Chapter 97: Is there a monster?

Without those two high-level gods, the remaining rookies could not even exert 30% of their combat power in such a state where they could not see the surrounding environment. They were quickly settled under the joint attack of my demon pets.

After killing the remaining gods, I threw all the corpses to Lilith for devouring and evolution. Although the more the same gods eat, the worse the effect, the corpses are, anyway, so it is not very useful, so it is good to use Lilith's waste.

After retrieving all the remaining evil fog, I stood the gate of the earth on the surface of the lake, and summoned Xiaolongnu and said, "Can you move all the water in this lake into the lake of the Earth Mother Goddess?"

The gate of the earth connects the back garden of Mother Earth, but this so-called garden is actually a land with a considerable area. In the center of this area, there is a very vast lake. If the water in the lake in front of us is pumped into the lake in the garden of Mother Earth, at most it will only increase the water level of the lake by one or two meters. This should not have much impact on the surrounding environment. I think Mother Earth would not mind. Even if she is really unhappy, at most I can find another place to pour out the water.

When Xiaolongnu heard my request, she observed the area of ​​the lake and said, "It should be no problem, but the area of ​​this lake is relatively large, so it may take some time."

"How much time will it take?"

"It may take three to four hours to completely drain, but anyway, you just want to save the treasures below, so there is no need to drain them all. You can basically do it after about two or three hours."

"Then work quickly."

"Okay." After confirming the order, Xiaolongnu flew to the lake, then reached out and pointed to the water surface. A dense layer of white mist appeared on the entire lake surface. Then the white mist began to roll and rush into the gate of the earth as if it was alive. Finally, it all floated into the lake of the Mother of the Earth and turned into water and landed in the lake.

On the surface, this conversion speed is not very fast, but in fact it is still quite terrifying. Xiaolongnu had used this method to help me fight against the enemy's flame magic before, and drained a small lake at that time, which shows that its speed is still very fast.

In fact, there are some people who pump water faster among my magic pets, but I don’t want to take that risk. Ling’s dimensional space magic is a small black hole. The water absorption speed of that thing is absolutely exaggerated. As long as it sinks to the bottom of the lake, it will take less than half an hour to drain the entire lake water. However, that method is too violent, and the black hole cannot control at all, which means that it will absorb everything. By then, the water will be drained and the baby will go in with you. Wouldn’t we be in vain?

We were not idle while Xiaolongnu was pumping water. All my magic pets who could dive were sent out by me. They would be responsible for collecting some treasures in advance in the water. Anyway, although Xiaolongnu's pumping method is very fast, it is very gentle. Even if someone is in the lake, there will be no danger. Starting to collect in advance will also help improve efficiency. Otherwise, we can't stand there in a daze during the two or three hours of Xiaolongnu's pumping water, right?

Everything seemed to be going smoothly, but after pumping water for several minutes, it was suddenly stopped.

"Stop quickly. Stop quickly."

"What's going on?" Looking at the demon pet who had stopped all of them, I asked Adina in confusion.

Adina pointed in one direction and said, "Just just now, when I was searching for the specific sinking range of the treasure underwater, I found that there were two big holes on the other side of the lake connected to other water sources. According to the principle of connecting management, if we pump water here, the water on the other two sides will automatically be replenished here. If this continues, what we have to pump is not just the water from this lake. We don't know how much there is. If there is more water there, won't we be able to pump it forever?"

"What? There are other channels at the bottom of the water?"

"Yes. There are two big openings."

Xiaolongnu suddenly realized and said, "I said why I didn't see the water level lower after a long time! If there was really a large area of ​​water there, I couldn't do this. Even if my magic power could hold on, I didn't care about time. The Mother of Earth's lake could not hold too much water! Just one lake was enough to fill the lake there. If the Mother of Earth's back garden would turn into a swamp!"

"What should we do?" Lucky asked, "Can't you block the hole?"

"No." Ling said: "The lake water here is warm, which means that there are lava pipes passing nearby. If we block the water flow channel, it will inevitably change the pressure balance here. If the lava pipe breaks and submerges the entire place, it will be bad. It is no problem to fish in the water, but fishing in the lava is not a simple matter. Even if Xiaofeng and the others are not afraid of lava, the lava is almost zero. If you want to find a treasure in that kind of thing, you can only touch it with your hands. Such a large area may not be able to wait until we can pick up the things, and the lava will cool down first!"

"It's not okay to pump, it's not okay to block it. What should I do?" Xiaolongnu asked.

Ling thought for a while and said, "No matter what we want to do, we must first figure out where the two passages are connected. If there is not much water on the opposite side, it is not impossible for us to spend more time to drain it. If there is a lot of water, we will think of other ways."

