Chapter 43 Atlantis

After swimming with the mermaid clan leader for a long time, I discovered that we had been diving downwards. According to the diving time, we were estimated to be at least 300 meters deep now. It was really strange. Why was there no water pressure here?

I was about to ask the mermaid clan leader in front why he hadn't arrived yet when I suddenly found that the originally dark sea floor began to gradually light up, and the brightness became stronger as it went down! Soon a huge underwater city appeared in front of me. The huge city was shining with little lights, and the sea water was illuminated by these things.

Watching the beautiful unknown fish swimming around and the many blue-light jellyfish floating around, I really felt like I had entered a beautiful fantasyland.

"Is it beautiful?" The mermaid clan leader suddenly turned around and asked.

"Ah? Well! It's beautiful!" I was shocked by the scenery around me. Why is such a beautiful place under the sea?

"But this beautiful place will disappear soon!" the mermaid chief said sadly.

"Why? Why did such a beautiful place disappear?" I asked the mermaid patriarch in surprise.

"Because its source of vitality is about to dry up!"

"Power? This place doesn't use electricity, does it?" I thought to myself that my father and his company were so ridiculous that there was actually a city that used electricity!

The mermaid clan leader looked at me strangely. "Electricity? You mean lightning? What is that for? Can electricity be used too?"

Fortunately, the mermaid clan leader doesn't understand electricity, which means this place is not powered by electricity. They probably use other energy sources! Thinking about it, Dad won't let anything too modern appear in the magical world here. It would be good if there were early methods of using gunpowder or steam power!

"Then why did you say that the energy source is about to be exhausted?"

"There is a problem with the central power here. If we can't find a replacement, we will stop it completely!"

"I'm afraid I can't explain it clearly. Please take me to have a look! Maybe I can help you!"

"Okay!" The mermaid clan leader took the lead and swam towards the city below.

As I got closer, I discovered that this place was not a city but a city cluster. Thirteen hemispherical vaults supported the pressure of the sea water, and each vault protected a city. I followed the mermaid patriarch and swam to the top of a ball in the middle.

Slowly approaching the seabed, a light blue door appeared in front of us. The reason why we knew it was a door was because its color was different from the surroundings. The top of the dome was completely transparent, and this door But it's blue!

The mermaid clan leader walked directly to the door and walked through, and I followed. I couldn't help but reach out and try it. My arm went through without any obstruction. It was dry inside and there was no sea water!

"Come in!" The mermaid clan leader walked a little and turned around to find that I hadn't followed and was still studying the door. She came over and pulled me in. "If you want to study it, I'll give it to you after you solve our problem so that you can study it to your heart's content!"

"Oh!" I followed her like a country bumpkin, looking here and there, curious about everything. The buildings here have sleek extensions, and there are poles like street lamps erected on all roadsides. Each pole is topped with a huge white crystal. The soft ones I saw outside at first The light should be emitted by these crystals! Almost all the buildings along the way have light yellow walls and light blue doors. They are so beautiful no matter how you look at them!

What surprised me most was the people I saw along the way. Almost all of them were young people. I didn’t see any old people but I saw quite a few children! Moreover, the people here are either handsome guys or pretty girls. When I walk here, I feel like an ordinary person. If an ordinary person would probably commit suicide out of shame and anger, of course it does not include the big pot meal!

"We're here!" I was looking around when the mermaid clan leader suddenly stopped. "This is the main power tower of Atlantis!"

I stopped immediately. There was indeed a tower in front of me, which seemed to be at least 300 meters above. The top of the tower is connected to a huge dome. It is this energy dome that prevents seawater from pouring into the city. But even with my naked eyes, I can see that the energy dome is constantly flashing and emitting some strange sounds from time to time. The sound comes.

"Come in!" The mermaid clan leader pulled me into the tower. Since the mermaid clan leader was leading me, the four guards on both sides didn't say anything.

