Volume 20, Chapter 93: The Mysterious Waterway

During the subsequent inspection, we discovered two more holes in the machine. It turned out that except for a hole that was punched through a pipe that was not very important, all other components were actually preserved intact. [ ]Of course, due to problems with the machine itself, some adjustments are still needed to make it operational again.

After carefully studying the entire equipment, the piranha technician said: "I have already inspected the machine. The pipe needs to be replaced, and the power furnace needs to be slightly adjusted. In addition, we may need to get another casing. The machine cannot be directly exposed to the outside like this."

“Are these easy to replace?”

The technician said: "We still have pipelines in reserve. The power furnace only needs to be adjusted. Give me a wrench and it can be done in two hours. It's just the shell..."

"Are there any special requirements for the shell? Does it just need to be strong enough?"

The technician nodded and said: "Generally speaking, it only needs to be strong enough, and there must be a gap between it and the equipment to facilitate our inspection. In addition, it is best to leave a door that can be opened and closed."

"If that's the case, it would be easy." I said directly: "I will go to land and order one back later."

"order?"

"Yes. Hephaestus and I have a good relationship, so it shouldn't be a problem for him to be one, right?"

"Do you know Vulcan too?"

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"

"No problem, no problem, I'm just surprised. Well, since you want to ask Mr. Vulcan to customize the shell, why not order a balancing magic circle for us? It turns out that one is almost at its limit."

"What exactly is it?"

"That's it." The technician handed over a small metal disk that was as big as a CD. I took it and looked at it before giving the metal disk directly to Auntina and asking her to find Hephaestus. Customize a set, of course the shell also needs to be customized together.

After Ariana took the order and left, we asked the group of monsters commanded by Chili to help transport the equipment to the location where it originally fell. After stuffing the equipment into the cave again, we spent time to reorganize the partially collapsed cave. During this period, I also asked Brigitte and Everett to weld the steel lining of the entire cave. However, because the equipment shell has not been returned yet, it is not possible to seal the entrance to the cave, but this has been greatly strengthened. Defense. At least you don't have to worry about rocks falling from the cave roof and damaging the machine.

"Is this almost enough?" I asked, looking at the cave that had been lined with steel and added a few steel columns.

The piranha technician also nodded and said: "It is indeed much better than before, but this is not the point. If you can eliminate all the monsters outside, the environment here will not be a problem at all. With your steel lining, even if there is no Adding a casing is no big deal.”

I nodded and said: "Anyway, let's get this done first, and then I can concentrate on solving the monster problem."

Although I said I would wait until this side was finished before starting to deal with the monsters, in fact I didn't really do nothing. While I was waiting for the shell to be in place I asked Xiao Longnu to escort the technician back to get some replacement parts, and brought back three more technicians. The reason why I only sent one person out before was because the Piranha Queen didn't believe in my strength to escort them here safely, so she only sent three people to me in order to reduce casualties. This time the dispatched personnel returned safely, and the queen's confidence naturally improved a lot, so more personnel came.

When the piranha tribe sent people here, I was also sending people out, but instead of sending people to repair things, I sent people to investigate the situation.

When the cave wall collapsed, the piranhas were driven out of the original gathering area by the monsters. However, the piranhas did not investigate the new entrance to the cave here and the dark waters on the other side at all. As the place where the monsters first appeared, it can be said that we are completely blind to the environment there. If we want to clean up the monsters there, we must at least understand what the situation is there first. If that side is not a closed water area but is connected to the outside, then it will be useless even if we clear out all the monsters in the cave, because the monsters outside can still come back here.

Since that area of ​​water is full of powerful monsters, the exploration team must be strong enough. In the end, after much deliberation, Hei Yan and Chili Pepper were paired up to explore the road. As the queen of the sea tribe, Chili Pepper can control some monsters that are not very mentally powerful, while Black Flame's huge size and super high attributes can easily suppress most aquatic creatures. With these two powerful beings, she should be able to fight in the monster cave. gone. Of course, the premise is that the monster cave cannot contain monsters like the 8,000-level boss we encountered before. Otherwise, even if I go there myself, I will still have to run back with my tail between my legs. However, this possibility can basically be ignored. After all, this is a map mission rather than a single-player mission, and the difficulty cannot be that high.

Because the time calculation was relatively accurate, when the piranha tribe's reinforcement technicians arrived, the custom-made items from A Di Na happened to be brought back. Originally, the shell was not a high-tech thing. For Hephaestus, three hammers and two axes were enough. The balance plate was quite technical, but it was also limited, and it was not big in size. So Hephaestus quickly got hold of these two things, plus I asked Auntina to take it with her when she left. Fenglong left together, so he relied on flying birds to guide him along the way, and things were stuffed into Fenglong's space, so the speed was naturally fast. In the end, all the people who left on both sides came back, and Chili Pepper and Black Flame had not yet finished exploring the dark waters there.

