Dragon Raja: I practiced Naruto ninjutsu next to Lu Mingfei.

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Manstein wanted to call him back, but didn't know what reason to give.

After all, the other party was the president of the Lionheart Society. This time, he could be said to have done a great service by leaving so many survivors and not doing anything that violated school rules. Moreover, his continued participation in the exam was something a student should do, so there was no fault to be found in him.

"Go ahead. If you fail the exam, I will submit an explanation to the academy." Manstein was a fair and kind person, so he let Gu Ran and Li Enshu go without hesitation.

But he still reminded Gu Ran, "After you get back, you must submit your report as soon as possible."

"Understood." Gu Ran had already walked towards the exit and waved behind him in response.

As he left the base, the people from the Executive Bureau and the SEALs from the School Affairs Department nodded to Gu Ran, their expressions revealing absolute respect for him.

To some extent, Kassel College is also a place that worships the strong, so Lu Mingfei, with his S-class bloodline, will always be praised.

Despite the many people secretly gossiping about Lu Mingfei's sycophantic behavior towards Nuonuo, most people in the school actually admire Lu Mingfei greatly. Many are jealous of his S-rank, but they also envy that he was able to step onto the battlefield of dragon slaying from his freshman year and return with honors.

This is also a sign of respect for the strong.

Just as these school staff now respect Gu Ran, it is also a respectful attitude towards the strong.

"When we get back, help me write a report to submit as well," Gu Ran whispered to Li Enshu.

“Oh…” Lee Eun-sook pouted, but agreed anyway, because that’s what secretaries do.

Her words can enhance her memory, and she's quite good at writing reports.

The two picked up the hang glider again, took to the sky, and continued their flight towards the finish line of the exam.

……

At the base, Nono and Professor Manstein collected a lot of information.

Manstein sat in his chair. Outside, the school's administrative staff had already set up a satellite signal. Because he was worried that the other side might launch another bunker-buster missile, he immediately uploaded all the computer data to Norma.

In this way, even if the other side continues to launch bunker-buster missiles, it will be useless, because Norma will be able to copy all the data while the bunker-buster missiles are in flight.

Moreover, all the prisoners captured by Gu Ran were immediately moved outside, ready to be transported to a safe place for interrogation. It was no longer possible for the bunker-buster missile to kill them and silence them.

"Norma, can you analyze the data to determine what organization the other party is?" Manstein asked over the communication channel.

Once the data is submitted to Norma, it will analyze it automatically; it's a very good form of artificial intelligence.

Norma replied, "This base was set up by an organization called the Holy Palace Medical Society, and it also has some connections with the Solomon Temple of the British Empire. The Solomon Temple is in charge here."

“The Solomon Temple?” Manstein seemed to have heard of this organization, but for a moment he forgot.

Norma then began to recount the events of the Solomon Temple.

The Solomon Temple's history can be traced back to the renowned Knights Templar of Europe.

The Knights Templar were originally composed of nine poor knights who were determined to protect pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem from harm.

Although the knights had ideals, they were like Liu Bei in the early stages of his career, without their own base of operations. Moreover, they were even worse off than Liu Bei, who at least had Zhang Fei, who had considerable wealth. But these knights were practically penniless.

King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, seeing their plight, granted them a corner of the Al-Aqsa Mosque to live in.

This mosque is built on the site of King Solomon's Temple and holds a very high religious status, being considered a holy site in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

The knights stationed here seemed to have discovered some secret from the ruins and gained immense benefits. As a result, the Knights Templar developed rapidly over the next two hundred years and became the backbone of the Crusades.

Many nobles donated their fortunes to them, making them very wealthy, and they also gained a lot of territory in the war.

After several hundred years of development, by the latter half of the 13th century, these knights, who were originally penniless, had not only developed their own military group, but also established a banking group with branches all over the world.

Travelers could deposit money in a city in the East and then withdraw it from a branch in a city in the West upon arrival, presenting a receipt.

In the end, they even lent money to the king, truly becoming richer than a country.

Therefore, King Philip IV of France set his sights on this ancient financial group, forcing Pope Clement V to declare the Knights Templar illegal. On a Friday, Pope Clement V suddenly launched an attack, arresting all the knights and confiscating their property. After a brutal trial, the last Grand Master was burned at the stake.

