Lu Mingfei, who had read Dragon Clan before Dragon Slaying

Chapter 286 The confrontation between Tachibana Masamune and Lu Mingfei (two in one, please subscribe!!!)
Caesar and Chu Zihang walked forward in the dead silence of the divine way, the sound of footsteps echoed in the narrow passage, and the ghostly candle flames danced in the bronze candlesticks on the walls on both sides, reflecting their distorted shadows in a pair of like On the giant painting like a mountain.

"Didn't you notice? Although the screen wall depicting the coming of the Black King is huge, it only occupies less than one-tenth of the length of the entire wall. There should be more secrets ahead." Chu Zihang said in a low voice.

Caesar nodded. He turned the flashlight, and the light spread across the ancient stone walls.

The colors of vermilion and indigo blend together, making people sigh and dizzyingly beautiful. Thousands of years of history spread out in front of their eyes like a scroll, and the eyes of the two seem to be immersed in the long river of thousands of years. Here, swaying with the waves.

The monsters with human faces and snake bodies formed an endless team. Some of them held high torches and knelt down to look at the sky, as if they were offering sacrifices; in copulation.

The male snakes are tall and mighty, while the females are enchanting and charming. They dance around the huge skeletons, surrounded by blazing bonfires. In the sky, a giant dragon with wings on its back is soaring among the clouds, and the sun and the moon are shining all over the place at the same time. The earth, illuminate the skeleton. From its dark eye holes, one flows out of golden water, and the other is braving fierce flames, solidifying into mineral veins and magma in the distance.

Demons and giants wage war on the wasteland, they hold long knives and forks, the flames reflect the sky crimson, it seems that the whole world is on fire...

It is unimaginable that those golden rivers are really paved with melted real gold, the swords are real bronzes that have been refined for thousands of years, and blood-red or emerald green agate stones and finely carved crystal jade can be seen everywhere on the walls. Extravagant and colorful, flashy.

This is a handicraft made by people who worship it. It seems that all the violence, anger and evil in the world have been integrated into this wall. When you see the painting, it seems that the drums and drums of thousands of years ago will sound in your ears. Roaring, smelling the blood of the war, feeling the hot temperature of the flames on the skin... The picture is so beautiful that it is shocking, and it is so beautiful that it makes people want to cry.

There are more than a hundred paintings like this in the long corridor. Caesar and Chu Zihang, who looked up at the murals, were shocked by the luxurious but extremely real beauty, as if they were silent in the indescribable world depicted in the paintings. Walked a long way in silence.

"It seems that the purpose of this layer is to store these murals. Each of these murals here is at least a thousand years old. If they are put up for auction, the price will be unimaginably sky-high." Chu Zihang couldn't help but point his fingers. Caress on a fresco of the King of Earth and Mountain.

"It's really scary for the Japanese to be extravagant." Caesar couldn't help but sigh, "In Tokyo, where every inch of land is expensive, such a wide floor is used as a storage room, and this kind of treasure is hidden in a hidden place where no one walks. On the floor, the legendary mermaid oil is also used as a candle for lighting."

"Although the artistic value and painting skills of these paintings are very high, the materials are exquisite, and the preservation methods are very appropriate, but for the Snake Bajia, what is precious should not be the murals themselves, but the history sealed in these paintings. , The part we visited just now should describe ancient myths and legends." Chu Zihang looked ahead, "The thing that is truly treasured by the Snake and Eight Families should be not far in front of us."

Caesar shone the light of the flashlight to the ceiling, and looked up at the position above his head. They were passing through a torii at this time.

Two thick wooden pillars support the bamboo and island trees that traverse the entire space. They do not seem to be spliced ​​together, but are carved from a large enough ancient tree at one time, and the vermilion paint on it has been dim and mottled. , revealing the original ancient wood color, and the ancient character "God" is written on the forehead bundle in the middle of the torii gate.

"The atmosphere here is very strange." Chu Zihang frowned slightly, "The smell of blood is even stronger."

"This is the end of Shinto. It contains the real secret of the Snake Ba Family." Caesar obviously also smelled the smell of burning incense and blood mixed in the air, and his expression became serious.

The candlestick made of mermaid oil suddenly broke here, and a tall statue stood in the darkness, carved from solid wood.

