Lu Mingfei, who studied Dragon Clan before slaying the dragon

Yuan Zhisheng followed Lu Mingfei's gaze and saw an unparalleled ukiyo-e painting on the wall at the entrance of the hall.

Generally speaking, ukiyo-e often depict people's daily life, landscapes and operas, or record extremely flashy battles between gods and demons. The painters used rich colors in the picture books to create splendid flowers and all kinds of things.

But the one in front of me is different. It is extremely monotonous and extremely shocking. The entire huge painting from the floor to the dome of the main hall is densely packed and only depicts one thing...

knife!

A knife with unparalleled sharpness, a knife with fierce killing intent! The overwhelming atmosphere is like a tight formation, and the sharp aura of hundreds and thousands of ancient swords seems to be piercing through the screen. Just by looking at it, it seems that you can smell the bloody aura permeating the murderous weapons, stinging fiercely. Looking at the viewer's eyeballs makes one feel pain in the skin...and Lu Mingfei's eyes are firmly fixed on one of them.

"I didn't expect that you know so much about Japanese tea ceremony and are also interested in kendo?" Yuan Zhisheng came to Lu Mingfei, "You are still so young. Even young people who were born and raised in Japan are very few people. Get interested in these old-fashioned traditional cultures.”

Lu Mingfei came back to his senses and calmed down his shocked expression: "I learned Japanese Kendo when I was in China, but it was only the most basic part. I don't know if it is authentic or not. I learned it with my senior brother." Lu Mingfei said Fei pointed at Chu Zihang.

"It just so happens that I have also received training in kendo, so we can discuss it together when we have time." Yuan Zhisheng's eyes once again turned to the huge ukiyo-e painted with ancient swords, and said softly, "That is the "Thousands of Battles"."

""Thousands of Battles"?" Lu Mingfei whispered the name of the huge ukiyo-e.

"Yes, 'Thousand Ren' represents the number of famous swords, and 'Ten Thousand Wars' means that the number of real wars these famous swords have participated in has accumulated to at least more than 10,000." Yuan Zhisheng said, looking at the different swords.

"This giant ukiyo-e has a total of 437 famous swords. From the end of the Heian period to modern times, almost all the swords that can be named are included in this picture. Every famous sword on this picture is either There are more or less alchemy skills added, of course, those famous swords that have been damaged are not included in this." Yuan Zhisheng said.

"This picture was drawn by the head of the Inuyama family, Mr. Inuyama Ga, by inviting his old friend Master Takato Yamamoto. Master Takato Yamamoto is one of the most skilled Ukiyo painting masters in the world. In order to draw this huge sword He watched famous swords day and night, listened to the blood-stained stories behind each sword, and felt the sharp edge before he started writing. This huge painting of "Thousands of Battles" took Master Gao Yuan three years. Time and countless efforts." Minamoto Chisheng quietly told the origin of Ukiyo-e.

"In other words, Master Gao Yuan has personally seen the famous swords in this "Thousands of Battles"?" Lu Mingfei asked, "Every one?"

"Every handful." Yuan Zhisheng nodded.

"How did he do it? Did he rob kendo museums across Japan?" Lu Mingfei was shocked.

"No, because almost all of these famous swords are in the hands of the Sheqi Hachi family." Minamoto Chisheng said, "Some of them are stored in the kendo museum of the family, some are stored in the arsenal, and the other part is the private collection of the Inuyama family. Mr. He is the most dedicated head of the family to kendo, and the head of the Inuyama family is also the most accomplished in the field of kendo. In addition to the original business of the Inuyama family, his biggest hobby is collecting famous swords."

Lu Mingfei was not surprised by this, but it was beyond Caesar and Chu Zihang's expectations. The head of the Inuyama family, who was as kind as the grandfather next door, clearly had the words "I am a good old man" written on his face. , but he is actually the one with the highest attainments in swordsmanship among the eight snakes?

This is like Gattuso Pompeo, who looks like a playboy, but is actually an honest man who doesn't know how to pick up girls, and Fingel, who looks like a useless dog, says that he is actually an extremely reliable, beast-like strong man... This contrast So unbelievable!

"Is that sword... also one of the ones included by your Sheqiba family?" Lu Mingfei suddenly pointed to the twenty-fourth famous sword in the "Thousands of Battles".

Caesar and Chu Zihang also looked in the direction of Lu Mingfei's finger. When they saw the sword, they were both stunned. They had actually seen that famous sword before?

