Fifty meters underground in Shikodi District. A brass tank as tall as a person is firmly fixed in the center of the magnetic levitation field by four robotic arms.
"Very good, let go of the robotic arm." Someone clapped their hands. The robotic arm carefully moved away, and the brass tank was steadily suspended in a magnetic field under a low-temperature liquid nitrogen atmosphere, surrounded by a half-meter-thick quartz glass wall. It is like a developing fetus sleeping in the mother's body. The mother's body is this special oval quartz glass cover, which does not use any metal at all. It was used by all the technical staff of a glass company in California for a year and a half.
It takes time to bake to ensure that it meets the customer's demanding requirements.
"Perfect!" The entire team of researchers in white lab coats stood up and applauded.
"I am happy to announce that the capture of the Dragon King Norton was successful." Angers raised the filled champagne glass in his hand, "We have successfully captured the first Dragon King, the King of Bronze and Fire Norton.
We paid a heavy price, but this time it was a very remarkable success. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to pay tribute to those who have devoted their lives to our dragon-slaying cause in history."
All the researchers raised their glasses solemnly. The phone on the operating table rang. The principal put down his glass and grabbed the phone, "Schneider? It's me, I just came back... Yes, I have asked the night watchman to lift the "Speech Spirit·Commandment"
"...Do we need to worry so much?"
"After the "commandment" is lifted, you have Caesar and Chu Zihang. I am very confident in their power...Okay, that's it, buy us time. As the head of an academy, I have important research work to do now.
Do... of course..." The principal showed a smile and said, "Dissecting the Dragon King."
He hung up the phone.
"How do we open the copper can?" A member of the Equipment Department in the audience raised his hand and asked.
"In terms of actual texture, the jar is not made of copper, or even metal, although it looks similar. It is made of some kind of alchemical material, and its composition is unknown. The elemental theory of the Dragon Clan is the four basic elements of earth, water, wind and fire.
Plus the fifth, the great power that runs through everything, spirit."
"Dragon King Norton is the king of fire and the king of metal. Flame and metal are both important forces that awaken him. So the thing that seals him must not be made of metal. This is also the case when we design such a quartz glass cavity to house him.
Purpose, he is now under low temperature, in an environment with absolutely no metal, and a uniform strong magnetic field makes him suspended in the air."
Angers replied with full confidence, "This is absolute safety in the scientific sense."
Once again, warm applause.
"The mistakes made a hundred years ago must never be repeated again." Angers suddenly whispered.
The researchers did not understand the meaning of his words and continued to applaud. The scientists from the Interdisciplinary Research Department of the Kassel Institute felt a great honor. They were invited as the elite of the elite to participate in this epoch-making anatomy.
, everyone was excited to witness this great moment in the history of science.
"Excuse me, principal, what's the reason for the gap on the copper can?" Someone discovered that the upper part of the copper can was cracked, and the black crack extended towards the inside of the copper can.
Angers hesitated for a moment, "How about we start an MRI scan on it first."
The MRI scan was started immediately, and the three-dimensional reconstruction results were displayed on the huge screen. In an instant, everyone's expressions changed. A huge chill fell on everyone's heart, and they realized that they were too optimistic too early.
"Two voices..." someone whispered.
"A cavity..." someone else said.
The structure inside the copper can is clearly revealed. The inside of the copper can is divided into two halves. In one half, there is a human skeleton curled up, and in the other half... it is empty.
The disturbing crack is located just above the cavity.
"Something... escaped from inside!" Someone's voice began to tremble.
"How could it be?" Angers asked in a low voice.
Old Tang poked his head in confusion, wondering why these people were silent.
At this moment, he was an assistant experimenter wearing a mask and preparing dissection equipment. His journey was so smooth. After walking around for a long time following the signs for "Ice Cellar", he entered what looked like a laboratory.
In the space, what I saw was a group of men taking a shower, discussing something excitedly and enthusiastically.
Old Tang heard them discussing the copper can and realized that today's shit was too big.
No one could see each other's faces clearly in the steaming heat, so Old Tang took off all his clothes and took a bath with them.
A dozen naked men were walking around in the steam, and Old Tang said hello to a few of them as they passed each other.
