Chapter 1664: Chapter 14: The Goggle-Wearing Boy in the Deep Sea

“Tai Yinzi old man, Tai Yinzi old man?” Nero suddenly shouted repeatedly.

Tai Yinzi looked at Nero with confusion at this moment, not understanding why she was showing a look of surprise… The secret of memory hidden in his mind had just opened a crack; it was the time to reap the benefits, yet it was suddenly interrupted, and his heart couldn’t help but be angry.

“You’re about to collapse.” Nero blinked and said.

“What?” Tai Yinzi was stunned and instinctively looked at his own body.

The Dark Soul Body had completely scattered at this moment; there wasn’t a piece connected… Tai Yinzi suddenly awoke from a dream, and a look of shock flashed in his eyes.

The secret in the depths of his mind was instantly interrupted, becoming indescribable, and his Dark Soul Body began to gradually fuse again… Just a little more time was needed, and Tai Yinzi had a feeling, that his Dark Soul Body would be completely dispersed, and what awaited him would likely be the endless darkness inside the Covenant Chest.

He shivered with fear… At this moment, his spirit gradually calmed down, but what followed was waves of sharp pain; he realized with clarity that he had just been in a state similar to overclocking, which his weak soul was clearly unable to bear. Once stopped, there was a backlash.

It seems that the task given by the Lord is not so easy to accomplish… This time, because of Nero, only a tip of the iceberg was revealed, almost causing his body to shatter.

Perhaps, when his Dark Soul Body evolves again, and the secrets in the depths of his memories reappear, he could explore for a longer time?

“Are you alright now?” Nero saw Tai Yinzi had stabilized and examined him carefully.

“No major issues.” Tai Yinzi shook his head, “I just suddenly remembered something.”

Nero thought for a moment and said, “About the Wilderness?”

Tai Yinzi shook his head again, this time with considerable determination, showing a desire not to say more.

Nero didn’t press further; after all, during the playful talk, an old ghost like Tai Yinzi who cherishes his life, might indeed have times when he truly wishes to risk it all.

“Alright, now that we have the Bloodline Fruit, how do we get to the Palace of Eternal Night?” Nero directly switched topics.

Tai Yinzi took out an object, “This is the Coordinates pointing to the Palace of Eternal Night, since we’re out, let’s head directly there, to avoid long delays.”

“Okay.” Nero nodded and didn’t say more, directly stepping out of the huge Stone Gate.

“By the way, how long have you been trapped here?” Tai Yinzi just wanted to ease his headache, so he randomly picked a topic.

“55,270,080 hours.” Nero turned around at this moment, expressionless said, “plus twenty-four minutes… Just now was the thirty-fifth second.”

Tai Yinzi instinctively opened his mouth.

But this little girl had already walked far away… Without the jubilant joy of escape nor the despondence, just curiously looking around.

“So meticulously… It seems, quite a lot of resentment.” Tai Yinzi sighed, shook his head, “This time, the Lord is just too…”

At this moment, Tai Yinzi suddenly felt an inexplicable fear, like a corner stepping off the edge of a cliff.

“Could it be, my arrival in this Royal Third Garden is actually also??”

The feeling of panic and fear in his heart intensified… Tai Yinzi took a deep breath, completely emptied his thoughts, then felt better, but dared not to ponder anything further.

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It is said that most regions of the deep sea still refuse human exploration… In the unfathomable depths of the seabed, new creatures that humans can find continue to increase year by year.

Here, it has exceeded the limits of human technological exploration methods… At the bottom of a giant trench, Boss Luo and Ms. Ren are strolling.

The peculiar algae growing at the bottom of this deep-sea trench are now emitting faint green light, behind Boss and Ms. Ren, there is a water tornado soaring into the sky.

Like a pillar, supporting this peculiar place.

The moisture is quite abundant, casually waving a hand, and the palm would get wet.

