Act Twenty-Three: The Outlaws Have No Way Out
"There's not much time, let's get started right away." Professor von Schneider dragged his cylinder cart to the wall and scanned the crowd.
He breathed in a low, rapid breath, and the hideous face, half obscured by a black mask, calmed the restless students.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we need your help, right now. The situation is that two members of our executive department are trapped in the Bronze City of the Three Gorges Reservoir in China, which is a dragon's den, and we have just obtained important information from it, but we don't know what kind of mechanism has been triggered, and all the roads have changed. β
"Their oxygen cylinders are decreasing every second. I have here the dragon text material that Aki, a member of the Executive Department, obtained underwater, and I hope you will concentrate on reading it, thinking, and recalling it to see if you can help unravel the labyrinth of the Bronze City. Please as soon as possible! As soon as possible! β
"Our people all over the world are trying to help, and their oxygen cylinders don't last more than 20 minutes!" Professor von Schneider clapped his hands violently, and the teak bookshelves that stood above the top wall were moved away, revealing a giant screen of 100 inches, and the desktops in front of everyone automatically opened to reveal personal monitors.
Everyone quickly pulled out their student magnetic cards and swiped them through the card slots, and Norma quickly checked their identities and cut into their respective interfaces, while a giant cyan dome stitched together from photos appeared on the big screen.
"This is a map that we sorted out according to the route Ye Sheng took when he entered,"
On the Moniach, Mance looked at the monitor with a solemn face, "But the map has changed, and the original pathways are all locked, all!" β
"Ye Sheng's "Snake" can still maintain communication, but I don't know how long it can last, the "Spirit Snake" will consume his physical strength, and oxygen consumption will also increase." Thelma's face turned pale, "Time is running out, and the headmaster has ordered all the elites to begin decrypting the dragon text...... Now all we can do is wait. β
Lu Mingfei looked left and right, everyone's faces were heavy, some stared at the map on their monitors, and more people stared at the "tree" on the big screen as if they were looking at a three-dimensional painting.
Nono was scribbling on a blank piece of paper at high speed, copying those dragon scripts, probably hoping to unravel its grammar rules, Caesar and Chu Zihang were staring at the big screen, their faces were terrifyingly gloomy, Qilan held her forehead with both hands, closed her eyes in contemplation, and Zero sat like a sculpture, breathing heavily, as if she was not thinking, but doing some physical work.
The professors lowered their voices and argued fiercely, they were not as pure as these students in terms of blood, and their direct perception of dragon literature was much weaker, but they had studied dragon grammar for decades, and they tried to make this knowledge come together and explode a miracle in these twenty minutes.
"What does the 'BlackSheepWall', the 'Black Sheep', or the 'Black Sheep', the restless evil of the White Sheep flock, see when it crosses the wall?" There was a little devil's chuckle in my ears.
Lu Mingfei knew that this was actually a super instruction, as long as he entered this instruction, EVA would present the correct answer.
So he typed "BlackSheepWall" into the search box at the top of the map.
The chunks of the map moved quickly, the old roads were blocked, new roads appeared, and a few seconds later, a brand new map appeared on Lu Mingfei's monitor.
Lu Mingfei stood up and said loudly, "I'm unraveling!" β
The new map was immediately displayed on the big screen, and after a short silence, everyone turned their heads sharply to look at Lu Mingfei, after the map was unraveled, it was too easy to understand, and everyone realized that this was the correct result.
There was a dead silence in the control room, and there was a great deal of wonder and uneasiness hidden in the calm, like a depth charge sinking faintly.
"Professor, I'll go to the bathroom." Lu Mingfei raised his hand towards Professor Guderian.
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The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, a strange abyss under the waves. Just when Lu Mingfei's map was transmitted to Ye Sheng's mind through Norma's radio waves, Ye Sheng was undergoing an incomparably painful test at the bottom of the sea.
A huge amount of information poured into Ye Sheng's brain through the "snake", just like the water of the entire Pacific Ocean poured into the Yangtze River. Ye Sheng's brain is equivalent to a computer overclocked to overheat at the moment, and the huge pain seems to tear people apart.
Ye Sheng felt that he couldn't hold on anymore, his consciousness was like a giant beast that was so tired that it was panting loudly, and it would fall down at any time.
But he couldn't, the information contained the last chance to escape, and analyzing them was a huge three-dimensional map, which directly appeared in Ye Sheng's mind.
The city came to life. The super-trap that had been forged two thousand years ago was brought back to life after the opening of the Age, and the seemingly one-piece walls split, leaving hundreds of cubic meters of air in the Bronze City to escape through the cracks.
The bronze tunnels are completely different, these complex bronze corridors that resemble urban heating tunnels rotate and re-dock, like a revolver turning at the moment of firing, and a new magazine is sent to the muzzle position.
The operation of the Bronze City did not stop for a moment, and the routes available for escape were also changing.
Ye Sheng felt that he was going crazy, they did get the map, but this map changed all the time.
Behind him, the bronze wall carved with a twenty-meter-tall snake-faced man was slowly falling, looking like the sky was falling.
Aki swam forward with his arm around Ye Sheng's neck, Ye Sheng was already on the verge of collapse, and he was as weak as a child while enslaving the "snake" with his words.
Aki's mind was a mess.
