Dragon Clan: I'm too lazy to talk to you, you're not worthy to listen!

Chapter 167 The Egg of Bronze and Fire

Aki felt an itch in her philtrum.

She opened her eyes groggily.

She saw Chen Motong staring at her with a worried expression, her lips pouting towards her.

He looked like he was about to give CPR.

Shudeya covered her mouth repeatedly, shook her head, and rubbed her temples. "I'm fine, I just feel a bit dizzy."

Aki's inner monologue: "Dami-de, this won't do, Mo-tong junior! It's still Watashi's first kiss!"

Seeing that Shudeya had regained consciousness, Chen Motong breathed a sigh of relief. While tidying up his oxygen tank, he said, "It's good that you're alright. I'm only able to get through this thanks to my experience at the underwater ruins in Japan last time..."

As they were talking, Ye Jingchen's palm reached out towards Jiu Deyaji without any room for doubt!

Shudeya covered her chest, shrank back, and straightened her legs repeatedly as she pushed herself back. "Commissioner Ye, what are you doing?!"

Chen Motong was stunned, frozen in place, not daring to move.

Ye Jingchen remained silent, only reaching out his hand repeatedly.

He placed his palm on Shudeya's face, and golden alchemical power was released from his palm, flowing into Shudeya's seven orifices!

Ye Jingchen instantly saw through every bruise and wound on Jiu Deyaji's body, inside and out.

Ye Jingchen withdrew his hand and glanced at Chen Motong. "Shudeyaji's bones were not damaged; they were just superficial injuries."

Get up, we should get back to work.

"You two are responsible for taking photos and sending them back to Kassel College in real time."

"Don't touch anything in this alchemy city. This city is the same as the underwater ruins in Japan; they are both alive."

"Stay close to me and don't get separated. Don't stare at anything in the ruins for too long, or you'll easily fall into a mental trap and be hypnotized."

"Our mission is to find a golden bronze egg and bring it back."

As Ye Jingchen spoke, he walked ahead alone, holding a powerful flashlight in his hand.

Chen Motong reached out and helped Aki Shuto up. "Aki-senpai, are you really alright?"

Shudeya carefully stood up. The remaining alchemical power of Ye Jingchen in her body was warm and comforting, dispelling the coldness of the seawater, leaving her feeling somewhat unsatisfied.

"Junior Sister Mo Tong, I'm fine."

"Wait a minute!" Ye Jingchen exclaimed, raising his left hand to signal to stop.

"What's wrong?" Chen Motong walked over, leaned close to Ye Jingchen, and asked in a low voice.

Ye Jingchen squatted down slightly, spread his fingers, and measured the wet footprint on the path, which was not completely dry.

"Size 42, it should be a man."

Ye Jingchen muttered his analysis.

Chen Motong looked at the footprint with disbelief. Her first suspicion was that Ye Jingchen was just messing around, but after looking at Ye Jingchen's foot and finding that it was a size 41, she abandoned that guess.

Chen Motong pointed to the footprint and asked, "Are you trying to say that someone got here before us?"

"This is almost impossible. Only two major forces know about this operation: the organizer, Kassel College, and our Chen family..."

Ye Jingchen shook his head, stood up, and looked down into Chen Motong's eyes. "Tch, let me ask you, if your Chen family were haunted, would they notify you? Do you even know that?"

Chen Motong was puzzled. She looked at Ye Jingchen and asked, "Ghosts? What ghosts? The Chen family has almost never had such a large-scale ghost appearance as in Japan."

"The controls are extremely strict."

Upon hearing this, Ye Jingchen did not offer much rebuttal. "Say what you will. It's impossible that no one leaked the information. It was either your Chen family or Kassel College."

Chen Motong had no good feelings towards her family and didn't say anything more to explain or defend the Chen family's reputation.

Ye Jingchen raised his hand and looked at it. There was a faint liquid on his fingertips, which was from the wet footprints. "He also came by diving. Was he alone? Who could it be? Could it be Angers?"

The "Rubik's Cube" is currently in a state of silence; all the passageways and anti-intrusion alchemical mechanisms have not yet started operating.

Ye Jingchen, Jiu Deya, and Jiu Demai easily entered the main room and saw a large, rust-free golden egg on the high platform, slightly smaller than the black egg in Ye Jingchen's house.

Black Egg: "..."

Ye Jingchen strode to the high platform, reached out and flipped the golden egg over, and saw the expected crack.

Ye Jingchen's inner monologue: "Norton, that's how he walked out through this crack."

He bent his fingers and tapped on the shells on both sides of the golden egg.

The side with the crack makes a crisp, thumping sound when tapped.

The sound of knocking was dull and muffled, indicating that there was something else inside—Constantine.

Ye Jingchen noticed that Chen Motong was about to raise the camera to take a picture of him, and quickly raised his hand to stop her, saying, "Stop! What are you doing?"

Chen Motong's hand trembled when Ye Jingchen shouted at her, and the camera fell to the ground. "I, I'm taking pictures!"

"No photos allowed!" Ye Jingchen said, putting the golden egg away.

Upon seeing this, Jiu Deya narrowed his eyes slightly. "Commissioner Ye, what do you mean by this? Are you perhaps trying to pocket the golden egg?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Jingchen glanced at Jiu Deyaji. Unlike Chen Motong, this woman was currently more loyal to Kassel College.

"Why would I need to embezzle? If I want something, there's nothing I can't get!"

"The reason we don't allow you to take photos is for your own good, so that innocent people won't get hurt."

As Ye Jingchen spoke, he quickly walked down from the platform and came to stand in front of Jiu Deyaqi, looking directly into Jiu Deyaqi's eyes.

"Tell me, in this three-person underwater team, who is the leader? Whom should we listen to?"

I will study it for a while and then return it to Kassel College.

Shudeya didn't avoid Ye Jingchen's gaze at all. She closed her eyes slightly and said angrily, "You're the captain, you should listen to me!"

"That's right!" Ye Jingchen glanced at Jiu Deyaji, nodded, and walked ahead alone. "It's time to go ashore. This mission has been successfully completed."

Chen Motong picked up the camera from the ground.

She watched Ye Jingchen's retreating figure and said, "Ye Jingchen, you put the golden egg into your own pocket."

"When we get up there, how do we fill out the top-secret file?"

Ye Jingchen turned his head slightly, his back to Jiu Deya and Chen Motong, and said, "That's your own business."

Upon hearing this reply, Chen Motong had a sudden inspiration and looked at Jiu Deyaji, saying, "We'll just say that we fainted as soon as we came in."

When we opened our eyes again, it was Ye Jingchen who woke us up and informed us that the mission was over!

"Aki-senpai, is this okay?"

Saketoshi had no choice but to nod helplessly and adopt the plan of falsifying the testimony.

Suddenly, Ye Jingchen noticed a dark figure at the corner of the passageway.

He pointed in that direction and shouted loudly:

"Halt! Who's there?"