Volume 1 Hello, Lu Mingfei Chapter 99: The End of Fire (Part 7)
It sounds like a cruel and horrible method. It feels like being imprisoned in a caisson of eternal darkness for a thousand years. Lu Mingfei couldn't even imagine that it was something a shameless guy would do. When Lao Tang was still a human, he was still a pretty fun guy, but when he was Norton , it seemed that only brutal rage was left.
Chu Zihang took out a vacuum tube from the small bag on his waist. Inside it was a little blood of the child of the Word Spirit Solomon's Key. With the high-purity dragon bloodline and the effect of the Word Spirit, he didn't have to be weakened when he went to the royal city like ordinary ancient people.
There was only half a bottle of blood in the vacuum tube. Considering that there might be similar living spirits after entering the Bronze City, Chu Zihang used it very carefully. He used a syringe to extract the blood sample from it, and then inserted the needle into the living spirit's mouth for injection.
The trace amount of blood did not spread in the water. The bronze human face emerged from the wall as a whole. The rust on the surface cracked, and the sharp teeth suddenly closed, swallowing the water containing dragon blood in one gulp.
The dull rumble of thunder echoed through the walls, accompanied by the clickety sound of the mechanism biting. The creature opened its mouth wider and wider, until it could reach a nearly parallel state of 180 degrees like a giant snake, and looked like some kind of gluttonous evil ghost.
Lu Mingfei was instinctively afraid that this thing wanted to run away, but Chu Zihang grabbed her and generated a huge suction force in its big mouth, which forcibly sucked in a large amount of water and all impurities around it, and the two of them were also sucked into the vortex.
This feeling was so terrible that Lu Mingfei 's eyes went dark and she felt as if she had accidentally entered the inside of a washing machine. The madly spinning water brought a strong centrifugal force that tossed her whole body around. Her stomach was so upset that she almost regurgitated it, and her mouth seemed to be filled with the smell of green onions from the dumpling stuffing.
She had to try hard to cover her mouth, otherwise she would really vomit. She couldn't imagine what would happen inside the sealed diving suit mask.
When she opened her eyes again, there was no longer the touch of another person by her hand. Lu Mingfei got up from the ground and looked around.
"Brother? Are you there?"
What answered her was the echo in the huge space. This was a bronze corridor with towering bronze pillars on both sides. A strange flame was burning on the dome. In the depths, one could vaguely see the slowly rotating bronze gear mechanisms. Each one was as big as a truck tire, and the creaking sound was like the hissing of a group of snakes. It was a bit creepy to stay in such a place.
It seemed that she and Chu Zihang were separated by the flowing water. Even a strong and powerful man like her senior brother could not resist the madly swirling whirlpool. Lu Mingfei had to turn on the headset to see if she could contact the Moniach, so that she could find out the situation of the others.
There was no sound in the headphones. Lu Mingfei felt that something was wrong. She turned around and grabbed the nano rope . The other end of the rope was in the pool next to her. She pulled it hard, and the rough cross-section, as if it had been chewed by a dog, flew out of the water into her hand. Her heart skipped a beat, as if she had sunk to the bottom of a valley.
I've been wanting to tell you, Manstein, not to say so many things that hurt morale and put so many flags before you go to war! It usually doesn't break, but now it breaks right after entering the Bronze City. Are you happy? Are you satisfied? Your dear baby S-level is going to die here!
Lu Mingfei threw the broken rope on the ground and stomped on it hard, as if it was the damn Manstein. However, even though she was venting her anger, she still had to get on with the practical work. She had already arrived inside the Bronze City, so Chu Zihang should also be somewhere in the Bronze City. If she could find a way to get deeper into the city, they might be able to meet up.
She patted her chest to calm her breath, and forced herself to calm down and face the current situation seriously. When she watched movies before, she was disgusted by the women in disaster movies. It seemed that their brains were filled with nothing but screaming and waiting to die. Even if you cry and wipe your tears a thousand times, the tsunami will not care whether you are a princess or a queen, you will die equally. If you really have brains, you should find a way to face the difficult situation.
Now it was her turn to be the protagonist. Although she was a little scared, she was not willing to be a loser waiting to die. She had to take the initiative to find her senior brother to complete the task.
