Hunter × Hunter: The Seven Deadly Sins

"Wear it right away."

Yilumi replied casually, turned around and walked towards the convoy. While everyone else was focusing on preparing to dive, he took out a diving suit from the trunk of one of the black SUVs and put it directly on himself.

"Riley, I'm going to dive with the people from Meteor Street."

"If I don't contact you after I dive for an hour, let Albert's team occupy the ground and come down to find me."

After putting on the diving suit, Ilumi walked to the edge of the lake and talked to Riley.

"learn!"

Riley's cheerful voice sounded over the communication.

At this time, the people in Meteor Street were already preparing to dive under the organization of the men in camouflage uniforms. Their weapons and equipment were put in waterproof bags to avoid being soaked by the lake water.

"Team 1 and 2, you go down first."

The man in camouflage uniform ordered, two five-man squads came out. The equipment of these two teams was different from other squads of soldiers. Their weapons were not covered with waterproof bags, but hung directly on their chests.

"Walton Industries' latest underwater pistol and underwater automatic rifle are really well prepared."

When Ilumi saw the equipment on the two teams, he immediately recognized them as new underwater firearms developed by his subsidiary [Walton Industries].

This kind of underwater firearms are usually equipped with special forces in various countries and are expensive.

Considering the economic situation of Meteor Street, he was actually willing to spend money to buy such a weapon.

"Bang!"

One soldier jumped out first, folded his legs and arms, and fell into the lake with a bang.

"Bang bang bang..."

The next moment, the remaining nine soldiers jumped up one by one, fell from the ten-meter-high sand slope, and fell heavily into the water, making waves.

After the ten soldiers jumped down, the remaining one hundred and forty soldiers, ninety-one of whom included Ilumi, stood casually on the edge of the lake, while the remaining fifty soldiers were on guard around the lake.

"Wow..."

After a while, ten heads emerged from under the lake. They were the soldiers from the first and second teams who had just jumped into the lake. After they emerged from the lake, one of them raised his hand and made an "OK" sign to the man in camouflage uniforms on the shore, indicating that it was safe underwater.

"Very good, everyone, follow the plan and get into the water!"

The man in camouflage uniform nodded carefully and then gave orders to the other soldiers.

"Bang bang bang bang..."

Accompanied by the sound of "bang bang" falling into the water, the ninety soldiers standing on the sandy slope jumped down from the sandy slope like ants in a pot and fell into the water.

Among them are Ilumi, men in camouflage uniforms, and Kain Sacrifice.

"Gululu..."

Under the water, Ilumi swam slowly, bubbles popping up around him, and he swam toward the depths of the lake with many Meteor Street soldiers.

Kain and the man in camouflage clothes swam at the front of the team. Ilumi quickly swung his feet and swam to the front of the team, arriving behind Kain and the man in camouflage clothes.

"Gulu..."

Kain and the man in camouflage uniforms in front noticed Ilumi's approach and glanced back without paying attention.

Ilumi followed behind the two of them, his eyes constantly looking around the water.

"Although the water here is quite clear, without the assistance of the Alber-EI powered exoskeleton, and the circle cannot be used, the underwater field of vision is only 40 meters."

Yilumi frowned slightly. This meant that he could only see forty meters of water, and the people around him were probably only ten meters away.

Also, as the depth of the dive increases, the visibility becomes lower and lower.

A group of hundreds of people gradually swam toward the depths of the water, especially the men in camouflage uniforms and Kain Priest leading the way. They seemed to know how deep the lake was and had no fear at all.

At this time, in Yilumi's eyes, the Meteor Street soldiers around him had begun to feel panic. Even if they had received rigorous training, they might have psychological problems if they continued to dive deep.

However, they would not stop diving without the order of the man in camouflage uniforms.

"Gulu~"

When they dived to a depth of hundreds of meters, a soldier at the rear of the deep-diving team suddenly disappeared without even making a sound, leaving only a string of bubbles rising toward the lake surface.

"what's the situation!?"

The soldiers immediately stopped diving and looked above their heads in horror. Their diving flashlights shone through, but there was nothing there except darkness and turbidity.

"Joseph!"

"are you still there!?"

"Joseph!"

The man in camouflage uniform called the name of the missing soldier on the communication. There was silence and no response.

"Kain Sacrifice, what should I do?"

The man in camouflage uniform looked at Kain beside him and asked through gritted teeth.

At this moment, he felt a little uneasy in his heart. This lake that suddenly appeared in the desert was already mysterious, and now that something like this happened, even he felt a little fear in his heart.

"According to the records about the ruins, there should be no danger in the water." Kain frowned, pondered for a moment, and said in a solemn tone: "Keep going, this exploration is inevitable."

"If we miss this opportunity, once the people from the Aztec Republic and the United States of Admiralty arrive, we won't have any share."

