Volume 1 Hello, Lu Mingfei Chapter 98: The End of Fire (VI)
Manstein's words made Lu Mingfei feel uneasy. Her originally ambitious spirit of rewarding her hard work had now been completely disrupted. The words "it won't usually break off" sounded as if they meant it would definitely break off!
"Is there really no problem with this plan?" Lu Mingfei couldn't help but raise her hand to express her doubt even when she was about to die.
"Don't worry. The Bronze Plan was formulated by the principal and all the professors. Although the Dragon King Norton has merged with his brother Constantine, he still needs some time to regenerate his body. His awakening too early has resulted in incomplete abilities." Manstein said, "Dragon bones have great plasticity, so they can imitate humans. Even the dragon form has many different variants. But if they want to exert their most powerful self-power, they must have a gigantic body. The scale of the Candle Dragon released by Norton at Kassel College is theoretically less than one percent of the power of a real Candle Dragon."
Lu Mingfei couldn't help but feel ashamed... She thought that endless explosion was the ultimate of Zhulong, but after all this trouble, this power was just the tip of the iceberg of Norton. As a result, she exhausted herself by using the skylight to fight. Although it seemed that she had won temporarily, it was actually like a level 99 big guy bullying a level 1 god-equipped newbie, who didn't know that the level cap of this newbie had broken through the server limit, and the peak after growth was level 1000.
If this level 1 newbie were to come to his senses, there wouldn’t be even a trace of ashes left of me, the level 99 one!
The signal light swept across the water on the side of the Moniach, and Manstein waved in greeting. He patted Caesar and Chu Zihang on the shoulders and pushed, and the two groups flipped into the water at the same time.
The four of them are all very good at diving. Caesar is a brave man on land and in the water. When he was fourteen, he set up his yacht to do field research on marine life in the Great Barrier Reef. Chu Zihang is of course serious about everything he does. Even if he is a landlubber at the beginning, he can turn himself into a dolphin after two months of training. Nono's favorite sport is swimming. She is a frequent visitor to Cassel's training hall. If you insist, Lu Mingfei may be a little weaker in the team, but it's not that she can't swim, but her physical fitness is a little poor. Fortunately, after the training camp, it is still no problem for her to keep up with the pace of everyone else and not fall behind.
Destroyers 105 and 106 swept the river with spotlights, but the light was not enough to penetrate 5 meters into the water. The river water was not as clear as imagined. The color it showed in the natural environment was just the result of the gathering of planktonic microorganisms. In fact, the water was quite turbid. Therefore, the ancients often said "clear water, clear water" when writing poems, because the river water was indeed green in their eyes. Perhaps only a good place like a spring can be praised by the immortal poet as a clear spring.
Lu Mingfei swam down underwater with a grunt like a shrimp. Before the time came for her to do any real work, the silly girl always said that she was worried about this and afraid of that. But when it came to working, she was more active than anyone else, as smooth as a mermaid who was born to live in water. Until Chu Zihang contacted her and forcibly interrupted her violent diving, she had already reached a depth of 50 meters underwater.
"Lu Mingfei, take a deep breath and don't swim so fast! The rapid change in air pressure will make your body unable to adapt. Slow down!" Chu Zihang's voice came from the built-in headphones.
Lu Mingfei looked back and realized that she was indeed too naive. Chu Zihang was slowly descending behind her, and Caesar's group could not even see their position.
"I'm sorry! I don't have any practical experience." Lu Mingfei apologized quickly. When she came to her senses, she realized that her ears were indeed a little uncomfortable. Every time she moved her body, it seemed that the bubbles around her would flow into her ears . At one point, she even thought she was going to become deaf.
"Diving is not a fun thing. The deeper you go, the more isolated you are from the world." Chu Zihang reached Lu Mingfei's water level, and the two began to dive slowly at a similar pace. "There is a disease called deep-sea phobia. Severe people will have an increased heart rate and difficulty breathing even just by looking at photos of the ocean, and some people only know they have such symptoms after they really come into contact with the sea. Therefore, the Executive Department stipulates that deep diving must be done in groups of two. Humans are afraid of loneliness. As long as there is even a little bit of fireworks, they will feel that they are still alive."
