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Upon hearing the names of the other two professors, Gao Kui immediately and uncontrollably raised his head 45 degrees, mimicking the greeting gesture of Brother Crow from the movie "Young and Dangerous".
Professor Schneider's already ashen face beneath his mask darkened further, and he retorted in a hoarse voice, "I'm not named Rommel."
"Two of De San's three generals are standing in front of me, which is enough to make me raise my right arm at a 45-degree angle," Gao Kui muttered.
Guderian, Manstein, and Rommel were the three great generals of the German Empire, renowned throughout Europe.
Professor Guderian patiently advised: "It's best not to do this kind of thing in Europe and America, as it will more or less cause some trouble."
If you're an athlete, doing this in public could even result in a lifetime ban.
"Will I be punished by the school?" Gao Kui obediently lowered his arm and looked at Professor Manstein. If he remembered correctly, this was the dean of students.
“Punishment? What punishment? I didn’t see anything.” Professor Manstein looked bewildered.
Hybrids are a very complex group. They consider themselves human yet not human, and they have a sense of belonging to their homeland and culture yet they do not.
Some more sensitive mixed-race individuals might indeed be provoked by Gao Kui's actions, but Professor Manstein was clearly not among them.
"Let's get back to business."
Professor Guderian pointed to the students and teachers in Kassel around him: "We have already started rescue efforts for the students and teachers in the rubble. Based on the information we have so far, the situation is not too bad."
Although a third of the neighborhood was destroyed, fortunately no Kassel residents lost their lives. This was thanks to your initial conscious efforts to limit the scope of the battlefield, and also because school has not yet officially started and many students have not returned to campus.
The bad news is that there are quite a few people seriously injured and slightly injured, and the school hospital has been reduced to ruins. Admittedly, there are still plenty of medical supplies stored in the underground ice cellar, but we believe that there are better ways to treat the wounded at present.
And this method requires a little help from you..."
Professor Guderian made a gesture resembling the fury of a Korean.
"Understood." Gao Kui gave an OK sign and handed Longinus to Guderian. Wasn't he just trying to use someone else to do his dirty work?
Guderian carefully took Longinus with both hands and held it in his palms.
"We only needed to borrow your knife because of the emergency. We'll return it to you soon, and Kassel's medical logistics system will be back to normal soon."
Professor Schneider, in his hoarse voice, assured Gao Kui that it was only a temporary loan and that he would never try to take the knife.
From a collective perspective, this is extremely unreasonable. Keeping Longinus in the Kassel campus hospital or executive department indefinitely, and only returning him to Gao Kui when needed, would be more in the collective interest and would maximize Longinus's effectiveness.
But Kassel never truly practiced collectivism; rather, he embraced pure, naked individualism to the extreme.
The strongest weapons should remain in the hands of the strongest people.
Angers has a folding knife that can be described as a dragon-slaying weapon. Even if Angers does nothing all year round and the knife gets moldy, Kassel will not ask for the knife to go to the executive department. It will only be sent over when Angers needs it.
The same applies to Longinus.
One general's success is built on the bones of ten thousand. If a choice must be made, it doesn't matter how many cannon fodder die to fill the gaps, but the safety of the strongest fighting force must be guaranteed.
Even though Longinus would mostly be useless and gather dust in Gao Kui's hands, from the perspective of personal heroism, he still had to stay in Gao Kui's hands: no one could guarantee that a situation similar to today's would not suddenly happen again at some point.
Unless Gao Kui voluntarily hands the knife to someone else, then that's a different story.
Professor Manstein also assured him with certainty: "I will apply to the principal for a Nightingale badge for you, as well as the title of honorary head nurse of the nursing department of the Kassel main hospital, in recognition of your outstanding contributions to the post-disaster reconstruction work."
Of course, there are also generous scholarships and points awarded.
Professor Guderian was overjoyed; this was the content of his deal with the two professors. He would borrow a knife from Gao Kui on his behalf, and in return, they would jointly apply for honors and medals for Gao Kui with him.
The Nightingale Badge and the Honorary Head Nurse of the Nursing Department—this honor may sound quirky, but it comes with academic credits and scholarships, so as long as there are tangible benefits, that's enough.
