Dragon Raja: Dragon Slaying Begins with System Hosting

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"No, no." Old Tang immediately shook his head repeatedly.

"No problem, then it's going to be a further development?" Xia Mi crossed her legs, relaxed her body, and casually said to Lao Tang, "Although Lao Tang, you're not incredibly handsome, your wealth and work experience are all things that can be converted into personal charm. It's normal for Xiao Yuan to have feelings for you."

"Don't talk nonsense, I didn't, I didn't," Old Tang immediately denied in a panic.

"What's there to be embarrassed about? As the sage said, food and sex are human nature." Xia Mi said casually, "You seem so nervous, is this your first time experiencing something like this? Just like a virgin, feeling awkward and at a loss when he's with a girl. By the way, when you lived in the US before, you lived in Brooklyn, which is a well-known poor area in New York. Plus, you're not handsome, so you probably never got any girls' attention."

Old Tang's eyes widened, feeling like his underwear was about to be exposed. He changed the subject, saying, "No, how do you know so much? Where did you learn this? Or is it from your own experience?"

"I deduced it using my clever and intelligent brain." Xia Mi pointed to her head. "Everything in the world has a trace. As long as you know enough knowledge, even without personal experience, you can make a logical deduction theory out of thin air. Although there may be some minor deviations when integrating it into reality, it doesn't affect the overall situation. And if there are mistakes, you can just correct them."

"Well, you're really amazing." Old Tang praised Xia Mi, saying, "No wonder you can be Boss Lu's right-hand man. You were able to live a good life even after losing both your parents years ago. By the way, what do you think of our Boss Lu?"

“Let’s just sit and watch.” Xia Mi said casually, “Boss Lu’s thoughts are a bit complicated. If we deduce from his actions, it’s not hard to figure out his purpose. But if we take a holistic view, it’s hard to predict his final outcome.”

This question lingered not only in the minds of Su Enxi and Lu Mingze, but also in Xia Mi's mind.

“Sometimes I feel that Boss Lu is not human…” Old Tang said, but then swallowed his words back.

It would be disloyal of me to reveal what he's thinking.

He stopped speaking halfway through both of his sentences. Xia Mi stroked her chin and guessed for a moment, then said, "Because someone as powerful and influential as our Boss Lu didn't equip himself with enough accessories, things that could prove his glorious past?"

The situation around Lu Mingfei... at first glance seems rather ordinary, as if he were doing the kind of thing where a great man lives in seclusion in the city.

Despite being so wealthy and powerful, he has always been extremely low-key, rarely showing off. He wears ordinary clothes, eats ordinary meals, and even buys them himself at the market. He attends an ordinary elite high school and gets an ordinary first place in his grade... It's hard to believe that this is the behavior of a top talent who killed the Dragon King.

Her words revealed most of what Old Tang was thinking, and Old Tang nodded.

"Old Tang, you rely purely on your talent to make a living. If you didn't have this talent, or if you hadn't been running wildly down the path you're good at, you probably would have lived the rest of your life the same way."

Xia Mi glanced at Old Tang. If Norton hadn't intervened, Old Tang's life would have been just like that, just like when Xia Mi caught him in Japan before, a completely ordinary person.

"emmm..."

Old Tang felt a pang of hurt when he heard this, because what Xia Mi said was true. How could he not know about his own affairs?

Without encountering Lu Mingfei who ignited his talent for alchemy, and without the extraordinary encounter with Norton, the King of Bronze and Fire, lurking within him, he might have been just an ordinary, poor Chinese-American in Brooklyn, New York.

The work he does is quite dangerous. If we exclude the possibility of changing industries, even if he does improve his skills in the future, he will probably live the kind of life that bounty hunters or assassins lead—spending money when they have it and earning money when they don't.

Xia Mi said, "Everyone who does great things will know very clearly what they want, the importance of things, and the cost and consequences of things. The fact that Boss Lu doesn't care about other things now doesn't mean he's weird. It just means that he thinks these things will only hinder his progress now, or that these things are irrelevant to him right now."

There really is a difference in intelligence in the world. People can all think, but the depth of their thinking varies. Coupled with differences in execution ability, it is easy to divide people into different classes.

