Volume 1 Hello, Lu Mingfei Chapter 105: No King's Shadow (Part 3)
Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang arrived at the drainage canal below the Bronze City. This was the road Chu Zihang took when he came in. The reason for choosing this direction was simple. Norton was going upwards, and they had to avoid the Tyrannosaurus to avoid further conflict. The price of doing so was that they would have to start swimming upwards from below the Bronze City, which was about 300 meters underwater. It was a great challenge for any elite diver in the world. Rapid ascent could easily lead to gas embolism and kill them.
At the end of the drainage canal was a bronze wall with a human face on it. The water converged into the narrow gaps on both sides and disappeared. It must have another passage below to connect to the outside of the bronze city. The corpses of the ghost-toothed vipers that Chu Zihang had steamed alive blocked the edges of the gaps. Lu Mingfei felt her scalp tingling when she saw these hideous ghost fish. Their teeth were like sharp blades, and they could kill her with just a scratch.
“What the hell is this fish!” Lu Mingfei walked on tiptoe and hopped around. She was wearing a diving suit so if she stepped on these things with her feet, they would become wet and slippery. It felt like she was fighting a tentacle monster in a comic book, so she chose not to touch them as much as possible.
"The Ghosttooth Viper, the Dragon Executioner. In the future, you will learn a lot about dragon subspecies in textbooks. Dragon genes are very powerful. They can rewrite the genes of other creatures to strengthen them. This fish can even eat iron ore raw." Chu Zihang pulled out Murasame.
"Can this still be called a fish..." Lu Mingfei was stunned.
Chu Zihang held his breath and concentrated his mind, then suddenly exerted force and slashed the bronze wall with Murasame. A huge vibration echoed in the small space, and Lu Mingfei subconsciously covered her ears.
"Brother, what are you doing?" she asked.
"Signal Caesar." Chu Zihang replied, "The effect of his sickle-weasel will be multiplied in water. Water is a very good sound medium. The loud noise at a depth of three or four hundred meters underwater is as important to him as the red dot on the radar monitor. So I only need to knock three short, three long, and three short to call him over."
He swung the knife again, continuing to produce brief earthquake sounds.
"It's obvious that you are rivals...but you seem to know Caesar very well." Lu Mingfei covered her ears and said loudly. It's not that she has the heart of a fujoshi who would be moved when seeing men killing each other. She just felt that when Chu Zihang talked about Caesar, it didn't seem like he was talking about his mortal enemy. It was more like the indifferent tone of "my good gay friend, of course I know him clearly."
"Only when you know your enemy well enough can you defeat him. This is what the military strategy means: Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles."
"So who would win if you two really fought?" Lu Mingfei couldn't help but feel a little curious. There were so many legends about the two of them on the Night Watch forum, but there was no one that directly stated who was more powerful, the boss of the Student Union or the president of the Lionheart Club.
"There has never been a winner in a duel without the use of words, but Caesar should be stronger than me. Gattuso's family has enough resources to hire the most ancient swordsmanship teacher for him. He knows all kinds of sword techniques and tactics from ancient times to the present in Europe." Chu Zihang said lightly.
"Brother, you have never lost to a Caesar like this, aren't you very strong?" Lu Mingfei of course had to cheer for her own solo pusher. "I saw you fight him back and forth on the free day. You must be a good teacher and a good student."
Chu Zihang paused for a second while knocking on the wall: "I don't have a very authentic swordsmanship master."
"Then where did you learn all these skills? There's no Japanese sword subject in Cassel."
"The Children's Palace," Chu Zihang said. "There is a Musashi Kendo Hall in the Children's Palace. I learned Japanese swords there for 36 hours in total. The tuition fee was 3,600 yuan. The rest was practiced on my own."
Lu Mingfei blinked her eyes, not knowing what expression to use to deal with such a ridiculous answer. If Caesar knew that his mortal enemy was just a genius swordsman who graduated from the Children's Palace, his arrogance would be shattered on the spot and he would never be able to put it together again, right?
"Brother, you are awesome!" Lu Mingfei secretly praised him in her heart. She didn't need a reason to like someone, but she liked Chu Zihang for a reason that could be put on the table. Many rich second-generations can be handsome, handsome and rich, but such a hardworking and down-to-earth rich second-generation is rare. Lu Mingfei felt that the greatest happiness in her life was to know someone like her brother. Even if they were not together and just being friends, she would be satisfied.
