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"0." EVA said, and when she responded to Caesar's question, she looked straight in Caesar's direction, as if she could really see the Italian sitting there scratching his head anxiously.
But in fact, there was no camera in the submersible that could capture the front view of the two of them.
"There are only eight Dragon Kings, and we have killed two of them. The possibility that a monarch is buried deep in the Abyss is very low. We can give it a try." Chu Zihang said. He was actually unwilling to give up.
It's not about honor, it's just about fulfilling one's duty.
"Surface and pull us up!" Caesar said coldly, throwing away his headphones.
Chu Zihang was stunned and looked at the man with a frown on his face, holding a cigarette in his mouth.
"I know you are the team leader, but the dive application must be approved by two people at the same time before it can be sent to the command center, so this mission ends here." Caesar took a deep breath and reached out to the valve switch on the operating table. That was the valve of the watertight compartment. As long as it was turned on, the submersible would expel the seawater between the metal outer shell and the inner shell, and then the air would be discharged from the airtight compartment, and the tin can would float up by itself.
Of course they could also ask the tanker on the sea to pull them up directly, but the shaking of the safety lock would make the journey very unpleasant.
"How could my pride allow you to accompany me to take this risk and lead my friends and partners into a meaningless dead end?" Caesar said. He didn't look into Chu Zihang's eyes, but all the strength in his body seemed to be drained.
But suddenly, a bright blue light swept across the small cockpit. Chu Zihang and Caesar looked out through the observation window, and for a moment, their eyes were a little dull.
It was a bright blue river, and the river was densely packed with ghost tooth vipers, all glowing with a faint blue light.
There were thousands of them, and they had surrounded the Ditrieste silently!
Several ferocious viperfish gathered in front of the observation window, showing their dagger-sharp teeth through the resin glass and bending their bodies like small snakes. Chu Zihang could see through their transparent scales and muscles that the bones inside seemed to be made of silver, which were slender but full of extremely hideous brutality.
"I think we have no chance to surface..." Chu Zihang murmured.
Caesar's pupils shrank slightly, he straightened his spine again, leaned forward, and the kamaitachi's territory quietly opened.
heartbeat.
Too many heartbeats.
It almost filled his brain!
The heartbeat of each ghost tooth viper was abnormally manic, like the beat of a drum on a battlefield.
"I think the dragon has discovered us," Caesar murmured, "and it will punish those who cross the line."
"I don't want to die with you, so don't give up..." At this time, a light female voice sounded from behind them. Caesar and Chu Zihang tensed their muscles at the same time, and in an instant, Murasame unsheathed the Desert Eagle and pointed it back.
A beautiful figure gradually emerged in the narrow shadow. Her facial features were delicate and her makeup was delicate. Her long black hair was tied into a ponytail at the back of her head, revealing her fair and slender neck like a kendo girl. Her bright but cold face was lightly swept with eyeshadow, and her eyes were slender, like a scarlet blade.
If such a girl appeared on the streets of Tokyo, she would probably become the most eye-catching scenery, but at this moment they were 4,500 meters deep in the sea, surrounded by countless vipers that could tear their bones into pieces and swallow them into their stomachs, and the girl was pointing two unsheathed long knives at their hearts.
Such an encounter is really unbearable...
"Ninja?" Chu Zihang said coldly. He obviously recognized Jiude Mai's combat uniform. It was clearly a tight-fitting bodysuit, and underneath it was a sharkskin swimsuit.
He couldn't understand why this incredibly beautiful girl was wearing a swimsuit. Was she planning to crawl out of the Trieste 8,000 meters below the sea and swim a few laps like a mermaid?
But even mermaids cannot dive into the 8,000-meter abyss. The only creature that can reach here is the Kraken, the giant monster of the North Sea.
Caesar was stunned, "Damn, those legs are so long."
Master Gattuso immediately brought the tense atmosphere back to a somewhat awkward situation.
Chapter 353 Mai: Lu Mingfei and I secretly made a private appointment
When we returned to the camp, Christina was curled up in the corner of the tent with her chin in her hand, wrapped in a coat, looking at the snow outside the window. In front of her was a charcoal stove, and on the charcoal fire sat a Kansai iron kettle, with water boiling.
The orange-yellow firelight illuminated her dark green pupils into a gorgeous golden color. She was wearing a black and white striped scarf, and at this moment, half of her face and pointed chin were hidden in the scarf.
Lu Mingfei's heart moved as he pulled open the curtain and walked in. This girl was really unpredictable. Sometimes she was an impetuous girl, and sometimes she was a female Caesar Gattuso with an overflowing sense of justice and loyalty that overflowed the screen. At this moment, she exuded a deep loneliness, a loneliness that reminded people of the snow lotus on the distant mountains, the clear autumn water blowing in the wind, fragile yet strong.
