"The whirlpool sea is so big, any strange terrain can be understood." Lei Ting said after a moment of silence, "I once saw a weathered rock mountain in the Wolfheart Kingdom, but it is somewhat similar to these stone pillars, but at best it is not so thin. It's just long."
But it's not windy underwater... Although Camilla thought so, she didn't say it.
"Wind?" Joan's voice suddenly came from her mind, "There is wind here."
"What did you say?" Camilla said subconsciously.
"Well, didn't I say it clearly enough just now?" Lei Ting coughed twice, "Then say it again... When I was in Wolf Heart"
"I'm not asking you, it's Joan!" Camilla interrupted the other party's words. Although she was a little rude, she couldn't care less about it after being surprised. "Joan seemed to be saying... There is wind at the bottom of the sea!"
All the listeners on the deck couldn't help but be stunned.
"I can't feel it, but I can hear the sound of the wind... Whoosh, don't you hear it?"
That's right, this is a spiritual exchange. As long as Joan can hear it, she should be able to. Camilla hurriedly concentrated her mind, and sure enough, in the bottomless sea water under Joan's feet, there was a faint sound of wind, as if the airflow was passing through the cave quickly.
"I'd better go on a little more," said Joan, "but I'll have to change my stance."
After she finished speaking, she untied the ties on the skirt, so that her legs were in close contact with the sea water. Cyan scales quickly emerged from her ankles and wrapped her legs into a fish-shaped tail.
In an instant, Camilla felt that the resistance and sluggishness in front of her seemed to have disappeared. With just one swing of her tail, her body sprang far away in the water, almost more flexible than a fish.
This is what Joan really looks like!
The dive speed was instantly much faster.
"Two hundred meters, the wind seems to be getting louder... There is still no change under the water."
"Four hundred meters, the surroundings are completely dark... But fortunately, Joan doesn't completely rely on light to see things. The stone pillars... are still going down, and new ones appear."
"The rope used to set the depth has ended. Can you make a few more knots?"
"Damn, how deep is it now? Six hundred or eight hundred? Joan can't be sure. Shizhu's words." Camilla, who had been stating the situation, was suddenly stunned. "No, this... how is this possible..."
"What happened?" Lei Ting asked quickly.
The big butler of Sleeping Island only felt an indescribable chill rise from behind and suddenly spread to the whole body, "Pillar, pillar... gone!"
"No, do you mean disappearing?" Lei Ting frowned, looking at the islands and reefs around the sea that had not changed, no matter how they looked like they were gone.
Camilla held her slightly trembling hand, "There is no seabed... nothing... They are suspended in the sea!"
This made everyone gasp for breath.
In Joan's field of vision, she clearly saw that several stone pillars had reached the end, but that did not mean that they had a fulcrum, but came to an abrupt end, as if the ends had been chopped off, leaving only the upper half of silence. Standing still in the water. Not only small stone pillars, but also those islands and reefs, huge stone piers stand out of thin air, and there is no support at all below.
This scene is too strange, completely beyond common sense.
"Suspended? Are you saying that the archipelago floats on the water?"
"Three gods are on top, it's all a piece of stone!"
"Woman, are you sure you read it right?"
"Impossible. Even if they can float, they can't be as motionless as they are now without anchor cables. This ocean current alone is enough to wash the entire Shadow Islands into the fjords little by little!"
The deck suddenly exploded.
"Shut up!" Lei Ting shouted, making the others calm down, "Are all the islands and reefs floating?"
"I don't know...they're not the same length," Camilla murmured. "The new pillars are still going down."
And Joan's dive speed has slowed down significantly.
Obviously, although her ability can resist the pressure brought by the deep sea, there are limits.
Just then, Camilla noticed a strange sight.
Several columns closer to Joan appear to be "stretched".
Not the overall length. They are almost like tree trunks, they are inserted straight into the bottom of the sea, and the end is not visible at all. What caught her attention were the details. The lines on the pillars and the barnacles and other attachments started from one section. The former seemed to become more slender, while the latter gradually shifted from circular to oval. Since there are normal samples within a few meters for comparison, it seems quite incongruous.
"Would you like to take a closer look?" Joan sensed her surprise. "It's really strange there."
"Well," Camila cleared her dry throat, "be careful."
Joan slowly swam to the nearest stone pillar and reached out to touch the weird barnacles, but the next moment something terrifying happened.
The big butler saw with his own eyes that the finger covered with scales grew a little bit longer.
"Huh? What's going on?" She stretched out her hand in confusion, "Is it my hallucination?"
Camilla suddenly felt a bad feeling in her heart.
Just as she was about to inform Thunder that the deep dive was temporarily suspended, a sea fish swam under Joan's eyelids.
It was an ordinary silver eel, about an arm long, but when it passed the mermaid girl, its body length increased at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in less than five meters, it turned from an eel into a similar "sea snake" "The creature. But this is not over, its sinking speed is still accelerating, and after a few breaths, the silver eel is suddenly stretched to the limit, the tail is still in the field of vision, but the head has been plunged into the boundless darkness , the length is less than 100 meters! In the blink of an eye, it disappeared into the deep sea like a streamer, as if it was sucked in by something.
Camilla just felt her scalp tingling and her hair was upside down!
She couldn't help but shouted, "Get out of there! The search is over, come up immediately!"
Too late.
Joan wiggled her tail a few times, but her body didn't move, or the speed of her lengthening equaled the speed of floating. Camilla could clearly see that her fish tail had grown to more than ten meters, but the width had not changed in the slightest. The sight looked terrifying.
Joan's thoughts also panicked, "I... what's wrong with me? Camilla... what should I do?"
"Put harder... don't stop, swim harder! You can do it!" Camilla hissed.
However, all efforts are meaningless. No matter how Joan swims, her body is constantly sinking, as if she has fallen into a quagmire. At this moment, not only her tail, but also her body and hands are distorted.
She seemed to realize something, and helplessly stretched out her arms to the top of her head, "Who is here, help me..."
"Do not!"
Before he finished speaking, his vision sank sharply, and then it became pitch black.
Camila opened her eyes and knelt down weakly on the ground. Sweat fell from the tip of her nose and dripped onto the back of her hands. Only now did she realize that she was sweating all over her body.
"What happened? Is Joan in danger?" Lei Ting stepped forward and helped her up.
It took a while for Camilla to regain her senses from her daze, "I don't know, the psychic connection... is broken."