novelGlobal #518 - Chapter 517 Rushing into the Quicksand
#518 - Chapter 517 Rushing into the Quicksand
On the deck, Li Chenqiu's face showed a delighted smile. With a wave of his hand, he dispelled his powers, and his pale complexion visibly regained its color.
He was quite satisfied with this result. A depth of over a thousand meters was sufficient, even if the space ring exceeded that range.
He could use the Boundless Domain to enter the quicksand, and with the help of his powers, he estimated he could extend that range even further.
"As long as it doesn't sink to the bottom."
Li Chenqiu muttered to himself, then looked up at the distance.
At this moment, the wind howled, the terrifying sound like countless giant beasts galloping across the wilderness. The quicksand layered upon layer, as if coming to life, suddenly rising high, then suddenly sinking deep, all in disorder, a chaotic scene to the eye.
The constantly swaying ship emitted "crashing and banging" sounds, and bodies were flung out, directly swallowed by the monstrous sand waves.
"Captain Xu! A sandstorm is coming! Our ship can't navigate properly!" The terrified voice of the young driver came from the cockpit.
Li Chenqiu, standing steadily on the deck, slightly narrowed his eyes. Immediately afterward, an invisible wave spread out, enveloping this area of sand.
In an instant, the constantly undulating quicksand gradually calmed down, and the entire ship stopped shaking violently, beginning to sway from side to side due to the wind.
Seeing this, Li Chenqiu raised his arm, pointed his palm in the direction the ship was moving, and slowly clenched his fist.
Two silver metal walls appeared directly in front of the ship, forming a triangular structure that extended backward, completely blocking the wind from all directions as the tail end closed.
After finishing everything, he went to the cockpit, pointed in a certain direction, and said, "This way."
...
At the same time, at the gathering place's dock.
Rumble!
Accompanied by a burst of roaring, a ship slowly departed from the dock.
In order to eliminate Li Chenqiu, all members of the Special Threat Elimination Team 5 were dispatched. Besides Zhang Heping and Hu Quan, the two Eleventh Order members, Divine Envoy Fang Wan was also on this ship.
The lineup could be described as extremely luxurious!
In the narrow cockpit, three Eleventh Order members stood side by side behind the console, looking at the position on the electronic sea chart.
In the picture, a small red dot was moving forward at high speed. This was the ship hijacked by Li Chenqiu.
"To maintain such speed on a night with raging sandstorms, just how is this guy doing it!" Zhang Heping said with a solemn expression.
"Wang's power can control earth. It's probably related to that!" Hu Quan stared unblinkingly at the screen.
Fang Wan narrowed her eyes slightly, stroking her chin. "Luring us to the Sand Sea, hijacking a ship, sailing into a sandstorm at night... what exactly does this Wang want to do?"
Zhang Heping pondered for a moment, then replied, "I feel like he's deliberately avoiding us, maybe he wants to do something in the Sand Sea and doesn't want us to interfere."
Hu Quan turned his head. "Team Leader, that doesn't make sense. If he wants to do something in the Sand Sea and doesn't want us to interfere, why would he lure us here?"
"Maybe... maybe..."
"Stop with the maybes. No matter what he wants to do, what we need to do now is catch up with him and eliminate him."
After speaking, Fang Wan turned and walked towards the door.
Zhang Heping asked in confusion, "Where are you going?"
"To deal with the sandstorm."
Bang!
The cabin door closed.
...
"Go this way!"
Li Chenqiu said urgently, pointing in a certain direction.
"Okay."
The young driver hurriedly changed the ship's direction.
Li Chenqiu closed his eyes, concentrating intently. He could feel the space ring was in this area of sand, very close to him.
After an unknown amount of time, Li Chenqiu suddenly opened his eyes and shouted, "Stop!"
The young man hastily controlled the ship to slowly stop.
Due to the special nature of the Sand Sea, it was impossible to use anchors to stop the ship. It could only be stopped by the ship's own power system and thrusters.
"Stay here and wait for me to come back."
"Okay!"
The young driver nodded honestly.
Li Chenqiu waved his hand, and several slender vines, like swimming snakes, firmly bound the young man.
After doing all this, he stepped out of the cabin, stood in front of the railing, and looked down at the slowly flowing quicksand.
"A thousand... no, it seems even deeper." A deep worry flashed between Li Chenqiu's brows.
Without thinking for long, he raised his hand and aimed it at the quicksand, directly activating his power. A thick, earthen-yellow tentacle plunged into the quicksand with a "bang," probing towards the location of the space ring.
Time passed by, and the frost on Li Chenqiu's face grew heavier and heavier. Fresh blood slowly flowed from the corner of his mouth, dripping down his jaw to the ground.
The space ring was much deeper than he had imagined. Boundless was almost at its limit, but he still hadn't found any trace of the space ring.
Li Chenqiu took a deep breath, slowly lowered his arm, and the mud tentacle dissipated. He muttered to himself, "Looks like I have to go down."
As he spoke, he placed his hand on his lower abdomen.
Whoosh—
A rope condensed from mud slowly appeared, wrapped around his lower abdomen, and then the two ends of the rope quickly shot out, wrapping around the ship's hull several times.
After preparing, Li Chenqiu leaped into the quicksand, while fully activating the Boundless Domain to resist the squeezing of the quicksand.
It was pitch black in the quicksand. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say you couldn't see your own fingers. All he could hear was a "whooshing" sound like a mountain flood, extremely terrifying.
"I have to go down further!"
Li Chenqiu gritted his teeth, enduring the pain of his internal organs squeezing against each other, and continued to accelerate downwards.
Two hundred meters... three hundred meters... four hundred meters...
Crack, crack—
Scalp-numbing sounds of bone cracking rang out continuously in the darkness like firecrackers.
If there were lights here, one would be able to see that Li Chenqiu at this moment was like a porcelain doll about to shatter, covered in bloodstains and constantly overflowing with blood, dyeing the surrounding quicksand red.
If such injuries were sustained by someone else, even if they didn't faint from the pain, they would probably be wailing incessantly.
But Li Chenqiu was like an emotionless machine, his eyes, constantly oozing blood, staring intently at the direction of the space ring, moving downwards without a word.
But his constantly trembling lips still betrayed the fact that he was enduring the pain.
When he descended to six hundred meters, Li Chenqiu stopped. After resting in place for a while, he muttered to himself, "It should be about right!"
He raised his hand, condensing a mud tentacle, and probed deeper.
...
The wind, wrapped in sand and dust, rampaged across the gloomy Sand Sea, emitting a howling sound like the roar of a demon, wantonly scribbling on the canvas of the night.
But at this moment, an incompatible anomaly appeared on this painting.
It was a ship moving at high speed. The monstrous sand waves were like tofu in front of it, smashed to pieces. The layered quicksand was like a flat road to it, unobstructed!