The Three Gorges Reservoir of the Yangtze River, the "Kuimen" of ancient times

On a clear night, the ships waiting to pass through the locks were quietly moored on the river, the river was calm, and the river reflected the stars and moon.

A lonely black shadow stood on the shore of the small island in the middle of the river, silently looking out, and the sound of the water was rattling, reminiscent of many years ago.

Many years ago, this small island was a mountain, standing here and looking out, it was like a gate split by a divine axe, and the eyes were full of green in spring, and the wind blew the white robes of two people

A dark shadow stretched out its hand towards the water, and ancient spells walked on the water like a bell

Ripples appeared on the surface of the water, countless bubbles rose from the bottom of the water, white smoke rose from the surface of the water, and the light like molten steel flowed under the water, as if a volcano was about to erupt under the water.

The river was boiling, and the blazing white gas rushed into the sky, making a thunderous sound. The river cracked, and hundreds of tons of hot sea water surged into the sky, then turned into droplets and sprinkled on the black scales, quickly evaporating.

Huge, incomprehensible creatures

He burst out of the water, looked up to the sky and made a sound like laughter and a baby's cry, then bent his neck, lowered his head, and met the dark shadow at the water's edge. His body was nearly four stories high, his slender neck covered with black scales, and along the vertebrae, jagged black bone spurs pierced through the scales, and an ancient iron mask covered his face, revealing only demonic golden pupils.

No one would believe that such a creature really existed in the world unless they saw it with their own eyes, and his figure could be found in various mysterious, heretical books, some say that they hid in caves, spitting flames with sulfur in their mouths; Some say they are large snakes with high venom and more than one head; Others say that they are symbols of the Mandate of Heaven and are half-gods. It was whispered among the navigators of ancient Europe that the seas of the East were unnavigable, where the water was red and boiling, because there was magma flowing underneath, and swarms of creatures swam above the magma layers, and when they got angry, they would destroy any big ship, unless you dropped grains of rice, which looked like maggots burrowing into their scales.

But all these legends are not enough to describe their true colors.

When he appeared before humans, he was far more hideous and majestic than any legend

There is only one word to describe them: "dragons"!

Long gaze

The shadow stretched out his hand to the dragon, and the dragon let out a low whimper, and meekly leaned his head closer to the shadow and let him stroke his nose.

The small black shadow and the huge dragon were in extraordinary harmony at this moment.

"Samson, after two thousand years, finally meet again." The dark shadow whispered, "It's been too long for you to watch the house····· Now let's go home! ”

He reached out and grabbed the ring on the dragon's mask as if grasping for strength and dignity again!

The black shadow roared into the sky, and the dragon roared with him, and the two voices intertwined and resonated as they spread across the river. The dragon's long tail slammed into the river, and a crack opened in the water, and the dragon's head made a perfect arc in the night sky, and he took a black shadow and burrowed into the crack. The surface of the water closed after a moment, leaving only a huge circle of ripples.

"What sound?" On a cruise ship not far from Xiaozhou, tourists singing open-air karaoke on the deck shivered and turned their heads in a certain direction

All they could see was the sparkling waves and the darkness of the mountains under the stars, but the karaoke that night was over quickly, and everyone didn't want to sing it anymore

All night they kept thinking about that voice, and they didn't know what it was, but it made people feel heart-rending sadness

If it was really a human voice, what a pain, what a kind of gnashing of teeth, what a sound to make!

