Chapter 704 Dead Sea

The Three Continents Alliance launched a general offensive against Zhongzhou. After the Tianchao strike dissipated, three huge gaps were blasted out of the high wall. Airships entered in single file, and these three battlefields were respectively commanded and led by the high-level officials of the Three Continents.

"What... what exactly happened to this sea?"

Mu Wanqiu rode the main airship to the outer north side of the Yuan Zhi High Wall, observing from a distance of about thirty to forty miles, and frowned.

After the high wall was broken, the distant inner sea should have been a boundless expanse of azure blue, bordering Zhongzhou's northern trading city, Ningfan.

But now the sea near Ningfan is pitch black, shrouded in thick fog!

What's even stranger is that there's no wind or thunder, just a drizzle of rain—

With such weather, the sky above the sea shouldn't be so gloomy.

"The source energy airships that entered the sea have all lost their signals."

The airship fleet of the Fifth Army received orders to hover before the Ningfan sea area. Lin Lin only tentatively sent three or five miniature airships, taking off from the decks of the heavy airships, using unmanned driving technology, to explore the way forward... but unsurprisingly, these miniature airships all lost their signals and completely "evaporated" after entering the gloomy sea area, as if they had never existed.

Beside Mu Wanqiu, Lin Lin, the general commander of the Fifth Army, stood upright.

He stared blankly at the sea ahead. "It looks like the Ningfan sea area is covered by a mental network."

The successive "disappearances" of the miniature airships made him give up the idea of continuing to advance... After the high wall was broken, the resistance of the Yuan Zhi Tower was undeniably fierce, but just a little while ago, those Yuan Zhi Tower transcendents who were still fiercely fighting in the northern theater seemed to have received an iron order to retreat one after another, regardless of casualties, and disappeared completely within tens of minutes.

They chose to evacuate the Yuan Zhi High Wall and no longer defend it.

Leaving this blasted hole to the Fifth Army's punitive fleet!

Such a strange behavior naturally aroused Lin Lin's vigilance.

Now the entire fleet is reorganizing here, waiting for the next order.

"Although the coordinates of the Upper City are located in the north of Zhongzhou, they are at least a thousand miles away from the Ningfan sea area."

Mu Wanqiu couldn't understand this scene. She muttered to herself in confusion, "Is the influence of the mental network really that great?"

"Sha!"

With a thought, the white-clothed phantom of the Judge floated out and hovered behind Mu Wanqiu.

The white-clothed ghost's domain fell like a cloak, adding to Mu Wanqiu's strength.

A layer of dark brilliance emerged from the depths of her pupils.

Mu Wanqiu cast her gaze toward the sea ahead. What she saw was no longer just seawater. The fog was broken down, turning into wisps of dark source matter. These were all "broken spirits" wandering on the sea surface! Millions of wandering spirits surged and billowed on the sea surface like waves, like tentacles!

After activating the domain... Mu Wanqiu saw a scene that others could not see. This strange scene made fine beads of cold sweat seep from her back.

In the sea, she saw the several "miniature airships" she had sent out earlier, now crashed and soaked in the sea, only half submerged.

In addition to that.

There were also corpses floating on the sea surface!

The Fifth Army hadn't had time to fight in the Ningfan sea area... Whose corpses were these?

Whose else could they be!

They were none other than the Yuan Zhi Tower transcendents who had just retreated. They received orders to return to the Ningfan sea area, and then... they just "died" like this?

No, this wasn't "death."

Mu Wanqiu focused her attention and stared for a while. She noticed that the spirits of these bodies floating on the sea surface had not dissipated. They floated like ice blocks, their foreheads connected to the tentacles extending from the mental network.

They were not dead, but more like... asleep.

Drowning in the link of the mental network.

Their spirits were plunged into the deep sea.

And their bodies floated on the sea surface.

It was precisely because the Judge's domain ability was related to "birth and death" that Mu Wanqiu was very sensitive to this state of semi-annihilation.

She quickly sent this mental image into Lin Lin's heart lake.

"Wait..."

"This is, the Dead Sea?"

Lin Lin paused for a second after seeing the scene captured by Mu Wanqiu with the Judge's domain.

He had heard his sister mention the "Dead Sea Zone."

That was the most concentrated and forbidden area of ​​the deep sea calculation, where more than 90% of the mental power was concentrated... At the same time, the Dead Sea was also the "cornerstone area" of this mental network. It stood to reason that only the highest seats could enter the Dead Sea Zone. A major feature of this area was that mental power was divided to the extreme, and each strand of spirit was as thin as seaweed.

When he was young, Lin Lin had curiously asked the Empress Sister what it was like to enter the "Dead Sea Zone."

And Lin Lei's answer was: "It's like entering a mental space where gravity is lost, and the whole person will float up."

