Lu Mingfei, who had read Dragon Clan before Dragon Slaying

Chapter 1079 Arrival at the Island of Death (Two in One, please subscribe!!!)

Everyone in the room had complicated expressions.

“I know you will find it ridiculous, but I find it ironic myself.” Chu Tianjiao laughed at himself, “I have always said that Vincent is an ignorant, pathetic, and deeply brainwashed guy, but in the end I still embarked on the same path as him. It seems that I have also been brainwashed by that old guy.”

"No, I would have done the same thing back then." Chu Zihang suddenly spoke up. He looked at Chu Tianjiao and said seriously, "I did it for the truth about that island, not because I believed Vincent's words."

“But what Vincent wanted was for me to help him explore the truth about the island. No matter what I thought in my heart, I finally chose the path Vincent wanted me to choose.” Chu Tianjiao shook his head and said, “At that moment, I was really unsure. I suspected that I might have really embarked on a dead end. The sea water was freezing cold. The downward gravity and upward buoyancy acted on me at the same time. I sank slowly. It felt like I was floating in space. All my senses were far away from me. I thought to myself, maybe this is the feeling of death. I am leaving the real world and reaching another shore.”

It was freezing cold and silent under the pitch-black sea. Caesar, Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei had all experienced the "Abyss Plan" when they were in Japan. When the Trieste disintegrated, they had all felt the despair in the deep sea and never wanted to experience it again in their lifetime... But compared to Chu Tianjiao, their experience that time was still lucky. Putting aside the factor of the corpse guards, they were floating up while Chu Tianjiao was sinking, and the water temperature of the "Abyss" was incomparable to the freezing Arctic Ocean.

“As I was floating up and down, I seemed to hear the voice of the ancient times, and my consciousness gradually sank.” Chu Tianjiao whispered, “I let myself be drowned by the sea until a certain moment, when I suddenly heard a laugh.”

"Laughter?" Nuo Nuo frowned slightly, and everyone was stunned.

"Yes, just like the laughter I heard when the white figure turned its head, my consciousness was already very fuzzy, but the laughter was very clear, as if it was right next to my ear, and yet it seemed to be from a long distance. I don't know how to accurately describe that feeling, but I don't think it was my illusion." Chu Tianjiao said slowly, "When I heard that laughter, my body suddenly regained consciousness, and I felt the buoyancy of the sea water beneath me getting stronger and stronger, until it was greater than gravity. I choked on a large mouthful of water, and then was dragged up by the sea water, faster and faster, until I felt a dazzling light, and I dived out of the water."

"You didn't float up, did you?" Nuonuo asked Chu Tianjiao, "Did you reach that island?"

"Yes... No, to be precise, I haven't arrived yet. The island is not far from me." Chu Tianjiao shook his head and said, "It took me a while to adapt to the dazzling light. This is a strange world. The sky is black, and I can see cyan and purple auroras in the far distance. The blue sea is endless and clear. Several white islands are scattered in front of me. From a distance, they look like still clouds. There are huge trees and towering altars on the islands. There is no wind around, but the leaves are swaying slightly."

"Isn't this the same scene as described in the painting 'Isle of the Dead'?" Caesar said.

"So after you jumped off the Yamal, you first felt yourself sinking, then floating up, and finally reaching the Island of Death." Chu Zihang nodded and said, "So that really is a space hidden underwater. Its world is the reverse of the normal world. The sky is the earth, and the earth is the sky, because it itself is a reflection, but the reflection is real."

What Chu Zihang said was quite mysterious, but everyone in the room could understand it because they had all heard Chu Tianjiao describe Vincent's experience and the painting, and they had all more or less experienced one or several Nibelungs. As for that space beyond the real world, there are still countless mysteries that humans cannot understand.

