Chapter 367 Storm at Sea (3)
Unknown waters, 16 nautical miles away from the original third coordinate point.
After floating vertically to the surface, the contractor's equipment obtained the current position of the two people, which surprised them. After all, although they were thrown out by the vortex, they didn't feel that far away, and the two of them were swimming in the opposite direction of being thrown out. The two thought that they should not be too far away from the vortex. But now they appeared in this place.
"I feel something is wrong, Han Zu. Although the contractor's equipment did not detect any abnormalities, it was obvious that the equipment malfunctioned when we were inside the vortex. Even though it has returned to normal now."
"I don't think there was a malfunction, but rather that the device detected something it couldn't understand."
"If what those contractors say is true, is there anything else they haven't seen?"
"That's hard to say. Let's go back first."
However, as the two continued to move towards the third coordinate, they discovered one thing: no matter what route they took, they would always end up one kilometer away from the third coordinate and would be unable to move any closer.
This inability to get close does not mean that they cannot continue to move, but that they will always deviate from the third coordinate for inexplicable reasons. Han Zu used the contractor's equipment to carefully detect the nearby sea area and found some dissipated energy that even the contractor's equipment had no data on. Gloria, out of distrust of the contractor's equipment, chose to use her own radiation pulse ability to explore the surrounding situation. Strange things also happened.
"Something is wrong. Something has absorbed my radiation pulse. The pulse ring has not returned, and I have lost contact with the pulse I sent out."
The contractor's equipment was still analyzing the unidentifiable special energy, but there was no substantial progress and the two had no way to move forward. After a brief thought, Han Zu proposed a rather clumsy but perhaps effective method.
"We can dive to the bottom of the sea, and then use the rocks on the seabed as markers to crawl towards the third coordinate. Maybe it will work."
"Alright."
Although this method is indeed very clumsy, it is not a bad idea given the current situation.
However, during the dive, the two men discovered the problem again, that is, they seemed unable to reach the bottom of the sea no matter what. No matter how fast they were or how long they spent diving, as long as they stopped diving, the time it took them to return to the surface was the same.
"Are we trapped at a certain depth?"
"An abnormal space folding phenomenon has been detected."
However, the prompts from the contractor's equipment seemed to deny Gloria's statement.
"I am using contractor equipment to analyze the source of this situation. If we can find the source, we should be able to find a way to move forward."
"I always feel that there is something unreliable about this device."
"Maybe, but it seems we don't have any other options at the moment."
Having said that, an hour later, the contractor's equipment still hadn't figured out what was going on, because just when the key nodes were detected, something would deliberately appear to interfere with the contractor's equipment, perhaps a school of fish, the sudden movement of an underwater volcano, or something else. In short, it felt like something was intentionally interfering with the contractor's equipment's detection of the current situation.
The emergence of this situation basically confirms that the surrounding environmental factors and various anomalies are not coincidences of nature. There must be something preventing the contractor's equipment from being detected and Han Zu and Gloria from moving towards the third coordinate location.
However, even though they knew this possibility, they actually didn't think of any way to solve this situation. It's not that they didn't think of a way, but the conditions of several methods were rather harsh, either impossible to implement or would waste a lot of time.
The two of them thought of several solutions for the current situation. For example, they could go back to Infinite Company first and then quietly get a space stabilization device. But this method was too time-consuming. Even if the time to go back was not counted, based on the previous events, it would take at least a week for Han Zu to get something out of Infinite Company.
"If my facilities were still there, it would save a lot of time."
Han Zu was not very happy when he said this.
The two also thought that they could use the power of fire to rise to the air, and then rush to the third coordinate position. After all, the change in space may only occur in the sea. The two even tried it once, but soon confirmed that there was something wrong with the space in the entire area.
"Why don't you try and use your ability to fly?"
"I'm not sure that would have any effect. Besides, I can't fly for very long now, and I'm not very fast."
"Anyway, we either try everything or go back to get the space stabilization device, and it may not be able to solve the situation here. I kind of miss those contractors right now. Maybe their technology can help with the current situation."
