Shutoku Aki held Ye Sheng in his arms, who had just finished using the Word Spirit and was still very weak, and protected him from the underwater impact caused by the earthquake.
"Aki, look quickly."
Ye Sheng coughed violently in the arms of the petite girl, and then pointed to the ground in the distance.
The rock cracked to reveal the bronze walls below, extending into the shadows beyond sight.
They swam over and groped along the wall, but they couldn't find the end.
"Professor Mance, can you hear me? I saw an endless bronze wall. I think we have found the entrance to the Bronze City."
Ye Sheng stroked the patterns on the bronze wall with his hands. The washing of the years and soaking in river water did not corrode this wall, but made it more long-lasting and profound.
The young man contacted the Monyach via radio.
"Aki, why don't we go back first? There's almost not enough oxygen in the bottle."
Ye Sheng noticed the air content in the oxygen bottle and promptly grabbed the girl who wanted to continue downstream.
They looked down through their diving helmets, and from the shadow of the Bronze City, reliefs with snake heads and human bodies began to float up.
The eyes of Ye Sheng and the two men were instantly attracted to this relief. This figure was made entirely of bronze and wore the robes of an ancient minister. A ferocious snake-shaped head with dense scales emerged from the sleeve collar.
Its narrow and slender eyes shone with a ferocious and strange light, as if it really turned around and stared at them.
"Ye Sheng, Yaji, report your situation..."
On the Yangtze River where the rain was pouring, Mance finally heard Ye Sheng's voice. The next second, their chat channel turned into the sound of rustling snowflakes.
"Can't wait any longer."
The German men knew how long Ye Sheng and his two oxygen bottles could last for underwater operations. Now that they were holding their breath, they could only last for fifteen minutes at most.
"Caesar, Nono, Chu Zihang, Su Qian, I need you to take the water cutter and go underwater with me to rescue Ye Sheng and explore the Bronze City."
Mance turned his back and said to the four elite students standing busy in front of the cabin console.
"Yes, Captain!"
The four of them gave a naval salute and put on their diving suits on the swaying deck.
"Principal, can I use the key for this operation?"
While everyone was preparing, Mance dialed Angers' phone number.
"Since I asked you to take him with you, it was just for this time."
The elegant yet calm voice of the old man opposite came out.
Mance no longer hesitated, glanced at the baby in the cradle not far away, and reached out to fish him out in the woman's sight.
"Keep him safe."
As the mother of a baby boy, the woman only said this and said nothing else.
The four intern students and Mance took the oxygen bottles, cables and water cutting machines of Ye Sheng and others downstream together, so that in the event of an emergency, they could ventilate directly underwater.
The torrential rain on the river continued to fall, and the ripples were like endless circles that spread out and then disappeared, repeating the cycle.
A shadow of a black creature with slender spine crawled out from the bottom of the river, laughing eerily in the gloom.
In the water below 150m, no light will illuminate this place. It is dark, dead, lonely and eternal.
The grotesque clusters of water plants are like the helpless hands extended by struggling and hesitating people, who are shouting, screaming and crying hysterically.
"Aki, why are you here?"
Ye Sheng looked up and found that the girl who was supposed to be beside him now appeared in the water above him, grinning at him.
"Do you like me? Ye Sheng."
The girl's red lips parted slightly, and her seductive voice struck directly into his heart.
"This is underwater, it doesn't matter, as long as you speak out boldly."
The girl's further offensive made Ye Sheng's already weak and tense mood inexplicably soothed, and fatigue poured into his heart like a tide.
Ye Sheng almost fell into despair at this moment, his eyelids gradually closed and he fell asleep.
The next second, he felt something cold touching his body, and his diving helmet was hit.
He opened his eyes suddenly and found a bronze relief sculpture with a snake head and human body facing his face. The originally indifferent expression now turned into a weird smile on his face.
The momentary feeling of blood-curdling fear made Ye Sheng take out his dagger and gouge out the weird eyes of the snake-headed figure with one stroke.
"Ye Sheng, are you okay?"
In the chat channel, the girl's anxious voice instantly brought the young man back to reality.
They were still wandering around the perimeter of the bronze wall. The statue that floated from nowhere seemed to have a hallucinogenic effect. Ye Sheng was attracted to it when he first looked at it.
Shutoku Aki could only force himself not to look at it and watch Ye Sheng from the side.
At this time, they looked up together and discovered that several people wearing black and blue diving suits were coming with four water cutting machines.
"Ye Sheng, good job."
Professor Manns patted the young man on the shoulder, feeling very lucky that he was not dead yet.
