"What's wrong?" Charlotte suddenly stopped when she saw Xi Ziyue.

"It's nothing, I was a little nervous." Xi Ziyue took a deep breath and her expression froze for a moment.

"There is really no other way, so I have to be the first one." Charlotte was very magnanimous and walked ahead.

Xi Ziyue sighed helplessly and had no choice but to follow behind him.

Of course she was not nervous, but felt the presence of Constantine, whose keel cross was located in the deepest part of the ice cellar.

Even from a distance of hundreds of meters, Xi Ziyue could clearly feel its sanctity and majesty. One can imagine how noble it was during its lifetime.

But it is indeed dead. The dead Dragon King is just a pile of withered bones. No matter how noble he was in life, it will be useless.

Xi Ziyue followed Charlotte, and the two walked together on the stairs leading to the depths. The cold breath surrounded them, and every breath was filled with white mist.

"Here we are, the first floor of the ice cellar."

Charlotte raised the flashlight high, and a circle of bright light shone on the steel gate in front of her.

Seeing the sign on the gate, the two of them took a deep breath, tightened their masks and took two steps back.

An eye-catching nuclear radiation symbol was spray-painted on the gate.

"Are nuclear weapons stored here?" Xi Ziyue was a little confused.

According to Elizabeth, Kassel's tenured professors include several scientists who came out of Oak Forest, and they have tinkered with the world's first atomic bomb. Therefore, it is not surprising that Kassel has its own nuclear arsenal.

This is the ultimate weapon that human civilization has mastered to this day, and these dragon-slaying lunatics have no reason not to get involved.

"Probably. Angers often said that there is something that can destroy the world hidden in the ice cellar. The first reaction is naturally nuclear weapons. As for whether it is a nuclear warhead that can be put into actual combat immediately, it is unknown."

Charlotte took out a Geiger counter, and the reading on it was not optimistic.

"Don't worry, our protective clothing can resist nuclear radiation, and with the strength of our bloodline, it won't be affected even if we lie here naked for a while." Charlotte showed an indifferent expression and covered the cover.

The leather counter was put away.

"No, I'm worried whether they built these things to slay the dragon or fight a world war." Xi Ziyue shook her head.

"You are still too naive, Xi Ziyue." Charlotte shook her head.

"The last world war of mankind was actually 68 years ago. For hybrids with long lifespans, the war seems to have happened yesterday."

Charlotte continued: "For example, Principal Angers, Vice Principal Flamel, Henkel, the leader of the North American mixed race, my butler Alfred... Some of them have experienced more than

Having experienced World War II and even World War I, what do you think war means to them?"

Xi Ziyue's heart moved.

For them, the war happened yesterday...or it could happen tomorrow!

"They have personally been in war, fired guns, been shot, shed blood, and experienced the long era of nuclear deterrence in the Cold War. No one knows better than them what war is and what kind of disaster it will bring."

Speaking of this, Charlotte took a deep breath: "Peace is such a fragile thing. Some people say that in another twenty years, when the last person with memories of World War II dies, it will be the Third World War.

Start."

Xi Ziyue listened to these words silently. In her eyes, the steel door with the nuclear radiation symbol in front of her seemed to have turned into a door of war...or a door to hell.

It's best not to open that door, which is probably what most people expect.

"Do you understand?" Charlotte asked, thinking that the other person was a little girl and her understanding of macro narratives might be limited.

"I understand. In fact, I have always had a good reserve of political knowledge. My father often sells political literature from street stalls to me at the dinner table." Xi Ziyue replied.

This is what is hidden in the ice cellar. Just the first floor makes people's eyes tremble. Who knows what you will see if you continue to go down.

"Let's go, I don't know how many floors there are in the ice cellar, just go down." Charlotte continued to act, very optimistic.

Before leaving, Xi Ziyue glanced back at the door with the nuclear symbol, as if looking back at a silent god of death holding a sickle.

The two of them continued to go down despite the cold air, and soon reached the second floor.

The second floor is called the specimen room, which seems risk-free.

This time, the two of them could not suppress their curiosity and opened it with the key ability.

It is indeed filled with many specimens, but they are all specimens of the dragon subspecies. Executive Department specialists perform tasks around the world. After encountering incredible deformed creatures, they will choose to capture them alive and bring them to the academy for treatment if safety is ensured.

Research.

