"Jarvis, we are ready to enter the blue hole."
Hedwig tugged on the rope around his waist to ensure that he and Li Nuo were firmly connected:
"Don't forget the undercurrent I mentioned. The roads in the Blue Cave are complicated and undercurrents are everywhere. If you encounter an undercurrent, you must hold on to the rope tightly to avoid being swept away."
As Hedwig spoke, he patted his head:
"Oh, by the way, you know the "Deep Sea Swimming" spell, so you can practice it in the blue hole. The sooner you become familiar with the art, the less likely you are to encounter undercurrents. "
"Okay, let me give it a try." Li Nuo sketched the blueprint of the "Deep Sea Swimming" spell in his mind.
A layer of dark blue magic light appeared on his body.
The brightness of the light changed from strong to weak, and then turned into a thin blue water film sticking to the surface of his body.
"Deep Sea Swimming" was cast successfully.
Li Nuo raised his arm and waved it in the water a few times, with some joy in his eyes:
"This spell is really good, Hedwig. No wonder it is a must-learn for every deep-sea wizard. I feel that my movements are much smoother, and the resistance of the water has become very weak."
Hedwig looked at Li Nuo casting spells freely, shook his head and sighed:
"Your magic talent is really enviable. But you still have to be careful. The "Deep Sea Swimming" spell cannot completely offset the impact of the undercurrent. At most, it gives you more room to maneuver, so that you will not be suddenly swept away by the undercurrent. Rush away. "
He waved and said:
"Okay, let's enter the blue cave. It's almost nine o'clock in the morning, and we can stay in the blue cave until five o'clock in the afternoon. These eight hours are enough for us to hunt for treasures in the cave."
Hedwig sprayed a jet of water from his back and dragged Li Nuo towards the entrance of the cave.
This deep-sea wizard with five-ring strength was unaware of the undercurrent of spies peeping from the beginning to the end.
The entrance to the blue hole below is an irregular circle, more than ten meters in diameter, with jagged edges, a bit like the giant mouth of an underwater monster.
The closer you get to the entrance of the cave, the stronger the sense of oppression brought by this underwater landscape is, enough to make people with a phobia of deep-sea monsters attack.
Li Nuo didn't feel any discomfort.
He doesn't have a macrophobia, that's for one.
Secondly, the entrance of the cave is filled with blue light, and the moss that is more than half a meter high illuminates the entire cave. From the entrance of the cave to a depth of more than a hundred meters, everything is bright and there is no dark area.
With such lighting conditions, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Hedwig threw the "Secondary Deep Sea Exploration" into the cave to explore possible dangers on the road ahead.
"Deep Sea Detection" is a high-level spell that can detect the surrounding seawater in all directions.
"Secondary Deep Sea Detection" is a conventional spell that can only detect sea water in a specific direction.
What Li Nuo mastered was "deep sea exploration", not Hedwig's "secondary deep sea exploration".
Seeing Hedwig's cautious look, he knew that he didn't need to worry about the safety of the road ahead.
On the contrary, the undercurrent spy hiding outside the cave needs to pay more attention.
Li Nuo threw the "Psychic Beacon" at the entrance of the cave, opening the "Psychic Vision."
The magical vision unfolded in front of Li Nuo's eyes, and Hedwig, who was swimming in front, showed no reaction.
Li Nuo nodded secretly, making sure that his spiritual magic would not be detected by Hedwig.
He once again threw out a few "Psychic Beacons" in his magic vision, and with the help of the "vision jump" feature of "Psychic Vision", he found the undercurrent spies lurking in the dark.
At the moment Li Nuo followed Hedwig into the cave entrance, the undercurrent spy followed him silently.
The scales on his body have a good camouflage effect and seem to automatically change color according to the environment.
If Li Nuo hadn't turned on "Perception Enhancement" and had the deconstruction technique at hand, it would have been almost impossible for him to discover this undercurrent spy who was integrated with the environment.
Li Nuo saw that this guy was following the two of him with evil intentions, so he didn't bother to deal with him and directly launched "Psychic Bombing".
The invisible undertide spy stopped in place without warning. His body twitched violently, causing chaos in the sea water and rolling up waves of fine white sand.
"Gulu gulu gulu..." The sea water surged.
"Poof~" The undertide spy came out of the invisible state, his head exploded, and the red and white things wandered with the sea water.
Hedwig stopped in confusion and looked behind him warily:
"Eh? It's strange. I seem to hear unusual fluctuations in the sea water."
"What kind of fluctuation?" Li Nuo pretended to be confused and looked outside the cave entrance with the other party.
Hedwig scratched his head:
"Maybe a big fish is passing by, let's leave it alone."
