Chapter 461 Falling into the Deep Sea (4)

Chapter 461 Falling into the Deep Sea (4)

40 kilometers away from the battleship wreckage, 13112 meters below the sea.

Han Zu, who kept diving deeper and deeper, found a flat seabed structure, where he finally found something other than those giant aquatic plants.

In front of Han Zu, there were some huge bone structures of different lengths and sizes. According to the equipment's scan, these bone structures should be the remains of some giant creatures, but the interesting thing is that the huge remains in front of Han Zu were not actually the remains of marine or amphibian animals, but some giant land creatures. And according to Han Zu's current location, it was a liquid planet, so the skeleton of a land creature on the seabed was not right no matter how you looked at it.

These liquids, whose composition is still unknown, seem to be very helpful in preserving bone components. According to the equipment's scan, the skeleton in front of him has been in this place at least tens of thousands of years ago. This made Han Zu a little curious about how this giant land creature that died tens of thousands of years ago appeared in the ocean of a liquid planet.

However, this curiosity did not last long. Apart from skeletons and aquatic plants, there was nothing here that could help Han Zu leave, so he left this location and continued to explore in the deep sea.

After dozens of minutes, he came to the entrance of an underwater cave. A dozen meters inside the entrance, Han Zu found something else. It was a group of things that were as soft as sponges and occasionally swayed like water plants, similar to aquatic plants. However, according to the equipment's scan, this group of things was actually a huge single-celled organism community. Similarly, there were also giant aquatic plants that could be seen everywhere.

Although the true identity of these single-celled organisms is still unclear, the equipment has scanned a relatively complete food chain around them. After the giant aquatic plants rot, some plankton will emerge from them, and those single-celled organisms feed on them. In the process of gradually going deeper into the underwater cave, Han Zu found some arthropods about the size of his arms. They looked like some strange shrimps, and they fed on those single-celled organisms and aquatic plants.

Although the downward slope of the seabed cave was not very large, the scale of the cave was terrifying. It was no exaggeration to say that even the warship could easily pass through the maze-like tunnels in the cave. As Han Zu continued to go deeper, in addition to aquatic plants, single-celled organisms, and those arthropods that looked like strange shrimps, he saw many other types of creatures.

Han Zu found a lot of creatures about one or two kilometers away from the cave entrance. Although they looked different and some were larger than Han Zu, they were basically arthropods. These arthropods were not aggressive, and Han Zu could tell from their behavior of avoiding him that there must be creatures higher than these arthropods in this ocean. After all, if there were no natural enemies, it would be difficult for them to actively avoid other creatures.

However, after two hours of going deeper, the scene around Han Zu was still exactly the same as when he was one or two kilometers from the entrance of the cave. Except for the fact that the number of giant aquatic plants was slightly less, there was nothing new. And the tunnel that Han Zu had gone deeper into seemed to have reached its end.

According to the detection of the equipment, at the end of this underwater tunnel is a solid rock layer of more than several kilometers. There are no voids in it, and there is no place worth exploring. So Han Zu returned along the original route and prepared to check the other tunnels in the underwater cave.

It took Han Zu nearly six hours to explore all the tunnels in the submarine cave. Although Han Zu found other remains inside some of the tunnels, they were all incomplete bone fragments, so Han Zu's contractor equipment could not use them to determine what kind of creatures these bones came from. In addition, these bones have existed for a long time, so they are likely to be fossils of some extinct species.

Judging from the time, Xin's evolution should have been completed. She should have woken up and seen the message he left behind. Han Zu had found nothing so far, so he decided to go back to the battleship and check on Xin's condition.

Although the seabed terrain was complex, fortunately the contractor's equipment was not completely disturbed. Except for the depth where the interference was most serious, the equipment's scanning module and detection module drew a very detailed seabed topographic map of the area where Han Zu had arrived. Using this topographic map, Han Zu was able to easily leave the current huge, maze-like, tortuous seabed cave full of tunnels, and began to float up, preparing to return to the depth where the warship wreckage was located.

"Interfering... with communications..."

Before returning to the depth where the warship was, Han Zu once again passed by the area where interference to the equipment was extremely serious. This time he remembered the specific depth and prepared to come back to search later. When he left this range, the equipment gradually returned to normal. A message sent a few hours ago appeared on the communication interface of the device. It was sent by Xin.

Although the message was short, it contained several spelling errors. Han Zu thought about it and roughly understood what the communication wanted to express, which was probably "There is something on the battleship, I need help!".

