Chapter 142 The Ghost Captain
Li Hai shook his head: "It shouldn't be. Although the underwater world is strange, it's not supernatural. This isn't an infinite flow world, so we don't need to consider that possibility."
Xu Meigui: "Since it's not a maze, have you noticed... that the seashells and seaweed under our feet are constantly being refreshed?"
Li Hai glanced at the ground beneath his feet and pondered for a moment: "That's true, and... these seaweed and shells seem to grow in certain places, while in other places, no matter how many times we walk through them, we never see any more seaweed or shells?!"
Wang Meng tentatively dug out a piece of seaweed, and soon after, new seaweed grew in that spot.
Li Hai glanced at the ancient castle around him, then at the road ahead, feeling that something was amiss, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
Wang Meng pulled out all the seaweed he saw. Although he was just a ruthless killer, his years of vigilance made him sense something was wrong.
"Do you think this seaweed might actually be hair?"
"Hair?!" Xu Meigui frowned slightly.
Wang Meng nodded: "Is there anything that can grow indefinitely?"
Only hair does.
"And have you noticed that the seaweed we saw when we were hiding from the underwater guards doesn't keep appearing?!"
"Moreover, the seaweed here seems to be a different color than the seaweed we encountered before."
"It's a bit thicker here, even... it feels like silk."
Xu Meigui also touched it: "Indeed, perhaps... this is silk."
Li Hai shook his head: "That's not right."
"This is not silk."
He looked at the two of them: "Perhaps there was no exit here to begin with... but perhaps we can create one."
Xu Meigui: "You mean, dig down there?!"
Li Hai nodded: "Not bad."
Before Li Hai could even speak, Wang Meng had already started testing it.
He has always been a person who doesn't waste time and has strong execution skills.
Xu Meigui and Li Hai exchanged a glance and began digging downwards as well.
The seaweed is dug up, and then it keeps growing back.
Wang Meng then began digging furiously at the roots of the seaweed.
result……
His expression suddenly turned serious.
He stopped what he was doing, stood aside, and said to the two of them, "Come and see what I've dug up."
Xu Meigui and Li Hai both stopped what they were doing and looked in the direction Wang Meng had indicated.
Then... his pupils suddenly contracted.
"This is……"
Li Hai put on the diving gloves he got from opening the treasure chest.
Then they took that thing out directly from underneath.
What he was holding in his hand... was a corpse!
"What is this thing?!"
...
Is this an underwater sanctuary unique to the world of survival?
Su Tinglu stared blankly at what was in front of her.
After being sucked into the whirlpool, she arrived near a sunken ship at the bottom of the sea.
However, no mermaids were seen here.
Logically speaking, since all the citizens living in Atlantis are mermaids, the High Priest must also be a mermaid.
But she did not see the high priest there.
Could it be that it's not here?
"Lulu, I think I smell something strange."
Having left the underwater maze, we were finally able to meet the spotted turtles.
With the help of the Spotted Water Turtle, Su Tinglu's pressure was greatly reduced.
After all, the shipwreck in front of us is as big as several basketball courts.
Su Tinglu asked, "What does it taste like?!"
The Spotted Turtle pondered for a moment: "It seems to be... well, I feel like it has that... well, rotten smell."
Su Tinglu leaned close to the hull of the sunken ship and smelled it. She found that the hull did indeed smell musty. But that wasn’t surprising, since who knew how many years the ship had been sleeping on the seabed?
The mission says to find the high priest, who seems to be trapped by something.
Su Tinglu: "Turtle, do you have a way to find the High Priest?!"
The Spotted Turtle thought for a moment, "Yes, there is, but it might require the pearls and fish scales you obtained earlier."
"The pearls and fish scales were left behind by the mermaids, and the high priest is also a mermaid, so I can find the high priest's location by the scent left on the pearls and fish scales."
Su Tinglu said, "Then let's do it this way. I'll follow behind you."
Spotted Turtle: "No need, you can just ride on my back."
The large gold chain around the Starry Water Turtle's neck had disappeared at some point, but Su Tinglu didn't care much and simply rode on its back as the Starry Water Turtle had instructed.
Having spent some time with the Spotted Turtle, the turtle and the person had begun to develop a bond. The Spotted Turtle slowly moved to the bottom of the shipwreck.
The shipwreck looked somewhat like a pirate ship from the European medieval Age of Exploration. When Su Tinglu went inside, she also saw some gold and silver jewelry.
She looked at the prompt that appeared beside her.
[Shipwrecks: These are vessels used by Atlantean fishermen when they set sail. Because of the disappearance of Atlantis, they sank to the bottom of the sea and became shipwrecks.]
[Underwater Jewels: These jewels have been submerged for many years, never seeing the light of day. Please do not touch them, for touching them will incur the "Angel's Curse," preventing you from ever entering Atlantis again. If you are a citizen of Atlantis, you will be expelled.]
Su Tinglu immediately abandoned her idea of storing all these things in her storage space and let the Starry Water Turtle carry her forward.
As she went further down, Su Tinglu could even see some clothes floating out.
She discovered that there were many layers beneath the shipwreck.
I wonder just how powerful Atlantis was before, that it was able to build such a large ship.
What a pity.
Su Tinglu shook her head and continued walking forward.
After a while, she found that her surroundings had suddenly turned into a light blue color.
The voice of the Spotted Water Turtle suddenly rang in my ears.
"Lulu, don't open your eyes! This shipwreck isn't an ordinary shipwreck, it's a ghost shipwreck!"
But it was too late.
Just as Su Tinglu was about to close her eyes, a pair of hands slowly touched Su Tinglu's shoulders.
Her eyelids suddenly became incredibly stiff, and she couldn't close them even if she wanted to.
I could only watch helplessly as those hands remained on my shoulders, the pressure... getting stronger and stronger.
Then, Su Tinglu saw an old man appear in front of her.
"Welcome to the shipwreck, the world of ghosts. I am the captain here, the Ghost Captain."
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