It was impossible to be calm for a few minutes like now if they were really in the deep sea's wild areas.
Thinking like this, the mermaid silently sighed in relief but she didn't really lower her guard.
She still felt that this place was similar to the deep sea even if it was not, so the monsters and beasts that could live here should have similar characteristics with the beasts and monsters in the unexplored deep sea.
Everyone silently held their breath as they watched the map being completed bit by bit, although the range of this map was only less than a hundred meters around them.
The map was completely slowly but surely and soon, everyone could see their surroundings through the 3D map without being bothered by the darkness.
When the group finally saw the 3D map, they all couldn't help but gasp for a few seconds before hurriedly discussing things with the teammates.
"What are these? There are so many rocks but the rocks don't look natural...how come it looks more like rooms made of rocks and caves?"
There were abstract-shaped rocks around, but these rocks strangely looked like some kind of utensil or things used to process food and such.
Everyone thought like this naturally because these rocks had been smoothed and it didn't look like it was formed by a natural process.
Not far from these scattered rocks were caves of different entrances.
Some looked small, some looked quite big and the others looked so big that it might even fit a whole killer whale.
But there were even bigger caves that the map could not detect for a moment due to the distance.
The group looked at the map once more and even analyzed the sand, the water quality, the plants and everything.
There were some kind of rock walls and cliffs not far from their place, and this place did have sand and rock as the 'road'.
Naturally, there were many strange corals and plants around.
There were even small animals living there, but so far, everyone had not found traces of beasts or monsters.
"How come this place looks like a normal bottom of the lake instead of the deep sea? But that cliff over there is suspicious."
There should be no cliff in a lake, but there was indeed a cliff that might lead to some kind of underwater Valley or something.
Or maybe it was a trench? But how could there be a trench in the lake?
Another thing that everyone realized after analyzing the water quality was that this water was not salty sea water but still lake water.
The mermaid might ignore this difference because they all panicked back then, but after she calmed down, she also mentioned this point.
"This place should be at the bottom of the lake, but I don't know why we can't enter this place through normal diving and have to go through a portal..."
The mermaid still remembered the barrier that prevented them from diving deeper, as if there was a wall between the deep lake and the upper lake.
eαglesnᴏνel The others also thought about this as they silently analyzed the 3D map with their own guesses.
The group knew too little about lives underwater, but the mermaid did know more.
After the mermaid stated her confusion, she then analyzed the map and came to another strange conclusion.
"I might be wrong, but how come I feel that this place is like the lair or a nest of some kind of beast or monster?"
A monster or a beast's lair should have its own characteristic and this place did reveal such traces, especially the unnatural caves and rocks that looked like they were not formed naturally.
When the teammates heard that this place might be the lair of a beast or a monster, everyone immediately thought about the mysterious monster in the mission that had almost no useful information.
"Don't tell me this place is the lair of that mysterious monster? But how come the portal heading to this place is placed in the underwater slum?"
The sonic guy scratched his head, feeling a little confused with the current situation.
He was not someone who was keen on using his brain at first, so now, how could he be any better?
"Or maybe the portal is actually made by the mysterious monster for a reason? After all, this place is probably a different space from the lake out there even though it's still in the same place..."
It was more believable that the one who created the portal was the one who created this lair and if this lair indeed belonged to a beast or a monster...
The culprit might be the mysterious monster that they knew too little about!
The little bit of the environment exposed by the 3D map didn't tell too much information about the creature living here, but judging from the caves and the rocks...
Maybe it was closer to a slender monster or a snake-like existence.
But judging from the shape of the rock that sometimes became a globe, maybe this monster not only had the shape of a snake but also a larger mammal body.
Everyone really could not stop thinking in a certain direction.
Is it...the Loch Ness?
The upper body has a long neck like a Brontosaurus but the lower body is round like a sea turtle with a turtle fin or something.
It looked like the sea dinosaur in history. What was the name? Forgot. But anyway, should it be similar?
Judging from the caves, the rocks and other places around, the monster should have laid eggs and not given birth to babies instead...
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