Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 522 Running out of ammunition and food
Caught up...

In the cockpit with only a lit screen as a light source, Xin Lailai looked at the pitch-black abyss sea and the creepy-looking abyss creatures swimming past the screen. He leaned weakly on his seat, took a long breath, and reached out to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.

Just one step away.

Just now, they were only half a second away from sinking into the abyss energy along with the piece of space debris.

It can be said that this was definitely the most thrilling experience he had ever had since he learned how to make alchemical creatures. In order to make this artificial abyss python as quickly as possible, he directly abandoned the previous safe production methods and modified a large number of steps according to his own understanding, just to simplify the production process to the extreme.

It can be said that this is definitely a huge test for him, who has just reached LV.20 in Alchemy Biology and is at most an entry-level Alchemy Biologist. This can be seen from the level changes of his Alchemy Biology:
[Tip: Alchemy Biology has been upgraded to LV.22]

That's right, in just less than half an hour, his alchemical biology level went straight up from LV.20 to LV.22. Although this was closely related to the fact that his alchemical biology was only a hundred points away from LV.21, even so, the increase of more than one level in proficiency was definitely the fastest since he had learned alchemical biology, even faster than when he went from LV.1 to LV.3.

Not only him, but also Ling Yuzi's alchemical sealing skills had also increased by more than half a level in less than half an hour, and he was only a little bit away from successfully reaching LV.20.

"Does this mean that we have accidentally found a way to quickly improve the proficiency of our secondary profession?"

Xin Lailai sensed Ling Yuzi who was resting in the soul space, looked at the picture on the screen in front of him, and teased weakly:
"What a shame! If we could keep doing this for a few more minutes, our alchemy biology and sealing skills might be able to improve by one more level."

"Pfft, Lailai, you're too greedy... How about we use this method to improve our proficiency in the future?"

In the soul space, Ling Yuzi couldn't help but chuckle when he heard Xin Lailai's words, and suggested with narrowed eyes.

"Uh... forget it. That would be a bit too exciting."

"Pfft, I knew you would say that again, Lailai."

After Xin Lailai thought about the scene described by Ling Yuzi, she felt a slight chill on her back, her eyelids twitched, and she shook her head to deny it, which made Ling Yuzi in the soul space laugh out loud. Xin Lailai coughed twice in embarrassment and didn't want to say anything more. The atmosphere in the entire cockpit became a lot more lively.

[Ding~! A super-large life reaction has been detected ahead! ]

Suddenly, a childish prompt sound rang in the minds of the two people, and the image on the screen suddenly switched to ultrasonic imaging. At the same time, an extremely huge outline suddenly appeared in the picture, which made the expressions of the two people change suddenly.

“Lai Lai…!”

"Yes, I know. Let's not talk about it for now and focus on getting through this difficult time."

Xin Lailai said in a deep voice, looking at the scene on the screen, a solemn look flashed across his eyes, and instructed in his mind:

"Xiao Pu No. 1, bring up the thermal imaging and normal imaging images, and help me adjust them to a surround view."

[Ding~! Got it, start executing the command! ]

As the childish electronic sound ended, a dark picture suddenly appeared in Xin Lailai's mind. In the picture, strange-looking abyss creatures were swimming in the dark ocean, and densely packed scarlet compound eyes flashed through the darkness, making people instinctively feel a chill on their backs.

Even if there was no sound coming from them, just by looking at these images, it seemed as if one could hear the roars and screams coming from these creatures from the abyss.

The most eye-catching thing is the huge whale-like creature in the front of the whole picture:
The body of a fish that was hundreds of meters tall was floating there quietly, with deformed scales protruding from its flesh and blood. Its scarlet eyeballs, which were twice as big as those of the man-made abyss python, bulged high, giving people a sense of oppression as if its eyes were glaring wide open.

We must not alarm this thing!
In just a moment, Xin Lailai made a judgment in his mind.

The abyss behemoth in front of him was obviously a deformed abyss derivative. The most intuitive way to judge a deformed thing was the degree of deformation and body size.

Simply put, the uglier, the bigger, and the stronger.

Not only that, the biggest difference between the deformed abyss creatures and the alien organisms is that the deformed ones often have a strong desire to "devour". To put it more bluntly, this type of abyss creatures often have the habit of "eating" other abyss creatures.

In other words, once they attract the attention of the big guy in front of them, even if the other party has not realized that the abyss python in front of them, which seems to exude an extremely strong breath of the abyss and is as ugly as itself, is actually a fake, there is still a great probability that it will suddenly attack them in order to fill its stomach.

Want to find a way to avoid it?!