He uttered a curse on the stake, saying that Philip IV and Clement V would face eternal judgment within a year of his death. The curse came true; both men died suddenly within a year.

The once mighty Knights Templar were thus destroyed. However, for reasons unknown, King Robert of Scotland defied the Pope's decree and spared the remnants of the Knights Templar. As a result, many Knights Templar went to Scotland to serve Robert.

It is said that they presented the monarch with the treasures the Knights had hidden, the greatest of which was the secret that the nine knights had found at the ruins of Solomon's Temple.

Decades later, an organization called the Solomon Temple appeared in Scotland. No one knew the exact relationship between this organization and the Knights Templar. They were also involved in the financial industry, and the amount of wealth they controlled was equally unclear.

This is a mixed-race organization, but they rarely interact with other mixed-race organizations.

After receiving Norma's feedback, Manstein remained silent for a moment before asking, "Has the message been reported to the board of directors and the principal?"

“Reports have been submitted separately,” Norma said. “The board of directors and the principal’s opinion in the emergency meeting is to hold off on Solomon’s Temple for the time being, because the fact that hybrids are conducting experiments on dragon creatures is not a new thing, and the current evidence does not completely point to Solomon’s Temple.”

"And what about the Holy Palace Medical Society?" Manstein asked.

“Continue the investigation secretly.” Norma continued, stating the principal’s arrangements. “All biological samples here will be taken over by professors from the school’s biology department, in preparation for being transported back to the school for research.”

Human experimentation here will be terminated, and those who have suffered physical and psychological harm will receive humanitarian treatment from the academy. Masafumi Tomiyama has already led a psychological intervention team to this location.

The interrogation of the base personnel will be handled by temporary commissioner Chen Motong and Professor Manstein, who will prepare a report and submit it to the academy as soon as possible.

Manstein and Nono beside him exchanged a glance and nodded slightly.

"What about Gu Ran?" Nuonuo asked at this moment.

Norma said, "The board of directors seems to want Gu Ran to submit a report immediately, demanding that he provide a detailed account of how the base was discovered and how it was destroyed."

However, Gu Ran's satellite phone is currently unreachable, and his text messages have been sent to an auto-reply. His QQ auto-reply message reads: "A general in the field may disobey orders, so don't contact me unless it's necessary!" No one can reach him at the moment.

Therefore, the principal planned to let Gu Ran handle it himself, and report back after he returned, since everyone at the base had been captured.

Nuonuo laughed when she heard this. Gu Ran had simply disappeared. No wonder he was in such a hurry to leave them.

"I really envy that kid, he can be so carefree," Nono said to herself.

*……*……*

On the eighth day of the cross-country test, all the students who took the test arrived at the finish line in the Congo Basin on time.

Lu Mingfei and Ling's group reached the finish line relatively early. After stealing the car, they had a lot of canned food on them, so they didn't need to hunt at all. They basically traveled slowly every day, eating canned food when they were hungry, which saved a lot of time.

Gu Ran and Li Enshu were more flamboyant, landing directly in the sky using a hang glider, drawing everyone's attention.

This hang glider is clearly unpowered, which is why the teacher allowed them to bring it. But how can an unpowered hang glider fly above a rainforest? There are so many trees, no matter how it flies, it doesn't make sense, right?

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But Gu Ran did fly out with Li Enshu. How they flew is a secret, I won't tell you.

No one dared to press further, since everyone has their own secrets, and asking too many questions would be impolite.

Everyone passed this assessment; in fact, no one has ever failed in all these years.

The college dispatched large transport helicopters to transport all the students to a civilian airport in Rwanda, where they were split into several chartered planes and flown back to Chicago.

On the plane, Gu Ran and Lu Mingfei sat together, occasionally chatting and watching anime together.

After returning home, it will be summer vacation. Gu Ran has already booked a flight back to Shanghai in five days. He also asked Lu Mingfei if he was going back.

"I agreed to join that program with the principal," Lu Mingfei whispered in Gu Ran's ear, seemingly afraid of being overheard by other students, since there were only a few spots available for the program.

He continued, "I'm going to undergo hellish training starting this summer, and this cross-country assessment is just the beginning."

