"Come on, let's go take a look!" Qing He took my arm and used her wings that turned into transparent dorsal fins to lead me to the temple by paddling.
The grand Boxing Day is still in progress, and every Atlanian has a smile on his face, except that the high priest who should be presiding is now gone, replaced by another old fish-man.
After leaving the square, the hustle and bustle dissipated. The hidden barrier was now just like what we saw in the projection of the mermaid's palm. The lightning flowed and completely turned into a high-voltage electric wall. All the vicious eels that maintained the barrier also appeared. After being born, their expressions were even more ferocious, as if they were enduring great pain...
"Enter Yuanchu people, Lord Qinghe, you are here!" The high priest was suspended on the edge of the barrier that was cut into pieces by lightning, with a deep expression on his face.
"Is it Chi You?"
"Impossible, he can't enter such a deep seabed. Maybe some of his brothers are good at water...but..." Qinghe looked at the increasingly intense lightning with a puzzled look on his face.
"No...the light priests believe that the power to destroy the barrier comes from underneath the temple."
Then it couldn’t be Chi You?
But when I heard the news, I saw Qinghe's face became even more serious, "Are the Light Priests sure?"
"They are not sure. After all...this kind of movement has not happened in thousands of years..."
"I'll go take a look. High Priest, please lead the way!"
"No, your injury hasn't healed yet!" Qinghe's mind is really accepting death. He hasn't healed yet, and he wants to stand up for the Atlan people again... I must stop this.
"The people in the early Yuan Dynasty are right, Master Qinghe, you are not healed yet!"
"Then there must be a solution to the matter. You can't just sit back and wait for death. You have to be responsible for so many people in Atlan outside you. I have to be responsible for the people of Yuanchu. There must be someone to shoulder this burden!"
"Then please ask the Lord Yuanchu and Master Qinghe for your blessing! I will now order the light priests to prepare for the ceremony and explore the path first!"
Qinghe said that in this regard, it is unreasonable to be timid...
A group of people came to the temple. The mermaids serving as light priests were all gorgeously dressed, and their bodies were dazzled with jewels. However, one of the clam shells was empty. Just when the high priest opened his mouth to ask, the mermaid hurried away in a panic. Come, the beads on the head are tilted to one side and entangled with the top fin...
"Excuse me, high priest, I'm late..."
The high priest waved his hand and said, "If it's not an extremely urgent matter, I would never want to disturb your Boxing Day. I won't hold you accountable today! Get ready!"
After the mermaids sat down on their clam shells, the high priest said, "The guard discovered the abnormality first. When the priest on duty found out, he immediately sent a message to me, specifically choosing Boxing Day, the grandest day in Atlan, to do it. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or deliberate, but now we have to gather the power of all the light priests, plus the blessings of the etheric crystals and the Yuanchu people, to try and see what this thing is!”
"Guard Atlan!" the mermaids saluted.
"If it is solved quickly, it shouldn't delay your night banquet."
The high priest stood in the center, and Qinghe and I followed him, "Sorry to trouble you." As the mermaids worked together, the halo appeared on the roof of the temple again, but there was nothing in the halo. There is no image except a vast expanse of white.
The high priest used his staff to guide the light pillars in the etheric crystal. Qinghe and I also guided it with our palms. Suddenly, three light pillars emanated from the etheric crystal, "Get up!"
The high priest raised his cane vigorously, and the beam of light hit the halo of the ceiling. I also channeled all the strength in my body, and then dragged the beam of light to the ceiling, and the picture on the ceiling became even brighter! It's just that... the picture is not the full view of Atlan, but a vortex... a vortex that seems to suck people in if you stare at it for a long time!
"It's actually the movement in the forbidden area!" All the mermaids were shocked when they saw the whirlpool in the halo.
"Forbidden area?"
"Yes! This is the forbidden area of Atlan. All Atlan people, no, it can be said that all life in this dimension, have no way to enter here! This..." The high priest's thoughts were extremely deep, and he passed on The voice was stammering.
"Can't even you go in?"
"Yeah, not even me."
"Before you said that Chi You's torso was buried in Atlan, was it in the forbidden area?"
"No, it is a place deep in the temple. Regarding the forbidden area... The Atlan people who entered the forbidden area did not come back. Those who wanted to enter were dealt with by the guards at the electric light barrier... So what about the forbidden area? What, I really don’t know... Lord Qinghe, your lifespan is immeasurable, have you ever heard about the forbidden land of Atlan?"
Qinghe looked at me and then at the high priest, "This question may only be answered by people from the early Yuan Dynasty."
Everyone focused their attention on me again, expecting me to tell them the secret of the forbidden area. "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth. I will know when I go and take a look!"
