Sir Chen, your wife is missing!

"Cthulhu Mythos I" has a chapter about diving into the deep sea. A few tiny humans are quietly waiting for death to come in the depths of the ocean. They cannot return to land, nor can they send out a signal for help. The food and fresh water in the submarine are exhausted day by day.

Feng Qingyu often felt a chill down her spine when reading that article. She couldn't help but imagine herself as one of the unlucky protagonists in the story. People's overly rich imaginations often cause them trouble and make them imagine a bunch of terrible imaginary things.

Now that I actually dive into the deep sea myself, the fear is not that strong.

Because of Goletia, the deep-sea hunter is more reliable than the submarine. The submarine cannot be repaired automatically when it is damaged. The deep-sea hunter can not only communicate in real time, but also help her at the critical moment. Although it is shameful to rely on others, even the top team of scientists in Iberia cannot guarantee the absolute success of deep-sea exploration.

The depth meter on my wrist changes the numbers on the screen as I dive deeper. I'm just over a thousand meters deep, still within the continental slope. Without a diving vehicle, it's quite tiring to swim down little by little on my own.

Diving a few thousand meters from the sea surface is different from running 3,000 meters on the ground. No one would think that running 3,000 meters on the ground is a terrible thing, but diving is. The deeper he went, the faster Feng Qingyu's heart beat.

Being nervous is human instinct, and Gloria could also feel her abnormally disordered heartbeat.

"Landman, you're getting nervous."

"A little."

"The ocean is scary for you, right? You can drown if you're not careful, and there are strange marine creatures. Your body is shaking so much that I'm worried you'll pee your pants. If you really do that, I'll want to leave this sea area right away."

"I had already taken care of my urgency before going into the sea, so I didn't wet my pants. I'm a qualified adult, you don't have to worry. Deep-sea phobia... most people on land need to overcome it."

"Do you want to use a cable? I'll tow you. Don't underestimate the swordfish's mobility. I can beat 114 of them like you."

"No need, let's hurry up. I have a feeling that Avrof Island and Coleraine City should be near the ocean basin, so let's make more efforts. In fact, it doesn't matter if you swim faster. Draco won't be troubled by the water that is only a few thousand meters deep."

Feng Qingyu patted her not-so-voluptuous female advantages.

"You better be like this."

Gloria put the buckle of the cable on her belt without any room for negotiation, and then, like an etched bullet fired from a gun, she turned into a silver phantom and rushed into the deeper ocean.

"Hey……"

Before he could grab hold of himself, Feng Qingyu was dragged by the cable and fell at an extremely fast speed.

This is the real speed of the deep-sea hunter, it's too scary. The speed just now is just like the level of an old man and an old woman taking a walk in the evening, just to cooperate with her, a slow land person.

When traveling at high speed, the brain becomes extremely dizzy, very close to seasickness.

Given Gloria's personality, it must have been hard for her to endure for so long without using her ultimate move.

"As expected of you... a deep-sea hunter."

It's obvious that this guy doesn't like appetizers and prefers to get straight to the point.

29. Deep Sea Abandoned City

The sky was spinning and the blue in front of my eyes was blurred. The world above my head was shaking 360 degrees. Shaking, shaking wildly. I didn't have to shake the card pool so hard when I drew the cards.

Goletia is like a piece of wood soaked in sea water. She has no idea what it means to be gentle and considerate to women. People like her will never find a partner ().

Being aloof in real life is completely different from being treated aloof in novels. Being indifferent to others only makes people feel that you are impolite and think about not talking to you next time. There won't be any silly and enthusiastic girls rushing to you for money every day.

It doesn't exist unless you are as rich as Jessica's family.

"Are we...almost there?"

The severe dizziness lasted for more than ten minutes, and the steep continental slope beside her turned into a deep trench. Goletia took her over the trench and officially entered the most extensive ocean basin area, which is usually called the submarine plain.

The current depth is about 3200 meters.

With both feet on solid land, even though it was land under the sea, there was still a sense of security. Flying and swimming cannot last too long, and people will eventually return to a down-to-earth state.

