The Remaining City - An Ideal Across the Sky Chapter 23 Translation
"Okay, that should be enough. According to the association, there should be a group of weirdos. Although they haven't appeared in the past few days, they may have appeared when we were fighting the water monster or at any time. We have to guard against it. It's nothing.
If we have other preparations, let’s go into the water first to look for traces of the water monster,” Noel said.
"Just let me make these preparations. I'll be on the shore to prepare for possible accidents." It seemed that Keka didn't intend to go into the water, and it was indeed inconvenient.
"Okay." Noel pulled out the Ancestral Power on his back and plunged into the water with a fierce move.
Then Sly also dived into the water, twisting his body and swimming rapidly, and also performed several underwater stunts. He was dragging a knife underwater with one hand and doing so many tricks. He was indeed very good at underwater combat.
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Noel waved one hand directly at high speed, much like a turbocharger device that was still in the theoretical stage. In terms of speed alone, it was faster than Sly, who was as nimble as a fish. He swam towards the center of the lake in the direction where he had found the bubble before, paying attention to what was ahead of him.
But logically speaking, the average lake is not 100 meters deep at all... The two of them descended 100 meters, but they have not yet reached the bottom. Sly, who swam in front for a while, felt something was wrong and stopped. A look appeared on his face
The stripes look like fish gills, and they are breathing through them.
Noticing that he had stopped, Noel also stopped, slowed down and swam back to him to see if he had done anything.
At this moment, a torrent suddenly appeared above and the two of them were swept into it.
The torrent carried Noel down rapidly, and Sly seemed to have fainted, possibly being hit on the head by the top of the torrent. The incident happened so suddenly that Noel did not see this scene.
Following the torrent, Noel tried his best to lean towards Sly, and stretched out his free left hand to grab Sly. The next moment, the two of them were thrown into a strange and strange waterless area by the torrent. Above is
Below the lake is a space with normal air.
The dwarf pulled Sly to his side, and then looked at what was in this strange space, especially whether the water monster was here.
At the bottom of the lake is yellow sand that should not be there, half-covering the giant skeletons of countless aquatic monsters. This space is much larger than the total area of the lake. There is an entrance to a stone chamber that is almost completely buried between the many skeletons.
Don't worry, Noel shook Sly gently. "Hey, young man, wake up, you are so careless."
Not long after, Slane woke up with his hand, which had a tiny fleshy membrane between his fingers that looked a little like a fish fin, covering the back of his head. He opened his eyes, jumped up, and still held the weapon tightly with his other hand. "It happened."
What's going on? Where is this?"
"A riptide suddenly appeared just now, and we were swept here. How are you?" Noel asked with concern.
"It's okay, but what's going on?" Sly pointed to the upside-down lake.
"Maybe it's the water monster or those weird people who are causing the trouble? We should be able to gain something if we go in there." The dwarf pointed to the stone chamber.
"Okay." Sly changed the knife in his hand.
The two pushed aside the fine sand to reveal the door of the stone chamber. Noel carried the magic weapon and walked carefully toward the interior of the stone chamber.
There are a large number of murals on the interior walls. On the murals, there is a picture of a huge monster with eight snake heads being worshiped by people. However, there are also eight large balls of different sizes arranged in two rows on the bloated body. These eight
Under the ball are sharp fangs with sharp upper and lower edges.
The depths of the stone chamber turned into two downward passages, one on the left and one on the right. "Tsk, I always have an ominous premonition." Noel looked at the monsters on the murals and felt something bad in his heart.
"I've never heard of such a sea beast." Sly looked around and felt confused.
"It's the first time I've seen this. This thing doesn't look easy to mess with. Let's go to the left. Or do you have any ideas?" Noel asked tentatively. In line with the principle of staying to the side to walk through the maze, he took the lead and walked to the left passage.
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"No, just go to the left." Sly put the knife on his shoulder and followed.
After turning several downward spiral turns, the passage further down was flooded. Sly glanced at Noel, jumped in and started swimming. There was still a lot of time left in the spell, so it shouldn't matter.
"It's okay. At most, just hold your breath. I still have enough breath." Noel laughed and plunged into the water.
The spiral steps continued for a long time, and after countless turns, we finally came to an air pocket where the water only reached Sly's knees and was as high as Noel's waist. It was designed as a platform, which was really ingenious.
The platform has four passages, front, rear, left and right, but the passage in front has a stone door with a convex disk in the middle and three depressions on the disk.
"Is this what you are going to put on it?" Sly tapped the disc lightly with the back of his knife.
"I'm thinking, we might need to go to the other three roads to find something to open the door?" Noel is very familiar with the routine of this ancient ruins.
"Let's act separately, or if we lose our ability to breathe underwater..." Sly's words spoke for themselves.
"Can you use the sword?" As he said that, Noel threw the long sword over.
Sly took it and gestured twice. "It looks like a good sword at first sight. Thank you very much."
