Chapter 244 Survival at Sea Day 9 (4) Crystal Palace
The grip end of the spear handle is made of pure wood and is naturally non-conductive.
And after Xiaoguai's touch test just now, the sea water here did not reach Yu Miaomiao, which means it is not conductive either.
Judging from the way Xiaoguai rushed over to dig out the snail meat, Yu Miaomiao guessed that poking a hole in the middle of the snail where a new head would grow would be the way to kill the insulated electric eel.
Even though Xiaoguai was hanging in the sea water and didn't know what was going on, Yu Miaomiao still trusted its judgment. He immediately took out the spear and stabbed it towards the center of the snail shell. He felt a familiar touch at the tip, which was the weak spot.
It's very hard, much harder than the monsters encountered in the desert world. It seems that this monster should be more difficult to kill.
Suddenly, bright yellow electric light emerged from the shell, the same as what appeared when Xiaoguai was electrocuted just now. It must be the electric current.
The light flashed, but it did not shock Yu Miaomiao. She gathered her strength, kicked off the water with her feet, used her flippers to move her body, and thrust the spear straight into the hard lump.
Punctured!
The light around the snail shell disappeared instantly, and the surroundings became quiet and dark, returning to the original state of the sea water. Even the colloid behind it disappeared.
The next second, a bright light appeared behind her, shining directly on her.
Someone!
Yu Miaomiao turned around suddenly, holding Xiaoguai with one hand and preparing to bend down to loosen her shoelaces with the other hand, when she saw an underwater aerobics chamber floating behind her.
There is a signature on the aerobic cabin - Chubby.
Is Lulu here?
The direction of the large light bulb at the front of the oxygen chamber was not directly on her, but slanted onto the snail shell.
Yu Miaomiao looked carefully through the cabin window and found that it was... Hua Bie.
Do I need to wear an oxygen mask in an underwater aerobic chamber?
Looking at the snail shell along the light, the entire shell began to become transparent, as if it was about to melt in the sea water.
Yu Miaomiao quickly put the body into her backpack.
The snail shell, several times larger than it was, disappeared, revealing a reef cave... Is this an adventure site?
“Ding ding.”
"Hanabie: Are you okay?"
Yu Miaomiao glanced at Xiaoguai in her arms. The oxygen was still being consumed, but being electrocuted all the time was not a big deal.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: I'm fine, but Xiaoguai was just stunned by an insulated electric eel. We can't use medical kits in the sea. Can you help me check if the reef cave behind me is the entrance to the exploration area?"
As soon as this message was sent, the light beam in front of the oxygen chamber changed direction, swept behind Yu Miaomiao, and stopped at the entrance of the cave she mentioned.
At the same time, she received a reply from Nana.
"Yiren Tiaantian: Miaobao, as you said, the six of us went into the water to take a look, and sure enough, it was a nine-headed electric eel. When we were trying to kill it, two of us were stunned by the snail shell. Now that we've been sent up, we're fine, but the eel's heads keep growing, so we can't kill it all. Do you have any good ideas?"
Although the electric eel head that Yu Miaomiao saw was also growing, she killed it before the next one grew out. Moreover, there were six people in Nana's group, so they could definitely kill them all quickly and it wouldn't be impossible for them to be killed all.
The possible reasons are that the faster you kill them, the faster they grow, or the more people there are, the faster they grow, but no matter which one, there is a solution for monsters.
Yu Miaomiao told Nana the killing method and received a reply from Hua Bie.
"Hua Bie: I didn't find this expedition site in the resource search, but I just took a closer look. The cave entrance is carved with seven gems. It should be the entrance to the Crystal Palace. It's probably a numbered expedition site I haven't visited. Do you want to go now?"
At this time, Huabie's open aerobic cabin had already passed her and reached the front.
The underwater aerobic chamber is connected to the hull through a connector. At the top of the aerobic chamber, there is a chain directly connected to the float. However, because sometimes the dive is very deep, this chain only serves as a connection and does not have any pulling force. It is just a retractable elastic rope. Therefore, if the cabin wants to dive, it must also pass through the power generation organ.
