The field of vision was dark green and nothing could be seen. Gallon's whole body was exuding strong cold energy radiation, resisting the large amounts of poisonous lake water that constantly invaded the surface of his skin. He held his breath and kept swimming down.
The water in the lake was very viscous, and it was impossible to dive down without using special techniques. Garen also hung a large heavy stone on himself to help him go down.
He hadn't dived very deep when, while waving his arms, he suddenly encountered a hard object that seemed to be movable.
"What is it?"
Garen pulled it over hard, and suddenly a pale human face appeared in front of him. The face belonged to a woman's corpse, and one of her arms was being held by Garen.
The female corpse's eyes were wide open, and her eyeballs had been soaked until they turned green and black. Her clothes were corroded and destroyed, and most of her body had rotten holes.
Abandoning the body, Garen continued to dive deeply, remaining vigilant at all times.
Gulu...
Several bubbles floated upward along the lake water. The deeper you dived, the water became clearer and clearer, gradually changing from dark green to light green, with a density similar to that of clear water.
Garen can hold his breath for half an hour, which is no problem at all. He himself is no longer considered a human being. After practicing and transforming the Cold Hell Peacock Kung Fu, he is about to become the basic larvae of the cosmic creature, the Cold Hell Peacock.
As long as you pass the basic stage, you can completely become a basic larvae. Therefore, the radiation in the lake is highly toxic to ordinary people. For him, as long as the cold energy radiation does not disappear, it will have no effect.
Wow..
Garen suddenly heard a sound coming from the right front. He looked through the glasses of his protective suit, but could only see a green stripe. He could not see anything.
Suddenly, black, finger-long worms suddenly appeared around the lake. They were like the most common caterpillars, all black with a shiny black hard shell on their back. Their bodies were squirming one by one, moving towards the lake.
Long's position was surrounded by people from all directions.
Garen was shocked. He quickly increased the radiation cold energy and expanded it to within one meter around him.
Soon, the first caterpillar entered the range of cold energy radiation. It quickly condensed into a lump of ice and sank directly. The second caterpillar also entered the range and froze into ice. The third and fourth caterpillars also...
..until Article 25.
Garen finally breathed a sigh of relief. In order to kill these bugs, he spent at least half of his cold energy.
After swimming for a while, I looked around and saw no such caterpillars again.
He began to consider whether to continue diving...
"With my ability, if I continue to dive, the dive time may be shortened by withstanding the water pressure. It may be better if I have a diving device."
He stretched out his hand and stirred it gently in the lake water, pushing aside some turbid sediment. He could vaguely see things a few meters away around him.
Faintly, he seemed to see a black shadow swimming towards him in the distance.
"What is that?"
The black shadow is getting closer. Getting closer...
Soon they entered Galleon's visual range.
It was a completely naked jet-black water snake. It was more than ten meters long, but only as thick as an arm. Its head had sharp teeth like hairtail fish, and its two small eyes shone with green fluorescence in the lake water.
Garen was not surprised but overjoyed, this guy was obviously a ferocious beast in the water.
He stretched out his hand and gently touched the water snake's head, and a faint wave spread out.
There was a look of awe and joy in the water snake's eyes, showing its extraordinary intelligence. It allowed Gallon to stroke its head, and its body gently surrounded Gallon, forming a snake coil.
"Take me to this most popular place..." Garen took out a fist-sized white light stone from the pocket of his protective suit and shook it at the water snake.
A trace of the golden color of the ancient nine-headed dragon flashed faintly in his pupils, which was a message transmitted by pure soul fluctuations. After transmitting the message according to the method of the totem world, he was not sure whether the water snake could understand what he meant, but he just pressed on.
Keep an eye on this guy.
There was a simple doubt in the water snake's eyes, and it bit the white colored stone in one bite, then turned its head and swam towards the left and downward direction.
Garen quickly grabbed its tail and was driven downstream at high speed.
The water on both sides of the surrounding area was turbulent and very fast. The water snake's body of more than ten meters was like a group of evil spirits. It was more than ten times faster than Garen's own speed. After swimming down for more than half a minute, a black patch of darkness quickly appeared in front of him.
Almost like a mountain wall, there are caves of different sizes like honeycombs on the mountain wall.
The water snake pulled Garen into a large cave and burrowed in like a tunnel for several minutes. In the middle, he encountered many black arthropod insects again, densely packed together, as if they were gnawing at some creature.
Water snakes seem to be very taboo about bugs, and bugs seem to actively avoid water snakes. Both of them do not infringe and pass through safely.
Garen also felt his scalp numb as he pulled the water snake's tail. He had used up more than half of his cold energy just to kill more than twenty insects. Now he encountered so many, at least thousands. If a war started, he would really be in this environment.
It's much worse than bad.
Fortunately, the ancient nine-headed dragon's soul and will attribute allowed him to get close to the water snakes and avoid being entangled by these insects.
Looking at the thing that the insects were gnawing densely, it turned out to be a broken piece of metal alloy. The sharp teeth of the insects kept biting the metal, making a fine clicking sound.
After passing through the swarm of insects, the water snake began to move upward, and the tunnel and cave quickly climbed upward.
I don't know how long it took, but it seemed to be more than ten minutes, maybe twenty minutes, when there was a sound of water rushing in front of me.
