Chapter 16: White Emperor City
"Is there any other problem, classmate Lu Mingfei, we have proved the dragon to you, although I don't know why your domestic half-breeds do not recognize the existence of the dragon clan, but the facts are already in front of you."
"There is one last question, why do you have to take Chinese? Why do you all speak Chinese? ”
Lu Mingfei said that this is a very important issue, and he is haunted by the fact that in the past, there were malicious invaders who spoke fluent Chinese and traveled around the mountains and rivers in the name of travel and commerce.
"Very good question," Professor Guderian nodded, "because according to the conclusion of the Research Department, several of the first dragon kings of the dragon clan have their sleeping places in China, and they are about to awaken. But your half-race society denies this, and Kassel Academy has made Chinese compulsory since ten years ago, because we need to work with "aliens" when necessary. ”
"Why deny it?" Lu Mingfei was even more curious about why no one in China had ever mentioned it since the dragon clan really existed.
"I don't know, the Inhumans in Huaxia are different from us, they are not completely hidden, but there are some subtle tacit understandings with the government, as well as the company responsible for managing the half-bloods."
"I know, it's all about it." Lu Mingfei interrupted Guderian's words.
"Yes, that courier company, we have very close contact with them, but they always avoid talking about the dragon family, and even directly deny it, we can't find relevant historical records, the only possibility is the Daiying Museum, but before we want to find it, it was attacked and killed by a group of unknown half-bloods, and all the relevant written records from Huaxia were destroyed."
"And that kind of thing."
This involves some hidden problems, Lu Mingfei is too lazy to use his brain, it is really troublesome.
"We thought that the Nadutong Company wanted to control the power of the dragon clan and was our enemy of dragon slaying, but they did not exclude our commissioners from carrying out dragon slaying tasks, and would even help assist and share information."
"I'm not interested in the corpses of those pure-blooded dragons, as if the existence of dragons has nothing to do with them."
"They are more interested in the new products of the armament department, and I really don't know what is good about those things that only know about explosions."
"Oh, and they also like the Chinese students we train, and more than 80% of the Chinese graduates go to work there."
Guderian scratched his head, puzzled.
"Really?"
Lu Mingfei's eyes lit up, he was worried about how to make money after graduating from such a remote school, but now the job has been settled, it is a 9-to-5 iron rice bowl.
"What about the final enrollment agreement? Let's sign it quickly, I still want to be familiar with the campus environment, and the dormitory is allocated to a few rooms. ”
Without worries, Lu Mingfei can't wait.
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Late at night, the wind is calm.
The river level is quiet and there are no waves, only the ripples blown by the wind break the moon reflected in the river, the moon is broken into pieces, sprinkled in the river water silver light, I don't know how many drunk sad people will be flowing on the riverside for this mirror.
The tugboat "Moniakh" stopped in the middle of the river in the silent night, it turned off almost all the lights, there was only a dark silhouette in the quiet moonlight, and the light night wind blew the strips of the ship's side, and there was a soft noise.
When driving in the river at night, you should not turn off the signal lights on the boat, and the boat will also have traffic accidents.
However, it is 2:40 a.m. at the moment, and there will be no other ships on the river, and the Moniach is not a tugboat, it is a warship camouflage, and the excellent information components can allow it to avoid all accidents.
Professor Mance Rundstedt stood on the deck of the bow of the ship, cigar in his mouth, staring at the dark surface of the river.
A female figure walked behind Mance in the night, and she was a tall and outstanding woman with slender legs.
The woman walked up behind Mance and said, "Professor Mance, you should be in the front cabin now, Ye Sheng and Jiu De Aki are about to reach the designated position, we need your command, that kid is also crying, everyone is in a hurry, but you are hiding here smoking a cigar." ”
"Call me Captain, Selma, I'm the captain of the Moniach now."
"You also know you're the captain." Selma was a little helpless: "We didn't have time to do any preparation to arrange the dive, which is not a decision that a responsible captain should make. ”
"Before you know it, you've grown up and started questioning your professor, which is good, so you are worthy of being my student." Mance nodded with satisfaction and said,
"But this order was not given by me, it was requested by the school board, and the company only gave us 24 hours, and six hours and forty minutes have passed, do you want to salvage a dragon under the mobile phone lens of a group of tourists tomorrow morning?"
"We can't do anything for 24 hours, I don't know what the school board idiots are doing." Thelma grumbled.
Mance smiled and said, "Don't accuse them of incompetence, for these 24 hours we have paid the latest product developed by the equipment department." ”
"Soon it's not up to date." Selma said: "Last time, in order to get the corpse of the three generations, we traded the forbidden spirit cord that you developed according to the precepts, and when I negotiated yesterday, I saw that almost all of those employees had one, and it was only less than half a year!" ”
"Amazing copying capabilities!"
"You must know that we still use the power of words and spirits to this day, and arm us with alchemy and modern technology, but thousands of years ago, the hybrids here have studied the power of dragons to the fullest, wisdom!"
Mance smiled and took a drag on his cigarette, he lit his temple.
"You better hurry up and see the children, you can't expect those of us who have never been married to know how to coax the children, Ye Sheng and they are almost in place, it's time to be busy, captain."
50 meters below the surface of the water.
