Chapter 27: The Secret of the Seabed

Anyone will be amazed by the ancient mystery and majesty of this city, which is a magnificent architectural style that no other civilization in the world has ever had, as if the giant god carved a silhouette in the rock by his own hands, and then decorated it with black iron, bronze and silver, and still maintains simple and sharp lines after countless years, which is a more rugged aesthetic style unlike the bronze ancient city that Lu Mingfei has ever seen.

Chu Zihang was quite professionally sketching on paper, quickly drawing a map of the city, from the ruins can still vaguely see the layout of this ancient city, is a radial division around the center, four imperial roads from the east, west, north and south four directions will radiate the city divided into different districts, and in the center is a huge circular square, the center of the square is the magnificent tower, the tower is full of complex relief patterns, the top of the tower is dozens of meters long sharp spikes, making the whole tower like a spear piercing the sky, Other buildings have similar spikes at the top, and as far below as far as the eye can see, there are dense clusters of spears.

"With the central square as the center, it is divided in a radial shape, and the four royal roads in the east, west, north and south are the main roads, and some roads indicate that the city was built on the ground and then sank to the bottom." Chu Zihang analyzed.

Caesar cruised above the ancient city in the Diriaeste: "There is enough oxygen, we can map the city as much as possible, and then descend into the building and take some samples with the robotic arm."

Lu Mingfei didn't listen to what they were talking about at all, he looked up at the tower that seemed to pierce the sky, some thoughts didn't belong, he pressed his forehead, there seemed to be fragments of pictures flashing rapidly in his mind, he tried his best to distinguish those pictures, and finally gradually figured out some contexts.

It was a ruin, and at the end of the ruins was a thick darkness that could not be removed, like an abyss, and in the deepest part of the abyss, he saw a white cross, and a sword decorated with gold crucified Lu Mingze on the cross, and the little devil who called the wind and rain, as if omnipotent, was covered in bruises and dying, and the blood stained the lower half of the cross red, and his black clothes were torn, and his body was engraved with the marks of humiliation, one by one, as if he had counted the crimes.

"You've finally come to see me, brother." The dying little devil looked up at him, his eyes were two bloody holes, and he chuckled chuckles, not knowing whether it was blood or tears flowing from the terrible hollow.

"I can hear your footsteps, and I know that you are the only one in this world, and you will definitely come to see me." His smile was full of sadness, "All the crimes and punishments in this world, we will bear together."

"Lu Mingze! Lu Mingze. Lu Mingze?" Lu Mingfei thought silently in his heart, and his mind was a mess.

There was no response, and Lu Mingfei remembered that the little devil was still on "vacation" and didn't know what to do.

Lu Mingfei raised his head and looked around.

The Diriaste passed by the side of the tower, and Chu Zihang copied the reliefs and the strange words on them, those strange words that seemed to be like snakes intertwined with the reliefs, like a hideous beast wrapping and winding the quadrangular tower. If you look closely, the dark tower reveals a distinct metallic texture, and in some places it is even smooth as a mirror, reflecting the red light of magma.

"Such a metal tower, soaked in the sea for I don't know how long, can still have no traces of rust." Caesar said, "What a masterpiece of alchemy."

"The tower is partially molded in one piece, without any seams, and looks like the handiwork of the King of Bronze and Fire." Chu Zihang said, "This is definitely not only an ancient city of the Dragon Clan, but may even be a royal city."

Caesar said, "We were lucky enough to have found the remains of the ancient dragon city, and the embryo is still quiet. All that's left is to find the embryo and drop the brimstone bomb at it."

"Call Sumeru, call Sumeru." Caesar accessed Genju's channel, "Did you see that?"

"We've all seen that the Norma system and the Radiant Moon system are saving the videos and pictures you sent back for analysis. All you have to do now is control the camera to point in different directions, every second of your recording is priceless, this is the first time we have directly observed the ancient city of the dragons, it is a valuable first-hand account of our study of the history and culture of the dragons, Professor Schneider has begun to write emails to report this discovery to the president and the school council, and based on the oxygen stock, you can still be underwater

After an hour of activity, please hurry up and look for embryos." Yuan Zhisheng said.