Chu Zihang repeatedly sent out three distress signals, three long and three short, but the sound became weaker and weaker. He had very little strength left, and the sequelae of the blood explosion were gradually eroding his physical strength. Although he told Lu Mingfei that Caesar could hear it, he himself could not guarantee it 100%. How thick is the bronze wall? How could such a weak knocking sound penetrate the wall? Dragon King Norton was probably in the river by now. According to the original battle plan, Caesar should be carrying out the task of luring Norton into the sonar range and had no time to help.
Such words could not be said now, as that would only dampen the few hopes they had. Chu Zihang had already made a plan. If Caesar could not come, they would still have to sacrifice blood to leave Bronze City. He would take out his oxygen cylinder, release the oxygen inside, and ignite it through Junyan. In the water, the flame would be quickly vaporized to generate thrust. Holding the oxygen cylinder would produce a booster-like effect to help them rush a certain distance.
However, there is not much oxygen in such a bottle, and doing so means that he will have no oxygen available. But he doesn't care. Going into the water to slay a dragon is a dangerous thing. It is good enough to keep one person alive. If the booster can send Lu Mingfei to a depth of one or two hundred meters, she may be able to return to the Moniach if she tries harder.
In this way, Chu Zihang could close his eyes peacefully under the water. The girl had experienced the rainy night on the viaduct with him. If there was any chance to get information about Odin or Chu Tianjiao in the future, with Lu Mingfei's character, she would definitely help him continue the investigation, and he would have nothing to regret.
The only one who was worried was probably mom... She always thought that with Chu Zihang's grades, he should be admitted to a top university in China, and he should also help her find a glamorous daughter-in-law. Chu Zihang himself thought it was incredible that he could fall in love. He basically learned about girls from various books. When he saw a beautiful girl on the street, he would just glance at her and never think about anything extra. If he wanted to realize mom's dream... Maybe he could only leave a last word to Lu Mingfei and ask her to help lie to mom that he and her son were lovers and came to pay their respects. Anyway, everyone had played a boyfriend-girlfriend scene in Kassel.
The bronze human face suddenly opened its mouth slowly, as if it wanted to swallow the person in front of it. Chu Zihang was stunned for a moment, and then he showed a rare look of joy. There was no suction, but a thrust rushing out in the opposite direction, which meant that something was about to appear from the other side.
He pulled Lu Mingfei back a few steps. A large amount of river water rushed in, and two dark figures emerged from the bronze face's gaping mouth.
"Nono! Caesar!" Seeing these two people, Lu Mingfei felt like she was reborn, and wanted to applaud Chu Zihang. A senior brother is a senior brother, no matter how big the problem is, he can find a way to solve it, and he must be the protagonist in any story!
"Can such a small place be called the Bronze City?" Caesar and Nono held hands and supported each other to stand up. Caesar looked around and immediately expressed his contempt for Norton's taste.
The noble son of the Gattuso family has visited many famous places of interest in the world, but he has never seen a place with only a ditch and walls on both sides that dared to call itself a city.
"Strictly speaking, this is just the drainage ditch of Bronze City." Chu Zihang said.
"You look terrible..." Nuonuo glanced at Chu Zihang's red bare upper body and the wound on Lu Mingfei's waist. Neither of their diving suits was torn at all.
"That's why I'm using this method to inform you that our communication line is broken." Chu Zihang sheathed his knife. "Can you find a way to contact the Moniach? We need new diving suits."
"Our communication cable is also broken." Caesar shook his head. "Norton can use water spirits. He uses static currents to fix everything in the water. The Moniach should be under his attack at this moment. The people on the ship seem to have come up with some way to make the entire river water active. A large number of air bubbles are rampant in the water, creating strong buoyancy."
"Without support, we can only rely on ourselves." Chu Zihang picked up the oxygen tank. "You said that the river water has a lot of buoyancy. Maybe I can try to swim up directly."
"It's not impossible for you to do it with your physical strength in this situation." Caesar turned his head and glanced at Lu Mingfei, "But some people may not be able to do it."
This look made Lu Mingfei feel very unhappy. She was completely looked down upon, but she had to admit that she was really not good at this. The newbie who had only trained for less than three months and followed them to slay the dragon was obviously not able to keep up with the pace of the big guys and was a bit of a drag.