There are two mechanically operated grabbers under the aerobic chamber. Yu Miaomiao tried it and found that it could grab some stones, but it might not work for fighting.
If he can catch rocks, he can definitely lift Xiaoguai.
Yu Miaomiao confirmed Xiaoguai's physical condition again and then received the next message from Hua Bie.
"Hua Bie: If you want to go, I can go with you, so you can clear as many levels as possible before the checkout."
"Meow Meow is not short of water: I want to explore this exploration site before anyone discovers it, but Xiaoguai needs medical treatment now. Could you please take Xiaoguai with you?"
Yu Miaomiao swam to the lower part of the mechanical claw, pointed at Xiaoguai to the people in the cockpit, and then lifted her foot so that Hua Bie could see the shoelaces tied above her ankle wearing fins.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: If it's inconvenient for you, I'll use this shoelace to take Xiaoguai up there now, and come back after he's healed. Or if you want to explore this adventure area on your own, I'll go find another one."
"Hanabie: Don't bother me, I can do whatever you say."
"Hua Bie: I'm very convenient! I'll help you get Xiaoguai to the hospital for treatment. You can go get the progress first. However, the water flow and gravity in there are very strange, so you have to be careful."
"Meow Meow: Okay, after you finish using the medical kit on Xiaoguai, please tell me his condition as soon as possible. I..., if anything happens, I must stay by Xiaoguai's side."
"Hanabie: Okay."
Yu Miaomiao carefully tied Xiaoguai to the mechanical claw and wrapped the gripping points with several pieces of cloth. After doing everything, she watched the aerobic cabin slowly drive away.
Nana said that after electric shock paralysis, the person will wake up after 20 minutes. If Xiaoguai wakes up and makes a fuss, she must explore as many points as possible within 20 minutes.
After thinking about it, she swam towards the cave entrance.
The seabed was originally very dark, and the water was not as cold as expected. The outward suction force also disappeared, and she easily reached the mouth of the reef.
The blue-gray reefs surrounded a cave entrance, with three gems carved on both sides of the entrance. There was also a golden gem at the top of the cave entrance, which glowed golden even in such a dim environment.
She had heard more than one person mention it, so don't be greedy and try to dig out the gem.
Because the gem is gone, the entrance to the cave has disappeared.
The Crystal Palace is the fastest place to obtain gems, so Huabie and Iris quickly unlocked the video function, which is a new system function after completing the hull automatic cruising and sail acceleration device.
The top three players in the beta test competition right now are Meowth is Not Queue of Water, Huabie, and Iris.
Everyone has a different time to worship the list. When they worshipped it before, there were some sour words in the world, saying that the competition in the beta server was just stepping on other people's resources to get to the top, but as the end of the world goes on, everyone now admires it from the bottom of their hearts.
So when Yu Miaomiao's expedition progress reached 0, others would not think that she was incompetent, but rather that she was still hiding her abilities, waiting to climb to the first place in one fell swoop.
After Yu Miaomiao nailed a large iron spike on the reef, she tied the connecting rope on her body to it. This way, when she came out of the expedition site, she could follow the rope back to the float and keep the props, so she wanted to keep it.
“Ding ding.”
Is this news about Xiaoguai?
"Pathfinder: I've thought carefully about the phenomenon you mentioned, and used an instrument to measure gravity. I found that the gravity in the sky today is several times stronger than in the past few days. This is probably causing the ocean waves. Do you have any new information?"
Caused by gravity?
So it wasn't caused by the insulating eel in the water.
After Yu Miaomiao and the other party agreed on the remuneration in a few words, he told him about the situation he had encountered before, and then passed through an exploration barrier and entered the Crystal Palace.
The first thing that catches your eye is an irregularly shaped piece of crystal hanging on the dome.
There were no other names on the holographic screen; this expedition site was currently hers.
There were no tests when I first entered the Crystal Palace.
There was no rock wall squeezing inward, nor any monsters, but...
“Wow.”
Yu Miaomiao activated the catapult device at the moment of gravity rotation.
