The light of the spotlight could only penetrate less than 5 meters in the river water, and Ye Yu's eyes were a rich dark green, the water body was turbid, and floating objects were everywhere

"Take a deep breath or the stress will really crack your eardrums." Nono's voice came from the headphones, "Don't be cowardly like that, it's just 50 meters deep, there is a guy who can dive more than 100 meters with his bare hands, and you still have an oxygen tank on your back." ”

"More than 100 meters without an oxygen cylinder? Will it suffocate, right? Lu Mingfei breathed heavily, and the condition of his ears eased a little

"The man said that when he dived into the deep water, he felt like he was on an alien planet, it was very quiet, and everything in the world was far away from him." "It's the loneliness that's the scariest thing to suffocate to death, so the executive department stipulates that deep dives must be in pairs." ”

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, and then he understood why the task that could have been completed by one person had to be completed in pairs

"That... Senior Brother Ye Yu, how do you dive alone" Lu Mingfei asked tremblingly

"Huh? Probably there are some things that make me feel more terrible than loneliness," Ye Yu said lightly

"What's scarier than being alone?" Lu Mingfei endured the discomfort and asked

"You'll know," Ye Yu didn't say much

"Oh," Lu Mingfei pouted

"Arriving at the predetermined location, we are going to enter the rift below." Nono said, "Hold me and go down naturally." ”

Beneath their feet was a crack in the water, and they held on to it with both hands, relaxed their bodies, and slowly sank as they were dragged by the heavy plumb weights on their belts. They were tightly sandwiched inside by the uneven stone walls

"Here we are." Ye Yu whispered, "I entered from here last time."

Lu Mingfei looked up and let the beam of the spotlight shine forward

He saw a wall, a great wall that stretched infinitely from left to right, up and down, glowing an ancient turquoise in the light of the spotlights, and the patina of the banta covered it like a layer of cotton wool, and in the foamy patina grew plants that could not be named, and the slender strands of silk swayed gently with the current.

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath, this is the outer wall of the Bronze City, this thing is simply a miracle

"Last time, because of the earthquake, we found this place" Ye Yu's eyes flashed, "It is indeed a miracle"

"The space is independent, and this feeling... Nibelungen? Ye Yu vaguely felt the strangeness coming from his neck, and thought to himself

He remembered the phenomenon of his spatial perception failure during the last exploration with Ye Sheng, and it turned out that the source was here

Frowning, so you can't use a space-type ability this time?

"There's a face here!" Lu Mingfei reached out to touch the slightly protruding human face on the bronze wall, the painful face, with burning firewood in his mouth, and his appearance was hideous

"That's a living spirit, it's made of recycled metal," Ye Yu glanced at and explained to Lu Mingfei

"Ye Yu is right, you will know it when you go to alchemy biology" Manstein's voice came from the earphones

"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." Ye Yu replied

"But he ·····" Lu Mingfei's voice trembled, "Bite me!" ”

Nuo Nuo raised his head suddenly, Lu Mingfei's hand was stuck in the mouth of the "living spirit", it looked like it was really bitten, and 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!" ”

"Don't worry, the living spirit will absorb a little bit of your blood at most, of course, this also proves that your 'S' class bloodline is well deserved" Ye Yu said unhurriedly, "The key is to seal the gap, if the diving suit is torn, it will be troublesome."

"What should I do" Lu Mingfei's face turned pale

Nuno immediately reached out to pull him, no matter what the living spirit bit Lu Mingfei for whatever reason, the most important thing was to pull Lu Mingfei's hand out and seal the tear in the diving suit before the gas from the oxygen cylinder leaked

A thunderous sound came straight into her mind, as if someone was chanting an ancient incantation in a dark palace

"Longwen?" Nono's eyes widened

The silver vacuum tube slipped out of her hand and fell straight down

"Oops!" She shouted

"It's not good, I have a bad premonition, I think the Dragon King has woken up" Ye Yu calmly reported the situation to Manstein while pulling Lu Mingfei

"We don't have time, we only have one chance to kill him, next time he will run away, although the situation has changed, I still order you to continue your exploration, and the necessary help will arrive in time," Manstein said quickly