Christina turned her head and glanced at them. When she saw Lu Mingfei, her expression was relatively calm. But when she saw Lingze, who was wearing a camel coat and high-heeled boots, her brows immediately relaxed.
In name, Kassel College recruits students from all over the world, but the main sources are from Western Europe, Northern Europe and North America. The number of Russian students is not large. As for the black brothers from the distant Cape of Good Hope... Lu Mingfei has never seen any of them so far.
In short, they were both students of Professor Guderian and happened to be from Moscow. What's even better is that they were both girls. Christina's dormitory was right next to Zero's independent apartment, so they communicated quite a lot.
Of course, most of the time it was Christina who did the talking, and Zero was usually unwilling to appear as the one who spoke.
"We met him outside the camp. Ling was a task specialist temporarily assigned by the academy," said Lu Mingfei.
He had already noticed Miss Christina's eyes suddenly becoming lively and her expression clearly revealing a hint of gossip.
I think girls all over the world are the same. Even Russian girls can't escape the gossipy nature that is ingrained in them.
Ling let go of Lu Mingfei's arm only after he entered the tent. He looked around and his eyes were fixed on the Thunder Valley facing the window and the drilling rig in the valley that was running with a thunderous roar.
"The drilling project of the Yamanashi Prefectural Institute of Environmental Sciences has entered the final stage. If nothing unexpected happens, we will soon get the news that the drill has entered the Akagi River." Christina said as she poured a cup of hot water for Lu Mingfei and Ling each with the Kansai iron kettle. Ling sat down on the simple sofa next to her, and as he picked up the bone china cup, white steam rose up.
"That's a biogas drilling hole." Lu Mingfei pointed in the direction of Thunder Valley and looked out from the window.
Ling looked in the direction of Lu Mingfei's finger, and indeed saw a hill of soft mud. The ice and snow could not completely bury the thing, and the rotten black color suddenly appeared in the middle of the white.
The soil rich in methane can even be ignited by open flames. Sometimes at night, the staff here will use the black mud to melt the snow in the camp, so there is no need to worry about causing forest fires in this weather.
"When the soil sample in the drill pipe sampling hole changes from black to red, it means that the institute's drilling project is nearing completion." Christina said. Apparently, during the time that Lu Mingfei was away, the Russian girl successfully got some words out of Sakurai Masahiko.
The water of the Akagi River has a very high iron content. Over time, the iron in the underground river has seeped into the surrounding soil, so she said this.
"The Snake Family has been funding geological survey teams throughout Japan since 1920. Over the past years, they have dug countless deep wells in order to find the remains of the Age of Gods," Zero said softly.
"The remains of the dragon clan contain a huge crisis, but also represent...an opportunity to enter a new era."
Lu Mingfei sighed softly.
The so-called new era is actually the age of dragons. No human has ever witnessed such an age in this world. Is it good? Or bad? Or is it destined to end?
I don’t know. No one knows.
Lu Mingfei believes that Yuan Zhisheng still wants to kill the dead god, but can he represent the majority of the Sheqi Eight Families?
There is never a shortage of ambitious people in this world. The ambitions of the Japanese have been suppressed by Kassel Academy for too long. There are many people gnashing their teeth and sucking blood in the darkness, waiting to divide up the blood of God.
But the facts always tell the world time and again that the greedy will eventually die of greed, and the realm of God cannot be touched by humans.
The ambitious people of the Sheqi Eight Families may hope to open a Pandora's box, which may contain hope or the end of mankind.
"In history, there have been many people who dreamed of finding the kingdom of God. The First Emperor summoned the emperor to search for immortals and medicine, and made five tours to seek eternal life. After King Arthur died, Morgan used the Black Boat to send him to Avalon. The ancient Babylonians built the Tower of Babel in an attempt to reach heaven..."
Lu Mingfei squinted his eyes to watch the operation of the drilling machine. The roar echoed in his ears, as if even the falling snow was shaken by the loud noise.
"But how many people succeed? Who has gone to the Kingdom of God and returned alive?"
A not-so-obedient wisp of cold wind slipped into Christina's collar along her slender and elegant swan-like neck. The girl trembled slightly, feeling that all the darkness and fear in history were hidden in Lu Mingfei's words.
You go through untold hardships to find that door, for which you abandon everything, the world's wealth, the loved ones around you, the partner who promised never to betray you... In the end, you still set foot on the stairs to the kingdom of God alone, but after pushing the door, what greets you may not be the God who promised to give you eternal life, but a dragon that has been sleeping in hunger for thousands of years.
The dragon slowly opens its eyes in front of you, the glow in its pupils is as bright as a giant candle. You kneel before the so-called God and pray for everything you want, but in the end all you get is a bloody mouth full of sharp teeth.
It's really hopeless to think about it this way.
At this time, Lu Mingfei saw Sakurai Masahiko, the handsome young man who was wrapped in thick wool felt and holding a huge black umbrella and standing in a corner of the valley.
