Chapter 100: Ancient City Becomes a Tombs
The deep-sea anglerfish with dragon scales is equivalent to a subspecies of dragon. No wonder it can grow so big.

"It should be the nutrients for the embryo after it hatches." Caesar said, "It has raised a group of subspecies 8,000 meters below the sea. These foods will enter its mouth when it is waiting to be born. We may have entered the territory of the embryo now."

"But this isn't normal." Caesar added, "Ancient books record that people evolved through contact with dragon blood, and what's underneath is an embryo, unless... a dragon died."

"It feels like my guess is going to come true." Angé pinched his chin with one hand and said, "The god and the ancient dragon embryo fought, and one of them died. Perhaps the dragon blood attracted a large number of fish, and they absorbed the dragon blood and evolved into subspecies, becoming the winner of the fishing ground."

"Keep looking down, there may be more surprises." Pompey did not express his opinion in a hurry, but signaled him to wait for the submersible to continue sinking.

Continuing down, they saw a vague light on the seabed below, and soon they came to an underwater world that looked like a fairy tale ocean.

"Over 7900 meters. It looks like the hatchery is not even 8 meters deep."

"Now is not the time to be thankful." Chu Zihang looked at the reddish sea water. It was not that there was a sun under the sea, but that the magma under the sea illuminated the water layer.

They could vaguely hear the roar of thunder, but they knew it was not real thunder. The boiling point of sea water reached over 500 degrees several thousand meters below the sea cucumber, but the temperature of the magma was enough to vaporize the sea water.

"Perhaps God is right in front of us." Yuan Zhisheng drove the Trieste submersible forward after it successfully landed on the seabed.

Taking into account the issue of the embryo's territory, perhaps only Yuan Zhisheng, who carries the royal blood, will not be controlled, so he will be the one to control it.

Caesar withdrew his gaze from the observation window: "We may have to hurry up. It seems that we are running out of oxygen. We can't stay at the bottom of the sea for more than two hours."

"That's enough. It seems we are lucky. We fell directly into its fishing grounds. It's not far away from it."

The Trieste slowly moved forward on the seabed, and even "clouds" could be seen outside the observation window. This underwater world was created as a deep sea world because of the extreme water pressure and mantle magma.

"I saw."

Yuan Zhisheng said in a low voice.

"That looks like the top of a tower?"

Caesar followed his gaze and saw a ridge running ahead of them, but looking up the ridge they could see a structure that looked a bit like a tower.

"That can't be Takamagahara, right? Let's go check it out."

"Don't be impatient." Yuan Zhisheng drove the submersible and slowly crossed the ridge. They were finally able to see the full picture of the tower. There was a city under the tower.

An underwater city lies quietly more than 7900 meters below the sea.

"Takama-ga-hara!" Gen Chisei's voice trembled slightly.

They really found God, the dark cloud that had troubled the Eight Clans of Sheqi for many years and had always hovered over their heads.

The architectural style and planning of this city are completely different from those of human cities. It is obviously not a city of humans, but a city of dragons.

Kassel College may be the human research center with the richest dragon information on Earth, but it has never witnessed such a complete dragon city.

"Call the Sumeru Throne, call the Sumeru Throne! Can you see it? Can you see it?" Chu Zihang immediately called out to the Sumeru Throne on the sea.

"I'm watching it, I'm watching it. The video has been saved." Zhang Baiqing answered him.

"There is still enough oxygen, enough for them to move underwater for an hour and a half. Try to move around more and let the camera save more records. At the same time, hurry up to find the embryo." Angers had snatched the phone from Schneider's hand and gave orders to Zhang Baiqing.

Zhang Baiqing immediately conveyed the instructions: "You still have plenty of time, you can observe this ancient city more. There is a sonar system on the Trieste, you can try to use it to search for the heartbeat of the embryo."

After entering the ancient city, Yuan Zhisheng controlled the Ditriste to wander around the ancient city, while Caesar turned on the sonar system.

