Within a few seconds, a gray-black eel-like creature swam near them.
From a distance, it really smelled like an eel, and it swam gracefully and elegantly. It was only made nearly a hundred times bolder, but as it got closer, everyone's brows furrowed slightly.
The body is the elegant and streamlined shape of an eel, but the head has a huge round mouth that is almost impossible to close. The round mouth is surrounded by a large number of tentacles and sharp teeth, and there is a polyp at the end that looks like a closed chrysanthemum.
This huge round mouth will make even people who are not secretly afraid feel a strange feeling of mental pollution.
"Well, it's so ugly." Dangros murmured to himself in a low voice, expressing everyone's feelings.
"Creatures uglier than it are everywhere on the bottom of the sea." Niss responded casually, and then looked at Angel: "The shape of this sea beast is not very suitable for fighting. I just observed it carefully. Near its round mouth
The skin has some traces of dull corrosion, as if it has been eroded by toxins. It is most likely a sea monster that uses poison to fight."
Nice: "Take precautions in advance and it should be solved soon. Do you want to go?"
Before Angel could respond, Reynolds on the side quickly said: "The sea beasts grazing here are all eyes released by the laboratory. What they see is what the laboratory sees. They are harmed, and the people who control the sea beasts in the laboratory,
You can also notice it immediately.”
Therefore, in Reynolds' view, since illusions can obscure the vision of sea beasts, it is best not to touch these sea beasts to avoid disturbing the laboratory.
"What does it matter? Even if we force our way in, the laboratory can't stop us..." Although Nice muttered this, he followed pragmatism. Solving this sea beast has low returns and high risks. Indeed, there is no
Necessary. Therefore, he no longer insisted on solving this sea beast.
Angel also didn't want to engage in a meaningless battle unless the sea beast discovered them.
However, as Ness said, this sea beast's ability level is not high, and it cannot detect the existence of illusions at all. Even if it has the intuition of a beast and feels that there is something fishy in this direction, it has been cruising nearby for a long time and still has no clue.
Any findings.
After a while, it swayed its long body and disappeared from everyone's sight.
After it left, they moved on.
With the cover of illusion, as long as you don't make any big noise yourself, there will basically be no problems.
As they went deeper, the surrounding seawater felt visibly turbid, and the sea currents became more and more unstable. From time to time, dark vortices emerged. There were not many sea beasts, but these vortices became the biggest source of danger.
Moreover, these vortices often appear out of thin air, and it is basically impossible to avoid them in advance. You can only be on high alert, avoid vortices as soon as you encounter them, or destroy the aggregate form of the vortices.
In just a few minutes, they destroyed dozens of vortices, large and small.
One of the vortices was so powerful that it even tore a hole in the force field released by Angel. Fortunately, Nice immediately destroyed the nature of the vortex with the water structure method, and was able to stabilize the force field in time.
However, after Nice destroyed the vortex, some consequences occurred. The vortex began to have energy cohesion due to internal instability. More than ten seconds later, an explosion was triggered directly on the seabed.
The noise of the water explosion is not huge, but according to Reynolds, what the sea monsters see is what the laboratory sees. Once a sea monster is attracted by the explosion, the laboratory should quickly discover the problem.
In order to avoid this situation from happening, Angel originally planned to arrange a relatively natural illusion nearby to confuse the sea beasts.
But they waited for a long time, but no sea beast came.
It seemed that the explosion could not attract the sea beast's attention at all.
"This is a bit strange. When we came here last time, although we deliberately avoided the route of sea beasts, we did find many traces of sea beasts along the way. This time, why are there so few sea beasts?" The speaker was Nausicaa.
After she finished speaking, she looked at Reynolds, wanting to ask for his opinion.
Reynolds' eyes also showed confusion and confusion: "There is indeed something wrong. The number of sea beasts seems to have decreased a lot. What is going on?"
"Maybe something happened in the laboratory." Niss: "We'll find out if we go and take a look."
