The Lone Wolf of Tomorrow's Ark

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"...Uh-hasn't it arrived yet?"

Hugging his own tail, Phoenix stared at the pitch-black scenery, and silently ate the seventh pockey. He has been skating for 3 minutes. Although the slope of this hole is not very steep, it is only now 3 minutes is enough for him to slide a long distance, but he is still sliding in this strange hole. I really don't know how long this hole is.

At this time, Phoenix felt a little light appeared in his field of vision, and looked down, there was a white spot of light, which was the exit!

Phoenix quickly approached the cave wall and started to slow down his speed again. He didn't want to see a small uphill waiting for him at the exit, otherwise he could take off directly at his taxiing speed.

"Cha-"

"what--!"

"puff!"

The sound of rubbing lasted for a while, and Phoenix finally came to the entrance of the hole, and then... he still flew out...

Although his gliding speed has indeed been reduced a lot due to friction, what awaits him at the entrance of the cave is neither a small uphill nor a steeper downhill, but nothing. The end of the cave happens to be at a higher place, And the following is a completely vertical rock wall, so Phoenix still flew in the air for a short while, and then plunged into a snowdrift.

"Woo! Woo! Bah! The smell of this snow is really bad!"

Phoenix struggled to pull his head out of the snowdrift, spit out the snow that he inadvertently ate in his mouth, and complained about the smell of the snow by the way, then Phoenix began to observe the space he was currently in.

Unlike the dark cave just now, there is light blue light everywhere here, but the source of the light is not the reflection of the sun, but from many ores growing on the surrounding walls, one by one distributed in this six-meter-high cave. And it leads straight to the corridor ahead.

"This corridor is artificially built, but why are there artificial buildings in the mountain? These words... Tsk, I don't understand."

Phoenix took a closer look at the corridor. There were some strange characters engraved on the surrounding walls, but Phoenix couldn't understand them at all. It shouldn't be any kind of Kjerag's characters, because before leaving Karan, Phoenix deliberately learned from Yinhui. I only learned a little Kjerag ancient characters, of course, they are all common languages, but now the strokes and paintings on the wall are like heavenly scriptures in the eyes of Phoenix, and I have no clue.

"Fuck, don't read it, I'd better find the source of that strange energy."

Phoenix doesn't rely on the system, it has explained to Phoenix long ago, it doesn't know much more than Phoenix knows, so it usually doesn't need to ask it any troublesome questions except when it needs to analyze.

"Da da da……"

The slight sound of footsteps echoed and amplified in this silent corridor, making the atmosphere a little weird, but it didn't affect Phoenix. He walked carefully in the corridor, knocking the ground in front of him with his heel from time to time to prevent any Trap, at this time, Phoenix glanced and saw a mural among many words.

"What is this painting? It looks so strange."

This mural is quite ugly, just like what was written in a book by a certain writer surnamed Lu, the whole mural is made up of straight lines, it is quite deformed, only the tail and fins can be vaguely seen, it should be some kind of fish Class it.

After knocking on the mural and confirming that there was no mechanism hidden in it, Phoenix began to move forward cautiously again, and finally reached the end of the corridor after 15 minutes, where there was a door carved with various complicated patterns.

Phoenix looked up at the door that was as high as the corridor, and sighed:

"Oh, this door must be a lot of trouble and money."

After speaking, Phoenix tried to push hard, but as expected, the door did not move at all, as if something was blocked inside.

"Tsk, is it possible that I still need to decipher?! Really! I was very upset to come here for no reason at all! Is it over?! Let me go back! I still have to go to Longmen!"

After finishing speaking, Phoenix kicked the door hard. Even his feet felt numb with such force, but the door still remained motionless.

"Damn! You bastard...huh?"

Phoenix was so angry that he just wanted to swear a few Colombian swear words, but before he finished speaking, he saw a text on the crack of the door. Most importantly, Phoenix seemed to understand this text.

So Phoenix took the initiative to go over and looked carefully, and found that there are several paragraphs here, using at least six kinds of unique characters in various regions of the Terra world, including Colombian characters that Phoenix is ​​very familiar with, but these few paragraphs are written It's all the same sentence, and that sentence reads:

'Please buckle through this seam. '

"..."

Looking at this flag-like text, Phoenix had a bad premonition, as if he would be hit in the face by the speed of light in the next second. However, because there is only one way to try at present, Phoenix can only do well. Enraged to death, he buckled from the slit as wide as his finger.

"Crack, crack—"

There was a sound of rubbing stones, and Phoenix directly opened a two-meter-high, one-meter-wide door...