"Ahem... Let's not talk about this anymore." Old Tang coughed, interrupting Xia Mi, because he had a feeling that Xia Mi was referring to him.

Anyway, he's just an ordinary person who relies purely on his talent to make a living, and can only rely on God to feed him.

"Hmm." Xia Mi nodded, stopping her mouth from continuing.

She wasn't really having a serious chat with Lao Tang; she was thinking about her own things and was just casually talking to him.

"I'm going back to study alchemy first," Old Tang said, getting up.

"Oh." Xia Mi nodded, but as Lao Tang was leaving, she called him back and asked, "Wait a minute, by the way, why do you like Xiao Yuan?"

Human books say that liking is a feeling, but Xia Mi really has a hard time understanding what this thing is.

Old Tang was taken aback by the question: "Huh???"

He glanced at Xia Mi, who was looking at him, and a thought suddenly flashed through his mind: No way! Could it be? Not necessarily, after all, it's a very normal thing to fall in love with someone.

"If we exclude situations where one is attracted to someone's looks, falls in love at first sight, or gradually gets used to the other person, there should be some moments when one suddenly notices the other person's shining qualities."

Xia Mi asked, "You had almost no interaction with Xiao Yuan before, but you quickly grew to like her after only a few days of getting to know her. And it wasn't the kind of greasy old man looking at a young girl. It must have been something that gently touched the soft spot in your heart in an instant."

"emmm..."

It was that feeling of having his underwear pulled down again. Old Tang was speechless, but since Xia Mi had asked such detailed questions, he thought for a moment and then said, "Even if you ask me to describe it accurately, I can't."

"Hmm..." Xia Mi stroked her chin and said, "Could you describe the specific moment?"

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Chapter 220 Mopping

Old Tang, with a strange thought in mind, sincerely told Xia Mi, "Actually, that moment was quite ordinary. When I went to Xiao Yuan for a massage, she felt the calluses on my hands and thought that I earned money through hard labor, and that going to a high-end massage parlor was too wasteful of money. She told me to save some money."

“In that instant, I felt the warmth of humanity. She was the first person to care about me like that, so I was very touched.”

After hearing what he said, Xia Mi nodded, and after calculating the specific situation, she felt that she had learned something.

She asked Lao Tang this question not because she was moved by someone at a certain moment, but because she wanted to learn this skill... It's that simple, not as complicated as Lao Tang thought.

Old Tang went back to work, and Xia Mi didn't stay there either.

Old Tang definitely has problems, but now is not the time to take action. Although Lu Mingfei has left the city, he is not too far away from here.

She had been cautious for over a thousand years, only making a move when she was absolutely certain of victory; otherwise, her millennia of forbearance would be in vain...

It didn't matter if she died; she was just afraid that her brother wouldn't have a good end either.

Currently, her only safest option is this one, which can only be used as a last resort.

She would only choose this method without hesitation when she was truly desperate.

The success rate is high, but the cost is also high. She would not choose that path if there were any other methods to try.

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Lu Mingfei was completely unaware that Xia Mi had gone to meet with Lao Tang in the middle of the day.

After all, given Xia Mi and Lao Tang's identities, their meeting wasn't an extremely sensitive matter, and no conflict occurred during their meeting. Therefore, no one was too surprised, nor did they report it to Lu Mingfei out of the blue.

He was soaking in a large hot spring pool, and as his body became extremely relaxed, it began to float slightly uncontrollably.

But after glancing at the system's analysis log, he immediately controlled his body to begin sinking.

[...The density and weight of an average person's body can indeed help them float on water after they can retain air in their lungs, at least allowing their head to surface...]

However, given the body density and weight of hybrids, this is absolutely impossible...

Without this analysis, Lu Mingfei might not have noticed this point... After all, who would care about such details?

However, his little actions did not attract the attention of the three women. Su Enxi ate the fruit on the plate, then pushed it to Jiu De Mai and said, "Let's switch fruit plates."

After glancing at the remaining food on the other person's fruit plate, Mai rolled her eyes and said, "You ate all the good stuff, and you're leaving the bad stuff to trade with me, huh? You got all the benefits?"

