Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

"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 feel so tired that I collapse every time." Ye Sheng complained, "I need a fixed point."

"Am I not your fixed point all along?" Yaji swam behind him, with steel claws popping out of his flippers, gripping the rock tightly, and wrapping his hands around 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.

173. Chapter 172 Bronze City and Hulk are more suitable

Professor Mance did not correct the title issue this time, and said in a deep voice: "If it were normal times, we should be more professionally prepared. If we want to face the Dragon King directly, the commissioner must have at least A-level blood. But unfortunately, we are now There are competitors, so we have to race against time.”

Others were a little confused about the "competitor" that Professor Mance mentioned. Only Lu Mingfei knew that the professor was talking about the power behind Mai Shutoku.

"Lu Mingfei, Ye Sheng, Jiu Deyaji, the three of you enter the Bronze City, look for relevant clues one step ahead, and leave immediately if you encounter danger." Professor Mansi said.

"Hey, Professor, are you sure you're not joking? This is like a new full-level dungeon in World of Warcraft. Our union sent three casual players to explore the path. The key is that we somehow touched the big dungeon. After the boss door, the union leader said, 'Because the union next door is sending the most elite team to conquer the new dungeon, in order to avoid being robbed of the first kill of the dungeon, we three casual players should hurry up and push the boss away.' No one thought that this was a little bit... A little sloppy?" Lu Mingfei couldn't help complaining.

"Don't worry, among the four monarchs, the secret party knows the most about the King of Bronze and Fire," Professor Mance said. "After being killed, it takes a long time for the Dragon King to recover. It should still be in the cocoon now." in the process of transformation and resurgence.”

"Professor, I also want to go in and explore, but we really can't find the door to go in," Lu Mingfei rolled his eyes and said, "This is a castle built by the King of Bronze and Fire for himself. It has a first-rate level of fire and theft prevention. .”

"Leave this to me, wait a moment, I will bring a locksmith down to find you soon." Mance said.

Lu Mingfei twitched his lips and said to himself, Professor, I just called you "Captain" a few times less, are you going to kill me?

"Looking at the bright side, you are now fighting for the safety of all humans and hybrids. The King of Bronze and Fire, who has mastered the power of flames and metals, as well as the true meaning of alchemy, is undoubtedly the strongest among the four monarchs and can control Its recovery is equivalent to eliminating a war in advance." Professor Mans comforted.

Sighing, Lu Mingfei suddenly put on a determined expression: "Okay! In that case, Senior Brother Ye Sheng, Senior Sister Ya Ji, let's go!"

"Junior Brother Lu, are you so brave?" Ye Sheng was a little surprised, "When most people hear that they may face a dragon king, their legs will probably become weak."

Jiude Aki also showed admiration to Lu Mingfei and gave a thumbs up.

"We, the dragon slayers, have nothing to fear from death!" Lu Mingfei showed a righteous expression and actually secretly checked the ability he had copied from Hulk using his mirror pupil.

In order to fight against the Phoenix Force, he copied Hulk's abilities. Now a week has passed and today is the last day to retain his abilities.

……

After a moment, the light beam of the spotlight came down from top to bottom, and a figure was swimming towards them.Mance did not speak, but tapped the visor of his helmet in greeting and spit out a string of bubbles.

He is a strong and muscular man, but at the moment he looks like a woman who is nine months pregnant, because his special diving suit has a sac of hard transparent material in front of him, inside which is the baby wearing an extra-small diving suit.Under this kind of water that even adults can't help but be frightened, the baby miraculously didn't cry. He slowly turned his head and looked around, with a pale golden shimmer flowing in his pupils.

"Professor, is this your son?" Lu Mingfei asked curiously.

Professor Mance almost choked on a breath of oxygen.

"This child is our secret weapon, codenamed 'Key'," he explained helplessly. "He is not actually a baby, but his bloodline is too high and his body cannot bear it, so he stopped growing and developing not long after he was born, but his The word spirit is extremely powerful, we also call it the 'key', and the power of this word spirit can open any 'lock'."

