Volume 1 Hello, Lu Mingfei Chapter 100: The End of Fire (VIII)
He was not sure whether this was a coincidence and the alchemical matrix of the entire Bronze City was just operating to drain water, or whether his invasion had inadvertently triggered some mechanism, causing the Bronze City's external defense system to be activated.
According to Professor Cassel's speculation, the Bronze City is essentially a military fortress with complete defenses against external invasions. Norton was not here when Ye Sheng and Jiude Aki arrived, so the city did not reveal its true face. Now that Norton is back, no one knows how the barrier built by the Dragon King will defend itself.
Thinking of this, he became a little worried, not for himself, but for Lu Mingfei. When they were sucked into the city, he had tried very hard to keep the two of them connected, but they were still separated by the powerful suction of the vortex. This shouldn't have happened with his arm strength, as if there was some strange fate at work, forcing people who entered this city to separate.
He maintained his balance and aimed the searchlight as far as possible. Just as he had imagined, a torrent of water rushed through the narrow canal, submerging almost half of the waterway. Dots of faint blue light were mixed in the water, like a scattered Milky Way.
As the distance got closer, Chu Zihang finally saw the light spots clearly. They were all slender little fish with beautiful silver-blue scales all over their bodies. The light came from a slender tentacle on the top of their heads.
Not long ago, he told Lu Mingfei in the aquarium that the big fish with a lamp hanging on its forehead is called an anglerfish, which feeds on other small fish. But these fish are much more ferocious than anglers. They have slender bodies, small tail fins and pectoral fins, but huge and ferocious mouths full of transparent teeth that stick out like daggers. Rather than fish, they are more like a collection of wild beasts and snakes living in the water.
Chu Zihang's face became even uglier. They were real piranhas, the dragon executioners - the ghost tooth vipers. Modern biology classified them as a kind of viperfish. Among small fish, they were the ferocious overlords.
This kind of thing should only appear in the textbooks of Kassel College. The last time they were clearly recorded was in the Sumerian civilization era, which can be traced back to 4,500-7,000 years ago. At that time, the Sumerians even used the Devil's Tooth Dragon Viper for biological iron smelting because this thing could even bite steel.
The dragons used this ghostly fish as punishment. The dragons who committed crimes would be tied to bronze pillars and sunk into the deep sea. A large group of ghost-toothed vipers would eat the nobles and the bronze pillars together. In ancient China, there was a punishment called "a thousand cuts and a half". Compared with the punishment of ghost-toothed vipers, it was nothing. Scraping with a knife was far less terrifying than watching thousands of ghost fish drill into your body. When this strange fish devoured life, it would secrete adrenaline to maintain biological activity. The victim could not even feel clear pain while being injured. When he came to his senses, everything in his body had been eaten up. Endless tearing pain burst out bit by bit at the same time, bringing the end of life and making the victim die clearly .
There is no doubt that this is the defense mechanism of Bronze City. The Ghosttooth Dragon Viper is a creature that carries dragon genes. Cassel calls this kind of creature that has been rewritten by dragon genes a dragon subspecies. The Dragon King nobles with extremely pure bloodlines will suppress them in terms of bloodline, but the dragon bloodline of the hybrids is not enough for the Ghosttooth Dragon Viper, which will only make them bite more happily. The dragon blood will help them continue to evolve until they become the overlords in their own ecological environment.
Chu Zihang held his breath and concentrated, his golden eyes burning, like a bright light suddenly lit in the darkness. He compressed the long dragon text into a few syllables in a very short moment. The canal was not large, and releasing the King's Flame in a small space was a taboo for this word spirit. The explosion could easily hurt the caster himself. But he had no choice. If any of these ghost fish drifted into the river outside, it would cause great damage to the ecological environment. There were no natural enemies at all. If they reproduced in large numbers, the entire water system would be destroyed in just a few months. Even if he was willing to let these ghost fish pass, the Ghost Tooth Dragon Viper would not let him go. The only way was to use the King's Flame.
