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092 The Choice of Fate
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
The sound of Unit-00 self-destructing came over. Lu Mingfei looked up and saw that the sky had turned dark, and the Sixteenth Apostle had transformed back into a ring.
It split open, turning into a band of light that shot straight toward Lu Mingfei.
"Snap"
The apostle collided with the AT field, bursting out a dazzling white flash that sprayed in all directions along the field, as beautiful as an iron tree in bloom in mid-air.
"Brother, I hit him!" Lu Mingfei heard a familiar voice coming from behind him and turned around in a daze.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
It was Old Tang. He started the engine and slammed on the gas without shifting gears, and the Bugatti Veyron's W16 engine roared like an explosion.
"Thank you so much, I'm off!" The Bugatti's tires screeched violently against the ground, and it accelerated away into the night.
Constantine instantly split the ring of molten iron into countless scorching droplets, which shot continuously toward Lu Mingfei. Lu Mingfei immediately expanded the range of the AT field, cutting the AT field into the ground to prevent the falling molten iron from flowing over.
Liquid iron droplets hit the AT force field and fell down the hexagonal light membrane to the ground. The molten iron, which was thousands of degrees hot, began to cool the moment it touched the ground, turning from white to orange and then from orange to red.
The solidified metal emitted a crackling sound as countless molten iron layers solidified one after another, with the molten iron flowing up from behind to cover the front, forming a wall that separated Lu Mingfei and Constantine.
Constantine flapped its wings and soared into the sky. Lu Mingfei looked up and saw a burning trail chasing after the winding mountain road.
"Nono, get out of here quickly, I'm going to withdraw my defenses," Lu Mingfei said to Nono.
"Go ahead." Nono ran along the road. The iron wall left by Constantine had started a wildfire, and thick smoke began to rise all around.
Using the AT field as a springboard, Lu Mingfei leaped into the air and chased after Constantine.
"Don't come any closer!!"
Old Tang suddenly noticed a bright spot in the rearview mirror. He turned around and saw that it was the dragon chasing after him!
"Don't come any closer—ah!!!"
The Bugatti Veyron was at a huge disadvantage on the curves. Old Tang watched helplessly as the dragon in the sky got closer and closer to him, silently praying, "Lu Mingfei, brother, come save me!"
Lu Mingfei watched Constantine, who was flying in a straight line, stop in mid-air. He raised his hand, and the AT field on his chest emerged one by one in descending order of size, several, then a dozen, connecting end to end, forming a miniature version of the laser lens of the Thunder Angel.
The beam of light squeezed out from the innermost lens, passing through the lens array layer by layer, expanding with each layer, and by the time it burst out of the last lens, it had become a beam of light half a meter in diameter, cutting through the night sky and piercing Constantine as he flew toward the highway.
Constantine let out a painful groan, struggling to maintain his gliding posture, and crashed down in front of Old Tang.
The Bugatti's tires melted, and the rims screeched against the ground. Old Tang felt the car was about to explode from the heat, so he quickly opened the door and ran out.
"elder brother……"
Tears streamed down Old Tang's face. He wanted to run, but his feet seemed rooted to the spot and he wouldn't move.
"I've never seen you before," Old Tang said, wiping away tears. "I really have never seen you before."
When he saw the copper jar in the ice cellar, he felt only nervousness and excitement. He didn't know that the jar contained this thing, and he didn't know that this thing would call him brother.
But the tears wouldn't stop. He squatted down, covered his face with both hands, and his shoulders trembled. Something deep in his memory, like a bamboo shoot breaking through the hard soil that had been frozen all winter, had finally emerged.
It felt so familiar. It was happening again. Fires were raging all around, and thick smoke engulfed the city. He stood on the city wall, searching for something.
What are you looking for? Old Tang looked around, trying to find the tall pole, trying to find the boy.
That was his younger brother. His brother had great strength, but he was too naive and cowardly, and easily deceived.
Old Tang looked at the broken dragon in front of him, staring at its face.
The firelight reflecting off the entire mountain illuminated his pale face as he smiled wearily at Old Tang, "Brother..."
"Aaaaaaahhhhh!!"
He clutched his head with both hands, desperately pulling at his hair, knelt on the ground, and cried out in despair to the dark night sky.
"younger brother!"
He remembered, he remembered everything.
It turns out that for the past two thousand years, whether you were asleep or awake, you just wanted to find me, but by the time you found me, I had already forgotten what you looked like.
By the time I remembered what you looked like, you were already dead.
A thread in Lu Mingfei's mind snapped with a "snap".
Chekhov's gun fired at that moment.
Old Tang is Norton.
The four monarchs, twins on the throne, the elder brother of the King of Bronze and Fire.
When Constantine emerged from the ice cellar, he hadn't killed a single student. He had endured all the attacks, traversing the entire swamp, all to find his brother.
On this very road, he also explained the theory of "Chekhov's Gun" to Nono.
So, this is actually the third act.
My acquaintance with Lao Tang began with that gun hanging on the wall.
Old Tang stood up. His face was still the same: droopy eyebrows, a cheerful expression. But the look in his eyes was different.
Those eyes held both majesty and a deep-seated hatred that had lingered from before Christ to the present day.
"Old Tang! It's me!" Lu Mingfei shouted to the Dragon King. "Do you remember me?"
Norton stared at Lu Mingfei, his enraged golden eyes glaring at him as if he wanted to swallow him whole.
Blazing flames rose into the night sky around Norton's body, exploding high in the air as if wings were spreading out there.
He looked back once in mid-air, then flew away.
Only Lu Mingfei remained on the highway, along with that broken body.
Lu Mingfei slowly knelt down, his knees landing in the ashes, his skin scalding with a "hiss".
He reached out and gently touched Constantine's face.
"I'm sorry." His hand was burned, and blood fell onto Constantine's face, making a hissing sound.
He remembered that when Unit 3 was parasitized by the Angel, a voice on the communications channel cried out his name.
"I'm sorry... Mingfei..."
Ouch, Shinji, it hurts!
Tears streamed down Lu Mingfei's face. He had lost a friend and gained an enemy.
Why, why is the world like this? We have invincible abilities, but why are we still so powerless?
"Brother, why are you still cramming people in here?"
Lu Mingze!
Lu Mingfei suddenly looked up and saw Lu Mingze forcibly grabbing Constantine's hand, saying fiercely, "Don't you have your own brother? Why are you trying to steal my brother?"
Constantine knelt on the ground and wailed, "I want to find my brother!"
Lu Mingze rubbed his temples in frustration: "How did you end up here looking for your brother...?"