Dragon Clan: Starting from obtaining Yaki, counterattack against the gods

Chapter 234 It is impossible to go to sea

Ange closed his notebook and glanced at the men on both sides of the conference table.

This is a conference room 120 meters underground in Kassel College. Those attending the meeting are the elite of the Equipment Department, but Angers does not want to meet with them at all.

These mainstays of Kassel College are all wearing fully enclosed biochemical protective suits, rubber boots, protective glasses, respirators, and even portable oxygen tanks!

The heavy "wheezing" sound of the respirator echoed in the conference room. More than a dozen pairs of eyes looked at Angers through protective glasses, as if they were looking at a dirty pathogen. They were even unwilling to breathe the same air with Angers.

Ange endured it again and again, but finally couldn't stand it anymore: "Gentlemen, before the meeting, I want to ask a question, why do you have to wear oxygen masks in every meeting?"

"Please don't mind, Principal. We are just allergic to your body odor. To be honest, you are a source of pollution in Watt Alheim. Every time you come to a meeting, we turn the ionized air purifier to maximum power, but your smell is too strong!"

Ange began to regret coming to Watt Alheim for the meeting. Every time he came here, he felt like he was trapped in a sea of ​​lunatics. Here, lunatics are the mainstream, and one cannot survive without being crazy.

This bunch of lunatics got together and called themselves the Equipment Department.

Vatraheim, which means "Land of Dwarfs" in Norse mythology, is home to the world's top dwarf craftsmen, and the weapons of the gods are made by them.

The Equipment Department named their underground base Watt Alheim, showing great pride and honor. "Equipment" is just an abbreviation, and the full name is the lengthy "Institute of Alchemy and Scientific Engineering Applications".

However, although it is called a research institute, the elites of the Equipment Department do not engage in theoretical research. Their job is to transform the theories of science and alchemy into practical applications.

Although 90% of these practical applications are explosives, they are also called the "bomb maniac concentration camp". What they are most passionate about is making various bombs.

But even though he is a bomb maniac, the guys in the equipment department pay great attention to their own safety protection, even to a point of being crazy.

The water they drink must be distilled and filtered 13 times, the air they breathe must be dust-free, ionized, and humidified, and even the places where they live have layers of protection. Even if the Dragon King comes, unless he activates a super spirit like Shiva's Karma Dance, he can't do anything to Watalheim...

In short, they are a bunch of psychopaths, and some of them are seriously ill.

Angers sighed and said, "Okay, okay. I promise you all that I will try to reduce the number of meetings here in the future to avoid polluting the air for everyone."

The psychopaths then showed a satisfied look. Director Akadula nodded and spoke for everyone: "Then the meeting can begin. It will end soon so that you can leave sooner, Principal."

"Wait a moment." Ange said, "Someone hasn't arrived yet."

Everyone immediately showed a puzzled look, and Director Akadullah asked: "Aren't all the participants here? Who else is there?"

Before he finished speaking, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and the girl with white hair and red eyes walked in silently. She glanced at the group of researchers who looked like they could be used to film Resident Evil, and frowned.

When Ange saw her, he immediately pointed to the empty seat next to him enthusiastically: "Come, Liuli, sit here."

Yuan Zhinv walked over and sat down nonchalantly. The researchers were whispering to each other, and they didn't seem to understand why a student was called to such an important meeting.

Director Akadullah frowned and said, "Principal, what I want to say is very important. How can you let students come? This is too..." This is nonsense.

But before he could finish his words, the girl with white hair and as cold as an ice sculpture calmly threw a knife onto the table, making a crisp sound of metal collision. Director Akadullah's words suddenly stopped, and the whole conference hall was instantly silent.

"Is there any problem?" Yuan Zhinv said calmly: "This is too much?"

Director Akadullah glanced back and forth between the girl's cold face and the knife thrown on the table, and swallowed his saliva: "This, this is such an honor."

"How can we have the honor to have a meeting with such a beautiful girl!"

For a moment, all the researchers nodded repeatedly, with excited expressions on their faces saying "I'm so honored". Yuan Zhinv didn't bother to pay attention to these cowardly lunatics and looked at Angers.

