If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 723 Convergence
The high terrain around Kuimen Taishan Temple is supposed to be a mountainous area. The flooding and torrential river has submerged islands in the lake one after another. After a while, this place will become the same vast ocean as it was thousands of years ago.

The wings of the plane pierced through the storm in the black clouds, and a huge shadow landed in the light of thunder, like some kind of beast wrapped in wind and thunder and pounced on the ground. Only the pilots of Sleipnir had the courage to fly in this harsh weather environment. As well as landing on a favorable terrain, the black takeoff and landing wheels were wet with rain and reflected thunder. The moment the whole fuselage vibrated violently when it touched the ground, it was like a precursor to falling apart.

The speed has not been completely reduced, and the island as a runway is about to see the cliff at the end and the raging waves that slap the cliff. At a thrilling moment, the Sleipnir engine is fully reversed, and the tongue of fire evaporates a large amount of rainwater to form steam. The take-off and landing wheels made of high-temperature-resistant special materials made a sharp friction sound, leaving two dark rut marks in the heavy rain. It was not until a stone fell into the river under the cliff that the river stopped completely. .

Sleipnir's engine was turned off, the door was opened, and the emergency air cushion popped out. A black figure flew out of the cabin first, landed on the air cushion and bounced several times before landing on the ground.

Afterwards, Lin Nian's figure jumped out from the back of the cabin, leaped over the entire emergency staircase, and landed without knees to cushion the landing. He stepped on the spinning bronze box that was about to fly out, and surrounded the city in a black raincoat. An island surrounded by river water.

For some reason, Lu Mingfei, who was watching this scene from the side of the porthole, always wanted to match the kaomoji similar to "バァ——ン" around Lin Nian, who was extremely coquettish in the torrential rain. That's right.

"It's safe, there is no trace of the target." After a few seconds of quiet observation, Lin Nian raised his hand and pressed the wireless earphone beside his ear and said.

Later, Chu Zihang, Caesar, and others in black raincoats from the executive department appeared in the cabin. All of them jumped down with their hands folded in a very standard manner. raging waves.

The original place of beautiful scenery of Kuimen has now completely turned into a terrace overlooking the sea. Standing on the land that should have been a mountain but has become an island, surrounded by black floods that are about to submerge, there is a sense of self-consciousness. The illusion of being alone, not inland, but in the stormy Caribbean Sea.

Manstein was the last one to jump out of the cabin, and quickly walked to the center of the formed tactical team after landing, "Still unable to contact the 'orthodox' people, the radio seems to have been affected by the storm, and the signal is difficult to transmit. "

"Is there a problem with the signal base station?" Susie took out the waterproof mobile phone issued by the executive department, and saw that the signal was zero.

"It's not the problem of the signal base station. Even the satellite phone can't receive the communication. The signal in the whole area is blocked. As for the reason, everyone can guess." Lin Nian walked forward with the seven deadly sins. side of the cliff.

"'Field'?" Chu Zihang is no stranger to this deja vu scene. On another rainy night in his memory, they were also in the predicament of being isolated from the world, and no signals or news could be transmitted from that elevated road. , in this 'field', or unique 'space', the region of the entire block is like an isolated island isolated from the sea.

"Can the principal be contacted?" Lin Nian looked at Manstein and asked.

"I contacted you half an hour ago. Until we arrived at the Kuimen area, nothing unusual happened at the academy." Manstein nodded.

The 'Bronze Project' has brought the real elites of the college to the Yangtze River. The headquarters of the college is bound to be empty of military power. Hilbert Jean Angers, the old 'S', must be in the headquarters, so as not to reappear when everyone leaves. Invasion situation.What's more, there is such a considerable treasure as Constantine's 'keel' hidden in the college now, anyone will covet the legacy left by the dragon king, and imagine that relying on the keel to become the second new king to sit on the throne.

"What should we do now? There is still a distance from the waters of Baidi City, and we still lack diving equipment and a lot of preparations." Nuonuo asked.

"It's impossible for the plane to fly to the target water area for skydiving in this kind of weather. God knows where people will be blown to when the umbrella is opened." Manstein looked up and his face was wet with rain, his eyes were full of irritability and worry.

"Look over there." Chu Zihang said suddenly.