"Okay" Ye Yu frowned and didn't refute

Lu Mingfei was still struggling vigorously beside him, and looking at the light of the spotlight, he clenched his teeth, the muscles in his cheeks bulged, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was throbbing with all his might, and it seemed that he couldn't hold on for long

"Get your hands out! Don't be afraid! Nuo Nuo gave up the blood sample, grabbed Lu Mingfei's wrist, and pulled him out hard, "Bear it!" If you have a broken wrist, you have to pull your hand back! ”

She is far more experienced underwater than Lu Mingfei, and the result of continuous air leakage may be death, and the water treatment of broken wrist bones or something can be done

"Pain, pain, pain!" Lu Mingfei shouted

Nuno ignored him anymore, stepped on the bronze wall, gritted his teeth and pulled Lu Mingfei with all his might. The hand suddenly came out, Nuo Nuo lost his balance and hit Lu Mingfei, the first thing was to clamp Lu Mingfei's wrist tightly to prevent oxygen from leaking

"How?" She shook Lu Mingfei vigorously

"Oooh····· OK. Lu Mingfei said

Nuno was stunned for a moment, "Okay?" ”

Lu Mingfei scratched his head, "He····· Suddenly he stopped biting me. ”

Nono suspiciously examined the torn wetsuit gloves, and Lu Mingfei's injured fingers peeked out of the cracks

Lu Mingfei's finger only had a bloody wound of less than one centimeter, which was about as deep as a pencil knife cut

The sharp teeth of the living wolf teeth were suspected of bluffing, and they stopped cutting Lu Mingfei's skin

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! You pea princess, you? Nuo Nuo suddenly became angry and slapped Lu Mingfei in the chest with an elbow

Ye Yu supported his forehead, but he still pulled out a rubber band and knotted Lu Mingfei's wrist to avoid air leakage

"I was bitten by a dead man's head, of course I was nervous, I thought it was going to eat me!" Lu Ming did not complain, and after the wrist was locked, the pressure in the wetsuit was restored, and he immediately got better

"Let's talk later" Ye Yu interrupted the conversation between the two, pointing to the living spirit in front of him, "The door is open"

The two of them were stunned for a moment, and they saw that the living spirit's mouth was opening wider and wider, and it could almost swallow the two of them

"There is a difference in water potential, we will be sent in by the current, catch me!!" Ye Yu hurriedly commanded

Lu Mingfei and Nuo Nuo obediently grabbed Ye Yu's arm, and as soon as their eyes were dark, they entered the door

When he opened his eyes again, there was actually air around him, and Ye Yu pulled the two of them up from the ground and looked around

In front of him is a bronze road, there are countless bronze sculptures standing on both sides of the road, all of them are people dressed in ancient clothes, officials or military generals, holding tooth wat in their hands, the only difference is that from the robe and armor collar sticking out, is a slender snake neck, the heads of these officials, are cobra-like snake heads, and the funny thing is that some snakes still have hats on their heads.

"Wow, are we dead?" Lu Mingfei said

"Nonsense, can you still talk when you're dead?" Nono didn't think about it, and slapped it over

"We entered the periphery of the Bronze City, where Ye Sheng and I had explored," Ye Yu swept towards the dragon on the wall with the lamp on his helmet

"Don't gaze continuously, it may cause spiritual vision," Ye Yu instructed one by one, "Don't mess with the things here, it may cause a great change in the mechanical bronze city"

"Mechanical?" Lu Mingfei paused

"Yes, you can think that we are now in a huge mechanical watch, and many channels here will change over time" Ye Yu sighed, "It seems that there is not much difference between this place and the last time, just worry..."

