"Dong-dong-dong-"
The beating of heartbeats like war drums echoed throughout the space.
Mai Shutoku felt that her heart was about to be shattered by the sound.
"Stop, I feel like we are here to scrape it..."
She looked at Zero, who was holding a dagger in his hand and trying to cut off those thread-like bright red blood vessels, and persuaded him with some helplessness.
The only weapons left in their hands were daggers, which were no longer even toothpicks in front of this huge dragon egg. In addition, these blood vessels had extremely strong regeneration ability. Even if they tried their best to cut off a few of them, they would quickly recover. It made Mai Shutoku feel like she and Zero had a sense of familiarity as a massage technician who came to her door specially.
"Since it's useless, there's no need to do such useless work. It wouldn't be good if the blood splashed on your body and burned your delicate skin..." Su Enxi in the channel also agreed, "I don't know what the boss thinks about this kind of live sex. There's absolutely nothing you can do. Even if you try your best to wake it up, wouldn't you just have to wait for death if you are trapped there? After all, I think your mission should be to guide that kid to the location here. It’s over now. There’s no need to come down and make such a show. It’s actually good to be like this now. Anyway, people from the company should send people here to investigate soon, and then you can take the opportunity to slip away.”
"Who says it's not the case...but the boss must have some other motive for calling us here, right?"
Mai Shutoku was speechless.
She was already preparing to wake up the dragon in front of her with the mentality of looking forward to death, but she didn't know whether it was luck or misfortune. Maybe they were not charming enough? This giant dragon seemed to have no intention of paying attention to them no matter how hard they tried.
"Who can guess his thoughts accurately... Oh!?" Su Enxi suddenly made a surprised voice, "The sensor left on the ground reacted. It seems that someone from the company has arrived."
“So we’re saved—!??”
boom--
Just when Mai Shutoku was about to breathe a sigh of relief, suddenly the whole space shook.
Dong dong dong——
The dragon's heartbeat suddenly sped up strangely, as if it was a variation.
"What's going on!? Did you do something?"
Mai Shutoku asked Zero who had stopped moving.
"No." Zero shook his head slightly.
"Then who can tell me what's going on now?"
Mai Shutoku felt the trembling ground and the deafening rapid heartbeat, and felt an unpleasant feeling in her heart.
"It... seems to be waking up? Damn it! What on earth is going on!?"
It was obvious that they had tried their best to wake up this guy before, but now this guy suddenly became extremely active.
"Perhaps... you are preparing to welcome guests?"
Su Enxi's tone on the channel was a little solemn, "It became active as soon as the people from the company arrived. How could such a coincidence happen?"
"Does this mean we don't count as guests?" Mai Shutoku rolled her eyes.
I wonder if this guy really thinks of me as a massage technician, right? They are not qualified to be welcomed! ?
"Perhaps you are really not considered guests in this person's eyes..." Su Enxi felt a little ashamed, "The dragons are a proud race. They have always despised humans. The harm you just caused to them is worse than nothing. Maybe you are being despised? Change it." In other words...you are not qualified to be recognized by it."
"This sounds really annoying! But can you blame me?" Mai Shutoku looked at the only weapon in her hand speechlessly. If the guy hadn't lost it on the road, she would have given this guy who looked down on people a hard time. "But if it's really like what you said...then what kind of monster is the person sent by the company? This guy is so excited before this is even here!?"
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"Is this the legendary Nibelung? It's really magical."
In the long corridor leading to nowhere, Sun Haoran looked at the surrounding environment with some surprise.
Although he knew something about the legendary 'Land of the Dead' in his previous life, coming here in person was a different feeling.
"If I remember correctly, we just entered here through the whirlpool, right? So where did all the water go?"
This space should obviously be underwater, but strangely there is not a drop of water.
Angers shook his head slightly, "Humans' understanding of the Nibelungs is limited to 'this is the domain of dragons'. As for how it was formed, no human can explain. Everything here including the rules is created by dragons." Customized. If you really want to know the answer to such a puzzling question, you may have to ask the owner here."