"Yes, no matter what, go and see the situation first." After I figured out the key, I immediately said to Xiaolongnu: "Don't pump water first, help everyone go into the water to catch things. Adina, go and find out the situation in the two passages first. Others are picking up on the shore."

"clear."

After I assigned the job, I pulled the mask on my helmet downwards, then jumped into the lake. Adina followed me into the water, then turned her legs back to the tail and flashed past me. Although her athletic ability on land was not very outstanding, she would completely turn back after getting into the water. Except for Xiaolongnu, there were not many of my demon pets who could catch up with her in the water.

Seeing that Adina had surpassed her past, I spread my wings and flapped it. Although my wings were not originally designed for swimming, the mechanical structures of water and air are basically the same, so wings can also be used to protect you in the water, but the efficiency is not too high. Of course, compared with human hands and feet, that's much better, at least the area of ​​these wings is large enough after they are opened.

After flapping our wings and catching up with Adina, we swam towards one of the passageways together. According to Adina, the two passageways she found were not bad, because one of these two passageways was pouring water into the lake, and the other was pumping water from the lake. Therefore, as long as we can find a way to fix the entrance where water flows in, the exit will not only not affect our pumping work, but will speed up our pumping speed. However, it cannot be said that it must be a good thing there, because the water outlet is now out of the water outlet that is connected to the pipe is not necessarily because the water area connected to the pipe is lower than the terrain here, and it may also be because the pressure of the other inlet is too high that the lake forced water to the pipe with a higher terrain on the other side. If that is true, once we close the water inlet, the original outlet will also flow backward, which means that both are inlets.

While considering how to block the passage, Adina and I sneaked into the passage.

The width of this passage is relatively large, with a diameter of seven or eight meters at the entrance. At the beginning, it was because the entrance was too large, and Adina regarded it as a big pit at the bottom of the lake. However, the only thing that was really wide was the entrance. As we continued to deepen, the internal passage became narrower and narrower. After diving down along the passage in a nearly vertical manner for about ten meters, the passage changed from the initial diameter of eight meters to less than two meters now, but this width was already quite large for us. Anyway, with our body shape, it can be easily passed as long as the diameter is not less than one meter.

After continuing to fall for five or six meters, the passage began to change from vertical to horizontal. During the turn, the passage continued to shrink. After the passage completely changed to a horizontal direction, it was only about one meter wide, and some of them were even less than one meter wide. I had to cut off some protruding parts of the rocks forever to climb over. But fortunately, although the passage in front was always so narrow, it did not continue to shrink. After climbing through a narrow area of ​​more than twenty meters, the passage began to gradually widen again.

"It seems that the exit is coming." Adina suddenly turned around and said.

"Go out and have a look." When I heard Adina's words, I grabbed the passages on both sides and pulled them back hard, and my body immediately drilled out of the passage. The passage seemed to be a large area of ​​water, but because the visibility in the water was not too high, I still don't know the specific area yet. If you want to confirm the area, you have to float out of the water first. In the spacious environment, the wings can play a role again. After several consecutive swells, my body immediately accelerated and quickly emerged from the water.

Originally, I expected that the water here would be a small lake or something, so that it would be easier to control the water flow, but after it surfaced, I completely dispelled my previous fantasies because what appeared before us was an extremely huge underground ocean.

"Damn, how could there be such a large sea under the Russian God Realm?"

"I don't know." Adina simply replied, "But I definitely want to drain this place, so there is no need to rely on it. If I drain this place, the Earth God will become a water god!"

"Have you observed the situation in that passage along the way just now? Can it be blocked?"

Adina shook her head and said, "No, I have detected it with ultrasonic waves. There is only a very thin rock wall between the lava layer and the waterway. Forcibly blocking the channel will cause pressure changes on both sides of the rock wall. With no cooling effect of water flow, the rock wall will be burned through by lava soon. At that time, the high-temperature lava will pour into the lake there under the pressure. On the one hand, raising the water level will affect our work. On the other hand, the magma influx will eventually seal the entire cave, and then there will be nothing to catch."

I thought about it and said, "It doesn't have to be like this."

"Is there any other way?" Adina looked at me with a little confusion and asked.

"The rock wall cannot withstand the pressure because the water here has been drained, and the high temperature will make the rock softer, so we just need to do the opposite."

"in turn?"

"Isn't it enough to let frost and snow freeze the entire passage? The volume of water freezing into ice will increase, which not only can withstand the pressure, but also cool the magma on the opposite side to thicken the rock wall."

"Yes. Then on the other side, do we also need to freeze it in the same way?"

