Act XXXIII. shallow sea
To the west of the Galapagos supply station, the 3,000-kilometer wasteland has no name, which was originally the largest ocean on the planet in the old days, but after the Great Collapse, the landscape changed, the ocean was dyed red, and a large area of land appeared here, and the once ocean turned into small lakes scattered over the land.
The southern part of the wasteland is connected to the shallow red sea, which is the main track of this journey.
"It turns out that the shallow sea is really red."
Wilbur sighed, and he opened the window, and the unscented sea breeze blew in and ruffled some of his hair.
Outside the window on the left, there is a crimson sea.
Looking into the distance, you can see the intersection of the blue sky and the sea, which is different from the blue sea of the new Mediterranean Sea that Bai Ge saw in the Panxi Sea, the sea here is as red as blood.
After the Great Collapse, all the seas of the world turned red.
To this day, scientists still haven't figured out what exactly is staining the sea red, and by extracting the components of the shallow sea, it has been found that although the water quality composition of the shallow sea is roughly the same as that of the ordinary ocean, it can cause symptoms similar to abyssal erosion in humans and organisms that drink the seawater.
After being eroded by the abyss, both physically and mentally, there will be huge changes, some people will fall directly into madness, mental disorders, and some people will have physical mutations, grow four eyes, three arms, and even degenerate into flesh and blood that only knows how to eat.
When humans first left the underground shelter, some of the pioneers were unaware of the dangers of the shallow sea, and drank the water in the shallow sea, and even introduced it into the shelter, and later, when the pioneers from other shelters came here, they only found a huge mass of flesh and bones in the shelter, which was enough to break the mind of those who saw it.
Of course, the water in the shallow sea is not completely unusable, at least when it turns into rain after passing through the atmospheric circulation, this water is not much different from the normal water source, even if it is in direct contact, as long as it is not drunk by the brain, even if it is a slight contact, it will not have too serious an impact.
Therefore, some scholars speculate that it is not the sea that may be eroded by the abyss, but the sea, or the concept of "ocean", but these are just conjectures and hypotheses in the end.
Moreover, the shallow sea often rushes up with some inexplicable creations and even abyssal relics, so most coastal areas have set up observation posts to monitor the movement of this sea, but in the wasteland, there are large areas of unattended shoals.
"The burning sea, is that what you are talking about?"
Bai Ge also looked at the sea as red as blood, and couldn't help but sigh.
The first time you see the shallow sea, it's easy to think of such a legend.
"Look, there seems to be some animal there."
Bamboo frost fell close to the car window and looked at the red sea in the distance.
Bai Ge narrowed his eyes slightly, [Assassin Vision] swept over, and could see that under the bright red sea level, some kind of huge creature was surging, and the next moment, the calm sea surface was broken, and a huge creature floated up from the sea.
The creature looked like a whale, except that above its head, there was a horn that seemed to be twisted and entangled by two bones, and the whale's whole body was pure white in color, like an ice sculpture, but it was not ice.
Like a hill, the whale broke out of the sea, setting off a thousand huge waves, like a blooming red lotus, you can see other strange creatures in the sea because of the whale's movements and scattered, with a "bang" sound, the whale fell back into the shallow sea, and the waves stirred up could not be calmed for a long time.
"It's not going to wash up on the shore, is it?"
From time to time, Wilbur looked at the shallow sea, for fear that some strange creature would come out of the sea.
"Probably not, the creatures in the shallow sea have a unique ecological environment, and generally have no intersection with the land."
Bai Ge recalled the information about the shallow sea that he had read when he was in the Abyss Relic Affairs Division, generally speaking, the creatures that were active in the wasteland would not approach the shallow sea rashly, and the creatures of the shallow sea would basically not leave the sea, and the two would not violate each other, and there were few major problems.
He shifted his gaze from the shallow sea back to the road.
Ahead, several cars can be seen speeding down the same road, and this road along the shallow sea is the smoothest and is the path chosen by the vast majority of participants.