Junyan exploded! The violent explosion lasted only a second before colliding with the water flow. The hissing sound was like hot oil in a frying pan. A huge amount of water vapor filled the entire canal. The instant high temperature turned the ghost-toothed viper into a salted fish in a steamer. The ferocious ghost fish in the last second was steamed alive by the high heat in just a short moment. Before these ghost fish died, they were even desperately gathering around Chu Zihang. They could smell the deliciousness of the dragon blood.
This is the state of Jun Yan after it has been condensed as much as possible. Chu Zihang has been greatly inspired by witnessing the Dragon King Norton using Jun Yan and Zhulong. He can now reduce the scale of Jun Yan as much as possible and compress the wide-range explosion to create condensed high temperature. However, it is not yet very mature. Fortunately, there is enough water around to help him. This is the ultimate collision of the fire element and a large amount of water element.
The hot steam turned this place into a scorching steamer. Once the water flow approached him, he would be vaporized. This underwater combat suit certainly did not consider resisting high temperatures. If there was not enough cold water to continuously cool him down, he would have been dead long ago. Despite this, his skin was still scorched by the high heat, and a large area of it was red and close to being scalded, but he still persisted. This wave of water flow was not much, and Jun Yan's high-intensity burning dissolved most of the thrust, so he was able to stay in place and make sure that all the ghost tooth vipers were cooked.
After the few times they worked together, Caesar complained that Chu Zihang's fighting style was similar to that of a one-time assassin who was not afraid of his life. First, he would try a sneak attack, and if the sneak attack failed, he would use Jun Yan to self-destruct, which would easily result in a mutual loss of benefits for him and the opponent. It was basically lucky for him to be alive today.
As a top noble, Caesar certainly disdained Chu Zihang's fighting style, he cared about his life. A man as strong as Caesar Gattuso certainly couldn't be injured and sacrificed in a fight with small thieves and bandits. The ideal way to die should at least be to draw a knife and cut open the chest of a giant dragon, hold up the fresh dragon heart and bathe in the dragon's blood, and close his eyes peacefully amid the praise of the survivors and all the injuries. This is a heroic way to die.
In contrast, Chu Zihang's approach of trying his best even to kill an ant is really rejected by Caesar. This is one of the reasons why Caesar and Chu Zihang always disagree with each other. Their styles are always completely opposite.
The water gradually subsided, and Chu Zihang pulled out the long sword he carried with him. It was something left by his father. On the Maybach that was eventually found soaking in the mud thirty miles away, the only evidence that the man had ever existed was this sacred sword named Murasame.
He cut open his diving suit directly. Doing so was tantamount to seeking death. If he wanted to return to the Moniach after losing his diving suit, he would have to hold the oxygen tank by himself and even have to endure the huge pressure of 200 meters of water.
But even if he didn't do this, the diving suit would be useless. Jun Yan didn't kill all the ghost-toothed dragon vipers. Two of them tore through the diving suit and tried to bite his arms and chest. Chu Zihang picked out the two ghost-toothed dragon vipers with the tip of the knife. Along with the two pieces of flesh torn off, the strange fish swung its tail and spun in the air, hitting the bronze wall and splashing brown-red blood. It fell to the ground, twitched a few times, and stopped moving. When there were only a few of them, they were indeed not a big deal for the hybrids, but they were afraid that they would form a group, and even steel would not be a match for them.
Chu Zihang looked down at the corpses of the ghost-toothed vipers all over the ground. They were flowing down along the slanted canal. After the water was drained, only a thin stream remained. The corpses of the ghost-toothed vipers should be discharged outside the Bronze City and eventually decomposed by microorganisms. There was no need to worry about further expansion of the dragon blood contamination.
If these fish were not so ugly and unappetizing, two foodies might come and feast on the freshly grilled ghost-toothed vipers scattered all over the floor, like Fingel. Although I don't know what the strange fish modified by dragon genes will taste like, I might be able to taste the so-called dragon meat. The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" once said that a king named Kongjia in the Xia Dynasty had eaten dragon meat, which was said to be very delicious, the best he had ever tasted in his life, and he even asked for another bowl.
Chu Zihang got out of the diving suit completely, wearing only a pair of shorts. His lean and powerful figure looked like a warrior. He squatted down and splashed cold water on his wound, which was already red and purple. At the moment, he had no choice but to use cold water to temporarily cool it down. If it were an ordinary person, he would probably have difficulty moving at this moment, but Chu Zihang was used to being injured and his ability to resist pain was much stronger than many people. He simply packed up his things, put the oxygen bottle on the intact piece of skin on his shoulder, and continued to work hard to move up with the knife.
