Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 494: Zero's Street Literature
"Lu Mingfei?"

Of course, Manstein had heard of this name. Kassel Academy recruited students from all over the world, and would pay attention to children with potential in advance.

For example, Caesar from the Gattuso family; or the crazy girl from the Chen family. Although she is only in the second year of high school, the principal has assigned Mance as her mentor.

The name Lu Mingfei was naturally on the list of people to be focused on. The older professors in the academy had all heard of the stories of the legendary dragon slayers of the first generation of the Lionheart Society.

As the descendant of the legendary dragon slayer Lu Shanyan, and with both his parents being S-level hybrids, Lu Mingfei is naturally the focus of the academy.

In fact, even Lu Mingfei's cousin Lu Mingze, who is 160cm tall and weighs 160kg, was once noticed by Kassel Academy, but after a brief observation, the academy removed him from the attention list.

However, Lu Mingfei has always been the focus of attention on the list, especially the principal Ange gave Lu Mingfei an S-level bloodline rating, which means that the principal has high hopes for Lu Mingfei.

But Mans said that this future S-level student had an accident during the mission? He was still stranded in an underwater cave, and might be facing a situation of oxygen deprivation?
Manstein immediately understood why Mans was so anxious on the phone, and said immediately: "I know. I have awakened Norma, and now I will give you Norma's command authority so that Norma can connect with you."

……

Within a few minutes, with the "Moniah" as the center point, ships set out from all ports within 30 kilometers. The ships drew uniform ripples on the river surface and headed towards the same destination.

Ye Sheng and Selma, who had been stranded underwater for a long time, have returned to the "Moniah" to replace new oxygen tanks and prepare for a second dive.

Although the rescue work for Lu Mingfei was still proceeding in an orderly manner, everyone on the boat understood that after being stranded in deep water for more than an hour without an oxygen tank, Lu Mingfei's hope of survival was basically slim.

After all, the highest record for unarmed breath-holding diving in the Guinness World Records is ten minutes. The physical fitness of mixed-bloods is stronger than that of ordinary people, but at most they can only reach a range of more than ten minutes.

No one thought that a miracle would happen. They felt that their only job was to try their best to salvage Lu Mingfei's body intact from the cave.

Ye Sheng and Selma had just stood on the side of the ship, and two sailors were carefully checking the lifelines on the two people's diving suits.

Mans frowned, looking at the river and the sky. The weather forecast originally said that it would be sunny and cloudless, but suddenly dark clouds gathered, and the scene of the river and sky in the distance seemed to be stained with a light layer.

"I can only hope it doesn't rain..." Mans thought in his heart, feeling irritated yet hopeful.

Deep water rescue work is already very difficult, and if it rains, it will undoubtedly make the rescue work even more difficult.

Mance was just about to return to the captain's room to ask someone about the weather conditions in the next few hours, but out of the corner of his eye he saw a pale-faced girl walking out of the cabin, holding her chest.

"Aki?" Mans turned around and looked at Jiude Aki: "Why did you come out? You should be resting in your room now."

Jiude Aki shook his head: "I'm fine. Professor, I want to dive with Ye Sheng and the others."

This statement was immediately rejected by Mans: "No! Aki, your body is not fully recovered yet. Doctor Zhou said that your body was hit when the lifeline was being retrieved. Your physical condition cannot support you to carry out deep diving activities now."

But Mance didn't expect that this student, who had always been well-behaved and obedient, would disobey his orders for the first time in history during a mission.

"no!"

Aki immediately replied in a deep voice. Her snow-white cheeks and the hair hanging down on both sides of her forehead were gently swaying in the wind that suddenly blew up from the river.

She replied to Professor Mans word by word in a sonorous tone: "Professor, I know my own body well. I can guarantee that it will not affect my ability to swim."

Mans was silent for a moment. "I know you feel guilty about Lu Mingfei and want to go with Ye Sheng to find Lu Mingfei. But Ye Sheng and Selma also have rich experience in underwater operations. It's not a bad thing to be confident, but you should also trust your teammates. Moreover, you can't be impulsive when performing tasks. Lu Mingfei has already had an accident. You are in poor health now, and not letting you go into the water is responsible for you and the academy."

"But Ye Sheng and Selma don't understand the structure of Cave No. 2."

