Dragon Clan: They're all insane, and you still want me to slay dragons?

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Mai Shude stepped into the elevator with her long, shapely legs, followed closely by John. The elevator doors closed, and the car sank deeper into the ground.

Chapter 104: The Infiltrated Investigator

The elevator went down to the fourth basement level.

The moment the two stepped out of the elevator, the crystal chandelier on the ceiling of the fourth basement floor suddenly lit up, its bright light dispelling the gloomy atmosphere.

Looking around, the magnificent hall is filled with dozens of carved cherry wood bookshelves, displaying tens of thousands of ancient books and documents, each with a brass inscription plaque.

"Can you find what we're looking for?"

John Wick looked around: "There are at least tens of thousands of documents here. Finding what we need is like looking for a needle in a haystack."

"If I were the one looking for someone, the situation would be different."

After glancing at the different inscribed plaques on the bookshelf, Mai walked towards a bookshelf placed in a corner: "Do you remember what I told you before about your and your brother's true identities?"

"The reincarnation of the Dragon King?"

"That's right. Based on our speculation, you and your brother are one of the four kings in the legend of the dragon race: the King of Bronze and Fire."

You were reincarnated as a human, while your brother is probably still an egg, sleeping in some dragon tomb, in Nibelungen, and hasn't woken up yet.

"Isn't he one of the four great monarchs? My brother and I are two different people."

"Twins, indeed. We speculate that all four kings were twins."

John Wick quickly accepted the idea of ​​being a twin. He had seen all sorts of strange and unusual things over the years, but he still couldn't quite accept that he was one of the four kings of the dragon race.

"Even though you said that dragons can freely change their skeletal structure and can be reborn in human form, I still find it hard to believe."

I don't even have any memories of when I was the Dragon King.

John Wick shook his head. He could accept the idea that he was a half-blood. Over the past four years, he had met many half-bloods and Deadpools, and had some understanding of the world of dragons and half-bloods.

But the idea of ​​the Dragon King being reincarnated is a bit of an exaggeration.

Mai Shude said in a serious tone, "The reason you haven't become the Dragon King yet is because you haven't met the person who will give you three moles."

"Miss Mai, I've seen that Hong Kong and Taiwan movie too," John Wick reminded me expressionlessly. Trying to fool me?

"how do you feel?"

"It's a very good movie, but I don't think that's the point."

"Okay, I just wanted to use Sun Wukong from 'A Chinese Odyssey' as an analogy. The reason you think you are still a human, a hybrid, is because you haven't awakened the Dragon King's memories yet."

"The day you awaken the memories of the Dragon King, you will no longer be the bounty hunter John Wick, but one of the four great dragon kings who have returned to the world."

"The question is, on what day will I awaken the Dragon King's memories?"

"Who knows?"

Jiude Mai shrugged, stopped at a bookshelf, and ran her slender fingers over the documents and ancient books on the shelf: "This is it. The inscription on the plaque reads 'King of Bronze and Fire' in Hebrew."

Let's look together; all the relevant documents and files about you and your brother should be here.

Mai Shude casually pulled out a document, opened it, and quickly flipped through it, reading ten lines at a glance.

John Wick, following the example of Mai, pulled out an ancient book from the top left of the bookshelf, opened it, and then suddenly froze: "I still don't know what information we're looking for."

"Location: If the ancient books or documents have any special locations marked, then that's probably the document we're looking for."

"clear."

The quiet hall was filled with the sound of pages turning. John Wick and Mai Shude were both flipping through the pages very quickly. At such a fast reading speed, they certainly couldn't remember anything, but they didn't need to.

Find that document and take it with you.

"found it!"

Mai Shude, who was quickly flipping through the documents, suddenly brightened up and waved the documents in her hand: "We're quite lucky. We don't even need to decrypt them. Kassel College has already started investigating the Bronze and Fire King..."

John Wick took the document and quickly read it, skimming through it.

As Mai Shude stated, the Kassel College has been investigating the Lord of Bronze and Fire for several years, and this document is the investigation report.

The report states that Kassel College has ruled out only two locations for the hidden egg of the Bronze and Fire King: the ruins of Baidi City in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in China, and the ruins of Yubi City in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province in China.

The former is a historical city built by Gongsun Shu at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, while the latter is a historical city from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period where Emperor Shenwu Gao Huan left behind 100,000 skeletons and returned empty-handed.

Centuries have passed, and the once historic city has become ruins, but the location will never change.

After quickly flipping through the document in his hand, John Wick handed it back to Mai Shude: "We don't even need to take this document with us."

Although John Wick is an American, he has one-eighth Chinese ancestry and has a fairly good understanding of Chinese culture and geography.

Both Baidi City and Yubi City are ancient ruins. They can't be hidden forever. I only found these two places in Kassel. Just remember these two locations.

“It seems that’s true.” Mai Shude nodded, put the document back on the shelf, and then pulled out another document to read.

"By the way, why these two locations?"

"Didn't I say before that dragons can be reincarnated as humans? Many famous historical figures were actually dragons or hybrids."

Gongsun Shu, who established a separatist regime in Shu during the late Western Han Dynasty, Yuwen Tai, the actual ruler of Western Wei during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, or Wei Xiaokuan, the garrison commander of Yubi City, were all very likely reincarnations of the Dragon King.

In other words, Baidi City and Yubi City might have been the territory of the King of Bronze and Fire long ago. It makes perfect sense to place the reincarnated egg in familiar territory, doesn't it?

"Very reasonable."

John Wick nodded and asked, "Didn't we already find what we were looking for? Why do we need to keep searching?"

"What if we find something else? Don't just stand there, come with me and search. Once we're done, let's get out of here. Those little dragons outside might find us here at any time."

