Dragon Clan: Thought So Far.

"The facilities and equipment of this ship seem to be more complete than those of the Yamal." After putting down the fire axe and exiting the keel state, Reggie Reeves was once again the beautiful girl with clear eyes hiding under the white winter clothes.

Nono nodded and said, "After all, there is no need to provide services for hundreds of people like in the Far North. Apart from the necessary living and activity cabins, the other cabins are basically related to weapons, fuel and scientific research."

Whoever had rammed the Imael with the snakes and the out-of-control nuclear-powered icebreaker had misjudged the strength of these stalkers.

Even though all the members of the Far North were mixed-bloods and well-armed, Nono was confident that she could defeat them with the help of the crew of the Imer when a boarding battle actually took place. A group of pythons that were not even fully distorted could not pose any threat to her.

At this moment, the doctor on the ship had already used a forklift to bring the piece of ice that fell out of Hydra's abdomen into the medical cabin for autopsy. Nono and Reggie Reeves were drinking coffee in the lounge next door while waiting for the results.

Pasi Gattuso, who appeared in the ruins of the icebreaker, was also brought back from the ice by Yusuf and his task force. He has now been isolated in a separate cabin for intelligence verification by the crew.

The battle on the deck was quickly quelled after Constantine joined. The crew was cleaning up the battle, using an engineering forklift to push the several-ton giant snake carcasses, shell casings, and scrapped guns through the gap in the iron guardrail into the icy sea, and using a high-pressure water gun to clean the highly corrosive blood flowing in the cracks of the deck like a stream. As for the densely packed snake carcasses on the ice between the Yamal and the Imer, they were left alone.

This year's winter was particularly cold, too cold even for the Arctic under the polar night. Under such circumstances, there were few fishing boats or warships in the nearby waters, and even those small-tonnage icebreakers had difficulty breaking through the nearby ice.

When the ice melts in summer, the bodies frozen in the sea ice will fall into the sea and become food for other marine life.

Yusuf and his crew were hired by Su Enxi, which was similar to the ancient contract of selling their bodies. They had seen how powerful their employer was, and they were told before they set out on this journey that they might encounter some supernatural things that were difficult to explain with common sense. The confidentiality agreement signed by everyone before boarding the ship ensured that they would not leak the secrets of the dragon clan.

"You and Yusuf went to the ruins of the ship to investigate. Did you find anything valuable?" Nono asked.

There was only one person among them who came from the Far North and had been on the Yamal, and that person was Rigid Reeve.

The current situation is too weird, whether it is the two Yamals that appeared in the same channel at the same time, or Professor Schneider who was supposed to be in the control center at Hilltop Academy in Chicago to command the executive department but appeared in Hydra's abdomen and was wrapped in ice, and Pasi Gattuso who seemed to be in a different camp from the snake group. What happened in just a few hours has made this hunting trip confusing.

In fact, if Nono knew that Percy had been killed by Lu Mingfei with her throat cut in Odin's Nibelung above the viaduct, what she would feel now would not just be weird but horrifying.

"I went to check the top cabin and the engine room, and strangely, I didn't find anything unusual." Rigidrev said, curled up on the sofa. Her feet were exposed under her winter clothes, like the most exquisite jade works of art.

Nono noticed the hidden meaning in Reggie Reeves' words, "Why do you feel strange that nothing unusual was found?" she asked.

“Because in my memory, that ship was simply a hatchery left by a devil who wanted to take revenge on everyone.” Rigidrev said softly.

Nono's pupils contracted slightly.

The word hatchery was not unfamiliar to her. When high-level dragons were about to revive after being reborn from their cocoons, white filaments would grow from their embryos. The filaments would kill all living things around them and supply all the life force to the embryos. At this time, the area covered by the white filaments was called a hatchery.

"My great-grandmother, Maria of the Stars, has been dead for decades according to your intelligence, right?" Reggie Reeves asked softly. Nono nodded, "The database shows that Maria of the Stars had died before Vincent left Argentina. The Far North held a secret funeral in Siberia for the ashes left after the former saint was burned... I think there are many doubts about this matter, but the Far North is just an insignificant organization to the school board. Whether your saint is dead or alive will not have any impact on the school, so we didn't investigate further."