Due to the excessive surplus of mental power, the Dead Sea Zone possessed a powerful "buoyancy," which caused the so-called floating phenomenon.

The scene that Mu Wanqiu saw now made Lin Lin subconsciously think of the concept of "Dead Sea" stored in the depths of his mind.

"Dead Sea... What is that?"

Mu Wanqiu frowned.

She had an ominous premonition in her heart.

"It's a very bad thing."

Lin Lin's face darkened, and he said in a low voice: "All members of the Fifth Army prepare to retreat... Stay away from the Ningfan sea area, and set off immediately!"

If this thing was really the "Dead Sea"...

Then did the scene in the Ningfan sea area at this moment mean that the Deep Sea had completely taken over all the permissions of Zhongzhou?

It should be known.

The main system coordinates of the Deep Sea were the Upper City!

The release of the Dead Sea had spread to the Ningfan sea area!

The mental strength of this thing was not a joke.

The reason why Gu Shen risked his life to release the "Lion's Awakening Code" five years ago was to prevent the mental power of the entire Five Continents from merging into the Dead Sea Zone.

In the end, Gu Shen succeeded, and the transcendents of the Three Continents Alliance were "cut off" from the Deep Sea Network.

But... Zhongzhou was not within the scope of the Lion's Awakening!

"Rumble—"

The Fifth Army's fleet started immediately, and the sea was surging in an instant.

But the next moment, strange noises came from behind the fleet!

A muffled collision sound rang from the high wall.

The huge "hole" that had been completely shattered by the Tianchao strike seemed to be filled by an invisible force.

After receiving the order to retreat, a heavy airship turned around and sailed, suddenly colliding with an extremely hard void barrier. This collision was no small matter. The front end of the heavy airship was compressed inch by inch, deforming, and the protective cover was shattered to pieces!

This strange phenomenon immediately caused chaos.

"What is this... Is it a source domain?"

Lin Lin narrowed his eyes, not panicking.

A Liuer accompanied the Fifth Army. After breaking through the Yuan Zhi High Wall, he went to fight with the source realm expert responsible for guarding the northern theater. At this moment, the only ones capable of blocking the retreat of the entire fleet... After thinking about it, it should only be a super powerhouse at the source realm level.

"No..."

Mu Wanqiu said in a low voice: "Don't you think that the Yuan Zhi High Wall... doesn't look like an inanimate object?"

These words stunned Lin Lin for a second.

He stood at the front of the main airship and raised his head.

The Yuan Zhi High Wall, this majestic giant wall that traverses the sea like a giant beast.

All along, he had thought that this was a defensive work created by the Deep Sea to counter the border fortress of the Northern Continent, but after Mu Wanqiu spoke, Lin Lin realized the difference... The giant wall in front of him seemed to be slowly "wriggling."

This was like a...

Huge mouth.

Under the intensive Tianchao strike, the high wall was torn open, and the allied forces were divided into three routes, advancing rapidly at the same time. If someone could stand at the highest point and look down, they would find that the Yuan Zhi High Wall was like a layer of belly.

And the Three Continents fleet, trying to pour into the inner sea by all means, was like "food" voluntarily entering the urn.

Lin Lin sent a message to the front of the fleet after turning its direction: "What's the situation now?"

Responding to him was Osmund, who had experienced hundreds of battles: "The high wall is sealed, and the retreat has failed... This thing seems to be carved with unique ancient text patterns, and it can actually achieve self-repair in the Tianchao strike!"

"Attack immediately!"

Lin Lin reacted as quickly as possible and said: "Give me a hard hit! We must blast a retreat no matter what!"

After seeing that black sea.

A terrifying thought arose in Lin Lin's mind.

If the scene in the Ningfan sea area was really the "Dead Sea" descending...

Then the battle in the Upper City was probably over.

And the ultimate winner was not the allied forces. Judging from the battle reports from various territories of Zhongzhou, the winner was not Qinglong either.

Then there was only one possibility.

The ultimate winner... was the Deep Sea.

The Deep Sea broke away from the program settings and became the master of "itself," and then released the most basic Dead Sea network in the mental network. Once this thing was released, it could accurately capture every "transcendent" who had used the mental network. Every transcendent in Zhongzhou had provided calculation power for the Dead Sea.

Theoretically speaking, the Dead Sea could quickly cover the entire Zhongzhou!

And the chained, everyone could not refuse the Deep Sea's forced summons...

The entire continent would be pulled into the "mental world"!

This sounded absurd.

But the deathly silence in the Ningfan sea area proved that... The real world was sometimes so absurd.

The Deep Sea had a high probability of linking the entire Zhongzhou.

And the only reason Lin Lin could think of for the Deep Sea to act like this was that it was preparing to carry out its twelfth upgrade.

