What Fingel said was recorded in the action files of Kassel College, but Gu Bei had no intention of looking through the college library.
After all, since the person involved is speaking orally in front of you, there is no need to bother reading the written words.
"There were a total of eight students performing the mission including me. The six senior seniors were assigned practical courses by the college, and Eva and I participated along."
"I was very happy because it was my first time participating in an academy mission. I was so excited that I couldn't sleep and drank a lot at the dinner."
Although Fingel did not specifically point it out, through his description, the consultant could more or less guess that Fingel was actually a student with a very good pedigree at that time, and his EVA was not bad, otherwise the two of them would not have been able to Just by virtue of being a freshman, he can follow the exploration icebreaker to perform missions in the Arctic.
Gu Bei could even imagine how high-spirited Fingel was at that time. He was a proud young man, extremely talented, and surrounded by his loved ones. He was sitting on the deck of the icebreaker, with his gentle and playful lover beside him. He drank He poured strong alcohol like fire and scolded Fang Qiu at the seniors and seniors across from him. The seniors and seniors looked at him softly. The liquor ignited his passion and burned away his reason.
At that time, Fingel was even prouder than a victorious rooster. He was a peacock with his tail feathers spread out, and all the colors were shaken off from his tail feathers.
But looking at Fingel now, a defeated rooster is not enough to describe him. If I had to say it... maybe a bereaved dog is more appropriate.
"If I hadn't drank that night, maybe the result would have been different...well, maybe it wouldn't be any different. Facing that kind of power, no matter who it was, the result would be the same. Even if I went along, it would just be A life was given away in vain.”
Fingel laughed self-deprecatingly, but Gu Bei did not interrupt, but listened silently and comforted him: "Fortunately, at least you are still alive now, and you can still avenge them."
"Yes, I can still try to resurrect them!"
With that said, Fingel looked at Gu Bei. Gu Bei curled his lips and said, "My agreement with you is to help you resurrect EVA. Resurrecting other people will be at a different price."
"But before that, let's finish the story."
It was boring, but Fingel didn't care. He already knew what kind of person Gu Bei was. If he wanted to get something from Gu Bei, he had to pay the corresponding price.
Fingel gathered his thoughts and began to tell.
"When I woke up the next day it was too late and they had finished the dive."
"That dive was not a partner operation, but a group operation, so even if I didn't wake up, the dive plan was arranged for EVA without a partner."
"Professor Schneider was the person in charge at the time, so he did not go into the water, but was responsible for overall command on the icebreaker."
"Everything was normal at first. Although my application for diving was rejected by the professor, the task of the diving team went smoothly. They would make a report every ten meters of diving. When I woke up, they had already penetrated deep into the ice sea. It’s more than three hundred meters.”
"The mission may not be difficult. When I thought so naively, when the diving team reached a depth of 570 meters, the team leader suddenly opened the public channel."
"Public channel?" Gu Bei asked.
"During the dive, the seven of them were talking to the professor on an encrypted channel. Others, including the support staff, could not hear it, and neither could I."
"But not only can everyone hear it on the public channel, it's even transmitted back to Kassel College headquarters, and everyone in the entire central control room can hear it."
"The dive leader at the time was an A-level student, and his pedigree was not inferior to Caesar's. He said something that I still can't understand. He said, "The door is open... don't go in!"
"Then he suddenly bellowed sharply, 'Come up, come up, come up!'"
"He said "come up" three times in a row, and then the signal was interrupted. At that time, his roar echoed in the central control room, and everyone felt as if a devil's tail was wrapped around their throats. "
"Where are the others?" Gu Bei asked.
"Then the signal returned from the water was mixed with strange noises. We could still vaguely hear their conversation, but we couldn't hear what they were saying at all. Sometimes it was like whispers, and more often it was like sharp screams of pain. Call."
Fingel said softly: "What I just said is like the sound of a soul falling into hell."
