At this moment, the Moniach monitored a powerful bioelectric current, which burst out at a certain point under the water, flowing with the water.

Aki felt Ye Sheng's body tremble slightly, this was when he was at his weakest, his heart rate quickly dropped to no more than 30 beats per minute, and the blood temperature was slowly decreasing.

Through the mask, the small light in the helmet illuminated Ye Sheng's dead gray face, and only the disturbing pale golden pupils shone brightly. Aki Gali hugged Ye Sheng, trying to make him feel his body temperature, it wasn't the first time she had experienced this kind of thing, and now Ye Sheng was as fragile as the child in her arms and needed her protection.

Ye Sheng's body shook suddenly, the pale gold in his pupils disappeared, his heartbeat rate rose rapidly, his blood became warm again, and those "snakes" returned to his mind to sleep, there was only one left, this one was still going down, it drilled through the darkness and saw the light!

"Got a result?" Aki asked.

"Right under our feet, about 100 meters away, I felt a huge metal presence, where the snake was swimming very fast, and only the metal body had that good conductivity."

"The earthquake began...... Damn, this is an earthquake! On the Moniach, Mance knew exactly what was going on underwater from the sonar map, and he turned to the first mate and shouted, "Pull them up, pull them up!" ”

The hull of the ship shook slightly, Mance's face changed, and he faintly heard a cracking sound coming out of the wind and rain, the lifeline of the nanomaterial broke, and they lost contact with Ye Sheng Aki.

Ye Sheng and Aki didn't have time to react at all, millions of tons of water were pouring into that cavity, carrying them down, down, and down with the rocks.

Even the most high-tech lifeline can't resist this natural force.

At this moment, Ye Sheng thought of Lucifer's fall, the mythical fall lasted for nine days and nine nights, all the way from heaven to hell, Ye Sheng didn't know what was in the darkness under his feet, maybe it was hell.

There was a dead silence in the front cabin, and Mance Rundstedt put his hands in his hair and combed it back so hard that it hurt at the roots.

He lost two of his best students in an instant, and the communicator hissed chaotically, the signal was interrupted, and his survival was unknown.

"If you see a wall with no end in sight going up and down, left and right, and never reaching the border, what is it?" A low voice echoed through the cabin.

Mance raised his head suddenly, he believed that he had heard correctly, it was Ye Sheng's voice!

"That's death, a Chinese science fiction writer said, and I understand what he means now." The voice said, "This is Ye Sheng, Aki and I are both alive, I am talking to you through the current of the "snake", and I have arrived at the dungeon of the dragon king Norton, and I have received a reply." ”

"Are you sure?" Mance grabbed the microphone and his voice trembled slightly.

"Professor, if you see this bronze wall in front of me, you'll believe it." Ye Sheng said.

"Was it an accident? Are we so lucky? Aki whispered that the communication line between her and Ye Sheng was not broken.

"If it's not an accident, it's better to think of it as an invitation from the Dragon King Norton." Ye Sheng smiled.

"Moniach, request for water cutter support." Ye Sheng's voice came into the cabin.

Mance groaned, "Your current depth is 150 meters, the water cutter can't cut that big things, and your oxygen is about to run out, and it can only last for two hours after replacing the oxygen cylinder, I suggest you give up the mission and return, the dragon king Norton's awakening period has not yet arrived, we still have a chance." ”

"Professor, will you stop and catch your breath when you touch the borders of the world?" Ye Sheng said, "Although the awakening period has not yet arrived, I am worried that the "snake" will wake him up, and I can feel that the "snake" that goes in has fear, and it is swimming around something. ”

Mance was silent for a full minute, "Prince Norton is inside?" Well, totally understood. A total of four underwater cutting machines have been prepared, and they will be at your designated location in 10 minutes, remember, you only have two hours. ”

Soon, the dazzling lights came down from above, and four young members of the executive department approached with cutters that could propel underwater, and after replacing the oxygen cylinders and lifelines for Ye Sheng and Aki, they began to make four holes in the huge bronze wall and began to cut.