Luo Qiu had already arrived at the outer perimeter of the Undersea City, recorded in the materials left by Lamias, for nearly twenty minutes — During this time, they’ve been wandering in this deep-sea trench, haven’t yet encountered the residents of the Undersea City, but have already seen some quite peculiar deep-sea creatures.

In the deep sea, even if an entirely independent civilization outside the human realm truly exists, it must be born alongside the establishment of human civilization on land.

The timing between them, theoretically, would not vary too much; maybe it was before human civilization or after human civilization.

Because the 003 Sub-world had already been restarted multiple times, leading to the current stage of human civilization.

The reboot mentioned in A Lai Ye’s script would necessarily be the reboot of the entire world, of course, including this peculiar civilization in the deep sea — Hence the Undersea City wouldn’t be a heritage leftover by the previous reboot civilization.

However, it still hasn’t been exposed to the human world… Even if there’s documentation, it might only be held by those ancient organizations.

For example, Xuanyuan Palace, which has always been committed to repelling the invasion of sea monsters.

For example, the Black Religious Congregation searching for resources in the deep sea.

So, it can be generally assumed that the civilization of the Undersea City also exists within the script of this civilization of A Lai Ye — However, it might only exist as a dark line.

Nowadays, the human nations, worldwide, continuously emerge various transcendent events — This really should have exploded right after the Mount Tai event, but due to the existence of the Terminator, it’s been forcibly delayed for several months.

Because of the relationship with the Terminator, the official reboot of civilization would put the real activation after the Terminator — But A Lai Ye apparently wouldn’t really wait until then to take action.

Judging by the current situation, it seems the move is gradually opening, gradually intensifying, working as early preparations — and this point, clearly hasn’t excessively collided with Boss Luo’s requirements.

“Perhaps, even the Undersea City will soon truly start to interact with human society?”

Luo Qiu suddenly had such a thought… Then shook his head — He knows when such a thought unintentionally arises, soon there will be some changes accordingly.

Can’t say if it’s good or bad.

He stopped at the end of this deep-sea trench.

Two enormous sculptures stood here, reaching a height of a hundred meters, towering on both sides at the trench’s end, like guards… The large sculpture on the left is of a human male in battle armor, and the large sculpture on the right is of a non-human peculiar creature.

Four-fin arms, bent legs, sharp teeth and fierce eyes, membrane on ribs… Three-eyed.

“It seems, indeed there’s an ancient civilization in this abyssal trench.” Ms. Ren clicked her tongue admiringly at the statues, “Wonder if the civilization of this Undersea City is similar to the ocean civilization of other Sub-worlds.”

The previous club owner’s business seemed to never reach into the civilization world of this ocean trench abyss… The reason is unknown—at least, since the maid entered the shop, it hasn’t.

Beyond two giant statues is already the end of the deep-sea trench, ahead seemingly devoid of any path—at least, within normal vision, there’s indeed no path left.

“It seems like a barrier, the pivot point is these two statues.” The maid understood after a few glances: “There’s no fluctuation of world fragments nearby… However, the space is somewhat unstable, hypothesized to be artificially-created subspace, yet hasn’t left the current world, it appears to be an application of space folding technology.”

Space folding has many branches… As for the one before us, it’s probably akin to the technique of overlapping a larger house over a smaller one.

“Master, should we go in now.”

Boss Luo thought for a moment… Meanwhile, he gazed thoughtfully towards the way from whence they came—a flickering blue glow was rapidly crashing towards them.

The maid reacted quickly, stepped forward, and waved her hand to block Boss Luo.

The blue glow ahead gradually became clearer… apparent.

Boss Luo saw a boy riding an unusual vehicle, wearing goggles and pointing a meter-long stone spear, showing a panicked expression.

The vehicle looked somewhat like a motorcycle but had no wheels, its whole body grayish-white, resembling a shell of some mollusk.

The blue glow was emitted from this peculiar vehicle, appearing as the light from activating the drive system.

The boy on this unique vehicle was speaking frantically: in a language different from any known to the current human society.

Boss Luo gently pinched the palm of the maid’s hand.

