Chapter 91: Underwater City
The white light around him dissipated, and the first thing that caught Zhu Jue's eyes was the dark blue ball of light in the distance.
It was not suspended in the sea, even from a distance, Zhu Jue could still faintly see that there seemed to be a mountain range under the bottom of the sea under the ball of light, and the ball of light was at the peak of the mountain, like the brightest jewel in the crown or a lighthouse in the deep sea.
Suddenly, sensing that a gaze fell on him, Zhu Jue turned around suddenly, and the five tentacles with five orange eyes were staring at him at this time.
Subconsciously retreating a distance, although I had only seen it before, the state of the spirit body was vague and faint after all.
What appeared in front of Zhu Jue's eyes at this time was undoubtedly the true entity of the ancient one.
More than two meters tall, some of the bodies that looked like wrinkled barrels were suspended in the sea, the wide and tough membranous wings on both sides were constantly flapping, and several tentacles extending from the middle of the barrel were shaking around Zhu Jue's body, as if to detect his state.
"You were the one who saved me just now?"
Holding back the discomfort that arose in his mind, Zhu Jue recalled the monster he faced a few seconds ago, and his perception was long gone, trying to communicate with the ancients through his mind.
"Star Family...... It shouldn't be around here. ”
The response of the ancient man soon sounded in Zhu Jue's mind.
"Star Clan?"
Zhu Jue had never heard of this name, but just by appearing and mentioning it in his thoughts, he felt that the sea around him was a little deeper.
"They should sleep in the stone house of Raleiye, waiting for the stars to appear at the right time for the planet to appear under the guardianship of the spell, I don't know why it suddenly appeared here...... The unknowable being shows no signs of awakening...... The war between us and them ended millions of years ago...... It's you who attract it to appear!"
Not only was Zhu Jue surprised by what had happened before, but even the emotions of the ancient were a little unstable, and the existence mentioned between his words made his surroundings more and more depressing.
Even if it was only a brief discussion, it was still as if it had touched a taboo, and even Zhu Jue, who was in a spirit state, sensed the feeling of oppression coming from the sea around him.
"Will it follow?"
In order to make sure that he would not fall into a terrifying bizarre fantasy before completing his goal, Zhu Jue had to forcibly interrupt the words of the ancient one.
God knows what would happen if you lost consciousness in a place like this.
"No, it's just an ordinary individual in the clan, and it doesn't have the strength to track down the white space, follow me. ”
The ancient man didn't seem to want to dwell too much on this topic, so he simply responded and approached the location of the light ball with Zhu Jue.
As the distance narrowed, Zhu Jue, who had been paying attention to the ball of light, soon found that it was not the illumination he imagined, but a mass of protoplasm flesh with a diameter of tens of meters, which looked a bit like a cell ball in appearance, and the light that could illuminate the seabed in an area of thousands of square meters was released from its body.
"Is this your city?"
Noticing that the outline of a building with carved marks began to appear on the seabed in front of him, Zhu Jue asked.
This is an underwater city in the truest sense of the word!
"Yes, this is our newly opened place to live, and we don't trust you to travel to our most primitive city. ”
The ancients apparently did not know what "politeness" was.
"What's that glowing thing?"
"We need light because it's a source of light created by biotechnology, because it's a place to live in the deep ocean...... It can feed itself by swallowing organisms in seawater and continuously release light. ”
The ancient man didn't deliberately hide anything from Zhu Jue, of course, it was also possible that this information didn't need to be hidden at all in its opinion.
It keeps settling and eventually falls to the bottom of the sea.
The ancients were not affected by buoyancy at all, and after it landed after it landed, it was exactly the same as on land, and the tentacles at the bottom slid between the sand and rocks at the bottom of the sea, Zhu Jue maintained a floating posture, and began to look at this underwater city by its side.
After all, the imaginary high-tech city is limited to imagination, perhaps because it has just been opened, and the first impression of this city to Zhu Jue is rough.
Before, because it was floating in the upper layer of the sea, it was observed from a bird's-eye perspective, and I didn't feel anything, but after actually entering the city, Zhu Jue found that the height and width of most of the buildings here were quite exaggerated, and perhaps it was precisely because of this special proportion that Zhu Jue had the illusion of emptiness.
Of course, rugged doesn't mean raw.
Naturally, it was impossible for an ancient person with an extremely high civilization to really live the life of a primitive person, and after only walking for about ten minutes, Zhu Jue saw many strange things.
For example, in a street corner market, it doesn't feel strange from a distance, and when he got closer, Zhu Jue found that the stall here was actually made up of a group of crustaceans similar to the ones he had seen before, and when he and the ancients got closer, these crustaceans suddenly scattered and rushed here, and before Zhu Jue could understand what was going on, he found that there was an extra "square" under the feet of the ancients that was also made of crustacean creatures, carrying it forward.
