Chapter 117: The City of the Deep Sea

"What's the solution?" Raphael asked hurriedly.

"Bring the treasure chest into the city of the deep, and when you get the 'Blessing of Nereus', leave it inside. After coming out, destroy the bronze key, and it will be foolproof. Liu Zheng touched the long beard that didn't exist.

"Ah, I didn't expect Mr. Wallace to have such wisdom." Raphael exclaimed.

Liu Zheng's face darkened when he heard this, I didn't expect that you, Raphael, a fair-skinned and beautiful guy, have also learned to be sarcastic.

Could it be that in your eyes, I, Liu Zheng, am just a reckless man who takes a boy and cuts people?

Well, it is.

"But what about the coordinates of the Deep Sea City?" Jack asked another question.

"Don't you know the approximate area? I have another way to find the city of the deep. Zhiduoxing Liu Zheng pretended to be mysterious and said.

In order to avoid possible obstruction by the Antonio family, the "Legend" specially bypassed the waters of the Summers Islands and drew a large arc to the waters of the Bermuda Delta.

There were a few more gales along the way, but fortunately they were already very experienced, and with the excellent carpenter of Jenas in his place, the ship was not seriously damaged.

"Isn't that unfair to Mr. Wallace?" Raphael was a little embarrassed.

"Who is to blame for the way he came up with his own solution. To be honest, this is the first time I've seen this kind of request. Jack spread his hands, trying to hold back the urge to laugh.

"But isn't that a bit dangerous?" Raphael was still a little worried.

"Peace of mind, young captain. What danger can a strong man like Wallace encounter, even if there is a shark, it will be the end of the meal. Jack disagreed.

"That's right." Jack's words made Raphael refresh, and he looked intently at the end of the bed.

Two special ropes twisted into one and sank deep into the sea.

And our protagonist Liu Zheng is holding a box of ballast, using his eagle eye as a humanoid detector in the deep sea.

Anyway, this method is still very practical.

After an afternoon of zigzag exploration of the general location recorded in Nemo's log, Liu Zhengpai light wave radar finally found a suspicious target.

His eyes were fixed on what appeared to be a tower, and he was on high alert, pulling the rope hard with his backhand.

Soon, the "Legend" pulled him up.

"Are you alright, Mr. Wallace?" Raphael felt embarrassed and used honorifics again.

"It's fine. I think I've found my target. Liu Zheng shook his head and said.

"Great, let's go down then." Jack excitedly.

"We?" The crowd looked at Jack with questions and jokes.

Jack smiled and pointed to the sky, where a disc stretched across the night sky.

"Our family's curse is not only bad, help me keep it, but don't lose it." Jack handed Raphael the gold coins he had kept close to him.

In the bright moonlight, his figure gradually became transparent, and soon only a skeleton remained.

"I'm immortal now, and I don't need to breathe, even you and Fenrir can't do anything about me." Jack's upper and lower jaws kept opening and closing, and his tone was very arrogant.

Liu Zheng eagerly pulled out the boy cut, and Jack immediately shut his mouth, pretending that he was just a skeleton that couldn't move.

Although Jack's strength is average, the immortal body plus not breathing can really come in handy in exploration.

And he took the initiative to hand over the gold coins that he regarded as his life to Raphael, and turned back into the skeleton man who had made him suffer for twenty years, and everyone was still very moved.

This time, it can only be Liu Zheng and Jack himself, and letting those two divers explore the deep sea city is purely to send them to death.

The two of them went into the sea with a bone, and because of Wolf Heart's light weight, Jack shared a rope with her, adding some weight.

What if Jack gets lost? Then don't worry, Jack's skeleton is unusually light, and it floats up after two casual pulls.

Referring to Liu Zheng's description, Frio used his rich measurement experience to accurately calculate the location of the Deep Sea City, and the place where the rope fell was just above the suspected minaret building.

The ropes slowly fall, more and more silhouettes of buildings loom into view, and a magnificent panorama of the city has taken on a rough appearance.