Ange coughed lightly and finally spoke: "I declare the meeting officially open now. Let's get down to business. What happened that made you ask me to fly back from China overnight? I'm catching up with an old friend."

"And Director Akadullah sent an earnest... I should say threatening email. To be honest, when I read that email, I felt that you were urging me to come back and make a will."

Ange is still looking for the old friend he has been thinking about, but when Yuan Zhinv entered Nibelungen, she lost control of the snake, and when she came out, there was no trace of that person. Ange can only look for him on his own, with a friend who appeared out of nowhere following him.

Logically speaking, after finally getting some information, Angers would never come back easily without getting to the bottom of the matter. However, he had to interrupt his search because the email from Director Acadula urging him to come back for a meeting started like this:

"Death is approaching you..." If Angers didn't know Director Acadora too well and knew that he never expressed himself clearly, he would undoubtedly understand this email as a death threat.

But he still immediately ordered to change the itinerary and return to the academy, because there were only two situations in which Director Acadula would look for Ange: either Watt Alheim wanted to increase the budget again, or the crisis was beyond the control of the Equipment Department and Ange had to make the decision.

The conference room suddenly became quiet, and the psychopaths looked at each other with serious expressions.

"Can anyone speak? You are so serious that it scares me." Ange said, "Seeing the word serious on your faces is like seeing the word thinking on the face of an Argentine sloth. It makes me uneasy."

"Let me give the report." Deputy Director Al stood up and said, "Let's listen to an audio clip before we begin."

The sea breeze swept through the conference room. If you closed your eyes, you would mistakenly think you were on a small boat in the middle of the sea. Angers frowned slightly. It sounded like just an ordinary recording of the sea breeze.

"Listen carefully. This is the audio that the Japanese branch just sent to us. They recorded it in the waters off Japan. It's not just the sea breeze."

Angers eyes suddenly widened. Indeed, if one listened carefully, there was a powerful sound in the sea breeze: dong dong, dong dong, dong dong... its rhythm was so strong and distinct.

As soon as Ange detected the strong rhythm from the sound of the wind, he was attracted to it. The sound of the sea breeze gradually faded away, and the powerful sound became more and more obvious, boom, boom, boom, as if on an ancient battlefield, the barbarians were beating drums to declare war.

"That's the sound of a heartbeat," said Ange. He had a medical degree and was familiar with the rhythm of heartbeats, but he had never heard such a strong heartbeat.

"This is the heartbeat of a dragon, hidden deep in the Japan Trench," said Deputy Director Carl. "Just yesterday, the Rock Flow Research Institute of the Japan branch sent us this audio."

"It is obviously some kind of large creature. Although its size cannot be determined, the depth of the Japan Trench is more than eight kilometers. Its heartbeat can penetrate eight kilometers of seawater. You can imagine how huge it is. This heartbeat signal is neither that of a shark nor a whale. It has the heartbeat characteristics of a reptile."

Angers hand that was playing with the folding knife suddenly clenched, and the veins on the back of his hand were exposed, like a warrior hearing the horn of war.

"Luckily, it's not an adult dragon, but a dragon embryo. So for now, it won't suddenly surface to attack humans. But its heartbeat is slowly getting stronger, and its incubation level is getting higher and higher. It's only a matter of time before it breaks out of the shell."

"Can you estimate how long it will take for him to hatch?" asked Ange.

"I'm not completely sure, but generally speaking, the bigger the animal, the longer the gestation period. The gestation period of a dragon is much longer than that of a human. This embryo should still be in the early stages of incubation." Deputy Director Karl thought for a moment and said, "It will be safe for at least a year."

"Because the bloodline can only be confirmed after successful hatching, we are not sure of the level of this thing. It may be a high-risk target at the level of an ancient dragon, so we ask you to return to the headquarters for a meeting immediately."

"How should I put it? Although it's bad news, it's good that we knew it in advance."

"It's like your doctor telling you you have early-stage lung cancer," added one researcher.

"This is not a very good consolation." Angers said, and suddenly turned his head to look at the silent girl beside him: "Liuli, do you know about this?"

