Navigator: I have a double six-story house

Chapter 125 A living person?

Su Qing withdrew her gaze and turned to face the group.

The water level is receding rapidly, revealing the previously dilapidated streets.

Led by Su Qing, the group left the small reinforced concrete building.

The group walked through the abandoned, slippery streets, where it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

The dense white monsters that had been there before had all disappeared, leaving no trace of their corpses, as if it had all been an illusion experienced by Su Qing and the others.

"Did they all run away?" Li Daniu looked around, staff in hand. "Or are they hiding?"

"They've hidden themselves," Su Qing replied. "They all retreated as soon as the bell rang, which means the monsters' actions are related to the bell."

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Wang Yao followed behind, his eyes constantly scanning back and forth among the ruins.

He never put his shield away, remaining constantly vigilant.

"Su-zai, shall we go to the clock tower to find that skeleton? It just waved at you."

"I know."

"Then why aren't you going?"

Su Qing didn't turn around and continued walking forward.

"A skeleton sitting at the foot of a clock tower, dressed in a captain's uniform, is waving at you."

He paused for a moment.

"Would you like to go instead?"

Wang Yao thought for a moment: "Um—I'm not that proactive."

"Let's take a look at this city first."

Su Qing led the group along the main street.

The deeper you go, the more you can sense that something is wrong with this city.

The streets are lined with dense clusters of buildings, some of which are now just half-walls, while others are relatively well-preserved.

The structure of the house is almost identical to that of residential buildings on Earth.

Selena walked beside Su Qing, also observing the buildings.

"Captain, what's the architectural style of this city—"

"Just like Earth." Su Qing finished the sentence for her.

His gaze fell on something by the roadside, and he stopped in his tracks.

That was a... car?

It had four wheels, a metal body, and most of the windshield was shattered. The vehicle was covered with barnacles and seaweed.

But the overall outline of the car is clear; it is a sedan.

Wang Yao saw it too, and his mouth dropped open.

"Holy crap? Isn't that a car?"

He walked over quickly, wiped away a layer of sticky seaweed from the car body, revealing the severely rusted metallic paint underneath.

"It really is a car!"

Wang Yao wiped the car logo again, revealing a logo that looked like a V-shaped wing inside a circle.

"Why are there cars here?"

Su Qing squatted down and looked at the undercarriage of the car.

The rubber tires had long since disappeared, leaving only four rims stuck in the ground.

Li Daniu also came over and tapped the roof of the car with his staff, making a dull thud.

"Su-zai, something's not right. Why do the things in this dungeon look so similar to those on Earth?"

Su Qing stood up, but did not rush to answer.

He continued walking and saw even more things.

The streetlights, although the poles were bent, had lamp heads that were exactly the same shape as those on Lanxing Street.

A green metal trash can lay overturned on the roadside, its paint peeling off in patches from being soaked in seawater.

There is also a road sign.

Su Qing walked up to the road sign and wiped off the dirt with her hand.

There are words on the road sign.

However, the handwriting was so blurred that it was almost impossible to read, and only a few strokes could be vaguely discerned.

Su Qing stared at it for a while, then shook her head.

"I can't see clearly."

Selena took a cloth out of her bag, dampened it, and carefully wiped the surface of the road sign.

"Captain, is the writing on this... the language of your Earth?"

Su Qing leaned closer to take a look. He had learned many languages, but he had never seen this language before.

Judging from the appearance, although the things here are very similar to those on Earth, they are definitely not from Earth.

There was too little information, and Su Qing couldn't find the answer.

How did this city, which is submerged at the bottom of the sea, come about?

Or is it that in the world of the Age of Exploration, there were once cities with civilizations as advanced as those on Earth?

He suppressed the thought for the time being and continued leading the search team.

The procession moved through the surrounding streets, with the clock tower at its center.

Every time they passed a building, Su Qing would send someone inside to check if there was anything useful.

But the result was disappointing.

The interior of the building had been submerged in seawater for too long, and almost everything inside had rotted into dust.

Paper, cloth, and wooden products all turned into a paste, and even metal products were corroded beyond recognition.

After walking for about twenty minutes, we found no valuable information.

"Su Zai, how about we—" Wang Yao was halfway through his sentence when his foot suddenly slipped.

"Hold!"

He fell straight down, halfway down.

Fortunately, he was big enough that his shoulders and breastplate got stuck on the edge of the hole, leaving him hanging there with his legs dangling in the air.

"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap!"

Su Qing turned around and saw that Wang Yao's body was half stuck on the ground, with only his head and shoulders sticking out.

Li Daniu walked over carrying his staff and glanced down at it.

What did you step on?

"The sewers!" Wang Yao's face flushed red, whether from suppressed anger or frustration, it was hard to tell. "Which scoundrel stole the manhole cover?!"

Su Qing walked over and took a look; it was indeed a sewer inspection well.

The circular, concrete-cast well rim looks exactly like the sewer entrance on Earth.

The manhole cover is missing.

Wang Yao struggled a couple of times, only to find that his plate armor was stuck too tightly, and the more he moved, the tighter it became.

"Brother Niu, give me a hand!"

Li Daniu put his staff aside, grabbed Wang Yao's shoulder armor with both hands, and lifted him up.

With a snap, Wang Yao, armor and all, was forcibly pulled out of the hole.

The whole process was described in a very casual way, as if it were as simple as plucking a vine.

After Wang Yao was placed on the ground and stood up, he looked down at his plate armor, which was covered with a large patch of dark brown stains and had some unidentified objects hanging on it.

"Thank you, Brother Niu."

"Watch where you're going." Li Daniu picked up his staff, dusted off his hands, and said, "How old are you? How can you still slip and fall?"

"Who would have thought there was an uncovered manhole in the middle of the road!" Wang Yao muttered as he shoved dirt off his armor. "Where's the manners? Where's the person who stole the manhole cover?"

Su Qing watched as Li Daniu lifted Wang Yao, armor and all, with one hand and thought to himself, "Brother Niu, with that kind of strength, you still call yourself a mage?"

Wang Yao's suit, including his plate armor, must weigh over 200 pounds. You'd be lifting him like a little chick.

However, he didn't say it aloud because his attention was already drawn to the well opening.

Su Qing walked to the edge of the well, squatted down, and looked down.

The well opening is about 60 centimeters in diameter, and below it is a vertical channel, about two or three meters deep, which connects to a horizontal drainage pipe.

It was dark inside the pipes, but not completely dark.

Su Qing's pupils suddenly contracted.

There was a figure in the darkness.

A tiny figure huddled at the corner of the pipe, half its body hidden in the shadows.

Two eyes were staring at him.

There were no orange-red spots of light, no pale skin, and no round mouth.

They are normal, human eyes.

It was a child, filthy all over, with clumps of hair and his face covered in black grime, making it impossible to see what he looked like.

But he was very small, and looked to be only seven or eight years old.

Their eyes met, staring at each other intently.

When the child realized that Su Qing had seen him, he turned around abruptly, ran away barefoot through the puddles at the bottom of the pipe, splashing and splattering.