"What's going on?" I asked the mermaid priest next to me.
"The priest on duty said that there was nothing unusual here since we left the temple. When we returned to the temple, we found that the barrier was gone and all the barrier guards were dead!"
When the little rocket head in the clothes heard the news, he huddled tightly in my arms.
"How did you die?"
Priest Guang shook his head, "I don't know, there's no movement at all."
My heart skipped a beat, this must have something to do with the huge whirlpool in the forbidden area! "Let's go!"
As we approached the temple all the way, the guards on each platform were much stricter than usual. They were pacing back and forth on the platform, watching everywhere.
Entering the temple, the mermaid priests have taken off their heavy and gorgeous festival decorations. They all hold weapons and wear masks on their heads. The color of the scales on their bodies has also changed. The scales that used to be pearlescent now seem to be plated. There was a layer of metallic luster. I saw the leading priest next to me changing equipment, and I realized that the change in their scales was a special kind of armor from Atlan. The scales wrapped in the armor can move freely, which is very fit and convenient, but It is a hundred times harder than its own original scales, and ordinary attacks cannot cause damage.
"What? The priest also wants to go into battle?"
"Each priest can not only pray for the energy blessing of the ether crystal, but he is also an outstanding warrior of our Atlan! Let the priests follow along and see!"
Qinghe was much more impatient than me. She was swimming at the front with the invention of the Soft Limbs family in both hands. She shuttled through the deep corridors of the temple. She seemed to be more familiar with the journey than the priests who lived in the temple. .
At the end of the corridor, there is a stone statue, which is carved with a mermaid holding a harpoon in his hand. His eyes are wide open and he looks very fierce. The fins on his body are all in the shape of spikes, lifelike, as if he will be alive in the next second. Attack with the fork. When the priests behind them saw the stone statue, their swimming speed slowed down.
"We are almost reaching the forbidden area..." The priests looked at the stone statues with a look of fear on their faces.
"The situation is urgent, no need to blame!" The high priest bowed deeply to the stone statue, waved his sleeves, and resolutely swam past the stone statue. This was a start for the priests, but this taboo has been tabooed for thousands of years. It pressed deeply on the heads of the mermaid priests, preventing their tails from moving even a little bit.
"You have also seen that the barrier disappeared inexplicably, and those guards died inexplicably. If we don't figure out the reason, we may be the ones who die next time! It may be us Atlan who disappears next time! "The high priest said sadly.
These words made some priests hesitantly step into the forbidden area, but some other priests hesitated in place.
"Listen! What's the sound!" Qinghe pricked up his ears and made a silent gesture. What sound could there be in this endless deep sea? Qinghe didn't hear wrong, right?
Everyone stopped moving and became quiet. Soon I also heard that sound... It was like the sound of waves hitting the rocks, or the sound of leaves shaking and rustling, but these sounds were neither heard nor heard. Should it appear in this deep sea? ! If things go wrong, there must be a monster! There was a surge of water in the corridor, and I felt the power of the water passing through my body, like a gust of breeze blowing by. However, after the gust of wind blew by, the stone statue that was originally suppressed at the entrance to the forbidden area disappeared!
I rubbed my eyes. How come the stone statue that was in front of me just now disappeared as if it had never existed? !
"Where's the stone statue?!"
Such a big stone statue disappeared silently right under your nose? ! This... this is too evil! My heart also panicked. When Qinghe and I entered the forbidden area, there weren't so many strange things. Is there really a curse? As long as the Atlan people step into the forbidden area, they will disappear? Not even the scum left? Now those priests should not follow us into the forbidden area...
"Look! This is a manifestation of God! God has taken away the stone statues guarding the forbidden area, so that you can enter the forbidden area without any restraints!"
If these words hadn't come from my mind, I almost believed it... I don't believe there is any curse, because Qinghe and I have been there personally. If the disappearance of the stone statues is a curse, I would be more convinced. I want to believe that the stone statue was sucked away by the vortex.
Sure enough, when I heard the news, the shocked and frightened expressions of the priests behind me began to ease, and finally, they all followed Qinghe and began to swim deeper into the forbidden area.
"Enter the early Yuan Dynasty! Is this really the manifestation of God?" The high priest swam next to me and asked me quietly.
"Well..."
"I understand...but you really should say this. I have a feeling..."
"What premonition?"
"What Atlan encountered this time was not ordinary trouble..."
Along the way, under the illumination of the light priest, the sight of the originally dark waters was much better, and the sharp spikes on the seabed in the dark were clearly illuminated. The high priest said that as long as such spikes were pierced, the whole person would be He will die like a punctured pufferfish. This waterway is so dangerous... Last time Qinghe and I traveled through it in the dark by feeling. This is really the fearlessness of the ignorant!