Hey, isn't it because I didn't work hard enough? If I had caught less fish during training, I might have been able to straighten my chest and pat my head proudly and say, "Stop using your pig nose to pretend to be green onions, Master Gattuso. I'm much better than you, girl." Then I jumped into the water and swam wildly, leaving only my slender back to leave Master Gattuso dumbfounded.
"I'm sorry." Lu Mingfei felt a little sad at the moment from all the thousands of thoughts in her mind . She felt that she was useless and that the glorious title of S-level did not seem to be worthy of her.
"Wear mine." someone suddenly said.
Everyone turned their heads to look at that person, and Nuonuo met all gazes with a faint smile.
Lu Mingfei widened her eyes. It was impossible for Nuonuo not to know the risks of doing this. Although Nuonuo had said that people who travel around the world should be more righteous, wasn't it a bit too righteous to take such a risk?
"Stop joking, it's my turn." Caesar frowned slightly, "None of you can dive better than me. This distance plus the activation of buoyancy makes it easy for me."
"That's why you can't come." Nono said, "We have to act separately. Those with diving suits should lead those without. This way we can save energy and oxygen to the greatest extent. Besides, my underwater skills are not much worse than yours. Let Lu Mingfei change into my diving suit. She and Chu Zihang will go upstream together. You lead me. We must have a group reach the Moniach to call for support. Norton is in the river. If we want to get close to the ship, we will most likely encounter him while he is attacking the ship. Someone needs to attract his attention."
Chu Zihang and Caesar looked at each other. They really didn't think as much as Nono. As long as someone could report back, they could put the diving bell into the water, and the group behind them would easily solve the problem of floating up. And the Dragon King Norton really had to be dealt with by someone. If he kept attacking the Moniach, regardless of whether the ship could hold up, the people on board would hardly have the opportunity to launch torpedoes.
Caesar really didn't want to let Nono risk gas embolism and losing his diving suit, but they still had to continue to perform their respective tasks. If no one seduced Norton, it would be difficult for the Storm torpedo to hit such a flexible small target.
"Okay." After a few seconds of silence, Caesar finally nodded in agreement.
He put down the sword case on his back and pulled out Greed which had been inserted back. Chu Zihang stepped forward and pulled out Taotie. Lu Mingfei hesitated for a while and suddenly reached out and grabbed Lust.
Perhaps she was stimulated by Caesar's words, and her stubborn self-esteem was at work. Everyone was a hero, and she didn't want to be the only loser in the team.
She had already prepared herself for another failure, so she used all her strength in her hands. However, this time the process of pulling out Lust was unusually easy. Lu Mingfei didn't even feel any resistance. All her fierce strength was exerted on the cotton. She just pulled it out, and dragged Lust out of the sword case as easily as picking up chopsticks.
What? What's going on? She stared blankly at the knife that looked like a wakizashi, wondering if she had to curse her mother to be qualified to pull out the seven deadly sins?
Chu Zihang and Caesar turned around and moved away at the same time, because Nuonuo had already closed the valve of the respirator and unzipped the diving suit. She was wearing a tight red bikini underneath, and her figure was slender with an ivory-like luster. Gentlemen should be more or less cautious at such times.
"What are you looking at! Put on your clothes!" Nuo Nuo slapped Lu Mingfei on the head.
"Senior sister..." Lu Mingfei whispered to Nuonuo, who looked so heroic. How much courage does it take to give up your equipment to someone else in this situation? If it were her, she knew she would not be able to do such a heroic move.
"I said I would take you in as my junior sister. If you want to be someone else 's big sister, you have to pay a price. Otherwise, how can you convince others?" Nuo Nuo's attitude suddenly softened a lot. She stretched out her hand and gently rubbed Lu Mingfei's hair. "Don't worry. If I don't have the skills, how can I take on this porcelain job? Caesar is my boyfriend. Can he watch me die?"
Lu Mingfei didn't know what to say, so she could only hum softly and nodded.
This feeling was terrible. Chu Zihang, Caesar, and Nuonuo, everyone was actively taking care of her, as if she was the darling of the Kassel Academy with her S-level. But shouldn't the S-level, such a glittering and awesome title, be given to heroes like Superman? Not to a little princess like her who would be dragged by the big guys to hide behind them when she was in danger?
She got into the diving suit, and Nuonuo helped her zip up and close the sealing valve, then connected the oxygen. She looked down at the knife in her hand, her fingers clenched tightly, and suddenly a fierce and ruthless force emerged in her heart.