······

"It is now the night of February 13, 2010, the Chinese Lunar New Year, the Moniach is anchored in the Three Gorges Reservoir, the river is quiet, and the equipment is normal. Tonight we're going to carry out the 'Bronze Project', and I'm Captain Manstein, and this is my thirteenth captain's diary on this voyage. Professor Manstein glanced at his watch, dialed the transatlantic phone, turned on the speakerphone, and placed the phone on the table, "Ready, the school board asks us for the final order." ”

"Get moving, and good luck to you." Principal Angers hung up

Manstein looked around at everyone, "You've all heard it, the headmaster has confirmed." ”

Everyone nodded

"It's been rehearsed many times, but only tonight will you know the full details. Listen attentively, and remember that it is the groups that work together to ensure success. Manstein looked around at the students in black combat uniforms in the cabin, who were standing with their hands behind their backs and solemn expressions, "Congratulations, this is a real dragon slaying operation, and here, everyone is no longer considered students." You have been chosen to come to this ship only because you are the most elite. ”

"Hey, don't talk about the 'most elite' and forget about my kind of waste wood that has been pulled on my back, okay?" Lu Mingfei muttered in his heart, he stood behind the crowd, only revealing half of his face

Ye Yu, who was standing next to him, touched Lu Mingfei with his elbow, winked at him, and motioned for him to relax

However, it is clear that Lu Mingfei is immersed in his own world

"Unlike last time, this time the Moniach was heavily armed, and the armament department stuffed all the latest stuff into the bilge. The ship has concentrated the most advanced technology of mankind to date, and its firepower can rival that of a cruiser, and it will not be a problem against any living thing. "The premise is that the operation is not wrong." ”

"This time the target is more powerful than what you encountered on campus, and the metal and explosions are not enough to hurt him, so ordinary weapons are not effective against him. Allow me to introduce," Manstein opened the large screen, on which an electronic drawing unfolded

"'Storm'! The fastest torpedo in the world, produced in Russia, has a speed of up to 200 knots under water, which is close to the speed of a small aircraft. According to the data, the dragon can dive at a speed of up to 50 knots, so the target cannot get rid of the storm torpedo····· Lu Mingfei, do you have a problem? ”

Lu Mingfei raised his hand, "I read that the military magazine said that the storm torpedo can carry a nuclear warhead, are we going to use it····· Nuclear weapon? ”

"No, we're carrying an alchemy warhead for it!" On the screen, the warhead is partially enlarged

"The warhead part is embedded with 8,000 alchemical shrapnel in a spiral, and their edges are unusually sharp enough to slice through the scales of dragons!" "Look, when the warhead explodes, 8,000 shnel will bloom like a metal flower, and the shrapnel will spread out on a plane with a diameter of 30 meters and rotate, like an electric circular saw. But it's much faster than any circular saw, spinning in a few hundredths of a second to complete the cut····· Cut the Dragon King in half! ”

"But it's a reservoir, and I'm using ····· Naval weapons, right? "Lu Mingfei really wants to greet the parents of the crazy people in the equipment department, what should I do if this torpedo sinks to the bottom and explodes?

"This is nothing, there are far more outrageous things that the armament department has done," Manstein looked calm, "The water depth of the Three Gorges Reservoir has now reached 170 meters, and the last underwater earthquake caused a subsidence of about 200 meters near Bronze City, close to a depth of 400 meters, and the use of storm torpedoes is more than enough, even if it bottoms out and explodes, it will only cause an underwater landslide." ”

"What do you mean by 'that'? Where does this relaxed tone come from? Lu Mingfei said in his heart

Ye Yu touched Lu Mingfei with his elbow again, signaling him not to ask some superfluous questions

Lu Mingfei gave Ye Yu a smiling expression, with a helpless expression

"There is only one storm torpedo, there is only one chance of success, the underwater team lures the dragon king out of the bronze city, and when he appears in sonar range, we will launch the torpedo. This is the power of science, dragons have not had time to adapt to it so quickly, humans have armed themselves with the power of science for hundreds of years, and they can finally balance with alchemy and spiritualism. "Now repeat the work list, Captain Manstein, first mate Grayson, is in charge of the engine and fuel supply." Underwater operations, Group A, Caesar and Zero; Group B, Chen Motong and Lu Mingfei; Additional group: Ye Yu····· Do you understand where each is located? ”

The so-called additional group means that whether it is group A or group B, he must go into the water as a member, which is the principal's decision

"Understood!" Everyone said in unison

Lu Mingfei was assigned to the underwater operations group because of his surprisingly good performance in diving training.