Later, Ye Yu didn't say anything, looked around, and checked the communication line

Nuno reached out and closed the valve of Lu Mingfei's oxygen cylinder, and closed his own

"You can save a little bit of oxygen, and I don't know if the air here can be breathed." Nono tried to unscrew the valve of the helmet's visor, and the smell of patina poured in, but it wasn't very choking

"Indeed, it should be Dragon King Norton who came back and brought a breath of air" Ye Yu also turned off the oxygen cylinder

"Chen Motong! Ye Yu! What's wrong? What happened? Manstein's voice came through the headphones

"It's nothing, it's just that our communication line seems to be stuck in the wall, but we brought a spare extended communication line, except for Lu Mingfei's diving suit, which is torn, but the oxygen is enough" Ye Yu replied calmly

Manstein breathed a sigh of relief, "After the living spirit identifies the blood sample, it will open the entrance to the Bronze City, and the back door will disappear when entered. The wall was cast from recycled metal and was very malleable, as malleable as plasticine. Your communication line will get stuck in it until the door opens again. ”

Ye Yu and Nuo Nuo turned around and disconnected the communication line and connected the middle shaft

"Call Moniah, can you hear me?" Nono said.

"The signal is clear and there are no problems." Manstein replied immediately

"But from the changes here, I can be sure that the Dragon King is back, the air here can supply breath, maybe the Dragon King's dormitory is at our feet"

"Yes, if there is any emergency, we will respond immediately," Manstein said

“OK！” Ye Yu glanced at Nuo Nuo

"Ready, we're going to move on." Nono said

"Place the bomb as close to the Dragon King's dormitory as possible, the explosive power of this bomb is average, but the alchemy potion inside will have a strong chain reaction with water and metal, quickly depleting the air in the Bronze City. The hatching dragon king feels suffocated and will have to burst out of the egg early, at this time he is very weak, and the storm torpedo can easily deal with him. ”

"Yes, but we have to find our way first." "There was a road ahead of us, and there were a lot of snake-faced statues on both sides. ”

"The Templar Way." Manstein said, "There is a record of this road in the Fragments of the Sea of Ice. In the era of the prosperity of the dragon clan, the ancients had to pass through this road of the temple to meet the dragon king as subjects, and there is an exact same road in the bronze palaces of Northern Europe. The snake-faced sculptures on both sides represent the metal elements controlled by the dragon king, and according to the alchemy element table, there are a total of 88 types. ”

"Do you have a map?" Ye Yu asked

"Is there an easier way, remember what you learned in the introductory class to alchemy? In alchemy, the pentagram represents the five elements, and in the lower right corner is the element of fire. This bronze city was also built on the basis of alchemy, similar to the ancient Chinese feng shui theory, and the dragon king's dormitory would be located at the bottom of the bronze city. Look for water under your feet. ”

"Yes?" Nuno and Lu Mingfei stood knee-deep in the water

"Water is fluid, from high to low. In the Fragment of the Sea of Ice, it is said that if you follow the water, you will reach the throne of flames. Lu Mingfei, use the dye you carried. Manstein said.

Lu Mingfei took out the dye tube from the pocket of his wetsuit, broke it and poured it into the water.

The fluorescent yellow fuel formed a huge yellow-green spot in the water, and after a while, a thin yellow-green line quietly flowed away against the bottom of the water, like a small spiritual snake

"It's high-tech!" Lu Mingfei admired

The three of them did not hesitate and walked forward along the line

After a long trek, the dye thread led them through the labyrinthine system of tunnels in the Bronze City, and they reached an open space

The water in the tunnel poured into a lake here, and the water was so blue that it was almost black, cold and bitter, and I don't know how deep

Lu Mingfei raised his head and let the spotlight on his helmet shine above, and he saw a bronze dome like a heavenly dome, which was a giant tree, which began to grow from the center of the bronze dome, changing countless kinds of branches and leaves and countless kinds of petals, like a huge fractal diagram, which made people dizzy at a glance

"I've been here before," Ye Yu said softly, "You should have seen the dragon text above."

"I've seen it, it was still the map that this guy unlocked" Nuo Nuo patted Lu Mingfei

Lu Mingfei smiled bitterly

Nono hit the spotlight on the water, and the dye line was still swimming slowly, getting closer and closer to the middle of the lake, but when it got there, it stopped moving, as if it was blocked by something

"The water doesn't flow here?" Lu Mingfei muttered, "Then this is the end, let's quickly drop the bomb and run!" ”

"No, on the way I escaped, it was down, which means that this is not a dormitory, but somewhere I passed by last time" Ye Yu guessed

Ye Yu put on a mask, dived into the water, and came to the place where the paint 'disappeared'

