Chapter 345 Life Crystal
After searching the bottom of the lake for three consecutive days, Ling Qi found nothing. There was no signal on the personal communicator at the bottom of the lake. He contacted the vehicle through the captain's system, retrieved the communication information on the Lingxiao, and kept in touch with the outside world.
From the local news, Ling Qi felt that a storm was coming and a big storm was brewing. In the three galaxies under the control of the Tongxin Group, group army mobilizations are carried out frequently, and there are rumors of conflicts from time to time.
"It seems that civil strife is not far away!" Ling Qi accelerated his search. Of the four designated areas, he had already excluded one and a half areas, and found some rock layers in the middle, but no life crystals were found.
After once again bypassing a flashing underwater monitoring device, a cliff appeared in front of me. I didn't know how deep it was. Ling Qi saw some small flat-bodied fish swimming up and down the cliff, and judged that there was no danger below, so he piloted the submarine to sink. Some small fish were attracted, gathered around the submarine, and followed it down.
"The activity range of these small, flat-bodied fish can actually go deep into the water layer below 200 meters, and their ability to withstand water pressure is beyond imagination!"
After sinking more than thirty meters, the submarine hit the bottom. Under the searchlight, you can see that there is a lot of silt here, with a thick layer. Ling Qi guessed that this should be the lowest point of Lanhu. Moving forward, the terrain began to slowly rise again. He thought for a moment, then turned back to the cliff and searched along the cliff.
"The lake water here has a slight flow, and there may be an underground river."
After exploring for 700 meters, the flow of the lake water became more and more obvious, and Ling Qi knew that he was close to the target. Finally, he found a crack more than 20 meters wide on the cliff, as if it had been torn apart by a tectonic plate. The lake water here flows down the cracks at a slow speed.
Ling Qi piloted the submarine and wandered outside the crack for a while. It wasn't until he saw some flat fish as big as a palm swimming out of the crack that he dived into the crack. After advancing for more than thirty meters, the crack turned into an underground river, and the top was covered by rock formations.
The underground river first sloped down for more than fifty meters, then turned and rose, flowing crosswise... Ling Qi explored for about a kilometer, but the way forward was blocked by a layer of sand and stone, and only the lake water seeped away. He turned around and exited, thinking that since the lake water flows away from here, if the life crystal is here, the effect will hardly affect the entire lake.
You should go back to higher ground to find it!
The submarine left the cliff and returned to its original rhythm to continue searching. In the third area, Ling Qi saw a collapsed mountain under a small island. After careful inspection, he still left with no gain.
Continuing to explore for one kilometer, a large group of snowfish swam menacingly over the submarine, arousing Ling Qi's curiosity. He turned off the searchlight, followed in the submarine, and then saw a racial war, or more accurately a massacre, on the hills at the bottom of a lake.
The terrain here is higher and the water depth is only a little over thirty meters. With the help of the faint light transmitted from the water surface, Ling Qi saw a giant octopus with a main body of more than 20 meters being surrounded by a school of snowfish.
In single combat, the octopus has an absolute advantage in size, but it is vulnerable to a school of snowfish. The school of snowfish swam quickly around the giant octopus in a spiral formation. Their sharp teeth tore off a piece of meat from the octopus's tough body and immediately left. Using their speed to swim away without stopping, other snowfish immediately followed up and attacked.
The octopus's body was shrinking rapidly. It was still struggling at first, but stopped moving after a few minutes.
"This is guerrilla warfare, real death by a thousand cuts!" Ling Qi watched in shock as the giant octopus was devoured by the snowfish, leaving not even the dregs left. The mutated Snow Fish was so ferocious that it made Ling Qi's heart palpitate. If you find the Life Crystal, you must protect your fish in the future to avoid the tragedy of accidentally entering the artificial lake and being eaten. Especially children and little things like Daji must be warned again and again.
After the snow fish group dispersed, Ling Qi checked on the spot and found a rocky belt at the waist of the hill.
"It should be here!" Ling Qi had this intuition and started a detailed inspection.
About half an hour later, he found a faint light at the root of a boulder. "Collect life crystals!" Ling Qi stretched out his mechanical arm and touched the root of the boulder.
"The collection was successful and a complete life crystal was obtained!"
A pile of rubble broke open at the root of the boulder, and a hexagonal bright red crystal the size of a human head appeared in the captain's space, emitting a charming red light. Just looking at it, it felt like it could bring endless vitality to people. Ling Qi turned his hand and took it out from the captain's space.
"Life crystal contains a magical life matrix, which can automatically absorb energy factors and convert them into unique life factors, promoting the improvement of the life level of species. At the same time, there is a unique life force field around it, which can provide vitality to living things."
"After the life crystal is embedded in the vehicle, it can provide a certain proportion of the life force field to the vehicle space, so that the vehicle can be included in the captain's space in a manned state, and the shipboard space can therefore accommodate life."
"Inlaid with a life crystal, it can provide 10% of the vitality field, and allow up to 10% of the manned capacity to be included in the captain's space. At the same time, 10% of the manned capacity can be included in the shipboard space. The two functions cannot be overlapped..."
Ling Qi's eyes opened wider and wider. His first reaction at this time was not that he could carry people into the captain's space, nor that he could raise fish, but that if his guess was right, he would be able to achieve arbitrary spatial teleportation on the Lingxiao in the future. Just like in the Star Network space, you can ask space intelligence to help you teleport to any virtual community allowed by the rules at any time. On the Lingxiao, he is equivalent to space intelligence and can teleport yourself and others to any place on the ship at will!
"From now on, in my territory, I will make the decision. Anyone who refuses will be directly thrown into the anti-matter energy furnace as fuel... Oh my, the anti-matter energy furnace has been replaced by the eternal energy furnace!" Ling Qi became entangled and considered whether to install a new one. The anti-matter energy furnace is specially used to execute powerful enemies and destroy corpses and traces.
"It must be installed, so use the previous two-phase structure!" He made up his mind without thinking for long.
After putting the life crystal back into the captain's space, Ling Qi looked at the shattered boulder and found that the faint precious light had disappeared. He activated the collection skill against the boulder again, and the captain's system prompted that the target did not exist.
"There won't be just one piece, right? It's a shame, there won't be any snow fish to eat here in the future!" Ling Qi touched her nose and felt a little embarrassed, but if he was asked to put the life crystal back, it would be impossible even if he was beaten to death.
Finally, Ling Qi found a reason: "Anyway, snowfish has been monopolized by the Tongxin Group as a money-making resource. It is difficult for ordinary people to take a bite of snowfish, and there is no benefit at all. If I take away the life crystal, it is considered a robbery." It’s time to help the poor!”
After carefully checking the rock area again, Ling Qi confirmed that there was no life crystal in this area.
If there is, he can still find a reason for himself to collect it.