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After saying that, Constantine added, "Like my brother and me, I control more power and my brother controls less power, but in terms of intelligence and personality, my brother is more mature and well-rounded, while I am more immature, probably only equivalent to the personality of a human child in his early teens."
Lu Mingfei was shocked when he heard this. This was indeed splitting a whole dragon into two parts, even completely cutting it off in terms of mind and body.
Power and mind are split from a whole into two parts... It seems that I and the little devil are in the same state?
Maybe, probably... but it shouldn't be like this!
"There are even more extreme cases. The difference between the siblings, the Kings of Earth and Mountains, is even greater. Erifin controls the vast majority of the power, but his intelligence is probably only that of a child of a few years old. His sister, Jormungandr, although possessing a nearly complete mature intelligence and personality, has also weakened to the extreme. She is almost the weakest among the four thrones and eight dragon kings, without exception."
"Yes, yes, yes," Lu Mingfei immediately recalled his earlier hesitation upon hearing this.
Normally, it should be like the throne of the King of Earth and Mountains, but in reality, there is an extreme imbalance between myself and the little devil. The little devil has taken away most of the knowledge and power.
Wait... why does the other person always appear as a child? Aren't all those bizarre actions caused by me taking away most of their mature intelligence and strictness?
But my strength is too weak! Forget being comparable to a dragon, I'm just a normal human! Is this reasonable?
"Oh... um..."
However, when Constantine mentioned that the weakest dragon king was without exception, the system and Lu Mingfei couldn't help but think of what the little devil had said before.
After all, a dragon king has been lurking around Lu Mingfei, and no one knows what it's up to. But this little devil dragon king claims it's harmless to Lu Mingfei...
They had previously speculated that the dragon king might be too weak, or that it had some special bond with Lu Mingfei.
The system asked directly, "Just how weak is Jormungandr? Is he weaker than me?"
“I’m not so sure about that,” Constantine said honestly, shaking his head. “It’s hard to make a comparison because you haven’t fully shown your normal state, and a dragon’s state is also fluctuating, not constant. If we consider the weakest and most extreme case, even a dragon king is as weak as a child. But Jormungandr in his normal peak state should be stronger than Samson. By the way, how is Samson?”
"It must be completely dead..."
Constantine's dragon servant had no value in resurrecting for political purposes... so the little devil naturally wouldn't waste his energy resurrecting an ordinary dragon that wouldn't affect the overall situation.
After a long silence, Constantine said, "Alright..."
How could there be no feelings at all?
Even if Samson couldn't compare to his brother in any way, his protection over thousands of years would still have some value. Just like humans raising cats and dogs, even sensitive people can develop feelings for chickens and ducks they keep at home.
Unfortunately, due to his intelligence and personality, Constantine is the kind of person who is sensitive and thoughtful.
The system didn't give Constantine time to be sad, and continued to ask as soon as he spoke: "Can the Dragon King seize the Dragon King's authority by absorbing the Dragon King's Dragon Bone Cross?"
“I don’t know,” Constantine shook his head and said, “because such a thing has never happened before. Why don’t you ask me if I can create a dragon king using alchemy? No, you should know.”
What do you mean I should know?
Lu Mingfei and the system both hesitated for a moment, really unsure what they should know.
"System, is Constantine mistaking me for Lu Mingze?"
After all, the Dragon King Experience Card that killed Constantine used Lu Mingze's ability, and given Lu Mingze's abilities, the little devil should indeed know a great deal.
But I'm not him! The differences between us are huge!
"Oh, right..." Lu Mingfei suddenly remembered something: "Little Devil, has he really gone into slumber?"
The little devil did as he said, and then entered a long period of slumber. Shouldn't I be sad? But right now, all I can think about is the Dragon King…
This... Lu Mingfei suddenly felt a little guilty. The little devil can sense his emotions. If the little devil is just testing him, he will probably be very disappointed.
His older brother didn't actually care about him at all; he only cared about his own interests.
Seeing that Lu Mingfei was actually pondering this question, the system immediately analyzed and enlightened him: "[...You can't test people's hearts. It's like trying to judge the quality of a piece of glass; you won't stop until the glass breaks...]"
The system directly chose to express its utter contempt for Lu Mingze's behavior of testing others' sincerity, attempting to relieve Lu Mingfei of his psychological burden.
Lu Mingfei couldn't be happy after seeing this analysis. Although he did feel a little less guilty, he still inexplicably remembered what the little devil had said.
Then he asked, "Um...System, do you think that with you always there to comfort me and do things for me, I seem like a little kid? That I need someone to comfort me when I'm sad, that I'm not mature at all?"
[...Theoretically, that's true, but in reality, normal adults just bury their inner emotions deep inside. Not having them doesn't mean they don't think about them; it just means they don't let others see it. They rely entirely on time to heal, but while time is touted as a cure-all, it's actually a quack doctor...]
The system analyzes and enlightens people in one way or another, frantically relieving Lu Mingfei of his moral guilt.
Before long, we arrived at the smelting plant.
After driving the car directly in, the system led Xiao Ding into the factory and headed straight for the laboratory.
However, Old Tang was nowhere to be found in the lab. The system caught up with one of his assistants and asked him where Old Tang was.
"Chief Tang? He's still sleeping; he hasn't come to the lab yet today."
"Oh."
The system then took Constantine to the dormitory to find Old Tang.
Constantine glanced at the sun outside and asked, "Is my brother very tired? He's still not fully awake."
"Yes, your brother's work is indeed quite busy."
It would be too embarrassing to just say that Old Tang devoted himself to the host until his dying breath.