When I entered the tower, I immediately noticed the thing in the middle, because there was nothing else in the tower except it. This is a strange thing. How should I put it? It looks like an electric fork. There is a hollow on a one-meter-high square base, and a huge well is embedded in it. Above it is a huge dark black cylinder with a diameter of about 1 meter and a height of more than 5 meters. It is surrounded by eight luminous rods like fluorescent tubes floating around it. At this time, these eight luminous rods are rotating at a very slow speed as if they may stop at any time!

"Is this the crux of the matter?" I asked.

"Yes!" the mermaid clan leader said helplessly: "This is the magic barrier generator of Atlantis. We rely on it to support these 13 cities. It provides us with security protection, daily lighting, and oxygen extraction. And food supply! But now it is about to dry up. Once it stops running, our city will be exposed to the sea water, but the young children of our mermaid family cannot adapt to life in the water. Little mermaids under the age of 10 cannot use themselves. Damn it, if the crown collapses, our descendants will be drowned, and the race will be destroyed! From now on, Atlantis will cease to exist!"

"Then why did it stop? Hasn't it been running normally for so many years?"

The mermaid patriarch pointed to the huge white crystal under the black cylinder on the pedestal. "That's the reason. This magic crystal has exhausted its energy. The original purple magic crystal has almost completely turned into white! The crystal's work has been very unstable these days. It is always flashing. At the same time, our crests began to flicker, and they were on the verge of collapse!"

"Then how can I help you?"

"Yes! As long as you give us your magic crystal, we will be saved!" The mermaid clan leader almost climbed on top of me, and her eager eyes made it impossible for me to refuse her!

"I really want to help you, but the problem is that I don't have any!"

"Who said that?" The mermaid clan leader looked at me firmly. "I feel that there is a big magic crystal on your ship, so we have to hijack your ship!"

"On my ship?" I dragged my chin and thought for a long time, but I didn't expect there to be a magic crystal anywhere. "Can you tell me the exact location? I really can't remember it!"

"I don't know the exact location, but it should be near the bow of the ship and it appears to be on the deck."

"The bow deck? Is it the one inside the magic crystal cannon? It can't be such a coincidence, right?"

"I don't know! It's around there anyway!" The mermaid clan leader started to use a honey trap on me. "Lend it to me! I'll promise you whatever you want! Okay?"

I'm dizzy! This little mermaid doesn't plan to engage in erotic transactions with me! This is not possible! "Keep your distance!" I pushed her away. "That's not necessary. Do you have anything good in exchange?"

"Exchange?" The mermaid clan leader was stunned. She didn't expect that I would make such a request.

While she was thinking hard, another person came in from outside, "Ana! Who is he?" The questioner was a male mermaid, and he was also wearing a full set of armor and holding a trident in his hand. It looked like It’s a head!

"Emperor Atlantis!" The mermaid clan leader suddenly knelt down on one knee towards the guy. "This is a friend I invited from outside. He has the magic crystal we need, but he needs something in exchange!"

"Oh? Do you have a magic crystal?" This Emperor of Atlantis actually looked at me with shining eyes. "You really have?"

"I don't know either! There should be some, but they don't seem to be as big as yours!" I was afraid that the small ones would be useless.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter!" Emperor Atlantis said excitedly. "Size doesn't matter, just have it. No matter how small it is, it can solve the urgent need, right? But of course bigger is better. How big is yours?"

I gestured with my hands. "It's so big, about one-tenth the size of your piece!"

"So big? That's great. If it's that big, it can support it for another ten or eight years! Hahahaha!" He suddenly stopped with a smile. "By the way, you want us to buy it, right?"

"Yes, although I sympathize with your situation, my thing didn't fall from the sky. I also need it very much. If I want to give it to you, you have to give me some benefits!" This is the true nature of a businessman. ! hey-hey!

"This...!" Emperor Atlantis thought about it for a moment and then discussed it with the mermaid clan leader named Ariana: "Follow me!"

He led us out and after turning n turns on the street, we finally arrived at a place similar to a warehouse. There were two guards guarding the place. Emperor Atlantis commanded the guards to open the door and let us in.