After leaving the interference area, Han Zu's equipment returned to normal. While accelerating to swim towards the wreckage of the warship above, he used the equipment to initiate real-time communication with Xin. The communication was quickly connected, and there should be no major problems on Xin's side.

"Why are you replying now?!"

"There is a huge interference zone 755 meters below the battleship. The communication function will be seriously interfered after entering this depth. I have dived to a depth of more than meters before... It may be lower, so I just received the communication not long ago."

"When can you come back?"

"After a few minutes, I can roughly see the outline of the wreckage of the battleship. What's going on over there? And why are you acting like a thief?"

"Poseidon! The situation of Poseidon!"

"Poseidon... ah? There's a monster in the battleship?"

"Right! I need your help! So it would be best if you could swim faster!"

"Did you see the monster?"

"No, but I heard a sound. This sound has appeared seven or eight times in the past ten hours!"

"Um... Is it possible that you are hallucinating? I've been out for such a long time, and I haven't found anything except some aquatic plants, single-celled organisms, and arthropods."

"Anyway, hurry up...?!!!"

“Hey…”

At this moment, Han Zu and Xin heard the strange sound at the same time in two different locations. Han Zu immediately looked towards the place where the sound came from, but saw nothing. Even the contractor's equipment did not scan anything.

As for Xin on the other end of the communication, Han Zu could see through the communication screen that Xin had a frown on her face and an expression as if she had eaten a fly. She suddenly started to move, and from the blue light illuminating her face, Han Zu could guess that she probably raised the power sword.

Out of caution, Han-jo asked Shin about the sound.

"I can clearly see the outline of the wreckage of the battleship. I also heard some abnormal noises. Did you hear the noises you mentioned before during our communication?"

"Yeah, just now. Did you hear it too?"

"It should be. I recorded the audio and will send it to you for comparison."

Han Zu sent the audio recorded by the device to Xin, who shuddered unconsciously after listening to it.

"Is that the voice?"

"Yes, that's it. When can you come back?"

"Almost there. I'm still a few kilometers away from the wreckage of the battleship. I need to go around to the rear of the battleship and enter through the hatch there to avoid secondary infiltration of the battleship."

"Send me the location and we'll meet there."

"Okay, the location is easy to find. I used my tentacles to make a waterproof hatch there."

After ending the communication, Xin, holding a weapon, moved like a thief, quickly but secretly, fighting fear and moving quickly through the corridors in the wreckage of the warship where only corpses were left. The appropriate fear made her speed seem a lot faster. When she arrived at the hatch marked by Han Zu, she happened to see from the porthole next to her that Han Zu was tearing his body into small pieces and preparing to enter the warship. Although it seemed strange that Han Zu's severed hand greeted her, Xin felt a lot more at ease seeing these fragments of Han Zu than hearing the strange sound.

“Gulp~~”

"Om~~"

“Tsk~~~”

The sounds of some bubbles came out from behind the waterproof hatch formed by those dense tentacles. As the tentacles regained their activity and began to squeeze the small space at the rear, Xin heard the sound of liquid being squeezed out of the maintenance pipe and the hatch closing. Then, as the tentacles were absorbed, Xin finally saw Han Zu who was piecing together his own fragments.

"You look like... going hunting?"

After reconstructing his body, Han Zu used energy to heat his body and dry his contractor robe. Looking at the tentacles on the Xin armor that were used as camouflage nets and were previously used to fix the Xin armor, Han Zu joked.

However, Xin did not smile after taking off his mask. His brows were still furrowed and he looked around cautiously. Han Zu noticed that at the waist of Xin's armor, there was a belt made of inactive tentacles, with a string of special "stun bombs" made by contractors hung on it. Han Zu recalled them and found that two were missing. Xin should have used them.

"You used these stun grenades? Is there really something on the battleship?"

"No, I tried to use your throwing weapons, but the second time I tried it, the weapon went astray and bounced next to me, and then..."

"Uh, so you shocked yourself?"

"No, that's not the case. I rushed into the next room just in time, and then... I found this."

Xin took something out of the armor's storage backpack and handed it to Han Zu. Han Zu took a look and found that it was a peculiarly shaped metal object. It looked like a palm-sized fan-shaped metal plate made of some kind of copper alloy. The surface was engraved with patterns and emitted a faint yellow-green light.