There are white curtains hanging on the faces of each statue, some are gods holding knives, some are ferocious ghosts, the difference is that each god has a stone platform under his feet, and the bodies of the ghosts are wrapped around With long white rope.

This kind of rope woven with paper balls is called "fan building", which refers to the flag on the brake. If it is a hanging curtain or ribbon type decorated on a paper umbrella, it means holiness. If it is a winding rope, it means holy. A seal on evil spirits.

This place is completely different from the walls on both sides of the Shinto. The screen walls behind the torii gates are all horizontal, and each screen wall has almost the length across the entire floor. On both sides of the front stand giant elephants and shrines similar to worship, the screen wall The things depicted on it are between gods and ghosts and demons, and it records the wars of gods and demons, the barren land and ancient cities.

"Beta, do you understand? Which period of history do these things record?" Caesar asked Chu Zihang.

"I can only tell from the paints and materials of these murals that their origins are at least 2000 years ago. It not only involves the history of the birth of mixed races, but also mythical wars and some mysteries of dragons. It is very profound. " Chu Zihang rubbed these priceless ancient stone walls, "The Snake Qi Ba Family has never announced this content to the academy, and there are no relevant documents of this history in the library of the academy, so it is difficult to decipher. Can understand a very small part of the surface."

"Part of the surface layer? Then I can understand it." Caesar said, "These screen walls are well painted and very valuable. They are antiques."

Chu Zihang ignored the two hundred and five cold jokes, and went deeper: "However, what I can be sure of is that the deeper you go, the more important the contents recorded in these murals are to the Snake Qi Family. The biggest secret should be hidden In the deepest part of this layer."

Caesar and Chu Zihang have already walked very deep. Looking from the gap between the screen wall and the wall, the Shinto statue illuminated with mermaid oil has turned into a blurred light group. The two seem to have fallen into the depths of the underworld. Travelers are getting farther and farther away from the real world.

"Caesar, give me the flashlight." Chu Zihang stopped in front of a tall and wide screen wall, and stretched out his hand to Caesar.

"Just this time, next time don't treat me like an assistant carrying your luggage!" Caesar reluctantly put the flashlight into Chu Zihang's hand.

Of course he was very upset, the young master of Gattuso's family had never been bullied by others, not to mention that he was commanded by Chu Zihang, an annoying guy.

But he knew in his heart that his accumulation of historical knowledge was far inferior to Chu Zihang's. At this level, that guy could act as a half-expert, while he was more like a nouveau riche who thought everything he saw was worth a lot. He couldn't help being curious about the secrets hidden by the Snake Qi Ba family, so he had to condescend to give Chu Zihang an order.

Chu Zihang adjusted the brightness of the flashlight to the maximum, turned the aperture to the widest, and stepped back as far as possible, so that the aperture could cover as much of the screen wall in front of him as possible, until his back was attached to the screen wall on the upper layer of the back.

Most of the murals are illuminated, and this screen wall depicts a huge map.

Forests and lakes are dotted on the map like stars. Between the mountains and forests stands a majestic and majestic ancient city. Four huge thrones stand at the four corners of the northern area of ​​the mural. The central part of the throne is the supreme emperor. Black King Nid Hogg.

And the central part of the mural depicts a young dragon shadow, pale all over.

The white dragon held up a golden scepter, sat on the white throne, and faced the black king of the north in the distance. On the black king's body, there were burn-like scars.

It is not difficult to see that the white dragon is the well-deserved protagonist of this mural.

"So that's how it turned out. It turned out that she was the one we saw on the bottom of the sea, her city when we destroyed it." Chu Zihang stared at the white dragon and uttered a meaningful sentence.

"White King?" Caesar asked in a daze, "The biggest secret of the Snake Qi Family... is the White King?"

"By the way, I remembered! Have we seen these images with human faces and snake bodies before?" Caesar suddenly said, "This torii gate, the city in the murals, and even the statue of the White King, We have all seen it, not long ago, in Jiyuan, Gaotianyuan, in that lost underwater city."

Chu Zihang nodded.