Angel also nodded. Since the water explosion did not attract the sea beast, don't waste time and go directly to the laboratory.
As for the so-called accident in Nice's mouth, everyone actually had some speculation. Maybe it was caused by Ferro. Ferro didn't know that the sea beast was the eye of the laboratory. Maybe when it broke in, it set all the sea beasts on fire.
It's cooked.
Continuing forward, perhaps because of the presence of Reynolds in the team, luckily we did not encounter any more vortices during the rest of the journey.
Arrived smoothly: Divide Sea Wall.
According to Reynolds, the center of the seawater wall is where the laboratory is located.
The wall that divides the sea literally divides the sea...
Looking at the scene in front of him, Angel looked calm on the outside, but his heart was in turmoil.
Because the location of the laboratory is said to be on the bottom of the sea, but there is no water near it at all!
Just like the mythical story "Moses parted the sea" told by Jon, directly in front of them, behind a constantly fluctuating water wall, was an empty submarine plain, an open space without water and filled with light mist!
Although the water wall is constantly squeezing, the pressure of the sea will conquer this temporarily created seabed clearing at any time. However, every time the critical value is reached, the laboratory will again isolate and withdraw the nearby water flow to maintain such a large-scale sea separation.
.
And every time the water wall is isolated, it is at noon. This is why the sea currents fluctuate at noon, because... the sea separation begins.
"Every once in a while, the sea will be expanded and divided? Why do you put so much effort into this laboratory?" Nice looked at Reynolds with some confusion: "With the time and ability, it is impossible to build a pure undersea laboratory.
It's enough."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The underwater laboratory sounds very stressful, but there are many ways to avoid water pressure. Otherwise, why would there be a mermaid city, and why would there be a place like Royds?
The underwater city appears? Also, the headquarters of Song of the Deep Sea is also under the sea.
Therefore, there are actually many ways to build a pure undersea laboratory. Even if you use the most expensive method to build it, it will definitely cost less than pumping water out of the sea every once in a while.
Reynolds shook his head: "I don't know what the senior management of the laboratory thinks. When I come to the laboratory, it is normal to divide the sea."
Reynolds might still be confused about this at first, but after seeing the sea separation frequently, even the most extraordinary workmanship will become commonplace, and his desire to find out the root cause will become weak.
Seeing that he couldn't find anything, Nice shook his head and muttered: "There is no need to divide the sea. There must be some internal reasons."
Angel also agreed with Nice's idea, but now they haven't even seen the front of the laboratory, and they can't figure out anything no matter how hard they try.
Rather than focusing on these details now, it is better to go to the laboratory first and then slowly find solutions to the problem.
"If we pass through the water wall, will we be discovered by people in the laboratory?" Angel looked at Reynolds.
"No." After Reynolds finished speaking, he hesitated and then said, "Probably not."
Nice: "Probably not? Don't you have an accurate answer? Is it possible?"
Reynolds was silent for a moment and said: "I always thought it wouldn't be possible before, but last time Nausicaa and I went to the laboratory, we were discovered by the backhand left by No. 17. At the time, I just thought it was an accident, but later I looked carefully
After thinking about it, I made a lot of preparations in advance before returning to the laboratory. After most of the staff left, I entered the laboratory while the guards were handing over. But even so, I was discovered. Now I think
I always feel a little strange."
"Maybe it was discovered before we entered the laboratory. But I don't know which link caused the problem."
Reynolds also has no conclusive evidence, just a guess.
But if you think about it carefully, Reynolds' guess is not without purpose.
Such a secretive organization—let’s call it an organization for now—has no sense of existence in the Southern Territory. Even if they mobilized various forces to search for it, they could only find a few marginal clues: two apprentices once witnessed an insignificant incident.
Chase battle.
If the strength of this organization is very weak, then that's fine. No one pays attention anyway, and it doesn't matter whether it is hidden or not. But judging from the information obtained so far, their strength is not weak, and their high-end combat power is higher than that of most wizard families.
