"What's wrong?"
Red Chicken Bro was always the quickest to act. He sprinted a few steps and arrived before Xiahou Aotian.
The aristocratic heir who fancied himself the protagonist was utterly pale, his eyes vacant, with lingering fear in their depths. He seemed not to have recovered from the fright.
This left everyone both curious and grave. For something to scare a chuunibyou this badly, whatever was in the sea had to be terrifying.
Free Eagle, Cloud Dream, and Love of Summer Trees silently tensed their muscles.
Under his companions' grave stares, Xiahou Aotian took a deep breath and said:
"Shipwrecks. The seabed is covered in shipwrecks, and at the center of them is an especially huge ship, probably four or five times the size of ours. Those wrecks surrounded the large ship, forming a very strange array. Although the underwater robot's searchlight had limited range and I couldn't see the array's full layout, I can confirm that there really is a grand array on the seabed.
"That array is very strange. I've never seen anything like it, and breaking it would be extremely difficult."
Obviously. It was an array laid down by ancient cultivators. They had inherited traditions, so their skill at array formation was certainly greater than that of Spirit Realm Walkers. It was the difference between intermediate mathematics and advanced mathematics, Zhang Yuanqing said, "And then?"
That alone could not have scared Xiahou Aotian so badly.
Xiahou Aotian lowered his voice. "I guided the underwater robot toward the large ship at the center of the array to investigate. Just as the robot approached, I suddenly saw what seemed to be a woman in white drifting out of the cabin, only to vanish in a flash. I immediately adjusted the camera angle to follow that white shadow, but