When Yuan Zhisheng's eyes came into contact with the famous sword that Lu Mingfei was pointing to, a hint of unnaturalness flashed across his face, "That sword... was originally the beloved sword of the Inuyama family."

"Original?" Lu Mingfei caught a word.

"Yes, originally." Minamoto nods, "Mingo Kanse Masamune was made by Masamune, a famous swordsman in the late Kamakura period. It is of extremely high quality and craftsmanship. It is a murder weapon that has killed more than a hundred people. It was also Inuyama Ga My husband’s favorite famous sword was unfortunately stolen in the end.”

"Stolen?"

"There is a traitor in the family..." Yuan Zhisheng suddenly stopped talking, "I'm sorry, this matter involves family secrets, so it's inconvenient to reveal them. Today's focus is on the handover of the mission, and the topic goes back to the 1992 ship Let’s sink the icebreaker in the Japan Trench.”

Are you a traitor... Lu Mingfei looked away from his eyes, and at the same time, he was filled with doubts and shock.

Caesar and Chu Zihang looked at each other with a rare tacit understanding. Chu Zihang calmly shook his head slightly, and Caesar also gave up the idea of ​​delving further into this matter.

Yuan Zhisheng spread out a huge chart in front of everyone and marked a red circle somewhere: "This is a chart of the Sea of ​​Japan. This is the location where the Lenin last sent out a distress signal. It is 30 kilometers away from Japan." The coastline of the sea is 120 nautical miles. When our search and rescue team arrived, there was no trace of the Lenin. The sea surface here is also the deepest area of ​​the Japan Trench, with a depth of more than 8,000 meters, so the search and rescue team gave up the salvage. The idea came to nothing."

It is more than 8,000 meters, which is almost equivalent to turning Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, upside down under the sea to fill it to the bottom of the trench. Climbing a peak above the ground is already beyond human limits, let alone exploring the bottom of the unknown deep sea.

"I checked the relevant information. There are almost no shipping routes at the place where the Lenin sank, but the sea area is quite safe. There are no reefs, whirlpools and icebergs." Chu Zihang suddenly spoke, and the topic came to his area of ​​expertise as a man in science and engineering. "The Lenin was built to conquer the Arctic waters. It is called a 'monster that can confront ice floes', which means that it will not be silent even if it hits an iceberg. With its tonnage, it can even withstand deep-sea torpedoes. "

"But such a steel beast had an accident in safe waters, and there was no time to wait for rescue." Yuan Zhisheng said, "This incident has been listed by the Japan Maritime Safety Administration as the largest unsolved maritime accident in the past 50 years."

"This does sound very evil!" Although Caesar did not have as rich a knowledge base as Chu Zihang, he was not stingy in expressing his thoughts.

"Yes, I contacted an alumnus who works in the Russian Intelligence Department some time ago. He went through all the files and didn't know why the Lenin left the Northern Fleet that day, nor why it sailed to the Sea of ​​Japan. He It is said that even after twenty years, this icebreaker is still a taboo within the KGB and even the military. No one knows the ins and outs of this incident. No one related to the incident can be found. Russian senior officials announced that this incident will be permanently They banned it and did not allow anyone to mention it, as if the incident involved something dirty, and they felt that discussing the incident twenty years ago would attract ghosts."

It was indeed a ghost, Lu Mingfei thought...but a dragon-like ghost.

"Do you know anything about the target location for this exploration? The Japan Trench." Yuan Zhisheng asked.

"The trench is actually a crack that penetrates the seafloor when the continental plates move, which is the abyss." Chu Zihang began to show his strength as a science man again, "Geographically speaking, the Japan Trench should be located in Asia and Europe. On the dividing line between the Pacific plate and the Pacific plate, the Pacific plate collided with the Eurasian plate as it drifted, and a very long and deep crack opened in the earth's crust."

Yuan Zhisheng glanced at Chu Zihang in surprise, as if he was surprised by his profound knowledge, "Yes, the deepest trench in the world is the Mariana Trench, with a depth of more than 10,000 meters, and this trench and the Mariana Trench are actually It is integrated. Several trenches are connected in parallel, extending an abyss thousands of miles across. The deepest part of the trench you are about to explore is called the 'Tuscarora' abyss. The Fitzhay Abyss in the Mariana Trench is identified as Before being the deepest point in the world, the Tuscarora Abyss was once considered the deepest point in the world, and it also had another name..."

