Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 523 Bottomless Abyss
Except for Klein, the other sailors' eyes instantly shifted from Nina to Angel, focusing on the face under the golden bangs and the parts covered by the hands. The meaning in their eyes was obvious.

It wasn't until Boatswain Nina snorted coldly that everyone reacted, leaving Frank with a bang, and returned to their posts, wiping the deck and pulling the sail ropes, but from time to time there was still sight from Look everywhere.

They are obviously more interested in the mysterious and beautiful Angel than Nina, who they usually see.

Seeing everyone dispersed, Angel lowered his arms and walked up to Klein generously.

"They said there is a Quaternary Age ruin on the seabed, as well as a huge bottomless well. Nina is going to lead a team to have a look, and I plan to follow."

She explained softly and pointed at the ravine on her chest. The "rose necklace" was hanging around her neck. It was placed on the smooth and close-fitting whale skin tights, emitting a faint dark blue light.

"Wind Blessed One", Ocean Affinity... Klein nodded clearly, but his eyes were firmly tied to the necklace.

"What, does it look good?"

Feeling where his eyes were focused, Angel chuckled and asked.

"Very, ahem, ahem, average."

Nina in front suddenly stopped diving, raised her arms, opened her palm with one hand, and stretched out her fingers to touch the palm of her hand.

At first she was a little curious as to why Nina, who could form phantom scales on her body, wore such a shameful tights, but as the depth quickly increased, she felt a wave of pain on her exposed skin that even the scales could not resist. The biting cold and the gradually increasing water pressure made me understand the meaning of the previous preparations.

what?
At that moment, Klein felt like his crazy personality was about to burst out of his body and devour the inexplicable "poison expert" in front of him.

Plunging into the sea, Angel squinted his eyes and stared at Nina in front of him. This experienced "navigator" led the way and swam toward the deep sea at a nearly vertical angle.

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At the end of his sight, Angel stretched out his limbs, followed Nina and several other sailors, jumped up lightly, and jumped into the deep blue sea.

"Cuckoo-"

"It's been about 10 minutes. If you dive 50 meters per minute, you have reached a depth of 500 meters..." Angel estimated the time and kept looking around, but dark vision could not penetrate the deep seawater. The surrounding depths were The water seemed to swallow up all light and objects.

Looking away with difficulty, Klein regretted that he had not followed his true heart. He glanced at Frank, who was holding a wine glass and drinking "sea fish red wine" alone. The latter felt his gaze, quietly came over and said:

What she meant was to stay where she was... Angel, who had communicated with the other party before entering the water, quickly understood the meaning, hovered behind her, and put his hand on the other party's shoulder.

It turns out to be this medicine. I hope you can forget my reaction just now, otherwise I will help you forget it... Klein suddenly realized, took the apple with a sullen face, hesitated for a moment, and took a bite.

"unnecessary."

"Ocean affinity" allows Angel's eyes to be covered with a layer of transparent sclera, and her own "dark vision" allows her to see objects in the deep sea. Therefore, there is no "deep sea phobia" that many sailors spread word of mouth. She sees Xiang Nina found that the other party was just taking a short rest to get used to the pressure of the sea water. After a while, he made a gesture to continue diving and took the lead to swim downwards.

"Do you need medicine?"

After a moment of debate between his inner Gehrman and Klein, he maintained his image as a "cold adventurer" despite the control of pharyngitis and replied calmly.

With a soft snort, Angel turned around and followed Nina to the side of the boat, making final preparations for launching into the water. Illusive scales gradually appeared on her exposed skin, reflecting the sunlight, making her look even more dazzling.

"I mean your cold or pharyngitis, it doesn't matter, it can cure it," Frank said reluctantly, took out a small green apple from his pocket, rubbed it on his shirt, and handed it to Frank. Ryan, "This is what I got by crossing medicine and fruit, making taking medicine a pleasure instead of a pain."

Maybe it has something to do with the physique of Sequence 5... She thought as she gradually swam towards the dark and deep depths of the ocean. Several "Sailor" teammates who passed through the lower Sequence stopped diving and coordinated from above. They were able to survive briefly underwater. , but the water pressure at depth exceeded the limits of their capabilities.

Of course, Boatswain Nina also drank a whole bottle of Nipos, which was said to be used as an incendiary bomb. Although she explained that it was for "warming up", Angel always felt that there was no problem if she didn't drink.

In the cold water, only Nina was left leading the way, and Angel was following behind. The silhouette of the sailor above his head and the sunlight above the sea quickly dimmed, and there was still an unfathomable abyss below. Angel felt as if he was stagnant in the deep sea. Amid this, only the cold water around her and the increasing pressure let her know that time was still passing.

He replied calmly with a cold face.

Nina spit out a few bubbles from her mouth and pointed downwards. Angel looked intently. At the outermost edge of the visual range, on the seabed that could barely be seen clearly, stood a huge ruins.

It is not appropriate to call it a ruin. This vast "building" has completely collapsed, and its original shape cannot be seen. It is covered with thick seabed silt, and there are several deep-sea plants of unknown types growing there. Roots and protrusions on the sea floor prove its existence and show its scale thousands of years ago.

