Whispers of the Dragon

Chapter 62

118 Tower of Babel.

It is close at hand and stands majestically.

The special operations team finally arrived at their destination, and in front of them was a wet swamp covered with black mud.During the long journey, a group of 30 people were very silent, but the experience gained along the way made them tacitly avoid these highly contagious mud even if no one said anything.

When they came to the open space under the tower, Major Ted ordered the squad to deploy control, and the soldiers dispersed to check and guard the surrounding situation.

Those who are still left in the open space are the closely guarded temple instructors and scholars of the Academy of Sciences.

More than a month ago, the military sent a new type of high-powered water craft to carry this [-]-member team to Longyu.After going ashore, the team was divided into three teams, one stayed in place to garrison, one set off to carry out military survey missions, and the other was a special operations team that came to look for the Holy Son and the silver-scaled dragon.

Before departure, the Academy of Sciences deciphered the encrypted signal line of "Mingmu" sending live images from Longyu Island to the Habitat Continent. Unsurprisingly, it really used the Dragon Islet and the Tower of Babel on the Habitat Continent for signal transmission.Therefore, "Bright Eyes" can hide behind the back and protect itself without being locked.

The ancestors arranged 120 towers on the Infinity Star for the construction of the planet by the latecomers. Unfortunately, most of the towers have been damaged or abandoned after the Chaos Day.Since "Mingmu" can find and successfully use one of the signals, it shows that they understand Longyu, and the context behind it is more complicated than imagined.

After landing, the team immediately reverse-tracked the place where the last live broadcast signal was transmitted, and located the No. 118 Tower of Babel.

"Doctor Bai, what's the test result?"

Major Ted was a big white guy with a high nose and dark eyes, very big.

Although young, he is the most dignified among the many new generation officers in the military.

"Report Major, please wait a moment."

It was Xia Ying who answered.

As a non-commissioned officer assigned to be Dr. Bai's assistant, Xia Ying also came to Longyu with Dr. Bai.

Dr. Bai is old, the weather is too hot and the climate is not acclimatized. He has been suffering from heart palpitations and shortness of breath since he landed.Major Ted twice proposed to send someone to send him back to the station on the coastline, but he insisted on coming here in person.

After handing over the oscillator to Xia Ying, Dr. Bai sat on the ground to rest. Professor Tu from the Academy of Sciences couldn't stand the high temperature, so he took out some heat-relief potions and distributed them to everyone.

In addition to them, Professor Faye Coulson's grandson, Rayleigh Coulson, also participated in the operation.

Raleigh graduated from Main City University with two master's degrees, and is currently working in the Academy of Sciences, doing dragon research.Before "Bright Eyes" exposed the truth about the fact that the dragon had not yet been extinct, Raleigh's work was considered invalid, and it was undoubtedly futile to study the extinct race. He had a strange personality and worked for three years.And this time he took the initiative to apply to come to Longyu to get closer to his evil and murderous research subjects, which was also considered a madman's act.

"Dr. Bai, the energy wave is abnormal..." Xia Ying walked towards Dr. Bai holding the oscillator, "Take a look."

"I'll do it," Raleigh said. "Give them a break."

They have been tinkering with the oscillator a lot along the way. Dr. Lei Li saw that Dr. Bai had operated it before, and combined with the existing theoretical knowledge, he was able to operate it.

Xia Ying handed the oscillator to Lei Li, who frowned, adjusted a few parameters and handed it back to Xia Ying: "Okay. This is the last signal source of the live broadcast. The Son of God and the dragon appeared here together. Yes. The energy field on the dragon will interfere with the instrument, I removed it, you can try it now."

Xia Ying tried again, and after a while shouted to everyone: "I found it! I found it! The Holy Son has indeed been here!"

On the screen of the oscillator, energy fluctuations belonging to Xue Xian appeared.

Hearing this, Dr. Bai and Professor Tu supported each other and stood up, unable to hide their excitement.

On the other side, Major Ted had already ordered people to enter the tower to check.

The gate of the tower was broken, and there were a few dry corpses of deformed bodies lying on the ground in the tower. The ladder was broken, and people could not enter the operation room at the top of the tower.

Two soldiers came to the outside of the tower, used the eagle claw hook to shoot high, and climbed up along the ropes and vines.

Everyone looked up and watched them enter the tower.

After a while, a soldier poked his head out of the hole in the wall, and shouted down, "Report, no trace of the Son of God was found! But we found the Son of God's bracelet!"

Dr. Bai's tense body suddenly loosened, and beads of sweat that had been pent-up for a long time slid down his forehead: "Bracelet... Xuexian was here trying to find a way to contact us at that time."