"But I'm not sure whether the key's word spirit is effective on the king who stands on the throne of alchemy and his creations. After all, we haven't tried it." Professor Mance said.

"Is this considered exploiting child labor or disabled workers?" Lu Mingfei asked curiously.

"Don't worry, we have provided the 'key' with five insurances and one housing fund." Professor Mans said.

He closed his eyes, stretched out his hand and pressed it against the bronze wall, chanting in a low voice, and a solemn sound echoed in the water.

Yanling · Dustless place.

The river water surrounding Mance rotated, and a transparent water shell rapidly expanded outward with him as the center. The invisible barrier excluded the river water within the domain, forming an indestructible huge "bubble" at the bottom of the river.

Where Mance's hand touched, it was like the fresh wind blowing across the surface of a bronze wall. Large pieces of patina were peeled off, revealing a brand new metal surface, glowing with a bluish-black shimmer like oil.The pattern on the wall was clearly visible. It was a protruding human face with a burning log in its mouth. This was a strange picture. The face was twisted in pain, but it refused to loosen its grip on the log. teeth.

"Baby, I'll leave the rest to you." Mance carefully took the baby out of the belly of the diving suit.

The golden-eyed baby bent over and stood up hard, standing on Mance's palm, staring at the person's face, slowly stretched out his chubby little hand, and pointed a finger between the eyebrows of that face. .

The bronze protrusion between the eyebrows scratched the baby's delicate fingers, and blood spread over the painful face.The face twisted in an instant, revealing an expression of joy.

The sound was as deep as a giant bell gushing out of the child's mouth, and the bronze wall resonated faintly.

This is a chant to release the word spirit. Although the mixed-blood spirit does not have to be shouted out to release the word spirit, chanting the corresponding dragon text loudly can increase the power of the word spirit to a certain extent, so most of the time it can be chanted Hybrids will try their best to chant dragon texts.

Lu Mingfei took this opportunity to secretly glance at the baby's eyes, activated his "Mirror Eye", and copied his speech spirit while he was opening the bronze door.

The baby's blood poured into the mouth of the bronze human face, as if it was being sucked forcefully, but the baby stood with the indifference of a martyr, with no expression of pain from blood loss at all.He leaned forward slightly, as if he was going to kiss the mouth of the bronze human face.Mance hugged him and forcibly stopped this horrifying behavior. He took out a hemostatic bandage and carefully wrapped it around the baby's little finger. He patted his face and said, "Key, that's enough. You're great."

After the bronze human face sucked the blood, it froze for a moment and slowly opened its mouth, as if yawning.There was a terrible sound of metal heating and breaking from the depths of the bronze wall. A dark hole about one meter in diameter appeared on the bronze wall. Above and below were the teeth of the bronze human face. They were definitely not human teeth. Each one was sharp. It's like a dagger.

"This is the entrance." Ye Sheng whispered.

"The great achievement of alchemy is to use the purest substance to contain the spirit, and then serve as the guard here," Mance said. "This is a living spirit. The word spirit of the 'key' is activated with the help of dragon blood, making the living spirit temporarily obeyed." "Open' command, you have about two hours, and the door will be closed after the living spirit breaks free from the control of the spirit spirit."

"Professor," Lu Mingfei said suddenly, "Do you want to go back directly?"

Professor Mance was stunned for a moment and noticed that Lu Mingfei gave him a strange look. He immediately realized that there was a group of people staring at the White Emperor City where the King of Bronze and Fire was suspected to be sleeping, and now They used the key to open the gate of Baidi City.

"I want to send the key back first," Professor Mance also winked at Lu Mingfei, "Ye Sheng, Yaji, you go in first to explore. Lu Mingfei, you stay at the door to meet them."

Lu Mingfei understood instantly that Professor Mance wanted him to guard the door first to prevent others from taking advantage of it. When he returned to the ship and settled the keys, Professor Mance would personally guard the door.

