“Headmaster, I need your authorization, to use the key.”
Professor Mans repeated his request.
“Yes, I brought him with you precisely for this moment!”
Angor’s tone also became stern.
Having received Headmaster Angor’s agreement, Mans didn’t hesitate, leading Selma into a room.
A woman with a mature charm was holding an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes.
It was obvious she was a pampered and well-off socialite.
“Be careful when using him.”
“In terms of bloodline strength, even Chu Zihang can’t compare to him.”
Looking at the woman’s affectionate gaze, Mans remained silent for a moment, then said slowly,
“Take some time to care for your daughter.”
“Even though she… is only your adopted daughter.”
As he spoke, Mans took the baby from the woman’s arms.
“Chen Mo Tong?”
The woman gave a disdainful smile.
“I don’t see her treating me as her mother.”
Mans sighed and said earnestly,
“I wouldn’t usually say this, but I’ll speak my mind.”
“Do you really need your daughter to see you as her mother for you to consider Nuo Nuo as your daughter? Are your demands a little too harsh?”
The woman sneered, sarcastically saying,
“I know you’re her tutor, and you care about her very much.”
“But she’s too cold-blooded.”
“How cold-blooded can a child be, to witness her own mother’s death and not cry at all?”
“She even stayed with her mother’s body for two days and two nights, waiting for the undertaker to arrive.”
“Do you think I have any reason to love her?”
Mans said no more, his tone turning cold.
“Nuo Nuo is a good child.”
“Don’t talk about her in such a manner.”
Upon hearing this, the woman swallowed the words she was about to say, waving at Mans.
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“Nuo Nuo….”
Cassel College, Norton Hall.
Seeing Nuo Nuo’s emotional state, Caesar couldn’t help but call out.
Just as he was about to step forward to comfort her, Nuo Nuo raised her hand and slapped it away.
“It’s nothing… I, just need some time alone.”
“Yeah, don’t worry, I’ll just be by myself for a little while.”
After speaking, Nuo Nuo turned around and went to the washroom, immersing her face in the cold water.
This woman is her adoptive mother, that’s true.
That baby is also her younger brother.
Unexpectedly, her fragile past had been exposed.
“Come on! Chen Mo Tong!”
After a long moment, Nuo Nuo smiled at herself in the mirror.
Even though her painful past had been revealed, Nuo Nuo didn’t care.
Because.
Courage is a person’s camouflage.
Even with a sorrowful past, she had to live with a smile, smile and live on.
This was the promise she made to herself as she watched her mother die.
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“That’s too much!”
“Is it necessary to cry your heart out when watching someone die right in front of you?!”
At the train station, Lu Ming Fei couldn’t help but shout out in anger.
In his opinion, it was just that this stepmother particularly disliked Chen Mo Tong.
Driven by a preference for sons over daughters, she blamed everything on Nuo Nuo.
He could clearly sense from his senior sister the immense vitality and unprecedented courage.
Could such a girl be inherently cold-hearted?
“Little brother, humans are complex creatures.”
“The environment can change a person’s character and everything about them.”
“The more you experience, the less you can tell what a person’s true nature is.”
Fingol smiled, somewhat nostalgic.
Thinking about how there wasn’t even a bottle of beer here, Fingol sighed.
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The video footage continued to play!
“It’s said that Bai Di City is the Dragon King’s palace.”
“Does that mean our target this time is the White King?”
Selma looked at Mans and asked.
She didn’t understand Chinese characters very well, so she naturally equated Bai Di with Bai Wang.
“No, our target is the first-generation species, the King of Bronze and Fire, one of the Four Monarchs.”
“This is the direct descendant of the Black King, and his name in the records is Norton.”
“Selma, do you remember what I said earlier?”
“Dragon King Norton hollowed out the entire mountain as a mold and poured molten copper from the peak.”
“The intense heat shattered the rock, forging a magnificent spectacle that even today’s human technology cannot replicate.”
“This is Bronze City.”
At this point, Mans put the infant in a specially designed life support case.
“Dragon King… what exactly are they?”
“So, the Black King gave birth to Norton? Does that mean the Black King is Norton’s mother or father?”
Selma asked with a confused expression.
Mans explained slowly,
“It’s not procreation in the human sense, but rather four different elements were separated from the Black King.”
“To humans, Dragon Kings are gods, they are demons!”
“But in the eyes of the Ancient Dragons, humans might be slaves, or perhaps, ants!”
“This is a question that we haven’t been able to solve or communicate about for thousands of years.”
“But today might be a perfect opportunity.”
“We might be able to capture a living Dragon King and conduct a cross-species, century-long dialogue, one that’s been absent for millennia.”
Professor Mans finished speaking and put on his diving suit.
Then, his body submerged into the icy seawater!
Mans, with the infant, and the new signal line, found Ye Sheng and Aji who were trapped at the bottom of the ocean.
“Two hours.”
“That’s our limit.”
Mans said, plugging the communication signal line into their lines, restoring communication.
“Alright, be prepared, my children.”
“I’m going to… open the door!”
Ye Sheng and Aji instinctively went behind Professor Mans.
They both extended their hands and placed them on Professor Mans’s shoulders.
“Spirit Speech: Pure Land!”
A profound and ancient dragon roar burst from Professor Mans’s mouth!
Mans’s voice echoed for a long time underwater.
With him as the center, a massive field formed. The surface of the field was a high-speed collision of air currents!
In the high-pressure environment of the ocean floor, it actually managed to forcefully create a vacuum barrier, like a shield!
The original vacuum environment was filled with oxygen from Mans’s oxygen tank being opened.
“This is… the curse of the Fire Eater?”
Ye Sheng frowned slightly as he looked at the mysterious symbol on the wall.
This wasn’t a bronze wall, but a massive dragon corpse, with sharp fangs, looking incredibly ferocious!
“Pouring in fat, then biting on the tinder, burning alive.”
“His corpse, after death, didn’t disintegrate into ashes, but turned into a charcoal-like structure.”
“He’s been kneeling at the entrance, his soul remains in the tomb passage.”
“Intruders will suffer his unrelenting curse, this is… a true guardian.”
Professor Mans examined the dragon corpse.
This was one of Norton’s most trusted confidants, used to guard the entrance when Norton was crafting Bronze City.
“Come on! Baby! It’s your turn!”
Professor Mans opened the chest, the baby in a diving suit reached out and gently touched the dragon corpse’s brow.
The sharp bronze shards on the brow cut the baby’s finger, and bright red blood flowed out.
The millennia-old dragon corpse suddenly trembled and spat out a rectangular, peculiar key from its mouth.
Then, a corresponding groove appeared where its forehead cracked.
This was also the switch to open Bronze City.
As Ye Sheng pushed the key in, something terrifying happened.
The entrance formed by the dragon corpse’s ribs slowly opened, and from this bottomless abyss, a faint scent of death could be felt.
“Remember, only two hours.”
“Bring out Dragon King Norton’s remains, or… destroy it.”
Professor Mans took out a small detonator, a concentrated nuclear bomb crafted by the madmen from the Equipment Department.
Its power was one-tenth that of the Tsar Bomba.
Destroying Bronze City in front of them would be more than enough.
“Come back alive.”
Mans lightly patted Ye Sheng and Aji’s shoulders and turned to leave.
Mans was getting old, after using Spirit Speech just now, he had basically exhausted his stamina.
As Mans dispelled the barrier, the calm and tranquil surroundings around the barrier were filled with turbulent currents!
“Let’s go!”
Ye Sheng smiled at Aji.
The two of them instinctively clasped their hands together and entered Bronze City.
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