Dragon Raja: Dragon Slaying Begins with System Hosting

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Like IVF, alchemy matrix technology is quite economical and doesn't require much investment, making it potentially widely adopted. However, this doesn't mean that Lu Mingfei's possession of this technology will allow him to dominate the world.

This thing is like a nuclear weapon; it can have hegemony, but it's hard to have royalty.

With such a large army at their disposal, dealing with humans would be manageable, but dealing with dragons would likely be quite difficult.

“But it’s true that you, Boss, hold absolute power,” Xia Mi teased. “With just a thought from you, Boss Lu, the world will instantly descend into chaos and strife. I, Xia Mi, have chosen the right person to follow. Perhaps I’ll be remembered in history a thousand years from now…”

"Dominion doesn't guarantee victory. Unless we can eliminate the dragon race, having dominion only increases instability." Lu Mingfei quickly slammed on the brakes. If Xia Mi continued, he would be hailed as the king of the world.

But the king of the world only exists in theory. It's as absurd as earning 20 yuan an hour and having an annual income of 175,000 yuan. Who works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year?

This is pure flattery that could be used to kill someone.

"How's the situation at the Three Gorges?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"They're still salvaging things. They've been sending people underwater to dig for things. They've roughly pinpointed a location. Maybe we can dig deeper and see? Who knows, we might unearth the Bronze Palace of the King of Bronze and Fire?" Xia Mi smiled, revealing her cute tiger teeth.

In the history of dragons on Earth, the bronze palace of the King of Bronze and Fire was once located atop the snow-capped mountains of Northern Europe. Legend has it that the enormous palace was cast as a single piece, just like a modern human city, completely integrated, embodying the immense power possessed by the King of Bronze and Fire.

"The palace of the King of Bronze and Fire..."

There should be a Dragon King in the royal palace, right?

Lu Mingfei felt it was better not to confront the Dragon King face-to-face now. He had Old Tang under his command and could focus on developing alchemy. If his alchemy skills could be roughly on par with those of dragons, then it would be best to discuss facing the Dragon King face-to-face.

The current task is to focus on development, because there is real room for development, and there is a real chance to turn the tide later on.

Dragon alchemy, because dragons themselves are so powerful, has a relatively weak amplification effect when used on them. However, the weaker the creature, the greater the enhancement it receives, which can drastically narrow the gap between humans and dragons.

If he truly develops to the point where he has amassed a massive army, Lu Mingfei will definitely not back down. He will immediately log into the system to save humanity, launch a war to exterminate dragons, and usher in a new era.

Lu Mingfei was lost in thought about the question, but Xia Mi was not. Seeing that Lu Mingfei did not respond, she continued, "The possibility of digging up the palace of the King of Bronze and Fire is relatively small, but the probability of digging up other things seems not low. We should be able to gain something from this trip."

"I wonder what the relationship is between Gongsun Shu and the King of Bronze and Fire. The title 'White Emperor' must be related to the King of Bronze and Fire..."

Xia Mi kept chattering away until the driver brought the car to the vicinity of the Three Gorges. There were many boats on the Yangtze River, and when it was lively, it was quite like a hundred boats racing.

She rowed a small boat, and together with Lu Mingfei, they boarded the salvage vessel that was operating on the water.

"Have you salvaged or unearthed anything new?" Xia Mi asked her men on the ship.

The man shook his head: "There haven't been any new discoveries yet. This area of ​​water has been cleared. Should we start digging deeper?"

Lu Mingfei said, "The workload of digging downwards is quite large. Right now we only have one ship. Let's check the key areas first and dig one pit at a time. If we need to dig to a greater depth, I don't know when it will take. I will send more ships over to carry out digging from multiple directions at the same time."

"Understood, Lord Lu."

After giving the instructions, Xia Mi took him to the storage room and showed him his recent achievements.

After being cleaned, the fragments of pottery jars and stone slabs related to the dragon race were quietly placed on the display shelf.

“The problem now is that all we’ve found are artifacts related to dragons, but not any dragon artifacts directly related to dragons.” Xia Mi said to Lu Mingfei, who was picking up the stone tablet, “This is quite puzzling. Based on some fragmented dragon script, we can see that this place is related to the King of Bronze and Fire, but the relationship seems more like that a person saw the King of Bronze and Fire? Perhaps a human city worshipped the King of Bronze and Fire?”

“Dragons all live in Nibelungen, so it’s normal not to find anything about dragons,” Lu Mingfei said. “How’s the collection of stories about this area going? Ancient battlefields and such.”

“We didn’t find any direct records. This area is quite ordinary.” Xia Mi shook her head. “There are too many places in the world where battles have taken place. If it’s not an extremely famous battle, it’s impossible to determine the details of every battle.”

"So, Mr. Lu, what do we need to do now?" Xia Mi asked Lu Mingfei.

Actually, Lu Mingfei didn't need to come. After all, as a boss, he could have just made the right decisions from afar and left it to his subordinates.

