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"Bronze? What exactly is the situation?" Lu Mingfei's voice, tinged with doubt, reached her ears again.
The system also couldn't quite understand what Xia Mi meant by "bronze".
"It's like I feel like there's something made entirely of bronze underneath the crack, as if it's a single, unified structure..."
Xia Mi took a few steps, bent down and felt around, but found no broken or spliced parts.
It seems that the earthquake was caused by the disturbance that occurred beneath the river by this bronze structure.
"Is there a single piece of bronze beneath the crack? Is it that big?" The system paused for a moment, then asked, "What shape is it?"
"I can't tell yet, but the places I've stepped on are all flat. I might need to bring down some professional equipment to put things up," Xia Mi said.
She could certainly use some tricks to get a glimpse of the whole picture, but she chickened out. She seemed to sense something ominous, like a mouse spotting Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
After all, when it comes to head-on combat...
"Okay, come up."
Having received a reply, Xia Mi quickly swam upwards while pondering what exactly was going on.
She was initially sent here and thought Norton was deliberately creating a false impression for outsiders.
After all, to slay a dragon, one must track down its tracks. If the tracks of the King of Bronze and Fire were investigated, but nothing was found in the end, that's normal. It can also make outsiders subconsciously skip over the King of Bronze and Fire.
When Xia Mi came to the Three Gorges area and actually found something, she didn't realize it yet.
The things created by the human cities and tribes gathered at the feet of the King of Bronze and Fire have almost no research value for dragons.
But the sudden discovery of a bronze city left her momentarily stunned.
This doesn't seem like something that was done casually.
While pondering the strangeness of the situation, she slowly floated to the surface of the water, and nothing unexpected happened to her.
Once aboard the ship, Xia Mi glanced at Lu Mingfei's expression.
A cold, emotionless soul, emitting no warmth, controlled this body, its expression as utterly calm as ever.
"The bottom of the crack is all flat bronze?" The system showed her the scene Xia Mi described after roughly sketching it out with a pen.
A flat bronze floor... This bronze piece buried under the riverbed is not only large, but its square shape is also somewhat strange.
“Yes, apart from some rocks and sand that were shaken down, all I can step on is the flat bronze floor,” Xia Mi said. “I can’t perceive the whole bronze piece, but it must be very large. This crack, though small, is still tens of meters long… and those tens of meters are probably just the tip of the iceberg.”
"Hmm... I'll go down into the water and take a look. You're in charge of the situation on the boat."
Bronze—this is the performance arena for the Vacuum Serpent. The Vacuum Serpent can cover a very large area within bronze metal, so we should be able to get a glimpse of its entirety.
"Okay." Xia Mi took over the command on the ship, and it was Lu Mingfei's turn to put on his diving gear and go into the water.
Fifty meters of water, coupled with murky and limited visibility, meant there was nothing but water. Traveling through the crevice was especially likely to trigger claustrophobia.
Ignoring the psychological pressure, the system activated Vacuum Serpent. Before even reaching the bottom of the crack, Vacuum Serpent burrowed into the bronze structure and began to move rapidly through it, as if it were on a highway.
When they stepped onto the bronze, all the Vacuum Serpents were released to gather intelligence.
Numerous snakes roamed at high speed within the system, relaying the intelligence they gathered back to it.
The information about a... city? quickly formed in Lu Mingfei's mind.
This is indeed a city, because it is extremely large and is entirely cast from a single piece of bronze refined by alchemy.
The King of Bronze and Fire?
Both the system and Lu Mingfei subconsciously thought of this existence.
Such a large city was cast from a single piece, so it's likely that it was forged using the Word of Power "Heaven and Earth as a Furnace" that Lu Mingfei frequently uses.
This range far exceeds the limits of Lu Mingfei's control over the Heaven and Earth Furnace; it must be the work of the dragon.
This city was not only created using alchemy, but it also contains ingeniously installed mechanisms and alchemical matrices...
wrong!
The system's expression suddenly changed. It abandoned the Vacuum Serpent that it had sent out to explore the details of this magnificent bronze city and swam towards the surface of the water without hesitation, as if it were being chased by ferocious wolves and tigers.
“Retreat, retreat, retreat!”
While moving upstream, the system spoke into its headset: "Everyone, all boats, evacuate immediately! Back to the dock!"
As he suddenly went upstream, the riverbed began to tremble again.
Upon hearing the somewhat anxious voice from the system, Xia Mi ordered everyone and the ship to evacuate without hesitation.
"Do you need me to wait for you to come up?"
"Don't wait for me, I'll definitely run faster than you!" the system replied to Xia Mi, as she charged headlong through the winding, sword-like cracks, completely ignoring the pain that came with the charge.
After all, life is more important than pain.
In the Bronze City where he had sent down the Vacuum Serpent, some serpents were swimming around when suddenly a vacuum area appeared, and it seemed that all the serpents avoided it.
No, this vacuum region is actually moving!
This is very strange... In 0.01 seconds, the system roughly analyzed something, so it immediately and without hesitation fled in panic.
The Vacuum Serpent, under its command, probes the things inside the Bronze City. The serpent will definitely go wherever it can, regardless of what you are, and then report the information of the places it has swum over to Lu Mingfei.
The system analysis suggests that the snake most likely swam onto something and then disappeared, creating a vacuum.
In that vacuum, the snake didn't avoid it; rather, it was digested by that thing...
dragon!
There must be a dragon in the Bronze City! And it's a living dragon, which is why that vacuum area keeps moving.
Even more dangerously, that vacuum area is still moving towards Lu Mingfei!
Chapter 181 Have you ever risked your life for yourself?
