Volume 19 Chapter 241 Underwater Passage

Looking at the inner beast that suddenly turned into a black hole, I really didn't know what to say, but before I could sigh, the guy actually changed again. The inner beast that had turned into a black hole suddenly and inexplicably exploded violently. Of course, the explosion was just an image, not a real explosion. We just saw an explosion in front of us, but we didn't feel anything physically. A shock wave or something like that.

In fact, the explosion in front of us did not last long. Just after the explosion ended, the environment around us suddenly changed again. The cave that was originally glowing with red light is now almost completely covered by the inner beast. The light from the brazier has completely disappeared, replaced by white spots all around. Now we don't feel like we are standing in a cave at all, but as if we are suspended in space, surrounded by billions of stars, which look incomparably beautiful. Of course, all this is just an illusion. We can clearly feel the rocky ground and gravity under our feet. The feeling of being in space is just a visual effect.

The surrounding universe image lasted for about a minute and then suddenly stopped, and then the entire cave returned to its original appearance. As for the inner beast, it turned back into a ball of blue smoke and shrank back into the hole in the wall.' In the hole.

Su Lun reminded me: "These inner beasts will not stay in front of you for too long. They will return to their lair after showing your inner world."

I nodded and said, "These guys are really strange creatures."

Su Lun smiled and said: "I think your psychology is even weirder. This is the first time I have seen someone's psychological reaction to the birth of the entire universe. This is really an exaggeration!"

In fact, not only Su Lun, I also saw it. The previous sun, whether it was a black hole, actually paved the way for the future universe. The whole process connected together is actually the birth of the universe, but what my mental state shows is actually the birth of the universe, which is really strange to say.

Although I don't know why I saw such a picture, I didn't bother to think about it. If I really needed psychological counseling, I would consider going to a professional institution instead of relying on the pictures presented by the mental beast to make random guesses.

After seeing the inner beast, we began to concentrate on moving forward. To be honest, this cave is really deep. We had walked more than three kilometers before, and after meeting the inner beast, we walked at least another three kilometers before finally reaching the passage leading to the bottom of the cave. After passing through a relatively narrow hole, we suddenly entered a huge underground cave. The area of ​​this cave is at least as big as four football fields, but the entire cave only has a small piece of land of no more than 200 square meters next to the entrance, and beyond that is a large underground water area.

Before I could clearly see the situation in the water area, I suddenly saw a large group of people surrounding me and shouting: "Sir, do you want to buy an underwater breathing helmet?"

Before anyone here could finish speaking, a person next to him immediately shouted: "I have a water-proof amulet here. Can you buy one, sir?"

"Sir, why don't you buy my underwater breathing apparatus? It's simple, easy to use, and cheap."

"Sir, you'd better buy a helmet. This thing is comfortable to wear."

"gentlemen……"

"..."

Just when I almost fainted from the noise made by a group of people around me, Su Lun suddenly shouted and pushed all those people aside, and then said: "How do you do business? Why do you surround customers like this?" Choose?" After scolding those people, Su Lun turned to me and said: "President Ziri, we are going to go into the water in a while. Do you have the ability to breathe underwater? If not, it is best to buy some underwater equipment and bring it with you. , the water channel in front is quite long, and you will definitely not be able to get through it just by holding your breath. But let me explain first, the underwater devices here are very expensive. I asked you before in the city if you needed supplies, and I took you out after you said no. , you can’t blame me for the expensive things here.”

I smiled, pulled down the helmet visor, and said, "No, my helmet has underwater breathing function."

As soon as I heard that my helmet had underwater breathing function, all those people surrounding me immediately dispersed. I was so surrounded that I couldn't tell much about it before, but now I realized that there were at least twenty or thirty local players gathered here. Some of these people sell various underwater breathing devices to people, while others are guides waiting for customers. In addition, in addition to these people, I also found a large group of foreigners, but I knew they were tourists at a glance, and the route they came in seemed to be different from ours. I glanced around and realized that there was more than one entrance to this place. We entered only one of them. There were three other entrances leading to here. Counting the one we entered, there were four passages.

