STH Chapter 04 Ancient Bronze Carvings

Night had fallen. Neon lights were flashing in different colors on both sides of the road. The city was still full of enthusiasm and vitality at night, with countless skyscrapers towering above the cloud.

 

But if you looked down from space, they all seemed like negligible particles of dust in the air.

 

It was a highly unusual night with doomed turbulence. Dozens of monitoring rooms on the ground were engrossed in the pitch-black firmament.

 

In the silent universe, nine dragon corpses exhibited a metallic cold luster. Their body was covered with thick luminous scales as black as ebony.

 

Dragons, the legendary being, hadn’t appeared in the world at all. However, their existence got proved at the moment.

 

The pictures captured by Voyager II from the space were breathtaking and daunting. Huge horns of those dragons horn, powerful and mysterious, were like tree branches. Their bodies, strong and powerful, were like mountains. Dragon scales with cold lights were like blade of swords, which looked so magnificent.

 

Nine lifeless huge corpses made a great impact on human being, subverting some of their inherent beliefs.

 

"Ye Fan, how has your life been for the past three years?" Many people were concerned with him and asked.

 

"Just so so. Much plain and nothing special happened.”

 

At that time, Liu Yunzhi came by with his friends to toast the students sitting with Ye Fan. He expressed his sincere gratitude for their coming, cheering up the crowd.

 

The guys, who proposed to punish Ye Fan before, toasted everyone except for Ye Fan. It was a way of them to show their loyalty and respect to Liu Yunzhi. Only Lin Jia and Wang Ziwen clinked their glasses with Ye Fan.

 

Many people got drunk in the end of gathering, then they all went to Karaoke. The songs brought everyone back to their youthful days.

 

"How many people adored your pretty face when you were young? Have you found the one willing to endure endless distractions of life with you? How many people have walked into your life and drifted away? Only I have been with you for all my life."

 

Hearing that familiar melody, two classmates looked at each other speechlessly. They had fallen in love with each other during school days and helplessly broke up after graduation.

 

As the song reverberated in the air, that girl couldn’t help crying. Other girls around her went to comfort her together.

 

For various reasons, none of the couples got married after graduation. Although they have tried to keep up their love affair, they still broke up with their lover ultimately.

 

Graduation would lead to breakup, probably a curse for every college graduate. The same tragedy staged every year.

 

Unfortunately, that tragedy would last for a very long time. The breakup was usually attributed to sudden impulses, pressure in finding jobs, disparity in social status, etc.

 

Almost everyone chose songs they loved three years ago. They all fell into memory, and everything of the past became vivid once again in their minds.

 

In the end, "Mai Ba" appeared. Some drunk classmates occupied the microphone and sang for a long time, but others couldn’t put up with their loud voice. Although their singing was not so well, they brought a happy atmosphere and made people laugh together.

 

It was so late when they left Karaoke. They made an oral appointment that they would go back to the alma mater together tomorrow.

 

The students who came far away had booked the same hotel, and local students with cars would be responsible for taking them back to the hotel.

 

"Lin Jia, let me take you back." Liu Yunzhi pulled over his car and invited Lin Jia.

 

Some students wanted to grab a taxi because the seats of cars were limited. It was an embarrassing thing for them to get a ride from others.

 

At this moment, a Mercedes Benz appeared on the road. Ye Fan got off from the car and came to that gaunt girl he talked to at the party, and said "I'll take you back."

 

Ye Fan sympathized with the girl. At university, she was very happy and simple. She liked cheering for her classmates outside the football field. Sometimes, the girl would brought a few bottles of mineral water to them sheepishly.

 

However, suffering from life made her depressed and cowardly. She looked not so well and rarely spoke all night.

 

Hearing Ye Fan’s invitation, She got overwhelmed but then became grateful. She has been neglected by others for all night. No one noticed her at the party, but now she became the focus of others, which made her a little bit nervous.

 

Liu Yunzhi got stunned and irritated when he saw Ye Fan get off the fancy car.

 

People around him had various reactions. Some were confused, while others were surprised.

 

The fact was different from what Liu Yunzhi said before. Ye Fan was more successful than anyone of them.

 

Liu Yunzhi was so awkward at that time and felt insulted. It was just like being slapped by Ye Fan.

 

Those classmates who once looked down on Ye Fan at the party felt awkward aw well. They wanted to say something to take the edge off, but don’t know where to start.

 

A few people looked on with amused curiosity. The presence of Ye Fan greatly disgraced Liu Yunzhi and his arrogant buddies.

 

Two friends of Ye Fan, who couldn’t be closer with him, got on his Benz car with the girl.

 

Ye Fan put the car in gear and drove away, leaving the shocking crowd and awkward Liu Yunzhi there.

 

In the space station orbiting the earth, several astronauts looked nervous. There was lots of tension here. The whole situation in the space was charged with danger.

 

In the dark frozen space, nine huge dragon corpses were set there as if they were born with the universe. A giant bronze coffin was tied to these bodies with nine thick iron ropes, which delivered a feeling of endless desolation and remoteness.

 

The decision-makers on the ground had already decided to destroy nine dragon corpses and the mysterious bronze coffin immediately, once something went wrong.

 

The chips would fall as they may, but now no one wished this to happen.

 

The bronze coffin, pulled by nine dragons in the dark silent universe, was so valuable to human being.

 

Suddenly, a series of mysterious signals were captured by the space station, which was some kind of extraordinary fluctuation. It was no doubt that these signals were released by the ancient coffin. There were mysterious fluctuations emanating from those vague patterns on its surface.

 

The signals were sent back to the ground, deciphered by the most sophisticated supercomputer, but it was still impossible to find any clue.

 

Those ancient patterns on the bronze coffin were covered with copper-green rust, making it difficult to recognize

 

"After preliminary analysis, those bronze carvings are related to ancient Chinese legends." Experts reached a conclusion that some monsters carved on the coffin could be found in The Classic of Mountains and Seas, a Chinese classic of mythic geography and myth. Other carvings might be the manifestation of ancient deities.

 

Although the origin of some bronze carvings were recognized by experts, the faint mysterious signals were still undecipherable without any practical solution.

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