Mance walked into the back cabin and turned on the satellite phone, "Headmaster, we believe we have found the Dragon King Norton." ”

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, "That's exciting news, but shouldn't you be in Lop Nur?" You've always told me that Lop Nur is the sleeping place of the dragon king Norton, and now it's suddenly the Three Gorges Reservoir. ”

"Lop Nur is just a cover-up, someone is following us, and they will find us wherever we find it, so we left some people in Lop Nur to do a busy excavation site, but the main manpower is secretly concentrated here."

"It's some archaeological team, but they don't know about dragons." "We've had a breakthrough here. We are cutting the Bronze City and waiting for instructions from the headquarters. ”

"The first choice is to capture alive, followed by killing." "But don't let a real dragon get out of our surveillance, and if you let that happen, the whole world will be turned upside down." ”

"Understand, time is limited, to open the Bronze City, can I use the Key?"

"Yes, I asked you to take him with me, just for this moment." The principal hung up.

Mance put away the phone, leaned down and gently stroked the baby in the cradle, the baby who had been howling and crying a moment ago was now quiet, staring around with wide innocent eyes.

"Baby, do you feel that thing?" Mance pinched the baby's nose.

Ye Sheng glanced at the reading of the barometer, there was about an hour left after the replacement of the oxygen cylinder, and the water cutter left a "well" shaped vertical and horizontal pattern on the bronze wall, Ye Sheng felt that the uneasiness of the "snake" he left inside the metal intensified, and the speed of swimming was much faster, as if he sensed something.

The beam of light from the bright flashlight went down from top to bottom, and Mance in the wetsuit tapped his helmet mask in greeting, spitting out a string of bubbles.

The special wetsuit had a hard, transparent material pouch in front of the body, and inside it was a baby wearing an extra-small wetsuit. At a depth of 150 meters, the baby did not cry, did not even show any frightened expression, he slowly turned his head to look around, and his pupils flowed with a pale golden shimmer.

"The water cutter is evacuated, Ye Sheng Aki is ready, we are going to open the door." Mance gave the order.

Four water cutters rose upwards, and Ye Sheng and Aki hovered behind Mance, each with a hand on his shoulder.

Mance clasped his hands over his chest and patted the hands of his most proud student vigorously.

Mance closed his eyes, reached out and whispered.

He turned off the walkie-talkie, but the majestic sound that sounded like a song and a roar pierced directly into the depths of Ye Sheng and Aki's minds. Mance opened his eyes suddenly, and opened the mask of his pressurized wetsuit,

Mance's voice echoed underwater, and he completed the final part of the chant.

"Spirits of Speech: A Dustless Land".

The water around Mance swirled, a transparent water shell expanded rapidly outward from the center of his eyebrows, and the water under high pressure was repelled by some force, forming a vortex that rotated violently, Aki's feet were empty, and she lost the buoyancy of the water, and the moment she fell, Ye Sheng grabbed her wrist, and with the other hand, he pulled out the alloy knife on his chest and inserted it into the traces left by the water cutter.

"Baby, you'll take care of the rest." Carefully hanging with his steel paws, Mance took the baby out of the belly of the wetsuit, and the baby stood on the palm of Mance's hand, straightening his back as solemn as a priest.

He looked at the man's face, and slowly stretched out his chubby little hand and pointed a finger at the center of the living soul's eyebrows.

The bronze bulge in the center of the eyebrows cut through the baby's delicate fingers, and the blood spread over the painful face, Ye Sheng reached out and caught the pacifier that fell from the baby's mouth, so low that it was like the sound of a giant bell gushing out of the child's mouth, and the bronze wall resonated faintly.

Mance took out a hemostatic bandage from the waterproof case he was carrying, carefully wrapped it around the baby's little finger, and patted him on the cheek, "Key, you're amazing." ”

After sucking up all the blood, the living spirit was silent for a moment, and slowly opened its mouth as if yawning.