Seawater is a good medium for sound waves. The heartbeat of the embryo can even pass through the seawater and be transmitted to the sea surface nearly 8,000 meters above sea level.

"Something is wrong. There is a lot of noise, like an echo, with regular heartbeats everywhere." Caesar frowned: "Perhaps the embryo's heartbeat resonates with this city. It seems that we can only slowly search for it."

The other two were not in a hurry either, as they still had plenty of time.

As they turned around, they saw a torii gate that was several dozen meters high, but half of it was destroyed. The remaining half was slanted on the ground, but had not completely fallen down.

This building, which looks like a Chinese archway, is particularly eye-catching. In traditional Japanese culture, the Torii is a symbol of barrier, and passing through the Torii can reach the realm of the gods.

However, the largest torii gate in Tokyo is only 10 meters high, but the pillars of this torii gate are 50 meters high.

"Isn't this prepared for the dragon?" Caesar asked Yuan Zhisheng.

"It's hard to say, let's go and take a look." Yuan Zhisheng controlled the Trieste to approach the torii.

This torii gate seems to be made of large iron pillars that were melted by a volcanic eruption. The molten iron flowed down and formed hideous iron teeth.

"Come closer, come closer, there are patterns on the pillars." Zhang Baiqing gave them instructions. After they got closer, the submersible sent back clear pictures to the sea surface. There were clear carvings on the pillars, and thousands of demons with human heads and snake bodies were fighting against the enemy.

Ange looked at the picture sent back and said, "The image of a human hand and a snake body seems to exist in many myths, but why haven't I seen it in the history of dragons? Is it exclusive to the White King?"

"White King?" Schneider glanced at him.

"Yes." Anger nodded. "The hybrids of the Japanese branch are from the Eight Snake Clan. The dragon blood flowing in the hybrids of the Eight Snake Clan comes from the bloodline of the White King."

Schneider was a little shocked.

"Maybe?" Pompey said, "I suddenly thought of something. The Lenin was carrying a dragon embryo. Due to the unique structure of the icebreaker, the bow is very heavy. During the sinking process, it is very likely that the ship sank straight into the ancient underwater city. However, since so many years have passed, it is very likely that the hull has long been buried by shellfish."

An icebreaker does not have a sharp knife inserted on the bow, but relies on a specially designed bow to crush the ice. Therefore, the bow must be particularly strong, hard enough and heavy enough to easily crush the ice.

Ange immediately passed his words to Zhang Baiqing, who immediately told the three people in the submersible.

"The Lenin icebreaker should be more than 100 meters long, right?" Yuan Zhisheng and Caesar quickly flipped through the photos they took.

"No need to look at the photo to find it, it's right in front of you."

Chu Zihang looked up at the observation window. There was a large building behind the torii. The building was very strange, and it seemed to be piercing the sky. Like other buildings, it was covered with black snails, but there seemed to be an unusually large number of snails here.

"Let me see." Yuan Zhisheng pointed the telephoto camera at the building and saw the traces of rust hidden under the black snails.

"These snails feel a bit like lung snails," Caesar said as he thought, "Lung snails are hermaphrodites, but they need to exchange genes with each other and then hatch the fertilized eggs in their gills."

"This is their nest. They are stained with dragon blood. They are spewing out thousands of small lung snails every second." Chu Zihang said: "These lung snails feed on phosphorus emitted by volcanoes on the seabed. The fish in this fishery live on lung snails, and then predators live on fish. The fish accumulate dragon blood layer by layer through the food chain to all the fish in this fishery."

"We found Him." Yuan Zhisheng, the patriarch of the Eight Snake Families, also felt dry in the mouth for a moment.

The Trieste, lying on the ancient seabed city, suddenly shook. A glance outside the observation window showed that the entire ruins were shaking. The shells of dead snails and stones were vibrating and clanging against the iron hull of the Trieste.

