If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

The warship disguised as a tugboat began to roar, the engine started, the anchor was retracted, and the Monyach began to move against the current in the storm. This was to prepare for the dive. In such a turbulent current, divers must not remain vertical. When diving, the Monyach will drive to a place dozens of meters before the dive destination before diving. This will ensure that Ye Sheng and Yaji will just float along the current to the rock formation after diving dozens of meters. hole place.

On the side of the ship, Jiang Peijiu stared at the place where the whirlpool gradually disappeared, and then looked at the surrounding mountains and rivers as if calculating something. Lin Nian next to Mansi saw her thoughtful look and stopped talking to her. Feng Shui He really knew nothing about Kanyu, so he could only wait until he was in third grade to take electives.

He walked up to Ye Sheng and Ya Ji who were diving down and reminded them, "Do your best, but don't force it."

"Is this the advice from the ace of the execution department?" Ye Sheng and Yaji adjusted the gas bottles behind their backs and sat on the side of the ship with their backs to the rushing river, looking at Lin Nian on the deck, "We will treat this mission as training It's the same as always, the Dragon King's 'cocoon' can't be smaller than a coin, Aki is good at finding coins, will you be angry if we take away your credit?"

"No, on the contrary, I will be happy." Lin Nian looked at the two of them and showed a faint smile, "I have received too many honors, so what if I give one to you? If you have a chance to win in the Heroic Spirit If you are honored by Principal Angers, I will applaud you in the audience with a 'moment'."

"Junior brother is really humorous." Ye Sheng smiled, "But isn't it a bit unlucky to mention the Hall of Heroes now?"

"Then it's the academy's fault for setting the place for the award ceremony." Lin Nian looked at Ye Sheng and nodded gently, "Remember to take good care of Senior Aki when underwater."

Ye Sheng paused for a moment, and before he said anything, Lin Nian turned around and walked towards the cabin. Professor Mance followed after giving them a look.

"What does he mean by this?" Jiude Aji looked at Lin Nian's leaving back and asked Ye Sheng in a low voice.

"Macho chauvinism. Maybe he doesn't know that you have always been better at diving, right? He should say this to you." Ye Sheng smiled and said indifferently.

Shutoku Aki tilted his head and thought for a moment, but couldn't think of a reason, so he gave up.

At this time, a beam of light illuminated the deck. The shadows of the two of them on the side of the ship were intertwined on the deck.

The Monyach stopped moving forward, and the anchor fell into the water to fix it. The empty and slippery deck was covered with white foam smashed by the heavy rain. There was not a single person. All the staff had evacuated to the aft cabin, and there was only one person left on the entire deck. The two of them seemed a little deserted and lonely sitting together.

"Are you ready?"

"Um."

The white light flashed three times and then went out. After that, no one could be seen on the deck, leaving only two splashes of water on the river outside the ship's side that were then washed away. The heavy rain wiped everything out in an instant.

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After entering the water, the chaotic sound of water flow sounded in Shutoku Aki's ears. Even wearing the headphones for communication, he couldn't stop the chaotic sound that was spinning on the ground that day.

Behind the water, the Monyach illuminated the light. The light was like a golden channel leading to the water. It made people feel that it was a ladder to the sky, but it was not facing the sky but the extremely deep water. .

After entering the water, she quickly started to dive. Ye Shengyouyu beside her also moved side by side with her. Their movements were very skillful. This was a tacit understanding reached through countless cooperations. They moved along the current while diving, with everything in their sight. It was the chaos of the river, with only the golden beam guiding their way forward.

"Communication test, Ye Sheng, Yaji, this is the Monyach, I am Captain Mance Rundstedt. Please answer." Professor Mance's voice sounded in the headset, relying on the traction The independent signal lines connected together instead of the radio communication are exceptionally clear and almost no noise.

"This is Ye Sheng and Ya Ji, received, the signal is very clear, we have dived to a depth of ten meters." Ye Sheng replied. Wearing professional diving masks, they can communicate freely underwater. "The underwater current interference is not as serious as expected, and they are expected to reach the channel in five minutes."

"Your gas bottles will be replaced after arriving in Bronze City. Please pay attention to safety before arriving."

"Received." Ye Sheng said.

"It reminds me a little of the Devil's Cave in Florida. It's just as dark." Shutoku Aki dived around the beam and looked at other areas from the corner of his eye. Everything was light green. The water should have been more turbid and closer to dark green. , but due to the heavy rain and water flow, the visibility was somewhat higher, but still limited.

"Some people say that the biggest enemy of long-term diving operations is not water pressure and oxygen, but loneliness." Ye Sheng said, "Current technology can achieve continuous underwater operations by replacing cylinders underwater. Instructor Qiao was in our 'graduation' ’ When he was drinking with me at night, he mentioned his previous experience of working underwater for three consecutive months.”

"If you work continuously for three months, you will go crazy, right?"

"It was really driving people crazy, so at the end of the first month, he asked the person who replaced the cylinder to download a whole story telling for him, and he listened to it to relieve his psychological stress while working underwater." Ye Sheng said, "But It’s a pity that he forgot to mention what language is needed for storytelling. At that time, he happened to explain it to his friend in Chinese, so he got a whole piece of storytelling from "Dream of Red Mansions"."

"It's very interesting for an English-Japanese person to listen to Dream of Red Mansions," said Aki Shutori.

