Dragon Raja: Dragon Slaying Begins with System Hosting

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The dragon race's power is evident in almost every aspect, including talents such as language. Even this giant dragon, whose brain is filled with muscle, has a strong learning talent. Unfortunately, its intelligence is severely limited, and its intelligence is forever stuck at the level of a human kindergarten.

“I’m your sister!” Xia Mi corrected.

The dragon immediately said, "I understand, sister!"

Xia Mi thought wearily: Forget it, I won't teach anymore. It won't affect anything.

The dragon's excitement hadn't faded; his eyes were still fixed on the bag of potato chips in Xia Mi's hand.

"Here you go." Xia Mi casually tossed the whole bag of potato chips to it. "These snacks I bought this time should last you a while."

"Long live the sister!"

As the dragon spoke, it steadily caught the bag of potato chips that flew towards it with its massive claws. Then, using both claws, it easily pulled the potato chips out of the bag without damaging or breaking the fragile chips!

Xia Mi was unimpressed by this display of exquisite control over force; they simply possessed this talent.

"Potato chips are so delicious!"

The dragon picked up the potato chips one by one and put them in its mouth. After finishing the bag of chips, which was barely enough to fill a tooth gap, it even let out a burp, just like a human.

"How long did you sleep this time?" Xia Mi asked.

Dragon Claw calculated for a moment and replied, "It seems to have been seven days, sister."

"Don't sleep so soundly next time," Xia Mi said. "If you hear any noise, open your eyes and check. Don't always think that this place is safe."

Dragons are extremely sensitive to the movements of their surroundings. They can detect even the slightest rustling of grass or the slightest breeze, and they can also detect the malicious brainwaves of nearby creatures. It can be said that they are extremely sensitive.

The dragon in front of her hadn't noticed her arrival at all. It wasn't that this dragon, with its limited intelligence, lacked the talent for it; rather, it simply didn't care about that.

It felt this was the safest place, and that no creature could possibly harm it!

With its head bowed, the giant dragon head, without even looking up, used its nimble claws to untangle the bag and said, "I understand, sister!"

"What do you know?!" Xia Mi's head started to ache again, and she felt utterly powerless.

"Cola! Sprite! Arctic Ocean! Jianlibao!..."

"Potato chips! Spicy strips! Broad beans! Chicken drumsticks!..."

The dragon excitedly tapped the snacks in the two large bags, then carefully took them out and sorted them.

Xia Mi glanced at this scene. Sometimes she really wondered if her brother was excited to see her come back because he was excited about her return, or because of the snacks she always brought back.

After counting the snacks, the dragon rubbed its little hands excitedly, while also showing concern for its older sister: "Sister, the intervals between your returns are getting longer and longer."

"Your sister is busy with things outside. If she doesn't earn money, how can she afford to buy you snacks?" Xia Mi said.

"Oh, then I'll keep busy!" the dragon said without hesitation.

Xia Mi clenched her fist and couldn't help but punch the dragon's scales.

The dragon's scales were sturdy, but after taking that powerful punch, the scales and flesh in that area still twitched slightly, and then... and then that was it.

"Sister, have some Arctic Ocean soda!"

The dragon, having just been punched, eagerly offered a bottle of Arctic Ocean soda, now open, to Xia Mi, the one who had just hit it.

"Junk food, I won't drink it." Xia Mi waved her hand, and then the dragon poured the soda into its big mouth without hesitation, without any politeness.

After letting out another proper burp, it asked Xia Mi, who had been silent all along, "Sister, when can I go out to play?"

Xia Mi replied softly, "It should be soon."

If Lu Mingfei's dragon-slaying journey could be faster, and if he could trust her enough, and if she could successfully escape with the dragon king's bone cross... However, she couldn't quite figure out Lu Mingfei's current plan.

After battling the dragon in the Three Gorges, Lu Mingfei turned to Old Tang and had him forge alchemical weapons.

Well, that's reasonable. After all, the limits of the human body are there. If that's all that can be done, it's impossible for the human body to defeat the Dragon King.

On the surface, it seems that he is going to build weapons and make a big splash, but in reality, if Old Tang's so-called plan is followed, it will take at least a year before that set of weapons can be produced.

