Chapter 9: Deep Water Ambush I
Diving into the water, the rattan spider returned into a rattan squid, this waterhole with a diameter of only more than 500 meters, there is no parallel part hidden under the mountain rock, but a nearly vertical downward waterway Luo Ling's sensing distance in the water is kilometers, and below the kilometer, it is still water
Diving 500 meters, induction is not in the end, diving 1000 meters, still induction is not in the end, and when it is about 1500 meters, the waterway begins to tilt at an angle of 45 degrees, and the length is still unpredictable Luo Ling thought for a moment, ordered Nian Gu to turn back, and find a way to get out of the Sandi Cave, go to the entrance of Tianmen Gorge to protect Xing Juan, and they go deeper, not to mention contact, even timely reinforcement has become a problem Luo Ling is now unable to open the passage to the Phantom Plane underwater, and the successive battles have made him feel that the situation is getting out of control, It's hard to predict how long this exploration will take before it reaches its goal
After swimming for nearly 5 kilometers, Luo Ling's brows gradually frowned, the approximate vertical distance here according to the surface is probably close to 7 kilometers, 7 kilometers underground, he can't feel any heat, on the contrary, there is a tendency to get colder and colder, as if he is not diving, but climbing, climbing to the top of Mount Everest
The water pressure has reached a terrifying value, although there is no pressure measuring device, but Luo Ling conservatively estimated that the pressure per square centimeter has exceeded 1.5 tons Theoretically, even with an advanced manned deep-water probe, this depth is already a limit challenge
Luo Ling began to feel that his imagination had become impoverished, he could no longer imagine how a possible corpse demon or corpse witch could lead a group of subordinates through such a waterway, at least he had no way to ensure that a large number of corpses, corpse summoners, and slave corpse demons would not be dried up by the water pressure here
"Has the original goal been lost? Did you choose the wrong route? After advancing for hundreds of meters, the rational questioning could no longer be suppressed, and began to torture Luo Ling's will
"Let's hold on"
"Let's hold on a little longer"
"Maybe the answer will be found in the next moment"
……
Like the mentality of any small owner who has smashed 500,000 yuan in a project and still has not improved, gradually, what supports Luo Ling's continued exploration is gradually no longer rational, but an obsession, because he is reluctant to invest in the early stage, and begins to gamble on luck, and even says that he is obsessed with waiting for a miracle to appear
Of course, there is a time when this obsession burns out, otherwise there would not be a situation in the stock market where it will be liquidated and cashed out, just when Luo Ling's reason began to prevail again, making him realize that 'stopping is actually a kind of bravery', a miracle appeared
To be precise, it was the enemy who appeared two heavily armed deep-water submersibles, with signal lights for identification, and two underwater searchlights with different focuses, when Luo Ling appeared and the other party also showed Luo Ling's existence, without any hesitation, two small torpedoes were shot over
The 75-knots of these two electric torpedoes are equivalent to almost 140 meters per second, which is still a bit unsightly for the underwater world where the viscous resistance is 1,000 times the air resistance, and there is a 90% chance of hitting any submarine within 1 kilometer
In 7 seconds, the vine squid can easily complete the evasion action, not only that, while the torpedoes seem to pass by, using the tentacles, Luo Ling affected the direction of travel of the two torpedoes, so that they can sail along the inclined waterway all the way to the distance Finally, whether the fuel of the two torpedoes is enough for them to rush to the vertical section of the waterway is not within Luo Ling's consideration
"Fuck, what is it, the torpedo actually passed through the target's body after it hit" One of the operators of the submersible cursed his depression The submersible is equipped with an energy detection sonar system, he clearly saw that the torpedo collided with the target, and then passed through which he was very depressed, because the two electric torpedoes, with an adjusted touch device, have a fairly sensitive energy sensing system, even if it is really an energy body, it should not be so simple to pass through
"Could it be because it didn't hit? It's so close that it looks like you've hit a target? The operator of another submersible a little further back asked
"Fuck, you don't even believe in Lao Tzu's technique? Okay, I'll shoot again for you to see" The operator, who was obviously weak-hearted, once again locked on the target, and as a result, the situation was the same, judging from the instrument display, he once again passed through the target
The operator of the "Huhu" torpedo was panting, and this time, he realized the fact that the torpedo changed its course slightly as it passed through the target, "What a monster actually changed the course of the torpedo in an instant," he couldn't help but shout in the channel
"Unlikely?" Another operator questioned: "I know we've been in this damn place for too long and are mentally stressed......"