"This is the red dragon's treasure. I'll let you defend yourself first. There are three paths, which one do you take?" Noel didn't see any characteristics, so it would be the same no matter which one he chose.
"Anything is fine, I'll take the one on the right." After Sly said that, he set off.
"Okay, then I'll go to the left. Don't wander around after exploring. After meeting here, go to the last passage to have a look." Noel shouted.
"Okay." Sly waved his hand without looking back.
Noel waved his hand, "Wish us good luck." Carrying the Ancestral Power, he turned invisible and strode towards the left passage.
The water gets deeper as you go in, and you soon have to swim again. In front of you is a flooded rapids channel, which is difficult to pass.
There were three large fish with long tails and fangs swimming in the water. Noel stopped a little further away to observe. These three fish were preying on smaller fish in the water and seemed never satisfied.
Noel stretched out his right hand and touched the tip of the artifact spear, trying to add elemental attributes to it, but the fire was misfired in the water, let alone thunder. So he spun his body in the water, and his whole body turned into a whirlpool and rushed towards the three fish.
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Then three terrifying fish that could be called sea monsters were directly strangled by the underwater tornado created by Noel, and Noel successfully passed through the rapids.
In line with the principle of not wasting, the carcasses of the three fish were stored in the space equipment. Although the blue-black fish meat seemed inedible, it may have other uses. This is a good habit of thrifty mercenaries.
After putting it away, we continued moving forward. After passing the rapids, there was a quite far underwater passage. When moving forward, Noel also used a pocket watch to confirm the time, but it was still difficult to tell with a scale of fifteen minutes.
After drilling out of the passage, you will see a deep natural stone cave in front of you. There is a man-made stone platform in the center. There is an open stone shell and a bowl on it.
Noel, first check to see if there are any other underwater monsters in the surrounding waters. He noticed that there are a lot of ripples under the water in the deep cave, which is very deep.
In order to prevent being attacked while collecting things, the dwarf swam towards the stone platform. While looking at the water, he successfully climbed up the stone platform without any abnormality.
There is some crystal clear water in the stone shell, and there is a round stone slab under the water, which is exactly the size of the three depressions at the stone door in front.
The shell is integrated with the stone platform, and the stone bowl can be picked up.
Noel put his hand into the water of the stone shell, but could not touch the slate. Without any surprise, he picked up the bowl next to him to "hold" the slate and have a look.
But the same bowl couldn't touch the slate. The dwarf guessed wrong. When he went to retrieve the slate, he passed through it. Maybe it was a kind of projection?
The water in the shell is enough for an adult human male to drink in a day, and it will be gone after scooping it out with a stone bowl eight times.
Noel tried to scoop it up and store it in a bag, but after the water entered the bag, the water in the shell rose back to its original position... There was no magic fluctuation in this shell.
Noel circled the stone platform all the way downstream, checking the stone platform while swimming to see if he could find any clues. But the support pillars of the stone platform also continued downward. Even if he could see in the dark, his vision in the water was very poor.
After thinking for a moment, Noel decided to continue descending. The water seemed to become thicker and thicker as he went down. It was almost 400 feet before the bottom was reached, and the visibility was getting lower and lower. Noel had no choice but to go upstream and return to the surface.
There are no murals or carvings on the surrounding cave walls, not even patterns.
The dwarf took out the bowl again, scooped the water from the shells into the water next to it, and drank it to see if the water would fill up automatically. However, this was also very dangerous due to the dwarf's anti-toxic constitution.
Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be poisonous, and drinking it can quite quench your thirst. Although the water level will still rise, if you try pouring it into the water again, the water level will rise by two centimeters without rising. If you pour out all eight bowls, it will exceed the stone platform.
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If it exceeds the stone platform, the stone slab will also be submerged.
In short, Noel poured it down until the water surface had not submerged the stone platform. Sure enough, there was still one bowl left. At present, the water surface and the stone platform were at the same height, and the stone slab was not exposed yet.
When Noel scooped out the last bowl, there was still a bottom, and a corner of the slate was already exposed. Noel stretched out his fingers to touch the actual slate and picked it up.
But the moment it was fished out, there was a huge vibration below, and the stone platform shattered.
He subconsciously tried to store the bowl in the space bag, and then regardless of success or failure, he jumped into the water with a stone slab in one hand and returned at full speed.
Then the moment the bowl entered the space, the cracks in the stone platform reached its limit, and six thick tentacles protruded out of the water at the same time.
Five of the six tentacles were whipped down crazily. Noel, who had been whipped several times, swam through the cave and ran wildly in the passage. The tentacles chased after him, slightly faster than the dwarf, but when he looked back, he felt like he was running away.
You can't catch him until you reach the central passage, and besides, the tentacles may not be that long.
In the water at the enemy's home court, Noel realized that he was outmatched and tried to move away. The moment he heard the sound of breaking through the air, Noel turned around and gave his feet a hammer to prevent them from getting entangled. The scalded tentacles retracted directly.
Seeing that Changshou stopped pursuing him, Noel simply treated the injury and successfully brought out the stone slab.