64: Giant catfish, Dragon Ball is born!
Bai Yu was startled by the sudden dark shadow: "There's a monster!"
The members on the surface, hearing the news, immediately mobilized underwater detection equipment and turned on the searchlights. Deep-sea submersibles with explosives quickly approached the area.
Under the searchlight, they discovered that it was a giant catfish, seven meters long! Its peaceful and wise eyes and slow swimming posture indicated it had no hostility.
Due to the Spiritual Qi Resurgence, biological forms have indeed changed, but as long as they haven't awakened their intelligence, they are considered normal creatures.
The scene became a bit awkward for a moment.
Liu Feifei's laughter rang out: "Hahaha~ It's just a big catfish, you're too timid!"
Bai Yu was also a bit embarrassed, his face flushed. He truly had bathophobia; did they think he was joking?
His high level of tension would accelerate oxygen consumption, which is a common problem in deep diving.
In addition, too much water pressure can cause nitrogen narcosis, making people feel excited or disoriented, which are extremely dangerous.
Fortunately, everyone eventually reached a depth of 75 meters, arriving at the lakebed, and began searching.
They searched for about twenty minutes.
Zhao Bin reported: "Depth 80 meters. I have 63% oxygen left, which can last for about 58 minutes."
Bai Yu had the lowest oxygen, only enough to last 49 minutes. To be safe, they definitely had to ascend before it reached 25%.
And so, everyone continued searching.
About ten more minutes passed, and Liu Feifei, who was searching separately, excitedly said in the channel: "I think I found it!"
Upon receiving the news, the personnel above immediately deployed the submersible instruments and headed to Liu Feifei's location.
Bai Yu also rushed over and saw the scene from the intelligence photos.
The rapid current formed a small whirlpool, the sound of water surged, emitting a low rumble, and there were also raised gullies, all matching the description.
"This is it!"
Just as everyone was excited, Liu Feifei's scream suddenly came: "Ah~!"
Bai Yu and the other two were startled. Liu Feifei didn't have bathophobia, so could there be a monster?
They immediately looked towards Liu Feifei's location but found no abnormalities.
Bai Yu asked: "What's wrong?"
"A ghost! A white shadow! I just saw a floating, humanoid white shadow!"
Hearing this, Bai Yu frowned, scanned the area, but found no abnormalities.
"Are you sure? Don't scare me!"
"Really! I really saw it! I'm not kidding you!"
Since various instruments and the personnel on the surface also didn't see anything, Bai Yu could only explain: "If I'm not mistaken, it should be the soul of that thing?"
Liu Feifei, who was originally a bit scared, thought about the White Dragon after hearing this, and felt it was very reasonable.
"Hoo~"
She couldn't help but let out a big sigh of relief.
But he really felt that the figure was eerie, like a ghost.
After observing for a while and seeing that nothing happened, Zhao Bin spoke: "Shall we go back?"
"Mm! Our oxygen isn't enough to last until twelve o'clock anyway. Now that we've found the location, we just need to wait for the captain to arrive."
As soon as everyone swam away for a bit, Bai Yu looked back and saw a white shadow flash past.
Frowning slightly, he said in the communication channel: "Deep-sea submersibles, investigate the area around us and escort us back to shore."
"Understood!"
"What's wrong?"
"I just saw a white shadow too. I always feel a sinister Aura. It's hard to say if it's that soul or not."
"Be careful!"
"Mm."
Finally, everyone returned safely to the south bank of Yun Lake and unloaded their equipment.
Han Qing, who seemed to have a rather cool personality, couldn't help but walk over and directly asked: "Are you taking something out of the lake?"
"Mm, a pearl that's quite useful."
"Is it related to the river jumping case?"
When she said this, Han Qing's emotions clearly fluctuated.
Seeing this, even though Bai Yu suspected that the river jumping case might be related to the White Dragon sacrifice, and he had just encountered a suspected ghost, it was possible that the sacrifice was at work, but he couldn't say it.
So he said: "It should have nothing to do with it. This pearl is considered an auspicious item."
Hearing this, Han Qing's expression didn't change, but one could feel her emotions calm down quite a bit: "Okay."
After speaking, she continued to walk to the riverbank and sat quietly, waiting for further arrangements.
Ten thirty.
A black car stopped by the roadside, and Li Yunbin and Qin Wanqing got out.
Seeing their team leader arrive, the surrounding investigators became lively.
"Good morning, Team Leader!"
"Good morning, Team Leader!"
One could clearly feel that Li Yunbin was the backbone of Seventh Team; as long as he appeared, everyone's Aura would greatly increase.
Bai Yu: Meow meow meow~ When can I become this team leader...
He had only thought half of it when Li Yunbin's gaze met his. He walked over, patted his head, and said: "You kid, you really don't let people rest easy at all."
It was very much like an elder educating a junior.
Bai Yu blinked his big eyes innocently and said: "If I didn't deal with this thing, wouldn't the Fishman get it? At that time, all sorts of floods would have its presence."
"Mm. So, have you already found the location?"
