"In other words, there is something here, some extraordinary means, that can create such a stalactite statue." Gu Nian analyzed and said to Lin Chen.
Lin Chen nodded, "I am more inclined to the second possibility."
"Me too." Gu Nian said via voice: "Then what should we do? Should we go back? Or should we dive deeper to see what's going on?"
As she was talking, the rope tied around her waist shook a few times, and then was slightly tightened.
This was the signal agreed between Gu Nian and Lin Chen and Leng Shan and the others on the ship.
If either party encounters something, they can inform the other party by pulling the rope.
"Let's go back quickly! I don't know what happened on the ship." Gu Nian quickly sent a message to Lin Chen.
"Okay. But don't be too hasty." Lin Chen said through a message.
They are now in a relatively deep place underwater.
If you rush to the surface in a hurry, it will put a certain burden on your body. In serious cases, you may be injured, and the gain outweighs the loss.
The two supported each other and surfaced as quickly as possible while ensuring their own safety.
As soon as they surfaced, they heard Zheng Xiang's voice shouting to them urgently: "Something happened! Another NPC has disappeared just now! And there are a lot of them, one-third of the NPCs are missing all of a sudden!"
"It's not just the NPC that's missing, there's also a player!" Li Shan also quickly added.
"What?! How could this happen?!" Gu Nian said in surprise.
As she spoke, she looked towards the ship and found that the number of NPCs was indeed much smaller.
Among Li Shuihong's team, a male member was missing.
At this moment, she was looking anxiously but helplessly looking at the vast water.
Gu Nian climbed onto the boat with the help of Leng Shan and Zheng Xixi. He didn't even have time to wipe off the water on his body, so he hurriedly asked: "What happened just now? Was there anything unusual when it happened?
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"Everything was normal just now, we didn't find anything special," Leng Shan said.
"Yeah." The leader of the five-person survival group who had exchanged food with Gu Nian before also came over and said to Gu Nian: "Everything looks normal. Those NPCs and the missing player are just so indifferent.
Without warning, he disappeared from under our noses."
Leng Shan added, "We have also asked the remaining NPCs. Their condition is still the same as before, with their heads lowered and not even saying a word."
"Really?" Gu Nian said, his eyes wandering back and forth on the NPCs.
She saw that the NPCs had become even more frightened, and many even had expressions of despair on their faces.
"Didn't you just go down? How was it? I was right, right? There were a lot of people standing under the water!" said the man who had gone into the water before and was so frightened that his face turned pale.
At this moment, he rested for a while on the boat and recovered to some extent. He quickly asked Gu Nian and Lin Chen.
"The people standing at the bottom of the water are not people, but stone figures made of deposited calcium carbonate..." Gu Nian said: "We have also tried it. Those human-shaped stalagmites are very hard, and it is impossible to explore what the structure is inside, and whether there is any real thing hidden inside.
people..."
"Is it a stone man?" Li Shuihong said.
At this moment, there was only one teammate left beside her, looking worried.