"That's fine."
Following Gloria's suggestion, Han Zu used his flying ability underwater, and it was incredible!
"It's no use."
After all, as a mobility ability, it is still not very easy to use, and it is not even within the scope of usability. It is indeed a bit of a desperate measure to want to use it to solve the current predicament.
After many unsuccessful attempts, the two simply floated on the sea, emptying their minds and thinking that maybe an inspiration would come to them.
"Don't you usually have a lot of clever ideas? Use your brain, brother!"
"Is it because my thinking this time is too normal?"
"Then use your outrageous brain circuits. Maybe you can stumble upon a useful method."
"Let me think..."
Perhaps there have been too many normal things happening recently, which has caused Han Zu's way of thinking to become normal. At this moment, perhaps abnormal thinking can help him find a way out of the predicament.
It's true, this time Han Zu did think of two methods. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to try both of them one by one.
"Uh, what are you doing?!"
She didn't notice it, and when Gloria came back to her senses, she found that Han Zu suddenly changed into a giant, and then opened his mouth wide, looking like he was drinking sea water, and his eyes were constantly gathering energy. Looking at this look, he had the momentum to drink the sea water dry. Of course, it was impossible to really drink it dry, but he just had the momentum.
"So the solution you came up with is to drink the sea water?!"
"Ah ah ah ah."
"You're talking to me through the contractor's equipment, not your mouth. Bullshit!"
"Oh, right."
"Even if you plan to drink seawater, isn't your body a different species? Why are you opening your mouth? Can't you just absorb it with your body?"
"Oh, forget about it."
Perhaps because she had been with Han Zu for a long time, Gloria was not shocked for long by this completely outrageous operation. She got used to it and even secretly hoped that this crazy method could play a certain role.
Of course, drinking seawater is the same solution as trying to use the ability to fly to solve the current predicament.
"Damn it, it's useless!"
"It's not right to have talent!"
“Buzz~!!!!”
Just as Gloria was cursing the contractor as a lunatic through his equipment, the energy in Han Zu's eyes had been stored to its current limit. The high-energy rays that had completed the storage of energy shot straight towards the location where the abnormality in space had occurred before. The extremely high temperature of the rays caused the seawater that came into contact with the rays to boil immediately. A large number of bubbles continued to emerge on the surface of the sea, creating a foggy area within a certain area.
"... Your method is similar to the electric dryer. Are you planning to boil some water to restore the abnormality in the space?"
However, just when Gloria thought that this insane juggling trick would end in failure, there was a sudden violent energy fluctuation under the sea in the distance. Soon, Gloria felt that the speed of the water was rapidly increasing, as if some force was pulling her. But there was good news, because of this force, the two of them did begin to move passively towards the position where they could not move forward before.
"I think I actually shot something."
"You felt feedback? Was it some unlucky sea creature?"
"Absolutely not. My high-energy rays failed to penetrate that thing."
"Not penetrated? It certainly doesn't look like some unlucky marine creature."
"That thing is very big, but it's probably not alive. I can feel that the energy at the end of the ray has been twisted and changed direction abruptly."
"Wait a minute, after hearing what you said, why do I feel like we're going to be in trouble?"
"Buzz!!!!"
An inexplicable, large-scale and very powerful energy wave quickly passed through the sea water, the bodies of Han Zu and Gloria. It felt very strange, as if someone had penetrated their skin and was whipping their muscles under the skin with a small whip. For the two, they did not feel any pain at all, and even felt a little itchy.
However, immediately afterwards, the water flow, which was affected by the inexplicable energy fluctuations, was like two huge hands that could not be escaped at all. It wrapped around the bodies of the two people and pulled them towards the third coordinate with a traction force that exceeded their fastest movement speed in the sea water.
"Not bad, we have a ride so we don't have to swim by ourselves. Oh, and our current position should be called a submarine with a tailwind."
"You don't care. Why don't you take a look? It looks like we're going to be in big trouble soon."
