Ten minutes later, Elaine was making preparations while eating lunch, taking out some kind of heavy metal disc-shaped instrument for inspection.
Lunch is actually quite rich. Although you can’t eat fresh meat, you can eat dehydrated beef and vegetables. The staple food is mashed potatoes made from dehydrated potato powder and then mixed with water, which has the aroma of cooked potatoes.
And the smell of butter and cheese.
Although it was not tasteless, half of the meal was cooked by Queeg and the other half was cooked by the little fox Bailey. As expected, the taste was not complete, and Elaine could only taste half of it.
Of course, thank God if he can taste it.
"What is big brother doing?" Bailey came over and asked, holding the lunch on the plate.
"Point, check the transmission device." Elaine said.
"Are you using this to explore underground mazes?"
"Uh-huh."
Because the underground labyrinth of Atlantis is very huge and extremely dangerous, it cannot be explored in one day. The labyrinth cannot be explored in a short time, and people cannot not rest all the time, so they have to find a place to camp and rest.
However, camping and resting inside the maze is undoubtedly a suicidal act. You may be attacked by various monsters and golems guarding the maze after you fall asleep. It is also unknown whether you can find firewood for cooking in the maze.
So this temporary point-to-point transmission device is needed. After using this, you can open the transmission door, teleport from inside the maze to the exit that has been set up outside the maze, and quickly escape from the maze.
In other words, Elaine and the others can use this device to escape from the maze in an emergency and return to the camp on the ground to rest.
Of course, this device is extremely heavy and has a limited number of uses. If it is set up in the maze for a long time, there is a possibility that it will be destroyed by monsters in the maze. Therefore, this point-to-point transmission device can only be set up temporarily. When I leave the maze tonight
Set it somewhere inside the maze, and hope it can still be used when you start again tomorrow morning; if it can be used, continue the journey from the last location you left the maze, and recover the device installed there.
Just in case, Elaine brought two "entrances" and six "exits". One of the "entrances" is set up at the camp, and a teleportation link can be established at any time with the "exits" set up in the maze in the future.
.The "exit" is easily destroyed by monsters in the maze, so I prepared three times the amount.
It is actually quite difficult to stuff these heavy things into the storage pocket, and it is a miracle that it can carry so many things.
By the way, this emergency transmission device is the technology of the Meyerson Brotherhood. The Brotherhood has been professionally exploring ancient ruins for hundreds of years, so technology of this level is naturally indispensable. When Elaine made a request to Academician Zuster, the academician
So I helped him borrow this equipment from the Brotherhood.
You really rely on your friends when you go out. Or rather, you rely on your friends’ props.
It is said that the cost of this equipment is astronomical. Elaine really owes the Brotherhood a huge favor.
Even so, it only makes exploring the maze a little safer and easier. The maze itself is extremely deadly, and this remains unchanged.
...In the worst case scenario, Elaine can do his best to block possible enemies, then let Queeg escape with Bailey, and use this teleportation device to escape directly to the ground. He had already planned to escape from Atlan from the beginning.
The plan of sacrifice in the great underground labyrinth of Tis. Now that I have been there in person, I can no longer feel the fear.
Elaine briefly explained the use of this equipment to Bailey and Queeg, so that they would not use it at the critical moment. Then he put the teleportation device that had been checked and confirmed to be functioning properly back into the storage bag and handed it to Bailey.
"Eh? Give it to me?"
"You, you hold it the best." Elaine said, "Guan, it's up to you to save us at the critical moment."
"Well, I understand, just leave it to me, I will save the big brother, hehehe." The little fox became pretty, and its tail was wagging happily.
This doesn't look like a lion at all...it doesn't even look like a cat...you want to make the little lion you conjured up with your magic act out like a real cat?
"Quig," Elaine turned to the leopard and asked: "You, do you have a way to activate [A virtualization] with Bailey?"
"Okay." The cloud-patterned leopard nodded and put down the beef he was about to put into his mouth: "As long as he, believe me."
This type of move seems to be the same as teleportation. As long as the opponent puts down their psychological resistance (that is, reduces the resistance of the absolute field), they can be teleported away with them.
"Yes, how long can it last?"
"If you bring one more, the time will be, um, twice as short?" Queeg roughly estimated.
However, it is said that Queeg can maintain the virtual state for several hours if he really puts his mind to it. Even if this effect is cut in half, it can still be maintained for at least an hour or two.
"Ming, I understand." Elaine took a bite of vegetables and nodded: "Guan, it's up to you to protect Bailey at the critical moment."
Queeg has no offensive power, but he has "absolute defense" that cannot be touched by any physical attack method. Even the terrible murder traps in Atlantis can be avoided with this.
"Speaking of which, I wanted to ask this a long time ago." Bailey suddenly said: "This city was originally supposed to be a city built by the Sea Royal Family, right? But the Sea Royal Family seems to have disappeared. How did they disappear?"
"Big, probably the same as the ancient people..." Elaine paused: "Well, the decline of the soul?"
"The decay of the soul?"
It seems that Bailey has never heard of this matter. Only a very few people know about it. Do I need to explain it again?
"Anyway, in short, it is a disease. People from the old era lived too long and died in the end." Elaine explained generally: "Jian, built such a big city. He also built his own
The successors. He, they probably thought they could live forever."
"Are they really all dead?" Bailey held his chin thoughtfully.
"Um?"
