Xi Xi decorated the interiors of all the vehicles with Neon Stones, and within a few days, the emerald flowers bloomed in abundance.
A refreshing fragrance wafts out, delicate and subtle, like a clear spring, gradually permeating every corner of the room. It not only brings fresh oxygen but also resembles a high-end fragrance, making people feel relaxed and happy.
Time passed quietly, and Xi Xi and her group spent another half a month underwater. The days were filled with excitement but no real danger, including an underwater earthquake.
If we were to say what the difference is between an undersea earthquake and an onshore earthquake, the most intuitive way would be the scene where the violent shaking of the seabed causes thick silt to surge into the sky like a raging, inky tide, carrying pale sediment debris.
Fortunately, they had a sufficient supply of Earth Spirit Guardian Shield and Sea Town Soul Pearl, which allowed them to escape unscathed.
On the contrary, the situation on the public chat seemed less pleasant. Xi Zhongcang looked at the continuously decreasing number of players and couldn't help but sigh again and again.
As expected, another service area merger soon followed, and the public chat became lively again, but this liveliness was permeated with a visible numbness.
The existing crops in the planting boat have ripened one after another, but the newly sown seeds are not growing as well.
Therefore, Cheng Xu was extremely eager to collect all six pieces of the Sumer set, even at a high price, but unfortunately, he still hadn't succeeded...
Xi Xi finished a whole bowl of chilled sweet rice balls made from the Jade Box, and was humming an off-key tune as she lay in the pavilion of the hot spring boat.
She had just finished soaking in the hot spring and was feeling refreshed, which made her appetite return.
"Daughter, come back here." Dad's voice came from the light screen connection, breaking the silence in the hot spring cabin, his tone unexpectedly serious.
"At the edge of the map... there's a big thing that doesn't look like a natural structure. It's a bit strange, just a little outside the very end of the Red Coral Zone."
Xi Xi, who was picking out ice cream, suddenly stopped and quickly returned to the car through the teleportation array.
On the central control screen, the image of the surrounding underwater forest is clearly visible, with mutated fry swimming leisurely among the swaying coral reefs.
In the pixel map, the complex jagged pixels representing the red coral reef are gradually thinning and receding, replaced by a vast, unusually blurry shadow at the edges.
It abruptly cuts off the vibrant coral ridge, standing like a silent, black wall on the edge of a dark abyss.
What is this? Xi Xi frowned involuntarily.
The fingers tapping on the armrest stopped abruptly. Xi Xi immediately used the team group chat to gather everyone to stop what they were doing and return to their respective driver's seats, remaining vigilant at all times.
As the puppet manatee raced forward, pixel outlines rapidly took shape, filled in, and solidified on the central control screen.
It's not a reef.
It's not Haishan.
That was a... ruin?
With a sudden surge of anxiety, Xi Xi turned on the light screen camera and used a high-powered lens to peer into the distance.
“…Holy crap,” Cheng Xu’s muttered voice came through the light screen at that moment.
In the light screen camera, it is a steel graveyard pressed firmly to the bottom of an abyss by a vast expanse of seawater.
Chu Zhiqin's face was filled with disbelief: "...This is an apartment building?! Huh?"
Indeed, those ruins look like broken and collapsed high-rise buildings!
There are no familiar Eastern eaves and brackets, nor Western elaborate stone carvings and pillars. What comes into view is a remnant of pure, almost eerie, geometric aesthetics.
The massive dome structure resembles a black crystal that has been crushed by immense force and carelessly discarded; its sharp edges gleam coldly against the backdrop of the surrounding luminous anemones.
“What a strange building…” Sallyman said, revealing what everyone was thinking.
Architecture composed of pure geometric shapes—triangular pyramids, cubes, and twisted columns.
The buildings, with their sharp angles, pierce the deep blue sea. If it weren't for the presence of traditional window structures, no one would imagine that these are buildings.
Those window openings, now devoid of glass, are nothing but deep, cold black holes, like countless compound eyes, staring intently at them.
The building's exterior walls are smooth as a mirror, and even when covered with dark algae and sea rust, the precision and coldness of the original materials are still evident.
The massive, straight streets, like deep abyssal canyons at the bottom of the sea, stretch straight through the collapsed geometric ruins and thick silt, exuding an inhuman sense of order.
The sunken "Atlantis"—Xi Xi subconsciously recalled this story.
According to Plato's dialogues, Atlantis was a legendary ancient civilization with a highly advanced culture. However, due to the moral decay and arrogance of its inhabitants, it angered the gods and was ultimately sunk to the bottom of the sea in a massive earthquake and tsunami, disappearing without a trace overnight.
The ruins before us were just like that; the buildings were so massive they were suffocating. The edges of the ruins far exceeded the limits of what a high-powered camera lens could detect, and they remained submerged in the boundless darkness.
As Xi Xi and her group gradually approached, an extremely faint yet chilling sound clearly rang out in the sea.
"Hiss... hiss hiss..." It sounded like the same strong acid corroding metal as in the Coral Zone, or like the faint noise of countless miniature laser welding guns working simultaneously! The sound was continuous!
"What's that noise?" Li Jinshao's voice was wary.
Xi Xi told everyone to hold their positions and then asked Li Jinshao about the last time he boarded the whale blubber. After confirming that the damage to the vehicle was not caused by the increased intensity of acid rain, she ordered the manatee to continue.
In the Black Sea, the "chopsticks picker" glided very slowly toward a relatively unobstructed main street, like a beetle that had stumbled into a giant's tomb.
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