Su Lun saw me looking at those passages and immediately explained: "Those passages have different exits. One of them is a safe passage for non-combatants, and the other two are the same passages as the one we came in, but we This way is the closest."

I nodded and was about to say something, when suddenly I heard someone next to me calling us.

"Hello, we are tourists from France. Are you a combat professional?"

I turned to look at the speaker. This guy was wearing a very gorgeous armor, but I soon discovered that there was a special mark on the chest of his armor. This sign is a distinguishing symbol, which means to tell others that the armor on this person is a decorative clothing, not an armor with real attributes. To put it simply, this foreigner is a non-combat player and does not have any attack power.

After sizing up this person, I nodded and asked, "What's the matter?"

After hearing this, the man immediately said: "Oh, that's it. I am the temporary representative of this self-guided tour group here. We heard that there will be monsters along the way ahead, so we want to find a few combat players to protect us. Let's go there." After he finished speaking, he quickly added: "Of course, this is not free. We can pay you a total of three hundred crystal coins."

"Sorry, I'm not short of money." There were at least thirty foreigners in the group, and if there were only three of them, they would have brought them. I can't stand the dragging pace of so many thirty people.

When the man heard my refusal, he immediately asked: "Is it because the money is too little? We can increase it to four hundred crystal coins."

"Sorry, it's not the lack of money, it's just that there are too many of you." Of course I don't mind earning a little extra money on the side, as it won't delay things anyway. But there are too many people and it’s not possible for me to take care of them exclusively. I think making extra money is based on the premise that there is no added burden. Bringing a few people is not a problem, but bringing dozens of people is a problem. Moreover, looking at such a large group of people, it is obvious that there are a lot of problems.

After listening to what I said, the man said goodbye and ran back to the team to tell the others what I meant, while I ignored them and listened to Su Lun introducing me to the precautions for entering the water.

There is actually an underground river connected to the body of water in front of us, but the water flow is very slow, so there is basically no need to worry about the water flow. The width of the river is about seven or eight meters. The water quality is excellent, clear and translucent, and there are many luminous fish growing in the river. It is equivalent to installing lighting equipment in the river. Therefore, it is said that not only is it not dark at all, it may be darker than The visibility in the cave above is even better.

In addition to these wonderful surroundings, there are of course dangers. The first is that there is a large carnivorous fish in the river. It is at least five meters long and is quite big. This kind of thing has a ferocious nature. Although it mainly feeds on those small glowing fish, it also often attacks players. Although the level of these fish is not high, because they are aquatic creatures and have high adaptability in the water, they are very difficult to deal with. After all, having to fight hand-to-hand with fish in the water would be very disadvantageous for any normal human being. This is the same as when a shark comes ashore and even a puppy can’t get enough of it.

The things Su Lun told me to pay attention to were about this kind of fish. According to him, there are a lot of these fish, and they are easily excited by the smell of blood, so it is best not to provoke them, because once they start fighting, they will definitely attract more. Even if I am not afraid of them, it is not good to waste time, right? ? According to Su Lun, although these fish have bad tempers, they are not crazy and attack everything. The reason why they attack players is because they regard players as their food, which is the kind of fish that can glow. The main reason why this happens is that players' armor often has some reflective things, such as gems and the like. Because there are many luminous fish in the river, when the big fish approaches, it is easy to see the reflection of the gem and mistake the gem for that kind of small fish. In other words, when these big fish attack players, they are not really planning to attack people. They are actually attacking the reflective gem.

"You mean you just need to cover all the reflective things on your body, right?"

Su Lun nodded and said: "That's it, it's just that you, President Ziri..."

I looked down at my body and found that the problem was indeed quite big. When I wore the magic dragon suit before, I really didn't have many gems on me, so it was easy to block it. But the problem is that due to the fusion and upgrade of national weapons, the Demonic Dragon Suit has now become the Divine Dragon Suit. The attribute improvement is indeed very satisfying, but the number of gems has indeed increased a lot. What is particularly troublesome is that the main color of the Shenlong suit is relatively bright. The previous Magic Dragon suit only had some golden lines in addition to black color. However, although the current Dragon suit still has black as the main tone, the texture of the shell of the suit is different from before. .

