"Professor! There was an earthquake underwater. The intensity was about...level 5!"
In the belated storm, in the cab of the Monyach, Thelma in front of the display screen pressed her headphone with her right hand and suddenly raised her head and shouted.
She determined the situation at the bottom of the water based on the sound map. The three-dimensional sound map outlined with dark green contours showed that the ruined village ruins on the riverbed below the Monyach are collapsing! A sudden earthquake swept through Kuimen of the bottom of the water.
"The Earthquake Bureau did warn that an earthquake might occur tonight... I never thought their warning would be so accurate!" Mance suddenly shouted, "Take up the line! Pull them up!"
"Captain! The lifeline is broken!" The third officer who rushed into the cab was covered in rainwater. The breath of the storm outside the hatch behind him poured into the cab. Mance looked back at him in shock and looked at him with a pale face. Looking back at the front deck outside, the engine was spinning wildly, and the other end of the nano-woven survival rope tied to it was flying without gravity, making a whining sound in the air.
"Lu Mingfei! Shuudoku Aki!" He called to the public channel, but what came was an unsettling silence.
Under 50 meters of water, Lu Mingfei was falling in the turbulent current with Shude Aki in his arms. They seemed to be in a black tunnel, and the water pressure was like a wall holding them in this unknown tunnel. Sliding at high speed.
Before, Lu Mingfei was curious about how he could enter the Dragon King's palace without a drill. Just when he sensed the terrifying gaze deep in the rock formation, the underwater earthquake began. This was a shallow earthquake with a shallow source and strong intensity. A natural earthquake has a small impact, but is quite destructive.
Lu Mingfei saw with his own eyes that the mud at the bottom of the water suddenly began to boil, and the originally poor visual distance instantly disappeared. Then the hard river bed hooked by the steel claws of his flippers made a tearing sound, like Some kind of monster hidden in the mud opened its mouth, and the water pressure sucked him down in an instant.
In fact, at the first moment of the earthquake, Lu Mingfei had no time to react. He retracted his steel claws and swam away forcefully to the side. He used the steel claw gun on his waist to fix it on the ruins of the village chief's ruins to avoid being pulled by the water pressure. Enter that crack. But just because he could react, it doesn't mean Shutoku Aki can, so the first one to be pulled into the crack was Shutoku Aki.
The communication line between them instantly became a safety rope, hanging her in the crack, while Lu Mingfei crossed his legs and stepped on the river bed to the left and right of the crack to drag him down, a bit like stepping on water with his feet. A water-drawer with a rope tied around his waist and a wooden bucket connected to the well.
After thinking for a moment, Lu Mingfei gave up the struggle, jumped into the crack with Shuudoku Aki, and pulled the communication line hard, pulling the unbalanced Shuudoku Aki to him and hugging him. This was to prevent her wetsuit from being scratched by sharp protrusions during the fall, causing her to lose pressure.
When the warm body temperature came from the hug behind him, Jiude Aki thought for a moment that his partner had returned to Ye Sheng. If it were that boy, he would probably do the same thing in this situation. Lu Ming Fei told her with actual actions that as a partner, he was no different than Ye Sheng, and he would also use his own life as a barrier to protect his companions.
This rolling continued for half a minute. During this period, Lu Mingfei hit the edge of the rock formation many times. The bloody scales under the diving suit successfully helped him block the damage caused by the impact. Fortunately, the diving suit was not scratched. When they were spat out by the crack, the moment the whirlwind ended, it was as if the noise and clamor caused by the earthquake and turbulence, together with the psychological terror, suddenly disappeared and were left behind by them, again. What they embraced was tranquility, almost eternal tranquility.
Broad and boundless.
Lu Mingfei held the closed-eyed Shuode Aki and floated in the green water. He gradually let go of the senior sister in his arms and gently patted her shoulder to indicate that they were there.
Shude Aki opened his eyes. The light of the spotlight penetrated the water and shone in front of the miraculous creation. After closing his eyes for a period of darkness, he opened his eyes again, and it suddenly appeared in Shude Aki's eyes. In front of you, it's majestic, huge, and incredible.
It was a bronze wall that stretched almost upward, downward, left, right, infinitely. The bronze wall was covered with words, painful human faces were burning in the flames, and humans were praying under the huge sun. After the sun A ruin that hides magnificent shadows and mysterious patterns that will shock the entire world once exposed.
This is a bronze city!
"Baidi City."
Shutoku Aki heard Lu Mingfei's voice ringing on the channel, and belatedly discovered that their communication line with the Monyach had been cut off, and now only the communication line between them remained.
"We are here, the Dragon King's palace." Lu Mingfei saw this wall again after a long time, and felt an unspeakable feeling in his heart. He didn't want to admit it, but he really felt like he was going home.
Revisiting the old place should have been a reflection of emotion and fear for surviving the crisis in the past, but now the dangers he faced in this city were completely refreshed, just like the campfire-sitting mechanism in "Dark Souls"! Even All the elite bosses were also resurrected, which made him feel very uncomfortable.
"Are you sure this is the palace of the Dragon King? Baidi City is indeed explained by documents discovered by archaeologists as being built by the dragon behind Gongsun Shu more than 2,000 years ago, but..."
