After figuring out this key information, Lao Zhang was still in a pretty good mood.
He decided not to leave for a while, and slowly investigated the sea area.
As the saying goes, "If God gives it to you, you will be blamed for it." With such a good inheritance in front of him, if he leaves now, he may regret it for the rest of his life.
"Anyway, I don't know how long it will take to float back slowly. I might as well increase my strength."
Of course, after experiencing yesterday's death blow, he has been confused from time to time in the past few days, and occasionally has a seizure, imagining that he is a basketball trainee; occasionally he has hysteria, thinking that he and his first love girlfriend are entering the marriage hall, and then burying his head In that beige sweater...
So in this case, I didn't dare to summon the awning boat and enter the tower again.
It was boring to be idle here, so Zhang Ming simply commanded Pelican and Xiaobai to try to discover the underwater ruins in this sea area.
Naturally, a pelican that is arrogant and not weaker than humans cannot listen to humans. If you want to make it obedient, you might as well let it die!
But it never expected that Emperor Zhang would beg it directly and shamelessly, and even hugged its thigh and begged.
"Bird Mama... Oh, Pelican Emperor, you are going to become a god in the future anyway. Can't you just hug your thigh now? Please help me find the ruins. You see the ruins in the sea, I often get sick. He looks like he needs to rest and recuperate."
"Please!"
The pelican was completely stunned and screamed "Gah"!
It wanted to kick this guy away, but it didn't expect that Emperor Zhang hugged him tightly and couldn't kick him away no matter what.
In addition, it was actually very useful and wished that the emperor kept begging it, so it lowered its voice and called "gugu" twice.
"Bird Emperor!" Zhang Ming simply lay down on the ground, pretending to be a dead fish, "Please!"
The pelican's body trembled.
"Bird Emperor!" Shimama repeated the words, with a tone of gloating and watching the excitement.
"Bird Emperor!" Zhang Ming shouted louder.
The pelican shook violently and called "coo-coo-coo" a few times again.
"Bird Emperor!" "Bird Emperor!" "Bird Emperor!"
Amidst the compliments, the Bird Emperor floated away. The bird's face entered an unprecedented state of spiritual climax, and his two eyes almost narrowed into a line.
"Gah!" it screamed, and flew into the sky to work with Xiaobai.
Only Shimama stuck to the dog's butt and repeated speechlessly: "Bird Emperor...please!"
"What do you know? The king of words is the key to a shameless sermon. You repeater, you will never have the ability to control others in this life, you will only quarrel with others."
"Look, after complimenting Mama Bird a few times, I can control it without losing a piece of meat. It's very cost-effective."
Zhang Ming crossed his legs leisurely, basked in the sun, and fell asleep unconsciously.
He was not lazy, he just wanted to repair his mental trauma as quickly as possible, and sleeping was the fastest way to repair it.
Shimama froze on the spot, thinking deeply, what Zhang Dad said made sense.
In the clear blue sky, the Bird Emperor, who was in a state of ecstasy and believed that he was "not inferior to others", was circling in circles, searching for the underwater ruins with all his strength.
As a magical bird that can increase Lao Zhang's attributes by 5 points with just one egg, it is actually not weak and can see through hundreds of meters of sea water.
As for the little white one on its head, it kept rolling its eyes. It would never be able to tell the pelican the message of Emperor Zhang's "King with a Strong Mouth" in this life, so just let it work happily!
…
So after ten days of hard work, the general search results came out.
There are indeed some underwater ruins.
But most of them are collapsed buildings, and what can be excavated is quite limited.
This civilization was not like the Yanjiao people who liked to make stone tablets to record their history, so as time went by, many of the information was lost.
What could be found were murals, statues and the like, which were not of much help to Zhang Ming.
However, Shimama's text cracking work still has some meaning.
Of course, progress is slow.
"It seems that we still have to go to the tower to dig out the important content."
