Ye Sheng suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Ya Ji with eyes full of excitement.
The huge and illusory snakes returned from all corners of the water to the depths of Ye Sheng's mind, where they had their lair.
His body temperature began to rise, his heartbeat began to accelerate again, and his face began to flush due to excessive excitement.
A complete map of the Bronze City was converted into electrical signals by the snakes, and poured into Ye Sheng's mind. On the constantly changing and rotating map, a clear red line suddenly appeared.
Down, straight down,
Pass through the gaps between the walls, pass through the corridor, and even pass through the solid bronze wall, and finally escape from directly below.
"The academy has found a way to escape from the Bronze City, we can get out now!!" Ye Sheng excitedly grasped Aji's little hand, with uncontrollable excitement in his golden eyes. Surviving a desperate situation is something that ordinary people cannot do.
imaginary emotions.
Yaji opened his mouth, hesitated for a moment, looked at the excited Ye Sheng, and nodded vigorously.
"Hold on to me, we must not get lost." Ye Sheng clasped Aji's hands together.
A ripple flashed across Aji's eyes, and the next moment he grasped those hands firmly. Under those generous palms, Aji actually found that he no longer seemed so afraid in this dark and depressing environment...
Yaji holds a dark golden box in one hand. The box is engraved with extremely obscure and complex patterns. They seem to come from the distant past, with the charm of time, which makes people inexplicably admire the exquisite skills of the sculptors and the vicissitudes of time.
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Next to him, Ye Sheng was holding a huge copper jar. The cavity of the copper jar seemed to be empty. Ye Sheng was stuck on the side of the oxygen tube. Under the pressure of the surrounding water, small bubbles bubbled up.
But neither of them noticed these small details now, and the two of them swam desperately downward.
They all know that now is a race against time, and there is no time for them to waste.
Moreover, Ye Sheng did not tell Ya Ji that when he just recovered the snake, he felt an extremely terrifying throbbing in the depths of darkness. The thing exuded undisguised pressure, which caused him great harm.
Shocked, the snakes fled from the water area one after another, as if they were absolutely suppressed by blood.
In this Bronze City, where there is no human smoke, there is something terrifying that can make snakes chase away. Ye Sheng can think of what it is with his toes!
Not one of our own anyway!
The reason why Ye Sheng didn't tell Ya Ji.
It's because this girl is sometimes very timid. In this dark and depressing time, fear can easily defeat a person's courage and confidence. He doesn't want this girl to continue to bear the current pressure.
If possible, he would rather bear her share alone. If danger really arises, he would be willing to bear everything alone. Even if he stays in this lonely deep sea forever, he still wants the girl to be happy.
Live with your heart!
The two people dived straight down the tunnel along the water wall. Every time they entered a passage, they could always hear the sound of gear parts colliding and rubbing against each other. Then a new tunnel was separated, guiding them forward.
The darkness advances.
Ye Sheng's inner tension eased a little, because the passages that kept appearing confirmed the accuracy of the information from the academy, which meant that if they continued to move forward, they would eventually escape from this oppressive and suffocating dark waters.
Ye Sheng squeezed Aji's hand hard, trying to make the other party feel his presence in this way.
Yaji also responded to Ye Sheng in the same way. The eyes under the helmet were firm and gentle.
Finally, they swam to the end of the darkness, staring at the slowly moving thick gate, huge gears, and thick shafts, each moving slowly in a prescribed direction. The water in the air was trembling slightly and squeezing.
The air was squeezed out into continuous bubbles. The huge bronze wall slowly revealed the darkness behind it.
The two of them impatiently continued swimming down the gap.
suddenly!
Ye Sheng was stunned, and so was Yaji!
A wall reappeared in front of them, and in the middle of the wall, a living creature with closed eyes was placed quietly in the middle, like a guarding general, holding a broadsword, staring at the passers-by with dignity and anger.
Yell loudly, this road is blocked!
This incident completely broke Ye Sheng's calmness and he became irritable!
They no longer have the high-purity blood to be flexible enough to open the switch again! When they came in before, they opened the door through the blood of the "key", but now the key has been brought to the water by Professor Mance.
Highly pure dragon blood, Ye Sheng kept mumbling to himself.
Is this the only way to go?
Ye Sheng's irritable eyebrows were gradually replaced by determination.
"Ye Sheng...Ye Sheng!" A voice suddenly came from the communication line between the two. It was Yaji's violent but suppressed breathing.
