Chapter 180: Anomalies Beneath the Surface of the Sea
The waters off the island of Bimon.
A large sea ship with a huge silhouette, exquisite beauty, and extremely fast speed is speeding on the sea.
Lin Xiao didn't expect that just a few months later, he would come here again.
Moreover, what attracted him here was not that the Beamon Pioneer Team had made an anomalous discovery on the island, but that it was ...... Originating from the sea.
"Our knight found a cherished sea beast and decided to go to the sea to catch it, during the chase, the sea beast suddenly disappeared, and several knights chasing in front also disappeared one by one, until the knight behind noticed the abnormality and did not stop chasing ......"
This is what Ash reported to him as the new captain of the Beamon Island Pioneer Team and the head of the Crystal Knights.
A team of knights is chasing a sea beast in the sea when they encounter an unknown anomaly.
Several knights, including one mid-rank knight, disappeared for no apparent reason somewhere beneath the surface of the sea.
Such a situation immediately aroused Lin Xiao's great interest.
So, after bringing Shirley, Anivia, and Alista, he came over on a ship, ready to go and see it in person.
The ship is fast.
When he arrived at that sea area, there were already several warships cruising on the sea, and after seeing Lin Xiao's ship, he lowered a small boat from one of the battleships, and it was Ash who led the knights who chased after him, stopped in time, and did not disappear together.
After some questioning, Lin Xiao had a general understanding of the situation under the sea.
However, for a moment, he couldn't figure out what was going on.
When she looked at Shirley, the girl also shook her head: "Brother, we need to check on the spot to make an accurate judgment." ”
Lin Xiao nodded, and immediately said: "Ash, order the battleships to disperse, just guard the perimeter, and I will personally go to the sea to investigate." ”
"Your Highness, this is too dangerous...... Ash tried to stop it, and before finding out the reason for the knight's disappearance, the lord himself investigated, what if he also disappeared.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to act rashly until I figure it out. After appeasing Ash a little, Lin Xiao sent her back to Beamon Island.
For the investigation of such anomalies, it is not that the more people, the better.
In fact, the reason why he brought Shirley with him was because her research ability was the best in Xianheling.
Even if it has nothing to do with runes, it can give useful ideas.
Next.
Under the leadership of several surviving knights, Lin Xiao and Shirley went to the sea one after another, and came to the point where the knights disappeared.
It is basically more than 200 meters from the sea surface and more than 100 meters from the seabed.
However, in the Star Domain World, even ordinary people are very water-based, let alone cultivators.
When Lin Xiao was still in the middle class, he was already able to chase the two-headed sea snake under the surface of the sea and kill it. Now that he has been promoted to a higher rank, his activities under the surface of the sea are almost completely unaffected.
"Your Highness, this is here, about ten meters in front of us, the sea beast and several companions we chased have disappeared there. One of the knights, Harry, pointed to an area in front of him with the grief of losing his companion on his face.
It stands to reason that this place is too close to the anomalous area, and it should be very dangerous, and if you are not careful, there is an error in the position in your memory, and it is easy to pass directly through the anomalous area.
Fortunately, when the knight in front of him disappeared, Harry calmly noted down the reference to the bottom of the sea.
When Lin Xiao looked in the direction of his finger, he suddenly felt a little disappointed, in front of him, no matter how he observed, even if the operation of the Yuan Force was concentrated in his eyes, he also noticed a trace of abnormality.
Thinking of this, he took out a gold coin from the space ring and flicked it with his fingers.
"Whoa—"
The force used is small, and you can clearly see the trajectory of the gold coin through the sea.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
However, when the gold coin passes a distance of about ten meters, the anomaly will change dramatically.
It's like touching a layer of water, rippling with extremely tiny ripples...... Then, the gold coins are gone.
Completely gone.
There was not a trace of it.
Lin Xiao's eyes widened directly.
Before this, he thought it was some kind of natural illusion, or a trick or something, but now it seems that it is not the same thing at all.
Thinking of this, he first sent a few knights back to the ship.
Their strength is too low to stay underwater for long periods of time.
Then, he experimented with other objects, such as food, stones, mud and sand, and even grabbed an ordinary sea beast and threw it all over.
But they got almost the same result.
Disappear.
Disappear for no reason.
At this time, the girl who had been watching for a long time suddenly said, "Brother, let's try other directions first and see if we can determine the approximate scope of the anomalous area." ”
Hearing this, Lin Xiao nodded.
Indeed, although I have been experimenting with various dead and living creatures just now, it seems that as long as I throw it forward, it will disappear after about ten meters. However, the extent to which the object can disappear has not yet been determined.
Is it like a wall, a sphere, or just a small area?
"Well, I'll try. ”
Just do it, next, Lin Xiao came to the bottom of the sea, and directly smashed a boulder into a large number of small stones with one palm, and then put it into the space ring.
Then, piece by piece, the gravel is thrown out.
Constantly test the boundaries of the anomaly.
Test it down first until he falls to the bottom of the ocean, where the area ahead will still be anomalous.
He then swam straight to the left, and as he continued to test, his route was almost straight at the bottom of the sea.
"Is it really a wall, and besides, I have swam hundreds of meters, and I haven't reached the end yet" Lin Xiao guessed in his heart, but his movements did not stop, and he kept swimming to the left and testing.
It wasn't until he swam thousands of meters that Lin Xiao realized that his route turned out to be ...... An arc.
And, as the tests continued, the arc grew larger.
Finally, when he swam hundreds of kilometers, he was surprised to find that he had returned to the original point.
"In other words, this is a circle" Lin Xiao already had some guesses in his heart.
At the same time, he floated up a distance to test, and when he came down, it was a smaller circle.
Floating up again, it's a smaller circle.
Finally, when they came to a few dozen meters close to the surface of the sea, there was no more abnormal area above.
In other words, the area where objects disappear basically forms a flat bowl similar to an upside-down bowl on the ocean floor.
The diameter of the bowl is probably more than 30 kilometers.
A giant sea bowl that covers an area beneath the surface of the sea, where anything you throw in it will disappear.
Didn't get any results, when the two of them returned to the ship, their eyes looked at the girl, and Lin Xiao asked with some reluctance: "Shirley, is there such a record in the inheritance we have obtained?"
But the girl did not respond to him, but took out a notebook and kept writing and drawing.
Lin Xiao just glanced at it and gave up, it was full of all kinds of crooked rune lines, which seemed like a book from heaven to him.
It's been a long wait.
The girl raised her head again: "Brother, I need to make some rune experimental devices." ”