The salty, bitter taste of sea water filled his mouth again. Feng Qingyu slowly adapted to the feeling of having seaweed in his mouth, and walked towards the plain ahead with Gloria.

The terrain of the seabed is roughly similar to that of the land, and the underwater plain is extremely vast, with no end in sight.

The seabed of Agor met all of Feng Qingyu's imaginations. It was deep and dark, and the only luminous objects were strange-shaped corals like trees, some fish and unknown marine plants.

The shapes of marine plants are far beyond the comprehension of people on land. Their branches and leaves have a strange vitality. Some are almost transparent, emitting a faint blue light in the center. There are things like blood vessels in the branches and leaves with bubbles flowing inside. The leaves expand and contract like a person breathing.

Colorful coral reefs surround this transparent forest. Feng Qingyu wanted to reach out and touch the glowing leaves, but Gloria blocked her with the other end of her spear.

"If you want to be electrocuted, just touch it. Didn't Dr. Kal'tsit forget to remind you that at least half of the plants on the seabed are aggressive?"

"She's old, it's normal for her not to remember some things, I'll pay attention to it."

Feng Qingyu walked around the electrified plant, and happened to see a few fish swimming by, dragging long, narrow silver tails behind them, shaped like a mop on land. The fish were not big, about the same size as an ordinary grass carp, and when their tails accidentally swept across the transparent "tree", they were immediately electrocuted.

The electrocuted fish struggled wildly, spitting out a string of bubbles, and its body tilted. Seeing this, the other companions hurriedly swam away to escape the danger. The electrocuted fish was entangled by transparent glowing tentacles. The tentacles split from the main trunk of the plant, much like the dark blue tentacles that sway behind the road shaper.

The tentacles drag the prey into the body, and the cracks close again to return to their original state. The swallowed fish is quickly digested in the plant's body, turning into a pool of blood, without even a fish bone left.

"It's called 'Predator'. As you can see, this plant will stun anything that tries to get close to it, then drag it into its body and digest it. The one you just saw can swallow an adult male. The larger ones can even swallow sharks."

"Thank you for saving my life."

The tragic end of the fish left Feng Qingyu with lingering fears. She never expected that such beautiful-looking plants could actually harbor murderous intent.

"It's also my fault that I didn't tell you how dangerous the seabed is. Follow me closely and don't be careless. I will remind you in advance what you can and can't touch. There is another way, that is-"

Goletia wielded her spear, and the sharp black weapon swept across horizontally, cutting off a piece of the "predator" in a flash.

"Take action before they discharge. The flashing of leaves is the signal of discharge. They are slow to react and cannot cope with sudden attacks."

"learned."

As long as the enemy can be fought with weapons, no one is invincible.

She secretly took note of the content of Goletia's instant popular science, followed carefully behind, and tried to stay away from any suspicious sea creatures. The camera was not waterproof and could not withstand the water pressure of 3,000 meters under the sea. Sooner or later, it would become floating marine garbage.

The underwater world was a completely new and strange world in Feng Qingyu's eyes. However, Gloria no longer complained about the dryness and cracking of every inch of her skin, and the itchiness from the inside out.

The ocean is the home of the deep-sea hunters. They left for some unavoidable reasons and now return for other reasons. Returning to the ocean, they naturally feel refreshed, at least physically, but their mood is unknown for the time being.

After returning to the ocean, Gloria remained taciturn, and only spoke when needed to introduce deep-sea knowledge.

They walked on the endless underwater plain for about half an hour, and in front of them was an even darker and more vast world, as well as a large number of dilapidated buildings.

An abandoned underwater city suddenly appeared at the end of this road.

On both sides are colorful corals, which cast an arc-shaped outline. The huge inverted transparent dome encompasses the underwater city.

The purpose of the dome is to guard against foreign invaders, the most typical of which is sea urchins, followed by ferocious sea creatures. Its significance is self-evident. In the era of underwater wars, its main function is to resist foreign attacks.

Now the dome is broken, and a large amount of seawater has poured in from the damaged cracks. The whole city is submerged in seawater, and the people and buildings are gone. Only broken walls and ruins remain of the former prosperity. Under the influence of unknown events, a large number of underwater cities have been abandoned, and this is one of them.

