Two hundred and forty-four chapters, Crystal Palace
Chapter 244, Crystal Palace
The keel of the huge sunken ship is still intact, but the hull has been damaged in many places and is riddled with holes. From a distance, it is wrapped with colorful seaweed, which looks like streamers in the wind on the bottom of the water. From a close look, the hull is densely covered with wild shellfish shells, which have been layered.
After hundreds of years of accumulation, it has almost formed a mottled calcified shell, with live shellfish, corals, and sea anemones growing on it.
The calcified shell formed by the layers of shellfish and coral remains not only eroded the hull, but also protected and supported it. Hundreds of years later, it became a huge ship reef in the depths of the ocean. There are many brightly colored fish that cannot be named.
While shuttled among the seaweed, the tourist also saw a nearly 60 centimeters long tortoiseshell swimming leisurely with its limbs. Under the colorful sunlight, the brown-amber carapace pattern was extremely beautiful.
The outside of the ship reef is full of life, but the inside of the sunken ship is deep in silence. The isolation of yin and yang that has been undisturbed for hundreds of years, the closer you get, the more profound you will experience it. Most people will have an inexplicable fear when diving here, and they will not dare to
But there are many brave people in the world. Didn't Mike Bush's team enter the cabin to salvage? As long as they are brave, You Fang and others have nothing to fear.
According to modern terms, this is a mixed ship carrying people and cargo. The cargo should be in the ballast bottom of the lowest cabin, and the bottom of the ship is the most severely damaged part and has fallen into the silt on the seabed. The tourists swam around the ship for a short half circle
, they discovered the traces left by Mike Bush sixteen years ago. There was a large hole on the side of the ship near the bottom. It was not damaged during the sinking. Looking at the shell sections on the edge, it was obviously cut manually in recent years.
Looking inside, it was so dark that nothing could be seen clearly. Yan Liqiang, who was following You Fang, turned on a strong searchlight. Below the cave was the bottom cabin of the ship. He could see various decayed wood fragments and pieces in the silt.
Broken porcelain pieces.
The porcelain on this ship was shipped in wooden boxes, and the gaps were protected by straw mats. Although a lot of them were broken when it sank, a lot of them were still intact. The wood has been soaked in closed seawater for hundreds of years, even if there are
The surface of the wooden box still maintains its original shape, but when you touch it with your hand, you will find that the texture has become like clay, and of course it will not float.
In fact, if this kind of wood has not been touched at all, if it falls into the hands of the traveler and uses special methods, it can be restored to hard wood and see the light of day again. The physical properties may have special changes, and it may have special secret uses, but it is very difficult to do so.
It’s not easy, and the success rate is extremely low.
You Fang glanced around and then looked deeper. The seawater in the cabin seemed to be very turbid, and the beam of the strong searchlight could not reach far. It seemed that it was swallowed and absorbed by the darkness. His spiritual consciousness was sensitive. I wonder if it was because of the closed bottom cabin.
The reason why it was opened is that the sea water inside is flowing slowly, or it may be more accurate to describe it as "squirming".
The expansion of spiritual consciousness in the water is greatly restricted, as if it has to penetrate layers of invisible pressure and invisible barriers. The range of extension and the subtlety of control are much reduced than usual.
You Fang suddenly made a gesture and pointed downwards. Cang Lan's spiritual consciousness was almost the same as that of You Fang. She was more proficient in operating secret techniques in water than him, and her soul was not injured. When You Fang reminded her, she also sensed something abnormal.
With a wave of the water thorn in his hand, this sea-blue magic weapon almost melted into the sea water and no trace could be seen, but the sea sand below formed a whirlpool, and something was brought out by the current.
Cang Lan took it in his hand. It was a pastel porcelain tea cup with a diameter of about ten centimeters and a height of about five centimeters. It had a unique five-petal rose shape and was intact. The ship was loaded with export trade porcelain produced in Jingdezhen during the Qianlong period.
Although it is not as exquisite as the royal tribute porcelain, it still has the exquisiteness and elegance of the utensils of that era.
There are hundreds of thousands of various pieces of porcelain on the ship. Although it has been thoroughly salvaged, deep-sea operations cannot be as easy as on land. The divers take risks and have to rely on the weather to cooperate. It is impossible for so many porcelains to be missed.
, it is almost impossible to clean up the scattered artifacts scattered on the seabed.
