Chapter 279 Encounter with Lu Mingze
It was the first time for Uchiha Hikaru to enter this "Bronze City".
As the palace built by Fire King Norton for herself, this place was bigger and more spectacular than she had imagined. The walls inside were all forged with whole pieces of bronze, and then separated into courtyards and rooms. In some of the rooms, there were stone furniture, engraved with tiny seal characters, which looked quite ancient.
She originally wanted to come in to find the "Seven Deadly Sins".
After all, it was an alchemical weapon worth 100 million US dollars. Even if Uchiha Hikaru was not short of money, she would never complain about having too much money. Besides, although she herself did not have the blood of dragons, it did not mean that she could not use other methods to use alchemical weapons. If the quality of the "Seven Deadly Sins" was good enough, then keeping it for herself would be a good choice.
But...
Uchiha Hikaru did not know where this thing was placed in the "Bronze City".
Because Constantine did not know either.
——In the latter's mind, apart from "brother", everything else was basically a mess. Common sense was almost nonexistent, and even worse than Eri before she joined the chat group. Since waking up, he has been in a dazed and stupid state. He could not say a few words all day and could not provide them with any useful information.
So.
Uchiha Hikaru could only walk around in this metal palace with a sightseeing mentality, occasionally taking a few photos with his mobile phone, and planned to share them with Esdeath and the others after returning.
Moving forward.
On the way, Uchiha Hikaru used "Fire Thunder God" to forcibly cut through several walls, and directly chose the shortest path, breaking through the wall from the inside and entering the next room.
After going around in circles for several times.
Uchiha Hikaru somehow came to an ancient house with a courtyard.
This seemed to be the place that had appeared in the original work, where Norton and Constantine lived and was attacked by the Eastern Han army two thousand years ago. But at this time, there was already someone in the courtyard of the residential house.
It was a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old.
He was about 1.6 meters tall, wearing a black suit, small leather shoes, and a white silk scarf. He sat at a stone table and drank a glass of red wine.
He obviously heard the footsteps, but did not turn around immediately. Instead, he slowly put down the wine glass and wiped the corner of his mouth: "You are here."
"... I am here."
Uchiha Guang looked at the other party's careless tone and said.
"You shouldn't have come."
"..."
Uchiha Guang narrowed his eyes slightly, did not respond to the last sentence, but exhaled lightly: "Lu Mingze?"
The other party was indeed Lu Mingze.
Although Uchiha Guang had expected that he might meet this guy when he intervened in the "Kuimen Plan" - after all, Lu Mingze had been paying attention to Kuimen, and even this plan itself had his shadow behind the scenes. But... she didn't expect it to be so soon.
It seems so.
Lu Mingze had expected her to come back, so he waited here in advance.
Well... Jiude Mai and Su Enxi seem to be away.
That's right.
Those two are essentially workers recruited by Lu Mingze. Although they are profitable and trusted, Lu Mingze will still be reserved about things that really involve the secrets of dragons.
As for the other member of the nanny group, Retana...
She is still in Kassel Academy, playing house with Lu Mingfei as "Zero", and it is even more impossible for her to rush here.
"... Two masters meet here, shouldn't they say a cool line to create an atmosphere first? Well, there is really no tacit understanding at all."
Opposite.
Lu Mingze seemed a little concerned that Uchiha Guang did not continue to say "But I'm here".
After sighing, he jumped off the stone bench, then turned around and looked at Uchiha Guang calmly, tilting his head:
"Since we are meeting for the first time, should I call you Miss Guang, or... 'White King'?"
"It's up to you."
Uchiha Guang said lightly.
Unlike Xia Mi and others, Lu Mingze had met White King and even had a deep friendship with him.
Using the rhetoric that had deceived Xia Mi and the Eight Snake Families before to cover up his identity in front of him was simply a way to cover up one's own faults, which was meaningless.
And since this guy chose to appear here...
Then Lu Mingze should have made some judgment about her identity-
"Half a year ago, there was a rumor in Japan that the noble White Emperor had resurrected in the God's Burial Place, and as the mother goddess 'Izanami', he took over the Eight Snake Clan and promoted its suppression of the fierce ghosts. In order to confirm this rumor, I went to Japan in person, but I didn't find you."
