r18novel Chapter 82 Arrival
Chapter 82 Arrival
"How are you feeling?"
Controlling his longsword to slice through the wall, Lu Mingfei and Susie made their way to the bottom floor. He looked at Susie, who was coughing and holding her knees, and asked her with concern.
"Cough cough, it's nothing, I'm all better now."
Lu Mingfei held out a glow stick and used its light to observe his surroundings. He frowned.
There's nothing down there, not even a crater or anything like that from a fall.
There was only one small, round pit, which was somewhat damp, with stones mixed with mud underfoot.
There were no rocks from the previous ground collapse, but that's not a big deal.
It's possible that the armor of the mercury Odin was formed after it collapsed, since the mercury soldiers in the previous story also turned into armor from the floor.
There's a white line on the ground here... that's fog!
Lu Mingfei frowned.
He doesn't have battlefield PTSD, but he does have Tianyi PTSD; he's easily stressed when he sees fog.
But this is not the end of the stress response.
Susie pointed to the end of the fog.
"There's a road over there."
Lu Mingfei saw her eyes and gestures.
She didn't see the fog!
Unlike the previous fogs, this fog was visible only to him!
Then there's only one possibility: this is a divine fog!
Lu Mingfei drew his twin swords and cautiously made his way into the interior of the road.
Susie followed closely, but when she thought about it and realized that it was just the two of them, she hesitated for a moment before speaking.
"I really didn't expect it to be you guys."
"What?"
Lu Mingfei's tone was somewhat cold.
"Oh, you mean this operation? I didn't expect the other person to be you. How did you get here?"
"After I returned to China, Norma messaged me and asked if I would like to take on a quest. So I accepted the quest, and Norma gave me a Hunter Market account, and that's how I came here."
Susie watched Lu Mingfei's retreating figure and tried to strike up a conversation with him.
"The mission briefing said to conceal our identities, probably to avoid the three of us sticking together and attracting the attention and attention of others."
"That was quite a thoughtful plan, but unfortunately Norma didn't expect them to die so quickly."
Lu Mingfei's tone remained indifferent, which made Susie feel strange.
What happened? She had trained with Lu Mingfei for three months and had also encountered a crisis in Bronze City.
But Lu Mingfei had never spoken to her in such a tone or manner.
To be honest, he looks a bit like Chu Zihang.
Susie wasn't upset about this kind of thing; she wasn't the kind of rebellious girl who only cared about herself.
She was just a little concerned about Lu Mingfei, since Chu Zihang's whereabouts were unknown and his fate was uncertain.
Lu Mingfei remained the same, his indifferent attitude revealing a sense of desolation.
Like ice jams, the water is freezing cold with sharp ice shards mixed in. If you get too close, you will be stung by the ice and suffer frostbite.
Even just looking at it from afar can be chilling.
How could a nineteen-year-old boy reveal such sorrow?
Like a stray dog that has been wandering for a long time, it has seen the coldness of the world, the good and the evil.
Perhaps it was hurt in the past, so when someone approaches it, it bares its teeth to protect itself.
But now that it's dying, it doesn't care anymore, so you can go over and pet it without worrying that it will bite you because of stress.
.........
"What are you doing?"
Lu Mingfei turned around and looked at Susie, who was reaching out to touch his head, and said this.
"Oh! I'm sorry, you seemed a bit off, so I wanted to comfort you."
Susie withdrew her hand like a startled deer. She looked into Lu Mingfei's dark gold eyes, the gold so intense it was almost blinding.
Lu Mingfei remained silent for a long time.
"Thank you, please continue on your way."
Lu Mingfei was curious to know if there were any new traps or anything like that ahead.
But as the saying goes, things don't happen more than three times. We encountered traps in the maze earlier, and then we encountered traps in the open space we came out of. There should be no more traps here.
As for the result... well, it really was.
The two continued forward along the tomb passage.
The road was straight and narrow. If it weren't for the fact that it was the only road, Lu Mingfei would never have believed that Chu Zihang could possibly be ahead of him.
But there is only one path. As Conan said, once all the impossibilities are eliminated, what remains, no matter how unbelievable, is the truth.
Yes, Conan Doyle is also Conan.
Lu Mingfei looked down at the flowing mist that had already spread and climbed up his calves...
He instinctively gripped his two swords tightly, his knuckles turning white, his shoulders tense.
His dark golden eyes were fixed on the front, as if Guan Yu would ride out on horseback at any moment.
Susie couldn't see the fog.
The tomb passage was very clear to her, only a little narrow.
But he could clearly sense the change in Lu Mingfei's aura.
His tension felt weighty, like an invisible pressure that made her tense up too.
The closer you get to the end, the thicker the fog becomes.
Lu Mingfei frowned, because the fog was already half a person's height.
The end of the road has appeared.
It was a small doorway, about two meters high, from which the mist flowed out like viscous water, some of it being pushed forward by others.
But most of them just stood there, stagnant, layer upon layer, like a low wall, but without the oppression and rejection he was familiar with.
He frowned and approached the foggy doorway.
The battle between Wan Su and the Bloodlust was about to erupt, his two hands positioned one in front of the other.
If anything changed, he would push Susie far away, after all, it was fate, something that Norton or Constantine couldn't compare to.
As for Susie... a few broken ribs are better than death.
"Wait for me, I'll go in and check things out."
As Lu Mingfei said this, he walked into the stone chamber.
Susie thought to herself, “I looked through the doorway and saw nothing but a mechanism inside. It was all real, nothing fake.”
But there wasn't much to say. Lu Mingfei had already spoken, and she just listened and that was it. The other party hadn't made any mistakes.
So Lu Mingfei entered the stone chamber.
It's not a big place, the walls are smooth and there are no carvings, there's only a stone platform with a mechanism on it.
From Lu Mingfei's perspective, this device was like a humidifier with dry ice inside, frantically spraying out Heavenly Mist.
It was a metal object that was roughly hexagonal in shape.
Its height is greater than its diameter, and its entire body is covered with fine scales. The middle section is covered with honeycomb-like openings from which mist gushes out.
However, this thing is not some kind of divine creation machine; Lu Mingfei has seen this thing before.
He also understood why this thing was at the bottom of Dongting Lake.
Before the Battle of Red Cliffs, Cao Cao made a groundbreaking plan.
He ordered Cai Mao to build 8,000 warships on Dongting Lake.
Each warship was twenty zhang long and several zhang wide. According to the ratio of a zhang in the Han Dynasty, that would be forty to fifty meters long and twenty meters wide in today's terms.
There are a total of 8,000 ships.
What does that mean?
Do you know about the invincible fleet? The Great Wei Heavy Industry built more than fifty invincible fleets in three months.
And they actually built them; the warships sailed to the Red Cliff River, blotting out the sky.
At that moment, Lu Mingfei thought to himself, "Even in this state, how could we possibly lose at Chibi?"
Then they lost. Fate controlled the seasons, created strong winds, and a fire meteor shower... Damn, it seems like he got hit by every fire meteor shower.
In short, putting that battle aside for now, the eight thousand warships were indeed built.
That's what we rely on.
Lu Mingfei frowned.
But how did this thing end up here?
And where is Chu Zihang? He's walked to the end of this road, why haven't he seen Chu Zihang?