Caesar wanted to question, but at this moment, the girl raised her head and her ink-black eyes looked straight at him.
There was clearly no emotion on her face, and her eyes were calm, but when Caesar looked into those eyes, he suddenly became speechless and felt a chill down his spine.
That feeling is like being stared at by a poisonous snake.
During this time of silence, he had already lost the best opportunity to speak. Mance urged him, "Go take a shower. You stink like you crawled out of a trash can."
Caesar:"……"
Caesar was speechless, and indeed he could not stand his own stinking self, so he swallowed the question and quietly packed up.
When he appeared again, it was already at the pre-mobilization meeting convened by Mance.
Mance, with a serious face, was holding a lot of drawings in his hands, and seemed to be studying something. The other people involved in the operation were sitting below and whispering. Caesar glanced around and finally saw Yuan Zhinv sitting alone in the corner.
She was sitting in a corner sharpening her knife.
Caesar walked over and sat down next to the girl. He smelled a faint smell of blood. He looked down and found that the smell came from the knife.
It was a cherry red long knife, slender and sharp. As the girl wiped it carefully, white light was reflected on the blade. One could tell at a glance that it was a horrible weapon, full of murderous intent.
At the same time, there was a constant smell of blood emanating from the knife, making it hard to imagine how many people this knife had killed and how much blood it had been soaked in.
Caesar raised an eyebrow and took the initiative to speak: "I investigated you, but I found nothing."
"So what?" Genjiro didn't even raise her head. She knew that Uesugi Yue used Kaguya to cover up her identity.
"So, is your family really in the situation you described? So poor that you don't even have money to go to school?"
Caesar Gattuso, who lacked everything since childhood except money, now had real doubts in his blue eyes.
He must have been troubled for a long time. Although he had heard that there were poor people in the world who did not have a good life, he still found it hard to imagine why some people could be so poor.
Yuan Zhinv looked at him like a fool and was too lazy to answer.
Caesar misunderstood. He thought that the girl was too shy to speak, and he couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic. He thought that the girl's sharpness was probably shaped by her environment. Maybe she had suffered a lot when she was a child, so she looked like this.
Reaching out and scratching his blonde hair, Caesar decided to generously forgive the poor girl. The men in the Gattuso family are always full of love and patience towards women, even if this woman had just thrown him into the trash can.
"Who is that man? Why did you knock me out? Do you know that man?" Caesar asked her.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Yuan Zhinv put the knife back into the sheath and said casually, "I just hit you on a whim."
Caesar raised his eyebrows, but before he could speak, he was interrupted by Professor Mance's voice.
The serious middle-aged man cleared his cough, and when everyone looked at him, he spoke in a serious tone: "I believe you all understand the purpose of our coming here. I am the person in charge of this operation, Mance."
"I hope that everyone here can strictly follow my orders and refrain from taking any independent actions. At the same time, I wish that this 'Kuimen Plan' can be successfully completed."
Everyone clapped sparsely, but Mance waved his hand to stop them. He put the blueprint in his hand on the tactical board behind him and said with a serious face, "This is our position."
He pointed to a point on the map, then moved to another area of blue water: "Here is our estimated location."
"Because the Moniach is still under modification, the official operation is tentatively scheduled for two months. Before that, we need to study the tactical plan and explore the specific location at the same time."
"Kazama Ruri, Caesar Gattuso." Mans looked at the two people in the corner and said, "I need you to cooperate with each other in the next two months, and go into the water to familiarize yourself with the environment and explore the location."
Caesar and Genjitsu nodded at the same time, indicating that they had no objection.
"Tomorrow, we will start the first dive. Since the situation is unclear, it may take a long time to explore."
At this point, Mans lowered his voice and spoke word by word:
"Our opponent this time is a noble first-generation species. He is currently sleeping. Remember not to disturb him."
……
The next day was still a sunny day. The sun shone on the water, creating sparkling lights. A research ship was moving slowly and finally stopped steadily in the middle of the water.
Mans stood in the control room, where countless machines were running. Everyone was quietly guarding their posts. They had received rigorous training at Kassel Academy, staring at their screens and operating quickly and silently.
The sounds of two entangled heartbeats echoed in the headphones. In the heart rate monitoring window, the rising and falling green dots of light indicated that the two young and strong hearts were still beating normally.
At this time, the water surface is 50 meters below.
