Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 126 The Dead Rose

Fingal lay on the white sheet, staring at the overhead lights.

The pure white square room, with no female nurses in nurse uniforms, and no visitors visiting him, was very quiet, like a quiet forest, with the windows half-opened, and the thick century-old sycamore tree could be seen through the night.

The sycamore tree in early autumn has not completely withered, but the green leaves are light yellow, and the water is gradually lost. After a few weeks, the dark green sycamore leaves will be dry and dry, falling from the branches one by one, and the branches will become bare ,very ugly.

After the exuberance of summer, all that remains is the withering of autumn and the dead silence of winter.

Fingel was wearing a white hospital gown, huddled under the quilt, with a plastic ring on his hand, and an infusion tube on his right wrist, waiting for the transparent liquid in the bag to be delivered. He was chewing something, and there were many in the trash can. Candy wrappers without labels.

Pale light bulbs were reflected in the gray-blue pupils, just like his pale and bloodless skin. In the blood vessels, thick blood flowed slowly, delivering nutrients to his cells.

Suddenly, a knock on the door broke the silence.

Fingel turned his head, half sat up with his left hand propped on the bed board, and swallowed what he was chewing in one gulp.

Lu Mingfei stepped into Ward 201 lightly. The hospital needs to keep quiet. This is a public place. Although Fingel lived in it, he didn't know if there were any new patients.

It seems that there is no, there is still only Fingel in this ward.

Before coming here, Lu Mingfei went to the cafeteria to get two steak rib sandwiches and two glasses of iced Coke, which were the meals Fingel ordered.

Lu Mingfei was carrying two pure black cardboard boxes, which were almost as big as a milk crate when put together. Two glasses of iced Coke were packed in plastic bags.

"This thing is too expensive, it costs 100 dollars each." Lu Mingfei put the box and Coke on the side cabinet and sat on the bench.

"Then take a look at what the ingredients are." Fingel stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, "This is a single beef rib, selected from the best fat cattle on the west coast, it's totally worth the price."

"Come on, you've been thinking about eating all day long." Lu Mingfei inserted the straw into the Coke cup, just about to pass it to Finger, when he stopped suddenly and took the cup back.

"Wait, can you eat these? Don't you need to keep your mouth shut?" Lu Mingfei looked at the little nameless IV drip left, "Didn't you just put it here for the IV drip, don't eat these high-calorie foods later and give the whole What's wrong."

Lu Mingfei doesn't know much about medicine, but who hasn't been sick since he grew up?After all, I went to the hospital.

When I go to a small medical clinic when I have a cold, the doctor will say, avoid spicy food, avoid smoke and so on.

This beef rib sandwich is smoked and grilled. There are three pieces of fruit wood smoked bread, a whole large grilled beef rib, and some pickled cucumbers and secret sauce. It is super large and cannot be assembled together. Put them in a cardboard box, and the waiter said to put them together when eating.

Lu Mingfei didn't think too much about it when he bought it, and he didn't realize it until he walked into the hospital.

"Don't worry about it, I can definitely eat it. Birds are almost fading out of my mouth after eating medical meals these days." Fingel skillfully pulled out the infusion tube, dipped a cotton swab with brown iodine and pressed it lightly, He climbed off the bed and reached out to grab the box.

"Wait, I'll ask the doctor." Lu Mingfei grabbed the box into his hands first.

"Are you so distrustful of your brother?" Fingel sat back on the hospital bed helplessly.

"It's because I trust you so much that I want to ask the doctor." Lu Mingfei took down the white phone that was within reach by the hospital bed.

"What kind of logic is this? If you believe me, you should give me that box." Fingel stared eagerly, sitting with his back against the wall.

Lu Mingfei didn't answer, because the call was already connected.

"Hello, what do you need?" A gentle young female voice came from the phone.

"Hello, this is Ward 201. I would like to ask, is there any taboo for Fingal in bed 1? Today he asked me to bring him a steak rib sandwich and iced Coke. The ribs are smoked and there are pickles in the bread, can he eat it?"

"This. Please wait a moment." The young female voice paused for a moment, and the sound of mouse clicking and typing on the keyboard could be heard.

"No problem." She said: "Mr. Fingal is just a little anemic, and there is nothing taboo about eating."

"Okay, thank you." Lu Mingfei nodded and hung up the phone.

