Dragon Clan: Thought So Far

Chapter 270 265. The dead Herzog

The sound of gears grinding and turning comes from inside the matte white walls, and this laboratory is like a sleeping monster waking up from the dead.

Lu Mingfei dodged to protect Nono behind him, and Cun Yu's cold light tore out a cold arc in the humid air.

The wall hanging with the Japanese flag and the portraits of the elders of the Sheqiba family slid open silently, and the deep passage appeared in front of Lu Mingfei and Nuonuo.

Lu Mingfei glanced at Nono, who immediately took out the light stick from the equipment box, bent it and threw it into the darkness in front of him.

A faint light illuminated a small area, and an echo came. Lu Mingfei waited for a few more minutes, but nothing strange came out of the passage to attack them.

"As expected, he is a man as cunning as a fox. Herzog probably built such a secret passage in the laboratory so that he could escape from here one day if the matter is exposed." Lu Mingfei lit up the flashlight, and the circular light spot was sharp. The end of the beam fell into the darkness, and it was like a sharp sword being held in the hand.

The laboratory and breeding pond were probably constructed directly by Maruyama Engineering when Genji Heavy Industries was built. The overall structure is wide, delicate, and highly symmetrical.

However, this secret passage should have been built by Herzog himself or controlled by Deadpool to build and reinforce it. The passage was winding and damp, with layers of upwards and rough construction.

The wall is just made of thick cement and looks as strong as a fortress. I'm afraid it won't be a problem even if it is used as an air raid shelter or shelter. The wall entering here is made of copper alloy, with steel plates added inside. Without a suitable method, even the dragon-shaped Deadpool can't break in.

Lu Mingfei straightened his ears to listen to what was going on around him. Nono tied up his hair with a hairband, like a dancing ponytail, and the Atkan sword in his hand reflected the faint cold light. There seemed to be unwilling evil spirits pouncing out of the surrounding darkness all the time. Even a girl like Nuonuo felt a little nervous and couldn't help but grab the corner of Lu Mingfei's clothes.

The two beams of light crossed and cut through the darkness. At the corner in front, there was actually a dead bone that looked like it was made of bronze. It was like the crucifixion of Jesus, with hard steel nails pierced through the limbs and nailed to two crisscrossed steel bars. It was huge. The wing bones were folded together like a screen, the head looked like a fusion of Titanoboa and a human, and the upper and lower jaws were open to the size of almost enough to fit a basketball.

Compared with a dead skeleton, this thing is more like an extremely dark post-modern artifact.

"This should be the custom of some Viking tribes in ancient Northern Europe. They would pierce the leader of the defeated tribe with a sword, hang his bones on the mast and go to sea with the pirates. Legend has it that those bones would protect the Viking pirates from returning with a full load. "Nono explained to Lu Mingfei in a low voice. When she put her ear next to the man, a faint warmth enveloped Lu Mingfei's ears like a cloud.

"This tradition can still be seen along the coast of England. Fishermen will hang huge sea fish carcasses on the bows of their boats to pray for a good harvest."

"Senior sister, aren't you afraid when you see this thing?" Lu Mingfei gently scratched the palm of Nono's hand. Nono's ears felt hot, but he shrugged as if nothing happened.

As a seasoned veteran who had spent five or six years at Kassel College and had experience in both worlds, she really wasn't afraid.

Lu Mingfei frowned, and he saw the scrawled and sharp Hebrew proverbs carved with swords and swords on the top of the drooping head of this bone.

Latin and Hebrew are compulsory courses at Kassel College, and Lu Mingfei has studied some.

——“The word spoken by angels is certain, and everyone who disobeys will receive the punishment that is due to him.”

Below this motto, laser engraving technology was used to carve out a ferocious and beautiful phoenix pattern. It was not the emblem of Caesar's family, but a more ferocious and arrogant appearance, with its wings spread out like a cross running through the entire facial bones.

"There is a passage in the Book of Hebrews. I am not religious, so I don't know which chapter it is." Nono said, touching the twisted and hideous skull with the tip of her knife.

