Under the Deep Sea (4)
Dark, turbid, and corrupt.
This was the most intuitive feeling Shi Jianxia had after regaining consciousness.
Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and after trying several times, her heavy eyelids finally lifted up, and through the slits of her eyes she saw a dark, damp, and mossy narrow passage.
The passage is by no means narrow, but not very wide either. It can accommodate three or four people walking side by side. It is square and you can't see the end at a glance, and you can't see where you came from when you turn around.
Wasn't she sucked into the trench by the sudden force? What kind of place is this?
Before he could think further, a small furry thing suddenly rubbed against the palm of her hand, feeling soft and delicate.
Shi Jianxia looked down and saw that it was Meng Jizi who disappeared in the glowing seaweed.
Meng Ji was very worried about her. When he found that she had woken up, he immediately flicked his long tail, licked the back of her hand with his tongue, and then burrowed into her arms.
Shi Jianxia stroked the fur on its back soothingly and whispered, "I'm fine."
Meng Ji moved his furry ears and made a heart shape with his long tail. He didn't know which mischievous kid he learned this from. It was unlike his usual low-key and quiet personality. It seemed that he was very nervous.
Shi Jianxia sat up with the help of the wet ground. Fortunately, she was still protected in the energy barrier formed by the water-repellent beads. She had no problem breathing normally, and the fishy, salty, damp and sticky smells were also isolated from her.
In the dark and unknown space, the green water beads hanging in front of Shi Jianxia's collarbone with slender algae vines emitted a bright light, barely illuminating the nearby area.
Shi Jianxia stood up and took out two lighting sticks from the space bracelet. He threw one forward and the other backward. The two sides of the dark passage were illuminated and covered with the same black moss.
In the damp passage, apart from her and Meng Ji, there was only endless darkness, no second person or second mimicry.
So weird.
How did she get here? Did the sea carry her here, while the others were scattered elsewhere?
Shi Jianxia did not act rashly, but carefully sensed his physical condition. He was not injured, and his spiritual power spring was intact. The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" stayed quietly inside, but he could not sense the cubs who were sent out to search the sea.
I think it’s because she is in this special area, while the cubs are in the sea outside, so the two sides cannot sense each other.
Shi Jianxia breathed a sigh of relief. Being in an unknown place, getting injured would definitely make her situation very bad.
She picked up Meng Ji and retrieved his memory to check what had happened before, but found nothing valuable.
Meng Ji was pushed by the ocean current onto the glowing seaweed patch and instantly felt a suction force. Although the force was far less than that released by the trench, he was caught off guard at the time and was directly sucked into this space.
It couldn't sense the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", so it stayed where it was.
After a while, layers of energy ripples appeared, like a door to another world, with a strange and elusive frequency of vibration. Then she fell out of the energy ripples and landed in the passage, unconscious for more than ten minutes.
It was not as she had previously guessed, that it was swept here by the ocean current.
Shi Jianxia followed the scene in Meng Ji's memory and found the location where the energy ripples appeared. He carefully checked it several times but found nothing special.
This space is very stable.
That energy ripple has the ability to teleport through space, which is quite similar to the function of a worm vortex, but with Shi Jianxia's current knowledge, he can't find any related information at all.
Where exactly is this place?
Shi Jianxia's doubts arose again. She took a quick look at the black moss growing densely in the passage, and clenched her right hand loosely.
The crimson energy spots quickly gathered together, and Zhu Yan's sword condensed from a phantom into a solid entity.
Mimetic energy can be called upon.
It seems that this place is just isolated from the outside world and does not affect the use of mimicry.
Shi Jianxia felt a little relieved. Although her physical fitness was not bad and she was not weak without the help of mimicry, she was in a place where she could not judge whether there might be danger, so the more means of saving her life, the better.
However, the passage before him was clearly not naturally formed. It had a very rigid rectangular shape, deep and long...
Before carrying out the deep-sea clearing mission, Shi Jianxia carefully read the relevant documents on the seabed, including but not limited to topography, historical buildings, deep-sea mineral mining records and other information.
There are no intelligent creatures in the sea area of Nanteng Star. After humans migrated to the planet, they carried out large-scale development, and the sea area was used in various aspects such as production capacity, tourism, and military.
After the Zerg invaded the sea, all related industries came to a halt. However, the traces of human activities in the ocean cannot be erased. Could this be an area developed by humans before the sea fell?
Shi Jianxia was confused and tried to dig away the wet black moss with the Zhu Yan sword in his hand.
The moss is thick, probably more than ten centimeters thick, growing densely together, with roots intertwined. It is difficult to separate it unless it is cut off.
Fortunately, Zhu Yan's sword was sharp enough. After cutting a square, Shi Jianxia finally scraped the small piece of moss off the wall. The exposed wall material surprised her.
