"What does that pattern mean?" Caesar emphasized again, his voice trembling slightly, and he couldn't believe his ears.
"You heard it right, the meaning of those patterns is Takamagahara, the place where the gods gather in Japanese mythology. The island floating on the sea and in the clouds." Fu Nian emphasized.
"Gao Tianyuan!! Mr. Fu, are you sure?" Above the eight-kilometer-deep sea, Yuan Zhisheng listened to their conversation in his ears, and his whole body was not much calmer than Caesar.
Takamagahara! Takamagahara, the land of the gods! It is the place where Japanese mythology originated. It has a great relationship with the current Jakiba family.
"Fortunately, although I'm not 100% sure, but based on how similar they are to Long Wen, I'm at least 90% sure. I've already sent the photos back to Norma. I believe Norma will send them to Norma soon.
Found it."
Fu Nian looked at the words on the torii gate. To be honest, he was a little weird inside. Not only were the dragon-like patterns in front of him, but even the ruined city that fell into the deep sea was imitated from the dragon clan.
civilization.
Over a long period of time, it completely wiped out the former dragon civilization, and when it was about to become the most incredible miracle in the world, it happened to be a dragon king who came here.
Fu Nian's heart is very strange now.
…
Yuan Zhisheng: "Sorry, Mr. Fu, there is a problem with our communication with the headquarters. It may be because the sudden violent activity of sunspots has affected the communication equipment.
The Yanliu Research Institute is currently undergoing emergency repairs. However, Princess Kaguya can also do the work of checking text. Her working mode is very similar to Norma, and she can also call library data from all over the world."
"Is something wrong with Norma?" Fu Nian was stunned and frowned inadvertently.
"We are working hard to repair it, and I believe it will be completed soon. If Fu Jun insists, you can wait for us to complete the repair of Norma and confirm again." Yuan Zhisheng explained again.
"It doesn't matter. It's the same for everyone." Fu Nian shook his head and sent the photo to Princess Kaguya.
After finishing speaking, Fu Nian turned his gaze to Caesar and Chu Zihang, whose eyes were still immersed in the words on the torii.
"We should leave as soon as the photos are taken. We are here to find embryos, and we don't have much time left."
"?" Caesar looked up at Fu Nian in surprise. He didn't understand what this sentence meant. Their current amount of oxygen and even the energy stored in lithium batteries were sufficient. Why did they say...
Suddenly, the clever Caesar's eyes suddenly realized something. Could it be...
He suddenly looked at the torii gate in front of him, but his intention was to look behind the torii gate and see if the embryo was behind it.
But the torii gate was too big, and the slope of the steps was too high. It was difficult for the Diliest to see what was going on inside. It was like what was in front of them was a cramped iron prison, and inside the cage was a man with a high mountain and a vast ocean.
, young woman in white gauze,
You stood at the door of the iron cage with mixed feelings, while she lay in the iron cage anxious and unbearable, but the worst part was that the key fell into the Lese sewer.
Caesar's current mood was probably like this, but as a man, Caesar could not allow himself to say no, and without any hesitation, Caesar immediately controlled the Dirieste and moved forward.
The Diliest passed under the huge torii gate and tried to slip into the black shadow that could not be illuminated by the lava.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but the moment the deep submersible passed the torii, Fu Nian inexplicably heard countless hoarse moans, as if a bleeding ghost in hell was lying by the window trying to stick out his tongue and rub saliva at him,
Rolling your eyes...
"roll."
Fu Nian slowly turned his head, and in the darkness where the lava couldn't even shine, a pair of red-gold eyes slowly opened.
The world suddenly became quiet.
Even the previously wanton flowing water has become well-behaved.
The Diliest slowly passed through the torii gate and entered a wider field of vision.
But the sounds in the cockpit became unusually quiet. Everyone's eyes passed through the observation window at the top and were glued to Optimus Prime at the end.
Behind the torii gate, there is a strange-shaped building ruin. It looks like a mountain rising from the ground. It is tilted at an angle and seems to collapse at any time.
The Trieste was exactly at the angle between the opponent and the ruins.