Self-upgrading had always been within the scope of the Deep Sea's authority.

If it could carry out the twelfth upgrade, it would have done it long ago, and would never have waited until today, five years later.

Obviously.

The Deep Sea had always been lacking something for the conditions for the twelfth upgrade... But if this war was added, then it would be enough.

Boom boom boom!

At this moment, there was a deafening roar in the sky above the sea!

The black silver shells were firing at full power, and the Fifth Army launched a second round of attacks on the Yuan Zhi High Wall with an extremely sturdy posture... But the "black silver shells," which had achieved excellent test results in the first round of testing, had a dismal effect when attacking the void barrier of the Yuan Zhi High Wall. The billowing smoke dissipated, and the void barrier was still strong!

The "high wall" set up by the Deep Sea was not only meant to trap Zhongzhou.

It was also meant to trap the outsiders who stepped into Zhongzhou.

The real copper wall and iron wall was not on the outside, but on the inside.

It had long expected this day to come.

The mental power of the twelfth upgrade was too huge. It was really stretched to rely solely on the power of one continent of Zhongzhou... But if the gods in that divine battle were added, plus the elite allied forces who stepped into the battlefield.

Then, it would be enough.

The biggest difficulty was to trap the allied fleet and completely block them after they entered the high wall.

The Deep Sea knew.

Initial sent a large number of black silver shells to the Three Continents Alliance. This thing was extremely destructive and extremely precious... But everything in the world had "weaknesses." Through continuous five years of combat, the "martyrs" on the Gubu battlefield had already completely collected the weapon information of the Northern Continent fleet. In order to achieve the ultimate gluttonous feast, the Deep Sea calculated the "breaking point" of the Yuan Zhi High Wall and urgently forged the inferior divine silver blessed by the [Cloud Mirror] authority.

In the past five years, Zhongzhou had not given birth to too many source realm powerhouses.

Because...

The Deep Sea had reserved all the power of the [Cloud Mirror] authority for the construction of this high wall.

What it had to do was to ensure that during the time when the Dead Sea spread, the allied fleet that stepped into Zhongzhou's territory could not complete the retreat smoothly.

After the high wall was blasted to pieces—

No one would care about those huge holes.

Because no one thought that the Deep Sea would engrave portal patterns on the ports of the high wall's breaking points in advance, and use the ancient texts of the traveler race to transport the divine silver to the broken gaps. At this point... the spider web had been laid out, waiting only for the final blockade and predation.

The first round of black silver shell shooting failed.

Then came the second and third rounds.

Osmund led the Fifth Army to launch a fierce attack in the direction they came from... Cracks soon appeared in the inferior divine silver, but a large number of martyrs poured out from the smoke.

This was the second gift that the Deep Sea had left for the allied fleet.

It needed to ensure that the entire plan was foolproof.

When necessary, blood and life could be used to fill these broken holes.

Lin Lin watched the overwhelming number of ghosts and blood shatter and explode in the shockwaves of the black silver shells... Using black silver shells to bombard and kill the martyrs was an unprecedented extravagance, but at this moment, no one felt sorry for the firepower, because the black mist in the Ningfan sea area was gradually approaching, and every transcendent in the fleet felt uneasy.

"Central City?"

"I am Lin Lin, I am applying for a second round of Tianchao strikes on the northern theater."

Lin Lin silently connected to the mental channel of Central City, but the signal at this moment was already unstable.

The voice of his brother had not been heard for a long time.

He looked at Mu Wanqiu and gritted his teeth and said: "Xiaoqiu, how is the connection on your side..."

Mu Wanqiu's expression was ashen, she stared at the Dead Sea that was constantly approaching the fleet.

"The connection has also failed on my side..."

That towering Yuan Zhi High Wall was an excellent carrier of the mental network. After the divine silver sealed the broken gap, the high wall returned to its integrity.

This vanguard fleet in the Northern Continent theater had really become turtles in a jar!

She tried many times, and the connection signal with Central City was just sent out, and it was like a clay ox entering the sea, disappearing without a trace.

"Wait..."

Suddenly.

A look of surprise appeared in Mu Wanqiu's pupils.

"The connection... the connection is successful!"

It had been many years since Lin Lin had seen such an impassioned expression on Mu Wanqiu's face, and he subconsciously said: "Tell my brother quickly..."

His words were interrupted by Mu Wanqiu.

"The connection I have is not with Central City."

The connection was successful, but not with Central City? Was there anything to be so happy about?

Lin Lin rubbed his brow, a little puzzled: "Then... who is it?"

The next second, Lin Lin stood rooted to the spot.

Because Mu Wanqiu, full of energy, uttered the name he had been longing for for five whole years.

"Gu Shen!"

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