The Trieste slowly passed through a large arch. This rainbow bridge-like building was also made of metal, more than 100 meters high, and glowed with blue-black color.
It may be that high-temperature magma invaded this area during an undersea volcanic eruption. The streets in this area are filled with porous black volcanic rocks.
This metal rainbow bridge was also close to melting, and the molten iron flowed down drop by drop, condensing into drooping sharp iron teeth, rather like stalagmites growing in reverse in a cave.
Caesar adjusted the focus of the camera, and various ancient patterns on the surface of the Hongqiao appeared on the screen. It was vaguely visible that gods or demons were fighting in the flowing clouds and flames.
Fingel studied it for a while and then said, "Do you think these patterns look familiar?"
"Indeed, it looks a bit like the monsters called "Tengu" in Japanese paintings of ghosts and gods. ” Chu Zihang expressed support for Fingel’s statement.
Is this an ancient Japanese city?
But does Japan have ancient civilization?
The three of them were silent.
If it was a few days ago, they must have believed the records in the book.
The book says that during the Han Dynasty, the Japanese were still a group of indigenous people who went to the sea to fish in loincloths. If not for this, they would not have sent so many "envoys to the Tang Dynasty" to come to China to learn advanced culture while eating pickled radishes and drinking porridge.
But after Gu Bei (actually Xia Mi) made up a lot of dragon history, they had to admit it.
Japan may not have ancient civilizations, but they do have ancient dragons.
This city should have been the residence of ancient dragons.
"That seems to be... words."
Fingel pointed to the serpentine pattern in the center of the great arch. Chu Zihang immediately enlarged the pattern on the screen.
The pattern is somewhere between graphics and text, as if countless little people are dancing around a bonfire. Although the lines are abstract, the jubilant and grand scene can leave a deep impression just by looking at it.
"Call the college headquarters and ask Norma to compare texts." Chu Zihang glanced at his watch, "We have 7 minutes left."
The supercomputer array located underground at the Kassel Institute started computing in a few seconds. The Norma system generates as much heat as an electric locomotive when operating at full power. With such amazing power, billions of people from all over the world are transported. Capture data from your computer.
At this moment, all the computers in language institutes around the world are locked at the same moment. If they are attacked by a deadly virus, they will automatically turn on when shutting down, and run at full speed when turning on. All language databases will be opened to Norma, the Ludwig in Nordic mythology. Nas script, bronze inscriptions from China's Xia Dynasty, esoteric script used to write black magic books in the Middle Ages, Egyptian, Sumerian, Bayeux... A flood of data poured into Norma's hard drive, processing data every second. Thousands of comparisons.
"Comparison of conventional language libraries has been completed, and there are no matching targets... Pictographic language libraries have been compared, and there are no matching targets..." The results sent back by Norma were depressing, "Should we continue the comparison?"
Chu Zihang hesitated for a second: "What other libraries have not been compared?"
"The Doubt Library."
"Doubtful library?"
"It is words that linguists think may be forged. Some words may not have been used in history. They were forged for various purposes. The number of this library is extremely large, and the comparison takes about 7 minutes."
[Currently used, it is the most complete and best-used app for listening to books. It integrates 4 major speech synthesis engines, over 100 kinds of sounds, and supports offline reading.
” each other.
To be honest, before, the three of them looked down on each other a little.
In Caesar's view, Chu Zihang is his opponent only in terms of force value, and the other flatterers are not as good as him. Fingel is even more ridiculous. An old student who has repeated eight years of school, no matter what the reason, is not worth it. Capital of pride.
In the eyes of the other two, Caesar is just a kid who won't grow up, a middle-aged kid with an ego.
Chu Zihang and Fingel also didn't like each other. Fingel felt that Chu Zihang was too reckless and a killer who didn't use his brain to do things; Chu Zihang felt that Fingel was ineffective in his work and was very good at retreating. , the academic thief of Kassel.
The three of them first met because of Gu Bei, and later they were brought together by fate by accident. It was a bad fate.
But now the three of them unanimously agree with each other.
They understood one thing.
Even though they have their own experiences, their own sufferings, and their own attitudes towards life, they may have conflicts and collisions, but they have the same life creed - slaying the dragon.
Not for the world, but just for the people you love.
Caesar for his deceased mother Gullweger.
