Chapter 609: Under the Deep Sea
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Petrachelys was submerging silently and quickly in the water, leaving the storm behind. The footage from the external monitor was converted to several large holographic projections. These holographic projections formed an immersive scene as if the heavy armor around the bridge had disappeared, and they could directly experience the feeling of immersion in the deep sea.
The sea above them was fading away, and soon they could only see some light flickering from above, which was the endless lightning thunderstorm of Io illuminating the stormy star. In the past, the first new energy that the sirens of this planet came into contact with the 'Air World' was lightning. And it was more than 1000 years after Iwenna discovered the starry sky when the sirens experienced the 'sunlight' for the first time.
Too bad, these historical details had been submerged in the surging waves of Io. Maybe no one would ever know again.
As they were getting deeper into the deep sea, the turbulence of the currents began to calm down and those violent waves seemed to be isolated to another world. The darkness grew more and more heavily from all directions, but there was a wonderful sense of relief as the darkness poured in. Lily hugged her shoulder, jumping around Hao Ren and said, "Aww aww… It triggers my deep sea phobia…"
Vivian pushed her aside and said, "Stop acting, your simple brain can't get that complicated problem."
"The deeper the sea the calmer it is..." Shaqira sat at the front end of the bridge, gazing into the deep darkness. "When was the first time our ancestors swam up from the deep sea? Why would they think of leaving a safe and peaceful deep sea? How did it feel to see the storm on the surface of the sea for the first time? Is it a new surprise? Or terrified?"
"Races with history can touch the path of the ancestors through their own history books, but even when we get back to our hometown, we can only guess how we used to live here," the Siren Queen said and shook her head, "When I returned here, there's no surprise, only emptiness."
"Maybe you'll feel better when you see the remains in the deep sea. I think those relics should be similar to the scenery of Nasaton," said Vivian while looking at the Siren Queen, "Actually, sirens are better than those living on the land. At least you're trying to keep your culture and think about where you come from. Those living on the land don't care about that anymore. For more than 10000 of years, everyone has lived like wild animals."
Hao Ren looked at Vivian oddly and asked, "Vivian, are you sure it's ok to keep criticizing them like this?"
Vivian crossed her arms and said, "As someone who is older and elder than them, can't I be disappointed in them?"
Hao Ren was speechless. He could only turn to the data terminal and said, "Leave a detector for every kilometer as we go deeper. We can't waste this chance. Have to do ecological research on this planet or something."
A passage was opened at the top of the Petrachelys and a small detector rushed out of it, leaving a tiny light in the dark deep sea. At this moment, the spacecraft (maybe it's more suitable to call it a submarine?) had submerged into complete darkness, and there was no slightest source of light except for the light on the spacecraft. However, the spacecraft's external monitor was not built based on the optical basis, so the darkness here did not affect them observing outside. After the spacecraft submerging deeper, some animals of odd shapes began to appear in the water. Some of them were slender as fish, and some were like some kind of triangular crustaceans. These creatures had lived peacefully here for many years, but now they were suddenly disturbed by a silvery white monster from somewhere far, far away, they were frightened and immediately scattered in all directions. However, there were also some small, daring aquatic animals moving closer to the Petrachelys, probably they thought that this huge thing was edible?
Nangong Wuyue looked at the scenery outside with eager eyes, moving her tail unconsciously and said, "I wish to... Go out for a swim."
The Siren Queen and the other sirens were immediately intrigued by this idea. Sorma raised her tail happily and said, "Oh, that's a good idea! Perhaps swimming in the water of our hometown for a while will give us a different feeling!"
Hao Ren tested the water quality here, confirming that there were no more toxic substances in it, and then agreed to their request. Petrachelys then opened the door, and four slender figures quickly rushed out from it.
Nangong Wuyue was swimming merrily in the water, dragging her long tail circling around the spacecraft. The other three sirens were curiously chasing the grotesque deep-water creatures in the water. The faint glow of Petrachelys shone upon the graceful shape of the sirens as if it were a wonderful scene that only existed in a fairy tale. Hao Ren turned on the communicator and heard Nangong Wuyue's cheerful voice. "Eh! Landlord, these crustaceans are chewing on the spacecraft's numbers…"
"Don't swim too far, be careful don't get lost." Hao Ren smiled then asked, "Katreina, how do you feel now?"
"This water… Incredible. I can feel that there's a wonderful intimacy in it. I don't know how to describe it to you, but only the siren can feel the magic here. It's really good!"
Shaqira sped down a, and then turned to the spacecraft and waved. "Light! There's light down there! We seem to be arriving at the bottom of the sea!"
Petrachelys hummed and began to go deeper quickly. A faint halo soon appeared beneath the ship.
What appeared in the halo was a vast expanse of man-made ruins.
On the flat expanse of the deep sea, the endless buildings of sirens were extending to the end of sight. The buildings were of high and low, distributed orderly, and constructed in a white and light green man-made material, with shapes like they were piling up with a variety of shells and corals. They looked elegant, exquisite, and full of inexplicable mysterious atmosphere. And the things that were shining between the buildings were a large number of glowing algae. These algae grew luxuriantly in the crevice of buildings that have been abandoned for more than ten thousand years, emitting a soft, mysterious pale blue, pale pink glow. The entire city of sirens, and even the entire seabed was thus far from darkness.
Today, more than 10000 years after the artificial lights of the sirens had been extinguished, the primitive light from nature had again illuminated the deep sea.
This was an ancient kingdom hidden in the deep sea. Its endless stretches of land covered almost the outer rock layers of the entire planet. Over the kingdom, it was a thick sea with an average thickness of more than 10 kilometers. The kingdom in the deep sea was far beyond the description you read on many fairy tales and myths that for a moment Hao Ren did not know how to describe the place.
All he knew was that when looking at this planet from the sky, no one would have expected such a lost kingdom to be hidden beneath the endless storms and the grayish-blue ocean.
"According to the database records of Nasaton, here should be the capital of sirens," data terminal said while matching the information, "Evadurant. It looks like the teleportation portal was opened in this place."
"The energy environment here is very chaotic." Hao Ren turned on the radar and found that there was a large energy vortex in the vicinity, but all the details were interfered by a strong background noise. "The two worlds should have already interfered with each other. The radar is very confusing here. It's like sleepwalking between two worlds."
The data terminal was operating other devices. "It should be around here. Start the conventional wave radar with optical observation. The whirlpool is so big. It's not too hard to find."
"Let us help you." The voice of the Queen came from the communicator. "Don't worry, if we encounter any dangerous situation, we will return immediately."
The four sirens were swimming in four directions to the depths of Evadurant (the ancient capital in the deep sea). At the same time, Petrachelys also began to search slowly. The teleportation portal seriously interfered with the nature of this place. The distortion involved the origin of the world, so even if Hao Ren was navigating a super advanced spacecraft, he would not dare to act recklessly.
"Actually I can also help to explore the…" Vivian muttered to herself.
Lily looked at her in surprise. "Oh battie, your little bats can swim as well?"
"Can't you two just sit quietly for a while?"
Suddenly, Nangong Sanba saw something on the holographic projection and shouted, "Look! What's that?!"
The holographic projection immediately magnified the picture, and a huge, dark, strange object appeared before them.
Hao Ren was shocked when he saw the clearer picture. "This is… a spacecraft?"