"Prior to this, the Executive Department has sent four additional teams, namely Western (Harmony) Tibet, New (Harmony) Xinjiang, Greenland and Mexico, and there are about 1,300 people in the world in total to explore the location of the Dragon Tomb, and the closest to success at present is Professor Mance's team, whose target is the noble primordial of Norton, the Lord of Bronze and Fire, one of the four great monarchs, who will launch the 'Kuimen Project' on the Yangtze River, which is formulated by the Rector himself......."

In the middle of the night, the tugboat "Moniach" trembled in a storm in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

It was a rare rainstorm in autumn, the rain was pouring down, the wind speed reached force 5, the other ships were sheltered from the wind, and only the xenon gas of the Moniach glittered in the rain curtain on the restless water.

Zheng Shu sat bored in the cabin, listening to a commissioner from the executive department explain the Kuimen plan to him.

After Zheng Shu and his colleagues arrived in Sichuan three weeks ago to report for duty, they did not participate in the Kuimen plan for the first time, but joined a special diving training center under Norma's arrangement, and trained in it for half a month.

In fact, the main target of this training is Zheng Shu, Ye Sheng and Jiude Aki are mainly engaged in adaptive training here, but Zheng Shu needs to learn how to dive from scratch.

Fortunately, dragons already have the ability to amphibious on land, sea and air, and Zheng Shu's physical fitness is strong enough, so he can be proficient in diving activities just by being a little familiar with the specific rules.

It took less than three days for the instructor of his diving class to bluntly say that there was nothing left to teach him.

However, Ye Sheng and Jiude Aki's adaptation training was not over yet, so it was not until a few days ago that Zheng Shu and the others boarded the ship, and Zheng Shu finally met his instructor who had only met once: Mance Rundstedt.

The professor Mance Rundstedt, who was also the captain of the ship "Moniach", was now standing in front of the wheelwindow, a splash of rain on the front window and then bursting, the wind was howling, the ship was shaking, and Mance was standing steadily, smoking a cigar and waiting for news.

There was a faint cry of a baby in the back cabin, and Mance frowned: "Who is going to see what is wrong with that baby, crying all the time, and none of you know how to take care of the child?" ”

"Professor, none of the current main members of the Executive Department are married, where do you expect us to learn how to take care of babies?" The girl sitting in front of the monitor replied without raising her head.

She was about twenty-three or fourteen years old, with beautiful black hair, a typical Latin beauty-like appearance, and wore a specially formulated combat uniform for the Kassel Academy.

When the others in the room heard her words, they all nodded towards Professor Mance, including Zheng Shu. Zheng Shu never thought that there would be such a torturous existence in this world, perhaps because the little guy in the back cabin had too high a concentration of dragon blood and a keener perception, he hated Zheng Shu very much. Don't say it's hugging him, Zheng Shu will cry even if he gets close to a certain distance.

"Selma, call me Captain, now I'm the captain of the Moniach, not your substitute professor." Mance took a puff of his cigar and looked around at the people around him, feeling a little helpless.

"Everybody don't leave their place, and since I'm the only married man there, I'm going to see our dear baby. Thelma, pay attention to the life signals of the two of them, and if there is any abnormality, close the line immediately! ”

"Understood!" The Latin girl Selma replied energetically.

"The captain received a signal from the Yangtze River Waterway Maritime Safety Bureau that the storm would continue in the second half of the night, with winds increasing to level 10 and rainfall reaching 200 mm, which was a rare rainstorm and could be accompanied by thunderstorms. They're mobilizing helicopters to rescue us, and we're suggesting we abandon ship now," the third mate next to him took off his headphones and reported back to Mance.

"Reply to them, saying that our boat has a very deep draft, the depth of the ship is stable at the moment, and it can withstand the storm, and there are still a few patients on the ship who should not abandon the ship."

Mance extinguished the cigar in his hand and patted his clothes as if to let the smell of smoke dissipate from his body.

"Don't worry, this is the Moniach, it's not a tugboat, it's a warship, even a level 12 storm won't be a problem for it." After arranging his clothes, Mance looked up at the dark sky outside, and was silent for a moment and said to himself, "This rainstorm reminds me of the ice sea in Greenland ten years ago, and every time I approach these things, there is a sense of imminent disaster. ”

When he went to the rear cabin, it was quiet, and everyone had been trained at the Kassel Academy, staring at their screens and operating quickly and silently.

