Chapter Twenty-Eight: Sacrifice and Awakening
The reason for the unique ecology of this area has been found, and the mutated subspecies of fish feed on the lung snails that breed all the time, thus attracting higher predators to prey on the fish, thus forming a complete food chain.
"The embryos of dragons are here, and those sea creatures are mutated because of it." Chu Zihang took a deep breath. "We've found it."
"Let's go by." Caesar said as he sailed forward on the Diriaeste, passing by the torii.
At this moment, as if a switch had been flipped on, the ruins began to shake in an instant, and the rubble and lung shells continued to rise with the current, striking on the shell of the Diriaste.
Caesar's face changed: "Earthquake under the sea?"
"No, it shouldn't be an undersea earthquake." Chu Zihang said calmly, "Caesar, take a look at the sonar screen!"
Caesar turned his head to look at the sonar screen, and at the same time silently moved the scythe, he didn't like to use words in this sea, there were too many voices in the ocean, and a large amount of information poured into his mind made him sometimes a little slow to react, and at this moment he heard clearly the background heartbeat sound he had heard before became chaotic, as if there were hundreds, even thousands, of things waking up, red dots kept appearing on the sonar screen, and each red dot represented a heartbeat!
Caesar was stunned: "! What the hell is this place? Dragon's Lair?"
Lu Mingfei stretched out his hand and pointed ahead, his face couldn't hide his surprise: "What is that? Uh-uh, that's too bad, isn't it?"
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Kassel Academy Headquarters, Central Control Room.
Schneider and Manstein were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, on the projection in the middle, the progress bar flashed with a dazzling red light, and the embryo hatching rate rose faster than a cloud disk that opened a super member, breaking through 60% in an instant, fifteen minutes ago, when they found the torii gate and wanted to warn the diving team in the communication channel, the Hui Yueji system disconnected all connections to the headquarters, and only the program designed by Schneider was still tenaciously connected to the sonar monitoring the bottom of the sea.
Schneider was going crazy, knowing that the communication had been interrupted, he still subconsciously shouted to the channel: "Impossible! Faster than hatching in Greenland! More than 10 times faster! Dragons have appeared! Recycle the safety cord! Quickly recover the safety cord!"
The fear of ten years ago once again hit Schneider's heart, it was like a kind of fate, and this time he had prepared as much as possible, but the shadow of the dragon still haunted him. Of course, no one answered in the channel, the hatching rate continued to rise, soon breaking through 90%, the heartbeat rate rose to a terrifying 400 beats per minute, and the central control room was filled with manic heartbeats like a drumbeat, but Schneider was at a loss, and could only watch the hatching rate jump up, and soon broke through the 100% like a death symbol.
"It's too late! It's too late! It completes the hatching! No one can stop it anymore!" Schneider roared, his eyes bloodshot.
Ten years ago, the Greenland Ice Sea incident drove him into the abyss, and now the nightmare repeats itself, the door opens, the embryo has completed hatching, human beings are confronted with unknown creatures in the deep sea, no matter how they struggle, they can't escape the fate of being preded, Schneider slumped in his chair, only felt that the blood all over his body seemed to be frozen, and a chill flowed from his heart to his limbs, it was cold, as cold as the ice sea ten years ago...... Schneider shuddered.
"No, it's still going on!" Manstein said.
Yes, the embryo hatching rate on the projection does not mean to stop, 100% is far from the end of it, it is better to say that it is the beginning, 120%...... 150%…… 190%…… 240%…… That number continues to grow, as if there is no end.
"What the hell is going on? How is it possible for an embryo to hatch more than 100% and it can hatch several times?" Manstein said.
Schneider broke out in a cold sweat: "If there is more than one living thing there, and the heartbeat signals are superimposed, the upper limit of the hatching rate will exceed 100%, this is a flaw in the algorithm, if 100 dragons wake up, the upper limit is 10,000%!"
