Chapter 12: The Dragon King's Treasury
An invisible curtain separated the dark green river, and Ye Sheng and Jiu De Aki tried to remove their diving masks, breathing in the cold air that had precipitated in this bronze city for nearly a thousand years.
"Again, be careful." Professor Mance looked around at the illuminated corridor and the huge sculptures, and reinstated.
Although he also wants to stay and explore the Dragon King's Palace, an event worthy of being recorded in history, he obviously belongs to the "burden" of the old, weak, sick and disabled as a "key" baby.
"Boom"
The two huge bronze doors made a heavy sound and began to slowly close inward, Professor Mance hurriedly passed through the water curtain back to the outside of the Bronze City, and Ye Sheng and Jiu De Aki also quickly followed Lu Mingfei and Li Yinxing, who had already walked far away on this huge passage wide enough for ten trucks to run in parallel.
These two are synonymous with safety.
"Where are you going first?" Li Yinxing took off his diving mask, and the tight-fitting nano diving suit outlined the girl's beautiful curves, "The time when the White Emperor City was built should be in the Western Han Dynasty, if the feng shui habits of the dragon clan are similar to those of humans, then the important location may be built in some 'Tibetan wind gathering qi' place." ”
"Central Control Hub."
Lu Ming didn't raise his head, he was concentrating on the "compass" made by the alchemy sergeant in his hand at this time. But apart from the bronze pointer, which turned to point the way, he couldn't read anything like the alchemical symbols inside.
He regarded the city as a warship, and since it was a warship, it must have a core position similar to the "central control hub" and "central control cabin".
After all, Lu Mingfei's goal from the beginning was to find a way to control this alchemy city - or to sweep away other heretics that wanted to occupy before taking control.
As for whether the compass made by the alchemy sergeant can take him to the "central control hub" is still unknown, Lao Tang's introduction only says that there are two modes of living spirits living inside, one is the "treasure hunting mode", which will independently find and guide the location of precious items; The other is the "escape mode", which will guide the direction of escape at critical moments.
"The information studied by our dragon historians shows that the human disguised by the dragon king Norton during the Western Han Dynasty may be Gongsun Shu, who rebelled against Wang Mang, who usurped the Han regime, and proclaimed himself emperor in Sichuan, and some people called him 'White Emperor'."
Aki said softly in the back.
"Sister, are you trying to get some historical information out of my mouth?"
Li Yinxing grinned and stopped Aki's delicate waist, "But it doesn't hurt to tell you, and it's not any top-secret information." ”
She said with a grin, "It is recorded in history that Gongsun Shu witnessed the 'dragon leaving the palace in front of the palace' before he became emperor, and that dragon should be His Royal Highness Norton." Before that, he should have assumed the name 'Li Xiong', gained the trust of Gongsun Shu, praised him as emperor, and became his important courtier. ”
"Dragon King...... Helping humanity establish a regime? So why did he do it? Aki was a little shocked, this kind of information was definitely shocking to the group of professors who delved into the history of the dragon clan...... Because it's a bit illogical!
"You have to ask His Highness Norton himself to find out~" Li Yinxing said leisurely, "In short, with unparalleled fire and alchemy, he has refined endless bronze from the mountains and the depths of the earth's leylines to create this city, just like the palace they built on the Nordic ice field." In addition to this, it is rumored that he also used supreme alchemy to make seven ultimate weapons in the White Emperor City that could kill several monarchs on other thrones......"
Twelve years later, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu defeated Gongsun Shu and Norton with the help of the power of all the dragon slaying families in the Central Plains. However, Norton had prepared a 'cocoon' to resurrect before that, so this death was nothing more than a long hibernation for him. ”
"Chinese hybrids...... It seems to be even more ...... than the Kassel Academy imagined A long history? ”
Ye Sheng sighed, it was hard to imagine that as early as BC, the emperors of this ancient land had already known about the existence of the Dragon King, and dared to launch a crusade against him!
"Up and down 5,000 years of leave? Descendants of the dragon fake No? Li Yinxing snorted, "The earliest batch of half-breeds born here are all real 'Dragon King King's', and the most primitive totem worship and god worship stages all originate from them, which is as disgusting as the European side...... By the way, don't spread these things out, be careful of being labeled as historical nihilism. ”
Ye Sheng and Aki looked at each other, and it was naturally impossible for these hidden histories to be passed on - but they were walking in the dragon king's miraculous dormitory at this time.
"That'...... Is His Highness Norton still sleeping in the city? Aki asked softly.
"Who knows? Maybe...... Woke up early? Li Yinxing let go of the hand holding Aki's waist, and his eyes were on the ground to Lu Mingfei, who was walking in the forefront.
This corridor is not boundless, at the end is a huge space, even if the entire White Emperor City is soaked in water, its interior is as dry as ever, and those bronze metals have not shown any oxidation, obviously not simple and pure bronze.
Rows and rows of tall bronze statues stood on either side of the crowd, clearing a wide path, and the bronze statues in armor and holding sharp spears were more like palace guards than the statues in the corridors that looked like attendants with their heads bowed to the lamps.
However, it is impossible to see the faces of these statues from the ground, only vaguely seeing that they have slender snake-like necks, and their faces are blurred in the dark, and I don't know if they are staring at these rebels who have broken into the palace of the dragon king.
