Where is the third collapse? ! !

With the help of Shui Longyin, Fu Li and others walked hundreds of meters underwater.

The dark blue water is like melted glass, and the light at the bottom of the lake is kneaded into pieces of gold, swimming among the rugged limestones.

Schools of fish passed by before my eyes, their scales reflecting cold arcs of light and their tail fins stirring up trembling undercurrents.

Kiana reached out and poked the water flowing around her. Suddenly, she smiled and said nostalgically, "It reminds me of the time when Cocolia chased me into the lake in Changkong City."

After looking at Bronya twice more, she nodded: "Yes, your mother's."

Yaya suspected that this silver bug was deliberately taking the opportunity to curse people, but she had no evidence.

She didn't need any evidence. With a thought, the water around Kiana gathered and submerged her.

"Gulp, gulp, gulp!"

The water pressure at a depth of one hundred meters did not hinder the girl's movements at all, but the liquid that suddenly rushed into her mouth choked her and made her spit out air bubbles.

After realizing what was happening, he quickly covered his mouth, his eyes widening as he glared at Bronya who turned around and whistled.

The clear blue eyes seemed to merge with the clear lake water, and his angry look was funny and full of charm.

"Let's do our business first, and then make trouble when we get back."

Fu Li rubbed the little girl's twin turbines, the girl curled her lips and cleared the lake water around Kiana again.

"B!Lo!N!Ya!"

The girl activated the Eternal Fire to dry up her wet clothes. Just as she was about to attack the culprit, she kept making aggressive movements and fell into deep thought.

"How are you?"

Fu Li came over to show concern, thinking that maybe he really had water in his head.

The child is stupid to begin with, and if he gets any dumber, no one will want him.

"Ali, just now when I was drowning and couldn't breathe, I suddenly thought of something." Qi Maomao said with a serious expression, "Humans must rely on oxygen to survive, but oxygen is highly toxic. The more oxygen you inhale, the faster it oxidizes, and the faster it oxidizes, the shorter your lifespan."

Her expression shone with wisdom, like Sherlock Holmes, the detective who had seen through the truth: "If that's the case, then if I hold my breath, wouldn't that mean I can live forever?"

Bronya: "Genius!"

Fu Li: "Discharge!"

Fu Hua: "You have to get in even if you're out of the hospital!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Dr. Zhou smiled happily, feeling that it was indeed good to be young.

With the help of Shui Longyin and the mutual attraction of the blood-written diary, the group quickly found the Taimen salmon that served as the entrance to the world bubble.

When it was discovered, it had fallen to the bottom of the lake, entangled by two rolls of nanotape and unable to move, with strange light reflected from its eyes.

Fuli realized that Siegfried had gone ahead. He waved his hand to interrupt Bronya who was about to say something, and rushed into the entrance first.

One, two... It was as if they were traveling through the seven heavens in mythology, and then swam upwards for hundreds of meters. The moment they broke through the water, boundless skylight came into the boy's eyes.

Then everything went black.

"Bud! Bud bud bud bud!"

It’s Mei.

The little baby who had been waiting alone for a long time dragged a diary taller than himself and rushed to Fu Li's face, hugged his hair and refused to let go, tears streaming down his face.

"so cute!"

Kiana, who followed closely behind, had love in her eyes again, and she couldn't wait to give the little guy a kiss, a hug, and a lift up in the air.

The next to emerge from the water were Fu Hua and Bronya.

Dr. Zhou, the last one to emerge from the water with the help of Shui Longyin, couldn't wait to look around.

Just one look made his pupils tremble as he had been working in environmental protection all his life.

"That's the white sturgeon?"

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Chapter 49: "Stigmata of Death"

The waves, carrying water vapor, hit his cheeks, and Dr. Zhou's fingertips stroked the camera lens with trembling hands.

The white sturgeon, also known as the lyrefish, swordfish, elephant fish, or tuna, is a species of fish in the family Acipenseridae. It has a long, fusiform body, with a flat front pectoral fin and slightly flattened back pectoral fin. Its back and caudal fin are dark or light gray, and its fins and belly are white.

In the blink of an eye, countless related information appeared in his mind.

This is not only because the old man has been engaged in environmental protection work all his life, but also because the white sturgeon has long been extinct in human knowledge.

Extinction, what a cruel word.

Dams blocking their migration routes and destroying their traditional spawning grounds, overfishing through harsh methods like electric grids, frequent Yangtze River shipping, sand mining along the coast, and industrial pollution are all contributing to the devastation.

In a sense, the white sturgeon population was destroyed by human beings themselves.

