Breathing is just a habit of the body. There is no air in the dream world, and the body formed by the spirit does not need to breathe at all...
Looking around, she felt really similar.
The dream world is filled with gray fog, and the farther you go, the thicker the fog is. But if you want to explore the border, you will never reach the end no matter how far you go.
You will always feel that the area dozens of meters away is shrouded in thick fog, but when you walk to the position you were staring at before, the barrier of thick fog will move farther away simultaneously.
Therefore, the visibility in the dream world is very low in most cases.
unfortunately.
The same is true for the underwater world.
Gray mist surged around her. Xia Yibing relaxed her body and let Hitzfeld pull her down. She turned her head to look around from time to time. For a moment, she couldn't tell whether this was a dream or reality.
"Aisun likes me," she said.
"?" The girl looked at him strangely.
"I'm just giving it a try," the woman explained, "to see if this place can talk."
"…I don't like you."
"You don't believe it yourself."
Hitzfeld raised his foot to kick her, but she quickly grabbed his ankle through his boot.
With another tug, she was helplessly pulled over and hugged, and the role of the navigator was officially replaced.
"Don't forget that I'm a better swimmer than you." Xia Yibing said proudly, "No one can drown in this damn place, but I can see that the efficiency of our actions still depends on the way we move."
"You're talking about the laws of physics." Hitzfeld looked around vigilantly.
Indeed, whether underwater or above water, the physical laws of this dream within a dream are shaped exactly the same as those in the real water world.
It's true that you don't need to breathe here, but if you can't swim well in real life, your movements here will be clumsy.
"Laws of physics? That's a very appropriate metaphor." Xia Yibing nodded, then frowned slightly: "...Do you feel that visibility has become lower again?"
“It’s not that I feel—it just gets lower,” Hitzfeld said.
"Why..."
"Be alert! Your seven o'clock!"
The sense of crisis enveloped the two of them like a big net. Xia Yibing hugged the girl tightly and turned around quickly, only to see a bloody mouth stretched to the extreme.
How big is this mouth?
The upper and lower jaws stretched out nearly three meters, and nearly three rows of densely packed triangular sharp teeth were embedded in the inner and outer edges of the mouth, expanding and contracting rapidly as the oral cavity opened.
Like having the mouth ejected from the oral cavity, few people can dodge this further accelerated attack.
But Xia Yibing was one of those few. She hugged Hitzfeld tightly with her left hand, raised her right hand in the air, and drew a physical long sword from the white light.
The huge mouth approached, but she did not dodge. Instead, she grasped the handle of the knife with one hand, and cut across with her body and the knife, following the corner of the attacker's mouth - cutting in from that angle, using the force of the impact to fiercely cut it in half.
It was not until the two huge pieces of the corpse fell from the side, spraying black mist, that Hitzfeld realized that the opponent had been cut down by a single blow.
Is that a silky shark?
It’s more ferocious than what I’ve seen before… Its mouth can actually extend further forward?
"Well……"
My waist was pinched.
Then her arms and shoulders, her thighs and buttocks through her skirt... Finally, when she touched her face, she finally got angry and slapped the woman's claws away.
"Check if you have been scratched by its teeth." Xia Yibing explained frankly, then raised the physical knife and stared at it with a strange look on her face.
"It really works even in dreams..."
The dancing sword technique refers to the sword technique that can reshape Changxia when close to Hitzfeld, giving it a physical blade that comes into reality, and using this feature to fight.
It was powerful, of course, and the previous practice in the underwater cave had indeed proved this point. But in Xia Yibing's opinion, this Changxia knife should be "specially responsible for handling external use."
Is it not a physical entity?
Entities can cut real things... no problem.
By the same token, the things in the dream world tend to be illusory and ethereal, those spirits...these should be left to the original Changxia.
Her original intention was to use the Changxia sword in its original form to fight the giant shark, but when she drew the sword she suddenly had an epiphany and inexplicably cut it into a solid entity.
She didn't expect it to actually work, and the effect was better than she imagined.
Hitzfeld was facing this side just now so he didn't see it, but Xia Yibing herself saw it clearly... The physical blade not only cuts through things as quickly as the original white light sword, but when she habitually flicked her wrist, a faint white ripple was actually drawn from the blade.
Although she had not tested the strength of the ripple, she had a feeling that its effect in the gray fog of the dream world would not be worse than that of the white light sword.
The power remains undiminished.
It is also more versatile and can defend against attacks from both the dream world and reality.
The most important thing is that she doesn't have to bear the nightmare alone, and it becomes more durable than before.
Nice knife!
After taking another satisfied look at the long sword from beginning to end, Xia Yibing waved her hand to let it go, allowing it to quickly disintegrate and disappear.
The two of them snuggled together and continued to dive.