It's just an alchemical weapon, right? Norton, the Bronze and Fire King, surely he doesn't need one, right? He can just make one up, pretend it was an accidental find...

If she weren't afraid of being discovered, she would have liked to help Old Tang and get him to speed up the creation of that alchemical weapon. However, she didn't dare to; doing alchemy under Norton's nose would be too easy to expose.

"How long is 'soon'?" the dragon asked.

There was no impatient mockery, only ignorant dullness and clarity.

Xia Mi replied, "It could be a few days, a few months, or a few years, but it won't exceed four years at most."

"Then your sister will take you out to play."

"Yay! My sister is the best!"

The dragon happily opened two more bottles of cola, holding one in each of its left and right claws, and then clinked glasses in a very professional manner.

After the two cola bottles made a crisp sound, they were poured into their mouths together and drunk in one gulp...

Xia Mi shook her head slightly, thinking that intellectually disabled children were indeed more fun.

However, having a low IQ also has its advantages. At least it makes it easy for them to be genuinely happy, while I... it seems like I haven't been truly happy in a long time, right?

As Xia Mi thought about it, a seemingly natural smile appeared on her face, the same smile she often showed in front of Lu Mingfei.

Chapter 185 Humanity and Sophistication

After the Qingming Festival holiday ended, Xia Mi looked at Lu Mingfei with some surprise: "Didn't you go back to sweep the tombs and pay respects to your ancestors during the Qingming Festival?"

According to her understanding, tomb sweeping and ancestor worship are extremely important matters in the minds of Chinese people.

She used this as an excuse to go back to the capital to spend a few days with her brother. Otherwise, she would never have dared to go back to the capital, since there were too many things to be careful about now that she was with Lu Mingfei.

“Sweeping graves…” Lu Mingfei stroked his chin. “This seems like a long time ago to me. I don’t remember it at all.”

"Hmm? When you lived with your uncle, did they not visit the graves or anything like that?"

“I have almost no memory of them. My father and uncle were raised by other people. When I was a child, I almost thought they were monkeys that popped out of a rock…” Lu Mingfei smiled.

"Oh~" Xia Mi nodded, "Have you ever been to the capital?"

"No." Lu Mingfei shook his head directly.

Before his parents went out to work, they worked in a small geological research institute. Their salary was pitifully low, slightly better than the average person, but not by much. Travel was a distant dream for their family.

After he went to live with his uncle, his uncle's family would go on a trip once a year, but among the several trips they took him to, they never chose Beijing.

"If you ever visit Beijing, Mr. Lu, you can stay at my place."

Xia Mi grinned, "Because of the disaster caused by the White King's recovery in Japan, it triggered a financial crisis in the United States, and then the domestic situation was also affected. The price of real estate in the capital was affected, and I finally made the down payment for a big house."

Lu Mingfei nodded slightly: "Yes, I know. I made a lot of money in this US financial crisis."

The system had previously discussed global financial issues with Su Enxi. Back in 2007, potential problems had already emerged in the United States and had even been uncovered. At that time, she was already thinking that the United States might not be able to hold on this year, but she didn't know when it would explode.

With money in hand, the system naturally wanted to make even more, so it assembled and arranged personnel to handle this aspect.

Japan holds a large amount of US Treasury bonds. When it suddenly suffers such a huge disaster, it will naturally sell off a large amount of US Treasury bonds to aid its homeland.

This dealt a heavy blow to the already precarious US economy, exacerbating existing problems and causing them to collapse... Lu Mingfei was also caught off guard by this economic crisis.

Previously, the system painstakingly analyzed that the phased goals would take three years to complete, but they were achieved ahead of schedule in Japan. The occurrence of this financial crisis has directly enabled the wealthy to complete almost all of their tasks.

After all, the world's richest person is only worth a little over $600 billion, while Lu Mingfei is almost the richest person in China.

"It's so easy for rich people to make money."

Upon hearing this, Xia Mi immediately looked at her boss with envy, "So, boss, how much money are you planning to make this time?"

"Let's make 100 billion first?" Lu Mingfei said calmly.

Money in finance is indeed easy to make, almost like compound interest. There's no need to struggle; starting a real business is a much faster way to make money.