"Shut up and fuck, I'm sure, what you see is definitely not an illusion" roared the operator of the torpedo in the channel
"Okay, it's not an illusion, there are two torpedoes left, keep them for backup, wait for the target to come up, let it taste peanuts"
Peanuts are bullets fired from a Gatling cannon that shoots 3,000 per minute, both in the air and in the water
There was no living creature in the pitch-black waters, only a few white floating dust and the occasional small string of air that swept by, almost like a jelly, filled with some kind of stickiness caused by heaviness
No matter how loud the volume of MP3 rock in my ears is, it can't hide the fact that it is 20,000 feet underwater, and the darkness and dead silence unique to the water abyss is definitely a kind of torture for people who stay here for a long time, especially when they know that there is a dangerous monster wandering and approaching in the darkness not far away, but they can't see it
The vine squid is swimming forward unhurriedly, although the waterway is much narrower, but the diameter is still more than 300 meters, forming an irregular round tube, for him now, such a combat area is already very spacious, not to mention that the opponent is just a group of humans hiding in a stuffy iron can
"Humans, presumably?" Luo Ling pondered in his heart, it is difficult to say the current way of the world, and those humans who work for demons often find it difficult to resist the temptation of power, thus turning themselves into half-human things without ghosts
"For them, people like themselves who have gained strong power should be grateful to the company, instead of trying to take revenge" Luo Ling let some cranky thoughts inadvertently pass through his consciousness, in order to mediate the mental pressure It is necessary to do so, just like people who went to the battlefield in the past chewed some gum and other snacks from time to time, after all, Luo Ling still regarded himself as a person, not a life that grew up in the underwater world
The Gatling cannon finally couldn't bear to fire, and after 50 meters of water seconds in the empty object left by the bullet as it traveled, a strange water vapor would form behind it, forming a deadly waterline, and when the waterline was dense to hundreds, that scene was also a very spectacular scene
The controller was a little nervous because of nervousness, the vine squid was still more than 300 meters away from the submersible he was driving, he could just see the faint green light on the surface of the vine squid's body The power of the Gatling cannon on the ground was very fierce, but this was at the bottom of the water pressure of 2 tons of square centimeters, and the submersible was equipped with a modified shooting weapon that only had a magic water barrier treatment, and the bullet traveled 300 meters in the water, and the power was really limited
The vine squid does not need to deliberately dodge at all, the bullet shot is like a blunt knife cut on more than ten layers of cooked cowhide, it is not lethal at all, Luo Ling even doubts that this kind of water temperature and strength, those bullets are not deformed much after impact
After 20 seconds of shooting, the fact that the target was still there made the operator of the submersible with the torpedo nervous, and he finally couldn't bear the pressure anymore, and he had a mild nervous breakdown, and recklessly fired the last two small electric torpedoes
The propagation of the sound under the water is 1500 meters per second, and at the moment when the torpedo is fired, Luo Ling has already heard the sound, not to mention, he has the advantage of underwater sensing ability to dodge and intercept, and the vine squid tries to change the direction of the torpedo again like the previous two times
However, there is a big gap between the angle of its position and the direction of the waterway, wanting to catch the high-moving torpedo in less than a second, and completely twist to the required angle, Luo Ling still has some insufficient ability for a burst of water turbulence, after being taken out of the torpedo for nearly two hundred meters at a huge risk, the vine squid only successfully changed the direction of one torpedo, and the other angle was not adjusted in place, after the vine was released in time, after shooting out several hundred meters diagonally, it finally hit the rock wall of the waterway
If it weren't for the torpedo with its own accelerant, it would be a question whether the explosive substance could be effectively burned However, in a relatively small water, the kinetic energy formed after the explosion of this torpedo was still quite powerful, and the shock wave transmitted by the pole made the two submersibles more than 1,000 meters away shake, and a pilot hit his head for this
"Fucking didn't hit this damn thing, what the hell is it" The operator cursed angrily as he rubbed his head
"Not good" Luo Ling sensed the abnormality of the explosion point for the first time, and the vine squid flashed a layer of green light, rushing downstream at the highest
The rock wall at the bottom of the Karakhara water actually cracked from the explosion point and broke a big hole, and the water began to pour from the big hole to another empty place in a terrifying degree, under the heavy water pressure, this big hole was constantly torn diagonally downward, as if the water in the entire waterway had turned into a sharp big scissors, and it was going to cut all the downward side along the big hole
