"Really?" Annie was immediately elated and hugged Xueting warmly.
The next step was to prepare various equipment. Jiang Mingyu brought four sets of relatively lightweight "hot water temperature-controlled diving suits" and notified the restaurant to cook a high-calorie meal. The crew members prepared groups of compressed oxygen bottles.
After loading into the "Pippi Shrimp", Tian Yong found several Russian-made APS underwater assault rifles from the equipment boxes they brought. He was shaking his head and complaining that there were too few bullets, while Anne smiled and said: "This
Antique gadgets are outdated long ago. They have little lethality and the bullets are too big to carry. I have advanced weapons here, follow me."
On the open deck at the stern of the ship, several crew members brought a large box. Anne opened it with a smile. Tian Yong and Xueting's eyes immediately widened. The box contained 5 of the latest ADs amphibious assault rifles.
*guns, and dozens of magazines.
"How's it going? This kind of thing is hard to get. I only got these few. No matter in terms of range, lethality or firepower sustainability, they are far superior to APS, and each gun comes with one.
The 35mm caliber 'frogman grenade' launcher, equipped with 15 rounds of ammunition, is definitely a must-have weapon for you to use at home, for diving, and for killing people everywhere." Annie picked up one and played with it skillfully, with a proud expression.
"Girl, are you sure it's legal for you to hold this kind of thing?" Tian Yong couldn't help but ask.
"Of course it's legal. As long as you can afford the fee, there will always be someone who can help you handle many things reasonably and legally." Annie smiled with a strong smile.
Tian Yong and Xueting couldn't help but curse in their hearts: "Evil and decadent capitalism!"
High-calorie foods such as braised mutton and chocolate cake were prepared in the cafeteria. Several people were also hungry. After devouring them, Yuan Bing and Zuo Pengfei each walked into the cafeteria carrying a "pressure cooker".
"Hey, what kind of food are you two serving here? Let me see it quickly." Tian Yong stood up curiously and wanted to reach out to take it, but was immediately stopped by Yuan Bing and Zuo Pengfei's murderous eyes.
"Get out of here, this is the legendary and crazy 'pressure cooker bomb'. Its killing radius can reach 10 to 20 meters. We can't predict the range under water. You have to be careful when using it." Yuan Bing
Said seriously.
Tian Yong's eyes widened: "Are you using this bird thing to kill the enemy or to trap your own people? Is the killing radius 10 meters or 20 meters? The underwater killing range is unpredictable? Then I detonated it and ran away.
Got it? Are we going to die together?"
Yuan Bing said with an awkward expression: "It is a non-standard product made by hand and has not been tested, so you can just make do with it. I set the detonation time to 90 seconds, which is enough for you to escape. And for your convenience, use this thing to attack and move."
Object, we also equipped it with a fishing net full of fishing hooks, which should be very useful."
After staying on the boat for nearly an hour, everyone was worried that Ling Hao, who was still on the bottom of the sea, was not in the mood to rest. They stuffed the equipment into the fully charged "Pippi Shrimp" and dived towards "Eubitis" again.
go.
In the "Star Tomb", after Ling Hao and Shui Lingxing sighed, they lost any interest in these corpses and began to look around for a way down. After all, this is a warehouse passage used to transport large amounts of taxes.
Although it is quite difficult for Ling Hao to understand that it is located under the tomb, the passage cannot be small in any case.
Sure enough, they soon found it. There was a mobile secret door about 10 meters long on the ground. The restriction for opening the door was on the wall beside it. However, the secret door was filled with stone beds for parking corpses, which were densely packed.
There is no way. Shui Lingxing is a spirit body. It is okay to use wave energy to pick up some small things. It is impossible for her to lift heavy objects. Ling Hao can only transform into a "coolie" and press Zhang Zhang in the dark.
The stone bed on the door was moved away and stacked on other stone beds.
After working for nearly an hour, the secret door was finally cleaned. Shui Lingxing stood next to the door opening restriction on the wall and studied it carefully. After all, the place below is where huge wealth is stored, and further down there are imprisoned demons.
