164 White Shadows in the Deep (1/2)

Ang… Ang… Ang...The crocodile dragons were rolling away after being struck by electricity. A few of them were unable to escape and fell to the ground, roaring in pain.

”Huuuu…” Seeing the crocodile dragons had escaped, the electric eel let out a long sigh of relief. The liquid in the poison capsule was already used up and even the electricity discharge muscle was sore. After all, it had been dozens of crocodile dragons, not a few sheep. They were very tiring to fight.

More than a thousand meters from the stone tower, the electric eel rested for half a minute and then moved to the stone tower, swinging from side to side.

When the electric eel stepped on the mica floor, it felt like stepping on gold. Chen Fan really wanted to change his career but unfortunately, mica was very common and not worth much.

There was a 700 or 800-meter tall gold stone tower divided into three floors. The bottom floor was about two meters high with an arched door 1.3 meters wide and a window on each side. The second floor had three windows and the third floor had no windows.

The closer he was to the stone tower, the wider the electric eel's mouth opened.

The stone tower was carved out of large, highly pure gold mica, and had many abstract lines on the surface, most of them of an abstract figure riding deer, being worshipped, standing on cliffs, praying...

He guessed this was the owner of the stone tower.

Judging from the lines that were noticeably slimmer than others, it was supposed to be a woman!

”Witch's magic tower?” The electric eel's eyes were the size of two water tanks as they latched onto the view ahead. He looked in as if he were an artist looking at the Mona Lisa.

There was nothing on the first floor but a rough staircase connected to the second floor. On the second floor, there was a stone bed carved from mica and a golden mica table with gray pottery on it.

There was no window on the third floor, so the electric eel could not see what was in it. It looked at the stairs connected to the third floor for a long time and then gave up.

From these depictions and the pottery jars inside, Chen Fan estimated that the history of the stone tower was more than 10,000 years old, built around the Neolithic age. There was no metal smelting in those days, but things like pottery, wood tools and the carvings had begun to appear.

Unable to see what was on the third floor, the electric eel simply straightened up and surveyed the huge lake ahead.

Sapphire Lake

The area was so vast that if the electric eel didn't look closely, it couldn't see the end far away. As far as the electric eel was concerned, the hole at the bottom was 10 kilometers long and six kilometers wide. He was unsure about the size of the other side of the lake.

Jumping into the lake, the electric eel found that the water was as salty as the water outside.

Seawater has an average of 35.7 million tons of minerals per cubic kilometer.

That's right, you saw that correctly: it was more than 30 million tons, about the size of the cave's lake, and that's why the crocodile dragons were still alive today.

Of course, one of the most important elements was how oxygen circulates.

But when Chen Fan saw the algae in the water, he thought for a moment and understood. The earth's main oxygen is released from algae in the ocean.

The lake was also home to large amounts of algae. Although some of the algae was yellowed and not as big as other algae in the ocean, they were actually a species of algae that could still release a large amount of oxygen.

Why do plants release oxygen?

That's because in the photosynthesis process, they could take advantage of the plants absorbing an external light source. The carbon dioxide (or hydrogen sulfide) and water can be converted to organic matter and release oxygen or hydrogen.

This photosynthesis action requirement was very low, as long as it was not monochromatic. You just had to have red-orange light and blue-violet light in the light wave. Any light source at any wavelength could do that.

Like with out-of-season flowers, artificial light was used to control the flowering period. Although the light source of the cave was not very bright, it could hold the illumination 24 hours a day. When colorful lights were combined, the resulting light could cover all wavelengths needed for photosynthesis.

People often use ”craftsmanship” to describe the workings of nature. Chen Fan thought for a long time and felt that only three words could generalize this underground cave. Those words were, ”d*mn good craftsmanship!”

In the lake, the electric eel also found other nameless fish, small as tiny as fingers and also big with a length of six or seven meters.

The crocodile dragons, on the other hand, occasionally dove under the water, catching fish. But when they saw the electric eel, most of them obediently hid far away. A few dared to come near, but eventually sobbed and ran away after experiencing the great electric shock.

Chen Fan wanted to send the electric eel to the other side of the lake. Although there were roads on the shore, the electric eel was an aquatic creature. It was not only slow using the land but doing so was also tiring.

Unlike the shore, the bottom of the lake was made of mud and rock. When the electric eel swam about a kilometer, the lake's depth dropped to more than 300 meters.

After swimming for a few breaths, the electric eel felt something wrong ahead.

Just as the electric eel was about to increase the voltage output to probe, a huge splash of water burst from the shadow.

”D*mn!”

Chen Fan's eyes were about to pop out. It turned out to be a giant crocodile dragon.

How big was it?

It was 60 meters long and behind its hilly head, there were two round feet and ten meters of sharp horns.

Ang!

The crocodile dragon also spotted the electric eel, an outsider. After roaring, it wagged its tail and dashed toward the eel.

This giant crocodile was extremely fast, traveling 700 or 800 meters in just three breaths. Looking at the two gray horns, Chen Fan had no doubt that it could easily pierce the electric eel's scales.

The whole lake and the earth quaked with a bam. The electric eel started attacking. He used the 40-ton spear and rammed the crocodile. Then without waiting for it to turn back, the electric eel with blue light flashing on its body and an output of as much as 38,000 volts, suddenly swept around the place.

The giant crocodile was huge but it roared after being attacked with more than 30,000 volts. Before the electric eel could attack with the spear, the crocodile fled into the distance. The crocodile had acted fierce in the beginning but changed into a coward after the attack. This deprived the eel of its fun and made it feel gloomy.

Throw your weight around!

This was the best portrayal of the crocodile dragons, but it's also the primary criterion for being a good follower. How could he beat them when they were brave and fighting?