Chapter 10: The Underwater Palace
Through the gray fog, it seems that you have come to another world, and a strange town appears in front of Yuki and Jackie Chan.
Looking further back, it seemed as if the way they had come was gone, but neither of them panicked.
Jackie Chan held the expedition lamp, did not move around, and looked at the surrounding situation with Youqi.
The sparkling overhead turned out to be the sea on the surface, and suddenly Yuqi understood, an incomparably huge city composed of gray mist, all floating above the sea.
It turns out that this is a city in the sky!
"It's amazing." Jackie Chan sighed, the structure of the Nibelungen is simply a miracle, and he suddenly thought, could the other most miraculous buildings in the world also be the Nibelungen?
"Let's go, go inside." Yuki spoke up.
Jackie Chan retracted his thoughts, corrected his mentality, took out a knife from his trouser leg, and nodded at Yuki.
"I'll go ahead, you follow the side." Yuki walked away, taking out a piece of chocolate and putting it in his mouth.
The two walk towards the depths of the town, where the architectural style is unusual, contrary to traditional geometry, and the impact of its dimensions and spatial structure makes people feel a strong sense of disgust.
There are also gray-green carvings, as if they did not come from the earth, magnificent and ornate and twisted and cold reliefs, and the whole town exudes an unclean atmosphere.
Jackie Chan was about to exchange ideas with Yuki, but he patted him lightly on the shoulder, put his other hand to his mouth, made a booing gesture, and then pointed ahead, which was the central square of the town.
A group of people gathered there, as if praying for something?
Yuqi and Jackie Chan have solemn faces, living creatures in this kind of place? The two looked at each other and determined what they were trying to say.
Don't communicate with them, take a detour.
Without their attention, Yuki and they walked against the shadows of the wall and reached the center of the square.
At this time, countless torches were held high, blue flames were ignited, and the people shouted:
"Lord of Lalleyer, are you finally waking up?"
"The trail of the stars heralds His return."
“……”
Yuki felt that something was being generated in this small world, but it also gave him a sense of crisis.
"Where do you think we should go now?" Yuki turned his head to look at Jackie Chan and asked softly.
Jackie Chan thought about what he saw along the way, "This should be a new mysterious power, in fact, the moment I came in, I had already proved one thing, that is, the dragon spirit that interferes with the outside world cannot be used, but my spirit of speech and fighting spirit is still playing a role, and my physical fitness enhancement and combat intuition are still playing its role." ”
"Then follow your instincts to choose where we go next, there is a dangerous thing being born, it is not awake, it is not really there yet." Yuki understood what Jackie Chan was trying to say, and he didn't find any key information at the moment, so he could only rely on his own intuition.
"Okay," Jackie Chan closed his eyes and opened them suddenly, "the southern coast." ”
"Hurry up and go, don't deal with the creatures here." Lao You stood on the roof, looking at the familiar faces in the middle of the town, they were really explorers sent first, but now their skin was dark, their eyes were gray, and they didn't look like half-breeds anymore.
After Yuki and Jackie Chan left, the people of the town began to sing again, with weird smiles on their faces.
"The Lord is coming."
"Quietly returning, He looks upon His followers!"
"Welcome the coming of the Lord!"
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When he arrived at the South Shore Beach, Yuki understood that Jackie Chan had found the right place.
A boulder was rigidly embedded in the shore, and the material seemed to have fallen here from the stars.
There were inexplicable lines on it, Jackie Chan was a little dizzy when he saw it, and Yuki pulled him away in time to deflect his gaze.
"Will you go down, or stay on the shore, will you be able to keep up?" Yuki muttered.
Jackie Chan shook his head, "I think it's more dangerous than going down with you, or being on the shore." ”
"Then go, don't be afraid of the sea. I declare that the sea cannot hurt you. Yuki announced in a deep voice that the power of the Lord of the Bitter Sea had been activated, and that the power that had been transferred to Yuki by the King of the Sea had changed, but that the original power could still be used.
Jackie Chan and You Qi made a half circle along the boulder, the diameter was estimated to be several hundred meters, and this was only a part of the leakage from the sea, through the dark water, it could be seen that the outline of the boulder was getting bigger and bigger the further down the stone.
Jackie Chan suddenly had a feeling that this boulder was like a ladder, but this should not be built for humans, and those weird and unpredictable edges and corners seemed to be sucked out by a huge suction cup......
Jackie Chan and Yuki stepped into the sea along the boulder.
Jackie Chan subconsciously held his breath, but he found that he didn't need to breathe, his skin was automatically exchanging gas with the outside seawater.
"A little trick." Yuki smiled.
"The King of the Sea and Water?" Jackie Chan asked.
"The gift he gave me, I'm just a man of human teeth." Yuki thought of the king in the sea of suffering who persevered with the people. In the end, he relinquished his position as king, and also relinquished his power, and handed it over to Yuki.
"It's a little far."
Along the way, in addition to the widening of the stone pillars beneath his feet, Yuki suddenly heard some vibrations, which seemed to be giving birth to some creature, synchronized with his own heartbeat.
I don't know how long it took, but here, not only was the sense of space distorted, but even the passage of time was difficult to distinguish clearly, and the mechanical watch and compass that Jackie Chan was carrying were spinning wildly.
Finally came to a palace, and unlike the incomparably large black boulder chassis, this palace is small as if it were ...... It was built for human habitation.
"I thought it was a monster or a giant's palace built here, but I didn't expect it to be as big as a lake pavilion." Jackie Chan said.
In front of them was a small pavilion, made of the same material as the black boulder, not from this world, as if it was out of place in this space.
"Look up." Lao You suddenly exited.
Jackie Chan looked up and looked up, there was only so much emptiness, as if he could see the sea at a glance, but this emptiness gave him a strange feeling, in his intuition, it seemed that there should be an illusory palace here with a giant egg.
"I didn't see anything, but my instinct was that there was a giant egg here." Jackie Chan said that he felt a little tricky, and this kind of untouchable opponent could be said to be quite restrained for his words.
Yuki looked at the giant palace in his field of vision, the giant egg connected to the stars, hatching and gestation, and suddenly understood everything.
"Jackie Chan, let me tell you a story." Lao You smiled.
"What a story." Jackie Chan asked very cooperatively, the father at home also likes to tell stories, and he still understands this mentality of middle-aged and elderly people.
Lao You stared at the gray-black giant egg that only existed in his field of vision, and slowly spoke:
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