The bottom of the Yangtze River.

Lu Mingfei floated in front of the bronze giant wall, looking curiously at the hideous face of the open mouth in front of him.

The face resembles a relief, with a wide mouth and sharp teeth like knives, but the hideous shape is not entirely an artistic design—according to alchemy, it is a "living spirit", a kind of "spirit body" encased in recycled metal.

Alchemy has been described as "regenerated metal", a unique substance that can only be created by the Lord of Bronze and Fire, who kills ordinary metal and then gives it new life with his authority, and the metal becomes something with a certain "life" quality, capable of containing spirits like the flesh and blood of living beings.

This is known as one of the greatest wonders of alchemy, and even in the history of the Esoteric Order, reclaimed metal only exists in a few treasures, and every treasure made of recycled metal is enclosed in living spirits without exception.

Records of living spirits in alchemy are extremely scarce, and it can even be said that most of them come from mythology and the speculation of ancient alchemists.

For example, some people believe that the concept of "immortality" in alchemy can be realized by sealing living souls - first creating enough regenerated metal to hold the soul, and then transferring the human soul from the flesh and blood to the regenerated metal to escape death.

But this theory was later overturned, because some studies have shown that even if recycled metal can contain abstract things like "souls", in the process of being enclosed, the "souls" of life themselves will be refined, distorted, and finally turned into pure spiritual elements, becoming slaves of the object itself.

From a certain point of view, it can be understood as the "Kuman Thong" or "raising a little ghost" in Thai folklore, and the soul of the baby after death is transformed into a powerful ghost in a certain way and supported and driven, no one should think that after becoming a "little ghost" or "Kuman Thong", the baby can be regarded as "continuing to live in another form".

Moreover, the intelligence of the "living spirits" is very low most of the time, and they will only instinctively obey orders, and cannot communicate effectively.

It's just that......

Stretching out his hand to caress the convex and sharp human face, Lu Mingfei was a little curious, not knowing if the out-of-body spirit ability he had learned from the ancient mage could affect the living soul.

It's a pity that he can't try it now, once the spirit body is out of his body, the body is out of his control.

A moment later, Professor Mance descended from the sky again, a frozen ribbon of light in the spotlight above his head.

Gesture to Lu Mingfei, Professor Mance stopped at the door, and Lu Mingfei followed the big mouth of the hideous face into the Bronze City.

There are basically two sources of equipment in the college, one is the equipment department and the other is the school engineering department. Most of the mass-produced equipment and weapons are from the school engineering department, such as powerful guns, ordinary detonators, common grenades, etc., although they are safe but their power is limited, and those high-precision equipment are basically from the equipment department, and a very small number of alchemy treasures left over from ancient times, which are powerful and very dangerous.

It is said that under the strong opinion of the principal, the equipment department reluctantly dismantled the explosive function of this series of equipment, so the communication equipment and positioning equipment are very few equipment that is easy to use and is not worried about exploding, and is well received by the majority of commissioners.

This set of equipment can not only locate the location of Ye Sheng and Jiude Aki, but also show the path they have just swam, Lu Mingfei followed the path, looking for Ye Sheng and Aki to join in the huge and complex bronze city.

The water in the Bronze City seemed to be clearer than outside, and the visibility was also higher, making it easier for Lu Mingfei to see his surroundings clearly.

He is surrounded by countless cleverly combined gears, transmission rods, bearings and other mechanical parts, Lu Mingfei inexplicably remembered an animation called "Qin Shi Mingyue" that he watched not long ago, in this animation in the background of the Qin Dynasty, the Mo family is an organization that is good at mechanical arts, not only has a bird that can fly in the sky, but the base camp is also a city built in a mountain, composed of countless exquisite mechanisms, these organs rely on the surging river as the power, constituting an impregnable fortress.

Lu Mingfei now had the illusion that he was roaming the Organ City, and the mechanical structures that filled his vision were still stationary, and he didn't know what a spectacular scene they would be.

While swimming, Lu Mingfei looked around, and used the "mirror pupil" to record all these mechanical structures in his mind - this is likely to be a city built by the King of Bronze and Fire himself, and there must be advanced technology of dragons hidden in the operation of these machines.

Lu Mingfei had been connecting Ye Sheng and Jiu De Aki's communication, knowing that the two of them had acted separately shortly after entering the Bronze City, and they passed through a place that resembled a palace, and the water had been flooded to a position close to the dome, which was covered with dragon scripts.

Such a huge amount of dragon literature materials were very precious, and Jiude Aki stayed in place to photograph these materials, while Ye Sheng went alone to find the sleeping eggs of the King of Bronze and Fire.

Lu Mingfei had to sigh that this senior brother was really bold, who knew what terrifying security measures the Dragon King would arrange near his eggs? Especially this egg is still in the dragon king's old home.

Lu Mingfei decided to go to Jiu De Aki, who was closer to him, first, because he was also very interested in dragon script, and the dragon script recorded in the palace of the King of Bronze and Fire should always have something to do with alchemy, right?

But unexpectedly, he was just about to approach Aki Aki, and Aki's signal disappeared directly on the display.

