Endless route

Chapter 203 42. Underground juice extraction workshop

The team continued to move forward along the bottom of the dark cave, and soon reached the middle of the dark cave. The drug-enhanced fishing boat in front also penetrated a thousand meters into the dark cave, and was about to reach the end of this straight dark cave.

The view underwater is not good.

A situation with no end in sight.

Kedester floated to the top of the water, poked his head out of the waterline and took out a telescope. He looked at the situation ahead through the diving goggles and saw a platform through the gap in the drugged fishing boat.

"Chief, there seems to be a threshold ahead."

Kedester's voice rang out from the headphones, mixed with the sound of water and Noriichi's grunting. The headphones had no sound isolation capability so that they could always maintain access to ambient sounds.

"Okay, stay alert."

Zheng Yunqian was underwater, stepping on the uneven cave floor. The turbid water in his field of vision was about fifty meters away, and he could vaguely see the figures of other team members.

Wearing black diving suits, they lurk in dark underwater places. It is indeed not easy to detect by ordinary means, but the limit of diving is oxygen, and they need to breathe after a period of time.

Kedester nodded and swam forward. His mission in this operation was to take into account the overall situation, especially to observe the underworld soldiers underwater and be on guard once they were attacked.

The water here is turbid.

There may be jellyfish sap and other poisons escaping with the seawater. They have closed diving suits, but if the diving suits are scratched or punctured, they will also be infected.

They are still vulnerable.

So use Yin soldiers to explore the way.

The Yin soldiers are similar to the live birds required for fighting. They are thrown into the grave pit to test the poison. Once the Yin soldiers show abnormality, they must be more vigilant and must not tear their clothes.

Time passes slowly.

The team goes deeper into the dark cave.

The two bait fishing boats suddenly stopped. The Yin soldier sitting on the first fishing boat stopped moving. The Yin soldier on the second fishing boat was still spraying the drug in his hand mechanically.

The team behind also slowed down.

Kedester surfaced again, observing in the air at a very high visual distance, looking for the reason why the fishing boat stopped, and then whispered: "It seems to be the end."

"Look closer."

Zheng Yun turned around and looked behind him. Several ghost generals were not only dragging the third Hanxian fishing boat, but also dragging a Ji Dao that was completely sideways in the water. The latter was almost broken and allowed to be dragged by the ghost generals.

Let them stay where they are.

Zheng Yun, Kedester and others got into the water and swam forward. They first asked the Yin soldiers to explore the way ahead. The others followed from a distance and only approached the front after confirming that nothing happened to the Yin soldiers.

The light source on the water is getting closer and closer.

Several people poked their heads to check the water surface many times, and Zheng Yun also used a telescope to see the situation at the end with his own eyes. The dark hole turned to the left at the end, and the space suddenly became much larger.

Then a platform appears.

There are obvious man-made traces on the platform, which is about 1.5 meters above the water surface. It is like a barrier or a step, isolating the sea water here, and may not be connected to each other when the tide rises.

"It seems that this waterway is only 1,500 meters deep. I don't know if there is any water behind this platform."

Licia leaned out of the water and lowered her voice. The platform was two meters high and they could move the boat above the platform.

"You may need to use a boat later."

Kedester looked at Zheng Yun and waited for him to decide.

Zheng Yun sent two Yin soldiers to swim to the platform and climb up. They soon disappeared from sight. Zheng Yun then asked them to continue moving forward and listened to the subsequent sounds.

About fifteen seconds later.

They heard the sound of falling water again.

"Go up and have a look." Zheng Yun nodded and swam forward, swam under the drug-induced fishing boat, and turned to look at the platform on his left.

There was a man lying on the platform.

Everyone was slightly startled, and after a closer look, they discovered that this was actually a slave with a gun. He should be squatting here to guard the exit, but he was knocked unconscious by the drug.

Slaves don't have gas masks.

They cannot resist the influence of drugs.

"It seems this is the right way."

Kedester climbed onto the platform first and stood on top of the platform looking forward, followed closely by Zheng Yun and others from Xichang.

The space in front suddenly became larger.

Similar to the underground ice valley that I have been to before, there is a cave-like landscape above my head, which becomes wider and wider as I go forward.

Ten meters away is the sea water again, but the depth suddenly becomes extremely deep. It may be more than fifty or sixty meters deep, and the water is getting deeper and deeper, and it may reach a hundred meters in the distance.

"From a geographical point of view, the abandoned manor is in front of us on the right." Kedester roughly confirmed the direction.

"Move the boat over and continue."

Zheng Yun turned around and asked the Yin soldiers and ghost generals to take action.

Not long after, the drugged fishing boat was moved across the platform and floated on the surface of the underground sea. The Yin soldiers rowed the boat with their hands and dragged the searchlight forward, illuminating the underground space.

Zheng Yun went into the water to follow.

Accompanying the lightship into the sea.

The full view of the entire space is presented to everyone. It is still an underground seaway, extending forward in twists and turns, with occasional rock platforms on the left and right out of the water.