The light priest chased Qinghe and I with his halo, guiding us to swim in the direction of the forbidden area in the dark temple corridor. At the end of the brick and stone corridor, it was pitch black, and the halo chased us. There were many There are many dense blisters, like an oxygen concentrator inserted in a fish tank, with blisters constantly jumping up from below.
"Qinghe, you know that, right?" There is no high priest or mermaid here. Qinghe and I were communicating spiritually on the last brick.
"I know, but Atlan people cannot know. This is a passage, a passage connecting to another world."
Qinghe moved his hands forward and jumped into the water bubbles. I looked at the unknown abyss below, feeling a little scared... A pair of hands stretched out from the abyss, wrapped their arms around my neck as I looked down, and pulled me We took it down... The halos of the priests could not penetrate such deep water. As we dived deeper and deeper, those lights were already faint and invisible. When I was in the dark, my vision had broken through the limitations of light. Even if there was no light, I could adjust my eyes to the darkness and see everything hidden in the dark. But even so, in this deep place Under the sea, it is not easy to see clearly around you.
Because I was always being held by Qinghe, I didn’t have any physical exertion. I just felt that time passed by for a long time, and there was the sound of gurgling water around me from time to time. Qinghe said that it was the undercurrent of the seabed. The long diving time made me feel that if we kept diving like this, we might be able to reach the deepest part of this dimension. As I was thinking wildly, Qinghe's voice came into my mind, "Yuanchu people should be arriving soon. Did you see those rocks?"
When I swam closer, I saw four rocks below that were a little bit abrupt in color in the sea water. When I swam up to the rocks, I realized that the rocks were so big. They were carved into four-legged, long-tailed, long-necked bodies. The image of a turtle shell! Four sculptures, each the size of a whale, faced these four directions, and in the middle of the four stone statues, I saw the whirlpool.
Except for the four sculptures, the surrounding seabed sand and gravel disappeared under the suction of the vortex. The huge suction force made us all have to hold on to the turtle shells on the stone statues in order not to be sucked in. This vortex is like a The large flush toilet sucked everything in the sea, including the sea water, into the whirlpool.
"In the vast sea, there is the mountain of Dushuo. There is a large peach tree on it. It has a curve of three thousand miles. The northeastern branch between its branches is called the ghost gate, where all ghosts come and go. It is actually a bottomless valley, and there is no bottom below it. It is called the ghost gate. It is said to return to the ruins. The water of the eight rivers and nine fields, the currents of Tianhan and Han Dynasties, are all poured into it, without increasing or decreasing."
I tried hard to digest Qinghe's voice. Every word was in my mind, but when they were connected, I couldn't understand them? !
"What the hell is this place?"
"The Land of Return to Ruins. There is such a place in all worlds. Here, all the rivers in the world, and even the Milky Way in the sky, finally converge into the "Land of Return to Ruins." This hole will never be full. It will dry up.”
In the huge whirlpool, I saw a small dot, struggling to circle in the water, "What is that?!"
"It seems like... a fish? It's impossible. There are no living things in the forbidden area. I didn't see any living things when I swam here..."
The suction around us never weakens, but our physical strength is constantly being consumed. To contend with such inexhaustible suction is a dead end for us. If we don't find the real cause of the damaged barrier before our physical strength is exhausted, then It's only a matter of time before we are pulled into the whirlpool by this suction.
"Is it possible that it comes from the other side of the vortex, the other space you mentioned?"
After listening to my words, Qinghe looked thoughtful, "I don't rule out this possibility... Come on, Yuanchu people, you hold it tight, I'll go help it and see what's going on!"
After saying that, Qinghe jumped into the whirlpool without thinking. Compared with the huge whirlpool, Qinghe was even smaller than the fish struggling in the whirlpool. I lay on the turtle shell and looked at Qinghe. Case. She jumped into the water and jumped straight onto the back of the fish, and then disappeared, submerged in the foam stirred up by the whirlpool. I was anxious until I saw her body rapidly inflating like air, and again Become the lone boat fighting against the waves.
Qinghe's body continued to grow, gradually losing her human form and turning into a huge fish with pectoral fins like butterfly wings. She kept swinging her fish tail, resisting the suction in the vortex, and pulled the poor little one away. The fish was protected under her fins, and just when I was sweating for her, she arched her body, exerted her tail force, exploded the whirlpool, and actually jumped out of this terrifying place with the little fish. The whirlpool!
After her body landed on the turtle shell, she returned to normal size, and the little fish I saw in the whirlpool was even bigger than the stone statue under me! I have never seen such a hard-shelled fish...or rather, it's not a fish at all...
"This is... a Mosasaurus?!"