The spotlight could not penetrate far in the deep water, and only a blue-gray light band was seen. Gen Chinu and Caesar were both wearing tight black diving suits and carrying large bottles of oxygen on their backs.
This is their first time to work together underwater, and so far everything seems to be going well.
There was a separate signal line between them, tightly connecting them. Caesar watched the girl's slender figure floating beside him, as if he could pull her up as long as he reached out his hand.
As the leader of this dive, Caesar felt that he needed to say something to ease the silent atmosphere. He cleared his throat and took the initiative to speak:
"Is your word spirit really a snake?"
He believes that it is necessary for them to know each other's words so that they can have a better understanding of each other and cooperate better.
But it was a bit presumptuous for someone they were not familiar with to ask Yan Ling directly, and the girl seemed to have a bad temper, so Caesar spoke very carefully.
But Yuan Zhinv just nodded nonchalantly, as if she didn't care.
At this time they had reached the bottom of the water, and the 50-meter water layer filtered out the violent tide, leaving only slight waves.
They ejected steel claws from their flippers and stood lightly on the rocks. In front of them was an endless mountain range, and anything further away was swallowed up by darkness and nothing could be seen clearly.
At this time they need to determine the location of Baidi City. Everything is unknown and needs to be explored.
"Norma, use sonar scan." Caesar called.
"Understood. Prepare for sonar scan." The central processor far away in the United States responded immediately.
A three-dimensional sonar map outlined by dark green contour lines was displayed on the helmet screens of Caesar and Genjiro. Sound waves are far more useful in water than light.
Judging from the sonar scan results, there seems to be nothing abnormal.
"Is this the wrong location?" Caesar frowned, "It doesn't look like there is a city here."
"Or has it been buried after thousands of years?" Caesar kicked the rocks on the ground.
However, if it is already buried deep underground, then sonar scanning will be useless. He looked at Genjitsu: "You know my Word Spirit, Kamaitachi, can also be used for exploration. Do you want to go first or should I?"
"Don't rush. We have plenty of time to search slowly. This is a big project." Mans' serious voice came from the headset: "Your main task this time is to familiarize yourself with the environment."
It is very difficult to find a building thousands of years old in such a huge riverbed. Caesar knew it was a hard job, so he volunteered to help the lady:
"Let me go first. When I run out of energy, you can explore."
Yuan Zhinv did not answer his question. She carefully studied the sonar map in front of her, and after a while she said, "Follow me."
Caesar was surprised and was about to ask, but seeing Yuan Zhinv's serious look, he swallowed the words and followed her in silence.
Yuan Zhinu knew that Baidi City was indeed buried underground, but not in this location. She roughly determined the location by combining the sonar map and the description in the simulator.
In the simulator, plus the times she secretly dived, Gen Chinuo went into the water over a hundred times in total, and almost had to turn the bottom of the water upside down to search for it, before she finally determined the location.
With the experience of hundreds of dives, Yuan Zhinv easily found the approximate location this time.
Judging from the sonar, there are mountains in the northeast and southeast of this place, faintly forming the shape of a "gate", which is exactly the same as the description in the simulator. As long as we can confirm that these two are Baidi Mountain and Chijia Mountain, we can determine the location of the ruins.
Yuan Zhinv felt that this should be the place, so she closed her eyes and released a snake, which went straight underground with a clear target.
About 40 meters below her feet, the snake felt the presence of huge metal.
Understanding the situation, Yuan Zhinv took back the snake and turned to Caesar and said, "Let's go back."
Caesar was confused: "Why? We haven't even started exploring yet."
Mance on the other end of the headset was also dissatisfied: "Liuli, what are you talking about? You have only been in the water for less than 20 minutes! I can see here that you have plenty of oxygen. Why do you want to end the exploration?"
"Because I have found it." Yuan Zhinv answered calmly.
Caesar: “?”
Mans and other staff: “???”
Chapter 94 The girl looked at him and said: If you are bad, practice more
"You, what did you say?"
In the headset, Mance's voice changed due to shock: "What did you find?"
Yuan Zhinu replied calmly: "I said, I have found Baidi City."
Silence, deathly silence, the communication channel was as quiet as a chicken.
Everyone was prepared for a long battle, and everyone knew that this was a huge project that might take several months.
But their exploration team said they had found the target less than twenty minutes after they went into the water for the first time.
It’s hard not to feel like a joke.
