Reverse flow of the Yellow Springs

The mines were buried relatively recently, and it can be determined that they were installed at least several decades after the Dead Sea wreckage was formed.

But who would it be at that time?

The Ark voters who previously challenged the Dead Sea wrecked ships?

But they are all psionicists with five or six senses, so there shouldn't be any need for them to use landmines.

Or were they trying to use landmines to distract the enemy?

Or perhaps, there are survivors among the ships captured by the Dead Sea wreckage?
Did they fight back against the flesh-mutants in this dangerous area? Were landmines one of their methods?

As for scavengers, Li Yelai didn't even consider them. The Dead Sea shipwreck, located in the deep sea, was unknown even to the authorities, and scavengers had no ability to get there.

"Jing Lin, do you have the ability to track traces?" Li Yelai asked in a low voice.

If we have this capability, then tracking and investigation will be much easier.

Detectives who also follow the Spirit Eye Path possess this ability. They can reconstruct the events that occurred at the scene by examining the traces.

“No, but I have the ability of ‘extreme microscopic vision’, which allows me to observe subtle differences. The thickness of the dust on the ground and on the landmines is completely different.” Jing Lin’s left eye, visible beneath his mask, was already somewhat dim, but he didn’t care. Instead, he replied, “You may not be able to notice it, but to my eyes, the difference is exceptionally obvious.”

"This alone is not enough to determine their identity. Let's continue. If there are survivors, it will be good for us," Li Yelai said.

"That's true. The official investigation has covered the most recent batch of missing fleets, which is the border fleet from Border City No. 1. If there are any survivors, they are very likely to be among them."

“But it’s been too long, forty or fifty years. Even if it really is them,” Li Yelai shook his head and sighed.

If it truly is the border fleet, then it belongs to Li Yelai's comrades. But in this environment, without any reinforcements or logistical supplies, the survivors would likely find it difficult to hold out until now.

“It’s been too long, so we still need to be careful. I’ll go first. My eyes can see more.” As he spoke, Jing Lin’s left eye gradually began to recover. He held his spear and walked ahead.

Li Yelai did not create distance, but followed a step behind Jing Lin, covering his side.

The two quickly and silently passed through the breach, where they saw a walking, fleshy aberration.

It is about 2.4 meters tall, and its body is still close to human shape, but its head is a huge fleshy tumor, and in the tumor, there is a big eyeball that glows red.

It might be a sentinel or something similar, detached from the ship's hull and patrolling the vicinity.

Its patrol range is not large, its field of vision seems to be only a dozen meters. But in the area it is in, there are more than a dozen ordinary flesh-and-blood mutants.

To avoid it and carry out an assassination would be quite difficult.

However, killing it might alert the nearby flesh aberrations.

"This is tricky," Jing Lin whispered. "We need to wait until it gets away from this mutant area before prioritizing its elimination."

“Well, just in case, let’s do it together,” Li Yelai replied.

"Alright, one in front and one behind, stab him to death!" The two gunmen agreed.

After observing the Sentinel Aberration circle back and forth twice, and locking onto its movement trajectory, the user silently approached and lurked at its corner.

The two stood on either side, calmly watching the Sentinel Aberration approach.

Li Yelai extended his finger again, gesturing to Jing Lin. The two had collaborated many times before and were quite in sync.

Just as the sentry approached, Li Yelai's second finger bent.

The two men were already tensing their muscles, preparing for a deadly attack.

However, just as Li Yelai was about to bend his last finger, the sentry less than four meters away from the two of them suddenly shuddered.

At the same time, the two men who were about to make their move changed their expressions and immediately hid around the corner.

Almost simultaneously, the tumor on the sentinel's body suddenly unfolded, and more than a dozen tentacles suddenly pierced out, reaching out in all directions!
One of the tentacles was less than 20 centimeters away from Li Yelai's cheek!

This made the two of them very nervous, thinking that the sentry had discovered them.

But the sentinel remained motionless, and a few seconds later, all the tentacles retracted into the tumor.

The sentries resumed their patrols.

This time, Li Yelai and Jing Lin did not hesitate and immediately took action!
The two men, one on the left and one on the right, simultaneously unleashed their psionic weapons. Like two clashing guillotines, they cleanly severed the sentry's head!

