On the Monyach, Professor Mance stood in front of the cab window. Sitting next to him in front of the display screen was his student Thelma, who was probably in her twenties and had a typical Latin beauty appearance.
In the front cabin, everyone was staring at their own screens, operating silently, and monitoring the hull and surrounding conditions at any time.
Ye Sheng and Yaji had already put on their diving suits and were standing outside the cabin, preparing to dive. Two lifelines connected them respectively. Not only that, there was also a separate signal line connecting them to each other.
Lu Mingfei had a long knife tied to his back and was watching their movements. If anything unusual happened, he would be ready to rescue them at any time.
"The dive operation begins." Professor Mance ordered.
"receive."
Ye Sheng and Shude Aki joined the execution department at the same time. They have been partners for five years since they entered school. They can understand each other's thoughts with just one look. After the order was given, the two looked at each other and started. diving mission,
Not long after they entered the water, the weather suddenly changed, and the drizzle became heavier and heavier.
Late at night, a storm came, the rain poured down violently, and the wind speed reached about level 5.
Therefore, Lu Mingfei also entered the cab, waiting for news from Ye Sheng and Ya Ji.
Thelma monitored the heart rate of both of them in the heartbeat monitoring window.
"After receiving a signal from the Maritime Safety Administration, not only will the storm continue in the second half of the night, but the wind force will also increase to about level 10. This is a rare heavy rain." The third officer conveyed the message to Professor Mans.
Professor Mance nodded and said nothing more.
"Is it okay with such heavy rain and strong wind?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"The Monyach is a modified warship. Level 12 storms are not a problem for it, so there is no need to worry." Professor Manns explained.
Fifty meters under the water, Ye Sheng and Yaji were conducting a deep dive here. Deep diving is quite dangerous. They only rely on a signal line to maintain contact with the human world, and people can easily become overly nervous.
With each other's presence, their moods under the water can always calm down quickly.
It's just that the discipline of the execution department strictly prohibits people who cooperate underwater from having emotions between men and women. Ye Sheng and Yaji are also considered the ace partners of the execution department, so the requirements for them are even stricter, so the two of them have never expressed anything. emotion.
They reached the bottom of the water. After the storm was filtered through fifty meters of water, only gentle water waves remained here.
"Norma, I need sonar to scan the terrain." Ye Sheng said.
"Request received, sonar scan ready." Norma's voice sounded.
The three-dimensional sonar map was immediately displayed on Ye Sheng and Yaji's helmet screens. Sound waves are far more useful than light in water.
"According to the sonar map, according to Chinese Feng Shui, this is where the mountain dragon and the water dragon meet. It is a good place to build a city. The ruins of Baidi City may be here, and we need to find its entrance." Ye Sheng observed Said later.
"I need a fixed point." Ye Sheng looked at Ya Ji.
Shutoku Aki smiled slightly and swam behind Ye Sheng. The steel claws of his flippers popped out and he grabbed the underwater rocks. He hugged him tightly from behind with both hands.
This is the tacit understanding between the two of them. When Ye Sheng uses his word spirit, his body will become very weak and easily carried away by the current, so Yaji always holds him like this when working underwater.
"Yan Ling·Snake."
With the release of the spirit of speech, Ye Sheng releases several biological currents centered on himself. This is his "snake".
This ability can help Ye Sheng explore the surrounding environment information. In a good conductor, the "snake" will be amplified many times.
At this time, Ye Sheng was observing the world from a special perspective. Groups of "snakes" entered all directions underwater, exploring everything for him.
At this time, his consciousness was clear but his body became cold. Aki hugged him tightly from behind, letting him feel his own body temperature, even though the warmth was insignificant.
"found it!"
Following Ye Sheng's words, the snakes returned to his body, and his body temperature gradually increased.
Professor Mance and Aki are all waiting for Ye Sheng's recovery.
"Forty meters below us, the snakes are very active. That is the reaction of metal. The palace of the King of Bronze and Fire is most likely located here."
"Forty Meters" Aki fell into deep thought.
"Ye Shengyaji, prepare to resurface! We have received an alert that there may be a magnitude 5 earthquake underwater!" Professor Mansi's urgent voice sounded.
"Okay, let's, damn, the earthquake has started!" Ye Sheng cursed.
The entire bottom of the water was shaking.
"Take up the line, get them quickly!" Professor Mance roared. Before he could finish speaking, he heard a crashing sound coming from outside. The lifeline was broken.
Ye Sheng and Aji kept falling. At this moment, Ye Sheng just hugged Aji into his arms, and the two hugged each other tightly.
The signal was interrupted, and the lifeline was also a signal line. Professor Mance was stunned for a moment.
