Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

Chapter 171 The King of Bronze and Fire
Yangtze River, 50 meters below the water surface.

The diving speed of Lu Mingfei, Ye Sheng and Jiu Deyaji slowed down. Each of them had a signal line extending upward to the Monyach. With the help of this signal line, they could communicate with the Monyach. communication, Monyach can also use this to monitor their life signals.

The spotlight carried in the diving suit cannot penetrate very far in deep water, leaving only a blue-gray light strip.The slender figure of Shutoku Aki floated beside him, and Ye Sheng could reach her just by stretching out his hand.

They are a working group responsible for detecting information. In addition to the signal line connecting the Monyach, there is an independent signal line connecting each other to facilitate communication.

But it seems that the two of them don't need this signal line. They don't need any verbal communication at all. As long as they look at each other, they can immediately understand each other's meaning.

Several times, just by looking at each other, their diving speeds would change in unison and stay in sync.

Lu Mingfei swam behind these two people and suddenly felt a bit like a light bulb.

"Brother Lu, is this your first time diving?" Ye Sheng asked.

"Well... I guess. When I was a child, I lived in the suburbs. I always swam in the nearby pond to touch clam shells. I could swim 100 meters in the water with just one breath. It should be farther now," Lu Mingfei said casually, "But This is the first time I’ve dived so deep wearing equipment.”

Lu Mingfei told a little lie. He had indeed never done deep diving in this world, but in Tony's world, he had dived several times when Tony took him out to play, and even took a photo with a coral colony.

"Don't worry, considering the physical fitness of a mixed race, there is actually no difference between 50-meter diving and ordinary swimming," Aki Shutoku comforted, "Just relax."

"I'm pretty relaxed," Lu Mingfei said, "but you two look a little nervous."

Ye Sheng and Jiude Aki were silent for a moment.

Suddenly I learned that the miniature sonar detection equipment I was wearing was made by the Equipment Department. Would it be strange not to be nervous?

While chatting and relieving the pressure in the deep water, the three of them gradually reached the bottom.

The violent storm arrived here after being filtered by a 50-meter water layer, leaving only gentle water waves. This place was flooded due to the water storage of the Three Gorges Reservoir. It used to be a mountainous area, and the stones were smoothed by the water flow, making it difficult to stand on.

Ye Sheng popped out the steel claws from his flippers, stood gently on the rock, and reached out to grope in the bottom mud.

After a while, Ye Sheng fished out something and showed it - a piece of pottery with an ancient pattern.

Yaji took the pottery fragment and inspected it: "It has a history of at least more than a thousand years. It seems that the style is from before the Shu culture was integrated with the Central Plains culture. It may be a relic of Baidi City."

Baidi City is the code name for the ruins that will be explored.

"According to the information, Baidi City was buried at the bottom of the river. It came into contact with the outside world only after a crack occurred in the bottom of the river during a small earthquake," Lu Mingfei said. "If we want to find it, we have to find the crack first."

"Norma, I need to use sonar to scan the terrain." Shutoku Aki called.

"Understood, sonar scan ready." The central processor in the United States responded immediately.

The three-dimensional sonar map outlined with dark green contours is displayed on the screen of the three people's helmets. Sound waves are far more useful than light in water.

"Although we can't see it," Ye Sheng pointed out, "there are mountains in the northeast and southeast. Baidi Mountain is above the water, and Chijia Mountain is below the water, forming a 'door' structure. Opposite is the original thatched cottage. The river passes through a valley. From the perspective of Chinese Feng Shui, this is where the mountain dragon and the water dragon meet, gathering the energy of yin and yang. It is a good place to build a city. The ruins of Baidi City may be here."

"Senior Brother Ye Sheng, do you still know Feng Shui?" Lu Mingfei was curious.

"The elders in my family understand, and I learned a little bit from it." Ye Sheng said. He didn't seem to want to go into more depth on this topic. He only said one sentence and then stopped.

"Even if there is an entrance, it has been covered by floating soil several meters deep over thousands of years," Aki chuckled, "So, to save time, I'd better trouble you, please."