"The embryo should be in this ruin, yes, but where do we find this city so big?"

"The Dyrieste has a sonar system, you can try to search its heartbeat with sonar."

Caesar turned on the sonar and turned on the Speech Spirit Scythe at the same time, and sound signals continued to be transmitted back from all directions, Caesar frowned: "Strange, why is there so much clutter? There seemed to be an echo here, and a regular heartbeat could be found in all directions."

"Boss, don't care about the heartbeat." Lu Mingfei patted Caesar on the shoulder, "Look there, we have met the 'door'."

Caesar looked in the direction that Lu Mingfei was pointing, and there was a sloping building in front of him, which looked very much like a torii gate in front of a Japanese shrine, and the structure of this thing was very simple, that is, two pillars supported the beams and fangs, similar to a simple torii. Usually torii gates are made of vermilion wooden pillars, but the building looks like a tower-like metal and is nearly 50 meters tall.

But it is indeed a gate, and those who visit the shrine pass under the torii, which distinguishes the inside and outside of the shrine, and in the view of the shrine, the torii gate is a symbol of enchantment, with the world of people on one side and the world of gods on the other.

In the cockpit, Caesar and Chu Zihang's nerves were tense, and they did not forget Professor Schneider's solemn advice before the operation was opened - to return immediately when they saw the "door"!

"Director Yuan, please connect the communication of the headquarters for us." Lu Mingfei said coldly.

There was silence in the communication channel for half a minute, and then Gen Zhisheng's voice came from the earphones: "There is a little problem with our communication with the headquarters, probably because the sunspot outbreak has affected the communication equipment, and the Rock Flow Research Institute is carrying out emergency repairs."

"Oh? Is it such a coincidence?" Lu Mingfei teased in a mocking tone, "Then Director Yuan, when will it be repaired?"

"The cause of the failure is not yet certain, and the Rock Flow Research Institute is working hard to repair it, but it is uncertain when communication will be restored." Yuan Zhisheng said.

The trio exchanged glances, and then Caesar spoke slowly, "It's okay, Director Yuan, we still have a reserve of oxygen for us to use for fifty minutes, we can stand by in place, if we can't contact the headquarters within twenty minutes, then we can only return to the secret instructions that Professor Schneider issued to us earlier, and come back another day."

Like Lu Mingfei, Caesar's address to Yuan Zhisheng has become the unfamiliar "Director Yuan". Neither he nor Chu Zihang are stupid people, and in this case, they are suddenly disconnected from the headquarters? This is also too much of a coincidence, they did not receive direct orders from the headquarters before the contact was restored, and the opinion of Gen Zhisheng, as the commander of the field, could represent the opinion of Professor Schneider? If the Japanese branch is going to do something, now is the right time.

Caesar himself was not hesitant to give some trust to Yuan Zhisheng, and he once proudly said to the cadres of the student union that he would always give trust to a person he met for the first time, because if a leader does not have the bearing of trusting partners, then he is destined not to win the support of more people, but if the other party fails to live up to his trust, then it will be difficult to gain trust from him. In his opinion, the Pinta Island tortoise does look like a steady and responsible man, and he should be a trustworthy guy.

But he is not the only one in the cockpit at the moment, the proud Caesar Gattuso can give anyone a chance to betray him, because he has the strength to withstand betrayal, but he considers himself the leader of the trio, and consciously has to be responsible for Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei, considering the consequences of his every choice, Caesar Gattuso is of course not afraid of betrayal, but if such a betrayal will cause harm to his partner, it is something he can't bear, because Caesar Gattuso will never live up to every partner who trusts him.

"It will take some time to overhaul the communication system, so you may wish to find the location of that dragon embryo first, even if you can't complete the task this time, you can complete the mission next time." Yuan Zhisheng's tone was still so calm, as if he couldn't hear the doubts in Caesar and Lu Mingfei's tones.

The trio exchanged glances again, took off their headphones, and after a moment of silence, Caesar spoke

"What do you think?"

