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

five minutes ago.

The lava spurt collided with the Dragon Warrior at a high speed of over 50 knots, and in less than two or three seconds, Lin Nian was rushed out to a hundred meters away. Ye Sheng and No. 13, who survived, were inevitably hit by the aftermath. The impact - due to the high temperature and hormone-disturbed water flow, countless whirlpools appeared around them, and the huge force pulled their bodies in the water to stagger, making it difficult to distinguish between east, west and north.

However, this was a perfect moment for Shutoku Aki to escape from trouble. No one expected that a dragon would break through the bronze wall and attack them. Naturally, No. 13 behaved quite numbly in this unexpected situation. After hurriedly retreating with the hostage to avoid the lava eruption, Claw He was overwhelmed by the turbulent current and was swirling in the water like a windmill.

It was at this moment that Shutoku Aki's left hand touched the emergency diving knife inserted inside the flipper. After pulling out the knife, she stabbed it behind her without thinking. Then a large number of bubbles surged up behind her, and there was no doubt that she was stabbed. No. 13 was hit. Although it did not hit the fatal part, it still successfully penetrated the side of the thigh, which is critical for diving. It is not known whether the artery was cut, otherwise the blood loss in the artery would have been enough for him to drink a pot.

"Damn it!" No. 13 subconsciously cursed when he felt the severe pain. He also pulled the trigger with his finger, but the muzzle of the gun was grabbed by Aki Shutoku and he lifted it upward with force, and pressed it with his other hand. He pressed No. 13's finger on the trigger, forcing him to empty the entire magazine.

Amidst the roar of huge gunshots, Ye Sheng in the distance kept closing the distance with his gun but did not dare to shoot. Now Aki and No. 13 are simply dancing an underwater pas de deux, spinning, twisting, and intertwining, no matter what he fires. No matter who the gun hits, the guy hit by the bullet will definitely die in this deep water. He doesn't dare to bet on Yaji's luck and his own shooting skills.

"Go away!" No. 13 tried his best to kick Aki in the waist to separate the two of them. At the last moment, he endured the pain in his waist and the pressure imbalance caused by the gas embolism, and held him with one hand. The safety rope of the brass tank behind Aki wanted to bring this thing to him.

Aki drew the knife and wanted to make a bloody incision on No. 13's arm, but at this critical moment, No. 13 actually withstood the symptoms of black eyes, difficulty breathing and other symptoms caused by the pressure imbalance, and exploded with a huge force. The force grabbed Aji's wrist, and the force that exploded after the muscle contraction actually crushed Aji's wrist bone.

Severe pain rushed to the top of his head like carbon dioxide. Aki screamed and tried to withdraw his hand. The sharp diving knife directly cut through the tight safety rope. The brass tank was pulled by the ropes on both sides like a top. Take it out!

The only contact between the two was severed and they quickly separated. Ye Sheng raised his gun without hesitation and was ready to shoot. But when his eyes met No. 13's face, he was suddenly shocked as if he had been struck by lightning. He was originally placed there. The finger on the trigger actually couldn't be pulled off.

The muzzle of the gun seemed to be frozen in the air. Ye Sheng remained motionless, watching helplessly as the man fled downwards on his hands and feet like a drowning landlubber, clumsily paddling towards the huge gap created by the Dragon Warrior. Go, leave Bronze City, and disappear from his sight.

After a moment, his whole body shivered, as if a chill had surged up, and his eyes were full of confusion and fear, as if he could not understand the indescribable changes that had occurred on No. 13, nor could he understand him. At that moment, my whole body was frozen and I couldn't move.

The 'snakes' all curled back into his mind, and the spirit spirits were not released, but they were unwilling to leave, as if they had seen something terrifying.

—

No. 13 escaped from the Bronze City and swam out from the side and bottom of the Bronze City. The city behind him rumbled under the water like clouds of thunder, but he could not hear anything now. The severe pain of the wound and the imbalance of pressure, And the leakage of oxygen tortured him all the time. The only thought he could keep was to leave and escape from this place of right and wrong. He wanted to live, no matter what, he wanted to live.

