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Under the refraction of light, the sea water presents a glass-like transparent blue, as if there is only a very shallow layer, but in fact the sea water in this area is already very deep.The sea is dotted with small reef islands, which are too small to stand on when viewed from a height. The edge of the white sand beach submerged in the sea is dyed with a beautiful transition color, just like highly transparent watercolor in the water. Diffuse effect on wet paper.

The windows of the seaplane were all open, and Lu You was leaning on the window with one hand, and his short hair was blown wildly by the turbulent sea wind during the flight, and his eyes could hardly be opened.The pilot was shouting at the top of his voice all the way, but the noise of the plane engine was deafening, coupled with being blown by the wind, Lu You couldn't even tell whether he was speaking local or English, let alone distinguish the words in the words. content.On the contrary, Qi Zhengyun occasionally responded with a sentence or two, and some bits and pieces of words passed through the noise barrier and fell into Lu You's ears clearly. Although he still couldn't understand what it meant, he was just listening. Listening to Qi Zhengyun's deep and slightly hoarse voice.

Before the plane took off, Qi Zhengyun told him that they were going to deviate from the original route and take a detour to see a piece of red seaweed that had suddenly flooded and grown on the surface of the sea recently.Naturally, Lu You would not have any objections to this small change, although he felt that his ears were going to be deafened by the sound of the engine after only a few minutes.He thought that when Qi Zhengyun saw the seaweed that washed up on the beach yesterday, he also went to see it on purpose. Could it be that besides the small transparent jellyfish that he only saw on the first day, seaweed is also one of Qi Zhengyun's hobbies?

If Qi Zhengyun likes sea creatures, when they live together in the future, they can set up an aquarium in the living room... Lu You thought so, and after a while he came to his senses, and felt that he had thought too far.

With rumbling noises, the seaplane flew over the mirror-like calm sea, and a group of dozens of white birds flew up from the island in the distance, with black edges on the edges of their wings as if they had been stained with ink. The shape glided neatly along the edge of the coconut forest, and was thrown behind by the plane in the blink of an eye.Lu You took pictures of the sea with his mobile phone, but unfortunately the effect was far inferior to what he saw with his own eyes, and he had already taken a lot of pictures on the plane the day he first arrived.After taking a few photos of strangely shaped islands and reefs, Lu You put down his phone boredly, unable to chat amidst the noise of the engine, and finally had nothing to do, so he picked up the amulet conch hanging on his chest.

Lu You lifted the conch to the window, and the wind passed through the small hole in the shell, and there was a thinner whining sound than the last time. It was strangely not covered by the noise, and it went straight to the ears.Lu You felt as if his eardrum had been pricked, so he couldn't help but tilt his head to hide, and retracted his hand from the window.The fungus-like red spots on the snail shell seemed to have deepened in color at some point, as if they were stained with wet and thick red paint, which looked a little better than the original gray and dusty appearance.Lu You rubbed it with the belly of his thumb, but there was no change. He thought it wasn't water vapor, but it was just the light?

At this moment, the seaplane bumped slightly and began to slow down.Lu You felt his body slide forward, and quickly grabbed the armrest beside the seat.He glanced out the window inadvertently, and was surprised to find that the sea water, which was blue and clear a few minutes ago, began to darken and become turbid in front of the plane at this moment, as if someone dumped a large amount of dark fuel into the sea, And it has not completely dissolved and spread out.

There are obvious color gaps at the edge transition of the dark waters. As the plane glides towards the center of the waters, there is also a distinct and pungent smell in the sea breeze blowing on the face: like fish and shrimp rotten. The smell of corruption after falling.The color of the sea water is slightly reddish. Since flying into this unusual sea area, there have been no seabirds or fish around. There are only groups of thick black shadows under the water surface: all are lush The growing algae densely crowded the entire water area.

It seems that even the ripples of the blowing wind have disappeared—there is a particularly dead and heavy atmosphere around, like being in a cemetery, which makes people unconsciously want to hold their breath and stop the sound.

This is the "rust growing" seaweed...

Naturally, there was no beauty in this scene, and it only reminded Lu You of a phenomenon in which seawater turned red due to algae pollution.He originally thought that Qi Zhengyun came to see the seaweed for the purpose of viewing, how does it feel now... as if he was conducting an environmental protection inspection?

Lu You turned his head to look at Qi Zhengyun, the words he wanted to ask came to his lips but he didn't open his mouth: Qi Zhengyun had a tense and serious expression on his face that he had never seen before.

The young man in the cockpit was also quiet now.The plane did not land on such an abnormal sea surface, but just lowered the altitude as much as possible, flew over the dark water, turned around, and began to circle around along the dividing line where the color of the sea water changed.The area where the seaweed grows is actually not that big, and its shape is close to a regular circle. The algae leaves are densest in the center of the circle. The rust-red soft leaves are even squeezed out of the water, dehydrated and shriveled by the sun, and become a small piece. Mud shell-like substance; it becomes more and more sparse towards the periphery, until there are no algae leaves at the very edge, but the sea water is dyed a little color-even if this part is counted, it still only takes a few minutes to complete a complete circle bypass.

