Lu Mingfei shuddered, retreating several steps and throwing up a thick barrier. For a moment, he could not get a word out.
This was a sneak attack. It had to be a sneak attack!
The man before him was Norton. Although Lu Mingfei knew at a glance that this Norton was Old Tang, he was no longer the Old Tang of his memories. His build had become burlier, his entire body iron-gray. His once-comical face was now expressionless, giving Lu Mingfei the feeling he had seen a ghost.
He suspected this was some trick Norton had learned from Old Tang's unreliable memories. To be fair, he had almost fallen for it just now. Those two words were too outrageous!
"Old Tang, are you putting on an act?" Lu Mingfei said from a distance.
"I have sinned. I beg you to punish me, Father." Norton pressed his head against the ground, his voice trembling. "But Constantine was innocent. Please show mercy, Father, and resurrect him."
Lu Mingfei did not dare approach, suspecting Norton was playing the fool because he could not win. He said from a distance, "Don't go calling random people Dad. I'm not even married yet."
Norton calling Gendo Ikari his father would have made more sense than calling Lu Mingfei that. He sat in a bronze cylinder that looked suspiciously like an Entry Plug, piloted a giant biological weapon, and, after his younger brother died, knelt and begged his father to spare him and show mercy, as though his fate were firmly in his father's hands.
Looking at the back of Norton's head, Lu Mingfei felt he saw a trace of Old Tang in him. Back at the gates of Cassell College, he had stood in front of Lu Mingfei like this too, his legs shaking as he