But Yuan Zhinv seemed not to notice the shock of these people and repeated patiently: "Just where I am now, about 40 meters below, is the ruins of Baidi City."
"My snake sensed the huge metal shell. I'm sure I've found Baidi City. Any other questions?"
No one answered her because they were so shocked that they didn't know what to say. Caesar looked at her as if she were a monster.
"When did you release the snake?" Caesar asked her, his voice rising a little because of excessive surprise: "Why didn't I feel it?"
Yuan Zhinu glanced at him and spat out a few words sparingly: "If you are new, just practice more."
Caesar:"……"
Caesar was killed instantly. At that moment, the expression of this flamboyant nobleman was as ugly as if he suddenly found out that his family went bankrupt, his wife ran away with someone, and the child was not his own. It was very complicated.
Yuan Zhinv ignored the shock of the people and swam upstream. Caesar had no choice but to follow her.
The two returned to the boat wet and someone immediately wrapped them in towels. Mans was already waiting on the deck of the boat, looking at Yuan Zhinv with an expression that seemed to want to say something but was hesitant.
Not only Mans, everyone was looking at her at this moment, with the surging desire for knowledge in their eyes almost overflowing, but they were embarrassed to ask.
In the end, it was Mans who spoke first, but this time his voice was softer, and inexplicably he sounded a little cautious.
"Um, Liuli, is what you just said true?"
Yuan Zhinv nodded.
Man suddenly became even more excited. He clapped his hands heavily, a look of joy appeared on his face, and he couldn't help muttering: "God bless me! I found it so easily!"
"Yeah, yeah, I thought it would take a long time!"
"I never thought it would be so easy to find it?! This is so lucky!"
The others also echoed the conversation, and everyone was very happy, except Caesar, who frowned and kept staring at Yuan Zhinv.
He went into the water with Genjiro and knew clearly that she did not explore much, but instead went straight to a certain place very resolutely.
It didn't look like it was his first time here. Instead, it looked like he had been here dozens or even hundreds of times. He knew every place like the back of his hand. It was no exaggeration to say that he was so familiar with it that he felt like he was back home.
How can this not make people confused?
Finally, Caesar asked, "How do you know where Baidi City is?"
"Why do I feel like you already knew this? Besides, there is rock 40 meters below the water. We can't drill through 40 meters of rock, and Dragon King Norton can't build his palace in the rock."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone fell silent. In fact, not only Caesar, they all felt it was ridiculous.
Everything was going so smoothly that it seemed ridiculous to them.
In the face of doubts, Yuan Zhinu remained calm and said calmly: "Where we were just now, there are mountains to the northeast and southeast. The one above the water is Baidi Mountain, and the one under the water is Chijia Mountain. Across the way is the original Caotang River, passing through a valley."
"According to Chinese Feng Shui, it is where the mountain dragon and the water dragon meet, gathering the yin and yang energies, making it a good place to build a city. So I concluded that the ruins of Baidi City are there."
"You can't see anything underwater, so it can only be underground. My snake swam very fast about 40 meters underground. Only metal bodies can conduct electricity so well."
At this point, Yuan Zhinv paused for a moment, and looked straight at Caesar with her dark eyes: "As for whether Norton would hide the palace in the rock, you are so sure that he would not, because have you asked Norton?"
The girl's voice was smooth and her words were logical and well-organized. Coupled with the last rhetorical question which was full of sarcasm, Caesar was speechless.
Mans' eyes lit up as he listened, and he paced back and forth excitedly: "It was found so easily. I thought it would take a long time. Liuli, you are really amazing! You are what the Chinese call a mascot!"
Yuan Zhinv turned a deaf ear to the praise and even poured cold water on the excited person in charge.
"Finding it doesn't mean we can get in. The rock layer is 40 meters thick and it's impossible to get in using conventional means."
Genji said, "Do we have bombs? I need bombs to blast through the rock layer. Can you contact the equipment department?"
"No!" Mans rejected her without thinking: "Although the Equipment Department did provide us with a time bomb that can blow up the rock layer, it is not powerful enough to break through the 40-meter thick rock layer."
"If you want to blast open such a thick layer of rock, you have to use a lot of explosives, which will cause a lot of noise and will inevitably cause underwater landslides, and even implicate people around on land."
"The most important thing is that we must not wake up that noble first generation. If he wakes up, all of us will be buried with him!"
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