"Tsk, there's nothing we can do about it." The man in camouflage uniforms clenched his fists, put his palms to his ears, and ordered: "Everyone, please move closer with me and Kain Sacrifice as the center."

"Team one and two are guarding the perimeter. If anything unusual is discovered, shoot immediately!"

"Yes, boss!"

Under the mobilization of the man in camouflage uniforms, hundreds of soldiers quickly made adjustments and moved closer to Kain and the man in camouflage uniforms. Soldiers from the first and second teams were distributed up and down the team holding underwater firearms.

After the formation adjustment was completed, the team continued to dive. As the depth of the dive became deeper and deeper, the soldiers began to feel restless.

"Gulu..."

Suddenly, a huge creature with huge wings swam quickly over the team's head.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

A group of soldiers guarding the top immediately fired at the huge shadow. The arrow-shaped bullets cut through the deep water and struck into the darkness with a long series of bubbles.

However, underwater firearms have limited range and rate of fire and did not hit their targets.

"Team 1, what did you see?"

The man in camouflage asked in the communication.

"It looks like...a manta ray."

The soldier who fired first in the group replied with a somewhat uncertain tone.

"Manta ray? Isn't that a fish in the sea?" The man in camouflage frowned and continued to ask: "How big is it?"

"You can't see clearly, but it's at least fifteen meters... no, seventeen or eighteen, at least twenty meters or more."

The soldier made a rough calculation and replied.

"Twenty meters!?"

The man in the camouflage uniform was shocked by this number. The average manta ray is only six or seven meters tall, and it would be extremely easy for such a big manta ray to swallow a person.

"Was it possible that Joseph was swallowed by this beast?"

"Why is there a manta ray here!? Isn't this a creature in the sea!?"

"Our weapons cannot be used in water."

"The underwater rifles of the first team and the second team can't hit it. It's very fast."

"Damn it, are we all going to die here?"

The numbers reported by a group of soldiers instantly ignited fear in the hearts of the soldiers. Even though there were hundreds of them, they felt helpless and helpless underwater at such a depth.

"Keep diving, we'll be there soon!"

Just when everyone was afraid, Kain, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, diverting the soldiers' attention.

"You can already see the exit!"

Kain continued, and then he swung his legs faster and swam deeper.

Seeing how confident he was, the soldiers all pinned their hopes of escape on him and followed him to speed up and swim deeper.

Sure enough, within a moment, Yilumi saw a stone door and stone steps appearing under the water forty meters away. The stone door stood upside down under the water, and underneath the stone door was a deep, empty darkness.

With Yilumi's eyesight, he could even see the vague words carved on the stone door.

"There really is an exit!"

When the soldiers, led by Kain, swam to a depth of about ten meters away from the stone door, they finally saw the mysterious stone door standing under the water. They felt relieved and the pressure was greatly reduced.

Immediately, everyone speeded up their dive and swam toward the mysterious stone door.

Kain and the man in camouflage uniforms arrived first, while Ilumi deliberately slowed down his swimming speed and arrived at the same time as the other soldiers.

"Snapped!"

Kain grabbed the edge of the mysterious stone door and swung his legs into the dark door without hesitation.

The man in camouflage clothes gritted his teeth, grabbed the edge of the stone door with both hands, swam forward with all his strength, and also entered the mysterious stone door.

"hurry up!"

"The stingray is here again!"

"Team 1 and 2, hold on!"

Suddenly, another soldier behind the team shouted in panic. The giant manta ray from earlier came to feed again.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

The first team and the second team immediately turned around and shot towards the murky water above their heads. Arrow-shaped bullets were shot out one after another. It was unknown whether they hit the target.

"Ah~!"

Suddenly, someone let out a scream, which stopped abruptly the next moment. It was obvious that he had been killed.

"careful!"

"There's more than one of them!"

"Come in quickly!"

I don't know who was shouting, and the remaining soldiers suddenly crowded into the mysterious stone gate in panic. Only one team and two teams were left at the end, shooting blindly at the dark water above their heads.

"Let me go in too."

Yilumi grabbed the edge of the mysterious stone door with his left hand and carefully observed the ancient characters on the stone door for a moment. Then he suddenly exerted force on his arm and swam into the stone door with his whole body.

"Uh-huh!"

The moment Ilumi's head passed through the stone door, he felt a sense of weightlessness. The other side of the stone door seemed to be nothing but air.

The moment his entire body swam out of the stone door, a force of gravity appeared, pulling his body down toward the boundless darkness below.

"Snapped!"

Immediately, Yilumi's heart moved, and he stretched out his right hand to grab the edge of the mysterious stone door, and hung it in mid-air.

"Ahhhhhhhh~!!!"

"Help~Help~!"

The other soldiers who swam out of the door did not have this reaction. After swimming out of the stone door, they immediately fell into the boundless darkness and let out pitiful wails.