Chapter 261: The Ancient City and the Dragon
Beowulf looked at the murderous Ange, his eyes slightly condensed. He was suddenly a little glad that the Secret Party had chosen to let Ange preside over the dragon slaying after using the Executive Department to ban the Secret Party Action Team, this is the same radical as them, but with a different view on cultivating juniors.
Ange retracted the folding knife in his sleeve and took out a document from his jacket pocket, he did not explain what it was, but walked silently in the front, like the advance team of an expedition team, using the night vision brought by the golden pupils to move forward cautiously.
When I walked out of the quiet and dark tunnel, my eyes suddenly opened up.
The blue light illuminated the Nibelungen, and what greeted everyone was a huge ancient city.
Outside the ancient city, there was a wide trench that surrounded the entire city, and in it flowed with blue mercury, which roared like a blue dragon of mercury, and from time to time spit out milky white mercury vapor, guarding the ancient city.
In addition to military use, moats can not only prevent enemy fire attacks, but also meet the needs of water in the city, and are important water conservancy projects for flood control and drainage, and some moats near rivers can even assume transportation functions. In addition, digging the soil of the moat can be used to burn bricks and fill the earth, and repair the city wall, so that even the freight is saved, and the cost of repairing the city wall is greatly saved. Therefore, in ancient times, any important city near a river would generally dig a moat.
However, while this blue galaxy of water is presented in the form of a moat, and it can indeed stop the invasion of lowly Deadpool and diminutive alchemical beings, its main function is to keep the Nibelungen running.
This water galaxy stream is obviously just a "stagnant water", but it is constantly flowing and circulating. I don't know if the alchemy matrix generated heat or the mercury pool was heated by special equipment, it seemed to be boiling slightly, bubbling with bubbles. The mercury bubble burst and landed heavily in the Milky Way Current, producing a roaring sound.
Above the Milky Way Current, there is a metal suspension bridge that has been hoisted high, and theoretically no matter how corrosion-resistant the metal has been corroded by mercury vapor for nearly a thousand years, it should have been covered with rust spots a long time ago. But there is not a trace of rust on this metal bridge, but it reflects a shining light under the light of the blue water galaxy.
"It's magnificent...... St. George couldn't help but sigh, "and a few of us have found a lot of water and milky ways in the pyramids of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs, but none of them are of this scale. ”
Ange stared at the faint blue water galaxy and said lightly: "This is not a large scale in the imperial tombs of Huaxia, it can only be regarded as small and medium-sized. It is said that in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the ages, 'mercury is used as a hundred rivers and seas, and the machine is instilled, with astronomy and geography. With mermaid paste as a candle, the one who will not be extinguished will last for a long time. ’”
"Although the text description is exaggerated, it is said that Qin Shi Huang's underground palace may be 500-1500 meters deep, but the mercury content in the surface soil is seven times that of normal soil, and you should be able to imagine how much mercury is in the underground palace."
(500-1500 meters is the conclusion of the data reached by physicists through machine scanning, but many geologists think that it is impossible, it will cause the river to backflow, so the credibility of this data is not high, but because this is a world view of the hybrid world, so I set this data as the real data of this dragon world)
"I'm not interested in the situation in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, I just want to know how we can cross this water galaxy flow into this ancient city and slaughter the two dragons." Cadmus said hoarsely.
"I don't think the one who needs to worry about this is Cadmus, you." Siegrude spread his hands, "The mercury poison shouldn't have any effect on the people of your Cadmus family, otherwise the title of 'Breaking Bad' should be taken back by the secret party." ”
"So my idea was for Cadmus to jump over the moat without protection, and then go to the castle tower and open the mechanism to lower the drawbridge. Such drawbridges are usually equipped with a protective mechanism to protect people or dragons from mercury vapor. ”
Ange shrugged, he wanted to pat Cadmus on the shoulder, but withdrew his hand in time after the sweat stain on Cadmus' shoulder. It's not that he has any cleanliness habits, he was rolling in the sea of corpses and blood back then, who cares about this sweat stain. It's just that the people of the Cadmus family are not only blood, but also sweat, saliva, urine and other body fluids contain highly poisonous, which is really unapproachable.
