Act XX: Covenants

"Welcome to the Rock Flow Research Institute." The elevator door opened, and the man in the white lab coat bowed deeply, "I am the director of the house, Shio Miyamoto, and the head of the Miyamoto family."

Their ears were filled with the sound of the tide, and they saw the white waves.

Caesar silently unleashed the "scythes", and the swarms scattered in all directions, split by countless forks in the road, flashing their wings to bring Caesar countless heartbeats and mechanical rotations.

Countless huge secret passages gradually took shape in Caesar's mind, and they formed a huge labyrinth, hidden in the hidden places of this building, each of which was heavily guarded by men with guns.

"These passages have never been opened to anyone outside the family, and this is the first time since Genji Heavy Industries was built." Gen Zhisheng led the way in front.

This is already the underground of Genji Heavy Industries, but it is not a basement in the usual sense, it is the inside of a tunnel with a diameter of more than 12 meters, and half of the tunnel is flooded.

The raging water washes over the metal walls of the tunnel, and the xenon lamps on the top of the tunnel go one by one into the distance, submerging into complete darkness, and the huge construction machinery slides against the tunnel walls, automatically checking the water level and flow rate.

Half of the institute was dug into a long "river" that was even bigger and more powerful than any other above-ground river in Japan, and the river ran through the very center of the tunnel, with no end in sight.

Sirens swept through the tunnel, and there was a faint thunderous sound.

"Because of last night's heavy rain, there is already too much water in the upper part, and we will drain it twenty times a day." "Another tide is coming soon, so let's go to see the equipment for this mission, so let's go to a higher place so as not to get wet."

The head of the house, who was not yet 30 years old, was handsome, wore old-fashioned tortoiseshell glasses, and his hair was neatly combed, not at all like an underworld, but like a young teacher in some academy.

As soon as they reached the white peak of the high place, the tunnel was trembling, and the water was splashing and flying, like a white dragon forcibly restrained by the tunnel, and it struggled forward while roaring and roaring.

They walked along the iron ladder and suddenly turned around.

Torrential sparks fell from the sky, like fleeting fireworks in the night sky, huge black shadows were suspended from the top of the tunnel, dozens of engineering workers were busy hanging in the air around the black shadows, sparks coming from the welding guns in their hands.

"The equipment arrived three days ago, and now it has reached the final inspection stage, and there is no one from the equipment department of the academy, and all the work is in charge of our rock flow research institute, so the progress is a little slower than expected." Shio Miyamoto introduced.

The people in white lab coats came and went walking among the huge machines, and the moment Miyamoto Shio and everyone came in, they all stopped what they were doing, got up and bowed, "Young master, director!"

"It's familiar, but it doesn't seem to be the same as what I've seen?" Caesar looked at the big guy above him suspiciously, "The Diriaeste?"

"Yes, this is indeed the collection of the Gattuso family, donated to the academy by the head of the family, Pompeii, and then transformed by the equipment department." Shio Miyamoto said. "It's a piece of equipment like never before in the history of diving, and it's the submersible for your mission."

"The Gattuso family still has this kind of crazy and cool equipment to blow up the sky?" Fingal was a little dumbfounded, and his understanding of Gao Shuai Fu was refreshed again

"I bought it with the Apollo lunar module," Caesar shrugged, "My father was a playboy who loved to collect all sorts of weird."

"This is a legendary piece of equipment in the history of diving, which reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench in l960 to a depth of more than 10,000 meters. This is not a replica but a prototype, because the process of the submersible is extremely demanding, and if there is a leak with a pinhole in the shell, the whole submersible can be torn apart by high pressure."

"Even if the armament department is asked to improvise one according to the drawings of the Trieste, there is no way to guarantee safety, and the most reliable is the prototype that has been tested in practice." Shio Miyamoto said, "Although it set the world record in 1960. But in the half-century since, humans have yet to build a deep-sea submersible comparable to it."

"But the equipment department didn't give us any instructions and drawings, so we had to rely on our rock flow research institute to test it ourselves." He smiled helplessly.

Caesar suddenly remembered something he had done when he was a child, and stared at the hatch in disgust, "Have you checked the inside?"