The color of its surface is the same as other buildings in this ruins. It is covered by unknown blue-black shellfish. The rows and rows look like scales growing on a pangolin, but the texture of the scales is like rust, dryness, and the smell of blood and iron.
Intense.
But when Chu Zihang pointed the long-distance camera at the building, the tiny rusts were clearly visible on the screen. Thousands of small snail-like things gathered together tightly, making the scalp of anyone who saw it numb.
, this feeling is like seeing dense maggots drilling in and out of the elephant's bones.
"We seem to have found the Lenin." Caesar looked up at the big guy and opened his mouth.
"But why are there such dense shellfish species here?" Chu Zihang looked ahead questioningly.
"That's disgusting." Fu Nian also frowned. He didn't have trypophobia, but looking at the scene in front of him, he felt that even if he didn't have trypophobia, he would be brought out.
"They seem to be still mating. They look like lung snails. They are hermaphrodites, but in order to exchange genes, they mate with each other, and then store the fertilized eggs in the gill cavity for hatching." Caesar looked at the camera opening carefully, and he was stuck
I studied natural science courses offered by Manstein at Sayre College.
"In fact, they are not squirming, but they are constantly opening their shells and spitting out the tiny snails that have successfully hatched. This is incredible. These snails are constantly mating and giving birth, and thousands of tiny snails are born every second.
, their reproductive activities are surprisingly frequent!”
"Those marine creatures." Chu Zihang suddenly thought of something,
"The ecology here is the result of the gathering of these snails! There is such a snail nest deep in the abyss, and it is giving birth to little snails all the time.
Like small krill, small lung snails feed on phosphorus ejected from volcanoes and produce protein through anaerobic chemical reactions.
Protein is the most important source of nutrition for those marine organisms. Fish schools rely on eating these proteins to survive, and large predators rely on eating fish schools to survive. It is precisely because of this protein that
This weird ecological environment can only be formed in factories and deep seas.”
"Those sea creatures are dragon subspecies, then they are!!" Caesar's pupils dilated.
"They are too." Fu Nian nodded affirmatively.
"The snails evolved because of the embryos, and those marine creatures spread because of the snails. The ecosystem here has long been finalized, but..." Fu Nian looked at the darkness in the distance, where the black shells and the black sea water merged into one, and there were many flows between them.
The creeping weirdness.
"But what?!!"
Caesar stared at Fu Nian. From the moment he dived, he felt that Fu Nian was very calm. Although Fu Nian was usually in this mood, this calmness would be particularly prominent when the two people's emotions often fluctuated.
"Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat lung snails, and lung snails live on embryos." Fu Nian stared at the darkness in the distance, as if he could see things they couldn't see.
"But we haven't seen the big fish yet."
"The big fish is not..." Caesar recalled the huge gray whale he saw.
"No, the big fish Fu Nian mentioned are the top predators in the food chain here. They can become the top predators in the ecological chain of the dragon subspecies. Their appearance will inevitably trigger a violent reaction in the surrounding creatures. The whale swam by safely.
, the school of fish is not in a hurry, it is obviously not." Chu Zihang shook his head hurriedly and said.
"That is?" Caesar's eyes flickered.
Chu Zihang also looked at Fu Nian.
Fu Nian turned his gaze to the black Lenin in front of him, which was stuck diagonally on the ground. This was the first time he looked directly at the ruins of the Lenin. It was like a gun suddenly placed on someone's forehead.
The Deliast shook violently.
But the root cause is not the Deliast, but,
The huge tilted ruins began to shake violently, and the sea water was like a sudden heavy rain on a sunny day.
The rubble and the shells of the dead snails trembled violently with the water, sank, and hit the shell of the Diryste, making a dull roaring sound like falling rain.
Caesar's expression changed: "Undersea earthquake? Call Xumizuo! Call Xumizuo! Have you detected an undersea earthquake?"
"Call the Trieste, call the Diteste, no vibrations were detected on the sea floor, and the Seismological Bureau did not release news about seafloor earthquakes," Yuan Zhisheng said.
"But the ruins started to shake. What else could it be if it wasn't an undersea earthquake?"
"It's not an undersea earthquake." Fu Nian interrupted Caesar's voice with certainty.