Cang Lan reached out and grabbed the tea cup and put it into a fine mesh bag hanging on her waist. A few broken pieces of porcelain also came out, swirling and scattering in the sea sand.
You Fang made another gesture, took out an underwater flashlight from the fine mesh pocket on his waist, lit it, and took the lead in swimming down from the big hole into the bottom cabin. Cang Lan followed closely and swam in, even though he was wearing a diving suit.
She is convinced, but her posture is like a deep-sea mermaid. Due to the sinking of the hull, the bottom cabin is more than two meters lower than the seabed outside. As soon as you enter the cabin, the first feeling is cold.
This kind of coldness is not only the low temperature of the water, but also accompanied by a kind of coldness that penetrates into the bone marrow. The more sensitive the person is, the more obvious it is. You Fang's perception and consciousness are far more sensitive than ordinary people imagine, and he immediately shuddered.
I felt like the blood in my whole body was about to solidify, and I had an inexplicable urge to take a big sip of strong liquor.
For practitioners of the secret arts, this kind of place is a dangerous place, especially for those who have just started and have not yet completed their cultivation. They must be careful to avoid it. Its environment is much more dangerous than the ordinary deserted mountains and wild temples. But for practitioners of the secret arts, they must be careful to avoid it.
If you have your own spiritual sense or spiritual awareness, you know how to find a suitable place for nourishment of the earth's energy spiritual hub. No one will come to such a place if nothing happens. Isn't that looking for trouble for yourself?
Even among the fish that seemed to be swimming around at will outside, none of them swam in here. You Fang and Cang Lan relied on their skill and courage and swam into the cabin one after another. Cang Lan had no other purpose.
Just follow the tourists in case something unexpected happens. The range illuminated by the flashlight is only two or three meters away, and beyond the range of the light beam is the bottomless darkness, which makes this ancient cabin that is not very empty appear particularly deep.
You Fang carefully swam along the edge of the cabin. Under the flashlight beam, you could see scattered pieces of porcelain and wooden boxes everywhere. They were also covered with a layer of fine, somewhat black sea sand. There was a broken strip at the bottom of the cabin.
The large crack may be the trace of the reef that hit the rocks more than 300 years ago. Deep in the cabin, the flashlight passed by, and Yu Fang was suddenly startled, because he saw a person lying underneath!
To be precise, it is a human-shaped corpse. It is lifeless in the cold sea water. It should have turned into bones and dregs after being soaked in the water for more than ten years. However, the appearance of this corpse is still very complete, because he is wearing the clothes from scratch.
The rubber deep diving suit is tightly wrapped around the feet. The natural decomposition speed of the rubber deep diving suit is extremely slow. Although it is full of cracks, its shape is still roughly intact. There is still vaguely identifiable oxygen that has long since decayed next to it.
bottle.
It seems that there was an accident here during the salvage. A diver died at the bottom of the sea, and the body was left here! This is obviously not a normal salvage, or in addition to the normal salvage operations on the surface, abnormal things happened here.
Salvage. Deep divers are a high-risk profession, and accidents are not uncommon. But leaving the body here unattended is obviously abnormal.
No matter how courageous Cang Lan is, she is still a big girl. When she saw this corpse in this environment, her hands shook and she even dropped the flashlight. Fortunately, there was a safety belt around her wrist, so she picked it up again. Don't
Speaking of her, even You Fang was shocked!
If the popularity of a place like this is very weak, most people will have hallucinations if they stay for a long time. This is the natural influence of the earth's atmosphere and physical environment. To give an example, someone goes to the Qin Mausoleum to visit the Terracotta Warriors and Horses. When the physical properties are dissipated, the popularity
In the prosperous hall, while holding the railing and looking at the military formation, he said: "Why can't I feel the aura of killing?" This is actually a layman's talk. If he was locked in a small dark room with a terracotta warrior and horse, what if
I'm not the kind of person with particularly strong nerves. It won't take too long and I'll probably collapse.
Deep diving itself has various illusions or hallucinations. Due to the water pressure, the surrounding environmental noise is completely different from usual. People can even hear the sound of their own blood flowing, and the sound of breathing and the sound of the surrounding water seem particularly weird.
After roughly walking around the cabin, it has been emptied. Judging from the traces left behind, a simple calculation shows that whether the original porcelain here is intact or broken, there are definitely more than 20 pieces of porcelain that were publicly salvaged by Mike Bush.
