When getting into the submarine, Chen Nuo sat in the second row.
A diver was responsible for controlling the driving, while Chen Nuo deliberately did not look at the values and directions on the instrument panel. Instead, he sat down and looked out the window.
After the two shuttle-shaped submarines, which were like glass covers, were placed on the sea surface, the crane hooks on the ship were released, and the propellers on the submarine started to start. Then they slowly turned around, lowered the bow, and headed underwater one after another.
Pricked down.
After the waves carried rolling foam, everything soon fell into darkness.
When moving underwater, the submarine travels very smoothly, and you don't even feel much vibration.
Hisako Ishii was sitting next to Chen Nuo, his expression was very calm, but his eyes were always looking at the sea water outside the glass window.
Chen Nuo glanced back. In the cargo hold at the back, the octopus in the glass cabinet seemed to be still very calm. However, Chen Nuo's mental power received feedback from the octopus. The octopus's mental consciousness seemed to have begun to show some signs of it.
A hint of restlessness!
Two submarines, one behind the other, were sneaking underwater.
The searchlight in front of the submarine had been turned on. While gliding on the seabed, Chen Nuo looked out the window and could see some swimming fish and some coral reefs on the seabed from time to time.
It feels like the submarine is going all the way down the continental shelf.
After a while, a patch of reefs appeared on the continental shelf ahead, and the submarine moved quickly through them, as if walking into a forest of rocks on the bottom of the sea.
The submarine has slowed down. Sneaking in this place obviously tests the driver's skills.
At this time, Hisako Ishii was a little nervous. Chen Nuo saw that the woman's fingers were already clenched.
suddenly.
"It shouldn't be your first time coming down here," Chen Nuo asked.
"Um?"
Chen Nuo said lightly: "You already know this place. And... there is no need for octopus here for the time being. In other words, we have not reached the real 'doorway' yet.
I guess it’s not the first time you’ve come down here since you learned about this place.”
"Yes, I came down several times, and then I also arrived at the 'doorway' and stopped there." Hisako Ishii shook his head: "But I never got any detailed results."
The diver responsible for driving in front suddenly said: "Radio silence will enter in two minutes, countdown!"
Hisako Ishii nodded: "Contact the sea surface for the final time and send the coordinates."
"yes!"
Hisako Ishii then told Chen Nuo: "The radio signals will be blocked down below, and other communication equipment will malfunction. I have no way of knowing the principle, but it is like this every time I come down."
Passing through the stone forest on the seabed, a deep trench appeared in front of us.
The two submarines entered the trench and continued downward.
"The depth is 150 meters. We will arrive soon." The driver continued to report the situation.
Chen Nuo looked out the window...
It was already dark in the trench, and the water outside was like a deep dark space. In this place, it seemed that the only light source was the light of the submarine's searchlight.
Just at this time.
"Arrived at the entrance!"
The diver shouted excitedly.
The two submarines slowly adjusted their orientation in the water, and then floated somewhere in the trench.
Chen Nuo immediately leaned forward, behind the driver, and looked ahead.
In the direction of the searchlight, the light shines on the rock wall of the trench. Groups of swimming fish are densely wandering back and forth in a certain position, and vaguely, an oval-shaped, deep tunnel can be seen in it!
It's just that it's so dark that you can't see anything at all.
"There are fish blocking the way, emit sound waves to disperse the fish." The driver began to announce slowly while controlling the vehicle.
The two submarines must have come down many times. Although radio communication is no longer possible in this place, the two sides have a tacit understanding.
Submarine No. 2 quickly adjusted its position and came around behind Submarine No. 1 where Chen Nuo was.
After Submarine No. 1 launched a device similar to sonic shock, soon, a large group of densely packed fish surrounding the undersea tunnel seemed to have been alarmed, suddenly exploded and dispersed in all directions!
"Enter!"
The driver's voice is still very calm.
When entering the tunnel, Chen Nuo felt that the ship's hull seemed to vibrate slightly.
