Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1244: Type V Threat of Draining Earth Veins
"Now here comes the question, Commander."

On the calm, endless sea.

Lin Lan was sitting on the sofa in the cabin of the Donghuang mass-produced destroyer released from Changchun, sipping the afternoon tea prepared by Haitian for him.

Anshan and Fushun were outside the deck, playing the ball throwing game with the dolphin monsters.

The one who spoke to him was Harbin.

At this time, the light cruiser sister of Donghuang was standing beside him, watching the TV screen broadcasting the scene of monks from several cities along the coast of Dongzhou calming the sudden tsunami, and the news that no one was injured, and asked him seriously:
"Is it necessary for the people of Natlan Dongzhou to celebrate the Longmen Festival in the future?"

"Just celebrate it. It's just a traditional festival anyway. It's everyone's responsibility to preserve the intangible cultural heritage."

Lin Lan said nonchalantly, then took out his mobile device and checked the time.

"The recovery work of the Explorer and the Tracker should be almost done. Otherwise, let them come back tomorrow to continue the recovery work. It is more important to go to the Dragon Palace to have a seafood dinner first."

"I'll go and urge them. Commander, you just stay here and have a good rest. Haitian, Longwu, take good care of the commander."

Harbin said this to him with concern before turning and walking outside the cabin.

"Ah wait, Harbin, remember to have them record the data of the underwater Rubik's Cube ballistic missile explosion. This is a high priority and we will need it in the future."

"I know, I know~ Don't worry Commander, this is rare actual measurement data, I understand."

Harbin turned around and gave him a hearty smile. Just as he was about to push the door, he was stopped by Lin Lan.

"and many more."

"What? Commander, you..."

"then."

Before Harbin could finish his words, he caught a large piece of golden crystal that was emitting a dazzling luster and was thrown by Lin Lan.

The light patrol lady took a closer look and saw that it was actually a top-grade spirit stone that had not been polished yet.

"I took it from the ground vein. It has been purified by me."

Lin Lan's relaxed tone with a smile followed, causing Harbin to laugh out loud:

"I know the commander loves us the most. I'm afraid there won't be many such a large pile of top-grade spirit stones in the entire Natlan. We need to find a pawn shop to estimate its value."

Although he said so, Harbin looked at the top-grade spirit stone in his hand with joy in his eyes, and he was even very careful when putting it into the ship's storage space.

It's like treating a priceless treasure.

After confirming that the commander had not overlooked anything, Harbin unfolded its ship equipment and headed out to the sea ahead, where the mirror system was still maintained, in the bright afternoon sunshine.

The two Donghuang girls, Haitian and Longwu, who were accompanying Lin Lan, leaned on his shoulders, one on the left and one on the right.

"Yawn~ Commander, Long Wu wants to sleep for a while."

Hearing the tired voice of the blue-haired little dragon girl, Lin Lan said lovingly and tenderly:

"Then sleep on my lap. I'm here and I'm not going anywhere."

"Hmm."

After getting his consent, Donghuang Xiaolongniang lay on the sofa, resting her head on his legs, and closed her eyes with a happy smile on her face.

Lin Lan saw Hai Tian looking at him lovingly, hesitant to speak, so he smiled and whispered jokingly:
"Or, why don't you just sleep on my shoulder?"

"I'm not sleepy yet, Commander."

Haitian, who had long white ink-tipped hair, shook his head slightly and said to him with a smile:

"I was just thinking that if I were to write this underwater adventure into a novel or a movie script, I would need you to discuss it with me."

Lin Lan looked at the literary girl's blushing face with some surprise. He never expected that Hai Tian had already started preparing for the future "sneak peek".

As for why they came to the surface from the deep sea, we have to go back two hours.

Just as he ordered the explorers and trackers to access the mirror system of the experimental agency, a sudden change occurred.

Just like the Cleaners who were eroded along the network lines in Liaozhou, the Explorers and Trackers' systems were also eroded and spread from within the base.

It's just that he had already anticipated this situation.

Almost at the moment when the two Antix girls were eroded, he strode forward and stopped the erosion with the Touch of Holy Mercy.

When the mirror system was activated and connected by the explorer and the tracker, he and the Donghuang ship girls finally knew what experiments had been conducted in this base.

It turns out that the Guiming Cave under the deep sea is directly connected to the ground veins of the five states of Natlan.

The Category V threat pollution source they saw in Xianluo City was not entrenched in the Antiks stronghold, but had long been rooted in the Natlan earth veins, absorbing the power of the earth veins of this alien country.

Just as the invisible breath once hid in the Great Sacred Tree of the Sakura Empire, absorbing and devouring the power of faith.

The inexplicable barrenness of the land in Natlan is due to this reason.

The seal of Guiming Sea Cave has never been effective from the beginning to the end.

The souls of the Natlan people who had been used as sacrifices did not get liberated. Instead, after being corrupted, they all became nutrients for the Invisible Breath's body.

In addition, according to the records left by the testers at the time, Lin Lan also knew that there was a powerful energy source in the earth veins that was born when the world was shaped.

So it was not until this time that Lin Lan could finally be sure that the so-called headless black dragon was the torso of the Invisible Breath.

Its intention is to reshape the dragon head through the Huiyuan Pool where the goddess Natlan was born!
But the testers were not aware of all this at the time. To be more precise, the confidential experiment conducted at the base was actually aimed at the Evil Lord Natlan.

Through the local experimental records gradually found by the explorers, Lin Lan finally understood everything.

It turned out that before the Evil King's consciousness was distorted by the God-killing Curse, he used a technique similar to the clone technique to separate part of his soul and left it in the seal of the Guiming Sea Cave.

This soul needs the nourishment of Dinghai Stone in order to survive.

Therefore, the Sirens have the custom of sending the collected Dinghai Stones to the sealing formation every Longmen Festival.

In fact, the Evil Lord had already discovered at that time that the headless black dragon and the ancient evil demon suppressed by the God-killing Curse were not accomplices, so he had an idea similar to driving the wolf to swallow the tiger.

In fact, when Lin Lan saw this, he was already certain that the Evil Lord’s plan would ultimately fail.

The reason is simple, the invisible breath is not a good thing.

In the game's plot, the Invisible Breath not only participated in the destruction of the original world, but also almost forced Yunxian, the heart of Hai Ruo, into a desperate situation.

When he was fighting with the good man Richard who was controlled by the bad omen in the turbulence of time and space, he also judged from the bad omen's reaction that the Invisible Breath was definitely the strongest one even among all the Class V threats.

You should know that the Invisible Breath that appears as the boss of the event level in the game has the suffix [X-Penumbra] added to its name.

The subsequent experimental records were just as he had expected. The Evil King's attempts to communicate with the Invisible Breath Trunk were fruitless, and his mind was ultimately completely distorted by the God-killing Curse.

And this corroded soul of the evil king has been imprisoned in a useless seal for hundreds of years, and even the Invisible Breath Torso is too lazy to take the time to devour it.

It was not until later that the Siren came to this strange world, and the experimental agency, with the assistance of Tianpalans, took in the corrupted soul of the evil king.

As the evil omen approached, the remaining soul of the evil king finally broke free from the control of the experimental agency's base facilities, which led to the thrilling scene that just happened.

Knowing the whole story, Lin Lan originally wanted Anshan to directly launch the Rubik's Cube ballistic missile to destroy the remaining soul of the Evil King and the entire experimental agency base.

After all, the soul of the evil king who had turned into a source of pollution had been disturbed by them.

According to the explorer, it has begun trying to break through the mirror system blockade of the experimental agency and intends to reappear in the world.

(End of this chapter)