However, by this time, the number of embryos hatching had exceeded 8400%
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The light of the lava illuminated every corner of the ruins, and the ruins were indeed shaking, but now everyone knew that this movement was not from the undersea earthquake, but something was waking up, countless lung snails fell off, accompanied by a mass of viscous blood, but what was exposed was not a giant ship icebreaker, it was quite in line with the "indescribable" description of the alien object, it was a hundred meters long, half of it was trapped in the seabed, and the other half was wrapped in layers of lung snails, and now the lung snail fell off, and it revealed its true face, It was a disgusting mass of flesh, densely covered with tendon and fascia structures, and nerve reflex twitching, which made the trio look at the scene of vomiting out of yesterday's lunch.
In addition to breeding, the xenomorph lung snails also bit their mouthparts into the giant mass of flesh and blood, constantly feeding, and its surface was cracked with shocking wounds, and deep inside the wounds could be seen dense remnants of the lung snails clinging tightly to it.
"Gross!" Lu Mingfei covered his mouth, and the scene in front of him had no more suitable adjective except for the word deformity.
It's not that Lu Mingfei's concentration is too poor, it's that he usually practices sword and fighting games, and the painting style of the things he comes into contact with is relatively normal.
"This? Is it an embryo?" Caesar was also stunned.
"Not an embryo." The corners of Chu Zihang's eyes twitched slightly, but his usual facial paralysis still made him look very calm, "It's Lenin."
Looking carefully, Chu Zihang was right, the shape of the icebreaker could be vaguely seen in that huge lump of meat, and the buildings around it all collapsed in reverse, which also proved that it did fall on the seabed, but its appearance has been completely changed, and anyone who sees this thing at first glance will only think that it is a giant deep-sea creature that grows casually on the bottom of the sea.
"What the hell is going on? Is the icebreaker cursed with flesh? It's still moving! What's the difference between this and an embryo? Is the icebreaker pregnant? Or have you been transformed into an icebreaker by the Flesh Curse?" Lu Mingfei had an eye-opening expression.
"The shipwreck is occupied by an embryo that has transformed steel into a part of it." Chu Zihang said, "Look carefully! In the parts that are not covered by flesh, blood vessels can still be seen in the steel. Dragons, it's amazing, isn't it?"
"This is beyond comprehension......," Lu Mingfei said, "I should have thought that dragons can hatch humanoid bodies, and they must be like plasticine, and they can make whatever they want, and they can make whatever they want, and they can make an icebreaker beast that has failed to evolve...... Isn't it so incomprehensible?"
"I think the embryo is dead." Caesar whispered.
"But it's still moving, the blood vessels are still beating, and that's the standard for blood circulation, right? Maybe the baby dragon is in the cabin?" Lu Mingfei said.
"It's still alive, but it's probably impossible to hatch anymore. Someone killed it and threw it here as a sacrifice." Caesar said, "Look below."
Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang looked over from the observation port below, where the lung snails were piled up, the Lenin or the dragon fetus gave birth to thick blood vessels and poured into the seabed, and the dragon's blood was being transported into it from these blood vessels, the seabed cracked with the vibration, and the black cracks were full of viscous black plasma, which looked like some kind of bloody ancient sacrificial ritual, the dragon's blood irrigated the entire ancient city, and this shaking ancient city was waking up!
What is it that needs to be sacrificed with the blood of an ancient dragon? What devil does dragon's blood bring?
"What a sorrow, the king who is high is only a bloody sacrifice before a more powerful king." Mai stood at the top of the Dyriaste, looking at the tragic sacrifice below, and sighed silently.
She released the light of the shadows, leaped down, and swam towards the wreck of the Lenin, as if some kind of awakening ritual had begun, the flesh of the sacrifice was withering, the unknown power was draining its blood, the city was feasting on the best sacrifices, the veins were shriveled, the flesh was cracked, and Mai Liquor swam to the side of the Lenin, floating close to the hull.
Caesar guessed correctly, the ancient dragon was stripped of its brain at the embryonic stage, and now it was just a sacrifice with dragon blood, and the king's blood meant that it would not die completely, but would continue to grow and feed the city with blood.
Mai cut off the sprouts from one of the portholes, slipped through the portholes, and infiltrated the Lenin.