"That won't work." I explained: "Shuangxue is the only one, so she can't control her here and there!"

"Isn't there still Emmenis?"

"I've forgotten this!"

Emmenis' real mirroring skills can allow her to completely copy all the characteristics of a creature that is no more powerful than her, including the opponent's skills. As long as Emmenis uses the real mirror to copy herself into frost and snow, we have two super refrigerators, so that we can freeze the two channels on both sides to ensure that the water will not flow back. However, we have to wait to investigate the channel there first. If the other side is indeed lower than this side, there is no need to block it at all, but we can help accelerate the drainage of the lake.

After swimming out of the passage here, we did not swim from the other side immediately, but first came ashore to inform Xiaolongnu to take Frost and Xue to freeze the underwater passage here. Although Frost and Xue can have ice-type spells, she cannot rush to the water, so Xiaolongnu must help her to get down to the bottom of the water to freeze the passage. In addition, the reason why we did not enter another passage first is that we wanted to see which side the water flowed there. If this side is blocked and still flowed outward, then we don’t have to go over and see.

With the help of Xiaolongnu, Frost and Snow quickly dived into the bottom of the water to freeze the passage bit by bit. However, because the nearby geothermal resources are too abundant, the freezing time can only last for about eight hours, and then the ice will begin to melt. Of course, if Frost and Snow are replenishing magic power, you can hold on for a long time.

After Frost and Xue reported the situation, I sneaked to another passage with Adina to observe the situation, but the result was not very good. Although the water flow was very slow, this passage was indeed pouring backwards. According to this situation, the water pressure on the opposite side must be higher than that, so this passage must be sealed together. However, it is necessary to observe how to seal it. The structure of the underground passage seems solid, but in fact it is very fragile. Once its balance is broken, it is likely to cause collapse. We dare not do it before we investigated.

It was exactly the opposite of the previous passage. The entrance of this passage was quite narrow. Adina easily got into it, but I had to widen it a little before I could barely squeeze in. However, as soon as I passed the one-meter-long passage entrance, the back became much wider. Behind the entrance, the passage suddenly expanded into a huge pipe with a diameter of more than twenty meters, and as we continued to move forward, there was a tendency to be wider.

Since this relatively wide place can fully spread its wings, our speed is much faster than in the previous passage, but despite this, we still swam for about twenty minutes but still didn't see the exit.

"Master, this passage seems very long. What should we do? Keep moving forward?"

I thought for a moment and said, "This way, you are fast, you will do your best to rush forward as fast as possible. If you still can't see the end in ten minutes, you will turn around and come back."

"Okay." Without my drag, Adina's speed would be significantly faster. She herself is a mermaid, and the underwater environment is paradise for her. Once the speed is completely released, it is like a rocket. I saw a string of bubbles she stirred up from behind and the people disappeared. However, although Adina had already jumped far away, with the help of her soul contact, I could clearly feel the various messages sent back by her senses.

From Adina's sonar feedback signal, I found that the passage was actually trumpet-shaped. The place we entered was the thinnest end, but the front was getting wider and wider. In the end, even Adina's sonar could not reach the edge. Although Adina had only been running out for five or six minutes now, I still issued an order to let her return. Since this position was so wide, it would be meaningless to move forward. Anyway, we already knew that the water in this passage was basically unsucked, and there should be no problem with sealing it. After all, we did not find any dangerous geological structures such as lava passages here. Moreover, with the diameter of the passage here, even if the lava layer perforated, it would definitely be completely cooled by the water here, and it would not affect the situation there at all.

After receiving my order, Adina began to swim back, but just after she turned around, she and I suddenly received a vague sonar signal in our minds at the same time.

"What is that?" Because I don't have sonar myself, although the feedback signals I received were the same, I couldn't analyze these signals as accurately as Adina, and at most I could only feel them roughly.

After hearing my question, Adina immediately replied: "I don't know, the distance is too far and the signal is very weak, but this thing can move by itself, and it is more than twice the size of an adult dragon."

There are only two situations where you can move, either it is a creature or it is an artificial carrier. It is obviously unlikely that something like a submarine will appear in this closed groundwater system. The more reliable explanation is that this thing is a living thing. In this closed groundwater system, the moving living thing is so large that it goes without saying that it should be known that this thing is not a good person. If my demon pets are all here and I am very idle, maybe I will go over and see what this thing is, but in this case, it is better to have more things than less.

"A Dina, don't worry about that thing, hurry back."

After I gave the order, I was about to swim back, but who knew that Adina suddenly exclaimed: "No, that thing rushed towards me, it was so fast!"
Chapter completed!