"We're not turning south?"
"No."
"Why, that nest is in the southeast corner."
"But Dai Lin guided the location of the vent to the town. I think she must have done something based on the terrain and environment below. This is a rare opportunity..."
As they talked, they also noticed that visibility on the seabed was decreasing rapidly.
It was shortened from 20 to 10 meters at the beginning to less than 5 meters.
Soon the distance was no longer even five meters. Although it was still not so dark that they could not see their hands in front of them, they could not see each other's faces when they were facing each other.
And during the dive, they encountered more and more marine creatures attracted by the soul-guiding incense.
A bigger silky shark.
A swift school of swordfish.
Extremely dangerous blue fluorescent jellyfish.
Actively bioluminescent macrophage manta ray.
These are easy to deal with for the time being, as no spirit can break through Chang Xia's sword light.
But they still encountered danger from a school of tearing fish.
The ripping fish is not the most powerful hunter in the ocean, but it is definitely the most terrifying group of predators. They always move in groups and are ferocious. They are almost the counterparts of piranhas, except that they do not have sharp and terrible fangs and look soft and harmless. They hunt by sticking their sucker-like snouts tightly to their prey. There are many tiny sharp teeth inside the sucker. These sharp teeth will be hooked into the prey's skin and flesh, tearing it open and bleeding, so that the ripping fish can enjoy the blood in big mouthfuls.
It's not hard to deal with a single one of these things, but the trouble is when they come in a group.
Xia Yibing used all his strength to hack and chop wildly, and finally escaped with the girl.
But more and more monsters were attracted.
It is invisible... but there is no need to see. Just by using the spirit to feel, Xia Yibing is sure that there are a group of big guys hanging behind her.
Some were old faces she had chopped before, and some were newcomers, new guests.
These things were chasing them like crazy. No matter how she chopped and killed them, or how many times she slashed with her sword, she couldn't kill them all or drive them away. They insisted on hanging behind them.
If this continues, the spirit will be exhausted.
The woman began to feel uneasy.
Just now, she was quite confident that she could protect the two of them with the newly born Changxia Sword, but she never thought that there would be so many deep-sea species here.
Brichel... no, it should be said Dailin.
Isn't this something that Dai Lin can achieve in just a few years...?
How many people has she killed? It's far less than a fraction of these monsters. Xia Yibing guessed that these strange fish were the result of the "ovaries" transforming and breeding over the years.
Maybe... even Dai Lin himself came this way.
"Don't get excited..."
"Don't get excited... Xia!"
After another chop and sheathing of the knife, Xia Yibing used a very indecent move - she grabbed the girl's throat with her elbow and just forcibly slid her downstairs.
Hitzfeld struggled desperately and finally managed to speak. She said, "Didn't you notice they're not chasing us anymore?"
Ok?
The woman was stunned.
Slow down a little.
It seemed like... nothing was coming.
Fangs, spikes, suckers, tentacles.
Everything disappeared, as if it had never existed.
"……what's the situation?"
Xia Yibing was a little confused.
and……
As soon as she turned around, she found that she was a little disoriented.
Is this the horror of the seabed?
My heart was filled with a chill, and all I could see was extreme darkness.
Even if humans could safely dive to this depth in reality, I'm afraid this feeling alone would be enough to cause mental illness.
"The direction I'm facing is down."
Hitzfeld said.
"We are still sinking, but the monsters won't chase us anymore."
“…I want to know the reason.”
"It's simple - because we are close to the crater."
"!?"
After another pause, Xia Yibing quickly responded: "Is it a dream?"
"Yes." The girl nodded, "That's it."
They jumped directly from the harbor where the ship was moored. After jumping off, they did not wander around, but dived straight to the bottom of the sea.
So... she estimated that they were now at a depth of 300 to 500 meters, which should be relatively close to the seabed, that is, close to the crater and the source of the magma eruption.
If this were the real seabed, the water temperature would change here.
The book that Hitzfeld had read before, "The Truth about Evolution," mentioned that magma cools very, very quickly in sea water, and the temperature difference can be as high as more than 400 degrees over a distance of a few centimeters.
But they were not so close that there was no temperature difference at all. The reason they couldn't feel it was because it was just a dream.
There is no distinction between land and water in dreams.
You don't need air to breathe in dreams.
So naturally, you can’t feel the temperature changes in dreams.
"Slower……"
Hitzfeld tried to direct.
"We may be near the bottom... Watch out for obstacles... There may be..."
Just as she finished her words, she hit her head on something and felt a dull pain.
"q︵q..." Covering his head and trying to reach out and touch it, Hitzfeld touched a hard, uneven layer of something that looked like the outline of coral.
Hai Yan?
Why are there protruding sea rocks here... Isn't it said that marine snow will fall and make the seabed very flat?