After bathing, the men took out sterile suits from the sealed plastic bags and dressed them from head to toe. The protection was so tight that they seemed to be going to some virus laboratory or simply to land on the moon.
Old Tang realized that this was his perfect opportunity, so he enthusiastically went up and knocked unconscious a guy who was about the same height as him.
"I'm sorry, brother." Old Tang patted the lucky spectator on the shoulder with a slight guilt.
Then I took his ID card and pinned it on my chest, and put on his suit.
Then he entered this sealed laboratory made entirely of glass, and opened his mask to drink a glass of celebratory champagne. He is a casual person. Anyway, when someone handed him a cart full of dissection equipment, he just
I touched here and there on that pile of equipment, and he applauded when others applauded.
No one paid attention to him, only the brass jar in the glass chamber.
"Anyway, the dissection continues." Angers raised his hand, "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I can't wait for an hour to obtain these important information."
The researchers began to applaud again. The principal's calmness and determination in unexpected events are always so convincing.
"Are the dissection equipment ready?" Angers asked.
Old Tang hurriedly raised his hand. He was pushing a completely non-metal cart, which displayed transparent scalpels made of nanomaterials, saws and scissors, as well as other tools that Old Tang couldn't name.
"For safety reasons, only the person responsible for the dissection will enter, and the others will be responsible for recording outside." Angers turned to Old Tang, with an expectant expression and a meaningful tone, "Are you ready?"
Old Tang was stunned. He didn't understand why this person who looked like a leader suddenly said this to him. Did he see through his disguise? Cold sweat gradually broke out on Old Tang's back. Under the influence of this legendary dragon slayer,
Before, it seemed like nothing was hidden.
So he could only nod.
He didn't know what the Dragon King was, but he was sure that the knowledge of frog anatomy he had learned in high school biology class was not enough for him to cope with this level.
Fortunately, he still had his sawn-barrel shotgun stuffed under the sterile suit, which gave him a little more confidence.
In fact, he wanted to just turn around and sneak away. Anyway, it seemed that he didn't have enough strength to move the valuable copper can alone.
But between the glass wall outside and the quartz glass cavity inside, he could only see a vague shadow of the copper can, which was really not enough for him to accumulate enough material to go back and brag about it to receive the 5 million US dollars.
He had to break into the dragon's pool and the tiger's den! He made up his mind.
Angers patted him on the shoulder, and the hatch leading to the cryogenic laboratory slid open. The white gas evaporated from the liquid nitrogen surged out and hit the mask, making Old Tang feel cold.
He walked into the cryogenic chamber. All he saw was white, with bright blue lights flashing all around. In the center was the oval quartz glass chamber with a huge copper tank inside, and liquid nitrogen vapor filled the air under his feet.
For a moment, he had the illusion that he was standing on an endless snowfield and heard a low call coming from a distance beyond his reach.
"Brother."
What's going on? Why is it that kid again? Why on earth do you call him brother? I'm really not your brother!
Old Tang's head suddenly felt severe pain, as if something was trying to come out from the deepest place in his mind. He felt like there was a beast trapped in his heart, and now the beast roared, as if it was about to break the cage.
.
The faint voices of two people talking could be heard in my ears.
"Brother, there are many people outside."
"Perhaps you will die? But, Constantine, don't be afraid."
"I'm not afraid, I'm with my brother, I'm not afraid... But why... don't you eat me? If you eat me, I can break through any kind of cage."
"You are good food, but that would be too lonely. For thousands of years, you and I are the only ones together."
"But death is really sad. It's like being sealed in a black box, forever and ever, pitch black... If you want to grope in the dark, you can stretch out your hands, but nothing will come out..."
"The so-called fate of abandoning one's family is to cross the wilderness, raise the war flag again, and return to the hometown. Death is not terrible, it is just a long sleep. Before I can swallow this world, I expect to trek alone, it is better to sleep peacefully, we will still wake up
Come."
"Brother... when you raise the battle flag and devour the world, will you eat me?" "Yes, then you will be with me and rule the world!"
"Really...is it possible?" Old Tang thought suddenly, and he felt dizzy in his mind, as if he was really standing by a well, listening to the people in the well talking, and in the darkness below, someone looked up at him
At a glance, the well was very deep and he could fall in at any time. He was inexplicably put into the perspective of the older man.