Fifty meters deep wasn't considered very deep for Lu Mingfei's physical condition, but the ground trembled again, and a rumbling sound came from underground. As the cracks trembled, a huge amount of water began to flow downwards, creating a powerful downward suction force.
The Bronze City directly below has opened its gates!
The system ran even faster, starting up in zero time and then disappearing, defying the water's suction to break through the crack and struggling to swim towards the river surface.
Who would have thought that dragons would be so easy to encounter? Kassel College searched for dragon tracks all over the world, with tens of thousands of specialists searching for dragons globally, but they only obtained a small amount of relevant information and barely came across any dragons.
As for Lu Mingfei, he encountered the resurrection of the Yamata no Orochi during a trip to Japan, and he even knocked on the door of the Dragon's Nest during a trip to the Three Gorges!
"Boom boom..."
The bronze city gate opened, and the dragon inside emerged. It crashed into the cracks in the riverbed with even greater destructive speed, forcefully pushing its massive body out of the narrow crevice.
As soon as Lu Mingfei's head broke the surface of the water, he immediately flew up. Then, to the horror of the salvage crew, a huge mouth emerged from the water and bit Lu Mingfei as he flew out of the water.
It missed its target, but what was even more worrying was that its massive body was pulled out of the water.
In the darkness of a torrential downpour, visibility was extremely limited, yet the sheer size of this dark figure still sent a powerful shock through the young boy's heart.
Its long and massive body was fifteen meters long, and its wingspan was even wider. But this behemoth also had extremely high speed and agile body, and it pounced on the small Lu Mingfei in the air.
It flew past the system and narrowly avoided the bite. At the same time, because of the extremely close distance, it was able to see the dragon's body clearly.
The dragon wore an ancient iron mask, its ferocious teeth were a dull yellow, and its golden eyes shone like yellow light bulbs, giving it an extremely eerie appearance. Its long neck was covered with jet-black scales, and its spine had bone spurs protruding like short saws... The dragon's physical condition did not seem to be very good, as if it had parasites inside it, and it was quite thin and bony.
This also made Lu Mingfei's scalp tingle, and the system analysis log was refreshing coolly, giving people the feeling that it was about to smoke.
This dragon appears to be about the same size as the Yamata no Orochi, but the Yamata no Orochi is a juvenile. No matter how strong it looks, it is still a fragile infant with extremely limited abilities.
This dragon looks like an adult!
Adult dragons possess a wide range of abilities.
With a flap of its membranous wings, the dragon's long neck immediately changed direction, and its massive body, like a ball, curved in a smooth arc, instantly turning its head around.
"roll!"
The system instantly issued a supreme command, successfully launching a sneak attack. The dragon's body stiffened momentarily.
Activate the power of words, activate them all!
Regardless of whether it's useful or not, start it first and don't be stingy with the expenditure of your physical strength.
The alchemical matrix within Lu Mingfei's body is like a 38V motor connected to a 220V power supply, providing the motor with a continuous power source, even to the point of being severely overclocked, so there is no need to worry about power consumption.
The system delivered a powerful kick, successfully sending the paused dragon flying backward.
With the force of that kick, the distance between the man and the dragon widened rapidly.
"roll roll roll!"
Lu Mingfei was also frantically activating the Supreme skill to assist, directly bringing a fully grown dragon right up to his face. It was terrifying; it was like asking, "Have you ever risked your life for yourself?"
The dragon's body, which had been flying backward, came to a stop. It shook its head violently and found that it was still dizzy.
This didn't cause it much direct harm, but it felt like a sack was over its head and it was being whipped with a stick, leaving it somewhat dazed.
The membrane wing moved weakly through the air, but its speed was still lightning fast, even faster than Lu Mingfei's body, which was sent flying backward by using a kick.
Why is it staring so intently at its host?
The system didn't understand. There were so many salvage ships below, and even more people on those ships. Wouldn't those ships be easier to attack? Why was Lu Mingfei being singled out and relentlessly attacked?
The people on the salvage boat below were almost stunned by what they saw.
Dragon! A creature only found in myths and legends! The dragon's shadow in the storm and lightning was as lithe and unruly as a raging dragon. The storm seemed to have been there to greet it, causing many ordinary people with weak mental fortitude to sit down abruptly, almost scared to death.
Even those mixed-race individuals felt immense pressure. They knew that dragons truly existed in this world, and their appearance was far less terrifying than that of ordinary people. However, the suppression exerted by such superior beings as dragons on these "inferior beings" still made them feel somewhat weak.
They were separated by the dragon, still some distance away, but Boss Lu, who was fighting the dragon in the air, was face to face with it!
The dragon's biological suppression had no effect on Xia Mi, but the scene before her still made her scalp tingle.
Besides being directly hit in the face by the Supreme One at close range, she felt like her brain was about to burn out.
That dragon was a genuine dragon, without any adulteration, a pure-blooded second-generation species, and a fully grown dragon.
It looks emaciated, most likely because it has been in hibernation for a long time. For a dragon to become so thin, it probably hasn't come out to move around for more than 500 years.
What puzzled her even more was how Lu Mingfei ended up fighting with this dragon.
This dragon is clearly a second-generation species of the Bronze and Fire King lineage. It's not that there's no such thing as the lower overthrowing the higher among the dragons, otherwise the White King wouldn't have rebelled, and the Black King wouldn't have failed... She just doesn't understand why Lu Mingfei came here to fight this dragon.
Could this dragon have attacked Norton? Is this why Norton is seeking revenge? But then again, a fight between two dragons would be too loud and attract worldwide attention… But that doesn't make sense! That bronze city below is clearly Norton's doing. With the dragon coiled inside, Norton should be able to kill it inside…