Chapter 29: Unveiling and Selection

As soon as Lu Mingfei's words of suppressed anger came out, the communication channel suddenly quieted down, Yuan Zhisheng stopped talking, but Lu Mingfei didn't stop.

"From the beginning, your goal was to destroy the ancient city below, right? If a nuclear power compartment explodes, I'm afraid it's a nuclear bomb at all, and since you have plans to use nuclear weapons, why did you send us to be this pathfinder?" Lu Mingfei said, "Didn't I remind you that we are not interested in the twists and turns of you Japanese, or is my words not straightforward enough that you can't understand?"

There was still a silence in the communication channel, Caesar held his earphones, and said calmly: "Yuanjun, I recognize you as a friend, if you are also willing to recognize us as friends, then do what friends should do, tell us what we will face next, and we will decide for ourselves what to do after that."

A sigh rang out from the channel, and Gen Zhisheng finally spoke: "There are corpse guards buried in the dragon ruins below, you have already awakened them, the Rock Flow Research Institute has added a detonation circuit to the control circuit of the nuclear power module, activating it and then throwing it is the only way, otherwise it will be too late for the corpse guards to rush out of the ground, they are much faster than deep submersibles."

"What's the corpse?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"A legendary thing, simply put, the corpses of the same kind concocted by dragons using alchemy, who usually exist as guardians of cities." Chu Zihang explained, "The blood of the embryos awakened them, which was premeditated, and the Lenin fell into this ruin with the embryo to activate this ancient city."

Caesar was still communicating with Gen Zhisheng on the communication channel: "...... We've understood, and I have one last question here, Gen-kun, did you make this plan?"

Gen Zhisheng was silent again for a long time, but this time, he finally didn't want to lie anymore: "I didn't make the plan, but I ...... Always informed."

"Okay." Caesar cut off the communication and turned to look at his companions, "We are running out of time, if what Yuan Zhisheng said is true, then the chances of us not dropping the nuclear power module and surviving are about the same, and now that it is a matter of life and death, what do you think?" Do you want to record a suicide note first?"

"If we don't drop the nuclear power module, I'm afraid Sumeru won't recover the safety cable, and it will be difficult to quickly surface with the power of the deep submersible alone." Chu Zihang said.

"So, fried?" Lu Mingfei said. He doesn't care, if he is not sure, Lu Mingfei will not let them dive like this, the current situation is still not out of control, and the result will not be different whether to throw this nuclear power cabin or not, he will make a move anyway.

Caesar nodded: "Okay, then Chu Zihang, you will be responsible for activating the nuclear power module, and I will pilot the deep submersible, and we will drop the nuclear power module on the Lenin, and then immediately float up!"

"What about me? What do I do?" Lu Mingfei asked.

Caesar laughed, "If you really have time, you can fan us, this place is hot."

"Okay!" Lu Mingfei picked up a combat uniform and shook out of the wind.

Caesar was debugging the system of the deep submersible, Chu Zihang connected to the electronic control system of the nuclear power compartment, bypassed the strong power source for brute force cracking, and the circuit system immediately began to sound an alarm, because this is not the normal operation mode of the nuclear power compartment, it is overheating. ….

"It worked! The nuclear power compartment is overheating and ready to be thrown." Chu Zihang set it up, and then turned his head and said.

"Good! Now get ready to set sail!" Caesar activated the full output, the airtight compartment discharged the seawater, and the deep submersible began to rise.

"Arriving over the wreck of the Lenin, ready to drop the nuclear power compartment, the neutron density exceeds the safe threshold of 120%, and the nuclear power compartment is expected to explode in 20 minutes, with an explosion yield of 1 million tons preliminarily estimated." Caesar said in the channel.

"Agree to throw the nuclear power module." Gen Zhisheng said, as if he was still the commander of the scene, "Sumeru is ready to recover the Diriaeste."

"Liberate the nuclear power module! Return now!" Caesar was about to open the hook that hung the nuclear power compartment, and he had a look of death on his face.

"Wait!" Chu Zihang suddenly shouted.

Caesar stopped his movements and looked at Chu Zihang suspiciously.

"The neutron density of the nuclear power compartment suddenly drops, and the nuclear power compartment has re-entered safe protection mode, so that it is impossible to detonate a nuclear bomb at all!" Chu Zihang stared at a screen and said.