Yaji said calmly, "Only Lu Mingfei and I have explored Cave No. 2 of the Eye of Kuimen. I am more familiar with the structure of the cave than Ye Sheng and Selma. I also know where Lu Mingfei and I encountered the underwater undercurrent. Even if it is for the sake of rescuing Lu Mingfei faster, you should agree to let me go into the water."

"And... my life was originally given to me by Lu Mingfei. I should have been the one in the accident. He gave me the oxygen tank," Yaji lowered her eyes and added softly in a voice that only she and Mance could hear.

"..."

The sunlight penetrated the clouds and gently fell on Aki's thin shoulders like a light snowflake. Her tense shoulders seemed like they would instantly shatter if touched lightly, and a light rain would fall.

Mans lowered his head and looked at his female student silently. He knew that his beloved student was a girl with a strong sense of responsibility, and being responsible meant that she was prone to guilt.

If she wasn't allowed to go into the water today, this matter would probably become a knot in her heart for the rest of her life, stuck somewhere in her chest, right?
But as her teacher and the commander of this mission, he didn't want Aki to risk her life underwater while she was unwell. Lu Mingfei had already had an accident, so was he going to watch Aki have another accident?
After a brief silence, Mans finally spoke up: "But Aki, there is another very important issue. Academy regulations do not allow a single person to perform cave diving missions... and you no longer have a diving partner."

Aki was suddenly stunned... Professor Mans was right. The academy's rules and regulations did state that a single person could not perform diving missions.

Not only because a reliable diving partner can save your life at a critical moment, but also because the most torturous thing in deep water is actually loneliness. When a person performs a mission underwater alone, he is likely to experience claustrophobia and thus have an accident.

"I can go with Ye Sheng and the other two..."

Aki wanted to try harder, but what she got in return was a cold rejection from Mans: "No, most of the passages in Cave No. 2 cannot accommodate three people at the same time."

Aki pursed her lips. For the first time, she felt how heavy her head was. Her slender neck drooped down as if she couldn't bear the weight.

At this time, a voice came from behind the two of them: "If you don't mind, I can go into the water with her."

Yaji was startled, turned around, and saw Zhou Li in a white coat raising his hand behind him, smiling and saying:

"Although I don't carry out underwater missions as often as you guys at Kassel Academy, I am an extreme sports enthusiast and have at least tried cave diving quite a few times. I just passed the PADI MASTER SCUBA DIVER diving certification a while ago. If I go into the water with Aki, I can also observe her condition at any time. If I find that she is showing any symptoms of discomfort, I can report it to the ship immediately."

Zhou Li's words were like a spark, instantly lighting up the hope that was almost extinguished in her heart. Yaji immediately turned her head to look at Mans: "Is it okay, Professor?"

Aki's eyes were so bright, it was as if starlight suddenly poured into them. Looking at Aki's eyes that dimmed and then brightened again, Mans finally couldn't muster up the courage to reject her.

"Okay, since Dr. Zhou is with you..." Mans said, "But you can't force yourself. If you feel unwell, you must return to the ship immediately."

"Do you have extra diving suits?" Zhou Li asked. Ya Ji said, "Yes! I have a spare diving suit. Doctor Zhou, come with me..."

……

Of course Lu Mingfei didn't know that in order to save him, Kassel College had dispatched all the fleets that could be dispatched within a radius of 30 kilometers to the "Eye of Kuimen" to carry out search and rescue missions.

In fact, he also thought that since he had stayed underwater for so long, the people on the shore must be very worried about him.

However, he was underwater without an oxygen tank and didn't know how to get back for a while.

Plus, I am still in this silver mausoleum...

A faint singing voice slowly came from the depths of darkness, clear and melancholy, making people feel like they were watching a horror movie. After several rounds, Lu Mingfei finally heard clearly that the singing seemed to be a poem.

"White jade forgets the dust of the world, and the words of the departed are on the strings..."

Who would sing in this silver mausoleum?
Just as Lu Mingfei began to have this doubt in his mind, Ling's faint voice rang in his ears.

"If you feel dizzy, you can cover your ears. But you probably don't have this problem, you shouldn't have clairvoyance of dragon words..." Ling said softly.

After Ling said this, Lu Mingfei suddenly remembered why he felt that the tune of the song sounded familiar.

It seemed that he had heard a similar sound when he was on a diving mission with Shude Aki just now and Aki had the hallucination of hitting the rock wall.

It was just because he was anxious to control Aki and prevent her from doing anything extreme and out of control that he ignored the strange sound.

