mechanical court

Ivan sat on the signboard, looking up at the curved wall of water that stretched for a kilometer in front of him, and the temperature in his eyes dropped to freezing point: "If the results of the other inspection teams are the same as ours, it means that the sea water is spreading towards the town from all directions. .If things become like this, it won’t take long for the entire town to be swallowed by sea water.”

"Slowly approaching...the deep sea?"

The deep blue water was reflected in the pupils of the white bear. He stood there silently, and sighed after a long time: "Compared with this experience of slow death, it's better to let the big flood wash down directly."

"Forget about it, maybe it's just narrowing it down."

The seal has changed into a diving suit at this time, with a safety rope tied around the waist, and the other end of the rope has been tied to the bumper of the off-road vehicle: "Let's forget about these troubles and go into the shallow water to have a look." situation."

"Yes!"

Ivan stood up from the identification plate, walked to the trunk of the off-road vehicle, and removed the diving suit, oxygen cylinder and waterproof light inside the vehicle.Then he began to put on the diving suit, and the beholder silently adjusted the equipment for him.Although she has been fighting hard, she looks as if her whole body is frozen, giving people a feeling that she may be broken at any time.

After Ivan put on the diving suit, he took a closer look at the expression on her face, and opened his mouth hesitantly.But he didn't know what to say, so he finally uttered a short syllable:

"Thank you."

"..." The beholder smiled and nodded, but did not speak.

"I advanced."

The seal walked up to the rising sea, took a deep breath and relaxed, and then reached out to touch the crystal-like sea.After seeing the crystal-clear sea water touch the fingertips and the shallow ripples spread out, he slowly stretched his entire arm into the water, stirred it vigorously and expressed his feelings:

"I felt a suction force, and a force was pulling me into the water. This force is not strong, and I can break free with a little force."

When he said this, he turned his body sideways and entered a little more, his expression quickly became dignified: "Although it is very weak, I can feel that the suction force is getting stronger. The deeper you go, the stronger the force will be!"

"As stated in the investigation report, the suction will gradually increase after about three meters into the water, and the suction will no longer increase after three meters." Bai Xiong watched his figure and nodded slowly.

"Then I'll try it at three meters."

"I'll go too, and Erica will be driving."

Ivan walked up to the seal, the two looked at each other, and walked into the sea together.

one-one-one-one

After advancing three meters in the sea water, the suction did not continue to increase, and was replaced by a rising force.This force is different from the impact of water, but similar to anti-gravity floating, pushing them towards the sky along the arc of the water curtain.

Seals have excellent water properties, so they can stabilize their body shape, and Yiwen has penetrating power to protect his body, so he is not afraid of this upward force.So the two leaned back to each other and swam a little bit towards the depths of the sea.

During this process, the two discovered that the original underwater mountain had changed, and marine lichens began to appear, and algae could be seen in deeper places.After advancing another ten meters or so, you can already see all kinds of shallow water fish, and there are clusters of coral clusters on the ground-no one knows how this newly formed ocean cultivated coral clusters.

To be honest, if it weren't for this piece of sea water covering the entire city.Being in the turquoise water, watching all kinds of marine fish, colorful underwater coral clusters, various marine plants, and well-ordered fish schools is really refreshing.

But in Ivan's eyes, there was an indescribable fear in the colorful beauty in front of him.In his view, the entire ocean seems to have formed life, has its own will, and is slowly eroding the air and land.

After another ten meters or so, not only Ivan, but even the seals felt something was wrong.

Because the sea water at this time is as clear and clear as the blue sky, with golden waves shining like a piece of brocade, while the sea water in front of it seems to have no end, and the thickness is hundreds of meters upward according to visual measurement.Deeper, it suddenly became dim, like a starless and moonless night sky, giving people a weird and inexplicable sense of gloom.

Under such circumstances, how does sunlight penetrate the sea water and shine over the city?

"..."