The last live broadcast of "Bright Eyes" stayed at the moment when Xuexian was crushed under Yinlong, life and death were uncertain.

Now that he came to the place where Xue Xian had stayed, thinking of how hard he had survived, Dr. Bai became anxious and felt dizzy for a while.

"Don't worry." Professor Tu comforted, "The Holy Son is very smart. He can think of using the Tower of Babel to contact us, and he can think of other ways to survive. As long as we don't find his body for a day, then he will still be alive." There is a silver lining."

Dr. Bai calmed down a bit and nodded: "You are right."

The bracelet was taken to the ground by the soldiers and first handed over to Major Ted.

Major Ted fiddled with it for a while, and found that the bracelet had a password added. When he was about to hand it over to someone to decipher, Dr. Bai said, "Leave it to me, Major, I know the password used by Xuexian."

Dr. Bai is the mentor of the Son and knows everything about the Son.

Major Ted handed the bracelet to Dr. Bai, who took it tremblingly, adjusted his glasses, and looked like a weak scholar.

The bracelet came off.

Dr. Bai found the SOS record sent by Xuexian in the bracelet, and he was heartbroken.

Dr. Bai couldn't hear what the people around him were saying, so he quickly exited the record and checked other information in the bracelet. This kid has the habit of taking notes, and sure enough, he soon found some photos in the bracelet.

In the block images projected by the wristband, most of what Xuexian took were snow-covered wastelands, some during the day and some at night. It seemed that Xuexian had been walking in the snowy area.

Xuexian disappeared on the coastline, how did he get to the snowy area?

Dr. Bai had doubts in his mind, and then flipped down, and saw some star maps of the night sky, and some stars were marked.

Dr. Bai instantly understood that Xuexian was trapped and was looking for a way out.

Turning forward, Dr. Bai was stunned: "This..."

"This is the silver dragon."

Lei Li didn't know when he stood next to Dr. Bai.

The young man remained calm, frowned slightly and said, "It's the one in the live broadcast."

All information during the operation is shared, and everyone has the right and obligation to check Xue Xian's bracelet, so Lei Li naturally checked it.

Reilly, however, reacted calmly, adding: "It looks like it's in a cave."

In the photo, Xuexian's face is pitch black, her eyebrows and hair seem to be burnt, but she is smiling at the camera, looking very relaxed.Not far behind him, the silver-scaled dragon happened to turn its head back, and with round golden eyes, it was also looking at the camera.

They were indeed in a cave. Reilly stretched out his hand to zoom in on the picture, and charcoal fire was faintly seen in the mirror, and there were stick figures made of black lines on the wall of the cave—a man and a dragon.

Even though everyone knew that it was a young dragon that threatened the Son, the information revealed in this photo subverted people's imagination.

What happened to Xuexian and this young dragon?

If he could get along well with the evil dragon, then why did he anger the evil dragon in the live broadcast?

The bracelet was passed on from Major Ted, Professor Tu, and Xia Ying. While everyone was shocked, they also had the same question.

So is the Son still alive?

Professor Tu found the coordinate information from the information in those photos, and suggested that the cave was probably the lair of the silver dragon.

"Dragon likes heat and chills, but we all know that silver dragons are different." Professor Tu said, "In addition to its extremely high IQ, its personality and preferences may be different from ordinary dragons. If you can go to that cave, maybe can find them."

Riley mused.

Dr. Bai was much more emotional, and immediately said: "Then let's go to that cave."

"It's too dangerous." Lei Li said, "If it's really like Professor Tu's analysis, the cave in the snowy area is the lair of a silver dragon, then there may be more than one silver dragon there. So many of us went there rashly , will definitely startle the snake."

Major Ted said: "Rayleigh is right, you can't go directly."

Dr. Bai said anxiously: "But——"

"I will send Ghost 1 first." Major Ted said incredulously, "We have the coordinates, and we can use the drone to explore the situation."

The Ghost 1 is a military device that can be invisible.

But after the black market equipment of "bright eyes" was wiped out by Yinlong last time, they knew Yinlong's natural strength and sensitivity, so they brought a lot of them this time.

Major Ted represents the military, and all actions are arranged by him. In order to ensure the safety of personnel, both the Temple and the Academy of Sciences must obey the military's arrangements.Major Ted arranged for two Wraith 1 drones, one lightly equipped to explore the path, and the other carrying one of the spare oscillators to detect nearby energy fields belonging to the Son.

Dr. Bai had no choice but to agree.

Soldiers clean up the aberrant corpses in the Tower of Babel, where they intend to camp.

Dr. Bai was so anxious that he didn't want to rest.