"Yes, using the thruster, we can get there in about ten minutes. And the oxygen tanks can last for at least an hour and a half."
Speaking of this, Bai Yu paused, then voiced his concern: "It's just... when it forms, whether that area will have a big commotion is yet unknown."
"Okay, I understand."
After speaking, Li Yunbin took out four jade pendants.
Bai Yu recognized this! A purple spirit jade pendant.
When he went to Thunder Laboratory, Wanqing Jie had taken out this item to protect his life, but he hadn't used it, so Bai Yu naturally returned it. This kind of thing could actually be mass-produced?
But he estimated it was quite valuable... Before, it had always been Qin Wanqing's life-saving item.
"One for each of you, take them. Besides that, I've also prepared some talismans for you to use underwater; there are offensive ones, defensive ones, and ones that use water currents to increase movement speed."
"Before the operation begins, I need to confirm one thing with you: underwater, if a crisis occurs, you absolutely cannot scatter!"
"Understand?"
"Understood!"
And these items in Li Yunbin's hands were naturally taken from the Family. To be honest, the Li Family didn't only have him as a descendant.
In fact, this generation of the Li Family had dozens of grandchildren!
Resources were also limited and could not be supplied indefinitely.
Li Yunbin had taken so many resources, so he naturally had to perform better later to live up to the Family's cultivation.
Of course, with Bai Yu as a team member, Li Yunbin felt that he could be appropriately more aggressive!
In the Spiritual Qi Resurgence, only the strong can control their destiny! This Dao is eternal.
And Li Yunbin chose to bear the heavy burden and fight against the Blood Clan Baron! In the future, he would also face more powerful enemies, using this to temper his own strength.
After communicating with Bai Yu and the others, Li Yunbin began to arrange tasks for the other investigators.
Speaking of which, the Seventh Team members who came here didn't know it was a jiaolong pearl; they only knew it was a treasure.
With such a big commotion, anyone could see that the treasure was very important.
But it was hard to imagine that it was equivalent to a Level Seven treasure!
They might have thought it was a treasure from a Level Four or Level Five treasury.
Around eleven forty.
Over Yun Lake, dark clouds hung heavy, obscuring the sky, and thick black clouds blocked out the sunlight.
It seemed as if an invisible force was pushing the clouds, subtly forming a giant whirlpool shape.
In the center of the whirlpool, a long, strip-shaped object was vaguely visible, but not particularly clear.
"Rumble~"
A muffled thunderbolt exploded, and heavy rain poured down.
Raindrops as large as beans slapped the lake surface.
Everyone put on their equipment, and Li Yunbin said in a deep voice: "Depart!"
"Gurgle~ Gurgle~"
Bai Yu and the others directly activated their thrusters and quickly submerged into the deep waters of Yun Lake.
The roar of the thrusters echoed in the water as they swiftly moved, finally stopping steadily fifty meters from the center of the whirlpool.
This area of water had already formed a larger whirlpool, as if echoing the anomaly in the sky.
He checked the time - 11:48.
The suction at this moment was not strong.
Everyone tried to maintain a safe distance.
Time passed minute by minute, the whirlpool's rotation speed became faster and faster, the suction was strong, and everyone quickly retreated, about fifty meters back, making it very difficult to see the situation inside the whirlpool.
At this moment, a message came from the communication team's detection group: "Reporting, Captain! The psionic index has increased by at least twenty times compared to before!!!"
The person reporting was clearly abnormally excited; this was still data from the edge of the whirlpool.
What would exist at the center of the whirlpool!?
The subsequent data became even more exaggerated.
In fact, everyone could visibly see a light blue energy and a white energy constantly churning in the water.
Bai Yu's heart also tightened; he didn't know if there would be an even bigger commotion.
The "whoosh" of the water became increasingly clear, and in the center of the whirlpool, there seemed to be a faint white pillar of light about to shoot up into the sky.
After about twenty minutes, the commotion gradually subsided!
During this time, there were unique anomalies, but no accidents occurred.
Li Yunbin: "Go."
By saying this, he also wanted to express that he wouldn't compete for it.
Bai Yu was exceptionally excited at this moment: "Alright!"
He used the thruster to quickly move to the pool and swam down.
Although he had bathophobia, his heart was incredibly excited at this moment! The fear was directly overridden.
It was only a distance of twenty meters when Bai Yu arrived in front of the jiaolong pearl.
Looking at the jiaolong pearl, surrounded by floating energy on the stone plate, Bai Yu took a deep breath and reached out to touch it.
The moment his finger gently touched the jiaolong pearl, the water flow throughout the entire cave seemed to pause.
The pearl emitted a faint glow, like a bright moon underwater, illuminating the dark surrounding waters.
And there was a warm sensation! This was warmth directly penetrating the diving suit.
"Captain! I got it!"
Li Yunbin and the others outside the cave also breathed a sigh of relief.
However, a voice immediately came through the communicator: "Reporting, Captain! Three Fishman are rapidly approaching from the west!"
"There are five Fishman to the north! Including one High-Level Fishman with green scales!"