Chapter 80 Return to Prussia
Lu Mingfei stood on the top of the Dead Man Mountain and slowly closed his eyes. The heavy sound of artillery and shouts of killing seemed to echo in his ears again. The light of artillery fire flickered in front of his eyes, and the chaos on the battlefield was still vivid in his mind.
Nuonuo quietly looked at Lu Mingfei who closed his eyes and began her profile. In fact, Nuonuo had been profiling Lu Mingfei before and even deliberately provoked him with words, hoping that he could reveal some useful information.
She did get some information through this method. She knew from her verbal provocation to Lu Mingfei in the museum just now that Lu Mingfei's big change was indeed related to her hitting him with her car. According to Professor Guderian's speculation, Lu Mingfei had clairvoyance and his bloodline was awakened because of her hitting him.
So Nuo Nuo was even more curious about why Lu Mingfei suddenly underwent such a big change. Was it really just because of the clairvoyance caused by the awakening of his bloodline? Could clairvoyance really bring such a big change to a person?
Nuonuo knew that one would see some strange images when one's bloodline awakened. She herself also saw many strange images when her bloodline awakened. But as far as she knew, clairvoyance generally showed ancient images of the dragon clan, and no one's clairvoyance had seen the First World War.
When Nono started profiling again, the feeling of being dragged into another world came again. This time, Nono was experienced and not so panicked.
She found herself standing on the hillside of the Dead Man Mountain. Shells kept falling from the sky, and the flames of the explosions illuminated everything around her. Although she knew that all this was an illusion and could not hurt her, her face still turned pale when the shells exploded around her.
The shells seemed to have deliberately avoided her and did not hit her head-on, but only exploded around her. In the moment after the explosion, she seemed to hear a shout of killing, and a large group of Prussian soldiers in gray uniforms were rushing towards her.
In front of those soldiers who were charging desperately, Nono saw a familiar figure, that was William Hans. But this time it was no longer a black and white photo, but for some reason Nono actually saw the shadow of another person in that figure.
"Lu Mingfei?" Nuonuo murmured to herself. Before she could take a closer look, everything around her began to shatter and she returned to reality.
"Ms. Chen Motong, are you okay?" Friedson looked at the two people who closed their eyes, and couldn't help but mutter in his heart, no wonder the reward for this business was so generous, are these two people a little abnormal.
"It's okay." Nuonuo shook her head. Although she was not as frightened as last time, the terrifying sight of the artillery explosion still made her face a little pale.
"Let's go." At this time Lu Mingfei had also walked down the mountain.
"Mr. Lu, where are we going now?" Friedson asked.
"Let's go to the right bank of Verdun." Lu Mingfei said.
“I see. If you want to visit the right bank, you have to go to Fort Douaumont,” Friedson said as he introduced.
Nuonuo looked at Lu Mingfei who was walking in front of her, and that figure slowly merged with the figure that she had just seen charging forward with a fearless attitude towards death.
Friedson drove to the location of Fort Douaumont on the right bank of Verdun. Lu Mingfei could no longer see many traces of the past. The fortress that once gave people infinite fear now looked like a pile of broken stones, simple and dilapidated.
Fort Douaumont has been transformed into a museum for tourists to visit. A cement road has been paved on the land in front of the fortress, and an entrance fee of 8 euros is required.
"Fort Douaumont was known as the strongest fortress in those days, but it was easily taken down by a team of ten people led by William Hans, who was known as the Prussian God of War. Later, we paid the price of at least hundreds of thousands of people to recapture this fortress." Friedson introduced, pointing to Fort Douaumont not far away.
Lu Mingfei looked at the ruined fortress with complicated feelings in his heart. After a long silence, he finally looked at it and spoke.
"Come on, let's go to the next place."
"Not going in?" Friedson asked in surprise.
"Lu Mingfei, have you been in there?" Nuo Nuo saw the nostalgia and emotion in Lu Mingfei's eyes and asked.
"I didn't need a ticket to go in at that time." Lu Mingfei just replied calmly.
After hearing Lu Mingfei's answer, a bold guess came to Nuonuo's mind, but Nuonuo was not sure. After all, this guess was too sensational.
Next they will go to the last place of this trip, the Cowley Woods.
Friedson brought Lu Mingfei and the others to a forest where the trees and weeds grew extremely lush, but Lu Mingfei could still see traces of the war here. The bumpy ground was once a bomb crater, but now it was covered with weeds. There were even some trenches left over from the past that had turned into ordinary holes over the passage of time.
Lu Mingfei could still see many broken trees. These broken trees were blown down on the first day of the war. After nearly a hundred years, they still remained the same. He also saw shrapnel left on the ground.
He bent down and picked up a piece of rusty shrapnel and looked at it in his hand. According to Friedson, the probability of tetanus in Verdun was several times higher than in other parts of France, and the culprit was these rusty shrapnel.