The boy’s panicked speech suddenly became clear and understandable… The next second, communication was no longer a problem.

Owner’s time cost: ten days.

“Move! Move! Quickly move! I’m unable to stop! Move quickly!” The boy shouted in terror at this moment.

Thus, Boss Luo pulled the maid and took a few steps sideways—the boy on his transport instantly swept past in front of Boss Luo and the maid.

Confirming eye contact, a hint of confusion flashed in the boy’s eyes: Why did they really get out of the way?

BANG——!!

The unstoppable vehicle fiercely crashed into the base of the giant humanoid statue—instantly, this peculiar vehicle shattered to pieces.

However, the boy was unharmed as he climbed up… The robustness of his body was somewhat unexpected.

Only to see the boy reeling with a hand on his waist and rubbing his forehead, he started yelling in pain… Suddenly, as if remembered something, he stared with horror towards the path from whence he came, shouting: “Hurry! Hurry! The Sea Demon Clan is coming after us! You must leave quickly!”

As he spoke, the goggle-wearing boy hurriedly took out a waterdrop-shaped crystal, about half the size of a palm, from his body and stuck it to his forehead, pointing towards the center between the two huge statues.

Soon, a blue light shot out… Shortly afterward, a thin light curtain appeared at the base of the two giant statues, like the surface of water infused with alkaline, spreading with a layer of colorful glow.

“Come quickly!” The boy again shouted urgently at Boss Luo and the maid, his expression growing increasingly panicked, “They… are coming!”

Luo Qiu casually glanced.

Within the deep-sea trench, a group of peculiar creatures appeared, resembling the peculiar huge creature at the trench’s end on the right.

The Sea Demon Clan mentioned by the boy also had three eyes but lacked pupils, had no nose, their ears were pointed and long, the mouth split open, reaching the ear roots, with a set of sharp teeth like steel spikes, saliva flowed profusely, appearing ravenous.

They crawled with limbs like spiders, extremely fast, nearing them quickly.

The maid glanced at Boss Luo: Should they intervene?

Boss Luo shook his head, then headed to the boy who opened the gate, “Let’s go in first.”

The maid was indifferent… The master never actively kills, be it humans, demons, or the Sea Demon Clan, there’s no difference.

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“That was close! If you were any slower, those Sea Demon Clan creatures would’ve surely eaten you!”

After passing through the colorful thin membrane, Boss Luo and the maid entered a cave… rather dry, though still very humid, much better compared to outside.

As for the resultless prey Sea Demon Clan afterward, those in the cave couldn’t see anymore.

The boy with goggles now directly leaned on the rock face, hands on knees, gasping for breath, took quite a while to recover, then looked up at Boss Luo and the maid.

“Huh, who are you?” The boy curiously examined them, even approached, tilting his head, his nose twitching, sniffing forcefully, “Why do you have no smell?”

He was clearly pointing at the maid.

Boss Luo curiously asked, “Smell? What smells.”

The maid always had a faint perfume scent.

The boy frowned and said, “It’s the smell of being alive, but each person’s smell is different. I was born able to sniff these smells… She’s weird, even the Sea Demon Clan has a smell, but she has none! Ah, I also can’t sniff your smell, what’s going on?”

“What’s your name.” Boss Luo asked.

The boy froze, instinctively said, “Lei Yaz! My name is Lei Yaz!”

He had just finished saying, then quickly opened his mouth in surprise, not because of revealing his name, but feeling that upon hearing the other party’s words, he spoke his name without any alert, as if it was only natural.

“Were you raised here?” Boss Luo asked again.

The boy… Lei Yaz nodded at this moment, answered: “Yes, I’ve grown up in Lemoria, about to come of age.”

Why did this big brother make me eager to respond promptly to whatever he asks…

“Lemoria…” Boss Luo blinked, “Undersea City.”

“Who…who exactly are you?” The boy Lei Yaz immediately became cautious, retreated two steps, even raised his meter-long stone spear.

“We got lost.” Boss Luo chuckled.

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