Chapter 35
The Dragon-Locking Well!
Dead silence.
Apart from Jiang Han's heartbeat, the whole world seemed to be dead.
thump... thump...
The sound of a heartbeat was transmitted to the live broadcast room through a highly sensitive audio recording device, sounding heavy, like the beating of a drum.
Jiang Han hovered in the middle of the wall of corpses, like an ant that had wandered into a giant's tomb.
A large amount of white, flocculent material was floating in the surrounding water.
That's adipocere.
It is a substance formed from the saponification of fat in these mummified corpses after they have been soaking in water for thousands of years.
They were like a never-ending snowfall, falling heavily on Jiang Han's shoulders, skimming across the screen, bringing a nauseatingly tragic beauty.
"Is this... the truth about the Locked Dragon Well?"
Jiang Han reached out and gently brushed aside the clump of amber in front of him.
His fingers touched the arm of a mummified corpse.
Hard as iron.
[Protect yourself with bullet comments! Protect yourself with bullet comments!]
[Prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony...]
My mom asked me why I was kneeling to watch the live stream. It was because my legs were too weak to stand up!
This is a mass grave! And a vertical one at that!
[Bureau 749 - Gu Changfeng: This is "human sacrifice"! It's the highest-level ritual used in ancient times to suppress extremely malevolent places! These people were all given mercury before they died, and their souls were sealed inside their bodies after death, never to be reincarnated, just to use their resentment to suppress what lies beneath! Jiang Han, come back quickly! That's a forbidden zone!]
Professor Gu's comments were trembling.
But Jiang Han didn't stop.
Instead, he increased his descent speed.
resentment?
The Qilin tattoo on his chest was burning hot, like a branding iron.
The Qilin is the king of beasts, suppressing all evil!
The moment he approached, these so-called resentments scurried away like mice seeing a cat, frantically retreating into the rock wall, even dimming the pale green phosphorescence.
at last.
After passing through the 200-meter-long "wall of corpses".
My vision suddenly opened up.
He made it to the bottom.
Or rather, he passed through the well and arrived at the true core space underground—the Kunlun Dragon Tomb!
This is an underground cavity that is larger than anyone could imagine.
The ground was covered with a thick layer of white bones, so thick that it was impossible to put one's feet down.
And right in the center of the cavity.
Something was standing there.
Jiang Han adjusted his breathing, turned the tactical spotlight to its maximum power, and shone the beam straight ahead.
The light travels through the darkness, illuminating only a corner of this vast space.
The first thing that catches the eye.
It is a chain.
A bronze chain as thick as a truck!
It extended from the void, covered with green rust and engraved with dense, tadpole-like ancient runes.
Looking along the chain...
There's a second one, a third one...
Nine massive bronze chains extend from the rock walls on all sides, eventually converging in the same direction.
There.
There is a "pillar".
A winding, black pillar that pierces the dome!
"That is..."
Jiang Han's pupils suddenly contracted.
He swam a little closer.
The camera zoomed out, and finally, the outline of that enormous creature was barely sketched out.
That's not a pillar at all!
It was a massive body coiled around a seabed pillar!
It's too big.
The diameter of just the section of the torso exposed to the light is over five meters!
Each of the bluish-black scales is the size of a millstone, reflecting a cold metallic luster under the light, like a series of shields pieced together.
It lay there quietly, like a black mountain range supporting the entire underground world.
An indescribable sense of oppression instantly pierced the screen and struck the heart of everyone present.
Megalophobia!
Compared to such enormous creatures, humanity is as insignificant as dust.
[A dragon...a dragon?!]
My goodness... are there really creatures this big in the world?
[If this were alive, it could probably swallow an aircraft carrier whole!]
It's locked up! Look! Those bronze chains are binding it!
The audience went crazy.
This scene is so stunning.
Nine Dragons Locking the Corpse? No, this is Nine Chains Locking the Dragon!
Jiang Han felt his heart pounding wildly, and even the vacuum membrane formed by the Water-Avoiding Technique was trembling slightly.
But he did not back down.
The fighting spirit originating from the Qilin bloodline not only evoked no fear in him, but also gave rise to a crazy impulse to rush up and trample it on top of its head.
He swam slowly over.
They approached the enormous body.
The closer you get, the more you can feel that suffocating pressure.
Jiang Han reached out and gently stroked the cold scales through her gloves.
hard.
Rough.
It carries the vicissitudes of time.
"It's not a stone..."
Jiang Han muttered to himself, "It's skin and flesh."
Just then.
Suddenly, someone screamed in the live stream:
Look at its claws! They're down there! Those are claws!
Jiang Han lowered the flashlight.
Beneath the torso, a huge, powerful claw was gripping the stone pillar tightly.
Their fingernails were like hooks, so sharp they were terrifying.
But Jiang Han frowned.
"One, two, three, four..."
He has only four fingers.
"Four claws make a jiao, five claws make a long."
Jiang Han's voice was somewhat cold, "This is not a real dragon."
As if to prove his words.
He suddenly swung his leg and swam upwards along the winding body, heading straight for the head!
Thirty meters... fifty meters...
at last.
A gigantic head appeared within the circle of light.
It drooped, as if asleep, or as if in repentance.
There are no antlers.
There was only one hideous face covered in black hair, resembling neither a snake nor a crocodile.
And those deathly gray eyes.
It was wide open.
He stared intently at Jiang Han!