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After introducing the 'Loser's Carving Knife,' the elven elder continued to present the other tools and curiosities.

Wu Heng glanced at the explosives again.

【Blazing Pack】

(Description: A bundle of multiple Blazing Stones. When the trigger condition is met, the Thunderstone will release a powerful explosion, causing great damage to surrounding creatures and objects.)

Its appearance was roughly the size of a package, wrapped in oilcloth.

Blazing Stones are a type of magical tool, not gunpowder, so they can be used underwater, but the effect should not be as good as on land.

After the elven elder introduced the tools, he continued, "Chief, the scroll for maintaining underwater breathing can provide approximately 20 minutes of time. The quantity is still sufficient. When underwater, you need to calculate the time well and continuously use the scroll."

After watches became popular among professionals, the Gold Silver Island's way of referring to time also began to spread outside the island.

During communication, it was no longer a vague concept of time, but a precise time like 20 minutes was mentioned.

The dwarven elder added, "The premise of destroying the array patterns is that there's no way to bypass them. It's still unclear whether there will be other dangers underwater."

"The Specter has looked around, and there are traces of array patterns on other routes as well." Wu Heng pondered for a moment, then said, "Moreover, I suspect that the rift is the entrance for our trip. If we want to complete this archaeological expedition, we can't avoid this vortex."

The two elders frowned, contemplating Wu Heng's words.

The presence of array pattern traces meant that there might be dangers as well.

Now there was only this one ship left, and they didn't dare to gamble on whether those array patterns would have any effect.

The elven elder sighed and said, "Then let's select a few people to go into the sea."

Creak~!

While speaking, the door opened, and Philippa walked in directly.

Seeing the two elders in the room, she put away her lazy appearance and said with a serious expression, "Chief, two elders, the cabins have been arranged for the people on board, which is just enough to accommodate everyone."

"Mm." Wu Heng nodded.

Philippa walked over and sat down to the side.

The dwarven elder continued the previous topic and asked, "Chief, are you sure there are no dangers below?"

"The Specter has explored twice and found no dangers, but we can't rule out the possibility of some potential dangers," Wu Heng replied.

The elven elder pondered for a moment and said, "There are two curiosities for diving, and there are more scrolls. I think it's more appropriate to arrange five people to go down, with people arranged above to provide support."

"We, the Seekers, will arrange three people," the dwarven elder said directly.

Seekers are good at exploring and dealing with dangers in some ancient ruins.

"Then we'll send two people to provide timely support in case of danger," the elven elder said.

Wu Heng looked at the two who had discussed it and said, "You don't need to arrange people. I can just let the skeleton go into the water."

The two were overjoyed. They didn't want to bring it up if Wu Heng didn't mention it.

"Then we'll trouble you, Chief," the elven elder immediately thanked him.

Wu Heng continued, "You can take the curiosities back for now. We'll go into the sea tomorrow during the day."

The two looked at each other, put away the tools on the table, got up and saluted, "Then we won't disturb the Chief's rest."

Then, they nodded to Philippa and directly left the room.

Wu Heng explained, "They just escaped, so give them some time to recover. Moreover, the visibility is better during the day. If there really is any trouble underwater, it can be discovered in time."

"Okay, whatever you think is best." Philippa quickly made the bed and then sat at the table to make a video call to Minnie and the others.

As soon as the call connected, Philippa said very exaggeratedly, "Minnie, we encountered a vortex. Both of those ships sank, and many people died."

The other side was also filled with people, and Minnie asked, "Are you and Master not injured?"

Philippa patted her chest twice, "You're still not at ease with me as the captain? I protected Wu Heng very well, don't worry!"

Andrea's voice continued to come over, "What exactly is going on? Tell us about it."

Philippa leaned forward and then said, "We just arrived here today and originally planned to rest ashore. Just as the ship approached the island, the entire sea surface began to spin, like an hourglass.

I have photos here, I'll send them to you later. It's especially shocking. Then the Association's two broken ships sank, and we had to save them, which held us back."

Wu Heng reminded from the side, "Talk about yourself, don't say these things."

"Oh!" Philippa agreed and then lowered her voice and said, "Little Xiao Xiao said that there is a large magic circle at the bottom of the water, which caused the sea to form a vortex…"

Philippa was chatting with the women at home.

Wu Heng went to the control room and asked the skeleton to move the ship a little further away from this area.

He returned to the cabin to rest late at night.

……

The next day, early in the morning.

The deck was filled with mist, and the sea breeze that blew carried the salty taste of the sea.

After a night of rest, the Association's personnel had recovered pretty well and all gathered on the deck.

"Chief, the curiosities have been brought over." The elven elder took out all the curiosities.

Wu Heng looked at them, picked up the 'Blazing Pack,' 'Loser's Carving Knife,' and 'Hammer,' three items, put them in his backpack, and hung them on the skeleton that was about to go into the water.

With the preparations almost complete, Wu Heng looked at the others, "Do you have anything else to say?"

The elven elder said, "The effect of the carving knife has a certain success rate. If it doesn't succeed the first time, you need to try a few more times."