The rope no longer fell, and Raphael learned from the experience of the previous time and left a section on the boat, so as not to be too late to react when encountering danger.

Liu Zheng wanted to stretch out his foot to hook the spire, but he ran into an invisible barrier.

He pulled out the bronze key that hung around his neck, and it shimmered with a dark green glow.

Liu Zheng was relieved, and gestured to Wolfheart and Jack a few times, motioning for them to hug him.

When the two of them held him tight, he held the key and stepped forward, an invisible suction that sucked them into the barrier.

"I'll go." Liu Zheng was taken aback by the sudden feeling of weightlessness, but he still grabbed the spire in time with a strong nerve reaction.

Wolfheart and Jack hugged him on one leg and didn't fall.

That barrier actually shields the sea water and the pressure of the deep sea, is it a high-tech or mysterious side of the power?

But now was not the time to study this, he first shook his right foot like a shuttlecock to shake the wolf's heart to the top of the tower, and then shook Jack up with a shake of his left foot.

The three of them tied the rope in a knot on the spire and slowly climbed down the tower.

The minaret has no windows or other entrances, and is made of blue bricks.

Liu Zheng climbed down and observed the shapes of the surrounding buildings, all of which were made of the same blue bricks, some of them were regular and atmospheric, and some of them were strange, but they did not match the architectural styles of the countries he had seen.

Another thing in common is that all buildings have spiral lines or patterns on them, and when you stare at one, it rotates clockwise or counterclockwise, making people feel dizzy and nauseous, and their limbs weak.

"Concentrate." Wolfheart shouted.

The voice was like a slap in the head, and Liu Zheng instantly broke away from the state of obsession, and no longer paid attention to those patterns.

"What's wrong with you?" Jack was a little baffled.

"Aren't you affected by those spiral patterns?" Liu Zheng asked.

Jack stared at it for a moment, then shook his skull head, "I don't feel it, I think it's ugly." ”

Well, it seems that after turning into a skeleton, Jack is immune to a lot of attacks.

The three continued to climb down, and soon climbed to the bottom of the tower and stepped on the ground of the city.

"There is no entrance at the bottom of the tower, so what are you doing with this thing, is it purely decorative?" Jack circled around and said oddly.

"Who knows, maybe this kind of city is not meant to be inhabited in the first place." Liu Zheng said casually.

Then he was suddenly stunned and thought of something, the "mandala" that was enshrined during the practice of Tibetan Buddhist Tantra. ”

According to Buddhist scriptures, when practicing the Dharma in Indian Esoteric Buddhism, in order to prevent the invasion of foreign "demons", the boundary line or earthen altar was built at the place of cultivation, and the statues of Buddhas were set on it, indicating that the Buddhas gathered or the wheel was round and sufficient.

Later, the altars set up and the boundaries drawn during the practice were called mandalas or mandalas.

The mandala is shaped with three-dimensional or flat square and circle geometric shapes, and is molded or painted with statues of gods, representing the mandalas and palaces of the gods, which is a metaphor for the structure of the Buddhist world.

Due to the different contents of the Esoteric practice, the form and content (ornaments) of the mandala are also different, and they are extremely complex.

In order to facilitate people's practice, later generations made mandalas of different styles and sizes with materials such as gold, stone, wood, clay (earth) and painting methods according to their contents, so as to represent different Buddha worlds, and displayed them in the Buddha hall for visualization.

Could this city of the deep sea, like the mandala, not a city for people to live in, but a place for worshipping the gods.

The altar is a quiet place for people to meditate, and it is isolated from all external interference - a solemn altar; The city refers to the palace where the gods live.

So what about the palace that was built for the god to sleep undisturbed.

Looking at the magnificent hall in the center of the city, Liu Zheng suddenly had a feeling of being a thief.

But in an instant, he smiled, the altar of his gods has been demolished, and the gods' hometown has also been visited once, and even the souvenirs have been taken away, and I have to say hello to you first when I come to your house?