And what if Constantine gets jealous after hearing that? That's terrifying...
The system and Lu Mingfei each had an idea, but the two ideas were somewhat different.
Constantine said, "Then why don't we leave my brother sleeping for now? I'll wait until he wakes up before I go to see him."
"No need. Although his sleep schedule and wake-up time are a bit irregular, he should be waking up around this time. He's probably brushing his teeth right now."
The system wasn't talking nonsense, especially since when the two of them walked over to the dormitory, Old Tang just came out of the door and closed it.
After closing the door, Old Tang turned around and saw Lu Mingfei. He instinctively greeted him, "Boss..."
Then, subconsciously, I looked at the people next to the boss.
Old Tang's pupils immediately contracted.
That child was so unfamiliar, yet why did he feel so familiar?
Constantine's appearance was deliberately fabricated by Lu Mingze, and even his voice was created in the same way, otherwise it would have been too easy for Xia Mi to spot.
Lu Mingfei was able to recognize Constantine at a glance because the other man's eyes were somewhat similar to those of the little boy Dragon King he had met last time.
But the little boy, the Dragon King, is the Dragon King!
So Lu Mingfei reacted immediately and switched to a different system account without hesitation to prepare for battle.
"you are?"
"elder brother?"
Constantine looked at Old Tang with curiosity; he sensed that this was his older brother.
However, because his body had been switched to that of an ordinary person, his perception was rather vague; he only had a faint feeling about it.
Old Tang's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets: "Brother?!"
Calling him "brother"? He didn't have any younger siblings; if he did, they would be Norton's... He remembered Lu Mingfei saying he was trying to control Norton through Constantine...
So this little boy in front of me is Constantine? Old Tang immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
Chapter 234 Waiting for Norton
Old Tang didn't dare to move an inch, frantically suppressing his excited and nervous heart.
After all, he was afraid that if he got emotional, he would wake Norton up.
The scene of brothers reuniting after a thousand years is certainly touching, but if the price of their reunion is that he might disappear, then Old Tang can put away that feeling of being moved without hesitation.
It's okay to be a little selfish... We're all just trying to survive. And you, Norton, have a reason to live, but don't I, Old Tang, have a reason to live too?
Life is not divided into high and low, noble and lowly. Norton, you can't be so selfish!
However… at this moment, Old Tang had a sudden flash of inspiration as if he had thought of something? Because wasn't Constantine beaten by the boss with the Dragon Bone Cross?
Is this one that's come out now real or fake? It should be real, right? The boss wouldn't do something like this out of boredom. He might fool himself, but he definitely couldn't fool a big shot like Norton.
Since Constantine was able to come back to life after being hit by the Dragon Bone Cross... then what about me...?
No, no! Old Tang suddenly came to his senses and dismissed the idea in his mind. After all, he was the one who was going to get blown up by the Dragon Bone Cross!
Even if we could actually get Norton out and recreate him, we'd still need to destroy our own Dragonbone Cross first.
That definitely won’t work!
Looking at Old Tang, who was covered in sweat, Lu Mingfei smiled. He knew that taking out Constantine would scare Old Tang, but when he actually saw Old Tang startled, he still smiled knowingly as if he had done something wrong.
Although we don't know what Lao Tang is thinking right now, or how many thoughts he has, we can be sure that Lao Tang is terrified.
The system then reassured him, "Don't worry, Constantine is harmless. After Norton recovers, Constantine can persuade his brother not to be too harsh on you."
Old Tang snapped out of his daze upon hearing this, and hesitated before saying, "Ah, this..."
For a moment, he didn't know which problem to bring up first, since there were just too many and they were all quite important, leaving him struggling to decide on the order of priority.
The system patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, I will definitely do my best to save you."
Meanwhile, Constantine gradually came to his senses amidst the excitement.
Her brother was clearly still asleep and had not yet awakened. What stood in front of her now were various independent personalities that had emerged from the slumber of their minds... Theoretically, they were her brother, but not entirely her brother.
The body is his older brother's, and in terms of personality attributes, this personality is also his older brother's, but it is completely different from the older brother he knows...
Constantine asked, "What happened to my brother? Why did he come out of the brass pot? And what happened to him afterward?"
If nothing unexpected happens, then the two brothers should be inside the brass jar in Bronze City, and they should be revived together.
However, the reality was that the brass jar containing his brother's egg broke, causing his brother to be lost... Over the centuries, Samson had already awakened and faithfully guarded the Bronze City.
Samson wasn't entirely sure when the brass pot became damaged, because he hadn't entered the room where it was kept. He only knew that his king was still in the Bronze City, but he didn't know when the two kings had become one... This was quite absurd; the other side had a firm grasp on Samson.
"Why Norton's egg came out of the brass jar? I don't know either." The system shook its head. "As for what your brother went through later, to make a long story short, it was quite a rollercoaster ride..."
Not only did he escape from the brass pot, but somehow he also ended up in America, thousands of miles away across the Pacific Ocean, where he began a miserable life as an orphan...
Old Tang couldn't help but cover his face and say, "Boss, please stop talking."
For the mighty King of Bronze and Fire to fall to such a state is truly a disgrace. If he didn't know his true identity, it would be alright, but after learning it, he felt his past was utterly shameful...
Old Tang hesitated for a moment after thinking about this: Wait a minute, I'm a human, how could I have the idea of losing a dragon?
Norton?! Is it still influencing itself?
Constantine looked at his unfamiliar brother with a complicated expression, then said, "Do you feel that your fusion with your brother isn't perfect?"