Chapter 368 Ruins

Chapter 368 Ruins

As the two people fell, including Han Zu, the range of their vision became smaller and smaller.

In fact, it would be more appropriate to say that it was getting darker and darker. Due to the height, the huge entrance to the vortex slowly turned into a small dot and soon could not be seen clearly.

“Is this altitude really that high?”

However, Han Zu was somewhat puzzled by the height from which the two fell. After all, if the height from which the two fell was true, then it seemed to have exceeded the deepest depth of the ocean known to mankind. However, due to the previous experience of spatial anomalies, this doubt did not remain in Han Zu's mind for long.

Gloria was feeling bad now, she was a little afraid of heights. But in fact, she didn't have this problem before she met Han Zu, but the many experiences of falling without any coping methods made her gradually begin to hate heights.

"No, how can you still be in the mood to smoke?! And with this falling wind pressure, how did you light it?!!"

However, when he turned around, he saw Han Zu, who was also falling next to him, actually made a posture similar to lying on a lazy sofa, with his head resting on his hands, his legs crossed, and a newly lit cigarette in his mouth.

As for where Han Zu put the cigarettes when he brought them here, Gloria no longer cared, but she really wanted to know how the lit cigarette burned normally and was not broken directly by the wind pressure.

However, as soon as she thought of this, Gloria immediately stopped thinking further. Her way of thinking was becoming more and more like Han Zu's, which was not a good thing at all.

"Don't you think we've been falling a little too long? It's been...almost ten minutes. And we haven't hit the bottom yet."

"Look at Han Zu over there!"

"what?"

Gloria discovered something interesting, that was the marine life that was also pulled out from the nearby whirlpool water wall. Gloria accidentally noticed a whale. Because the whale had scars left by fights with other large marine life, Gloria was able to be sure that she was seeing the same whale.

But one whale was not enough to attract Gloria's attention. What actually caught Gloria's attention was the state of the whale.

Gloria noticed that this was not the first time that the whale had been pulled out of the sea from the outside of the water wall. Each time it was pulled out of the sea, after falling down for exactly 14 seconds, the whale would suddenly move back to the outside of the water wall where it was first pulled out of the sea. This cycle continued over and over again. According to the detection of the contractor's equipment, the whale itself did not have any special features, so the cause of this situation was not the whale, but something else. However, the contractor's equipment could not detect this thing.

After hearing what Gloria said, the two discussed it and thought that they might be in the same situation, but there was one thing that didn't make sense, that is, from the perspective of perception, the two were indeed in a state of continuous decline, not cycling back and forth at a certain point. However, Han Zu soon proposed a possibility, although it was a bit unreasonable, but at present, everything should be tried.

"If this vortex and the giant... uh... big fish below are related, then it means that our current state is either related to the vortex or the big fish below. So I tend to think that if we want to solve this recurring situation or condition, we either have to find a way to break this balance and find something with a larger mass to block the vortex. Of course, this method is completely unfeasible because we can't leave our current position now."

Seeing Han Zu suddenly transform into a giant with all his flesh, blood, weapons and energy fully activated, Gloria understood at a glance what Han Zu's second method was.

"So you plan to fire directly at the big fish at the bottom of the vortex? Do you want to anger it so that we can get rid of our current state? But judging from the fact that your previously fully charged rays were unable to penetrate its skin, this method may not be effective."

"So why are you ready to fight too?"

"Just give it a try, or if you have any other more normal methods that's fine too."

"Buzz~!!"

"Boom boom boom!!!"

It didn't take long before the energy surge, explosions and energy collisions caused by flesh and blood weapons appeared at the bottom of the vortex, and the attack was almost unlimited bombing, causing the two to consume a considerable level of energy in just a few attacks.

After several bombings, the two stopped attacking. Gloria's expression was not optimistic, because the attack of the two did not seem to have any effect.

"Still no, I think we should..."

"Did you notice that thing was white and getting bigger?"

"The white thing, what is that?"

Gloria followed the direction Han Zu pointed and saw a row of huge white objects. However, Han Zu's description of the color was not very accurate. In fact, those objects should be ivory.

"Structural analysis in progress... Preliminary scan results: Calcified tissue, containing 96% inorganic matter, 4% water and organic matter."

"Is this the tooth of that giant creature?! Our altitude has really changed. It looks like we have left that area of ​​spatial anomaly... Ah, but we are about to be eaten by the big fish."

Gloria was right. As soon as she finished speaking, she noticed that the giant creature's teeth began to close rapidly, but because of their huge size, it looked like slow motion.

“Ding!!!!!”

As the giant creature's teeth closed completely, there was a loud bang and a thrust similar to a shock wave, which accelerated the two people's fall.

"Gloria, there is good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"

"Is there anything that can be called good news at this time?!"

"Of course! The good news is that we are about to stop falling. I saw a lot of water below, and it is very deep. But the bad news is that if we calculate it based on the height we fall..."

"There's no difference between hitting the water and hitting the concrete floor... I know this...!!!!"

"boom!!!!!!"

In a flash, the two of them hit the water. Although they were not injured, this level of impact made Gloria feel nauseous. But on the bright side, this was much better than the last fall. After all, this time the two of them still maintained clear consciousness and were not knocked unconscious by the impact again.

But what happened next made Gloria feel that it would be better to faint.

“Wow rumble!!!”

The two were falling, and the water surface was pulled downward by a strong force. There is an example that is very suitable for the current situation and can express the current situation of the two.