"Jiyuan!"

"This name sounds a lot like the restricted area of ​​life on the Discovery Channel," Caesar said.

"It is indeed a forbidden area of ​​life, but unlike the ones on the Discovery Channel, Ji Abyss is a truly forbidden place. Human footprints have never set foot there. Everything in Ji Abyss is unknown, even the various known deep seas. It's also difficult for animals to survive there." Yuan Zhisheng said in a deep voice, "The academy recently explored the place. It was too deep, so we could only use sonar at a specific frequency to explore, but we couldn't do it in the depths of the abyss. After finding the sunken ship, I found a heartbeat instead. There was a huge creature hidden there. Its heartbeat could even be detected across eight thousand meters of water. It was stable and violent... What kind of creature could survive in such a harsh situation? "

"Dragon." Chu Zihang spit out this taboo term.

"You mean, there is a dragon hidden in the abyss?" Caesar asked, "Someone stuffed a dragon into the Lenin and sank it into the Japanese Trench?"

"To be precise, it is a dragon embryo. Its heartbeat has increased, indicating that it is hatching." Yuan Zhisheng said, "We can investigate that the Lenin's route passed through an unnamed port in Siberia, and it added from there A lot of cargo was carried, and the embryos should have been loaded on the ship from there. But the port was burned down by a fire afterwards, and we could not find any information about the origin of the embryos and who hid it on the ship. No one knows where this person was going to transport the embryo, but it seems that it sank into the Japanese Trench along with the Lenin before it reached its destination. Everything is difficult to explain."

"That port..." Lu Mingfei suddenly paused mid-sentence, swallowed the words "Black Swan Port", and changed his words, "Siberia is in the Arctic Circle. It is not easy to catch fire there. That The fire was obviously man-made, otherwise everything couldn't be such a coincidence. Someone took away the embryo, and the port lost its meaning of existence, and was destroyed with corpses and traces... If the fire was not a coincidence, then the shipwreck must be a coincidence. What?"

"What do you mean?" Yuan Zhisheng was stunned.

"Then everything can be explained." Chu Zihang whispered, "Someone used the Lenin to take the embryos to the top of the Japanese Trench, then caused a shipwreck and sank the embryos into the Abyss. The environment there is harsh and difficult. And it is hidden, no one will go out of its way to explore whether there is a dragon embryo hidden in the ocean trench more than 8,000 meters deep, that is the best place for it to hatch!"

"Isn't it too much of a fuss to sink a 10,000-ton icebreaker into the Japanese Trench just to place an embryo there?" Caesar frowned.

Yuan Zhisheng was suddenly startled. It might be a big deal to sink the embryo into a trench at will. These people from the headquarters didn't know, but he knew better than anyone else that Jiyuan was not an ordinary trench. There was... the "god" buried there. The place!

But except for the Sheqi Eight Family and the Fierce Ghosts, no one knows the location of the Divine Burial Hall... The Fierce Ghosts? Fierce ghosts!

Is this all a coincidence? Or is it a huge conspiracy? If anyone wants something unexpected to happen to the "god", then the Meng Ghosts would definitely be the first suspect. But what is the connection between the Meng Ghosts and the former Soviet icebreaker?

And at this time, people from Cassel College suddenly came again?

Lenin, Dragon Embryos, Divine Burial Hall, Fierce Ghosts, Snake Qiba Family and Kassel College... Yuan Zhisheng felt like he had grasped some clues, these thoughts were like scattered luminous fragments. In his mind, every piece is a clue, but he lacks a thread, the key to connect all the clues together, and the result is just a mess.

Lu Mingfei looked at Yuan Zhisheng's puzzled brows. He nodded slightly and told himself in his heart that this is enough, this is enough... Everything must be done slowly. The guy behind the scenes can use it. After twenty years of planning a big game of chess, subverting the chessboard does not happen overnight. Whoever the old guy regards as a chess piece, he will plant seeds called "doubt" in his chess pieces. When he thinks When my great cause for a thousand years is accomplished, these seeds have already broken out of the ground, and the towering giant trees will overturn all the shady curtains!

"Hey, I have a good proposal." Caesar suddenly high-fived, and everyone's eyes were subconsciously cast on him, including the heads of the Sakurai family and the Ryoma family.

"How about an underwater nuclear explosion?" Under the gaze of everyone, Caesar's smile was as bright as the sun, but his words were like the devil.