Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 830: The Sea in the Tower
The salty and fishy sea water rushed in from all directions, soon covering the insteps of the two people's feet. In the blink of an eye, it had already flooded the middle of their calves and was about to reach their knees.
" Damn it!" Sanshisan cursed and quickly put on the full-face breathing mask hanging around his waist.
The full-face breathing mask can completely isolate harmful gases in the air and can naturally be used in underwater environments, but the problem is that Sanshisan did not bring a diving suit. At this rate of water injection, in a few minutes, the pressure under the water will be so great that the human body cannot bear it.
The sea water had reached her waist, but Ke Lan still stood there, indifferent.
"Ke Lan? Hello? What's wrong with you?" Sanshisan walked to Ke Lan with some difficulty, helped him put on the breathing mask, and then knocked on the transparent resin in front of the mask. "This place is about to be flooded, why are you in a daze?"
"I'm not in a daze." Ke Lan said calmly, "I was just thinking that ending it here... seems like a good idea."
"What are you talking about?" Sanshisan was startled, then he grabbed Ke Lan's shoulders and shook them vigorously a few times, "Is there something wrong with your brain?"
Ke Lan suddenly felt a sharp pain at the back of his neck. Several sharp spikes grew out of the armor that Ze Luo had transformed into, and pierced directly into the area of his neck where the pain nerves were most dense. The pain immediately made Ke Lan shudder, and he felt as if he had woken up from a long nightmare...
Ke Lan realized with some fear that his thoughts and emotions seemed to have been affected by the information just now, especially the desperate words on the floor tile. When Ke Lan thought about it now, he couldn't help but feel decadent and wanted to "give up".
Could this also be considered part of the test?
Fortunately, Sanshisan and Ze Luo woke him up in time, otherwise, Ke Lan might have drowned himself.
"Awake?" Seeing the change in Ke Lan's expression, Sanshisan stretched out his palm and waved it vigorously in front of his eyes a few times, "Time is running out, make a decision quickly!"
The sea water that came from nowhere was already higher than their heads. Along with their breathing, tiny bubbles formed into a long string, squeezed out from the exhaust port of the breathing mask, and floated upwards.
"In a little while, we'll be crushed by the water pressure!" Thirty-three's voice came through the water, sounding very vague, "No matter what you want to do, at least you have to float to the surface first!"
As soon as Thirty-three finished his words, the sea water around the two of them was directly pushed away by an invisible barrier.
Ke Lan said, "Don't rush to float up yet. Find out where the sea water is coming from."
"Tsk tsk, spatial abilities are really useful..." Sanshisan looked at the sea water separated by space barriers on all sides with some envy. Although he had seen this magical scene countless times, every time he saw it, he still felt unbelievable in his heart.
"Speaking of which, can Ze Luo's spatial ability be used for storage?" Thirty-three asked, "I've read some novels in which the protagonists all have storage items such as space rings and dimensional pockets, which are very convenient. Why don't you let Ze Luo try to open up such a storage space, so that we don't have to carry all the equipment on our backs. We can even try to put the Yaguna Kator in it and carry it with us."
"I can't do it." Ke Lan shook her head. "If you tear open a subspace like a wormhole, the things you throw in will be torn into pieces or crushed by the subspace. Once you throw them in, it's basically impossible to get them back. Moreover, every time you tear open a space, it consumes a lot of energy. With Ze Luo's current ability, she can only tear open a hole about the size of a hair's cross section, and her strength will be drained... As for the means of compressing or folding space, they also need to face the problem of energy consumption and damage to stored objects."
"Isn't there similar technology inside the Yaguna Tor? The space inside the battleship is much larger than it looks from the outside. How does it do that?" Thirty-Three asked.
"The battleship Yaguna Kotor itself is a masterpiece that integrates all the space technology... Even the Alpha civilization cannot replicate this battleship. If humans want to crack its technology, I think it will take at least 100,000 years." At this point, Ke Lan couldn't help but recall the fragment that was unlocked in his mind before... Was Yaguna Kotor really built by humans who escaped from the earth?
If the time perception of those memory fragments had not been disturbed, those people should have built the current Yaguna Tor in just a few generations... This speed cannot even be described by the term "technological big bang".
It can probably only be described as "deus ex machina".
However, it cannot be ruled out that the technology used to build Yagunakotor did not come from humans... These technologies might have been left over from some alien civilization, but in some unknown way, they "entered" the minds of those people.
It's really a miracle that these people's heads didn't explode or even go crazy.
Logically speaking, these technologies should be considered as "forbidden knowledge", but unfortunately Ke Lan never saw the true bodies of these engineering ship crew members from beginning to end - he was quite curious about whether these survivors on Earth outside the Ark had turned into monsters.
"Is this water... the third test?" Thirty-three simply changed the subject.
Ke Lan had slaughtered all the zombies just now, even their corpses were eaten up. If those were one of the eight trials, then they should have passed it, right? Thirty-three thought.
"I don't know, but I think it might be related to Aguna Tor... Not only the trial procedures, but even the entire Tower of Babel is inextricably linked to Aguna Tor." Ke Lan said.
The bodies of those "zombies" retained memories related to Yaguna Kotor, and later on, Ke Lan was able to briefly get in touch with Yaguna Kotor. Now, the destination of Yaguna Kotor's route has been changed to Zhonghai, and immediately salty and fishy sea water surged in from all around. It would be absolutely nonsense to say that there is no connection between the two.
"The Tower of Babel, Yaguna Tor, the Undersea City, the Nameless Deserted Island... and the wreckage of the engine that was blown up by the 776 Special Forces Team..." Ke Lan murmured. He felt that these things were all related and that no one thing existed independently.
