“There’s a pattern just like the one at the entrance, so it seems to be another living spirit guarding the door,” Lu Mingfei frowned. “If what was said earlier is true, my blood can probably open this gate, but the problem is, the diving suit is completely sealed, and I can’t draw blood in a sealed environment.”
Anything related to the Dragon King’s palace is inextricably linked to bloodlines. Dragons never care about fingerprints, voiceprints, or faces; they only care about bloodline. Only a certain level of bloodline purity can activate alchemical products.
And in the Dragon King’s palace, this requirement is infinitely amplified; even opening a door depends on bloodline purity.
A good-for-nothing would never have the qualifications to meet the Dragon King.
“Does Tong Chen need to go down? Perhaps this time you two can bring things back together,” Liu Heguang said, looking at the tightly shut door, while Liu Tongchen, who heard the call, had already begun to prepare his diving mask.
“This is too risky. We are already quite deep into the palace, and it’s extremely dangerous for him to go down alone!” Lu Mingfei looked back at the passage they came through. “There’s no rush. We still have time. Zero and I will return to Moniyahe now to prepare for the next operation.”
“Alright, this is the safest method,” Liu Heguang didn’t refuse. “I’ll go prepare the blood sample now. Be careful of the stowaways when you ascend. They’ve been hiding for too long, and I’m afraid they have big plans.”
He turned to the aft cabin to collect blood samples, while Liu Tongchen went to the deck to prepare to receive Lu Mingfei and Zero ashore. Ye Sheng followed behind him, walking together towards the storm-lashed deck.
The beam of light once again enveloped the entire deck, making Liu Tongchen and Ye Sheng’s faces pale, as if they had risen from the dead.
The two looked at each other’s appearances and smiled, standing by the ship, each responsible for the communication line of Lu Mingfei and Zero.
The light shone on the river surface, dispelling a large area of darkness. Ye Sheng suddenly stared blankly at several black spots that hadn’t disappeared. Below the river, those spots moved rapidly, and black protrusions shot straight towards Moniyahe.
“Dragonborn?” Ye Sheng didn’t react for a moment, thinking they were ascending underwater Dragonborn.
But the next moment, his face changed drastically. When they went underwater in this area, they had already confirmed with sonar that there were no large creatures within several hundred meters. These were not underwater Dragonborn at all; they were stowaways!
Frogmen!
They never expected the enemy to be so bold as to hide directly next to Moniyahe. How did they evade the sonar?
The ones attacking Moniyahe were from the Family!
In a flash, Ye Sheng immediately understood the identity of the enemy. Since there were alchemical arrays that could sense Runes, then there must also be alchemical arrays that could evade radar. Radar was not more advanced than Rune · Snake.
Moniyahe, which was experiencing a storm upstream of the Yangtze River, with its lights illuminating the deck, suddenly went blind in an instant.
Ye Sheng and Liu Tongchen’s vision went black, and they both shouted at the top of their lungs.
“Liu Tongchen, get down!”
“Enemy attack, alert!”
Their instinctive reactions were completely different. Obviously, Liu Tongchen’s words were more comprehensive, but at this point, there was no time to care who had more foresight. Under the storm, their voices couldn’t travel far, but seeing the deck lights disappear, anyone on this warship would understand that something had gone wrong.
“Idiot! Who told you to break the lights!”
A furious curse came from the darkness, followed by a series of soft gunshots. Metal harpoons with barbs shot from underwater with extreme precision towards Liu Tongchen’s cheek.
Ye Sheng forcefully pulled Liu Tongchen’s ankle, pulling him into a stumble, just barely dodging the fatal attack.
But he was still injured. The barbed harpoon pierced into the flesh of his shoulder, constantly pushing deeper. Liu Tongchen leaned against the ship’s railing to keep himself from being pulled back into the water. His eyes instantly became bloodshot and swollen.
Ye Sheng pulled out the short knife from his waist to cut the steel cable connected to the harpoon, only regretting that this short knife was not an alchemical tool, otherwise it wouldn’t be so difficult now.
More harpoons were aimed at the ship, their barbs tightly locked onto the ship’s side.
They were going to board the ship.
Liu Tongchen was Liu Heguang’s younger brother. As long as they could control Liu Tongchen in time, they had many ways to manipulate Liu Heguang and make the Young Master’s progress difficult.
In the conference room, Liu Heguang had just dripped a drop of blood into a test tube when the white light from the window suddenly dimmed by two points.
He couldn’t see the situation on the deck from his angle, but the excruciating pain in his fingers made him realize that Liu Tongchen was in trouble.
Without a moment’s hesitation, he pushed open the conference room’s porthole, his veins bulging on the back of his hand, gripping the sharp edge of the warship tightly, and flipped onto the deck.
Everyone realized something was wrong on the deck. They rushed out of the captain’s cabin, only to be driven back by the thunderous gunshots.
Harpoons shot into the captain’s cabin, and the captain’s cabin glass shattered.
But at the same time, a roar no less powerful than gunshots opened its eyes. Red flames almost instantly dominated everyone’s vision.
The King’s wrath descended from the sky!
The steel cable connecting to the harpoon in Liu Tongchen’s body was instantly melted!
The frogmen by the ship rushed towards Liu Tongchen one after another. At this moment, these invaders had only one thought: control Liu Tongchen, and they would have a chance to resist Liu Heguang’s wrath.
Using the dazzling flames, those who rushed out of the captain’s cabin saw the gushing blood beneath Liu Tongchen and Ye Sheng desperately resisting the frogmen.
One by one, frogmen in black diving suits climbed onto the deck and rushed towards Liu Tongchen. In the firelight, each of their eyes was golden, like moths drawn to a flame. After three brothers died, they, holding rifles, finally controlled Ye Sheng and Liu Tongchen under their captain’s command.
A cold blade was pressed against Liu Tongchen’s neck.
“Liu Heguang, stop everything you’re doing, or I’ll kill Liu Tongchen now!” someone shrieked. The flames had already spread to his feet, and the black diving suit was tightly stuck to the top of his feet. A searing pain came from the soles of his feet, and he had no choice but to press the blade closer.
Liu Heguang indeed stopped the expansion of his King’s Flame, standing on the other side of the deck, staring coldly at that person.
If looks could kill, the other party would have been torn to shreds by Liu Heguang by now.
“Hiss,” after the pain, that person revealed a sinister smile, “Liu Heguang, I know you don’t care about Norton’s bone relic, so how about exchanging it for your brother’s life?”
New searchlights were lit. Liu Tongchen’s face was pale. In less than a minute, he had already lost over 800 milliliters of blood. Coupled with being held hostage and unable to receive timely treatment, in this harsh weather, he would soon go into shock from excessive blood loss, followed by inevitable death.
He looked at his brother opposite him, not saying a word to interfere with his brother’s judgment.
But the determination in his eyes clearly proved that he was not afraid of death.
