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None of the passengers or staff at the South Railway Station died; only three people sustained minor injuries.
Jormungandr controlled the disaster very well, preventing its spread and the deaths of ordinary people.
It looked just like a normal earthquake.
*……*……*
In the morning, Lu Mingfei was at home, using the Alienware laptop that Su Xiaoqiang had given him to complete his daily tasks for Kassel College.
The school's original intention in assigning daily tasks was to help those overly enthusiastic mixed-race individuals to restrain themselves.
Lu Mingfei considers himself a good-for-nothing, and he only does daily tasks to earn credits.
For struggling students, every opportunity to earn credits is crucial.
It took Lu Mingfei almost half an hour to fill out several pages of forms.
He received a text message notification from Norma as soon as he submitted it.
Norma wished him a happy birthday and reminded him that he could get a small cake at the cafeteria...
"Damn, was that on purpose? They knew I wasn't at school!" Lu Mingfei complained. "They even deliberately reminded me about failing my course. It's obvious they didn't want me to have a happy birthday."
Before he knew it, he was already nineteen years old.
Shinji Ikari piloted Unit-01 and fought against the Angels at the age of fourteen; Jotaro Kujo awakened Star Platinum at seventeen and led an expedition to Egypt to fight Dio; Lelouch became the ninety-ninth emperor of the Holy Britannian Empire at the age of eighteen...
Lu Mingfei, who is nineteen years old, is an S-level student, but he is just a single kid who has been single for nineteen years.
Sometimes he felt that he was not as good as Cheng Ge. Although Cheng Ge died early, Cheng Ge laughed at him for not doing enough.
"Looks like I'll be spending my birthday alone again this year." Lu Mingfei also spent his birthday alone last year.
He didn't expect anyone to remember his birthday; the only thing he was somewhat looking forward to was Nono.
Last year, when Lu Mingfei celebrated Nuonuo's birthday with her on the mountaintop, Nuonuo promised to send him birthday wishes this year.
Gu Ran should also remember his birthday; last year, he even gave Lu Mingfei a diving watch as a gift.
He didn't wear that diving watch when he went diving in the Three Gorges Dam, since it cost several thousand yuan and was a luxury item for him.
Just then, my phone beeped with a notification sound; a text message had arrived.
The sender was Chu Zihang, and the message was very short, containing only four words: Happy Birthday.
Lu Mingfei was stunned. He didn't expect that someone would actually remember his birthday, and it was even that aloof and expressionless senior brother.
He had little recollection of interacting with the Lionheart Society president, after all, he was a member of the student council, and the head of the student council and the leader of the Lionheart Society were at odds.
Therefore, Chu Zihang's "Happy Birthday" is like the telegram Hitler sent to Zhukov, one of Stalin's subordinates, during World War II to wish him a happy birthday.
(Note: Zhukov was a famous Soviet general during World War II who commanded the defense of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Battle of Berlin, all of which resulted in victory. He is hailed as a legendary figure who ended Hitler's reign.)
He was still trying to figure out Chu Zihang's motive for sending the text message when his phone beeped again with a text message notification.
"Happy birthday, Lu Mingfei. Gu Ran asked me to send this message on your behalf. Of course, I also wish you a happy birthday. By the way, I heard there's a literary society gathering today. Could you tell me the time and place? That's all, bye!"
The text message was sent by Su Xiaoqiang, and the amount of information in it left him somewhat bewildered.
Chapter 248 The Board of Directors' Task Assignments
Lu Mingfei stared at Su Xiaoqiang's text message, completely baffled.
The literary society is having a gathering today? How would I know? Nobody told me!
He's been back in China for so long, and the only classmates he's seen are Gu Ran and Su Xiaoqiang.
Actually, he saw Gu Ran the most; the two of them mostly went out for late-night snacks and played games at internet cafes.
Gu Ran would occasionally tutor him at home; she was really loyal to him.
As for Su Xiaoqiang, Lu Mingfei only met her when she came to the internet cafe specifically to look for Gu Ran.
That afternoon, Xiaotiannv, dressed in a white long dress, walked into the internet cafe. The otaku who were engrossed in playing games suddenly smelled a fragrant breeze and involuntarily looked up. Then they saw the charming Xiaotiannv, who was skipping in with her hands behind her back.
She went to Gu Ran's seat, hugged her boyfriend's neck from behind, and asked him in a high-pitched voice how much longer they wanted to play and what they wanted to eat tonight.
Sitting next to him, Lu Mingfei was seeing such a gentle and quiet young woman for the first time, her voice sweet and coquettish as she spoke to Gu Ran. For no reason, he felt a wave of nausea...
Lu Mingfei immediately yelled and asked her if she had been possessed by a trap spirit.
Su Xiaoqiang immediately changed her tune, saying sarcastically, "Lu Mingfei, you really can't say anything nice, you can't change your ways even if you eat shit!"
Lu Mingfei was speechless; he had never won an argument against Su Xiaoqiang.
The sharp-tongued Little Fairy is unleashing her full power, like a fully equipped Master Yi in fifteen minutes, unstoppable.
Apart from Gu Ran and Su Xiaoqiang, Lu Mingfei didn't see any other classmates from Shilan Middle School during the entire summer vacation.
He was about to type a reply to Su Xiaoqiang saying he didn't know when another text message came in.
It was a text message from Chen Wenwen.
Chen Wenwen said that the literary society will have a gathering at noon today, at 11:30 a.m., at a pizzeria, and she invited Lu Mingfei to come along.
Ah this...
It is said that first love is the hardest to forget.
The same applies to Lu Mingfei; Chen Wenwen was his first crush, and forgetting her was certainly not so easy.
So when Lu Mingfei saw the text message, he was reminded of the days after school when he and Chen Wenwen would sit on a bench and read together under the orange glow of the setting sun.