Everyone followed his line of sight and saw Lin Nian standing on the edge of the cliff. Of course, Chu Zihang didn't mean to let them look at Lin Nian, but at the position where Lin Nian had been looking at - at the There are dazzling navigation lights leaving tracks on the turbulent river like a sharp sword that splits the darkness, coming straight towards them. It is a white landing ship with a displacement of a thousand tons. The engine in the Yangtze River is coming at full speed, and the sound of the siren pierces through the whistling of the hurricane like a long horn.

"'Orthodox' people. Flares."

Lin Nian didn't look back, stretched his hand to the back, took the signal gun from Manstein and fired it into the sky, the flaming flare flew crookedly into the sky, was blown by the hurricane, and the track trembled and fell down, bringing a patch of red. Light.

The landing craft followed the point where the signal flare was fired, circled around the land where Sleipnir landed, and anchored when it found a place where it could land.A figure in a raincoat jumped off the landing craft, and seemed to be carrying a long-handled object resembling a scabbard on his back, and walked quickly towards Lin Nian and others who were also rushing here.

The two sides stopped at a distance of ten meters at the same time, observing each other only by the navigation lights of the landing craft on the shore and the red peripheral light of the signal belt.

"People from the Secret Party?" The person who got off the landing craft was the first to speak, and the strong wind and rain could not suppress the man's majestic voice.

"Orthodox people?" Lin Nian asked as he walked out of the line, his gaze jumped over the man opposite to the figure with live ammunition on the landing craft.

"The thing in your hand." The man said in a low voice, "Can you take a look at it conveniently?"

Lin Nian threw the bronze box in his hand between the man and him without any remembrance. At this distance, no matter who strikes first, as long as Lin Nian stretches out his hand, he will definitely be able to draw the knife before the other party.

The man glanced at the seven deadly sins sword box on the ground, and after carefully observing the lines on it and the dense dragon inscriptions, he confirmed the origin of this thing, and also reached behind his back and took out the scabbard.珌, the jade sword is complete with four treasures, and it is made of gloomy wood, but the Han Bafang that should have been stored in the scabbard has disappeared.

Lin Nian recognized the origin of the precious scabbard with just one glance, and at the same time believed most of the other party's identity. He no longer hesitated and walked forward to mention the seven deadly sins on the ground. Caesar behind him also quickly followed .

"I'm sorry that I need to confirm my identity like this." During the formal meeting, the man who showed the scabbard reached out to Lin Nian who came first, "Zhou family, Zhou Zhen."

"Cassel College, Lin Nian."

The two touched each other with their hands.

"You are Lin Nian? The 'S' hybrid of the secret party?" Zhou Zhen stared at Lin Nian suddenly, his eyebrows trembled slightly, as if he was suppressing his emotions, and he didn't want to have too much expression fluctuation in front of so many people .

"You know me?"

"It is estimated that few people don't know you." Zhou Zhen shook his head and said, "I thought you would be older."

Lin Nian glanced at the man's face, only to think that the "sword eyebrows and star eyes" and "righteousness and dignity" often used in Gu Long and Jin Yong's novels probably looked like this. He was as handsome as a good horse. The face of a 34-year-old mature and handsome man was simply amazing. It's a big killer for young girls.

However, what he valued more was not the man's appearance, but the aura of the other party. The iron blood and sense of awe in this man's body could not be suppressed by the heavy rain.It can be seen that there are obvious traces of the army, which is similar to the Li Huoyue he saw for the first time. But it is only similar. There is an essential difference between the two, and Lin Nian can't tell what the specific difference is for a while.

"Have we met?" Zhou Zhen asked Lin Nian, looking up and down.

Lin Nian paused, then glanced at Zhou Zhen, "I don't think now is the time to strike up a conversation."

"No, I just think you are a little familiar. Maybe it's my illusion." Zhou Zhen shook his head.

The Zhou family has never had much contact with the secret party. Although the 'S' rank of the secret party is famous, he has never seen a real person. Maybe this familiarity is just his illusion.

"The Zhou family? Is it one of the orthodox branches?" Manstein, who was in the team, looked at Zhou Zhen and asked.

Before coming here, Manstein studied the branch of the Chinese mixed-race force. The "orthodoxy" seems to exist in the form of a family, and from a certain angle, it is like the structure of the secret party, with the headquarters as the origin and outwards respectively. Others developed, such as institutions like the Japanese branch.

