Chapter 1109 Cold Spring World and Old Land
Chapter 1109 Cold Spring World and Old Land
"Your Excellency, the Chief."
He didn't know what happened after he left. After being swept out of the eye by the old mermaid and returning to the bottom of the Central Sea, he felt the current around him not only not being untied, but getting thicker and thicker, almost wrapping him up. Leon couldn't help but frowned and said:
"Shouldn't we break the ice first? What are you doing?"
"Humph!"
As if he would suffocate if he didn’t breathe through his nose, the old mermaid snorted again and explained with a droopy face:
“After the seafloor ice is completely broken, the temperature of the surrounding seawater will drop sharply. At that time, although the surrounding seawater is still water and even won’t be too cold when you touch it with your hands, it will actually be a hundred times colder than ice!
If you come into direct contact with the seawater, you will be frozen immediately, and even your soul and mind will become sluggish. Only we, the sea people, can control the ocean currents to alleviate this effect...Aren't you the director of the Cleanup Bureau? You don't even understand this? Do you need me to explain it to you?"
Will the soul and mind become sluggish?
Leon, who had already figured out the old merman's personality, ignored his sarcasm and questioned him. Instead, he frowned and thought for a while before asking:
"So the reason why Director Cancer and Director Scorpio suddenly 'disappeared' was because they came into contact with the sea water when they broke through the ice and were directly frozen underneath?"
"Humph!!"
After adding a cold snort that was even louder than before, the old mermaid continued to thicken the currents around the two of them, while responding reluctantly:
"That's about right... But they should have dug up the small part of the frozen sea eye. After being frozen, they floated up in the opposite direction and were swept into the cold spring world by the ocean current."
"Cold spring world?"
Leon was puzzled when he heard this:
"what is that?"
"hehe."
It seemed that he had been waiting for Leon to ask this question. As soon as Leon finished speaking, the old mermaid immediately started to sneer:
"As the director of the Cleanup Bureau, you don't even know what the Cold Spring Realm is?"
"I really don't know."
Not wanting to bother with this suspected psychopathic old bastard, Leon nodded calmly and admitted:
"I have been a director for too short a time. I have only heard a lot of secrets and have not had time to understand the specific situation... May I ask what the cold spring world is? Is it related to the current seabed freezing incident?"
"..."
The most painful thing when mocking others is not the other party’s retort, but that after you rack your brains to launch a vicious attack, the other party actually admits it directly without caring.
Seeing Leon not getting angry at all in the face of his provocation, the old mermaid, feeling a little upset, was silent for a while, then curled his lips in boredom and said:
"The cold spring world is the source of all sea eyes."
The source of the sea eye?
Leon raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and asked with a slightly surprised look:
"Could it be that all the seawater in this world flows from the Cold Spring Realm?"
"more or less."
The old mermaid nodded impatiently:
"There are many material planes like this world, but not every one of them has water, or even if there is, it is very rare. Only those worlds that are naturally connected to planes like the Cold Spring World will have 'ocean'-level water content."
"In that cold spring world..."
"There are no people, no plants, no animals, and the entire plane is filled with water that is relatively cold, but not frozen... By the way, didn't someone from your Cleanup Bureau pass through the sea eye and go to the cold spring world before? Didn't they leave any records for you?" "I'm not sure, but I don't think so?"
After thinking about the relevant files he had read, Leon shook his head and said:
"When the bureau mentions the surrounding planes, they usually only mention the four major planes of the Death Realm, the Abyss, the Heavenly Mountain, and the Star Realm, plus the nine smaller planes of the Dream Realm and the Holy Spirit Realm. I haven't heard other directors talk about the remaining planes."
"Haha, that's right, I didn't say that."
The old mermaid sneered when he heard this:
"What you just mentioned are all planes around the present world, and the Cold Spring World is not around the present world. It belongs to the plane of the Old Land. When they talked to you about the situation around the present world, of course they didn't mention the Cold Spring World."
"Old soil?"
Lyon wondered:
"Isn't it far away? Why is it so close to the Eye of the Sea?"
No...how come you don't know anything?
Seeing Leon looking at him with doubtful eyes again, as if waiting for his answer, the corners of the old mermaid's mouth twitched involuntarily, and he felt as if he was teaching his father-in-law to read. He asked speechlessly, eyes full of doubts:
"You don't even know the situation of Old Land? How did you become the director of the Cleanup Bureau?"
"Um... when we select directors for the Cleansing Bureau, we don't consider these things. We mainly look at the talent for the corresponding secret arts."
"..."
Tsk, a bunch of illiterate people!
After glancing at Leon who was “unlearned” with disdain, the old mermaid who had arranged the defenses started to break the ice while patiently explaining:
"The old land is twisted and broken. Not only is the time level chaotic and fragmented, with the past and future appearing at the same time, but there are also no stable rules in the space level. You cannot use the 'common sense' you know to infer it.
These planes around the present world are like small houses built on the plains. After coming out of one house, you can reach another by walking a distance. And no matter how far apart they are, you can always get there as long as you are heading in the right direction.
But the 'house' in the old land has no 'foundation' at all. It is just stuffed randomly in an extremely huge backpack, and it is changing all the time. Not only does it not have a fixed 'up, down, left, right', even the 'front, back, inside, and outside' may not be accurate.
You feel like you are moving forward, but in fact you may be moving backward; you feel like you are leaving a plane, but in fact you may be moving deeper into it; the cold spring world and the real world are indeed unimaginably far away, but they are also directly connected through the sea eye, which means you can step directly across... Do you understand?"
"I think I understand a little bit..."
After Leon nodded slightly, he asked with some doubt:
"If we can reach the Cold Spring Realm through the Sea Eye, we can go directly to the Old Land, then why didn't our predecessors from the Cleanup Bureau take this route when they went to the Old Land?"
You know shit!
Unable to help but roll his eyes at Leon, the old mermaid raised his hand to break the ice and said unhappily:
"Didn't I just say that? The planes of the Old Land are randomly filled and can change at any time!
Although it is slow for you in the Cleanup Bureau to go through the Star Gate to the Old Land, at least you can be sure where you will go. But although it is fast to go to the Old Land from the Cold Spring Realm, after you walk out of the Cold Spring Realm, no one knows which plane you will step into next!
And if you get lost in the Old Land, given your human lifespan and the level of chaos in the Old Land, you might wander around there until you die, and you might not even be able to find your way back...hiss!"
After the ice on the seabed was completely shattered, revealing a corner of the dark blue sea eye below, the old merman couldn't help but shudder even though there was a thick film of water as thick as a large lake outside his body. Then he secretly waved his hands and secretly thinned the water film around Leon.
"The cold spring world is below, be careful!"
After feeling the cold current that was already approaching Leon, the young mermaid felt relieved and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, squinting his eyes and humming:
"Although I promised to help you, the most I can do is to keep you out of danger. Don't blame me if you can't handle it yourself!"
(End of this chapter)