Chapter 47: The Bronze City
"That's, isn't it?" , Chen Wang looked at the awakened statue in front of him a little sluggishly, although its red pupils seemed to have endless killing intent in it, but at this moment it was still moving its body at a very slow speed.
Obviously, it has not been very flexible after sleeping for thousands of years.
"Bell~"
An incomparably crisp sound of metal clashing quickly spread through the water, it was Mai Sakatoku, and the moment she spotted the enemy, she circled behind the human face and stabbed it in the neck.
But the ninja knife is so light that it can't cut through the bronze-like skin of the human face.
"Damn it!" , Jiude Mai scolded in a low voice, and she suddenly regretted that she didn't bring something like a horse chopping knife to the sea.
"Do you have to kill him?" , Chen Wang scratched his head: "This brother looks like a little rusty, let's take this opportunity to rush in directly, wouldn't it be beautiful to run away after taking the seven deadly sins?" ”
"Makes sense!"
As soon as they said it, the two thieves bypassed the statue and swam straight in the direction of the dormitory, almost unimpeded along the way.
Although it is easy to be frightened when the bronze statues around them open their eyes one after another, after discovering that they all show a "rusty" posture when they are soaked in the water, the two thieves can also deal with it calmly.
Chen Wang finally came to a bronze door, he took a deep breath, and looked down at his oxygen level, which could probably last for twenty minutes.
Mai, on the other hand, immediately groped around the gate, and soon found a bronze bulge.
Before Chen Wang could speak, she gently pressed the button.
The hall, which had been sealed for thousands of years, opened again, and the bronze gate slowly rose upwards under the drive of some unknown force.
As Chen Wang thought, there was a cavity in it.
Almost instantly, Chen Wang and Jiude Mai were "smashed" into the door by the surging water, but before half a minute, the bronze giant door automatically closed.
"I have a bad premonition." Chen Wang looked at the bronze statues standing around him and swallowed his saliva involuntarily.
In front of them is a bronze road, on both sides of the road stand countless bronze sculptures, are some people dressed in ancient clothes, officials or 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, funny is that some snakes have hats on their heads.
"Take off your mask, there's air." Mai stopped the supply of oxygen cylinders, took off her mask, and her inky hair fell down, revealing a beautiful face.
Despite the foul, pungent metallic smell in the air, it is barely enough to provide breath.
Chen Wang nodded and took off his mask as well.
At a glance, he saw something at the innermost end, something that looked like a box.
If the place they were entering now was Norton's bedchamber, then that thing was now on Norton's bed.
"We're in the wrong place."
"This is the Templar Road, and there is a record of this path in the Ice Sea Fragments. 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. ”
"I don't really care if this is Norton's dormitory." , Chen Wang shrugged his shoulders, and then stretched out his hand to the snake-faced sculptures around him: "The problem is that these statues have come to life." ”
Jiude Mai was slightly startled, she looked at the sculptures around her, but they were the same as the ones she saw when she entered the door, they all bowed slightly, leaning forward as if saluting, looking like a reading snake.
"What crazy are you talking about?", Mai relieved, "Haven't they always been like this?" You don't have to make up this kind of reason even if you're afraid, right? ”
Chen Wang squinted his eyes and didn't speak, and at the moment when he was washed in by the water, he clearly saw a snake-faced man switch from a standing posture to a bowing position.
Could it be that this is a mechanism?
But if that's the case, where is the triggering button?
He suddenly felt that the place was full of weirdness, like a haunted grove in a ghost novel.
Jiude Mai grabbed his wrist and said with a smile: "Let's go together, and we'll withdraw after we get the things!" ”
The two men walked side by side through the snake-faced men, walking towards the black box with a clear purpose.
Unexpectedly, Mai took the box in her hand very easily, and there weren't even any mechanisms around.
"The goal has been reached, let's withdraw." , Mai said lightly.
"Don't worry, look at that."
Chen Wang pointed the spotlight forward.
The huge snake-faced statue sits against the bronze wall, and unlike the others, it is 20 meters high, like a god in an ancient Greek temple. Even though it was far away, Chen Wang still had to look up at it, like a pilgrim.
"If those snake-faced people just now represent different metal elements," Mai said softly, "This should be the master of the element, the Dragon King Norton himself." If you look closely, his appearance is different from those snake-faced people, pay attention to the patterns on his arms, which are also dragon scripts, symbols that can summon power like words and spirits, and the Middle Ages said that witches have hidden patterns on their bodies, which refers to this kind of thing. ”
"I'm not here to listen to your lesson." Chen Wang's face suddenly became serious, and he heard the sound of machinery running and metal grinding in the corridor behind him.
He turned his head to look, and the snake-faced man who had been bowing and saluting straightened up neatly, looking straight ahead, and a cold silver light flashed in his silver-cast pupils.
"This is Dragonlord Norton's castle." , Chen Wang saw the sensational scene, and said to Mai Jiu De on the side with an expressionless face: "But Norton and Constantine are dead, who do you think is controlling these mechanisms." ”
Mai didn't speak, she tilted her head, letting the spotlight on her helmet shine above.
I saw the bronze dome like the sky, it was a giant tree, starting from the center of the bronze dome, changing countless kinds of branches and leaves and countless kinds of petals, like a huge fractal diagram, making people dizzy at a glance.
"Something has come to life here." , Chen Wang's face was as pale as paper.