"Are you ready?" said Catherine in a whisper with the faintest of vibrations, "and it's time to start rushing." ”

The five men huddled in a hollow in the ocean floor, their heads peeking only from the edge, looking at the flocks of controlled sea tribes in the distance. The closer you get to the island that Doris is referring to, the steeper the terrain becomes, the more controlled sea tribes patrol it, and the strength of the patrol team increases significantly. When they were on the periphery, the strongest patrol team encountered by the adventuring group was nothing more than a group of gold-level or even silver-level sea clans, but here, just in front of this dense patrol group, there were at least ten or more Legendary-level sea clans before and after. And what's even more surprising is that even after these Legendary Rank Sea Clans are controlled, they are obviously much more agile than the controlled Sea Clans on the periphery, and they are more like people with their own consciousness.

"Lisi is right. Lina leaned on Catherine's back and poked her head out, and whispered, "It is true that the higher the strength, the stronger the willpower, and the more complete their consciousness will be." Look at the woman of the jellyfish clan, she is obviously smarter than the other two in her group, you see, she has a sense of the fish behind her, Denya, she actually caught that fish and released it, this is not a person who wants to be controlled by her sanity at all. ”

"Well, maybe it's a combination of both. Catherine bit her lip, with worry on her face: "It's more troublesome, for this kind of legendary sea clan with relatively complete consciousness, I'm afraid it's not so easy to use the previous method to lure them away." Pannis, you just tried it, and what was the result?"

"As you can see, they will voluntarily return to their fixed routes, and they will also increase their vigilance for a certain period of time. "There have even been cases of nearby patrols being called to outflank them," said Pannis. It can be considered that they do have some rigidity, and their intelligence is a little lower, but the difference between them and normal people is far less than imagined. It's not hard to lure them away, but it's full of patrols, and if you make a mistake, you'll fall into a siege, which is too dangerous. ”

"Well, that's a last resort. Catherine said, "After all, the bottom of the sea is three-dimensional, and if you try to swim near the surface, will it be easier?"

"Look at these patrols. Panishu pointed in several directions and said, "They relied on the trend of this mountain to set up defenses, centered on the mountain, and then spread the defense line to the outer waters. In other words, their defenses are also three-dimensional, even if we get to the sea and want to set foot on the island, we have to break through a whole layer of their defense. ”

"So it's impossible to swim up?" asked Catherine.

"It can't be said that it's absolutely impossible. Pannis shook his head and said: "After all, they are still controlled, and it seems that there is no real unified command, there is no way to make the defense network completely free of loopholes, if you look hard, you can always find a way to infiltrate." However, it is much more troublesome to forget the habit of adventuring on the ground in the past, and pay attention to the situation above and below at all times during the process of diving. ”

"It's okay, take your time. Catherine waved her hand, and several people floated up from the pit where they were hiding, and began to slowly circle the island. In fact, the island is not very large, and it is estimated that the area on the surface of the water is only one or two square kilometers, but like the peak, although the top of the mountain is narrow, the foot of the mountain is much thicker than the top of the mountain. Even if this submarine mountain peak is still steep, it takes more than 40 kilometers to walk around the foot of the mountain. However, we still took advantage of the water and spent nearly ten hours circling the foot of the mountain twice, stopping to observe for a while every distance we walked. After two laps, Catherine was silent for a while before she said, "Let's go to the surface of the sea, even if it is a three-dimensional defense, the distance that needs to be broken through in the end will be smaller than that of the bottom of the sea." No problem, Pannis. ”

"That's fine. Pannis said: "But slow down when you float, although we have the protection of amphibious beads, but if you float too fast, it will also cause serious damage to the body." I once saw a fool who relied on himself to swim faster than others, and when he left the deep sea, he swam up in one breath, and when he reached the surface, he spurted blood outward, and his eyes almost burst out. If it weren't for the fact that there was someone next to her who could be treated, she would probably be the first stupid demigod. ”

"Is there a pressure problem?" Vivien nodded knowingly, "It seems that the impact of amphibious beads on pressure is not as great as imagined, hmm, then my previous record is wrong, wait for me, I need to fix it." ”

"Stop me. Lina slapped Vivien's head hard, "Now is not the time for you to revise the record, once you start, you don't know how long it will take to finish." I'll help you remember it, and you'll change it when it's over. ”

"You guys are so nasty. Vivien held her head behind Pannis's back and said dissatisfiedly, "Don't you have any other hobbies besides patting me on the head?"

