Volume 1 Hello, Lu Mingfei Chapter 102: The End of Fire (X)
Samson was not sure whether this was right or wrong. She had perhaps done too many wrong things in her long life as a dragon. If she thought about it carefully, it was a miracle that she could still stay with Norton until today. Many traitors would have been liquidated as soon as they were discovered, and even the four monarchs themselves were such people.
As a living spirit, strictly speaking, she had died thousands of years ago. She voluntarily sacrificed her long life to protect Norton's cocoon. Even now, she was still so reckless and stubborn until death. She would rather give the opportunity to a seemingly silly human girl than see the Bronze City eventually become Norton's burial place.
Chu Zihang carefully poked his eyes out of the pond to observe the surroundings, like a groundhog coming out of a cave to look for food. Behind him was a huge bronze waterwheel, the surface of which was wrapped with a thick layer of unknown fabric, and each baffle that collected water was a comfortable seat. In front of him was a small wooden bridge across the gurgling water. At the other end of the small wooden bridge was an ancient bronze house, a typical Han Dynasty style. Except for the texture, it was no different from the ancient Chinese houses he saw in the illustrations of history books.
It was no wonder that he was so careful. He had suffered a lot all the way up the canal. This bronze city would not lose its function for thousands of years under the blessing of Norton's alchemy. Anyone who had experienced the mechanism in cartoons where thousands of arrows were fired at once would be as cautious as Chu Zihang. Moreover, what was used here was not called an arrow, but a siege crossbow. Once fired, it could be fired from the wall on this side into the bronze wall on the opposite side. One arrow was thicker and stronger than a person, and could kill people on the spot if it was touched.
It was a miracle to some extent that he could continue to walk here safely... because those mechanisms suddenly stopped working at a certain moment, and the huge bronze gears weighing several tons above his head suddenly seemed to be stuck. After a brief stop of a few seconds, many gears stopped rotating, and some even started to reverse.
Such favorable conditions could only be due to something Lu Mingfei had done. Chu Zihang couldn't help but feel a little relieved like an old father. He was the only witness to the confrontation at Kassel Academy that night. He knew very well that Lu Mingfei was a truly super S-level. All she needed was some physical training and confidence building. Who knows, her progress might even be smoother than his own.
This place looks very quiet, with a Tao Yuanming-style reclusive style. Comrade Dragon King seems to live a very simple life, which is really surprising. As a noble first-generation species, Chu Zihang would not be surprised to see a bedroom here that is no less than that of a royal palace. On the contrary, this monotonous, simple and warm feeling makes people feel a little uncomfortable.
Norton should not be a dragon that would live in such a place, at least not in Chu Zihang's opinion. Everyone saw his rage in Cassel that night. The supreme flame seemed to melt everything. He reigned over the world with the might of a furious dragon. How could such a monarch be willing to sleep in peace?
Chu Zihang stayed in the water for nearly ten minutes. He had to make sure that there was no one in the house or the surroundings. After ensuring safety, he dragged the oxygen cylinder and his Murasame to the shore and checked the contents of his waist bag.
Some switch seemed to be turned on, and a large amount of water rushed down from the waterwheel and hit the waterwheel baffle, accelerating the circulation of the waterwheel. Chu Zihang silently pulled out Murasame. He did not sense the killing intent, but his battlefield intuition told him that something was coming.
Lu Mingfei followed the route given by Samson and arrived at the underwater entrance of the hall. Below was another gatekeeper guarded by a living spirit. The wound on her waist became its food. After the living spirit sucked blood, the vortex-shaped metal plate shifted, and the entrance briefly appeared, triggering a waterspout, sucking Lu Mingfei in.
It was that whirlpool feeling again, with a smooth slide below that spiraled downward, somewhat like the whitewater rafting in a water park, but dozens of times more exciting than that, because in the whitewater rafting you at least know that there are staff waiting for you at the exit, but here only a ghost knows what is waiting below.