"Because, you see, their city is still functioning normally." The little fox continued to analyze: "This thing has not been maintained for tens of thousands of years, but it is still like new. Especially the crystal shell -
—It is usually soaked in the deep sea, right? It has been soaked in the sea for tens of thousands of years, but it is so clean? The surface is not corroded by salt, and there are no organisms such as corals and barnacles attached to it? It is simply unbelievable.
——It’s almost like someone is cleaning it up regularly."
Elaine showed a surprised expression, and the cauliflower in the spoon in his hand accidentally rolled to the ground.
Are the Sea Royal Family still alive?
How is this possible!
Even the ancient race of gods and humans, famous for their technology, could not escape inevitable destruction and disappeared from the earth. How could the Sea King clan, which is also an ancient race, live longer than the ancient race of gods and humans?
...Unless they find a way to prolong their lives, find a way to treat or alleviate the "degeneration of the soul"!
No. Elaine trembled and tried to get rid of the uneasiness in her heart.
At least he hasn't seen half of the Sea Royal Family yet. If the Sea Royal Family doesn't appear in their own city, it should be understood that they have become extinct, right? Since he hasn't seen half of the Sea Royal Family come out to interfere with their actions so far, let's just say that
Can we consider them extinct?
"By the way, what do the Sea Kings look like? Do they look the same as mermaids? Or are they more like Zhangren?" Bailey asked again.
Elaine shrugged. He didn't know either. Most of those ancient races were unknown. Except for a few words describing them in various ancient books and myths, other details could not be verified. That's how they were.
mystery.
"It is said that it has a toad face." Queeg interjected: "It has fins, long arms and legs, a big catfish. It also has webs. The scales are like black steel. The claws are like knives. The scream is piercing and soul-stirring."
"How, how did you know?" Elaine asked in confusion. It felt like this stupid leopard was making up stories to lie to them.
"In the past, there were archaeologists stationed in the army." Quigg replied, "We analyzed it from ancient documents."
So thousands of years ago, the human coalition had archaeologists who could understand the ancient writings of the Sea King, and they had indeed explored the dungeon. Speaking of the murals and carvings in the dungeon, Elaine couldn't understand them at all. Humans
There must be a pretty smart guy here who has cracked the secret of that ancient text.
"Are the Sea Royal Family really so ugly? I thought they were as famous for their beauty as the mermaids. How disappointing." The little fox stuck out his tongue.
"Beauty and ugliness are relative. They have their own standards." The clouded leopard shook his head: "They also claim to be a beautiful and superior race."
(Obviously ugly, yet beautiful and superior...)
A drop of sweat broke out on Elaine's forehead. If the Sea Kings are really as ugly as Queeg described, then how shameless is this race to call themselves beautiful and superior in front of other races?
Speaking of which, I heard that the Zhangren were also created by the Sea Royal Clan and were older than the Mermaid Clan. The Zhangren were also ugly...basically just giant walking octopuses.
Mermaids are very beautiful, even by human standards. It is said that mermaids were created by the Sea King clan after the ancient gods and humans created humans. They are therefore as beautiful as humans, or even more beautiful than humans.
Although mermaids are beautiful, they definitely look very different from the Neptune clan. It seems that the Neptune clan, which claims to be a beautiful and superior race, eventually abandoned its own sense of superiority and created strange things that are closer to human aesthetics.
I really have no dreams and no hope.
Elaine was muttering in her heart as she ate her lunch one bite at a time. When he turned around to pick up the cauliflower that he had just dropped on the ground, he found that the thing had disappeared without a trace.
"You, you packed it away?" Elaine asked Queeg.
"What?"
"brocoli."
"Cauliflower?" Leopard asked, tilting his head, as if he didn't know anything.
"Bailey? You, you picked it up?"
"What?" The little fox also tilted his head, not understanding what Elaine was asking at all: "Brother, what exactly do you want to say?"
"I, it's the cauliflower I just dropped on the ground. It would be unhygienic if you don't clean it up." The white lion boy explained.
"You didn't drop the cauliflower on the ground just now. I've been watching you." Bailey replied: "Brother, are you okay? It seems that you are tired and absent-minded. Do you want to start today?"
Take a day off and explore the dungeon tomorrow?"
"Well... don't." Elaine wondered: "One, dragging it on is not an option."
And he doesn't know when Atlantis will be fully charged and sink to the bottom of the sea again. In fact, every second counts now, and he should conquer the underground labyrinth as soon as possible. If it weren't for Bailey and the others, Elaine would have been alone.
Rushing forward, we are now deep in the maze.
"Wait a little longer, at least wait until Uncle Red Lion comes over!" Bailey begged hard.
There is really nothing we can do against him...
"Okay, okay..." Elaine packed up the plate and gave it to Queeg to wash. Edmund said and then met Elaine, but he had to row slowly across the sea. It is estimated that he would have to wait until the afternoon.
Saw his figure.
Elaine also knows that the more people exploring the underground maze together, the safer it will be.
But he also knew that this was a journey with no return, and the more people exploring together, the more victims there would be.
It was enough that he was the only one who died...
So confused.
"Would you like to take a nap first?" Seeing Elaine's confused look, Bailey took the hand of the white lion boy and walked towards the tent, "Only when you feel refreshed can you better cope with dangerous situations."
What he said is quite right.
"Then, let's take a nap." Elaine smiled bitterly.
"I'm standing guard," Queeg said, sitting outside the tent.
"I want to sleep with my big brother, because he will soon turn into a bear!" Bailey said with a smile.