Xia Mi's eyes lit up the moment she stopped, and she rubbed her hands together, saying, "Dollar? What did you invest in, boss? I still have some money on hand, can I take a stake? I still have mortgage payments to make on my big house, I'm almost broke..."

How big is the house you bought?

Lu Mingfei was a little puzzled. After discussing this topic with Xia Mi, he checked the housing prices in Beijing through the system. They were indeed several times more expensive than in Beijing. However, with the outbreak of the financial crisis, the really expensive houses had started to be sold at a discount. After all, the more expensive the house, the higher the bubble. At this time, the rich people urgently needed to cash out and run away.

If Xia Mi were to take out a loan, her current base salary and project management bonuses would definitely be enough to cover it... unless the house is really, really big and extremely valuable.

"It's only a little over a thousand square meters..."

"?" Lu Mingfei made a questioning sound through his nose: "How many square meters is 'over a thousand square meters'? Aren't all the gardens in Beijing tourist attractions? You didn't buy all those princely mansions, did you?"

"Most of the large royal palaces have been taken over by the state. I just bought a few houses and then connected them together to form a fence..." Xia Mi said awkwardly, "The down payment wasn't much, but the renovation cost a lot, which is why I'm so poor."

"Several houses are connected together... Why are you so obsessed with big houses..."

Lu Mingfei didn't delve too deeply into why, he simply remarked on her fondness for big houses.

According to previous information, Xia Mi's previous small house in the capital was just a very small single room, about the size of a normal room.

She lived there in a cramped apartment for several years, cooking, sleeping, and reading all in that house... It's normal for someone who lives in such a small house to have a strong attachment to a big house.

As for Xia Mi, she was thinking that she definitely needed a big house, otherwise Fenrir's huge body would be inconvenient to move around, and she would have to call him "sister" again... annoying.

However, it wouldn't work to transform Fenrir into a human form; it's far too dim-witted. Without the power to turn against others, it would be easily deceived, which would cause a lot of trouble.

So Fenrir didn't transform into a human like her. Instead, it kept its powerful dragon body hidden in the underground Nibelungen to avoid being fooled by outsiders. Even if it was fooled, it had the power to turn on them and protect itself if it sensed something was wrong.

However, Xia Mi didn't want to discuss this issue further, as the more she said, the more mistakes she would make. She said, "Now, Lao Tang on the project side wants to place an ordinary person as his assistant. I would approve it if he were to put an ordinary person in the factory, but the position he wants is his assistant, which means he has to spend time with him in the core laboratory. I haven't agreed to that yet."

Lu Mingfei asked, "What's that person's background?"

Old Tang is the highest-ranking person in charge of the project. In theory, he can have whatever he wants and can arrange his own manpower at will.

If you want to make arrangements, you can just make them directly. If you bypass the system, that would be against the rules. How can the system not know what happened?

Therefore, the necessary personnel authority in the process was assigned to Xia Mi and Panpan by the system.

Xia Mi explained, "According to the information, she is a country girl who graduated from the fifth grade of elementary school. She came to the city to work, worked as a waitress and worked in a factory... In the end, she went astray and went to a massage parlor to work as a massage technician. That's when she met Lao Tang. Lao Tang had been to that massage parlor when he was on vacation. She was quite good-looking."

A masseuse at a massage parlor? Is this masseuse legitimate?

Several question marks popped into Lu Mingfei's head. He had considered the possible identities of the person Lao Tang was going to arrange, but he never expected that it would be someone Lao Tang knew while on vacation for three days.

It would be fine if it were someone I knew, or even a decent person, but why does she have to be a masseuse at a massage parlor?

"A lab assistant is definitely not an option. Putting aside the issue of confidentiality, she probably wouldn't be of much help to the lab's research progress. However, we can't be too heartless to refuse Old Tang's request for someone."

The system refused without hesitation, saying, "Arrange for her to work as a receptionist, helping the lab staff buy meals or something. Since she doesn't have a driver's license and can't drive, arrange for her to take a driving test under the guise of training. During this time, observe whether there are any problems with her identity."

If the company was small with only three or five people, and someone suggested bringing in someone, it would be worth considering, as there would likely be no problem with their identity. But now that the company has grown and become stronger, things are different. What if they are a spy planted by another force?