Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 488 Zero: You almost stuck out your tongue

The flow rate at the bottom of the water suddenly increased, and tiny bubbles were spinning in the blue-gray light band illuminated by the spotlight.

Undercurrent! This was Aki Sakutoku's first reaction!

Underwater caves are very complex geographical structures. A cave that appears to have only one passage may actually have countless passages inside that are inaccessible to humans. This is art carved out by water erosion.

Without external forces, the water flow in the cave was stable most of the time. But Aki's behavior in the hallucination just now seemed to have disturbed the balance of the water flow, just like the little force at the far end of a lever that pried the earth, although insignificant, it actually caused the undercurrent to appear.

The lifeline tightened instantly.

The equipment department has adopted a design similar to the seat belt on a car on the lifeline of the diving suit. Once the lifeline is subjected to an external force exceeding the set strength, the carbon nanotube lifeline will instantly get stuck in the engine of the "Moniah", preventing underwater workers from being sucked deeper by the undercurrent.

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"Team B has an abnormal situation!" On the Moniach, the second mate who had been standing at the stern to observe immediately reported the situation to the captain's room through the headset, "The engine room has tightened the lifelines of Jiude Aki and Lu Mingfei!"

Mans was stunned for a moment, then immediately grabbed the communication microphone: "This is the 'Moniah'. Lu Mingfei, Aji, report your situation! Repeat, this is the 'Moniah'. Lu Mingfei, Aji, report your situation!"

There was no response. There was no sound in the headset, and his call seemed to have fallen into outer space without a medium.

Mance immediately yelled out the window: "Reel in the line! Reel in the line!"

The engine at the stern started turning and reeled in the lifelines of the two people.

Every step of Mans's order fully complies with the mission charter of Kassel Academy. When performing underwater operations, once the connection with the mission specialist is lost, the crew on board must immediately retrieve the mission specialist's lifeline. In this case, every extra second the specialist stays underwater is fatal.

But he didn't know what was going on underwater, and didn't know that Jiude Aki and Lu Mingfei were sharing an oxygen mask. Otherwise, he would have definitely changed his response strategy, and while slowly pulling up the lifeline, he would have asked Ye Sheng and Selma to bring spare oxygen to meet Lu Mingfei and the others.

In this case, pulling the lifeline quickly would make it impossible for Jiude Aki to exchange oxygen masks with Lu Mingfei. The party that loses the visible mask and oxygen source will be in an extremely dangerous situation!
Even though Lu Mingfei's maximum breath-holding time was long enough for the lifeline to pull him from the bottom of the water to the surface, without an oxygen mask, he would suffer from fatal decompression sickness due to the rapid changes in water pressure inside and outside his body.

Jiude Aki also knew this very well.
The two men floated up rapidly, stumbling in the cave like pearls in milk tea stirred by a straw, and the walls of the cave hit their bodies back and forth.

At this point, it didn't matter whether the uneven rocks on the cave wall would tear their diving suits. The only thing the people on the "Moniah" had to ensure was that the two people could escape from the bottom of the water alive.

Under the water, the muddy currents completely blocked Aki Jude's vision. She held the oxygen mask tightly on her face with one hand, and tried to find Lu Mingfei's position in the pitch-black vision with the other hand.

She has performed many underwater missions and knows how terrible decompression sickness is. The formation principle of this disease is that the water pressure changes too quickly, and helium and nitrogen will penetrate into human tissue to form bubbles, filling the blood vessels with a large amount of inert gas, causing vomiting blood.

A doctor once conducted an experiment on decompression sickness. He drew blood from a diver who had been on a mission under the sea for a long time, sealed it in a small glass bottle, and returned to the surface with the bottle of blood. The moment he reached the surface, the blood in the bottle suddenly seemed to boil and bubble, and the rubber stopper of the bottle burst out like the cork of a champagne bottle that was shaken violently.

She must find Lu Mingfei as soon as possible and put the oxygen mask back on him!

However, the whirlpool at the bottom of the water tossed her to and fro, and she couldn't tell the direction at all.

In the panic, Aki Shude suddenly felt a hand holding her.

There was no one else in the cave except her and Lu Mingfei. She relaxed instantly and was about to grab Lu Mingfei and take off the oxygen mask on his face and put it on him. Suddenly, she felt something being stuffed into her arms. The shape and touch were very familiar.

It's an oxygen tank.