Lu Mingfei also stared at the screen closely. After seeing their heartbeat signals disappear, he immediately stood up and was about to walk out of the cabin.
"Lu Mingfei, what are you going to do?" Professor Mance's trembling voice sounded.
"Save people." Lu Mingfei answered without thinking.
"This is the case."
Professor Manns is constantly fighting in his heart. These are his two proud students. Emotionally, he wants to save them, but the mission in the Greenland Ice Sea ten years ago is still in his mind.
During that operation, he also encountered a similar situation. As a result, only half of the students and tutors who went there came back. He didn't want Lu Mingfei to encounter the same situation. He was still just a freshman.
"Lu Mingfei, I reject your rescue application." Professor Mance said.
"That's your student!" Lu Mingfei looked at Professor Mance coldly.
"Leave the rescue mission to me. I'll just go. You're still just a freshman." This was Professor Mance's response.
Lu Mingfei was stunned. Before he could say anything more, a voice sounded in the cabin.
"Although I understand your eagerness, I want to say that we probably don't need rescue now."
"Ye Sheng?" Professor Mance recognized his voice, "What's the situation over there now?"
"Aki and I are both alive now. I am talking to you through the current of the "snake". We have arrived at the Palace of the King of Bronze and Fire." Ye Sheng looked at the bronze wall in front of him and whispered.
Ye Sheng and Yaji looked directly ahead of them under the water, where a bronze wall stood, extending infinitely up, down, left, and right.
"This is a city of bronze." Shuode Aki also said softly.
"There seems to be something inside, and my snakes are very scared." Ye Sheng said.
"What scares the snakes may be Norton's own grave." Professor Manns explained.
"This may be the greatest discovery our secret party has made in thousands of years. We will witness the palace of Norton, one of the four great monarchs."
"Ye Sheng, Yaji, I will personally change the equipment for you later, but the time is only two hours, because the oxygen can only last so long, and someone may come over to check the situation in two hours, we have been delayed for a while ”
"Roger, Captain, but we can't find the entrance to this bronze wall." Ye Sheng replied.
"Okay, I'll bring the "key" there."
After explaining the situation to the principal, Professor Mance walked to the back cabin, where there was a woman holding a baby. The woman was about thirty or forty years old.
Mance looked at the baby in his arms, stretched out his hand and picked him up.
"Be careful when using him. He is the only "key" we have at the moment. He can open any door or anything similar to a door."
"I will." Professor Mance held the baby carefully.
Reaching out from the water, Professor Mance wore a special diving suit and swam to the direction of Ye Sheng and Yaji. There was a bag made of transparent material in front of his diving suit, and inside was a baby wearing an extra-small diving suit.
A touch of gold flashes in the baby's eyes.
Professor Mance signaled, Ye Sheng and Ya Ji expressed their understanding, and they put their hands on his shoulders.
Professor Mance closed his eyes, placed his hands on the bronze wall, and chanted something in his mouth.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes and said, "Yan Ling·The Dustless Land."
In an instant, the river water surrounding him began to rotate around him. A transparent space expanded outwards with him as the center, forming a sphere. The water was pushed away, and they were now in it.
The pattern on the bronze wall is also revealed, it is a painful face, raised on the wall.
Professor Mance then took the baby out of the diving suit and lifted it up to the raised face.
Unexpectedly, he saw a trace of solemnity in this child. He just stared at the face, stretched out his hand, and pointed a finger at the center of the face.
A trace of blood flowed down, soaking the painful face with blood.
After the bronze human face sucked the blood, bursts of roaring sounds came from deep within the wall.
A dark hole appeared on the wall.
"Is this a living spirit?" Ye Sheng was surprised.
"Yes, this is a great achievement of alchemy, using the purest substance to contain the spirit. The blood of the key can only keep the channel open for two hours, so you have to work hard." Professor Mance patted their heads. Shoulder.
After stopping the bleeding on the baby's fingers, he handed them a black iron box, "Dragon King Norton hasn't woken up yet. Our goal is to find the eggs he left behind and take them away. If we can't take them away, Detonate this, this is an alchemy tool given by the Equipment Department."
"Okay." Ye Sheng took the box.
Immediately after Professor Mance put the baby away, he lifted the dust-free place and returned to the ship.
On the boat, everyone looked at the photos sent by Ye Sheng and Yaji below. The huge gears meshed together. The Bronze City below had many such structures. This was the palace cast by the King of Bronze and Fire himself, which represented The pinnacle of alchemy.
And under this structure, Bronze City actually still has thin air.
"We found a brass jar. We felt an instinctive fear after seeing it. I thought the eggs of Dragon King Norton should be in it," Ye Sheng said.
"Well done!" Professor Mance pounded the bulkhead excitedly, "You can come back. I will give you a celebration banquet after you go back."