Gao Kui immediately straightened his spine, gave a standard military salute, and his expression was as solemn and serious as that of a primary school student attending summer camp: "Serve the people!"
Manstein and Schneider were at a loss for words, not knowing how to communicate with a madman like Gao Kui. They could only return each other's salutes and go about their own business.
Professor Guderian then took out about half a pound of pills and a bottle of mineral water from his small backpack and urged Gao Kui to take the medicine quickly.
Gao Kui seemed a little dazed just now, and it had been about twenty hours since he last took his medicine, which was not a good sign.
Gao Kui took the pills and stuffed them into his mouth one by one, gulping down water. He had only drunk half of them when he saw Angers, Chu Zihang, Fingel, and Caesar standing in the distance, communicating about something.
To be honest, the people there didn't seem very close. It was probably the typical scene of leaders arriving at the disaster area after a disaster to warmly comfort the people and guide the work. But in Gao Kui's opinion, the people there seemed to have their arms around each other.
After a moment of confusion, Gao Kui felt a sudden urge to fire the Zepelion Ray at Angers. The image of Angers, with his spotless white hair and impeccable clothes, quickly shifted in Gao Kui's mind several times before transforming into the ancient monster Golza.
"What are you thinking about?" Angers, leading Caesar and the others, came over at some point and asked with a kind smile.
Gao Kui replied without hesitation: "I want to fire the Zepelion Ray and slap it right in your face."
Chu Zihang remained expressionless, while Caesar and the others were slightly taken aback. Angers simply smiled and continued to ask, "Why do you think that?"
Yes, why would you think that?
Caesar and the others couldn't fathom how Gao Kui's thinking had jumped to this point.
"There are often those kinds of plots in Ultraman, where the human host transforms into Ultraman the moment the plane crashes, fights and defeats the monster, and then runs back to the team from afar in the sunset."
For the other members of the defense team, the protagonist who transformed into Ultraman was missing and his fate was unknown during this period.
I remember in "Ultraman Tiga" there was a scene where a member of the GUTS team complained to Daigo, saying that he was never there when Ultraman Tiga appeared, which was a real shame.
Over time, the protagonist's identity as a human form was exposed.
But why doesn't anyone suspect that the monster was summoned and transformed by the protagonist? In many shows, another monster only appears after the protagonist disappears..."
Gao Kui gestured animatedly, rambling on and on. His incoherent rambling contained very little information, and some of his guesses and twists were completely unfounded.
But as a mental patient, Gao Kui couldn't help but think that way.
After listening for a while, Angers and the others finally deduced the origin of Gao Kui's wandering thoughts from a pile of useless information: Angers happened to be absent when John Wick and the other man appeared and Kassel fell into chaos.
“Principal, it’s not that our junior brother doubts you, but of course we have no right to question you either…” Fingel said shamelessly, taking the initiative to ask the question on behalf of everyone.
This is indeed a very big question mark.
After a series of explosions in Kassel, the group split up to search for the intruders and defuse the bombs, eventually converging in front of the library for a final battle with the two intruders.
It's highly unreasonable that Angers, as the principal of Kassel, didn't show up at all during this time. If Angers had been there, Gao Kui wouldn't have had to fight John Wick so hard, or even have needed to intervene at all.
But Caesar and the others kept their questions to themselves, just as Fingel said, they had no right to question Angers.
Angers remained unfazed: "The two people you encountered weren't the only ones who invaded Kassel. I was also fighting hard against other invaders on another battlefield."
“Your hair isn’t even messed up, are you the dashing Berbatov?” Gao Kui pointed to Angers’s neat hairstyle.
Berbatov is a striker who will join Manchester United in a few days. His most distinctive feature is that he runs very little, plays the entire game without breaking a sweat, and his hair remains perfectly styled, earning him the nickname "Handsome Guy".
Angers continued to explain without changing his expression: "My fighting style is not as sweeping and aggressive as yours young people. How should I describe it?"
My father and Chu Zihang's father are of the same mixed race.
"Oh~"
Gao Kui and Chu Zihang suddenly realized that Angers had already hinted quite clearly that his Word of Power was also Time Zero.