As long as these clues can be connected together, the truth should be clear.
While Ke Lan was thinking, he took Sanshisan around the tower, but they did not find any "water outlet" or obvious undercurrent. The sea water seemed to be "seeping" out from the floor, or it seemed to have appeared out of thin air in this place.
"Could this seawater be teleported in?" Thirty-three guessed, "We entered the Tower of Babel and were teleported in... Since it can teleport people, it's normal that it can teleport seawater, too."
"Yeah." Ke Lan nodded. "Based on our knowledge, this is the only explanation that makes sense."
"That's a good thing it pumps the water in . If it sent tens of millions of tons of seawater in all at once, I'm afraid I would have been crushed into a meat patty before I could even put on the mask." Thirty-three sighed in a low voice.
"By the way, from now on, you must follow me closely." Ke Lan said, "This environment now reminds me of the test dive I took... I never thought that the first test dive would become the last one."
"Ha... the underwater city was sealed off after that, right?" Sanshisan said, "By the way, can you tell me the details of that exploration? I've always been curious about what happened to you underwater."
"During that test dive, I went into the water with Liao Zilang, and we kept a distance of about ten meters between us," Ke Lan recalled. "But the moment I turned my head, Liao Zilang disappeared from my side... After I went back, he told me that we encountered an undercurrent at that time and were forced to separate."
"But what is the reality?" Thirty-three's interest was piqued and he asked.
"In fact, from my perspective, the water has been calm." Ke Lan pulled out a spare safety rope and tied Sanshisan to herself. "That's why I'm worried that this kind of thing will happen again."
"There shouldn't be any undercurrents now. Zeluo's space barrier has separated the sea water. We walk on the bottom of the water just like we are walking on the ground." Thirty-three looked around and said.
"It's always better to be careful." Ke Lan lowered her head to fix the buckle of the safety rope and said, "After Liao Zilang and I separated, I arrived at the 'underwater city'... Not the one scanned by the sonar of the 'Pioneer' icebreaker, but another one located on the sea platform."
"Uh...are you talking about...that one?" Sanshisan said in a trembling voice.
"What?!" Ke Lan was startled and raised his head suddenly.
Thirty-three was tilting his neck back with his finger pointing upwards.
Ke Lan looked in the direction he pointed, only to see that the water had disappeared. A city built on the sea platform seemed to be reflected, hanging not far above them.
" That's right ." Ke Lan felt goose bumps all over his skin. With just one glance, he was sure that what was hanging above their heads was the "Underwater City No. 2".
The city was quietly hanging on an inverted sea platform. Stone pillars with huge eyes carved on the top stood in various places in the city, like some kind of traffic signs, emitting a dim green light that was extremely penetrating in the dark sea water.
Not far from the edge of the city, there is a rift valley that looks like a scar...
Abyssal Hatchery...
"This, this is simply unbelievable... Are we in the Tower of Babel or at the bottom of the Zhonghai Sea?" Thirty-three exclaimed, "This thing, isn't it also a shadow, like a mirage?"
"No, this is a real entity." Ze Luo's voice sounded in Sanshisan's ears.
"... Could it be that there is some kind of transmission channel that connects this Tower of Babel to the bottom of the Zhonghai Sea? Is that how the seawater is pouring in?" Thirty-three said.
"No, Ze Luo didn't feel any spatial anomalies, at least not around us." Ke Lan rejected this speculation, "Besides, the sea water just now surged up from underground, not poured down from above our heads."
"So where are we now?" Thirty-three suddenly paused. "This... Could it be that we were teleported to another tower at the bottom of the Zhonghai Sea instead of the tower in the Gray Mist Forest?"
"If I really have to say that, I would rather think that the underwater city is built inside the Tower of Babel... rather than in the sea." Ke Lan said in a low voice.
"Then when you tried diving that time, you were teleported to this Tower of Babel... So, isn't this your second time entering this tower?"
"It doesn't matter whether the underwater city is in the tower or the tower is in the sea." Ke Lan shook his head. "You are right. This should be the third trial procedure."
"The third test... is to enter this underwater city?" Thirty-three couldn't help but swallow his saliva. "Hiss... an S-level ruins that has hardly been explored. To be honest, I'm suddenly a little excited."
"If I were to give a rating, the Undersea City should be SS-level. So should the Tower of Babel," said Ke Lan.
When the ruins rating system was first established, the SS level represented the level of ruins with the highest degree of danger. However, after a simplification plan, the SS-level ruins were cancelled, and the four ruins that were previously classified as SS-level were all classified as S-level.
To be precise, the SS level was not actually cancelled, but the evaluation standards were greatly raised, so that this level has always been in a vacant state.
The four ruins that were briefly classified as SS-level cannot be compared with the Tower of Babel or this underwater city, either in terms of the degree of danger or the secrets they hide.
"You should have explored this underwater city once before, right? Is there anything you need to pay attention to?" Thirty-three asked.
Experienced hunters never arrogantly think that they can handle all problems by themselves. Humble and cautious people tend to live longer. Before setting off on any exploration mission, even if it is just a D-level ruins, Thirty-three will carefully check all the relevant information and intelligence, not to mention that this is a super ruins called SS-level by Ke Lan.
But fortunately, the person who had explored this super ruins before was now by his side, which made Sanshisan feel a little more at ease.
But Ke Lan's next words instantly revealed a hole in Sanshisan's heart.
"In fact, I stayed in the underwater city for less than 20 minutes... The degree of exploration can be considered to be zero."