Ye Sheng suddenly looked at Aji next to him. The force holding her hand became harder. With the help of the dim light inside her helmet, Ye Sheng saw Aji breathing rapidly.
"Aki! What's wrong with you! Aki!" Suddenly, he suddenly remembered something and hurriedly looked at Aki's oxygen level.
In an instant, his heart was grasped by a huge force. He was so pressed that he couldn't breathe.
"You changed our oxygen bottle! Give me the oxygen!" Ye Sheng held Yaji's hand tightly. He remembered that before he used the snake, the oxygen level could only withstand a few minutes, which was why he accelerated
The reason for leaving, but now!! Ye Sheng’s eyes instantly filled with tears.
"It's too late, our oxygen is not enough for the two of us to leave." Aki came out of the water and opened her mask. The extremely low oxygen content made her cough violently.
"Moreover," Yaji turned to the living spirit behind Ye Sheng. "It requires dragon blood of sufficient purity. The blood concentration of the two of us is not there, but I can let you leave."
"No, you go!" Ye Sheng said without hesitation. The first moment he saw this living creature, he knew that one of them must be sacrificed here today.
The living spirit requires enough purity of dragon blood, and the key's high-concentration blood volume only requires a tiny amount. But if it were him and Aki, it would take more than just a little bit to open the living spirit. If this
If things are greedy, Ye Sheng will need at least half of his body's blood. But then he will become extremely weak, and coupled with the lack of oxygen, he will not survive at all.
Aki shook her head, tears slowly crawled down her cheeks,
"Ye Sheng, you should understand that I am more suitable to stay here. My blood concentration is higher than yours, and I lose less blood than you with the same blood content. And I am a girl. With the same amount of blood loss, I can withstand blood loss better.
The harm caused. You can come back to save me after you leave!"
There was pleading in Aji's voice, and a tenderness that made Ye Sheng melt.
"I'll stay here. Don't waste your time rejecting me. We don't have much time left... I've wanted to say something to you for a long time... I..." The lack of oxygen left her speechless.
Come.
Ye Sheng hugged Yaji in his arms.
"I love you." Ye Sheng cut her off simply and neatly.
Then, he did something that was not allowed by the Executive Department, and it was also a bold move that Aki would not usually allow.
He kissed Aki hard on the lips.
At this moment, Aki was stunned, and her mind was like a nuclear bomb exploding, everything went blank. Her cheeks turned red, and her eager eyes filled with tears revealed a glimmer of happiness.
She felt his body temperature and his breathing. At this moment, the surrounding darkness, all the sadness, and the depression of lack of oxygen no longer mattered. She seemed to have returned to the scene when she first saw him.
It was an annoying, yet warm memory.
"Hey! Girl, why are your legs so short?"
"Hey, Aki, can you do it? I'm almost reaching the end of the swim!"
"Hello……"
"Hello!!"
"Hello!"
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In a corner where Ya Ji wasn't paying attention, Ye Sheng instantly put his hand into the living mouth behind him. The sharp claws there were like sharp knives and daggers, with a terrifying sharpness.
"don't want!!"
After reacting, Yaji pulled Ye Sheng wildly, but it was too late. Blood flowed from his index finger and wrist into his living mouth.
Tears poured down from Aki's eyes like a rainstorm. All the beautiful pictures turned into foam at this moment, and all the happiness was blown to pieces by the storm.
Boom!
Suddenly.
Under Aki's desperate eyes, the door to the living spirit was opened.
A figure wearing a McDonald's mask appeared in front of them.
"Hello."
The masked figure stretched out its long, white hands, stretching them up and down like a kitten, and greeted the two of them.
Aji looked at Ye Sheng in shock. Ye Sheng also looked at Aji in shock.
Logically speaking, his current bleeding volume is simply not enough to open the door to the living spirit.
"You...?" Ye Sheng finally broke the silence in the air.
"Oh, I'm here to save you, you can call me... call me..." Under McDonald's mask, the figure was full of confusing movements.
"Yes, I am the local land god, the river god... the sister of the river god, the mermaid." The figure seemed to have imagined the appearance of the river god, shook his head dissatisfied, and then changed his name.
"I followed God's call and came here specifically to rescue you..." The figure continued to talk a lot.
"So hurry up and leave."
McDonald looked at the vigilant eyes of the two, and then glanced at the blood stained red by Ye Sheng's blood. Knowing that they didn't believe a word of his nonsense, he had no choice but to stagger his position to leave space for them.