As you can imagine, the lock on the prison door of "Babylon" is not that easy to open.
Shui Lingxing thought for a long time, and then sang a string of syllables to the restriction. The melody was ethereal, simple, and had a sense of mystery. However, neither the restriction nor the secret door responded at all, and Shui Lingxing fell into deep thought again.
Ling Hao didn't want to be disturbed and could only stand aside and wait silently. After a long time, Shui Lingxing sang another string of syllables, but the result was still the same. In this way, she kept thinking here and then singing until she
When the sixth string of syllables was sung, the restriction suddenly lit up, followed by a rumbling roar, and the huge secret door finally moved. It first slowly dropped by more than one meter, and then moved sideways.
The dark space below was exposed.
"You can do it. How do you know how to open this voice-activated door?" Ling Hao asked curiously.
Shui Lingxing sighed and said: "These are the ancient songs of our mermaid clan. The last one is to praise the starry sky. Let's go down and have a look."
The two came to the hole after the secret door was opened, and looked down. It was pitch black below, and nothing could be seen. Ling Hao pulled a cold firework and threw it down. As the cold firework slowly descended, the light shone brightly.
Various rays of light flashed like stars, making Ling Hao's heart skip a beat.
"Did you see it?" Shui Lingxing asked.
"I didn't see clearly, it seemed to be the light emitted by gems." Ling Hao was slightly absent-minded.
Shui Lingxing looked at Ling Hao and smiled: "Not only that, but also the light of precious metals. How about it? Are you a little flustered?"
"How can I?" Ling Hao felt a little embarrassed.
"You don't need to deny that sake makes people's faces red and wealth moves people's hearts. This is a normal thing, and it does not mean that you are greedy. To be the master of wealth, people only need to not be its slaves. I represent the mermaid
Clan, you are allowed to go down and get some. Anyway, a considerable part of these taxes will eventually be paid to the royal family. You are a descendant of the Holy Queen, so you should take it, but it will probably fill the entire "Pippi Shrimp".
It's just a drop in the bucket here, as long as you remember in your mind what we are going all the way deep for." After saying that, Shui Lingxing jumped down first, Ling Hao shook his head with a wry smile and followed suit.
The space below is much smaller and lower than the "Star Tomb", with a height of only about 20 meters and a radius of 4,000 to 5,000 square meters. When they got here, Ling Hao and the others were already at the bottom of the sea nearly 180 meters deep.
Now. Ling Hao is the "sea dragon household", and water pressure is nothing to him.
But the most eye-catching thing is naturally the things piled on the ground. Countless golden sands are piled like sea sand in eight 10-meter-square stone pools, flashing with the unique dazzling light of gold. Clusters of six-sided
The crystal pillars are piled on the ground in their most original state. There are colorless, pink, purple, yellow, and brown ones. The number is very considerable. There is also a circle of stone boxes neatly placed against the wall. I don’t know what is inside.
what.
"Don't think these crystals are worth much now, but in the past, such crystal clear and large gemstones were considered a national treasure." Shui Lingxing said, stroking the crystals.
Ling Hao asked curiously: "This kind of gemstone is produced in underground mineral veins, not in the sea. How did you, the mermaid clan, get it?"
"Don't forget, back then, the mermaid clan traveled across the seas and had many contacts with the indigenous humans on all continents. For those indigenous humans who were struggling to survive, the cost of food and clothing was far more expensive than these shiny stones.
It’s more valuable, so I’m naturally willing to exchange it.”
"Then you are making a lot of money, aren't you?" Ling Hao smiled and continued to look through the large and small stone boxes. Many large boxes contained pearls of various colors. The size, quality and color of the pearls in each box were
They are all relatively close, and they have obviously been screened and classified. Unfortunately, tens of thousands of years have left these pearls with signs of severe oxidation, making them dull and cloudy. However, looking at their irregular shapes, they are different from the current ones.
There are obvious differences in cultured pearls. If there is any way to restore their luster, they will definitely be worth a lot of money.