"Undersea earthquake?" Yuan Zhisheng immediately asked Xumizuo on the sea surface.

"Everything is normal with weather monitoring, and there is no earthquake. It may be that the embryo has discovered you." Zhang Baiqing said, "Have you been disturbed by the spirit?"

"There seems to be no problem, everything is normal."

"Actually, it's not that normal. I seemed to see a mass of flesh and blood that was a hundred meters high?" Chu Zihang said blankly, looking out the observation window.

Yuan Zhisheng and Caesar looked up, and the building that was originally buried by the black lung snail appeared in front of them. It was a large mass of red flesh and blood, and its strange body shape was a bit like the hull of a giant ship.

Gen Chisei recalled what Tachibana Masamune said about the Dragon King embryo being revived, and the huge blood vessels passing through the steel hull. He didn't expect it to be true. The Dragon King embryo really merged with the Lenin icebreaker!
The vibration knocked down many lung snails, but countless lung snails were still lying on this huge piece of flesh and blood, gnawing on it.

This is the origin of the underwater subspecies fishery. The lung snails are not infected by dragon blood, but they survive by eating dragon flesh!
"The dragon is dead, just like brain death," Pompey said. "Its flesh and blood are still alive, so it grows blindly, but the scattered dragon blood attracts lung snails, and countless lung snails attract countless fish. Look at the ground. The place where the Lenin was inserted is more like an altar, and the dragon king embryo has become a sacrifice on the altar."

Schneider, who was silent on the side, felt a chill. The resurrected Dragon King of that year could easily destroy them, but now the powerful Dragon King can only become a sacrifice!
The White King, who is far more powerful than the Dragon King, is the king who enjoys the Dragon King's sacrifice!

"Have the Trieste drop a bomb on the embryo immediately!" Angers said to the phone, "Press and hold for 5 seconds!"

"Received." Zhang Baiqing conveyed the instructions to them.

The flesh and blood on the giant ship began to wither, and the vibration became more and more intense. Yuan Zhisheng pressed the button to drop the bomb without hesitation and pressed it for five seconds.

"What should we do with these things!" Caesar pointed to the countless red dots on the sonar screen. They were not one strong heartbeat, but countless of them, just with the same frequency.

They are buried beneath this ancient city.

"Use a nuclear explosion!" Yuan Zhisheng said without hesitation: "The nuclear power compartment on the Trieste will not explode under normal circumstances, but it will explode if it overheats. I have already activated the nuclear power compartment. After it overheats, we will immediately float up by throwing it away. There is a safety rope on the Trieste. The Sumeru Seat can reduce our floating time by forcibly pulling up the safety rope. Don't be afraid, I am also on the Trieste. We are on the same boat."

"What if you are a kamikaze special agent!" Caesar was too tired to complain. He understood that the nuclear power compartment of the Trieste must have been tampered with at the Iwagyu Research Institute of the Japanese branch, and the Japanese transformed it into a nuclear bomb.

"This is the only solution. There are corpses in Takamagahara. We don't need a nuclear bomb to clear them out. Our speed of surfacing is simply not as fast as their swimming speed." Yuan Zhisheng said calmly, "It will be fine. The Japanese branch has made all the preparations."

The Sumeru throne on the sea is on high alert to prevent any possible problems.

Ange and Pompey didn't say anything, but just looked through the pictures of Takamagahara Ancient Castle.

"It's a pity that it's difficult to salvage from the deep sea." Schneider felt a little sorry for the ancient city left behind by the dragon civilization.

"Salvage? You need talent to salvage it." Pompey said, "The bomb has been dropped. The ancient city of Takamagahara will truly become a tomb, buried along with their gods."

It only takes 5 seconds to release the refined sulfur bomb made by the Equipment Department. This refined sulfur bomb is indeed fine, but Pompeii is sure that if there is a god from the Eight Families of Snake below, they will definitely modify the nuclear power cabin and turn it into a nuclear bomb.

(End of this chapter)