Patting her pocket behind her, she took out the pistol.
The underwater version of the Glock is a modernized and improved version of the original Glock pistol by the Equipment Department. If fired in water, the effective range is only 2.5 meters. However, now in the Bronze City, the Dragon King is a reptile, so there is air in the Bronze City, and this version of the pistol can also play its original effect. Considering the absolute domain around the King of Bronze and Fire, this pistol is loaded with glass bullets. This kind of bullet is extremely lethal to human targets. After hitting, a large amount of fragile glass slag can easily invade the human blood circulation system and damage internal organs.
Although it is enough to attack humans, its penetrating power is probably not enough to hit dragon scales. After all, they are made of glass. It is better to have it than not, and it is also a psychological comfort to carry it with you.
Lu Mingfei opened the visor of her helmet, and air with a slight smell of copper rust rushed in. It was not very choking. It seemed that the city was well maintained. She reached out and closed the valve of her oxygen cylinder, so that she could save some oxygen. No one knew what she would encounter next.
There were countless bronze statues standing on both sides of the bronze corridor, all of them were people dressed in ancient clothes, officials or generals, holding ivory tablets in their hands. Lu Mingfei had seen this thing in costume TV dramas. It was a tablet held by ministers in the court, usually used to record the king's orders, or to write down what they wanted to say to the king on this tablet.
It seemed as if Norton had declared himself emperor in this place, with a local court of his own, but his subordinates were obviously not serious people. Extending from the collars of their robes and armor were long snake necks, and the heads of these officials were all long and thin snake heads similar to those of cobras. The funny thing was that some of the snake heads even had hats on them.
Lu Mingfei didn't like snakes. Cold, slippery things were the enemy of girls, just like the beautiful girls in comics who could never escape the attacks of slime tentacle monsters. But these statues were lifelike, as if there really were a group of snake people in the world who would go to the court to report on matters in an orderly manner, all of them slightly bent their waists and leaned forward as if to salute people, giving the feeling of a cultured snake reading a book. This reminded Lu Mingfei of Cassel's textbook. In the chapter on genetic bloodline, it was said that the closest living species to dragons were snakes. The dragon's head looked like a snake's neck multiplied by N times, and its egg-laying was also very similar to the dragon's cocoon.
She plucked up her courage and walked towards the nearest snake-bodied man statue, and found that the guy's eyes were actually made of silver. The poor peasant mentality took over, and she began to think about whether she could take a few eyeballs away, as silver would be worth some money. However, this idea only appeared in her mind for a short while before she shook her head and denied it. According to the usual routine in adventure movies, when encountering a long-lost precious treasure, the first guy who touches it will definitely be in trouble, either triggering a self-destruct mechanism or being eaten by a monster.
Lu Mingfei, who was well versed in this, certainly would not be really tempted by money. She walked around the snake statue for a few times, took out her camera and took a few photos according to the requirements of the academy. The remains of the dragon clan are very varied and rare, and the academy really needs these precious materials for research. Thinking of this, she turned around and took pictures of the bronze pillars outside the corridor and the patterns on the floor, then she installed the camera and walked into the depths of the corridor.
The corridor was very long. She walked on the path with snake statues on both sides. She was only accompanied by the echo of her footsteps. Combined with the silence around her and the snake statues that seemed to be staring at her, she originally was not afraid, but she became more and more frightened as she walked. She could not help but quicken her pace, hunching her shoulders and almost jogging.
She suddenly stopped. There was a machine running in the sink behind the snake man, making a sound of metal friction, clicking, clicking, which made people frightened.
The snake statues suddenly moved! The snake statues that had been bowing straightened up in unison, looking straight ahead, their silver pupils flashing with cold silver light. Each statue was trembling slightly, and everyone knew something was coming.
"Really? I didn't take your stuff!" Lu Mingfei was so flustered that she raised her hands in surrender to the snake man with a sad face, "I'm just passing by... I don't have any money to pay for the passage and I don't have a wife to take you there! By the way, there's a hunk coming with me, why don't you go eat him?"
At this point, it was no longer a matter of propriety and righteousness. Lu Mingfei clasped her hands together and thought to herself, "Brother, if you are still alive, please remember to take care of my little sister! Let's just lure this wave of monsters over!"
