Relying on lithium battery-driven propellers to slowly glide on the seafloor at 8,500 meters, the Dilieste moved forward along a seafloor fissure with lava coming out. At this time, the temperature inside the submersible had exceeded 40 degrees Celsius. Lu Mingfei and the others were

Worried about heatstroke due to the high temperature, they all took off their combat uniforms. After all, everyone here is a man, so there is nothing to be ashamed of.

"The external water temperature is 224 degrees." Chu Zihang said, "Although there is a heat insulation layer, we may not be able to bear it if we continue to be close to the surface of the magma."

"It's better to take a sauna now. When the temperature heats up, we'll start roasting suckling pig." Lu Mingfei wiped away the sweat on his forehead.

"Do you mind if I take off my underwear too?" Lu Mingfei said. The soaked underwear lay like a cooked toad on his buttocks. In this extremely hot environment, there was not even a thread stuck to his body.

Feel hot.

"Excuse me, we are all men anyway," Caesar bit his cigar. "The temperature outside the cabin has increased by another 15 degrees, and there are 28 minutes of oxygen left."

Lu Mingfei took off his underwear and threw it into the corner. He felt as relaxed as if he had taken off a down jacket.

Mo Qianye, who was sitting on the Xumi Seat with his legs crossed and watching the images captured by the Ditryeste's camera, noticed that some black shadow suddenly flashed past in front of the camera.

"Caesar, pay attention to your nine o'clock direction, there seems to be something there."

After hearing Mo Qianye's prompt, when Caesar controlled the Diryste to turn to the nine o'clock direction, Lu Mingfei just took one look and completely forgot about the intense heat. He shivered slowly, his whole body shaking.

Goosebumps arose all over the place. He actually saw a tower! A huge tower! It stood on the gentle slope next to the crack in the ground. The tide of magma rose and fell not far from it. The dark tower body was reflected, as if

The iron tire is about to melt. No one speaks, all words are powerless at this moment, and all the emotions are only shock, ecstasy and fear. From the diving team to the young students on the Xumizuo to Schneider and Manstein at the college headquarters

, everyone is looking at that tower. It seems to have been standing there for millions of years. It is as majestic as a god and as lonely as a god. Seeing it makes people want to worship.

"That thing cannot be human," said Caesar hoarsely.

"It's impossible," Chu Zihang said, "It's absolutely impossible for humans to build such a giant tower in the deep sea of ​​8,600 meters."

"The city of dragons?" Lu Mingfei spoke, but he couldn't tell that it was his own voice.

As the Trieste moved forward, a majestic city appeared at the end of the field of vision, looking like the Kingdom of God!

Crossing an undersea ridge, the ancient city below spreads out like a scroll. It is centered on a tall tower, adjacent to the long river of magma, and has endured for thousands of years. The Dirieste cruised above this ancient city like an airship.

Walking between skyscrapers. Half of the ancient city has slipped into the lava river, and the other half is only a collapsed ruin. Only the huge tower in the center has stood stubbornly for many years, symbolizing the city's past glory. Even from

The collapsed ruins can still see its original majesty, with continuous buildings and bulging gabled roofs covered with iron-black tiles. Cirrus clouds and dragon beasts are engraved on the tiles. Metal chains hundreds of meters long are hung on the sides of the buildings.

At the four corners, black wind chimes were hung on chains. These chains undulated in the sea currents, and thousands of black wind chimes swayed, playing silent music.

Everyone was overwhelmed by the antiquity and majesty of this city. They had never seen such a magnificent architectural style in all the civilization relics in the world, but those ancient civilizations that had been destroyed all inherited this architectural style.

A scale and a half. This ancient city seems to have been carved out of the rock by a god holding a giant axe, and then decorated with black iron, bronze and silver. The lines that remain today are still as simple and sharp as ever, and its aesthetics can withstand the test of time.

Chu Zihang made a sketch on paper and drew a map of the city. The layout of the city could be vaguely seen. The vertical and horizontal avenues divided the city into different districts. In the center of the ruins was a circular square like the Colosseum in ancient Rome.

It is the starting point, with four imperial roads leading to the southeast, northwest and northwest. In the center of the square stands the huge tower originally discovered. The tower has complex relief patterns and there are sharp spikes that are tens of meters long on the top of the tower. There are similar ones on the top of other buildings.

Spikes. If you look at it, there are dense thorns below, like thorn bushes of pig iron.

"The city spreads out in all directions with the central square as the center, and the four imperial roads in the southeast, northwest and northwest are the main thoroughfares. If there are roads, it means that the city was built on the ground and later sank into the water." Chu Zihang said, "It is huge.

