems, one in energy-saving mode and one in full-power mode. Now, the full-power mode is running and has filled and overwritten the memory of the energy-saving mode."

Lu Mingfei understood this time: "Then can we retrieve the data, Master Chu?"

"Totally okay, just give me the PL Points, and after I fix it, you can even sell it to your classmate." Chu Ke said it wasn't a big problem, just pay up.

But Lu Mingfei said it was a big problem. He had used all the PL Points he had saved up to exchange for Brilliant Mode, and the Dragon Servants had only contributed 30 points just now, just enough to keep his wallet from looking thinner than paper.

After hearing this, Chu Ke waved his hand and said, "Simple, give me the Magic Wand."

Hearing this, Lu Mingfei, the nine-year compulsory education, sunflower under the red flag, subconsciously tightened the Magic Wand in his hand.

Your next sentence wouldn't be, "I've taken out a loan of 150,000 for you," would it?

Not giving me a ticket? I must fuck your balls until they're completely broken!