dragon raja

Dragon Shadow

The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, a strange abyss under the turbulent waves. Just when Lu Mingfei's map was transmitted to Ye Sheng's mind through Norma's radio waves, Ye Sheng was undergoing an extremely painful test at the bottom of the sea.

A huge amount of information poured into Ye Sheng's brain through the "snake", just like the water of the entire Pacific Ocean pouring into the Yangtze River. Ye Sheng's brain was like an overclocked and overheated computer at this moment, and the huge pain seemed to tear him apart. Ye Sheng felt that he was about to give up, and his consciousness was like a giant beast panting loudly with fatigue, ready to fall down at any time. But he couldn't, because the information contained the last chance of escape, and analyzing them would be a huge three-dimensional map that directly appeared in Ye Sheng's mind.

Ye Sheng didn't know why Norma didn't help him deal with it this time, but directly passed the most original information to him. The huge bronze city, perhaps the real "Baidi City" in history, was completely transparent in front of Ye Sheng at this moment.

The city came alive.

This super mechanism, which was cast two thousand years ago, regained its vitality after Aki opened it. The walls that seemed to be cast in one piece split, and hundreds of cubic meters of air left in the bronze city escaped through those cracks. The bronze corridors were also completely different. These complex bronze corridors, which were like the city's heating channels, rotated and reconnected, just like the roller of a revolver turned at the moment of shooting, and a new magazine was sent to the muzzle.

Bronze City was running without a pause, and the escape routes were also changing. Ye Sheng felt like he was going crazy. They did get the map, but it was changing all the time. It was like looking at a map of Beijing, and you found that Chaoyang District was slowly moving towards Fangshan District, and Haidian District was sliding clockwise to fill Chaoyang District's position. The East Third Ring Road broke away from the North Third Ring Road, and a moment later it connected with the South Second Ring Road! At this time, for a driver who had to drive out of the city within half an hour, it would be strange if he didn't go crazy.

The bronze wall behind him, with a 20-meter-tall snake-faced man carved on it, was slowly falling down, looking like the sky was falling down. Yaji hooked her arm around Ye Sheng's neck and swam forward. Ye Sheng was almost exhausted. While he was enslaving the "snake" with his words, he was as weak as a child.

Yaji's mind was in a mess. She recalled the time when they were in college. At that time, Ye Sheng was an 18-year-old young man who had just come to the United States from China. He had two thick black eyebrows and was the best swimmer in the class. In the second year, he became the leader of the sailing team and won the "Golden Fleece Cup" from the University of Chicago after a ten-year absence from Kassel College. He was very popular among the girls in the class. His biggest hobby seemed to be to laugh at Yaji. In every swimming class, when the stupid duck Yaji was still in the middle of the 1,000-meter warm-up, Ye Sheng had already swam 1,000 meters and was exposed to ultraviolet rays. He was only wearing a pair of swimming trunks, exposing his broad shoulders and long arms. He patted his buttocks at Yaji and said something like "Is it because Japanese people have shorter legs that they can't swim fast?" Then he suddenly showed a desperate look and said, "We will be partners in the future. I am not going to die underwater, am I?" He laughed, and his look was as hateful as he could be.

The bronze wall hit the water, stirring up a huge wave, pushing Yaji and Ye Sheng into a snake-faced statue. Yaji turned around in time and protected Ye Sheng in her arms. The impact almost dislocated her lumbar spine. She gritted her teeth and hugged the man in her arms, who was as weak as a baby, tightly, with blood oozing from the corners of her mouth.

When did she become like this? When did she do everything she could to protect Ye Sheng? She had pointed at his nose and shouted, "If you die underwater in the future, don't expect me to save you" in order to fight back against Ye Sheng's ridicule! Why did it become like this? Aki's mind was getting more and more confused.

"Key!" Ye Sheng suddenly shouted hoarsely.

Passing through the electric current of the "snake", this sound also echoed in the cabin of the Moniach, like the last roar of a wounded wolf.

Mance was stunned and the cigar between his teeth almost fell out. "Yes! The key! The key will find a way!" he shouted.

The sleeping baby was quickly sent to the front cabin. Every time he used the Word Spirit, he was very tired and had to sleep for two or three days with a pacifier in his mouth. But the moment he was placed in front of the display screen, he miraculously opened his eyes, with a faint light flowing in his eyes. He stretched out his chubby fingers and slid them on the huge screen, his eyes scanning every corner of the map, like a lawyer reviewing an important contract for a multinational transaction, or NASA scientists checking the orbit of the space shuttle for the last time. Everyone standing around him held their breath. At this moment, no one would regard him as just a baby with a big appetite and a crying habit.

"Baby! Faster! Faster! Faster!" Mans roared in his heart, "Give them a way out!"

The fingertip of "Key" was touching the screen, slowly falling down... As it fell down, the light in his eyes faded away, and he returned to the state of a baby again, lowering his head, as if he would fall asleep at any time. Suddenly, he raised his head and burst into tears, crying as sadly as he could.

Mance's heart sank to the bottom.

Ye Sheng opened his eyes suddenly, and a faint golden light occupied his pupils. The moment the cry of "Key" was transmitted to his ears through the "snake", a clear red line suddenly appeared on the constantly changing map in his mind, going down, down, straight down, through the gaps between the walls, through the corridors, and even through the solid bronze wall, and finally out from directly below.