"Heh, hehe..."

Phoenix's complexion quickly darkened, and he remembered the time he fought W before he entered Heigang International. That time was because he used a cautious attitude to face W's jumping character. This time, It's just that I didn't expect it... right?

At this time, Phoenix opened the small door and saw the words engraved on the back of the door:

'The juniors who entered here... have been deceived!Are you angry?Haha, this gate is just a fake gate carved on the stone, the only real gate is this one, hahaha! '

Well, I can be sure that I was tricked by this mountain-digging bastard!

"Asshole! Are you interested?! I'll ask you if you are interested!"

Phoenix kicked the small door fiercely while roaring, and then walked into the room behind the door sullenly. After entering, Phoenix opened his mouth slightly in surprise when he saw the scenery inside, and saw a The rather huge space should be a naturally formed karst cave in the mountain, and there are also ores that can be used as lighting on the rock wall. In front of Phoenix, there is a wide lake, which is so big that Phoenix almost feels that he is at the seaside.

"My God, how did this come about?"

[The host should be the water seeping in from the mountain, and then gathered here to form a lake. By the way, the source of that energy reaction is in the center of the bottom of the lake. 】

"Is it in the center?"

Phoenix came to the shore, squatted down and looked at the calm mirror-like water surface, took a deep breath, and put his head into the water to check, but just after taking a look, Phoenix almost choked out of the water in fright, and saw the lake There are mud and a variety of algae at the bottom of the lake. Fish of various sizes swim in the clear lake water, and even predators in the ocean: sharks, humpback whales and other large fish.

This giant lake is actually a complete marine ecosystem? !

ps: Titi is up for a limited time, I wish all swordsmen who haven't got the resume of this deep sea hunter!

Chapter 58 The crystallization of the deep sea - the heart of the ocean

(Really, it’s been so strict recently, I directly dismissed it, so I won’t post pictures in the future.)

Just when Phoenix was shocked by the underwater scene in front of him, a wandering shark found this strange 'food'. Unlike the fish it had eaten, this 'food' was a round ball, maybe it was like a puffer fish The same smell, and then, the shark, which was as tall as Phoenix, swam down and came right under Phoenix's head, opened its big mouth and bit it straight.

'Do you want to die? '

Just when the shark was three meters away from Phoenix, an extremely terrifying breath came from what it thought was 'food'. The huge coercion almost made it faint, and the animal's instinct forced it to It quickly stopped its attack, turned around and swam towards the bottom of the lake.

'Heh, even a small shark dares to provoke me, and dare to make you into shark fin soup directly.Um?That is……'

Phoenix glanced at the fleeing shark with disdain, and this glance just allowed Phoenix to see through the clear lake water the huge altar-like building at the bottom, and in the center of the altar there was a sky-blue light. object.

'What it is? '

Phoenix's curiosity was attracted by it, and there is no doubt that the building and lake in the mountain are most likely built for this luminous object.

Thinking of this, Phoenix dived directly into the water and swam straight to the altar at the bottom of the lake. However, in Phoenix's eyes, the distance between him and the altar was not far at all, but when he actually dived into the water and started swimming, he realized that the actual distance was far greater Based on his visual distance, he did not reach the altar after swimming for 2 minutes.

Feeling a slight suffocation from his lungs, Phoenix knew that he could not continue diving, otherwise he might drown directly, so he turned around and swam back to the shore.

"Phew, I'm so wet, it's really uncomfortable. By the way, this lake is obviously a marine ecosystem, but the water is fresh water. I really don't know how to do it."

Phoenix twisted his clothes, and began to look around for materials that could be used to make diving equipment. Now that he saw them all, he wouldn't just leave like this, let alone not be able to leave.

Looking around, it is an empty cave with only lighting ore left, nothing, let alone something that can make Phoenix dive into the bottom of the lake.

"Tsk, there is really nothing here, can I only go to the lake to find materials?"

As a last resort, Phoenix could only go back to the shore, jumped into the water, and dived a certain distance along the underwater wall, but found that the bottom of the lake was not an ordinary concave surface at all, but a shape like a cylinder, long The place with plants is basically parallel to the altar.

'Tsk, is it true that there is no way at all? '

At this time, a bubble the size of Phoenix's head slowly floated in front of Phoenix from below. At first, Phoenix didn't care, but suddenly an unknown small fish quickly swam in front of Phoenix. The short-term fright made Phoenix subconscious Just as Phoenix spit out the air in his lungs and was about to swallow water, the big air bubble entered a part of Phoenix's mouth along with the water flow. Immediately, Phoenix felt that his oxygen-deficient lungs felt much better.