During this process, he didn't even notice that he was being pointed at a fatal gun. As long as Ye Sheng pulled the trigger and hit him, he would fall asleep in this ancient city and become one of those piles of bones. No one cares about a hunter. Life or death, because accidental death is always the fate of these people.

But just like other peers and even the website's evaluation of him, No. 13 has good luck, and his luck has always been good.

Swimming into the dark deep water, he had difficulty breathing due to the unbalanced pressure. His whole body felt like he was wandering in front of the threat of death. The darkness came like a tide, drowning his limbs and his five senses.

What followed was coldness, boundless coldness. After leaving the hot water that was used to warm Yanling in the Bronze City, the broken diving suit was filled with cold river water, as if countless hands were hugging and caressing it. Touching every inch of his skin, but he didn't like this feeling. After all, the owner of these hands was not a dancer in a New York strip shop. The owner of these hands was called death.

Are you going to die?

He thinks about this problem every day, and now it seems like he is thinking of this problem for the first time. Panic and fear are rising in his heart. He thought he was prepared from the beginning when he got involved in this industry, but now it seems that he Never ready.

No one can be calm in the face of death, no one can.

In a daze, he struggled to slide his arms forward. The wound on his waist that seemed to have injured his internal organs became more and more numb due to the cold. This was a good thing, but if the wound also numbed his whole body, it might be a tragedy. .

No. 13 didn't know which direction he was swimming now, but he only knew that he had to swim. He tried his best to open his eyes wide but could not see anything. His strength disappeared inch by inch, and death was getting closer and closer to him. With the darkness in front of him and the sound of water buzzing in his ears, he breathed in the air in the oxygen mask. In a daze, his emotions began to gradually calm down.

Judging from the current situation, he should be watching the revolving door, right? He looked back on everything in his life and then died generously. But he had no life to look back on, and death seemed not so generous. He was stabbed in the waist by a little girl and bled to death. No matter how you think about it, it is a bit sad.

At this time, No. 13 was still thinking about everything. He felt that he must have been infected by the bad words of his friend who played "StarCraft", but that was okay? At least it won't be too painful to die, and to put a full stop on the bad words, you may not be able to find a position as a funny character instead of a villain who can be seen everywhere who is killed.

His thoughts were wandering endlessly. At this time, No. 13 actually heard some sounds in his ears. Should they be human voices? It was like a familiar voice suddenly ringing in my ears after staying up late, that hazy call that shouldn't have appeared under a hundred meters of water.

"The so-called fate of abandoning one's clan is to cross the wilderness, raise the battle flag again, and return to one's hometown."

"Maybe we will die, but don't be afraid, Constantine, death is not terrible, it is just a long sleep."

"You are good food, Constantine. But if I eat you, it will be too lonely. You and I will be the only ones together for thousands of years."

"Instead of trekking alone, it is better to fall into a deep sleep. After a thousand years, we wake up, travel thousands of miles, and eventually return to our hometown."

What are you doing?

Some shining clips flashed before No. 13's black eyes. Those clips were something he had never seen before. Whether it was in his past life or clips from movies and TV series, he had never seen anything like that. picture.

In the picture, there are two men in white robes, one big and one small. They stand on the cliff overlooking the vast Three Gorges and the Yangtze River. The spring breeze blows from the other side of the mountain and rolls up their plain robes. Holding hands, looking at the world, but only seeing each other.

With cool lines and a pretentious look at the mountains and hills, why is his marquee such a weird thing?

No. 13's mind was a little confused. He breathed hard but felt his lungs tightened. It seemed that the air in the compressed gas bottle was about to run out. Now he was still under the rock formation forty meters. He should die soon, right?

I heard that drowning is the most painful way to die, which is really unlucky, but as long as I don’t take off my oxygen mask, I will probably die from lack of oxygen? Which is worse, death from lack of oxygen or death from drowning? If it's the former, should I take off the mask?

