Volume 2: The Undersea City Chapter 85: Underwater Cave
Since this place is marked with a star, it must be a very important place for this team...but why is it in the sea?
Ke Lan did not find any diving equipment among the remains of the two soldiers. If they wanted to reach the star mark, they would first have to solve the problem of the toxicity and radiation of the seawater. Even if the armor of the Dreadnought was waterproof and radiation-proof, the key point was that it was not equipped with airbags and thrusters. It would sink to the bottom if thrown into the sea, and would be completely useless...
Wait a minute... sink to the bottom?
Ke Lan's eyes swept across the dark sea. The surface of the water near the coast was exactly the same. There was nothing special about it. Even the location of the star mark was the same...
But the same situation on the sea surface does not mean that the situation on the seabed is also the same, so... this star point on this map is likely to point to the seabed rather than the sea surface...
Fifty meters away from the coast, it should still be within the continental shelf and not too deep. Even without diving equipment, as long as proper protective measures are taken, you can dive to the bottom of the star point with your bare hands.
Since there is no "dangerous" sign on this star point, it means that this place should be relatively safe. I just don't know what is there.
After packing up these things, Ke Lan returned to the beach where he woke up.
The diving suit was still left on the beach. After such a level of damage, although the equipment such as the thrusters had all been scrapped, the diving suit itself was still intact. The military-grade equipment might not be as fancy as similar civilian products in terms of functions, but in terms of durability, it was definitely better than most civilian products.
Otherwise, those things that came out of the army would not have been driven up to sky-high prices on the black market - in this era, military supplies are almost synonymous with good stuff.
Ke Lan put on the heavy diving suit again. After checking the airtightness, he walked step by step towards the star mark on the map.
On the beach, every time Ke Lan lifted his legs, he had to mobilize all the muscles in his body to work together. After taking only a few dozen steps, his physical strength was almost exhausted. Fortunately, after entering the water, the buoyancy helped him offset some of the weight of the equipment, which made him feel a little more relaxed.
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"It should be... about this position..."
At this location, the water was only about three meters deep, but the visibility was surprisingly poor. In addition, the searchlight was broken, so Ke Lan could only grope carefully with the help of a faint light cast from the water surface.
This is still part of the beach, with a layer of fine sand underfoot and a flat terrain. There are no reefs or any aquatic life - just like on the sea, there is "nothing" here.
"Could it be that this map is no longer valid?" Ke Lan was a little worried. If the star points on the map had something that could help him leave the deserted island, then could the survivors of the SEAL team have already escaped with the help of something here? Why would they be left with an outdated map that had already been "invalidated"?
We can't rule out this possibility...
Just when Ke Lan thought he was unlucky and decided to give up the search, he suddenly stepped on empty air and fell down suddenly, sliding into a cave - under the mud and sand, there was actually a secret passage hidden!
No need to think too much, the star mark on the map must be this passage!
Ke Lan fell to the bottom of the passage in one breath, turned on the flashlight, and looked around - this was an "L"-shaped passage, the entire passage was filled with sea water. He had just slid down from the vertical part of the "L", and now what appeared in front of him was the horizontal part of the "L".
The walls of the passages on both sides are very smooth, making it difficult to tell whether they were naturally formed or artificially excavated. However, at the junction of the vertical and horizontal passages, there is a mark - a steel nail driven into the rock formation, with an etched five-pointed star logo on the nail cap.
"Looks like I've found the right place..." Ke Lan pointed the flashlight at the depths of the passage. This flashlight used a lithium battery, and its brightness and penetration could not be compared with the searchlight on a deep diving suit. In this passage without any external light source, Ke Lan's field of vision was only about five meters.
If there was a Seed of Corrosion hidden in this passage...I'm afraid its tentacles would have pierced through Ke Lan before he could even see it.
This area is indeed not marked as a dangerous area on the map, but just because it was safe decades ago doesn't mean it is still safe now... The resurrected Seed of Erosion just now is a good example.
Holding a flashlight in one hand and holding the stalagmite horizontally in front of him with the other, Ke Lan walked forward slowly...
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Fortunately, there was nothing in this passage except sea water - after walking forward for hundreds of meters, the passage began to have an upward slope. Climbing up along this slope, not far away, Ke Lan actually emerged from the water!
What appeared before him was a huge underwater cave!
He now realized that he had made a very elementary mistake : although the possibility of groundwater existing on this dry desert island was extremely low, from a certain perspective, seawater invading the rock strata was also a type of groundwater, and this underwater cave was dissolved by seawater.
"Shit... So the cave is here..." Ke Lan's eyes swept over the stalactites hanging on the top of the cave. If these stalactites have the same effect as the stalagmites in his hand, then this place is equivalent to a super arsenal specifically for dealing with the seeds of erosion? !