John Wick and Mai Shude quickly flipped through the remaining documents on the bookshelf, this time at an even faster pace, almost reading a hundred lines at a glance.

Perhaps they were reading too fast and missed something, because even after they had gone through all the documents and ancient books on the shelf, they still couldn't find any useful information.

"What should we do? Keep searching?"

“Let’s go.” Without any hesitation, Mai Shude turned and headed towards the elevator: “I have a friend who is very good at stock trading. She said that the most important thing in stock trading is discipline.”

In other words, regardless of whether the stock price rises or falls, you must manage your funds and set stop-loss lines. Never be blinded by greed, or you will lose everything sooner or later if you lose your rationality.

The kind of discipline she described applies equally well to the current situation.

With that, Mai Shude pressed the button for the first floor.

“I thought you would go check out the main control room on the sixth basement level,” John Wick said, quite surprised.

Kassel College is an absolute behemoth, as evidenced by the tens of thousands of documents and ancient books displayed in its library.

John Wick was only looking for the document that recorded the location of the Dragon King's egg, but that didn't mean that other documents and information were unimportant.

"I do think so."

Mai Shude sighed, "But we also need to have that ability. The protection level of the main control room in Kassel is higher than that of the fourth and fifth basement levels."

After descending to the sixth basement level, you still have to pass through about ten alloy security doors. Each door requires countless decryption processes, including retinal scans, voiceprints, fingerprints, and digital passwords. The security level is many times higher than that of the Pentagon's main control room, which is beyond our capabilities.

If we trigger any alarms, it will attract those little dragon people, and then we'll have trouble figuring out where to go.

As they talked, the elevator went up to the ground floor. The two stepped out of the elevator, and the quiet, elegant library stood in stark contrast to the chaotic scene outside.

The two were pressed against the wall, about to leave as they had come in, when the elevator doors suddenly closed, the elevator car plummeted, countless red lights flashed wildly, and a buzzing alarm blared through the sky.

"leave!"

Mai cursed in Cantonese, no longer caring about concealing her whereabouts. She picked up a long bench, smashed the colorful, Victorian-style crystal window next to her, and leaped out of the window with John Wick.

There's no reason for a thief to use the main entrance, especially when they've already been exposed and every second counts.

Landing on the lawn outside the window, the two quickly got up and looked around. Kassel students, dressed in green school uniforms and black and dark red club uniforms, surged towards them like a tide.

Gao Kui led the way, followed by Caesar carrying Dick Tudor, Chu Zihang carrying Murasame, Lancelot carrying a Scottish greatsword, and A-level students such as Chen Motong and Isabel, and then Lionheart Society members, student council members and ordinary students.

The gang leader stood at the front, flanked by the capable double-flower red sticks, followed by the 49-year-olds favored by the leader, while the blue lantern dwarfs who weren't in the gang's inner circle surrounded the outermost edge, waving flags and shouting.

It's just like those gangsters in Hong Kong movies who are all talk and no action. If they can't reach an agreement, they swarm each other and sweep across two streets, then stomp on each other's heads and defecate and urinate on each other's heads.

Gao Kui drew Longinus and pointed it at the two men, shouting with a strong sense of江湖气 (jianghu qi, a kind of chivalrous and unruly spirit): "Damn it! After digging three feet into the ground, we finally found you two rotten eggs and tomatoes!"

"Kill these two bastards!"

"Hey, don't think I've never watched Hong Kong movies."

Jiu Demai glared at Gao Kui: "Normally, shouldn't we discuss the numbers first? Why skip that process and fast-forward to killing people? This is against the rules of the martial arts world."

"According to the rules of the underworld, we're killing people right now, what's with all the talk about rules... Hey, pretty lady, haven't we met somewhere before?"

After rambling on for a while, Gao Kui took a closer look and finally recognized the beautiful woman opposite him, dressed in a classic undercover investigator outfit with a pair of long, straight, and shapely legs. She looked vaguely familiar.

Mai Shude gritted her teeth and reminded him, "FZ City, taxi!"

Although her appearance as a taxi driver wasn't particularly stunning last time, Mai Shude felt that her beauty and figure were enough to leave a deep impression on Gao Kui—the kind that would make him fall in love at first sight.

Gao Kui only has a vague impression of her now, which hurts Jiu De Mai quite a bit.

"Oh~"

Gao Kui suddenly realized, and looked Jiu De Mai, who was dressed as an undercover investigator, up and down: "I remember the last time we met, you were a taxi driver."

Why would someone abandon a perfectly legitimate profession and turn to shady dealings as an undercover investigator?

"Investigate your sister!" Mai Shude was so angry that her stomach hurt, but she had no way to refute it. To make it easier to infiltrate, her outfit today really looked like that of an undercover investigator in a local movie.

Caesar also scrutinized Mai Shude: "She looks very familiar."

"Does even a nobleman from the Gattuso family use this kind of flirting technique?" Mai Shude sneered.

“You are indeed very beautiful and have a great figure, but you’re not my type.” Caesar shook his head.

No one can deny Mai Shude's beauty. Apart from Black people's preference for large buttocks that could kill someone and thick lips like sausages, the aesthetic standards of other races around the world are almost the same.

Mai Shude is tall, nearly 1.8 meters, and her infiltrator-style tight-fitting combat suit perfectly accentuates her figure. Her bright and beautiful features are like a flower in spring, making her an absolute beauty.

In all of Kassel, only a handful of girls, including Chen Motong, could rival Jiude Mai.

But, if you don't like it, you just don't like it.

Perhaps fearing that a girl might misunderstand, Caesar emphasized again: "I'm serious, you do look very familiar."

Mai knew why Caesar thought she looked familiar, but there was no point in revealing her identity right now, so she made up a story: "Maybe you've seen me in a dream?"

"I knew she must have had some ulterior motive for approaching you last time."