Chapter 124

In the deep water, a square formation composed of five diving Puji was cautiously diving.

The team suddenly changed direction, swimming horizontally for dozens of meters before continuing downward.

Just now, there was a big fish in front of the Puji that was almost completely transparent, but it was exposed under [Sonic Detection].

Under continuous detection, another strange fish with mouthparts that could extend more than thirty meters was soon discovered in the distance.

A diving Puji used [Infrasonic Attack]; this couldn't cause enough damage to that strange fish, but it could make it feel uncomfortable!

Sure enough, the strange fish twisted its body and swam to other places.

And when a huge jellyfish caught up with the Puji team and wanted to catch them all in one net.

The Puji at the back broke away from the team and rushed toward the jellyfish behind.

Thud—

After a muffled sound, the Puji was shattered everywhere, while a big hole was broken in the jellyfish, and it lost its ability to act.

It was self-destruction!

Lin Jun had added self-destruction!

This was already the third batch of diving Puji.

Ever since the first batch was wiped out, after deep reflection, Lin Jun still decided to add the [Self-Destruction] skill.

Sure enough, the Puji couldn't escape the fate of self-destruction.

This skill was also forcibly used by Lin Jun from lv5 to lv6, and its power was on a higher level.

The seventh layer was a bit trickier than Lin Jun imagined, and the hardest part was the appearance of giant monsters.

Perhaps it was easier for the body size to become larger in deep water?

Giant monsters meant higher attributes and thicker health bars at the same level.

The specific situation was like the earthworms back then; two earthworms under lv50 wiped out Lin Jun's expeditionary force.

At the same level, if they were replaced by spiders or minotaurs, they would have been knocked down long ago.

The giant underwater monsters in the seventh layer were the same; the Puji's underwater combat power was already a cut weaker.

Although it wasn't to the point of not being able to beat them, going to fight them hard was also a thankless task.

Lin Jun just wanted to explore all the waters once, so naturally, he would avoid them if he could.

Fortunately, monsters were always monsters; their habits and attack patterns had rules to follow.

Relying on three rounds of trial and error, Lin Jun had almost memorized the map.

Finally, four Puji successfully arrived at the bottom layer full of sand and ruins.

Probably because there were many places to hide in the bottom layer, giant monsters generally wouldn't come down, so it was safe...

A claw suddenly stretched out from the sand at the bottom of the water, clamping the tail of a diving Puji.

[Infrasonic Attack lv6] x4

The attack that ignored defense had an outstanding effect on the crab monster in front of him that relied solely on its shell for defense.

It directly shattered the inside of its body, and the claw clamping the Puji naturally loosened.

Also hanging up were two other crab monsters nearby that were hiding in the sand and hadn't had time to attack.

The injured Puji had a cut on its waist, was inconvenient to move, and only had a sliver of health left.

It was just right for opening the way!

The low-health Puji swam with difficulty in front, while the three intact Puji behind followed leisurely.

This time Lin Jun let the diving Puji float up, keeping a distance of five or six meters from the bottom sand bed, so he wouldn't be afraid of crab sneak attacks.

The bottom layer was indeed a sanctuary for small monsters; in just this short while, Lin Jun had seen four or five types of monster types he hadn't seen above.

These small monsters hid in the ruins of the ruins or hid in the sand like the crab monsters.

None of them were strong, and they didn't even dare to attack when they saw the Puji in groups.

Swimming all the way, Lin Jun looked at these stone building ruins, always wondering what area this used to be?

Residential area?

Not like it; although these stone pillar buildings had collapsed and were dilapidated, one could still vaguely see that they must have been magnificent buildings in the past; residential houses should be smaller. But if they were large places like temples, council halls, or palaces, everything in front of him seemed too plain.

There were no extra decorations, nor were there statues representing any god or person.

Lin Jun felt that this place was a bit too "clean."

According to his impression, shouldn't locations like underwater ruins and shipwrecks have some rusty ironware, treasure chests, and the like?

And here, there was nothing but stones.

Human adventurers?

This guess was denied by Lin Jun as soon as it came out.

It wasn't that humans couldn't come here, it was just that the difficulty was obviously not on the same level as just fishing in the upper layer.

With such great difficulty, coming down once, they would definitely pick the good things to take; it was impossible to pick it so clean.

It was highly probable that there was no treasure here in the first place...

The exploration lasted for nearly two hours, and he hadn't encountered any particularly fatal danger; that low-health Puji hadn't even been consumed yet!

Although there was no special harvest, Lin Jun hadn't found any traces of cracks for the time being.

Was that also good news?

While Lin Jun was distracted, when a diving Puji swam past a patch of water grass, its scales caught on an inconspicuous hook.

The hook was pulled by the Puji, and the next second, the water grass connected to the hook was quickly pulled back, bringing the Puji down with it.

A sharp stone pillar pierced through the Puji that was hooked down, and it went to the Puji star on the spot.

Lin Jun hurriedly let the remaining 2.5 Puji stop and carefully observed the surrounding environment.

Only then did he discover that there was more than one hook; many of these sea grasses were connected to hooks, and the hooks were tied on rather than growing naturally like this.

The bottom of the sea grass connected to the hook was a primitive yet clever mechanism, the purpose of which was to pull back the prey that the hook caught, and finally, these sharp stone pillars specifically placed at the bottom completed the kill.

Lin Jun saw some underwater monsters also skewered on the stone pillars.

Obviously, this was a trap made by intelligent creatures.

Good fellow, there were intelligent creatures in the seventh layer too!

Mermaid?

It didn't feel right; if it were a mermaid, shouldn't she go to the upper layer to sing and fool adventurers? If she lived in the bottom layer catching fish and shrimp to eat, wouldn't that life be too miserable?

Controlling the diving Puji to explore more carefully and meticulously.

Half an hour later, the Puji didn't find any intelligent creatures, but on a ruin stone wall, they discovered a switch that could be turned!

Underwater treasure chest room?

Two Puji worked together to turn the switch, and with a muffled "rumble," a downward-sloping passage appeared.

This feeling didn't look like a treasure chest room...

It wasn't like Lin Jun hadn't seen treasure chest rooms; they were all simple and exquisite single rooms with a treasure chest in the center.

The one in front of him was more like a passage to a new area than a treasure chest room.

Without much hesitation, Lin Jun directly let the 2.5 Puji swim in; they were used for this.

In the passage, Lin Jun saw grooves for placing illumination crystals on both sides, and even saw the remains of a crystal in a groove that he didn't know how long it had been scrapped.

Along the way, there were quite a few symmetrical forks, but now with only these few Puji, splitting up made no sense, so Lin Jun simply walked straight in.

At the end of this road was a hall.

Under the feet of a huge headless stone statue with tentacles, three stone discs stood side by side, and on the walls on both sides were carved some murals whose contents could no longer be distinguished.

There were some mottled murals on the stone walls on both sides, but unfortunately, they had long been eroded by time, making it difficult to recognize their contents.

So, this was a temple?

At the same time, in the perception of [Sonic Detection], some living things were surrounding this hall...