The square shows that dragons often hold grand religious activities."

"What religion does the Dragon Clan believe in? The Dragon Clan?" Lu Mingfei asked casually.

"Don't talk about king attributes at this time." Chu Zihang said.

Caesar piloted the Dirieste to cruise over the ancient city: "The oxygen stock is still enough. We draw a map of the city as much as possible, and then descend to the building to use the robotic arm to take some samples."

"Why did the Dragon Clan build such a high tower?" Lu Mingfei looked up at the huge tower that reached to the sky and the earth, and suddenly he was in a trance.

"The Dragon Clan has a habit of recording wars on pillar-shaped objects that stand in the open air. They record glory when they win and record hatred when they lose." Chu Zihang said, "The other purpose of the tower is execution. The Dragon Clan is used to nailing sinners to the tower.

It takes hundreds of years to dry a dragon. During these hundreds of years, the criminal dragon was endlessly humiliated by all the tribesmen."

The Dirieste passed by the side of the tower, and Chu Zihang copied the reliefs and the weird words. They looked like hieroglyphics, composed of snake-like curves. The words and the reliefs were connected into one, like a ferocious beast.

Wrap the square prismatic tower. Looking closer, the giant tower shows an obvious metal texture. Although tiny rust-like shellfish cover most of the surface, there are still some places that are as bright as a mirror, so the surface of the tower is strong.

The ground is reflective. If it hadn't served as a signpost, across a submarine ridge, Caesar would not have discovered this city on the seabed.

"Qianye, you are a genius in linguistics, can you translate what is written here?" Lu Mingfei asked in the headset.

"Do you think I am Konjac, the translator of "Doraemon" or the cosmic translator of "Men in Black"? This thing is older than hieroglyphics!" Mo Qianye said, "But I personally think this is probably a record

It tells the important history of this city, such as the glorious deeds of the owner of this city."

"Call Xumizuo, call Xumizuo." He connected to Yuan Zhisheng's channel, "Did you see it? Did you see it?"

"We have seen that the Norma system and the Kaguya system are saving and analyzing the videos and pictures you sent back. What you have to do now is to control the camera to point in different directions. Every second of the video you take is priceless.

, this is the first time we have directly observed the ancient city of the Dragon Clan. This is first-hand information for us to study the history and culture of the Dragon Clan. Professor Schneider is writing an email to report this discovery to the principal and the school board. Judging from the oxygen inventory

You can still move underwater for 30 minutes, please hurry up and look for embryos." Yuan Zhisheng said.

"It's true that the embryo should be in this ruins, but this city is so big, where should we find it?"

"The Trieste has a sonar system. You can try using sonar to search for its heartbeat."

Caesar turned on the sonar system, and the Trieste began to receive sound signals from all directions. Seawater is an excellent medium for sound, and sound waves are the most powerful tool for underwater exploration. With the technical strength of the Equipment Department, embryos can be captured on the sea surface.

If the heartbeat signal is obtained, the DiTrieste near the embryo should be able to locate the embryo very accurately by relying on sonar.

"It's strange, there's a lot of clutter." Caesar frowned, "There seems to be an echo here. Regular heartbeats can be found in all directions."

"There can't be dragon embryos everywhere, right?" Lu Mingfei felt his liver tremble just thinking about it.

"If this thing could be produced, we wouldn't have to mess around. No one can stop the dragons from dominating the world." Caesar said, "But it's really strange. It seems that the heartbeat of the embryo comes from underneath the ruins, but not from a certain point.

, but the ground of the entire ruins is shaking. It seems... like the heartbeat of this ruins."

"Then let's just throw the sulfur bomb down?" Lu Mingfei said, "It doesn't matter where it hits. I don't want to stay here any longer."

"It's useless. The embryo cannot be as big as the entire city. Its heartbeat should have caused resonance in the ruins." Caesar said, "Let's look for it again."

"Look at that thing in front of you. Does it look like a torii gate?" Chu Zihang pointed forward.

Right in front of the deep submersible is a sloping building, which really looks like a torii gate in front of a Japanese shrine. There is a small torii gate in Xingshenji Temple. This thing is actually a very simple structure, with two pillars supporting beams and

People visiting the shrine have to walk under the torii gate. But in the eyes of the priests, the torii gate is actually a symbol of the barrier. Once you walk through the torii gate, you enter the world of the gods. Usually the torii gate is made of rocks or vermilion.

It was built of red wooden pillars, but the surface of the building had a greenish-black shimmer, and it looked like it was made of metal like a tall tower. Even the Senbon Torii, which is known as the grandest in the Fushimi area of ​​Kyoto, is less than ten meters high, but

This torii-like building is nearly fifty meters high, making people feel that those who passed under this building must have been a huge giant.