"Master Immortal, there seems to be some pattern to these stone platforms. It seems to have been built by us, Haiwei." Jidao suddenly reminded him while floating upside down under the water, staring straight at the stone platforms.

"What's the pattern?"

Zheng Yun raised his hand to stop everyone and looked at Jidao warily. Although Jidao's posture was very embarrassing, like a doll balloon in the hands of a child, his eyesight was still online.

"Isn't this a star array platform? Logically speaking, the function of these platforms should be to hold iron oil lamps. One platform every fifty meters, which is in line with Triton's standard."

Ji Dao emerged from the water with a splash.

These stone platforms seem to have no order, but the position of each stone platform can maximize the light source covering the waterway. Since it is placed like this, it must be a lampstand, but the lamp is nowhere to be seen.

"Any other guesses?" Zheng Yun asked.

"No, this is just a lampstand." Ji Dao shook his head. It can only prove that there are sea guards here. It cannot tell them what is inside unless other clues are found.

"Keep going."

Zheng Yun nodded and let the team continue.

The underground sea channel is constantly twisting and turning, drugged fishing boats have been spraying drugs, the space is dead silent, and the rock wall above the head is uneven, always giving people a feeling that something is wrong.

The only good news is that the water temperature is not too cold.

They can swim underwater for long periods of time.

After swimming forward for five to six hundred meters in one breath, a black shadow suddenly passed across the depths of the seabed in front of them. It quickly passed by the end of their field of vision and their outline could not be clearly seen.

"Is it a jellyfish or a human?"

Licia exclaimed in a low voice.

"The diving depth may be jellyfish, but now we are still three kilometers away from the abandoned manor, and the direction is slightly different." Kedester also said in surprise.

"We have small underwater boosting equipment. Even if a jellyfish attacks, we can quickly move underwater to find a lighthouse to avoid, and even have the opportunity to hunt the opponent underwater."

The Xichang hunter drew his hunting knife and stared into the water.

He has a device the size of a thermos cup in his hand, which can generate power by compressing seawater to help divers move quickly underwater, certainly faster than jellyfish.

"Swimming along the rock wall."

Zheng Yun gave the order and he could quickly find a place to stay along the rock wall. If things got worse, he could get on the boat and try to escape.

These jellyfish are unlikely to obey human orders. Since local fishermen can enter and exit the underground sea, there must be a way to ensure safety and avoid jellyfish attacks without a diving suit.

At the same time, Zheng Yun pulled out the Blood-Patterned Emperor Sword from the scabbard behind him. The poison on this sword was extremely powerful at attacking blood. With a single strike of the sword, the enemy would die at the sight of blood.

Not sure if it works on jellyfish.

You can try it if you have a chance.

The team moved on.

This section of the underground channel is not too long. After a few minutes, the fishing boat dragging the light source floated into a huge sea surface. The light source suddenly changed from refraction in a narrow space to scattering all over the sky.

The vision of Zheng Yun and others suddenly dimmed, and the light ship and fog ship completely entered the underground sea and floated in the center of the underground sea.

Ta-ta-ta-ta!

Fierce gunfire rang out at the same time.

Bullets from old-fashioned rifles on the left and right poured into the light source and underwater, emptying several magazines in a matter of seconds.

"About three guns."

Kedester, who was at the front, immediately dived deep into the water to avoid the bullets, while whispering a reminder to the others.

"Swim deeper, they probably don't have gas masks." Zheng Yun looked back and asked the ghost general dragging Han Xian to retreat, and at the same time controlled the ghost general to drag Jidao down.

"There's something under the water, too."

Ji Dao stared down at the bottom of the sea.

The several shadows they had swept past were getting closer and closer to them, and their outlines gradually became clearer. They did not seem to be jellyfish.

"Wait until the drug takes effect. If it doesn't work, dive forward and fight back." Kedester squatted in the middle of the water and looked above his head.

Everyone immediately dispersed and dived.

After the first round of bullets passed, the gunshots stopped ringing for a long time. Zheng Yun looked at the light source ship and saw the probability blood soaking the sea surface with the light source, but he could still control them.

The Yin soldiers on the ship were shot.

But there is still some time before death.

So Zheng Yun asked the Yin soldiers to continue paddling forward to test whether there were any other enemies in the underground sea. At the same time, he spread the drug to more places and dispersed it into every corner of the air.

"Can't even be killed by bullets?"

"What the hell are they!"

A few words of English sounded faintly, which were accurately captured by Li Xiya using the device, and then transmitted to the earphones.

Snap.

There was a sound of bottles breaking.

A stream of dark red liquid flowed down the hull. After a few seconds, Zheng Yun lost control of the Yin soldiers.

The Yin soldiers died.

He should have been poisoned to death by witchcraft medicine.

"It seems that the slave's master is also nearby." Kedester concluded, and then continued: "We can dive fifty meters under the water and go around behind them."

"The terrain detector shows that there is a large area of ​​land in the front right of this space." Li Xiya has been holding the detector and used sonar to detect the terrain of the seabed just now.

"The bottle was thrown from the front right."