Gen Chinu supported her head and said calmly, "I know." The Ganliu Research Institute notified the Eight Snake Clans as soon as it got this clue. Gen Chinu received the news almost at the same time, informed by Norton himself.

It was also Yuan Zhinu's idea to send this audio clip to Kassel College. It can be said that without her approval, this audio clip would not appear here at this time.

If Yuan Zhinu had followed her previous idea, she would definitely not tell Kassel Academy. After getting the heartbeat location, she would kill it herself and take all the benefits for herself. However, Norton's words made her cautious after all.

As she was unsure of what impact the kingdom of God would have on her, Yuan Zhinv felt that whether she went or not, she could let Kassel Academy test it out first. Anyway, the trio in the original novel would have no problem handling such a small situation.

I just didn't expect that Angers would actually invite me to attend such a meeting. Old Deng doesn't look stupid.

Angers didn't seem surprised by Yuan Zhinv's answer. He nodded and asked Deputy Director Carl: "What's the situation now?"

"The situation is still relatively stable. The embryo will not hatch for a while, but we must get rid of it immediately. It is developing, but it will not grow into a curvy girl. Instead, it will become a tricky monster."

"Does the Japanese branch have any opinions on this?" Angers asked. "The Rock Flow Research Institute under the Japanese branch is comparable to the Equipment Department in terms of technical strength. They can continue to monitor that sea area."

"How can those guys at the Rock Flow Research Institute be compared with the Equipment Department?" Deputy Director Carl said disdainfully, "It is true that they have made breakthroughs in their research on alchemy recently, and it seems that they have been guided by an expert, but so what?"

"They are just a bunch of hardworking idiots. They can only compete with us by working late into the night without sleep. No matter how powerful the experts who guide them are, they can't compare with our research on alchemy!" Deputy Director Karl showed a proud look.

Yuan Zhinv looked at him thoughtfully, wondering whether she should record a video for Norton to see.

"Anyway, the equipment department's opinion is to deal with the embryo as soon as possible, but the guys in the Japanese branch are still hesitant and say they want to wait for our analysis results. What's there to analyze? We can be sure that this is not a deep-sea animal."

Deputy Director Carl said, "I think you remember, President, this is not the first time we have heard a heartbeat in the deep sea. We compared this heartbeat signal with the previously saved heartbeat signal and found that they matched perfectly. That is why we determined that it was a dragon embryo."

"Do we have an absolutely safe way to kill embryos?" asked Angers.

"Theoretically, there is no absolutely safe method, but we already have several ideas with a high safety factor for the principal to refer to."

"You actually have a reference plan?" Ange showed a look of joy. "It's beyond my expectation. In the past, you guys would just throw a bomb at me and tell the executive department to send a specialist to blow it up."

"Ah... this is a bit regrettable. Although there are several reference plans, they all use bombs. The difference lies in how we use the bombs." A researcher said: "For example, in plan A, we can remotely control the explosion."

"Tell me more about it."

"At present, we can only observe the target through sonar. It is impossible to accurately locate it. Its possible location is within a large circle with a diameter of 12 kilometers. It is impossible to blast it accurately, so we can blow up the entire seabed!"

"The Armament Department has enough firepower to absolutely destroy the ancient dragon in its embryonic stage. The only minor negative consequence is that Japan might sink."

"You also know that Japan's foundation is quite unstable. This kind of underwater explosion is at the level of a nuclear bomb. It may cause a large-scale landslide and Japan will be gone... However, Japan is located on such a fragile foundation that even if we don't bomb it, it may not sink, so we might as well bomb it first."

After these words came out, the girl who had been silent all of a sudden sneered: "According to what you said, people will die anyway, why don't I kill you first?"

Her words came out of nowhere, and the specialist who was speaking was stunned for a moment after being interrupted. He scratched his head, a little puzzled: "Classmate, you are being too picky. If the Japanese ship sank because of the explosion, it's not our fault."