"Great, now you'll have the ability to protect the people you want to protect." Gu Ran smiled. "But summer vacation is so long, you can always find time to do it. Why don't you go see Erii? I heard she's on a nudist beach in France now, it's a nudist beach... But you've already been alone with her in a room, you should have seen everything you needed to see, right?"

After Gu Ran finished speaking, Lu Mingfei remained silent, but his cheeks were flushed, as if he was thinking about something, and he occasionally smiled slightly.

"Brother, your smile is so lewd..." Gu Ran nudged his shoulder in annoyance.

Lu Mingfei realized what was happening: "What...what are you saying? I, I didn't..."

He stammered for a while before finally composed himself and said, "The beach in Montallivi is a bit too liberating. The giant tortoise was worried that it wouldn't be good for Erii's upbringing, so he took her to Marseille, which isn't far from Montallivi. The beaches there aren't as exciting."

"Oh..." Gu Ran nodded slightly, "So, are you going to see her this summer vacation or not?"

“I… well, I still have to go somewhere.” Lu Mingfei looked at Gu Ran. “How about… we go together? Erii actually has a pretty good impression of you.”

Gu Ran said, "I'm going back to my hometown this summer for my engagement ceremony, so I'm afraid we won't be able to coordinate our schedules."

"Oh, I almost forgot about that." Lu Mingfei scratched his head. "Congratulations on your marriage."

"It's just an engagement, not a wedding yet." Gu Ran stretched in his seat, then suddenly remembered something. "I won two prizes in a lottery in Akihabara, Japan. You can give them to Erii and play with her."

What prize?

“Gundam’s model, two Freedom Gundams,” Gu Ran said with a smile. “I remember she liked to look at them. It would be fun to build models with her.”

"Oh……"

Lu Mingfei nodded slightly. Actually, as long as the girl is pretty enough, doing anything with her is very interesting.

If you're unhappy doing things with a woman, one reason might be that you don't like her, or you don't find her agreeable.

As long as the girl is cute and pretty, even just sitting together quietly watching the sunrise is romantic.

So these past few days, he and Zero have been traveling through mountains and valleys together, which has actually been quite interesting.

He glanced sideways at Ling, who was sitting not far away with her eyes closed, resting. She was actually a very cute little girl. Although she was expressionless and cold-hearted, she was very kind to Lu Mingfei. If it weren't for her care along the way, he probably would have been killed at that black guy's armed base.

Ling is excellent and perfect. She excels in all subjects, dances exceptionally well, is just as beautiful as Nuonuo, and can even cook, except for how to handle ingredients.

She could actually learn it if she wanted to, but she was just too lazy to prepare the ingredients.

She was very polite, never showing any displeasure, and lacked the pettiness or jealousy common among girls. Yet, she neither smiled nor showed sadness; even if you stared at her, you couldn't discern her mood. For her, life was simply about silently passing through time, indifferent to happiness or unhappiness, likes or dislikes.

This kind of zero isn't cute at all, but Lu Mingfei feels at ease when he's with her, as if they made some kind of promise in the dark to stay together forever, until... one of them becomes completely useless to the other.

But if you think about it that way, Nuonuo isn't actually that cute. Although she seems carefree on the surface, she's actually someone who keeps everything to herself.

Her kindness towards Lu Mingfei seemed to be nothing more than pity. Lu Mingfei himself could sense her sympathy, but feelings are always difficult to explain rationally.

Just like Erii suddenly falling in love with herself, it's something that doesn't make any sense.

So it seems he wasn't entirely without female admirers; that incredibly long-legged ninja woman had kissed him twice, once on the cheek and once on the lips...

However, he did not like the women who liked him and treated him well.

This is perhaps what Jin Yong meant when he said in "The Return of the Condor Heroes" that "meeting Yang Guo once ruined one's life"; he himself was ruined by meeting Nuonuo once ruined his life.

If only the woman who saved him in the movie theater hadn't been Nono, things would have been different. But because it was Nono, everything turned out badly.

*……*……*

Back at school, Gu Ran submitted the action report that Li Enshu had written for him. The report explained that his encounter with the Solomon Temple organization was purely accidental, and that the other side had launched a one-man missile at him.

He and Lee Eun-sook were just looking for trouble with the other party and preparing to seek revenge. In the process, they accidentally discovered that secret base.