While the two of them were holding on to the driver's seat, only Fu Nian stood firmly on the spot and watched the huge changes in front of him.
Of course it's not an earthquake.
Instead, the embryo of the dragon felt the violent trembling in Fu Nian's eyes. The lung snails with dragon blood were also deeply affected by Fu Nian's power, and they all wanted to run away in fear.
Fu Nian naturally knew what was going on, but it was impossible for him to tell Caesar and the others directly like this.
Yuan Zhisheng was silent for a few seconds: "Maybe the embryo is aware of the approaching danger and is trying to wake up. Have you suffered any neurological interference?"
Caesar pinched his lips and said, "I think I'm fine. It's quite painful. There shouldn't be any nerve interference. It all looks pretty normal."
"I don't know what's going on, but this is a rare opportunity. The embryo should be struggling to wake up. We cannot allow it to wake up. We should seize this opportunity to kill it." Yuan Zhisheng spoke very quickly.
"I just had a transoceanic phone call with Professor Schneider. He also means to do everything possible to kill the embryo. If it struggles to wake up this time, it will be free, and we will no longer be able to easily hunt it.
"
"Since Professor Schneider gave the order, there is no problem." Caesar also knew that it was not advisable to stay in this weird place for a long time.
"Chu Zihang, are you ready for the alchemy bomb?" Caesar shouted. He cheered up, his eyes were red, staring at the huge black figure in front of him, and he quickly controlled the sight.
It must be painful to hit such a big guy. Caesar thought to himself.
"The bomb has been activated and the safety bolt is being released. It will be ready to launch in 15 seconds."
"Fu Nian is ready to float, the air tank is ready to be drained, the stabilizer is ready, the propeller system is ready, and the bomb is ready to float immediately!"
The shaking of the ruins is getting stronger and stronger, and the snails attached to the surface of the ruins are peeling off, layer by layer, like molting. The city is collapsing or waking up, and its original color and texture are about to be revealed in front of people.
suddenly.
"Caesar... take a look at the sonar screen!" Chu Zihang's voice was strange.
Caesar turned his head, his pupils suddenly tightened.
Dense red dots appeared one after another on the sonar screen, each red dot pulsating.
Each red dot here represents a heartbeat, and it seems like hundreds or even thousands of things are waking up in the darkness.
"Damn it! What is this place? A dragon's nest?" Caesar was stunned.
…
…
34%,
60%
The eyes of Schneider and Manstein in the central command room of Kassel College suddenly widened.
The progress bar flashed a dazzling red light and instantly burst from one side of the screen to the middle.
It took nearly a month for the progress bar to slowly rise to 30%, but it doubled in an instant.
This horrific incident made the two leaders of Kassel College feel a little uneasy for a moment.
"What happened? What exactly happened? Norma still doesn't have Kaguya in her face?!" Manstein's voice was a little urgent.
But before his voice could be heard, the eye-catching red color on the screen refreshed again.
90%
The eye-catching color clung to the screen like blood, clinging between the eyes of the two people.
The heart rate in the room instantly accelerated to 400 beats per second, and adrenaline flowed through the blood like a gushing faucet.
The central control room was filled with frantic heartbeats.
Hatching rate exceeded 90%!!
What does this mean!!
This means that the ancient dragon embryo can break through the shackles at any time. It is born in the deep sea, which is a disaster for the Deliast under the deep sea!!
"It's too late... It's too late... It's about to complete hatching! No one can stop it anymore!!" Schneider shook his head, the horrific memory of eleven years ago once again enveloped him. It was like fate,
No matter how well prepared he was, the dragon's shadow still caught up with him.
They don't have time to escape. They want to do it again!
Schneider watched helplessly as the hatch rate jumped up, and the veins on the hand holding the chair were rough as if they were about to penetrate the skin.
98%...99%...100%.
Snap!
The world stopped at this moment.
Schneider's eyes were gray, and Manstein roared unwillingly.
The dust in the air was shaken by the boiling heartbeat of the dragon's blood.
finally.
The next second.
The red numbers on the screen changed again.
120%...150%...190%...240%...