When he was a child, his family lived in the suburbs of the city, and he always floated in the nearby pond to touch the shells of mussels. If he had known that the test before diving training was purposeful, he would have hidden a little, and he would not have been told to swim as hard as he could, so he really swam nearly 100 meters before showing his head

Fortunately, there is Caesar, who is a good man on land and in the water, and it is said that since the age of 14, he has been driving his own yacht to do marine life research on the Great Barrier Reef, and his diving results have been ranked first without any suspense

Rushing to the second place is zero, Lu Mingfei has seen her dive without an oxygen cylinder, as light as a fish, with an indifferent look on her face, as if it is written "Oxygen is not necessary for a half-fish like me"

Nuo Nuo ranks third, and Lu Mingfei is fourth, Group B is the reserve group, unless Group A is finished, Group B does not have to go into the water, and Lu Mingfei absolutely believes in the super attributes of Caesar and Zero, plus the special foreign aid Ye Yu, if these three can't cover it, then it must be a failure of the operation

He was still more relieved when he thought about it this way

"But I have a problem," Zero raised his hand, "I can't get into the water today." ”

"Inconvenient?" Manstein looked Zero up and down, "Are you sick, you look good." ”

"That's right!" Lu Mingfei immediately agreed, "You look pretty good!" ”

"My eldest aunt is here, so I can't go into the water." Zero uttered this sentence with a calm of minus two hundred degrees

Lu Mingfei was the whole petrified on the spot

Ye Yu raised his forehead slightly, and secretly sighed that Renata back then has now become a three-nothing girl, damn Zero! How did you educate me Renata!

'You mean······ Big Auntie'? Lu Mingfei asked cautiously, "Do you understand the meaning of the eldest aunt in Chinese?" ”

"It's a woman's menstrual period." Zero answers

"Did I hear me right? You look like you're only 14 years old, will you have a period? You might as well say you're going to take maternity leave······"

"It's a fact, I have a menstrual period. In addition, I am 18 years old. Zero replied in a cold and hard tone, shattering the petrified Lu Mingfei

found Ye Yu staring at her, and stared back indifferently

Ye Yu covered his face more tightly

Zero~ Although your figure is easy to misunderstand your age, but... It's not right to lie~~

Although I didn't ask, and you didn't mention it, it doesn't mean I don't know

You... Should... Twenty... Few··· It's right~ (covering your face)

"The basic rights and interests of women still need to be protected, so they will be replaced by Group B." Manstein said

"No problem." Nono nodded

"Huh?" Lu Mingfei turned his head sharply and looked at Nuo Nuo, "Could you also be in the menstrual period?" ”

Nuo Nuo slapped Lu Mingfei on the head, his face covered in black, "I want you to care!" I'm not in that time period! ”

"If you're so scared, I'll dive with Ye Yu," Nuo Nuo withdrew his hand and said lightly

Lu Mingfei was stunned, the original sentence "Okay" was on his lips, but he didn't know how to swallow it back by himself.

He lowered his head, clutched his head and did not speak.

"No," Manstein said, "Nono can't just dive with Ye Yu. First of all, the rules of the executive department are that the partner of the dive cannot have personal feelings, even if the principal specially approves and allows Ye Yu to accompany him into the water, it is because he has been to familiarize himself with the road once, and secondly, you have done hundreds of cooperation training with Lu Mingfei, and you have temporarily replaced it with Ye Yu, and there is a problem with the degree of cooperation. ”

"But do you think it will be useful for him to go on like this?" Nono refers to the way to the point

"I think he looks pretty good." Zero said

"I also think he's in pretty good shape." Manstein also said, "Actually, Ming Fei's results in the training session are still good, very positive, everyone has the fear of the first mission, but he is 'S' class, this should not be a problem for him." ”

"Anyway, if you don't go into the water with me, I'll have no problem." Nuo Nuo patted Lu Mingfei on the shoulder, "I can go down by myself, it's just to place a bomb to lure the Dragon King out." ”