"Damn it, another high-level guy who plays with mechanics." Gao Kui muttered. He had been eyeing Chu Tianjiao's Word of Power for a long time. Anyone who saw it knew that the Word of Power that could affect time was incredibly powerful, cool, and stylish.
Gao Kui was envious, and Caesar was also envious, so much so that his fingernails dug into his flesh.
Time Zero is such a magical Word of Power that anyone can see the difference between Kamaitachi and Time Zero. When fighting against true super hybrids and ancient dragons, Kamaitachi doesn't even provide the slightest support.
Admittedly, besides a direct confrontation with a super hybrid, there are other ways to slay dragons, such as sniping or using modern firearms incorporating alchemy...
But a flaw is a flaw, a weakness is a weakness, and Caesar was not content to be a leader who could only sit in the back.
If he can't fight on the front lines and just watches others sacrifice themselves while saying things like, "They only need to kill the enemy, while we commanders have to think about many things," then what's the difference between him and those despicable old men in his family?
Caesar longed to be the undisputed king, a leader who would lead from the front and fight bravely against the enemy.
Time Zero can make up for his lack of direct combat ability, and Gao Kui's strange bloodline imprint and Longinus can also make up for it. Theoretically speaking, Gao Kui also plays by mechanics, and his stats are not much stronger than Caesar's.
But what about Kamaitachi?
It's like the Bug-type Pokémon that appears in every generation of Pokémon: Butterfree, Beedrill, Ariados, Scorbunny...
Theoretically, there is indeed a theory about the "home bug". It requires less experience and can quickly evolve into the second and third stages. If its skill pool and secondary attributes are good, it can be very useful in the process of clearing the story.
However, for competitive players who mainly focus on PvP, the early-game Bug is a useless Pokémon used to complete their Pokédex. Unless it's the Paralympics in the early stages of the competitive rules, competitive players will not consider the early-game Bug.
Evolve a bit more before you come back!
"Time Zero is indeed a Word of Power capable of creating miracles, unlike most Words of Power, which are useless when facing second-generation or even third-generation or higher dragons."
Angers keenly sensed Caesar's disappointment and patted him on the shoulder: "However, the vast majority of hybrids do not slay dragons through Word of Power, even I, who possess Time Zero, am no exception."
Physical prowess, skill, intelligence, alchemical weapons, and impeccable timing and planning—all these factors combined enabled the hybrid to achieve the feat of slaying the dragon despite his inferior individual combat strength.
Caesar remained unmoved. Having personally experienced his own weakness, he could no longer accept Angers' empty platitudes.
Differences in incantations and bloodlines are bloody and decisive. Unless a dragon has just hatched, only super hybrids can kill dragons of the third generation or higher in a direct confrontation.
After a pause, Angers added, "And the bloodline level that determines all of this is not without the possibility of being improved through acquired technology or means."
Caesar's deep blue eyes suddenly lit up.
Angers smiled and beckoned to everyone: "That's for later. Now, my children, how about we have dinner together after you've rested a bit?"
"Thanks to Jesus, the dining hall and dormitory area remained intact during this disaster, so we don't have to sleep in the mud on empty stomachs."
"Thanks, Jesus."
"Thanks, Jesus."
"Thanks, Jesus."
Caesar, Gao Kui, and Chu Zihang all praised Jesus: Caesar's mother was also a believer.
Whatever you do, whether you speak or act, do it in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. — 1 Thessalonians 5:18
When Chinese people imitate foreigners to express shock, they often say "Oh my god!" This is not an incorrect expression, but it is somewhat inaccurate in reality.
Aside from the most solemn and formal occasions, Christians praise and thank Jesus far more often than they praise God.
When expressing shock, they tend to say "Oh, Jesus" rather than "Oh my god."
Chapter 110 Half-Blood Monarch
Kassel's humiliating defeat has become the biggest topic of conversation in the real world over the past week. Kassel hasn't suffered such a setback since the Greenland-Iceland incident.
Unlike the Greenland and Iceland incidents, Kassel did not suppress information this time, but instead made as much known information as possible public.
John Wick, the world's number one bounty hunter who single-handedly stormed into Kassel, is very likely a sub-species or even a dragon king disguised as a human.
There is absolutely no possibility that it is a super hybrid.