The operators of the two submersibles saw the bright light on their enemies burst violently, and then rushed straight to the depths of the waterway like electricity, and did not wake up for a while, and only after the instruments showed that the water flow suddenly appeared in the waterway, and the range of the water was expanding to the lower pole, they thought of what was possible
One of the operators of "Hurry up and dive" changed his voice, he shouted loudly in the channel, and the two of them hurriedly controlled the submersible to turn, and there was only one choice left at this time to dive, let alone upward, as long as it was caught up by the crack extending downward, the torrent formed by the strong water pressure was enough to bring the two submersibles to another world, and no one knew if the other side of the crack was an abyss with a drop of 10,000 meters
Fleeing without any face to speak of is a small existence in the face of the power of nature, including Luo Ling
The extension of the crack is a very obvious addition process, the larger the crack, the more water poured into another space in a few seconds, the faster the degree of water flow, the more powerful the cutting, the more dangerous it is to be swept into the rapids, the more dangerous the vine squid, the two submersibles, both dive downward, now their greatest wish is that the other side of the stone wall where the crack appears, after a certain void, will be transformed into an entity, in this way, the tear will be terminated, as long as they are given a puddle two or three hundred meters deep, lurking at the bottom, It will not be swept out of the turbulent water and thrown into another space
However, the irony is that Luo Ling has always felt that the waterway is so deep that there is no end, and he soon saw the bottom, and he had no choice but to learn leeches, bite and die without letting go, after diving to the end, he used his tentacles to dig holes with all his strength, and on the other hand, spread the other part of the tentacles to all directions, and the cold ice true qi was fully urged, he wanted to build an ice wall, build an ice wall, and freeze himself at the bottom of the waterway to prevent being swept away
The operators of the two submersibles were much more miserable than Luo Ling, they had already been caught up by the crack before diving to the bottom, shot out the crossbow anchor, and drilled deep into the rock mass, and the two submarines were like vines swaying in the wind blowing, struggling to support themselves in the rapids
Luo Ling's luck also ended quickly, the ice he made was dug away by the torrent, fortunately the cave was half dug up, head and feet, Luo Ling squatted into the hole, and then all the tentacles were inserted into the rock, firmly buckled the rock mass, and accepted the baptism of the torrent
The rumbling sound of the water poured out, like the loudest thunder in the sky, roaring incessantly, and every second was as difficult as a year
The anchor of one of the submersibles, "Ahh......h
Boom, the other boat ahead, the submersible with a short anchor cable could not resist the enthusiasm of the rapids, and rolled all the way to the unknown world with a 99% mortality rate
Only Luo Ling was left underwater
At this time, he was much safer
Because the downward digging has not stopped, the vine squid has completely hidden in the narrow cave at the moment, this cave is several meters deeper than the rock wall at the bottom of the channel, and the rapids are now twice as fast, and there is no desire to 'rip out' the vine squid
In the deafening 58 minutes, the water in the waterway was basically clean Luo Ling took a long breath, drilled out of the cave, and fell from the rock wall, and the vine squid turned into a simplified version of the vine sea urchin
With time to look, Luo Ling realized that the last section of the waterway was not sloping, but almost horizontal, just very short, more than thirty meters, he came down very fast, and before he could feel it, he had already touched the rock mass, that is, a stone wall of the large chamber at the bottom of the waterway
There is still water flowing down the slope of the channel, forming a slope flow, which is the water that flows from some of the branches of the channel, because of the large cracks, they can no longer fill the waterway, unless the other side of the crack is filled first
Kicking the knee-deep water, Luo Ling headed in the direction of the crack, and arrived two minutes later that it was said to be a crack, but in fact, it had been torn into a large hole with a width of more than 100 meters and a length of unknown depth, and under the action of water pressure, the rock wall was nearly 20 meters thick, which seemed to be not much stronger than paper
Standing on the edge of the crack and looking into another space, all Luo Ling got was what he saw, and all he saw was a level dome that couldn't sense the edge at all
There is a wind hovering in the dome, rolling into the waterway along the way, and there is a hissing sound of water vapor steaming up from the bottom of the dome, spreading in all directions, the bottom is too deep, so deep that ordinary light cannot be transmitted, Luo Ling suspects that the bottom is galloping magma, otherwise, where does this water vapor come from?
If there is time, if he can fly, Luo Ling doesn't mind exploring this level of dome He even thought, this may be the best hiding place, and any bullshit search signal must not be able to reach such a deep underground world?