"What's going on? How can the embryo hatching rate exceed 100%?" Manstein suddenly turned his head and stared at Schneider next to him.
Schneider's eyes were staring at the screen in shock, and cold sweat was falling crazily down his cheeks.
"If there is more than one living thing there and the heartbeat signals are superimposed, the upper limit of the hatching rate will increase. This is a flaw in the calculation method. If 100 dragons wake up at the same time, the upper limit is 10,000%!
This is impossible! This is impossible!
How could there be such a terrifying number of dragons!" Schneider stared at the screen and became speechless.
The embryo hatching rate reading has exceeded 8400%.
Moreover, it is still showing an exponential upward trend.
…
…
Layers of waves rolled up on the lava river, and these viscous rock solutions flowed extremely slowly.
Waves more than ten meters high can take shape in the water for more than ten seconds, and then the shape of the waves collapses, and hundreds of tons of magma slap on the magma river again.
As a result, the light of the lava flourished, illuminating every corner of the ruins.
As the Lenin shook violently, millions of snails fell off the wreckage of the Lenin, along with a mucus-like black liquid.
A sunken ship that lasted nearly half a century was completely displayed in front of the three of them.
It was an unimaginable abnormality. The Lenin was inserted directly into the city with its hull. Half of its body was inserted into the seabed and ruins, and half of its body was exposed.
The outside was previously wrapped by the snail shell, and only a layer of black scales could be seen, but after the snail fell off.
Half of the part exposed on the ground is the color of carrion, and the other part is the gray-black color of steel. The gray is densely covered with structures similar to tendons and fascia, and they are also slightly squirming. The snails use their mouthparts to bite into this giant thing.
in the body,
They are constantly squirming in the body, constantly mating and breeding. Shocking wounds are opened on the surface of the carrion of the Lenin, and the remaining lung snails can be seen tightly sucked deep into the wounds.
"The boat is the embryo??" Caesar stared at Chu Zihang and Fu Nian with wide eyes. He always thought that the embryo was inside the boat, but now...
"What on earth was packed into it back then!!"
The snails falling like a rainstorm blocked their sight, but even if they blocked their sight, Caesar could clearly see the Lenin that was slowly wriggling its body!
"It seems that the sunken ship was occupied by embryos, and the embryos transformed the steel into a part of it! Look carefully! In the parts that are not covered by flesh, traces of blood vessels can be seen in the steel!" Chu Zihang stared at the picture on the macro camera
Open your mouth.
"How sad."
Fu Nian suddenly laughed and stared at the falling shells all over the sky, with a trace of inexplicable sadness in his eyes.
"Using an ancient dragon as a sacrifice is really a great gesture."
Caesar and Chu Zihang suddenly looked at Fu Nian behind them.
There was doubt in the eyes of both of them.
"What sacrifice?"
"It's already dead." Fu Nian said calmly.
"When it was still an embryo, its brain was dug out. Now it will continue to grow far and wide, but it is just a steady growth. It has become integrated with the city and has become the resurrection of the city.
of nourishment.
Look."
Fu Nian pointed in a certain direction.
Caesar and Chu Zihang saw from the observation port below that where the snails were accumulated, the Lenin gave birth to thick blood vessels that penetrated the seabed. The blood flowed from the Lenin to the entire city, seeming to be a spring that nourished this dead city.
As the shaking intensified, the seabed was cracking, and the black gaps were filled with sticky black plasma.
In terms of alchemy, both of them are only entry-level, but everyone can tell that this is a bloody alchemy similar to the black magic ritual.
At this moment, this giant ship wrapped in flesh is withering, and unknown forces are sucking away its blood.
The city is waking up,
It frantically sucked the juice of the embryo. The blood vessels of the Lenin shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, the fleshy surface cracked, blood as thick as syrup fell in the sea water, and scarlet blood threads rose and fell in the water.
The dragon's blood flowing out of the Lenin is irrigating this ancient city, and this swaying ancient city seems to be waking up!
Their enemy is not the embryo, but the Gao Tianyuan that has been dead for many years. The myth once told them that the gods once lived here.
And now the gods of the past,
About to wake up!
"What kind of things need to be sacrificed with the blood of an ancient dragon?"