Chu Zihang died for his father Chu Tianjiao.
Fingel for EVA who is sleeping in the Greenland ice sea.
They all fight for the ones they love, so they don't care about their own life or death.
Just like now, what they see is more valuable than taking a few more breaths of oxygen. Every second of video data here is priceless.
Caesar happily lit a cigar.
"Boss..." Fingel raised his hand.
"Do you think a family heir wouldn't bet his life on something like this?"
Caesar raised his head slightly, smiled, and had a "scornful" look in his eyes.
"You are wrong. Do you know what my greatest wish in life is? It is to go to every corner of the world, see, experience and think. When I was a child, I saw the Caesar in ancient Rome writing a letter to the senator after winning a war. The hospital said: "I have arrived, I have seen, and I have won." I think that is a man's life. "
He exhaled a puff of green smoke faintly.
"Everyone has to die one day. When I die, the wealth of the Gattuso family cannot bring me any comfort. Only the things I have experienced make me proud..."
"You misunderstood..." Fingel was weak and suddenly furious, "I mean, you still smoke a bad cigar! Burning cigars also consumes oxygen, you idiot!"
"Oh." Caesar quickly pinched his cigar.
"We searched for a target that matched 98% of the time," Norma's voice sounded in the earphones. "We found a matching pattern in the Japanese "Kamidai Script" character library. "
"The writings of the Gods?" Chu Zihang was stunned, "Can you decipher it?"
"Okay, the text reads," Norma paused, "Takamagahara."
"What?" Caesar and Chu Zihang said at the same time.
"The interpretation is correct, the ancient text corresponding to the pattern is "Gao Tianyuan". ” Norma repeated.
There was silence again in the bathyscaphe.
It's not that they don't know the meaning of the three words "Gao Tianyuan", but they know it very well.
The Takamagahara here is definitely not the Cowherd shop in Shinjuku.
According to the Japanese mythology "Kojiki", Takamagahara was the place where the god Tianjin lived, ruled by Amaterasu.
Different from the Great Hachishu on the ground, Takamagahara is described as an island floating on the sea and in the clouds. It is the heavenly world where the gods live in Japanese mythology and legend, and it is the gathering place of the gods.
Together with the Weiyuan Kingdom where humans live on the ground and the Underground Underworld, they form the three major realms of Japanese mythology.
Japanese historians usually believe that the prototype of Takamagahara was the territory of Japan at that time, but if the ruins of Takamagahara really appeared, they would wave their hands and shout ridiculous!
Because that's what mythology is.
But the existence of Gao Tianyuan is not impossible.
Most mixed-race people don't know this, but the three people with Gu Bei's endorsement know very well that the so-called Gao Tianyuan is probably the Nibelung root left behind by the White King when he was killed by the Black King. The descendants occupied it and established a divine kingdom called Takamagahara based on it.
"What's that?" Fingel pointed in one direction.
Several people looked in the direction pointed by Fingel, and something like a door appeared within their sight.
A torii gate.
A few minutes later, the same picture was projected into the Monyach and the headquarters headquarters.
Manstein stared at the photos on the big screen in trance, and his face suddenly changed: "A door... a torii is a kind of door! Damn it, they actually saw the door underwater!"
Huge fear exploded in Schneider's heart.
Yes, the Torii is actually a gate, but like the Arc de Triomphe, it is a symbolic gate and is not connected to the wall, but it is indeed a gate because it distinguishes between inside and outside!
The video showed that the Trieste was heading straight towards the torii. In Schneider's eyes, the strange building immediately turned into a twisted maw that was going to swallow everything up.
"Don't get closer, don't get closer! Return! Return!" He shouted uncontrollably, but it was too late. There was a few minutes of error between the Trieste and their images, and it was these few minutes that His order was not delivered in time.
"The Monyach is calling the command center. The Monyach is calling the command center. We have lost communication with the Trieste. Repeat, we have lost communication with the Trieste. Requesting instructions from headquarters. .”
"Fire!" Schneider shouted as if he had lost his mind. "Organize a salvage immediately and make sure to fish them out!"
"yes!"
Communication was cut off, and Schneider collapsed in his wheelchair, unable to say a word anymore.
Manstein sighed and fell silent.
——
On the Monyach, Yuan Zhisheng lit up a cigarette.