No... No, if I suddenly speed up in a place like this, it might attract the other party's attention!

For a moment, Xin Lailai became nervous. He was extremely alert and carefully opened the spiritual field, covering the interior of the artificial abyss python. He adjusted the swimming movements of the abyss python bit by bit with the most delicate operations, and deviated the original route bit by bit with an amplitude so small that it was almost imperceptible, so as to increase the distance between the artificial abyss python and the whale-type abyss beast as much as possible.

In the darkness, the artificial abyss python, whose surface was inlaid with a large number of pinhole cameras to replace eyeballs, swam slowly upwards, getting closer and closer to the giant whale-type abyss beast.

In the cockpit, Xin Lailai looked at the increasingly close distance between the two sides, and his breathing involuntarily became more and more nervous.

When the distance between the two sides reached the limit of less than fifty meters, he looked at the huge scarlet eyes on the left side that almost occupied the entire screen. His breathing couldn't help but choke. He didn't dare to make any unusual movements. He just prayed in his heart while controlling the abyss python to go away.

One hundred meters... two hundred meters... three hundred meters...

Time passed bit by bit, and drops of cold sweat rolled down Xin Lailai's forehead. After several minutes, when the Abyss Python had opened up a distance of several kilometers from the giant whale-type abyss beast behind it, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, leaned back in his seat, his chest heaving violently.

I got through it...

Xin Lailai wiped the sweat from his forehead, glanced at the abyss monster that was still standing motionless on the screen, took a long breath, and a look of having survived a disaster appeared on his face.

As expected, it was the right move to carve runes for suppressing breath on the skin of the Abyss Python, the Earth Python underneath, and the cockpit made of super dark metal.

Just now when he was approaching the abyss beast, he could clearly feel that the other party's gaze was focused on the abyss python for a brief moment, and in that short moment, his intuition of crisis was forced to the peak, second only to the feeling when he saw the Extreme Blade Abyss Shadow.

"That guy, could it be that he is a deformed form of the Abyss transformed from Leviathan..."

Xin Lailai looked at the figure of the abyss beast on the screen that was getting smaller and smaller, and had some guesses in his mind about its original prototype before the deformation.

Leviathan.

One of the three great magical beasts in the world of Dicuo, a powerful existence only one level weaker than the black dragon.

Although they did not encounter each other during their journey to the depths of the dungeon, considering that they did not go down to the area below the 91st floor and that a whale-shaped abyss monster existed there, Xin Lailai seriously suspected that this thing was actually one of the "gifts" prepared for them by the anomaly deep in the dungeon, but they did not meet because of the space storm.

However, if it was really as he guessed... "The area after the 90th floor? This is really..."

Xin Lailai leaned back in his seat, looked up at the low top of the cockpit and the knife mark left by Yuanying's cut, narrowed his eyes slightly, and fell silent.

If the abyss behemoth was really transformed from Leviathan, it means that they are now in the deepest part of the entire dungeon. In other words, if they want to return to the spatial battlefield at that time, they must cross the entire dungeon with the strength of two people.

[Ding~ A large-scale obstacle reaction is detected ahead, which is suspected to be the boundary of the current area space! ]

"Lai Lai, look ahead!"

Suddenly, the childish voice of Little Pu No. 1 rang out in Xin Lailai's mind, followed by Ling Yuzi's surprised voice. Xin Lailai looked up at the screen in front of him, his breath slightly held, and then a hint of ecstasy appeared in his eyes:
I saw that in the direction where the abyss python was swimming, a large amount of rubble was falling from above and slowly floating in the ocean formed by the abyss energy.

In the area behind these rubbles, an endless dark rock wall suddenly appeared there, like a natural moat, cutting the entire abyss ocean in half.

found it!
The boundary of the space fault zone!

Xin Lailai looked at the dark rock wall at the end of his sight, his heart filled with joy.

Sure enough, this space fault zone only covers a small area in the deepest part of the dungeon, and does not cover the entire deep part of the dungeon. As long as you can climb upwards in the direction of decreasing energy concentration in the abyss, you can reach an area of ​​the dungeon where the space conditions are still stable.

Without any hesitation, Xin Lailai immediately controlled the Abyss Python to increase its speed to the limit and swam upwards at the fastest speed, while instructing in his mind:

"Xiao Pu No. 1, help me detect and calculate the distance to the boundary of that space."

[Ding~Command received, calculating the image...Calculation completed, current predicted distance: 107.6 kilometers]

Very good, that's enough!

When Xin Lailai heard the calculation results from Xiao Pu No. 1, his eyes moved and he immediately had an idea in his mind.

