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The watchman shifted in his chair: "You know I don't like coming here. We can't even talk about drinks. You drink tea, and I drink alcohol."
"I wasn't planning on having drinks with you. I called you here today because it's important!"
Schneider handed a document to the Night's Watchman, who took a sip of his drink and said, "I know what happened. Although I've been hiding in the attic, I'm not completely cut off from the outside world."
"What are your thoughts?" Angers asked. "Mixed-race people from all over the world participated in an operation, resulting in the loss of over a thousand people. Nothing like this has happened in at least two hundred years!"
Schneider's face was grave, and the creaking of his respirator filled the air: "Apart from Lin Chen, Xia Mi, Chu Zihang, and Lu Mingfei from our school, no one else came out of Nibelungen. If nothing unexpected happens, everyone else is dead!"
The Night Watchman shrugged: "You know what kind of strength Lin Chen possesses. It's not surprising that he was able to emerge from Nibelungen!"
Angers added: "Actually, there's also Caesar. After receiving the news, he went to the Apple Garden metro station, but was stopped outside, apparently by the people who attacked the college before."
"It's all very confusing," Schneider concluded. "So many people showed up in the North City, and yet so many died without even seeing the King of the Earth and Mountains!"
"It's actually very simple!" The Night's Watchman hiccuped. "Someone's trying to get us, it's that simple."
"Is someone targeting us?"
The Night Watchman sighed, "That might not be accurate; it should be that a dragon is trying to make us lose money!"
240: Who's the cake?! A return to familiar ground!
Angers looked at the Night's Watchman and gestured for him to continue.
The Night Watchman then looked at Schneider: "I think Minister Schneider feels this even more strongly than I do!"
Schneider remained silent; he was naturally familiar with this incident.
Ten years ago, after seeing similar news, he led a team to the Greenland Sea, where he suffered a major setback.
Now the same thing has happened again, resulting in the deaths of a thousand people, far more significant than Schneider's operation.
“Very similar!” Schneider said. “You could even say they are exactly the same. Last time the ID was Crown Prince, and this time the ID is blank. The speaking style is very similar, and the results are the same.”
The Night Watchman nodded: "No one would do something so pointless. According to Lin Chen's report, that is indeed Nibelungen, the land of the king of the earth and mountains, which means the Dragon King is indeed there."
“But he still leaked the information!” Schneider said.
“Angers!” said the Night’s Watchman. “If you had certain news of the King of the Earth and the Mountains, would you make it public?”
Angers shook his head: "Of course not. I will lead my own people to kill the Dragon King, but I don't mind sharing my joy after slaying the dragon with the world."
“That makes sense,” said the Night Watchman. “Even the ability to slay dragons wouldn’t reveal the Dragon King’s secrets, but this mysterious man did just that, and judging from the outcome, it’s not good for humanity. His stance should be that of the dragon.”
Angers commented: "A dragon has revealed information about the Dragon King. It seems that the world of dragons is also full of intrigue and deceit!"
Schneider asked, "But what do we do now? The world is probably in turmoil."
“Lin Chen is still there! That’s our advantage,” Angers said. “I’ll have Lin Chen explore that place again tonight, but now is definitely not the best time to make a move.”
The Night's Watchman laughed: "The whole world is watching that; this piece of the pie won't be easy to divide!"
Schneider calmly stated the facts: "Only if we can win, is it a cake; if we can't win, we're all just the Dragon King's cake."
“Then you really underestimate Lin Chen,” said the Night Watchman. “With him around, the Dragon King is no match for us.”
Schneider asked, "You trust him that much?"
The night watchman took a big gulp of wine: "Although I'm drinking, I'm absolutely not talking nonsense. Lin Chen, he can definitely do it!"
Angers poured them another cup of tea: "I'm sorry, I have to see them out. It's urgent, the online board meeting is about to start, and I need to get started preparing!"
……
Meanwhile, large and small mixed-race organizations around the world gathered together to discuss the incident.
Every organization with some influence has sent people to get involved in this matter.
Now that the elite forces have been almost entirely wiped out, every organization is in dire straits!
While the outside world was in shock, Lin Chen, with Xia Mi, was already visiting various tourist attractions in the northern city.
Fenrir has left that place; Lin Chen and Xia Mi have found it a better and more secluded sanctuary.
At this moment, all the organizations believed that since the Dragon King's Nibelungen was there, it could be explored at any time.