The underwater catapult device has extremely high explosive power, but its usage is limited, and it can only be used 20 times. During the last experiment, she used it once, and now there are only 18 times left.
The ejection distance of each time can be manually controlled. When you reach the place where you need to hover, you only need to pull the device again. However, the maximum ejection distance is as long as 30 meters, so it is very convenient to use in some extreme situations.
She had just taken a step when the gravity changed. If she was a little slower, she would fall directly into a pile of crystal spikes, or if she pulled the device slowly, she would hit the reef. In short, she had to pay absolute attention at all times.
That's the difficulty with Crystal Palace, the ever-changing gravity.
Gravity... is related to gravitational force. If the "explorer" has gravity testing equipment, she might be able to purchase a real-time monitoring device, which might make it easier to pass the level?
As soon as she asked, she received a cold response from the other side.
"Pathfinder: First, let me reiterate, I'm only interested in cracking the apocalyptic system structure. Your desire to clear dungeons or explore locations has nothing to do with me. Don't try to get any useless information from me. It's just a temporary collection of inharmonious elements. Don't talk to me about its research value. Secondly, I brought this equipment from the modern era. Don't try to coerce me into using it for research. I'm only speaking to you because you've provided me with a lot of useful information. Finally, please don't let other trivial matters interfere with my research. Thank you."
Yu Miaomiao: ...
Although she also felt that many designs in the expedition area were very rigid, even the monsters moved in exactly the same way. Compared with the ever-changing apocalyptic environment, the expedition area seemed very stupid and mechanical, not intelligent at all.
But in a place where resources are obtained and there are many monsters, why do the monsters need to be so flexible and the environment so changeable? Does it increase the difficulty for explorers?
She had no interest in studying the fundamental operation of the apocalypse before, but after listening to some of the research results from the 'explorer', she gradually felt that perhaps understanding the operating rules of the apocalypse would be more conducive to leaving this world.
Yu Miaomiao closed the dialog box. To many people, Frankenstein was merciless in his words, but as long as they talked to him about some apocalyptic situations, he would always give new answers and research results, so she didn't care and instead began to carefully study this expedition site.
The Crystal Palace is a real palace. I heard that it is magnificent and decorated with all kinds of corals, diamonds and pearls, which is very gorgeous.
And the place where she was standing now was just the road leading to the Crystal Palace. In the words of some people, it was just a suburban road before entering the palace.
In the moment of weightlessness just now, Yu Miaomiao still tried her best to record all the scenes happening around her.
I filmed it using the video function that can only be used once a day and posted it in the team group.
Video recording cannot exceed 49 seconds, but the image quality is very clear. Even a small mother-of-pearl hidden in the cracks of the surrounding reefs can be clearly captured, and it even supports zooming in for viewing.
The small mother-of-pearl is the treasure chest in the Crystal Palace. It is not complicated to open it. You just need to use a shovel in the toolbox to pry it open.
After the video was sent, it could be watched repeatedly. She stood there and watched it over and over again, trying to find the pattern of the Crystal Palace.
The underwater ejection device on her body only has 18 chances. If it has to eject once every step, even if she has five devices, it will not be enough.
Hey, why are there bubbles here?
Yu Miaomiao pressed the pause button and zoomed in on the video, and saw a long string of small bubbles floating out from behind her after she fell.
The downward force may not be weightlessness, but suction.
Gravity and attraction are inextricably linked. If she remembered correctly, gravity was a component of attraction. The earth rotated, but the exploration area naturally had its own rules of attraction.
If it is an attraction, not only explorers will be attracted, but all objects will be attracted.
Therefore, there are no monsters before entering the palace, because monsters will be unable to walk normally or attack humans due to the sudden attraction.
This seven or eight meter high crystal passage has reefs and spikes on both sides that are enough to hurt survivors.
It is said that after entering the Crystal Palace, the weightlessness will decrease and real monsters will appear instead. Various parts of the monsters' bodies will be pierced with a spike connected to the crystal at the bottom of the palace.
People who have been there all thought that the expedition site combined crystal spikes with parts of monsters' bodies to attack humans. With the previous suspicion, Yu Miaomiao wondered if there was a possibility that it was a measure to prevent monsters from being affected by the huge attraction.