The scale of the underwater city is definitely not inferior to the mobile city on land. Agor also has tall buildings, and there are many buildings that are hundreds of meters high. It’s a pity that they all collapsed in the disaster, and most of them only have a section of the ruined building left.

Below the dome is a circular metal wall. The huge silver metal plates are strong enough to withstand the strong pressure of the sea water and external impacts. They have become dilapidated and rusted in the great silence, suffering from the ruthless erosion of time and sea water, and are no longer as good as they used to be.

The dome was broken, and underneath was a dead city. Outside the city was a collapsed large billboard, with the words on it worn out beyond recognition.

"This is Coleraine."

Goletia recognized the Agor words on the billboard.

"We're here. This is the place we're looking for. I guess the island in the Great Silence sank and smashed the dome of this city, and then the sea invaded, so the people in the city fled."

She pointed to the top of the dome, where there was a nearly circular hole.

"finally……"

The cooled blood will eventually boil at the bottom of the sea.

30. Sea Crawlers

The stone passage on the outskirts of the city is exactly the same as the one seen in the strange dream.

Neatly stacked stone slabs with almost no deviation in angles formed a flat passage. On both sides of the road were coral reefs of various colors and large rocks carved into statues. The exquisite statues were also tortured in the great silence and became dilapidated, just like those on the Iberian shore.

The statues either had their arms and legs cut off or their heads broken off. Some were even broken in two by the disaster, and it was impossible to tell what they were. The damage to the seabed was no less severe than that to the surface. The sea was born in the deep sea, so the first to be affected were the cities under the sea.

The fruit of Agor's hard work seemed fragile in front of Haisi.

"It's almost unrecognizable as Coleraine in the photo. The killing power of Hai Si is really strong. Such a beautiful city has become a nest of those things. I'm already heartbroken."

"At first, I felt the same way as you. The more I saw, the more numb I became. All I wanted to do was resist and find a solution."

Goletia wielded her long spear, in a fighting posture close to dancing, to fluently clear the rubble and broken huge pillars that collapsed at the entrance. The swords brought from the shore were difficult to cut through the stones made by Agor, but Feng Qingyu did try.

Such sturdy buildings could not withstand the torment of the Great Silence, let alone the countries on land.

"All right."

After a dazzling sweep, the nearest entrance, a large door with exquisite stone carvings, came into view. Two closed stone doors, each six meters high, allowed small water vehicles to enter and exit freely.

The larger entrance is not here, but on the other side of the dome, and driving a vehicle requires a long detour.

There is a checkpoint like a dragon gate near the stone gate, and there is an abandoned scanning and verification device next to it. The shell is full of technology. The technology on land may not be able to produce such a thing even after another hundred years of development. Agor has a famous technology that Feng Qingyu has only heard of from the deep-sea hunters and other operators who came from Agor.

A full set of low-temperature alloy processing technology and large-scale, low-loss information transmission technology are unimaginable for land-based countries.

All metal-related products here use this technology. Kal'tsit and Kal'ciel have analyzed some of Agor's technological products and bluntly said, "If such technology is popularized on land, the Terra countries will usher in an extremely major technological change. The existing technological system will be reshuffled, and countless products will inevitably be eliminated."

Goletia's idea was completely different. She always insisted on one idea: allowing the barbaric and stupid land people to obtain Agor's technology would only bring disaster to Terra.

This is also the reason why Agor has been guarding the technical knowledge strictly for so many years and is unwilling to reveal any of it to the land people. If you give the warmongers weapons, they will use them to plunder others. Giving the warmongers the technology to make weapons will cause endless troubles.

Feng Qingyu and Gloria crossed the abandoned checkpoint together and found the bodies of Agor people who had not yet completely rotted and were swollen by sea water in several dark corners. Their clothes also looked new.

"They have been dead for less than a week."

"How did you die?"

It was difficult to determine the time of death for a body in the sea, and Feng Qingyu was only good at determining the time of death for bodies on land. There was no forensic doctor around, so he couldn't perform an autopsy, and it was even more difficult to determine the actual time of death.