Ten thousand pieces, at least three to four to one hundred thousand pieces. It seems that Wu Pingtong's doubts are reasonable.
It may be that Mike Bush salvaged the light and dark batches in two batches, or it may be that after all the salvage was screened, the well-preserved fine products were kept, and a large number of fragments and the remaining batch of complete porcelain were handed over. Ancient Chinese
Porcelain has always been a popular variety in the Western art collection market, and in recent years, it has also been particularly popular in China.
But all this is just speculation. What Wu Pingdong saw was only records in ancient books, and what the tourists saw were only empty cabins. There is no way to confirm anything at all. There is a way that cannot be used as evidence, but it is a little confirmation, which is to sense the physical properties here.
The traces left by the breath - the most intuitive method is to use the mind disk technique.
With this in mind, You Fang activated his spiritual consciousness and carefully activated the heart disk. This was the first time for him to operate the heart disk in deep water, not to mention it was such an environment, so he was very cautious. The control of his spiritual consciousness was extremely subtle and the speed was very slow.
, planning to collect the secret method immediately if an accident occurs.
Just a moment later, an accident really happened! When You Fang realized that something was wrong, he felt that his mind calculation could no longer stop. He gently opened a door and peeked in, but he just opened a door.
There was a crack in the door, but there was a huge suction force inside the door, which suddenly pulled him in. You Fang's feeling at this moment can even be described in four words - Illusion Magic Formation!
On the four walls of the cabin, filamentous black seaweed grew crazily at an astonishing speed visible to the naked eye. If you look carefully, it looked like strange hair floating in the water. In the blink of an eye, it was densely entangled in the swimmer. Then he heard the roar of the wind,
It was also mixed with rolling thunder, and countless people were crying for help. The stormy waves were surrounding him, and it felt extremely real. Those black threads were like eerie hands, grabbing him from all directions, dragging him in an unknown direction.
The abyss of sinking.
Not only does the physical smell of porcelain remain here, but there is also a stronger smell permeating the air. You Fang's mind-reading skills have touched it. Think about it, what happened to this ship?
This phenomenon may have nothing to do with the theory of chaotic powers, gods and monsters. The tourists know that this is an ancient ship that ran aground on the rocks in the wind and waves and was silent. Eight hundred people were killed at that time. Even if this scene was not seen, the environment here and now is still unknown.
It can be imprinted in the heart. The secret technique of Fengmen cannot be used casually regardless of the environment. If a very nervous 250 dives here, such an "adventure" may not happen.
Cangzhou Iron Lion, Luoyang Ancient Tomb Mural, I don’t know how many people have visited it, and I have never heard of anyone having any trouble at the scene. However, the little wanderer was restrained by the Iron Lion and haunted by the ancient painting. It was his own
The reason. But this environment is obviously much more dangerous at this time, and You Fang had just been injured by his soul not long ago.
Ordinary people may also experience similar hallucinations if the environment is too stressful due to excessive stress. It is not fatal outside, but don’t forget that we are in the deep sea! If people in deep diving experience hallucinations, they may feel frightened, dizzy or even cause
Vomiting, almost 100% fatal, Yu Fang finally knew how the diver died.
Ordinary people may encounter this kind of situation, or more likely not, it depends on their mood and luck. It is almost impossible for You Fang to avoid accidents when he is running his heart here. This is where he is even more unlucky, but on the other hand
, after all, he is a master of secret arts. He immediately guarded his mind without losing it, converged and circulated his consciousness in an attempt to escape.
In the past, his fighting skills often brought people and minds into the picture, but now it's better that he accidentally got involved in the illusion of magic three hundred years ago.
Cang Lan was not far behind You Fang, and suddenly felt the gloomy, desperate, sad, and resentful atmosphere dormant in the silence around him. It was disturbed in an instant, gathering and entangling from all directions, and attacking Mr. Rand. And Melander was
He ran his spiritual consciousness to resist, but the power of his spiritual consciousness was greatly suppressed in the deep sea, and he could not break free for a while.
It’s broken, something is wrong! This is a silent and invisible danger. Cang Lan was startled and quickly activated her consciousness. Since she could not communicate, she did not launch any offensive secret method, but just like her previous co-stars, they complemented each other.
Assist Mr. Rand and blend the power of their consciousness together.