"So this is why we always need a partner. When we get bored during training, we can chat. If we have the opportunity to participate in long-term underwater operations together in the future, we might even have the opportunity to use coral on underwater reefs. Play tic-tac-toe," Ye Sheng said.

"Why don't you just go down with the chessboard?" Shude Aki asked.

"Because you are very good at chess, I can't beat you whether it's chess or Go." Ye Sheng said with a smile.

Shutoku Aki also chuckled. The original pressure of the dive mission dissipated a lot in the big boy's chat. They turned on the searchlight above their heads. The light from the Monyach behind them was already dimmed due to floating objects. No longer visible, they have to rely on themselves next.

After another dive, less than three minutes later, Ye Sheng and Yaji stopped, "Monyach, we are here."

Under the complex undulating river bed, at the lowest point, a nearly two-meter hole stood quietly there. Ye Sheng and Yaji looked at each other and slowly swam over. The heavy rain had already begun under forty meters of water. It couldn't affect them at all, and there wasn't even any noise in my ears, only the sound of each other's breathing in the earphones.

"It's so dark." As Aki approached the deep hole, he used a searchlight to look down. Due to water quality problems, it didn't shine to the bottom. The blackness was so dark that even light could be swallowed up.

"The forty-meter tunnel is like riding a slide in a water park. Do you still remember the water amusement park we went to during our vacation in New York?" Ye Sheng slowly laid a layer of water on the edge of the black pit. The loop is a material similar to nylon cloth, which is the arrangement to prevent the traction rope behind them from wearing.

"Professor Mance suggested that we turn off the searchlight when entering the pit." Aki said.

"Why?"

"He said there is another environment under the pit, and the light source may attract organisms."

"Haven't the sonar and Snake already observed that there are no living things down there?"

"So he left it to us to decide."

"Okay, me first?" Ye Sheng found two more stones and looked at Jiude Aki who was at the edge of the pit and turned off the searchlight above his head. This left the only light source above his head.

"Me first?" he asked.

"I'll go first." Jiudoku Yaji swam to the hole, and Ye Sheng threw a stone at her. She caught it with both hands and held it in front of her body. She slowly fell into the hole under the light of the searchlight above the boy's head. In the pit, she looked as static as a mermaid.

Ye Sheng also followed closely and turned off the searchlight, followed, and fell into it with the help of the heavy-bearing stone. Now he should save as much energy as possible. There will always be times when he needs to run around in the future.

After entering the pit, there was darkness, absolute darkness. Shutoku Aki inhaled slightly, and the cool air made her feel better. Suddenly, someone beside her gently grabbed her arm, and spoke on the communication channel. Ye Sheng's voice rang out, "Hey, I'm still next to you."

Hearing the familiar voice, Shutoku Aki's heart rate, which had risen slightly, dropped slightly. He nodded silently and did not agree. Although the people next to him could not see her reaction, the hand that gently grasped her shoulder could not. Never let go.

At the same time, the numbers on the heart rate monitoring screen in the captain's cabin of the Monyach also changed. Lin Nian, who was standing next to Mansi, glanced at it and put an earphone in one hand to his ear to listen to what was inside. Current affairs report.

"It has entered 10 meters."

"15 meters."

"30 meters."

"40 meters, if there is no abnormality, we should have left the pit, but there is no light source and we can't see anything." Ye Sheng said calmly on the infinite channel.

"Free the spirit of speech," Professor Mance said.

Ten seconds later, the Monyach detected a strong magnetic field expanding under the river, and the values ​​of various detection instruments jumped. Lin Nian raised his head slightly and felt an invisible thin film passing over him, like A soap bubble enveloped a certain area centered on the center of the circle.

Word Spirit Snake, Ye Sheng's Word Spirit, is a very useful detection word spirit. They are now in an underground space of forty meters. "Snake" is the best radar and pathfinding tool.

"Have you detected anything?" Professor Mance said after half a minute.

"This underground water area is very large. It's bigger than expected, and no heartbeat was captured." Ye Sheng replied, "But there is something blocking the 'snake' in front of us. It is a very huge obstacle."

"Is it what I imagined?" Mance asked in a low voice.

"I'm going to turn on the searchlight." Ye Sheng said.

"approve."

There was silence in the communication for another dozen seconds, and then the slightly trembling voice of Shude Aki slowly sounded, "Oh my God."

"What did you see? Yaji, Ye Sheng, what did you see? Is it the Bronze City?" Mance grabbed the microphone and asked urgently in a low voice. Selma, who had just entered the captain's cabin from the front cabin, was speechless when she saw this scene. Without daring to say anything, he quietly approached behind Mance with the same nervous look on his face.

"Professor Mance, if you are walking on the grassland one day, and suddenly there is a wall extending infinitely up, down, left, and right in front of you, what is that?" Ye Sheng's peaceful voice sounded.

"It's death." Lin Nian answered on the wireless channel. Mance and Selma turned to look at him. He lowered his head slightly and said, "Someone once asked me the same question. Beyond the limits of imagination, endless nightmares. , that is death.”

One hundred meters under the water, in the huge dark water under forty meters of rock formations, Ye Sheng and Yaji floated silently in the water. The searchlight above their heads fell on the endless, huge and rusty bronze walls in front of them. Each side extends to the depths of darkness that cannot be seen by white light, infinitely large and infinitely terrifying.

"This is Ye Sheng and Ya Ji. We have arrived at the palace of the King of Bronze and Fire." In the voice channel, Ye Sheng softly made the most groundbreaking conclusion in the history of dragon slaying in the past hundred years.