Su Enxi spread her hands and said, "Don't be so absolute. Our relationship shouldn't be ruined by these two bites, right?"

"for you."

Lu Mingfei casually pushed the fruit plate he had barely eaten to her.

"Thank you, Boss Lu."

Su Enxi thanked her happily.

"Soaking in the hot spring doesn't seem to give me any special feeling," Lu Mingfei said.

It seemed no different from taking a bath, except that the water in the hot spring was a little hotter than in a bathtub. Other than that, he really couldn't feel any difference between the two.

Mai Shude reached out and touched her long, wet hair, which was still damp in the water. She put it up and said, "I didn't feel anything special. It's the same as soaking in hot water. If you're not the kind of person who really enjoys traveling or experiencing new things, then the person you're soaking in the hot spring with is more important."

She was wearing a swimsuit, but when she raised her hand to put her hair up, her figure was completely exposed.

"So that's what it's like..."

As Lu Mingfei answered, he glanced at it and then looked away.

He couldn't resist taking a look at the system's analysis logs that he had previously hidden.

[...A person's self-esteem, shyness, and emotions cannot be completely erased by anyone. If they can, it generally means that person has greater ambitions...]

[...For example, when South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was a teenager, he sold fruit at a stall in Itaewon. Faced with the gazes of girls, he couldn't completely suppress his pride and could only pull down his hat brim...]

Sigh, the system's inner strength is something no human can possess. Even though I've already set a goal and should be facing it head-on, I still can't help feeling shy when I actually face it.

However, Lu Mingfei found some comfort in the system's analysis, which is only human nature!

Mai Shude sank silently into the water, her beautiful figure disappearing without a splash, like a fish in the water.

Finally, she floated up beside Lu Mingfei amidst the rising steam and asked, "Mr. Lu, how do you feel about soaking in the hot spring?"

Lu Mingfei thought for a moment and said, "Would it be a bit disruptive to the atmosphere if I said I felt it was a bit of a waste of time?"

After all, he doesn't really like hot springs or travel. If he didn't have a specific purpose for being here, neither he nor the system would have come to a hot spring for no reason. He would rather just lie down on the bed and take a nap.

"That really ruins the atmosphere." Mai rolled her eyes. "Aren't the three of us beauties worth your attention, Boss Lu?"

Lu Mingfei said with a straight face, "We're all acquaintances now, why would you be thinking about this and that, or those irrelevant things?"

“What you said makes a lot of sense.” Mai Shude scooped her hand into the water and splashed it on Lu Mingfei’s face. “But you’re mistaken. I mean, is it possible for us to play some other games for fun?”

Lu Mingfei immediately closed his mouth and eyes while she was shoveling water. Only after being splashed in the face by the hot spring water did he open his eyes and say, "Like, having a water fight?"

As he spoke, his hands underwater began to move, and as soon as he finished speaking, he splashed a large handful of water at Mai Shude.

Without hesitation, Mai Jiude reached out and slashed at the water's surface. The splash created a curtain of water that blocked Lu Mingfei's handful of water...

Lu Mingfei was somewhat surprised to see this scene. She had never thought of this kind of defensive method of water fighting, and it was really cool!

Seeing that the two were about to start a water fight, Su Enxi, holding the fruit platter in her hand, swam to the other side without hesitation.

She carefully held the fruit plate high in her hands to avoid being splashed by the ripples from their water fight.

Away from the strife, she came to Zero's side, picked up a cashew nut, and handed it to Zero, who had been quietly soaking in the hot spring with her eyes closed.

"Eat?"

Hearing this, Zero opened her eyes and mouth. Su Enxi fed her cashews and turned to the two people over there, saying, "Don't come over here! We just want to soak in the hot spring and eat in peace."

"understood!"

After saying this, Mai Shude dived into the water to avoid the water that Lu Mingfei was slapping at her.

Lu Mingfei was also somewhat embarrassed at this moment, because he had given the wrong answer to Jiu De Mai's question. Damn it, it was clearly Jiu De Mai who had asked the question in the first place...

The hot spring pool was deep enough for the two of them to have a big battle underwater.

The two of them did not actually hit the other side and disturb Su Enxi and Ling.