To the north, there are more than a million square kilometers of wetlands, with complex environments filled with strange and dangerous creatures that contestants would not normally choose unless they have to.
The nearly 3,000-kilometer stretch from the Galapagos Supply Station to New York City of the Holy Alliance, mostly at the edge of the shallow sea and meandering due to the erosion of the coastline, will last a month, not as long and lonely as the second stage, but since everyone is on the same path, the competition is much fiercer.
At the same time, there are still nine treasures in the third stage of the race, each of which has a score of 200 points, for the current number of participants who are less than 200 yuan, as long as they can get a treasure, then they are a full 200 points ahead of others, and as long as they can reach the finish line smoothly, they will not lose at all.
It is precisely because of this that many participants did not seriously race cars, but ran to hunt for treasures at the beginning.
Bai Ge looked at his phone, which was the location of the third-stage treasure that Koluwa had sent him.
[Lao Tzu's first cuteness in the world]: Don't get me wrong, it's just to save that idiot.
The beautiful girl with silver hair and red eyes explained.
Goo-goo: I understand.
Bai Ge definitely didn't think too much, he was also working hard to rescue his friends, how could he misunderstand what Coluva meant at will.
It's just that what worries Bai Ge a little is that the group friend who loves the abyss relic hasn't spoken for a long time, and he hasn't even replied to the private chat.
The last words he left behind were said in the group before Bai Ge arrived at the Galapagos supply station.
[In doing in doing]: shallow sea.
He said.
Could it be that he brought it to the shallow sea in order to suppress the influence of the abyssal relic?
Bai Ge subconsciously glanced at the sparkling crimson ocean.
You can't drive your own car into the sea.
If the big guy really goes to the sea, then Bai Ge really can't get it.
However, when Bai Ge saw the road ahead five days later, he felt that he was thinking a little too naΓ―ve.
The road along the shallow sea coast was accompanied by dozens of cars for five days, and at dusk on the fifth day, a change occurred.
Wilbur was still watching the exhaust pipes of the car in front of him flutter and think about what he should eat for the night, when some kind of low noise rose from the shallow sea on one side.
He saw that the window glass of the car was constantly vibrating, as if it was about to be shattered in the next moment.
At the same time, the earth began to tremble, startling a large flock of birds, obscuring the sky.
β...... This is terrible......"
Bai Ge stepped over Wilbur's shoulder and looked farther away.
It was a shallow sea.
This originally quiet red sea is now surging with huge waves.
The waves were coming from the other side of the horizon, at first just a little foam, and then, by the time the scale of the wave was clear, it was too late.
The red tsunami, which obscured half of the sky, was coming towards the shore, and it was evident that the tsunami was not limited to this area, but that there was no end in sight, and it seemed as if the entire shallow sea was boiling and surging forward.
"Watch out for impacts."
Bai Ge said.
Since the Great Collapse, humans have not observed such turbulence in the shallow sea, let alone a tsunami, which is rarely seen even by waves.
Therefore, the red tide that is now appearing on the coast is a bit beyond imagination.
Drinking the shallow sea water can lead to unpredictable abyssal erosion, and although physical contact will not be too much erosion, the impact of the tsunami alone may have killed many contestants.
Bai Ge didn't hesitate, he directly opened the car door and turned over to the roof of the car.
The red tsunami had obscured the sky, and the cars that stretched for several kilometers were hurrying away from the tsunami, but in the face of the devastating forces of nature, these cars were like ants in the face of a flood, and they could not escape their fate.
After a glance, Bai Ge took out the pocket watch in his pocket.
He gently stroked the pocket watch, which was mottled with dark gold and carved with various fairy tale motifs.
"I don't know if it's going to work."
Bai Ge said half to himself, half to the pocket watch.
Then, he opened the lid and pressed the button above the pocket watch.