Lu Mingfei felt that Old Tang must have been out of his mind when he designed this city, because he had the urge to build a toilet-like mechanism in his own house. This was quite similar to the feeling when Harry Potter invaded the Ministry of Magic, stepping on the toilet and spinning himself in... Putting aside the question of whether it was disgusting or not, did he have to flush himself back like a pile of shit every time he came home?
Her butt finally landed after a long slide. The distance was a little high so she fell. She subconsciously cried out "ouch" and rubbed her not-so-full butt.
However, this weird butt-scratching posture only lasted for a second, because Chu Zihang was watching right below her. His senior brother was naked except for a pair of shorts, with an oxygen tank in his left hand and a long sword in his right hand. His thin but powerful figure was clearly visible, and his skin was a translucent red. He looked like Luffy in One Piece who had just entered the second gear.
“Brother, you… have a very unique style…” Lu Mingfei scratched his head and said after a brief moment of joy.
At this moment, she should have run down happily and hugged her senior brother, saying thank God that he and I survived the disaster and will have good fortune in the future, but she looked at each other in silence for a few seconds, and she still couldn't control her bitch mouth.
"My diving suit is broken. If I want to go back, I can only bring the oxygen tank with me." Chu Zihang's answer was very serious. He saw the wound on Lu Mingfei's waist at a glance, "Are you okay?"
"I felt dizzy at first, but now I'm probably used to losing blood, so it doesn't hurt that much anymore..."
While they were talking, the waterwheel had already turned half a circle. Lu Mingfei originally planned to swim over, but Chu Zihang put down the oxygen tank and shook his head, indicating that she should just jump over. It was not a good thing for the wound to come into direct contact with running water. The water here was running water, which meant it was taken from the Yangtze River. There might be some biological pathogens in it, so it was better to avoid it as much as possible.
Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, and roughly understood what Chu Zihang meant. She wanted to say that she didn't need to bother with this matter, but when she saw that overly serious face, she could only hold back the words on her lips. So Lu Mingfei stood on the waterwheel and calmly jumped towards the half-naked Senior Brother Chu. In an instant, she thought of the classic You Jump I Jump on the Titanic, and she always felt like there was an accompaniment singing in her ears.
Bah, bah, bah, what kind of unlucky fantasy is this? Rose and Jack's love was beautiful enough, but in the end they were both ruined! She, Lu Mingfei, wanted to sleep with Chu Zihang forever, and even give birth to a few little monkeys. How could she just say You Jump I Jump in a place like this!
Chu Zihang held Lu Mingfei with one hand and put her steadily on the ground. The first thing he did was to check her wound.
Lu Mingfei was a little embarrassed by the bold skin contact of her senior brother, and thought to herself, "I have grown some fat on my waist recently, senior brother, can you please stop looking at it?" The next second, Chu Zihang pinched her tentatively, and Lu Mingfei screamed unexpectedly. She quickly covered her mouth and wanted to slap herself.
"Sorry, I just wanted to check on your situation." Chu Zihang took a closer look at the wound on the diving suit. "Your diving suit is unusable. We are about 400 meters underwater now. If you want to get out and return to the surface, you can only find a way to call for help."
"But we have no way to contact the outside world now." The lifeline behind Lu Mingfei broke, and Chu Zihang was not wearing a diving suit at all. The depth of 400 meters underwater was definitely enough to isolate himself from the world.
Lu Mingfei now understood why two people had to work underwater. When you are desperate, there is nothing more reassuring than having a partner standing by your side. If she had been alone and found the lifeline broken when she entered the Bronze City, she would have been scared to death and wanted to go back with her head hanging. She would not have dared to fight with Samson and come in to find Chu Zihang.
"We can go back the same way. The communication line should have been cut off where we came in. If this method doesn't work, the second method is to rely on Caesar's support. Caesar's word spirit is Kamaitachi. From his position, he should be able to monitor the situation in Bronze City. We can find a way to contact him." Chu Zihang is very clear about the characteristics of his old opponent. As the best opponent, he must know how to fight against him and also know how to cooperate with him. "But now we have to find a way to find Norton first."