In a hazy state, the scene in front of No. 13 became more real. The more he looked at it, the more real the sense of presence became. It was as if he had really stood on that cliff a long time ago and the strong wind was blowing. His whole figure seemed to be flying. It's like getting up and riding the wind to reach immortality.

He is holding a half-grown child by his hand, closing his eyes and feeling the flying comfort like him. Who is that child? When did he meet each other? Why is that child looking at me with only himself in his eyes?

"elder brother."

Someone shouted in his ear.

Oh, it turns out he is his younger brother.

No. 13 thought.

Suddenly he seemed to have figured out something in his head, but the next moment a muffled thunder sounded, and at the same time countless pictures were piled up and squeezed together and flashed past his eyes. He had no time to look, and he only felt that those pictures An ancient, grand and solemn aura gushed out, making him extremely close and awe-inspiring, but what he was more familiar with was the cold loneliness hidden under everything.

elder brother.

In that voice of brother, the person who calls him is so lonely, like an abandoned puppy, looking at you across a street with heavy rain, asking you why you don't want him anymore.

The heavy rain hit his face, and the deafening sound of the thunderstorm dragged him out of his daze and into reality!

"Cough cough cough——"

Coughing violently, No. 13, lying flat on the cold and wet beach on the bank of the Yangtze River, raised his hand and pulled off his oxygen mask. His chest bulged as he tried to breathe, as if he was trying to inject all the air into his lungs. , while inhaling and coughing, the pain of lack of oxygen when coughing made him impatient to continue inhaling

The heavy rain poured down on him. No. 13 looked at the sky with dark clouds mixed with white light, and then looked at the mountains of the Three Gorges on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, feeling a little dazed.

He actually returned to the shore, back to the bank of the Yangtze River with a water depth of one hundred meters.

He reluctantly stood up and covered the wound on his waist. It might be due to the water pressure or some other reason. The wound stopped bleeding, but he could still feel a trace of phantom pain.

How did you get up here?

He didn't know maybe it was luck? But this is no longer a problem that luck can explain.

But no matter what, he was still "lucky" in the end. He escaped from a certain death situation, but he didn't know the reason.

The lingering fear of death made him just glance at the Monyach on the river in the distance, then give up the idea of ​​going deeper into it, turned around and staggered into the black night without looking back, as if he was avoiding it. What thing is running away into the night? Since you choose to run away, run away far away and never come back again in your life.

The water flowed up in the river, and the lava-colored light flashed away. It was not until the figure of No. 13 disappeared into the night that the rugged and hard black back split the water, sank, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. .

Underwater, Bronze City.

He left on the 13th, and the ominous feeling gradually ended. Ye Sheng stayed in place for a long time. Undoubtedly, he also missed a lot during this period.

"Aki!" Ye Sheng looked at Shuudoku Aki, who was floating downwards, and wanted to rescue him, but Shuudoku Aki covered his twisted wrist and suddenly changed direction and started to dive.

Ye Sheng suddenly turned his head and looked below Ya Ji. The brass can that had been blown away by the safety rope was sinking continuously due to the weight. However, he was still alive. A passage opened in the direction of his sinking due to the changes in the Bronze City. Looking at the entrance elsewhere, Ye Sheng could only vaguely see that behind the entrance was a huge, spiral-structured bronze space, like a library made of bronze?

The water flow around Shutoku Aki pushed her to get closer to the brass tank faster, but the brass tank still fell into the entrance. The changes in the Bronze City caused the entrance to disappear quickly after it was formed. She tried hard to get in and retrieve the brass can, but at this moment she was suddenly dragged back and pulled away.

A black shadow passed by her, pulling her at the same time as she sprinted downwards.

Their eyes met when they crossed each other, and Aki saw those pale golden eyes filled with helplessness and a bitter smile. It was almost the same as last time.

"Please, let me win this time."

'Snake' reconstructed the radio between the two of them, and Shuode Aki only heard him say this.

—

Shutoku Aki still remembers.

Whether it was in the Devil's Cave or the Somali Sea, when the instructor dropped the coin and fell into the rough sea water, Ye Sheng always looked so confident, making faces at Aki next to him and laughing at her because she must not win because of her short legs. Own.

