There were many things drawn on the wall, including sea beasts and abstract people. The one thing that convinced Silin that it was the work of the Xi family was the chessboard on the wall.
Those who hadn't seen the Chain Stars Chessboard would only be confused when they saw the dots of different sizes on the wall, but Silin had seen Xi Mu's Chain Stars Chessboard before. Judging from the chessboard on the wall, this was at least the seventh layer of the chessboard.
There was a circular platform on the second floor with a groove in the center. Judging from its size and shape, it was the same as the Olillo's star map fragment.
Under the guidance of the others, Lung closed the star map in his hand and placed the Olillo's star map fragment inside.
Crack crack crack —
The circular platform began to rotate, one ring after another, in different directions. Some were clockwise, some were counterclockwise, and the angle of rotation was also different. In the end, when the nine rings in the circular platform stopped rotating, a painting appeared on the circular platform.
It was a sea beast. It looked like an amphibious reptile. However, both Lung and Ying Weiji said that this sea beast lived in the depths of the ocean. Silin didn't know how they came to this conclusion, but he trusted Lung and Ying Weiji's opinion.
Andriera's data didn't contain any information about this sea beast. They didn't see it on their way down either.
"What is it trying to express?" Lung asked as he looked at the circular platform.
Silin glanced at Huimao. The guy's ears were twitching again, but before he could ask anything, a violent tremor interrupted him.
"What's going on?!"
"Is it an earthquake?"
While they were still in shock, a screen appeared on the circular wall on the second floor. The screen showed the scene outside. At this moment, outside the small mountain, buildings began to rise. They were not sea beast crystal specimens, but real buildings. The surface of the seabed's crust glowed with light, like a road paved in the middle of the rising city.
"There's really an underwater city …"
Everyone was shocked by what they saw on the screen.
To be able to build a city at the bottom of Sea Paradise, what kind of ability did one have?
As the hemispherical buildings rose, a layer of membrane-like cover spread out from the center of the city, expelling the seawater and making the buried city appear more real.
The light barrier spread far and wide, forming a hemispherical shape that covered the area.
When everything calmed down once more, the breathing of the people on the second floor of the small mountain began to quicken, especially Lung and the others. It was precisely because they understood the ocean and understood life in the ocean that they knew how difficult it was to achieve such a feat. Perhaps it would be simple in other places, but this was Sea Heaven! There were countless sea beasts, special magnetic fields, terrible environments, and disruptive substances!
Of course, this also made them believe that the Tear of God was definitely here!
"Let's go." Lung took the lead and walked downstairs. Ying Weiji and the others followed.
Silin looked at Huimao, whose ears were perked up from time to time, and asked, "What did you find?"
"I don't know. I keep feeling like there's something around here, but my perception has decreased here. I'm not sure what it is," Huimao answered.
"Machine?"
"No, it's some kind of living creature." It's alive. "While saying this, Wheeze clenched its paws and opened and closed its paws.
"There's a very large mechanical structure underground," Czedow said while looking around, "and the energy supply here should be geothermal energy."
Silin didn't doubt Czedow's analysis. At the same time, he admired the Xi Family's abilities even more.
They really were the peak generation that even the gods were jealous of!
"Let's go and take a look."
By the time Silin, Czedow and Huimao walked out of the small mountain, Lung and the others had already taken off their breathing masks.
"The air composition here is almost the same as the air at sea. Even the pressure is the same," Lung said to Silin.
Now that they were illuminated from the ground, they didn't need the fluorescent stones anymore. The place was much brighter than before, and they could see everything clearly.
"It should be possible. There must be a way to control the air composition and pressure here," Silin said while looking at the buildings rising from the ground.
These buildings were of different sizes, but they were all hemispherical in shape. Moreover, they looked like ordinary stones that weren't transparent. They couldn't see inside or find an entrance.
Lung wanted to find the Tear of God, but he didn't know where to start. The buildings looked the same, and he couldn't cut them with a knife. At best, he could leave a few shallow scratches.
Silin took off his breathing mask and protective suit. Then, he touched a hemispherical building with his finger.
"This building contains DH50 black ore." Silin said while feeling the information transmitted to his fingertip. He couldn't help but marvel at the similar buildings around him. To think that they could use so much of such rare DH50 black ore! It was obvious that Sea Heaven had a lot of DH50.
"The machines inside are moving," Czedow said. He could sense the machines inside the hemispherical buildings clearly.
Cillin had obviously sensed it when he touched the buildings just now. "These buildings are just like houses and skyscrapers. There must be an entrance somewhere. I can't help but feel that since the creator built a city here, it wouldn't just look like this."
"Young master! Come over here! "Not far away, Ying Weiji called out to Lung in a low voice. There was urgency and anxiety in his voice.
Silin didn't move from his spot. Huimao's claws on his shoulder were retracting subconsciously again. Every time Huimao acted like this, it meant that he had sensed the presence of prey.
