Dragon Tribe: Still Thinking Until Now

Its teeth were sharper than a reamer, and with a single opening and closing they crushed the alloy forging machine into pieces.

When approaching the Trieste, the shark, whose original species could not be identified, suddenly accelerated and passed by the submersible with turbid sea water.

It was obvious that it was completely uninterested in this strange thing. The shark's cursor on the sonar screen was getting farther and farther away, and after a few seconds it completely disappeared from the detection range.

Chu Zihang and Caesar looked at each other, not understanding why things turned out so disappointingly. They had even prepared for the attack. Although the shark's speed and power would not cause a devastating blow to the Trieste, it would inevitably cause accidents in the airtight compartment and the watertight compartment, and this operation would be terminated.

But that thing just passed them by.

Then why did it destroy drone number one?

Sharks are not as smart as dolphins. They will not just find something to do on the road out of curiosity or fun.

Every move of every shark is purposeful and targeted.

"The danger has been lifted for the time being. Release the No. 2 drone to continue its underwater exploration." Chu Zihang pressed the microphone and informed the executive department of his next actions.

"Please continue the mission." Cheng Shuangfan's voice rang out, the engine was restarted, all the valves were opened, and Caesar also turned on the power in the cabin.

It was only then that they both realized that they were completely soaked in cold sweat. Apparently, even though the Lionheart Club President and the Student Union Chairman were heroes who could carry swords and kill their way into a dragon's lair on land, they still deeply felt the insignificance of human power two thousand meters under the sea.

"Minimum thrust cruise, full left rudder, constant speed dive."

Chu Zihang followed the instructions in the operating manual and let the submersible's watertight compartment suck in seawater. Tiny bubbles then appeared on the entire surface of the Trieste, which then slowly sank into the deeper sea.

"But..." Caesar looked at Chu Zihang dimly.

"Why does it go up there?"

As a fish, sharks mainly breathe through gills. This animal exchanges oxygen by filtering oxygen in the water through its gills while swimming.

Therefore, sharks do not need to surface to breathe like whales or dolphins. Theoretically, a megalodon contaminated by dragon blood and mutated can swim in the deep sea for its entire life.

Besides, the nearby seas are so barren. Apart from the ecosystem shaped by the gene leakage of the ancient dragon embryo, where should a ten-meter-long giant marine predator find enough food to survive?

Chu Zihang's pupils shrank slightly, and uneasy flames jumped in his never-extinguished golden pupils.

The noise of mechanical operation filled the entire cabin of the Trieste. Drone No. 2 had been released, and the images transmitted back by the underwater camera reappeared on the display screen.

The submersible dived along with the No. 2 drone, and the surrounding sea snow began to become quiet and peaceful again, as if everything that had just happened was just a dream.

But at this moment, the hearts of the two people in the cabin were shrouded in a huge shadow.

"It's... running for its life." Chu Zihang took a deep breath.

The demon sword Murasame was lying across his knees, and at this moment Chu Zihang's right hand had already grasped the hilt of the long sword.

Although everyone knew that a Japanese sword would be useless thousands of meters under the sea, he still wanted to hold it tightly.

By holding on to Murasame, he would hold on to his strength, and he would no longer be afraid.

It can be imagined that even in an ecosystem based on the leaked genes of ancient dragon embryos, that huge shark covered with hard scales is definitely the top predator. In the deep sea, even some pure-blooded dragons are no match for it.

In the depths of the abyss, it can enjoy powerful genetic fragments and can also have almost all the lower-level creatures in the entire ecosystem as its lambs, but it still chooses to escape. It flees so hastily that it even smashes the drone that accidentally appears in its way as an enemy.

What could make such a predator so frightened that it would even give up its food, territory and dignity?

Suddenly, a silver shadow flashed in the video transmitted back by UAV No. 2, and Caesar even thought he had made a mistake in that instant.

But then more and more shadows flashed in front of the camera, and Chu Zihang and Caesar were stunned.

It was like a group of fireflies rising from the depths of the ocean, or like a huge number of stars rising into the sky.

It turned out to be a slender little fish with beautiful silver-blue scales all over its body. The light came from a long tentacle on the top of its head.

There were thousands of them, glowing with a faint blue light, like a whirlpool of starlight.

"It's the Ghosttooth Viper..." Chu Zihang's voice was hoarse.

These creatures were once considered by the academy to be non-existent fantasy creatures, but now they appear in droves above the Abyss, chasing the top predators in the deep ocean all the way to the surface.

The teeth of the Ghosttooth Viper are sharp and hard, and can even bite through steel. In the ancient Age of Gods, they were used as executioners to kill and torture pure-blooded dragons.

A mutant shark is nothing more than food to these monsters.

But fortunately, this creature does not rely on hearing but on smell. In its eyes, the drone and the Trieste are nothing but lifeless stones.

In front of the camera, a silver river was rushing through the black ocean. A few minutes later, silver specks of light bypassed the Trieste like a whirlpool and continued upwards in pursuit of the scent of the shark.

