Chapter 341 (1/2)
The Blood Lake was calm, so calm that the surface of the ruby-red lake only had a few indiscernable ripples. However, beneath the surface, the body of water was quickly experiencing some disturbance. Nangong Wuyue had shapeshifted into a siren and she swished her tail as she led the expedition to the bottom. Behind her was a large group of little green people, Hao Ren and the rest of her buddies.
“It looks like the bottom hasn’t changed.” Hao Ren kept his eyes on the lake bottom as they descended quickly. The place appeared the same since the last time they were there. Two months had already past since then, but the search for the Orb of the Holy Synod had yet to expand to the bottom of the lake. “Wuyue, is your magic sphere still there?”
Nangong Wuyue’s long tail was swishing back and forth in front of him. She slowed down a little and said, “Yup, it’s till there. No one touched it.”
Shortly after, a soft sound was heard coming from behind them; it was Lil Pea. She rolled and swam around, overtaking Hao Ren as well as circling the team like a loach gone mad. She still remembered the last time she was there and she was happy to be back again. Nangong Wuyue looked at the little mermaid and smiled. “Mermaids belong to the water. And, she looks like she’s grown one size up again, hasn’t she? The pot’s probably a little small by now?”
Hao Ren twitched his lips. “I’ve gotten her a big aquarium, but she doesn’t seem to like it very much.”
The whole incident involving the experiment two days ago had turned Lil Pea into a focal point. No one knew when her other new abilities would manifest and throw her into danger. So, Hao Ren could not let Lil Pea out of his sight. He had to bring her along into The Plane of Dreams; the Dimensional Pocket was a great device, in which he could stuff Lil Pea and the big aquarium together.
However, the little one was so much like a wild horse, especially in the water—she would outrun everyone. In the water, no one could tame her except Nangong Wuyue.
They quickly reached the centre of the lake, where the underwater beach strewn with pebbles lay. Following the signs Nangong Wuyue left behind previously, they were able to find the site of the wreckage. A large shadow began to materialise before them and Kabala as well as the little green men sped towards it. Someone began to shout, “This is the one! This is the spaceship!”
Hao Ren came close to the wreckage and checked the surrounding area before he took things out from his Dimensional Pocket. “Let’s get to work!”
The lake bottom began to be filled with a large number of strange machinery and without wasting any time, Kabala’s salvage crew slipped into the machines. Large machines with robotic arms then began digging around the wreckage. The first step was to dislodge the spaceship from the ground; the second step would be to paste the marker beacons at key parts on the spaceship. They had been rehearsing this operation for the past two days, so the little green men were quick in their actions. It looked like the spaceship would be out of the bottom in no time.
The spaceship’s salvage operation under the lake’s complex environment was an incredible feat for the natives of The Plane of Dreams. But to Kerbalians, their technology was obviously more than enough to handle the job. Their salvaging machinery had big but snappy multi-sectional robotic arms. They had no difficulties in performing their work even under the huge water pressure. However, the movement of the machines caused quite a strong turbulence around the area and unsettled the surrounding body of water. Nangong Wuyue had anticipated this. She spread her hands out, fused with the water within the radius of several kilometres to calm the turbulence. She prevented the activity at the bottom of the lake from causing ripples on the surface.
Lily, on the other hand was paddling around the wreckage site like a pompous site supervisor. Spinning her tail like a propeller was her own original creation. Vivian could not help but scoff at her. “Can’t you just sit still? It’s alright if you can’t help, but please don’t cause trouble.”
“I’m not causing trouble!” Lily’s tail spun as she came up. She wiggled her nose and said, “I smell a weird stench nearby.”
“A weird stench?” Vivian furrowed her eyebrows. “Could it be a fuel leakage? Didn’t that already happen the last time we were here?”
Lily stretched her neck, trying to trace the source of the smell. “Nope, it’s not just that fuel smell… something else is in the water.”
Hao Ren noticed the seriousness on Lily’s face and he became instantly nervous: the husky may not have shone in other areas, but when it came to her nose, she had never messed up before. He quickly threw Nangong Wuyue a glance and said to her, “Does Lily’s nose work in the water? How sensitive is it?”