Ye Sheng and Jiude Aki blinked in confusion, not understanding the purpose of this order, but they still swam into the Bronze City together.

A very faint black smoke in the deep lake water followed the two people into the entrance. It only stirred up a very small flow of water and did not attract anyone's attention.

At the same time, deep in the Bronze City, a pair of golden eyes as huge as car lights illuminated a corner of the gloomy hall: "It's the traces of His Majesty Norton!"

174. Chapter 173 Organization

The bottom of the Yangtze River.

Lu Mingfei floated in front of the huge bronze wall, curiously looking at the ferocious face with his mouth open in front of him.

This human face is a bit like a relief, with a wide mouth and sharp teeth like knives, but this ferocious shape is not entirely due to some artistic design - according to alchemical records, it is "living", That is, some kind of "spiritual body" sealed in recycled metal.

There are records about "regenerated metal" in alchemy. This is a unique substance that can only be created by the Lord of Bronze and Fire. After he completely kills ordinary metals and then uses his own authority to give them new life, the metals become Something with a certain "life" quality, capable of containing the spirit just like the flesh and blood of a living thing.

This is called one of the greatest miracles in alchemy. Even if we look into the history of the secret party, recycled metal only exists in a few treasures, and every treasure made of recycled metal is without exception. The earth is sealed with living spirits.

Records of living creatures in alchemy are extremely rare, and it can even be said that most of them come from myths and speculations of ancient alchemists.

For example, some people believe that the concept of "immortality" in alchemy can be realized by sealing living souls-first creating regenerative metal that is enough to accommodate the soul, and then transferring the human soul from the flesh and blood body to the regenerated metal. in order to escape death.

But this theory was later overturned, because some research showed that even if recycled metal can accommodate an abstract thing like a "soul", the "soul" of life itself will be refined and distorted during the process of being sealed. Eventually it becomes a purely spiritual element, a slave to the object itself.

From a certain perspective, it can be understood as the "gumantong" or "raising little ghosts" in Thai folklore. The soul of a baby after death is transformed into a ghost in some way and supported and driven. No one should think that it is changing. After becoming a "little ghost" or a "gumantong", the baby can still be regarded as "continuing to live in another form."

Moreover, the intelligence of "living spirits" is very low most of the time. They just obey orders instinctively and cannot communicate effectively.

only……

Reaching out to touch the convex and sharp face, Lu Mingfei was a little curious, wondering whether the out-of-body ability he learned from Master Gu Yi could affect living beings.

It's a pity that he can't try it now. Once the spirit body leaves the body, the real body will be out of his control.

A moment later, Professor Mance's figure fell from the sky again, and the spotlight above his head was like a solid strip of light in the water.

After gesturing to Lu Mingfei, Professor Mance stopped at the door, and Lu Mingfei followed the open mouth of the ferocious man's face and entered the Bronze City.

The college's equipment basically comes from two sources, one is the equipment department and the other is the school engineering department.Large-scale mass-produced equipment and mass-produced weapons are mostly produced by the school engineering department, such as more powerful firearms, ordinary detonators, common grenades, etc., although they are safe but have limited power, and those high-precision equipment, Most of them came from the Equipment Department, and a very few were alchemy treasures left over from ancient times. They were extremely powerful and very dangerous at the same time.

The communication equipment and positioning devices used by Lu Mingfei and the others were also produced by the Equipment Department. It is said that under the strong opinion of the principal, the Equipment Department reluctantly dismantled the explosive function of this series of equipment. Therefore, the communication equipment and positioning equipment are very few that are easy to use. There is no need to worry about the equipment exploding, and it is highly praised by the experts.

This set of equipment can not only locate the positions of Ye Sheng and Jiude Yaji, but also display the path they just swam through. Lu Mingfei followed the path and looked for Ye Sheng who came in first in the huge and complex Bronze City. Join Aki.

The water in Bronze City seemed to be clearer than outside, and the visibility was higher, making it easier for Lu Mingfei to see the surrounding environment clearly.