"No, but, this is the palace of the Dragon King. The lair of the King of Bronze and Fire, Norton." Lu Ming said with certainty, "There is no doubt about this. 'Snake' has found the bone bottle hidden in the palace, and there is no trace of it yet." The hatched 'Constantine' cocoon is also the goal of our trip."
"Wait a minute, what you said is too... unbelievable! Is this the future obtained by the 'prophet'? Isn't your speech spirit a 'snake'? You just used that power!" No matter how De Yaji could accept the reality, she could not calm down under such shocking information. The intelligence brought by Lu Mingfei and his very purposeful actions made her feel uneasy. It was difficult not to guess about Lu Mingfei. What is the "purpose" of .
"Don't get me wrong, Senior Aki, I never said that my word spirit is a 'snake'. I just happen to be able to use the power of a 'snake'. This has an expiration date. Now that the expiration date has passed, I still want to use it." 'Snake' will have to find another way." Lu Mingfei took the initiative to swim in the direction of the entrance to the Bronze City in his memory, losing the authority of 'Snake', which also meant that they were completely disconnected from the Monyach. Now They have no backup and can only rely on themselves.
Although Shutoku Aki had hesitation in his heart, he could only follow him. When he saw him, he quickly swam to a position below the bronze wall as if he were going home. When he got closer, he found a painful bronze protruding from the wall. It has a human face and a metal matchstick in its mouth.
"The Curse of the Fire-Eater." Lu Mingfei stopped in front of the huge painful face and looked back at the swimming Shuode Aki, "A very ancient sacrifice in Scandinavia. In this way, the victim will be filled with "mermaid" grease and burned alive with a matchstick in his mouth. His soul will be sealed in the body by the charred body and cannot escape. In Chinese terms, it is "eternal life". In this His role is the access control of Baidi City, and you need full biometric authentication to pass it."
“Biometric authentication?”
"To put it simply, it's the dragon blood gene." Lu Mingfei picked up the zip tie and tied his wrists upwards. As soon as he made this move, Shude Aki immediately reached out to stop him!
"What do you want to do?" Shutoku Aki saw this almost seeking death in horror and stepped forward to stop him.
When divers use deep-sea diving suits, if incorrect operation or wrong procedures cause the pressure inside the diving suit to lose control, it will cause a terrible implosion, and the accompanying hypoxia and pressure imbalance can easily lead to death. One life.
"Open the door. My blood can be used to open the door, so I can only adopt a compromise method." Lu Mingfei took off his diving gloves, put his hand into the jagged mouth, pressed on the sharp place, and dived The part that fits the palm of the hand is cut directly.
A large number of bubbles surged up, and the living creature gradually opened its mouth under the gaze of Shuode Aki. The matchstick in its mouth naturally fell down and was caught by Lu Mingfei. When he pulled out his wrist, the sharp-eyed Shude Aki I saw that the palms under his diving suit were covered with blue-black dragon scales!
Lu Mingfei picked up the matchstick as a key and inserted it into the living creature's mouth. Then he patted its face hard. The originally painful face showed an expression of joy, which made Shude Aki shudder.
No one knew whether the reason why she shuddered was because of the ferocious and strange appearance of the living creature, or because Lu Mingfei used his own blood to awaken the alchemy artifact.
In order to deal with such a situation that they may encounter on the Monyach, they specially mobilized the "key" to be on standby in the back cabin. It has the power to open all "doors" in the world. The blood of the "key" has the power to reach the next generation. The noble performance of this species, but also because of the price of blood, the "key" can only live in infancy throughout his life and cannot grow into a human being.
What about Lu Mingfei? Why does his blood have such an effect that even exceeds that of the "key"? Just a little bit of blood is enough to make living creatures ecstatic. Does this mean that the boy's own bloodline has reached a level of nobleness? The next generation species...even the level of the owner of this bronze city?
Beside Lu Mingfei, the living creature opened by blood gradually opened its mouth wide, and the painful human face was broken in the middle like a snake's jaw, allowing him to extend to an astonishing extent, forcibly opening up a A dark entrance with a height of one meter.
"That's it. Senior sister, you go back to the ship to replenish oxygen. I'll walk the rest of the way by myself." Seeing that the entrance was successfully opened, Lu Mingfei breathed a sigh of relief and told Jiude Yaji, "The water pressure of the rock formations above It should be balanced. You return the way we came down. When you return to the Monyach, tell Professor Mance that the next exploration mission of Baidi City will be left to me. I will bring back what the academy wants. Something, give the principal an explanation. Since there is no orthodoxy here, the Monyach should not be attacked, but to be on the safe side, you should remind him to pay attention to the ships and third-party forces that may be lurking around..."
"Do you really want to enter the interview alone?" Jiude Aki's face was tense. Although she had known that this junior brother was bold, she did not expect that he would be so lawless. If he did not lie about the information, Baidi City would It was truly a palace beyond bronze and fire, then this was the tomb of the four kings! The legendary burial place of the Dragon King, who knew what kind of horror would be hidden here? He actually wanted to explore it alone!