They looked together at the cottage across the bridge. In this small bedroom, only that cottage could possibly be the place where someone might be hiding. If Norton was indeed recuperating at this moment, then he could only have turned into a cocoon in his own house.
The mission of Group B is to lure Norton out of the Bronze City. This goal certainly does not require them to fight the Dragon King with a knife. Chu Zihang took out a bomb from his bag. It was a square box slightly larger than a palm, a product of the Equipment Department.
Of course, such a bomb would not destroy the Bronze City, but the alchemical potion inside would have a strong chain reaction with water and bronze, quickly exhausting the air in the Bronze City. The Dragon King was a reptile, and the Bronze City's circulation system was not enough to replenish the city's air in such a short time. The suffocation would force the Dragon King to leave the Bronze City.
Lu Mingfei also knew about this plan. Once the Dragon King left here, what would be waiting for him outside would be Caesar's seven deadly sins and the storm torpedoes on the ship. Given the hatred between them at Kassel College, Norton would not turn back easily.
What to do? Even if she wants to persuade Old Tang to run away, she has to find a way to meet him face to face, right? If she hadn't met Chu Zihang, she would have gone into the small room to discuss life with Old Tang. But now Chu Zihang is by her side, she can't just say "Brother, since we are here, let's go say hello to the Dragon King", and then run over and knock on the door to wake up . If that happens, Chu Zihang will most likely die, and Norton will be better than him even if he makes a Jun Yan.
While she was thinking, Chu Zihang had already placed the bomb on the bridge. The thing inside looked like a 19th century radio device, with a blown glass tube filled with slowly bubbling red liquid and a mess of wires. As a liberal arts student, Lu Mingfei was overwhelmed at first sight, but Chu Zihang, a science student, seemed to have a talent for explosives. He quickly sorted out all the messy wires to avoid any problems before the explosion.
Chu Zihang glanced at the diving watch on his hand: "An hour has passed since we dived. Assuming that it will take the same amount of time to return, we can make our own decisions without asking for instructions from the Moniah. We can set it to detonate in 50 minutes. When the explosion happens, we will be close to the surface and can return safely." Chu Zihang turned the brass disk on the device, and a small red light bulb began to flash.
At this moment, the door of the hut suddenly creaked. The two people were startled at the same time and looked up in the direction of the hut.
There was no trace of anything, and it looked like the door opened by itself. But the door was also made of bronze, and there would be no wind in a place like this. Even if there was, how much force would it take to blow the door open from the inside out?
Lu Mingfei shuddered subconsciously and felt a chill on her spine, as if an invisible ghost was slowly approaching them. It was a ghost that opened the strange door.
Veins bulged on Chu Zihang's wrists, and he pulled out Murasame and slashed behind him without hesitation. Amid the clear sound of metal slashing, Lu Mingfei saw the bursting sparks illuminating a shadow that should have been invisible. The dark mist was standing behind them, outlining a tall human figure.
The Word Spirit ·The Dark Illumination!
Many members of the secret party believe that the Dragon King's fighting style is clumsy, because the power they control is too strong. As long as they have a complete body, releasing an extreme elemental word can easily cause a nuclear explosion to destroy a city. Humans have no resistance to such power. Therefore, in the limited narratives of the struggle with the dragon clan, it is often seen that the dragon clan violently releases the power they currently have, but it is easy to be sent to the grave by human conspiracies and tricks because of incomplete awakening.
But at this moment, Dragon King Norton displayed the tactic of sneak attack, which should not have existed in a Dragon King. Perhaps it was because the long-term human life changed his way of thinking. As Old Tang, he had fought too many long nights in the game of StarCraft. Each struggle was like a battle that slowly forced him to learn the art of war. He is still Dragon King Norton, but uses the same cunning fighting method as humans!
It was impossible for Chu Zihang to see through the effect of the Dark Light with his naked eyes, but his intuition on the battlefield was extremely sharp. The moment Norton came behind them, the aura of murderous intent could no longer be concealed by the Dark Light. The biting cold enveloped every part of Chu Zihang's body like needles. He was never an opponent who would hesitate, and would do his best to swing his sword and cut even if there was only a slight chance.