She remembered that when the two of them were in college, Ye Sheng was an eighteen-year-old young man who had just arrived in the United States from China, with two thick black eyebrows, the best swimmer in the class, and the leader of the sailing team the following year.
From the University of Chicago, he won back the "Golden Fleece Cup", which had been separated from the Kassel Academy for ten years, and attracted the attention of the girls in the class.
His biggest hobby seems to be to laugh at Aki, every time he takes a special swimming lesson, when the stupid duck Aki is still halfway through the one-meter warm-up, Ye Sheng has already swam a thousand meters and basks in ultraviolet rays by the way.
He was wearing only a pair of swimming trunks, bare shoulders and arms, patted his ass at Aki, and said something like "Is it that the Japanese have short legs so they can't swim fast", and suddenly showed a desperate look and said, "In the future, we will be partners, I won't die underwater" or something, and laughed hehehe, looking so hateful and hateful.
When did it become like this? When will she do everything in her power to protect Ye Sheng? Is...... When did you fall in love with Ye Sheng?
It was clear that at that time, in order to counter Ye Sheng's ridicule, he once pointed at his nose and shouted, "If you die underwater in the future, don't think about me saving you", but why did it become like this?
Aki's mind grew more and more chaotic.
"The key!" Ye Sheng suddenly shouted hoarsely.
Through the serpent's current, the sound echoed through the Moniach's cabin, like the last roar of a wounded wolf.
Mance was stunned, and the cigar he was biting between his teeth almost fell, "Yes! "Key"! The "key" will have a way! He shouted.
"Baby! Hurry up! Hurry up! Faster! Mance roared inwardly, "Give them a way!" β
The fingertips of the "key" are pressed against the screen, slowly falling down...... fell, the light in his eyes faded at the same time, and he returned to the state of a baby again, bowing his head, as if he would fall asleep at any moment.
Suddenly, he raised his head and began to cry aloud, as sadly as he wept.
Ye Sheng opened his eyes suddenly, and a pale golden glimmer occupied his pupils.
The moment the cry of the "key" reached his ears through the "snake", a clear red line suddenly appeared on the ever-changing map in his mind, downward, downward, straight down, through the gaps between the walls, through the corridors, even through the solid bronze walls, and finally broke out directly below.
"This is the way?" Ye Sheng couldn't judge.
But the "key" was never missed, and he was a miracle of the Kassel Academy.
"Just below the direction, Ye Sheng, Jiu De Aki, ready to get out!" Ye Sheng's voice echoed in the front cabin.
"Directly below?" Mance was stunned for a moment, then he noticed the traces left on the screen by the finger of the Key.
A straight line pierces the Bronze City from directly below!
"Calculate the distance!" Mance shouted.
"Forty-five meters!" "There are three minutes left in the oxygen supply!" β
"Add the time to snorkel breathlessly, and get out at their speed!" The first mate's voice was so cheerful that it almost flew into the sky.
"Is this what the fuck is called shit luck in Chinese?" Mance snapped his fingers triumphantly, "Bull shit Lucky!" Ye Sheng Aki, get out immediately! β
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Lu Mingfei came to the last cubicle of the toilet, locked the door, and stood on the toilet.
It gave him the feeling of being in the wizarding world of Harry Potter, as if he would be flushed to the Ministry of Magic as soon as he pressed the toilet.
"Don't let me down, then, little devil." Lu Mingfei thought in his heart.
γBlack Sheep Wallγγ
He pronounced the words.
Lu Mingfei heard someone laugh softly in a hidden corner, he closed his eyes, and tried to simulate the image of the Bronze City in his mind.
He went over the wall, he was the restless black sheep!
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Ye Sheng untied the spirit of words and released all the snakes.
His strength regained and he turned to take Aki's hand.
But Aki didn't move, she did a strange thing, raised the flashlight to shine on herself, into her helmet, so that Ye Sheng could see her face clearly.
Her lips were moving, but Ye Sheng couldn't hear her voice, and the signal line between the two was torn off at the moment of impact.
"It's too late, we don't have enough oxygen." Aki's lips are very clear.
Ye Sheng glanced at the oxygen balance, which was about three minutes.
Both he and Aki have the ability to hold their breath for five minutes and swim for eight minutes is enough.
"Enough." He said to Aki in lip language.
"Not enough." Aki shook her head, tears slowly creeping down her cheeks, "Let's stay here, I want to watch you, there's not much time left...... I've had something to say to you for a long time...... I ......"
"I love you too." Ye Sheng cut off her lips very neatly, he crooked his mouth, and the corners of his mouth once again revealed the kind of smile that made people forget their troubles together, which reminded Aki of when Ye Sheng slapped his ass in the sunlight of the floor-to-ceiling window.
"Stupid, trust me, enough!" He hugged Aki's sturdy and slender body tightly.
"Hey, in fact, the legs are not short at all!" He said to himself in his heart, and then took Aki's hand and plunged into the water, and there was a faint whirlpool in the water, indicating that a gap opened directly underneath.
A large number of bubbles suddenly surged in the center of the whirlpool, and an incredibly huge black shadow suddenly appeared from there.
"Looks like we can't get away." Ye Sheng smiled bitterly at Aki.
Aki shook her head, she stared into Ye Sheng's eyes, and said "I love you", "I love you", "I love you" over and over again......