Dragon Raja: Dragon Slaying Begins with System Hosting

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When he came back from his morning run and took a shower, Xia Mi and Panpan were already awake. Xia Mi had snuck over from next door and was eating the breakfast he had made.

"Morning."

"morning."

After exchanging a casual "good morning" with each other, Lu Mingfei went into the bathroom to take a shower.

After taking a quick shower, he came out and dried his hair.

Xia Mi glanced at Lu Mingfei curiously every now and then, as if looking at something new and interesting.

On the way to school, she couldn't help but ask, "Lu Mingfei, you seem different again? Is it just my imagination?"

"Maybe?" Lu Mingfei said casually.

After pondering for a moment, Xia Mi said, "You seem to have become much more carefree?"

"Is there?" Lu Mingfei asked. "What is 'carefree'?"

Xia Mi thought for a moment and said, "Unrestrained, doing whatever I want? Or doing whatever I don't want to do?"

"Do whatever you want, do whatever you don't want to do..." Lu Mingfei muttered Xia Mi's words, and then fell silent.

Xia Mi continued to look at him with curious eyes, but he didn't seem to care.

Upon arriving at school, Lu Mingfei sat down in his seat and habitually took out his book to begin self-study.

With a systematic knowledge base and optimization methods, he can easily learn on his own without relying on the system.

The classmates didn't say anything about Lu Mingfei, since he was usually a quiet person.

No one possesses Xia Mi's keen perception, making it easy for her to detect Lu Mingfei's changes.

My days at school were the same as usual. If someone came over to chat, I would say a few words. If no one came over to chat, I would sit quietly and study on my own. When I got tired of studying and my eyes felt dry, I would blink and look out the window in a daze, not thinking about anything.

The teachers couldn't say anything about this behavior; they were almost too old to teach Lu Mingfei anymore. Compared to Lu Mingfei, they were just starting to learn high school knowledge earlier, purely accumulating seniority...

A student with ulterior motives came over and asked, "Lu Mingfei, I saw you going for a run this morning. Didn't Xia Mi go for a run with you?"

When asked about this, Lu Mingfei casually replied, "Xia Mi doesn't like exercising. She doesn't have much flesh to begin with. If she exercises more, she'll become a skeleton. Forcing her to exercise will make her more likely to settle down in the little box."

"But exercise is for improving health, not just for losing weight."

Xia Mi felt that her body was very healthy and she did not need to do any extra training to improve her physique.

"..."

Lu Mingfei chatted with his classmates in a calm and relaxed tone. No one noticed his change, nor did they gain any advantage from the tricky questions... Lu Mingfei's answers were watertight, as if he had a built-in hosting system.

These inertias were left to Lu Mingfei by the hosting system. Although the system did not manage his body to answer questions, the system's previous operations had set an example for Lu Mingfei. He could simply copy the formula and answer all the questions instantly.

After returning home from school, Lu Mingfei went straight to bed, didn't eat, and started sleeping.

When Panpan came home from school, her voice rang out: "Brother Lu Mingfei, aren't you going to eat?"

Lu Mingfei said without even opening his eyes, "I'm not hungry. I've already called someone to arrange for food to be delivered. It should arrive soon. If you're hungry, you can eat first."

"Okay, okay, Brother Lu Mingfei."

Panpan didn't think there was anything wrong with Lu Mingfei not eating. After all, sometimes people are in a bad mood or have already eaten out, so it's normal to skip a meal.

Lu Mingfei asked the system, "System, why do I feel like my mind is clearer when my stomach is empty?"

The system answered his question in a very serious tone: "...because the human body is in a fasting state..."

After reading the answers, Lu Mingfei fell into a deep sleep. He didn't get up until his alarm rang in the afternoon, and then he went to school.

Xia Mi didn't go to school with him this time, but that's normal; their lives can't be completely in sync.

After finishing his classes in the afternoon, Lu Mingfei returned to the company.

The small company building that once housed only three people now houses several permanent employees. Some are seen busily moving about, while others sit quietly at their desks typing on their computers... They are all a mixed breed who have integrated into normal life and work.

As hybrids with greater power, they also need to work, earn money, and eat... In today's society, which is not based on force, they are no different from ordinary people if there is no armed conflict.

"Hi boss."

"Ah."

"Hi boss."

"Ah."

"..."

When the company's employees saw Lu Mingfei, they immediately greeted him. Lu Mingfei responded indifferently, then went straight to the third floor and started reading.

The books here are mostly for work-related purposes. Books related to the Dragon Clan are in the company study, while some classified books are in a small study that only authorized personnel can access.

There were also some books in Lu Mingfei's office. These books were not mostly about dragons, but rather books that the system had bought for research purposes, such as studying humans.

A thousand system analyses are no substitute for simply copying from a book. Being a skilled copyist is far faster than the system's slow and tedious analysis.

Flipping through a book is often faster than conducting systematic analysis, since you can get the answer directly from a book...