The tunnel is not too wide, but it is enough for a submarine to shuttle through it, but the speed is much slower.
He stared carefully at the tunnel outside the window.
The tunnel wall was full of potholes and pits, and it looked like a natural undersea tunnel, but Chen Nuo always felt something was wrong.
The tunnel has twists and turns, and the submarine has reduced its speed to the extreme, but occasionally it will accidentally collide slightly, and some raised coral reefs on the tunnel wall will be smashed to pieces.
That is to say, the outer shell of the scientific research submarine is hard and has been specially treated. In addition, the speed is extremely slow and does not cause any damage to the hull. However, in this narrow and sealed space, it is also the bottom of the sea. The ship caused by this collision will
Even though the whole body was shaking, it still easily created a feeling of fear and tension for the people sitting in the boat.
Chen Nuo looked calm, but in his heart, he felt more and more strange.
In the tunnel, his mental power did not stop releasing at all. Along the way, he was slowly lingering around the submarine with a trace of mental power tentacles, especially in front!
It is no exaggeration to say that his sensing space is even wider than the space detected by the driver sitting in the driver's seat through the instrument!
But as the tunnel went deeper, Chen Nuo discovered something strange.
The mental power he released seemed to be suppressed bit by bit!
The distance that could originally be detected twenty meters ahead was slowly reduced to...
Fifteen meters...
Ten meters...
The distance that his mental power can detect is getting smaller and smaller.
Chen Nuo also tried to increase the release of his mental power, but to his surprise, there seemed to be an invisible force similar to a shield in this place, suppressing his perception of mental power!
Just like... the air and water are becoming more and more viscous, and the mental power flowing and swimming in them is becoming more and more stagnant!
Finally, the hull began to shake slightly.
The driver seemed relieved: "Arrived at the entrance! Prepare to float."
…
As the submarine emerged from the water and left the tunnel, it entered a huge underwater space!
It seems that due to the special balance of terrain and water pressure, a waterless space appeared here.
A huge circular arch hole with a height of nearly ten meters.
After the two submarines returned to the water, they stayed in the water with a piece of ground next to them.
After all the searchlights on the submarine were turned on, the originally dark cave was finally illuminated.
Chen Nuo sat in the submarine and looked outside...
The walls of the cave are probably corroded by water vapor all year round. They look very scary, with jagged rocks and a feeling of hell.
"Prepare equipment, put on an oxygen mask, and leave the ship!" Hisako Ishii took a deep breath and issued the order.
In this cave on the seabed, the air is very thin and the oxygen content is extremely low.
Several people left their seats together, entered the cargo hold at the back, and began to put on oxygen bottles and masks.
"Each oxygen bottle can be stored for two hours." Hisako Ishii said slowly: "If an accident occurs, we must return to the submarine immediately. The submarine will stay here and then be sealed. The oxygen stored inside the submarine will automatically
Oxygenate... Remember, once the oxygen is exhausted, return immediately!
We have tested the air here and found that the oxygen content is very low. A normal person would become incapacitated in no more than ten minutes in an environment with such low oxygen content!
Oxygen bottles, each person carries two.
One is used to go forward. Once the first oxygen bottle is exhausted, it must be returned immediately to ensure that the second oxygen bottle can support it until it returns to the submarine!
That is, go, two hours of oxygen.
Return, two hours of oxygen.”
Chen Nuo smiled: "Why don't you bring more oxygen bottles?"
"This is... a calculation that takes into account the weight of the human body..." As soon as Ishii Hisako said this, he suddenly closed his mouth.
Chen Nuo directly tied two oxygen bottles to his body from the cabin, and then grabbed two more!
"I can bring four with me, no problem." Chen Nuo smiled.
In fact, if it weren’t for the size of the oxygen bottles, there would be no space for four of them on our backs...
Chen Nuo can actually bring more!
"Now, I need you to explain something to me." Chen Nuo grabbed the woman after watching Hisako Ishii tie two oxygen bottles to her body.