The seal's breathing became heavy, and suddenly there was a creepy feeling, as if the countless sparkles in the sea were countless eyeballs, carefully observing itself from various angles.

"So far, let's retreat!"

Ivan gestured to his companion, immediately grabbed his arm, and induced the flowing water to shoot towards the ground of the mountain forest like an arrow.

Puff-poof-!

Accompanied by the sound of two water breaking out one after the other, Ivan grabbed the seal's arm and galloped out of the water curtain all the way, reappearing in front of everyone.

"What's the matter? What did you all see?" Bai Xiong rushed up to meet him.

"What the hell! A few days ago it was a mountainous land, but now it has completely turned into an oceanic landform. This, this is like erosion!" The seal wiped off the water stains on his face, and said with a pale face:

"What's even more strange is that this piece of sea water is unbelievably deep, at least 300 meters away by visual inspection. In such a deep situation, we can actually see light on the sea surface... Is this really sunlight!?"

"..."

After everyone heard his words, they couldn't help looking up at the sky, and the sea surface in everyone's eyes changed.

The surface of the boundless 'sea of ​​sky' is shrouded in a layer of fine shimmering light, like a huge fishing net.The cold light that rises with the surging waves is like countless thin hooks, swaying slightly with the undulation of the fishing net...

Chapter 1 Falling

After briefly sharing the information in the sea, everyone didn't stay here too long, and drove back to the town directly.

When encountering fresh sea fish along the way, Ivan will deliberately stop the car and let his teammates get out of the car to pick up the fish and put them in the trunk.Just driving and stopping all the way, the trunk was quickly filled to the point where it couldn't fit.But Ivan was still not satisfied, and even asked them to vacate the rear seat to continue loading fresh sea fish picked up from the woods.

"Why are you picking up so many sea fish? Have you finished eating?"

While complaining, the seal got out of the car and walked to an evergreen tree, hugging the trunk and shaking for a while.

Pat-pat-pat--!

With his shaking, the fresh sea fish stuck on the canopy broke away from the branches one after another, and fell to the ground like overripe fruit.

Erica, with her long hair coiled up and wearing a pair of rubber gloves, trotted to the tree and picked up sea fish by her tail: "What do you know? You have to have a spirit of sharing! It's rare for us to drive out, so of course we can pick up some. Fish go back to comfort the people."

"Actually, it's not to comfort the public, it's just that I thought of a way to preserve food."

Ivan honked his horn to signal them to move faster, and then explained:

"You people are used to the high-tech life, you can eat the freshest whatever you want, don't you even know about canned food? We can make fish into canned food so that it can be stored for a long time."

"can!?"

Erica, Ice Bear, and Seal showed blank expressions at the same time, obviously they had never seen canned food in their life.

"The specific production method is to put the food into a wide-mouthed glass bottle, plug the bottle with a wooden cork, and put it in a steamer to heat it. Finally, the cork is tightly plugged, and it is reinforced with wire or sealed with wax." Yiwen explained simply one time.

"I know this kind of thing! It was invented by sailors for long-distance voyages. It can prevent food from spoiling, and it is very suitable for the situation in this town." After hearing him introduce the production principle, the beholder immediately recalled similar things.

"Yes, that's what happened."

Ivan turned his head and looked at the other party in surprise. First, he didn't expect her to recover so quickly, and second, he didn't expect that the technology tree of Star Hazels had already revealed canned food.

But it's understandable when you think about it. There is no canned food in the Invisible City because the site is too small to store fresh food for a long time.But Hazels Star is different. First of all, the territory is large enough, and it has just entered the era of great navigation. It is not surprising that the technology tree points out canned food.

"In that case, canned food is really a good thing!" The seal immediately cheered up, and his movements were much faster than before.

"It's not just canned food!"

Seeing how diligently they were picking up fish, Ivan remembered something older than canned food: "If it's troublesome to make, we can also marinate these fish into salted fish. This is the most time-saving and labor-saving way."