"You have this map in your hand, and if you encounter danger after entering the city, you can use this map to avoid danger." Ange showed the information that he had been holding in his hand in front of everyone, and explained: "This is a reconstruction map of the surface buildings of the tombs of the Western Xia kings by Chinese archaeologists, and each mausoleum has it. At that time, I roughly guessed that there might be a Nibelungen in the Xixia Tomb, and the Nibelungen is an extension of the real world, and considering that the Nibelungen should have been built in the Tangut period, when the Xixia Tomb was still majestic and had not been destroyed by the Mongolian iron cavalry, so I found these restoration maps. I've compared it, and the restoration map is basically the same as the environment here. ”
Cadmus nodded, put the map in his pocket, and approached the water galaxy with a blank face. The boiling water was filled with milky white mercury vapor and bubbles, and even a little mercury vapor could cause poisoning without protective clothing, but Cadmus was the only one in the group who could carry the poison through.
Cadmus tightened the chains that bound the spear on his back, took a deep breath of fresh air, retreated two meters, and immediately rushed straight towards the water galaxy current, his knees bent to ninety degrees in an instant, and he waved his arms and jumped into the air. Mercury bubbles hit his body, shattering into a highly toxic mercury liquid that entered his body through the pores of his skin and wandered through every vein. The hot mercury vapor touched Cadmus's exposed skin, burning the skin into patches of red marks.
The heat caused the pores on Cadmus's body to open, and the blood circulation began to increase, making it easier for mercury toxin to enter the body, and successfully reaching every angle of the body through the accelerated blood circulation.
Through the milky white mercury steam, several people could see the hideous expression on Cadmus's face, and the skin was already red, but there was no unbearability and worry in their eyes.
The Secret Party Squad has never been a united, fraternal, and mutually helpful organization, they are cold-blooded and ruthless, and they only have the task of dragon hunting in their minds. Although they usually talk and laugh, they have long looked down on life and death and don't care about the safety of their teammates. Even if a teammate who drinks and talks with them dies, they don't grieve, they don't even pay attention to the corpse of their teammate, and even Beowulf's behavior of burying dragons and teammates together is called an unimaginable "mercy" in the secret party action team.
Moreover, they had long known that mercury poison would be difficult for even Cadmus to withstand, because it was not a toxin at all. Ordinary people face the mercury leaked from a broken thermometer, as long as they don't stay there for a long time, there is no danger, but they will feel nauseous and retching, and it will also affect the nervous system for a long time.
But for a half-breed, such a dose can be fatal. Because once dragon blood meets mercury, it will produce a violent reaction, and that reaction is difficult for humans and dragons to bear.
So the so-called Cadmus can withstand mercury poison is just a rhetoric to put Cadmus in charge of this matter, so does Cadmus know?
He also knows it, but he doesn't object to it, because it's a fact that the secret party action team is cold-blooded and ruthless, but it's also a fact that the pursuit of efficiency is also a fact. It was the most efficient way for him to try to cross the river, so even if Ange and the others didn't let him go, he would take the initiative.
What's more, the Secret Party Action Team has always had the Cadmus family to undertake similar tasks, not only because of their poisonous nature, but also because they have been accustomed to suffering from countless poisons since they were children, and only they can complete such tasks under extreme pain.
Cadmus was in intense pain, leaping through the blue galaxy of water, through the milky white mercury vapor, and just as he was about to reach the other side, a dragon's roar came from below him.
A serpentine monster broke through the water, opened its bloody jaw, and bit Cadmus in mid-air.
The moment it jumped out of the water, everyone saw the monster clearly.
It has two short horns on its forehead, a white pattern on its neck, and a blue pattern on its back, and an ochre chest with four legs at the front like oars, two of which are as colorful as brocade forging, and a tail with hard fleshy spines at the tip.
