Chapter 1159 (2/2)

Without Shrek Academy's presence, it was nothing more than a lake, no matter how clear it was.

Long Yuxue adjusted her own aura and exited the highway before driving her soul car over to the sh.o.r.e of the lake.

There were no plants to be seen on the sh.o.r.e, and it presented a rather bleak sight to behold. The water of the lake was very, very beautiful, but it was sorely lacking in vitality.

Tang Wulin felt as if he could hear the sound of past Shrek Academy disciples sparring with one another, and see the antiquated buildings that comprised Shrek Academy once again.

Tears began to flow down his face in an untrollable manner.

It had been around a year since he was last here, and Shrek City was already completely unrecognizable. He didn't even dare to think back to the city during its heyday. All of its past beauty and grandeur had been reduced to this lifeless lake, and 20,000 years of heritage had vanished in a single night.

As a past student of Shrek Academy and the current leader of Shrek's Seven Monsters, one could imagine the grief and pain in Tang Wulin's heart.

He abruptly stepped forward before leaping high up into the air directly toward the Sea G.o.d's Lake.

Long Yuxue was given a ma.s.sive fright upon seeing this, and she hurriedly yelled, ”No!”

However, it was already too late. Tang Wulin plunged into the icy cold water amid a loud splash, and as soon as he did so, he could immediately sense that the water elements here had become extremely rich. Aside from that, all elements of other attributes had become a lot more spa.r.s.e.

Within his sensory scope, he could see that the Sea G.o.d's Lake was extremely vast, and that the water was absolutely pristine, but there were some strange energy fluctuations within the lake.

These energy fluctuations surged toward Tang Wulin's body, and even though they weren't powerful enough to threaten him, he could clearly sense that they were malicious.

Was this the radiation left behind by the G.o.dslayer missile?

Tang Wulin didn't know how the G.o.dslayer missiles had been constructed, but he knew that weapons of that caliber definitely had more fearsome destructive power than just the initial explosion. The federation had severely depleted its resources and only managed to construct three of these G.o.dslayer missiles, so one could only imagine just how much resources had been expended to construct even a single one of these missiles.

Tang Wulin couldn't sense any signs of life within the entire Sea G.o.d's Lake, and only then did he realize that the bombing had left the Sea G.o.d's Lake with an inherent problem. The remnants of the radiation from the G.o.dslayer missile had spread through the entire lake, making it impossible for any life forms to exist here.

Tang Wulin's body was naturally impervious to radiation of this level, but there was no end to this radiation, and it was constantly trying to invade his body, so he had no choice but to activate his own soul power to keep it at bay.

He continued to swim downward, and the deeper he went, the stronger the radiation became, to the extent that Tang Wulin was eventually forced to release a layer of faint golden light to ward off the radiation.

This was most likely one of the reasons why the federation was unwilling to rebuild Shrek City. Even though this place hadn't been cordoned off as a restricted area, no life forms could exist in the lake, so there was nothing anyone could do. Even just living by the sh.o.r.e of the Sea G.o.d's Lake would most likely result in one falling ill over time.

Tang Wulin had always known that he would face many obstacles in his quest to rebuild Shrek City, but he didn't antic.i.p.ate something like this to be the most direct issue.

If he wanted to rebuild Shrek City on its original site, then the first thing that he had to address was this radiation!

Just as he was sensing the radiation and about to make a further investigation, panicked emotional fluctuations suddenly appeared in his spiritual world.

He twisted around in an agile manner before quickly swimming toward the surface of the lake, and he quickly discovered who the panicked individual was.

Long Yuxue was currently flailing violently in the Sea G.o.d's Lake, and even though she was quite powerful in her own right, she was in a blind panic after falling into the water.

Tang Wulin quickly swam over to behind her, then hoisted her out of the water with his hands under her armpits.

”What are you doing? Are you committing suicide?” Tang Wulin asked in a resigned manner.

”You b.a.s.t.a.r.d! You're the one who's committing suicide!” Long Yuxue gasped as she gulped down air. As someone who was drowning just a moment ago, her body was desperate to get more air into her lungs.

A peculiar look appeared on Tang Wulin's face. ”Did you think that I was jumping into the lake to kill myself?”

Long Yuxue countered, ”Weren't you? You suddenly started crying, then jumped into the lake; isn't that committing suicide?”

Tang Wulin was rather speechless to hear this. ”What happened to your IQ? I'm a seven-ring Soul Sage; I can hardly drown myself even if I wanted to! What are you doing jumping down after me? And why were you flailing around like you were drowning? Were you trying to attract my attention?”

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