Zero said that the sound was Long Wen...?
Could it be that the reason why Senior Sister Aki suddenly had hallucinations and banged her head against the stone wall was because she heard this song and had a clairvoyant vision?

But how did Ling know that she had no resonance with Long Wen? And she herself didn't seem to be affected by the singing.

“Is this also a living spirit singing?”

"Probably. Except for living spirits and dragons, I'm afraid no creature can survive in a tomb for thousands of years."

“Anything related to dragons is quite weird.” Lu Mingfei expressed his thoughts.

He remembered that he had seen countless eerie skeletons wearing ancient armor in the Bronze City; and Old Tang, who had merged with the dragon servant Samson and turned into a half-human, half-dragon form like a centaur...

"In theory, all supernatural phenomena in the world that cannot be explained by science can be attributed to the dragon race."

Zero replied in a cold voice: "Let's move on and leave here first. There are other exits here."

"Have you been here before?"

Ling said, "Yes. But I haven't walked to the end. The terrain inside the mausoleum is very complicated, and the closer you get to the center, the more serious the spiritual vision effect brought by the dragon text will be."

Ling walked in front holding a spotlight, and Lu Mingfei followed behind him, keeping a distance of about one meter between them. The sound of their footsteps echoed in the corridor, disrupting the slightly harsh singing.

The corridor is a slope from bottom to top, and murals engraved with the story of Liu Xiu slaying the dragon unfold upwards along the slope.

Ling seemed to walk slowly on purpose, giving Lu Mingfei time to carefully look at the carvings on the wall.

Lu Mingfei glanced at the paintings one by one, and the more he looked, the more regretful he felt. It was an incredible miracle that ancient humans could build such a building underwater. Even if the power of the hybrids was used, it would probably take the whole country's efforts to build such a spectacular project layer by layer.

But if you want to open the seal of the Bronze City, you are bound to destroy this miracle.

It takes the entire nation's strength to seal a Dragon King... This is the cruel war between humans and Dragon Kings.

Even for modern civilizations with high-tech weapons, it is not easy to defeat a dragon king without using nuclear weapons. The battle between the ancient people with backward technology and the dragon king... must have been fought with human lives, right?

"Ling, you said that this Silver Mausoleum was built by Yin Lizhen and his people from the Yin family. Yin Lizhen is the cousin of Liu Xiu's wife Yin Lihua. So does this Yin family still exist now?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"Long gone."

Ling shook his head. "Every time the Dragon King awakens, it causes unrest in the world, which will greatly change the pattern of the hybrid forces. You must have heard the story that Qin Shi Huang sent the alchemist Xu Fu to take young boys and girls to Japan to find the elixir of life. It is said that Xu Fu did not come back, but stayed in Japan. In fact, Xu Fu came back, and he also brought back the so-called elixir of life... which is a piece of the White King's skeleton."

Lu Mingfei was startled: "The skeleton of the White King?"

What kind of "Story Club" street literature is this? Isn't it a bit too bizarre?

"Yes, it is said that Xu Fu was not an alchemist, but actually a famous alchemist during the Qin Dynasty. Xu Fu learned from somewhere that the White King was buried in Japan. He believed that the bones and blood of the Dragon King contained a powerful vitality, and as long as the White King's bone marrow was used to refine elixirs, it would be able to help Qin Shihuang gain eternal life."

Zero began to tell a story like a kindergarten teacher:

"Xu Fu, who brought back the skeleton of the White King, attempted to use alchemy to refine the bone blood in the skeleton, but he made a mistake in the refining process and was contaminated by the bone blood of the White King. He was possessed by the consciousness of the White King and turned into a huge white monster.

You should know the story of Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, who killed a white snake in Fengxi Lake and started an uprising. The white snake that Emperor Gaozu killed was actually Xu Fu, who was contaminated by the blood of the White King. Liu Bang was therefore supported by many mixed-race families at that time and established the Han Dynasty.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, a descendant of the Liu family, defeated Norton, the King of Bronze and Fire, again, extending the life of the Han Dynasty for more than a hundred years. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos. In order to prevent the seal under Kuimen from being destroyed and the King of Bronze and Fire from escaping in the chaos, Liu Bei occupied Xichuan and Hanzhong and defended himself in Baidi City. Before his death, he told this secret to Zhuge Liang. This is the so-called Baidi City Entrustment..."

"So, everyone in the Liu family is really not a bad person..."

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(End of this chapter)