NOVPUBHearing the cracking sounds echoing around him, Wu Bin instantly became tense.
"Could this submarine explode? I saw a news story before about a group of people who took a submarine for an underwater expedition, and the submarine exploded on the way down. Those people didn’t even have time to scream, it was horrible!"
Nightingale glanced at Wu Bin indifferently and said, "This is a military submarine. The situation you mentioned could happen, but unless we’re descending into a pit, it’s unlikely to occur here."
"Besides, your worry is unnecessary. If it really happened, we would have no way to handle it." 𝓷ℴ𝓿𝓹𝓾𝒷.𝓬𝓸𝓂
Wu Bin: ...
At this moment, Wu Bin really didn’t know whether to be grateful for Nightingale’s frankness.
Her blunt words had suddenly made his feelings quite complicated.
The captain in charge of the research mission this time was named Feng Geng, whose experience was vast, having carried out hundreds of special missions large and small over the past decade.
This time, the doctor on the expedition was named Liang Ru, who, like Han Chun, was also a scientist dispatched from the south of the Dragon Clan.
The scientists were more excited than anyone upon hearing that the East Sea Dragon Kingdom had been discovered.
When the submarine dived to eight hundred meters below the water, the observer detected an abnormal signal using the sonar scanning system.
"Captain, there seems to be something three hundred meters ahead."
Feng Geng gave a decisive command.
"Let’s get closer and take a look."
The submarine turned on the underwater searchlights and then moved forward.
Wu Bin looked at the surrounding images displayed on the screen and couldn’t help feeling that they were somehow eerie.
All around were reef rocks covered in green moss.
The shapes and appearances of these rocks were also very strange, not very natural, as if they were artificially carved.
"This is strange."
Hearing Wu Bin say this, Nightingale looked at him.
"What’s strange?"
Wu Bin asked in confusion, "Could it be that at this depth there are no fish? Look around, why is there not a single fish here, not even a sea creature?"
When Wu Bin said this, the others also suddenly realized something.
Right!
Although it’s the deep sea, eight hundred meters definitely isn’t off-limits for many marine creatures, so why aren’t there any fish here?
Is it that this place is unsuitable for living creatures, or did these fish sense something?
As everyone was pondering this, the observer suddenly let out an exclamation.
"Captain, look ahead!"
Feng Geng followed the direction the observer was pointing and saw that right in front of the submarine, a colossal dragon head statue appeared!
The stone dragon statue was estimated to be over two hundred meters long, and compared to it, the submarine seemed like a tiny boat, so insignificant and almost laughable.
Everyone was stunned by the stone dragon statue.
Such a huge stone dragon statue would be hard to construct even on land, let alone at an incredible depth of eight hundred meters beneath the sea!
It simply couldn’t be the work of human hands!
"What should we do, Captain?"
The observer was also overwhelmed by the stone dragon statue before them.
The oppressive feeling of the stone dragon statue was too strong. No wonder the fish didn’t want to swim nearby; there must be something special in the area, disturbing the fishes’ magnetic fields, which is why they disappeared without a trace.
"Continue moving forward, find the entrance to the Dragon Palace of the East Sea."
"Yes, Captain!"
Under Feng Geng’s command, several submarines continued to advance, dispersing in all directions to search and explore.
As the submarines shared their imagery, Wu Bin and the others were able to gradually make out the entire appearance of the Dragon Palace through these images.
The Dragon Palace was huge, and it was truly majestic and spectacular!
What was most surprising was that the entire palace was really built in the style of human palaces, and it wasn’t sealed at the top.
This meant that one didn’t need to specifically look for an entrance; you could descend from any spot above.
Feng Geng had the observers locate a relatively flat area, then he slowly landed the submarine on the ground.
The moment the submarine touched down, it shuddered and the creaking sound made Wu Bin feel a little uncomfortable, even a bit scared.
Feng Geng put on a dark blue diving suit, donned a helmet, and then signaled to Nightingale.
"We’ve arrived at the Dragon Palace of the East Sea, next we need to venture out of the cabin."
Nightingale nodded to indicate no problem.
Wu Bin managed a bitter smile and said, "Sister Nightingale, we’re eight hundred meters underwater! I feel I might not be well adapted to this depth, how about I wait for you guys in the submarine, and if anything happens, I’ll come out?"
Nightingale gave Wu Bin a cold glance.
"If something really happens, will you actually come out?"
Wu Bin quickly assured her with all seriousness.
"Truly, truer than a pearl!"
Nightingale couldn’t be bothered to waste words with Wu Bin and directly pulled him into the flooding chamber.
Sea water slowly filled the chamber to balance the pressure.
Wu Bin began to feel pressure from all around him.
Fortunately, the dark blue diving suit adjusted in time, distributing the surrounding pressure for him. Otherwise, Wu Bin felt that wearing an ordinary diving suit at such depth, he would definitely be crushed to a pulp in an instant.
"Everyone, exit the cabin!"
With Feng Geng’s order, all the submarine hatches opened.
Dozens of frontline combatants exited the cabin and swam towards the rally point like a school of fish.
The rally point was on one of the East Sea Dragon Palace’s main thoroughfares. Once everyone had arrived, Wu Bin noticed that the leading scientist of this mission, Liang Ru, was already an old man in his sixties.
Logically, such a dangerous environment shouldn’t involve an elderly person, but Liang Ru insisted.
He wanted to see with his own eyes what the legendary Dragon Palace of the East Sea looked like. Thus, despite everyone’s objections, Liang Ru was one of the first to arrive at the front lines for the scientific expedition after passing a medical check.
"There’s no mistake, this is the Central Hall, the midpoint of the entire Dragon Palace!"
Liang Ru held a waterproof tablet in his hand and then made several markings on the electronic map.
"These places are all important palaces and chambers. I’ll assign the tasks now. Groups of three, with two scientific researchers and one guard, head out and investigate on your own."
"Yes, Professor."
After receiving Liang Ru’s instructions, the crowd dispersed, each group gathering data and conducting surveys in pairs of researchers guarded by a protector.
This opportunity was too rare—after all, this was the East Sea Dragon Palace.
Every brick and tile here, even a single symbol, could be invaluable material for their research into the Dragon Clan!
Once everyone had scattered, Wu Bin looked towards Nightingale.
"So what do we do now? Just wander around here?"