Lu Mingfei went to the office, picked up the books he had previously read through the system, and started reading them again.

Previously, the system preferred to skip the process and go directly to the answer, and then work backward from the answer, which made the analysis very fast.

Lu Mingfei, on the other hand, came here to make up for the process he had missed before.

This kind of thing seems somewhat meaningless, because the principles written in the book have basically been analyzed systematically, and then the essence is extracted and the flaws are discarded...

It's hard to say whether Lu Mingfei's current behavior is an attempt to make up for the missing parts of his reading journey, or something akin to running out of books to read and having to reread novels he's already familiar with.

Lu Mingfei didn't log into the hosting system all day, but the hosting system felt that Lu Mingfei was beginning to have an epiphany and was finally about to forge his own path.

Well, it's still just a probability analysis, not a definitive conclusion.

Chapter 214 A Single Thought Makes the World Vast

Lu Mingfei didn't know why he had experienced this change in mindset; he just felt that with a single thought, the world would be vast.

A change in mindset is both difficult and easy; the hardest part is understanding why I want to change.

Lu Mingfei liked Chen Wenwen for a whole year in his first year of high school. Didn't he understand that if he became more outstanding, the chances of Chen Wenwen falling for him would be much greater?

But Lu Mingfei didn't care. It would be best if he could win Chen Wenwen's favor, but he wouldn't die if he couldn't. As long as he had food to eat, he could live.

It's easy because a person's mindset can change in an instant, or even if it doesn't happen in an instant, it can change over many years.

Just as people are born inherently evil, children have no intuitive concept of good and evil. Morality is a concept that is basically acquired through education and learning later in life...

Last night, Lu Mingfei had been lost in thought for a long time before finally confronting his own desires.

The wish he casually made to the little devil back then was something he genuinely wanted. After all, who wouldn't want to be the majestic king of the world?

The thought of becoming the king of the world exhausted him. He was lazy, he gave up, nobody cared about him... He himself was his own worst enemy.

More importantly, there's the hosting system! Just leave it to the hosting system to do the work, and it can sit back and relax, reaping the rewards without having to endure any of the hard work or effort along the way.

After a period of wild thinking last night, Lu Mingfei suddenly had an epiphany!

The hosting system isn't a skip button; he can handle the process in between and enjoy the life in between.

From birth to death, if a person wants, they can simply let the system run in a virtual environment with a single click. But what's the point? It's meaningless. That's the life of the virtual system, and although it's in the first-person perspective, it's hard to say that it's their own life.

In that instant, Lu Mingfei seemed to see himself from birth to death, like a computer turning on, then quickly shutting down and going black, with nothing in between...

This is supposed to be my own life! If I hand it all over to the system, what am I supposed to live?

[...It's possible that the host's mind might get bored after being hosted by the system for so long...]

[...One can waste time, but one should not waste time for the sake of wasting time. Just as one might not want to work, go to school, or socialize in order to live an easy life...]

As soon as the system analysis came out, Lu Mingfei said, "What you said is very good, but don't say it again next time. Also, fold this analysis for me. Do the same for all future analyses about me, fold it for me first."

【……receive……】

【………】

The system immediately collapsed those obstructive and inconsiderate analyses.

Lu Mingfei continued reading peacefully until Xia Mi called to tell him to come home for dinner.

"Okay, you guys eat first, I'll head back now."

"Oh well."

As Lu Mingfei leisurely emerged from the boss's office, he noticed that some people were still working overtime and casually asked, "Why aren't you leaving get off work yet?"

The employee hesitated for a moment, then said, "Uh... Boss, we work the night shift."

"That's alright then..." Lu Mingfei quickened his pace, slightly embarrassed.

He was too confident when he spoke, without thinking it through; he only realized his mistake after he said it.

The main problem is that the company's affairs have always been handled by the system, and he has never paid attention to them or taken them to heart, so he naturally forgot about them unconsciously in some situations.

When they got back home, Xia Mi and Pan Pan were still eating at the dining table.

"You're back."

"Ah."

Lu Mingfei sat down at the spot where the rice had been scooped for him and began to eat.

"Where did you go just now?" Xia Mi asked.

"I went to the company. I suddenly felt like reading some books." Lu Mingfei looked at Xia Mi. "Are you busy there?"

"Busy, of course I'm busy." Xia Mi thought that Lu Mingfei was trying to give her more responsibilities because he saw that she was still in the mood to cook.

She immediately said, "I'll go out after I finish eating."

“There’s no need to rush things on your end,” Lu Mingfei said slowly. “I suddenly remembered something today.”

"what is the problem."

"Are people simply a collection of memories and experiences?"

“Of course,” Xia Mi nodded. “The example of Chu Tianjiao is right in front of us.”

Chu Tianjiao has amnesia, but not complete amnesia.

This super-hybrid's memory is malfunctioning; it may subconsciously engage in conversations and do things without knowing why it's doing them or how it knew to do them.