"The genes of these things are very unstable. They must continuously ingest the genetic fragments of the dragon clan to avoid dying. That's why they won't spread from the Abyss to the entire Pacific Ocean." Caesar said as he looked out the observation window. Even though he didn't smell anything, he still smelled the bloody smell in his face.

"But it's strange. The original purpose of the dragon race creating the Ghosttooth Viper was to serve as the guards of those towering cities, so they shouldn't be as far away from their habitat as they are now."

Chapter 351: Zero: As long as it's you, I'm looking forward to it

Caesar didn't know that the Age of Gods city detected under the Abyss had long lost its owner, and the carrier of the White King gene, the Yamata-no-Orochi, who was sleeping there, had been awakened by the ancient dragon embryo that was used as a sacrifice many years ago, and returned to Japan following the direction in his memory.

Although the Ghosttooth Viper, a dragon subspecies that looks more like a snake than a fish, exists as executioners and guardians in the dragon civilization, if their masters leave, these devilish little creatures will become particularly manic and their habits will change drastically.

They still guard the ancient Takamagahara, waiting for the call from their master, but there is no longer anything that keeps them from staying in one area and not expanding outward.

It seems that these ghost-toothed vipers have become the top predators in the dragon subspecies ecosystem in the Abyss.

Kassel College should be thankful that the owner of these dangerous creatures did not give them perfect genes when they created them, otherwise twenty years would be enough for the Devil's Tooth Viper, which has no natural enemies in nature, to spread throughout the Pacific Ocean.

That would be a horrific biological disaster, devastating the biodiversity of the ocean until a way was found to kill them.

Only dragons knew how to control the Vipertooth, but that method has now completely disappeared with the decline of dragons.

The Trieste was still slowly descending, and the No. 1 watertight compartment was already filled with seawater.

The waters outside the observation window that had been stirred like a busy white fog had returned to calm. Thousands and even tens of thousands of ghost-toothed vipers swayed their tails like an equal number of bullets, chasing the mutant shark towards the surface of the sea at high speed.

"Can one shark feed so many monsters?" Caesar took out a cigar from somewhere, but did not light it. He just held it between his fingertips with a slight tremor.

"No, but the ghost tooth viper does not rely solely on meat to survive. Experts who study dragon subspecies believe that they have certain organs in their bodies that can absorb energy from minerals." Chu Zihang frowned and carefully controlled the submersible to dive at a constant speed.

At the current speed, it would only take them twenty minutes to reach the planned depth of 4,500 meters, which was close to the edge of the dragon subspecies' ecosphere.

"There are records in the library that the Sumerians once raised dragon vipers to eat iron ore. The iron in their bodies became increasingly enriched and purified. Then the Sumerians burned the vipers with low-temperature flames to obtain iron of relatively good quality. Transparent crystalline substances can be found in this iron. Those are the teeth of dragon vipers." Chu Zihang continued, "In addition, there are records of the ancient Babylonians raising ghost-toothed dragon vipers. They used these small monsters of the Salmoniformes family to extract extremely pure gold and silver to build that spectacular building, the Hanging Gardens."

"Unfortunately, we have no way to sample these viperfish as this depth is not suitable for underwater diving," said Caesar.

At this time, the sonar screen began to flash red again. The threat was not gone away, and the Ditrieste once again issued a silent warning to Caesar and Chu Zihang.

The thing was approaching very slowly, right above the Trieste.

The shimmering light flowed in from the observation window above and echoed on the inner walls of the Ditrieste's cabin, like the bright moonlight reflected on the lake surface in the middle of the night when there was a breeze.

Caesar held his breath and looked up, and saw a returning ghost tooth viper swimming leisurely outside the observation window.

When viewed up close, the objects are not as beautiful and graceful as they appear when viewed from a distance.

On the contrary, the appearance of that viperfish can be described as the most ferocious and hideous creature on earth.

Its body is only the size of a finger, but is as slender as a ferocious baby snake. Its tail and pectoral fins are small and sharp, and its entire body is covered with densely packed, overlapping and interlocking silver transparent scales.

The most terrifying thing is the teeth of the ghost-toothed viper. They are transparent and sharp like ring-cut diamonds, with a faint metallic luster, curved and long and narrow, protruding fiercely from the lips, and the brutality of the ancient gods is overwhelming.

The little fish swam back and forth outside the thick resin glass, and its eyes, which shone with golden light like fireflies, seemed to be looking at the two people in the cockpit of the Ditrieste through this thick transparent barrier.

"Don't worry, this thing's eyesight is as bad as his hearing." Chu Zihang calmly fiddled with the buttons and switches in front of the operating table, while Caesar pressed his face against the inner wall of the resin glass.

He did not light up his golden eyes, and the fluorescent ghost tooth viper was clearly reflected in his ice-blue eyes.

Suddenly a whole field of stars appeared above the Trieste; it was the school of viperfish that had just passed them in pursuit of the shark.

The fleeing megalodon seemed to be dead, with its skin and muscle fibers bitten by the powerful jaws of thousands of viperfish, like thousands of stars gathering around it.

Other viperfish spun and circled the massive, slowly falling body, like cantilevers around the core of a galaxy.