Take the board of directors as an example. Their focus was not on how many sacrifices were made, but on how to divide the spoils after killing the Dragon King.
But what they didn't know was that even if they had enough people to search the Apple Garden subway station thoroughly, they wouldn't be able to find a trace of the dragon.
……
Organizations large and small were thrown into chaos, and the mixed-race people still in the North City were all on edge.
They had all received orders from their families or the forces behind them to stay where they were and continue their investigation.
But their elites were all dead, and the remaining people didn't think they could find anything out.
However, the Kassel College Executive Department group was an exception. Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei had already laid down, and Lin Chen was also taking Xia Mi through the streets and alleys of the North City.
The northern part of the city has many attractions, but Xia Mi is very familiar with it.
Led by Xia Mi, Lin Chen and Xia Mi set off for delicious food and beautiful scenery, eating everything from fried liver and braised pork to Peking duck from Beicheng, and then to the renowned Shandong cuisine. It was like a special forces-style trip.
But as Lin Chen led Xia Mi out of the arcade, his cell phone rang.
It was an email from the executive department, instructing Lin Chen to re-enter the Apple Orchard subway station late at night to investigate the Nibelungen.
Lin Chen understood the meaning of "academy." In fact, it wasn't just an academy; all the forces were lining up to enter it.
Despite the dangers lurking within, the hybrids are willing to bravely face them.
Lin Chen smiled helplessly at Xia Mi...
There was no need to go anymore, because Fenrir was no longer there.
But since the academy had already issued the mission, Lin Chen took Xia Mi and revisited the old place as if it were a tourist destination.
The Apple Garden subway station was deserted late at night, but starting from 1 a.m., people began to sneak in.
These are hybrids from various organizations. They sneaked in under the cover of night and trekked along the subway tunnel toward a dangerous place.
Everyone who comes here is prepared to die; they are prepared not to leave.
Lin Chen and Xia Mi were also among the crowd. These people did not greet each other, but simply trudged through the empty tunnel.
It felt like a trip to a tourist attraction, but everyone except Lin Chen and Xia Mi was tense.
They revisited the deep tunnel, and after an hour's trek, they all arrived at the end of the tunnel.
But everything is normal here; even the cell phone signal has a few bars.
Further ahead is the military base, a place not for hybrids, and where dragons would not be hiding.
The hybrids were astonished. They had prepared themselves to die under the dragon king's claws, but upon arrival, they found that they couldn't even find a single dragon scale.
Many mixed-race individuals took out their phones and began contacting the forces behind them.
Lin Chen also took out his phone, filmed a video, and sent it to the college.
Xia Mi spotted Caesar in the crowd; the only remaining member of the Gattuso family in the northern city had also come here.
Unlike Lin Chen, 3.0 came for the Gattuso family.
Last night, he was stopped outside by Mai Shude, but all his family members died here.
He carried the hopes of the Gattuso family, yet he didn't even make it into the Nibelungenli.
Caesar also noticed Lin Chen, and he walked through the crowd to stand opposite Lin Chen.
"What exactly happened yesterday?" Caesar looked directly into Lin Chen's eyes.
Xia Mi leaned closer: "It's so much fun! Why didn't you come?"
Caesar's facial muscles twitched slightly: "Fun? You think the Dragon King's Nibelungen is fun?"
"It's so much fun!" Xia Mi stuck out her tongue.
Lin Chen thought to himself, "Nonsense, this used to be your hometown, of course you found it fun."
But Caesar's expression was priceless; he felt that Xia Mi was provoking him.
241: You're risking your life for just a few thousand yuan a month!
"I heard you killed the dragon servant?" Caesar asked. "What about the Dragon King?"
"Killing the dragon servant was already difficult enough, okay?" Lin Chen said. "If we encountered the Dragon King, do you think I would still be standing here?"
“But now the Dragon King has already run away,” Caesar said.
Xia Mi laughed and said, "With so many people rushing into someone's house, they can't afford to hide or offend them!"
Caesar tried to maintain his gentlemanly demeanor, but he was in a rather unpleasant mood: "Do you have any clues about the Dragon King?"
Lin Chen shrugged.
“You are among the few who have entered Nibelungen and successfully returned,” Caesar reminded them.
"So what? I've been inside Odin's Nibelungen, but how would I know where Odin would be?"
Caesar paused for a moment, his gaze meeting Lin Chen's, his eyes flashing with lightning.
"I will find it and kill it with my own hands!" Caesar said earnestly, turning and striding away.