Chapter 390: Entrance
Every dozen meters he swam, Drew had to return to the surface of the lake to breathe. After storing new oxygen, they dive back into the lake. After repeating this several times, he had swam across the lake. Coming to the lake again, the scene in the lake is much the same. The ground is covered with moss, and occasionally tree trunks that have sunk into the lake can be seen being carried here by the lake. This time, though, Drew clearly felt the flow of water.
When he was still, he could feel the water flowing towards the lonely cliff on the opposite side of the lake, which meant that there was a gap in the cliff that caused the lake to flow. Drew suddenly came to his senses and approached the cliff to look closer.
At this time, there was a faint loud noise from the lake, and Drew looked up, thinking to himself that the battle on the shore of the lake was going on.
"Edward, Lucy, get its attention for me."
"Jahner, have your men attack its left side."
"Regers, hit it with the right foot."
Allen mobilized everyone to cooperate with the attack, and jumped up at the monster's head. With the concerted efforts of the crowd, the behemoth's attention was successfully distracted. One of the eyeballs saw Alan, but he didn't care. In its eyes, Eren was no different from a mosquito, and now the people who harassed it were a swarm of evil bees. In contrast, it is more important to repel this group of vicious bees.
After successfully landing on the head of the behemoth, Eren no longer attacked rashly as he had done the previous times. He had tried several times before, and he had a killing opportunity in his life, instigating the source power, and immediately attracting the attack of the tentacles. So this time, Eren restrained his breath and silently observed the extremely powerful tentacles on the monster's back. When all the tentacles were busy attacking the people below, Eren raised the demon salute slightly.
The source power exploded, and Eren stepped on the beast's head on tiptoe, and the man rushed straight towards one of its eyeballs like a cannonball. The killing machine was fully revealed, and the giant beast realized that Alan was also a bee. But it was too late to separate the tentacle attack, and Alan poured the source power into the dagger, and the dagger immediately flowed blood. Under the control of Allen's mind, Demon Salute activated the first-order stance, forming a dark red short blade.
Eren held the blade and plunged into the beast's eyeball. His whole body almost pressed up, blocking the red glow when the Blood Hymn ability was activated, and the giant beast suddenly felt a strange force in its body, and this strange power made the blood in its whole body boil. Almost uncontrollable, strands of blood arrows burst out from all over the beast's body and condensed into blades in the air.
The beast screamed, and the bloody blade exploded, forming a secondary impact that violently tore through its shell, flesh, and even the blood vessels and some internal organs in its body. Eren struck a blow and immediately drew his knife and flew back. The demon gem on the short blade flowed through the blood, and the abundant blood essence of the giant beast was absorbed by the source weapon, and a part of it passed into Allen's body, replenishing his consumption after the war.
The blood essence of the giant beast is full of powerful vitality, it quickly nourishes Allen's source power, and quickly recovers. In just a moment, Allen's consumed source power was half restored, which surprised him.
Falling to the ground, Eren beckoned everyone to stand back. The behemoth was hit hard by this and fell into a state of madness. The tentacles on its back frantically whipped all around, whipping the earth and rocks apart, the rubble flying, and a cloud of dust and smoke rolling endlessly. It was only a moment before the beast stopped. It became very weak, but it never died. It seems that Demon Praise only spared most of its essence blood, but its vitality was too tenacious, but it still survived.
But now it didn't have the strength to fight anymore, and it glanced at everyone with hatred. In particular, the sight that stared at Eren was full of resentment, and the giant beast let out a few low sounds, turned around and staggered away. The crowd watched it go, but no one stopped it. In fact, now that everyone is half exhausted, who has the strength to intercept this big guy again.
It's nice to be able to expel it.
Behemoths move slowly, but they can move at great speed. Within minutes, its figure had disappeared into the forest, but its cries could be heard from a distance from time to time. Every time it sounds, it will startle a flock of birds. Seeing that the monster had gone away, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and then rested with confidence.
Naturally, Alan and Garner took sides. At this time, Alan realized that there was a fat man missing from Garner. He looked thoughtfully over the lake, just as Drew had returned. When he surfaced, he felt Allen's gaze, and he was suddenly a little embarrassed.
Without saying a word, the fat man walked up to Garner and whispered something in Garner's ear. Alan said lightly: "Mr. Garner, this is a little different from our previous agreement. We agreed to join forces to defend against the enemy, but you took the opportunity to let your men go to the lake to explore the way, do you have to explain something to me? ”
Garner snorted, "Drew is not good at fighting in the first place, and it is useless to let him stay on shore." What's wrong with me asking him to find the way, you have to understand that this lake is not yours. The ruins in the lake are not yours, our fighters have already participated in the battle according to the agreement. As for the rest, I don't think you have the right to ask, right? ”
"That's a good point, but then I doubt your integrity. It made me wonder if we were going to stab us in the back if we were to enter the ruins together. ”
"What do you mean?" Garner asked with a frown.