Most importantly, there was no point in doing so. They did not know the dead, and investigating the cause of death was meaningless for the next action and would only waste precious time.

"A bored explorer who came to the ruins of Coleraine to find something interesting was either killed in a covert way or committed suicide."

"Indeed, there were no obvious signs of fighting around, and these people had no external injuries. It seems more like they suffered severe mental damage and killed themselves."

Not far from the corpse were the corpses of two sea turtles. The sea turtles looked very strange, with an oval body shaped like an egg and a circle of sharp short legs at the bottom, as sharp as polished metal.

The color of the ellipsoid is also very metallic, with a hard gray shell and a cluster of translucent dark blue crystals inside. There are also several metal spheres extending from the metal shell.

"Are these things Surprise Eggs?"

"What are surprise eggs?"

"This is the local term in Longmen, also known as the Surprise Egg, which is an egg-shaped chocolate that looks like a duck egg and contains milk chocolate, crunchy cocoa balls and toys. It was created in Syracuse in 1074. I mean, these egg-shaped objects look like surprise eggs."

"They're not good things."

Goletia glanced at the body on the ground.

"This type of sea creature is called a sac sea crawler. It looks like a crab, but is mixed with impurities. Its body has evolved to be as hard as alloys, and it releases neurotoxins. The few people who died here accidentally provoked the sea creatures, and their bodies were infiltrated by neurotoxins. The sac sea crawlers cannot be approached or attacked at close range. They don't understand the characteristics of each sea creature, and think that the harder they hit, the safer they will be, but they don't know that this will kill themselves."

"So these people died because of the backlash of Hai Si's poison?"

"Correct. You'd better not rely on your magic skills to concentrate your firepower on the attack. It's better to find a safe area that is not affected by the neurotoxin and use long-range attacks to eliminate them. Even I won't use this spear to fight them head-on. That's the behavior of a fool."

“I learned something again.”

Teacher Goletia’s small marine classroom was full of useful knowledge. Now that she couldn’t use paper and pen, she memorized it in her mind first, and then wrote it down in her notebook when she returned to shore to avoid forgetting it.

These tips are a matter of life and death, and it is necessary to share them with other Rhodes Island operators.

"There are many different kinds of sea heirs. I have an illustrated guide in my bag that is more detailed than the one Kal'tsit made. I'll give it to you when the time comes."

"Thank you."

Feng Qingyu was flattered by the gift from the deep-sea hunter.

They did not stay by the bodies of Hai Si and the unfortunate explorer, but officially stepped into this prosperous city that once connected Iberia. The architectural style of Agor was not as modern as imagined, but rather a very classical one, with huge palace-style buildings and columns everywhere.

The huge Agor building is made of white stones. The deserted city is now gradually occupied by green seaweed. The seaweed grows from under the broken stone steps, penetrating the stone brick walls with incredible power and embracing them.

The more remote the place is, the more vigorous the vitality of the plants. In the center of the square there is a 20-meter-high metal statue. Plants start to grow from the bottom and strive to climb upwards, finally presenting the grand spectacle before our eyes.

The entire statue is surrounded by green plants and has been preserved intact over the years.

31. Falling Island

The sea plants begin to entwine from the feet of the statue, spiraling upwards and extending upwards, including the trident held in the statue's hand. The person commemorated by the statue is a war hero who calls himself Neptune. Neptune means "sea god" in Agor. This person compares himself to the sea god, which shows his ambition.

Neptune had outstanding personal abilities. He was a famous general who led the orthodox Argors and the separatist R'lyeh people in battles before the Terra era and won victory after victory. He had an irreplaceable position for the Argors at that time.

The most famous craftsman in the capital, under the order of the then Grand Archon, led a team of sculptors to carve a stone statue of unprecedented scale for him. The statue was integrated with the underwater mountain range and was not located in this smaller underwater city.

The statue in front of him was not only slightly inferior to the historic stone sculpture, it was not even one-third of the height of the stone sculpture. Even so, Feng Qingyu was deeply shocked.