"In fact, Grandmother Maria boarded the Yamal before Vincent. She was contaminated by the breath that flowed out of the gate to the Kingdom of God in 1943, and her body was quietly undergoing some kind of mutation. Vincent was worried that this mutation would be discovered by the secret party, so he made her fake her death in advance and boarded an icebreaker, traveling on the high seas all year round." Rigidlife said, her expression didn't change much, but the flames of hatred and anger burned deep in her pupils.

"She should have died, right? And it was because of an accident, and that accident was related to Vincent." Nono was like a mind-reading devil. Just by looking at Reggie Reeves' eyes, he could guess what she was thinking. "You should have lived with her for a while. She was very good to you."

"No, she is not dead." Rijirev said coldly, a trace of sadness reflected in her silver-gray pupils, "but her life is worse than death."

"What do you mean?"

"Thirteen years ago, Grandma Maria suddenly disappeared from our side. Vincent told me that she was too old and had died... But one night I heard the sound of an owl from the wall of the cabin. Grandma Maria once taught me how to communicate with owls like a witch." Reggie Love sounded like she was telling the beginning of a horror story, and Nono shuddered for no reason.

"I followed the guidance of that voice and went deep into the watertight compartment, where I met Grandma Maria." Ridgelife curled up even harder, her whole body trembling slightly. Nono had to hug this girl, who was like a child at the moment, tightly to give her a sense of security.

"Her body had completely mutated. She looked like the skeleton of a giant, with a huge chest and dense ribs, and a thick twisted spine. Her legs had also degenerated into long snake tails, like a dead Titan python. Hundreds and thousands of blood vessels grew out of the gaps in her tailbone and pierced into the steel plate at the bottom of the watertight compartment, as if she was turning the ship into a part of her... But Grandma Maria was still alive. Her head was imprisoned and soaked in a box filled with mercury. She couldn't escape or die. She told me to escape, and also told me never to go back and never to dream of getting close to the kingdom of God. I asked Grandma Maria what she wanted to do, and Grandma Maria told me she wanted to die."

Nuonuo still remembered the photo of Maria the Star that she and Lu Mingfei had found from the academy's materials. She was such a beautiful woman, but she eventually turned into a monster that was neither human nor ghost. There was no doubt that it was Vincent himself who made her like this. That old man never gave up on finding the entrance to the kingdom of God.

Then she remembered that a similar thing had happened in another part of the ocean on this planet.

The Lenin, which was once used by Herzog to awaken the underwater Takamagahara, was eroded by a dragon embryo brought out from an unnamed port in Siberia before it sank. The old dog allowed the embryo to erode the Lenin with the purpose of turning the entire Lenin into nutrients for God. Then, would Vincent and even the bigwigs behind him not know that Star Maria was eroding the Yamal? What was their purpose in doing so?
wake……

Another God?

"I checked the power compartment, watertight compartment and the top cabin where I used to live on the Yamal. Although the entire ship was almost completely scrapped, I could still vaguely tell from the cabin structure that it was indeed the Yamal... But the problem was here. I didn't see Grandma Maria in the watertight compartment, not even a trace of her having been there. Although the top cabin was luxuriously decorated, it was completely different from the style I used to live in."

"What you mean is that it can be confirmed that the ship is the Yamal, but it is not the Yamal you have been on?" Nono said softly.

The Far North, Vincent, Odin, Maria of the Stars, the Kingdom of God...

Too many strange things were happening, and her profile couldn't even find the only truth from the countless messy lines.

At this moment, the door of the medical cabin was pushed open from the inside, and the doctor who was taking off his mask nodded to Nono, "I have prepared the autopsy report." He said. The autopsy of Professor Schneider's body took a full four hours, and this was the result after three doctors joined the autopsy operation.

Nono and Reggie looked at each other, and then she took the report from the doctor.

"…The hierarchical structure of the brain tissue was normal, the brain tissue showed empty reticular changes, some nerve cells were swollen, the nuclei were displaced, and the perivascular spaces were widened… Some brain tissues were autolyzed and liquefied. The hierarchical structure of the cerebellum was normal, the gray matter and white matter boundaries were clear, and some brain tissues were autolyzed and liquefied.

