Pinnacle of the Stars

Chapter 64 64. Smelly Mud?

Lu Qiu slowed down, allowing the carp king to drag him forward in the water.

During this process, there would be dull buzzing from both sides of his ears from time to time, and his breathing was very different from that on the ground.

In addition to the occasional feeling of pressure in the chest, the movement of the limbs is also more laborious than usual.

"Gududu——"

Blisters gushed from the vents on the sides of the mask.

Through the diving goggles, Lu Qiu's line of sight was not hindered too much. Whether it was intentional or not, he never turned his head to pay attention to Jun Shalan behind him. There was a bright light above his head, and he was always at the same distance from him.

In this way, they kept swimming at an even speed, and after walking a few hundred meters in one direction, a fork in the road suddenly appeared in front of the two of them.

One up, one down.

Without hesitation, Jun Shalan turned around and chose the one on the right.

There has been communication between the two before, like this, there are only two forks in the road, and the upward one will lead to a platform away from the water, which is a stop for people to rectify during design.

Since the design was originally designed to serve trainers, such stops are not uncommon in shallow water compared to the middle and lower floors.

The red fish shadow chased after him, his eyes were dull but very serious.

All the way down, after more than 20 minutes since the start, Lu Qiu gradually began to be amazed at the physical strength of the carp king.

According to his judgment, even if his carp king won't be unable to hold on at this time, he should at least show some fatigue.

The underground waterways in Hualan City extend in all directions, and there are as many forked roads as there are hairs on the body of a fiery monkey.

Among them, I can obviously feel the resistance brought by the flow of water, and I don't know how to swim to cooperate with it like Jun Shalan. After trying to learn, the endurance of the carp king can be seen to be mediocre.

Going forward, when she encountered another fork in the road, Jun Shalan in front of her stopped suddenly, turned her head to look, and the light above her head fell on a spot.

After Lu Qiu and Carp King followed up, she stabilized her body, floated up and down and gestured towards him:
'There is a discovery. '

Following the pointer, Lu Qiu saw that on a wall at the three-way intersection, there was a pinkish-purple fluid condensed into a block, and while sticking to it, it floated straight to one side along the water flow.

'help me. '

Lu Qiuhui made a gesture, which was taught to him by Jun Shalan just now.

In addition, there are 'retreat', 'leave me alone', 'stand by' and so on.

After all he had learned were commands that would only be used when escaping, Lu Qiu made up his mind to spend some time studying gesture commands.

Gently turning his body on his feet, with the help of Jun Shalan, Lu Qiu untied the waterproof backpack on his shoulder, then took out a test tube from it, and pushed the pink-purple fluid into it with the cork.

After finishing, he made a simple upward gesture to the former.

"How about it?"

Five minutes later, the two emerged from the water together.

Jun Shalan stepped onto the stage first, while Lu Qiu climbed up with the help of her hand.

Pushing away the mask, and helping herself and Lu Qiu close the valve of the oxygen cylinder at the waist, Jun Shalan said to the thing in the latter's hand, "Is it something related to the stinky mud?"

There was no immediate answer.

Lu Qiu took out the parts from the waterproof layer of the backpack and assembled the microscope together, and then scraped off a little bit from the pink-purple block and put it on a glass slide.

"Help me get the pen and paper."

Aiming at the eyepiece and observing, Lu Qiu casually called Jun Shalan who was beside him.

"This thing should come from the smelly mud, but it looks a bit strange. Different color smelly mud?"

After a long time, Lu Qiu looked at the data he wrote on the paper, and said strangely: "But I remember that the strange-colored stinky mud doesn't look like this, and how can it be active?"

Faced with his puzzled expression of asking and answering, Jun Shalan squatted down after sending Gotha Duck out to guard, "Say something useful."

He didn't care about Jun Shalan's attitude.

Lu Qiu divided the remaining condensate into five parts, and after testing it with poison-testing paper, poured the pre-prepared antidote on each of them, let it stand for a while, and then put it under the microscope again for inspection.

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Seeing that his expression became more and more strange, Jun Shalan couldn't help frowning and said, "Did you find anything?"

Lu Qiu raised his head and rubbed between his brows, not daring to say anything: "This thing."

"It's not toxic."

Jun Shalan: "Is it too long?"

Lu Qiu shook his head, "I compared the data in the research institute and observed it in advance. If there is no accident, it should be torn off from the body by Pokémon with skills."

"What do you mean?"

"Like its evolutionary form, the body cells of the stinky mud are dead bodies with inherent toxicity, because their main food is all kinds of garbage. When the toxicity in the body accumulates to a certain level, they will start to grow and evolve, and then Same as molting."

Lu Qiu explained, and at the same time handed one of the lumps that gradually faded to Jun Shalan, "Although it is a dead thing, it is the same as our limbs and fingers. Once it falls off, it is equivalent to a serious injury. Generally speaking, this is not the case with the intensity of Pokémon battles."

"You mean to say."

Jun Shalan put her hand on her chin and thought for a moment, her eyes flickered and said: "Something is chasing and killing this stinky mud."

"Well, one, or a group."

Lu Qiu's face was a bit ugly, "According to the city's propaganda, there should be Pokémon swimming in from the sea when the water is changed in the shallow water layer, but for so long in the past, we haven't even seen a single one."

Jun Shalan was silent, and then said to Lu Qiu: "Take a break, let's continue diving later, at least we need to collect enough information so that I can confirm whether the source of this poisoning incident will affect the entire Hualan City."

Lu Qiu nodded. He looked at the carp king floating on the water and spitting bubbles at him. He raised his hand and broke off an energy bar and fed it to it one after another.

"Crack——"

"Your carp king has very good physical strength and can keep up with the speed of the Gotha Duck."

Jun Shalan said: "I'll speed up the pace later, can I?"

Lu Qiu nodded.

He also wanted to see where the limit of his carp king was.

The two rested for about 10 minutes, during which Lu Qiu asked Jun Shalan about some issues he cared about, and the latter did not hold back, and simply told the other party in his own words.

"Line of sight is a very vague thing to explain. When a powerful human or Pokémon deliberately falls on themselves, they can instantly trace back to its source, including monitoring through a camera."

"In order to avoid being detected, you have to make yourself not 'deliberate'."

Saying that, Jun Shalan suddenly turned her head and looked directly at Lu Qiu.

She clearly looked sharp, but when the latter was in front of her, she could only see holes in her eyes, making it impossible for people to notice where her gaze was.

"Concealment of sight, there are related items in the observer's assessment, but it is not a large proportion. You researchers may not like to hear it, but it is just a garbage assessment that you can pass if you can draw."

Jun Shalan withdrew her gaze, and said coldly: "That's why there are so many parallel imports in the observation family, and the overall status has always been inferior to that of the breeder."

Apparently she had a bad experience with the watchers.

For such contempt, Lu Qiu did not choose to respond, but kept trying to practice according to her professor.

After all, the woman was right.

Instead of arguing and refuting, it is better to make yourself stand out from the parallel importers.

In the gaze of constantly changing angles, Jun Shalan suddenly pulled down the mask to cover her face, turned her back and said: "Don't look, let me not notice that you have to practice until the next life, it's time to go."

"Gotha—"

Just as he walked to the water's edge, when Lu Qiu put the zipper back on Carp King's body, the Gotha Duck, who was sent out to guard before, suddenly appeared with his head.

"what happened?"

Seeing that the Gotha Duck was obviously abnormal, Lu Qiu turned to ask Jun Shalan.

"I found a Pokémon."

Jun Shalan stretched her feet into the water, but she didn't panic:

"There are many."

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(End of this chapter)