He felt content just being by her side without saying a word.
So he immediately replied to Chen Wenwen's text message: "Okay!"
Just as the text message was sent, his aunt's voice came from next door, asking Lu Mingfei to go to the building materials store to buy a toilet seat, and also to steam sausages and cut radishes.
As for the family of three, they were going out to buy a suit for Lu Xiaopang, who is 1.6 meters tall and weighs 1.6 meters.
Lu Xiaopang was admitted to the University of Austin, located in Texas, USA, a place where you can have free gunfights every day.
Lu Mingfei was dependent on others and had a soft nature, so during the summer vacation, his aunt always made him do chores, just like a servant in a wealthy family.
"Mingfei, did you hear me?" Aunt's voice pierced through the room again.
“I heard you!” Lu Mingfei replied.
His nineteenth birthday began just like that.
*……*……*
Across the ocean, at the main campus of Kassel College, a suburb of Chicago.
The central control room on the second floor of the library was brightly lit.
The professor on duty was Manstein, who was in charge of school discipline, and he was unusually busy today.
The madmen in the Equipment Department have made a big fuss again. They tested an alchemical bomb in the Sahara, which was detected by NATO's heat source detector. The Americans thought that someone was conducting another nuclear test, and the White House is holding a meeting to discuss it and send out an observation and investigation team.
Manstein told those lunatics to quickly erase all traces so that no one would discover the traces of their experiments.
In addition, OPEC announced a price increase for crude oil five minutes ago. The school had previously purchased crude oil futures worth $1.2 billion. Whether to hold them or sell them is a decision that Manstein needs to make.
As Manstein was still pondering, more noise came from the ice cellar. It seemed the equipment department was conducting some kind of experiment with Constantine's keel, causing an explosion and a minor earthquake...
Manstein was furious. If this continued, those lunatics would eventually collapse the mountain on the campus!
At that moment, the door to the control room opened, and Professor Schneider from the Executive Department dragged Guderian in with him.
Guderian was still wearing his pajamas, his eyes still blurry with sleep.
Manstein asked Schneider what had happened, and Professor Schneider explained the loss of important SS-level documents.
Manstein dismissed everyone else, leaving only Schneider and Guderian to discuss countermeasures.
"The SS-level data mission has been lost, and the Board of Trustees requires that the data be retrieved by 19:00 PM in the East Eighth Time Zone," Executive Director Schneider told the two. "Time is running out, and we must discuss countermeasures immediately."
"You guys discuss it, I'm going back to get some more sleep." Guderian rubbed his sleepy eyes and prepared to leave.
But Manstein stopped him: "You're also a professor on duty, don't even think about leaving!"
At this point, Professor Schneider recounted what had happened at the South Railway Station.
Hearing that so much high-strength glass had fallen from the sky, yet only two or three people sustained minor injuries, Manstein found it unbelievable and guessed that it must have been the work of dragons.
"Who is in charge of transporting the data?" he asked.
Professor Schneider said, "It's Raymond, a senior specialist, codenamed Deep Sea Cod in the Executive Department. He's very experienced in carrying out missions... but he was knocked unconscious and is still in a coma. No matter what we do, we can't wake him up. It seems he's been affected by some kind of mental spell."
Guderian listened for a while, then yawned and asked, "What about the surveillance cameras? There should be surveillance cameras in a place like a train station, right?"
“The surveillance cameras are broken, so we don’t know the specifics of what happened. We need someone to go to the scene to take a profile,” Schneider said helplessly. “Alright, the details aren’t that important. Our task now is to retrieve that important document within eight hours.”
In accordance with the school's regulations, Manstein proposed sending an executive officer from the nearest location.
But Schneider said that because the time was too short, no one in the executive department could get to the city to carry out the mission within eight hours; only the staff from the school affairs department who were on vacation in China were available.
Manstein believed that executive commissioners should still be personnel with a genetic advantage.
After all, this matter may involve dragons, and only those with a bloodline advantage can face dragons without being intimidated.
“Then we’ll have to send in students,” Schneider said in a hoarse voice. “There are three students in the area: Lu Mingfei, who is S-level; Chu Zihang, who is A-level; and Gu Ran, who is A-level.”
Upon hearing the names of his two students, Guderian immediately perked up: "Then let Mingfei and Gu Ran carry out the mission. They are both good kids, with outstanding talent and ability..."
"Forget about Lu Mingfei... Gu Ran is still pretty good."
Based on his daily observations, Manstein felt that Lu Mingfei's S-level aptitude was average and he was not up to the task.
But Gu Ran's abilities are quite good.
He used to think that Gu Ran was the principal's illegitimate son and a person with connections, but after the Bronze Mission, Gu Ran carried out many missions and completed them successfully, proving to be a reliable student.
In the first year, they were given six tasks, big and small, and they completed them all very well. To be honest, they performed better than Caesar and Chu Zihang did back then.
"I apologize for interrupting you both, but Gu Ran went into the mountains to cultivate a day ago. There is no signal where he cultivates, so we cannot contact him yet," Professor Schneider said.
"Going into the mountains to practice asceticism?" Manstein asked, puzzled. "Is he going to become an ascetic? What would he do in the desolate wilderness?"
“Every student has their own way of cultivating themselves, just like Caesar likes surfing and Chu Zihang likes playing basketball,” Guderian defended his student. “What business is it of yours where my student cultivates himself!”
Manstein adopted the air of a disciplinary committee member: "But he should have brought a satellite phone, and he's gone into the mountains, what about his daily task reports? If he doesn't submit them on time, he'll lose credits!"
"Alright, alright, you two, stop arguing." Schneider, who was getting a headache from listening to them, interrupted them and said, "It seems that we have no choice but to send Chu Zihang now."