Chapter 654: The World of Stagnancy
Obviously, those players will definitely not encounter these things underwater, monsters of this level, let alone causing them human losses, and they will not even be able to leave a mark on their heavy armor.
There should be more powerful mutant creatures in the water, at the very least, it should be at the level of a berserk mirelurk, but Qi Lin's luck was good, and he didn't encounter it.
Qi Lin didn't dare to let his guard down at all, his hands pressed against the outer wall of the building, and moved down little by little.
The entire building's glass curtain wall had been crushed by the water pressure, leaving only a skeleton-like skeleton, and Qi Lin could clearly see the scene inside the floor—a large number of broken furniture had been soaked in seawater, and the floor was almost completely peeled off, revealing the cement layer below, and all kinds of garbage and debris filled the space on each floor.
All of these things hovered there silently, motionless, as if Qi Lin had entered a stagnant world.
……
There were no corpses, Qi Lin searched most of the buildings, and did not find a single corpse, and although there were a large number of rusted car wreckage piled up on the street outside, he did not find any half-human bones.
In other words, when the Kowloon Peninsula sank, the people here should have been evacuated, and what sank to the bottom of the sea was an empty city.
An empty city......
Whether it is historical value, political status, or even cultural and economic factors, Kowloon does not rank among the top ten cities in China, and the cost of sinking it into the sea is enough for mankind to rebuild several or dozens of cities of the same size on the wasteland.
"In the middle of the city...... What secrets are hidden? ”
While thinking, Qi Lin reached into the backpack on his chest and took out the "Complete Activation Core".
"Huh?"
Before Qi Lin could completely take the activation core out of his backpack, a faint blue light leaked out of the gap in the backpack.
And this blue light is the source of this ultra-high-density startup core.
"Sure enough...... That's the clue ......"
Qi Lin set his eyes on the activation core in his hand, and saw circles of dark blue streamers constantly flashing on the surface of the sphere, and after dozens of seconds, all these blue streamers converged on a point, and this point pointed directly at the position where those players dived.
"The entrance is right there." Whether it's those mysterious players, or this even more mysterious Launch Core, they all think that Qi Lin is conveying the same message.
The entire Kowloon City area is nearly fifty square kilometers, and Qi Lin alone searched for it, even if he was given a week, he would not be able to search it all, not counting the time he had to surface every half an hour to change his breath.
Now that the clues were so clear, Qi Lin didn't plan to continue wasting time elsewhere, and swam directly in that direction.
The location of the group of players was not far from Qi Lin, only about two kilometers, and Qi Lin only changed his breath once in the middle of the way, and he was already close to that place.
It's easy to find those players, who carry an arm-thick cable trailing behind their equipment, a cable that connects all the way above the water, and is so visible underwater that it can be seen at a glance.
The cable goes down to the inside of a subway station, where a player with a harpoon gun is vigilantly guarding the entrance to the station.
"A subway station? Is it underground? ”
Qi Lin suddenly felt even more puzzled, originally he thought that the target that needed to be protected should be in the city, so he needed to sink the entire city into the water, but if it was underground...... Isn't that exactly the same as a shelter?
In that case, then why do you want to sink the Kowloon Peninsula on land? Even if there are a little more nuclear warheads dropped on it, as long as the underground defense facilities are dug more sufficiently and the protective measures are good enough, then there will be no impact at all, so why spend astronomical manpower and material resources to sink the entire peninsula?
With doubts in his heart, Qi Lin quietly approached the player who was standing guard at the entrance of the subway station.
Although dynamic camouflage is a relatively weak skill on the ground, it is almost indistinguishable from stealth in the extremely dimly lit seafloor.
Qi Lin swam until he was twenty meters behind the person before stopping, and further on, even if Qi Lin was invisible, the other party might be able to sense his existence through the change in the flow of water.
"I'm sorry buddy, although you and I don't know each other in life, and there is no injustice between us, but you are in the way of this, I have no other choice......" Qi Lin thought silently in his heart, and his move was fast, and a highly compressed spot of light shot out from his palm, creating an almost vacuum channel in the sea water in an instant, straight through the player's chest.
There was no sound, no explosion, no spreading blood mist, only a round hole appeared on the man's armor - in order to kill with one hit, Qi Lin's concentrated energy bombardment was a compressed version with the attribute of "annihilation", as long as the energy in the spot was not exhausted, everything would be wiped out in an instant.
The body that had lost its vitality tilted to the side under the action of the current, and Qi Lin hurriedly swam up, grabbed the other party's arm, and dragged him into a storefront on the side of the road.
The putting on and taking off of this kind of armor is very complicated, so Qi Lin can only use violent means to pry the iron can open.
Wrapped in armor was a young man, perhaps no more than twenty years old, with a white face, no beard, and a short head typical of an army.
Inside the armor was an emergency diving suit, and apart from weapons and equipment, the player didn't have any items on him that could prove his identity, and Qi Lin didn't find any tattoos or anything like that.
Pushing the corpse aside, Qi Lin put on his diving suit, as for the diving armor, because it was disassembled by violent means, it was impossible to put it on his body completely without repairing it.
Putting on the breathing mask and scuba found from the corpse, Qi Lin picked up the harpoon gun and swam towards the entrance of the subway.
He only had an hour, and if he couldn't get everything done within an hour, things were going to get troublesome when the man he had just killed came back to life.
After the cable entered the subway, it went straight along the track, and Qi Lin also swam forward with the cable, and before he could swim far, he saw two other players wearing diving armor, carrying the generator-like equipment in their hands, and swam back the same way.
"What a coincidence...... I hope I don't get to see through it......"
Qi Lin paused briefly, then quickly swam up, actively exposing himself to the vision of these two people.