The warehouse is very large and has a lot of stuff, but everything is covered by something black and canvas-like, which is probably rust-proof. After all, this is the bottom of the sea, so there should be no dust! Atlantis took me to the middle of the warehouse and said, "This is property we can exchange for. You can pick some things here."

"Let me take a look first!" Because things were placed in separate areas and covered with cloth, I casually walked to an area and lifted up a piece of canvas. What appeared in front of me made me stunned. "Motorcycle?" What I saw was clearly a motorcycle, but upon closer inspection, it was wrong. It was not a motorcycle. This is... a two-person motorboat! These wheelless things have a very beautiful streamlined shape, and there are seats for riding on them. Apart from the fact that they look like a fish, they are clearly two-person motorcycle speedboats! "Why do you have this thing?"

Emperor Atlantis said helplessly: "This is our previous naval mount, but..." He waved to Aina who came over and pulled out a crystal pendant from his chest. She inserted the crystal on the pendant into a groove in front of the seat of the motorboat, and then the motorboat sprayed out a lot of water with a roar, then began to make a buzzing sound and stopped moving.

The thing stopped immediately after Adi Na pulled out the crystal. "See? This is driven by magic crystal. We almost don't have enough energy to support Qiongding. How can these things move?"

"Oh! I can understand!" I went to another area and opened the canvas. This time I saw many long strips with a strange shape. It felt like an upright stick. "What's this?"

Emperor Atlantis picked up a part and stood it up in front of him, and Adianna also picked up one of these things. Then Aina found a small groove on the thing, and put her own magic crystal into the groove. A blue translucent light film suddenly appeared between the two symmetrical vertical sticks.

I now knew what this was. This was the gate I saw at the city gate just now, which could separate the sea water without affecting people's entry and exit.

Emperor Atlantis explained: "This is originally a magic shield, but as you can see, these require magic crystals to provide power, so we really can't use these things!"

"So what's over here?" I walked to another area. "Aren't all your weapons here?"

"That's not true!" Emperor Atlantis came over and opened the canvas himself. What was 'exposed' under the canvas was gold, and it was a whole piece of gold, as big as a red brick. "These are the junk left behind after the ships sank at sea. Because there was no place to put it, we collected it and melted it into this shape for easy storage. Do you have a lot of creatures on the ground like this? Why are there so many of them every time a ship sinks? If this thing falls, it will pollute our environment everywhere!"

"Don't you want this?" I asked, pointing to the gold bricks.

"Is this thing useful?" Emperor Atlantis asked strangely: "This thing is inedible, and it is so soft that it cannot be used to make weapons. The most important thing is that this thing is very heavy and very difficult to carry! People here usually use it to build their houses. You can see that the outside of our houses is all posted with this stuff, because the biggest advantage of this stuff is that it won’t rust!”

"What? Your houses are all made of gold bricks?" I said, why are the outsides of the houses here all golden! What a luxury! It suddenly occurred to me. "By the way, the streets here are also yellow, are they also paved with this kind of stuff?"

"Yeah? What for?" Atlantis said matter-of-factly, "What else can this thing do besides paving the floor and sticking it on the wall? Besides, this thing is so wear-resistant and doesn't rust, how great do you think it is!"

"You have a lot of this stuff?"

"Yes!" Grandina replied. "These are here because the regular yellow bricks (the name of the mermaids for big gold bricks) can't fit in the warehouse, so we put the extra parts here! There are actually many outside, but because the warehouse is completely full , so we didn’t transport it back! We went through a lot of trouble in order to store these things. The fish in the sea hate these things, so in order to protect the normal life of the fish and ensure that there will be no problems with our food, we can’t put them down even though they are there. I’m still collecting these things. I’ve been so busy with magic crystals these days that I have no time to deal with these things! Our place is almost filled with all this garbage!”

I drooled as I looked at Atlantis. "Here, can you send someone to help me transport this thing back to my ship? I decided I want this!"

"What? You want these rubbish?" Emperor Atlantis and Ariana asked in surprise.