"No problem, it's down there, the Dragon King's bedroom is below" Ye Yu surfaced

"The dormitory isn't here?" Lu Mingfei looked at the snake-faced statue standing up to the sky, "Look, the statue of the master is there, and this should be the dormitory." It's like a bedroom where you hang your wedding photos······ Yes, my guess makes sense! ”

"Get out!" Nuno said, "Now don't talk nonsense, this is the place where the ancient people pilgrimage to the Dragon King, and it is recorded in the "Ice Sea Fragment" that they entered on a raft and saw the huge bronze emperor sitting under the sky dome, which should refer to this. But this is not a real dormitory, but a shrine, which is used to cast idols to be worshipped, and there is no record of anyone seeing the dragon king himself. ”

"You say he's not annoying, it's okay to live in such a big house by himself, and build a temple and a dormitory." Lu Mingfei's hope of leaving immediately after loading the bomb was dashed, and he said dejectedly: "What can there be in the dormitory?" He and his dear little she-dragon? ”

"You should find the 'eggs' in the dormitory," Manstein's voice sounded in the headphones

"The key is that there is another door for living souls here" Ye Yu dived down again, swept away the bones, and said calmly, "We don't have any extra blood samples"

"Who said that" Nuno followed, taking Lu Mingfei with him, "Isn't this it?" ”

"What??" Lu Mingfei blinked

"Nothing," said Nono, "reach out!" ”

"What for?" Lu Mingfei asked, but obediently stretched out his hand

There was a tear in his glove that had been bitten by the "living spirit", and there was no way to repair it in a hurry, so he had to tie it with a rubber band to prevent the high-pressure gas in the diving suit from leaking

Nuo Nuo grabbed his hand, and with a strong force, he loosened the rubber band, and at the same time a large number of bubbles overflowed, Nuo Nuo pressed Lu Mingfei's hand to the bottom of the water, and the wound directly touched the ground, and a cold touch made Lu Mingfei shiver in pain

"What for?" Lu Ming was in a hurry

"Hold me!" Nuno grabbed Lu Mingfei's wrist

"Huh? Why do you suddenly have such powerful lines? Lu Mingfei's eyes were shining

"Be careful, don't move" Ye Yu grabbed Nuo Nuo's other hand

The tremors came from underfoot, like a precursor to an earthquake, and the entire bottom of the water slowly moved

A thin and long waterspout appeared above Lu Mingfei's head, and the sharp tail pierced straight down like an awl, and before Lu Mingfei could scream, he suddenly lost support under his feet.

It was pitch black before his eyes, and he was rapidly descending, spinning, and tumbling

When they came to their senses, they were sitting side by side on a huge waterwheel.

The bronze waterwheel, with a thick, unknown layer of fabric wrapped around the surface, and each baffle that catches the water is a comfortable seat. They descended a dark passageway, the sound of rushing water on either side.

Finally, a light appeared in front of them, and the three of them jumped out together

"That's ····· Did you trespass into a private house by mistake? Lu Mingfei looked around, unable to believe his eyes

Now they were standing in a hut, an ancient bronze dwelling, no different from the ancient Chinese dwellings he had seen in the illustrations of history books, except for the texture.

There are even windows, except that they are dark metal walls

Illuminated is a small lamp, bronze texture, in the shape of a palace maid kneeling on the table, holding a lamp in one hand, and the sleeve of the other hand is on top of the lampshade

"It should be counted, after all, that Dragon King will not welcome us" Ye Yu spread his hands

Nono touched the bronze wall and walked slowly inside. It's under the water, it's well sealed, and thousands of years have passed, and there is no dust at all. The furnishings in the room are unusually simple, two of the three rooms are bedrooms, the bed is made of rattan, still strong, the scroll hanging on the wall is not so lucky, Lu Mingfei's fingers swept, the silk pieces were shattered, a bare wooden shaft fell to the ground and rolled away, there was a pottery vase on the low table, a flower that had withered was inserted in the vase, the black stem seemed to be drawn from iron wire, the two robes hung on the wall, both were white, at first glance it looked like a tall and a short two people standing against the wall, in the hall, a stack of yellowed coarse paper was placed on the low table, The handwriting on it is clear and legible, it is a dignified Han Li, Lu Mingfei glanced at it, it is an incomplete sentence, "Twelve years of Longxing, Bu, unknown······"