At that time, Aki always didn't respond to her provocations, and worked hard to find coins to win his own dinner, waiting for the poor puppy to come over with a salivating face and ask for a piece of meat.

Aki remembers that she was always winning. From Texas to Florida, Somalia to the Caribbean, she could always find coins. Just as her instructor said, she was a natural swimmer, even if she was not a mixed race. After winning the gold medal for her country in the Olympic triathlon, she always humbled herself that she was not as good as her mentor said. She should wait until her hometown improves the water quality of Tokyo Bay to win the Olympics.

Every time at this time, she would proudly look at Ye Sheng who had said bad things about her before the competition. Ye Sheng could only continue the punishing training in the water angrily. When she saw him from the corner of her eye, he changed from freestyle to backstroke and asked her to Making a face is almost like a childish ghost.

She still remembered that the last training was in the Somali Sea. She usually found it easily or could always find the coin at the last moment. Why couldn't she find it? Even if the ultimate reward of the training was to become a real student of her mentor, she could only find it on the cylinder. Rise before reaching the dangerous value.

She originally thought that Ye Sheng had finally beaten her by finding the coin in advance, but when she surfaced, she didn't see Ye Sheng's triumphant expression and realized that the big boy was still down there.

In fact, I didn't value these so-called futures and rewards from the beginning. Every time I mustered up the energy to look for coins, I just wanted to make Ye Sheng angry. I saw how pitiful he was and asked me to give him some dinner. Is such a thing important as a future?

To others, maybe.

But for her, some things are really not as important as she thought. Maybe the only thing she has been obsessed with in recent years is the grouping after graduation and entering the executive department, right? She couldn't sleep all night worrying about the group list. On the contrary, it was said that Ye Sheng drank all night at the student union to celebrate her graduation, which was heartless.

When Yaji found out, he was angry all night. But when I saw the familiar evil smile on my partner's face the next day, everything seemed not so important anymore.

He said: Were you secretly so anxious that you almost cried last night? She said: Hey, stay away from me, giant panda!

When the boy was found in the deep water, he was almost out of oxygen. He was breathing in small mouthfuls of air, squeezing his lungs and body.

When he was about to faint from lack of oxygen, Aki handed him the oxygen mask and helped him to float up, just like he held his back every time, and his eyes were staring at the water until he left. , seems to be still obsessed with the coin that can't be found.

Afterwards, the instructor severely reprimanded Ye Sheng. No one was recognized by the instructor, and the rewards were naturally in vain. But Yaji was particularly happy, but she found that Ye Sheng was sitting on the beach wrapped in a warm blanket. She was stunned as she watched the undulating waves. She remained silent on the sidelines, thinking that she had aroused the boy's desire to win, and felt a little guilty.

She comforted him not to care too much about winning or losing. She had always won because of luck rather than strength.

But Ye Sheng just said in the end that it turned out that this time there were no coins at all underwater.

She said next time, you will definitely beat me next time.

He said yes.

So that's it this time.

"Ye Sheng!"

She watched Ye Sheng swim toward the entrance where the brass tank fell without looking back, yelling his name hoarsely. At this moment, she suddenly understood a lot of things.

For example, Ye Sheng's speaking spirit is "snake".

For example, "Snake" has perfect conductive properties underwater and can extend the detection range to one kilometer.

For example, "snake" has always been sensitive to good conductors such as metals.

For example, the instructor might not have actually dropped the coin that day. Later, she heard that the instructor had only had one student, and that student remained in a dragon ruins forever because of a deep-diving mission. In the following decades, the instructor would always Alone at sea.

For example, Ye Sheng has never won the coin-finding test, and she is always the winner.

And there were too many things that he didn't think about, and it was too late to figure them out.

The entrance disappeared, and Ye Sheng also disappeared behind the wall along with the brass jar. At the last moment, the bronze box was thrown out, and Aki threw himself on the wall. He clenched his fist with his left hand and hammered the bronze wall with all his strength. His right hand hung weakly on the wall. There was a low muffled sound in the water next to me.