Hisako Ishii looked sternly: "What?"
"Going to sea, scientific research ships, submarines, undersea tunnels..." Chen Nuo sneered: "You hide a lot of things from me.
Before your leader was developed, he was just a small ordinary masseur. Even if he got the octopus, how could he have the ability to enter this place?
If it takes so much trouble to reach this door...
That leader of yours back then, how did he come in?
Don't tell me that he swam in from the sea with an octopus in his arms!"
Faced with Chen Nuo's questioning, Hisako Ishii was not surprised at all.
At this point, it’s time to have such doubts.
Hisako Ishii took a deep breath and said slowly: "I'm sorry that I concealed something before... Of course I have the answer to your question. But now is not the time to tell!
In front of you, I am a weak person.
As a weak person, I naturally need some chips to protect myself!
If all the trump cards are revealed to you at once, there’s no guarantee that you won’t just dump me and take this place to yourself!”
Chen Nuo stared at Hisako Ishii's face carefully for a long time.
"So, even if I kill a few of you and go in with the octopus myself, it still won't work... There are other things you didn't tell me about, right?"
"That's right! It's just for self-protection." Hisako Ishii said slowly: "There is actually no conflict between us. After entering, you and I will each take what we have.
You are a person with abilities, and the rewards you can gain will definitely be far greater than those of us ordinary people."
Chen Nuo thought for a while, put on the oxygen mask, and nodded: "Let's go!"
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The submarine hatch opened and a group of people filed out.
Then two divers moved out the glass cabinet where the octopus was stored in the cargo hold.
The ground here is so bumpy that the pulleys are no longer usable.
After releasing more than half of the water, the remaining water in the glass cabinet was probably only enough for the octopus to barely survive.
The glass cabinet had been lightened as much as possible. After the two divers used a piece of equipment to move the water tank out, they carefully began to carry it forward.
Next to the cave, there is a dark tunnel, and I don’t know where it leads...
Chen Nuo took a look at this tunnel...the height was only a little over two meters.
It's only wide enough for two people to walk side by side.
The divers turned on their mask headlights, and after several beams of light illuminated the tunnel, the two divers in front opened the way, with Chen Nuo and Hisako Ishii walking in the second row.
The four divers at the back, working in pairs, took turns carrying the water tank.
The weight of the octopus, plus the glass box, plus the water inside.
It probably weighs close to thirty kilograms.
Two divers were responsible for carrying it, plus the weight of their own oxygen bottles and equipment. They moved the glass box in pairs, and moved forward very slowly.
Take turns, each group is responsible for five minutes, and then replace people to recover their physical strength.
After going through this for about three rotations...
The tunnel ahead suddenly opens up!
A slightly larger space.
The tunnel ends.
But in front, there are two entrances!
One left, one right.
Chen Nuo frowned.
"Move it over here." Hisako Ishii breathed out.
This woman's breath was a little unstable...after all, she had just been injured a few days ago, and now that she was carrying a heavy oxygen bottle, her body was a little overwhelmed, as if she was forced to endure the pain.
The glass box was moved to the middle of the two entrances.
Chen Nuo began to frown.
He felt that his mental power became more and more stagnant as he wandered through the air...
It's as if an invisible force in the air is getting thicker and thicker, pulling at his mental responses from all directions.
Chen Nuo roughly calculated that the range in which he can freely exert his mental power now no longer exceeds the distance of three meters around him.
If it is further away, the released mental power will be controlled by an invisible force and be lost instantly.
This place... seems to be suppressing the control of telekinesis.
The vitality of the octopus in the glass box is getting weaker and weaker.
Chen Nuo walked closer to it and could clearly feel that the octopus was losing its vitality twice as fast as before!
But as its vitality weakens, the octopus's spiritual consciousness seems to have strengthened.
That feeling of [invitation] is getting stronger and stronger.