After being manipulated by Walter Alheim, these living creatures were basically dead in battle and were made into specimens and stored in this place.

At the end of this space is a broken dragon specimen, probably only the fourth generation of the species. Not surprisingly, it should be one of the treasures of Kassel Town School.

The third floor is the archives room, where ancient classics are stored. Some are scrolls and some are parchment rolls. They look dilapidated and seem to be destroyed by just blowing a breath.

These priceless historical materials are not placed on bookshelves, but are sealed in quartz glass. From a glance, they look like a museum collecting ancient books.

Xi Ziyue noticed a very special leather book. Its cover was actually inlaid with a string of bones, and the structure looked like fingers.

This string of finger bones is most likely the author's fingers.

The moment the author finished writing this book, he cut off his own finger and embedded it on the cover of the book, indicating that there would be no second copy of this book. You can imagine how crazy the content inside was.

"Ice Sea Fragments" is the treasure of this level. They are packed in jars with complicated patterns and sealed in low-temperature liquid ammonia. They are pieces of bronze fragments, recording the history related to the Dragon Clan. It is credible.

The level is quite high, and it is still a precious historical material for the Secret Party to study the history of the Dragon Clan.

The deeper you go, the more restless the trembling and restless factor becomes.

Along the way, the two of them have broadened their horizons. Although there is no breakthrough in the world view, their sense of novelty and curiosity have been greatly satisfied.

Xi Ziyue felt that she was walking on a pilgrimage road. The end of the road led to the Palace of Truth, and her whole body seemed to be moving forward involuntarily.

It is getting heavier and heavier. The sacred and majestic breath of death is like a magnificent piece of music that is constantly amplifying. A classical band of hundreds of people is playing deep in the ice cellar, and the song echoes in front of the king's tomb.

Xi Ziyue's profile has always been sensitive to the deceased.

But even the death aura of thousands of people in the Mayan pyramid just now was no match for the death aura of the Dragon King alone.

A feeling of frozen loneliness.

Anger and unwillingness.

warm sunlight.

Love and fire...

Many emotions are surging, like a huge tide, and the majestic meaning can drown Xi Ziyue's thoughts at any time.

Xi Ziyue simply turned off profiling to avoid unnecessary influence.

"We're here, on the last floor, I've already seen... Constantine's keel cross." Charlotte gasped.

The Well of Annihilation, the lowest level of the ice cellar, is as silent as an ancient cave, with only the ubiquitous sound of water.

Under the dual effects of the flashlight and golden eyes, Xi Ziyue could see her surroundings clearly.

The ground on this floor is actually paved with a thick layer of bronze. Deep grooves like dragons and snakes are intertwined on the ground. Dark blue water flows in the grooves, and they glow slightly.

The pattern formed by these deep grooves is like a prosperous old vine, branching, branching again, constantly branching into the church, and finally merging into the silent lake in front of it.

A circular altar protrudes from the center of the lake, and four chalk-colored stone pillars stand on all sides of the altar, suppressing the gods and demons in the middle like nails.

The dragon bone cross is in the center of the altar.

It sits on its knees in quartz glass filled with mercury, like a statue that has sunk at the bottom of the lake for thousands of years, full of the sacred meaning of a martyr.

Although it is dead, its majesty is still as heavy as steel.

Xi Ziyue and Charlotte stood there for a long time without realizing it.

"Is that thing really dead?" Xi Ziyue beeped in a low voice, very afraid that the dragon bone would suddenly open its eyes and shout, "I'll kill you with labor and management."

"It's really dead, otherwise we wouldn't be able to refine the pure fire element from it." Charlotte nodded.

She continued: "But to be honest, this is also the first time I have seen the dead Dragon King, and the body actually took on the shape of a cross."

Xi Ziyue re-examined the dragon bone cross...it was better to say it was the withered bones of a boy.

It glows with a heavy bronze color, and the skull's eyes are embedded with crystallized eyeballs, like a pair of glass gold beads.

Although it resembles a human skeleton, if you look closely, you will find that it has nearly a thousand bones, some of which are fused to each other, and some of which form organs that have never appeared in biology textbooks.

Two bunches of thin bones spread out behind it like a fan, which are its wings.

Its arms were stretched out, grabbing the wing bones behind it, and its head was lowered.

Like a martyr crucified on a cross, the cross is actually its wing bone.

Xi Ziyue was a little stunned and confused.