"From a geological point of view, Japan is located at the junction of the Asian Plate and the Pacific Plate. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes are frequent. It is indeed very likely that Japan will sink at some time in the future. The explosion is just a small trigger, just like an asthma patient will get sick when he smells pollen. Can you say that the pollen is wrong?"

"I don't think Japan's foundation is that fragile. A friend of mine said that it won't sink in the short term, and she is a geology expert," Genjitsu retorted.

After hearing this, Deputy Director Karl showed an interested expression: "What is the name of your friend? We should all know this famous geologist."

"That's her last name." said Yuan Zhinv.

"leaf?"

The researchers looked at each other with strange expressions in their eyes.

They had never heard of any geologist named Ye, and they had heard a little about the classmate in front of them, who seemed to be from Japan. It was normal to have emotions, but there was no need to lie with open eyes.

The fragility of Japan's foundations is universally acknowledged and written in textbooks. What geological expert would dare to brazenly guarantee that it will not sink in the short term? They have the world's top experts here!
A senior geologist took a deep breath and was about to refute this classmate who had been fooled by some half-baked person, but he was interrupted before he could open his mouth.

“Stop, stop, stop!” Ange raised his hands. “We are the Dragon Slayer Secret Party, not terrorists! We can skip this plan. Now tell me what plan B is.”

"If plan A doesn't work, plan B is also a possibility. Plan B may involve the Korean Peninsula, but what does that matter? It won't affect the North American headquarters anyway."

Ange took a deep breath and said, "Thank you very much for your proposal, but I think this method is not very humane. How about we change our thinking? How long will it take us to build an underwater robot that can detect embryos?"

Director Akadula thought for a moment and said, "It will probably take a year, but I don't recommend this method because dragon embryos will generate a layer of territory to protect themselves. Once the submersible robot enters its territory, the electronic control will fail."

"You mean if I want to observe this embryo up close, I still have to send a specialist to dive eight thousand meters to the bottom of the sea?"

"And they must be specialists with excellent bloodlines. When entering the embryo field, hybrids will also be disturbed. The better the bloodline, the stronger the anti-interference ability. And if we send out a manned submersible, we can carry out precise positioning blasting on the embryo. We have a complete plan for this!"

"Your so-called precise positioning blasting... won't sink Japan again, right?" Angers was a little worried.

"There's no need to sink Japan. We're going to use a brand new refined sulfur bomb!" The researcher who reported was very excited. "Although the power of this bomb is not great, it can be used against the dragons. It has three effects: penetration, corruption and erosion. Even the Dragon King cannot resist its power!"

"Finally, I would like to remind you again that the submersible must be piloted by a specialist with sufficient pedigree. Once it enters the embryonic territory, the pilot's neural circuits will be disrupted no matter what. The better the pedigree of the pilot, the less impact it will be."

"I see. I already have a suitable candidate in mind." Angé said and looked at the girl beside him. Following his gaze, everyone looked at her.

The researchers were obviously not the kind of otakus who focused on their research. They had heard a little about the popular figure Fengjian Liuli on the campus internet and knew that her bloodline was the strongest in the academy. Who else but her could do such a thing?

And if it was her, the so-called magnetic field of the Dragon King would be nothing but a piece of cake, right? After all, she even killed the King of the Earth and the Mountain. No wonder the principal invited her to such an important meeting. It turned out that she was waiting here.

The principal is indeed a principal, he is very far-sighted! The researchers thought to themselves that this matter was a sure thing.

However, facing so many expectant eyes, Yuan Zhinv simply raised her eyelids lightly, with no ripples in her scarlet eyes: "What are you looking at me for? I refuse this mission."

Everyone was stunned. Angers didn't expect her to answer like this. He scratched his head, a little confused: "Why?"

Yuan Zhinv said calmly: "Because I am afraid of water."

Ange's expression was hard to describe for a moment: "Isn't this reason a little perfunctory?"

"Okay, then what kind of reason do you want to hear?" Yuan Zhinv tilted her head and said casually, "Can't swim? Deep-sea phobia? Claustrophobia? Suffering from a disease that gives you a headache when you go into the sea? Whatever, I won't go into the sea anyway."

Everyone: "..."

(End of this chapter)