Because of this, when he saw the group of white elves shuttling across Tianguang Lake, the ripples from their tail fins flowing over Dr. Zhou's waterproof boots, and the leaping waves hitting his body with a cool feeling, he suddenly came to his senses and wiped away the tears that had already filled his eyes.

"So you're all still alive..."

The sixty-year-old man sobbed like a child and moved the camera further away:

The baiji dolphin's curved forehead emerged from the water, a fine mist emanating from its blowhole, like a ghost returning from the extinction page of the Red List.

The finless porpoises chase the fish and leap towards the light, their round backs gilded with gold, their mouths forever adorned with angelic smiles;

Suddenly, a dark shadow swam in the deep water—it was the flatnose fish that should have been frozen in a specimen bottle in 1987. The quicksand of the Tarim River could not bury the last glimmer of its scales.

By the reed marsh, the silver scales of the long-jawed northern salmon are cutting through the duckweed. This lightning that once disappeared from the cross-border river is now weaving a dense warp and weft of life among the algae.

Countless figures in the water, which should have been frozen only in yellowed pages and cold fossils, are now swimming and tumbling vividly in the rippling waves.

"It's worth it, it's worth it for my whole life..."

Dr. Zhou put down his camera, muttered to himself, and fell backwards as if exhausted, crashing into the lake and splashing a lot of water.

"Hey, old man!"

Fu Li realized something was wrong and quickly helped the old man up. When he felt his pulse at his wrist, his expression suddenly changed: "He's not breathing!"

"Hurry! Go to Hyperion and ask Mei Amen!"

Kiana screamed in panic, but Fu Hua moved even faster, quickly pressing her hand on Dr. Zhou's chest to release a weak electric current.

Bronya took out the potions Mei had prepared and poured them into the old man's mouth. As she poured them in, she listened to Fu Li muttering in her ear: "Old man, you must not get into trouble. It has come to this. Are you willing to report to the king of hell before you can see the end?"

Of course I am unwilling to accept this.

After a series of rescue efforts, Dr. Zhou, who had slapped the Black and White Impermanence twice, opened his eyes tremblingly.

He jumped up again with a gesture that was not suitable for his age, fumbling all over his body and said hurriedly: "Where's my camera? Where's my camera?"

"Hold it in your hand."

Fu Hua withdrew her hand and was speechless. She felt a sense of absurdity as if she saw someone wearing glasses looking for glasses or holding a mobile phone looking for a mobile phone.

"Oh, it's not lost, it's good that it's not lost, it's good that it's not lost..."

The old man breathed a sigh of relief and smiled as he looked at the well-preserved photos inside.

"It's just some fish, what's the big deal?"

Kiana scratched her head. Considering the upcoming battle, she tied her long straight white hair into a neat high ponytail under Fu Li's regretful gaze.

"As for, huh? Of course not!"

Dr. Zhou exhaled heavily, and began to emphasize to the three little ones present the various sins caused by mankind's blind development in the past, and that this was nature's salvation for mankind, blah blah.

In response to this, Fu Li and others responded.

"I'm already straining my brain just thinking about what to eat next. How can I have the capacity to ponder something so profound?"

"Bronya is Russian and can't understand the complicated Chinese Mandarin."

"I may be from China, but are you sure you want to point out the drawbacks of industrial development to a poor kid who's been starving since he was eight?"

"...You brat! You're not worth having a say with!"

Dr. Zhou replied angrily, and took out two Snickers from his pocket and handed them to Fu Li.

The boy realized that he cared about his words "one meal a day, one meal a day", smiled, took it and put it in his pocket as a backup food.

The flaming spiritual energy evaporated Fu Hua's wet clothes. She looked at the vast expanse of shimmering water and the small piece of land vaguely visible in the center. "Honestly, I'm curious why there are so many different kinds of aquatic creatures here."

It would be fine if fish like the long-jawed trout and the flatnose mullet, which already live in Tianjiang, were also present, but why did aquatic creatures like the Chinese sturgeon and the finless porpoise, which live in the Yangtze River basin, also come here to join in the celebration?

"Perhaps he didn't come here, but was simply swept up in it," Bronya speculated. "Everyone, do you remember where Genghis Khan died of illness?"

"Qingshui County, at the foot of Liupan Mountain," Fu Li replied. "It's now part of Gansu."

"It's known that according to local Tuwa legend, Genghis Khan, upon returning from his conquests, pointed to Kanas Lake and stated that he wanted to be buried there after his death," Bronya said. "We might have seen it as a joke, but the descendants of the Golden Family have clearly fulfilled the great king's last wish."

"Let's put it in the perspective of the descendants. No matter how brave the Khan was in life, he will still rot and stink after death. Even if they can use various means to delay the decay of his body, it will be a drop in the bucket." She paused and said, "So if they want to travel over 2,000 kilometers to Kanas Lake at the foot of the Altai Mountains in a short period of time, they must use some special means."