Cassel's textbooks, even Elizabeth, and even Angers constantly emphasized that dragons are not gods, but are ultimately a kind of creature with biological and genetic logic, so humans can defeat it with scientific methods, such as...

.Use the Storm Torpedo to give them a hard time.

But looking at the remains of the Dragon King in front of us, it's really hard to believe that they are actually a kind of creature.

It was clearly a scene of some kind of religious ceremony. It could be the death of an angel or the torture of a demon, but it was definitely not the remains of a dead creature.

actually......

Compared to advanced mysteries such as what Lu Mingze is and where Lu Mingfei is, there is an ultimate basic mystery that Xi Ziyue has always ignored.

That is... what exactly is the Dragon Clan?

"Then let's do it, let's explore at our own pace," Charlotte said.

"Where are you going?" Xi Ziyue saw the other party was about to leave.

"I'm going to the archives to see if there's any useful information. What about you?" Charlotte asked.

"I really just came in to take a look and see what's here..." Xi Ziyue said innocently.

"That's okay, just don't steal. After all, this is public property." Charlotte said, "Forget it, there's nothing to steal here anyway, the important things have been hidden by Ange."

"Like the Seven Deadly Sins?" Xi Ziyue looked around and found that the place was clean and there were no knives or anything like that.

"After all, Fury has been lost, which proves that the ice cellar is no longer safe. Of course Angers has to find a new safe. He must have placed the remaining six knives in different places."

"Since it's no longer safe here, is it really okay to put the Dragon Bone Cross here?" Xi Ziyue asked.

"After all, this thing needs to be 'suppressed'. Even if the ice cellar is no longer safe, the alchemical matrix here is the only seal that can suppress it." Charlotte stepped on the ground.

"This place is one of the best alchemy matrices in the world. The vice-principal spent decades deploying it. It has expanded the effect of 'Speech Spirit and Commandments' to the extreme, covering the entire campus and lasting almost forever, even if

Even Dragon King level targets will also be affected by it."

"But I heard that Ye Mengjia is about to demolish this place..." Xi Ziyue didn't know whether to pour cold water on it.

"If there is no discipline, then she will really demolish it, and she will demolish the entire campus."

That's right, Xi Ziyue had seen the strength of Jörmungandr's warriors on Bride Island. If Xijie hadn't been worried about the damage to the temple from the beginning, Bride Island would have sunk long ago. As Jörmungandr's boss, Xijie

It should be stronger.

"You said the Dragon Bone Cross needs to be suppressed...do you mean it can be resurrected?" Xi Ziyue was worried.

"I don't know. Even if something like the Dragon King is dead, we can't take it lightly. We have to tie a few chains on the board of their coffin, drive a few nails, and arrange a division of troops to guard it to prevent it from rising from the coffin.

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Xi Ziyue stared at the altar not far away, thoughtfully.

"Then I will return to the third floor first. You can make up your own mind. You can come with me if you want, or worship Constantine's dragon bones. I will ignore you for the time being."

Seeing that Xi Ziyue had no reaction, Charlotte turned around and stepped onto the stairs.

In the huge space, only Xi Ziyue and Dragon Bone Cross were left looking at each other.

It was indeed dead, Xi Ziyue knew this very well. Even if she walked over to him and pointed her middle finger at him, it would not be angry, because it was dead, completely dead.

After some hesitation, Xi Ziyue walked towards the Dragon Bone Cross.

After all, we have been to this place, so it would be unreasonable not to have a face-to-face meeting with it.

After crossing the lake that was not too deep, Xi Ziyue climbed onto the altar and looked directly at Constantine in the quartz bottle at close range.

The heart starts to speed up.

Can I use profiling on this thing?

She wanted to know the answer to this question.

This is a quite bold idea, so bold that Xi Ziyue herself feels like committing suicide.

But if the current intricate mystery is compared to a maze with many doors and rooms, then using profiling on the keel cross is definitely a way to open the door, and maybe it can clarify many problems.

The hidden dangers are of course self-evident, and everything about the Dragon King is unknown.

Use profiling for Constantine Dragon Cross?

yes/no?

Xi Ziyue's hand was raised in the air for a long time, like a confused chess piece.

finally--

yes.

She touched her hand on the quartz bottle and stroked the cheek of the Dragon Bone Cross from a distance.
Chapter completed!