Chapter XVIII
The lights shining on the surface of the lake gradually faded away, and the three of them adjusted their posture and began to dive. The penetrating power of the searchlight is still very limited, and it is impossible to see after only ten meters of diving, and only the deep turquoise water of the Yangtze River accompanies the three of them.
Li Su took Winchester off and held it in his hand, looked around, and the spotlight on his head drew large and small arcs with his movement, but the radius of this arc was only four meters, which was really smaller.
"Brother Li Su, if the Dragon King rushes over, can you react?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"How could you react! At a distance of four meters, he had no time to react at a high speed of fifty knots. Li Su was very calm.
"Can't you comfort me if I rely on you? I'm so upset right now, friend! The triplenic-speed metal streams you promised, the high explosives, and the clairvoyants you promised are the same! ”
"Who said that?" Li Su disagreed. "It's still possible for the Desert Eagle's special bullet to reach three times the speed of sound in the vacuum of my 'Dustless Land', isn't it the explosives senior sister carrying it? As for clairvoyance. Li Su tapped his mask, "Don't you see the sonar of the endoreflective display in the helmet?" Real-time sharing, we can know as soon as the dragon king appears. So rest assured, it's not that it's just a low-profile version. ”
"Is it really good for me to rely on a copy of Hell difficulty like the Dragon King and use a low-level version of equipment? Still can't SL copies! ”
"There's no way, both of us are just out of the novice village's whiteboard to equip you, and you can't equip it. If a character with a high experience value like Caesar might not even want a diving suit, he would go directly into the water with a storm torpedo on his shoulder and aim it with a sickle, which would be used as an RPG. ”
Lu Mingfei imagined that scene for a moment, Caesar, who was athletic and indifferent, resisted the iron guy several meters long and dived on his shoulder, his blue eyes were so fierce that he strafed in all directions, and his golden hair was scattered in the water...... I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Be focused when you do your job!! Don't communicate irrelevant things!! Manstein's roar was deafening from the speakers built into the helmet.
Others can't hear normal voices underwater, so Li Su and Lu Mingfei used public frequency to communicate, so everyone watched the whole process of these two goods playing treasure underwater. Caesar, who was beside Manstein, was pale, and he didn't know how to feel.
"Professor, your voice can make us deaf for a long time, and you will be the one who will cause an accident." Having said that, Li Su's leisurely tone couldn't tell that he was affected at all.
Manstein was speechless, but as the string that had broken throughout the cabin suddenly relaxed, the crew was no longer so nervous.
This is a good sign, too much tension can lead to a significant increase in false positives and misuses, and this state is now the best place to perform the task. Li Su: Did he do it on purpose? Manstein didn't know, but he was vaguely uneasy. It's too similar, it's too similar, Manstein remembered the recording of the cabin of the last mission of the Moniach that he had heard a week ago, it was Cellma who relieved everyone's tensions, and now, she.... It's gone.
Of course, Li Su won't fully believe in sonar, after all, the data that has been handed down is only a waveform chart and no radar map, and it's strange that the dragon king will appear and wait for the person above to report the direction, although the dragon king didn't come to make trouble in the original book, but even a BUG-level NPC like himself has appeared, who can guarantee that the dragon king will definitely follow the plot? As early as when he spoke, Li Su had already opened his speech spirit, and it was clear within fifty meters.
"Arriving at the predetermined position, the underwater group is ready to dive into the crevasse." Nono's voice echoed in the public frequency that had been silent for a long time. The road was safe and sound, and there was a crack leading to the Bronze City under his feet, Li Su was a little excited, after all, he could only rely on his own brain to make up for it, but now he can see it in person, no matter how strong his brain is, he still doesn't have the shock of seeing is believing.
Li Su went first, and the Winchester in his hand was aimlessly stirring the icy river, and it looked like it had to be contrived. After he went down two meters, Nuo Nuo and Lu Mingfei held Li Su's Naso and dived behind him.
"This is it, right?" Li Su stretched out his hand to clasp the protrusion on the wall, and looked at the huge wall carefully, amazed.
The hydrometer showed that they had only descended 20 meters, but at a visual distance of only four meters, the wall seemed to be able to penetrate the sky. The walls were an ancient turquoise glow, mottled patina covered them like a layer of cotton wool, and the foamy patina was filled with unnamed plants, and the slender strands of silk swayed gently with the current. In front of the three of them was a one-man tall relief of a human face, with a piece of wood with flame patterns in the mouth of the relief, and his face was painful.
"It's amazing, the earthquake actually shook it out." Lu Mingfei said.
"Because there's such a thing in the rock formation, there's a stress plane here during the earthquake, and the crack happens to be along this line." Nono said.
"This person is so painful, wouldn't it be nice to let go?" Lu Mingfei stretched out his hand to caress the person's face, and the bronze on the surface that had decayed like foam fell off one after another by him and floated in the water. Then it fell apart, getting smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared into the glare of the spotlights.
"That's a living being, you'll understand it in a class on alchemy biology." Manstein's voice came, "Having burning wood in his mouth means that he is imprisoned by the power of fire, and there is no relief from the pain. Dragonlord Norton is the strongest of the four monarchs in alchemy, because he manipulates the fire element, which can scorch metal with the purest flame, 'kill' it, remove impurities, and then 'resurrect' it, this metal is called 'regenerative metal', has extremely strong properties, and can also imprison the soul. This is a imprisoned soul who will guard the gates of the Bronze City according to the will of the Dragon King. ”
"Nono, the vacuum tube you carry has a milliliter of blood with the 'key' in it, smear the blood on the lips of the 'living spirit', and the high-purity dragon bloodline will open the entrance for you." Manstein continued.
Nono pulled out the vacuum tube from his lower back and used a needle to extract a blood sample from it.
"Is this uncle still alive?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"Dead, 'living soul' is just an alchemical definition, his consciousness is dead." Nono said.
"But he ......" Lu Mingfei's voice trembled, "Bite me!" ”
Nono jerked her head up. Lu Mingfei's hand was stuck in the mouth of the "living spirit", and it looked like it had been bitten. Lu Mingfei was struggling to pull his hand out.
"Don't move! It's just stuck, the 'living spirit' won't move easily, it's just a door lock, will the keyhole bite? Nono said, "Who told you to touch it?" ”
"No...... No! Lu Mingfei said, "He really bit me!" His face turned pale.
Nono suddenly became dumb. She saw with her own eyes that the bronze face moved, the whole face bulging out of the wall, the rust on the surface cracking, and the sharp canine teeth opening and closing with a "click" crack.
Li Su took out the diving knife with his backhand and inserted it directly into the mouth of the living spirit to prevent it from continuing to bite. But the effect was not very good, he felt that he could faintly hear the creaking sound, and with it, a large number of bubbles gushing out of the mouth of the living spirit, like a drowning person subconsciously breathing.
"Pull his hand out! Otherwise, ......" Before Li Su finished speaking, a loud sound came into the minds of the three of them, like the roar of an ancient bell and the sound of huge thunder. Is this Longwen? The difference from the 3E exam is a bit big, Li Su wanted to pry the mouth of the living spirit hard. Looking back, a bit of silver light slipped out of Nono's hand and sank into the darkness beneath his feet.