'No way? !Is there oxygen in this bubble? '

With an attitude of giving it a try, Phoenix exhaled the air again, and then inhaled the remaining air bubbles into his lungs. Just as he thought just now, the air bubbles were indeed formed by oxygen.

'Strange, why are there oxygen bubbles in the lake, and they are so big? '

At this time, another bubble rose slowly. Phoenix looked carefully in the direction it floated up, and found a strange plant in the soil at the bottom of the lake. The whole thing was a purple-blue semicircle with many palm-sized holes on it. Every once in a while, air bubbles will come out of it.

"This thing...it really looks like the brain coral in Deep Sea Trek..."

Let’s call this plant a brain coral first. There will be a brain coral every other distance on the bottom of the lake. The speed at which they discharge air bubbles is about one every 15 seconds, which is enough for Phoenix to reach the altar. Therefore, Phoenix uses the brain coral The produced oxygen bubbles began to approach the altar at the bottom of the lake little by little. On the way, there would sometimes be some predators targeting Phoenix to disrupt the situation, but Phoenix didn't care much.

In this way, Phoenix came to the top of the altar smoothly, and he finally saw clearly what the glowing object was, a hexagonal sky blue gemstone.

Inhaling an oxygen bubble again, Phoenix swiped the water vigorously, and came to the altar, directly in front of the gemstone. At this time, Phoenix discovered that the gemstone was suspended in the water out of thin air, with no intention of falling at all. The soft light makes people want to touch it involuntarily.

And Phoenix did so. Attracted by its light, Phoenix slowly stretched out his right hand from bottom to top, and slowly came to half a decimeter below the gemstone, and the gemstone also felt that it was still in the water. , at this moment it began to descend, and landed on Phoenix's outstretched right hand.

The moment the gemstone touched his hand, the gemstone burst into light, which made Phoenix unable to open his eyes. Immediately afterwards, he felt that the surrounding water disappeared completely in an instant, including the moisture on his clothes.

When the light dissipated, Phoenix felt the touch of the air again, and he could breathe normally. Opening his eyes, Phoenix looked around and opened his eyes in surprise, because the entire lake, including animals and plants, were all Disappeared, leaving only the smooth rock wall and the altar under his feet.

"What... what's going on? Is the lake just now an illusion?"

Phoenix touched the clothes on his body, it was very dry, and there was no trace of wetness at all, as if Phoenix's diving experience just now had never existed at all, only the gemstone still in Phoenix's hand could prove that he had indeed swam from the bottom of the lake just now .

Looking at the gem in his hand, Phoenix couldn't help but frowned:

"Is everything that happened just now because of this gem? System, analyze this gem."

【Analyzing...】

[The analysis is completed, and it is preliminarily judged that this is a gemstone that contains the gift of the ocean. According to the attributes of the analysis, the host can call it the heart of the ocean. The energy in this gemstone is so huge that it can even cause a tsunami. Of course, although There is simply no way to guide the energy inside it out. 】

"Then, what can I do with this gem?"

[Because its energy has a homologous reaction with the host's origin stone skills, it is recommended to directly contact the host's origin stone and then absorb it. 】

"Absorption? Is it feasible?"

[At least absorbing this gem, you can directly upgrade the host's origin stone skill to lv.7 (pseudo)]

"Can it be improved so much?! Then let me try."

Phoenix originally wanted to touch the Origin Stone on his right hand, but felt it was too troublesome to take off his gloves, so he simply stuck the gem on the Origin Stone growing on his right face. In the stone, and at the moment of integration, Phoenix felt a sharp pain in his right eye, and he couldn't help but cover his eyes and fell to the ground and rolled.

"Ah—! System! What's going on here?"

[After all, it is a higher-level homology than the host, so it is normal to experience pain during the fusion process. 】

"You didn't say it earlier! Ah——!"

Phoenix is ​​still rolling in pain, but what he doesn't know now is that the right eye he is covering is gradually undergoing some strange changes...

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At the same time, at the gate of Longmen, Penguin Logistics Branch, Dexas came out with Neng Angel. Neng Angel had a bitter look on his face and said:

"Woo~ Why do you still want me to follow you? Texas, my full attendance, now the pulu pie will be halved next month, woo..."

Texas looked at the crying Angel, and said helplessly:

"Okay, at worst, I'll make up for your full attendance. I need your help now."

"Ah? Help for what?"