Lung walked over and saw something. Suddenly, he turned around and looked around before fixing his gaze on Silin.
"Silin! Watch out! "
The moment Lung said the first word, Silin felt something pouncing at him from behind. It was so fast that it was almost impossible to detect its presence. In fact, it was as if it were a shadow.
Before Silin could move, Huimao was about to extend his claws, and Czedow was ready to fight. However, the thing suddenly stopped five meters away from Silin. It made a few rustling noises, but it didn't charge at him.
Silin saw the thing's appearance clearly now.
It was about fifteen meters long, had four limbs, and a long tail. Its body was almost black, and it didn't have any scales. However, it gave off a tough and impenetrable feeling. Its eyes were the same color as the sea, and it had no pupils. However, its emotions could be seen from the depths of its eyes. There were folds of skin around their necks, and when they pounced at Czedow, their skin folds would shrink tightly against their necks. However, the black fellow in front of them had spread open like an umbrella.
It was a very strange species.
"Marauders!" Lung and the others took out their weapons. Energy guns weren't very useful in this place, so they could only use bullets. They also took out their blades.
The Andriera Family would send an expedition team to Sea Paradise every couple of years or decades. Of course, they wouldn't go deep into the sea like Lung did this time. Sometimes, they would only observe from near the surface or in the air. However, the expedition team had only captured an image of this creature once in the past few years. They hadn't seen it again after that.
They were incredibly fast, and the only time they captured an image was when three of them forced a middle sea beast out of the sea and killed it.
The claws of the Predator were far sharper than they looked, and with their advantage in speed, they could easily kill a creature that was nearly a hundred times larger than them, and the prey couldn't even touch the Predator.
Only the core members of the Andriera Family had seen images of the Marauders back then. Lung and Ying Weiji were the only ones who had seen the images. The rest of them hadn't.
Ying Weiji had seen a faint claw mark on the wall of a building just now. It was very similar to the claw marks of the Marauders in his memory. That was why he was so anxious. The group of people who had captured the Marauders tried to tame them, but they didn't even bat an eyelid and continued to hunt the large sea beast.
After Lung saw the claw mark, he began to pay attention to his surroundings. They had the advantage of being human, so they were much more sensitive to aquatic creatures than other races. When he sensed that there was a Marauder behind Silin, Lung hurriedly called out to warn them. However, neither Lung nor Ying Weiji had expected such a scene to occur.
"Why did the Marauders stop?" Lung asked Ying Weiji in a low voice.
They didn't dare move recklessly, and they didn't dare to move too much either. That would make the Marauders feel threatened and go berserk. That would be even harder to deal with.
Ying Weiji didn't understand either. According to the Andriera Family's records of the Marauders, they were all very cruel. Once they started killing, they wouldn't stop until their prey was dead. According to the Andriera Family's analysis, the Marauders probably didn't have any natural enemies in this world. Regardless of whether their speculation was correct or not, they were all very curious as to why the Marauder had suddenly stopped when it was clearly charging at them.
Silin patted Huimao, who was itching for action, and told him to hold back for now. After observing the black fellow not far away from him for a moment, Cillin suddenly thought of something and took out the gray cat's incredibly precious leather ball.
"Meow, Silin, why did you take out my ball?!" Huimao hurriedly reached out to protect the ball. It was impossible to find a ball like this in the entire League of Stars, and it was extremely rare even in the Mist Bodhisattva Sect. After all, no one would go and ask that giant viper to make another one, right?
"Let go, I'm just doing an experiment."
"If you don't let go, what if that black fellow scratches it?"
Silin noticed that the Marauder in front of him had become even more vigilant as he watched Huimao protect the ball with its claws.
Silin pulled at the ball in his hand and saw that it wouldn't budge, so he said to Huimao, "Why don't you play around here? That black fellow seems to be afraid of that thousand-year-old viper's skin."
Huimao flicked its ears and looked at the Marauder that was baring its teeth and opening and closing the folds of its skin on its neck. It looked at them warily and hooked the ball with its claws. After it hit the building, Huimao jumped up and firmly hooked the ball with its tail.
During this process, the Marauder in Lung's mouth moved its gaze along with the ball. It even took a few steps back and growled warily when the ball was thrown.
Lung and the others finally realized what was going on.
Ying Weiji shot Lung a look. What's that thing in that kid's hand?
Lung: I don't know either.
While everyone was paying attention to the Marauder, Czedow moved around to the back of a building in a flash. While Czedow was moving, another black shadow flashed around the building. It was another Marauder.
"Awoo, wait! Wait! We mean no harm! Don't kill me or it! "
A strange voice came from behind the building. It definitely wasn't Czedow's voice.
There's someone else?
Lung motioned for the others to go over and take a look.
The Marauder in front of Silin gave up on Silin the moment it heard the voice. It flashed and charged over.