On the "orthodox" side, there is a "head family" that continues to develop "branch families" with other surnames, but the power of these "branch families" does not extend to every corner of the world on a large scale, but Choice clings to local boundaries.

"No, I'm not an orthodox person. It may be troublesome to explain it specifically, but this time we are also in a cooperative relationship with Orthodoxy. Friends of the secret party, let's get on the ship first. We don't have much time to waste here. The situation on the front line It’s not optimistic.” After Zhou Zhen briefly explained, he quickly turned around and walked towards the docked ship without delay.

Lin Nian glanced at Manstein and the others and nodded, indicating that the man could be trusted for the time being, and strode onto the landing craft.

After all the crew boarded the boat, the anchor was lowered and turned around. Sleipnir on the island also started the engine and started turning to prepare for takeoff. The modified engine was prepared for this extreme environment. Before takeoff, the pilot was driving In the cabin, he gave a thumbs up to the landing craft on the river, which probably meant good luck to everyone.

The engine of the landing craft roared forward and split the violent Jiang Tao. Both sides of the deck were full of heavily armed combatants. Lin Nian and others followed Zhou Zhen into the cabin to avoid the rain. During the process, Manstein directly asked The question I am most concerned about is, "What is the specific situation of the orthodox frontline now?"

"Not too optimistic. Or not too optimistic is a good way to describe it." Zhou Zhen said in a deep voice, "You should have received the video recording of the first contact with combat, right?"

"You guys lost badly." Caesar nodded.

"The key figures on the orthodox side couldn't stop the Dragon King. All the hot weapons prepared by Jiang Xinzhou were blocked by the Dragon King's domain. You should really see the scene where dozens of salvos of honeycomb missiles have no effect. I suspect anti-ship missiles It may not be effective for him." Zhou Zhen turned his head to look at Lin Nian, "I heard that you have successfully repelled another dragon king 'Konstantin', if they all hold the same authority, then we met You should have encountered it before, how did you manage to repel this monster?"

"The alchemy weapon, the dragon king's word spirit can control metal and fire, but it cannot affect the metal killed by alchemy." Caesar said.

"No wonder." Zhou Zhen whispered as if trying to understand something.

"Where is the Dragon King now?" Chu Zihang asked.

"After defeating our defense line, he didn't choose to kill them all. Instead, he dived directly, and he suspected that he entered Baidi City hidden under the rock formation under a hundred meters of water." Zhou Zhen said, "Then the torrential rain began. , We originally planned to mobilize unused weapons on Jiangxin Continent to counterattack, but now the entire Jiangxin Continent has been submerged by floods, and all hidden military facilities on Jiangxin Continent and on the mountains and gorges on both sides of the river have been scrapped, and all the orthodox careful preparations have come to naught.”

"This rainstorm came at the right time. Of course, I never doubted that all of this has something to do with the Dragon King." Zhou Zhen looked at the storm outside the porthole and said in a low voice, "A rainstorm will completely wipe out the rainstorm for several months. All the careful preparations have come to naught. In this harsh and cruel weather, we can't even form a team, and we can't even send out a signal a little farther away. If we didn't see the navigation lights of your airliner when it landed, we Didn't even know you'd arrived."

"What are you going to do next?" Manstein took a deep breath.

"It's not what we should do, but what they should do." Zhou Zhen shook his head.

"them?"

"This time the tactical command is in charge of the Zhengtong side. After the failure of the first dragon slaying plan, Li Huoyue, the user of the 'Jian Yu' you saw in the video, suffered severe burns. If it wasn't for the bronze in her hand at the end The sword has inspired a field of alchemy, and she can't even find the whole body." Zhou Zhen's face was somber, and he looked at the orthodox combat members on the deck who were a little bit bent, "She is also an 'S'-level hybrid. , can be regarded as one of the strongest means of orthodoxy, but it lost in the first contact battle, which was a great blow to the morale of our side. As you can see, the morale of my side is already low It's getting dangerous."

The Dragon King's sniper battle at the Kuimen Pass was too shocking, the huge scene almost gave people a feeling of invincibility, even 'Huoyue' lost so badly, not to mention that they even had an audience with the Dragon King What about ordinary mixed races who are not qualified?

"Li Huoyue's words are 'Jian Yu', and it would be unwise for her to confront Norton at this point." Lin Nian said.