The biggest advantage of being with a science and engineering man is that he will tell you a lot of interesting knowledge anytime and anywhere. If you are not interested in this person, you will feel that everything he does is meaningless, but if you are very interested in this person, you will feel that everything he says is a treasure.
Lu Mingfei naturally belongs to the latter, so every time Chu Zihang talks about this kind of thing, she listens very carefully, feeling like her husband passionately showing his knowledge to his wife before going to bed, from a microorganism in the ocean to what the world looked like when the Big Bang happened. The husband talks so proudly that he forgets everything else, and he wants to use his hands and feet to tell you how awesome Gundam is. It doesn't really matter whether his wife understands or not, what matters is that his wife looks at him with admiring eyes, which makes this self-indulgent guy feel extremely happy.
Although they haven't even started dating yet, Lu Mingfei feels that this kind of relationship between them is almost equivalent to the daily bedtime story session.
"Speaking of which, Senior Brother, today is the last day of the three-month agreement." Lu Mingfei paused, not knowing if it was inappropriate to bring up those things at this time, but she always had a bad feeling after entering the water. Perhaps it was because Professor Manstein's words made her too depressed. If she didn't say it now, she felt like she would have no chance. "Last time you said you would give me another gift... It's been two months. What takes so long to prepare?"
Chu Zihang was stunned. Mentioning this in the middle of a battle was really beyond his thinking. However, considering that there was indeed a feeling of loneliness as one gradually drifted away from the world during diving, it was reasonable to chat about something casually.
"I want to make something for you by hand. I'm not very skilled so it took me a while." Chu Zihang said, "It should be finished in a few days."
“You did it yourself?” Lu Mingfei was a little surprised, and her eyes widened as if a passing monster was howling in her eyes.
Gifts can be big or small. For some people, the most precious gift is a diamond as big as a pigeon egg, while for others, it may just be an iris they saw when they first met. Lu Mingfei didn't want to get something from Chu Zihang specifically, because that would make her look like she was asking for it on purpose, like a cheap little bitch who was attracted by the tons of money in her senior brother's family instead of him as a person.
But this time, it was Chu Zihang himself who said that he wanted to give another gift to replace the old headband. Lu Mingfei thought about it for a long time. What kind of gift could he give to such a straight and stupid senior brother? And he actually said that it was something he made himself?
Lu Mingfei is very energetic now. Chu Zihang's words are like a shot of stimulant to her. Cinderella is a very easy-to-feed species. She will shine for you as long as you give her some sunshine.
"I'll give it to you when I'm done." Chu Zihang didn't know that Lu Mingfei cared so much about the little gift. That's how little girls think. When they like someone, they want to save every bit of their love. Chu Zihang only did this out of the mentality of being responsible. The headband that Lu Mingfei liked was a bit old, so there had to be a replacement.
When they reached the predetermined depth, Chu Zihang pulled Lu Mingfei down naturally. There was an underwater crack under their feet. They held hands, relaxed their bodies, and slowly sank under the heavy lead weights on their belts, tightly clamped by the uneven stone walls. After a short squeeze, it was as if they had passed through a crack in the sky between high mountains, and the underwater world suddenly became clear.
The searchlight shone forward, and there was a wall, a huge wall that stretched infinitely to the left, right, up and down. It glowed with an ancient green color under the spotlight, and mottled copper rust covered it like a layer of cotton wool. Unnamed plants grew in the foamy copper rust, and four slender lines swayed gently with the water flow.
At this moment, Lu Mingfei felt like an archaeologist. Deep in the river where few people had ever been, she encountered mysterious relics that had never been excavated.
"We have arrived at the designated location, Caesar, where are you now?" Chu Zihang answered the headphone signal.
"Outside the rock formation, we will wait here for Norton to appear and pick you up." Caesar replied immediately.
"learn."