In this way, Cang Lan's soul was also involved. A sudden change occurred in front of her eyes. She saw black threads dancing and entangled, and she was caught in the same phantom attack as You Fang. Her reaction under water was faster, although nothing
He couldn't see it, but he waved the soft thorn in his hand, trying to use the water to force Mr. Rand to rush out.
The cabin is not big, and although the direction is unclear, no matter which direction the impact is, as long as a gap is opened in the bulkhead and left, the phantom attack caused by the environment will be destroyed naturally without attacking. However, she has not waited for it.
With further movement, the scene in front of you suddenly changed again - in the distance were the beautiful mountains, at the feet was the white sandy beach, and in front was the blue sea.
There were dark clouds rolling on the sea, there were thunder and lightning and the howling of wind and rain. A large wooden ship was slowly sinking. Mr. Rand stood side by side with her and said unhurriedly: "Here is a piece of soul that I am carrying.
Heaven and earth, thank you girl for helping me, but I was also involved in the phantom attack."
You Fang's specially made scroll is not afraid of water and fire, so he took it into the sea this time. When he was attacked by an illusion just now, he took it out of his net pocket. Cang Lan came to help him, and his consciousness was compatible, so it was very convenient for him.
She was also brought into the picture, otherwise it would be really difficult to "invite" such a master in. Wearing diving suits and without microphones and communication cables, the two of them naturally cannot speak at the bottom of the sea, but they can use this strange
way to communicate.
Cang Lan was stunned for a moment before reacting and exclaimed: "Mr. Rand's methods are really mysterious. He went to the depths of the sea and actually brought this junior into a crystal palace."
You Fang was startled for a moment, then smiled and said: "You describe my world as a crystal palace? You are worthy of the name of the Dragon Girl of the South China Sea. Who said what?"
Cang Lan also laughed: "This is the bottom of the sea. What is this if not the Crystal Palace?... Mr. Rand's wonderful method can protect the soul, but such a spell consumes a lot of spiritual power and cannot last long. He is in danger.
Now, I’d better ask this junior to take you out of the cabin as soon as possible... If I have the opportunity in the future, I would like to appreciate the wonders of the legendary Crystal Palace in detail."
She told You Fang her plan to use the energy of water to coerce him out of the cabin, which she was good at. You Fang shook his head and said: "Don't panic and worry. With our level of skill, this is just a small trouble.
It's not difficult to get out of trouble. This opportunity is rare, so you let me try a secret method first, and if anything happens, you can take me out again."
As soon as he finished speaking, the scene changed. The sunken ship in the distance quickly came closer, the sea surface rose, and the two of them seemed to sink to the bottom of the sea with the ship. The "Crystal Palace" disappeared, and the illusion attack with black threads dancing in front of them was still there. However,
Cang Lan could already see Melander. He was wearing a diving suit and holding a cold cloud crystal in his hand. The white crystal gave off a soft light and illuminated the seawater between the black threads. There seemed to be countless gloomy shadows in all directions.
Drifting in the darkness makes people shudder.
The cold cloud crystal in You Fang's hand is spiritually refined and refined, and it is also refined into the invisible soil of the underworld. It is something that can be encountered but cannot be sought. It is the pair of crystals he gave to Xiang Yinghua in Songhe Valley.
1. Xiang Yinghua rushed to Hainan this time. In addition to the Tianji bracelet, she also took this pair of crystals with her. She knew that You Fang was good at using Yin and Yang to create evil formations. This time when she went to the sea, she also asked him to bring these pair of crystals with her.
Take the stone with you.
The surrounding shadows let out shrill screams, and the white light emitted by the crystal also shivered. The floating black threads on all sides seemed to be shaken by the white light, turning into traces of pure mist, and strangely disappeared in the crystal.
In the stone.
Cang Lan frowned secretly and saw that the secret technique used by Mr. Rand should be to use a cold cloud crystal as a spiritual guide to absorb the surrounding invisible pure Yin Qi that was disturbed.
Theoretically, this is a way to break the illusion at this moment, but in this cold and gloomy ancient ship on the seabed, it is impossible to absorb such a strong Yin Qi, let alone the physical properties of the water itself that can gather Yin.
!Doing this will only make the gathering gloomy evil spirit more intense.
As Cang Lan expected, the dancing black threads became denser and denser, almost forming an opaque undersea cloud. Only the trembling white light emitted by the spar protected her and Mr. Rand in the middle. However, she
But he doesn't know that at this moment, You Fang's heart is already blooming with joy!