"I took a few seconds to observe the surrounding environment and found that I was on a white reef. It was a group of reefs, about 20 centimeters below the sea surface. At this depth, ships cannot pass. Even a normal wooden boat with people on it will run aground." Chu Tianjiao said, "That world gave me a very strange feeling. Let me think about how to describe it... The whole world is very pale, whether it is the sky, the sea, or the islands, the colors of everything are infinitely close to black or white, even the blue and transparent sea water has a pale illusion. In this world, the light seems to be absorbed by the surrounding objects, just like a movie screen with extremely low pixels in the 1970s and 1980s. In short, it will be difficult for human vision to adapt to it for a while."

"Every Nibelung is different, and they all have their own characteristics," said Lu Mingfei.

He was probably the one who had experienced the most Nibelungs among all the people present, from the Bronze City under the Three Gorges, to the subway in the capital, to Odin's Nibelung in their city... Each Nibelung had very distinctive characteristics.

Lao Tang's Bronze City is like a huge, sophisticated instrument, with layers upon layers, one after another, thanks to the extraordinary alchemical ability of the King of Bronze and Fire; and Xia Mi's subway is like an endless maze, ordinary people who stray into it cannot even find the entrance and exit, because the King of the Earth and the Mountains is the king of control, and the hard mountains and underground rocks are as fragile as tofu to them; as for Odin's Nibelungen, it is a complete replica of Lu Mingfei and their city, and that Nibelungen is always stuck in a dark rainy night. Although Odin's true identity is unknown, this is probably related to Odin's ability to modify the real world.

The "Island of Death" described by Chu Tianjiao does sound like a world after death. It is infinitely close to the real world, but everything is so faint and slow, from light to color, from time to vitality... Ordinary people who accidentally walk into it may not be able to describe this weird feeling in detail, but they will feel palpitations and panic when they are in it, as if they had accidentally entered the underworld of Huangquan and wandered on the boundary between life and death.

"If I have successfully reached the legendary 'Island of Death', then Vincent and the passengers on the lifeboats before me may have also arrived here, I thought to myself, but there is nothing blocking my view except those islands. It is too empty here and I can't see any living people or living things." Chu Tianjiao said, "Maybe they have already landed on those islands? But how did they get to the islands? There are at least several kilometers of sea water between the reefs and the islands. Could they have swam there? Does old guy Vincent have the physical strength to swim so far? Or did they land on the island from the beginning? Just as I was thinking this, there was a sudden movement behind me. I looked back and saw a completely unexpected scene."

"There are beauties in bikinis?" Finger suddenly interrupted at an inappropriate voice. Everyone in the room looked at him with angry eyes. The node described by Chu Tianjiao was like a story that had reached an important turning point and was about to reach a climax. Everyone held their breath and wanted to know what Chu Tianjiao encountered in that world, but Finger's words completely destroyed this tense and exciting atmosphere.

People like this should be thrown into the Arctic to feed the polar bears!
"It was Sasha in a diving suit. He suddenly emerged from the water, his hair was wet, his eyes were closed, and he was gasping for breath. His expression was panicked and terrified, like a drowned brown bear." Chu Tianjiao described, "Sasha was not far from me. There were no reefs where he was. He was floundering in the water like crazy. I knew he was a very good swimmer, but I was really worried that he would drown, so I reached out a hand to pull him up, but Sasha's vision seemed to have not recovered yet. Sensing that there were people around him, he floundered in the water and waved the dagger in his hand recklessly."

Everyone's expression was very strange, because they didn't expect that this former Alpha Squad retired soldier would be so loyal and courageous to follow Chu Tianjiao and jump into the icy waters of the Arctic.
"I slapped Sasha on the face and yelled, 'Stop it, it's me.' For some reason, my voice seemed to float very far in this empty world. Sasha gradually came to his senses after hearing my voice. He slowly opened his eyes and looked at me and this world in confusion." Chu Tianjiao said, "I pulled him out of the sea and onto the reef. Sasha was still in shock and said he was scared to death. He thought he was really going to die this time."