"No way!" Ye Yu frowned, "You are not me, I have undergone special training, but you can't stay for a long time when you go into the water alone, you have no experience, and going into the water alone will only cause trouble"

Everyone's eyes were focused on Lu Mingfei

Lu Mingfei turned his head to look, Nuo Nuo was turning his head to look at Ye Yu, his face was expressionless, and Ye Yu was also staring at her indifferently

"Probably no matter what he says is good or bad, Nono won't have any different attitude, right?" Lu Mingfei thought, "She has the care of Senior Brother Ye Yu and Caesar's pursuit, isn't she just a little dick, what qualifications do you have to make her care about herself, what she has always insisted on in her heart is wrong from the beginning, it is humble, wouldn't it be good to recognize herself earlier?" ”

"Let's go down," Lu Mingfei pulled out an intriguing smile

"Well, change into a wetsuit." Nuo Nuo said lightly, his eyes left Ye Yu's indifferent face, and he walked into the cabin without care

"Sure enough, I guessed correctly, it's this casual tone" Lu Mingfei smiled, and there was something more in his eyes

Ye Yu sighed, walked to Lu Mingfei's side and patted Lu Mingfei's shoulder, "If there is any danger, tell me immediately, I will come over to help you", Ye Yu hesitated, "We are brothers who have walked together since junior high school, believe me"

"Got it," Lu Mingfei smiled bitterly

·····

"Remember, no matter what, follow me, I'm the team leader, you're the team member, understand?" Nuno turned his head to look at Lu Mingfei

"Remembered." Lu Mingfei nodded

"Pay attention to your respective oxygen meters, which will last about 3 hours, which is enough for you." Manstein crouched on the side of the ship and admonished

"The data cable, which is also a lifeline, the outer layer of nanomaterials, is generally not broken, and if you accidentally lose consciousness, we will use this rope to pull you back." Manstein pulled the black cord that Lalian was on the Luminfei suit

"The diving suit is specially made, fully enclosed, can withstand 20 atmospheres, the surface is nanomaterial, but be careful not to scratch it, once the air leaks, not only the oxygen leaks, but the air pressure difference is also terrible." Manstein patted them on the shoulder.

"May I ask a question?" Lu Mingfei said tremblingly: "Let's sneak to the Dragon King's house to set off bombs······ If he finds out······ I must be very unhappy······ What should I do? ”

"You can rest assured that the Bronze Project was developed by the President and all the professors. We've done a lot of research and speculate that the dragon king won't wake up because he still needs some time to regenerate his body. ”

"Regenerate the body?" Lu Mingfei was stunned.

"Dragons have a lot of plasticity, so they can mimic humans, and even dragon forms have different variants. But if you want to use the final spirit, you have to have a gigantic body, and a human body can't withstand that kind of power. The dragon you saw at the Academy was unable to control its own power because it unexpectedly stopped hatching and forcibly broke its eggs. The power he exerts is less than a hundredth of his true power. And if this dragon king wants to master the ultimate form of the fire type spirit spirit, he will inevitably re-establish eggs and give birth to a gigantic body. He doesn't wake up easily, so that's why we use bombs to force him to hatch early. ”

"What is the final form of the Fire Spirit?" Lu Mingfei asked

"'Candle Dragon', serial number 114, extremely dangerous, effect unknown. The dragon king must want to master it, because he wants revenge····· The whole world. Manstein stood up, "That's why we must kill him before he takes revenge on the world!" ”

"The point is that the Dragon King is hatching himself, but... Maybe we were wrong," Ye Yu changed his clothes and interjected from behind

"So, good luck to you," Manstein said in a deep voice

"I'll bring them back," Ye Yu said lightly as he passed by Manstein, who was silent and didn't speak

Stepping on the side of the boat, he smiled at Lu Mingfei, "How is it, ready?" ”

"I thought, can I be more prepared?" Lu Mingfei looked like he was loveless

"I don't think so," Nuno spread his hands, "Let's go when everyone arrives, right?" ”

As he spoke, he grabbed Ye Yu and Lu Mingfei and fell into the water