"Look at its snake tail and bone wings. It was obviously a highly deformed dragon-shaped dead body in life." The beam of the flashlight swept up and down the obscure and hideous bronze-like skeleton. The gap between the ribs was actually extremely small, round and round. When the shaped light spot swept across, rows of shadows fell on the chest and abdomen, as if staring at demons in the dark,

Nuonuo said coldly, "The skeletal structure of its body is completely different from that of human beings, but closer to a real dragon. This means that this thing is only one step away from evolving into a pure-blooded dragon when it is alive...compared to it bones, I’m more afraid of this thing appearing in front of me alive.”

Lu Mingfei was amused, clenched his fists, and pulled his senior sister into his arms.

"Senior sister, don't be afraid, let alone the living Deadpool, even if the living Dragon King wants to bully you, I will kill him." Boss Lu was full of pride, and he felt as if he was surrounded by an invincible beauty.

Nuonuo rolled her eyes at him, but her body was honest, and she squeezed into his arms again, "If there really is a Dragon King, I'm worried that you will be the one who gets killed." She didn't give him any face.

Lu Mingfei straightened his chest: "Who do you think is next to you? The most talented student in Cassel College in a century, the legendary dragon slayer who the secret party elders have high hopes for, the buried bones of Norton, the Lord of Bronze and Fire Man, the Dragon Knight of Jormungandr, King of the Earth and Mountains..."

Nuonuo pinched Lu Mingfei's ear and gritted her teeth and said, "Tell this to Xia Mi and watch her bite you to death!"

"Junior sister still feels sorry for me..." Lu Mingfei felt that Xia Mi would not turn into a big snake and suddenly bite him to death.

Nuonuo kicked the skeleton in front of him, and the majestic-looking cross-skull fell apart.

After losing ligaments and cartilage, even a real dragon would find it difficult to maintain the integrity of its skeletal structure, let alone Deadpool. Nono's kick didn't even use much effort, and the thing was scattered all over the place.

"A specimen connected and fixed with steel bone nails is so ridiculous." Nuonuo cursed and kicked again, and the human skull with some characteristics of a giant python rolled to the side of the darkness.

The two people continued to go up. The length of this secret passage was more than a hundred meters, and it was estimated that it climbed up to the height of ten floors. It should be built in the cracks of the floors, or in the mezzanine of some unobtrusive storage rooms. The thickness of the walls and the sound insulation are pretty amazing. It seems that the amount of work is huge, and it is difficult to complete the construction work just relying on the murderous Deadpool. It is likely that someone from the Snake Qihachi family is helping Herzog do this.

"The passage is narrow but dry, and the walls are flat. There should be a lighting system, but we didn't find it." Nono frowned.

Lu Mingfei nodded. Genji Heavy Industry was originally a military building for the Sheqihachi family. The acceptance specifications of this building directly matched the wartime fortress. There should be various secrets hidden in the whole building, and even said that Maybe there really are monsters transformed by some biochemical experiments.

It's really grand and weird when you think about it, full of post-modern punk style.

The light of the flashlight suddenly dimmed, and then both Lu Mingfei and Nuonuo realized that it was not that the brightness of the light source in their hands had changed, but that the passage had reached the end.

Nono's profile could only barely tell that Herzog had set up a secret passage in the laboratory leading to the liaison room, but he didn't know whether there was any danger in that space, so both of them were very vigilant.

At the last light of the flashlight, Lu Mingfei and Nuonuo looked at each other, and then the beam of light in their hands, which was like a brilliant sword, suddenly went out. They fell into complete darkness, and they could only hear various weird sounds in the darkness.

The end of the road was obviously ahead, and an open door appeared. Lu Mingfei put his lust against his forearm in a pounce posture.

Nono lit the flashlight again, but held it downwards. There was only a small aperture on the ground, but the reflection was enough for illumination.

There is nothing in front.