If the flight altitude was not deliberately lowered, looking down from the sky, this piece of algae-infested waters is just an abnormally colored spot on the sea surface.The shape and color of this dot reminded Lu You of something not so good subconsciously.He wasn't sure what it was yet, and he was already feeling uneasy, but Qi Zhengyun seemed to be concentrating on other things, and it was obviously not a good time to disturb him by asking or acting like a baby.

So he just tightened his grip on the arm of the chair even more.The skin on the palm was wet with sweat, and it always felt like it would slip off when holding it on the armrest.The mood that was quite happy when I first set off has now sunk, and I have a premonition that something is about to happen.On the fourth lap, the idea in Lu You's mind suddenly became clear.

——If the surface of the sea is the skin of some huge creature, the black spot in the center of the seaweed is like a wound caused by a deep needle.The pinhole swells, and the contaminated blood will flow out of the hole, and the blood will solidify into a scab outside the hole.

Dark red, dried blood scabs.A wound that leads deep.

This is what he thought of when he thought about the image overlooking from a high altitude just now...

Qi Zhengyun's gaze was also staying on that dark spot at the moment.He could feel more than Lu You, such as those "rust stains" that actually covered the intrusion instead of growing from the leaves, such as the abnormal lifelessness of this sea area.In all the worlds he passed, except when he had not yet recollected his power, it had never happened to him that the sea did not answer him.

This sea area disappeared from his senses.Gouged out.The breath of monsters without any vitality lingers above the sea surface, as if shrouded in a faint blood mist that ordinary people can't see.In his perception, the waters polluted by "rust" are no longer the sea, but a distorted, inexplicably dirty existence, embedded in the vast ocean like dirty things stuck in the wound—no, It should be more like a maggot drilling out from a wound: the crimson "rust" is spreading up from a deep place on the bottom of the sea, spreading to the surroundings.

The seaweed that has not yet lost its vitality is desperately absorbing nutrients from the seawater to grow and expand outward. The survival instinct makes it do its best to preserve its own population, but it is only helping the "rust" that seems to be infected by a virus to spread more quickly.The rust keeps infecting the new algae, the fish in the surrounding waters have all escaped, and the birds no longer pass under this sky, but sooner or later, it will get a chance to move to a more flexible and suitable carrier organisms, thus ushering in explosive growth.

——Animals avoid abnormalities, but humans will actively approach to check abnormalities.From a physiological point of view, human beings with flesh and blood are only a kind of animals.

Qi Zhengyun realized that he had far underestimated the danger of the matter.The "rust" emerging from the deep sea is not a complete organism, nor is it a bacteria or a virus. It can only be described as some kind of "pollution". What is distorted under the appearance of similar diseases is the existence itself-delaying the things eroded by it. into a twisted state that is neither dead nor alive - it even pollutes the sea.The only good news is that this indescribable monster can't simply flow elsewhere like sewage, but is still subject to certain restrictions.

Does this... this group of... this kind of thing also belong to a kind of "monster" within the definition of this world?It is necessary to meet the conditions preset with the birth, and then the real hunting can start.But Qi Zhengyun's most important thing now is not to immediately find a way to understand it or eliminate it.He turned around at the fastest speed of ordinary people, wanting to tell the pilot who was staring at the sea with a sad face, and his mind was probably only worried about tourism and fishing to stop circling, pull the plane up, and leave this sea area as soon as possible. good.

Lu You was on the plane with him——

The driver yelled at this moment.His voice was a mixture of surprise and horror, and he stared wide-eyed at the sudden undulation of the sea.The sea water seemed to be heated to a boiling state in less than a second, and countless bubbles bubbled up from the bottom, but because the extremely densely entangled algae blocked the sea surface, it only caused a little wave-like fluctuation.But the color of the sea surface is getting lighter, from rust red to more vivid blood red. In the still cold sea water, the seaweed that has become an obstacle at this moment softens and melts just like what Qi Zhengyun has seen on the beach.

The young man only knew how to yell, but his hands were stiff and he didn't know how to move. The plane began to tilt until Qi Zhengyun kicked the back of his seat so hard that he almost kicked the back of the seat onto the dashboard with him. 【leave here! 】Qi Zhengyun yelled in the language that the man was most familiar with, the young man got excited and finally started to operate the plane to climb in a hurry.Then he turned to look at Lu You again.

Lu You tightly grasped the armrest of the seat and the window sill to maintain balance, so hard that his knuckles turned white.His face was also pale, but his expression was still calm, and he tried his best to smile at Qi Zhengyun when he looked over, gritted his teeth and endured the fragility that emerged unconsciously in his heart at the moment they looked at each other.Because the side he was sitting on was farther out when the plane was circling, Lu You still didn't quite understand what happened. He only saw that the sea water below suddenly began to fluctuate, and a blood-like color appeared from the depths.