Looking in the direction of Gloria's finger, Han Zu didn't see anything. He only saw the dark sea. Apart from that, he saw nothing.
"Isn't it just a little darker? What's the big deal?"
"A bit dark?! Do you want to think about who you are first?!"
"What's so strange about this...hiss...that's not right..."
Han Zu finally realized why he, a guy with night vision, could still see something pitch black? Even if there was no light source in this space, he could use energy to create reflections, unless what he saw was originally black.
Just as Han Zu was about to confirm what he saw, he and Gloria were suddenly pulled out of the sea, but their height in the sea water did not change. In other words, there was some force that pushed or pulled the sea water away from their current position.
"Do you still think we are doing well now!!!"
Han Zu heard Gloria's shouting not far away. He turned around and noticed that the noise around him was very noisy. He looked up and saw that there were still lightning and thunder in the sky and heavy rain on the sea. He looked around and found that the edge of the sea at the previous position was like a constantly rotating funnel.
"Whirlpool?"
This time, the contractor's equipment was not needed for testing. Only the naked eye could confirm the current situation. Han Zu and Gloria were currently on the water wall of a huge whirlpool that they could not see the end of. They were thrown out of the sea due to the attraction of the whirlpool, but they were also attracted to a position close to the water wall due to the attraction of the whirlpool.
In comparison, the vortex with a diameter of 1.5 kilometers encountered before is not even a toy compared to it.
However, the suction force did not last long, and the long-lost feeling of weightlessness appeared again. The two began to fall towards the depths of the vortex. During the fall, Han Zu accidentally discovered that some large marine creatures on the outside of the water wall that can move in the deep sea, such as whales, seemed to be desperately trying to escape from the vortex, but it didn't work. A large number of marine creatures were captured by the vortex, either like Han Zu and Gloria, being thrown out of the sea and falling towards the bottom of the vortex, or slightly better, on the water wall of the vortex, like fruit in a juicer, being pulled towards the seabed while rotating. If there is really a connection to the seabed below.
"What! Should We Do!"
"What are you yelling for? Can't you just use the contractor's equipment to communicate?"
"You! Can! Stay! Calm!?!"
"sure."
With the attitude that there was nothing that could be done, Gloria calmed down her panic, recovered for a while, and started a normal conversation with Han Zu using the contractor's equipment.
"So? What do we do next?"
"I'm using the contractor's equipment to scan the third coordinate. Oh, yes, we are now right above the coordinate. And we did detect something interesting."
"I thought the equipment was interfered with and it was temporarily not working properly."
"Well... you're not completely wrong. The device did receive some interference, but it doesn't affect its use. It's just that the UI of the device looks very uncomfortable now, just like being attacked by EMP in the game. However, using the detection system and my visual observation, I did find some interesting things."
"Like what?"
"this."
Han Zu pointed downward, to the depths of the vortex. Gloria's vision was not as good as Han Zu's, so there was nothing but darkness.
"What's going on down there?"
"In fact, there is nothing at the third coordinate location. There are only rocks on the seabed. There are no underwater caves or other things at all."
"So we've made this trip in vain. Is this really just an extremely rare natural phenomenon?"
"That's not the case. Don't you think there's something wrong?"
Gloria looked at the bottom of the vortex again, but still saw nothing, only darkness.
"Um, the rocks on the seafloor are particularly dark?"
"Unknown life form detected."
At this moment, a prompt suddenly appeared on Gloria's device. Gloria didn't take it too seriously, thinking it was just some marine creature she had never seen before. But when she glanced at the size of the creature mapped by the device, she couldn't help but open her mouth and eyes wide.
Because according to the approximate data provided by the equipment, this creature is larger than a city.
"What the f*ck is this?!!!"
"From the shape, I think it might be a fish."
Han Zu's body fell in mid-air, and he crossed his legs and rubbed his chin with two fingers, imitating someone who was thinking.
As the speed of the fall accelerated, Gloria raised the middle fingers of both hands to express her dissatisfaction with Han Zu's attitude.
probably.