Only a ray of warm color like sunlight came from the end of the passage, which was a half-open door. The relief on the door was an exaggerated oil painting, which seemed to depict the grand scene of Satan coming out of hell to hunt the world. The devils were all ferocious. Laughing wildly, the flags representing humanity were all broken and collapsed on the ruins.

Lu Mingfei lowered his footsteps. He stretched out his hand to signal Nuonuo to follow. Then he lifted his forehead. The golden color flooded his black pupils like a rising tide. The dull lust was awakened at this moment. The ancient life whispers in it.

Lu Mingfei pushed open the door, and the sound of Nono's high-heeled boots hitting the ground suddenly echoed.

What comes into view is the Gothic-style church dome, on which is "Genesis" painted by Michelangelo. It is obviously modeled after the religious mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, "God created the world." Composed of three parts, "The Fall of Man" and "Undeserved Sacrifice", each scene revolves around a huge, seated naked young man in various forms, flanked by vivid witches, prophets and slaves.

Magnificent hymns seemed to be playing in the ears, and an ancient pipe organ was playing low and solemn music.

"Based on the building structure of Genji Heavy Industries, is it possible to fit such a large chapel in here without attracting anyone's attention?" Lu Mingfei asked his question. He looked around. It was considered empty here, but There are no superfluous creatures.

Nono shook his head, "There's something wrong here. It's not like the real world, but more like..."

"Nibelungen."

Lu Mingfei said this word that every alchemist master in the history of alchemy dreamed of, and everything became dead silent for a while, even the music played by the organ seemed to be ringing outside the distant mountains.

His pair of golden pupils, which could even make Caesar and Chu Zihang feel frightened, swept across everything around him like sharp swords. Here, Lu Mingfei couldn't feel the flow of the wind or the disorderly movement in the air. of dust, as if everything was dead.

This is very consistent with the characteristics of the Kingdom of the Dead, which is basically a Kingdom of the Dead that relies on Genji Heavy Industries for its existence.

Nuonuo suddenly fired at the dome, and the sound of the gunshot was louder than the roar of a liger, resounding fiercely in the silent temple.

Lu Mingfei didn't stop him. There should be no danger here. Even if there is danger, it doesn't matter. He is here. Even if an enemy appears that even he can't deal with, Xia Mi is not far away.

The bullet seemed to tear apart a thin air film, and the mural disappeared with ripples. Lu Mingfei was not surprised. Herzog was not a believer in God. If he really had faith, then heaven would definitely not be his. destination.

The dome turned into a starry sky inlaid with gems. Under the starry sky was a long cherry-red conference table, and a classical-style radio was placed on the conference table, with rustling current noise coming from it from time to time.

The sound of the organ clearly came from this radio.

Just before Lu Mingfei and Nono came here, there should be someone sitting on one side of this long table, listening to the music of the pipe organ with their ears or eyes closed.

Lu Mingfei looked at Nono. Together they walked down the spiral staircase to the conference table.

It was as red as blood, and the tabletop was hollowed out, and the hollows were filled with certain metals.

"Sakura wood, the edges are made of sandalwood and oak." Lu Mingfei used lust to pry off a bit of wood and put it in front of him for a closer look.

Nuonuo looked at the metals filling the hollows. "Gold, everything is gold." When she said this, she looked at Lu Mingfei with a solemn look.

Gold has always occupied an important position in occultism. In alchemy, this extremely stable metal is also the preferred medium for most alchemical matrices.

Gold that appears in the Kingdom of the Dead is usually considered to have special properties, but what really shocked Lu Mingfei now was the Nibelung itself. Humans do not have the technology to build a kingdom of the dead. Even among pure-blood dragons, it is the authority of the monarch to build such a space independent of the real world. There are only a handful of recorded princes who can have independent Nibelungs. number.

And this kingdom of the dead is obviously not the work of Herzog. He has never shown such ability in another world.

In other words, the person who was supporting him behind the scenes finally couldn't help but show signs. Or maybe the owner of the Nibelungen was not Herzog at all but Friedrich.

At this moment, the candlelight in the alcove was flickering. Lu Mingfei walked around the long table and carefully looked at the decoration on the table.