Hedwig continued to spray water, pulling Li Nuo deeper into the cave, focusing on the tunnel ahead.
Li Nuo looked at the magic vision in his mind and threw the "Death Technique" at the headless corpse that was rising.
The undertide spy who had lost his head twitched a few times in the sea water, and swam stiffly into the distance, leaving behind a trail of bloody mist.
After the undercurrent spies were far away from the cave where the two of them were, Li Nuo called up the spell list and set "Evil Explosion" to level 5.
In this way, he can activate the "Evil Explosion" on the level 5 corpse of the undertide spy.
"Bang~~" The headless corpse of the undercurrent spy was detonated by Li Nuo.
The waves of sea water caused by the explosion spread thousands of meters away and turned into a dull buzzing vibration.
Hedwig had entered the blue hole at this moment, about 20 meters vertical distance from the entrance.
He vaguely noticed the fluctuations in the sea water caused by the self-destruction of the corpse, looked back, and asked:
"Jarvis, was there an explosion outside just now? Did you feel an insignificant energy fluctuation?"
Li Nuo shook his head:
"No."
Hedwig scratched his beard that turned into liquid:
"Okay. It seems like this is my first time taking someone into the blue hole, so I'm a little too nervous."
Hedwig maintained the water flow behind him and led Li Nuo through the cave.
Their figures were quickly obscured by the dense blue moss and disappeared behind the first corner.
Li Nuo looked back at the entrance of the cave that was covered by the cave wall, and smiled secretly in his heart. He finally figured out the range of perception of the five-ring deep sea wizard in the sea water.
There is nothing wrong with increasing the "Spirit" attribute value, which can indeed increase the range of energy perception.
But in seawater, all wizards will have their energy perception range greatly reduced due to changes in the energy propagation medium.
Headway is a typical example.
The deconstruction results show that his "spirit" is 160 points, and his energy perception range on land is 1550 meters.
Under water, without the help of "secondary deep-sea detection", his range of perception would be reduced to two hundred meters.
The "Evil Explosion Technique" that Li Nuo just triggered was almost two hundred meters away from Hedwig in a straight line, which was exactly at the limit of Hedwig's perception range.
This caused Hedwig to have the illusion that there had been an explosion just now.
"My energy perception range has also been weakened by the deep sea environment, but I have "Psychic Beacon" and "Psychic Sight", and I can still use magic vision to accurately target spellcasting targets. From this point of view, the high-level spell "Deep Sea Detection" is more valuable than I expected. Only deep sea wizards who possess this spell can have an energy perception range under water that is comparable to that on water. "
Li Nuo gave "Deep Sea Exploration" a thumbs up in his heart.
He searched his magic vision and saw no other undercurrent spies.
That's right, according to the "Surveillance Plan" deconstructed from the undertide spy Vasdagan, during the day, there is only one undercurrent spy, Vasdagan, guarding the Mossy Blue Cave.
In the evening, another undercurrent spy will come to take over and monitor the Mossy Blue Cave in place of Vasdagan.
The Terror Sails Pirate Kingdom currently only knows that there is a group of sharks near the Mossy Blue Cave, but it is not clear where this group of sharks live.
Two undercurrent spies work two shifts here in the Blue Cave, monitoring the entrance of the cave 24 hours a day, just to catch those sharks out.
About a week ago, that is, the day Li Nuo killed Dikla Fagan's personal butler, the sea patrol wizard of the Chanal family discovered the same shark in the Moss Blue Cave during a routine inspection of the seabed. Traces of people.
It was night and the lighting conditions were not good. The wizards of the Chanal family were not sure whether the information was accurate, but they still reported it to the family manager.
This news was eventually overheard by undercurrent spies lurking in the Chanal family, so the current surveillance operation was launched.
Just judging from Li Nuo’s deconstruction results…
The number of undercurrent spies in the Chanal family is really extraordinary.
But the situation of the Chanal family is different from that of the Pangola family.
Dicra Fagan Pangola took the initiative to seek cooperation with the Dreadsail Pirate Nation.
As a wizarding family that started out as a trader, the Chanal family hates illegal professions such as pirates and spies. The only thing they want to do with the Dreadsail Pirate Kingdom is to kill them quickly.
The Dreadsail Pirate Kingdom planted spies into the Chanal family in order to gain first-hand trade intelligence and accurately rob trade fleets in the deep sea.
When Li Nuo handled bounty tasks with extremely high efficiency, he helped the Chanal family uncover many spies and was warmly welcomed by the Chanal family.
Later, because Li Nuo was too wild and uninhibited when he ruined Dikla Fagan's dinner, the local manager of the Chanal family was cautious and postponed the meeting with Li Nuo.