"What about your words? An 'S' hybrid from the secret party." Zhou Zhen suddenly looked at him with bright eyes.

Lin Nian glanced at Zhou Zhen, then reached out and handed him something. After Zhou Zhen took it, he was stunned for a moment and found that the scabbard in his hand turned out to be the Han Bafang scabbard behind him. Turning his head, he didn't know when the scabbard had disappeared. gone.

"I see." Zhou Zhen was not stupid, and instantly understood what Lin Nian meant, and a gleam of hope flashed in his eyes.

"So Orthodoxy did nothing while it was waiting for us?" Manstein asked.

Zhou Zhen paused and shook his head and said, "The orthodox rear headquarters is preparing to launch a large-yield torpedo underwater to completely blow up the underground rock formations and Baidi City. The large-yield torpedoes and munitions are being secretly transferred to Kuimen."

"I don't think the Dragon King can be eliminated by increasing the firepower by more than ten times, let alone blowing up the Bronze City. Are you trying to crush the Dragon King to death at home?" Caesar shook his head and vetoed this idea.

"So this is just a last resort, a helpless strategy. After all, in this situation, Orthodoxy must do something, otherwise, sooner or later, the heavy rain will cause the downstream Three Gorges Dam to burst, and the disaster and consequences will be caused by no one. You can take responsibility for it." Zhou Zhen exhaled lightly.

"Haven't you thought about sending someone to dive into Baidi City to deal with the Dragon King?" Susie asked.

"I've thought about it." Zhou Zhen glanced at Su Xi and the others, "The best candidate is the orthodox 'S' class, but she can no longer go to the front line. After watching that video, you should know that this battle is no longer about numbers. It will decide the outcome, and the feasibility of the dive plan is not even as good as torpedoes—in the home field of the Underwater Dragon King, even if we throw the entire orthodox mixed race into it, it’s just to save our lives.”

"You have nothing to do." Susie nodded slightly.

"Actually, if you arrived later, I would have already swam to the gate of the Bronze City." Zhou Zhen smiled wryly and unzipped his raincoat, revealing a dark neoprene diving suit inside. The Dragon King can be solved with a torpedo, but that is just the last fig leaf, and the real solution to the Dragon King can only rely on the hybrid itself."

"It seems that there are still some sober people in our cooperative allies." Caesar nodded slowly, "But don't tell me that you are also an 'S'-level hybrid. Are 'S'-level hybrids so worthless these days?"

"My bloodline is not as good as Li Huoyue or your 'S' class, but to represent the Zhou family to the Dragon King's battlefield, I have some cards of my own." Zhou Zhen said.

"Then keep your hole cards for now." Manstein nodded and said, "Notify the orthodox front line and prepare for the dive work. Next, our people will carry out the handover of the battlefield."

"Let him dive alone?" Zhou Zhen looked at Lin Nian hesitantly, and finally said what was in his heart, "It's not that I don't believe you, if the rumors are true, he is a war hero who killed a dragon king, and his strength is worth it." Trust. But this time the stakes are high, and I hope to add an insurance policy to this dive. I will enter the Bronze City with him."

"No, he will not dive alone, but in a two-person team. Before that, we have conducted diving training for three months, and there is enough tacit understanding between the partners." Manstein shook his head , "The failure of the orthodox 'S' level is that she is too obsessed with fighting alone, but we are different. Our Kassel Academy has always valued the power of cooperation! Since one 'S' level is not enough, then two 'S' levels work together mission accomplished."

"Two 'S' grades?" Zhou Zhen was stunned, and looked at the group of young people. He had never heard that the secret party sent two super hybrids comparable to 'Yue' in one go.

Zhou Zhen's gaze first drifted to Chu Zihang, and then to Caesar. His eyes kept moving between the two, until finally he suddenly found that everyone was looking at the corner of the cabin. The boy who saw the back was holding a bucket without saying a word.

"What is he doing?" Zhou Zhen said.

"It must be some seasickness and nervousness." Lin Nian walked over and patted Lu Mingfei on the back, asked a few words in a low voice, and then gave Zhou Zhen and Manstein a thumbs up to show that they were fine.

Zhou Zhen was stunned for a moment, staring at the two men and turning their heads to look at Manstein with a strange expression, and then got the affirmation of his guess in the old man's nod.

(End of this chapter)