"It's been checked." Shio Miyamoto was a little puzzled, "Why do you ask this?"

"Didn't you find anything strange in there? For example, the *** of the female doctor or something......"

"I didn't find it, we checked it the first time it arrived in Tokyo." Shio Miyamoto said.

"Okay." Caesar shrugged, "I suddenly remembered why my dad bought this thing, the ultimate goal of the playboy collecting everything is to collect women, some women like famous watches and cars, and some women love science, so he sometimes has to pretend to be a tech nerd to get close to those women."

"That time he fell in love with a female doctor from the United Nations Space Agency, and he had to buy something interesting to attract her to his house."

"He put it in my pool, and he and the female doctor got into it, saying he wanted to simulate what it's like to be in the deep sea, but he used it as a tin tent, and I was kind enough to close the security door for them."

"For a bastard like him, as long as there is a door, there is a place where he can do things, and sometimes he can do it without a door......

"Anyway, they made a lot of noise in the Diriaeste. I was kind enough to lock the hatch that was closed outside, and they stayed inside for 48 hours before they were rescued by the fire brigade."

"As a son, I can only help him get here, and if nothing happens in such a long time, he will be in vain the first kind of horse of the Gattuso family." Caesar's face was full of contempt.

"Let's move on to submersibles." A little embarrassed, Miyamoto quickly changed the subject, high-fived hard, and a beam of light hit the air, illuminating the huge black shadow. Half a century after being forgotten, legends from the history of diving are revived, in a sparkling livery.

The alien submarine was painted white with a huge red dot sprayed in the middle.

"I look familiar with this livery...... Natsumi said.

It's hard not to look familiar, the Diliyaste is painted like a plaster flag.

"I'll go, it's ugly." Caesar was a little caught off guard.

"That's your father's request. He said that the submersible was donated to the academy for free, but he made sure to paint it for me as a Japanese flag. He said that the sunrise in the east was a good omen, and wished my son a successful trip to Japan." Shio Miyamoto said.

"When I locked him in, I knew he was always going to find a way to get revenge on me." Caesar said.

"This thing looks like an antique, is it possible to challenge the true husband of the extreme abyss with this thing?"

"It should be said that it is the only one in the world that can do it," said Caesar, "although he bought it to seduce a female doctor, but it is indeed a miracle in the history of human technology."

"It has been stored in the diving museum funded by my family, and there is a special person who is responsible for maintaining it every year." Caesar said, "The livery is changed every year."

"Change the livery?" Fingal was stunned.

"The year China and Italy established diplomatic relations, they put it in the livery of the five-star red flag."

"In the year of Picasso's death, the museum reproduced his famous Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' on the shell of the Pierreste."

"Then there was the Madonna World Tour in 2006, which was painted gold and brought around the world, and Madonna came out of it covered in gold dust and sang the opening track." Caesar thought for a moment, "It seems to have been used in Michael Jackson's performances, I can't remember."

"So it's been completely reduced to a prop over the past half-century, right? Your home takes care of it like art and antiques, right? It's been painted with oil and taken to exhibitions all over the world, and it's not even soaked in water!" Fingal clutched his head and shouted.

"I didn't take you there." Caesar glanced at him, "Don't you know the mission? It's me, Lu Mingfei, and Chu Zihang who are diving, and the three of you are staying on the ground to support flexibly."

"I don't think I really know......

"Rest assured, the equipment department has also been remodeled," said Miyamoto, "and judging from the instructions for use, they have worked hard this time, not only installing several new systems, but also reinforcing the inside of the shell with memory metal, and Director Akadulla has repeatedly stated that "quality is guaranteed."

"But they're helping to make bombs! They promise to use the? Senior Brother Chu, what do you think?" Fingal turned to Chu Zihang.

"He stood and watched." Xia Mi directly intervened sideways, stood between Fingal and Chu Zihang, and separated the two, "I said Senior Brother Fingal, you can just coax yourself, don't bring my senior brother to coax together."

"My assessment is, good groove." Chu Zihang nodded slightly.

"What do you mean?" Fingal was stunned.