"This was found in that room. It is completely different from everything on this battleship. I have never seen this thing before. It should not be a product of the Tig people."

Han Zu carefully examined the object, but could not figure out what it was. After scanning it with the device, although the device detected the material of the object, which was an alloy called "mountain copper", it was not able to confirm the purpose of the object. Han Zu used his perception ability to carefully observe the object and sensed some energy fluctuations on it. Based on the flow of energy, Han Zu believed that this thing might be some kind of communicator, but he was not sure about any more details.

"So this thing is a... communicator?"

"Not necessarily. It's just that the energy flow I sensed from this thing is similar to the energy flow of some communicators. But even if this thing is really a communicator, who does it belong to? Is it from the original crew of this battleship, or is it something else?"

"What is the range of this communicator? Where can it contact?"

Xin looked eager to leave here, and it seemed that she really hated her current situation.

"I'm just saying that this thing might be a communicator. It's also possible that I made a wrong judgment, so don't hold your hopes too high, especially since we can't figure out what this thing is right now. But take it first, maybe it can be useful."

“Hey…”

At this moment, the strange sound appeared in their ears again, this time it was clearer and harsher than before. And the direction of the sound was just outside the porthole next to them. Xin instantly became alert and tightened his weapon in his hand. He immediately turned to the porthole to observe the situation outside.

However, after observing carefully for a long time, until the strange sound disappeared, Xin saw nothing except the dim seabed outside the porthole and the giant aquatic plants swaying with the ocean.

"I didn't see anything, and my contractor equipment didn't scan anything. Anyway, forget about that for now. I'll use the equipment to scan you. If your evolution is complete and goes smoothly, we can leave the battleship and continue to explore the ocean outside. I found a location worth exploring, but I didn't have time to go there before."

"You're still planning on going outside?!"

"What else can I do? If I stay here, I won't be able to find a way to leave this planet. This battleship is already a pile of scrap metal. Without enough materials, I can't repair this big guy. Besides, even if there are enough materials, these completely stopped energy sequences are also a problem. Although I am very confident in my own strength, I absolutely don't think that I can make this iron box fly with my own energy alone."

"Then there's no need to look outside, right? What if we can't find anything?"

"It is indeed possible, but not certain. However, staying in the battleship will definitely mean that we can't do anything. So instead of sitting there doing nothing, why not go outside and try? What if?"

Xin seemed to really hate the deep sea environment. She tried various ideas to reduce the time she needed to stay in the ocean as much as possible. Then she thought of Han Zu's flying ability and her own evolution, and combined a series of things she had learned before and came up with an idea.

"Fly! Can't you fly? We can fly out! You can move freely in space. I have evolved from you, which proves that I should be able to do it too! If that's the case, we can leave the ocean directly. As long as we reach a location where you can teleport, we can leave, right?"

"Reaching the surface of the sea is no problem. The problem is that this planet is not within the sphere of influence of the contractors or the Tigs, so even if we leave the ocean, we cannot use teleportation."

"What about leaving this planet? We can go into space. Even if the galaxy this planet is in cannot be teleported, we can still fly out..."

"Uh, Xin, I have to stop your conversation first. This is totally impossible."

"Why is it impossible? Oh, you mean it takes too long? That's no problem, we can..."

Han Zu looked at the panicked Xin, sighed, and covered her mouth with his palm to stop her collapse-like conversation.

"My flying speed is very slow, and my top speed is only Mach 2. By the way, Mach is the unit used by my civilization to describe the speed of sound. Using my planet, Earth, as an example, if I want to leave Earth, my speed needs to be at least 12 times faster, which is about 24 times the speed of sound. And that's just to leave Earth and orbit it. The planet we are on now is much more massive than Earth... much, much more massive. So, it's totally unrealistic to fly out of this planet at my speed."

"Oh. I didn't expect you were good at math..."

"What are you thinking? It's the equipment that calculated it. I'm not that smart. Anyway, if we want to leave here, we have to go out and explore. But if you really don't want to go, then you can stay here and wait. Apart from the occasional noises, they are indeed very strange, but this place should be safe."

Compared to being left alone at the "set of a horror movie", Xin thought it would be safer to follow Han Zu. After all, this guy's fighting ability was not fake, and he seemed to have no fear of anything. Anyway, it would definitely be better to follow him than to stay alone.

"I'd better go with you, but first I need to go to the armory on the battleship. Maybe I can find a suitable heavy armor."

"I have no problem with that. There's no rush anyway."