Su Mi felt the changes in the sea as soon as she entered the sea.
The plant vines at the bottom of the archipelago grow from barnacles. From Su Mi's perspective, she doesn't know whether it's because the number of mutated barnacles has increased or because the plant vines on the barnacles are growing more vigorously. In short, the plant vines on the seabed are more The previous one was more lush.
Everything has two sides. When this vine becomes strong, the seaside will become a dangerous place. The benefit is that the area of pure sea area becomes larger.
The area of seawater purified by mutated barnacles has been increased.
Su Mi went deep into the seabed and swam until the low-light layer was nearly a thousand meters below the sea. The mutant barnacle plant vines were still strong.
If she remembered correctly, when she first discovered the islands, the longest these plant vines only reached the middle area of the low-light layer.
In less than three months, they have grown more than 500 meters, and several thicker vines have grown into the aphotic layer area.
The sea water fluctuated, and the plant vine that penetrated into the aphotic layer began to twist wildly. Su Mi returned to the space to observe alertly. The wildly twisting plant vine actually rolled up an octopus about the same size as the Thousand Hands, and was now dragging it upwards hard.
A plant vine can wrap up a marine creature as awake as the Thousand Hands, and the octopus is still very much alive and struggling and resisting. She clearly saw the suction cup on the octopus' hand vigorously beating the surface of the plant vine, and it was pricked to pieces by the barbs on the thick plant vine.
The yellow liquid seeped into the seawater from the octopus tentacles, but the seawater near the plant vines instantly became clean.
The small hole in the plant vine opened, and the little fish inside poked its head out, frantically swallowed the yellow liquid, and then returned to the hole in the plant vine again.
After the giant octopus was dragged to the low-light level, dense plant vines surrounded it. Su Mi watched as a huge octopus with a thousand hands was wrapped into a sphere by vigorous plant vines and disappeared before her eyes.
No fish dares to approach the offshore islands. If these plant vines continue to grow, not to mention whether the people on the island are in danger, the fish in the deep sea may be eaten up.
"Master, master, is it you?"
Su Mi swam following Xiao Qing's position. Just now, it was clear that Xiao Qing's position was still at the junction of the weak light layer and the aphotic layer. But at this time, the position moved again, and Xiao Qing's position appeared in the weak light layer again. within the area of the light layer.
Seeing that the thick plant vine had left the area, Su Mi boldly left the space and headed upstream. In the past, she only thought that the magnetic field of the islands was strange, which made her unable to determine Xiaoqing's location.
But this time when Su Mi came out of the space, she felt like her hair was tingling.
The sea area above the head from the light-transmitting layer to the low-light layer is all filled with Xiao Qing's breath. The smell is still very rich and strong.
At this time, a white object suddenly fell down above the head along with the ripples of the sea water.
From a distance, Su Mi could clearly tell that it was an egg. This egg also has the scent of Xiaoqing, which is fresh and strong.
When Su Mi got closer, she realized that it was actually an egg. Judging from the appearance of this egg, it was very similar to the tortoise egg she had put into the space before.
Xiaoqing’s egg?
After putting the egg into the space, another white spherical object began to fall down from the top of the head.
It's not that the dense plant vines don't want to wrap around the egg, there are even many plant vines in the sea that are constantly trying to hook the egg, and the barbs are scratching upwards.
But the egg body is hard and smooth, and the plants and vines are densely woven into a net to catch one egg. There are more snow-white turtle eggs falling from other locations on the plant vines.
While Su Mi was using plant vines to collect eggs everywhere, she quickly swam toward a suddenly vacated area above. She saw a metal hexagonal pattern. If it weren't for the huge mass that allowed her to see the texture clearly underwater, she might have ignored it.
That's the texture of a tortoise's plastron.
If nothing else, it’s Xiaoqing.
But at this height, Xiaoqing's position is at the bottom of the archipelago, in the same position as the mutated barnacle.
No wonder she couldn't find it after so long. It turned out that Xiaoqing was not above the islands, but below. And it was obscured by densely packed mutated barnacles. Looking at this situation, even Xiaoqing has been blocked by the mutant barnacle plant vines.
There were too many mutated parasitic barnacles, and Su Mi finally took the opportunity to slip into the gaps in the plant vines, and then got a little closer to Xiao Qing's position.
The closer Su Mi got, the more frightened she became.
The plastron she had just seen on the seabed a thousand meters away grew larger as she got closer.
It was so big near and so small in the far, that when Su Mi was less than ten meters away from Xiao Qing, she was so stunned that she was almost caught in the plant vines.
In my impression, it was only two circles bigger than a palm, but now Xiaoqing is as big as a mountain.
Su Mi was like a grain of millet under its belly armor, with no sense of existence.
Xiaoqing's surroundings have been occupied by parasitic barnacles. There are even traces of parasitic barnacles on its plastron, limbs, neck and tail. There are many scars on it, wounds caused by forcibly peeling off the barnacles.
Su Mi's spiritual water continuously overflowed from the space and poured towards Xiao Qing's position. Xiaoqing's wounds were quickly treated.
If she wanted to get Xiao Qing back into space, she would first have to deal with the group of barnacles entangled around Xiao Qing's huge body.
"It really gives me a headache!" She didn't dare to get entangled with these plants and vines rashly. Once entangled, she would not be able to return to space.
These things can entangle such a big octopus and drag it into the group to devour it. A small shrimp like her is not enough to fit between their teeth.
But just when she released the spiritual water to treat Xiao Qing, the barnacles attached to Xiao Qing's plastron loosened their "mouth".
Although it was only for a moment, many barnacles fell off around Xiaoqing. In particular, the barnacles attached to Xiaoqing's plastron fell off immediately after being released, and were entangled in the vines of other barnacles and dragged into other groups of vines.
Can barnacles eat each other?
This is a good sign! Su Mi continued to release the spiritual water, swimming and releasing a large amount of water at the bottom of Xiaoqing's plastron.
Her spiritual water has a fatal attraction for living things, and the same is true for these barnacles.
The barnacles that were parasitic on Xiaoqing's plastron and surrounding areas fell off one by one under Su Mi's guidance.
Some were easily taken into the space by Su Mi, and some were dragged away and devoured by other surrounding plants and vines. Soon, a vacuum zone appeared around Su Mi, and Xiao Qing's entire bottom was exposed at the same time.
The barnacles on the periphery began to crowd into the inner vacuum zone in an encircling trend. Su Mi immediately put her palm against Xiao Qing's belly armor, silently chanting "Stop" in her heart.
But this time, Su Mi's head suddenly felt a sharp pain, and when she took Xiao Qing into the space, there was a gap above her head.
Her teeth were so painful that they were about to burst, stars were popping up in front of her eyes, and all the bones in her body seemed to be shifting. The pain made her bones rattle.
Su Mi passed out directly in the sea.
When she woke up again, the drowsiness in Su Mi's mind completely disappeared. When she opened her eyes, she saw that she was in a vacuum zone in the archipelago. The plants and vines were dancing around her very docilely, but they did not hurt her at all. (End of chapter)