"I said the groove you just spit out Caesar was interesting." Chu Zihang said.

"I rely on Xiao Chu, Senior Brother, to pay the party dues with your face full of courage and prepare for righteousness!"

"When to dive?" Caesar asked.

"Tomorrow night, we applied to the Maritime Safety Bureau for an injunction in the name of a scientific expedition to prohibit civilian vessels from passing through the nearby waters tomorrow night, but the injunction is only valid for 12 hours, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. In other words, we only have 12 hours to operate." Yuan Zhisheng said.

"In such a hurry? Time is really tight." Caesar said.

"The operation of the deep submersible is not complicated, one day is enough time for you to master, this is the operation manual of the deep submersible."

Yuan Zhisheng handed the thick operation manual to Caesar, "We will prepare the rest of the matters, the time is not relaxed, but it is enough."

"I mean, I've booked a couple of specialty restaurants, a couple of attractions I'd like to visit, some souvenirs to buy, and I've got a few pages of shopping lists."

"I want to go to Akihabara." Lu Mingfei said the second machine.

"I want to go to Akihabara too." Xia Mi said.

"I want to accompany Natsuya to Akihabara." Chu Zihang said.

"A group of neurotic ......," the corners of Gen Zhisheng's mouth twitched.

"Anyway, I want to go too." Fingal scratched at his messy hair, "If you don't live in Akihabara, even if you call yourself an otaku, it's useless."

"Seeing that you're going to die, why don't you hurry up? If I could, I would like to tie my tombstone on the streets of Akihabara and let the girls who come and go hold my tombstone and take pictures."

"It's not your turn to die, Fingal." Caesar scoffed, "It's the three of us who are diving, what are you going to do?"

Yuan Zhisheng watched in silence at the surging white waves in the giant drainage pipe...... These two hundred and fifty plus neuropaths began to sing and dance around him again!

Carrying out a mission with these *** is like a knight riding a donkey to the battlefield, even if you raise your saber and roar like thunder and have the will to sacrifice your life for the country, you can't be sure that you can kill the enemy...... Because the donkey under your crotch will be happy at any time, throw off its hooves and lead you to the edge of the sky.

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Lu Mingfei looked at her eyes, her eyes reflected the small candlelight on the table, Lu Mingfei tilted her head, she also tilted her head, and a strand of long crimson hair fell from her ears.

"Eri, I have to go."

"Where?"

"I'm going to do something very important."

"When can Sakura come back?"

"Hmm...... I'll come back when I'm done with that, okay? I'll take you out when I come back next time."

"Can I really get out?" Eri grabbed the corner of the shrine maiden's suit, her eyes flickering with unease, "It's fun to go out, but it costs a lot."

"No, with me, Eri can play as much as she wants." Lu Mingfei whispered, "Because ......"

"The concept of 'living through' is not to wait to die slowly, but to keep running, to run far away to see the world as wide as possible, and to run until you are exhausted without regrets."

"Eat all the cheap food, and change into a different look of beautiful clothes every day

, to show the proud skin of youth, to write in amazement at everything you see and hear, "How amazing!" 」

"Eri is very powerful."

Eri laughed silently.

"Is there a place you'd like to go?" Lu Mingfei asked, "When the time comes, we'll go to all these places."

Eri was stunned for a moment, and her eyes, which had been darkened, suddenly lit up.

"There are many, many things, I want to buy beautiful clothes, I want to eat delicious food, Tokyo's Sky Tree, Disneyland, Meiji Jingu ......"

"Then we'll make an agreement." Lu Mingfei stretched out a little thumb, "Remember, hang yourself with a hook, you can't change for a hundred years."

"Hmm!" Eri Yi nodded vigorously, and her slender white fingers hooked up with Lu Mingfei.

"By the way, Eri, there's one more thing." Lu Mingfei's gaze swept over the necklace on her chest, it was too conspicuous, "This pendant I gave you, you received it in your clothes, don't let others see it, especially Tachibana Masamune."

Eri obediently put the necklace into the shrine maiden costume and put it on her body, and although she didn't know what it was for, she would listen to what Sakura said.