In addition to Klein, the eyes of other Sailor also instantly shifted from Nina to Angel, focusing on the face under the golden bangs and the parts covered by the hands. The meaning contained in the eyes was obvious.
It wasn't until Sailor Chief Nina snorted that everyone reacted, and left Frank with a bang, returning to their posts, wiping the deck and pulling the sail ropes, but from time to time there were still sights coming from everywhere.
They are obviously more interested in the mysterious and beautiful Angel than the Nina they usually see.
Seeing everyone dispersed, Angel put down his arms and walked generously in front of Klein.
"They said there is a Fourth Epoch ruins on the seabed, and a huge bottomless well. Nina is going to lead a team to have a look, and I plan to go with him."
She explained softly and pointed at the ravine on her chest. "Rose Necklace" was hanging around her neck, resting on the smooth, close-fitting whale skin tights, emitting a faint dark blue light.
"Wind-blessed", Ocean Affinity...Klein nodded clearly, but his eyes were firmly tied to the necklace.
"What, does it look good?"
Feeling where his eyes were focused, Angel chuckled and asked.
"Very, ahem, ahem, average."
After Gehrman and Klein argued about this for a moment, he maintained his "cold Adventurer" image under the control of pharyngitis and replied calmly.
With a soft snort, Angel turned around and followed Nina to the side of the ship, making final preparations for launching into the water. Illusive scales gradually appeared on her exposed skin, reflecting the sunlight, making her look even more dazzling.
Looking away with difficulty, Klein regretted that he had not followed his true heart. He glanced at Frank who was holding a wine glass and drinking "Sea Fish Red Wine" alone. The latter felt his gaze, quietly came over and said:
"Do you need medicine?"
Huh?
At that moment, Klein felt that his crazy personality was about to burst out of his body and swallow up the inexplicable "Toxin Expert" in front of him.
"No need."
He replied calmly with a cold face.
"I mean your cold, or pharyngitis, it doesn't matter, it can be cured," Frank said reluctantly, took out a small green apple from his pocket, rubbed it on his shirt, and handed it to Klein, "I got this by crossing medicine and fruit. It makes taking medicine a pleasure, not Affliction."
It turns out to be this medicine. I hope you can forget my reaction just now, otherwise I will help you forget it... Klein suddenly realized, took the apple with a sullen face, hesitated for a moment, and took a bite.
At the end of his sight, Angel stretched out his limbs and followed Nina and several other Sailor, Feather Fall into the deep blue sea.
Plunging into the sea, Angel squinted his eyes and stared at Nina in front of him. The experienced "Seafarer" led the way and swam towards the deep sea at a nearly vertical angle.
At first, she was a little curious as to why Nina, who could condense Illusory Scales on her body, wore such a shameful tights. However, as the depth increased rapidly, her exposed skin felt a biting cold that even her scales could not withstand, as well as the gradually increasing water pressure. Only then did she understand the meaning of the previous preparations.
Of course, Sailor Chief Nina also drank a whole bottle of Nibos, which is said to be used as an incendiary bomb. Although she explained that it was for "warming up", Angel always felt that there was no problem if she didn't drink.
Maybe it has something to do with Sequence 5's physique... She thought as she gradually swam toward the dark and deep depths of the ocean. Several teammates of "Sailor" Pathway Low Sequence stopped diving one after another and coordinated from above. They were able to survive briefly underwater, but the water pressure in the depths exceeded the limit of their abilities.
In the cold sea water, only Nina was leading the way, and Angel was following behind. The figure of Sailor standing overhead and the sunlight above the sea quickly dimmed, and below was still an abyss that could not be seen to the bottom. Angel felt as if she was stagnant in the deep sea. Only the cold seawater around her and the increasing pressure made her know that time was still passing.
Nina in front suddenly stopped diving, raised his arms, opened his palm with one hand, and stretched out his fingers to press against the palm of his hand.
What she meant was to stay where she was... Angel, who had already communicated with the other party before entering the water, quickly understood the meaning, hovered behind her, and put his hand on the other party's shoulder.
"Ocean Affinity" allows Angel's eyes to be covered with a layer of transparent sclera, and its own "Dark Vision" allows her to see in the deep sea, so there are not many Sailors appearing. E had been told about "deep sea phobia". She looked at Nina and found that the other party was just taking a short rest to get used to the pressure of the sea water. After a while, he made a gesture to continue diving and took the lead to swim downstream.
"It's about 10 minutes. If you dive 50 meters per minute, you have reached a depth of 500 meters..." Angel estimated the time and kept looking around, but Dark Vision could not penetrate the deep seawater. The surrounding deep seawater seemed to swallow up all light and objects.
"Gugu——"
Nina spit out a few bubbles from his mouth and pointed downwards. Angel looked intently. At the outermost edge of the visual range, on the seabed that could barely be seen clearly, stood a huge ruins.
It is not appropriate to call it a ruin. This vast "building" has completely collapsed, and its original shape cannot be seen. It is covered with thick seabed mud and has several unidentifiable deep-sea plants. Only the roots and protrusions all over the seabed prove its existence and show its scale thousands of years ago.