It was not until 15 days later that Zhang Ming, whose mental state had returned to normal, clicked on the diamond-shaped gem in the token again.
As a ray of light flashed, the token in his hand issued an order.
Half an hour later, accompanied by the sound of running water, the old awning boat appeared nearby again.
After Zhang Ming was mentally prepared, he took the ice spear in his hand, put on his invisibility cloak, and a backpack of props, and set off with Shimama.
"I don't know what kind of changes will happen this time..."
The awning boat swam quickly, and Zhang Ming groped in the cabin for a while. There were two prismatic crystals on the boat. One of them was probably used for reinforcement to prevent the wooden boat from rotting; the other one was the control core, which he held in his hand. After the token sends an instruction, it can be received by the control core.
"I don't know how long these crystals can work..."
Since the time of entry this time was during the day and there was no heavy fog, Zhang Ming could easily see the movements on the seabed.
This world has indeed sunk. The taller buildings are about twenty or thirty meters away from the water. There are a lot of marine life attached to them. It is a green area, mainly plants, with few marine animals.
Lower buildings may be one or two hundred meters away from the water.
Only the tall tower that towers into the clouds is exposed above the sea.
And the almost frozen red moon above the tower... Even in the daytime, you can still feel the eerie and terrifying nature of the moon.
"A living demon..." Zhang Ming murmured to himself, "How did this demon get to the top of the tower?"
"How did this world sink? Was it crushed by the devil? Or was the world going to sink in the first place?"
I can't be sure about the Shimama sticking to my butt. After all, the strength of an existence like the Demon God cannot be inferred based on common sense. After Xuanwu dies, there are still three things left, let alone such a Demon God who is still alive.
Zhang Ming even frowned slightly, recalling a clue from a long time ago: the former Mirage No. 6.
It was originally a large offshore oil drilling platform on Earth, with more than a hundred oil workers working on it.
After entering the mysterious area, the platform was slowly sinking and completely submerged in the seawater within half a month.
The final result is...no survivors!
And now, the continent of the Azurite people has actually sunk.
This fact made Zhang Ming's mind full of random thoughts.
Will the earth sink?
If the earth is really floating in the sea of demons in "some form", then its sinking is not unimaginable...
When I think about the consequences of the sinking of the entire Pangea continent, it is really a disaster of heaven and earth falling.
"In fact, most of the Turtle Continent has sunk. There is only one small island left. Is this a coincidence or an inevitable fact, or is it related to the number of world sources?"
Zhang Ming took a deep breath and decided to investigate the truth behind the sinking of the "Azure Crystal Civilization" as soon as possible.
After waiting like this for a while, the high-speed awning boat approached the tower and slowly calmed down.
This time was a little different from the last time, because he already had an identity token, and the awning boat took him to another direction and changed the entrance door.
Before Zhang Ming could get closer, the door opened automatically with a "bang", as if something was inside, welcoming his arrival.
"Now that you've come, let's make peace with it." Zhang Ming calmed down deeply, raised his whole body's vigilance, and jumped into the gate with a slight jump.
The lights inside the tower were still dim, and there was a faint smell of moss in the air.
After such a long time, even if there were supernatural powers in the tower, there were still some molds appearing in some corners that were not covered.
Suddenly, Zhang Ming's pupils shrank suddenly, and his muscles all over his body tensed up, making alert movements!
He saw a whole row of bones, some falling neatly on the ground.
This is a hall of about a hundred square meters, which is quite spacious except for being a little dark.
Sitting on the chair was an azure man wearing white clothes. He put his hands on the table and sat upright. However, the flesh and blood on his body had completely disappeared and turned into a skeleton.
Looking at the bones on the ground, they were dressed in black cloth and lying in a row.
The mouths of several skulls were wide open, as if they had experienced some desperate pain at the moment of death. Others seemed to have no expression, and they should have died in an instant.
"Good guy, this place was originally occupied by people, but when it was my turn, they were all dead." Zhang Ming smiled bitterly and stepped over the bones.
