Chapter 24: Into the Water

"What's going on?"

The huge gear wall began to move, and the sound of the clattering reed could be heard clearly even in the water, and Aki looked at the folding knife and the broken lifeline in his hand in panic, trembling and almost cutting himself, not knowing what to do.

"Don't panic, you should have had a vision just now...... It's no longer safe here, we need to get out of here! ”

Ye Sheng comforted her while trying to find the way she came—but it was blocked by a huge bronze block. The scenery and roads around him were constantly changing, and he never imagined that the entire Bronze City was actually a mechanical artifact that could move in a complex way, and the information sent back by the Spirit of Words and Snakes was too complicated, and the huge amount of information was like a hammer hitting his brain.

God knows how much work the damn King of Bronze and Fire went into designing this damn place!

Ye Sheng's face became more and more pale, the overuse of the spirit made his face as gray as a dead man, and the exploration was only one aspect, more energy he spent on maintaining communication with the Moniach.

Aki hugged him, popping out the hook on the glove to secure the two of them to a wall, using her not-so-solid back to help Ye Sheng resist the impact of the water.

"Ye Sheng, ...... we?"

“…… Don't panic, trust me, we can get out! Definitely, it must be able to ......"

Although Ye Sheng was fragile like a baby when he cast his words, his slightly golden eyes still flashed with firm courage and conviction, and his reluctant but still quiet words could make her believe without hesitation.

……

"Hurry, hurry! Let's all move! Warm up the engine, turn on the sonar, and move out all your weapons! ”

The Moniach was in a messy and hurried track, Rundstedt roared loudly, the crew ran to the various functional compartments, and some carried weapons of mass destruction, including Stinger individual missiles, from the bilge. He himself was not idle, he was holding a sniper rifle and pressing the bullets into the magazine one by one.

"Time waits for no one! Support can't come immediately, and if you don't want to die, you have to rely on yourself! Move it! ”

Mercer held three tanks of oxygen and stood at the bow of the boat looking down at the water.

After the two sides reluctantly reached an agreement, Mercer first instructed Selma to contact the Kassel Academy immediately, so that the academy could decipher the map of the Bronze City using the dragon photos from Aki earlier; Then Rondstedt was asked to call on the entire crew of the ship to enter a state of first-class combat readiness, to closely monitor the surrounding underwater water, and to take out all the weapons that could be used; In addition, he did not forget to ask Selma to carry the "key" to the captain's room, so that as long as the academy sent the map "key", he could immediately analyze the escape route.

For the contact that Ye Sheng barely maintained with his words and spirits, he could only keep as steady as possible and not convey information until the escape route was studied, otherwise it would only consume Ye Sheng's spirit in vain.

It must be arranged thoughtfully to maximize the use of time, otherwise the small amount of oxygen that Ye Sheng and Jiu De Yaji have left may make him fall short.

At this moment, everyone's attention is focused on the water, and everyone's nerves are tense to the point of criticality, so that only the sound of rain can be heard on the boat after it is set up.

After all, most of their bloodlines are not close to the edge of the A-rank, they don't have strong speech spirits and bloodlines, and they haven't been professionally trained, so it can be said that the strongest combat power on the ship, except for Mercer, is the Rundstedt with a semi-auxiliary speech spirit and dustless land.

However, we still have to resist and work hard.

"I still don't understand why you're doing this."

In the silence, Rundstein took a hard puff of a cigarette, spat out a smoke ring, and turned to Mercer. His hand stroking the sniper rifle was a little stiff, and after several years as a professor at the academy, he was no longer as familiar with firearms as he used to be.

"I answered this question: because that's what I'm going to do."

Voiced through the mask, Mercer's voice was inevitably a little dull and distorted, but it also did a good job of masking his identity.

In fact, not only the mask, but also the height, body shape, and bones are all changes he made using the black light virus, plus a strict dress and a route that left no traces when he came, absolute secrecy is one of his tenets of action.

So what is his real purpose? Whether he tells the truth or not, probably others will not believe him because of his concealed appearance and mysterious and treacherous behavior, right?

Rundstedt's cheeks twitched, and it took a lot of effort to hold back the ** who complained, apparently Mercer's answer was simply nonsense in his opinion. But he couldn't do anything about the man in front of him, so he could only withdraw his gaze from the man in dark red clothes and refocus his attention on the gun in his hand.

Time passed again minute by minute, but no one present dared to relax, for fear that a behemoth would come out of the water in the next second.

"Professor! Map...... The map has been deciphered! The key has also been successfully marked out and passed to Ye Sheng! ”

Suddenly, Thelma stumbles out of the captain's cabin, breaking the silence on the ship.

Rundstedt couldn't help but raise his eyebrows at the good news, but Mercer just took the map printed out by Thelma's hand and quickly memorized the route and structure on it.

"Very well, I don't think time is running out - Selma, you go and contact the academy again and say that there is a dragon of more than one sub-species under the water here, which is very dangerous and needs a lot of reinforcements; Professor, you have to urge the crew to do a good job of defense, especially not to let the sonar be dismantled; In the end, it was me, who went into the water to rescue. ”

After a brief final arrangement, with only a slight nod, Mercer threw himself into the water with his oxygen cylinder in his hand, without hesitation.

Looking at the splash on the water, Thelma couldn't help but feel a little trance—tonight's qiē seemed too dramatic to her.

Strange countries and cities, rainy nights, the ruins of ancient bronze palaces, mysterious and powerful red men who suddenly appear, commissioners who are trapped underwater and in danger, hidden dangers in the shadows.

These things seemed too terrifying and frightening to her, who had not yet been exposed to real dangers, but she, with dragon blood, like most crew members, had no choice and no room for maneuver, which was a position and contradiction determined by the root, and with the birth of life, it was indelible and could only die a death.

Helpless, scared? But it doesn't change the fact that we have to face it in the end.

However, there are always things that are more red than blood, and people who are more painful than heavy

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