Hunter × Hunter: The Seven Deadly Sins

"Is there any problem with this?"

An armed man was a little surprised, after all, this situation was obviously abnormal.

"It's better...notify the Council of Elders."

An armed man hurriedly turned around and got into the tent, picked up the phone, and reported the situation to the Council of Elders on Meteor Street.

After a while, the call came through.

"This is the House of Elders."

A capable female voice came from the phone.

"Please inform Elder Batu that this is a water source."

"Wait a moment, inform Elder Batu immediately."

The capable female voice on the phone replied, and then transferred the call to Elder Batu's office phone.

"I'm Batu, what's going on?"

Elder Batu's rich middle-aged male voice rang on the phone.

"Elder Batu, this is the source of water."

"Just now, the water source suddenly vibrated deep underground, making a loud noise, and then water continuously emerged from the ground. Now the scope of the lake is rapidly expanding."

The person on duty at the water source reported the intelligence just now.

"Keep on guard, the people sent by the Council of Elders will be here soon."

"Yes, Elder!"

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On the other side, the Meteor Street convoy continued to set off after the round boulder collapsed, heading west.

"Boss, I intercepted a phone call from the Meteor Street Council of Elders."

"The phone call said that there was a loud noise deep in the water source, water was continuously gushing out from the ground, and the scope of the lake was rapidly expanding."

In the last car of the motorcade, Riley reported to Yilumihui.

"The loud noise deep in the water source? The water source that keeps emerging?" Yilumi thought for a moment and said, "That water source seems to be related to the ruins of the ancient dynasty."

"That Kain just completed the task of completing the sculptures of the ruins, and something abnormal immediately appeared in the water source."

"The huge stone sculpture just now coincides with the water source that appeared a month ago."

"It probably appeared a month ago when the ancient ruins in the Dion Secret Realm were opened."

"The elders of Meteor Street regard that water source as so important. It is probably a relic of the ancient Barahona Dynasty."

Illumi deduced the result based on the information he had just obtained, as well as Kain's behavior of completing the sculpture with the diamond-shaped gravel he brought from the ruins, and the information from the Council of Elders on Meteor Street.

"Another secret realm of ruins?" Riley curled her lips and said slightly bored, "I want to go to a more thrilling and exciting magical realm."

"After we finish the things about Meteor Street and the Secret Realm of Ruins, we set off to find Maha Da Di Ke." Ilumi glanced at Riley from the corner of his eye and said, "That old man is probably practicing in some demonic realm. , of course, it is also possible that he died silently."

Yilumi and I just followed the convoy on Meteor Street. After continuing to drive in the desert for an hour, the convoy stopped again.

"Any more?"

The man in camouflage clothing jumped out of the car, looked at Kain in black robes, and asked.

"This is the second secret door, and there will be a third one later."

Kain replied with a smile and walked towards the low-lying area in the desert ahead.

As in the previous pattern, the people in the second and third cars were on guard. Kain first found the stone carvings, and then the people in the fourth car dug out the sand and discovered the stone carvings under the low-lying area.

The pattern on the stone is a picture of countless hands clustering upward, wanting to touch the diamond-shaped luminous stone hanging in the air.

The rhombus-shaped luminous stone happened to be missing a corner. Kain took out the stone fragments from his arms and filled it in.

"Boom~!"

As expected, the stone collapsed again. Kain stood up as if nothing had happened, jumped out of the depression, and stood on the edge watching the stone sculpture ruins sink into the desert.

At the same time, a loud noise was made from the water source again, frightening the armed personnel guarding the water source there.

The convoy set off again, heading east. The armed men in the convoy could feel that they seemed to be going in a circle.

After another hour's journey, the convoy stopped again in front of a low-lying area. Kain and the armed men moved skillfully to dig through the sand and discover the ruins.

The pattern on the third secret door is of a burly knight wearing a crown. Behind the knight, there are four women in different costumes and holding crutches.

It can be seen from the pattern that the knight wearing the crown is the king.

The four women behind the knight were dressed like ancient priests, and the crutches in their hands looked like magic wands in film and television works.

The king, who was surrounded by the four priests, was not holding a knight's sword, but a diamond-shaped stone blooming with bright light.

Different from the stones on the previous two carved ruins, this luminous diamond-shaped stone is much larger, as big as a basketball.

Likewise, this rhombus-shaped stone, which is about the size of a basketball, also has a depression.

"What do these patterns mean?"

The man in camouflage uniform asked curiously. He knew that this was the ancient Barahona dynasty, but he only knew a little bit about it. He had never read the documents of this ancient dynasty, so he did not know what the meaning of the ruins was. .