"Are these the totems of the dragons? Or is it ...... Guard? ”
"But they're at least more formidable than the Deadpools we've encountered."
With the two good players of S-class and Li Yinxing, Ye Sheng did not have any fear.
He released the "snake" outside, and after confirming that there were no other moving objects and living forms in this space, he took out a waterproof camera and filmed all the scenes he saw.
This is all valuable information worth studying, and no one can say if there will be another exploration, and whether the next exploration will be as smooth sailing as it is.
Lu Mingfei only felt that these alien sculptures were profane and ugly, and after taking control of this alchemical city, he would have the alchemy soldiers destroy these statues and reshape them into the statue of the emperor, the statue of Holy Levles, and the statue of Astarte's guard.
He continued in the direction of the bronze pointer, without stopping.
"Oh my God......"
Aki looked up, the searchlight in his hand shining on the bronze wall of the corridor where they came out, and he suddenly exclaimed.
The bronze wall was littered with metal discs—more like gears than discs, edged by a circle of sharp wolf's fangs that, if thrown, would turn into deadly weapons that would cut through the bodies of their enemies.
Countless metal gears bite together and climb all over the bronze wall, which is nearly 100 meters high, and people can't help but think of the shocking beauty of the precision movement parts in the watch when they are magnified tens of thousands of times, and now they are standing in this huge and precise pocket watch.
"Look at the complexity...... Dragonlord Norton is simply a mechanic. ”
"The professor of history and modern science at the academy once guessed that Otto, who had dragon blood, was . . . Hahn was able to discover nuclear fission reactions, and Robert Brown. Oppenheimer was able to create the first atomic bomb, and with the dragon king's ability to create and learn thousands of times more than the half-blooded humans, if they did not vent their anger on humans in the first place, they would have learned to master scientific knowledge if they had not vented their anger at the first time......"
"The title of 'King of Bronze and Fire' is probably going to over-evolve into the 'King of Nuclear Fusion and Plasma'." Ye Sheng joked, but he didn't smile much on his face.
"But they themselves control the power of the 'Spirit of Words', and your 'Snake' and my 'Ghost' can barely be explained scientifically, but like the 'Jun Yan' of Chu Zihang in the S-class society, he has already broken the law of conservation of energy," Aki said, "Not to mention those Spirit of Words that only exist in conjectures and belong to the Dragon King, which is definitely beyond our imagination." ”
"Maybe the alchemy system is an alternative scientific system controlled by the dragons...... Okay, let's discuss these topics slowly after we go up, and keep up with the S-class first. ”
……
Lu Mingfei had reached the end of the path listed in the statue, but the bronze pointer in the compass still pointed to the huge bronze wall in front of him, without the slightest gap, and the direction remained the same.
He frowned, was he going to blow up an entrance to this wall? But he didn't carry a bomb or a grenade.
Thinking about it, he pulled out the Pure Moon Great Sword behind him—it was not impossible to cut an entrance.
At this moment, the roar of the machinery rumbled, echoing and superimposing in the huge space here, deafening.
It was as if the ancient city had been activated, and the bronze walls that had been intact and untraced suddenly and neatly split, collided, and reintegrated, creating spaces and passages leading to the unknown and then disappearing and returning to their original ...... It felt like a giant Rubik's cube was being rotated endlessly.
A moment later, a brand-new portal appeared in front of Lu Mingfei, it was also a solid couch door, but the pattern on the door seemed to be much more exquisite than the one that entered the Bronze City, and the texture was similar to jade.
Looking down and seeing that the direction of the pointer remained the same, Lu Mingfei followed the slowly opening door forward—followed by a burst of dazzling brilliance.
Behind the door is not a long corridor, but a magnificent and huge room, with four huge bronze columns full of exquisite and strange paintings standing in the four corners of the room, and the interior of the room is filled with mountains of gold coins, silver dollars, glass diamonds, precious stones, pearls, and jade vessels.
"Oh my God......"
Ye Sheng and Jiu De Aki, who were taking pictures of the gate, widened their eyes after witnessing such a splendid scene, and their breathing became a little short.
In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf around the 8th century, the dragon's greedy love for treasure is depicted, with a slave stealing a wine cup from a dragon's treasure and an angry dragon attacking a nearby village in retaliation, only to be killed by the heroic Beowulf – a story that is also the prototype for the dragon Smaug in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
However, in reality, the dragons are often powerful and violent in the impression of the half-bloods, and they want to destroy the world and destroy the existence of human beings, and few people will study whether the dragon kings will have their own treasure trove...... Now it seems that there is.
The half-breeds' sensitivity and penchant for wealth seem to have inherited the characteristics of the dragons from their bloodline, and the current families of the secret party are all European "syndicates...... However, the pursuit and desire of human beings for wealth and treasures are also engraved in their genes, Ye Sheng and Jiu De Yaji couldn't help but put down the cameras in their hands, and walked to the treasures piled up into small mountains in the treasure house, and the brilliance of the ambilight reflected their faces that had become red because of excitement.
"This can be used as military expenses for the Legion...... However, it can only be used in your hometown. ”
Lu Mingfei's eyes turned around in this treasure house, and he just nodded calmly.
Unless there is a mountain of equipment such as Seiko power swords, hot melt guns, and plasma guns, it is difficult for him to have any strange emotions.
But then he noticed that something was not wrong - the child named Li Yinxing was gone.