"The Rock Flow Research Institute analyzes it immediately! What the hell is wrong with the nuclear power compartment!" Yuan Zhisheng was even more anxious than the three people under the water, and roared angrily.

"It's a detonating circuit! The detonation circuit is faulty!" Shiio Miyamoto, the director of the Iwaru Research Institute, who was closely following the situation, immediately reported loudly on the secret channel of the Snake Qi Hachiya, "Just now, there was an abnormal current signal in the detonation circuit, and it was damaged, probably due to a short circuit in the sinking process."

"And now it can't explode? We've alarmed the undead in the god's burial place, and now the nuclear power bay can't explode?" Yuan Zhisheng's face was ugly, as if he had eaten a pound of dead flies.

"Also, there is another way, but you have to manually enter the password, and after entering the password, you can trick the control circuit and force it to overheat again." Miyamoto immediately said, "The Dirieste has zeppelin gear for underwater walking, enough for them to go out of the cabin and enter the code."

"Who would want to sacrifice themselves to enter a password in such a situation? Whoever goes will die!" Yuan Zhisheng slammed his fist on the railing.

"Then tell them the situation and let them choose." Sakura whispered behind Genji, "At this point, we can only rely on them, and if I can, I'm willing to go to the deep sea and enter the password, but I can't. It would be a disaster if we didn't blow up the Divine Burial House, and what we awakened was the devil, and if we let it escape, we might as well leave it in the seal."

Gen Zhisheng took a deep breath, in fact, in the plan, the worst-case scenario is that the plan fails, and at that time, everyone here will shed their last drop of blood to suppress the things in the divine burial place, including Gen Zhisheng, everyone here can be sacrificed, this cruel plan is not aimed at the underwater trio, and everyone involved in it cannot escape the risk of sacrifice.

But at this time, telling them that not only could not float but also went out of the cabin for maintenance, Yuan Zhisheng was a little speechless.

Yuan Zhisheng gritted his teeth and slowly squatted down, as if bent over by the things he was carrying: "Gentlemen, bad news, there is a problem with the circuit of the nuclear power compartment. You can't get up yet, we need a deep-sea walk to manually enter the code to restart the nuclear power module." ….

"Would you like to hear what you're saying?" Lu Mingfei's tone was cold, "Do you know what the water temperature is outside the deep submersible right now? You've been in boiling oil once and we'll think about getting out of the cabin."

"If we refuse, you're not going to pull us up, are you?" Caesar whispered.

"If you refuse, we'll pull you up, but all of you will die." Yuan Zhisheng said.

"You're trying to persuade us to die ourselves to save more people?"

"If I'm on a submersible, I'm the only one going to do the deep-sea walk."

"Damn, you won't be able to go to the naturist beach for the rest of your life to sell sunscreen, Pinta Island tortoises! Would you like to?!" Caesar roared.

"I don't want to, but I'll do it, whether you want it or not, the choice is yours." Yuan Zhisheng said word by word.

"The Japanese branch is really crazy!"

Caesar stood up and took off his headphones: "I don't want to talk to that madman anymore, you keep in touch with him, the password is set by me only I know, Zeppelin's equipment can only last for five minutes at most, if I don't come back after five minutes, it means that no one can detonate the nuclear power module after an accident, you just let him recover the safety cable, maybe he can save my life."

"Boss, you?" Lu Mingfei looked at Caesar.

"I said before I dived that I was the team leader, and I hope you two will cooperate with me and don't go your own way." Caesar said solemnly, "Just do as I say, only I know the password, if I don't come back, Chu Zihang will take over the position of team leader, fortunately, I prepared a suicide note before I came down."

"I'll go, you're the team leader." Chu Zihang prepares to unbuckle his seat belt.

Caesar pressed Chu Zihang's shoulder and pressed him back, and he was speechless

"Don't think I'm doing this because I'm willing to sacrifice myself for the two of you, the last person I want to sacrifice here will be me, I just don't want to have a situation where one of the two of you dies in this sea and I survive, so I don't know how to tell people about this part of my life, it's so shameful, I can't go to see Nono like this, it's so shameful that I can swallow a gun and kill myself for this."

"You're a man who lives for pride all your life." Chu Zihang said softly.

"Pride? I think it's tsundere!" Lu Mingfei couldn't cry or laugh, he stretched out his hand, summoned Zhan Lu, and handed it to Caesar, "If you must go out, take this with you."