Although Chili Pepper and Black Flame did not come back, because my demon pet and I can use telepathic contact to share information in real time, I know all the information they explored.

Judging from the current exploration results, the density of monsters in this dark water is not as high as imagined. Of course, this has something to do with their being too strong and scaring away all the little monsters. However, overall the number of monsters here is still lower than expected. In addition, according to the changes in the water flow, Chili Pepper and Heiyan finally found a connecting pipe in the dark water, but what is strange is that the water there is connected to inland groundwater, which is fresh water.

The self-luminous waters where the piranhas are located are actually salt water areas. We didn't express any surprise about this, because we had vaguely guessed that this place was connected to the sea, so it was normal for the passage to be full of sea water. However, due to the injection of several small underground water systems, the saltiness of this water area is much lower than that of real seawater. Of course, it is still salty water.

The dark water on the other side was completely independent from the bright water here. There was a stone wall separating the two, and the water on the opposite side was connected to the ground water, so the entire water there was a fresh water area.

After understanding the difference in water quality on both sides, I seemed to understand why the monsters there didn't want to enter the waters here. As freshwater creatures, those monsters would definitely not run into salt water if they were not forced to do so. Even if the bright water itself is not very salty, it is not an environment that freshwater creatures like, so powerful monsters will not enter this area at all.

In addition to discovering the difference in water quality, Chili Pepper and Heiyan also discovered an area with extremely dense monsters. However, because the monsters were so densely gathered, they could not get close at all. During this period, Heiyan also tried to rush in, but the result was that It has no effect except causing monster riots. Anyway, it’s not that easy to explore the area behind those monsters.

While Chili Pepper and Heiyan were still investigating the situation in the dark waters, we also took the time to install the equipment shell. After that, we welded an outer baffle with a steel plate to the cave that was not completely closed before. Of course, the door was still open. What needs to be left is just because there is no suitable material, and the requirements for doors here are not high, so we simply welded a lifting gate that moves up and down, but this thing is only to block low-level creatures anyway, even if there is no The latch is no big deal either.

After the gravity field stabilizer project was completed, the technicians who came from the Piranha Clan got into the machine and started busy debugging it. At this time, Chili Pepper and Heiyan who were sent out to explore the path also happened to come back.

After exploration, we now know that the dark water area opposite is a fresh water area. In addition, although the water area is injected with groundwater, they are all very small secret passages, and there are no formal passages that can allow creatures larger than a kitten to pass. The total number of monsters in the water is between eight and one hundred thousand, which is a lot, and there are many extremely large individuals with shocking sizes. In addition, as for the area surrounded by monsters, it is still impossible to break through, so we don’t know what is behind it for the time being, but it is certain that that should be the source of the monsters, because the closer you get there, the more monsters there are. The strength is also stronger.

"It seems that if we want to solve the problem here, we must first check the area where the monsters are extremely concentrated. No matter what is behind, it must be the key point."

"I think so too." Chili said: "It's obviously not normal for monsters to gather in that kind of place. Besides, to ensure the safety here, sooner or later the monsters over there have to be cleared away, so we still have to go in and take a look. "

I thought about it and said to the piranha technicians: "In that case, let's destroy the monsters first, and leave this to you."

After hearing my words, the technicians of the piranha tribe nodded and said that they would do their jobs well, but they also asked us to get rid of those damn monsters as soon as possible. After all, their tribe was tortured by those monsters. , naturally hope that the monster will be finished as much as possible.

After bidding farewell to the members of the piranha clan, I took my demon pets alone to the junction of the two waters. Looking from here, the entrance to the dark waters is as deep and terrifying as the gate of hell. If you are timid, At this moment, I think even the hair on my head would stand up. But I didn't react at all to this, and just led the demon pets in to kill them in a mighty manner.

In fact, I haven't summoned many magic pets now, and not all of my magic pets are suitable for fighting in water. At present, except for the little dragon girl who temporarily acts as a mount under me in her true form, the only people around me are Chili Pepper and Black Flame. The reason why I want to talk about the vastness is entirely because of the chili pepper. Before arriving here, Chili Pepper had already controlled eleven monsters, but after investigating the dark waters, only three of the eleven monsters were dead, but she controlled a large group of other monsters. The result now is that we are surrounded by a large group of strange and weird monsters and swim towards the area with the densest concentration of monsters in the dark waters.

Originally, the ordinary monsters did not dare to approach because of the little dragon girl's dragon power, but now they are surrounded by such a large group of monsters, and the power is even more frightening. As soon as the monsters along the way notice our team, they will immediately turn around and run away. Even if there are some who are not smart, as soon as they bump in, they will be immediately rushed up and eaten by groups of monsters.