"According to Cassel's regulations, you should immediately recover the person underwater."
"Yes, I did immediately."
Fingel nodded.
"Because we were diving in the ice sea, everyone on the dive was sealed in a diving bell. That thing was extremely strong and hung with a nanofiber safety rope. I ran to use the mechanical winch as soon as I realized something was wrong. Retrieve the safety line. But what is recovered is only the safety line, and there is no diving bell on the other end."
"The safety line was cut?"
"No, to be precise, the people underwater cut the safety lock by themselves. Afterwards, the college analyzed that the break in the safety rope was cut with a diving knife matching the diving bell."
"It's not like dragons can use diving knives. They bring their own weapons that are far more effective than diving knives, such as..."
Gu Bei understood: "Claw."
"Yes, I didn't understand the meaning of this at the time. Later I thought it was because they were eroded by something underwater, and they cut off the connection with us, but they just didn't want to be eroded back. on the ground."
"erosion?"
Gu Bei was stunned: "Something like a virus?"
"Yes, if it was indeed them who cut the safety line themselves, then it is clear that they realized something. In their judgment, it was more dangerous for them to return to the surface than for them to die under the sea, which would endanger everyone, so they chose to stay Under the sea.”
Gu Bei squinted his eyes and felt a chill running down his back: "It doesn't sound like it was made by a dragon..."
"There is no conclusion. Everything underwater is a mystery. If we had given up the evacuation immediately as the team leader said, there would have been no subsequent experiences, and the professor's body would not have..."
Fingel said: "We decided to go into the water to search for survivors. Even if there is a one percent chance, we are not willing to give up."
"There are no diving bells on the icebreaker anymore, so Professor Schneider and I used high-pressure metal diving suits. I am confident in my physical fitness. Even without a diving bell, my diving limit can reach a depth of about 800 meters."
"The professor seems to be more than capable. I know that the professor has not used his hands for many years, but it seems that his skills are still good, at least his physical fitness has not declined."
"We disembarked on both sides of the icebreaker and spread out to search. This is the most reasonable rescue method. There are people from the school engineering department on the icebreaker who are responsible for pulling the winch to bring us up. We are fully prepared."
"This dive seems to be no different from the usual dives, but I am very anxious because I found nothing all the way down. Whether it is seniors or EVA, they seem to be swallowed by this bottomless ocean. , the water is calm, but I can’t calm down.”
"Finally, I dived to 570 meters, which is the water where the diving team had an accident. The professor in the communication channel also reached the same depth. We were drifting at the same depth in this sea, and all we could see when we looked up was The sea water, absolutely pure sea water, I used a high-intensity spotlight to scan, but I found no body and no blood."
"Did you dive because you detected the dragon's heartbeat? Then at what depth did you locate the dragon?"
"The dragon embryo is on the seabed about 700 meters deep. From the analysis of seabed data, it is the peak of a submarine mountain range. I am worried that if the diving bell sinks to the depression of the submarine mountain range, it will not be salvageable even if the people inside are still alive. .”
"But I overlooked one terrible thing. The temperature of the seawater has dropped below zero. It has not frozen yet, just because the freezing point of seawater is lower than that of pure water."
"The realm of dragons...the Nibelungs."
Gu Bei, who had had a similar experience, immediately understood: "The dragon has hatched, and you have entered its domain."
"Yes."
Fingel nodded: "Not only me, but also the professor. I didn't notice at all that the professor's voice was no longer in the communication channel. The Nibelungs cut off our signal. It wasn't until I dived another 30 meters that suddenly I found myself losing touch with the professor.”
"I was in the middle of this ice sea. At a depth of 600 meters, my oxygen was about to run out. I had to prepare to return to the surface. At this time, I found that slender ice strands began to condense in the sea water."
"Natural freezing is definitely not like that. The length of each ice thread is several meters or even tens of meters, as thin as spider silk. These ice threads increased rapidly, criss-crossed, and turned into ice as I watched. edge."