The sound of two entangled heartbeats echoed in the headphones, and in Selma's heartbeat monitoring window, a green light dot fell together to indicate that the two young and strong hearts were still beating normally.

Fifty meters below the surface of the water.

The spotlight couldn't penetrate much distance in the deep water, there was only a band of blue-gray light, and the slender figure of Jiu De Aki was suspended beside him, and Ye Sheng could pull him as long as he stretched out his hand.

This is their twenty-seventh underwater collaborative work, they are classmates at the Kassel Academy, they entered the executive department at the same time, and they have been diving partners for 5 years, and they can read each other's hearts from one look.

"The ability of that student named Zheng Shu is really surprising, I didn't expect him to find the location of White Emperor City directly as soon as he came over, if he knew this, Professor Mance should have called him over earlier, it is estimated that he could save more time." Ye Sheng searched the bottom of the water while talking to Aki through a separate signal line between the two.

Deep diving is a rather dangerous thing, relying on oxygen cylinders and a layer of nanomaterial diving instruments to withstand the equivalent of more than a dozen atmospheres of water pressure, relying on only a signal line to keep in touch with the human world, people's mood is easy to overstress in this situation.

In order to alleviate this mood, even in such an important work, underwater personnel will unconsciously find various topics to discuss.

"I don't know how he did it, but if we can popularize this method, our task will be much easier in the future." Aki responded to Ye Sheng's topic while going downstream.

Soon they reached the bottom of the water, and the violent storm on the river surface was filtered by a layer of water of tens of meters before arriving here, leaving only gentle water waves.

Ye Sheng popped out the steel claws from the flippers, gently landed on the rocks and reached out to grope in the bottom mud and sand, and soon found a pottery shard with an ancient pattern.

Aki took the pottery shard and looked at it carefully for a while.

"At least more than a thousand years of history, it is something before the Shu culture was swallowed up by the Central Plains culture, and it may be a relic of the White Emperor City."

Through Norma's sonar scan of the surrounding environment, Ye Sheng judged that their location was the location of the White Emperor City, but because the time was too long, the White Emperor City had been buried by sand.

After a little discussion, the two decided to let Ye Sheng use the Spirit of Words: Snake to explore further.

Jiu De Aki swam behind Ye Sheng's back, popped out steel claws in his flippers, clasped the rock tightly, and wrapped his hands around Ye Sheng's waist from behind, this was to prevent Ye Sheng from being carried away by the current or suffocated by the signal wire when driving the spirit.

After the preparation was completed, Ye Sheng closed his eyes, and in his spiritual vision, the restless "snake" was entangled in his mind, the scales glowed with a cold and hard clear light, and Ye Sheng's body trembled slightly.

Spirit: The snake is activated.

Ye Sheng gave an order to the snakes in his mind, and the group of snakes in the depths of his mind was liberated, they flowed along Ye Sheng's limbs, and finally surged out and disappeared into the water. At the same time, Moniach also monitored a burst of powerful bioelectric currents at a certain point underwater.

Yan Ling: The group of snakes released by the snake is essentially a kind of biological current, and the "snake" will be many times stronger in a good conductor, and at this time, the huge water body of the reservoir greatly strengthens this ability, so that the territory within a radius of 5 kilometers is under Ye Sheng's surveillance.

Ye Sheng's consciousness followed the "snake" into every crevice of the bottom of the water, all the way down, and then down.

In his open eyes, there was a pale golden glimmer flowing under his eyes, Ye Sheng observed the world with the eyes of a "snake", the world was composed of countless subtle pipes in his eyes, the pipes intersected, and separated and extended infinitely, and his snake walked through the pipes, and everywhere it went, it was filled with gray mist.

Suddenly, Ye Sheng's body trembled, the pale gold in his pupils disappeared, his heartbeat rate rose rapidly, and most of the "snakes" returned to his mind to sleep, leaving only one that was still going downward, penetrating the darkness and gaining insight into other results.