Metal?
This passage is actually made of metal.
Shi Jianxia moved closer.
The metal wall was dark silver, with a dull and lusterless surface, and the roots of black moss were embedded in it. After she dug out a small piece, she could see the mottled lines left by the roots on the wall, which were messy, chaotic, and slightly sunken.
Shi Jianxia opened his intelligent brain, and as expected, there was no signal.
She turned on the camera and took several photos and a video of the walls and both sides of the passage to make a detailed record to avoid any memory deviation.
After doing this, she stabbed the metal wall with the tip of her sword. Although she had a premonition that it was impossible to break it, she was still surprised to see that Zhu Yan's sword passed through the surface without leaving any trace.
Zhu Yan now has a combat power of nearly level eight. After turning into a weapon, the sharpness of the sword blade is far beyond what it was before. Ordinary metal is no different from tofu in front of it. A slight poke can pierce through it. Even high-grade alloys cannot leave no trace.
This place is really weird.
Ordinary buildings would never use such a strong alloy. Not to mention the cost, the material is difficult to find.
Shi Jianxia simply took a step back and used his sword to cut the black moss, one sword after another, without any rules or scruples.
Soon, she discovered something strange. The energy contained in Zhu Yan was disappearing rapidly, far exceeding the usual combat consumption, as if something was quietly devouring the energy in its body.
Looking at the black moss she cut off, the edges were slightly curled inward, a bit like fish fillets scalded by hot water, but because the roots were too thick, the curl was not obvious.
Shi Jianxia took out a third-level insect crystal from his space bracelet and threw it directly onto the black moss.
The originally motionless black moss slowly moved its intertwined roots like a beast that smelled food, drawing the insect crystal into it. It absorbed it completely in just half a minute.
The wriggling roots returned to their tangled and intertwined state, and Shi Jianxia suddenly felt a tingling sensation on his scalp.
These black mosses are alive!
She looked down at the moss under her feet, then looked at the dense darkness in the endless passage, and her breathing almost stopped.
If the black moss targeted her, she would have no chance of survival. She would be eaten alive here and become a nameless pile of bones.
Just at this moment, a damp and cold air flow rushed in from the passage in front, mixed with fine and dense water droplets, and the unique fishy and salty smell of sea water could be faintly smelled.
There is an exit ahead!
Shi Jianxia put Meng Ji in his arms, tightly grasped Zhu Yan's long sword, dug a forward-pointing arrow on the wall, and then laboriously wrote the word "Xia" as a code, and then walked forward quickly.
I don’t know if there is anyone in the passage behind her. If there is and they are coming in this direction, they will definitely follow when they see the mark.
The metal tunnel was long and deep, and black moss had been growing here for who knows how long, completely covering the entire tunnel. If Shi Jianxia hadn't suddenly had the idea to dig it open, the secret of how it absorbed energy would never have been discovered.
Shi Jianxia released one of the few sacred mountains in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and let it fly forward. After it flew less than twenty meters, its position could no longer be sensed, so the sacred mountain flew back obediently.
No wonder after Meng Ji fell into this place, even the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" could not sense his location.
The mutual induction between mimics is essentially through the release of energy frequency. The black moss swallowed up the energy frequency, and even the strong men from the Sanctuary were helpless.
You must not stay here for long!
Gongye Jiwang and others must be somewhere in this passage.
Shi Jianxia's pace kept quickening, and in less than a minute he arrived at a corner. It was a T-shaped three-way intersection, with two completely different roads to the left and right.
The mimicry's reconnaissance capabilities were useless here. Although they could be restored in the Classic of Mountains and Seas after their energy was exhausted, dormancy took time. She could not immediately learn the information they had detected, and it would also cost her few available mimicry.
Shi Jianxia was in trouble.
Which way to go?
The air flow mixed with sea water did not appear again. Should she wait here?
No, it would take too much time. She had no idea when the air would blow through the passage again.
Suddenly, Shi Jianxia's eyes lit up, and he waved the Zhuyan sword again, digging up the black moss at the locations where landmarks were placed in many public places. Sure enough, he saw a green arrow pointing to the right passage with the word "Exit" written on it.
She was about to walk to the right passage when she suddenly noticed that the black moss on the wall of the left passage had been cut by a sharp weapon.
Shi Jianxia walked over, and the light of the water-repellent beads illuminated the dim corner. The black moss was dug up, and the mark left on the wall was an arrow pointing to the passage on the left, with two words below the arrow - Gongye.
Shi Jianxia looked at the landmark, then looked at the mark that was suspected to be left by Gongye Jiwang, and left a line of words under the arrow, then quickly walked towards the passage on the left.
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