He held a bright flame in his mouth, and a thin layer of fog formed on the thick lenses. Although there were people coming and going around him, he felt so lonely and desolate, as if he was independent of this world.
After all, the vast majority of the staff at the Yamanashi Prefectural Institute of Environmental Sciences are ordinary people. Even in a country like Japan where monsters abound, true mixed-race people only make up a small population.
When half-bloods mingle among ordinary people, their blood sorrow will surge out from the depths of their souls, like an evil ghost called loneliness that is about to devour everything they have in this world.
Lu Mingfei had read his information. He was a civilian who had worked in the research institute for six years. In an organization with a strict hierarchy like the Sheqi Eight Families, he was just an insignificant person.
But in another world, when faced with the leakage of the dragon species and a very serious biological crisis was about to occur, Masahiko Sakurai rushed to the front line like a warrior without hesitation.
In Lu Mingfei's eyes, he was a young man with a strong sense of personal heroism. He was still living in the passionate high school days. In such a war, what could he do even if he went to the battlefield?
Sakurai Masahiko probably noticed that Lu Mingfei was looking at him, so he waved at him. Lu Mingfei nodded and shifted his gaze.
"I didn't see Yuan Zhisheng. They didn't come to this camp?" Lu Mingfei frowned.
Although Lu Mingfei and Ling took a shortcut, Yuan Zhisheng was driving after all, so logically they should have returned to the camp first.
"Gen Chisei and his assistant Yabuki Sakura led a team of executive bureau members who were on guard nearby into the mountains. It was said that they were searching for an old man named Saeki." Christina rested her chin on her hand and stared out the window in a daze. "I really don't understand why the search and rescue operation would be carried out by such an armed organization. Could it be that the old man is actually a retired head of the Snake Eight Clan?"
Lu Mingfei was slightly stunned.
Saeki...?
He must be Crow's father.
But why did he come to Tama River? There was nothing here, only a lonely forest with no one around and heavy snow that seemed to never stop.
There are also the brothers who are about to have their inevitable reunion, Minamoto Chisei and Kazama Ruri.
Lu Mingfei's heart moved, and he suddenly thought that the old man might have come for revenge.
Even if a person is so old that he is about to die, his muscles have atrophied and his bones have degenerated, and he can't even lift a knife, but someone has killed the person you love most and burned your last hope of living in this world, you will go crazy and want to kill that person, and you will also summon strength from your bones to cut that person's throat with a knife.
"Senior Sister, are you listening to our conversation?" Lu Mingfei asked softly.
"I'm listening." Nono said, "What do you want me to do?"
"Is Crow's father nearby? He should have a cell phone with him that can locate him, right?"
"The EVA database shows his name as Kengo Saeki. Through big data comparison, his last appearance was at Tamagawa Station in Denenchofu, Ota Ward, Tokyo, which is very close to where you are." Nono only took a few minutes to investigate the whereabouts of Crow Dad. She hesitated for a moment,
"But he didn't carry a cell phone or satellite phone with him, so even the EVA couldn't accurately locate him."
Lu Mingfei took a deep breath.
He glanced at Zero, then at Christina, and put on the coat he had taken off after entering the tent.
"I'm going for a walk in the mountains." Lu Mingfei said.
He originally didn't want to get involved in these things, but the Crow Man was quite nice. He treated him very well in the other world and even treated him to roasted bird.
Now that guy is dead, his father shouldn't have died in the mountains like that.
Besides, even if the old man found Minamoto no Chitose, he would not be able to fight against Susanoo of the Snake Family.
If the one holding the knife was a young man from the mountains, Mr. Saeki might have been spared, but who knows whether the evil spirit Kazama Ruri or the young boy Genjima lives in that skinny body?
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"Fish scales are bones produced from the collagen in the dermis of fish. The scientific name is ichthyosclerosis. It is essentially protein and contains trace amounts of calcium and phosphorus." Jiude Mai spoke quickly. She lowered her head and a golden light flickered in the shadows.
The Word Spirit. Dark Illumination was activated silently. In the eyes of the viperfish, the iron lump in front of them suddenly became an illusory thing, like a deposit of sea snow. However, the voice in their souls that made them tremble and obey was still forcing them to tear up the deposit.
Now these small fish are still testing, and they don't know what is happening, but once a viperfish bites off a piece of metal from the hull of the Trieste, the submersible will be torn into pieces immediately.
"I know, I know. When I went to Tianjin before, I ate crispy fried fish scales on the old street. They were delicious and had a protein content comparable to beef. They supplemented calcium and phosphorus, but so what? Are we going to set up a stove now and fry and eat those ghost tooth vipers outside?" Caesar made a bitter face.
"I hope our three pieces of raw meat, which are too high in cholesterol for them, won't give the viperfish diarrhea."