"How did it turn out?" Aki, who was next to him, immediately asked when he saw his state.

"There is a huge metal presence about 40 meters below our feet, where the 'snake' swims very fast, and only the metal body has such good conductivity."

While the two of them were discussing the location of the existence of the underground palace, Zheng Shu on the Moniach also opened his eyes.

Just now, the Nibelungen under the ship suddenly became active, and it seemed that Ye Sheng's words were detected, causing the Nibelungen to automatically turn on the defense function.

"It's better to let them come up first."

Zheng Shu said to Mance who had just come back next to him, and before Mance could react, the third mate next to him suddenly said loudly.

"Captain, the Yangtze River Waterway Maritime Safety Bureau informed us that there may be an underwater earthquake with a magnitude of five magnitude, and they insisted on sending a rescue helicopter to us, maybe they realized that something was wrong here."

Mance frowned, looked at the heartbeat detection on the screen in front of Selma, and finally made up his mind.

"Ye Sheng, Aki, immediately prepare to float, there may be an underwater earthquake with a strength of five tonight, and it is very dangerous down there."

"Understood, give up for now." Ye Sheng immediately replied when he heard the command ringing in the earphones, and then his face changed.

The surrounding body of water was shaking, and Aki next to her also felt it, shaking from the rock she was standing on, and the entire bottom of the water was shaking, and the dust raised from the bottom of the water obscured her vision.

"Underwater earthquakes began...... Damn it! Why did you come so quickly this time? ”

On the Moniach, Mance knew exactly what was going on underwater from the sonar map, and he turned to the first mate and shouted, "Close!" Take-up! Pull them up! ”

The turbine on the side of the ship immediately began to turn, and the black rope, which served as a lifelock and signal line at the same time, began to recover.

But at this moment, even in the cabin, Mance could clearly hear a cracking sound coming from the wind and rain outside, and then the speed of the engine went out of control, and Mance's face changed suddenly, and the speed of the engine was out of control because there was no tension acting on it - the lifeline broke.

There was a dead silence in the front cabin, and Mance put his hands in his hair and combed it back fiercely, pulling out the roots of the hair painfully.

There was a sizzling sound of electrical disturbance coming from the loudspeaker, the signal was interrupted, and the survival rope was also a signal line, the only way to connect them with Ye Sheng and Aki, and he may have lost the two most proud students, although he had long been aware of this possibility, because a similar incident had happened more than ten years ago.

The underwater situation is unknown, should someone be sent to explore the rescue? Or give up like the Greenland Ice Sea? Professor Mance pondered nervously.

At this time, Zheng Shu, who happened to be wearing a diving suit, passed by him and attracted Professor Mance's attention.

"What are you going to do?" Looking at Zheng Shu, who was packing up the oxygen cylinder, Professor Mance had already appeared a possibility in his heart, but he was thinking nervously and asked unconsciously.

"Huh? Isn't that obvious? Of course, I went down to save them. Zheng Shu replied in a very relaxed tone, as if he was not going to go to a depth of 50 meters below the water where the earthquake had just occurred, but to go to the restaurant to buy breakfast.

"Nonsense! I haven't given the order yet, you can't act privately! Mance was a little emotional, and Zheng Shu's behavior reminded him of his time in the Greenland Ice Sea.

"Don't worry, mentor, if something goes wrong with my strength, it's useless for the rest of you to go down."

Carrying an extra oxygen cylinder, Zheng Shu waved his hand at Professor Sman, opened the hatch and rushed out directly, and when Professor Sman arrived at the hatch, he only heard a loud sound of falling water.

As soon as he entered the water, Zheng Shu used the Spirit of Words to create two small whirlpools behind him, allowing them to push him deeper like thrusters.

There is a reason why Zheng Shu is so impatient, relying on the special vision provided by Hela, Zheng Shu can clearly see that the Nibelungen below has fallen into a state of complete closure.

This means that Ye Sheng and Aki can't use the Spirit: Snake Link Communication Line to transmit information like in the original book. This Nibelungen suddenly fell into such a closed state, there must be a controller inside, which also means that Ye Sheng and the two of them have completely entered the sight of the Nibelungen controller.

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