Before its head even hit the ground, Jing Lin flicked it up with his spear. The spear shaft jolted, shattering the eyeballs and other tissues inside.

Li Yelai then brandished his halberd once more, piercing the Sentinel's mutated chest with the halberd and twisting it forcefully!
One-Handed Eighteen Throws - Alligator Spin!
The sharp, double-edged handles rotated, directly shredding its internal organs, including its heart!

Then, the two gently lowered the head and body, trying not to make a sound.

After doing all this, the two of them finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"What was that just now? Did it sense us?" Jing Lin asked in a low voice.

"Maybe, but it could also just be a routine check." Li Yelai slowly exhaled. "Fortunately, the speed we were going at just now was easy to dodge."

"That's true. If we had been any faster, we would have been caught," Jing Lin complained. "They're really sneaky."

The sentry's sudden movement caught them off guard. Fortunately, both reacted quickly and managed to avoid the danger.

However, it can be dangerous for psionicists with third or fourth senses, as they can easily be caught off guard and fall victim to a trap.

The two then resumed cleaning up the scene, eliminating the dormant mutants.

However, what is surprising is that some of the clothes worn by the deformed individuals can be seen here.

Due to physical deformities, most of the deformed individuals' clothing was either torn apart or worn away.

Among the aberrations here, one was even wearing a combat uniform and a bulletproof vest.

Perhaps because the bulletproof vest was too sturdy, it didn't stretch and remained on his body.

Li Yelai squatted down to examine it and quickly retrieved an officer's ID card from his tactical uniform, which was mostly corroded.

Although their names and specific information are not visible, it is certain that these are soldiers from the border fleet.

"So, after the border fleet lost contact back then, they were indeed brought here." Li Yelai looked at the flesh-and-blood mutant and sighed softly. It was a terrible feeling to send off a comrade.

Jing Lin's eyes had recovered, and he looked at the flesh-and-blood mutant, saying, "It was modified after death; there are obvious penetrating wounds on its bulletproof vest. It's possible that corpses that die near these blood vessels are all turned into flesh-and-blood mutants." "I wonder how many more there are," Li Yelai murmured.

The two continued forward, but their path was blocked by many twisted and obstructed passages. They feared that cutting open the passages would attract the mutants.

So the two put on oxygen masks and dived into the cabin that was flooded by seawater.

With the psionic barrier in place, they can move freely underwater without needing diving suits.

After swimming for more than ten minutes, the two finally found a gap that had been torn open.

After the two climbed out of the gap, they saw an even more bizarre sight.

They saw a vast number of ships, kneaded together by some force, their hulls twisted and deformed, piled up and stacked, forming a massive iron curtain. The bottoms, bridges, and decks of the ships were all eerily stacked into a curtain of despair, with numerous blood vessels spreading from the hulls.

On those blood vessels, a faint red light flickered from the mutated flesh.

Like a red starry sky, like a crimson nightmare!
"Hiss!" Li Yelai and Jing Lin both gasped. Hundreds and thousands of red lights meant that there were thousands of flesh-and-blood mutants among them!

Moreover, some of the variants are much larger and seem to be much more powerful!

"How many people did it capture?" Jing Lin shook his head. "We can't force it. There are so many monsters, and they all have spiritual energy barriers. Even if we use the Heavenly Fire Eye, we can't eliminate them all in a short time."

"Let alone eliminating it, once a battle breaks out, the structure here will probably collapse instantly. Even if I don't trigger the vehicle killer, this place will disintegrate," Li Yelai replied in a low voice.

"The only saving grace is that there's still oxygen here. Otherwise, we would be in so much pain." Jing Lin took off his oxygen mask.

His gaze swept around, and he was immediately taken aback, then pointed to a capsized ship in the distance.

The ship was relatively well-preserved, surrounded by countless other vessels, but its massive deck was still visible.

"Look, an invincible missile destroyer!"

Li Yelai was taken aback. Looking at the huge ship and the numerous missile silos that had been opened on the deck, he asked in surprise, "How did you recognize it?"

Li Yelai had never seen the ocean before, so his understanding of warships was really not very clear.

He genuinely couldn't distinguish between destroyers and cruisers.

"The officials showed me all the documented aerial photographs of warships. If my memory serves me right, it should be a destroyer." Jing Lin wasn't entirely sure either. "I heard that it was our strongest destroyer before the calamity. But the foreigners back then called it a cruiser. Maybe it's a different definition. I don't really know either. I've never even seen a warship before!"

