The water vesicles slowly rose to the surface of the sea. As the surrounding sea water receded, Hao Ren found himself in an unusually calm water. He looked around and found a dark, turtle-shaped island not far from the front left. There was nothing on the island, but the surrounding area of the island was clear and clear, and the air was excellent. He did not see what he expected. A thick fog.
"You said this place is called the Island of Fog?" Lily looked at the black island slowly approaching in surprise, "It doesn't look like there is any fog at all."
"Look around," Shakira pointed the tip of her tail at the surrounding sea, "Can you see any reference? Even a wave."
Vivienne's eyes widened: "There's nothing... This water surface is so unbelievably quiet, you can't even see a little ripple?!"
The entire sea area as far as the eye can see is so calm that it is almost eerie, and there is no reference object on the sea level when looking far away. The sea water is as calm as a perfect mirror polished by hand, and there is not even the slightest wrinkle. The sky light looks uniform from any direction, and the sun hangs in the middle of the sky as if it had been finely tuned, casting a uniform light. This sunlight adds to the weirdness of this water area.
The small black island not far away is the only strange color between the sea and the sky. Besides, the whole world seems to have become a monotonous blue and white color, and the boundary is clearly divided into upper and lower parts. There is no doubt— This is not a natural phenomenon.
"Are we still on the earth?" Hao Ren patted his pocket and muttered in a voice almost to himself, and the voice of the data terminal rang in his mind: "Coordinate comparison... the current location is still the earth, but There is a layer of enchantment-like things around it, which has changed the natural landscape within the range. It has obvious traces of artificial encryption, but we have already entered once, and next time this machine is confident in deciphering the entry rules of this place."
"This is the island of mist. The mist is not on the island, but in the entire space," Soma said while swimming around the crowd, introducing the only entrance to the world of sea monsters. "Only by passing through several correct nodes in a row can you see this island of mist in front of you. Once any other route approaches this water area, it will encounter an eternal dense fog. Even the most advanced human ships will be circling After a few big circles, go back the same way. Many navigators who are not very easy to fool have recorded the dense fog in this place, so we have to change the rules of entry and exit of the dense fog and the induction position every once in a while. It is really difficult for those explorers I don't know why they are so interested in knocking on our door."
"Only by diving from the coast of the Misty Island can you enter Nasathorn. The water around this island is the most critical 'node' leading to Nasathorn," Shakira swam over to lead Nangong Wuyue hand, "little sister. Do you remember the information about the water flow that passed by just now?"
As a sea monster, Nangong Wuyue could sense the "route" just now. She nodded, her face full of surprise: "I didn't expect my hometown to be so hidden... It's much better than I imagined. No wonder I tried several times before and couldn't find Siren City."
"Your mother may have kept you away from Nasathorn to protect you, but it is a pity that you cannot return to your hometown." Soma also swam over, "From now on, you can freely enter and exit this place, and you can Bring these few friends who are here today—but no others. At last, though Nasathorn seems to be in trouble, you are welcome home. Young sister."
The three sea monsters rolled over and jumped into the water. Their scales reflected the golden light in the sunlight. Doudou was poking his head out of Hao Ren's collar to observe the outside world. Seeing this, she cheered and jumped down, flicking her tail vigorously to catch up with the three "sisters". The little guy jumped out of the water excitedly from time to time along the way. Like a dolphin, he turned around in the air and greeted everyone: "Water! So much water! I like this place!"
The boundless sea seemed to give the little one a sense of familiarity with the world of her hometown, and she seemed extremely excited just now.
And Hao Ren and the others stepped on the foam and water under their feet, and gradually approached the small black island behind the three sea monsters. Looking at the scene on the island, Nangong Sanba seemed to have seen something interesting, raised his hand and greeted the sea monster in the distance, "Can you go to the island to see?"
"No problem," Shakira's voice came from the front, "but don't stay too long!"
A group of people set foot on this black turtle-backed island that has never been recorded on any nautical chart. Its regular shape does not seem like a natural creation at all, and the whole island is as natural as a whole piece of metal device. Its surface is covered with large but not deep grooves. Lily bent down and touched the black and cold "ground", exclaiming: "Is it warm?!"
"There is an energy reaction in the depths of this island." The voice of the data terminal sounded in the minds of Hao Ren and others, "It is the part of a huge spherical device that is exposed to the water. This ball is floating in the water, and the machine scans it. One hundred and thirty-five pipelines are connected to the bottom of the sea, which may be a system that interacts with the heat energy of the bottom of the sea. And this device itself is the source of the mist barrier."
Some sparsely distributed man-made things can be seen on the black island. They are shaped like corals, protruding from the ground in clusters, but there is a faint fluorescence floating on the surface. Elizabeth poked one of the "corals" curiously, and the latter immediately made a pleasant wind chime.
Then the little girl's face was ashamed.
Elizabeth was still happy: "It's so exciting!"
"I thought sea monsters could only do magic..." Hao Ren looked at all this in amazement, "I didn't expect them to make such a thing."
"Can't magic be used to build automatic facilities?" Vivienne asked back, "And a race that is not disturbed by the outside world has developed in the deep sea for 10,000 years. How could they not build something powerful to guard their homes. After all, In a sense, they are the earliest civilization on this planet."
At this time, there was a sound of water behind everyone, and Shakira climbed onto the shore to greet everyone: "Are you ready to dive?"
The group traveled to the deep sea in a water vesicle. During the dive, Hao Ren and the others had been paying attention to the direction of the island of mist. They really saw the real appearance of the "island" underwater as described by the data terminal. It was a gigantic sphere, and the subsurface part was even more complicated. Below the center line of the sphere, many shimmering protrusions can be seen. They light and dark with a certain rhythm, as if responding to the water flow around the sea area. And at the bottom of this giant ball are a large number of black cables that look like deep sea cables, they hang down into the deep water scattered, and finally disappear in an endless darkness, no one knows where they extend.
It's not a technological artifact, it's a gigantic magical contraption—but to Earth civilization, it's no different from advanced alien science.
After the water vesicle dived to a certain depth, it changed its course and began to move away from the island of mist. Hao Ren noticed that there were some bright light clusters flashing outside from time to time. They might be glowing animals in the deep sea, or Some kind of "signpost" set by the Kraken. Doudou became interested after wandering around outside, and now he is swimming around the outer wall of the water vesicle, jumping in and out from the bubbles that open on the water wall from time to time, "Roll" is lying on the side of Doudou's entrance and exit. She guards carefully beside the hole of the cat, and she is responsible for preventing Doudou from falling—this cat knows that if she does not take good care of the fish, not only will she be beaten by the fish, but she will probably never eat small dried fish for the rest of her life...
"We should be crossing a space interlayer," Y'zaks suddenly sensed, he looked up at the dark water wall above, "I feel something has changed... The magic of the siren is very good, the space they created The interlayer is so smooth it's almost imperceptible."
"Thus, people who accidentally stray into it have almost no way to get out alive. Before you realize it, you have entered a boundless water world," Shakira said next to her, "although we didn't recruit anyone. Who cares about living in his own small kingdom, every year there are still many reckless adventurers who will take the initiative to break in, they will 100% get lost in this layered and invisible deep sea maze, we have sent many sea monsters to Patrolling outside, we will try our best to help those who are in distress, but it is inevitable that some unlucky people will miss the rescue. But I have been away from here for a hundred years, I don’t know if there are any humans who have broken into here recently.”
At this time, a bright light appeared at the front of the water vesicle, and Soma's voice came from the front: "I can see the great wall of Nasathorn." (To be continued~^~)