Chu Zihang and Caesar are well-known rivals in Kassel Academy. They are in a state of competition with each other, but this does not mean that the two are iron-blooded men who fight without thinking. They are very clear about what is important and what is not. Since everyone has cooperated in this mission, they should show their most reliable side in the process, instead of completing the whole thing alone for the sake of credit, or even fighting. That kind of plot should be called the second-year male protagonist in hot-blooded comics. Although Caesar does have a bit of second-year arrogance, he should be the leader in his script. He should tolerate his subordinate Chu Zihang's temper, just like a domineering president dealing with his little wife...
Caesar opened the black box of the seven deadly sins. It was the first time that Nono saw this magical thing. She came over to look at it curiously, but did not touch it. The blood in her body told her that this was not something she should touch easily. Since the day it was born, this set of swords was destined to be covered in blood.
"What is this?" Nono asked Caesar.
"The Seven Deadly Sins, the alchemical sword built by Dragon King Norton to kill other Dragon Kings. The principal asked us to take it with us. The advancement of technology is indeed amazing, but against something like a Dragon King, a super-powerful torpedo may not be enough." Caesar said.
He took out a vacuum tube containing dragon blood from the pocket behind his waist and crushed it in front of the opened sword case. The bright red blood did not spread in the water. An inexplicable suction force was generated in the sword case, absorbing all the blood in the tube.
The cold buzzing sound trembled in the sword case. With the blessing of the sickle-weasel, Caesar could clearly hear the war songs that spanned thousands of years.
Pulling this thing out in the water is much harder than in the hospital. Just imagine how hard it is to pull out a plug sunk to the bottom of a swimming pool with bare hands. Moreover, the box itself has the suction power to resist the dragon bloodline. Caesar was struggling to pull out the sword by himself, which was as difficult as rubbing an expansion screw by hand. Nono couldn't stand Caesar's IQ and had to pout and say, "Let me do it," holding the sword box so that Caesar could exert force unilaterally.
With the leverage point, Caesar could draw his sword without any scruples. With the experience from last time, he could more or less determine the extent of his force when facing them again. He directly drew out Greed and firmly grasped this weapon that looked like an Atkan long sword.
This knife is very special, with only a single edge. The ordinary blade faces outward, while the greedy blade faces inward. The overall curvature is not high, and it is like holding the blade in reverse when chopping. The length is less than 80 centimeters, a typical close combat weapon.
Just looking at this knife, it is hard to think that it is a sharp blade for slaying dragons. Considering the huge bodies of dragons, if they really fight with swords, each person should carry a 40-meter machete. This sword that seems to be made with the template of the human body gave Caesar a rich imagination. He thought that this thing might be a weapon similar to the one used for assassination at banquets. In history, the dictator Caesar, who has the same name as him, died of assassination. Caesar thought that if he was in the Senate at that time, holding such a knife in his hand, he would definitely cut the throats of those villains before they took action.
This is not arrogance, but he does have such ability. Theoretically, as long as Caesar keeps using the word spirit, no one can assassinate him, because no matter the sight of bullets being loaded or the sound of swords being unsheathed, they cannot escape his control.
The range of the sickle weasel was opened to the maximum. Caesar was surprised to find that the intelligence brought back by the sickle weasel this time was far more than any previous time. Water flow is an excellent sound medium. The speed of sound propagation in water is about 4.5 times that in air. This is reflected in the sickle weasel. Caesar can now monitor the two heartbeats under the rock layer, which are Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei. Once there is a third heartbeat there, it means that the time for him to go out has come.
Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang walked along the rock wall of the Bronze City. They found the human face slightly protruding on the bronze wall. The painful face held a burning piece of firewood in its mouth. The face looked hideous and horrible, like a living thing being burned by flames that would never end.
Lu Mingfei knew that this was the gate that controlled the entrance to the Bronze City. This human face might even be a living human or dragon at that time. The Dragon King Norton burned the metal with pure flames, killed it to remove impurities, and finally resurrected it. What he got was alchemically regenerated metal, which in essence had transcended the scope of what humans call metal, and could also imprison souls to create living spirits to guard the gate of the Bronze City.
