LRAB Chapter 38 Unexpected Guest
Chapter 38 Unexpected Guest
Below the living creature is a smooth slide, and the experience of spiraling down reminded Lu Mingfei of the water slides he used to play on when he was a child.
However, this water slide is clearly more thrilling than the one in the park.
After experiencing a period of weightlessness and acceleration, he and Chu Zihang finally landed on the ground one after the other.
But this is far from the end; after the water slide comes the Ferris wheel.
Or more accurately, it was a bronze waterwheel powered by water, with Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang sitting one after the other on the waterwheel's platform.
Driven by the waterwheel, the two jumped down after seeing a glimmer of light in front of them.
The various bizarre experiences along the way had already broadened their horizons, but hidden deep within this bronze city was not a magnificent palace, but a small house, an ordinary ancient house that could be found everywhere in history textbooks.
This little house seems to bear the marks of history; a thousand years have not shown any trace on it. However, an uninvited guest suddenly arrived and disturbed this peace.
Lu Mingfei and his companion searched the house like players ransacking an RPG game.
Before long, they discovered two things, no, more accurately, three things.
Two of them were identical brass jars, except that one had a large hole in it, as if it had been corroded by sulfuric acid, while the other was intact, and the beautiful patterns carved by the craftsman could be clearly seen on it.
The third item was a rectangular box, its surface also engraved with beautiful patterns. For some reason, Lu Mingfei felt a chill emanating from this last item, as if it contained some extremely ominous creature.
"Calling command center, calling command center, please respond." Chu Zihang pointed the camera on his helmet at these three things, hoping to get the next instructions.
"It's no use, the communication line has been cut." Lu Mingfei glanced back.
Chu Zihang then realized that the communication cable behind them had been cut off after they were sucked into the living spirit.
"Take him away." He made his decision after a moment's thought.
The bronze pot, which looked damaged, could only be left where it was for the time being.
Lu Mingfei carried the rectangular box on his back, and Chu Zihang carried the brass jar. The two hadn't even taken a few steps back.
Suddenly, Lu Mingfei stopped in his tracks.
"What's wrong?" Chu Zihang asked, puzzled.
Lu Mingfei's expression suddenly changed.
"Hurry!" He held the box in one hand and grabbed Chu Zihang with the other, then ran quickly toward the exit.
At first, Chu Zihang did not understand Lu Mingfei's intention, but the next moment, the faint sound of bearings rotating suddenly rang out around him. Then, just like the calm before the dam was opened, a thunderous roar resounded in this underground city.
A bad feeling suddenly rose in Chu Zihang's mind.
He had read in a book that wealthy families in ancient times would sometimes set up self-destruct mechanisms to prevent tomb robbers from disturbing their peace after death.
Even ordinary wealthy families take precautions, let alone the tomb of a legendary dragon king.
Lu Mingfei led Chu Zihang to the waterwheel at the exit. Before it could turn, he threw down the rectangular box in his hand and climbed up using both hands and feet.
Chu Zihang suppressed his astonishment and quickly followed.
But it was a one-way street, and they couldn't get through at all.
In a moment of desperation, Chu Zihang glanced around, his eyes lit up, and he pointed to the ground not far away.
"There!" he shouted.
Lu Mingfei leaped down from the waterwheel like a nimble ape.
The two of them, braving the cascading water overhead, jumped into the exit.
This exit should be an emergency passage, which only appears after the Bronze City is activated by turning the mechanism.
The water flowed rapidly inside the passage, but Lu Mingfei and his companion paid no heed to that.
In the current situation, the oxygen in their diving suits is barely enough; they must find a way to get out as soon as possible.
Time passed slowly, and finally, the two, who had been suffering greatly, slowed down and entered a deep pool.
ended.
Chu Zihang surfaced, feeling a sense of relief.
However, he noticed that Lu Mingfei's expression suddenly changed.
What's going on?!
He looked ahead.
in the dark.
A golden vertical pupil lit up.
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The Moniach.
After losing contact with Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang underwater for half an hour, Manstein finally couldn't sit still any longer.
The situation had reached a point where he had no choice but to activate his backup team.
He looked at Caesar, who immediately nodded in understanding.
Or to be more precise, he had been waiting for this moment all along.
Caesar walked out of the command room like a proud Gallic rooster.
He changed into his diving gear, exchanged a glance with his partner, Xia Mi, a new preparatory student this year, and then jumped into the icy river.
Water splashed and the river flowed, obscuring his figure.
Then Xia Mi also jumped into the river.
At first, the signals and calls transmitted by the two were clear, but as they descended deeper, even with the transmission via cable, for some reason, the image occasionally showed static.
Manstein watched as Caesar and Chami arrived at the Bronze City.
Although they managed to awaken the living spirit and enter the bronze city using a blood sample from the key.
However, since the Bronze City had already been activated, the paths that Lu Mingfei and his companion had once walked had long since disappeared, and what appeared before them were completely unfamiliar chambers and passageways.
Damn!
Manstein rushed to the computer screen, his eyes glued to the ever-changing map of Bronze City.
A faint golden light shone in his pupils, and his own bloodline echoed the dragon script on the map.
But it is clear that he alone cannot completely decipher such complex dragon script.
Even though the students on the other side of the ocean had joined in cracking the map, time was no longer on their side.
But worse was yet to come, just as Caesar and Xia Mi were trying to decipher the ever-changing map of the Bronze City.
Suddenly, the transmission cables were cut, and all the screens in the Moniach command room went dark.
Manstein was already on the verge of collapse. Even as the chairman of the college's disciplinary committee, he couldn't bear the mission failing to this extent.
Moreover, the students are all currently trapped underwater, their fates unknown, which makes it hard for him, as a professor and commander-in-chief, to remain unharmed on the ship.
"Fingal, you take over command!" Manstein shouted at Fingel, who was trying to slack off in the corner, and then walked out of the cabin under Fingel's somewhat bewildered gaze.
He wanted to go into the water to save his students.
Just as he snatched the diving suit from the others and was about to go into the water amidst the pushing and shoving,
A voice rang out.
"Wait." At the corner at the end of the deck, a figure shrouded in a black trench coat slowly walked over.
Principal Angers, who claimed to be on other business, was actually on the Moniach at this very moment.
"I'll do it," he said calmly, but his pupils gleamed with golden light.