Those who grow up through hard work are not heroes. Behind every glorious achievement of Chu Zihang are injuries, so there are many wounds on his body that look like they have healed, but if you look closely you can still find traces. The best scar removal cream is useless because of the severity of the injuries at that time.
Although he was good at fighting to the death, he didn't want to die that much. The mystery of his father's death had not been solved yet. No one in Cassel knew who Chu Tianjiao was, and no one knew what that Odin-like thing was. The biggest gain was knowing that the ghost on the viaduct was the dragon's Deadpool, so Odin must be related to the dragon clan.
Since you insist on something, you won't give up easily before you find the answer. Chu Zihang carried an oxygen tank and waded through the water, splashing water with every step. In the distance were traces of his father, and nearby he had to find the girl who went into the water with him. He encountered these ghost-toothed vipers before entering the Bronze City. God knows what kind of monsters Lu Mingfei will have at this moment.
Lu Mingfei felt as if her soul was being pulled out of her body, and she felt a sharp pain in her lower back as if she was being dismembered. She endured the pain and rolled out. The black snake slammed heavily on the floor where she had been a second ago, and bright red blood mixed with fragments of the diving suit fell from its fangs.
If she had known she would be racing with a giant snake, she should have worked hard on the track and field. She was still a little slower than the black snake, and although she was not completely bitten, the snake's teeth still scraped her. It was just that one time, as if she had been cut by a chainsaw. Lu Mingfei was in so much pain that she couldn't straighten her upper body. After rolling over, she could only crawl on the ground with her elbows supporting her.
"I didn't say I was going to kill you. Don't be too much of a snake! Nothing good will come of pushing someone into a desperate situation!" Lu Mingfei gritted her teeth and raised the Glock pistol, firing all the bullets in the magazine. The glass bullets hit the giant snake's scales, making a crisp sound like steel.
It's hard to say whether this thing can be considered a snake. There is no snake in the world that has such hard skin. Rather than saying that those scaly things are snake scales, it's better to say that they are dragon scales. They are almost invulnerable to swords and guns. In the corridor, it almost knocked down the entire corridor, but there was not a single scar on its body.
The black snake bared its fangs again, and its mischievous strikes were like black lightning. Lu Mingfei waved his hand towards the flame burning on the bronze pillar and smashed it with his fist. The flame lost its original brilliance, and the whole world fell into endless darkness. Only the searchlight on Lu Mingfei's head could illuminate the golden pupils of the black snake.
The darkness lasted only for a moment, and the flame-colored light condensed into the shape of swords around the colorless flames on the bronze pillars. From top to bottom, dozens of dazzling blades of light fell like a swarm of meteors, each carrying a will like falling from the sky. It seemed that nothing could stop the invisible blades.
The blades of light enveloped the black snake, and the flame-colored tips pierced through its body, even nailing it to the bronze ground. The black snake twisted and thrashed like a tearing beast, and its long tail slammed into the bronze pillar. More blades of light fell from the sky, tearing its spine and muscles one segment at a time, until the behemoth was sealed from head to tail, becoming a living specimen that could not move.
"I really don't want to use this thing..." Lu Mingfei smiled bitterly and started coughing violently. The double pressure of using Skylight plus being injured was too much for her weak physical strength to bear. She was so young but she coughed like an old man with tuberculosis who was about to step half into the coffin.
Improving your physical fitness is urgent, but the Dragon King's revival will not give you time to exercise. It has only been three months since you entered school, and the actual training time is probably only about a month. It is really difficult to turn a weak scholar into a female hero in such a short time.
She struggled to stand up, but found that she couldn't, so she had to lean against the bronze pillar to cover her bleeding wound as much as possible, and looked at the motionless snake.
The skylight stripped the flames of their color. Flames were still burning on the bronze pillars, but they would never glow again unless they were extinguished and reignited. This left only the light of the searchlight, a lonely ray of light shining on the black snake's head, making it look quite lonely.