As a resident of Yaoqing Giant City, Jing Lin had never seen the sea.

If we're talking about those who know anything about warships, it should be Border City No. 1, after all, it had a military port before the calamity.

It's really difficult to ask Li Yelai and Jing Lin, who have never seen the sea, to distinguish between warships.

“But I know that this warship was the overlord of the sea before the calamity. The missiles it launches can reach speeds of Mach 10! If they hit it directly, anyone below the overlord would die! Unfortunately, after the technological stagnation, humanity can no longer build such things.” Jing Lin shook his head.

"If we carry one back, would that count as completing the mission?" Li Yelai asked. "When the time comes, you can take it back and let Jucheng study it. Maybe we can even bring back the technology."

“The giant city actually has missiles stored there. Although I’m not a researcher, I know that technological gaps are hard to bridge. Without the corresponding industry and knowledge, even if you have finished products, it’s difficult to reconnect.” Jing Lin pondered, “But we can go and take a look. Maybe we can find information about the fleet losing contact in the nautical log.”

After making up their minds, the two approached the destroyer that was positioned across the Iron Curtain.

However, as they approached the Iron Curtain, the two saw increasingly denser blood vessels, and even denser, more mutated flesh!

They slept on the deck, in the cabin, and in various other places.

This caused the two of them to move at an increasingly slower pace.

They had to backstab the mutants one by one along the way, and it took them nearly two hours to get close to the Iron Curtain.

As they passed a zigzagging whaling ship, the two men saw a Japanese flag.

There were several footprints on it, and it was torn to shreds.

Clearly, the survivors who had been here before were very dissatisfied with this thing.

The two men sneered and immediately stepped on the ground a few more times.

Then, Jing Lin said, "Judging from the dust on the footprints, the interval between two of the footprints is no more than three years."

"So, there were survivors who lived here for at least two years?" Li Yelai asked in surprise.

“Indeed, if it weren’t for the Ark Chosen ones who came here to challenge us, it would be them. But it’s only been two or three years.” Jing Lin shook his head and said, “The fleet that recently lost contact has been gone for over forty years.”

The two continued forward and began climbing the Iron Curtain.

To avoid trouble, they didn't use the air stepping technique. This took them a long time.

As the two walked across a broken cruise ship, the deck beneath their feet suddenly cracked open.

The two men's expressions changed, and they immediately jumped more than ten meters away.

But the deck still broke, and a large piece of metal detached and crashed downwards.

Li Yelai and Jing Lin looked grim, but could only watch as the metal block slammed heavily onto a fishing boat below, the sharp metal plate actually cleaving the boat in two. This caused a tremendous crash, and the entire Iron Curtain echoed with terrifying sounds of metal twisting and bending.

This undoubtedly disturbed the sleeping flesh-and-blood mutants. The flashing red light suddenly became rapid, and one by one, the flesh-and-blood mutants were awakening.

Li Yelai and Jing Lin's faces darkened, and they immediately raised their psionic weapons, preparing for battle!
Jing Lin's eyes flickered, and a subtle spiritual fluctuation seemed to emanate from his forehead.

Li Yelai's pupils turned golden, and although he couldn't use Bai Qi's mask to crush them all into mincemeat, he was still able to do so.

However, Mimicry: Dragon Soul Treasure is still a viable attack method against groups of enemies!
However, the mutated flesh and blood swarmed towards the bottom of the Iron Curtain from which the voice finally came out, and did not find the two people hanging on the Iron Curtain.

This eased their anxiety, and they immediately hid inside the cabin.

A few minutes later, the disturbed mutants, having failed to find any enemies, returned to their blood vessels and fell asleep again.

“It seems they’re not very perceptive. As long as we don’t get bogged down, we can lure them away with our voices,” Jing Lin said.

"Indeed," Li Yelai breathed a sigh of relief. Neither of them wanted to confront so many monsters head-on unless absolutely necessary.

"Let's go, we're almost there." Li Yelai looked up at the destroyer, which was still more than 80 meters away from him, and was horrified to see a figure standing on the overturned bridge. The lifeless eyes were coldly looking down at the two people below.

The figure flickered and then vanished completely. (End of Chapter)