Angel and Nina used their hands and feet to quickly swim to the bottom of the sea and approach the ruins. The two did not separate to improve efficiency, but held hands tightly to avoid being separated on the lightless seabed, and explored the ruins together.

It wasn't until he swam closer that Angel discovered that the metal bars protruding from the mud were all metal bars that had been corroded by seawater. The structure they formed had been twisted under the heavy pressure, decayed in the deep sea, and almost broke as soon as it was broken. It can be broken into pieces if you pinch it, but you can still see the scale before it was submerged by the sea water. It was probably no less than the "Future" above the head. Carefully breaking off two metal bars of arm length as evidence, the two continued to explore the ruins in a circular and outward manner, and it didn't take long before they found the "bottomless" giant well.

To Angel's extreme disappointment, although the wellhead looked indeed dark, scary and bottomless, it was only about two fists in diameter and couldn't even fit an adult's head in, let alone explore.

She looked at Nina, who also shook her head in disappointment, saying that she was even more powerless due to her size.

I am afraid that only newborn babies can enter this "giant" well, and finding a baby with a natural "navigator" ability is no less difficult than turning a tall boatswain into a fifty-centimeter-long mini Nina... Angel also spat out a few bubbles in disappointment, and tried to break off a piece of irregularly shaped, fist-sized black hard soil from the mouth of the well, wrapping invisible threads around its corroded surface, and shooting it like a slingshot. Eject out and go directly through the "giant" well and into the depths.

Gulu, Gulu.

Angel waited for a moment but didn't feel any movement.

The depth of this well is probably no less than the distance between us and the sea now... She shook her head, stopped trying, and looked at Nina beside her.

The latter's limbs were floating in the seawater, with a dazed expression on his face, and his eyes behind the sclera were blank, and he was slowly drifting towards the wellhead.

Angel's heart tightened, and he immediately grabbed the opponent's shoulder, but it slipped on the whale skin coat and failed to catch it immediately.

Without hesitation, she quickly reached out to hug Nina, locked her waist tightly, kicked her feet down, stirring up a cloud of dust on the sea bed, and used the reaction force to move away from the narrow, deep wellhead.

Nina seemed to wake up just now, broke free from Angel's grasp, and made a gesture to indicate that she was fine.

But the two of them did not dare to stay any longer. After picking up another black stone next to the wellhead, they quickly swam upstream.

With the help of "Ocean Affinity", the two of them did not need to stop during the ascent. Instead, they quickly joined the waiting sailors, surfaced, saw the bright sunshine again, and breathed in the salty air of sea water.

"Huh, thank you just now," Nina exhaled a breath that smelled of alcohol and said to Angel, "That well seems to have a power that attracts me, making me can't help but get closer to it."

"Even if you get close, you can't get in."

Angel joked, watching the "Future" throw down the knotted ropes and let the sailors climb onto the deck one by one.

"But I always feel that something bad will happen...Don't you have this feeling of being attracted?"

Nina said with some fear.

"Absolutely not."

Angel answered honestly, still recalling the strange steel ruins and the narrow but bottomless "giant" well in his mind.

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"The metal strip was originally supposed to be very strong steel, but after thousands of years of seawater erosion, the prototype can no longer be seen. As for this piece of black soil..."

"Admiral of the Stars" Cattleya pushed the heavy frame on the bridge of her nose, raised the "evidence" that Angel had brought back to her eyes and studied it carefully for a moment, shook her head, and explained to Angel, Klein and others beside her. .

"It's hard to tell what caused these marks, and its texture is also very strange. It doesn't look like soil or stone... I have never seen such traces of corrosion."

She murmured under her breath and ordered Nina to put them into the warehouse.

"Since humans can't enter that well, there's no need for us to rush to explore. I'll wait until I figure out the secrets of these metals and soil and confirm that the well is worth the risk before I return here."

Since this voyage had more important tasks, she quickly made the decision not to stay any longer.

At this time, Angel had changed out of her somewhat shameful tights and put on her women's shirt, jacket and trousers again. The sailors nearby kept looking with disappointment. Seeing that Cattleya was preparing to let the Future sail, she He asked unwillingly:
"Madam Captain, what do you think this ruins could be?"

"I have never heard of similar buildings in the Fifth Age, and it was not until the Fusac Empire won Sunia Island from Runa during the Twenty Years' War that this sea area was developed... Maybe they are just like the rumors. That kind of belongs to the Fourth Age.”

The Fourth Age... even the steam engine had not been invented and ships were all made of wood. How could there be such a huge steel building?
Questions appeared in Angel's mind. She tried to restore the steel wreckage in her memory, and found that no matter how she built it, it didn't look like a ship. Instead, it looked a bit like what she had seen in the book in her previous life, which had been destroyed due to the exhaustion of oil. The huge trusses of the abandoned offshore platform.

The empire of the Fourth Age could build ghost ships that traveled through the spiritual world. Could it be that they also built similar structures?
She touched her still wet hair, and couldn't help but want to do a magic mirror divination to confirm the origin of the metal and soil, but found that Nina had already left with them, so she had to give up.

Forget it, wait until Ms. "Hermit" gains something, and then ask her from the Tarot Club... When Angel saw Klein staring at Nina's retreating back, he chuckled, stretched out his finger, and approached him secretly. The soft flesh of the waist.

(End of this chapter)