After the octopus swam around in the glass box, it then placed its body on the right side of the glass box. Its eight tentacles opened and the suction cups were attached to the glass, but the direction it pointed was very clear!
"Right! Go to the right!" Hisako Ishii said excitedly.
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After walking into the tunnel on the right, the road ahead becomes narrower!
It was no longer possible for the two of them to proceed side by side, so they formed a long snake formation.
Chen Nuo didn't care, but the diver behind him who was responsible for carrying the glass box became more and more difficult, and his forward speed became slower.
Chen Nuo felt more and more that his mental power seemed to be blocked and weakened again!
The effective sensing range of mental power has been compressed to two meters around you!
After reaching the end of the road.
Once again, the choice lies before us!
This time, there are four passages ahead!!
Hisako Ishii rested for a few seconds, while the woman held her hand against the wall to catch her breath.
"You'd better take a rest, your oxygen consumption is a little fast." Chen Nuo frowned and looked at the woman.
"It's okay." Hisako Ishii shook his head: "I can still hold on for a while."
Repeating the same trick, he moved the octopus out and relied on this golden octopus to choose among the four passages.
Chen Nuo suddenly asked: "Can I enter without a key?
It's nothing more than choosing a path... If you take more people, no matter how many forks there are, and spread them out, you can still find the right direction.
In this case, the function of this key seems to be of little value."
Ishii Hisako shook his head and whispered: "That's not possible.
The leader told me that in this place, if you choose the wrong path... there is an invisible force controlling it. It is a self-protection mode. Once you take the wrong path and enter, it may trigger a destruction device, and then...
…Everyone will be buried in this place.”
Chen Nuo closed his mouth.
Although a little curious.
But... it's better not to try this kind of thing.
At the second four-choice intersection, relying on the octopus' choice, several people entered the second tunnel on the left.
This time, I walked forward for more than ten minutes...
The third choice has arrived!
This time, it’s one of eight choices!
When walking out of the tunnel, Chen Nuo looked up and couldn't help but sigh!
This is a huge space!
This cave under the sea has turned into a cave with a giant roof nearly ten meters high!
The wall in front of me suddenly became smooth!
Moreover, under the mountain wall, there seems to be a faint golden luster!
Chen Nuo squinted his eyes and looked over, taking a deep breath!
Not only Chen Nuo, but Hisako Ishii and the other six divers also took a deep breath!
On the ten-meter-high mountain wall in front of us, although the surface layer has been corroded and transformed after countless years, the metallic luster underneath can still be clearly seen on the mottled mountain wall.
And on the metallic luster, if you shine a searchlight on it piece by piece, you can clearly see a huge pattern!
Shockingly...
An octopus!
The oval head and body stand upright! Below are eight tentacles spread out separately!
The end of each tentacle falls on the ground, which is a tunnel!
Eight tentacles, eight tunnels!
Chen Nuo quietly raised his head and looked at the huge octopus pattern...
I just feel that this octopus pattern looks more and more familiar the more I look at it!
Although some subtle places and proportions are different, the overall outline and posture...
It looks very much like the icon on the USB flash drive from the Octopus Monster website!
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"Bring the box up." Hisako Ishii ordered breathlessly.
The glass box was carried up...
But this time, an accident happened!
After the glass box was moved to the middle, the golden octopus in the water seemed to squirm a few times, and then its tentacles seemed to rotate twice...and then suddenly stopped!
"..."
"..."
"..."
Several people looked at each other and waited for a while, with strange expressions on their faces.
Hisako Ishii was a little anxious. He walked to the water tank and patted the glass gently.
Chen Nuo walked to her side, frowning and looking at the motionless octopus in the water.
Hisako Ishii looked anxious and said angrily: "Move quickly! Choose a route quickly!!"
As he spoke, he increased his strength with his hands and slapped the glass.
Chen Nuo sighed and gently pinched Hisako Ishii's wrist. At the same time, he also withdrew a trace of the spiritual power lingering on the octopus.