Probably when the undersea volcano erupted, high-temperature magma invaded here. The road under the building was filled with black volcanic rock, and the building itself was half melted. The molten iron flowed down and condensed into rugged iron teeth. Chu Zihang adjusted the underwater telescope.

With the focal length, the ancient patterns on the surface of the building are revealed. They are realistic carvings. This kind of detailed information is undoubtedly extremely precious. Caesar turned the camera to take pictures.

In a few seconds, the photo was transmitted to the central control room of the headquarters and displayed on the big screen. Schneider and Manstein were people who had come into contact with many dragon antiquities, but they still felt inexplicably shocked in front of such detailed carvings. Paintings, sculptures

Letters and writings are the most valuable antiquities. Based on these things, we can infer ancient civilizations that have been annihilated, from lifestyles to beliefs, from craftsmanship to political systems.

These carvings depict thousands of ghosts and gods fighting. The images of these ghosts and gods have never appeared in any civilization. If that war had ever happened and was not fictitious, it is conceivable that its cruelty exceeded that of humans.

any war in history.

"The image of a human body with a snake's tail is very rare," Manstein said.

"I only remember the images of human beings and snakes' tails in ancient civilizations, including the Nagas of India, Nuwa in China and Medusa of ancient Greece." Schneider said, "There is no record in the literature that dragons appear in the form of human beings and snakes' tails."

All kinds of ghosts and gods appear in the carvings in the form of human bodies and snake tails. Because it is a realistic style, you can imagine monsters with human bodies and snake tails wrapping their snake tails around each other's necks, spitting out poisonous flames, and wielding deadly swords at the same time. That war

The scenes are carved too realistically and too bizarrely, as if there are too many elements of imagination.

"Corpse Guard..." Mo Qianye murmured.

"Huh? What corpse guard?"

"Qianye, do you recognize what this is?"

"Recognize, this is an alchemical weapon of the Dragon Clan. It is mass-produced cannon fodder. Through alchemy, the corpse of a mixed race is transformed into a war weapon similar to Deadpool. It can skillfully use various weapons to fight.

Ordinary small-caliber weapons cannot penetrate the scaly skin covering their surface. Although the individual combat power is not very strong, it will become very troublesome once a numerical advantage is formed. I think the heartbeat detected by sonar

The corpse guards should be in a deep sleep state." Mo Qianye said casually after yawning, as if the corpse guards who were sleeping and waiting to be awakened by the enemy had nothing to do with him.

Gudong~~~

I don’t know who swallowed the water, but it was probably Lu Mingfei, right? When he thought of a large group of countless corpse guards sleeping around him, Lu Mingfei almost wanted to find the dragon king quickly and deliver the express to

After taking his hands, he quickly surfaced and left this hellish place.

Mo Qianye, who had just sat up and took another sip of coffee, suddenly realized that Lu Mingfei and the others seemed to have just passed the torii gate.

"Door......"

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"Is it really an ancient dragon city?" Manstein said, "We guess it is an ancient dragon city just because human civilization cannot build that tower."

“There are too many surprising things to digest at the moment,” Schneider said. “Although the opportunity is rare, I have a very uneasy feeling. It’s almost time to return. Now that I have located the city, I still have the opportunity to dive.

To solve the embryo problem."

Manstein stared at the photos on the big screen in trance, and his expression suddenly changed: "A door... a torii is a kind of door! Hell, they really saw the door underwater!"

Huge fear exploded in Schneider's heart. Yes, the Torii is actually a door, but like the Arc de Triomphe, it is a symbolic door and is not connected to the wall, but it is indeed a door because it distinguishes between inside and outside!

They were immersed in the amazing discovery and forgot about the door. Except for the failure of the pressure relief valve, everything went smoothly, allowing them to relax their vigilance a little. The story of eleven years ago was being repeated, diving, discovering the door, and heading towards

The door moves forward... The video shows that the Dirieste is heading straight towards the torii. In Schneider's eyes, the strange building immediately turned into a twisted maw, ready to swallow everything.

"Don't get close! Don't get close! Return! Return!" He yelled uncontrollably. The mental imprint from eleven years ago was too deep, and he couldn't control himself at this moment.

No one answered, the communication channel was eerily silent, Minamoto didn't speak, the Dirieste made no movement, and even the Japanese branch's Kaguya Princess system didn't respond.

"Report to Professor Schneider, the Kazuki system and I disconnected all connections five seconds ago. All contact with the Japanese branch and the Dieste was interrupted. I am trying to repair it, but the Kazuki system is not responding.
Chapter completed!