Brass Dragon in the Dragon World

Chapter 299 Death Ritual
Turning over a low and gentle slope, the ancient city below is spread out like a picture scroll. It is centered on a high tower, adjacent to a long river of magma, and has experienced thousands of years of immortality.

Half of the ancient city has slipped into the magma river, and the other half is left with collapsed ruins. Only the huge tower in the center has stood stubbornly for many years, symbolizing the city's former glory.

Even from the collapsed ruins, the original majesty of the city can still be seen, with continuous buildings, raised gable roofs covered with black tiles, engraved with cirrus clouds and dragon beasts, and metal chains hundreds of meters long Hanging on the four corners of the building, black wind chimes are hung on the chains, undulating in the current.

Thousands of wind chimes sway, playing silent music in the abyss.

The pale fish bones were mixed with the mud on the bottom of the sea, and in the gaps between the bones were densely packed black stones, but when Andra stepped into the distance, he realized that those stone-like things were all black shells of shellfish.

On the water, Zhang Gongyi in the scientific research ship stared at the image sent back by the Jiaolong. A well-preserved ancient dragon city is a precious treasure for any mixed-race force.

As an engineering expert, Zhang Gongyi doesn’t know much about biology. What he remembers most is the vigorous fruit flies in the biology books back then. Obviously, these shellfish attached to the bones have no chance to refresh themselves. , leaving behind their own genetic material.

These shellfish used to attach to the loose and porous bone structure and feed on the microorganisms near the magma cracks. Their bodies were turned into nutrients to feed the big fish. Over time, the big fish fell.

The ecological cycle continues.

But such a cycle does not conform to the common sense of biology. There are too many large fish distributed in this canyon, and the normal reproduction of shells alone cannot be maintained. The formation of this ecological circle originated from the dragon race.

The blood of the dragon clan nourished this place, and the power of the White King's Sacred Shell mutated these creatures until the 8000-meter deep sea could support a huge biosphere.

The marine biology expert sitting next to him was so excited that he could hardly hold the Chenguang ballpoint pen in his hand. This biologist who just graduated has dark skin and strong arms. Give this phenomenon a name.

"The biosphere cultivated by the remains of the dragon clan is similar to Whale Fall. Brother Zhang, how do you call this phenomenon 'Dragon Fall'?"

Zhang Gongyi quickly stopped the other party from further divergent thinking: "Xiao Liang, we will talk about this kind of thing later, let's look at the situation at the bottom first."

Obviously, this schoolmaster's talent for naming is not very good, but this does not prevent him from discovering problems in this ecosystem.

"Death is too clean. It doesn't seem like the total biomass will drop after the resources are exhausted. It's more like... being killed instantly by some kind of toxin?"

When the number of producers in an ecosystem gradually decreases, the ecosystem will gradually adjust until the number of producers, consumers, and decomposers returns to an appropriate ratio.

But in this deep sea, all the creatures in the ecosphere built by the remains of dragons were killed at the same time. Only in this way can such clean and complete bones and shells be left behind.

At this moment, in the cabin of Jiaolong, Uesugi Yue drew a cross on his chest: "My God..."

"Forget God, let's go and have a look." Ender drove the submarine down and hovered above a main road.

Below is the skeleton of a whale. The wide ribs pierced into the loose shell pile below, the spine was broken from it, the long and flat skull was tilted to one side, the eye sockets were cracked, and the white whalebone was buckled beside it. On the building, like a white curtain covering everything.

The Jiaolong is now next to a rib, and the manipulator originally designed in the front of the hull was removed under Ender's suggestion, because he had a better way to solve this problem.

Under Ender's control, a ring of mage's hand appeared outside the submarine, emitting a light blue magical luster. It pushed aside the layers of shells under the rib, and finally found the end of the rib.

"What is this, it looks like a tree root?" Lu Li looked at the object that appeared below, feeling a little strange.

It was white silky objects like tree roots, they were wrapped around the ends of the bones, some parts were as thin as spider silk, and some parts swelled like joints, extending all the way down.

Ender didn't speak, and manipulated the mage's hand outside the submarine to break off the tip of the rib. The scene that followed made him gasp. The inside of the bone was not empty, and the white roots ran along the gap. It grows upward and resides in it.

Then, Ender continued to force, and countless mage hands emerged from the water. They surrounded the skeleton like piranhas hunting. Following Ender's order, the skeleton was shattered under the joint force of these mage hands. Finally, what was hidden in it was revealed.

The white roots replaced the original bone marrow, extending from the ground all the way up to the whale's spine, burrowing into the bright white bones, forming a terrifying landscape that makes the scalp tingle.

"Obviously, this whale was eaten. It seems that Shengke is a good boy who is not picky about eating, and even the bone marrow must be sucked up." Ender made a joke, but the two people in the cabin couldn't laugh.

Even a child like Lu Li who grew up in Kassel College could hardly imagine such a scene. White roots rushed out from the ground, surged violently, and took root on every surrounding creature.

Those roots will erode their epidermis, devour their flesh and blood, and even the last trace of energy left in the bone marrow will not be spared.

And this overwhelming white bones is a massacre that took place on the bottom of the sea.

Ender let go of the mage's hand, let the exposed white roots float in the current, and steered the submarine to continue towards the central tower. He took out a bottle of plum wine and two Wine glasses, and handed one of them to Uesugi Koshi.

"I think we can have a drink, it's a day to celebrate."

As Ender said, he poured some wine for Uesugi Yue, and handed another glass to Lu Li who was dazed beside him, and poured some wine too.

"Cheers to the demise of the island country. Now I can watch the island country sink from the Tokyo Tower." Ender raised the bottle and drank it down.

Uesugi sighed, raised his glass casually, and then swallowed the plum wine in the glass. He understood what An De meant, the god hidden in Gao Tianyuan had awakened, and was about to unleash his anger on the island nation.

According to the information that Uesugi Koshi himself has seen, the mighty power of the White King is completely enough to destroy the entire island country, and Tokyo Bay will sink to the bottom of the sea in his anger, just like Takamahara in front of him.

(End of this chapter)