If you have an idea, you should test it.
Inspired by Frankenstein, she simply made a verification device on the spot.
First, tie the newly made sea bladder to a stone, then tie a thick rope to it and throw it forward.
“Hualala.”
The stone that had just been thrown out, more than one meter in height, was originally floating horizontally in the water. However, under a sudden pulling force, it suddenly crashed upwards rapidly.
Fortunately, the thick rope she tied was long enough, so she was not pulled along by the force.
The stones sucked to the top of the passage smashed into the crystal thorns, instantly smashing out a pile of crystal rubble.
But fortunately, the gravel also followed the same suction force and stuck tightly to her head, preventing it from falling down.
It is definitely the suction force. There is a very eye-catching water flow mark on the swim bladder.
She was still wondering about the direction of the ocean current. Can't it be seen with the naked eye? She felt a little regretful about making this ocean current swim bladder, but believing that there are no useless things in the apocalypse, she still carried it with her. She didn't expect to use it now.
Gravity has no effect on the swim bladder; the swim bladder is only sensitive to ocean currents.
Even if she hadn't tied the swim bladder to the rock, even under the suction force just now, the swim bladder would have been suspended in mid-air until the rock pulled it upwards.
And it was because of this experiment that she saw more clearly the deformation of the seaweed above her head. Only a strong suction force could suck the seaweed directly into a flat and long shape.
Will the suction force change at any time? The answer is no, at least other people have not encountered it.
But Yu Miaomiao was afraid that the system would target her, so after she took back the items, she tested the direction of the water flow with every step she took.
Sometimes when she walks to the left and the water flows upward, she will test the right side. If the water flows downward, she will test the front, and the current in the swim bladder will not change.
After following the current for more than 30 steps, she finally circled around to the first small pearl oyster that was clearly very close, and reached out to take it.
After taking it, she immediately took a few steps back the way she had come. The entire reef instantly exploded into countless pieces of rubble, and she escaped the disaster.
This adventure site really has a "good plan". Instead of using monsters to hurt people, it uses this strange setting and mechanism to harm people.
Pry open the mother-of-pearl oyster.
[Failed to trigger the Lucky trait. Expedition gift pack: 1 white gemstone, 1 titanium ingot, has been stored in the system warehouse.]
She was not surprised that the first one to be opened was a gem. This Crystal Palace was a huge gem mine. Even though according to Iris's statistics, there were only less than 50 treasure chests, there were more than enough gems to be opened from them.
On the holographic screen, her exploration progress finally reached 1%.
“Ding ding.”
Yu Miaomiao glanced at the time. It had been 20 minutes since Hua Bie took Xiaoguai away. It should be the time for her to hear from Hua Bie.
Just as I was about to open the chat bar, a series of message alerts came. Could something big have happened in the world again?
When she opened it, she saw that it was inquiries from some passersby about the adventure destination.
Looking at the sending time, they sent the message almost as soon as Yu Miaomiao's progress reached 1%.
This is how many people are watching this list.
Yu Miaomiao didn't reply, but opened the team message.
"Lulu: Sister Miaomiao, I heard you went to the Crystal Palace. Were you trying to discover patterns in your exploration by recording videos? The waves have calmed down completely now. If you need any help, please feel free to let us know."
"Yingyingguai: Wuwu, Sister Miaomiao, Xiaoguai finally woke up, but the whole cat still looks dizzy. Should he be okay?"
woke up!
It’s good that he woke up, Yu Miaomiao breathed a sigh of relief.
"Yingyingguai: ...Brother Huabie asked me to tell you that Xiaoguai is awake, so, Xiaoguai is awake."
Yu Miaomiao:?
What's going on? Why did Huabie ask Yingying to tell her? Isn't he also in the group? Moreover, Yingying had already said it in the previous sentence, why did she repeat it again.
As if to dispel her doubts, Hua Bie took advantage of the only video recording opportunity a day and sent her a 20-second video of Xiaoguai.