Ye Sheng and Ya Ji looked at each other. They both saw the vigilance in their eyes, and saw that no one asked the question first.
Ye Sheng protected Aji behind him, bypassed the figure and rushed out.
"etc!"
Ye Sheng was instantly vigilant and put his hands on his waist. He didn't care about his bleeding wrist.
"I heard from the local people that your oxygen bottles are not enough. I have also prepared a new bottle for you." As he said that, the figure took out an oxygen bottle from behind.
In Aki's shocked eyes, he handed it to them.
"Hurry up, your little lover will suffocate to death in a while." The figure seemed to be more anxious than Ye Sheng.
Hearing this, Ye Sheng didn't hesitate at all, grabbed the oxygen bottle, put his own into Yaji's mouth, and placed the new one behind his back.
He is not sure about the origin of this self-proclaimed mermaid, let alone the safety of this oxygen bottle. Therefore, if there is really a problem, he will die before Aki!
"Tch. I still don't believe it." The figure rolled his eyes, glanced at the copper cans and metal boxes in their hands, and left.
"Let's leave quickly!" Seeing the other party leaving, Ye Sheng took Ya Ji's hand and prepared to leave.
suddenly!
The snake in his mind suddenly became turbulent. Just like animals that have premonitions before an earthquake, "snakes" will always inform their hosts of danger before it comes.
Ye Sheng quickly turned his head back.
far away,
A huge behemoth roared down the passage.
"Aki!"
Ye Sheng, who was in front of him, roared loudly and without hesitation, he pulled Yaji behind him and blocked the copper can in front of him.
boom!
The figure wearing a McDonald's on his head suddenly froze. He looked dumbfounded at Ye Sheng who collided with the dragon's tail.
His body quickly appeared and he held down one end of the dragon's tail, blocking the next bigger impact.
But even so, Ye Sheng was still hit hard and flew out, and the copper jar in his hand floated far away on the bottom of the water.
"Ye Sheng!" Yaji hugged Ye Sheng, his eyes bloodshot.
In the water curtain that became violent in an instant, a rich scarlet color spurted out from Ye Sheng's abdomen.
"Take him away, maybe he can be saved." McDonald's figure placed one hand on Ye Sheng's shoulder, glanced at it, and then waved away the thick blood mist from his waist. There was a touch of helplessness in his voice.
Yaji grabbed the copper can without hesitation and brought Ye Sheng up to the surface.
McDonald's figure tilted his head, looking at the huge broken dragon tail in his hand, and frowned slightly. He seemed to be confused as to why this thing appeared inside the Bronze City.
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"Doctor! Doctor!"
Aki half-knelt in front of the stretcher, crying loudly.
Ye Sheng lay weakly on the stretcher, his abdomen was a blur, and even the broken diving suit was mixed with flesh and blood. Blood couldn't stop flowing from Yaji's slender fingers.
At this time, Yaji was hating why his hand was so small. If it were bigger, Ye Sheng wouldn't bleed so much.
Outside the room, Thelma stepped on her high heels frantically and rushed from another room holding a first aid kit.
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious. The doctor will be here soon, will be here soon..." Thelma repeated her voice, comforting Aki next to her and also herself.
Ye Sheng's injuries were so horrific that his entire ribs were turned outwards and his internal organs were bleeding extensively.
Under the impact of the nearly ten-meter-long thing, even with the buffer brought by the copper can, the residual force was not something Ye Sheng could withstand.
"Ya Ji..." Ye Sheng opened his eyes dimly, his voice as weak as a candle that was about to be extinguished in the wind and rain.
"I'm here! I'm here!" Aki immediately held the hands that wanted to lift up to touch him and placed them on his cheeks.
Wet tears mixed with blood flowed uncontrollably from her cheeks.
As an outstanding executive specialist, Aki's inner defenses completely collapsed at this moment. He felt his increasingly weak breathing and his body temperature approaching freezing. Tears fell crazily down his cheeks like rain lines.
Wearing a windbreaker, Mance stood alone in the storm outside the window, smoking a cigar silently, his eyes reflecting the tearful scene in the window, and the window reflected the darkness of the rough sea.
The world has become more depressing at this moment.
"Five minutes, I hope you can hold on, Ye Sheng."
Mance's fists were bruised inadvertently.