To this day, Li Nuo has not yet met with the local manager of the Chanal family.
The person in charge is named Lape Chanal. He is the first heir of the Chanal family and the head of the family. He personally manages the Suman Islands, the most important transportation hub for deep-sea trade.
Befriending Lape Chanal was part of Li Nuo's plan to control the Suman Islands.
Having already killed an undercurrent spy monitoring the Blue Hole, Li Nuo planned to follow this clue and refer to the "Surveillance Plan" to clear out all the undercurrent spies related to the Blue Hole.
This operation can be regarded as a great gift to Lape Chanal when he meets him in the future.
Li Nuo made a plan of action in his mind, then calmed down, closed his "spiritual vision", and dispersed the magical vision outside the blue hole.
He turned his attention to the cave he was currently in.
Hedwig led him through several turns, from going vertically deep into the cave to swimming horizontally along the rugged tunnel.
The ground of the tunnel is uneven, and the greasy stones are covered with blue moss.
Li Nuo saw many dragon relics in the moss here that had been soaked in sea water and turned black.
Because it was in poor quality and could not provide much energy, Li Nuo did not ask Hedwig to stop and allowed him to carefully examine the things on the ground.
On the walls on both sides of the tunnel, there is a dark, narrow hole or a twisted gap every few meters.
Li Nuo activated "Life and Death Tracking" and glanced at these dark areas.
He saw some young sea snakes living there, but no larger sea snakes.
This is a bit strange.
Li Nuo asked Hedwig, but the other party couldn't explain the reason. He only mentioned that as long as the two of them did not enter the dark area, they would not be attacked by sea snakes.
Seeing that Hedwig didn't care much about the fact that there were only young sea snakes in the dark area, Li Nuo forgot about this strange phenomenon.
When the two of them arrived at a fork in the road, a turbulent undercurrent appeared out of nowhere, passed Li Nuo, and rushed to the passage on the other side of the fork.
Hedwig sprayed two water jets from his feet, leading Li Nuo to rush out of the undercurrent, leaving the churning seawater behind.
"Fortunately, you also know the "Deep Sea Swimming" spell. You have minimized the resistance of the undercurrent. Otherwise, I would have spent a lot of magic power to drag you out of the undercurrent. "
Hedwig turned around and murmured a few words to Li Nuo before continuing to swim ahead.
The further you go, the more dragon relics are scattered on the ground.
After experiencing several "sneak attacks" from undercurrents, the two finally arrived at the huge cave that was rumored to contain many dragon collections.
Just as Hedwig described, this place occupies a vast area, with a width of more than 500 meters and a height of more than 20 meters, making it a well-deserved large cave.
There are several low mountains of five or six meters high on the ground, all of which are dragon collections brought here by the undercurrent.
When Li Nuo arrived here, there happened to be a strong undercurrent passing through the cave.
This undercurrent rolled up most of the low mountain on the ground, causing the dragon collection to flutter around like a goddess scattering flowers.
A full three minutes passed before the dragon collection floating in the water slowly fell down and re-formed into several low mountains and carpets covering the ground.
"We're here, Jarvis." Hedwig took out a few metal nails as thick as a bowl from his magic pocket:
"I first drove these nails into the rock wall of the cave. They are an important insurance for us against the undercurrent. When you search for the collection, you must ensure that the rope around your waist is connected to the metal nails to avoid being washed away by the undercurrent here. Let’s go. You saw it just now, right? The undercurrent here is much more fierce than what we encountered before, and no one knows the pattern of its appearance.”
Hedwig gave a few instructions, took out a hammer, and began to fix the metal nails to the wall, making a clanking sound.
Li Nuo had nothing to do and observed his surroundings.
The undercurrent just now rushed in from the entrance deep in the cave.
There was no moss-free blue light inside the cave entrance, which was pitch black and a bit scary.
The light conditions in other parts of the cave are not very good, and only a few places have moss that emits blue light.
The deconstruction technique followed Li Nuo's gaze and swept across the entire cave.
【system information:】
[You are about to activate the deconstruction technique on "Rusty Anchor". 】
[You are about to activate the deconstruction technique on the "green silverware". 】
[You are about to activate the deconstruction technique on the "rotten metal object". 】
[You are about to activate the deconstruction technique on the "dragon tool of unknown meaning"]
…
Lines of system text refreshed in my mind.
In general, about one out of every four things is directly related to the dragon family.
For this journey, Li Nuo prepared five large-capacity special underwater magic pockets.
This magic pocket can be used underwater, so you don't have to worry about seawater pouring into the pocket while storing items.
These five pockets will be used by Li Nuo to carry things that are small in size and have high energy reserves.
