Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from the Black Myth

Chapter 49: Snake-Faced Man

After being sucked into the giant mouth of the living creature, Lu Mingfei’s eyes went dark and he was drawn into the whirlpool of water.

After opening his eyes again, Lu Mingfei looked around and found that the surroundings had turned into air again. However, the air here seemed to lack oxygen due to the long-term oxidation of bronze, so he took off the diving mask but not the oxygen mask.

Turning on the flashlight, Lu Mingfei saw a bronze corridor in front of him. On both sides of the corridor stood countless bronze sculptures. They were all people dressed in ancient clothes, officials or generals, holding ivory tablets in their hands. The only difference was that extending from the collars of their robes and armor were slender snake necks. The heads of these officials were all cobra-like snake heads. The funny thing was that some of the snake heads even had hats on them.

"Lu Mingfei, can you hear me? Please reply if you get it." Lu Mingfei heard Mans's anxious voice coming from the headset.

Lu Mingfei turned around to take a look at the situation behind him and found that the communication line connecting him to the "Moniah" was not disconnected.

"Got it." Lu Mingfei replied in a deep voice, "Everything is fine on my end."

"Got it. Can you scan the scene in front of you and send it back to us? In order to help you find your way, we need to know the specific situation in the Bronze City."

"No problem." Lu Mingfei took out a diving camera from his pocket, recorded the scene illuminated by the flashlight in great detail, and sent the data back to the "Moniah".

Inside the cabin of the "Moniah", Professor Mans, Ye Sheng, Jiude Aki and others were all concentrating on checking the Bronze City scene data sent back by Lu Mingfei.

"This is the Temple Road." After seeing the snake-faced statues bowing on both sides of Lu Mingfei, Mans murmured, "This road is recorded in the Ice Sea Fragments. In the era when the dragon clan was prosperous, the ancients had to pass through this Temple Road to pay homage to the Dragon King as subjects. There is an identical road in the Bronze Palace in Northern Europe. The snake-faced statues on both sides represent the metal elements controlled by the Dragon King. According to the alchemical element table, there are 88 elements in total. It's incredible craftsmanship."

"So, how should I find the dragon king's eggs?" Lu Mingfei asked directly. On the journey to the west in another world, as a man of destiny, he was not good at finding directions. Especially in the complicated Pansiling, he even got lost dozens of times.

"In alchemy, the pentagram represents five elements, and the lower right corner is the element of fire. This bronze city was also built based on alchemy, similar to the ancient Chinese Feng Shui theory. The Dragon King's bedroom will be located below the bronze city. Look to see if there is water under your feet." Mans glanced at the instrument showing Lu Mingfei's two-hour oxygen remaining and quickly gave an answer.

Two hours, considering that the ultimate goal of the mission is to destroy the dragon king's eggs, or even to fight with the dragon king, this oxygen surplus is not sufficient. Just the two processes of searching and returning after completing the mission will consume a lot of time.

"Yes." Lu Mingfei was now standing in knee-deep water.

"Water flows from high to low. The Ice Sea Fragments says that if you follow the current you will reach the throne of fire. Lu Mingfei, use the dye you carry." Mance said.

“Got it.” Lu Mingfei pulled out the dye tube from the pocket of his diving suit, broke it and poured it into the water.

The fluorescent yellow fuel formed a huge yellow-green spot in the water. After a moment, a thin line of yellow-green quietly flowed along the bottom of the water, like a smart little snake.

So, Lu Mingfei put his fingers to his ears, golden light emerged, and the golden hoop appeared in his hand again. After fixing the camera and flashlight on the helmet, he turned the golden hoop a few times, took a deep look at the snake-faced statues on both sides of him bowing to him, and followed the dye snake and walked into the dark depths of the bronze palace.

Lu Mingfei had experienced this feeling of walking alone in a dangerous place countless times. Today, returning to this world, he experienced this feeling again.

"Lu Mingfei, if there is any danger, please report it immediately." Mans urged in the headset. Hearing this, Lu Mingfei responded calmly while moving forward: "Danger? Professor, I think I have already felt it."

"What danger?" Mans' voice sounded a little surprised, and everyone in the cabin of the "Moniach" subconsciously held their breath. Could it be that Lu Mingfei had encountered a dragon as soon as he entered the Bronze City?
"After I left, all the snake-faced people who were hunched over in the corridor behind me moved and straightened up. These things are probably the guards of this bronze city disguised as sculptures, but for some reason they didn't attack me."

Lu Mingfei could feel that in the distance behind him, the snake-faced people who had been bowing straightened up in unison and looked straight ahead, with a cold silver light flashing in their silver-cast pupils.

Lu Mingfei was very familiar with this kind of enemy disguised as statues or other things. On the frozen land of Xiaoxitian, there were countless snow zombies disguised as ice sculptures. Once he approached them, they would move suddenly, shake off the ice and snow, and swing their butcher knives at him.

Fortunately, when he arrived at Xiaoxitian, Lu Mingfei had grown into a qualified man of destiny. Thousands of snow zombies would not be his opponent.

"I see." Mans breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time marveled at the powerful perception ability of the S-class. "It's good that they didn't attack you. Please continue moving forward."

The next step was a long trek. The dye line guided Lu Mingfei through the maze-like corridor system in the Bronze City, and he arrived at an open space.

The water in the corridor flowed into a lake here. The water was so blue that it was almost black, and it was icy cold and bone-chilling. No one knew how deep it was.

Lu Mingfei looked up and let the spotlight on his helmet shine upward. He saw a bronze dome that looked like the sky. It was a giant tree. From the center of the bronze dome, countless branches and leaves and petals grew, like a huge fractal image that made people dizzy at a glance. The bronze walls on all four sides were covered with tens of thousands of bronze gears.

After seeing the twisted branches and leaf patterns on the ceiling, Professor Mans was pleasantly surprised to recognize that these were dragon characters. Without him saying anything, Lu Mingfei quickly took photos of these precious dragon characters.

Mans read the dragon characters carefully, but he soon felt dizzy, which was the feeling of "clairvoyance". But Lu Mingfei, who took pictures of the dragon characters bit by bit, seemed to be fine.

This made Mans heave a sigh of relief. Lu Mingfei was right not to let Ye Sheng and Jiude Yaji follow him into the Bronze City. If the two people with lower bloodline ratings were affected by these dragon characters and had "spiritual vision", who knows what unexpected situations would happen.

After taking pictures, Lu Mingfei searched everywhere in the open hall, but he didn't find any place that looked like the Dragon King's bedroom, which made him feel bored and he started swinging his stick.

The snake-faced statues scattered everywhere bowed to him respectfully. Lu Mingfei's hands were hot from swinging the golden cudgel, and he urgently needed a fight to warm up his body.

Lu Mingfei walked to a snake-faced statue and chopped it with his golden hoop. The bronze statue shattered into countless pieces, and a lot of dark and sticky blood flowed out. He turned his head and looked at the other snake-faced statues. He did the same thing, but they still bowed to him stubbornly without any resistance.

What's even more strange is that as Lu Mingfei's position changes, the direction of these snake-faced people's salutes will also change unconsciously.

This made Lu Mingfei feel very bored. Smashing these weird statues that would not resist with a stick was not considered a fight at all, so he continued to look for the entrance to the Dragon King's bedroom.

(End of this chapter)