"Look, let me just say it." Fingel spread his hands.

Lu Mingfei rolled his eyes at him, and handed over one of the steak rib sandwiches, "By the way, how long are you going to stay in the hospital?"

"Soon." Fingel picked up the Coke cup and took a sip. "It should be more than a week, and then I can come back to accompany you."

He opened the cardboard box, pulled out the stick bone, sandwiched the whole piece of browned and juicy steak with bread, then opened his mouth wide, and took the first bite hard.

The steak was poured with light black sauce, and the smoky and meaty aroma rushed into the nose, making people move their index fingers. Lu Mingfei also opened his portion, imitating Fingal to assemble the sandwich, and took a big bite .

The mouth is covered with sauce, and the three slices of bread are like decorations. After eating, there is only the taste of meat in the mouth. However, the beef ribs are grilled just right, with a slightly crispy skin, and the inside is tender, juicy and soft. It can be swallowed into the stomach with a light sip, and the stick bone can be easily pulled out without any firewood.

According to the waiter, this sandwich is limited in supply every day, because the beef ribs need to be baked with fruit wood for [-] hours, and the quantity for sale has to be prepared a day in advance, usually after the evening class, it will be sold out.

"It tastes really good." Lu Mingfei finished chewing and drank the iced Coke. "I didn't even know there was this dish, and it wasn't on the menu in the cafeteria."

"I don't even look at how many years you have been in the academy?" Fingel licked the sauce off his mouth, "This is a hidden menu. Many freshmen don't know about it after staying in the academy for a whole year, because everyone It was bought by the old student."

"The students of Kassel College are really rich, and that's $100 a piece." Lu Mingfei said.

"There are quite a few poor people like me. If you only know what the menu is for, if you want to eat meat, you have to rely on my S-level roommate." Fingel flattered.

"Don't do this with me." Lu Mingfei said: "I remember your bill, this meal is what you asked for, not mine."

"Brother, please forgive me this time, little brother."

"Brothers must settle accounts clearly."

"It's because they are not close enough, how can we be better than the two of us."

"Sooner or later, I will be eaten into a pauper by you." Lu Mingfei took a bite of the steak.

"Hee hee." Fingel smiled playfully.

While eating meat, they chatted a little bit.

Recalling the day we first met, we drank Coke.

A brawny man with disheveled hair shouted "just one dollar! just one dollar!" and ran over to hold out his hand. You thought he hadn't eaten for a few days and was starving. Give him a coin so that he can buy some bread to fill his stomach, but he just got it Money, he said thank you kind people for giving me money to buy a cup of Coke.

Just such a guy who is out of his mind is actually your senior brother or your roommate, it really makes people sigh that the world is impermanent.

Gradually, the oversized sandwiches were finished by the two, leaving only a messy empty box.

Lu Mingfei bit his Coke straw and looked at the empty cardboard box. Finger didn't speak, but took off a piece of tissue paper and wiped his mouth.

"Old Tang handed over his bank card to me." After a long time, Lu Mingfei said, "The password is 912323, he told me himself, there is 10632.32 US dollars in it, probably all his savings."

"." Fingel silently picked up the Coke.

"Probably the food money left for us, he said that he would invite us to a high-end restaurant in Chicago to eat spaghetti with black truffle and caviar." Lu Mingfei said in a low tone.

It was the first time he told others about that bank card.

"He is the Dragon King Norton." Fingel looked at his slightly trembling right index finger, "'Old Tang' is just a sub-personality derived from Norton, how could a short 20-year life be able to confront the Dragon King's almost endless memory? "

"But I can't tell who is Old Tang and who is Norton." Lu Mingfei said: "We have seen him with our own eyes, played cards with him, and played voice with him. Have you forgotten? You lost in the game of cards. I paid him 231 yuan, but I still haven’t paid it, so I can only write an IOU and stick it on my face to repay the debt, and get a fraction of 31 yuan.”

"Lu Mingfei, it's best not to have any sympathy for dragons." Fingel shook his head, "It's a creature completely different from us, and it's inappropriate to regulate them with human moral standards."

"Those guys are beasts whose strength is paramount. Their souls are filled with wildness and animal desire. In their world, there is only surrender or death, only killing and blood."

