Netherworld Retrograde

Chapter 551: Chapter 259 Abandoned Ship Person Shadow_2

But if they were Spiritual Ability Users of the Third or Fourth Awakening, there would be danger—, they could easily be caught off guard.

Subsequently, the two resumed clearing the area, eliminating those mutated bodies still asleep.

However, here they unexpectedly found some clothing on the bodies of the mutated.

Most mutated bodies, due to physical deformities, had their clothes either burst or worn away.

Yet among the mutated bodies here, there was one wearing a combat uniform and a bullet-proof vest.

Perhaps because the bullet-proof vest was too sturdy and hadn’t burst open, it had been preserved on the body.

Li Yelai squatted down and quickly retrieved a military ID that was mostly corroded from inside the uniform.

Although the name and specific information were unreadable, it was clear that this was a soldier from the Border Fleet.

”Looks like the Border Fleet that lost contact back then was indeed brought here,” Li Yelai sighed softly as he gazed at the mutated body of a fellow soldier—the feeling of offerring funeral rites was truly unpleasant.

Jing Lin’s eyes had recovered, and looking towards the mutated body he said, ”He was transformed after death; there are evident penetration wounds on his bullet-proof vest. Probably, any corpse near these blood vessels gets turned into a mutated body.”

”I wonder how many more there are...” murmured Li Yelai.

Afterward, the two continued onward; their path was blocked due to many passageways being sealed off by distortions, and they worried that cutting through recklessly might attract more mutated bodies.

Thus, they donned oxygen masks and dove into the submerged part of the ship.

With the protection of the Spiritual Barrier, they could move freely underwater without the need for diving suits.

After swimming for about ten minutes, they finally found a torn opening.

After the two climbed out of the opening, they were met with an even more bizarre sight.

They saw a massive pile of ships, all squished together by some force, their hulls twisted and warped, piled up on top of each other like a vast iron curtain—the bottoms of ships, command bridges, decks, all stacked into a grotesque barricade of metal. Moreover, numerous blood vessels were spreading out from the hulls.

On those blood vessels, mutated bodies pulsated with a faint red glow.

It resembled a red starry sky, like a crimson nightmare!

’Hisss’ Li Yelai and Jing Lin both gasped as they saw the hundreds, possibly thousands of red lights, indicating the presence of thousands of mutated bodies!

Moreover, some of the mutated bodies were even larger and seemed stronger!

”How many people did it capture?” Jing Lin shook his head, ”We can’t force our way through; with so many creatures and all equipped with Spiritual Barriers, even using the Skyfire Eye wouldn’t allow us to destroy them all quickly.”

”Don’t even talk about destroying them, once a battle breaks out, the structure here is likely to collapse instantly, even if I don’t trigger the vehicle killer, this place will disintegrate,” Li Yelai responded softly.

”The only good thing is that there’s still oxygen here. Otherwise, it would be really uncomfortable,” Jing Lin removed his oxygen mask.

As his gaze swept around, he suddenly froze and immediately pointed towards a capsized warship in the distance.

That warship was relatively intact, wrapped by countless other ships, yet its massive deck was exposed.

”Look, an invincible missile destroyer!”

Li Yelai was startled, looking at the huge warship and the numerous missile wells opened on the deck, he said in surprise, ”How did you recognize it?”

Li Yelai had never seen the ocean, and his knowledge of warships was seriously unclear.

He could actually not tell the difference between destroyers and cruisers.

”The official photos of all documented warships were shown to me, if I’m not mistaken, it should be a destroyer,” Jing Lin was also uncertain, ”I heard that before the Calamity, that was our most powerful destroyer. But at that time, foreigners called it a cruiser, maybe they had a different definition. I seriously can’t tell... I’ve damn never seen a warship either!”

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

Those who might have a better understanding of warships would be from No.1 Border City, as it had a naval port before the Calamity.

Asking Li Yelai and Jing Lin, who had never seen the ocean, to distinguish warships was truly a difficult task for them.

”But I know that this warship was the maritime overlord before the Calamity. Its missiles could reach Mach 10! If it hit directly, nothing below an overlord could survive a touch! Unfortunately, after the technological disruption, humans can no longer create such things.” Jing Lin shook his head.

”Then if we carry one back, does that count as completing the mission?” Li Yelai asked, ”Later, you take it back to Giant City, let them study it. Maybe they can reconnect the technology.”

”Giant City actually has preserved missiles. Although I’m not a researcher, I know that bridging the technological disruption is difficult, without corresponding industry and knowledge, even if you have the finished product, it’s hard to continue.” Jing Lin pondered, ”But we can go and check, maybe we can find information about the fleet’s loss of contact from the maritime logs.”

After deciding, the two approached the destroyer located in the middle of the Iron Curtain.

However, as they got closer to the Iron Curtain, they saw increasingly dense blood vessels. And even denser flesh mutations!

They lay dormant on the deck, within the cabin, in various places.

This further slowed their movement.

They had to backstab the mutants along their path one by one, it took nearly two hours before they got close to the Iron Curtain.

As they passed a twisted whaling ship, the two spotted a plaster flag.

It had several footprints on it and had been torn to pieces.

Clearly, the survivors who had come here were not pleased with it.

Both of them sneered and trampled on it a few more times.

Then, Jing Lin said, ”Looking at the dust on the footprints just now, the interval between the two sets of footprints is no more than three years.”

”Does that mean there were survivors here who lived for at least two years?” Li Yelai was astonished.

”Indeed, if they weren’t Ark Chosen Ones who came here to face the challenge, it must have been them. But only for two or three years.” Jing Lin shook his head, ”The most recently lost fleet was over forty years ago.”

The two continued onward, beginning to climb on the Iron Curtain.

To avoid trouble, neither of them used Aerial Stepping. This took a long time.

As the two passed a broken cruise ship, the deck beneath their feet suddenly cracked.

Their faces changed and they immediately jumped out more than ten meters.

But the deck still broke, a large piece of metal fell off, and thunderously smashed onto a fishing ship below, the sharp metal board actually cutting the fishing ship in half, thereby causing a loud noise which also set off horrifying sounds of metal twisting and bending throughout the Iron Curtain.

This undoubtedly alarmed those dormant flesh mutations, whose flickering red lights suddenly became rapid, each flesh mutation awakening.

Li Yelai and Jing Lin, with grim expressions, immediately raised their Spiritual Ability Equipment, readying for battle!

Jing Lin’s eyes flickered, and faint spiritual waves seemed to emanate from his forehead.

While Li Yelai’s pupils turned to gold-plated color, even though he couldn’t use Bai Qi’s mask to crush them into pulp.

The Mimicry·Dragon Soul Divine Treasure was still a viable attack method against groups!

Nevertheless, those flesh mutations surged toward the bottom of the Iron Curtain, where the noise had originated, and did not notice the two hanging on the Iron Curtain.

This gradually eased the tension they were holding, and they quickly hid inside the ship cabin.

After a few minutes, those disturbed mutants, unable to find any enemies, returned to the blood vessels and fell into slumber again.

”It seems they are not very sensitive. As long as we’re not caught, we can use the noise to draw them away,” Jing Lin said.

”Indeed...” Li Yelai also breathed a sigh of relief, neither of them wanted to face so many monsters directly unless absolutely necessary.

”Let’s go, we’re almost there.” Li Yelai looked up towards the destroyer still about eighty meters away, but shockingly saw a figure standing in the overturned bridge, its lifeless gaze coldly overlooking the two below.

And the next instant, the figure wavered and completely disappeared.