"I didn't expect to hear about you again here."
"You look smaller than I thought."
Lu Mingze said softly, looking at Uchiha Guang with a scrutinizing look.
In the process.
Uchiha Guang also scrutinized him, and then under the latter's gaze, he smiled faintly: "But you look bigger than I thought."
-This is the truth.
In Uchiha Guang's mind, Lu Mingze's image should be smaller than her body, but unexpectedly, in comparison, she is more like the younger sister...
After a short silence.
Lu Mingze spoke again: "At first, I really thought you were the 'White King'."
"After all, there is a precedent of the White King's revival in history, and he did reappear in the world as a human being... that is, the Izanami from ten thousand years ago. Although it is not quite the same as I expected, as the noble existence in the dragon world, it is not impossible for her to do something beyond my expectations."
"If it is really her who has returned to this world after tens of millions of years, then as an old friend, I am still quite happy."
"However, after contacting the people of the Snake Qi Eight Clan and learning the cause and effect of your appearance, I realized that you are not her at all. "
"A person with no past and a blank identity suddenly appeared in the vision of the Eight Clans of Sheqi, and made them believe that he was really the noble and noble Dragon King... If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I might not even believe it. "
"But now..."
"I have roughly guessed your origins."
Lu Mingze paused, and then said word by word: "Excluding all the impossibilities, no matter how absurd the remaining one is, it can only be the truth. You...should not be from this world, right?"
"...Yes."
Uchiha Guang nodded very straightforwardly.
There is no need to deny this question.
After all, Lu Mingze's identity is there, and his brain is also very smart. If he makes up a lie, it will only be exposed in an instant, so it is better to admit it directly.
Anyway...
Lu Mingze should not be able to do anything to her.
This person may have been a big boss in the past, with supreme power and authority, but now, he is just a wandering ghost in the world. Even dealing with Odin and other ambitious people whose status is far lower than his own, he is somewhat powerless, not to mention Uchiha Guang.
Only those rule-based abilities such as tampering with the timeline would make her a little afraid. But with Lu Mingze's personality and style of doing things, he should not take such desperate measures before things are made clear.
On the other side.
Lu Mingze narrowed his eyes slightly: "So... are you really a character in that comic? A member of the Uchiha clan from Konoha Village in the Land of Fire?"
-He made this judgment early on.
But...
Even as knowledgeable as he is, he can't believe that a character who should have belonged to the second dimension can break through the dimensional wall and come to reality, and also has the power to move himself. This kind of thing should exist in those online novels.
"Is it possible... that the world you are in is also a comic, or a novel?"
Uchiha Guang said lightly.
"!"
Lu Mingze was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized: "No wonder you saw through Herzog's identity when you first appeared in the Snake Eight Families, and just now you called out my name at the first time... It turns out that this is not a coincidence, but you already knew it.
In the world of "Naruto", has anyone drawn or written the story that happened in this world?"
"... Almost."
Uchiha Guang certainly would not tell Lu Mingze that he was a time traveler.
And Lu Mingze could not go to the Naruto world to verify whether there is a comic book "Dragon Clan" there.
Then, using this reason to explain is enough.
"... What a surprising discovery."
Lu Mingze pondered for a moment, then exhaled lightly, and slowly said: "I didn't expect that I was also a character in a story... Can I ask, what is my final ending in your world?"
"I don't know."
Uchiha Guang shook his head: "Because this work about you is still serialized."
"... Hmm?"
Lu Mingze was slightly surprised, but did not dwell on this issue involving the dimensional wall.
In fact, there is no way to discuss this kind of thing in depth. If you are not careful, you may come to the conclusion that "you do not exist", which will lead to the destruction of your heart.
So.
Lu Mingze just sighed symbolically, then raised his head again and locked his eyes on Uchiha Guang: "So, you are really the granddaughter of that man named Uchiha Madara, and you are active in the ninja world under his identity, and through a series of conspiracies and calculations, you finally set off the Fourth Ninja World War? Such a move is indeed a bit like the style of the Dragon King."
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"Wait a minute..."
Uchiha Guang was slightly startled: Uchiha Madara's granddaughter...what does it mean? !
Shouldn't it be the other way around?