Chapter 2378: Dividing the Sea

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 elegant and streamlined like 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.

"There are many uglier creatures on the seabed." 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 beast 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' opinion, since illusions can obscure the vision of sea beasts, it is best not to touch these sea beasts, so as not to alarm 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 enough to detect the existence of illusions at all. Even though it had the instinct of a beast and sensed something fishy in this direction, it still didn't find anything after cruising around for a long time.

After a while, it swayed its long body and disappeared from everyone's sight.

When 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 obviously 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. We can only be on high alert, avoid the vortex as soon as possible, or destroy the aggregate form of the vortex.

In just a few minutes, they destroyed a dozen 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 used the water structure method to destroy the nature of the vortex, and was able to stabilize the force field in time.

However, after Nice destroyed the vortex, some troubles also 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 big, 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 attention of the sea beast 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: "Just go and take a look and you'll find out."

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 change 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 eyes of the laboratory. Maybe when it broke in, it cooked the sea beasts with fire.

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 surface, but his heart was in turmoil.

Because of the location of the laboratory, it 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 full of light mist!

Although the water wall is constantly squeezing, the pressure of the sea will conquer this temporary seabed at any time, but every time it reaches the critical value, the laboratory will isolate and extract the nearby water flow again to maintain such a large-scale sea division.

And the time of isolating the water wall is at noon. This is why the ocean current fluctuates at noon, because... the sea division begins.

"The sea division will expand every once in a while? Why does your laboratory spend so much effort?" Nice looked at Reynolds in confusion: "With this time and ability, it is enough to build a pure seabed laboratory."

The underwater laboratory sounds very stressful, but there are quite a lot of ways to avoid water pressure. Otherwise, why would there be a mermaid city, why would there be an underwater city like Lloyds? In addition, the headquarters of the Song of the Deep Sea is also under the sea.

Therefore, there are actually quite a lot of ways to build a pure underwater laboratory. Even if the most expensive method is used to build it, it will definitely cost less than this kind of pumping water out of the sea every once in a while.

Reynolds shook his head: "I don't know what the lab's top management thinks. Since I came to the lab, the sea division has become a normal thing."

At first, Reynolds might still be confused about this, but after seeing the sea division frequently, even the most amazing things will become common, and the desire to get to the bottom of it will fade.

Seeing that he couldn't get anything out of the question, 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 lab, and no matter how hard they try, they can't figure out anything.

Instead of focusing on these details now, it's better to go to the lab first and then slowly find the solution to the problem.

"Will we be discovered by the people in the lab if we pass through the water wall?" Angel looked at Reynolds.

"No." After Reynolds finished speaking, he hesitated for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be."

Nice: "It shouldn't be? Don't you have an accurate answer? Will it be?"

Reynolds was silent for a moment and said, "I always thought it wouldn't be, but the last time Nausicaa and I went to the laboratory, we were discovered by the backup left by No. 17. At that time, I just thought it was an accident, but then I thought about it carefully. I made a lot of preparations before returning to the laboratory. After most people left, I took advantage of the guard handover to enter the laboratory. But even so, I was discovered. Now I think it's a bit strange."

"Maybe, it was discovered before we entered the laboratory. But I don't know which link went wrong."

Reynolds also has no decisive evidence, just a guess.

But thinking carefully, Reynolds's guess is not aimless.

Such a secret organization, let's call it an organization for the time being, has no sense of existence in the southern region at all. Even if all kinds of forces are mobilized to find it, only a little marginal clue is found: the two apprentices have witnessed an insignificant chase.

If this organization is weak, that's fine. No one cares about it anyway, so it doesn't matter whether it's secretive or not. But from the information we have so far, their strength is not weak. Their high-end combat power is even better than that of most wizard families; even their apprentices can be comparable to supernovas.

Such an organization is unknown in the South Region, and it must be because they chose to be secretive.

Since they chose to take a secret route, the laboratory itself will also maintain a high degree of confidentiality to prevent its existence from being leaked. In this case, maybe every link has some kind of prevention mechanism.

Including stepping into the water wall.

"If we are also discovered when entering from the water wall, what should we do now?" Nausicaa asked.

"Even if the water wall may expose us, it doesn't matter. Anyway, we will definitely be discovered in the end, so there is no need to care about these water walls." Nice said.

That's what he said, but he is about to face an unknown opponent and an unknown battle. Whoever shows fewer cards will win more. Through monitoring, the laboratory is likely to detect their presence in advance. Angel and Nice are also quite famous in the southern region. If they are prepared for them, they will definitely be in a disadvantageous position once a battle occurs.

Nice: "Then don't go through the water wall, go directly out of the sea and enter from the air."

Nice's suggestion is also a way. However, if the laboratory is determined to take comprehensive precautions, there should be a corresponding monitoring mechanism for the way to go in the air.

However, they still have to enter the other side of the water wall. Since they may be monitored, they will choose a less likely one.

Angel finally decided to enter from the air. At that time, he will change the illusion to nightmare, reduce the sense of existence, blur and distort the direct perception of the outside world.

In this way, it can avoid being discovered 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.

These redundant energies were not aimed at them, but something seemed to have happened behind the water wall, causing the energy to leak out.

Everyone paused.

Nice sensed the energy coming through the water wall. "This is primitive magic. I feel the rhythm of water, and..."

Dangros suddenly interrupted and said, "I felt the power of the flame, such a strong control. I clearly felt that the inner essence of the flame was constantly condensing and could explode at any time, but it was bound by a regular force. Even the afterglow did not completely lose control."

Dangros's words were complicated, but in fact he only expressed one meaning: there might be a fire wizard inside.

Dangros, a flame life, releases fire indiscriminately, and it will not hurt itself anyway, so it does not know how to restrain.

Only fire wizards, or flame life that has been trained, will begin to learn to restrain, so as not to hurt the enemy and themselves.

When it comes to fire wizards...Angel and Nice looked at each other, and a name popped up in their minds.

Could it be that the "fire walker" Ferro caused such a commotion inside?

Did a battle happen inside to cause such energy leakage?

If it was really a battle, Ferro on one side, and an opponent who controlled the power of the water element on the other side might be.

"What should we do now?" Nice looked at Angel. Although it was just a guess, the possibility of Ferro was very high.

"Wait a little longer." 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 they were waiting and Ferro was in trouble, that would be bad.

Nice was about to say something, but at this moment, Angel said: "Okay, let's go in."

Nice: "...Ah?"

Didn't you say you had to wait? How come the waiting was over in less than two seconds?

Angel didn't explain much, but when he sensed the afterglow of a new wave of energy coming over, he stretched out his hand directly, and the hidden energy flowed in his palm.

In the flickering light, an ancient door appeared in front of them.

"I have gathered the energy leaking out of the Void Gate to the greatest extent. While the energy inside is complicated, let's go in now."

The reason why Angel had to wait was not to confirm whether Ferro was inside, but to wait for the energy chaos and energy leakage inside.

Only in the chaotic energy, the energy of the Void Gate will not be immediately detected by the people inside.

In this way, it can maximize their hiding.