, even better; even an apprentice can be compared to a supernova.
Such an organization is unknown in the Southern Territory. It must be because they actively chose to remain secret.
Since we choose to take the secretive route, the laboratory itself will also maintain a high degree of confidentiality to prevent its existence from being leaked. In this case, there may be some kind of prevention mechanism in every link.
Including stepping into the wall of water.
"If you enter through the water wall and you will be discovered, what should we do now?" Nausicaa asked.
"Even if the water wall really might expose us, it doesn't matter. We will definitely be discovered in the end anyway, so there is no need to care about these water walls." Nice said.
That being said, but we are about to face an unknown opponent and an unknown battle. The fewer cards someone shows, the more likely the balance of victory will be. And through monitoring in the laboratory, it is very likely that their existence will be revealed by the opponent in advance.
Detective, Angel and Nice are also quite famous in the Southern Region. If there are targeted preparations for them, they will definitely be in a disadvantageous position in the event of a battle.
Nice: "Then don't go through the water wall, just go out to the sea and enter from above."
Nice's suggestion is also a way. However, if the laboratory is determined to take comprehensive precautions, it should also have a corresponding monitoring mechanism for taking the air route.
However, they still have to enter the other end of the water wall. Since they are all likely to be monitored, they will choose the one with less possibility.
Angel finally decided to enter from above. At that time, he would change the illusion into a nightmare, reduce the sense of existence, and blur and distort the direct perception of the outside world.
In this way, detection can be avoided to the greatest extent.
However, just when Angel and others began to rise and wanted to leave the water, a surge of chaotic energy came from behind the water wall.
This cumbersome energy is not directed at them, but something seems to have happened behind the water wall, causing the energy to leak out.
Everyone paused.
Nice sensed the energy coming through the water wall and said: "This is the original magic power. I feel the rhythm of the water, and..."
Dangros suddenly interjected: "I feel the power of the flame, such a powerful control. I clearly feel that the flame's content is constantly condensing and will explode at any time, but it is restrained by a regular force, even if it is
The aftertaste is not completely out of control."
What Dangros said was very complicated, but it actually meant only one thing: there might be a fire wizard inside.
The fires released by flaming beings like Dangros are all indiscriminate attacks. They won't hurt you anyway, and you don't know how to restrain them.
Only fire wizards, or flame beings who have been trained, will start to learn restraints to avoid hurting the enemy and themselves.
And when it comes to fire wizards... Angel and Niss looked at each other, and a name came to mind.
Could it be that it was "Fire Walker" Ferro who caused such a commotion inside?
To cause such energy leakage, could there be a battle inside?
If it was really a battle, with Filo on one side, then there might be an opponent controlling the power of the water element on the other side.
"What to do now?" Nice looked at Angel. Although they were just guessing, there was still a high possibility that it was Ferro inside.
"Wait a moment." Angel said softly.
Nice frowned, thinking that Angel was hesitating and wanted to confirm that it was Ferro before taking action. But if it was really Ferro inside, and something happened to Ferro because they were waiting, that would be bad.
Nice was about to say something, but at this moment, Angel suddenly said: "Okay, let's go in."
Nice: "...Huh?"
Didn't you say you have to wait? Why did the wait end in less than two seconds?
Angel didn't explain much, but when he felt the aftertaste of a new wave of energy coming over, he directly stretched out his hand, and the hidden energy flowed in his palm.
In a flicker of light, a simple door appeared in front of them.
——The Door of Illusion.
Angel crossed the water wall, passed through the Illusion Door, and opened the door directly behind the water wall!
"I have contained the energy leaking from the Illusion Gate to the greatest extent. Let's go in now while the energy inside is complicated and difficult for others to detect."
The reason why Angel wanted to wait was not to confirm whether it was Ferro inside, but to wait for the energy chaos and energy leakage inside.
Only in chaotic energy will the energy of the Illusion Gate not alert the monitors in the laboratory.