Ye Sheng and Ya Ji looked at each other in the Bronze City, their eyes full of joy.
Before he was happy for a long time, Ye Sheng was shocked.
"What's wrong?" Shuode Aki asked eagerly.
"The "snakes" I left on guard around escaped from here. They seemed to be afraid." Ye Sheng's mind was now filled with huge fear, and countless snakes were trying to escape from his body.
"No, the Bronze City's mechanism is on. The whole city is moving. Is it because of this brass can?" Ye Sheng looked at the brass can in his hand, and then said to Aki, "We need to evacuate as soon as possible. .”
"It's too late." Yaji looked around, the gears of the Bronze City were spinning rapidly, and the front had turned into a complicated maze.
"Ye Sheng and Yaji are trapped inside. Their oxygen is decreasing every minute and every second. We must find a way out for them as soon as possible."
"The only information we have is a picture they took, which should be an inscription cast by this bronze city. Now we need to analyze it." Professor Manns said eagerly to Angers on the other side of the phone.
"I will call all students and professors with A-level bloodlines and above to analyze it as soon as possible." Angers' voice was no longer as gentle as Lu Mingfei had seen before.
"You mean there is no map and we can't find the exit, right?" Lu Mingfei suddenly asked.
Mance and Angers on the other side of the phone were stunned for a moment.
"Give me a computer and send me the photos and the three-dimensional model you took of Bronze City." Lu Mingfei said to Professor Mance.
"Okay." Mance stumbled and took his computer over. As long as he could save his students, he would grasp at any straw now.
Lu Mingfei looked at his laptop and remembered what Mingze said to him on the CC1000 express train.
"The black sheep wall is unlocked. Using it, you will get a detailed map of the surrounding environment."
Lu Mingfei quickly entered the cheat code on the computer.
Just a few seconds later, the computer interface changed instantly, and a huge three-dimensional map appeared. On the map, the Bronze City was analyzed into parts. The parts were running, and the roads were constantly blocked and generated.
Professor Mance and the researchers on the surrounding ships all looked at Lu Mingfei like a monster.
I originally planned to let people with A-level bloodlines and above give it a try to see if they could see anything from the spiritual vision. Unexpectedly, it was cracked. Is this S-level? Everyone was in awe.
Information poured into Ye Sheng's brain, but there was too much information, and the huge pain seemed to tear his brain apart.
The escape route was changing every moment. Finally, with the help of the "key", they found a real escape route, which was directly below. They just needed to keep swimming directly below.
"Forty-five meters away, oxygen supply will take three minutes," Thelma said.
"With the time of breath-holding diving, their speed is just right to escape!" Professor Manns couldn't help being excited and kept walking back and forth in front of the cab. Finally, his students could come out safely. This was his In a rare gaffe, he was so happy.
"No!" Lu Mingfei suddenly shouted, "The escape location is directly below the Bronze City. They can escape, but they won't have time to surface!"
"Boom~"
The thunder in the sky suddenly sounded, the tenth-level wind roared, and the waves on the water surface continued to roll.
Ye Sheng untied Yanling and held Yaji's hand.
"We don't have enough time." Jiude Aki opened his mask and looked at Ye Sheng tenderly, as if he wanted to remember Ye Sheng firmly in his heart.
"There's enough time." Ye Sheng also opened his mask, and the thin air made it difficult for him to speak.
"Let's stay here, there is not much time left, I want to look at you, me, I actually." Aki's tears kept flowing out, and he was choked and unable to speak.
"I love you." Ye Sheng kissed Ya Ji directly.
Yaji looked at Ye Sheng blankly.
When he first entered school, Ye Sheng was just an eighteen-year-old boy, but his swimming was the best in the class, and he was just a stupid duck. While he was still warming up, he had already finished swimming a thousand meters. Kilometers, and by the way, you can also laugh at yourself because you have short legs so you can't swim fast.
Although I was always annoyed, I actually liked him even back then.
"There is enough time, I won't lie to you." Ye Sheng jumped into the water from the ground of Bronze City with Ya Ji in his arms.
He could feel that there was a huge creature behind him, and it was about to send Aki out quickly.
Professor Mance stared blankly at the violent storm outside. After Lu Mingfei reminded him, he knew that there was no chance of Ye Sheng and Ya Ji surviving.
At this time, Lu Mingfei walked out of the back cabin. He had already put on his diving suit. He had an oxygen bottle behind his back, an oxygen bottle in his hand, and a long knife tied to his waist.
"What are you doing?" Professor Mance looked at Lu Mingfei.
"Oh, go down and deliver a courier to them."
Lu Mingfei walked outside the cabin and jumped into the water against the strong wind.
(End of chapter)