Dong dong dong——
There was a sound like beating drums in the distance.
"It seems that the owner here has no intention of hiding it. Following the sound, we should be able to reach it. How about you go and ask?"
Ange smiled slightly, but his heart was not as calm as on the surface. The drum-like sound made his blood boil, and his already bright golden eyes became more dazzling as if they were stimulated by something more. A certain fire burned in his eyes, the fire of vengeance from the abyss.
"Principal, do your students often praise you for your humor?"
Sun Haoran looked at the old man in front of him speechlessly. The only person who could still be in the mood to joke in this environment was probably a desperado like Ange. Although the other person spoke Chinese very well, he probably couldn't write the word "fear". .
"So should we go straight to the source of the sound now?"
"This is the only way here. Do you have any other options?" Angers asked with a smile.
"That seems right."
Sun Haoran shrugged helplessly.
The back road had been sealed when they entered, and the only direction they could go now was to the end of the corridor.
but……
"Are you okay?"
Sun Haoran frowned and asked, looking at Guo Hui, whose face had become a little ugly since he came in here.
"It's okay..."
Guo Hui calmed down his breath, shook his head slightly, and tightly held the trembling broken knife in his hand.
With his A-level bloodline, he wouldn't be overwhelmed by the spiritual realm before he even saw a dragon. However, the 'Dragon-Slaying Sword' seemed to feel the enemy's presence and became excited, and was trying to absorb his blood uncontrollably. This is not a good sign.
"How about you let me hold the knife?"
Sun Haoran noticed something was wrong with the knife in the opponent's hand and suggested.
"No need, let's go."
Taking a deep breath and forcibly suppressing the restless dragon-slaying knife, Guo Hui's eyes became determined and he seemed ready to take action at any time.
"Well, no one cares about your stuff."
Seeing that the other party was not grateful, Sun Haoran sighed helplessly. .
"Hey——"
There was a strange sound coming from behind.
"Principal, what are you doing?"
When Sun Haoran heard the movement behind him, he turned around and asked doubtfully.
"make a mark."
Angers put away the folding knife that marked the wall of the corridor and said calmly, "This is the enemy's territory after all. As far as I know, most Nibelungs like this are mazes."
"But you just said there is only one road here..."
Sun Haoran was a little speechless, "Besides, before we came in, you said that this dragon opened the door directly to welcome us. It should be more... um, 'upright'?"
"It's just my guess." Angers put away the folding knife and followed up. "Although directness is also important, we can't take it lightly when doing things. You must know that we are facing dragons. Before taking action, confirm the equipment. and signals.”
"The equipment is all normal, and the oxygen is still sufficient, but... there is no water here, right? I don't know if I can breathe normally."
With that said, Sun Haoran took off the mask on his face.
"Hey..." Angers seemed to want to stop him when he saw this, but the other party's movements were a little too fast.
He wanted to ask how the company's employees were trained. Have they not received basic training to deal with this situation? Why do you look so unprofessional?
"OK, no problem. It looks like we can save some oxygen first."
Sun Haoran took a few deep breaths and gave a thumbs up to the other two people.
"..."
Guo Hui and Ange looked at each other and also closed the oxygen valve and took off their masks.
"Aren't you afraid of death?" Guo Hui asked.
"You two are not afraid, so what am I afraid of?"
Sun Haoran said matter-of-factly, "Looking at the current situation, we should be facing a living giant dragon. There is no need to take any chances. If we want to fight it down here, oxygen bottles and the like are useless. Equipment is a burden.”
As he spoke, he threw the extra equipment on his body on the ground, leaving only a close-fitting combat uniform.
"That's true, but don't forget that this is underground, and there is an underground river outside. How long can you hold your breath without these things?" Guo Hui frowned.
Is this person too confident anyway?
"About half an hour?"