Nono was unusually quiet, paying special attention to everything, and the two did not dare to disturb her silently, and followed her all the way, and finally sat down at the small table

Ye Yu blinked, it seems that our senior sister Nuo Nuo can't help but use her profiling ability to explore for a while, holding her arms and watching Lu Mingfei obediently sit opposite Nuo Nuo, and then Nuo Nuo slowly groped out the daily life of the two masters who live here

"Both of them, both boys····· Live here," Nono whispered, "one is taller than the other····· So he wore a longer robe. It could be a brother, the younger brother is quiet and has inconvenient movements····· "The elder brother made things to make it easier for him," Nuno closed his eyes and thought for a long time, "they spend a lot of time in this room every day, the younger brother writes, and the older brother sits across the table and watches him····· The sun will be good in the spring because the windows are sunny····· In the winter, they light a brazier and sit around to keep warm····· The elder brother likes the younger brother very much, but he is also very strict····· It's lonely····· At sunset, I didn't speak for a long time. ”

Nono slowly opened his eyes, "This is the dormitory of the Dragon King Norton, I think so." ”

"You're guessing, aren't you?" Lu Mingfei looked incredulous

"No, it's a profile. A method commonly used in criminal psychology to reproduce the information of crime by collecting evidence, thinking about the psychology of crime, and copying the information of crime. There was a lot of information left in the room, two robes of the same texture and cut hanging on the wall, a manipulable bracket, a large stack of paper, a low table····· Put yourself in the shoes of the owner here, and slowly you will feel that you can understand what he is thinking. This is called 'profiling'. I don't know why, I'm very good at profiling, no one taught me, but when I was very young, I walked into a room and sat in it for hours to guess what kind of people lived there. Nuno said seriously

"That's why she didn't have a spirit of words, but she entered Kassel" Ye Yu added a sentence in his heart, "Special spirit of words can't be recorded in the file"

"So powerful?" Lu Mingfei was dumbfounded

Ye Yu put the black box he was carrying on the low table, opened the lid of the box, and the contents looked like a 19th-century radio device, a blown glass cylinder was a slowly bubbling red liquid, and various colored wires were connected in a mess.

"Don't look downscale, the things given by the equipment department are generally very reliable, but sometimes the power is a bit outrageous. I haven't asked Professor Schneider for the time being, why don't you set it up for 45 minutes? Ye Yu twisted the brass disc on the device, and a small red bulb began to flicker

"Hey! You want to give people a little time to prepare, okay? How do you say press it? Lu Mingfei jumped up and ran out.

"There was enough time, the communication line was cut, but it was still outside, and we just had to follow the line and get out. It only took 15 minutes to get in, plus 10 minutes to go up, and we still have 20 minutes to go back to the ship, which is enough to play a game of interstellar. As Nono passed by the table where the lamp was placed, he pulled his diving knife from his lower back, "Cut it and take it with you, so let's keep it as a souvenir." ”

"What kind of bad taste are you? Unscrupulous tourists? Lu Mingfei said

"It's going to disappear here. These traces of life, this room, will disappear, and the smell left here will not exist. Thinking about it this way, I think I should keep a souvenir. Nuo Nuo held the body of the bronze palace maid with one hand, and was suddenly stunned

The lantern was easily picked up by her, and it was not connected to the table below as expected

"What's wrong?" Lu Mingfei asked

Nuo Nuo looked at Lu Mingfei, his face was strange, "You use your brain·····"

"This thing is just a normal lamp·····" Nono said

"What's wrong with the normal lights?" Lu Ming was puzzled

"Can an ordinary lamp burn for a thousand years? Who····· The oil for it? Ye Yu installed the bomb and said with a frown

Lu Mingfei was stunned, his scalp was numb, as if there were thousands of small insects crawling on it. He shuddered and jerked his head to look up at the waterwheel that was being used as a lift, which was still spinning

"Dragon King, just left, maybe he is watching us in the dark" Ye Yu tried to calm himself

"Then don't you run!! Lu Mingfei said tremblingly

"Perhaps, it's too late" The spatial mark on Ye Yu's neck told him that this space was about to collapse