Xia Mi didn't quite understand why Lu Mingfei had come here.

Although some useful information was found, it didn't directly point to a major problem. With Xia Mi here, she was more than capable of overseeing the work here...

Unless Lu Mingfei had other sources of information that told him this place was unusual, and thus came here personally. Or perhaps Lu Mingfei didn't trust Xia Mi, or maybe he didn't trust people, or perhaps he didn't trust her abilities?

Could it be that Norton actually left something good here, so he has to come and correct her wrong choice to prevent her from actually exposing Norton's true intentions?

That makes things even more baffling. It was Lu Mingfei who ordered her to investigate this matter. If there really was something related to Norton here, she could have just sent a few people to investigate casually, or even suppressed it. There was no need to send so many people over.

Could it be that her own business skills were too strong, causing her to actually expose Norton's true colors? Xia Mi had no intention of doing such a strange thing; she was still counting on Norton to charge into battle and win the Dragon King's Dragon Bone Cross for her.

“You’re too slow in your search. It’s faster for me to come here and do it myself,” Lu Mingfei said simply.

It's not that the system doesn't trust Xia Mi and her other subordinates, but rather that the work efficiency of normal hybrids and ordinary humans is simply too low.

The system wants to come here and step on the gas, speed things up, and get it done quickly.

As for the method of acceleration, it is very simple. Now, after Lu Mingfei's body has been enhanced by the alchemy matrix, it has reached a new level, but there is no definite answer as to how high it is. It is a good opportunity to come here to test it out.

It can accurately test Lu Mingfei's current physical limits, and it can also help with the work here, improving work efficiency.

Chapter 179 You're out of pay for today!

The effects of different words of power are different; some affect people, while others affect elements, allowing the person casting the word of power to control the elements.

Underwater, the system activated its Word of Power, walking on the riverbed as if taking a leisurely stroll.

Using a dust-free place can easily achieve the effect of avoiding water, and then use earth-type incantations to chisel open the mud and sand of the riverbed. Hmm... the efficiency is still too slow. The slender alchemical copper bar is controlled to be driven into the ground. The weak electricity of the vacuum serpent spreads underground along the copper bar with extremely low resistivity, and then feeds back the collected information to Lu Mingfei's body.

After all that effort, they found nothing, because below was a layer of hard bedrock. When the distance exceeded the system's control range, the system could no longer apply force to control the copper wire to continue extending downwards.

At the same time, the bedrock layer also significantly reduced the exploration range of the Vacuum Serpent.

"Whoo~"

Lu Mingfei's head peeked out of the water next to Xia Mi's small boat.

Xia Mi reached out her small hand, pulled him up, and asked, "So, Boss Lu, what did you gain?"

Lu Mingfei said calmly, "Yes, although we didn't find anything, we successfully ruled out the possibility of this area being the source of the goods, which brings us one step closer to success."

"Zeng Guofan's repeated defeats, right?" Xia Mi chuckled as she exposed Boss Lu's true colors.

"You know that, yet you still say that. Don't I have any pride?" Lu Mingfei rolled his eyes.

"Using bronze as a mirror, one can straighten one's clothes. Using history as a mirror, one can understand the rise and fall of dynasties. Using people as a mirror, one can understand one's gains and losses." Xia Mi said in a serious tone, "Boss Lu, your level of understanding is getting higher and higher. You should be happy to have an upright subordinate like me. After all, the more successful a person is, the more flattering words will come to them. When no one dares to point out your failures and mistakes, you are not far from failure and mistakes."

"Because no one dares to point out or correct things where I can't see them, right?" Lu Mingfei knew Xia Mi was right, but he could make mistakes, while the system was unlikely to.

As long as the information is correct, the system is unlikely to choose the wrong option. However, the system is not the kind of person who is extremely blindly confident. It wants to control all information channels so that it can make a strategic retreat at any time.

So he couldn't help but challenge Xia Mi, saying, "What if I'm always right and never make a mistake?"

“Then you’re a god!” Xia Mi said. “A person who has never failed is on the same level as an omnipotent god. If you, Boss Lu, had that kind of ability, what dragons, dragon kings, black kings—you could make them take their hands off their butts, and they’d have to…”

What she said at first was quite normal, but then it went completely off track. What did she mean by telling them to take their hands off their butts?

Why did I tell them to take their hands off their butts? Lu Mingfei was used to Xia Mi's rubbish, but this time he was such a bastard—he couldn't hold it in anymore.

He reached out and pinched Xia Mi's rambling mouth shut.

Xia Mi was forcibly muted before she could finish speaking, and quickly slapped Lu Mingfei's hand away.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!" She suddenly turned her head and spat into the river, then picked up a bottle of water and rinsed her face.

After wiping her mouth clean, she said, "Wow, Mr. Lu, what are you doing? Your hands are covered in river water, it smells so bad, you know?"

