cover the sky

Chapter 4: Ancient Bronze Carvings

Night has already fallen, neon lights flash on both sides of the road, and the city at night still exudes endless vitality. Skyscrapers rise high into the sky, one after another, but if viewed from space, everything seems insignificant, like a tiny spot.

This is an unusual night, destined to be far from peaceful. Dozens of main control rooms on the ground are completely locked onto the dark sky.

In the desolate universe, nine dragon corpses gleam with a metallic, cold luster. Their bodies are covered with black scales the size of a fan, dotted with shiny black spots.

Dragons, legendary creatures, should not exist in the world, yet they are now truly hovering in the sky.

The images captured from the dark space are breathtaking, making people tremble with fear. The huge dragon horns are like the forked branches of ancient trees, with both strength and mystery. Their bodies are like mountains, robust and imposing, with scales like blades, shining with a cold light, giving off a majestic aura.

The nine lifeless, giant corpses are a huge shock to human cognition, overturning some fixed notions.

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"How's your life been in the past three years, Ye Fan?" Many people are concerned about Ye Fan and ask with concern.

"It's been alright. My life has been pretty plain, and nothing special has happened in the past three years."

Just then, people from Liu Yunzhi's table came over to toast, saying a lot of blessings, and everyone clinked glasses, making it lively.

The people who had earlier said they would penalize Ye Fan didn't come over to clink glasses with him until later when Lin Jia and Wang Ziwen came over one after another and each had a drink with Ye Fan.

Later on, many people became intoxicated, and then everyone went to sing karaoke. The songs seemed to take everyone back to their naive student days.

"How many people have admired your youthful beauty? Do you know who is willing to bear the ruthless changes of time? How many people have come and gone around you? Do you know that you and I will accompany each other for life..."

Perhaps because they were really drunk, a pair of former classmates who had once been in love during their student days, and had reluctantly broken up after graduation, looked at each other in silence.

As the song echoed, the female classmate unexpectedly lost control, her eyes blurred with tears, and she burst into tears. Everyone tried to console her.

For various reasons, several pairs of lovers among the classmates could not make it to the end, even though they had carefully nurtured their campus love, ultimately resulting in nothing.

Graduation meant parting ways, perhaps a curse that every year's college graduates seem to reenact the same tragedy.

Unfortunately, this tragedy may continue for a long time, related to youthful impulsiveness, job pressure, social conditions... and perhaps others.

Almost everyone chose songs from three years ago, some sang with deep emotions, bringing everyone's thoughts back to their student days, every scene and event still vivid in their minds.

Finally, the "karaoke king" appeared. The drunken classmate dominated the microphone for a long time, but his singing was truly unimpressive, and it could be described as earth-shattering and causing ghosts to wail, but it also brought a happy atmosphere, making everyone laugh together.

It was late into the night when everyone left the Sea Moon City, and there was still an activity planned for tomorrow to return to their alma mater.

The classmates who came from afar had reserved rooms in the same hotel, and a few classmates with cars were responsible for sending them over.

"Lin Jia, I'll drive you back to the hotel," Liu Yunzhi parked

Some of the other classmates wanted to take a taxi, but the limited seats in the nearby cars made it awkward to approach and ask for a ride with Liu Yunzhi and his group.

At that moment, a Mercedes-Benz pulled over and Ye Fan got out of the car and approached the pale-faced female classmate, saying, "Let me take you home."

Ye Fan felt sympathy for the female classmate, who used to be a happy and innocent girl in college, cheering on her classmates outside the football field and sometimes shyly giving them a few bottles of mineral water.

But now her life struggles had left her depressed and pale, and she had been very quiet all night.

Seeing Ye Fan stop his car on the roadside and offer her a ride, she was both grateful and bewildered. She hadn't received any attention from anyone all night and wasn't used to being looked at like this by her classmates.

On the other side, Liu Yunzhi was stunned to see Ye Fan driving up and then his expression turned dark.

The others had various expressions, some puzzled and confused, others surprised and complex.

Everyone consciously or unconsciously looked at Liu Yunzhi, and what they saw was completely different from what he had told them.

At that moment, Liu Yunzhi felt a burning sensation on his face, as if he had just been slapped hard.

The classmates who had once lectured Ye Fan with a high attitude also felt extremely embarrassed and wanted to say something, but didn't know how to start.

Some of the classmates showed a playful or strange expression, especially those who had drunk with Ye Fan before. They seemed to feel that this scene embarrassed Liu Yunzhi's small group.

At this moment, two other people walked over and got into the car, which was the familiar classmates of Ye Fan.

The Mercedes-Benz car carrying several people gradually drove away, and many people had not yet recovered. Liu Yunzhi's body stiffened, facing the strange eyes of the crowd, he felt like a thorn in his back...

At this moment, in the far-off space, several astronauts on the International Space Station orbiting the Earth looked serious, with their nerves constantly tense, in an extremely anxious state.

In the dark and cold space, nine huge dragon corpses seemed to have existed since ancient times. Bowl-sized iron chains stretched across the sky, connected to a bronze giant coffin, giving people a sense of endless desolation and antiquity.

The ground decision-making level had already decided that if any major changes occurred, they would immediately destroy these nine dragon corpses and the mysterious bronze ancient coffin.

But no one wanted this to happen.

The Nine Dragons Carrying the Coffin, originating from the depths of the dark and lifeless universe, had too much value and significance, which was difficult to estimate!

Suddenly, the main control room of the International Space Station captured a mysterious signal, which was some kind of unusual fluctuation. The target source was nearby, precisely the bronze giant coffin pulled by the nine dragon corpses, and there was a mysterious wave emanating from the ancient and blurry patterns on top.

"It's hard to crack..." The signal was transmitted back to the ground and decoded with the most sophisticated supercomputer, but still unable to make any sense of it.

The ancient patterns on the bronze giant coffin were covered with verdigris, making it difficult to see them all clearly.

"After preliminary analysis, the bronze engravings are related to ancient Chinese legends." The monitoring rooms of various countries unanimously reached a similar conclusion: "The animal-shaped engravings on the bronze coffin are similar to some ancient beasts recorded in the Chinese book 'Shan Hai Jing', while the figures in the bronze patterns are suspected to be deities..."

Although the origin of some of the bronze engravings has been identified, the extremely faint and mysterious signal still cannot be deciphered, and there is no clue at all.