He felt that the older man would not really eat the child. He couldn't tell clearly, but he had an intuition in his heart.
"Damn, this is another line from such a second-rate stage play." Old Tang suddenly looked away, feeling a little bit possessed. Things that are too old may be a little evil.
Fortunately, Old Tang never cared about strange powers and chaos. However, his heart was still beating wildly.
"All those who are ready to fight are arrayed in front!" Old Tang finished reading this sentence in broken Chinese, took out the shotgun, turned around and pointed it at the stunned researchers outside the reinforced glass bottle, "Those who are not afraid of death are
Raise your hands!"
He learned those nine words from watching cartoons, which are excellent at exorcising evil spirits. They are a good saying that the gods will kill the gods and the Buddha will kill the Buddha.
Old Tang let out a long breath, and he didn't know whether it was because his words really worked or because he had a high concentration and the whispering voice in his mind disappeared.
Angers was stunned for a moment and immediately raised his hands. He seemed to be an old guy who knew current affairs. The researchers' eyes were full of "I don't believe it", but they also raised their hands after the principal.
Old Tang thinks it's time to leave. He doesn't want to get into any trouble. After all, it's his good friend Mingming's school. He has already found the location of the things. Wouldn't it be better to just take 5 million US dollars and leave?<
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So he stepped forward and kicked the guy over, knocking down seven or eight researchers at the same time. Taking advantage of the chaos, Old Tang turned around and ran out of the laboratory.
"Stop him!" Angers shouted. The researchers woke up and swarmed outside.
……
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In the shadow of the cryogenic hatch, someone sighed lowly, and everyone chased him out. No one noticed him in the chaos.
"The mission failed like this? Young people are really unreliable." He said softly.
He walked out of the shadows, reached into his trouser pocket, took out a tin bottle, walked to the quartz glass chamber, and inserted a black card into the card slot on the console.
"This operation will lead to the opening of "Dragon's Lair", and "Norton, Lord of Bronze and Fire" may awaken. Operation prohibited! Operation prohibited! Operation prohibited!" Norma's voice echoed above the laboratory, and the buzzer sounded loudly.
All the police lights were on, and red light rolled across the entire laboratory.
"Keep quiet, Norma, this is the time for us to witness a miracle." The man pulled the hand valve, cutting off the communication between the entire laboratory and Norma.
The main power supply was cut off, Norma's voice disappeared, and the lights went out one after another, leaving only the power-only alarm buzzing and the police light rotating.
The red of police lights flowed in the darkness, like the red of magma, the red of blood... the red of doomsday. It illuminated the expressionless face of the man.
The temperature rises rapidly, the high-speed rotating electron flow in the superconducting magnetic field attenuates, the quartz glass cavity suspended in mid-air slowly lowers, the twelve sealing valves are opened at the same moment, and a huge amount of white steam spurts out, which is enough to withstand submachine gun fire
The reinforced outer cover has a hole.
"I offer my bones and blood to the great His Majesty Nidhogg. He is the supreme, most powerful, and most virtuous being who rules the entire world with destiny." The man stretched out his hand to touch the quartz glass cavity and felt the vibration coming from inside.
The shaking is getting more and more violent.
"It's great that you didn't keep me waiting too long!" The man pulled out the knife from his sleeve. A bright blue knife mark was left in the glass wall. The vacuum inside was destroyed, and the air rushed in screaming. The man cut off the neck of the gray tin bottle with a knife and aligned the cut with the crack. The gray tin liquid followed the knife mark and entered the inside of the quartz glass cavity. It circulated along the inner wall of the glass wall like a thin snake, away from the central copper tank.
, as if afraid of it.
But as more and more liquid enters the glass cavity, the ash flow begins to boil and bubble, making a peeling sound, like something alive, emitting... cheers before victory.
The man put the knife in his sleeve and exited the cryogenic laboratory.
He looked back for the last time by the door. All the gray tin solution flew away from the inner wall in an instant and "pounced" on the copper tank.
When the two come into contact, a violent corrosion effect occurs. The indestructible copper can is like a piece of cheese softened in a microwave oven, with dark green mist everywhere.
Indescribable low roars echoed in the cryogenic laboratory, anxious and manic.