When he got close to the whirlpool and saw the huge stone turtle statue, the light priest was so surprised that he couldn't help but extinguish the light ring in his hand...
"The one who was here just now couldn't have swam away!" When we left the whirlpool, the huge mosasaur-like creature was near the stone turtle, but now it can't be found!
"Oh my god..."
A light priest hit the aperture above his head, and a piece of black armor almost grazed his head and swam past. Looking at this thing from this angle, it felt even more oppressive, like an A380 pressing on top of his head!
"What is this! It's actually bigger than a sea beast!"
"Are you sure that this thing is definitely not from Atlan?"
The light priests aimed their apertures at the giant beast above their heads, "Atlan is a huge sea beast, but no matter how long it grows, it can't grow that big!"
"That's where it comes from."
I led the Atlan people to swim to the back of the stone turtle statue. The vortex that could crush almost everything and swallow everything was spinning tirelessly. In the waves of the vortex, I saw more things rolled inside. ..
"Oh my god...under the palace of Atlan...the forbidden area we have been guarding, is actually like this..."
"What's underneath this whirlpool?"
"It should be another world. It's just that the suction force is too great. We can't go down to find out. That's why we need to use the instruments of your Atlan people." Qinghe knelt on the stone statue and followed the instructions in front of the soft limb representative. like that, swinging the instrument of exploration.
Qinghe finished the imaging devices of the two pyramids, then stood up and threw the horn-shaped exploration instrument in his hand into the whirlpool. The small instrument was thrown down and quickly disappeared into the sea foam stirred by the whirlpool. ...
"Let's see what's down here."
Qinghe's hand gently surrounded her, and gradually ripples of light flowed through her fingertips. She injected the energy from her fingertips into the inverted pyramid. As the light intensified, the light flashing inside the pyramid almost overflowed. But no screen is displayed.
"What happened?" Seeing that it was useless, Qinghe went to fiddle with the instrument again.
"Could it only be done by injecting the energy of the ether crystal?"
The words of a mermaid priest next to me woke me up. At that time, the soft limb representative did use the energy of the ether crystal to drive the instrument. Maybe other energy could not be connected, but now, the ether crystal is far away from us. Is it possible to leave the ether crystal? Shi, this thing is malfunctioning?
"Let's come! Our power comes from the ether crystal, you can give it a try!" the mermaid priest volunteered.
Immediately, the mermaid priests crowded onto the turtle shell of a stone statue, formed a circle, and placed the projection pyramid instrument in the center. Then, they held hands one by one and began to communicate in their mermaid tribe's unique way, and the light began to shine. Condensation, then, the high priest used his staff to guide the condensed energy of the mermaid into the instrument. When the energy in the pyramid was filled, the cone energy box appeared, "Come out!"
In the cone box, our existence is like a miniature three-dimensional model. The stone statues below us are like four mountains in the picture, but the terrible vortex in the middle is flat, and the depth below is not shown. The small fish rolling on the surface were also clearly visible. I looked closer and saw that the fish looked strange and ferocious.
"Maybe it's too deep. It hasn't been fully detected yet, so the display is not complete." The high priest said. This statement makes sense. No one knows how deep the vortex is. It may have exceeded the detection equipment. It's the limit.
The little rocket head that had been quietly wrapped around me in his arms moved. He poked me gently inside the clothes and whispered to me, "Brother, can I give it a try?"
"no!"
"Huh? What's wrong?" Qinghe came up and asked me.
I didn't pay attention just now. If I wanted to teleport to Little Rocket Head alone, I teleported it to everyone...
The clothes on my chest were pulled open, and then a big soft head poked out, with small dark eyes looking timidly at everything outside.
"Why did you bring him here!" The high priest's eyebrows almost stood up when he saw the little rocket head in my arms! He actually blurted out the honorific he had been using towards me and turned it into a question. But soon, he realized his gaffe, took two steps closer and said, "How could you be so disrespectful to the people of the early Yuan Dynasty!", and then pretended to pull the head of Little Rocket Tou, which scared him so much that he crawled back into me. In arms.
"I'm the one who brought him here. His invention may be of great use to us!" I hurriedly protected the little rocket head and said.
"I'm going to transfer my psychic energy to the instrument he created and then enter the vortex myself to see what's going on."
"It's too dangerous. If you want to go, I'll go too!" Qinghe stopped me immediately. "If you transfer all your spiritual energy to the instrument, if the instrument goes missing, then you..."
"I only have a shell left." I said what Qinghe didn't say.
"right."
"I know, but I have to do it, and only I can do it."
