The stone-column passage descended to a depth of around fifty meters...
Alvin fought back his discomfort as he slowly sank through the narrow space, swimming along the passage inside the stone column and into Atlantis's underground space.
Once he was underground, Alvin couldn't stand it anymore...
He pulled out the omnidirectional lamps he'd prepared the last time he explored the Qin Emperor's Underground Palace and began tossing one ahead every so often.
In a place without a speck of light, relying on his keen senses to reconstruct the underground space never made Alvin feel safe.
Stark was doing much better than Alvin. The Iron Man Armor's omnidirectional radar and countless sensors could detect and calculate the surrounding environment, then relay it to him.
The images were only black and white, but JARVIS had a compensation function that stabilized them.
Alvin, however, couldn't do that. His senses were fully exposed, and they were a little too keen.
Whenever an undercurrent swept by, a flood of information from this relatively cramped space would enter his mind.
Since Alvin wasn't used to it, the images in his head would blur and clash with the images Stark provided.
Now that they were underground, the light probably wouldn't attract the Basilisk's attention above.
Alvin promptly decided to illuminate the place...
Once the lights came on, the stone passage underground revealed a somewhat terrifying scene.
Dark green seaweed covered all four sides of the passage...
The seaweed looked like horrible ropes from Hell, wrapped around countless bones.
The occasional ugly-looking fish swam through the weeds, searching for food among the bones and seaweed.
Alvin looked at a strange corpse with seaweed coiled around its neck, its body drifting with the current through the passage...
He turned to Chiron and said, "What are these things?
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