The time on the mechanical timer was three o'clock in the afternoon, but the sky was as dark as the middle of the night, as if a pair of huge black wings had obscured the whole sky, and the hearts of people were stuffy.

The group stood on the deck of the submarine, preparing in an orderly manner.

"Even if it's a submarine, you can't go forward, so you can only swim over."

As he spoke, Parleon had already put on a piece of diving gear, which was still dressed in a trench coat and trousers, which looked like a sense of disobedience.

However, Xin Yuan and the sandworm are not much different, they both put on some simple diving equipment at random on the basis of their original outfits, which is in obvious contrast with those auxiliary personnel who meticulously put on diving suits.

For D-level capable people, the extended protection performance of the source fire frame is far more effective than that of diving suits in terms of thermal insulation and compression resistance.

"If there are no other problems, we will go."

Glancing at the others and seeing that no one objected, Parrion waved his hand and jumped into the sea first.

The sandworm straightened up, looked at Xin Yuan, grinned, stomped under his feet, and his strong body instantly bounced into the air, and then fell into the sea like a bomb, raising a huge splash of water and covering the deck, pouring the people on the deck thoroughly.

It's just that when the water curtain was about to fall on Xin Yuan, it shattered and fell as if it had hit an invisible wall, and even the corners of his clothes were not wet.

Seeing that Parrion and the sandworm had already gone down, Xin Yuan didn't delay any longer, and stepped out of the deck with a step forward, slowly falling towards the pitch-black sea below as if he were slowing down, sinking silently under the water.

As soon as he got out of the water, Xin Yuan felt a strange coolness spreading from the seawater, not just the physical temperature, but containing a special energy fluctuation, which was transmitted to his body through the seawater and pierced like a needle, as if it was about to pierce his spirit, but it was immediately rebounded by the source fire fluctuations in his body.

This is by no means a naturally occurring seawater, but the result of a large-scale invasion and infection by the energy of the dark side of the void under the loosening of the rules of matter. The sea water here is even colder than the ice ocean, and the average person will be exhausted after entering this sea water for more than ten seconds at most, and there is no way to support it in this environment without the protection of the source fire.

Looking around the underwater environment, it was gloomy, and the mental fluctuations in the sea water had a very big interference with his mental induction, so that he could only barely maintain a sensing area of five or six meters, and no matter how much he did, the sensing accuracy would be extremely reduced.

Parleon and the sandworm, who had already entered the water, were floating not far away, and the lighting rods strapped to their bodies had lit up, forming a small circle of light around them, maintaining a viewing area.

After a while, the sound of falling water sounded one after another, and the other personnel went into the water one after another, and then gathered around the three people, pushing the three people with underwater thrusters to the side of the three people.

Let's go!

Parrion made a gesture, then grabbed an underwater thruster and swam first towards the bottomless darkness below, with the sandworm and Xin Yuan following closely.

The speed of the group was very fast, and it took about five minutes to enter the illumination range of the pillar of light, and with this clear indication, they began to advance rapidly towards the source of the pillar of light.

The sea here is not deep, it is less than 500 meters to the bottom, but this is already a depth beyond the reach of ordinary people, but none of the people present are ordinary people, this depth is at most a little inconvenient, and there is no more impact.

Along the way, Xin Yuan did not find any traces of the existence of any creatures in this sea area, only a lifeless silence, which was completely a dead domain.

The closer they got to the position of the pillar of light, the stronger the turbulence became, and everyone fell to the bottom of the sea in the distance, slowly and steadily approaching.

Xin Yuan walked in the middle of the team, looked left and right, it was flat, there were no slightly larger reefs or anything like that, and it was empty.

The sand beneath his feet was dark, and he bent down to grab a handful and held it in his hand to observe. These gravels are somewhat similar to powdered coal, the surface is black and shiny, and it is not very hard, twisting a grain and gently pinching the shell to crush, turning into a ball of black powder and then being washed away by the water without a trace.

"Typical of the long-term erosion of dark side energy, it seems that this situation has been developing here for at least hundreds of years." Xin Yuan thoughtfully dropped the sand in his hand.

Parleon walked at the forefront, holding a light stick aloft to point the way to those behind him.

Finally, after more than half an hour, everyone finally came to the edge of the pillar of light, and saw the true appearance of the entrance—that is, a dark place that rotated like a whirlpool, and the pillar of light shot upwards from the most central position, extremely condensed and intense.

"This is the entrance to the ruins."

Although it was impossible to transmit sound in this environment, looking at Parion's gestures, the others roughly understood what he meant.

After making the gesture, Paleon walked directly into the range of the whirlpool, his body was driven by the turbulence, and he turned to the center of the whirlpool in a clockwise circle, and in just ten seconds, his whole person plunged into the darkness in the center and disappeared.

Seeing this, the others also fell into the whirlpool, and they were swallowed up by the darkness one after another.

After entering the center of the dark vortex, Xin Yuan only felt that his eyes suddenly darkened, and the whole thing was like falling into the drum of a washing machine, and he turned up and down, left and right, and then his eyes lit up, and he had appeared on a small island.

The sky was gray and unclean, but it wasn't pitch black enough to give a general view of the surroundings.

The island is not very large, and from here it looks like there is a black rocky mountain in the middle and stone houses that appear on the mountain road, and everything else is bare.

"Half of this island is a worthless rocky land, and there are some houses on the side of the road, which have some daily necessities, and should be a settlement, but it has been abandoned for a long time; At the back of the mountain there is a small black forest, and my men have searched it several times, but there is no life. Parleon, who was standing not far in front of him, said loudly.

"So how do we get out?" Xin Yuan frowned, looked left and right, those who came in behind him seemed to appear on the island out of thin air in an instant, and they couldn't see what they came here through, and there were no other unusual places.

"At the top of the mountain." Parion pointed to the top of the rocky mountain and said in a deep voice: "The exit and the entrance to the core area are at the top of the mountain, there is an altar-like place, and after going out from the exit, it will appear directly on Silversand Island, and the reason why I can find this place is also the clue I found from Silversands Island at the beginning." ”

Silver Sands Island?

Xin Yuan called up the map information and looked at it, and soon found the exact location on the map, which turned out to be near the island owned by Parleon at the time of departure, which was only more than thirty kilometers away.

"Of course, that's only a one-way exit, you can't get in directly from Silver Sands Island, you have to use the way we came." Parrion went on to explain.

Hearing this, Xin Yuan nodded and agreed with his statement.

"Don't grind and chirp, it's all here, hurry up and go, Lao Tzu can't wait." With that, the sandworm tore off his diving equipment and threw it on the ground, leading his two twin men to the rocky mountain first.

"Let's go, then." Parrion nodded flatly, and followed as he walked forward, surrounded by his three E-Class men.

Xin Yuan looked left and right again, remembering all the nearby scenes in his mind, and then quickly followed.