"Do you want to hear what you're saying?" Lu Mingfei said irritably. "I'm going to deduct three days' wages from your pay later."

“That won’t do.” Xia Mi immediately objected, then argued, “Who knew you were so sensitive, boss? I heard that if you throw a brick into a pigpen, the loudest squeal is from being hit. You wouldn’t actually have thought about…”

"What is it?!" Lu Mingfei was exasperated. Didn't you even listen to what you were saying?

But then he changed his mind and said, "You want to talk about adult topics, right?"

"Then I hereby declare that you are not getting paid for today."

Xia Mi: "???"

"I was wrong, Mr. Lu. I take back what I just said."

"This is the price you pay for being naughty. Adults are like this; they have to be responsible for their words and actions."

Now it was Lu Mingfei's turn to grin: "It's already so dark, let's go back quickly. Anyway, you've already lost your pay for today, and you don't want to work overtime for free, do you?"

"No, Boss Lu, I was just bewitched..." Xia Mi said pitifully, "I've worked hard for you, even if I haven't done anything particularly meritorious. I just want to work hard and save money to buy a house in Beijing..."

"Hmm? Buy a house in Beijing? You don't even have enough money for the down payment?"

Lu Mingfei was somewhat surprised to hear her words. In the past few months, he had given Xia Mi about two or three hundred thousand yuan, including her salary and bonuses. Even though land in Beijing is extremely expensive, it would still be enough to make a down payment on a house.

He seems to have discussed housing prices with Xia Mi, right? Housing prices are definitely going to rise in the future, especially in places like the capital city, which is particularly vulnerable to price increases. So, if you want to buy a house, the sooner the better. Mortgage interest rates aren't that high, and over the years, your profits probably won't even keep up with the rate of increase in housing prices.

Xia Mi herself is a beneficiary of rising housing prices... there's no way she wouldn't understand this!

“That’s definitely enough for a down payment on a regular house.” Seeing that Lu Mingfei was interested in this, Xia Mi immediately said with pleading eyes, “But I just want to buy a big house, what’s wrong with that…”

"How big is considered a big house?" Lu Mingfei said in a serious tone, just like before, "Once a person has their own house, they will want a bigger house. Once they have a big house, they will want an even bigger house. The greed in people's hearts is endless. Of course, there is nothing wrong with having greed. It is the root of people's striving. However, this greed needs to be restrained. We cannot be held hostage by greed."

Seeing that Lu Mingfei was absolutely unwilling to restore her salary, Xia Mi was exasperated and said, "Boss Lu, you are a magnanimous person, please be lenient this once."

"Judging from your performance, all I want to do now is go back and take a hot shower."

"okay!"

Xia Mi stopped talking nonsense and quickly steered the small boat to shore to atone for her mistake.

Back at the hotel on the shore, Lu Mingfei happily took a hot shower.

His phone rang, and he picked it up to see who was calling—Old Tang, a heavyweight underling. He immediately answered the call.

"Hey? Old Tang, you're awake? You slept for two days and three nights straight. If it weren't for the rise and fall of your chest, I would have thought you were already hard. How are you feeling now?"

"I'm hungry, I'm eating now. I'll take a shower after I finish eating." Old Tang said while eating, "How's the alchemy matrix? No problems, right?"

"The full bonus has already been deposited into your account, so it must be a great success."

Old Tang said, "Yes, I saw the text message. It's good that it worked. But, boss, I also want to use one of those sets on myself, the ones designed for ordinary people. My body is too weak. I want to strengthen my body, but that dragon blood crystal..."

Old Tang's theoretical design is almost invincible, and he also has experience in engraving alchemical matrices. However, he is not as convenient as Lu Mingfei, who has many methods. Not to mention that the alchemical matrices set up for ordinary people require dragon blood crystals as a driving source, which are not in Old Tang's hands at all.

Both Lu Mingfei and the system could understand Lao Tang's feelings, after all, he was just an ordinary person. He had created an alchemical matrix that was suitable for ordinary people, allowing them to easily possess extraordinary power.

This is extraordinary power! Who wouldn't want it? Especially Old Tang, who was once tricked by an ordinary human body. He reached his physical limit after working through the night for more than a month. He slept for two days and three nights straight and almost died from overwork.

"Sure, but I'm busy with other things here in the Three Gorges right now. I need to enjoy myself for a while before I can go back and install the alchemy matrix for you. Here's what I'll do: I'll give you a vacation. You can take the money and go on a holiday to rest for a while. If you don't want to go out and play, you can also work on improving the design of the alchemy matrix."

"Oh, alright."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Mingfei used a spell to dry the water off his body.

He wasn't too worried about letting Lao Tang take money to travel and relax, because it had been arranged beforehand. How could he feel at ease if someone like him didn't have ten or eight bodyguards with him when he went out?

Moreover, Chu Zihang has just improved his strength, making him a very good choice.