At night, Ghost 1 finally sent back the real-time images of the cave. Unfortunately, the cave has long been empty, except for the remaining traces of human life—some stones, coconut shells, coconut leaves, fires, and the gurgling hot spring water. , nothing left.

After testing by the spare oscillator, the energy fluctuations belonging to Xuexian there are extremely weak, even less than those near the Tower of Babel, almost negligible, indicating that Xuexian did live in that cave, but he has been away from that cave for a long time.

The special operations team did not find the Son, nor did they find the silver-scaled young dragon.

The clues are also broken.

Everyone sat around the fire, and Major Ted thought that the search for the Son should come to an end.

"There are no clues, the sky is big and the earth is big, and no one knows which direction the Holy Son will go. We should join the survey team as soon as possible and start to implement Plan B." Major Ted expressed the military's opinion very directly, "After all, Plan B is the only way to go." That’s our primary goal here this time.”

Dr. Bai anxiously said: "Although the clue is broken, we still have an oscillator. I can look for the residual energy wave nearby. As long as Xuexian has been to places, there will be more or less fluctuations. As long as we can detect it, we will We'll know where he went—"

Professor Tu also echoed: "Yes. You can still look for it."

"Dr. Bai, we have wasted too much time." Major Ted looked at Dr. Bai and said bluntly, "As you said, the residual energy wave needs to be detected, and we don't know which direction the Holy Son went. How long will it take for confirmation, a week, a month, or half a year? The executive hall only gave us three months."

People in the military seem to be so merciless in their words. They only perform tasks and have no personal relationships, nor are they targeting anyone.

No one dared to speak again.

In fact, at this point, they all know that the hope of finding the Son is indeed very slim.

"When we left, Ancheng had already fallen. Will Xilan, the north, or the main city be the next to fall?"

Ted was aggressive and asked Dr. Bai back.

"Time waits for no one. It is imminent to restart research. We must implement Plan B immediately, so that human beings will have the hope of continuing."

"The Holy Son is also our hope." Dr. Bai said, "You saw those people outside the temple—"

But Ted interrupted him again: "The Holy Son is indeed important, but we still have the Holy Son Langdon."

"Langdon is too young. He's only three years old."

"He's going to grow up, isn't he?"

Dr. Bai's face was pale, and he lost his words in an instant.

In the middle of the night, except for the soldiers on duty, everyone who had worked hard all day fell asleep.

Dr. Bai opened his eyes, put the oscillator in his coat, and quietly walked out of the Tower of Babel.Although it was summer, he was old and often wore a coat when he got up at night, so the soldiers had no doubts.

"Where are you going?" asked the soldier.

"I seem to have eaten something bad during the day." Dr. Bai adjusted his glasses and said kindly to the soldier, "My stomach always feels uncomfortable."

The soldier said: "Then you go and come back quickly. We have checked the vicinity and it is safe for the time being. Don't go too far."

Dr. Bai turned on the flashlight: "OK."

He walked through the grass and came to the woods, but he didn't stop and walked straight ahead.

It was pitch black all around, and there was no sound at all.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

Dr. Bai was taken aback, thinking it was a mutant attacking him, but he shone a flashlight on the man, and it turned out to be the young Xia Ying.

"Xia Ying...you—"

"Dr. Bai." Xia Ying said to him, "I will go find the Holy Son with you."

Dr. Bai didn't expect to be guessed by Xia Ying, and immediately said seriously: "No, I don't know what will happen this time, I can't implicate you, you go back quickly."

Xia Ying: "It's not a burden. I'm your assistant. We came here to find the Holy Son. If I don't follow you, who should I follow? Besides, I think the Holy Son is still alive."

At this time, another voice joined in: "And me."

Only then did Dr. Bai see Lei Li standing behind Xia Ying.

This made it impossible for Lei Li to accompany him. Lei Li is the grandson of Faye Coulson, and he will also enter the governing hall in the future. It will be safer to follow the army. With Bai Yade, he does not even have basic living guarantees.

Dr. Bai also rejected Rayleigh.

But Lei Li, who has always been reticent and eccentric, was even more determined than Xia Ying: "They want to implement Plan B, and Professor Tu is enough. I will go with you, and when we find the Son, we will go back and join them. Late."

Raleigh's character is more paranoid than imagined.

Dr. Bai took a closer look. He didn't know what method Lei used. Not only did he successfully take out the backpack from under the soldiers' noses, but he also had a pistol pinned to his waist like Xia Ying. He had made up his mind.

Dr. Bai said: "Why do you do this?"

Rayleigh had already turned around and walked forward first.

In the vast night, on the deserted and lonely plain, the image of the tree is a group of beasts lurking in the dark.

After a long time, Lei Li's voice came vaguely along the night wind: "The Holy Son saved me."