Wu Heng continued to look at the dwarven elder, who shook his head, "I have nothing to say."

"Go down! Swim downwards first," Wu Heng patted the skeleton's shoulder.

The skeleton jumped up directly and plunged into the sea with a 'plop.'

Then he swam towards the underwater.

Wu Heng said, "Philippa, command the ship. The two elders, take people to be vigilant around. If any target approaches, you can attack in advance."

"Yes!" Everyone responded and quickly dispersed according to the order.

Wu Heng then returned to the cabin and said to the Specter in the room, "I'll use Divine Descent to possess the skeleton. Little Xiao Xiao and Benny will go with me to the bottom of the water. Granda, protect my body and escape by possessing if there's danger."

"Okay."

"Understood."

Little Xiao Xiao and Benny directly passed through the ground and disappeared, and Wu Heng also released 【Divine Descent】, his consciousness descending on the diving skeleton.

……

Consciousness awoke in the skeleton, surrounded by turbid seawater mixed with broken wood and debris.

This skeleton was a level 12 ranger, a pirate in life. After being transformed into a skeleton, he still retained the characteristics of swimming.

Even if the body only had a skeleton, it could still swim in the water.

"Uncle, is that you?" Little Xiao Xiao and Benny also flew down.

Wu Heng nodded to indicate it was him.

"It's this way, follow me." Little Xiao Xiao waved and took the lead in swimming downwards.

Wu Heng controlled the skeleton, followed closely behind, and continued to dive.

After an unknown amount of time, below the turbid water flow, one could see broken shipwrecks covering the seabed. Looking at it roughly, there were at least a hundred.

Some were almost buried by sediment, some were covered with seaweed and barnacles, and some were newer, with a shorter time since sinking.

What Philippa said, that no pirates had discovered the island.

Most likely, the pirate ships that had discovered it were already down here.

Approaching the seabed, there was no need to continue leading the way. Little Xiao Xiao and Benny followed the skeleton down while discussing their guesses about this formation.

The skeleton's foot landed on the seabed, and suddenly a feeling of being hated came from the wreckage of the sunken ship standing on the side.

【Hate Sensing】 was triggered.

Wu Heng suddenly turned his head to look over and saw a pair of ghostly blue eyes staring at this side from the cracks in the broken shipwreck.

"Ah~!" Little Xiao Xiao turned her head, startled, and hid directly behind Wu Heng.

Benny also looked at the other party vigilantly.

Humanoid, covered in messy black hair, floating with the sea currents like a sea urchin, ghostly blue eyes, claws clutching the broken hull, with animal-like 'webs'.

What is that?

I've never seen anything like this before, something that can actually live on the seabed.

Moreover, the three wraiths had checked the seabed, and there definitely wasn't this kind of monster before last night.

Is this a monster protecting the array?

Or, is it that after each whirlpool, these things know there will be dead people and come to look for food?

One thought after another rose in his mind.

"Wu Heng, level 9 monster, not a big problem," Bonnie said.

Not a big problem?

As if in response to her words, one after another ghostly blue gaze appeared from the surrounding abandoned ships.

Further back, some even leaped onto the tops of the sunken ships, staring at this side.

Now it's a big problem.

There are at least a hundred of them, and with the inconvenience of underwater movement, it's hard to say whether it will affect my ability to destroy the array patterns.

"Uncle, I guarantee there definitely weren't these hairy monsters yesterday, they must have run over from nearby," Little One said, making a gesture like an elementary school student raising their hand, guaranteeing it.

Bonnie also said, "There really weren't any yesterday."

Wu Heng nodded, his gaze quickly sweeping forward, the array patterns scouted out by the wraiths appeared in his sight.

The exposed part of the silt showed that it was made of stone, with complex and dense纹路 carved on it.

It's an array pattern, even if you don't understand this aspect, you can see that it's an array pattern that works in connection.

At this time, a hairy monster tried to approach.

Wu Heng looked up at it, and it immediately stopped approaching, but it just waved its arms and floated in place.

Then, the surrounding hairy monsters moved forward in unison.

Quickly rushing towards his location, like countless balls of yarn, dragging dense threads, converging towards this side.

Damn it!

Wu Heng quickly pointed to the array pattern with one hand and the approaching monsters with the other to the two wraiths.

"What does that mean?" Little One looked left and right.

Bonnie said, "Let's hold them back, and Wu Heng will go destroy the array pattern."

"Kill them! No one is allowed to bully my daddy!" Little One shouted and rushed towards the foremost hairy monster.

Successfully possessing it, then with a 'crack' sound, the hairy monster's mouth opened wide, gurgling and spitting out a few bubbles, its body sinking down.

But unlike humans, the hairy monster didn't die directly, but its body was twitching non-stop, still trying to stand up.

Its body is so resilient?

It's still not dead after its neck has been twisted a full circle.

But one thing is good, these monsters can still be possessed.

Bonnie also quickly rushed towards the approaching hairy monster, quickly twisting its neck.