When Silin walked over, Lung, Ying Weiji, and the others were looking at Czedow strangely.
Czedow was holding a person in his hand. Hmm, he didn't look like a normal human, but he did look a lot like one. There was a Marauder on each side of him. They were staring at Czedow like a tiger watching its prey. As for Czedow … a Marauder was biting him from head to toe all the way to his abdomen. Czedow's outstretched arm was blocking the bite, so the Marauder couldn't swallow him any further.
The person Czedow was holding slapped the head of the Marauder holding Czedow and urged, "Let go, let go now!"
The Marauder let out a few rustles of dissatisfaction before letting go and retreating to the person's side. Czedow's upper body was finally exposed, and there were teeth holes all the way from his abdomen to his head.
Just how many rows of teeth did a Marauder have in its mouth?! It was as if a two-sided needle board had clamped down on Czedow's head.
Ying Weiji and the others quickly discovered that there was no blood on Czedow at all!
The holes on Lung's body quickly closed and returned to their original state under the group's wide-eyed gazes. It was as if the person who was almost swallowed just now wasn't him.
"Who are you?" Silin asked.
The person scratched his finger-thick hair with a webbed hand and said a little bashfully, "My name is Careya. Everyone calls me Sai Sai."
His one sentence revealed a lot of information.
This person knew the common language of the League of Stars, and his tone carried a Sector H dialect. Secondly, he said 'everyone', meaning that there were other people here besides him. Thirdly, this person and his accomplices were very likely residents of this underwater city, and they were very familiar with the Marauders.
Seeing that Silin and the others didn't react, Careya said a little vexedly, "I really didn't do it on purpose. I was just curious."
Silin motioned for Czedow to put Careya down before saying, "We mean no harm. You can have your companions put down their weapons now."
Lung also motioned for his subordinates to put down their weapons.
Careya looked at Silin and then at the others. Then, he scratched his webbed right hand with his left hand, thought for a moment, and waved at the buildings.
Not long after, the buildings were no longer the monotonous hemispherical shape they were before. Some parts of the buildings had become transparent like windows, and there were a few people who looked similar to Careya lying on the ground next to the windows. They were all armed.
The person lying on the window of one of the buildings shouted at them, "Sai Sai, ask them if they are intruders without keys. If they are, ask the guards to kill them."
Silin and the others: "..."
Didn't he find it strange that Bright Truth would shout something like this?
Careya turned to look at Silin and the others, "Hmm. About that, are you intruders without keys?"
Lung covered his face.
Are the creatures here really so intelligent?!
After adjusting his emotions, Lung answered, "I brought the key here. It's right there." Lung pointed at the direction of the hill, "I couldn't have turned this place into this without the key. You guys were living underground before this, right?"
Careya nodded hurriedly and said excitedly, "Yes, yes, we were living underground before this. I heard that this is the first time this city has risen up since it retracted into the ground! "
"Hey, they really did bring the key here!" Careya waved at the buildings and shouted.
After receiving confirmation, a door opened on the hemispherical buildings, and the people inside walked out. Most of them looked young. There was expectation in their eyes, as if they were looking forward to something.
After these people walked out, a couple of predators ran over to them. These people seemed to be very familiar with the predators.
Looking at the ferocious fellows wagging their tails like pet dogs, Lung felt a sense of absurdity. He always thought that no one could tame a high level sea beast that tamers couldn't. But what was up with these people?
Lung shook his head and looked at Czedow. He pinched him curiously and elbowed him, "How did it feel to be half-eaten by a predator just now?"
Czedow thought for a moment before answering, "Bad breath."
Lung: "... That was a pretty good experience."
While Silin and the others were thinking about what to do next, the people who were approaching them parted to make a path for them. An old man of the same race as Careya ran over with a bottle in his hand. The bottle made Lung's heart beat faster unconsciously.
Could it be?
The old man ran over and looked at Silin and the others. Then, his gaze stopped on Lung and the others, "Are you looking for the Tear of Gods?"
"Uh, yes!" Lung was a little confused by the direct question.
"Who wants the Tear of Gods?"
"Me." Lung pointed at himself.
"Here!" The old man passed the bottle to Lung and looked at him expectantly. "Drink it! This is the Tear of Gods! "
Ying Weiji and the others looked at the old man suspiciously, but at the same time, they also felt that the thing in the bottle seemed to be communicating with them. There was a sense of intimacy, just like how they communicated with sea beasts after they tamed them.
Lung stopped Ying Weiji from inspecting the bottle and accepted it. He said to the old man, "I heard that the Tear of Gods grants its user the ability to reform sea beasts."
"Yes, yes, that is true!"
"But I also heard that those who use the Tear of Gods only have a certain chance of success."
"Yes, yes, that is true!"
"What if they fail?"
The old man smiled kindly. "They will die."
Lung: "..."
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