The lights swayed slowly in the wind and rain, shining orange on the floor, which was reflected in bright red, blooming in the sunlight like a blooming rose. Ye Sheng lay quietly in the middle...
Ye Sheng's face became even paler. The remaining warmth was all concentrated on Yaji's cheeks.
"Can...can you promise me something? Aki...cough..." Ye Sheng's voice was so weak that it was inaudible.
"Promise, I promise, as long as you live, I promise you!..." Yaji clutched Ye Sheng's hand tightly, with a stubborn expression like a little girl unwilling to let go of the candy,
At this moment, nothing could make her make the slightest concession. But anything could make her make a concession.
As long as he can live.
"I love you!" Ye Sheng's voice was slow but extremely firm.
"I know...I love you too, please stop talking, I love you too, I love you too..." Aki repeated these words crazily.
"I am satisfied to... hear your words from my own mouth..." Ye Sheng breathed a sigh of relief as if he understood what he wanted. His whole person instantly became weaker. It was like the last breath of his persistence was released.
Come down.
"Ye Sheng! Ye Sheng!!" Yaji's eyes suddenly tightened, and he clearly felt that the warmth in his palm was quickly withdrawing.
She wanted to catch it frantically, but how could she catch the air!
"Ye Sheng, please don't die, Ye Sheng, please don't die! Didn't you ask me to promise you something? I promise you, I promise you, you don't want to die!!"
"Can you promise to be me and live a good life?" Ye Sheng looked at Aji with the little light left in his eyes and murmured on his lips.
"I promise! I promise! I promise!" Aki shouted without hesitation.
The muscles at the corners of Ye Sheng's mouth slowly rose, slowly rose...
"Live well for me."
Ye Sheng looked at the girl tenderly, as if at this last moment, the angels who welcomed him into heaven all looked like Ya Ji...
Time was frozen at this moment, he gently reached out to touch the girl's cheek, but his illusory body gently penetrated the girl's skin like light.
Yaji felt the last trace of warmth disappearing from her fingertips. Her eyes froze in place, staring blankly at Ye Sheng who was smiling at him.
At this moment, the roaring storm in her ears could no longer be heard, and the swaying lights were no longer warm. The contrasting colors no longer lost their color, and her world was empty and empty.
No temperature, no sound, no color...
"Ye Sheng..."
Aki murmured to herself, staring blankly at the increasingly cold face. Her tear glands could no longer secrete tears.
"Doctor! Doctor!!" Thelma shouted frantically outside! She pressed Ye Sheng's heartbeat frantically again and again.
But the cold touch is like a rock that has been soaked in the deep sea for thousands of years, cold, clammy and without any warmth.
"Aki! What are you doing! Aki, what are you doing?!" Thelma stared at Aki who stood up and walked towards the door with a knife.
"Professor! Professor, stop her! Stop her!!" Thelma screamed like crazy. But she still refused to give up heart compression. Still unwilling to give up her last hope.
boom!
Mance didn't hesitate anymore, pushed open the hatch, and blocked the door like a mountain, looking at Aki with dull eyes across from him.
The storm behind him roared desperately towards the house. The dark sky made it impossible to see any hope.
"Aki Shutoku, wake up!!" Mance yelled at the girl across from him with raised eyebrows.
But the moment he met those eyes, Mance froze on the spot.
Despair, gloom, darkness,...
At this moment, Mance saw all kinds of emotions in the other person's eyes, but none of them were related to 'life'.
For a moment, he didn't have the courage to look at the girl. He suddenly remembered an idiom he learned in China, which is, "There is no greater sorrow than death."
Aki was rescued like this
Mance clenched his fists tightly!
Angry emotions surged in his heart, but an even stronger sense of powerlessness made him roar at the storm. He wanted to stop her, but he didn't have the courage. Because the pain he endured was not on the same level as the girl!!
He clenched his fists and put them down, his eyes were firm and dim...
Finally! A trace of determination flashed through Mance’s eyes! He suddenly turned around and grabbed Aki’s wrist!
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Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
A powerful heartbeat suddenly sounded from their ears.
Yaji, who passed by Mance, suddenly froze on the spot.
Boom! Boom...
The sonorous heartbeat continues,
"Aki! Aki!!" Thelma looked at the slowly rising and rising chest of her subordinate in disbelief. She screamed at the girl's back with all her strength.
Aki turned around instantly and stared at the face of the man in the middle. Tears poured down like a rainstorm.