"It's like humans and cats. For humans, if a child born to the same mother marries and loves each other, it's a mess. But for cats, it's a normal thing. Humans will take good care of their children, but female cats even Will eat her own child's embryo to supplement her own nutrition after giving birth, and this is not an exception, it is a very common thing, if you use human standards to judge a female cat that eats her own child, do you think this is appropriate?"

"The gap between dragons and humans is much greater than the gap between humans and cats. They have their own moral standards and their own set of rules, and this set of rules is incompatible with the human world. It is completely contrary to the law as humans know it."

"Either, they are separated from humans and live alone in another world, living according to their rules, or they are tamed by humans like kittens and cannot resist, or they both exist in a shared space at the same time, and there must be one side. will be violated."

"When dragons ruled the world in the past, human beings were inferior creatures compared to kittens. Our ancestors didn't know how many struggles and how much blood they shed to make human beings stand up. In that dark age, countless people died On the road of slaying the dragon, we have the youth we can spend on campus today." Fingel continued: "There are contradictions between people, and it is even more incomprehensible between people and dragons."

Lu Mingfei bowed his head in silence and did not respond.

"The personality of 'Norton' before he wakes up is actually not a dragon, but a person. Because he thinks like a human, but when he wakes up, he changes from a person to a dragon." Finger Err went on to say: "At that time he was no longer 'Old Tang', you did the right thing, killing Norton was the right thing, because when Norton woke up, 'Old Tang' was killed by Norton .”

"But I didn't kill him." Lu Mingfei raised his head and looked at Finger: "He committed suicide, using his own bone spurs to pierce his heart."

"Don't lie to yourself anymore." Fingel said coldly, "He is the Dragon King and our enemy."

It was the first time that Lu Mingfei saw hatred in those pupils, like a dead rose with thorns, making people sad.

Lu Mingfei once again discovered that no one has ever truly empathized with another person.

He and Finger have only known each other for two weeks. He doesn't know Finger's past, and he doesn't know why this senior who has been reduced to "F" after four years of studying abroad hides in a corner.

There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, and what everyone sees is different.

"It's getting late, you should go to bed earlier." Lu Mingfei sighed and stood up, "I'll come see you again in a few days, do you have anything else you want to eat? I'll bring you a copy when I come." .”

"Bring me some pasta," Fingal said.

"En." Lu Mingfei nodded, turned and left.

Fingal watched his back disappear until the sound of the door closing came.

He stared at the blue-gray iron gate, and after a long time, he sighed.

Lying on the pure white hospital bed, he stretched out his right hand, palm up, covering the white lamp.

Under the light, the outline of the five fingers was clearly visible, but the index finger was trembling. He clenched his right fist tightly and opened it again. A second later, the index finger shook uncontrollably again.

He sat up, squinted his left eye, with his left hand in front and his right behind, as if he was holding a non-existent sniper rifle.

His index finger pulled the trigger. Before he finished, he lowered his hands, opened the drawer, took out a round candy, peeled off the white candy wrapper, put it in his mouth to chew, and lay down on the bed again, looking at the pale light bulb.

"Eva, is it worth it?" Fingel asked softly.

The phone next to the pillow vibrated and lit up, and a pattern like an electrocardiogram appeared on the screen.

A flat female voice came from the screen, and the wave chart vibrated with the sound, "Do you regret it? You paid such a heavy price to kill the Dragon King."

"It's just two weeks in bed, no regrets."

"Life is a treasure that needs to be cherished. Although I am just a personality program, I still hope to see you for a while in the remaining time."

"I haven't killed the 'Prince' with my own hands, how could I die so easily, but maybe I'm a little tired and need to rest for a while."

"This is a normal reaction. Your blood sugar monitoring results are still very low today. You will feel tired easily and feel weak. Pay attention to supplement nutrition. The sugar and 'spirit' in the blood are still being 'annihilated' continuously, and the magnification rate will only decrease. 0.3."

"No way, this is the price, EVA, turn off the light for me, I want to sleep."

"Before going to bed, I need to supplement you with enough nutrient solution for the whole night. I will notify the nurse to come and change the special infusion bag."

"Go, I'm going to sleep first, let the nurse move softly, don't wake me up." He closed his eyes, breathing weakly, and sank his head into the pillow.

At the same time, the lights in the room were turned off, everything was dark, the light on the phone screen was turned off, and there was complete silence.

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