"It turns out that what Lu Mingfei said is true, and what Xia Mi said is also true. Japanese mixed races have a different origin from other mixed races, and their history is indeed a history of mythology. Those we just saw The screen wall is not a picture imagined by the painter out of thin air for the sake of artistry. Those are all real, and they are recorded by historians. A glorious civilization that existed in this land, a brilliant civilization... a period ruled by King Bai independent of The world's civilization!" Chu Zihang said in a deep voice.

"They believe in the White King?" Caesar frowned, "Just like Christianity believes in Jesus?"

"No, it's not just belief." Chu Zihang pointed to the huge picture in front of him, "Although a historian needs to record a piece of history with justice, it will inevitably have a strong background color and personal emotions. Didn't you realize that the Black King is a dragon clan?" The white king is just a priest of the dragon clan, assisting the black king, but the image of the white king on this mural is more majestic than the black king... What kind of mixed race would think that the white king is greater than the black king? "

"In ancient times, the plateau on the bottom of the sea was once part of the land of Japan before it sank. It was a city dedicated to the White King. In the center of the city stood a huge statue of the White King. Those corpses were guarded by ancient half-bloods who had died. Even the King of Bronze and Fire, who is the best at alchemy among the four kings, does not have such ability, who has stronger alchemy than the four kings?" Chu Zihang said to Caesar Analyzing the truth, "Shinto means tomb in Japanese, and it is supposed to enshrine coffins, but there are only these murals here. Here Genji Heavy Industries... Do you think anyone would put someone else's grave or spiritual place in their own home?" ?”

"These murals enshrine the ancestors of the Japanese mixed race? So..." Caesar looked at the white dragon shadow in the center of the mural that covered the sky, "Damn it, the ancestors of the Snake Family are the White Kings? They are the White Kings. Bloodborn Wang, this is their biggest secret!"

"Of course this is their secret, but it may not be the biggest." Chu Zihang moved the light of the flashlight away from Bai Wang's mural, "This is not the last layer of the screen wall, there are several layers behind, and the recorded things may be It is even more shocking than the secret of the blood of the White King."

"And I can smell the bloody smell spreading on this floor is coming from behind this mural." Chu Zihang patted Caesar's shoulder, "From now on, we must remain extremely vigilant."

"Don't look like you're telling your subordinates, I'm the team leader, okay? And... I told you to call your code name, bastard!" Caesar followed Chu Zihang's pace and went to the deepest part of this floor. go.

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The huge freight elevator stopped at a mezzanine at the bottom of Genji Heavy Industries.

This floor is called the 'torture room'. The entire floor is a dark room and compartment with fairly soundproof walls. It is generally used for interrogation or temporary detention of family prisoners. There are no surveillance cameras installed here, and it is not open to people outside the family. Only magnetic cards with authority above that of deputy ministers can reach this level.

The four of them walked out of the elevator and came to the dimly lit aisle. Lu Mingfei looked at Tachibana Masamune's back, and a bad premonition faintly flashed in his heart.

"Mr. Masamune, came to the torture room late at night, what's the matter?" After walking quite a distance, Sakurai Nanami finally couldn't help asking.

"Actually, I just wanted to visit the children of the ferocious ghosts who were brought back by Zhisheng. Although they all bear the fate of ghosts, it is also the original sin of blood. After all, each of them was once a child of the family." Speaking of this, Tachibana Masamune suddenly stopped in his tracks, "But now I suddenly changed my mind, because before visiting those children, there is one more important thing that I have to care about."

Behind him, Inuyamaga, Sakurai Nanami, and Lu Mingfei, who was disguised as a researcher, also stopped. The two patriarchs looked at Tachibana Masamune and waited for the next article.

Tachibana Masamune turned his head, but he did not meet the eyes of the previous Patriarchs, but stared straight at the figure in the white coat, and said slowly: "Who are you?"

Lu Mingfei's heart suddenly tensed up, and his nerve strings instantly tightened to the limit. He lowered his head, quickly glanced at the nameplate on his chest, and tried to make his voice sound calm and stable: "Yes, Mr. Masamune! I His name is Maruichiro Yamamoto, and he is a researcher at the Iwagyu Research Institute under Director Miyamoto, responsible for the research and development and maintenance of submarines and underwater projects."

(End of this chapter)