Garen suddenly felt himself coming out of the water and being carried by a water snake into a warm cave.
He took a deep breath. The outside air was quickly filtered by the air filtration system of the protective suit and replaced with breathable safe gas. After taking a breath, he began to look at the surrounding environment.
The cave is not big, only the size of a small living room.
But Garen's eyes suddenly widened, revealing the slightest bit of uncontrollable joy.
The walls around the entire cave, including the rocks on the ground, are all white. They are all large areas of white malachite!!
The entire cave is made of white malachite.
"This is the vein of white malachite!"
Garen patted the water snake's head hard to express his satisfaction.
The water snake hissed and showed joy. It walked around in a circle and spit out the piece of white malachite in its mouth.
"Go and have a good rest."
Gallon let go of the water snake and began to carefully explore the entire cave structure. When he reached the cave wall, he pressed a button on the collar of the protective suit.
'Route in memory...' A line of small words appeared on Galleon's glasses.
The route he took just now was quickly recorded by a simple chip on his clothes.
After sorting out the map route, Garen thought for a moment, walked to the stone wall on the right, took off his protective clothing, and exposed his arms directly to the air.
No longer suppressing the natural release of cold energy radiation, Garen gently pressed his palms against the stone wall.
Hiss...peng...!
After a small sound, a puff of white smoke suddenly burst out between the palm and the stone wall.
A large number of blue threads densely drilled out from the palm of Gallon's hand and pierced into the stone wall. Like greedy parasites, they crazily absorbed the dense material components in the white malachite.
The stone wall weathered rapidly. It collapsed into pieces of powder and fell down. Like an infection, the weathered area spread rapidly from the area where Garon came into contact. In less than half a minute, the entire surrounding stone wall cave began to shake slightly, and all the white malachite began to
Weathered and turned into a large amount of powder and gravel falling down.
Garen stood in front of the stone wall with his eyes closed, making a subtle sizzling sound all over his body. Fine blue scales slowly began to appear on the surface of his body, on his face, body, arms, ears, and all skin surfaces.
Scales like snake scales spread. A faint fishy smell gradually filled the protective suit, which became stronger and stronger.
Opening his eyes, Garen took a look at the changes on his body.
"The closer you get to the fifth level, the more your body becomes less human..."
After looking at the progress on the property bar, I saw that the completion of the fifth level had reached 42%, and it was still improving rapidly.
"As long as we break through the basic level, there should be a very high qualitative change, and I shouldn't be disappointed." Garen reviewed the records in the Secret Martial Arts of Life, closed his eyes again and began to concentrate on absorbing a large amount of malachite essence.
His body began to change more and more, his arms began to grow some sharp water chestnut protrusions, and behind him began to grow dense dark blue filaments like grass roots, like long hair, but they could move and intertwine freely.
The biggest change is that he is getting bigger and taller, from the original 1.78 meters to 2 meters. The muscles on his body are becoming more and more defined, and the scales on his skin are becoming more and more obvious.
Like a strong warrior wearing snake scale armor.
As time passed by, Garen gradually became immersed in the pleasure of improvement.
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Colorful Lakeside
The sky gradually turned brighter, and more than a dozen people in black mechas gradually flew in the distant sky. The ultra-miniature mechas on these people were exactly the same as those of the previous group of wasps.
More than a dozen mecha-clad men landed and began searching around the lake.
"Boss! We found an aircraft. It's a single-person aircraft. It's a very new model. It should have been brought out by those natural people!"
A mecha suit found Garen's single-person aircraft left by the lake.
After hearing the clue, the tallest person in the group flew over, landed in front of the aircraft, and patted the aircraft's propeller.
"It must belong to that natural person. Since it is left here casually, it is either not wanted or there is no way to take it." His voice was rough, but his words were delicate.
There was a slight commotion among the people around, and some people actually didn't quite understand what he meant.
"What the boss means is that this person either left on his own and doesn't want this thing anymore, or he has an accident and cannot come back for the time being." A female voice next to him explained.
"Mondeo, are you sure that natural man didn't wear any armor, so he just killed a member of your team!?" The boss turned to ask the mecha suit at the back.
"Yes, that's absolutely right. If I hadn't seen the opportunity quickly enough, or if he wanted to stay alive and ask for news, I wouldn't have been able to go back!" Mondeo explained quickly.
The boss was silent for a moment and saw that the mecha suits around him were all waiting for him to make up his mind.
A natural person, a powerful natural person who suddenly appeared here, has the ability to quickly deal with five mecha suits, and it is very likely that he can deal with the remaining ten or so mecha suits.
"Don't mess with him. This man is very strong. He might be a master sent by the big guys in the region to perform tasks. Even if he isn't, we can't handle him alone."
"The mecha suits of those five people have been found. Boss, why don't we evacuate first." Someone suggested.
"Evacuate first. Don't worry about him in this area for now. Let's not come here for now. We will come back after that person leaves." The boss obeyed the advice decisively and was not embarrassed at all. In the radiation belt, it is natural for the strong to be respected.
.It is not shameful to avoid and run away.
The group of people moved the mecha suits and left quickly. Mondeo finally landed at the end of the group and looked back at the huge colorful lake.
"A natural person..." A strong yearning flashed in his eyes. (To be continued...)