"The carvings tell stories about the kings of the ancient Barahona dynasty."

"The three stone carvings represent three important historical nodes of the ancient Barahona Dynasty."

While explaining to the man in camouflage uniforms, Kain pressed the stone fragments in his hand onto the carving, and pressed them in with a "click" to complete the carving.

Immediately, the man in camouflage uniforms and Kain jumped out of the low-lying area together. Without looking at the ruins gradually sinking into the desert ground, they quickly got into the car and drove towards the water source.

The vehicles of Ilumi and Riley also followed the tail of the convoy.

After driving for half an hour, the Meteor Street convoy finally arrived at the water source. The man in camouflage uniforms and Kain jumped out of the lead car, and hundreds of armed personnel in the convoy got off one after another.

Ilumi also transformed into an armed man and got out of the SUV, while Riley stayed in the car.

The people in the Meteor Street team saw Ilumi getting off the last car in the form of one of their own, without any suspicion.

"Is this the source of water?" Kain looked at the vast lake in front of him, which was larger than a football field, and said with an unexpected expression: "The source of water here has already formed a lake, which is many times larger than the area stated in the intelligence. ?”

At this time, the water source has turned into a huge lake much larger than a football field, and the desert around the lake has been swallowed up by the lake, forming a steep slope of seven or eight meters on all sides around the lake.

Regarding the situation of the water source, he had already learned about it on the return airship and had seen the photos.

But when I came here today, I found that the situation was completely different from the small water source in the photo. It had already formed a lake.

It is really abnormal for so much water to emerge in a month.

"Sacrifice to Kain!" At this time, among the armed personnel guarding the water source, a man came to Kain and said, "You are finally here. Just now, there were three unexplained vibrations and loud noises from deep in the water source."

"A large amount of water resources continued to emerge from the ground deep in the desert, causing the lake to expand continuously. In just three and a half hours, it became what it is now."

"Three unexplained vibrations and loud noises?" Kain frowned slightly after hearing this, pondered for a moment, and asked: "Did these three vibrations occur continuously or at intervals?"

"It happened every hour, and it happened exactly three times in three and a half hours."

The guard replied strictly.

"Isn't that exactly the time interval when you found those three stone carvings?"

The man in camouflage clothes said, he also realized that the three ruins discovered and completed by Kain must be related to the water source here. Furthermore, since the elders attach so much importance to this place, the water source is definitely not the first important thing. The most important thing is what is under the water source.

"I don't remember this slope in the photo."

Kain glanced at the slope around the lake. From time to time, some sand slipped down the slope and fell into the lake.

"The slope around the lake appears during these three hours." The caretaker explained: "During these three hours, every time it shakes and expands, the surface of the lake and the surrounding desert will sink, swallowing up a lot of sediment at the same time. , forming such a steep slope of seven or eight meters high.”

"Even now, the desert around the lake is still being swallowed up by the lake."

"Crash..."

As soon as the guard finished speaking, a slope collapsed not far away, and a large amount of sand slid down, falling into the lake with a bang, causing waves.

The slope that lost a lot of sand became higher and steeper.

"It's not advisable to explore rashly in this situation." The man in camouflage uniforms looked at the continuous sliding of sand around the lake and frowned: "It's better to wait for a while and observe the situation before talking."

"Priest Kain, what do you think?"

The man in camouflage uniform turned to look at Kain and asked.

"Okay, let everyone take a rest first and prepare the diving props."

Kain nodded in agreement, his camouflage uniform nodded to him with approval, and turned around to instruct his subordinates to drive away from the lake, set up camp nearby, and prepare diving tools while resting so that they could take action at any time.

Ilumi and Riley's car was at the end of the convoy. There were thirty cars. The men in camouflage uniforms would not check them one by one. After all, they all came from Meteor Street. They were not a professional army and their discipline was not so strict. .

Yilumi transformed into a member of Meteor Street and, together with other armed men, stared at the scorching sun above their heads and camped in the desert to rest, waiting for the action to begin.

It was not until twelve o'clock at noon, when the lake finally stopped expanding and the sand around the lake stopped sliding, that Kain gave the order to the armed men to prepare for action.

"In four hours, the lake has expanded a lot."

Yilumi came to the edge of the lake and looked down at the vast lake below. It was as big as a football field, and the surrounding slope had reached a height of ten meters, which was very astonishing.

"Hey, why don't you put on your wetsuit?"

An armed man came to Yilumi's side, touched his waist with his elbow, and reminded him.

Yilumi turned around and looked around, and saw that among the hundreds of armed personnel present, most of them were wearing a diving suit. Depending on the situation, they were planning to dive.