Chapter Forty-Nine: The Waterhole
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The reason why Ankers would rather leave Anria alone than jump into the waterhole to check it out is because the waterhole in this cave is so strangely formed.
In this vast underground world, Anx has walked at least more than 70% of the places, and these places are not even small droplets, not to mention waterholes.
The whole underground world is extremely dry, this is an extremely strange place, no matter how dry the ground, there will definitely be water in the underground world, either from the surface of the earth, or the underground world is already there, this is what Ankers heard from the older generation, and later Anx also confirmed this idea from the guild's collection.
In the month that Ankers came to Ville City, in addition to practicing martial arts every day, he was reading books.
The guild had a larger collection of books than any nobleman in Vale, and this knowledge was the exclusive privilege of the nobility in the days of Ankers' parents.
So when Ankers' mother was a child, she instilled in him the idea that mastering knowledge is mastering destiny.
The fact that the underground world was so dry and the waterhole was so abrupt that it had to make Anx wonder.
The water below the pool was very muddy, and with Anx's eyesight exceeding that of ordinary people, he could only see the underwater scene less than ten meters away, which surprised Ankes a little, because from above, the water was still very clear.
After descending the pool, there was only a narrow channel for people to go downstream, and with Ankes's body, he could only barely get into it, and in some places he had to chisel down part of the wall before he could continue downstream.
Swimming down the waterway for a while, about a distance of about 100 meters, I found two different waterways, one of which continued downward, looking dark and deep, and I couldn't see the bottom at a glance, but I could only see that there seemed to be a huge space behind it.
And the other waterway is actually upward. This took Ankers by surprise.
Looking at the two waterways, Anx stopped, and the downward waterway gave him a terrifying feeling, and reason told me that the downward waterway must not be walked.
But at the same time, Ankers had an urge to go downstream, because looking at the deep and terrifying waterway, there was a desire in his heart, which could only appear when he devoured the hunter's heart, the small black ball in the xenomorph's body.
The upward channel was uneventful, and Ankers believed that if he went upstream, he might not find anything, but he would not be in danger of his life.
Looking down the waterway, Ankers hesitated a little.
[This feeling, there must be an active particle organ below that can be devoured, but what is that extremely dangerous feeling]
But the inexplicable danger below made Anx stagnant, but thinking of the recent series of dangers, the persecution of Dyce, and Anria's repeated dangers, his own incompetence.
All this gradually made Anks's eyes burn.
[Strength, what I need now is strength]
Thinking of this, Ankers resolutely chose to go downstream.
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On the other side, after snatching the red reagent from Nadak's hand, the masked man went to the bar in Forestry Town, set up a table outside, picked up a wine glass and drank the wine.
There was not a single villager outside the bar, as if all the villagers had evaporated.
At this moment, a blonde man sat next to the masked man, who was none other than Rova, who had previously met the Ankers siblings.
I saw him sit directly next to the masked man, then picked up the wine glass, poured himself a glass of wine, added a few ice cubes, and drank it in a big gulp.
"That kid is really unexpectedly easy to deal with, arrogant, thinking that he has seen through everything from above, and wants revenge, he is really stupid enough to do it, in the end is a turtle with shit luck"
The masked man put down his glass, looked at Roy, and tossed the red reagent to him.
"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up"
The blonde man took the red reagent and looked at the masked man suspiciously.
"Is this the potion that Nadak developed, are you sure it works?"
"After all, he is still the head of biological research at the guild headquarters, and this bottle of his decades of hard work, if used well, it still has some effect."
"Oh, if that's the case, it's not in vain that I sneaked into his house, but to be honest, I really don't want to do anything with his wife."
"You don't want to be cheap and behave, you're playing people to death, okay, hurry up"
"Yes, sir," Roy saluted the masked man in an exaggerated manner, before getting up and leaving.
After walking a few steps, Roy suddenly turned back to the masked man and asked.
"Are you sure that monster that Nadak researched can kill that kid"
The masked man looked in the direction of the castle with a cold look, "Surely he will die"
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Ankers had been swimming down the waterway for nearly twenty minutes, and the length of the waterway was far longer than Anx had imagined.
With the current strength of Ankers' Black Iron Three-Star Hunter, running the internal source particles to keep his lungs active instead of air is enough for him to hold his breath underwater for an hour, so Ankers will have to return after diving for half an hour at most.
However, this also includes the accident encountered in the middle of the way, and it is necessary to allow five minutes in case of emergency, so the time that can really allow Anx to continue diving at this time is only five minutes.
If it weren't for the growing desire to devour in his heart, Ankers would have turned around and returned.
"Come on, this desire, stronger than ever, must be a powerful hunter or xeno"
Suddenly, Ankers, who was downstream, found that there was a stone wall in the waterway underneath, and Ankers pushed it with his hand, and found that the wall was unexpectedly fragile, and it was opened as soon as he pushed it.
"It's so fragile!"
After pushing the stone wall open, an upward corner suddenly appeared in the downward channel, and a bright light from the water could be seen not far from above.
After breaking the stone wall, the desire to devour in his body instantly skyrocketed, and Ankers was now sure that there were hunters or xenomorph wreckage on the water.
Ankers urged the source particles, quickly swamped upstream, and soon came out of the water.
"Hah!huh!hah!huh!hah!huh!"
When Ankers came up again, he gasped for air, allowing the oxygen to refill his lungs, and then looked around.
I found that there was only a small hole in the ground, about the size of an ordinary house, and the temperature was very low, and many places began to freeze.
Ankers looked around, and soon his eyes were drawn to a corpse on a stone platform in the cave.
The corpse looked exactly like a human, but seeing the black orb on the corpse's hand, there was no doubt that it was an alien corpse.
"How did the xenos die here?"