Angel and Nina used their hands and feet to quickly swim to the bottom of the sea and get close to the ruins. The two did not separate to improve efficiency, but held hands tightly to avoid being separated on the lightless seabed, and explored the ruins together.
It wasn't until Angel swam closer that he discovered that the metal bars protruding from the mud were all metal bars that had been corroded by the sea water. The structure they formed had already rotted under the heavy pressure Distortion, and was almost broken when it was bent, or shattered when pinched. However, the scale before being submerged by sea water could still be seen, which was probably no less than the "Future" above the head.
Carefully breaking off two arm-length metal bars as evidence, the two continued to explore the ruins in a circular and outward manner, and it didn't take long before they found the "bottomless" giant well.
What makes Angel extremely disappointed is that although the wellhead does look dark, scary and bottomless, it is only about two fists in diameter and cannot even fit an adult's head in, let alone explore.
She looked at Nina, who also shook his head in disappointment, saying that he was even more powerless due to his size.
I am afraid that only newborn babies can enter this "giant" well, and finding a baby born with the ability of "Seafarer" is no less difficult than turning a tall Sailor Chief into a fifty-centimeter-long mini Nina...Angel also spat out a few bubbles in disappointment, trying to break off a piece of irregularly shaped, fist-sized black hard soil from the wellhead, wrapping invisible threads around its corroded surface, and ejecting it like a slingshot, directly through the "giant" well and into the depths.
Gulu, Gulu.
Angel waited for a while but didn't feel any movement.
The depth of this well is probably no less than the distance between us and the sea now... She shook her head, stopped trying, and looked at Nina beside her.
The latter's limbs were floating in the seawater, with a dazed expression on his face, and his eyes behind the sclera were blank, and he was slowly drifting towards the wellhead.
Angel's heart tightened, and he immediately grabbed the opponent's shoulder, but it slipped on the whale leather jacket and failed to catch it immediately.
She did not hesitate, and quickly reached out to hug Nina, locking her waist tightly, kicking her feet down, stirring up a cloud of dust on the sea bed, and using the reaction force, she moved away from the narrow, deep wellhead.
Nina seemed to wake up just now, broke free from Angel's grip, and made a gesture to indicate that he was fine.
But the two of them did not dare to stay any longer. After picking up another black stone next to the wellhead, they quickly swam upstream.
With the help of "Ocean Affinity", the two did not need to stay during the ascent process, but quickly joined the waiting Sailors, surfaced, saw the bright sunshine again, and breathed the salty air of sea water.
"Huh, thank you just now," Nina exhaled a mouthful of turbid breath that smelled of alcohol, and said to Angel, "That well seems to have a power that attracts me, and I can't help but get closer to it."
"Even if you get close, you can't get in."
Angel joked, watching "Future" drop the knotted ropes one by one, and let the Sailors climb onto the deck one by one.
"But I always feel that something bad will happen... Don't you have this feeling of being attracted?"
Nina said with some fear.
"Not at all."
Angel answered honestly, still recalling the strange steel ruins and the narrow but bottomless "giant" well in his mind.
"The metal strip was originally supposed to be very strong steel, but after thousands of years of seawater erosion, the original shape is no longer visible. As for this piece of black soil..."
"Admiral of Stars" Cattleya pushed the heavy frame on the bridge of his nose, raised the "evidence" brought back by Angel to his eyes and studied it carefully for a moment, shook his head, and explained to Angel, Klein and others beside him.
"It's hard to tell what caused these marks, and its texture is also very strange. It doesn't look like soil or stone... I have never seen such traces of corrosion."
She murmured in a low voice and ordered Nina to put them into the warehouse.
"Since humans can't enter that well, there's no need for us to rush to explore. I'll wait until I figure out the secrets of these metals and soil and confirm that the well is worth the risk before I return here."
Since this voyage had more important tasks, she quickly made the decision not to stay any longer.
Angel had already changed out of the somewhat shameful tights and put on women's shirt, jacket and trousers again. The Sailors nearby kept looking at them with disappointment. Seeing that Cattleya was preparing to let Future set sail, she asked unwillingly:
"Madam Captain, what do you think this ruins could be?"
"I have never heard of similar buildings in Fifth Epoch, and this sea area was not developed until Feysac Empire won Sonia Island from Loen in Twenty Years' War... They may really belong to Fourth Epoch as rumored."
Fourth Epoch... In an era when even the steam engine had not been invented and ships were all made of wood, how could there be such a huge steel building?
Questions came to Angel's mind. She tried to restore the steel wreckage in her memory, and found that no matter how it was built, it didn't look like a ship. Instead, it looked a bit like the huge trusses of the offshore platform she had seen in the book in her previous life, which had long been abandoned due to the exhaustion of oil.
The empire of Fourth Epoch can build Ghost Ship that travels between Spirit World. Could it be that it also built similar buildings?
She touched her still wet hair, and couldn't help but want to Magic Mirror Divination to confirm the origin of the metal and soil, but found that Nina had already left with them, so she had to give up.
Forget it, wait until Ms. "Hermit" has gained something, and then ask her from Tarot Club... Angel saw Klein staring at the back of Nina who was going away, chuckled, stretched out her fingers, and secretly approached the soft flesh of his waist.