The bronze plate above his head suddenly opened, and a huge black monster fell in front of Lu Mingfei, twisting and entangled, like a devil from the abyss.
Lu Mingfei gasped and almost fainted. She now knew what those snake statues were worshipping. It wasn't Norton. Of course, the only thing a group of snakes would worship was an oversized giant snake!
The big black snake almost occupied the entire corridor, leaving only gaps in the corners, not enough for half a person to squeeze through. It stared at Lu Mingfei and slowly approached her, with its golden pupils flowing with lava-like light. Every time it moved forward a little, its huge body would rub against the corridor, making a rustling sound. A lot of bronze rust and plates were knocked off the top of the head by the big snake. Lu Mingfei estimated that the snake's tongue alone was longer than her.
"Brother, let's talk. You must stay calm! You see, your brothers are all educated people, and you are also an intellectual. We intellectuals don't like fighting!" Lu Mingfei stretched out her hand to make a stop gesture, and quietly stepped back step by step. The more tense the moment, the more she couldn't control her mouth. She didn't know if this big snake could understand such nonsense.
The snake's movements were unusually slow. Logically, such a creature should be agile and fast as lightning. Perhaps the tunnel was too small for its body? But in Lu Mingfei's opinion, the size of the tunnel was obviously designed for the snake. As soon as it appeared, the entire path forward was blocked. Every snake statue that passed by its body was inevitably crushed into bronze plates.
Lu Mingfei didn't dare to act rashly. The only thing she could use was the small pistol in her hand. The big snake hadn't attacked her yet. It seemed that it just wanted to force her out. If she fired the first shot, it might set the snake off, and that would be the end of her.
The spotlight on the helmet swept across the giant snake as Lu Mingfei moved. Lu Mingfei suddenly noticed that the snake looked a little unusual. It had some special organs on its body, which looked like several bones that had pierced through the body. It was these bones rubbing against the wall that made the crackling sound. They were extremely sharp, and the bronze corridor seemed to be just a piece of tofu that would break at the touch of these bones. If it continued like this, before Lu Mingfei could do anything, the giant snake would collapse the place by itself.
Lu Mingfei couldn't bear it any longer. Her steps of retreat were obviously not as fast as the big snake's. The distance between them was getting shorter and shorter. The icy cold snake's tongue almost swept her body several times. Lu Mingfei was sure that the snake alone could knock her down in one go. She would be dead without even a bite.
She must not die here! She was determined to return to the pool where the rope broke to avoid this thing. She twisted her feet and ran at the fastest speed in her life. Only by running faster than death could she have a chance to survive!
This action stimulated the big black snake, and it accelerated suddenly. The corridor shook like an earthquake, and large pieces of bronze fragments and gears fell from the top of its head. It only took a moment for it to catch up with Lu Mingfei.
In front of them was the entrance to the corridor. Once Lu Mingfei reached the open space, she had more room to maneuver. The big black snake seemed to know this human's thoughts very well. It shot out like a sharp arrow, biting Lu Mingfei's back with its pale fangs.
Chu Zihang struggled to wade through a waist-deep pool of water. The searchlight on his helmet illuminated the endless water ahead. His communication cable was broken and he couldn't contact anyone else. Moreover, his birth point was quite bad, as if it was near the drainage system in the Bronze City, which forced him to spend a long time drilling through these half-person-deep drainage ditches.
If you have the chance to get a mini model of the Bronze City, you will know that this city is like a complete square box with a lot of complex parts interlaced up and down. Since it is a city, it certainly has more than one entrance. Ye Sheng and Jiude Aki found the side door above, while Lu Mingfei was rushed to the main gate. Only Chu Zihang drew the worst lot and was in a very unlucky position. This is the lower part of the Bronze City. In other words, he has to keep going up. This can be felt from the touch of his feet. The road is diagonal. He not only has to wade through the water, but also has to climb up.
Suddenly, there was a thunder-like sound in the front, as if a horn on the battlefield was singing angrily. Chu Zihang's face changed. It was the sound of a large amount of water rushing rapidly in a small space. Judging from the sound that was getting closer and closer, a force like a raging river was rushing towards him.