However, this situation cannot continue forever. This is indeed the case at the initial extreme. Even if the scattered monsters are relatively strong, they will not fight against so many monsters alone. Moreover, the dragon power of the little dragon girl and the power of the sea queen of the pepper are not fun, and ordinary monsters do not dare to Get into trouble with them. However, as our team got closer and closer to the monster gathering place, this situation began to gradually change.

At first, we first discovered that there were more and more monsters nearby, but those monsters were still hiding from us. They just didn't hide away from us like the monsters we saw at the beginning, but started to hide from us at a very close distance. Dodge. In fact, I feel that rather than saying that they are avoiding us, it is more appropriate to say that they are making way for us. We can feel that those monsters are indeed afraid of confronting us, but they are unwilling to leave this area, so they just try to avoid our movement route, but refuse to go far. Moreover, as we continue to go deeper, the monsters inside begin to become more and more advanced. These powerful monsters began to no longer deliberately avoid us. Although they did not dare to directly block us, they did not actively avoid us like the monsters outside.

After continuing to move forward for a certain distance in this increasingly bad situation, the behavior of the monsters has changed from giving way when seeing us to the point where they don't know how to avoid at all. However, although we will not take the initiative to dodge, due to the huge pressure coming from our large group of creatures, even if we are bumped into by a monster in our team, it will only be a symbolic deterrent with bared teeth. No monster dared to attack.

However, the above situation also ended when we finally advanced to a tunnel entrance.

Although this area was very crowded before, with monsters that looked like alien creatures everywhere, the terrain was still open water. The reason why it felt crowded was because there were so many monsters, not because the place was narrow. However, after we passed through these monsters, what we finally saw was a huge cave passage with a diameter of more than two hundred meters. Although this passage is still very large, compared with the water outside where no walls can be seen at all, this is definitely a narrow waterway. Moreover, there are not so many monsters here. Looking from the outside, you can only see piles of densely packed monsters crowding the entire passage.

"Damn, why are there so many monsters?"

Pepper did not answer after hearing my words, but reminded me: "Master, there seems to be some kind of fluctuation here that is affecting my mental waves."

"I guess that's what we're looking for." I said, looking at the dense monsters in front of me, and then said, "But what are we going to do with these things? It will take at least several days to kill them one by one, right?"

"Perhaps Lilith would prefer this kind of scene." Xiao Longnu reminded.

"Yes, why did you forget Lilith?" I suddenly realized, and then called Lilith out directly.

"Huh? What about the water environment? There are fish to eat now." Lilith said excitedly as soon as she appeared, because every time she was called out by me, she must have something to eat. After all, her fighting method is to devour. So for her fighting is about eating.

After Lilith finished getting excited, I said to her: "Did you see the hole in front of you?"

Lilith nodded excitedly, and then said: "Are you going to eat all the monsters outside? They look delicious!"

I thought about it and said: "On the premise that it does not affect the progress, you can just eat it. But if you find that you can't handle it, don't hold on and quit quickly. There may be something weird here."

"I understand, Master, don't worry, I am immortal." As she said this, Lilith rushed into the group of monsters ahead.

After Lilith rushed into the monster group, she first pounced on a giant maggot-like monster that looked like a crocodile head in front of its head. Judging from the size comparison of the two sides, the vicious Lilith attached to the monster was like It's a mosquito lying on a person. However, unlike mosquitoes, a bite from a mosquito would itch for a few days at most, but being bitten by Lilith would kill you very quickly.

After attaching to the monster, Lilith slowly sank into the monster's skin like a crocodile sinking into the water. As soon as the monster was invaded by Lilith, a huge blister suddenly appeared, and then more and more blisters appeared, one on top of another like blowing bubbles, and the area was also expanding rapidly. After Lilith invaded, it took less than twenty seconds for the giant monster to turn into a huge mass of flesh that seemed to be composed of a bunch of sarcoma, and the original appearance of the monster could no longer be seen.

This meat ball did not stop working immediately after it was formed, but kept squirming. Until more than ten seconds later, seven or eight tentacles suddenly popped out from its surface, instantly hitting seven or eight nearby monsters, and then Those monsters that were touched by the tentacles immediately swelled up and turned into new balls of flesh, which were pulled back to the main body by the tentacles and merged into a larger ball of flesh. After that, the meat ball began to wildly eject its tentacles at the monster in front and ate them all the way. As its size increased, the speed and number of its tentacles ejected continued to increase. Although many monsters felt the terror of the meat ball, they were completely unable to escape its clutches, and were eventually pulled into the meat ball one by one to become a part of it.

I looked at Lilith sweeping past like a scavenger and shook my head helplessly and sighed: "No matter how many times I see it, Lilith's fighting style is still so disgusting!"

Xiao Longnu also nodded and said: "Compared to those monsters, I think Lilith is more like a monster!"

I just smiled at Xiao Longnu's words and did not continue to sigh. Instead, I called to other demon pets and said: "Anyway, at least the road is clear. Let's see what good things are in this passage to attract so many monsters." Bar."