Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 273: For Your Majesty (88)

Dragon Raja 5

“What do you Chinese say? This is the moment to witness a miracle.” Bunin suddenly shone the mining lamp directly downwards.

Lu Mingfei was stunned. The depths beneath the pier were deep, but there was no water. On the cold ground crouched a gigantic black creature, its body pierced with countless chains. Its black scales were stained with dirt, a dull, grayish color.

It has no legs or wings and looks like an extremely thick black rubber tube. What’s even stranger was that its hind half is completely dead, leaving only a bronze spine.

Just when Lu Mingfei guessed that this thing was a dead object, perhaps stimulated by the light of the mining lamp, it swam slowly, like a giant snake, and the iron chains hanging all over its body rubbed against the ground, making a harsh sound.

“What kind of angel’s body is this? It’s a…big snake!” Lu Mingfei exclaimed.

Of course he knew what it was; it was the remains of an ancient dragon, but for some reason it had lost its wings and legs, so it looked like a giant black snake, like a person without limbs.

This was a very rare situation. With the super self-healing ability of dragons, they can completely regenerate wings and legs. But for so many years, this noble ancient dragon has been dragging its broken body around in the cold and dirty underground fortifications like a disabled old man with dementia.

He changed his words and called it a snake, because until now he was not sure how much Bunin knew about the dragon clan. But as he said this, he had already grasped the short arc knife in his sleeve.

“No, no, this is definitely not something as simple as a snake.” Bunin waved his hand, “Believe me, this is something divine.”

“God is crawling around in the cellar of your house?” Lu Mingfei stared into Bunin’s eyes, trying to see something from them.

“Let me first explain the origins of this thing,” Bunin said. “In the autumn of 1992, several fishing companies on the Yana River gathered fishermen to fight because they all felt that the other side was using illegal trawl nets. The Yana River produces the fattest white salmon and pike in all of Siberia. These fishing companies rely entirely on the autumn fishing season, but that year there were no salmon caught upstream or downstream of the Yana River. I had already started my current business at the time, and I was excited when I heard the news. My guess is that there was nuclear contamination near the Yana River, which killed off the salmon population. This is of course a terrible thing, but it also means that there is a major source of nuclear contamination near the Yana River, which is likely a military factory that I don’t know about. You know, in the Soviet era, people had a superstition that nuclear energy was omnipotent.”

“Could it be that this thing ate all the fish?”

“That’s right. No nuclear radiation was detected upstream or downstream of the Yana River. However, my people heard a cow-like sound while investigating near the river. It seemed like there was something large in the river. I had people place a large net woven from nanofiber in the river, strong enough to stop a small destroyer. Not long after, they caught this creature. I rushed from Moscow to see it. I was really scared at the time. I thought I had caught a dinosaur that survived the Jurassic period.” Bunin said, “But this creature is obviously not wild but raised by someone. When we caught it, it was wrapped in a lot of chains, and we found the symbol of a five-pointed star on the chains. My initial inference was not entirely wrong. There is a factory near the Yana River that I didn’t know about. It’s not a nuclear factory but a biological factory. This thing escaped from that factory.”

“A factory that raises giant snakes?” Lu Mingfei emphasized the word “snake” again.

“No! A dragon!” Bunin’s tone was extremely firm. “This thing is a dragon! An angel in the shape of a dragon! It comes from that legendary research institute that studies gods!”

“Dragon? Angel?” Lu Mingfei was confused.

“Have you read the Bible? What tempted Adam and Eve and made humans eat the fruit of wisdom? It was a snake! The ancient serpent! And what fought with Michael, lost, and fell into hell? It was the red dragon! Also called the ancient serpent! Also called Satan! That guy was originally in heaven, but he was defeated in heaven, so he fell into hell!” Bunin’s tone was excited, “So the ancient serpent, dragon, or Satan is the same thing. It was once a member of the angels, it fell, and can never return to heaven. What I found is not the original angel, but a fallen angel! We analyzed this guy’s genes, do you want to know the results?”

Lu Mingfei shook his head.

“Normal DNA is a double helix, but its DNA is a quadruple helix, far more complex than any other organism we know of! Its position on the evolutionary tree is higher than humans, so it can only come from…” Bunin pointed to the sky, “the sky!”

“Are you worthy of your materialist stance?” Lu Mingfei couldn’t help but complain.

The dragon that Bunin referred to was completely different from the dragon that Lu Mingfei understood. In Bunin’s imagination, it was a form of angel. This was probably the influence of the “Research on God” organization on him.

“So what if it came from heaven? Materialism’s iron fist still holds it tightly!” Bunin disagreed. “When humans finally understand the secrets of God, God will become a part of materialism!”

At this time, the black snake turned around again, and the chains on its body rubbed against the ground, making a teeth-grinding sound.

“Why do you say it’s a corpse?” Lu Mingfei pointed at the black snake.     

Bunin sighed. “That’s a very good question. I also hope that what I caught was a living creature, and it certainly looks alive, but its brain,” Bunin pointed to his temple, “is dead. We tried to take a brain CT scan, and its brain has shrunk to only the brain stem, or it may have rotted away. If a person’s heart is still beating, but their brain is dead, can you still call them a living person? This kind of creature has such strong vitality that even if its brain is dead, it can still continue to move through some instinct.”

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