The silver and fluorescent blue glow illuminated the abyss-like darkness in the waters two thousand meters below the sea, illuminating the entire body of the shark.

Caesar's eyes widened as he saw dense swarms of dragon vipers nailed to the poor guy's body. The ghost-toothed dragon vipers were swinging their long and thin tails wildly to bite its body, but they did not drill into its body to devour its internal organs.

"They just bit the shark's muscles but kept its internal organs and bones intact. It's incredible. Normally, the liver and spleen of animals are usually the first parts that predators eat." Caesar exclaimed.

"Perhaps this is the reason why they chased out of the ecosystem. There is something in the shark's internal organs that they are not allowed to take away." Chu Zihang said coldly, "Maybe it is the flesh and blood left behind when the embryo was hatching, or maybe it is the genetic debris that flew away when the ancient dragon broke out of its shell. In short, it is a divine thing to the Ghosttooth Viper..."

The so-called God's things are treasures that are absolutely not allowed to be taken away from that ecosystem.

Even another god has to respect his own kind, so how dare a beast overstep its authority?

Thousands of stars dragged huge corpses past the Ditrieste. Some viperfish curiously swam around the slowly sinking iron lump for a few circles, but after finding nothing, they followed their own group.

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The black Hummer was speeding on the mountain road at the junction of Yamanashi Prefecture and Kanagawa near the Tama River. The wipers on the front windshield were swinging left and right like crazy, breaking up and clearing away all the falling snowflakes and ice crystals. The bright headlights could only illuminate a distance of less than ten meters ahead in the thick snow curtain. The modified wheels bit the asphalt road surface tightly, and snow dust as high as a person was splashed on both sides.

Sakura, wearing a black ninja uniform and a sheepskin coat, was driving the car, and Gen Chisei was sitting in the passenger seat. There was no one else in the car except for the titanium black weapons box in the back seat.

When traveling from Genji Heavy Industries to Tama River, Genji Chisei did not allow the elites of the Executive Bureau to accompany him.

It is a turbulent time now. The heavy snow has given some time for the underworld war that broke out in the core area of ​​Tokyo City last night to cool down, but the Eight Snake Families have been trapped in a situation where they are surrounded on all sides and isolated and helpless.

They wiped out more than half of the active forces of the Demon Clan, but failed to capture Sakurai Kogure, codenamed Ryoma, nor killed Kazama Ruri. As for the King General, he was even more of a legendary figure.

Not to mention that just the day before, the previous head of the Snake Eight Clan, Tachibana Masamune, issued the last order of his life to the family. That order was to launch a war against Kassel Academy and pull out the academy's nails in Tokyo.

Japan is the Japan of the Snake Eight Clan, and it has been like this for thousands of years. In a sudden attack, they mobilized hundreds of mixed-bloods to participate in this attack, and the Academy had no way to resist in its safe haven in Japan.

But everyone knew that Angers would never give up, and a violent counterattack was imminent.

——"I wonder if Minamoto no Chisei already knows that the Yamata-no-Orochi is hiding in the Akagi River?" Lu Mingfei squatted under a big tree on the mountain, with a lit cigarette in his mouth, looking down at the black Hummer that flashed by on the winding mountain road.

Ling stood beside him holding a large umbrella with a white umbrella. Snowflakes rustled down, landing on the umbrella and then falling to the ground.

The giant tortoise indeed arrived at the Tama River.

What was he doing here? To confirm whether the Yamanashi Institute of Environmental Sciences had already dug a deep well that led directly to the God's Burial Ground?

Or come with a sword and end things with Lu Mingfei?

"It's possible. The boss said that Tachibana Masamune is very strange, and he raised Amaterasu no Mikoto. Maybe the former head of the Snake Family has already known where the Holy Remains are." Ling said, "We have investigated Tachibana Masamune's background. He appeared in the eyes of the Snake Family in 1992. Before 1993, he was still an unknown little man. In 1994, Tachibana Masamune joined the Executive Bureau of the Snake Family and immediately showed extraordinary personal ability and leadership charm. He climbed up from a commissioner of the Executive Bureau within ten years, achieved a class leap, and became the head of the Tachibana family."

Lu Mingfei listened to Ling with a frown on his face. He knew the life of Tachibana Masamune, or Herzog, better than anyone else. He could even recite it by heart.

In 1999, he became the acting director of the Executive Bureau, in 2001 he became the head of the Tachibana family, and in 2003 he became the head of the Sheqi Eight Families.

Judging from his abilities alone, Herzog can be described as a perfect hexagonal warrior. He is personally brave, strategic, and has leadership style. He is almost a perfect politician. Such a person will not necessarily lose to other candidates even if he runs for the US presidency.

"The Lenin sank in the Sea of ​​Japan at the end of 1991, on the eve of the disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Tachibana Masamune appeared in 1992. What do you think of?" Zero asked.

"He came to Japan on the Lenin," said Lu Mingfei.

"He is a ghost in a certain port, but the survivors of that port don't know a person named Tachibana Masamune." Zero said coldly.