The spotlight overhead couldn't penetrate much in the deep water, with only a band of blue-gray light.
Jiu De Aki's slender figure floated beside him, and Ye Sheng could pull her as long as he stretched out his hand.
Ye Sheng, Jiude Aki, the twenty-seventh underwater cooperative operation. They were classmates at the Kassel Academy, and they entered the executive department at the same time, and they were diving partners for five years, and they were able to read each other's hearts from one look.
"It's so quiet, I still prefer sea diving, and there's always something to surprise me." Ye Sheng's voice was transmitted to Jiu De Aki, and there was a separate signal line between them.
"You mean the tiger shark that almost bit you last time?" The voice of Aki Aki of the wine.
"Ha, don't mention it again, okay, you always talk about this."
The tone of the conversation between the two is not like a partner, but like a couple.
However, they are not a couple, and love is forbidden in the diving missions of the Kassel Academy, as they are dealing with the oldest and most powerful creatures in the world.
Relying on oxygen cylinders and a layer of nanomaterial wetsuits to withstand the water pressure equivalent to more than a dozen atmospheres, it maintains contact with the human world with only a single signal line.
Sunlight cannot penetrate tens of hundreds of meters of water, the surroundings are shrouded in darkness, and the narrow area of the spotlights above is the only hope, in this case, it is easy for people to be overly nervous, and if there is an emotional factor between companions, it will lead to unpredictable results.
"What can you find?" Jiu De Aki looked at Ye Sheng who was groping in the rocks at the bottom of the river and asked.
Flooded by the impoundment of the Three Gorges Reservoir, it was previously a mountainous area, and the stones were polished by the water, making it difficult to settle down. Ye Sheng popped out the steel claws from his flippers, stood lightly on the rock, and reached out to grope in the bottom mud and sand.
"Look at this." Ye Sheng showed Aki what he had touched, and the spotlight above his head illuminated a pottery shard with an ancient pattern.
Aki took the pottery piece and examined it, "At least a thousand years old, 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." ”
"The oxygen stock is not enough, is this the intended location? But I can't see the remains of the so-called White Emperor City. Aki looked around, and there was no sign of what could be called a "city" as far as his eyes could see.
"Norma, I need to scan the terrain with sonar." Ye Sheng called.
"Understood, sonar scan ready." The CPU in the United States immediately responded.
A three-dimensional sonar map outlined by dark green contour lines is displayed on the screen of Ye Sheng and Aki's helmets.
Ye Sheng pondered for a moment: "A hole with a depth of more than fifty meters piercing the riverbed? Why wasn't it blocked by sediment, was that the entrance to the Bronze City? ”
"I want to say...... Could this be the entrance? Aki's voice was heard on the public channel, and the people on the boat were also heard.
Mance was walking into the front cabin, and he stepped forward and grabbed the microphone: "What did you find?" ”
"One ..... The rift, it's very deep, Ye Sheng, it looks like I'm going to trouble you, please. ”
"Again." Ye Sheng complained in annoyance: "I'm tired half to death every time." ”
"Don't worry, I'm always there." Jiu De Aki leaned over, steel claws popped out of his flippers, grabbed the rock tightly, and wrapped his hands around Ye Sheng's waist from back to front, "Your fixing point is in place." ”
Aki briefly shuts down the public channel.
"Alas," Ye Sheng sighed and closed his eyes.
Speech Spirit* Snake.
Without the need for kung fu, Ye Sheng was born to invite the fairy of the Liu family!
Countless snakes were liberated, and the snakes flowed along Ye Sheng's limbs, and finally surged out and disappeared into the water.
Ye Sheng's consciousness followed the crack where the "snake" entered the bottom of the water, all the way down, and then down, Ye Sheng opened his eyes, and there was a pale golden shimmer flowing under his eyes, and he observed with the eyes of the "snake".
After a while, Ye Sheng shuddered, his body temperature was rising after the snakes retreated, and the cold river water made his body tremble unconsciously.
"Got a result?" Aki asked.
"The rift is forty meters underground, until the snake group meets the huge metal group, which should be the White Emperor City."
Aki said, "Is the rift enough for us to dive?" ”
"Enough, even small submarines can be accommodated."
"Professor Mance, apply for a dive."
"Refuse to dive." Mance, a responsible captain, said: "We don't know what is going on, and if we dive rashly, there will be problems, and we have to prepare for unmanned ......diving."
"Permission to dive." At this moment, Norma's voice came.
"The board of trustees is meeting on the dive operation, and more than half of the directors have requested the diving operation, and the time is pressing."
"It's a child's play on human life!" Mance's voice was cold: "We still have plenty of time. ”
"Go on the dive mission."
Norma's voice came over the radio with an irrepressible determination, and only then could one feel that she was a machine.
"Help me connect ......"
Ringing bells...
The phone rang urgently, and Mance quickly picked it up.
"Headmaster."
"We don't have time, Nadutong headquarters gave us 24 hours, but we just got the news that their southwest branch has asked to send employees to accompany us on the diving mission, this is not the previous three generations or four generations, or even the second generation, what we find now is likely to be the tomb of the King of Bronze and Fire."
"I see."
Professor Mance put down the phone and said in a cold tone: "Keep diving." ”