Just stood for a moment, Luo Ling walked back, he needed to find an entrance, an entrance to the destination he was looking for, those two submarines would never stop in this waterway because it was relatively quiet and far away, they were guards, they should be a door hidden in the depths of this waterway
The door was quickly found by Luo Ling, as it was not far from Luo Ling, it was in the center of the horizontal part of the bottom of the waterway
No matter how Luo Ling looks, this door looks like a large offering table, a little more It is a stone platform, condensed with the bones and fossils of some ancient creature, and I don't know how the original producer put it together, the combination line of the fossil bones is so perfect, perfect like a work of art
In the center of the solid and square stone platform, there is a downward arc-shaped groove, and on the plane of the stone platform, there are some magic patterns that Luo Ling can't recognize, and with his knowledge, he can only roughly distinguish that this is an extremely ancient magic pattern, and the core of their existence is that groove
"Locked Space Door" Luo Ling originally obtained a lot of knowledge about the space plane from the Demon Palace, although he has only just learned the level of entry, but some eyesight still has some He can see that the stone platform in front of him is actually the ancient space door base, this space door is similar to the kind of 'green channel' in the world, it is easy to enter and difficult to exit, and if the corresponding conditions cannot be achieved, it is impossible to open the door from the inside and the important thing is that even if it is from the outside, Luo Ling will not open this door now
"Oh, great, some people seem to be very prescient, not only do they not have to ride that damn stuffy tin can anymore, but they also have a qualified gatekeeper" Luo Ling smiled self-deprecatingly, took out the communicator from the spatial ring, and tried to give Xing Juan's side a signal, and of course, the attempt failed
Pacing back and forth, Luo Ling's consciousness wandered between returning to the surface to report safety, confirming the situation of the three girls, and setting a trap here
He didn't worry about the three girls, mainly because Budweiser could accurately find the location of the thorn sac through the positioning system, and he was not willing to give up the results of this side easily, obviously, all the conflicts here were aimed at something behind the door of this ancient space, and the items that could make people make such a big deal were not usually waiting for the rabbit, hunting any target that came out of the door, and it was likely that he would get an unexpected surprise This may be the last compensation for his exploration, after all, in the current situation, a large number of corpses, It is no longer realistic for the corpse demons and others to use for their own use
But for how long? How many hours? Few days? Or......
People are always faced with choices, decisions for a moment, or a change in a lifetime, all of which come from this, how can they not pay attention to it?
Be decisive, decisive, and not take full responsibility for your choices
After a fierce ideological struggle, gritting his teeth, Luo Ling put aside useless thoughts, and resolutely began to carry out the actual arrangement of the trap
A net is laid on the ground with vines, and then a layer of ice is formed on it, and the ground becomes a vine that spreads into the cracks, and then forms an ice wall with the water that flows down continuously, so that the bottom of the waterway is reformed into a complete bucket, filled with water, and creates the illusion that the water has not disappeared
Those two submersibles are a good illustration that at least one of the two people who entered the Ancient Space Gate is not used to water warfare, and this is the combat environment that Luo Ling is good at, and the advantages of the environment must be used if they can be used
Unexpected and static braking is the first opportunity in the sky
Lay a lot of traps and maximize the environmental advantage, which is a geographical advantage
In the end, it is to adjust the human factor as much as possible, and from another angle, it can also be used to meditate and cultivate, Luo Ling hid in the dark while monitoring the battlefield, while slowly recovering his physical strength, magic yuan, and true qi, waiting for the opening of the space door
The time, the place, the people, and the time goes by, the fit of the three becomes more and more perfect
"I hope that the winner is the one who stays with the submersible, because he must be more anxious, the submersible is impossible to wait there for his return indefinitely" Luo Ling finally hoped, only a little luck left
Time continued to pass, minute by minute, silently, the water continued to be injected, and the last section of the waterway was finally filled, and Luo Ling's sensing power spread to every corner of this water
"The ice wall is very strong, even if it no longer radiates the ice true qi to the surroundings through the vines, this ice wall can still hold on for several hours without collapsing the space door and there is still no movement, 11 hours and 27 minutes have passed, this should not be a bad phenomenon, simple understanding, the battle over there is more intense, not one-sided"
Gently moving his body, Luo Ling woke up from the state of meditation, his strength had basically recovered, and now it can be said that everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, the cold water is in, the wait will continue, and I don't know how long it will last