From the depths of the bronze wall, there was a sound of metal heating and shattering, and a pitch-black hole with a diameter of about one meter appeared on the bronze wall.

Mance carefully stroked the face, "The spirit of the 'key' is to command the living spirit to open the door, the blood will satisfy it temporarily, you have about an hour. ”

"Professor, disarm the spirit of the Dustless Land, and we can enter the passage after it is flooded." Ye Sheng said.

"There is only one hour," Mance looked at Ye Sheng's eyes and raised a finger, "Norton has not yet reached the awakening period, but if you can't get the bones, you can destroy it directly." He handed over a black tin box, "Avoid at least 20 meters before detonating." ”

Ye Sheng gave a thumbs up, and Mance put his helmet back on.

The spirit of words was silently lifted, and the huge air balloon shattered into countless bubbles in an instant, and quickly rose upward, Aki looked up at the figure that gradually disappeared in the distance, everyone left them again, and the darkness returned, and the only light was the flashlight in Ye Sheng's hand.

Aki suddenly felt the cold, the cold that could destroy people and the edge of the world.

"Ye Sheng!" She snapped back and shouted.

"I'm here." Ye Sheng stretched out his hand, shook her through thick gloves, shone the pillar of light on his face, and smiled at her.

They slowly entered the Bronze City.

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"Ye Sheng! Speed up, find the location of the dragon king Norton, and detonate the underwater bomb, time is running out. Mance had returned to the ship and ordered.

"I see, I can feel that the place where the snake is traveling is close to me."

Ye Sheng touched the depth charge in the side pocket of the diving suit, and turned his head to Aki, "You take pictures and samples of the surroundings here, I'll go find the location of the "snake", if you guess correctly, it's in the hole next door, pay attention to my life data, don't worry about me if there is a problem, evacuate first." ”

Aki nodded, and Ye Sheng gave a thumbs up, turned over and dived underwater.

Aki took pictures of the Bronze City, countless complex patterns on the walls around him continued to enter Aki's viewing window, Aki lowered the output air pressure of the oxygen cylinder, extended the time of some underwater activities, and waited for Ye Sheng by the way.

The reduced oxygen delivery made her dizzy, and the patterns on the dome were a little blurry in her eyes. She stopped filming for a moment, closed her eyes slightly, shook her head, and took two deep breaths.

"Aki, your heart is beating faster, are you okay?" Thelma's slightly nervous voice came from the headphones.

"It's fine, just a little dizzy." Aki said.

She put the folding knife back in her pocket, and just now, she unconsciously cut the data cable.

"The signal is off!" Aboard the Moniach, Thelma exclaimed, "The data line between us and Aki is broken!" ”

"Take-in! Take-up! Warn Ye Sheng! Mance was stunned for a moment and yelled. The rollers in the stern of the ship spin at high speed, recovering Aki's lifeline.

"There's no pull on the roller motor," Thelma looked up, her face losing blood, "Aki's lifeline is broken!" ”

Ye Sheng floated up from Aki's side and held her arm, making her feel a lot more relaxed.

"You're back? Is the mission over? I didn't hear the explosion. Aki saw the person he liked again, and his mood suddenly relaxed a lot.

"Underwater explosion, the movement will not be too big." Ye Sheng said, "I have solved it, and we are ready to return after collecting the data, and there is not much time left." ”

"Okay, I've finished taking pictures of the dome pattern."

"Let's collect some more bronze materials and go back and analyze the ingredients," Ye Sheng said, pointing to a statue of a snake-faced man on the bronze wall not far away.

"Okay," Aki was dragged by Ye Sheng and swam in the direction of the snake-faced man, she reached out and grabbed the snake-faced man's neck, the bronze sculpture was not as heavy as she thought, she lifted it up without much effort.