"And poke you in the face. Lina gave a thumbs up and praised: "It's round, don't mention how good it feels when you poke it." ”

"Why don't you play here slowly, and let's go up first?" Catherine glared at the two of them: "Get ready to float, be careful of your eyes bursting out." ”

Amphibious beads have many functions, and when swimming, they can be like a swim bladder, relying on simulation to change the density to control the body's rise or fall. Therefore, when simply ascending or descending long distances, you don't even need to consume physical strength by yourself, you only need to use mental power to control the changes of the amphibious beads, and the only difficulty lies in the mastery of the floating speed. However, fortunately, there is an experienced person like Pannis, and several girls take Pannith as the standard, as long as it does not exceed his height, it means that there is no danger of the water pressure dropping too quickly.

In the sea, the five people do not float in a straight line, and whenever they rise a certain distance, several people will follow the mountain to move forward, keeping their own side outside the warning range of the controlled sea clan defense circle, and try to shorten the distance between the two sides, so that they can see the specific situation of the defense circle.

According to the normal situation, the closer to the deep sea, the stronger the sea tribe is, and conversely, the closer to the shallow sea, the weaker the sea tribe's strength becomes. But here, on the contrary, as the altitude increases, as the distance from the deep sea increases, more and more high-level sea clans appear in the patrol. During an adaptation period when the ascent stopped, several people looked at each other, and Catherine couldn't help but exclaim: "The strength of the Sea Clan is really ...... It's terrifying, what we've seen along the way, there are more than seventy legendary levels. If you add other directions, God, there are hundreds of legendary ranks in the controlled sea clan alone, according to this ratio, wouldn't the number of legendary sea clans in the entire deep sea be tens of thousands or even more than 100,000?"

"That's the amount. Pannis said: "But if you go ashore, most of these legends are not even as good as the gold rank, and you can kill twenty or thirty of the legendary sea clan at the same time." So you don't have to be nervous, they won't go ashore at all, the vast ocean makes them disdain to go ashore at all, no matter what era it has always been, you can just treat them as people from another world. ”

"People from the other world don't stand in my way during a mission. Catherine pouted and muttered, "It won't form a defensive ring so I can't get in." ”

"Who told you to come to their world to complete the mission, they are the ones who should be dissatisfied. Pannis patted Catherine on the back: "Ready, there is still a thousand meters or so, and two more breaks in the middle are enough." ”

With the increase in altitude, the temperature of the sea water has also changed, and the original cold and biting water has gradually become warmer, and the change in temperature has made everyone who has endured the low temperature of the deep sea for more than ten days feel like returning to the world from hell, and every pore on the skin wants to moan comfortably. The creatures around the people also changed from the fish that usually move slowly on the bottom of the sea and only show signs when necessary, to fish that swim flexibly in the shallow sea.

Getting closer and closer to the sea, the girls looked up and found that the surrounding environment began to slowly brighten, and the long-lost light, through the barrier of the sea, finally shone on the girls. Freya doesn't like the dark the most, and the darkness always makes her more hesitant, so when she sees the light, she excitedly rolls in the water several times in a row, stepping on the water to rush upward. Fortunately, Pannis's hands were quick, and he pulled her back and glared at her fiercely: "Did you forget it just after speaking, the closer you get to the water, the slower you have to be." ”

Although Freya usually always looks for every opportunity to jokingly express her love to Pannis, this is the first time that the two of them have made direct skin-to-skin contact, and the strange feeling makes Freya, who rarely intersects with the opposite sex, blush. However, at the same time as Pannis's eyes, she had already begun to adjust her mentality, holding her hands in front of her chest, her big eyes flashing with anticipation, and she said softly: "Is Mr. Pannis finally ready to accept my love? ”

"Don't, I beg you. Pannis quickly let go of the hand that was holding Freya's ankle and ducked to the side.

The water grew brighter and brighter, and even when Catherine turned off the lights and several of them put away their headdresses studded with tears of light, they could dimly see each other. In the face of the coming light, the girls were slowly rising with anticipation, only Lina dragged behind, and the two expressions of expectation and resistance filled her beautiful face with a complicated look.

The last pressure adaptation has ended, and Pannis no longer needs to be a sign at the top, at this time, he is at the bottom of the team, just seeing the entanglement brought by Lina's instinct, he can't help but smile and shake his head, patting Lina on the shoulder from behind, showing an encouraging smile: "Although the dark corners can bring a sense of security, but the bright world has more things worth pursuing, so people can't give up the light, right?"

A pure smile slowly appeared on Lina's somewhat stiff face, blinked, swung her fist vigorously, nodded fiercely, and chased the girls upstream. (To be continued.) )