Click-
In an instant, a slight force spread out from the dial, and with this power, Bai Ge could feel that the transcendent was suppressed, and another power was recovering.
That's the power of fairy tales.
Buzz β
Wilbur felt a buzz in his ears, his eyes felt as if he had been punched by something, and everything in his vision began to distort.
Bamboo Frost was even more sensitive, and she could sense that the nature of something in the air had changed.
The [Animal World] in the White Singer is interfering with the world.
He did not inhibit it, but instead catalyzed its activation.
Bai Ge's purpose is very simple, he wants to expand the field of [Animal World] as much as possible, cover all the contestants within his reach, and pull them into the world of fairy tales.
In the world of fairy tales, even if they are swept away by a tsunami, the characters will not be too seriously injured.
Just as the field spread and enveloped most of the cars, the tsunami collided with the rocks of the coast.
Boom β
The tsunami of great energy knocked down the stones that had stood along the shore for thousands of years, and the next moment, a crimson wave hit the cars running on the ground.
Wilbur felt as if his car had hit an impregnable wall, and his whole person flew to one side with tremendous acceleration.
He was dizzy as he saw the red tide engulfing the convoy ahead.
However, the expected scene of the vehicle capsizing and humans being swallowed by the tsunami did not appear.
The car floated.
Like duck toys in a kid's pool, the cars floated.
As if feeling incredible themselves, the riders went with the flow, under the red tide, towards a place far from the shore.
Wilbur saw that the world seemed to have become a children's fairy tale, the vehicles were like small boats, with the waves away, and his Aviator 1 was also floating on the water, the red sea water failed to submerge these metal creations, and the whole critical picture was suddenly filled with a sense of comical.
After confirming the water ingress of the vehicle, Bai Ge looked around.
The tsunami pushed all the contestants into the swamp, and instead of receding, the red waters that were spreading gradually flooded some of the low places on the ground, causing the creatures to flee.
Bai Ge could see that in the sea, strangely shaped fish were constantly jumping out of the water, happily patrolling their new territory.
The low shrubs were infested with red seawater, and the leaves seemed to drip blood, which was somewhat creepy.
The landscape was changed, the environment was reshaped, and in a matter of moments, the marathon suffered a huge change.
One by one, the contestants found slightly higher places, avoiding the bloody waters, but for now, they were stuck on these isolated islands, unable to move any further.
"Why did all this water rush over all of a sudden......
Flyer 1 also quickly found a place and walked down from the roof of the car, Bai Ge was a little confused, but then, he heard a low roar.
There were quite a lot of waves on the surface of the water, and the creatures in the shallow sea also burrowed into the water in fear as if they had seen a natural predator.
Looking at the heavy, resounding voice in the sky, Bai Ge finally knew why the shallow sea was in such a situation.
It's very simple, just like if you don't enter the bathtub when you take a bath, the water in the bathtub will overflow, and the reason why there is such a huge tsunami in the shallow sea is naturally because there are more things in the shallow sea.
At this moment, at the junction of the sky dyed by the setting sun, and the shallow sea, which was already as thick as blood, a huge black shadow stood.
It was like a blood-colored tower, standing out in the middle of the sea.
The tower was bigger than the ice beluga whale I'd seen before, and its entire body was made up of the flesh and blood of living beings, with well-organized musculature and pulsating blood vessels everywhere, and with the shallow red sea, it was almost like something in the sea, no, like the remains of creatures in the entire ocean.
If this scene had appeared in ancient times, it might have become a symbol of calamity that the survivors worshipped, and eventually became a part of the myth and was engraved by the legend.
However, Bai Ge recognized at a glance what the shape of this tower was.
It is what is portrayed by the knowledge that has remained in one's head in the legacy of Eris civilization.
That's a rocket.
Meanwhile.
In Bai Ge's mobile phone, the big guy who hadn't heard from him for a long time finally replied to Bai Ge.
[Doing it, doing it]: I see you.