"What's the situation?" Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, and immediately switched channels and said, "Call the Moniach, and the signal of Jiude Aki has disappeared." ”

"This is Selma, the Moniach has been received," Selma said, "The data transmission between us and Aki is interrupted, and we are trying to recover the lifeline, Lu Mingfei and Commissioner Ye Sheng, please go to the place where the signal last appeared to check on Commissioner Jiude Aki." ”

Lu Mingfei responded, didn't care about recording the surrounding mechanical structure, and swam in the direction of Jiu De Aki at full speed.

"There's no pull on the engine," Selma's voice came after a moment, "Aki's lifeline is broken!" ”

Lu Mingfei had already swam to the main hall where Jiude Yaji was before, but he didn't find her, even if he searched with the insight of the "mirror pupil", he only found an empty lifeline in the end, which was suspended in the deep river water, like a dying snake.

Swimming to the vicinity of the lifeline, Lu Mingfei took it to his side and observed: "The lifeline has been cut, judging from the fracture...... It must have been caused with some kind of sharp weapon. ”

Lu Mingfei's heart moved, he took out the lifesaver on his body, cut a small section from the lifeline, and said after carefully comparing the fractures: "The lifeline was cut by the lifesaver!" I'm afraid it was Aki himself who cut it off! ”

"Keep looking!" Professor Mance's voice rang out in the channel.

Lu Mingfei continued to swim, and the water covered all traces, and even the "mirror pupil" couldn't analyze the whereabouts of Jiude Aki in the water.

Fortunately, he seemed lucky, and after two turns, he saw a slender figure in a diving suit......

Wrong! It's a bit too slender!

Although it was a bit rude to say this, Lu Mingfei was sure that the girl in the diving suit in front of him was not Jiu De Aki, because Jiu De Aki could not have such a good figure.

The person in front of him can't cover the bright curves even if he is wearing a diving suit, and it is definitely not comparable to Jiude Aki, among the people Lu Mingfei knows, there seems to be only one person with such an exaggerated figure-

Aki Sakade's sister, Mai Sakatoku.

Sure enough, as the swim approached, Lu Mingfei could see the bright face of Jiude Mai through the diving helmet.

Under water, the range of human voice transmission will be greatly reduced, and the call basically relies on communication equipment, there is no signal line between Lu Mingfei and Jiude Mai, even if he shouts, the dialogue range will not exceed five meters, so Lu Mingfei didn't talk to her, just swam towards her with his head bored, and at the same time complained in his heart that the professor was unreliable, and he actually put Jiude Mai in when he was guarding outside.

After Lu Mingfei got closer, Jiude Mai pointed in one direction, and then made a mouth gesture towards Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingfei could probably see that she was reading two words - "Aki".

Where is Senior Sister Aki?

After pointing out the direction to Lu Mingfei, Jiu De Ya Ji swam over first, and Lu Mingfei followed while briefly reporting the situation to the Moniach - people from other organizations appeared in the Bronze City, and the other party was taking me to find the missing Jiu De Ya Ji, and he did not show malicious intent at present.

Following Jiude Mai for a short distance, passing through a huge bronze gear with a hole in the middle, Lu Mingfei really saw a familiar figure.

Aki was turning his back to them, trying to ...... Pick up a bronze statue?

Although the bronze statue looked less than a meter tall, it was a pure metal structure, and it was still sticking out of the water that was difficult to exert its strength, which was tantamount to a grasshopper shaking a tree for a B-class half-breed.

Lu Mingfei just wanted to go up to check on Jiu De Yaji's situation, and saw that after Jiu De Mai gave him a thumbs up, his body faded away in the water, as if the whole person disappeared in place.

Depend on! You don't care about your sister?

Lu Mingfei pulled the corners of his mouth, didn't care about Jiude Mai, but swam towards Jiude Aki, her signal line and lifeline were broken, Lu Mingfei couldn't talk to her from a distance, so he could only swim closer.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Lu Mingfei swam towards her, Jiu De Aki stubbornly lifted the bronze statue in the water!

Hell yes! Lu Mingfei's eyes widened.

Bronze is an alloy, the density depends on the composition of it, but it is usually higher than iron, and it can lift such a large lump of metal without having a place to borrow strength.

Lu Mingfei leaned towards her, but as soon as he got closer, Jiu De Yaji suddenly let go of the bronze statue, pulled out the lifesaver on his body with lightning speed, and slashed at Lu Mingfei's throat.

What is this? The inverted fighter is afraid that his companions will come to rob him of his harvest, so he simply strikes first, and hacks his teammates to death in the grave, so that he doesn't have to share the spoils?

But we're from the archaeological team.

Jiu De Aki's movements seemed to Lu Mingfei to be quite "leisurely", so that he not only had time to complain in his heart, but also noticed that Jiu De Yaji's eyes flashed with an abnormal cold light.

Lu Mingfei raised his wrist to hold Jiu De Aki's life-saving knife, and smashed her lower abdomen with his other hand.

Aki Aki's eyes widened suddenly, and he coughed violently under the tremendous force, as if he wanted to squeeze all the gas out of his lungs, and the whole person instantly lost his strength.