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"Lu Mingfei's engine has lost its traction." The second mate looked up at Mance, his face pale, "Lu Mingfei's lifeline has broken."

The blood drained out of Mans and Professor Guderian's faces at the same time. If the lifeline broke in deep water, it meant losing hope of survival. An S-level student had an accident during the mission he was responsible for... The consequences were not as simple as punishment.

For the entire mixed-blood race, losing an excellent S-level mixed-blood is a huge loss. Moreover, Lu Mingfei is still so young...

Old guys like them have long been prepared to devote themselves to the cause of slaying dragons, but Lu Mingfei still has unlimited possibilities.

"Adjust the engine speed, don't increase it too fast!"

Mans looked at Guderian beside him and said, "You stay here and wait for Yaji to come up. I'll go tell Ye Sheng and Selma to bring spare oxygen tanks to rescue Lu Mingfei."

After saying that, Mans strode back to the captain's room. He could only hope that there was enough oxygen in Lu Mingfei's oxygen tank. As long as the oxygen was enough to sustain him for half an hour... No, fifteen minutes should be enough.

As long as he can hold on until Ye Sheng and Selma find him with spare oxygen tanks, Lu Mingfei will be able to return safely.

Aji and the others left a guide rope in the cave. Following the direction of the guide rope, Ye Sheng and the others should be able to find Lu Mingfei soon.

The premise is... Lu Mingfei is not swept deeper into the undercurrent.

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Lu Mingfei didn’t know where he had been dragged to, or rather, he didn’t even know whether he was still alive.

He only felt that his ears were very quiet, as quiet as death. If heaven really existed, this was probably the quietness he imagined it should be.

The sunlight from the dome fell on the white clouds. The angel sister silently played the harp to welcome the arrival of the lost people. Every time a person passed through the gate of heaven, the angel sister would kiss him on the forehead. The expression of each soul was very calm, and everything was peaceful and solemn... This was what Lu Mingfei imagined heaven to look like.

The team slowly moved forward, and it was finally Lu Mingfei's turn. Lu Mingfei stood on the inner side of the gate of heaven, watching the angel holding the harp gently fly to him, lower his head towards him, and prepare to kiss his forehead...

With a "pop" sound, Lu Mingfei felt a soft touch on his lips. It seemed that Miss Angel had kissed the wrong spot...

Before he could smack his lips to savor the flavor of the lipstick that Miss Angel was wearing, he felt his chest suddenly sink... just like when he was about to step up for a slam dunk in basketball and was elbowed hard in the chest by the opponent's strong, dark-bearded defensive player.

Even Lu Mingfei’s soul was almost knocked out by this elbow!
Man, what can I say?

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Lu Mingfei bounced up from the ground like a bow with a broken string, lying on his side, holding his chest and coughing violently, with air mixed with water droplets coughing out of his mouth. "Awake?" someone asked.

Lu Mingfei was stunned and saw the face in front of him clearly.

The girl lowered her head and looked at him from the side, her wet blonde hair hanging down, her blue eyes expressionless as if frozen, and her white sports bra, which was almost as transparent as her skin, covered her sensitive parts that were still developing but already taking shape.

"zero?"

Lu Mingfei called out the name carefully, as if the ice sculpture-like girl would shatter if his voice was a little louder.

"Yes, it's me." Ling nodded and replied in a cold and hard tone: "Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere else?"

“…No more.” Lu Mingfei replied.

"It's good that it's gone." Ling said, "Can you get up from my legs now? I've been kneeling for too long, and my legs are a little numb now."

Lu Mingfei was stunned and immediately sat up from the ground. Only then did he realize that he had been resting his head on the thigh of the ice princess. No wonder the back of his head felt soft, like a pillow.

Lu Mingfei felt that there was a serious gap in his memory. In the first half of his memory, he and Jude Aki were still carrying out the exploration mission for dragon ruins in the "Eye of Kuimen" cave; in the second half, he and Ling were sitting face to face, like kindergarten kids sitting in a row eating fruit.

There must be some part of the memory that was lost in the middle, otherwise why would these two scenes that are almost impossible to connect be pieced together in his mind?
"No problem." Zero said.

Lu Mingfei was stunned: "Ah?"

"I mean there's nothing wrong with your brain. I've checked you and your body is normal." Ling seemed to see the doubts in Lu Mingfei's heart and said lightly.

"Is that so?"

