Under the dark deep sea, the originally blurry time gradually became clear.
Extending from the abyss, the huge stone pillars standing in the deep sea are like ancient ruins, so old that they can be traced back thousands of years, or even longer.
Richard, who was swimming slower and slower, felt new strength burst out of his body and swung his legs closer to the stone pillar.
Under the nearly still deep sea, the disturbed water fled away from the two of them. A strange scene was taking place. As Richard approached the huge stone pillar, the dust and silt accumulated on it was being stirred and dispersed by the current.
Richard ignored the original traces of the stone pillar after the silt dispersed, and followed the stone pillar downwards.
Lu Li was still following Richard, but the difference was that he was closer to the stone pillar and observed the marks on it.
The huge stone pillars are distributed with traces of carvings. These marks are severely worn due to the incompleteness of the stone pillars, or are covered with silt and deep sea dust, making them difficult to identify. But they are by no means something.
It's like fractal art, but the extremely irregular twisted ravines outline unpredictable edges and corners. When your eyes fall on it, an indescribable feeling of nausea and physical rejection will occupy your heart.
Lu Li could temporarily overcome this discomfort, but it was not necessary.
He found that he could not understand these outlines that made him feel uneasy whenever he looked at them, as if there was a mysterious power attached to them.
This is where the consciousness is, full of threats and strangeness. Lu Li must be as careful as possible and put away his inner curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
However, he still paid attention to the stone pillars with his peripheral vision. As he continued to go deeper into the seabed, the huge stone pillars began to become complete. Along with them, those angular ravines were also complete.
Just taking a casual look, Lu Li's brain seemed to be spinning and being thrown out, and an uncontrollable feeling of nausea emerged in his heart.
Lu Li pursed his lips and, like Richard, distanced himself from the stone pillar until he could no longer see the "pattern" on the huge stone pillar.
There is not just one stone pillar here.
Tens of seconds after the huge stone pillar appeared, Lu Li, who was on the dark seabed, spotted the second one within his visual range. Soon, the third one also appeared, and then the fourth one...
More and more huge stone pillars appeared in the field of vision as they dived, irregularly distributed in this abyss, forming dilapidated towering buildings that seemed to have been destroyed.
It looks like the ruins of a city standing in the deep sea.
Countless stone pillars appeared in front of him, some were far away, some were close, but their dense number made Lu Li feel extremely repelled just by appearing in the peripheral vision. He had to squint his eyes and reduce the scope of his vision. He could only vaguely see Richard below.
The back view of virtue.
Fortunately, the stone pillars did not cause the sanity counter on their wrists to ring. They simply tainted Lu Li's mind.
After continuing to dive for two hundred, maybe three hundred meters, the number of stone pillars around him stopped increasing, and an idea suddenly appeared in Lu Li's mind.
They may have reached the bottom of the ruins.
A few seconds after this idea was born, a stepped altar similar to a pyramid and made of the same stone as the stone pillar appeared below.
This altar was just a dead object, but Lu Li did feel its call to himself, as if the altar itself was what called him when he was on the sea.
Richard swam towards the altar, found the entrance to the deep crypt from its position near the top, and accelerated into the passage.
Lu Li followed closely behind.
Suddenly, Richard's body, a few meters away, seemed to lose control and fell heavily to the ground in the passage, unable to get up.
Before Lu Li could react, he encountered the same situation as Richard: his whole body became extremely heavy.
Lu Li, who was not injured and had more strength, just staggered and half-knelt down.
The cold air he breathed into his lungs and the uncomfortable touch of his clothes made Lu Li realize something.
They escaped from the sea.
Looking back, Lu Li could still see the towering and twisted stone pillar buildings outside the crypt.
"I underestimated you, you can actually follow me here..." Richard's chuckle sounded from behind him, and he looked away. Lu Li looked at Richard, who was standing up unsteadily while holding on to the slippery stone wall, soaked all over.
"The trap in the cabin is childish," he replied.
Richard was noncommittal.
"Sometimes I really admire your persistence, like a slug that can't be shaken off."
Richard's mood was filled with undisguised boredom and uneasy complexity. He sighed and said, "Your persistence moved me. Before I replace the ancient god and kill you, I can tell you about
Something about here.”
Lu Li, who was also dripping with water, looked at Richard calmly: "Now you are at a disadvantage."
"I don't think so." Richard struggled to raise the corners of his mouth and smiled like a winner: "If I don't tell you, you won't know anything."
"Even if you die?"
"Would you do that?" Richard asked. "If you had, you wouldn't have let me get here."
Lu Li fell into silence.
He does have a way to make Richard "speak" - Anna's mental projection.
Her mental projection can completely capture a person's thoughts, memories and consciousness, but correspondingly, these will also appear in Anna's memory.
Lu Li knew what would happen when a person was instilled with a large number of memories that did not belong to him.
He cannot bear the price of Anna's consciousness being contaminated.
"Have you thought about it? If you don't plan to ask questions, maybe you won't have the chance next time." Richard urged, with a playful tone. After months of escaping in embarrassment, he was finally able to face Lu Li calmly and without fear.
Silence remained for a few seconds before Lu Li spoke: "Where is this."
"...L'lye." Richard said slowly.
Lu Li suddenly felt the vibration of the altar under his feet, and the water outside became turbid. It seemed that the entire ruins were shaking with this whisper.
Raleye...
This term brought Lu Li's memory back to two months ago, when he had just met Anna and obtained James Campbell's diary.
James Campbell once killed Ruth, the eyeless ghost in the gallery, and was thrown into the "door" by Ruth. After escaping from there, he briefly wrote down what he encountered in a few days, and in the end due to difficulty
Resist the terror of the door and choose to take the initiative to enter the door.
In the last paragraph of the diary, James Campbell wrote messy and meaningless words, most of which could not be pieced together or traced back. Lu Li only remembered what he pieced together at that time: Laye.
Maybe this is where the diary points?
The shaking of the altar disappeared, and Richard continued: "The place where the sleeping ancient gods rest."
"Sleeping instead of dying?" Lu Li remembered that Richard held the three bodies of the "Ancient God".
"It is not the dead who sleep eternally. Even death will disappear in the wonderful eternity." Richard's answer seemed to have some profound meaning.
Lu Li did not pursue the meaning of this sentence and continued to ask: "What is the ancient god."
"An ancient god, a great existence that once dominated this world. But soon, I will replace the sleeping ancient god and become the new god."