"They're starting to make a move, and I'm going to say they're going to make a big move when they make such a big fight." Lu Mingfei said, "Maybe the Japanese side is ready to break with the headquarters."

"Their arrangement should be related to this ancient dragon city." Chu Zihang spoke, "We have come here, and they may not be willing to give up."

"Before I came, I looked up the information of the mixed race in Japan through Norma, but in terms of the origin of the mixed race in Japan, Norma's information is completely vague, and there is no accurate conclusion, just like the mixed race in Japan came out of nowhere." Caesar said, "I can now almost determine that the origin of the Japanese hybrids is probably related to this ancient city."

Chu Zihang nodded: "The architecture and carvings in this ancient city do imply some Japanese style feelings, it sank into the sea from the land, maybe its former site on the land is in Japan itself, so it can explain the origin of the Japanese half-blood, Japanese civilization, part of it comes from China, and the other part may come from this ancient city."

"We don't know the origin of the Japanese hybrids, and the Snake Eight family must know about it themselves, but the fact that the outside hybrids have been ignorant of this issue for so many years shows that they have kept this issue a secret for so many years. Now that the secret has been known to the three of us outsiders, we have to consider how determined they are to keep it a secret." Lu Mingfei said.

"The key now is what exactly they have for this place, whether it is good or bad for us, and there is also a dragon embryo here, and we can't sit idly by." Caesar said.

"I think it's better to drop the brimstone bomb directly," Lu Mingfei said, "Hit wherever it goes, since they have designed a trap to use us, then we will find a way to make ourselves useless."

"Keep exploring, but if something unexpected happens, we'll return immediately." Chu Zihang said suddenly.

"That's what I mean, too." Caesar said, "I swear by Gurveg's surname that I will be responsible for you, but victory is at hand, and I will not be willing to give up like this."

"Boss, aren't you named Gattuso?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"There are many people with the surname Gattuso, but Gulveig is my mother's surname, and I am the only descendant of the surname Gulveig." Caesar said, "It's not important, what do you think?"

"Let's still see the move?" Lu Mingfei said, "After the two bosses have made the decision, I guess they even have a full set of plans, right? I have no choice but to sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman!"

"Good!" Caesar looked pleased, "This is the friendship of a man as strong as King Kong!"

Caesar put back on his headphones and said in the channel, "We have decided to continue searching for embryos while we are on standby, please contact the headquarters as soon as possible."

"Lenin." Chu Zihang spoke, it seemed that he really had a plan in mind, "We haven't found the Lenin, it's a 134-meter-long icebreaker, it should be a fairly conspicuous target, but we haven't found it yet."

Caesar's eyes lit up: "That's right, the embryo is inside the Lenin, the heartbeat signal is coming from under the ruins, and the Lenin must have sunk inside the ruins!" We didn't find it because it was covered in shellfish! It's been sunk for twenty years, it's certainly not like the original photo, it should be more like a part of the ruins!"

Chu Zihang quickly flipped through the photos he had just taken, looking for the ruins of what appeared to be an icebreaker.

"You don't need to look at the photos," Lu Mingfei said, "just look ahead."

Caesar and Chu Zihang both looked up ahead, behind the torii, there were strangely shaped ruins of a building, it was covered by unknown black shellfish, it was tens of thousands of small things like snails gathered densely, the texture was like rust, but when Chu Zihang pointed the long-distance camera at the building, the screen showed those tiny rusts that were constantly wriggling, which looked disgusting.

"Uh- what kind of shell is this, why is it so disgusting to move around? Thanks to me, I don't have a phobia of intensity." Lu Mingfei glanced at it and turned his face away, "I really can't see this kind of thing."

"They're handing in

Match. These things look like lung snails, they are hermaphrodites, but they mate with each other in exchange genes, and then store the fertilized eggs in their shells to hatch," Caesar's face was not very good, and he quickly explained, "The wriggling we see is actually that they are constantly opening their shells and spewing out tiny lung snails that have hatched, and their reproductive activity is terrifying! It must have been influenced by the embryo!"