High Above

  Chapter 222 Under the legend (13)

  A gust of cold wind blows through the air, carrying the seawater and rainwater falling from the remote top to beat on the reef, and the water splashes down along the sloped stone surface layers, like a waterfall into a rushing underground rock river.

  Crawling on the ground, the white-haired teenager moved his eyelashes slightly and opened his eyes. A stream as clear as water lit up, followed by dots of silvery starlight, and the two entangled to form a touch of silver-blue fluorescence, circulating in the pupils.

  Ian quickly woke up from the temporary absence. He stood up and looked around silently.

  The air is filled with water vapor, and a white mist completely covers the surrounding area, making people feel like they are in the clouds.

  But the boy knew very well that he was underground.

  Extremely deep, even to the bottom of the ocean.

   buzzing...

A bright light blue electric arc lit up above his head, illuminating everything around him. Ian raised his head, and the incomparably rich spiritual energy field was like a cliff of sighs, causing even small clouds to rub against each other to cause discharge. This in turn causes lightning in the cloud.

   And the light brought by the lightning allowed him to confirm that he was in a vast group of seabed caves.

   We can vaguely see a wet cave wall... and at the far fork, you can vaguely see several fork holes, which are unfathomably deep and lead to nowhere.

   "It seems to be an outlier."

  Looking carefully, Ian used the silver chip to collect the surrounding information. Instead of worrying, Ian smiled: "It's not a big problem, I'm already in the ruins."

He remembered very clearly that not long ago, the South China Sea changed, the sea and the earth split into a rift, and a huge hole appeared on the earth's crust, swallowing half of the ocean. Involves everything around it.

  If he was not injured, Master Goser might be able to withstand this kind of airflow change, but let’s not talk about it. The injured old man has no other choice but to go straight into the earth’s crust along the airflow.

The things after    are very simple.

  In the violent hurricane, Master Goser couldn't hold on anymore and fell into a coma. At this time, Isengarde stepped forward instead, trying to take over the baton and continue to maintain the wind that dragged everyone down.

   "...It's still a bit meaningless."

  Ian touched his head, and he nodded thoughtfully: "Although it is indeed slowing down, it can't resist the turbulence—Shark and I, Goser and Isengard are separated."

"I was caught by the turbulent currents in the influx of sea tides, and I followed the tides for quite a long time... During this process, I was too tired from the previous battle with the crocodile dragon, and I was absent-minded for a while. After I realized , wake up here."

"It's at least a few thousand meters deep here?" Recalling this, the boy raised his head, looked at the cave rock formation above his head, and estimated his current location and the past time: "As for how long I was absent-minded... a total of four hours Twenty-three minutes."

To be honest, as the sea tide is constantly being washed and impacted in the cave, it can't make a practitioner of the sand armor apprentice lose his mind. Ian feels as if he has been swept head-on by a very strong round of natural spiritual energy field changes. Finally, he became confused and 'slept' in the past.

   In other words, he was actually stunned by the natural changes caused by the mutation of the labyrinth.

  If it weren't for the silver chip to mark the time, he probably wouldn't know how long it had been since he entered this place.

   "Well, the brain crystals are still there."

  The boy touched his side, the crystallization of his brain, which was well protected by him, was still there, and the khaki-yellow light shone through the white robe, just like an old-fashioned oil lamp.

   In addition, the Chongyuan Iron Sword and the high-pressure water gun are also well packed. One is hung on the waist and locked firmly with the beast skin, and the other is in the medicine bag, together with some alchemy potions.

  Among the alchemy potions, some glass containers have been broken, and the potion liquid has completely disappeared in the previous washing, but there are still some more important ones, which are stored in steel crystals, so they are quite well preserved.

   "Replenishment of source quality, power of giants, short-term rage, perception enhancement... There is also a small bottle of regeneration potion given by Master Gesai. The ring of silence is still intact."

  Ian counted and felt more at ease: "Yes, the key points are all there."

  Through the fluorescence emitted by the brain crystals, the young man can clearly see the reef under his feet, and beside him is a rushing underground river, and the sound of rushing water fills his ears.

  Ian didn't stay here for too long. He looked around at the various deep and complex openings around him, and then ordered the silver chip: "Record the map."

  He is very confident in his memory, but there is no need to use his life as the price of belief—a good memory is not as good as a bad pen, not to mention that the map recorded by the chip is ten thousand times better than a bad pen.

   Without the slightest hesitation, fear or even worry, the white-haired boy was smiling, and it can even be said that he was walking happily in this completely unknown cave with no known risks.

  He explores forward, looking forward to the scenery he has never seen before, yearning for different experiences in the past, and yearning for extraordinary developments.

  So full of joy.

White water mist filled the cave, and the underground river flowed through a rocky channel more than 20 meters wide. The ground that should have been dark and dim, but it was glowing because of the ultra-high-intensity spiritual energy field It is faintly fluorescent, and just a little wave of your hand can bring out a little bit of arc.

The underground river shone with sparkling light because of this current, and as the young man continued to move forward, the original wide karst cave channel gradually became narrower, with many branches... Soon, as the flow of the underground river became more and more rapid , Layers of calcified deposits formed a ladder-like structure, and the fluorescent mineral ladders were particularly eye-catching due to the electric arc in the air.

  The cave leads to deeper depths.

  Ian walked without changing his expression. He could feel the wind blowing—it was obviously located in the deepest part of the ground, but perhaps the humid tidal wind originating from the surface of the sea was still blowing towards the ground.

   Either this means that the air pressure in the deeper underground space is extremely low, almost a vacuum, or it means that the entire underground pre-era civilization remains still have airflow exchange equipment in operation.

  He believes the latter.

  The gradually narrowing cave became deep and dark, only the crystals on the side of the waist and the boy's eyes shone with warmth. He walked in the cave that seemed to lead to the underworld, but he didn't have the slightest fear.

   Even, there is psychological analysis.

  —From the perspective of the entire cave structure, it should be a classic water erosion structure, but in some caves, it is similar to the structure of volcanic lava cooling.

  Considering the cause of the large storm, it may be that the heat dissipation system of the ruins was malfunctioning, which indeed caused the melting of the surrounding geological structures.

  Analysis is fruitless without sufficient evidence, but at this time, Ian will start to imagine happily.

  He looked around at the surrounding water flow and rock walls, imagining the past of this deep cave, which is at least a thousand meters deep underground, in the ancient past.

  He imagined that thousands of years ago, there was a vast underground river running here, and the endless sea water flowed down and converged in accordance with the terrain, and then eroded those fragile parts of the rock formation, gradually forming the prototype of the cave.

  The civilization of the pre-epoch took a fancy to this huge natural underground cave structure, and chose to build their huge underground base here...a magnificent giant structure that started at the extreme depths of the ground, but eventually led to the sky!

  A tower...and an accelerated orbit leading to the top of the vault.

  (end of this chapter)