The black part of the magic dragon suit is similar to matte material. The black is like black frosted glass and is completely non-reflective. But the black part of the current Shenlong suit seems to be made of black ceramics. Although it is also black, it is black and shiny, and it is also unusually bright. What's worse is that in addition to the black color, the Shenlong suit also has a lot of red and gold decorations. The area is many times larger than the golden lines on the previous Magic Dragon suit. . You must know that red and gold are very jumping colors on the black background, and they look very flashy at first glance.

To put it bluntly, the Shenlong suit is a set of exaggerated armor that is extremely arrogant. Although at first glance it is not as flashy as the Bright Emperor suit I gave to Matsumoto Masako, its flamboyant style is not much worse than the Bright Emperor suit. Although in the real world, turning yourself into a lightbulb is to prepare yourself as a target, this is a game. There is not such a big gap between the attack and protection capabilities of various weapons and armors here. Therefore, according to the law in "Zero" that the better the equipment attributes, the more beautiful the appearance, even if you wear it as a big light bulb, it will generally be fine, because Equipment that is as arrogant as a light bulb also means that the attributes of your equipment are indeed so high that others cannot beat it.

In any case, it is obvious that the dragon armor cannot be worn in the water this time. Of course, it’s even more impossible to switch to the Silver Moon trumpet. The oath suit is basically a peacock suit, and the costumes worn at the carnival may not be as flashy as this, so it is obviously not suitable to change to the Silver Moon suit. But I have a way to deal with this.

"Little Dragon Girl."

Following my call, the little dragon girl immediately appeared beside me.

"Hey, do you want to go into the water? Why didn't you ask Grandma to call me out?" Seeing the water in front of her, Xiao Longnu immediately understood what I meant.

"There are a lot of strange fish down here, and I don't want to waste time fighting them. Just help me scare them away later."

"No problem, leave this to me."

My method is to let the little dragon girl drive Longwei to scare away all those fish. Both divine dragons and giant dragons have dragon power, and they can also scare many ordinary creatures. The dragon power of the little dragon girl can at least induce fear and awe in creatures with low IQs below level 800. Of course, there is nothing you can do if you encounter creatures that are completely brainless like insects. Also, Longwei doesn't seem to be of much use to creatures with high intelligence.

Su Lun has never met Little Dragon Girl, but he knows that I have many magic pets. After seeing the little dragon girl, he immediately asked excitedly: "Is this the legendary human pet? So beautiful!"

I ignored Su Lun, but directly waved my hand and said: "Get into the water, let's go find the altar right away."

When Su Lun and Xiao Longnu heard what I said, they turned around and were about to go into the water, but before they could take a step forward, they heard someone from behind say, "Can you please take us with you?"

I had refused once before, but I didn't expect the other party to bother me again. I turned around impatiently and prepared to drive them away, but as soon as I turned around, I realized that it was not the same guy. Of course, these foreigners are also blond and blue-eyed, but they are not the same person as the one just now.

Seeing me turn around, the person in charge said: "Hello, we are the self-guided tour group just now. However, our self-guided tour group is a team that everyone put together by themselves. In fact, it is not organized. I just heard that you think we are That’s too much, so how about just taking the five of us?”

There were indeed only five people who came this time, including the one who was talking to me, a total of two men and three women. The person I was talking to was almost two meters tall, and his figure was even more exaggerated than the governor's. His muscles seemed to be glued together with a pile of rocks. If such a guy appeared in front of someone in real life, most people would probably be a little timid unconsciously. After all, this guy looks like a brown bear, which is really oppressive. The most disgusting thing is that this guy seems to be specifically trying to show off his muscles. He is only wearing a white vest on his upper body, and it seems to be a bit small. The muscles of this guy are stretched tight, which makes him feel even more... As strong as a bear.

In addition to this bear-like macho man, there is another male who is about 1.8 meters tall. Unfortunately, standing next to this man, he looks very short. Of course, I'm actually worse than him. Even if I'm a little taller now, I'm only 1.73 meters tall, which is half a head shorter than the 1.8 meter tall guy, let alone that alien giant.