Lu Mingfei hurriedly grabbed the wine De Yaji who was about to sink - because of her performance just now, Lu Mingfei added a little more strength when attacking, but he didn't expect that it seemed to be too much strength.

However, when he looked at Jiu De Aki again, he found that the abnormal cold light in her eyes was gone, and there was no sign of attacking him again.

Just as Lu Mingfei was about to ask how Jiu De Yaji was, another figure he was familiar with swam over - it was Senior Brother Ye Sheng.

Lu Mingfei: ......

What should I do if I hit my sister in front of my brother? Waiting online, it's in a hurry.

……

Fortunately, Lu Mingfei didn't use all his strength for the punch just now, and Jiu De Yaji was not injured and recovered quickly—although there was still a trace of pain on her face now.

"Senior brother, you have so much strength." Jiu De Aki was supported by Ye Sheng and said with a wry smile.

As a B-level half-blood, for the first time in her life, Aki experienced the suppressive power of a high-level bloodline, and she had fought with other A-level students in the school in the past, although it was not low, but she could maneuver a few or even a dozen rounds.

But in Lu Mingfei's hands, with only a "light" punch, she almost lost her ability to fight.

Lu Mingfei waved his hand and made a modest expression.

The advantage of the diving suit is that no one can see any physical changes in the person wearing the clothes, so at the beginning of entering the Bronze City, Lu Mingfei had already had dragon scales attached to his body except for his head, and the strength was so great that it would be difficult to resist even if Senior Brother Chu or Old Tang came.

"Aki, I'm afraid I've fallen into a hallucination just now, you continue to take pictures of Long Wen, which is equivalent to reading Long Wen in a certain order, which will make you have 'spiritual vision' and mental confusion," Ye Sheng pointed to the bronze statue at the bottom of the sunken bottom, "This bronze statue should have some kind of special ability, which can guide people who have spiritual vision due to Long Wen to produce specific hallucinations." ”

"It's worthy of the palace of the King of Bronze and Fire, it's really terrifying, I fell into a trap if I didn't pay attention to it, but fortunately, you and Senior Brother Lu stopped me in time and didn't cause greater danger," Jiu De Yaji felt palpitating, "I'm really sorry, I'm dragging you back." ”

"Senior sister, don't say that." Lu Mingfei swam to the place where the bronze statue was placed before.

"Senior brother, you don't need to comfort me, I am a mature commissioner, and I will not fall into a downturn because ......of this," said Aki Jiude.

"No," Lu Mingfei said, "I mean your sentence 'did not cause greater danger', it seems difficult to say at the moment, the bronze statue that you lifted seems to have activated a certain mechanism, you guys, have you heard any strange sounds......"

There was a creepy sound all around, like someone two pieces of rusted iron and rubbing them against a person's ear—a similar sound that was amplified hundreds of thousands.

Ye Sheng and Aki looked at the bronze walls around them, tens of thousands of bronze gears slowly began to turn, the huge bell echoed inside the cave, the rust on the bronze gears began to peel off, and the teeth clenched together to make a gurgling sound.

Ye Sheng raised his head suddenly, and in the darkness that he couldn't see clearly, a huge bell that had never been seen before rang, the bronze pendulum oscillated back and forth around the bearing, and there were countless bronze statues of snake-faced people on the bronze wall, and they also moved at the same time, raising the tooth wat in his hand, the slender snake neck was bent, and he looked up at the dome, like an ancient pilgrimage ritual.

"Wow, the exquisite mechanical structure," Lu Mingfei complained with a wooden face, "but why did the Lord of Bronze and Fire have so many bronze statues to worship him in his palace?" I have reason to suspect that he is actually a sullen person. ”

"We can wait a while to analyze the psychological portrait of the palace owner through the building decoration, and now we have to run quickly," Ye Sheng said, "Although I don't know what will happen after this mechanism is activated, it is definitely not to unfurl a 'welcome' banner." ”

"Any agency needs power and transmission," Lu Mingfei said, "the power of the city is unknown, but if you want to talk about transmission...... Senior brothers and sisters, you stand out a little! ”

Ye Sheng pulled the wine De Aki back: "Senior brother, what are you going to do?" With such a large building, it would be difficult to stop it from running even if it destroyed a few transmission gears, right? ”

Lu Mingfei was suspended in the water, raised his arms, and the multiplier power of the silver mistletoe sword in his body was activated at the same time as the cold qi!

An inconspicuous circle of light blue spherical ripples rippled from Lu Mingfei's body, as if an enchantment had unfolded, and the metal bearings and gears within its range were instantly reduced to an extreme cold far below zero, and thick ice was generated around them.

A moment later, although the river was still flowing, it was already extremely biting.

Ye Sheng and Jiu De Yaji looked at each other, the bronze hall in front of them seemed to have turned into a cold ice palace, and the bronze bell that was originally echoing above their heads had now been frozen into a solid ice cube.

Lu Mingfei clapped his hands, turned his head to look at Ye Sheng and Jiude Yaji, and gave a thumbs up: "It's done!" ”

Ha Sheng shivering in the water >> Aki Sakatoku: ......

(End of chapter)