Looking at the little guai in the video, who was sticking out his tongue and then rolling up his tongue to eat the minced grilled shrimp that Yingying had carefully fed on his tongue, she became even more curious. Little guai seemed to be able to eat and drink, so when she heard Yingying say that, she thought something else was going on.
But this video seemed to be shot from a very far distance. She needed to zoom in to see clearly what was in Yingying's hand. This was what Yu Miaomiao taught her. If you have to feed the shrimp openly, you need to mash the shrimp meat so that no one can tell what kind of meat it is.
Just when Miaomiao was feeling deeply confused, she received a new private message from Yingying.
"Yingyingguai: Sister Miaomiao, don't tell me I told you that Xiaoguai blew on Brother Huabie as soon as he woke up, even though he was dizzy, he pretended to bite him. That video was taken by Brother Huabie when he walked away with a sullen face."
ah?
Haha, don't...
Yingying can even feed a cat with her bare hands, so why is Xiaoguai only hostile to Huabie? Did Huabie do something to Xiaoguai? Or is there some misunderstanding?
When she gets ashore, she will ask her about the situation clearly. After all, Hua Bie has helped her a lot and is also her companion and friend. He just helped her send Xiaoguai up. If Hua Bie really accidentally offended Xiaoguai somewhere, she will see how to resolve the conflict between the two.
Browsing the latest news from around the world, she kept treading water until she arrived in front of the palace. The road was actually not far, or rather, the entire Crystal Palace was not very big.
But it still took a lot of time to avoid the suction mechanism of Crystal Palace.
An hour later, she received a new message from Yingying, which was sent to the team.
"Yingying Monster: Sister Meow Meow! Xiaoguai is completely fine. There are no other abnormalities at the moment. I'm playing with him, don't worry!"
After seeing these words, she was no longer worried, but for some reason she felt a little sad.
After a moment's thought, although Xiaoguai has always been close to her and she is very happy and satisfied, it may not be a good thing.
In modern times, all domestic cats need socialization training, which is the first step to successful training of Xiaoguai.
At least Yingying values Xiaoguai more than anything else. With Yingying's care, Yu Miaomiao can continue his adventure with complete peace of mind.
After collecting 5 mother-of-pearl oysters, she stood in front of a crystal palace more than 10 meters high.
The palace in front of him was built with colorful crystals, and two shrimp soldiers stood on both sides of the palace.
There stood a red shrimp at the entrance of the palace, wearing coral armor and holding two crystal thorns on its claws.
The crystal thorn is connected to the floor of the Crystal Palace. Seeing that the crystal is about two meters long, I guess two meters is the range of activities of these two shrimp soldiers.
Because Yu Miaomiao had been in a state of hibernation, until she walked in front of two shrimp soldiers who were half her height, they did not move, and their two red eyes as big as rice grains were staring straight ahead.
The health bar was red, and I didn't expect that the first monster I encountered would actively attack.
The fastest way to kill a monster is, of course, to stab its head.
What about the shrimp?
Of course, you just need to cut off the shrimp heads.
Yu Miaomiao stood behind one of the shrimps, pointed the scissors at the connection between the shrimp head and the body, and cut it with a knife. Before the shrimp could react, she came to the side of the second one, cut it with another pair of scissors, and dodged the attack of the crystal thorns by turning sideways.
It only took three seconds to kill two monsters.
Of course she could have just jumped over the two monsters and entered the palace, but Xiaoguai loves to eat shrimp.
There is no doubt that the shrimp soldiers will drop shrimp meat, unless the system plays tricks again.
After the two shrimps died, they slowly became rigid and gradually turned into translucent crystal fragments. A small bag shaped like a snail also fell off.
This is what the monster dropped.
Put it in your backpack and you will have an extra portion of shrimp meat.
Not bad, little by little it adds up to a lot.
After she collected them all, the crystal fragments turned into powder, floated in the sea and disappeared.
Before she could rest for a moment, she saw four crab generals rushing towards her sideways.
Do crabs drop shrimp meat?
Looking at the big crystal pincers in their hands, they were heading towards us, and it seemed that we had no choice but to fight.
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