If something is relatively large, Li Nuo plans to destroy it on the spot and use passive deconstruction to get the energy reward.
Like that thing that looks like a metal cabinet.
The name given to it by the deconstruction technique is "Dragon Object of Unknown Purpose", and the deconstruction consumes 100,000 energy points.
It is relatively large, two meters high and one meter wide, with a thick metal door panel. It is one of the few heavy things that has not been swept by the ocean currents.
Such things are old and heavy, and not convenient to put in the magic pocket.
Destroying it on the spot was Li Nuo's best choice.
Li Nuo's eyes fell on this cabinet-like thing, he remembered its location, and planned to smash it soon.
"Dong..."
A slight banging sound came from the cabinet Li Nuo was looking at.
This sound was mixed in with the sound of Hedwig banging metal nails. It was not obvious, but it was noticed by Li Nuo who turned on "enhanced perception".
Li Nuo couldn't help but be stunned.
"Dong, dong dong, dong dong dong..."
A series of collisions sounded in the cave.
Hedwig stopped what he was doing, looked around the cave suspiciously, and finally looked at the large metal "cabinet" with Li Nuo.
"Uh, Jarvis, did you hear the thump-dong-dong sound? It seems to be coming from the dragon nail box." Hedwig said with some uncertainty.
"Nail box?" Li Nuo asked.
Hedwig pointed to the "cabinet":
"Well, it's the metal cabinet you see now. It looks a bit like a cabinet to us people, but in the Dragon Age, it was what the dragons used to store their nails. There were usually things cut from the dragon's claws. Nail clippings.”
"Dong dong dong..."
After hearing the exchange between the two, the object in the nail box tapped the metal cover faster, as if trying to get out.
Li Nuo and Hedwig looked at each other, shook their heads slightly and said:
"My "life and death tracking" tells me that there are no living, dead or undead people in the nail box, and I don't know what is knocking on the lid. "
Hedwig was about to speak, but Li Nuo raised his hand and stared at the nail box, interrupting his words.
"Wait a minute, Hedwig. I saw something in the box. It was a shark. It had dispelled some kind of magic that could block detection. I didn't find it in the magical vision until now... It seemed They are asking us for help.”
"Shark man??" Hedwig's eyes widened:
"Are you sure? Could it be a sea monster? Both the sea monster and the shark have tails, one is like a snake's tail, and the other is like a fish's tail."
"Sure. I'm not wrong. That's a mermaid with a fish tail, not a sea monster." Li Nuo nodded calmly.
In his magical vision, he saw a small shark with a fish tail.
The information fed back by the deconstruction technique also proved that Li Nuo was not mistaken.
【system information:】
[You are about to activate the deconstruction technique on the "unknown name of the Mermaid". 】
[It is estimated that 70,000 energy points will be consumed to achieve 100% deconstruction completion]
The deconstruction consumption is 70,000 points, which is equivalent to deconstructing a four-ring wizard.
Li Nuo temporarily regarded the female mermaid locked in the nail box as the strength of the four-ring deep sea wizard.
Seeing that Li Nuo was so sure, Hedwig stretched out his right hand towards the rattling nail box.
His palm stretched outward, turned into several streams of water, and touched the top cover of the nail box from a distance of tens of meters.
After groping for a few times on both sides of the top cover, Hedwig successfully unlocked the mechanical lock on the outside of the cover by relying on his research on the dragon collection.
"Click." The lock opened.
A petite pink figure burst out from inside and looked at Li Nuo and Li Nuo with tearful eyes.
"She is really a mermaid. Her skin and scales are pink, and she is very small." Hedwig thought for a while and said:
"This should be a female Mermaid who has not yet reached adulthood, which is equivalent to a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old in us humans. How could she appear here alone and locked in a nail box?... It really makes me confused."
"Yeah yeah~ Yeah~" The female mermaid called out to Hedwig a few times, and actually swam over without flinching.
Li Nuo turned his head and looked at the big man beside him and said:
"Why do I feel like this female mermaid knows you?"
Hedwig scratched his beard that turned into liquid:
"I feel the same way. But I don't have any shark friends, how could she know me..."
Hedwig didn't know what he thought of, he hammered his palm, looked at the female mermaid and said:
"Oh~~I remembered, you couldn't be the baby mermaid that was placed in a shell by that mermaid team two months ago, right?"
The Mermaid might understand human language, or perhaps read Hedwig's tone and expression.
In short, after Hedwig's exclamation, she nodded repeatedly and said a lot of "ya ya ya".
It was Hedwig's turn to be in trouble. He didn't know the language of the sharks and couldn't understand what the other party was saying.
Li Nuo pondered for a moment and launched an all-round routine deconstruction of the Mermaid.
(End of chapter)