Then, everyone's attention was attracted by this towering bronze city wall.
Like a miracle.
This is a miracle that only the Lord of Bronze and Fire, who manipulates flames to smelt metal, can accomplish.
It uses the ancient casting method used to make bronze utensils, that is, first cast a model with pottery clay, paraffin, mud, etc., then pour the hot red bronze solution into the utensil model, and finally wait for the liquid to cool and solidify, then break the ceramic soil outside.
The exquisite bronze utensils inside will be revealed.
This is the crystallization of wisdom that has been produced in the Xia Dynasty for more than 4,000 years, and Dragon King Norton pushed it to its peak.
Because the bronze city it cast was made from an entire mountain.
It hollowed out the mountain into the shape of a city, and poured hot bronze juice from the top of the mountain. When the water of the Yangtze River flooded here, the bronze city inside had cooled and solidified.
Mance and the others sighed at the magnificent scenery in front of them, and then finally thought of what they were here to do.
He waved his hand, and Caesar and the others positioned the water cutter against the bronze city wall, using the power of high-pressure water flow to cut four holes in the wall.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But the Bronze City is too huge. If this building were placed in the outside world, it would definitely not be more majestic than any artificial building.
It was buried at the bottom of the river. Even if it was just the tip of the iceberg, no matter how hard Caesar, Chu Zihang and the others advanced the water cutting machines in their hands, they would not be able to cut through the completely solid bronze city for a while.
"Stand back, young men."
Finally, after nearly ten minutes of fruitless efforts, Mance made up his mind.
The four of them, Chu Zihang, swam backwards with the water cutter, and steel claws popped out of their flippers to firmly grasp the smooth rocks.
The German man's iron-gray eyes were gradually covered with gold, the sleeping blood in his body was awakened, and the light of the golden pupils was strangely captivating.
He tore off his diving suit at the high-pressure river bottom, and as Guao's complicated musical notes sounded, countless water flows swirled around him to form a transparent sphere.
For the first time, Caesar and his party felt down to earth, and the dry air came over them.
Shutoku Aki and Ye Sheng took this time to replace the oxygen bottle and reconnect the cable.
The high-speed rotating water around washes away the oil stains and patina on the city walls, revealing the original color of the bronze city.
The tall and ferocious bronze beast has sharp teeth on its front, which has a shocking impact.
If you have to say what kind of creature it looks like, the illustration of the Bull Demon King's mount, the Blue Water Golden Eyed Beast, in "Journey to the West" is the most appropriate.
"The key is up to you."
Mance carefully took out the baby wrapped in a sac from his arms. The baby did not cry or fuss. Instead, he clapped his hands and laughed when he looked at the majestic animal head.
He grabbed the baby's little hand and slowly stretched it towards the bronze animal head. For a moment, the animal head seemed to come alive, and the sharp teeth bit the baby's tender fingers, sucking the fresh blood.
It is a living spirit in alchemy. Hidden under this bronze city wall, it is somewhat similar to the dragon spirit in Tai'a Sword.
The entire bronze city buried under the river, with only a corner exposed, heard the sound of dense and compact gears, and the bronze city came to life like a living creature.
The man grabbed the baby's little hand in time, carefully picked him up and put him back into the diving suit.
The huge bronze wall in front of me has revealed a deep metal passage under the rotation of gears, leading directly to the interior of the city.
"Okay, Ye Sheng, both you and Yaji's oxygen bottles contain enough air to last for two hours, but the key's blood can only give you one hour to explore this bronze city. After one hour, the bronze gate will open.
Close. No matter what the result is, come out in time."
Mance patted the young man on the shoulder and looked at the students behind him.
"Captain, we want to explore the Bronze City with Senior Ye."
Caesar knew what Professor Manns wanted to say and spoke immediately. The others nodded as well.
Mance Lundschneider was not the kind of person to be stubborn. He just told Ye Sheng to follow Ye Sheng's command for all actions, and then swam towards the water with the key.
Ye Sheng looked at the junior and senior students who looked curious and expectant under the light of their masks, and smiled slightly.
They don't know yet the dangers of this trip.
Immediately, Ye Sheng felt his arm being pulled, and Aji was looking at him through the helmet, winking at him.
So Ye Sheng took the lead and began to fumble along the dark and deep passage into the Bronze City, and the others followed and filed in.
They didn't notice that a large number of fish began to gather behind them. Their whole bodies were covered with fine iron-blue scales, and their large mouths opened and closed to reveal rows of sharp steel teeth. Their rotating fish eyes revealed a bloodthirsty and cruel light.
Vicious and ferocious.
