Chapter 668: Chapter 456: Accident
Ye Liuyun’s thoughts were unknown to Zachary, but even if Zachary had been aware of them, he probably wouldn’t have cared much about Ye Liuyun taking the opportunity to establish his authority.
Quietly watching Ye Liuyun finish handling the matter, Zachary took the locator from him and immediately boarded his own small transport machine. Following the directions on the locator, he set off towards where his parents were.
Along the way, Zachary saw many boats on the water, large and small vessels spread out like stars in the sky. Since the torrential rain had ceased, Zachary saw many boats arranging for people to go into the water; it was unclear whether they were fishing or diving below to collect suitable materials.
By now, most survivors had begun their cultivation. Even the least advanced among them had become martial artists of the Bone Tempering Realm. If they had remained ordinary people like before the catastrophe, they wouldn’t have been able to dive underwater to search for materials.
You see, before the catastrophe, ordinary people could dive at most about ten meters deep without professional equipment. Any deeper, and the water pressure would inflict irreversible damage to their bodies.
Even for professional divers, the normal diving depth with professional equipment was only about forty meters. Sometimes when they attempted to push their limits, they could reach around fifty meters at most.
As for the unaided diving record in the Guinness Book of World Records of over a hundred meters, that was an impossible feat for ordinary people before the catastrophe. After all, to reach that level required all-day training to adapt to pressure.
But once the survivors became martial artists, even with the lowest cultivation level, their physical fitness improved tremendously, drastically reducing the harm from water pressure.
That’s why practically any survivor on a boat could dive deep underwater to search for materials, as becoming a martial artist not only improved their ability to withstand pressure but also significantly increased their breath-holding capacity.
Moreover, in truth, most boats were not lacking food just after the flood had begun.
This was not because the boats were well-prepared with supplies. On the contrary, aside from a few people who had received advance notice and prepared to board the boats, many survivors on small boats had very few supplies.
However, "Providence never closes one door but it opens another." Human survivors had boats as their waterborne refuge centers, but the ancient creatures and the Bug Race, who originally lived deep in the forests, were not prepared to live on the water.
As a result, both the ancient creatures that lived on land and the Bug Race that lived underground faced extinction when the flood came.
The initial days of the catastrophe brought relentless rain, raising the water level on the ground indefinitely.
Although, at first, these ancient creatures and bugs struggled, running around trying to find a safe place to settle.
But as the water level continued to rise, they helplessly realized there was nowhere to land, and in the end, they were all submerged and perished in the floodwaters.
What humanity had failed to achieve was now accomplished by the catastrophe; those creatures who lacked the ability to swim were thoroughly wiped out by the flood.
Just like the common saying on the Internet goes, "I kill you, what does it have to do with you?"
People always thought floods and earthquakes were natural disasters until someone noticed a team abroad that, to study the architectural structure of anthills, had selected one that was at least twenty years old and poured a large amount of liquid aluminum into it.
Once the aluminum cooled and solidified, they began to excavate the solid aluminum, and based on its appearance, analyzed the structure of the anthill.
The liquid aluminum poured into the entrance of the anthill was an unstoppable natural disaster for the ants within.
Think about how some children, when bored, like to pour water into ant nests or use sticks to destroy them.
The damage those children caused to the ant nests, isn’t it very similar to the floods and earthquakes humans have experienced?
To the ants, humans are beings beyond their observation and understanding, and the disasters humanity faces, could they resemble tools used by beings from a higher dimension when bored?
Following this line of thought, Zachary’s body began to tremble uncontrollably. He then abandoned the idea.
As the small transport machine drew closer to the area marked on the locator, Zachary had a premonition, feeling that something was not quite right.
Zachary undoubtedly expanded his Divine Sense to the maximum range, originally intending to locate his parents’ position with it.
But Zachary never expected that when he spread out his Divine Sense, he suddenly found himself traveling through a series of illusory mirrors.
Just as the Divine Sense extended beyond the transport machine he was on, before Zachary could react, according to his Divine Sense’s perception, the small transport machine directly plunged into one of the illusory mirrors.
The expansion of the Divine Sense was extremely fast. By the time the small transport machine had completely passed through what seemed to be an illusory mirror in the Divine Sense, Zachary’s Divine Sense had already reached its maximum coverage.
The vehicle Zachary was riding in looked like a small transport machine, but in reality, after transformation by the Cave and re-refinement by Zachary, it had become a Magical Weapon.