"I was blocked. I hit the ice edges with my fists. Fortunately, they were relatively fragile and I could break them easily, but my oxygen supply was no longer enough. I called anxiously to my companions on the ice, but I heard When I didn’t get any response, I understood that at this time, I might have to rely on myself.”
"I held my breath and turned on the Word Spirit. The powerful increase brought by the Bronze Throne made me burst out of the heavy high-pressure diving suit. Tens of thousands of tons of seawater hit me hard. Fortunately, the effect of the Bronze Throne was enough. Strong.”
"I threw away my diving suit, then climbed back to the icebreaker along the nanocable, withstanding tens of thousands of tons of pressure."
Speaking of this, Fingel showed an expression of fear for the rest of his life. This experience has made him unforgettable to this day.
After slowing down, Fingel continued: "I escaped, but it was just luck, because the dragon chose Professor Schneider between the two targets, so I had time to escape."
"As for Professor Schneider's experience, I also heard him talk about it. I thought you might be interested in how the professor survived my journey of survival."
Gu Bei made no secret of his true nature and nodded: "Yes, I'm very interested."
Fingel shrugged, put out the cigarette butt, and lit another one.
"I said, I was able to escape only because of luck. Because the dragon chose the professor, it gave me enough time to escape. However, the professor's experience was not that good."
"Because the dragon is right next to him."
"The professor is worthy of being a professor. He is very experienced. He realized this almost instantly."
"Perhaps he sensed that he was about to die. Instead of closing his eyes, the professor kept his eyes wide open and looked around like a spotlight, because he didn't want to die without even seeing his opponent's true face."
"Then he felt the biting cold air seeping through the vest. The wetsuit had a thick insulation layer. Even if it was subzero outside, it shouldn't be that cold, but he just felt it."
“The professor described it as feeling like someone blowing air into your vest, but the air that this ‘person’ blew was absolute zero. "
"The professor turned around and pointed the light over, but at that moment, the battery of the spotlight ran out, but fortunately, the surroundings did not turn dark immediately. The residual light lasted underwater for about a second, and in that second, the professor Seeing two different things at the same time.”
Gu Bei became more and more interested: "Two different things?"
"One is an extremely huge black shadow, its size is like a blue whale or even larger, and the second is countless mirrors, with interlaced prisms in all directions, and the same scenery is reflected in each prism."
"His colleague saw these two things, and then I felt a stream of air or water spraying on the mask. The extreme cold caused the polyester mask to instantly turn into powder. The cold current rushed directly into the depths of his soul. He lost it. consciousness."
"Fortunately, I had already climbed back to the icebreaker along the cable. After climbing onto the deck, my first reaction was to ask someone to pull the winch, because my limbs were frozen, and even the bronze throne could not stop that The cold attack and the huge water pressure almost crushed me into a meat pie."
"The school staff worked very efficiently. After a while, two professors who turned into a frozen fish were lifted out of the water. The doctor said that when he encountered extremely cold water, his brain temperature dropped to the point where he could not think clearly. Therefore, his last memory should be confused, somewhere between reality and dream."
After finishing the story, Gu Bei stood up and took out two bottles of single malt whiskey from the wine cabinet.
Gu Bei doesn't drink, and neither does Chu Zihang, but their dormitory has become a gathering of small groups. Now occasionally Fingel, Caesar and Nono will come over, and maybe in the future. Who, so Gu Bei took precautions and bought a wine cabinet in his bedroom.
The wine cabinet contains everything from gin, sherry, brandy, whiskey, and even collector-grade sparkling wine.
Well, this is useful.
Gu Bei did not take the wine glass, but casually removed the lid and handed one of the bottles to Fingel.
Fingel took it wordlessly and poured it down his throat.
Just like that fateful night.
Today's strong liquor can no longer ignite his passion. The liquid flows, burning his throat and boiling with anger.