"I frowned and asked Sasha why he was here. Sasha said that after I followed Vincent into the water, he and the sailors on the ship used a powerful searchlight to shine into the water for a long time. With the visibility of the Arctic Ocean, the light source of the searchlight can penetrate to a depth of 50 meters. They even saw schools of fish swimming under the sea, but I was nowhere to be seen, as if I had completely disappeared." Chu Tianjiao said, "So Sasha put on a diving suit immediately and jumped into the sea with me near the place where I fell into the water."

"That's not right." Nuonuo frowned slightly. She looked at Chu Tianjiao and said, "Didn't you just say that when Vincent fell into the water, the shadow of the island became very light?"

"Yeah, that's what I asked Sasha, and Sasha told me that after I fell into the water, the reflection of the island just moved farther and farther away but didn't get any lighter, as if it was frozen there." Chu Tianjiao said, "I looked up at the sky, but there was only a chaotic color above it. I had no way of verifying whether what Sasha said was true, but he had no reason to lie to me. However, I was not happy at all about his arrival."

"Because he is a human." Nono said, "But the 'Isle of Death' is a Nibelung, where the secrets of the dragon race are likely to be hidden. If humans are exposed to things related to the dragon race, usually there will be no good consequences."

"I actually have a good impression of Sasha. He's an unfortunate man, but I've hardly seen him complain about life. He seems to be able to accept most of the hardships calmly. What's more, he's just an ordinary person. I admire such a man from the bottom of my heart." Chu Tianjiao said, "And Sasha came for me. He said that he didn't know when 'Yamala' would sail out of the range of the iceberg. If he saw Vincent and I disappear from this world, he might never forget it. He might spend the rest of his life wandering in the Arctic Ocean. He was afraid that this would become his nightmare, so he chased after me."

As an ordinary person, Sasha's courage is truly admirable, and everyone has awe for this Russian man.

"But I know in my heart that in addition to what Sasha said, there is another reason - curiosity." Chu Tianjiao said, "In addition to fear, humans are also curious about unknown things, just like scientists are trying their best to explore extraterrestrial civilizations and Kassel Academy is relentless in its pursuit of dragons. When the legendary 'Island of Death' or 'Land of Eternal Life' appears in front of you, you can't suppress your curiosity."

"Especially for crew members like Sasha who have been sailing in the same sea for years, no matter how beautiful and magnificent the Arctic Ocean is, they will always get tired of the monotonous scenery. Sasha can even memorize the name of every iceberg on their route, so when something legendary appears in front of him, he can't suppress his curiosity at all." Chu Tianjiao said, "This is an experience that ordinary people rarely encounter in their lifetime, even if they have to sacrifice their lives to explore it, because if they miss it, they will definitely regret it for the rest of their lives."

"I can understand his mentality." Caesar nodded and said a widely circulated proverb, "A sailor's life should be on the road."

"I didn't worry about whether Sasha was telling the truth, but these unexpected changes made me feel uneasy. The next moment, Sasha suddenly said something that made me collapse." Chu Tianjiao took a deep breath, "He said, but those guys followed us, their minds are not so simple."

"Those guys?" Chu Zihang frowned slightly.

"Before I understood what Sasha said, there were sounds behind us. I turned around and saw the first mate of the Yamal emerging from the water behind the reefs, followed by the second mate, and then the other sailors." Chu Tianjiao rubbed his temples. "Can you understand how I felt at the time? It was like being spit on by an alpaca, one after another. I was caught off guard and couldn't even utter a curse word."

Maybe... these are the legendary pig teammates.

"All of those guys were wearing diving suits. Some were carrying knives and crossbows, some were carrying high-pressure harpoons on their backs, and some even had guns tied to their waists... but those things would probably go silent after being soaked in sea water." Chu Tianjiao sighed, "They were just like when Sasha showed up, all floundering in the sea water, at a loss, like a group of stranded hairtails."

(End of this chapter)