"Is this the way?" Ye Sheng couldn't tell. The "key" had never missed a beat, and he was the miracle of Kassel Academy. But Ye Sheng and Yaji couldn't pass through those bronze walls. The way given by the "key" was not passable. Moreover, they had to dive into the water, and swimming underwater would use up their last oxygen and strength. Ye Sheng knew how painful it would be to die of suffocation, so it would be better to end his life with his head above the water.

The "key" cried heartbreakingly, as if urging them anxiously. Ye Sheng shuddered all over, as if thousands of needles pierced his body, and he understood it completely! That was the way! The "key" had mastered the law of the operation of this bronze city. When they reached those thick walls, the operation of the bronze city itself would create new roads there. In fact, it was very simple, just keep going down, this is the last way to escape, but if they are not fast enough, they will die... be trapped in a dead end with no exit, or be crushed by the slowly closing gap.

The reason why the "key" cried was not because of sadness, but because of fear. The "key" was urging them!

"Directly below, Ye Sheng, Jiude Aki, prepare to escape!" Ye Sheng's voice echoed in the front cabin.

"Directly below?" Mans was stunned, and then he noticed the trace left by the "key's" finger on the screen. A straight line passed through the Bronze City directly below!

"Calculate the distance!" Mance shouted.

"Forty-five meters!" Selma said, "Oxygen supply only has three minutes left!"

"According to the time for holding their breath and diving, they are just fast enough to get out!" The first mate's voice was so joyful that it almost flew to the sky.

"The helicopter from the Chinese Waterway Rescue Agency will arrive in about ten minutes to rescue us," Sanfu said with great excitement. "They have all the necessary life-saving equipment and will be here just in time to pick up Ye Sheng and Yaji."

"Is this what they call bullshit luck in Chinese?" Mans snapped his fingers triumphantly, "Bullshit Lucky! Ye Sheng Aki, get out of here immediately!"

Ye Sheng untied the words and released all the snakes. His strength was restored, and he turned around and held Aki's hand. But Aki did not move. She did something strange. She raised the flashlight to herself and shone it into her helmet so that Ye Sheng could see her face clearly. Her lips moved, but Ye Sheng could not hear her voice. The signal line between the two was also torn off at the moment of collision.

"It's too late. We don't have enough oxygen." Aki's lip reading was very clear.

Ye Sheng glanced at the remaining oxygen, which was about three minutes. He and Yaji were both able to hold their breath underwater for five minutes, and eight minutes would be enough for diving.

"Enough." He mouthed to Aki.

"Not enough." Aki shook her head, tears slowly crawling down her cheeks, "Let's stay here, I want to see you, there's not much time left... I have something to say to you for a long time... I..."

"I love you, too." Ye Sheng simply and neatly interrupted her lip movements. He tilted his mouth, and the corner of his mouth once again revealed the kind of smile that makes people forget their troubles. It reminded Aki of the time when Ye Sheng slapped his butt in the sunlight through the floor-to-ceiling window, "Stupid, believe me, it's enough!" He hugged Aki's strong and slender body tightly.

"Hey, actually my legs are not short at all!" he said to himself, and then he pulled Aki's hand and plunged into the water. A whirlpool was faintly formed in the water, indicating that there was a gap right below.

Mance was dancing his most proud cha-cha-cha in the front cabin, and the person dancing with him was Selma, and the background music was Beatit by MJ. This was not a suitable music for dancing to cha-cha-cha at all, but there was no way, the captain was proud of his feat of turning the tide, and was excited beyond words. Only the old song Beatit was enough to express the uncle's mood at the moment, and he only knew how to dance cha-cha-cha. Selma was still in the internship period of graduate students, and she had several credits to complete, including Mance's class. She had taken advantage of Mance's happiness to get the promise of "guaranteed pass"...

In fact, everyone wanted to stand up and sing and dance, if they were not still trying hard to stabilize the ship that was drifting in the uneasy waves.

"This is what I call a big reversal! A big reversal at the last minute!" Mance boasted to Selma with a cigar in his mouth, "It's like a three-pointer shot in the last second of the fourth quarter of basketball, or a complete break in the third game of tennis!" He glanced at the clock on the bulkhead, "My good students are coming back..."

He suddenly froze, his dancing steps were sluggish, he stumbled and almost fell, and he could only keep steady by holding on to the rudder tightly. Selma was still dancing, and when she saw Mance's expression, her heart suddenly turned cold. She didn't understand what happened, but Mance's face suddenly turned pale.

Amid the sound of Beatit's music, Mance pushed the door open and rushed out, standing in the violent wind and rain, staring at the turbulent water surface.

"Captain?" Selma chased after him, her voice trembling.

"The escape point is below the Bronze City. They can escape from the Bronze City, but they don't have time to float to the surface," Mans' face twitched in pain, "We miscalculated, they don't have enough oxygen!"

In the cabin behind him, "Men" suddenly stopped crying, and tears welled up in his big eyes, which were unique to babies. Ye Sheng's "Snake" could no longer be contacted, and all that filled Mans' ears were the sounds of the storm and the hoarse sound of the radio turbulence. To him, the whole world was as silent as death.