Ten thrones made of steel are located on both sides and at the end of the long table. The main throne is simple, dim and lackluster, as if it was cast randomly in a mold, while the other thrones seem to be woven with thorns, rugged and sharp. The iron edge points in all directions, and in front of the seat is placed the World Tree emblem made of gold.

Lu Mingfei picked up each badge and looked at it. The bottom of each badge was marked "I" to "IX".

"We seem to have finally caught him..." Nono said coldly,

"The guy who programmed destiny, the organization that has been hidden in the darkness of history for thousands of years."

She touched and caressed each badge with her fingers, only to feel cold, bitingly cold. The ancient Roman numerals on it were ironed on like growing vines, and the grooves were filled with shiny and bright colors. red liquid.

The thin quartz sealed the liquid inside. Lu Mingfei opened it with lust, and the strong smell of blood seeped out.

"Dragon blood, the blood of pure dragons." Lu Mingfei frowned. Dragon's blood is as widely used in alchemy as gold, but it is more precious.

The dose of dragon blood in these badges is very small, but it obviously comes from a very noble ancient dragon. It is unknown how long it has been out of the body but it still retains its activity and is rolling hotly.

"Sister, can your profile still work?"

"No, the real world is different from the Nibelungen. Here I can at most speculate and deduce like ordinary people, but I can't see what happened in the past." Nono shook her head, and she removed all the badges. In its original position, a rumbling sound was heard, the tabletop cracked in the middle, and the heavy solid wood long table slowly slid to both sides.

Lu Mingfei was stunned.

Inside is a huge coffin. In the cold coffin lies a very religious corpse quietly. He is wearing a black suit, a gorgeous sharp blade has been inserted into his heart, and countless steel nails have been driven into his body. It seems that The man who killed him was afraid of his return from hell, and wanted to nail him in the coffin with these steels that were difficult to break free from.

Lu Mingfei realized something, and he lifted up the white gauze covering the face of the corpse, revealing the face of the dead man.

He shuddered hard and looked at Nuonuo. Both of them saw horror and shock in their gazes.

"It's Tachibana Masamune..." Lu Mingfei slowly sat down on the Throne of Thorns, feeling a dull pain in his temples.

Even though huge blood holes penetrated the corpse's face, Lu Mingfei could still rely on the remaining facial features to determine that it was indeed Tachibana Masamune.

But something is wrong, something is really wrong...

Nono said that Herzog might have been killed. Lu Mingfei was originally a little skeptical because just before they sneaked into Genji Heavy Industries, they obtained the whereabouts of Masamune Tachibana from Noma.

But what happened to this corpse now?

Is he Herzog? Or Herzog’s Kagemusha?

Then what is the king that Yuan Zhennu swore to kill?

Something weird has intervened, and Tokyo no longer seems to be the Tokyo that Lu Mingfei is familiar with.

What to do, Lu Mingfei, what to do now, calm down, calm down.

Think about it, think about it carefully, what else has been missed...

Lu Mingfei put his elbows on the table and put his palms on his forehead. His heart was beating so fast that it could almost compare to the keel state plus a second violent blood attack. The surroundings were so quiet, so quiet that my heart beat like a war drum.

Nuonuo realized that there was something wrong with Lu Mingfei's mental condition, and immediately came to his side to help him soothe his back, and then leaned behind Lu Mingfei to gently massage his temples.

Everyone thought that Lu Mingfei was a big boy who was measured, thoughtful and immature in his actions, but Nono knew that his PTSD had never been cured and he had just been hiding his fatigue and weakness.

But now that Lu Mingfei is in Tokyo, he may be exposed to things that can make him sick at any time, and his situation is not optimistic.

Rustling sounds sounded from all directions, like the sound of rain or the footsteps of people walking on the sand.

"Miyamoto Xiaoyou!" Lu Mingfei suddenly held Nono's wrist, shocking Nono. His eyes were so red that they looked like they were about to bleed, but they were also intensely golden.

"Now she's the only one who might know what's going on, and we have to go find her!"