The hunter was suspended about twenty meters below the ship with a knife. He was the closest to the sea among all the people.

"As long as we go around to land, we can fight back." Kedester swam forward, taking out his firearm and preparing to fight back.

"You can try it."

Zheng Yun looked around at his teammates.

Under the sea there is only the light cast by the light source ship. Most of them are located at the lighting limit of forty meters under the sea. There are twenty people in total, and most of them are distributed around this height.

However, the oxygen inhalation equipment of the ten Yin soldiers is relatively simple, and there are bubbles constantly floating on the water surface. These bubbles should be stared at by the opponent and can be used as bait to attract attention.

"Master Immortal, just ask the Han Immortal to clear the battlefield. The Han Immortal should have some ability to wade or fly. They can travel through the underground waterways of the Red Mist Ancient City to the battlefield."

Jidao was dragged by the ghost general into the darkness fifty meters below the sea water, which was the deepest of all. His whole body almost disappeared from Zheng Yun's sight, but his voice could still be heard.

Although Hanxian is hard to come by, it is actually worthless. There are endless Hanxian in the Immortal Sacrifice Cave.

"No, I have a way."

Kedester quickly stopped them. They had just come in and invited Han Xian to see how the usefulness of the West Factory could be demonstrated.

He asked Ying to fight for Xichang, but he still dived to the land near the right front of the underground sea. If he couldn't, he asked Hanxian again.

Zheng Yun nodded and asked the ghost general to assist.

Several people immediately used boosting equipment and moved forward in the depths. They quickly passed the light source ship and entered the center of the underground sea. Zheng Yun also quickly followed them to keep attention.

Two or three minutes later, several people arrived at the end of the rock wall on the right. Kedester and the hunter quietly floated into the water. Before they could see the outside world, they heard some sounds from the shore:

"They have poison on board."

"Those slaves were poisoned."

"Let's evacuate first. The gas masks in the manor are too old and may not be able to protect against this kind of poisonous gas. Throw a few porcelain bottles down and we have to return to the vicinity of the manor quickly."

"Do it!"

Kedester said immediately.

Following his words, several people from Xichang used boosters to quickly rise to the surface. After arriving near the sea surface, they opened fire and fired towards the shore.

But wait until they surface.

But he saw a hole in the rock wall in front of him. The sound came from the hole, and the bullets hit the rock wall. The people behind him ducked past and avoided the attack.

"Let them run away."

Kedester surfaced completely, turned on the flashlight and looked around. There were a lot of old diving equipment on this piece of land, some old and new, scattered everywhere.

Lying on the ground was a dark slave.

Apart from that there is no one else.

After hearing the news, Zheng Yun quickly dispatched others into the underground sea, and he also came up to the surface to take a look.

"Have you seen who the other person is?"

Zheng Yun looked around and asked. The conditions on the water and underwater are different. The lighting provided by the light source ship is enough to dimly illuminate the entire space on the water. The visual distance is much higher than underwater. You can see even if you can't see clearly. shadow.

"They are white, but they should be locals from the manor. Their accents are abnormal and similar to the fishermen around them." Li Xiya quickly made a judgment.

"It should be the little master of the slave."

Kedester climbed ashore to check the situation, pointed the flashlight into the depths and said: "Chief, there are many relics left by explorers here, which should have been collected by the slaves."

Zheng Yun looked immediately.

This piece of land is next to the rock wall and is about one hundred square meters in size. There is a shallow water channel at the end, and a large number of explorer's clothes and equipment are piled in the deep corners.

"Have other explorers been to this place? Maybe this is still one of the places where explorers were murdered in the manor?" Licia found many old bullet casings on the ground.

It is the same as the bullet casing found by Zheng Yun in the underground hall.

These old bullet casings can fully prove that there were fierce conflicts in this place before they arrived, and the manor and foreign explorers once fought here.

"What's that?"

The hunter suddenly spoke. He shined the flashlight in front of the underground sea, and could vaguely see a rocky land platform five or six hundred meters away that was larger than the one beneath his feet.

There are many porcelain bottles there.

They were all Triton-style porcelain bottles, exactly the same as the porcelain bottles they had found inside the jellyfish before.

There are also several iron cages there.

They could see with the naked eye that there were several naked explorers imprisoned in those cages. They were all lying on the ground as if they had lost their minds, with expressions of joy on their faces.

"I'm afraid this is where slaves get the jellyfish juice. They get the poison the way people fish for jellyfish."

Kedster's expression was solemn.

This scene can be understood at a glance, and it can also explain to a certain extent why the manor wants to murder the explorers, because they need to be seduced to extract the juice.

No one can catch a jellyfish underwater.

Jellyfish, on the other hand, will actively entangle the human body.

The easiest way to obtain jellyfish juice is to drop a few people, wait for them to be covered in juice, and then pull them up to peel the juice off the people.

"It's really cruel. Can those people survive being surrounded by jellyfish every day?" Li Xiya asked, covering her mouth.

"Let's go over and have a look before we talk."

Zheng Yun looked at those porcelain bottles and said seriously.