Fu Li raised his eyes at the right moment: "For example?"

"waterway."

The girl gave the brother an admiring look.

"From the Yellow River flowing through Gansu?" Fu Hua mused. "Back when Mei Tingzong, not yet the Marquis of Shuimen, visited China, he gave the Shenzhou officials a gift. It was a geological map taken by a satellite. It showed that beneath the Tianjiang Desert, there was an enormous underground reservoir, said to hold as much water as Lake Baikal."

"Indeed."

Fu Li responded and said that he had mentioned this to Prometheus when he was chatting with him before. His parents had studied this.

"Such a massive underground lake must have extensive waterways," Bronya said calmly. "Qinghai, the source of the Yellow River, is close to it. The Tarim River, suspected to be connected to the underground lake, is only a few hundred miles away from the Yellow River. There are also dense water systems like Machi Lake and Zhuonai Lake dotted in between."

"You mean, the two are connected by an underground waterway?" Kiana asked in surprise. "Is that really possible? And even if it's true, why would those little creatures that live in the Yangtze River basin appear here?"

"Because of the Lake Saint."

Fu Hua explained, "When the Mongol Empire was just beginning to rise, the East Asian continent was still at a stage where the Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty were facing off across the river. With Genghis Khan's great talent and strategy, it's impossible that he didn't have any interest in the Southern Song Dynasty, which had the world's highest GDP and was extremely wealthy at the time."

"To be frank, the Southern Song Dynasty at that time had only the natural barrier of the Yangtze River to resist the imperial cavalry." Fu Li also realized part of the truth: "So, the Golden Family used the Dream of Eternal Heaven to transform selected ferocious fish—the Taimen salmon caught during the passage of Kanas Lake—into the Qiexue Army with the characteristics of Honkai Beasts, and released them into the Yangtze River. This would serve as a trump card to overcome the natural barrier and directly attack Huanglong."

"After Genghis Khan's death, his successor ordered the taimen, transformed into kishig, to swim upstream to Gansu, following the confluence of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers. After placing the Khan's mausoleum into the world bubble within their bodies, they then traveled through the underground waterways at the source of the Yellow River into the Tarim River and underground lakes, ultimately returning to Kanas along the Burqin River and other river basins. This marked a massive migration!"

Fu Li concluded, "While traveling upstream, the Lake Saints devoured large quantities of fish eggs and fish from the watersheds along the way. These fish thrived in their stomachs, ultimately forming the ecological environment we see today!"

Kiana was dumbfounded: "How could they go around like this? Won't they get lost?!"

"No!" Dr. Zhou said firmly, "As long as the Taimen are taken from Lake Ganas, they won't! Because this is the way fish migrate!"

"After a journey of over 2,000 kilometers upstream, these fish, having left their homeland, finally returned home alongside the great king who conquered the Eurasian continent!"

Everything was silent, as if an eagle was flying across the sky.

As Dr. Zhou spoke passionately, countless images emerged in the minds of several people.

"This is the miracle of life."

Kiana muttered to herself.

"That's not enough." Fu Hua shook her head slightly. "Just look at this environment. Different species of aquatic creatures live together in harmony, even though they all require very different conditions for survival."

"And then there are those Kheshik Lake Saints transformed from Taimen salmon." Bronya glanced around, taking in the hordes of lake monsters that had vaguely surrounded her group. "Even if there were ample food within the bubble, growing to their current size wouldn't be achieved simply by eating and waiting."

The human Qiexue Army, which was also transformed by the Eternal Heaven Alliance, did not become as gigantic as these guys.

Pulling out the bird's nest from his waist, Fu Li raised his lips and said, "In other words, something else is stimulating the growth of these things."

Genghis Khan, who was severely injured by the unleashing of the Heavenly Fire in West Asia, stopped his advance and returned to the northern desert to recuperate. The following year, he led his army to war despite his serious injuries because the Western Xia broke their alliance and eventually died.

No matter how you look at it, this recovery ability is excessively strong.

You know, even for the Judgement-level Benarus, the result of taking the Skyfire's unsheathing was that his wings were destroyed and his combat power was greatly reduced. He died miserably at the hands of Shigure Kirara and Shub-Niggurath.

However, if we think about it from another perspective, the damage caused by the Holy Fire Judgment can only be healed by the Black Abyss White Flower.

It has similar effects to the Black Abyss White Flower, with extremely powerful regenerative abilities, and can passively stimulate the Lake Saints to grow into their current form.

"The awakener of the Stigmata of Death, Temujin Borjigin."

Dr. Mei on the moon was the first to reveal the truth.