This kind of thing is actually a bit like all the scavengers of Zhu Jue's own, except that the scavengers only obey Zhu Jue's orders, and the crustaceans here are biased towards shared items.
Before they had gone far, a number of ancient people suddenly poured out of the houses on the side of the street, most of their tentacles were wrapped in fish or shrimp, and their bodies were swaying, like a group of middle-aged uncles who had just come out of a tavern......
While Zhu Jue observed these ancient beings, they quickly noticed Zhu Jue's existence, and I have to say that this feeling was quite strange for the latter.
You must know that in the world where Zhu Jue lives, if there is a living ancient person who can communicate with humans, I am afraid that it will already attract the attention of the whole world, after all, the spiritual pollution source monsters that can communicate with humans can be counted on their fingers until now, let alone this ancient wisdom race.
However, in this undersea city, Zhu Jue has become a rare existence, and it is not a good thing to be strongly watched by a group of ancient people...... As an ordinary person, I am afraid that he has fallen into complete madness at this time, even if it is Zhu Jue, he feels a little uncomfortable at this time, but he can barely rely on his strong will to suppress the chaotic thoughts.
Fortunately, the ancient people who brought Zhu Jue over stood up at this time, and uttered a few short and rapid syllables through the vocal organs that they didn't know where, and the ancient people who surrounded Zhu Jue immediately turned away as if they had been ordered, and disappeared into the buildings on both sides of the street in the blink of an eye.
Perhaps with this warning, there were no more onlookers on the following journey, until Zhu Jue was brought into a building in the center of the underwater city, where the ancients who had received the news in advance were waiting.
In the center of the room, there was a very strange-looking metal tube of unknown material, a geometric rune block engraved with a mysterious spell, and some shiny things that Zhu Jue couldn't say were mixed together to create a shape that looked like a helmet, but the specifications were obviously not suitable for Zhu Jue's head.
"What is this?"
Zhu Jue had a vague premonition that what was going to happen next should be the key to his coming here, and he couldn't help but look at the ancient man beside him and asked.
"The pre-experiment test, the transfer of equipment and items requires the use of white space, this is a technology that crosses time and space, even we need to pay a certain price, we must confirm that you have the value of the experiment, stand at the bottom of the device, we must test you immediately!"
As the ancients said before, this cooperation, there is no relationship of help, there is only a relationship between the subject and the researcher, it is a fact that Zhu Jue voluntarily became the subject of the experiment, and the ancients who are researchers are also willing to consume resources for this experiment.
But the premise is that Zhu Jue is qualified to become an experimental subject!
"Gadamon Body...... It is impossible for a weak life form to withstand ...... You're special, maybe you can make it, and it needs to be tested!"
The voice that appeared in Zhu Jue's mind this time was obviously different from the ancient ones summoned by the previous two contact techniques, and the tone was jerky, and it was estimated that the other ancient people in the room were trying to communicate with Zhu Jue.
At this point, Zhu Jue naturally couldn't refuse the test requirements of the ancients, so he could only stand at the bottom of the device.
However, while Zhu Jue acted according to the requirements of the ancients, he was also secretly mentally prepared, and as long as the situation was slightly wrong, he would act immediately.
Even if he completely rebelled with the ancients, he had to leave here, and the medicinal effect of the Nine Turns Golden Pill would not be long before it would wear off, and then his soul would return to his physical body.
Zhu Jue clearly knew what kind of existence he was facing, and he had seen the great race completely destroy a bandit gang at every turn, and he didn't think that these ancient intelligent races with extreme sanity would have compassion for ordinary lives.
Ultimately.
The ancients wanted to test Zhu Jue, but how could Zhu Jue believe in them wholeheartedly?
If it weren't for the shackles of the body, only madmen and cultists would be happy to deal with such a thing!
No matter what, the test finally began, the runes on the helmet-like large device lit up one after another, and Zhu Jue's spirit body clearly felt that there was some kind of special energy shuttling in it, and the faint sound of "huhu~" when the wind blew into the pipe and the "huhu~" sound emitted after the red-hot iron was put into cold water, and then the shiny object on the device that had been emitting a glimmer of light began to flicker and disappear.
Somehow, Zhu Jue, who sees this kind of scene, can't help but think of the images of the data push on the computer screen, and these huge and complex crystalline objects are like data streams that are constantly flashing, giving information that only the ancients can understand.
The whole process did not last long, and after about 3 minutes, Zhu Jue noticed that the flickering speed of the light began to slow down until it stopped completely, and then returned to the state it was in when it was not activated.
"Your soul is very special...... Even we've never seen anything like this before!"
The ancients squirmed, their large, bloated bodies swaying from side to side like head-to-ear discussions.
"Then do I pass or not?"
Zhu Jue didn't understand what it meant.
"We look forward to the next experiments!"
As straightforward as ever.