Sun Haoran responded calmly, "What? Do you still want to talk to a giant dragon here all night long? Don't forget, we are only here to survey. Even if we really want to start a war, we have to go up there. The ground is our battlefield. The minister should have already made arrangements on it, and the evacuation of people in the scenic area should be almost completed."
The amount of time he said he was holding his breath was actually not accurate. He actually held his breath for more than this amount of time under normal circumstances, let alone after his transformation.
Although he has decided to use that power as little as possible in the future in order not to be affected by that inexplicable will, the current situation is not the time to care about this. No matter how confident he is, he has no confidence that he can really fight against giants with a human body. Dragons wrestle, so using that power in the next battle is almost inevitable. Just like Yue Xiao said before diving, as long as he uses that power, the equipment on his body means nothing to him at all, including oxygen, of course.
"Yes, he is right. The only problem now is probably that we have to figure out how to get out of the Nibelungs after finding the dragons."
Ange couldn't help but smile when he heard the exchange between the two.
What an interesting guy, are you ready to burn the boat before the fight even starts?
In fact, he has always been curious about what kind of power this kid has hidden in him, but he has never had the chance to see it, but it seems that he will be able to see it soon.
"The communication equipment is abnormal and cannot contact people on the ground, but we can still talk to each other over short distances."
Seeing that Sun Haoran was so confident, Guo Hui stopped asking and started checking the other equipment on his body.
Anyway, they are all in the same situation now. From the moment they entered the water, they must have been prepared to never go back.
"It should be because of the magnetic field." Ange nodded lightly and was not surprised.
This is to be expected. It is normal for modern equipment to lose its function in the dragon clan's domain. In fact, it would be much more convenient if there is a member with a spirit of speech such as a 'snake'. Just like only magic can fight magic, if you want to contact the outside world here, you can only use special means such as speech spirits, and the user's ability must be strong enough to withstand the influence of dragons in the spiritual realm.
"It's not a big problem, okay, let's set off."
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"Sure enough, this is a maze."
After the three of them walked an unknown distance in the corridor, Angers frowned and said.
"That certainly seems to be the case."
Sun Haoran also stopped. He looked at the mark Anger had left on the wall and nodded slightly.
“There’s obviously only one way, and it feels like we’re going straight forward, but we’re still back here.”
"Maybe we are not walking in a straight line." Guo Hui guessed. "It is difficult for humans to detect small deviations in direction. Unless we keep walking forward with our eyes closed, we will be misled by the corridor here."
"Rebirth of the Great Era of Fighting Waves"
"That's not right." Ange shook his head slightly. "If it were a turn of that magnitude, it would be a very long distance to go around. In fact, we didn't go very long. And did you notice? We were obviously following the sound. It was walking, but the sound didn’t change in any way.”
"Indeed, what should we do now?"
Sun Haoran stared at the end of the dark corridor.
There was still an increasingly rapid and high-pitched heartbeat, but no matter how they walked, they seemed unable to get out of this corridor.
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"Damn...this sounds like it's getting weird, doesn't it?"
Mai Shutoku began to feel more and more panicked as she listened to her increasingly rapid and high-pitched heartbeat.
According to this rhythm, it seems that the dragon will wake up soon.
"Potato chips, didn't you say that the company's people have already started taking action? Logically speaking, it should be here soon, right?"
Mai Shutoku asked with some uncertainty.
At this moment, she and Zero were trapped and dead in the Nibelungen with nowhere to escape. If they wanted to go back alive, they could only rely on people from the company to find this place.
But this time there was no response to her question.
"Potato chips? Potato chips!?"
Mai Shutoku was really panicking this time.
This is the domain of dragons. Normally it is impossible for them to communicate with each other, but their mysterious boss is omnipotent.
There are probably only two possibilities for such a situation to occur.
Either their dear boss has run away, or the spiritual realm of the dragon in front of them has become stronger, powerful enough to interfere with the boss's power!
this means……
"...It's going to wake up."
Zero said calmly.