I nodded sharply. "Yes, yes, I want this garbage. You can transport it for me. I want as much as you give me!"

Emperor Atlantis said: "If you want it, I can give it to you, but I'm afraid your ship won't be able to carry it! This thing is so heavy that even a ship can't carry it much!"

"It's okay. You just need to help me transport it. At worst, I will run a few more times."

"What about our crystal?" Emperor Atlantis asked anxiously.

"Here, I'll definitely give it. Have someone help me move these 'bricks' back, and I'll bring them the crystals back when they come back!"

"Okay!" Emperor Atlantis held my hand and shook it. "Thank you so much for providing us with motivation and helping us clear out the trash!"

"Hahahaha! Happy cooperation!" We both laughed.

What Emperor Atlantis was thinking was: "This idiot gave us such a large piece of magic crystal for free and also helped us transport a large amount of garbage."

What I was thinking in my mind was: "This fool, he cheated a boatload of gold with just one piece of magic crystal. He went back and exchanged the gold for diamond coins, and then went to find his second brother Domingo and bought a bunch of magic crystals from him! Hahahaha!" "If you think of it, do it. I quickly pulled the Atlantis Emperor and said: "Although my magic crystal can solve the urgent need, it is still not a long-term solution. I can help you find many magic crystals, although I may not be able to find them as big as yours." Yes, but it’s okay to pay a few more bucks for the smaller ones, right?”

"Can you find many?" Emperor Atlantis asked excitedly. "Then you must help us! We want as much as you have! The more, the better!"

"Well...! I have nothing to do! But after all, I don't sail my ship alone! You see, I have to support so many sailors and a group of brothers, so I work very hard! So... you see... …this……"

Of course the Emperor of Atlantis knew that I was asking for benefits, and he immediately started crying about poverty. "Hero, this is what we have. Take it if you like it. I don't have anything else!"

I patted him on the shoulder and said, "I don't have high demands. First of all, I want 0 fish-like things."

"Okay! I'll give you 300!" Emperor Atlantis thought that if he gave me more worthless things, I would be embarrassed to ask for anything else.

"Okay, I want 300. Second, I want 1,000 of that magic shield."

"Okay!" Emperor Atlantis was secretly happy there. "This fool specializes in picking out useless things. It's just a good idea to move them. We don't need them in the first place, and he can save space by moving them!" Of course, he would not say these things in his heart.

"The last one, that big brick, can I pull a few more boats?"

"Okay, I'll use your clothes to fill up 10 ships for you!"

"Okay!" We shook hands with a smile again.

After that, we started to work separately, first of all, we started transporting gold bricks. I originally wanted to use the space wrist wheel on my hand to carry more, but unfortunately these gold bricks are not considered equipment items and cannot be put in! I had no choice but to move it piece by piece. Fortunately, water itself has a certain buoyancy and is not as heavy as in the air, otherwise ordinary people would not be able to lift such a big gold brick!

The Emperor of Atlantis sent out almost all the men in the city, and one of their men helped me transport it with two bricks. Little Dragon Girl was also summoned by me. She can move dozens of pieces at a time.

Auntina led us to quickly find the Biling, but there was only one battleship floating quietly on the sea, the Biling, and all the other ships were gone! From a distance, I saw Rose and the others lying in a circle on the bow of the boat, shouting my name, and seemed to be looking for traces of me. I summoned Xiaofeng and threw it into the sky, and the surrounding area lit up as soon as she was there.

"Over there!" Bingbing spotted me first, and then everyone saw me.

I swam to the side of the boat and climbed onto the deck. Rose rushed over and hugged me tight. Her voice was filled with tears: "Where have you gone? I hate you! Why don't you contact us?"

I smiled and rubbed her hair and said to Ying. "Eagle, we have a cargo to transport. Quickly gather all the sailors to the hole in the stern of the ship."

"The entrance to the cave?" Eagle looked at me and said, "I was just about to tell you about this!"

"What's wrong? Something happened to the Biling, right?"

"That's not true, it's just...!"