The skeleton was swimming forward quickly in the seabed, surrounded by monsters dragging black hair, which were blocked by the wraiths one after another, possessing them and twisting their necks.

Wu Heng swam forward desperately, getting closer and closer to the array pattern.

A hairy monster fell in front of him, its claws still grabbing forward forcefully.

Finally, Wu Heng got close to the array pattern, took out the hammer and carving knife from his backpack, and smashed them towards the array pattern.

Clang~!

The carving knife left a white mark on the stone.

Clang clang clang~!

Crack~!

A crack appeared in the middle of the stone, completely breaking the dense array pattern.

A surge of energy spread out, and the magic array failed.

Wu Heng turned around and swam upwards, a sharp claw directly grabbing the skeleton's ankle.

Then, countless balls of yarn tightly wrapped the skeleton.

Bonnie said, "There are too many, we can't kill them all."

Wu Heng threw the carving knife aside, the skeleton's arm reached into the backpack, and turned the 'Explosive Flame Pack' mechanism button.

Then, he deactivated 【Divine Descent】 and returned his consciousness.

… …

Inside the cabin.

Wu Heng's body straightened up again, and Granda, who was reading a book, glanced over and said, "Was it smooth sailing?"

Boom~!

Before he could answer, a huge explosion came from outside, and a water column several meters high shot into the sky.

The ship began to sway violently, and then stabilized again.

Granda widened his eyes, stuck his head out, looked at the location of the explosion, and then shrank back, saying, "Is there danger underwater?"

"There are many black-haired monsters below, and we almost capsized," Wu Heng said.

He still felt a little aggrieved in his heart.

According to Bonnie, these monsters are only around level 9 or 10.

Not to mention that he is a hero now, even when he was a captain, he was never so powerless.

He even needed to detonate bombs to destroy those monsters.

Dong dong dong~!

The sound of knocking on the cabin door rang out, and Philippa's voice also came over, "Chief Wu Heng, there was an explosion in the sea, and there are many black-haired corpses on the surface."

Wu Heng opened the door and walked out.

Philippa and the two elders were anxiously standing at the door.

"The array pattern has been resolved, alert everyone, there are black-haired monsters below, be careful of them attacking the ship," Wu Heng ordered as he walked.

The order was passed down.

Wu Heng walked to the deck, and he could still see some black-haired corpses floating up.

At this time, the wraith flew back with the carving knife and handed the carving knife back to the elven elder.

Little One then drilled into his body and shared the subsequent scenes.

The explosion killed most of the hairy monsters, and the remaining scattered ones also ran in other directions after this explosion and disappeared.

After sharing the scene, Wu Heng released Little One and said to the others, "Those hairy monsters have run away, they probably won't come over."

Huff~!

After speaking, a sound of relief came from behind.

The elven elder said, "Chief, I want to take two monster corpses back for research."

"Go, bring all the corpses up," Wu Heng said to the side.

Skeleton Sparkle and Jumpy flew out, salvaged the corpses in the sea, and threw them on the deck.

Scholars in the team who were familiar with some creatures began to examine them.

Wu Heng said, "You keep two for yourselves, and I will transform the rest into skeletons, they might be useful later."

The elven elder nodded, had people wrap up the corpses, and put them into the space ring.

Wu Heng then released 【Undead Battlefield】 and transformed all the corpses into skeletons.

【Skeleton Sea Monster (Level 10)】.

They no longer had the long hair on their bodies.

Their level was only around 10.

Their characteristics included free movement underwater.

"Put down two small boats and try the vortex area," Wu Heng continued.

The door at the back of the frigate opened, and small boats were released and entered the area to test it out.

After trying several times, seeing that there were no problems, the battleship wandered around the edge twice more.

Confirming that the array pattern had failed, Wu Heng ordered, "Move forward, get closer to the island."

"Yes!" Philippa immediately responded.

The members of the archaeological team also began to get excited.

They could finally get close to the island.

"Thanks to Chief, if you hadn't come, we would have all been stuck here," the dwarf elder came over and said very respectfully.

When they were on Gold Silver Island, he complained that they had stayed for too long waiting for Wu Heng, this chief.

Now it seems that these few days have saved their lives.

If Wu Heng hadn't come along, let alone archaeology, they wouldn't have been able to go back alive.

Wu Heng nodded, "No need to be so polite, we are all members of the association when we are outside."

The people around him looked even more respectful.

… …

Everything went very smoothly for the rest of the journey.

The battleship was getting closer and closer to the island ahead.

The crack in the middle of the island was facing the crowd, and the cliffs on both sides were black stones covered with damp moss.

The sea breeze howled into the crack, making a sound like ghosts crying and wolves howling.

Soon, the wraith scouted back in advance, drilled into his body and shared the scene.

Deep in the crack, a flat fortress-like building, vaguely recognizable as walls, watchtowers, and other buildings.

And behind the wall, there were kneeling iron golems.

Very similar to the golems in the ship cemetery, kneeling on the ground, with their hands on their legs, and a long sword placed beside them.

Is this a military camp?