"What is this?" Caesar looked at the pitch-black sheathed sword.

"This is my secret, you just take it with you, remember to give it back to me when you come back." Lu Mingfei said, "Also, remember to keep it secret."

"Okay." Caesar looked at Lu Mingfei for a while, nodded, and accepted Zhan Lu.

Caesar got into the pressurized cabin on the side of the cockpit, reflexively buckled the hatch, the special Zeppelin gear is an almost spherical metal device, the space is not small, the sphere cabin is filled with high-pressure saline, oxygen is provided by the mask, with the help of the metal prosthetic on the device can be operated outside, Caesar put on a combat uniform, carried Zhan Lu into the zeppelin gear, put on a mask, the lights inside and outside lit up, Caesar sat down, held the operating handle of the metal prosthetic, and tried the sound in the microphone in the mask: "Chu Zihang, try the communication equipment." ….

"I hear me very well here, can you hear me?" Chu Zihang responded.

"The call worked well." Caesar paused, "Aren't you also a proud man?"

Chu Zihang was stunned for a moment.

"It's just that you are proud in a different way than I do." Caesar added, "Though you are uncomfortable when you are proud, if you are not proud, you are not worthy of me to be my opponent. Those old things in my family want to target you, but I don't allow you to be defeated by that kind of inferior means, if it is my life and death, continue to live so proudly...... Don't be defeated by the bastards I look down on."

"You're not going to die." Chu Zihang said, glancing at Lu Mingfei beside him.

Caesar didn't speak, and the moment the pressurized nozzle sprayed out the Zeppelin equipment, Chu Zihang saw Caesar in the equipment put his hand into the observation port and gave him a thumbs up.

Caesar manipulated his clumsy prosthetic limbs, clinging to the outer wall of the Diriaste, and slowly climbed to the position of the nuclear power compartment, but fortunately Caesar withdrew his hand at the last moment, and the nuclear power compartment had already extended the Diriaste, only the last safety hook had not been recovered, otherwise he would have to go to the seabed to enter the code for it.

The Zeppelin gear was overloaded, the pressure was exceeded, the output was exceeded, the lights in the helmet kept flashing out, Caesar laboriously opened the metal cover of the nuclear power compartment, manually entered a string of passwords, and the nuclear power compartment re-entered the overheating state.

Caesar turned back and saw a scarlet mist rising from the ruins, indicating that the dragon's blood was flowing beneath the ruins, and from the cracks in the ground crawled out of the slender creatures, they tore through the afterbirth that shrouded them, their scales shimmering with metallic sheen, and their pupils were hideously golden.

At first, they were just crawling on the seabed, twisting their slender lower bodies, but with the nourishment of the dragon's blood, they quickly regained their strength, and suddenly swung their long tails and quickly floated upward, their goal was only upward, and they continued to rise, and hundreds of thousands of them finally broke free from the seal of bondage, like evil spirits in hell, and only wanted to return to the human world.

"Serpent's Tail Body." Chu Zihang said in the communication channel, "This is not a purebred dragon, they were also a half-breed when they were born, this is not a dragon city, we all guessed wrong, Japan had a glorious half-breed civilization in the primeval era."

Caesar turned around, wanting to return to the Diriaeste, and suddenly, a corpse guard jumped up from below, it was just passing by, but its forward track just brushed past Caesar, and the lava illuminated its body, like a golden whirlwind, and the next second it swam up, but Caesar's state was already wrong, and at the moment when it had just passed, the titanium-magnesium alloy armor of Zeppelin with a thickness of five centimeters was torn through a small gap!

The mouth is not big, but inside

The pressure outside was instantly unbalanced, and the sea water poured into the equipment in an instant, the water temperature in the equipment continued to rise, and the pressure on Caesar doubled, and the incredible ultra-high pressure instantly pressed Caesar to the point that his eyeballs burst out, followed by internal bleeding, Caesar's vision became blurred, and breathing became more and more difficult as the pressure continued to increase.

Caesar closed his eyes, and suddenly felt a sense of relief, the ubiquitous pressure seemed to disappear in an instant, and his whole person entered a wonderful state, and he couldn't help but withdraw from the state of bursting blood, he opened his eyes, and found that his whole person was shrouded in a layer of ink.

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