On top of some big boxes, Ling Hao also saw a few small boxes. When he looked closer, he found that they were made of gold. Because it was not pure enough, there was a lot of gold rust. It can be stored in gold boxes, so the things inside must be particularly special.
Expensive, Ling Hao opened one and immediately took a breath. It was filled with colorful gems that had not been polished and carved, including emeralds, diamonds, rubies, opals, and sapphires. This box was not much smaller than a microwave oven.
It was almost full, and its value was simply immeasurable. With trembling hands, Ling Hao moved the gold box to a conspicuous location and put it down. Obviously, when the "Pippi Shrimp" came, he would definitely take this box.
Taken away in a box.
The second gold box was opened, and inside were some pink and yellow beads. After all, Ling Hao knew a lot about beads in the water. At a glance, he knew that this was the most unusual and precious kind of pearls. People called it "conch".
"Pearls" or "Kongke Pearls" cannot be cultivated artificially, so their scarcity is appalling. Counting the mung bean-sized ones produced globally every year, there are only a few hundred, and the price is staggeringly high.
The smallest conch beads in this box are larger than soybeans, at least two thousand. This amount is enough to impact the entire jewelry market. Ling Hao once again moved the box to a prominent position and went to open the first one.
Three boxes.
Shui Lingxing just watched Ling Hao running around with a smile on his face. Only at this time did the last "Zhenhai Longhu" look like an ordinary person, making people feel
He's not that distant and scary.
What was in the third box was very different to Ling Hao. It was a colorful round shell piece, about the same size as an ordinary scallop. Both sides were polished very smooth, and there were dots of lines on it, like
The starry sky is almost the same.
"What is this?" Ling Hao looked at Shui Lingxing.
"Oh, no wonder you don't recognize it. This is the shell of the 'Star Shell'. It has been polished. The mermaid clan more than 10,000 years ago regarded it as such a precious treasure. This shows how rare this thing is. Anyway,
When I was alive, there was only one piece of the ethnic group, which was treated as a sacred object of the ethnic group. It may not have much value in human society, but in the ocean intelligent ethnic group, its value is extraordinary. I suggest you bring them with you.
Go out, maybe it will come in handy sometime."
Ling Hao doubtfully put this box of "conch slices" aside and gently opened the last gold box. There was only a golden conch shell inside, about 30 centimeters in length. It looked a bit like a snail, but
Judging from the pattern, it is obviously not the case. The shell clearly shows signs of being processed and is polished very smoothly. The slender screw tip is opened and inlaid with a ring of gold. Several small holes are also drilled on the screw cone.
The whole shell looks more like a musical instrument for playing. The wide screw mouth is also edged with gold. The entire shell is full of natural wavy patterns, which is very beautiful.
"This is... a small snail?" Ling Hao blurted out.
Shui Lingxing rolled her eyes at him and said, "Are you going to sing a children's song or something? Haven't you noticed the difference in this conch yet? This is a 'Left-handed conch'."
Ling Hao's eyes lit up and he understood immediately. As a person with a deep understanding of the sea, Ling Hao knew that 99.9% of the conch shells in the world are right-handed, that is, clockwise.
, this is based on the principle of chirality in nature. Of course, there are special cases that do not grow according to the rules, that is, the "Left-handed snail", which is a left-handed conch among conchs. It is extremely rare and has appeared in any genus of Conchidae.
.Since this kind of conch shell seems to contain some unknown mysterious power, the left-handed conch has always been used as a magical weapon by major religions. The beautifully processed "left-handed conch" in front of you seems to be somewhat righteous.
"Understood? Then put it away. This shell will be of great use to you in the future. We will study it slowly after we go back. Our time is limited. Apart from these few small boxes, you can't take away any of the wealth.
How much, I think we should find a way to continue going down." Shui Lingxing closed the box and urged Ling Hao.
"There's no need to look for it. I saw it as soon as I got there. There were scratches on the ground next to the second stone pool in the back. It was obvious that the pool was movable. I guessed that if I pushed the pool away, there would be the so-called 'Spiral Abyss' below.
'That's it." Ling Hao pointed to the pool, looking confident.