The three women are all beautiful, and two of them are white. They have the look of a standard cheerleader, a typical Western figure, and are extremely plump. But it is true that it is beautiful. The remaining woman is Asian, but I don’t know where she comes from, and she seems to be a bit mixed-race, but she doesn’t look like a purebred. Although this one is also plump, she is much slimmer compared to the previous two cheerleader-like women.

"You want to come with me?"

The macho man nodded and said: "If you agree. Of course we will pay. Twenty crystal coins per person, a total of one hundred. Just take us to the altar at the bottom of the cave."

The altar in this cave is said to be a famous tourist attraction, so there are many tourists. I looked at these five people and thought it would be okay to bring five more people, so I nodded and agreed.

The five of them were very excited when they heard that I had agreed, and it seemed that they were already ready. The clothes on my body are directly suitable for entering the water. Compared with the scarcity of space equipment among combat professionals, almost every non-combatant has a space equipment. Except for those old men and women who only enter the game to use auxiliary sleep, basically no non-combat professional does not have space equipment. . However, this kind of space equipment for non-combatants cannot be equipped with anything with sexual properties. To put it simply, they cannot install equipment, items, resources, medicines and other combat-related things for combat professions. However, our space equipment can, on the other hand, contain things for non-combat professions, but generally they cannot. That’s what people do.

All five people had changed their clothes, and they had also bought the necessary breathing equipment for entering the water, so after receiving confirmation, we completed the transaction and entered the water immediately. These five people had previously bought water-avoiding charms. I think if you are just doing sightseeing, this thing is indeed the best underwater equipment.

The water-proof charm itself is a small triangular piece of paper that can be hung around the neck with a string. As soon as it touches water, this thing will immediately activate itself to form a bubble slightly larger than the head of the holder to ensure that the user can breathe normally. Although this bubble can be changed in shape by external pressure, it will not burst, and it can automatically exchange oxygen with the outside world. The most important thing is that this thing does not block your vision and is much more comfortable than wearing a helmet. Of course, the underwater breathing apparatus doesn't block the view, but it has to be held in the mouth, so it doesn't feel as comfortable as the bubbles. The only thing to note is that this talisman has a time limit. The talisman starts timing from the moment it is activated, and disappears as soon as the time is up. Of course, there are charms with different prices to choose from, the difference is only in duration.

After a few of us went into the water together, Xiao Longnu swam in the water for a few times and then suddenly started to transform. Of course, because it was not that wide here, she just became more than 20 meters long and did not completely restore her original size. . Otherwise, if she completely changes back to her original body shape, the length of this passage will be enough, but the width will not. Xiao Longnu's complete body diameter is about *** meters, which is slightly larger than this underwater passage. Even if she can squeeze through, if she blocks the entire passage like this, it will inevitably cause changes in the water flow, which will make it even more troublesome.

Now Xiao Longnu maintains a length of twenty meters, and the diameter of her body is only about two meters. She is relatively flexible in this seven or eight meter wide passage.

Those five people didn't know that Little Dragon Girl was actually a dragon, and they frightened one after entering the water. However, they also reacted after discovering that I actually climbed on the little dragon girl's back and grabbed her dragon horns. They had seen Little Dragon Girl following me before on the ground, and although they were not a combat professional, they definitely knew about the various monsters in the game, so they didn't think it was a big deal to see Little Dragon Girl transform. It's just a matter of surprise and curiosity.

After I climbed onto Little Dragon Girl's horns, I immediately shouted to the people behind me and Su Lun to let them grab the mane on Little Dragon Girl's back. There is no dorsal fin on the back of the dragon, but a line of hair like horse mane extending from the back of the head to the end of the tail. After hearing my words, several of them immediately swam to the little dragon girl and grabbed the mane tightly, and then the little dragon girl started to swim forward.

Although Xiao Longnu had deliberately slowed down in order to take care of the health of those people, the speed was still quite exaggerated for those people. Although their heads are protected by bubbles, their bodies are actually soaked in water. Moving underwater at such a high speed, the irritating signals from their skin reminded them that they were moving very fast.