At this time, Lu Mingfei saw a black shadow humming and running out in the distance. It seemed to be a pig. Behind the black shadow was a middle-aged man dressed as a priest.
"The one that just ran out was a wild boar, followed by a priest from a nearby memorial hall. The wild boars here particularly like bones underground. The priest basically searches along the traces dug by the wild boars every day, and finds one or two unidentified corpses every once in a while." Friedson said, then nodded to the priest, and continued to move forward with Lu Mingfei and the others.
However, it was Lu Mingfei who led the way next. Lu Mingfei found a piece of open space based on his memory. The open space seemed to have been formed by something bombarding it. There were no trees on it, only some weeds.
Lu Mingfei stood in the middle of the open space and slowly closed his eyes. The elves wandering in the wind began to gather towards him.
The Word Spirit: Kamaitachi is activated.
This is the place where Kaczynski died. Nothing was left when he died, and his ashes after being burned to ashes were blown away by the wind to every corner of the forest.
Lu Mingfei came here to say goodbye to Kaczynski this time. At the beginning, Lu Mingfei was seriously injured after the battle with Deadpool and went to the rear to recuperate. Later, due to the urgency of the war, they had been advancing forward and had no chance to come back here. Now he finally had the opportunity to say goodbye to Kaczynski. This was a farewell that was almost a hundred years late.
The sickle-weasel transmitted all the sounds of the forest to Lu Mingfei's ears. This time, Lu Mingfei did not hear any gunshots or artillery fire. There were only the chirping of birds, the buzzing of insects, and the rustling of leaves caused by the wind. It was really quiet.
Goodbye Kaczynski, may you be well in this quiet place.
"Let's go." Lu Mingfei wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and said to Friedson and Nono behind him.
When they got back in the car, Friedson looked at Lu Mingfei in the rearview mirror, who seemed a little sad, and asked cautiously.
"Mr. Lu, where are we going next? To the Somme River or somewhere else?" Friedson could see that this big customer came specifically to see the relics of the First World War.
"The Somme, there's nothing to see. The original battlefield has all been plowed and turned into fields for growing beets. The land there is very suitable for planting and there's no way it's going to go to waste."
"Besides, it's a little dangerous to go to the Somme River. There are a large number of unexploded shells there. The British fired millions of shells there, but one-third of them were duds. Every year during the farming season, the government sends soldiers to deal with these shells, but people are still killed by them from time to time." "Originally, there was an airplane cemetery there that you can visit. Those were all shot down by William Hans. Later, those planes all rotted and had no ornamental value, so they were dealt with by the government. If you want to go there, you can only see a few trenches dug by the British army." Friedson introduced to Lu Mingfei while driving.
He was afraid that this important customer would be disappointed if he saw nothing in the Somme, so he gave Lu Mingfei a heads-up in advance.
"The Somme... No, take us to the airport." Lu Mingfei said. The memory of the Somme was a nightmare to him. He didn't want to recall the massacre again.
Friedson drove Lu Mingfei and the others back to the Paris airport. Nuonuo called the school on the way back to the airport. Since it was not so urgent this time, the school booked tickets for Lu Mingfei and Nuonuo in advance. They took an ordinary passenger plane this time, not the Sleipnir, which was comparable to a fighter jet.
Lu Mingfei has found what he wanted to know in France, and their next stop will be Prussia.
This time they took a Boeing 747, and the school booked a first-class cabin for them. Although the seats were not as comfortable as the principal's private jet, the overall experience was much better than Sleibnir's.
After nearly two hours of flight, the plane slowly landed at the Munich airport. After the plane landed, Lu Mingfei and his friends saw a Prussian man holding a sign with his and Nono's names on it at the airport reception area.
The man came over immediately when he saw Lu Mingfei and Nuonuo walking out of the airport, and soon he introduced them with the same words as Friedson did before.
"Hello, Mr. Lu Mingfei and Miss Chen Motong. I am the guide hired by Kassel Academy for you. My name is Alessi." Unlike Friedson before, this man named Alessi was more enthusiastic and spoke Chinese better than Friedson.
"Mr. Lu, is there any place you want to go? Or should I take you to tour the whole city?" After leading Lu Mingfei and the others into the car, Alessi continued to speak enthusiastically.
After hearing what Alessi said, Lu Mingfei was a little confused. In France, he knew very well where he was going, but now that he was in Prussia, he didn't know where he should go.
He knew less about Prussia than about France. He basically spent the year on the battlefield in France and rarely returned to Prussia. Moreover, the current Prussia was very different from the Prussia in his memory.
"Please take us around the city." Lu Mingfei said in pure Prussian.
When Nuonuo heard Lu Mingfei speaking fluent Prussian, her guess became more certain.