Alan spread his hands and said, "The meaning is obvious, that is, I don't believe you." Since you have breached the contract first, the previous agreement is void. Now please leave, or we will have to expel you by force. ”
Jia Na said angrily: "Your Excellency is not too domineering, although we explored the way first, but at least we also contributed together just now, how can you regret it!" ”
"Let's continue with the previous agreement, but Mr. Jana you have to show sincerity."
Garner's eyes rolled, and he had also paid attention to Alan's side in the battle just now. With the exception of Allen, all of his men have their own strengths. The weaker ones are the two twins, and the strongest combat power is naturally the leader of Allen. Not to mention anything else, Garner asked himself if he couldn't seriously injure the giant beast with a single blow like Allen, and the blood blade that splattered out, without thinking about it, knew that it must be some kind of domineering ability.
Once the war began, Garner knew that his side had no chance of winning. The self with the highest combat power and Momiji are a little worse than Alan and another teenager. Not to mention that Alan also has the domineering ability to hit giant beasts hard, after thinking about it, Garner sighed lightly: "That's it, Drew did find something in the lake." If there were no accidents, he would have found the entrance to the ruins. I can tell you where to go, and it saves you a lot of time. After we entered the ruins together, we parted ways according to the previous agreement. ”
"If you don't agree, we'll leave immediately. But today, you will definitely find an opportunity to return it! ”
Alan listened, nodded and said, "Let's do it." ”
After resting on the shore of the lake, the group prepared to dive into the lake. According to Drew, under the cliff on the other side of the lakeshore, there is a stream of water injected. He had found the gap, and had slightly straightened the moss attached to the cliff wall, and found it to be a regular circle. Judging from his description, it should be the outlet of some kind of pipe, because nature will not have a regular shape, and every regular thing is the result of man-made.
However, the speed of the water in the circular gap is slow, and it is difficult to detect it if you are not very close to the water in the lake. Alan guessed that something should be blocking the pipe, so the lake didn't fill in quickly. Therefore, the first thing to do after entering the lake is to remove the blockage in the pipes. So he consulted with Garner and decided that the two of them, plus Drew, would go into the water first, while the others would wait on the shore.
After bringing the necessary tools, the trio went into the water. Drew swam ahead with ease, and they swam to the other side of the lake and then to the bottom of the lake. There was another wonderful world in the water, and Alan saw small fish swimming past him from time to time, swimming freely in the bottom of the lake like birds in the sky. As I went deeper and deeper into the bottom of the lake, I didn't see the small silver fish above, but some strange creatures living at the bottom of the lake.
They feed on moss and microorganisms found in the lake water, and these small things can resemble shells or hermit crabs. But without exception, they all have glowing antennae. These antennae are sensitive to the flow of water and can distinguish danger. As Alan and the others swam closer, the little things spread out in a swarm, and in a matter of moments they were all gone.
Unable to speak in the water, Drew could only point in the direction of the cliff and signal for Alan and the others to follow him.
Swimming near the cliff, Drew pressed his hand against the rock and scurried upward. After a few moments, Alan saw a round shadow. When I got closer, I saw that it was indeed the exit of a pipe. The surroundings are covered with green moss, and large fan blades can be seen inside. However, there are many aquatic plants wrapped around the fan blades, and something is blocking the back, so the water does not flow fast.
Garner grabbed the fat man and motioned for him to look outside. Then he glanced at Allen and swam into the pipe first. Alan followed, and the two soon came to the side of the pipe's fan blades. Garner reached out and tapped the blade of the fan, and when he realized that it was metal, he had a surprised expression on his face. stretched out and pulled again, and the fan blades naturally did not move.
Alan wiped the fan wheel with his side hand, tearing off a large piece of green moss, revealing the thick screws around the fan wheel. Alan pointed to the screw and made a turning motion. Garner understood, and went with Alan to turn the screws. These things have been soaked in the lake for a long time, and they are already covered with rust, and it is difficult for ordinary people to turn them, but it is difficult for the two of them.
They turned the screws hard, and after a few moments, they turned them down. After taking the fan wheel and losing its fixation, those fan blades will naturally be taken off lightly. However, after folding the exhaust fan, the problem was still solved. After the fan, some rocks blocked the pipe, leaving only a few palm-sized gaps. Not to mention people, I'm afraid that the bigger fish won't be able to swim through