Shadow Raid mysteriously disappears, spying on stealth life.

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What the hell is that strange figure that moves quickly?

Yun Yun hesitated to pause, though only vaguely catching a faint glimpse, she was sure she had never seen the kind of scale armor that seemed to glow with a faint silver light on any nearby creature. The strange color was so impressive that if she had seen it somewhere, she shouldn't have forgotten it, then what the hell was this thing ......

She circled to the back of the whale, allowing the light of the fungus to illuminate the wound on the back of the big creature and the bloody scratches were deep and deep, peeling away the whale's skin and muscles almost unhindered, allowing a large mist of bright red blood to fill the deep water.

She didn't understand how it was cut, the strange figure seemed to be deliberately slicing through the body of the wave whale and not just for predation. There are no signs of bite at the incision, but it is unusually smooth and flat, but the skin of the wave whale is actually very rough and thick, even with a sharp dagger, it is almost impossible for the people of the tide to tear such a flat incision, not to mention the impact of the movement of the wave whale when it rolls due to severe pain.

The whale didn't live long, and it was impossible for it to survive until rescuers brought it. Despite her age, Yun Yun could clearly judge this, and she looked hesitantly at the darkness that the light fungus could not reach, that was where the mysterious shadow disappeared, this unknown fear made her hesitate, but the fear of the dark of the people of the tide sea was not as serious as that of land creatures, because they were dealing with the dark unknown realm almost every day.

After a brief hesitation, Yun Yun stepped into the unknown darkness, and she keenly captured the slight undulations of the sand at the bottom of the sea, the subtle traces left by something that swam quickly from above. Although this trace would be washed away by the ubiquitous undercurrent of the sea floor after a few tens of seconds, it had already pointed her in a general direction. She opened her palm slightly, and the part of the exoskeleton that could be controlled by the brain contracted quickly unfolded to completely cover the bare skin, which is a preparation that the people of Shiokai must do in advance when exploring the unknown area, after all, there is nothing to say about being crushed to death by a giant monster, but it would be too embarrassing to die because the skin was punctured a little by some small poisonous creature.

However, after extending for tens of meters, the traces disappeared completely.

The disappearance of this trace is not strange, as long as the other party changes the height of the swim, it will not leave obvious traces on the sand at the bottom, Yun Yun has been to the end of the trace, the faint light of the light fungus shines on the area within a radius of several meters, it seems that something has responded, she looked down with some curiosity, but at this moment, the abnormal movement in the water still stimulated the instinctive vigilance of the person who was a person from the tide sea, and she turned around sharply to look at the ...... who appeared behind her

"Ahh......h

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Although it was no longer possible to fully illuminate a large area due to the abnormal lighting of the deep submersible, the distance between them was actually not too far, and the ability of the ultrasonic waves of the Xihai people to propagate in the sea water was actually much stronger than the sound waves in the air, and the snow wind reacted the moment Yunyun's frightened screams came...... Instead of his previous lazy and calm appearance, he quickly pulled out a sharp dagger, and at the same time reached out and pressed a device attached to his exoskeleton, and the light that was far brighter than the light fungus once again lit up in the sea.

"You stay in ...... No, come with me. Xue Feng hesitated for a moment, and finally motioned for Xiao Xi to come along, the lighting device on his body had already illuminated the wave whale not far away, but the behemoth had turned into a dying appearance at some point, "Something is wrong, something is moving here, quickly turn on all the outer armor protection." ”

Xiaoxi nodded, she looked at the wave whale with some anxiety, but she didn't see Yun Yun's figure, and the two quickly ran over following the footprints left by Yun Yun...... The footprints left by the heavy body of the people of the tide sea on the sand were very obvious, not like the shallow traces that were not there, and Yun Yun's screams only lasted for a few seconds before they stopped, which couldn't help but make them have a very bad association, and the smell of blood in the sea seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.

The surrounding environment became terrifyingly quiet, and the muffled voice of the wave whale seemed to be the only sound here, and only the calm seabed sand bed could be seen in the nearby area of tens of meters, and when they tracked all the way to the end of the footprints, they only saw extremely messy scratches in place, no footprints left, and Yunyun was nowhere to be seen.

Xue Feng cautiously looked around, approaching the last place to observe: "There are no footprints leaving, she must have been taken from above by something, or something worse......"

Perhaps, it was swallowed directly by some kind of giant predator.

Although Xue Feng didn't say it clearly, Xiaoxi still understood what he meant, she looked at the scene in front of her in disbelief, if it weren't for the fact that the people of Xihai didn't have the ability to cry, maybe she would have burst into tears at this time...... But she couldn't, she could only watch the scene in front of her in silence, and her body seemed to lose all its strength in an instant.