Imagine an old-fashioned, manual, but very powerful toilet. In the water in the toilet, there are two strawberry seeds. When the flush button is pressed, the two strawberry seeds are quickly flushed into the sewer. The current state of the two people is similar to this. The identities of the two people are the strawberry seeds, the esophagus of the giant creature is the sewer, and the giant creature itself is the toilet.

Of course, this toilet is as big as a large city.

"Attempting to analyze an unknown organism, the analysis process has been interrupted, and a sample is required."

Gloria and Han Zu are currently unable to resist the attraction of this scale by their own strength, so they can only be "washed" all the way down the suspected esophagus of this giant creature. Soon, the two rushed out of the esophagus and continued to fall like a huge waterfall, just like the water flow and other miscellaneous things inside the water flow. However, one thing did attract the attention of the two people, that is, they saw the light again.

After falling to the bottom, the two found the source of the light in the stomach solution of a giant creature. It was a location similar to the entrance of some ruins. The entire huge, ruins-like building wreckage tilted on the water surface like an indigestible soldier's armor swallowed by a shark in the Middle Ages. It may also be the stomach solution of a giant creature. A small part sank under the water, but most of it was above the water surface.

One of them looked like it could be entered, similar to the entrance of the ruins. On the wall, or what should have been the porch, there were some glowing mosses and gems that were mostly covered with them, similar to the effect of night pearls. The light that the two saw when they fell was emitted by these things.

The two men moved to the entrance of the ruins, or rather, to the location they thought was the entrance. They used fire to clean the dirt on their bodies and used the contractor's equipment to scan the structure of the ruins. However, the results they obtained made them both very curious.

"Unknown material that cannot be identified."

"The material is impenetrable. Scanning process is interrupted."

"Analyzing the external contours."

"Analysis process interrupted. Unstable space folding phenomenon detected."

The two had observed the information in the contractor's network that the contractor's equipment was connected to. According to the way that information was obtained, the contractor's equipment, if not omniscient, had at least seen nearly everything. Moreover, the contractor's equipment had never encountered so many obstacles before, as it did this time, and had never encountered so many unknown things that were completely unrecorded.

“Is it because the contractor equipment we two used is different from the equipment used by normal contractors, so we can’t identify these things?”

"Actually, it's not, because there is no record of these materials or this special creature in the entire contractor's network. Do you remember the chimeras I found in Q City and the special creature with three heads? Even their information, detailed data, and the contractor's equipment are recorded in detail, but they named those creatures with words that cannot be translated into human language. So I tend to think that these things really have never appeared in the contractor's records."

"Should we try to get out first, or do you want to go in and take a look? After all, there is nothing at the third coordinate."

"There is an old saying in our Dragon Country, come..."

"You're here now, right?"

"Yes, that's it."

"Then let's go. I can't think of any way out anyway. In addition, the abnormal folding phenomenon in the space means that even if we use the waste disposal method to leave, it may not succeed."

There was really no better way, so the two of them stepped into the entrance of the ruins. Except for the architectural style and the materials used in the building, nothing had happened near the location where the two of them entered. However, just in case, the two of them used the contractor's equipment to record the locations they had walked through, and constantly improved the map of the ruins to prevent accidents that might occur if they needed to turn back but couldn't find the way.

However, it cannot be said that there is nothing inside the ruins. A strange and uncomfortable smell permeates every corner of the ruins.

As we all know, no matter what it is, as long as it is soaked in water for a long enough time, it will emit a common unpleasant smell. Now the two of them felt a similar smell, but they had no way of determining what it was. However, as they went deeper, the unpleasant smell became stronger and stronger, reaching an unbearable level.

So in order to continue moving forward, after confirming that there was no flammable gas such as methane injected in the ruins, Han Zu took out two cigarettes and lit them. The smell of the two cigarettes temporarily covered up the unbearable smell, allowing the two to continue moving forward.

"Stop, Gloria."

"What's wrong? Did you find anything?"

“We’re going in circles.”

Han Zu pointed to the wall of the ruins passage next to him. There was a small hole on it that Han Zu had drilled with his finger half an hour ago. There was a smoked cigarette butt in it, which was also put in at that time.

"It seems that my suggestion of not relying entirely on the contractor's equipment is indeed very effective. The contractor's equipment should not be able to be used normally here."

"Indeed, sometimes the old ways are the most reliable. But you are wrong about the contractor's equipment. It's not the equipment that has a problem, it's..."

Han Zu put an arm on Gloria's shoulder, raised his head and pointed his chin at a certain position on the ceiling. Looking at the position Han Zu pointed out, Gloria found some slight traces of friction.

"The passage of the ruins keeps changing?! But why can't I hear any sound?"

Han Zu raised his hand and knocked on the nearby wall, but strangely, no sound came out.

"But when you used your finger to make a hole in the wall, there was a sound, and when we moved, there were footsteps. Why is that?"

Han Zu looked at the surrounding environment and found that there was a thin layer of water on the ground. When he made the small hole with his fingers, his hands were also wet.

To confirm his guess, Han Zu bent down, put some water on his hands, and then knocked on the wall next to him while his hands were still wet.

"Tuk-tuk."

This time the sound was completely normal.

Gloria also knocked on the wall next to her, but because her hands were dry, no sound came out.

"A material that only makes sound when it comes into contact with water? That's really strange."

"Let's rest here for a while and think about whether we can get out of here normally. If not, we have to use the old method."