A shadow floated from the water beside her at this moment, and Aki didn't hesitate to pull out a folding knife from the pocket of her wetsuit and slash directly at the shadow.

"Ye Sheng! Shoot! She shouted.

"Shoot at whom?" Shadow asked.

Aki was stunned, it was Ye Sheng's voice, there was a time, when they were training on the Great Barrier Reef, her oxygen cylinder malfunctioned underwater, and at the moment before suffocation, she also heard Ye Sheng's voice and regained consciousness slightly, which saved her life.

She suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked at the black shadow, and the faint light in the other party's helmet illuminated her face, it was Ye Sheng's thin and capable face.

"How can there be two Ye Sheng?" Aki said as the great fear exploded.

She turned her head to look behind her, and Ye Sheng, who swam with her, was gone.

Floating in the water is a sculpture of a snake-faced man.

Ye Sheng pulled out the SSP-1, shattered the face of the sculpture with one shot, and opened the helmet mask of himself and Aki, "I came back and found that you swam here, that thing was floating behind you, and I didn't understand why it followed you until you reached out to activate the system." ”

"Oh my God!" Aki whispered that the low oxygen levels in the air were making her breathless.

"Those dragon texts," Ye Sheng pointed to the top of his head, "If you take pictures continuously and read them in a certain order, it is a kind of speech spirit, which will make you fall into illusions, and this is the mechanism here." ”

There was a creepy sound coming from the bronze wall, Ye Sheng and Aki looked at the bronze wall in horror, the tens of thousands of bronze gears in the shape of wolf teeth around the wall slowly began to turn, the huge bell echoed in the interior of the cave, the rust on the bronze gears began to peel off, and the teeth clenched together to make a rattling sound.

"You've activated the system," Ye Sheng looked at the bronze rod that had been pushed by Aki just now, "but the problem is that I don't know what system it is......"

He felt a shock in his heart, feeling that the "snakes" he had left around him to guard were fleeing, a phenomenon that had never been seen before, those "snakes" were his slaves, his subordinates who spied on him, they always inhabited the depths of his spiritual consciousness, and at this moment, great fear was forcing this "snake" to choose to flee from its master.

Ye Sheng's head hurt sharply, and other snakes in the depths of his consciousness were also swimming in horror, wanting to squeeze his head.

"Let's go! Get out of here! We don't have time! Ye Sheng said loudly, closing his and Aki's helmet masks.

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Lu Mingfei heard the deafening bell, he was playing StarCraft in the dormitory, looking up to see the night and starlight outside.

"Are you coming?"

The reason why he didn't sleep was because he was waiting for this moment.

"Brother, I'm going to save a pair of bitter mandarin ducks." Lu Mingfei's opponent was Lao Tang, who quit the game after typing and leaving a message in the public chat channel.

He rushed out of the dormitory and almost crashed into someone.

Lu Mingfei stood still and saw clearly that the person standing in front of him was Nuo Nuo in a school uniform skirt.

"Yo, you're quite conscious, little brother." Nono greeted him.

"All 'S' and 'A' students are invited to report to the library, emergency! Emergency! Norma's voice came over the loudspeaker,

"That's necessary, let's go." Lu Mingfei took Nono's hand and rushed to the library, and Professor Guderian also rushed out of the corridor while putting on his suit, his hair more messy than Lu Mingfei and Fingal combined.

Professor Manstein and Professor von Schneider of the Executive Department waited for the elite students in the control room of the library with gloomy faces, including Caesar, Chu Zihang, Nono and Chilan, and Zero, she sat in the front row, still leaving only one back for everyone, and the professors occupied the rest of the place, this room was a very classical and elegant library, unlike any control center, which could seat forty or fifty people, and there were bookshelves on all four walls, and hardcover books with cowhide covers stood on the shelves.

"There are 13 students, 1 "S" level, 12 "A" level, and 27 professors, all of whom have arrived." Professor Manstein whispered to Professor von Schneider.