On the other side, Li Yongyuan has been swimming at high speed since he plunged into the water.
He sensed the aura of a terrifying creature, which was definitely a creature with combat power comparable to that of a dragon.
If it escapes from Norton's palace due to this earthquake, the consequences will be disastrous.
If anyone saw with their own eyes how fast Li Longyuan was swimming at this moment and how vigorous his posture was, they would probably be shocked.
This is basically like a fish swimming in the sea, not like a person without gills to breathe.
But except for the ignited golden eyes, Li Yongyuan's entire body resembled a human body.
The young man slowly stopped somewhere in the Yangtze River. He looked down and saw a huge bronze wall slowly rising out of the sand. Countless sand and dust were spreading along the river.
"This is Norton's bedroom?"
Li Longyuan's pupils trembled slightly, and he was shocked by the scene in front of him.
Countless small and precise gears are turning, and this ancient bronze temple that has been sleeping for thousands of years finally reveals its true face in the river bed.
This is an extremely shocking moment of greatness.
"So what happened to the people who entered the Bronze City?"
Li Longyuan suddenly realized that something was wrong. The city had come to life, and the people inside must have triggered the mechanism.
Schools of big blue-tailed and black-spotted fish follow the trail, opening and closing their sharp blade-like teeth to tear through anything in their way.
Other large and small fish, turtles, shrimps and aquatic creatures were all eaten by this ferocious school of fish and then turned into a ball of blood mist and dispersed in the water.
"Ghost-toothed Dragon Viper!"
Li Longyuan looked at the fish with golden eyes coming towards him, and reached out to hold Tai'a's sword hilt.
This is a far more terrifying species than the piranhas of the Amazon River, because they have dragon blood and are sub-dragon species.
They are existences that frighten all pure-blooded dragons. It is recorded in "The Fragments of the Sea of Ice" that once a dragon makes a mistake, they will tie the offender's body with chains to a bronze pillar and sink it into the sea, where he will be tortured.
The ghost tooth dragon was eaten by a school of viperfish and died, and the end was extremely miserable.
"Gulu gulu..."
Li Long roared from his throat underwater, and bubbles slowly rose from the water one after another.
The basic effect of Yan Ling·Zun Shi was activated, and the group of ghost-toothed dragon viperfish looked at the golden eyes under his forehead and quietly swam past the boy.
More and more ghost-toothed vipers surrounded Li Longyuan, and the boy was instantly submerged in the blue-black world.
Li Longyuan held his breath and concentrated. He could even clearly see the fine scale patterns on the ghost-toothed dragon vipers beside him and the long and slender fish whiskers swinging disorderly. The sharp teeth shone coldly. If other people on the boat encountered the ghost-toothed dragon,
Viper, you will definitely end up dead.
But he knew that such a deterrent effect would not last long. After all, the Ghost-toothed Dragon Viper was the kind of being that could parasitize and eat even the White King, and there was no feudal thought in the minds of inferiors.
They will only surrender to the true monarch of the dragon clan, the supreme black emperor.
So the boy quietly stretched out among the shoals of ghost-toothed viper fish, his slender fingers now twinkling with light.
The next moment, a blazing ball of light suddenly burst out from the blue fish school. The silvery high-voltage arc was centered on the boy's body and used the river water as an excellent conductor. It shot out in all directions, hundreds of ghost teeth.
The dragon viper fish was roasted by the spirit of speech Indra in an instant.
Really indifferent
Li Yongyuan took advantage of the basic ability of Yan Ling and Zun Wei to mix in with the fish and hit them hard on the belly and back, and then quickly broke away and swam out.
However, those ghost-toothed dragon vipers did not choose to pursue them at the first time. Instead, they swallowed the corpses of their companions with their bones and blood in their stomachs with their ferocious light.
They are devourers of life. They have no peers, partners, family members, or emotions. They just keep eating the bodies of all living creatures they see.
Soon, the hundreds of ghost-toothed viperfish that were electrocuted by Li Longyuan just now were swept away by more and more similar species. They formed a strange formation with human faces and began to quickly search for Li Longyuan's figure in the river.
At this time, Li Longyuan had already stepped into the entrance tunnel of Bronze City, looking into the deep and dark place inside.
In the dark space, the golden eyes are uncertain.
A handsome young man wearing a luxurious black robe and trousers slowly walked out of the darkness and faced Li Longyuan face to face.
"Welcome to Dragon City!"
The young man opened his hands and shouted, the corners of his mouth raised in a cold arc, and his golden eyes lit up with swaggering fireworks, showing joy and intoxication.