"Yes. You were so normal that you almost stuck out your tongue when I gave you artificial respiration just now. I even thought you might wake up on your own without me giving you artificial respiration."

Lingyong spoke in a flat tone without any intonation, something that petrified Lu Mingfei on the spot, and then he smashed the petrified Lu Mingfei to pieces.

"..."

Facts have proved that people are really speechless when they are speechless. Even Lu Mingfei's current mood cannot be described as speechless. He simply has no face to face the elders of Kassel Academy. If there is an unsharpened sword at hand, he will definitely learn from the King of Chu to draw his sword and commit suicide... Of course, if it is a sharpened sword, forget it.

I almost stuck out my tongue when Zero was giving me artificial respiration? What kind of perverted behavior is this?
Artificial respiration... breathing...

Lu Mingfei suddenly caught the key information in Ling's words. He raised his head and the scene reflected in his eyes made him stunned for a moment.

What appeared in his sight was a magnificent and huge cave hall in the water.

The reason why Lu Mingfei confirmed that it was an underwater cave hall, rather than an above-water cave hall, was because Lu Mingfei confirmed that he was still under the water... Directly opposite him was a wall of water.

But the wall was not a fixed plane, but swayed like jelly. It was like a water film with full surface tension. The fish swam in the water, just like visiting an aquarium.

The water wall is like the entrance to the cave hall. After entering through the "entrance" that can accommodate several people standing side by side, you will see the spacious underwater cave hall. The uncanny workmanship of nature is fully demonstrated at this moment. Under the action of water erosion, the cave hall is carved like an underwater church, the clusters of rocks are like a forest, and the dome stone cone of the cave hall hangs high like a sword.

Behind Lu Mingfei stood a whole flat, dirty black wall, extending infinitely up, down, left and right, seemingly without boundaries.

"Are we... still under the Yangtze River?" Lu Mingfei asked Ling beside him in a tone of half doubt and half certainty.

There was no shock of seeing this natural wonder for the first time, because Lu Mingfei had seen many wonders before. The Three Gorges Bronze City cast by Norton was a wonder as great as the tenth wonder. But Lu Mingfei was still shocked by this underwater cave hall. The shock of beauty.

"Under the Yangtze River." Ling said, "To be more precise, we are still inside the 'Eye of Kuimen'."

This answer did not surprise Lu Mingfei. Or rather, what was more unexpected to Lu Mingfei was meeting Ling here.

Ling is a mysterious girl. From the first time Lu Mingfei saw her, there has always been a faint aura of mystery lingering around her.

Ling is not the girl that Lu Mingfei is closest to, nor is she the girl that Lu Mingfei likes the most, but she is definitely the girl that Lu Mingfei once knew best.

In Kassel Academy, Ling was the person who spent the most time with him besides Finger. Ling went to class with him, ate lunch with him, chose the same elective courses with him, and even sat next to him during exams so that he could pass cheat sheets to Lu Mingfei.

All the students in Kassel Academy thought that the Snow Queen and the S-level student were a couple like The Return of the Condor Heroes, and even the parties involved had never denied the rumors between the two.

But Ling is the girl that Lu Mingfei knows the least about... Apart from her name, age and place of origin, Lu Mingfei knows almost nothing about Ling. It's like a book that has never been opened.

But every time there was a special situation, Zero would appear, such as when he was surrounded by the Sheqi Eight Clan in Neon, and at the social dance when he first entered college.

If all this could be explained by coincidence, after all, Ling was also a student at Kassel College, she just happened to want to be a dance partner with Lu Mingfei, whom she had met a few times, and she just happened to come to Neon to carry out a mission to support Lu Mingfei, then that would make sense.

But now, he and Zero have not yet joined Kassel Academy. But whether it was the time in Portugal or the current "Eye of Kuimen" mission, Zero always appeared by his side in critical moments.

And it seems that she has an unusual relationship with Jude Mai...

Lu Mingfei looked at Ling, his throat moving slightly, and he almost asked who Ling was and why he kept helping him like this. It can't be because of a secret crush, right? It's understandable that you had a secret crush on me in your previous life, but I've only met you twice in this life...

At this time, Ling suddenly patted the dirt on his knees and stood up: "Since you are awake, let's go."

"Where are we going?" Lu Mingfei asked subconsciously.

"Go there." Ling stretched out his finger and pointed at the wall behind Lu Mingfei.

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(End of this chapter)