Chapter 412: The Secret of the Underground Ocean
Unfortunately, Fei’s spiritual power could only scan an area of 1,500-meter radius around him. It seemed like the ocean was still a lot deeper, and something at the bottom was stirring up this underground ocean that was calm for more than 20 years.
Fei was unprecedentedly shocked; he could never have imagined that the groundwater under Dual-Flags City was like an ocean.
“How can there be an ocean like this under the desert? Did Emperor Yassin know about this ocean when he built Dual-Flags City 26 years ago?”
Fei had a ton of questions on his mind, and they buzzed and flew around in his mind like flies.
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“What is going on?” Prince Fairenton’s shout sounded inside the campsite of Jax.
Loud rumbling noises sounded from the five water wells the soldiers of Jax created, and water jetted out of them and wetted the entire campsite; there was so much water that the dry sand couldn’t absorb it in time, and small ponds formed on the ground.
What happened in Dual-Flags City happened here as well.
If the scouts of Jax paid a bit more attention, they would realize that water was jetting out of the six water wells in the previous campsites that they ditched a day ago.
Unfortunately, Prince Fairenton didn’t have a spiritual power that was on Fei’s level, and he didn’t discover what was going on.
As a result, the soldiers of Jax had to back out of their campsite and wait for the water to calm down.
“Your Highness, maybe a creature is causing trouble in the groundwater,” that mid-aged man who looked like a noble of Zenit suggested, “Maybe a water-elemental Demon Beast is under there. Maybe we should send a few powerful warriors into the water and see what is going on.”
“Water elemental Demon Beast?” Fairenton shook his head and said earnestly, “It is rare that a water-elemental Demon Beast would live in the groundwater that is 400 meters down in the ground. Even if there is one, it must be a king-level Demon Beast. It is too dangerous to send someone down there!”
“But Your Highness! Nothing like this had ever happened in this region! It isn’t a good sign! I think we need to figure out what is going on,” surprisingly, that mid-aged man wasn’t too afraid and persisted on his recommendation.
What was also surprising was that Fairenton valued this man’s opinion. After some thinking, he listened and followed that recommendation.
The prince turned around and called over a tall and robust man.
Most of the people of Jax weren’t that tall; they were usually shorter, and their bones were generally thicker. However, this man here was almost two meters tall! That was rare!
Although it was cold in the night and spit would be frozen into ice pieces in just a few seconds, this man wasn’t wearing anything to protect his upper-body. His defined muscles that had a dark tone looked like an iron armor, and the hideous scars on his body added to his vicious presence.
“Inle, you are the best swimmer we have. Do you have the courage to investigate the groundwater?” Fairenton asked with a smile on his face as he patted the shoulder of this man who was almost 30 centimeters taller than him.
“I’m not scared of anything, and I’m willing to do anything for Your Highness,” that man patted his chest and roared.
“Great! Put on this rope. Remember! Come back up if anything goes wrong! Don’t force yourself!”
“As you wish, Your Highness!”
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“Sir!”
“Your Majesty! We are here, what is going on?”
Shevchenko, Ribry, and Cech all quickly arrived at the east of the city where the water wells were located. Like Fei, they all understood the importance of these water wells, and they were anxious as well.
“Not sure yet, but I discovered something interesting,” Fei gradually opened his eyes and shook his head as he said, “Ribry, you have been here for many years. Do you know if anything strange happened when Dual-Flags City was being constructed?”
“I was born and raised in this city. When I was born, the city was already constructed. From the stories my parents told me, I don’t think anything strange happened. Why do you say that, sir?” Ribry answered to the best of his ability
“Huh, nothing?” Fei’s intuition told him that he discovered something others didn’t know. Since there were a lot of people here and he didn’t want everyone to know, he didn’t tell these subordinates of his about his discovery right away.
“Are all the documentation and the records of the construction kept somewhere?” Fei asked.
“All of them are stored in the Mayor’s Mansion. If you want, you can read them at any time.”
“Eh, great. Temporarily lock down this zone and send people to put up posters in the city to make sure the civilians know that the water source is fine. You guys guard this zone; I’m going to go down the water well to check up on what is going.”
Shevchenko, Cech, and Ribry were all shocked; they all tried to stop Fei.
“Sir, we don’t know what is going on down there, and it might be hazardous. You need to look after the hundreds of thousands of people in the city, and you shouldn’t place yourself in such a dangerous situation,” they said.
After they said that, they fought amongst themselves; they all tried to be the person who would take Fei’s place and explore the groundwater.
Fei was a little moved by this.
It could be explained easily if Pierce, Drogba, and Cech were doing this; Fei was their king, and it would make sense for them to be worried. However, Shevchenko and Ribry only got to know him for a few days, but they were also very worried about his safety; it didn’t look like they were pretending to care.
With these leaders around him, Fei was more confident in fending off the enemies.
“Don’t fight! Since I want to go down there, I know what I am capable of, and I won’t place myself in danger. You guys pay attention and guard this place. Also, make sure that the soldiers on the defense wall are aware; don’t let the invaders capitalize on this opportunity.”
The subordinates of Fei were still shocked, but they were too late to stop Fei. Before they could react, Fei already got into the water.
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The water in the wells was cold.
As soon as Fei entered the water, he lightly released some of the power of his Barbarian Character, and a sphere that was three meters in diameter appeared. This sphere was filled with air and blocked out the cold water, and Fei himself stood inside this sphere to avoid getting wet.
As he controlled his power and allowed himself to sink deeper into the water slowly, he used his spiritual power to scan the area around him; that would allow him to react fast once something was wrong.
Fei sensed the undercurrents in the water and understood how water was still getting shot into the sky.
After about ten minutes, Fei finally got through the water well and entered the vast underground ocean.
It was extremely dark in there; it felt like the water was black ink.
With the ability of the level 90 Barbarian, Fei could only see about 10 meters away. The darkness around him swallowed all the light, and the undercurrents around him made loud noises like thunders.
However, Fei’s spiritual power acted as his eyes, and he was able to “see” 1,500 meters around him.
Despite his spiritual power, that “vision” was still tiny compared with the size of the underground ocean.
Except for the ceiling above him, all that Fei could sense was the cold water around him. He didn’t detect any lifeforms, and he felt like this cold, desolate, vast, and unknown underground ocean was the
kingdom of the Grim Reaper.
“Maybe the water temperature is too low for any creature to survive.”
Fei thought about it and didn’t move around. After he memorized where the bottom entrance of that water well was, he continued to sink down.
“Doesn’t matter how big this ocean is, there must be a bottom,” he thought.
After another ten minutes of sinking and balancing his body around the undercurrents, Fei felt like he was 300 meters deeper, and he was sensing a lot more pressure.
At this point, he had to completely unleash the power of his level 90 Barbarian to maintain and keep up that sphere around him.
After another 100 meters, the pressure got stronger.
In the end, Fei had to summon all of his items from Diablo World, borrow the strength and the power from those items, and use everything he had to fight against enormous water pressure.
Now, Fei was about 1,500 meters deep in this ocean.
“I can’t keep going anymore. The water pressure is too high; I might be in danger……” Fei shook his head and thought, “This ocean is just way to big! It is strange that I couldn’t sense any lifeforms. Nature is just full of miracles!”