The Abyss Python can move at a speed of around 120m/s in this environment. In other words, if they sail at full speed, it will take them at most 15 minutes to reach the end of this area.

And considering the current condition of the Abyss Python, it can hold on for at least another thirty minutes before any problems arise, which is more than enough to support them to leave here.

"Huh... I can finally leave this damn place."

Xin Lailai looked at the gravel passing by the screen, let out a long breath, and a look of relief appeared on his face.

To be honest, every second he stayed in a place like this, he felt his instinct for danger was warning him like crazy, and he even wondered if he was developing the ability of intuition.

Fortunately, relying on the accumulation left in the storage space, they finally managed to get out of here.

Although I can guess with my eyes closed that the road ahead will not be easy, it is still much better than this hellish place.

"There are still more than ten minutes left... Let's first check the status of the equipment and props."

Xin Lailai glanced at the gradually fading dark ocean and the dwindling number of abyss creatures around him, and his mind gradually relaxed from the highly tense state. While maintaining a certain degree of attention to observe the movements on the screen, he looked at his own brand interface, and a solemn look flashed across his eyes.

In fact, their current situation can be said to have reached a point of extreme badness.

Although on the surface, he and Ling Yuzi still maintained full mobility, and had successfully resolved the two encounters with the abyss with the energy of annihilation, the problem was that their equipment and supplies were almost at their limit along the way.

The first thing is the equipment. Except for Yuan Mo's equipment which has been restored to full durability by devouring the output of the World Tree, and the equipment such as the Blessing of the Tree Spirit stored in the accessory space, they basically have few intact equipment.

The first is the Transcendence Suit. After suffering several heavy blows in succession, this top-notch gold suit now has less than 10 points of durability for the three pieces added together, and it is literally just one step away from exploding.

The same goes for Youlin Kongyu. This piece of flying equipment can be said to have helped them resolve crises several times. But because of this, the durability of Youlin Kongyu has reached its limit as they have escaped danger time and time again. Although its durability is slightly better than that of the Transcendent, it is only about 10 points left.

The same goes for Shenhai Yumeng. Even though this equipment has a certain biological activity and a durability of up to 200 points, it can't withstand their tossing and turning, so the durability is now less than 20 points.

Although they still had a set of legendary [Fanatical Saint Suit +5 (3/3)] and a piece of flying equipment [Pure White Feather] that was custom-made to embellish their identity as performers in their storage space, the problem was that the effects of these equipment could not be compared with those of the Transcendence Suit and the Phantom Scale Sky Feather. The loss of a large number of gemstone gains inlaid on the Transcendence Suit and the Phantom Scale Sky Feather alone would cause a significant decline in their strength.

You know, since encountering the space storm, they have been able to withstand so much trouble and not die. The three [Golden Gems] on the Transcendence Set and the [Heavy Blade Gem] and [Vitality Gem] on the Deep Sea Dream can be said to have played a crucial role.

Apart from anything else, if it weren't for the survivability boost provided by these gems, they probably wouldn't be able to withstand the impact of space storms and space turbulence. When facing Yuanying, they wouldn't be killed by just one blow, but would be directly chopped to death by one blow.

In addition to equipment problems, their supply situation is also very serious.

Before entering the world of Dicuo, Xiao Pu prepared a whole box of alchemical potions for them, but now there are only less than 30 bottles of this whole box of alchemical potions. As for the few alchemical props he made? They were used up on the way to the exit of the shallow area of ​​the abyss for the first time.

There were also the Honor Revival Potion and Apollo, as well as the Dark Corrosion Toxin that they had bought at a high price, which had also been almost used up. Only the most critical resurrection items [Aria of Light] and [Thunder Potion], as well as some scattered recovery items and props, were still kept there and had not been used.

"Is it almost reaching the limit?..."

Xin Lailai looked at the supplies in the storage space, a solemn look flashing across her eyes.

To be honest, in terms of material preparation, he thought he had done enough, but the difficulty of the "death catastrophe" encountered in the world of Dicuo was still far beyond his imagination.

After a moment of silence, Xin Lailai took out the [Starlight Pendant] and silently injected magic power into it.

In this situation, it is no longer the time to save divination times. He must find the best escape route after reaching the "shore" in advance to maximize their survival rate.

Then, a star-like light appeared on the pendant, and Xin Lailai was stunned:
Suddenly, a picture appeared in his mind. It was the scene of the Abyss Python swimming in the ocean. Not only that, he could see a faint band of light floating above the Abyss Python. As the dark sea surged, it slowly...

——Pointing to the endless darkness behind them.

……

(End of this chapter)