"The myocardial hierarchical structure is normal. The left and right ventricular myocardial cells are red-stained, with visible horizontal striations, loose interstitium, blurred and lightly stained nuclei of some myocardial cells, and myocardial fibers are broken horizontally. The aortic wall is thickened, with hyperplasia of fibrous tissue and lipid deposition and calcification. Blood clot tissue is seen in the cavity of the right coronary artery, and no changes are seen in the left and right atria."

"The alveolar cavity is dilated, partially ruptured and fused, the alveolar wall blood vessels are obviously dilated and congested, and there is a large amount of pink homogeneous edema fluid in the alveolar cavity."

"…Forensic pathology diagnosed death as electrocution: electrical spot on the skin of the index finger of the left hand."

"It's basically confirmed that he died from a strong electric current, but he should have been very weak before he died." The doctor sighed, "A large part of the deceased's lungs were removed by a sophisticated surgical method, and his trachea was replaced with an artificial product. His respiratory system was devastated many years ago. It's hard to say whether he was able to hold on for so long was a miracle or just because of his strong willpower."

"Thank you." Nono said softly.

She had originally doubted the authenticity of Professor Schneider, but when she heard the doctor accurately say that he had been injured by the extreme cold in the Greenland Ice Sea incident many years ago, she immediately confirmed that the body was indeed Schneider himself.

Unfortunately, there is no way to contact the college headquarters now. She is a wanted criminal, and contacting the college now will quickly expose their location.

She was very curious about what the thing hidden in Kassel College was if the Professor Schneider who appeared before them was really him.

After the doctor left, Nono and Reggie Love pushed open the hatch together and prepared to check the ice clearing situation. They had to speed up to catch up with the Far North which was gradually entering the Arctic Circle.

Yusuf came towards him. This German man who had remained calm even when facing Hydra now had a frosty look on his face.

"We got some information from that Parsi that may be of interest to you, Miss Chen." Yusuf lowered his voice.

Nono frowned.

"He said he and the boat were from October 2012, ," Yusuf said coldly.

Nono was stunned.

Today is... January 2011, .
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"Traitor, do you still remember me?" The girl looked down coldly at Kungunir who was about to stab Lu Mingfei's heart.

Flames also burned on Su Xiaoqiang's body. The heat wave lifted her long black hair, and the ends of her hair grew like vines spreading wildly in the spring rain.

The flames from bottom to top turned all the clothes on her body into ashes. The ashes floated and turned into a skirt with scarlet tassels, the hem of which seemed to cover the entire roof.

Lu Mingfei turned his head blankly and looked at the pretty little face next to him. With the tip of the nose as the center, dense and fine scales grew on Su Xiaoqiang's face like flowers.

A glorious crown appeared on the girl's head, with blood-soaked jade beads swaying in front of her cheeks.

The spear head of Kungunir was held in Su Xiaoqiang's hand. It twisted like a live snake and made a sharp hissing sound.

The sharp edge of the spear cut Su Xiaoqiang's palm, causing it to bleed. The flame spread from the slender wrist to the gun body of Kungunir. After a moment, the golden glow enveloped the dead branch. It blinked and wailed in pain.

Then Su Xiaoqiang pulled Lu Mingfei in front of her. She reached out and tore open the man's collar, then buried her head and kissed his collarbone where the mark was planted.

The burning pain came from Kungunir's beacon, but the world fell silent in the blink of an eye. Kungunir's spear tip made a disgusting popping sound under the burning flames, and the eye exploded. The golden halo scattered from the exploding eyeball like an aurora.

The sign on Lu Mingfei's collarbone also turned into light spots and flew away under the cover of Su Xiaoqiang's lips.

The Spear of Destiny rolled to the ground, and it was really dead like a dead branch. Lord Wa cursed, "Fuck your mother," and stepped on it, breaking it into two pieces.

But Lu Mingfei stared at the back of Su Xiaoqiang.

He saw the young man with droopy eyebrows standing in the illusory firelight and waving at him. Old Tang, or Norton, the last gift he left behind turned into flames and burned on Su Xiaoqiang's body. As it burned, Lu Mingfei saw that the sky seemed to have cracked. In the depths of the crack, he saw two worlds side by side at the same time, as if a giant was looking at here through the crack in the world.

"Fates intersect." Norton said, Su Xiaoqiang said.

Lord Wa also looked up. She could not see the cracks in the world, but she could feel something coming, at the moment when the King of Bronze and Fire was resurrected in the world.

(End of this chapter)