The plane was bumping and trying to get higher, and the airflow on the sea surface seemed to suddenly become turbulent, turning into countless long hands, trying to entangle the plane and drag it down the sea.Lu You saw that some part was detached and shaking by the window on Qi Zhengyun's side, and wanted to remind him, but when he opened his mouth, he almost bit his tongue.Qi Zhengyun glanced at him, then turned back without saying anything.He has been carefully confined around his body, not wanting to touch the "rust" power when the consequences are uncertain. The power of "rust" instantly breaks free, explodes violently, and presses straight down towards the boiling sea.

The seaweed branches that were about to lift out of the water and stretch out towards the hovering seaplane struggling to escape were all crushed to powder just before leaving the sea water.Also at the same moment, Qi Zhengyun's power inevitably came into contact with the "rust" on the algal leaves.He immediately felt the familiar suction force—as he predicted, a powerful suction force magnified tens of millions of times."Rust" in the entire water area let out a joyful sound, and the suction force in countless directions in different directions was like a pulverizer blade in full swing, biting him fiercely tearing down and swallowing.

The seat under Qi Zhengyun squeaked, and the whole plane sank in mid-air for no reason.Lu You finally couldn't hold back a cry of panic this time, but the young driver who was struggling with the joystick remained surprisingly calm, his hands were still moving quickly and steadily, and soon let the driver who was still forced to hover The plane regained its stability.

The calm expression on his face that was completely different from his previous performance was not noticed, and Qi Zhengyun was continuing to extend the power that had been gnawed and riddled with holes, resisting consumption with ever-increasing output.Pain meant nothing to him.He kept descending, through the increasingly cold and dark water, into the soft sea sand strewn with biological remains, until he encountered a solid rock formation.A long and narrow crack extended on the rock, with a dark red rust on the edge.

The pace of swallowing suddenly slowed down."Rust", who had already eaten happily, fell into hesitation, and belatedly realized that there seemed to be something wrong with the food that had just been delivered to the door.It stopped, and within a few seconds, the fluctuations of the sea surface became calmer.This unidentified existence was like a dog that had eaten bibimbap by mistake. At first it shook, twitched, and then fell to the ground, but it couldn't vomit, but began to dissolve like soil falling into the water.

Qi Zhengyun divided a part of the power that was no longer consumed, and spread it out in the water, forming an extremely fine net.The dark red fragments hit the net, and then melted together with a part of the net; the rest of the force then went deep into the rock crack.Some kind of faint shock was transmitted from the bottom of the sea to the distance, and the distant sea responded with a low voice.Schools of fish gathered, swam past crabs clumsily crawling desperately in the sand, and swarmed to migrate further.

The chaotic airflow wrapped around the fuselage dissipated.The seaplane finally regained control, changed direction midway through the circle, flew crookedly outwards, and gradually rose into the sky.At the last moment when the distance was widened, Qi Zhengyun caused large pieces of rock deep in the seabed to crack, and then held onto the window edge to prevent his body from slipping due to loss of strength.There was a tremor in the depths of the ocean, and the waves roared in response.As the tide surged, it quickly diluted the thick blood color floating on the sea.

The driver was yelling to vent his excitement about escaping, but after a while, there was no sound.Lu You stared blankly at the scene outside the window, his heart was still beating out of order in his chest; Qi Zhengyun's clothes were already soaked in sweat, and he had to barely hold on to keep from collapsing due to the almost exhausted strength.He stared silently at the churning and eddying sea surface, the sea water was pouring into the cracks in the rocks, and the huge weight finally crushed the last layer of the barrier that had already cracked.

The bright red magma gushed out along the calculated fissures, and was cooled by the sea water, which also caused the sea water to boil, and the sea current took away the heat; white steam rose from the violently turbulent water surface.It was a very spectacular sight that few people could see with their own eyes——

The driver started yelling again, unable to tell whether it was shock or excitement.The seaplane fled to the distance in a hurry.Lu You's mind was blank, but a certain feeling in his chest was desperately inflated.He didn't dare to leave his seat, stretched out his hand across the narrow aisle, and held hands with Qi Zhengyun's hand that he passed in response.The palms of both of them were cold and wet, and Lu You's fingers ached from Qi Zhengyun's grip.On the surface of the sea that was thrown farther and farther away, the mist column of water vapor broke through the surface of the sea and rose up under the golden sunlight.

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A fluffy red shard drifts in the current, looking for any signs of life.Even if it's just a small crab, a small fish, those bearers that are too weak to bear and the transmission efficiency is so low that they are the worst choices, at this moment it will not be picky anymore... It floats through a dead sea Sunflower, the seawater with rising temperature cannot kill it directly, but it will eliminate other life on which it depends.

It was one of the few lucky fragments that survived that devastating feeding and escaped the net again.But if the parasitic life is not found, it will also dissolve in a short time... The ocean current passed by it, and the fragments that could only drift with the water had no choice but to spin in the water and be pushed towards the A sea that has almost been boiled by lava and has lost all life.Its incomplete shape gradually melted along the way, and in the end, no miracle happened, and it was completely turned into slag and drifted away unwillingly.

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