There was a vague sense of crisis in my heart.
"How did these guys die?"
Will this kind of crisis happen to me countless years later?
He wasn't sure.
After taking a few steps forward, I found a few withered books on the table of the man in white, as if they were dug out of an ancient tomb, stained with the strong atmosphere of time.
The bottom floor of the tower has been submerged in seawater for a long time. No matter what, there is still some salty and damp breath coming into the tower. The paper books are covered with colorful molds.
"Shimama, do your own research on what's written here. There's a lot of information in this room. It's impossible that you can't decipher everything."
Shimama rolled onto the table and began to study it carefully. It's not afraid of the paper being poisonous, just turn it over and it's done.
Although this guy is a bitch, he can really handle things!
Zhang Ming himself was also in this room, walking around and looking around. There were some weird machines placed here, with dozens of crystals inlaid on them, as well as screens and buttons?
If we describe it in the language of human civilization, this seems to be an... office hall?
There are quite a lot of moldy files displayed in the drawer. Many of them were improperly preserved and have been completely reduced to a mass of black coal, making it impossible to verify them.
He bent down again and went to check the diamond-shaped gem on the corpse's forehead. An invisible force blocked his finger back.
Even after such a long time, Zhang Ming could still feel the subtle supernatural fluctuations contained in it, and his subconscious told him that this place should not be touched casually.
Of course, after 15 days of training, he can use the "soul splitting" method to read a small amount of memory in the diamond-shaped gem.
But for a while, Zhang Ming didn't dare to possess him randomly.
He was afraid that the death memories of these azure people would cause him serious mental trauma, and he would have to recuperate for another half month.
"Shimama, are you done?" He found an open space and punched the wall with a moderate punch.
The crystal stones embedded nearby emitted a faint light.
Soon, Zhang Ming's punch disappeared again.
Zhang Ming frowned and looked at the prismatic crystal that was emitting light, guessing that its supernatural properties might be "reinforcement" and "repair."
The last wish of a once-living azure man was placed here.
And there may be hundreds of millions or billions of such crystals on the tower!
"A very strange civilization built this tower in a strange way."
He didn't dare to attack the wall anymore, because this high tower had a defense mechanism, a super weapon that could kill the demon god. Wouldn't it be easy to crush an ant to death?
After waiting like this for more than an hour, Shimama began to feel hot, rolling around the table, and imitating a pelican and calling "Quack".
One look at its dazzling look, and you knew it had really deciphered something.
Zhang Ming did not hesitate to praise him and said with a smile: "Whatever Emperor Shi has deciphered, please tell me and listen."
Shimama was very fond of the name "Shi Dadi". Even though she knew that Zhang Dadi had used the skill of "King with a Strong Mouth", she was still very happy to be praised.
It jumped onto a book and triumphantly read out the corresponding spiritual words: "#￥...@?"
A mysterious hallucination appeared in Zhang Ming's mind.
…
"Cha tin!"
"arrive!"
"Zhonghui!"
"arrive!"
"Stone Wall"
"arrive!"
A middle-aged man in white clothing was holding a roll call roll, just like a professor in a university taking roll call in the classroom, calling everyone over.
At the bottom stood a row of young students dressed in black. After their names were called, their faces were filled with joyful smiles.
After calling the names, the middle-aged man clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Congratulations to everyone, you have broken away from the status of 'Ding' and entered the rank of 'Shi'."
"I hope you can work harder, enter the 'able' rank as soon as possible, and make greater contributions to the construction of the Pillar of Heaven!"
Wow!
There was applause and discussion below, and it suddenly became as noisy as a vegetable market. After wearing the medal, every blue crystal man in black clothes was proud of his identity.
"Shi", a whole new class.
Above this is "Neng", the one who fought with Lao Zhang!
Another student asked: "Teacher, how difficult it is to become a capable person. There is not even one person among a hundred people. How can we improve our strength more quickly?"
(End of chapter)