Things are out of control.
His original plan was to let the three people dive and kill the embryos at all costs. Even if this would probably lead to the death of the three people, it didn't matter. When the time came, he would report it as a heroic sacrifice. question.
But there were too many changes in the middle.
The first is the appearance of Xia Mi.
This made his plan more feasible, and the three of them might not die in the end - this was not good news, because his original plan was to forcibly cut off communications and stop the three of them on the bottom of the sea even if the headquarters requested to surface. .
With Xia Mi, who is comparable to the Dragon King, the three of them will probably not die. In other words, Yuan Zhisheng's forced to leave the commissioner team at the bottom of the sea has been exposed.
But this is not a bad thing. At least with Xia Mi here, he is more sure of killing the embryo.
All we need to do is make a slight adjustment to the plan. The originally planned headquarters will lose contact with the Japanese branch, and the headquarters and Japanese branch will collectively be unable to contact the specialist team.
If the three people on the seabed cannot receive instructions, they have only two choices: either kill the embryos, or surface directly.
However, the benefits from the increase were too small. None of the three people on the panel would agree with this proposal, not to mention that there was Xia Mi accompanying them. They could kill the embryos and come back with maximum safety.
Therefore, there is a high probability that these three people will kill the embryos and then return.
In this way, it is possible to pluck out the source of childbirth and eliminate the disaster that Japan is about to face. It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone.
But before he could implement his new plan, the situation changed again.
The Dieste, which was originally lost, actually lost contact!
How can it be repaired?
Yuan Zhisheng, the mastermind behind the scenes, has not yet acted for real, so why did these victims act for real first?
However, in this way, Yuan Zhisheng was a little unsure of what was going to happen next.
Hope it goes well.
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9,000 meters deep in the sea, Gaotianyuan.
"No, we have completely lost contact," Chu Zihang said with a solemn expression, "It seems we have entered the Nibelungs."
"A truly rare experience," Caesar said casually, "What next?"
"Look for an exit or... explore." Fingel suggested.
"I think we should guess the game first." Caesar raised an eyebrow.
"Guess?" Fingel was stunned.
"The loser can't hold his breath. There's only enough oxygen left for two people..."
The two of them were teasing Menzi boredly. In fact, they didn't know what to do. After all, this was the first time they entered the Nibelungen in their lives.
Fingel did make it once... but only half way.
Got in, but not completely.
Caesar had never been to the Nibelungen, and the forbidden door belonging to the Dragon Clan had not been opened to him, which made him a little regretful... and curious.
He leaned on the porthole and looked out.
"There's nothing, just cooling and freezing. Is this the Nibelungen?"
Caesar did not observe anything strange. The ruins of the mythical Takamagahara still slept quietly, like a dead city.
"There is currently no assertion about the Nibelungen," Chu Zihang said. "No one can tell whether it is an alien space or an illusion. The Nibelungen I have been to is more like an extension of the human world."
"An extension of the human world..." Caesar thought thoughtfully, "But it's really cold here."
Chu Zihang glanced at the thermometer, which showed that the temperature outside the submersible suddenly dropped to 5 degrees. Just now, they were in sea water with a temperature of over 100 degrees Celsius.
This temperature change is like a frog jumping from a hot pot into a cold sink.
"Indeed." Fingel picked up his combat uniform and diving suit from the ground and put them on.
Caesar and Chu Zihang also followed suit.
Just as the three of them were thinking about what to do next, there was movement on the Ditryeste's detector.
Special target found!
Chu Zihang adjusted the focus of the observation port and magnified the captured target on the screen.
It was a huge shadow, southeast of the Trieste, on the edge of this ancient city.
Although it was difficult to see clearly from a distance, it was obviously a foreign thing and did not belong to this city.
This city, which is almost entirely made of metal, still glows with ancient and gorgeous luster after countless years, especially under the light of lava, like ancient bronzes illuminated by spotlights.
But that black shadow is not. It is vaguely white, regular in shape, and visually estimated to be over 100 meters long.
It seemed to have rushed into the city at an extremely high speed, leaving a huge mark on the rock formations and sliding into a circular open space on the edge of the city.
"What do you think that thing looks like?" Caesar murmured.
"Like... a crashed spaceship," Fingel said.
