Dragon Race: Dragon of Eternal Time

Chapter 32 The Key to Open the Door
Mance was silent for a while: "Fear... Could it be Norton himself who is sleeping?"

"Very likely." Ye Sheng was very sure.

Mance took a deep breath: "Okay, I understand. I will go down and replace you with new equipment, but remember, your time is only one hour, and the helicopter of the Channel Rescue Agency will arrive in one hour. Underwater operations will also be forced to end."

"Understood," Ye Sheng said, "but now I want to know how to open the door, there is not a single crack on it."

"It's okay, just wait a moment, I will bring a professional lockpicker down to find you soon." Mance said.

He went to the back cabin and dialed Anger's phone: "Principal, there is new progress in the 'Kuimen Project'. I think we have found the entrance to the palace of the Dragon King Norton. In the crack."

Anger on the other end of the phone was silent for a while, and said: "The ancient city of bronze, that is the palace of Norton, the Lord of Bronze and Fire."

"We should explore immediately. Although the wind and rain on the river are very risky." Mance said, "But we can't wait, because aftershocks may refill the cracks, and it will be difficult for us to reach by then."

"Understood, I approve your request." Principal Ange said, "The first choice is to capture alive, and the second is to kill. If this kind of existence gets out of control, the order of the entire world will collapse."

"Understood, time is limited... To open the bronze door as soon as possible, can I use the 'key'?"

"Of course, I asked you to take him just for this moment!" Principal Angers said decisively.

After the phone was hung up, Mance leaned down and kissed the forehead of the baby in the cradle. The baby had already stopped crying and looked around blankly with wide innocent eyes.

"Honey, it's your turn to perform." Mance pinched the baby's nose.

He returned to the front cabin and stood by the window with his arms outstretched, waiting for Thelma to put on his diving suit.He looked into the distance: "I really like the name 'White Emperor City'."

"Captain, does White Emperor City mean the Dragon King's palace, or a city?" Selma asked.

"It used to be a city, an ancient city built more than 2000 years ago, and there were still remains. Because of the construction of the Three Gorges Reservoir, the water level rose, and the main body of the ancient city was submerged, leaving only the Baidi Temple on the island."

"The man who founded this city was named Gongsun Shu. More than 2000 years ago, he rebelled against an idealistic dynasty rebel, Wang Mang, and established his own country here. He was called the 'White Emperor'."

"Baidi? This name reminds me of Baiwang." The third officer said.

"It's not the White King, it should be the 'Bronze King' Norton. Some people call him the 'Fire King' or the 'Ash King'. The noble first generation of the Dragon Clan, one of the 'Four Sovereigns', led by the Black King Niedhor The grid can be split directly."

"Asexual reproduction?" Thelma said. "Then is the Black King his... father or mother?"

"The 'Four Sovereigns' are not born through the mating of male and female bodies, they are directly split from the black king. So the black king is both the father and the mother." Mance said, "they correspond to the four elements of earth, water, wind and fire. You should have learned it in your introductory alchemy class."

"That Chinese Gongsun Shu is actually the Dragon King?"

"No, it's someone behind him. The so-called 'Bai Di' is not what we call Bai Wang. The real meaning in Chinese is 'King of Metal'. Norton, the 'King of Bronze and Fire', has two miracles that are unparalleled fire and the bronze he smelted from the depths of the leylines and used them as weapons."

"This man... oh no, why did this dragon cast such a huge bronze city? This is an incredible project!"

"We have never had a deep understanding of the Dragon King. If we can capture a live Dragon King for interrogation...it will be very beneficial to our future dragon slaying business." Mance looked firm, "So, tonight is a chance!"

Under the water, Ye Sheng felt the fear of the "snake" he left inside the Bronze City intensify, shivering in a corner, not daring to take a half step forward.

The beam of light from the spotlight shot down from above, and a figure was swimming towards them.

It was Captain Mance. He didn't speak, but knocked on his helmet visor in greeting, spitting out a string of bubbles.

He looks like a pregnant woman who is about to give birth. He is wearing a special diving suit, and in front of his body is a 'Poke Ball' of hard transparent material, inside which is a baby wearing a special ultra-small diving suit.

In this kind of dark water, where adults can't help but fear, the baby miraculously does not cry or make noise. He slowly turns his head and looks around, his pupils glowing with golden light.

Mance connected new lifelines to Ye Sheng and Ya Ji, and replaced them with new oxygen cylinders.

"Hey! The key!" Ye Sheng patted the 'Pokeball' on Mance's stomach, teasing the baby, and joked, "Professor, you look like a rare diving kangaroo."

"Then you're like a fox who came to steal a wallaby from me! Remember, one hour." Mance raised a finger, "Get ready, I'm going to open the door."

Ye Sheng and Ya Ji hovered behind Mance, each putting a hand on his shoulder.Mance folded his arms across his chest, and clapped the hands of his favorite students vigorously.This is their appreciation and reassurance.

Mance closed his eyes, put his hands on the bronze wall, and chanted in a low voice.Like singing and roaring, the majestic sound directly penetrated the depths of Ye Sheng and Yaji's minds.

He opened his eyes abruptly, the pupils glowing with a pale golden light.In such deep water, he opened the mask of his pressurized wetsuit.If ordinary divers saw this scene, I am afraid that their hearts would stop beating on the spot.

Because the huge water pressure in this way will directly act on the fragile body of the human body.Every bubble in the blood of the human body will scramble to escape, and the blood vessels will burst open soon!
But he was fine, Mance's voice echoed underwater.Because at this moment, he released the spirit of speech.

"Yanling · Dust-free land!"

The river water surrounding Mance swirled and spread out with him as the center.A vacuum spherical space with a diameter of several meters was formed, like a huge elf ball. The water flow outside was spinning, and it couldn't seep into it!
High pressure oxygen leaked from his oxygen tank, filled this "Poke Ball" and they stood in the air!

Mance pressed his hands on the bronze wall, and a strong gust of wind formed, and the large pieces of copper rust were peeled off by the gust of wind, revealing a brand new metal surface, as if newly oiled, with a blue-black luster.

The pattern on the copper wall became clear, it was a raised human face with a burning firewood in its mouth.This is a strange picture, the face is distorted and hideous in pain, but still clinging to the firewood and not letting go.

"Baby, I'll see you perform next." Mance hung the bronze wall with steel claws, and carefully lifted the baby out of the "Poke Ball" of the diving suit.

(End of this chapter)