"Okay, Mr. Lu, there are two attractions that tourists must visit when they come to Munich. One is the beer hall where Hill gave his speech, but beer halls are usually visited at night.
Another one is the Wilhelm Hans Museum. Although we have many famous museums in Munich, this museum is very special. It was built specifically to commemorate the Prussian hero Wilhelm Hans." Alessi introduced it to Lu Mingfei while driving.
"This is a small private museum. It is said that it was built by the Carter family after the end of World War II. Originally, the items in it were Hill's private collections, but after the end of World War II, they somehow ended up in the hands of the Carter family. The museum has always wanted to get these items back, but the Carter family is very powerful in Prussia, so the museum has never succeeded."
"But William Hans is so famous that the Carter family built such a museum to shut up other people," Alessi continued.
Hearing that someone had built a museum specifically for the few things he left behind, Lu Mingfei felt a little complicated, but for some reason he felt as if someone was staring at him. He turned around suddenly to look behind the car but found nothing.
"What's wrong with Mr. Lu?" Alessi asked Lu Mingfei who turned back suddenly.
“Nothing…” Lu Mingfei just responded calmly, but he knew that he might have been targeted by someone. He didn’t know if someone had been targeting him recently, or if someone had been targeting him before but he had never noticed.
"Report to the boss, our people have led the little white rabbit to the museum. Damn it! He seems to have discovered me!" Jiude Mai was originally standing on the roof of a building not far from the airport with a telescope and a phone, watching the car slowly moving forward and reporting to the person on the other end of the phone, but she suddenly saw Lu Mingfei turning his head and quickly squatted down to avoid it.
"Boss, is that still our little white rabbit? How come he suddenly became a different person? His intuition is stronger than that of a wild beast." Jiude Mai couldn't help but complain when she thought about the strange things she had observed in Lu Mingfei in the past two days.
"Hahaha, Mai, the little white rabbit has taken off his disguise, revealing his true nature as the big bad wolf. But now he is a wolf king who has separated from the pack and is covered in wounds. What we have to do is to help him return to the pack." A boy's unbridled laughter came from the other end of the phone.
The car slowly drove towards a busy commercial street. This commercial street, which was obviously expensive at first glance, actually had a museum. The museum had a simple exterior but was full of history, forming a sharp contrast with the prosperity of the commercial street.
Alessi brought Lu Mingfei and Nuonuo into the museum. For some reason, there was no one in the museum.
The museum is very large and displays various artifacts from World War II, including William Hans' personal belongings and wartime documents, and even three propeller planes.
"These are the three planes that Wilhelm Hans has flown. The first one, the Spade VII fighter, was a captured plane. Wilhelm Hans used this plane to fight against fifty enemies alone. However, he only flew it once before being taken back to Prussia for research."
"The second one is a Fokker fighter. William Hans used this plane to shoot down 150 planes over the Somme River. Later, it was sealed because of structural damage."
"The third one is even more legendary, but this one is in its restored form. William Hans originally flew this plane to victory against 500 enemies alone, but it later crashed due to structural damage and running out of fuel. However, it did not explode because of the fuel exhaustion, so we have the opportunity to repair it."
Seeing someone coming in, the staff inside began to introduce.
But Lu Mingfei's eyes did not fall on the three planes, but were attracted by a glass curtain wall next to it. There were some exhibits behind the glass, and Lu Mingfei saw some familiar things in these exhibits.
"These are the personal belongings that William Hans once used, including a pistol, an engineer shovel, some other equipment, and medals." The staff member continued to come over and introduce.
"Is that the giant sword also used by William Hans? In modern warfare, does anyone still use such heavy cold weapons to fight?" Nono said, pointing to a German giant sword behind the glass.
"Well, this giant sword was once a collection of the Prussian royal family, but after Hill came to power, he dug out the sword and said that it was once used by William Hans. We don't know whether William Hans actually used it." The staff member looked at the exaggerated giant sword and said uncertainly.
Lu Mingfei stared at the giant sword in a trance. He had returned the sword to Crown Prince William after using it, because the sword was too heavy and difficult to use on the battlefield. Normally, he could solve the problem with a pistol.
His gaze did not stay on the sword for too long, but fell on two exquisite medals beside it. He could not remember when he had obtained these two medals.
"This one is the William Hans Medal, which was awarded to William Hans by William II at his funeral. The other one is the William Hans Cross, which was awarded to William Hans after Hill came to power. This is a higher-level medal than the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Diamonds, Swords and Silver Oak Leaves. It is unique." This time it was Alessi who introduced.
Hill's medal?
Lu Mingfei stared blankly at the exquisite medal and said, "Can I touch it?"
"This... I'm sorry, sir, this is an exhibit and we can't..." The museum staff tried to refuse politely, but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by an old voice.
"Of course, it's yours..."
(End of this chapter)