"I'm so tired every time that I collapse." Ye Sheng complained, "I need a fixed point." "Am I not your fixed point all the time?" Yaji swam behind him, with steel claws popping out of his flippers, digging tightly. Standing on the rock, his hands hugged Ye Sheng's waist from back to front.

"Hey! Someone is showing off their affection in front of the singles. Someone cares but no one cares?!" Lu Mingfei complained at the side.

Of course he knew that Ye Sheng and Shutoku Aki were not a real couple, but Ye Sheng's speech spirit was a "snake", and once it was released with all its strength, it would cause weakness as a side effect, so it was necessary for Shutoku Aki to catch him.

Lu Mingfei vaguely seemed to feel something erupting from Ye Sheng's body. Through the diving mask, he could see Ye Sheng's face quickly turning gray, as if he was going to die gloriously at any time.

Ye Sheng, who was releasing the "snake", couldn't help but glance at Lu Mingfei - the snakes he released would subconsciously avoid him when passing near Lu Mingfei, as if they were afraid of something.

After a while, Ye Sheng retracted the "snake" and his expression quickly recovered: "I found it, about 120 meters away at the three o'clock direction."

"Let's go and explore what secrets there are," Professor Mance's voice sounded from the public channel, "But the first step is to ensure your own safety."

"Yes." ×3
Under the leadership of Ye Sheng, Lu Mingfei and the others found a huge crack that stretched across the bottom of the river, as if it was going to cut off the entire riverbed.

The three of them swam down the crack, and the darkness in front of them gradually turned into a faint green.

Lu Mingfei was the first to react - the endless green color came from a huge bronze wall.

Directly in front of them stood a huge bronze wall, extending up, down, left and right, seemingly without boundaries and infinite.

"That!" Shutoku Aki pointed to the corner of the huge bronze wall, where there was a mottled mark. "The mark on the wall is exactly the same as the mark on the pottery she just found, except it is much larger."

Jiude Yaji showed the pottery shards to Lu Mingfei. Sure enough, the marks on the pottery shards and the wall were both a face burning in flames, but the mark on the wall was many times larger.

At the same time, she and Ye Sheng held up the filming equipment and approached the Bronze City, taking pictures as much as possible and sending them to the ship.

"It seems we have found our target," Lu Mingfei said, "This is indeed a city of bronze. Even the city walls are made of bronze."

"Isn't that too exaggerated?" Ye Sheng was stunned. "If this wall were made of special steel, it would probably be enough to supply the world's steel consumption for building aircraft carriers."

"It's much more than that," Lu Mingfei said, "This is a city built by dragons. In order to resist the invasion of dragons, its city walls must be as thick as possible. The amount of bronze used may be even more than it seems to us."

"What kind of dragon can build such a city? Even the largest ruins discovered by the Secret Party are nothing more than a sandcastle built by children compared with it." Shutoku Aki said with emotion.

"Dragon King Norton, the king of bronze and fire among the four monarchs, is also the king of alchemy. It is said that he masters the true meaning of alchemy," Professor Manns hissed, "Professor von Schneider had a guess. Dragon King Norton hollowed out the entire mountain as a mold and poured copper slurry from the top of the mountain. While the bronze city was taking shape, the high heat caused the rock to crack, thus casting a behemoth that cannot be achieved with current technology. A city made entirely of bronze. The city of manufacture, his habitat.”

Under the water, Lu Mingfei twitched the corner of his mouth.

Although he originally came here to explore for the knowledge of alchemy, it would be a bit outrageous to dig directly to the tomb of the King of Alchemy.

"The snake is afraid of that city. It doesn't dare to approach it," Ye Sheng said. "There must be something inside."

"Maybe it's the King of Bronze and Fire? After all, this might be his hometown." Lu Mingfei joked.

But no one responded to his joke, and the entire chat channel fell into an eerie silence.

After a long time, Professor Mance said: "Lu Mingfei is right, there is probably a Dragon King inside."

"Professor, can we apply for withdrawal?" Lu Mingfei said decisively.

(End of this chapter)