At the highest point of Sumeru, searchlights hit Yuan Zhisheng in all directions, and the helicopters, marine police boats and fishing boats of the three groups of wind and forest fire all surrounded the Sumeru seat of the mountain group, and everyone's eyes were on Yuan Zhisheng, dense raindrops hit the searchlight, and the long black windbreaker danced in the wind and rain, and Yuan Zhisheng stood straight, like a statue.
"Gentlemen!" Gen Zhisheng looked around, and the sound spread far away on the sea through the radio.
"Please!" Yuan Zhisheng bowed deeply.
As the young master of the Eight Snake Clans, he should have said more passionate oaths at this moment of mobilizing everyone, but he didn't want to say anything when the words came to his lips, all of this was too heavy and almost crushed him. The history of the Eight Clans, the underwater city where the gods were buried, the ambition to destroy the fierce ghosts, and the ideal of ending violence were all on his shoulders at this moment, but his heavy Pinta Island tortoise was already very tired and tired. The so-called ambition, the so-called blood, and the so-called power are like a part of the heavy mountain on his back, and he climbs forward with this heavy mountain on his back, because he is not a free bird, but a tortoise that only carries a load, and the tortoise is like this, only knows how to climb, but cannot turn over and remove the weight on his back.
"Hello!" Thousands of people bowed to their young lord.
The camouflage on the ship has been revealed, the triple rapid-fire machine guns, large-caliber ship machine guns and torpedo tubes are all exposed, the bottom of the fishing boat is arranged with depth charges, the bullets and shells are filled with mercury, and the torpedoes are all equipped with special alchemy warheads, Lu Mingfei feels right, they have organized a war, a war against the opponent in the bottom of the sea, you are fighting to the death.
Gen Zhisheng carried a heavy sniper rifle, the lethality of the sniper rifle is nothing compared to the equipment of helicopters and ships, but this is a war that no one can stay out of, so he is not willing to hide in the depths of Sumeru and wait for the war to end.
Sakura walked behind Genji, "A slight earthquake of magnitude 3.2 has been detected in the abyss, and the divine burial place is waking up."
"The ancestors are not completely dead." Yuan Zhisheng said, "For all these years, they must have not wanted to escape from the forbidden land and return to the human world, right?"
"There's no way that happens." Sakura said, "We're fully prepared, and we still have Miss Eri."
"It's still some time before you rise to the surface of the sea from the burial place, so go and rest." Gen Zhisheng paused for a moment, "Sakura, if I give you a task to complete it at all costs, even at the expense of innocent people, can you do it?"
Sakura was a little stunned, but quickly regained her indifferent face: "I can do it."
"How?"
"Because I believe in you, whether it's a samurai or a ninja, if you lose someone and a reason you can trust, the Tao will cease to exist." Sakura replied, "Trust you, it's my principle."
Gen Zhisheng looked at the sea and was silent for a long time, then reached out and touched Sakura's head: "Thank you Sakura, you are so smart sometimes."
The Trieste, the trio stared wide-eyed, but Lu Mingfei spoke first, and he said to the communication channel: "The situation has become complicated, our preparations are no longer enough to deal with this situation, Director Yuan, you can't expect us to blow up everything under the ruins with a sulfur bomb, right?" Let's show everything back!"
Caesar looked at the dense red dots on the sonar, "The brimstone bomb can't deal with that many targets, Director Yuan, if you don't have anything to say, we're going to go back."
"In this case, the brimstone bomb is useless, and the only solution is to detonate the nuclear power compartment." Yuan Zhisheng said.
"So this is the back hand of the Japanese branch? The abacus is really loud, I wonder if Director Yuan has thought about what we will do after the nuclear explosion?" Lu Mingfei said coldly.
"You have time to evacuate. Time is limited, listen to me, the nuclear power compartment will not explode under normal conditions, and if you want to detonate it, you must first overheat the nuclear power compartment." "You activate the nuclear power compartment and make him overheat and float up immediately, and I'll use a safety rope to get you."
We can shorten the process of fishing out of the water and going up to the surface to half an hour, and when the nuclear power compartment explodes, you are already four kilometers away from the center of the explosion, and you have a ......very good chance of surviving in this situation."
"Origin childish!" Lu Mingfei interrupted Yuan Zhisheng's explanation, and there was anger hidden in his voice, "How long will *** lie to us?!"