"Mingming...... I obviously said that I would go to the Holy City together, why did it become like this...... You liar, come out of here...... Don't ......"

"It's all my fault, I shouldn't have let her go too far alone." Xue Feng's expression was also gloomy, although he had encountered many incidents that caused serious injuries to his companions, but this kind of inexplicable disappearance was indeed the first time he encountered it, not only because he would definitely be heavily punished after this incident, but he alone couldn't forgive himself for what he had done before, "Mt. Akina has always been an area that has not been fully explored, it was my carelessness, what ...... is hidden here"

What is the hidden power here that can make a Shiohai person disappear out of thin air like this? You must know that even if it is a child of the Shiohai people, the strength is definitely not something that ordinary creatures can deal with, and the hard exoskeleton armor makes it almost impossible for them to be severely injured by sneak attacks, as for creatures that use special attacks such as toxins...... This attack itself means that their frontal combat strength is not strong, and they generally do not have the strength to make the Shiokai people disappear.

"What's that?" A faint flash of light on the ground hit Xiaoxi's field of vision, she walked there and crouched down, and saw that something in the sand seemed to reflect the bright light from the outside world, and before the snow wind could stop it, she had already dug out the reflective thing from the sand. It is a transparent irregular crystal, which seems to have some scattered lines, and from time to time it refracts some strange phantoms under the illumination of the outside lights. The depth at which it was buried was shallow, and it was near Yun Yun's last footprints, a series of coincidences that made it easy to wonder if it could be hiding something.

"I've never seen anything like it." Xue Feng took a closer look, but finally shook his head, "No matter how you look at it, it's just an ordinary natural mineral crystal, the transparent internal structure is completely clear at a glance, you put it away first, maybe you can find some other clues in the future." ”

"Aren't we going to continue looking for Yunyun?" Xiaoxi heard the meaning of the other party's intention to give up, and looked at Xue Feng with a serious expression in disbelief, "If you continue to catch up now, maybe it's not too late......"

"Chasing? Where to chase? Xue Feng sighed, looked at the footprints that disappeared out of thin air on the ground, and swept around with the lighting device, but there were no extra traces, "How can we chase without any clues?" I can't get enough of her anymore, and I can't let you have any more problems. We'll go back right away and continue to wait for the rescue team near the submersible, maybe she'll try to get back on her own. ”

"And what about when the rescue team comes?" Xiaoxi glared at Xue Feng fiercely, as if this would force him to get Yun Yun back, "When the rescue team comes, Yun Yun still hasn't come back, what should we do?" ”

"There's no way you're going to wait here for the rest of your life, and there's a good chance it's too late now!" Xue Feng let out a rare roar, but his originally calm appearance became very irritable at this time, he lowered his body and groped in the sand, and then seemed to have found something, stretched out his hand and handed it to Xiaoxi, "You take a closer look at what this thing is!" ”

There was no need to hesitate at all about what this was, because this kind of thing they could see and touch every day, it was a small piece of dark cyan hard fragment from the structure of the exoskeleton of the Shikai people.

This piece of debris appeared in this inaccessible area, and its owner no longer needs to be considered. Exoskeleton fragments are not as simple as losing a hair for the people of the tide, even if it is not as serious as the fracture of the endoskeleton, at least it is the extent of being scraped off a piece of flesh, and ordinary small creatures do not have the power to destroy the exoskeleton of the people of the tide, and the appearance of this fragment means that Yun Yun has been attacked by some kind of attack that is enough to destroy the exoskeleton.

Xiaoxi trembled and took the small piece of exoskeleton fragment, looked at it with a dull look, and after a while, she nodded silently, and first turned around and walked towards the place where the deep submersible crashed, but from her extremely unnatural walking movements, she could clearly see the turbulent waves in her heart.

Xue Feng took one last look at the messy scratches on the sand, from which it could be seen that Yun Yun was struggling frantically at the end, his eyes were a little complicated, and he said slowly in a voice that no one could hear: "I'm sorry." ”

Then, he resolutely turned around, gently stroked the back of his right hand with his left hand, and slowly left the place behind Xiaoxi.

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"It's not yet possible to completely restore the body, these inferior ...... Unwise...... Dirty ...... Lower life, what a waste of my time......"

In the darkness, where the light could not reach, a creature quietly watched their departing backs, and spoke slowly in a hoarse voice.

"More and more genes are needed, and collecting them is not enough......"

It slowly retreated in the dark world, moving freely in the deep sea without making any swimming movements, avoiding all light, and its scale-like skin shimmering with a faint silver light quietly disappeared.

(Thanks to the 10 starting coins of "Xingyu Kokomi" and "Eternal Senia", and the 100 starting coins of "The Dream of the Second Dimension"~)