Ange suddenly remembered that the Night's Watch had shown him a book called "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" that recorded the dragon subspecies that had appeared in China, and that it was the version annotated by Guo Pu, one of the most prominent magicians of the Jin and Jin dynasties.
The middle eleven mountains pass through the head of Jing Mountain, and it is said that the mountain of wings and hopes. The turbulent water flows out of the Yan and flows eastward into the water. The water comes out of Yan, and the southeast flows into the Han Dynasty, and there are many Jiao in it. Guo Pu's note: "Jiao, like a snake and four legs, small head and thin neck, white gall on the neck, more than ten circumferences, eggs like one or two stone urns, can swallow people." ”
It is obviously the dragon subspecies named Jiaolong in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and at this moment it is attacking Cadmus, who cannot be dodged in mid-air!
Ange couldn't be as ruthless as Beowulf, Sigurud, and St. George, even to his comrades who fought side by side, otherwise he wouldn't have come here to avenge his friends and elders!
"Cadmus!"
Ange roared and pulled out a revolver.
Ange almost never used a gun in front of people, and that wasn't because he wasn't good at guns or didn't like them.
In fact, Ange was once obsessed with using firearms, and was a master of gunfighting, but his words and spirits were too incompatible with firearms.
If you use Time Zero, all people and objects except for the hybrids he allows will be slowed down, including the bullets fired and the various parts of the firearm. When he pressed the trigger, the bullet was still slowly moving out of the barrel, and waiting for the next bullet to enter the chamber would take a long time for him in the Spirit Time Zero realm, so he had to abandon the gun and use the folding knife instead.
In this situation where he could not use the Spirit of Speech and Time Zero, he gave Ange a chance to use a firearm.
And in his hand is the M460XVR revolver known as "the highest speed revolver in history", with a muzzle velocity of more than 701m/s and a muzzle kinetic energy of 3254J.
The fastest revolver with the fastest hybrid, Ange held his breath and was the fastest even when he couldn't use the Spirit of Speech, from aiming to firing in less than a second.
As sparks erupted from the muzzle of the gun, the carved mercury-containing bullets hit the dragon's torso. The bullet made a clanging sound as if it had hit a titanium plate, and not a single shot pierced its scales.
Although Ange's shot didn't pierce the dragon's scale armor, it did damage, giving Cadmus a momentary chance.
Cadmus drew the spear from his back and stabbed it downward, piercing through the dragon's jaws and piercing through the scales.
The dragon fell into the water galaxy flow under the pain, but even Cadmus thought about the water galaxy flow and fell. Cadmus drew his spear and stepped on the dragon's torso floating on the water galaxy at the moment of its fall, and kicked it violently, and the dragon was kicked into the water galaxy current.
The reason why the dragon can survive in the mercury water galaxy flow is because of its special body structure, the water galaxy flow cannot enter its body through the body surface and contact with the dragon's blood. As long as it doesn't have access to dragon's blood, it's safe. But its upper jaw was pierced by a spear, and the dragon's blood flowed out of the upper jaw, and the mercury came into contact with the wound and flowed into the dragon's body, killing it instantly.
Cadmus, on the other hand, jumped over the watery current, and the moment he landed, he immediately took off his boots and stepped on the ground barefoot. Cadmus's hands kept flicking the boots, because the moment he kicked the dragon into the Milky Way Current, some of the hot mercury was inevitably stained on his boots.
Mercury is not corrosive to normal objects, and the boots are not so waterproof that Cadmus's feet were lucky enough not to touch the mercury, but were slightly burned.
"Cadmus, how's it going?"
Zigrud shouted loudly, the sound of which reached Cadmus's ears through the boiling galactic currents of water.
"I'm fine!"
Cadmus replied hoarsely.
He put on his boots and re-fastened the spear to his back in chains.
Without the milky white mercury steam blocking his view, he realized that the gates of the ancient city were closed, and it was clear that its owners were not hospitable, especially those who came to ask for their lives.
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