Under Su Lun's guidance, the little dragon girl dived all the way down and reached the bottom of the cave within a few meters. This place is half a combat area and half a tourist spot, so in order to take care of non-combat players, the water surface is not set very deep. After all, there is a limit to how deep a normal person can dive without equipment. Even if this standard is relaxed to a certain extent in the game, it can't be hundreds of meters deep like a pure combat area, right? In that kind of place, ordinary people would have to turn into human cakes when they went there.

After reaching the bottom of the water, Su Lun fumbled and pulled out something like a grenade from his body. He was about to use it when I called him. "What is that?"

"Underwater torches, used for lighting." Su Lun said.

"Then there's no need for it." After I finished speaking, I lowered my head and shouted, "Little Dragon Girl."

"I know." Following Xiao Longnu's response, the surrounding area was suddenly illuminated with bright light. At this time, Xiao Longnu's whole body was like a light bulb, emitting soft golden light and illuminating the surrounding area in a golden color.

"Okay, show me the way."

Su Lun was stunned for a moment, then pointed to the bottom of the lake below and said, "Have you seen those short stone pillars with strange shapes? Just follow them."

Inheriting the situation in the previous channel, there are obviously artificial traces on the bottom of the lake. The bottom of the lake, which is full of sand and gravel, has a row of stone piles one or two feet above the lake bed. These stone piles are arranged all the way forward at intervals of two meters, basically like road signs. We followed these stones and quickly found a large hole diagonally downwards, with a slight green light shining out of it. After seeing the hole, Xiao Longnu immediately extinguished the light on her body, and now the light in the hole became even more obvious.

"There is an underground river below. Be careful. There are a lot of those strange fish."

Xiao Longnu didn't answer Su Lun's words and dived down directly. After passing through a short passage, we immediately entered the river below. The situation here is indeed the same as Su Lun said. The river is full of fish that are flashing green or blue fluorescence. Some of these fish are big and some are small. The big one can grow to more than two feet long, and the small one is only slightly longer than a human finger.

Due to the large number of these luminous fish, the entire river is bright and the visibility is very good. From here I can directly see the situation more than fifty meters ahead.

"Which way are we going?" Xiao Longnu asked.

"Just go forward, the river behind will become narrower and narrower, and people will not be able to cross at all."

Xiao Longnu nodded and immediately swam forward. As big as Xiao Longnu, the small fish along the way were so frightened that they jumped around even if they didn't have the power of the dragon. Fortunately, Xiao Longnu only moved forward close to the bottom of the river bed, so those small fish could still run over from the top. However, more fish were frightened and fled forward in our direction. As a result, more and more escaping fish gathered, and finally a fish ball like a lighting lamp appeared in front of us.

Not long after we followed the fish ball, the fish ball in front of us suddenly stopped violently and rolled violently. Before I could figure out what was going on, I saw a big mouth full of sharp teeth emerge from the fish school and swallowed a lot of small fish.

When Su Lun saw the thing, he immediately warned: "This is the thing, everyone, be careful."

Although Su Lun warned him to be careful, Xiao Longnu didn't care about the fish at all and just got under it. The fish was no fool. After discovering the little dragon girl, it immediately stuck to the roof of the cave, obviously avoiding us. After all, animals all have instincts. Even a tiger running rampant in the mountains would not run if it suddenly saw a tank coming from the side? Although the tiger doesn't know how powerful the tank is, it at least knows that the tank is much bigger than it is, so it will turn around and run away without hesitation.

Facts have proved that my method is very effective. The ferocious big fish only dares to be aggressive with things smaller than itself, but suddenly it wilts when it sees a guy who is more than ten times bigger than itself.

After successfully passing the river, we turned into a tributary under the guidance of Su Lun, and then followed the waterway all the way up. After advancing less than fifty meters, we entered a body of water that looked like the previous underground lake. Xiao Longnu returned to her original shape after taking us all the way to the shore, and we climbed directly from the water's edge to the shore. However, as soon as we emerged from the water, we heard a noise.