People are in the comprehensive tomb, unloading the mountain and stealing the chief

Let’s start with expert-level sketching skills. On the surface, this is just one type of painting skill, but in fact it is much more than that.

Strictly speaking, this is a highly comprehensive ability.

Although this ability seems simple, it is actually an advanced skill built on the foundation of many basic skills. It involves keen observation, good memory, a perfect sense of rhythm, and an extremely precise control over the proportions of composition and objects.

To give a simple example, take the murals in the palace in front of him. With Chen Ziyan's current memory ability, he can remember them in a short period of time.

But it is hard to say how long this memory can last. When they return to the ship, even if they can still remember it, some of it will definitely become blurred.

And if he had a sufficiently advanced sketching ability, he would be able to reproduce these murals relatively completely after returning to the surface of the sea.

The reason is simple, because the sketching skills gave him the corresponding techniques, which allowed Chen Ziyan's enhanced memory to be fully utilized.

Now let’s talk about the reward for the second option – the sea-exploring masthead light.

Judging from the name alone, this is undoubtedly a mast light.

But considering that the prerequisite for obtaining it is to kill the deep-sea golden-eye snapper, this mast light is definitely not an ordinary thing.

Based on past experience, Chen Ziyan felt that for a mission of this difficulty, the reward would most likely be a treasure, or at least a semi-treasure.

As for the reward for the third option - the Hall of Mind, from a functionality perspective, it should be considered the ultimate version of abilities like sketching.

After all, the most intuitive sign of this ability is the ability to store image information accurately in the mind.

What’s even more amazing is that people who possess this ability can access their own memories at will, and even organize and summarize them.

It can be said that this kind of ability has already touched upon the realm of the extraordinary.

To describe it using professional terms from the game, this is a top-level passive skill.

Speaking of which, Chen Ziyan's Xiangling inheritance is actually a castrated version of this ability.

But after thinking about it carefully, he helplessly found that he might not be able to win everything this time.

It seems that there is a chance to achieve each option, but when analyzed in combination with the actual situation, it will be found that only the first option is truly feasible.

First, let’s talk about the second option. If we don’t consider the time factor, Chen Ziyan can theoretically do it with his current ability, if he wants to kill all the deep-sea golden-eye snappers outside, then he can kill them all.

But the problem is that he was blessed by the Xianbao spirit fish and was able to stay in the water for a long time, but the others in his group did not have this ability.

If they cannot return to the surface of the sea before the oxygen is exhausted, the rest of them will probably sleep forever in this deep sea.

Even Gu Cai, a dragon household wearing a sea-penetrating formation, couldn't do such a thing.

Moreover, Chen Ziyan felt that the so-called sea-exploring mast light was of little use to him.

After all, his main activity area is still on land, and he does not frequently stay in the water environment. With the assistance of the ghost ship Trident, he can generally cope with the situation.

Moreover, it is not difficult to see from the name "Sea Exploration Mast Light" that the main function of this thing should be lighting and exploration. For Chen Ziyan, the demand for this is not very strong and it is completely dispensable.

As for the third option, although the reward was the most generous and attractive, after careful consideration, Chen Ziyan no longer had any hope for it.

It is true that the ability of "Palace of Thought" is very tempting, and possessing it will definitely make Chen Ziyan even more powerful, but the reality is far more fulfilling than the ideal.

The difficulty of this choice is too high.

To put it bluntly, it was beyond Chen Ziyan's ability. If he tried hard for the second option, he might still be able to do it, but for this option, he estimated that even if he tried his best, he would only have a hope of completing it.

Because this task cannot be accomplished by hard work alone, it also requires corresponding means and indispensable luck, otherwise it is likely to be in vain in the end.

The reason why he thought so was because he realized the trap in completing the requirements.

The second and third options seem similar in requirements, but in fact they are fundamentally different.

The former is "kill all attacking deep-sea golden-eye snappers". The scope of "attack" here is relatively clear and refers to the deep-sea golden-eye snappers that they actively attack on their way back.

But the latter is not necessarily the case. The scope covered by "here" can refer to all the underwater space in this area.

If this is true, then in order to complete this task, the objects to be tamed will not be limited to the deep-sea golden-eye snappers they encountered.

At the same time, it also means that the difficulty of the task will increase exponentially. If some deep-sea golden-eye snappers are missed and cannot be found, all the efforts made for it will be wasted.

This is also why Chen Ziyan believes that luck is essential to fulfilling this choice.

After comparing them, the answer became obvious. Only the first option could be completed by him because the requirements of this task were consistent with what they were going to do next.

After seeing the specific situation inside the bronze palace, Chen Ziyan already knew that their exploration journey had come to an end.

There are only two things to do next. One is to find a way to dismantle more bronze artifacts and take them back. The other is to record the content of the murals here as much as possible.

The former still needs to be studied, but the latter is simple and mainly depends on him.

If it was before the system gave him a choice, Chen Ziyan really had no confidence. After all, even if he could remember everything after returning to the Trident, it would be impossible for him to replicate the memory perfectly.

After all, memory is one thing and description is another.

But things are different now.

If he had expert-level sketching skills, even if he couldn't replicate it 100%, he could at least replicate 90%, which would be more than enough.

After coming to his senses, Chen Ziyan picked up the writing board and started communicating with others.

In fact, they didn't have much to talk about. The current situation was not only visible to Chen Ziyan, but others could also see it to some extent.

In this case, the core of the discussion is naturally how to remove the bronze utensils from the palace.

Although they have not tried it yet, based on what they have observed so far, although these bronze artifacts are glued together, they cannot be removed easily.

And another point that must be taken into consideration is that the structural stability of the palace must not be destroyed.

This is not because Chen Ziyan and his colleagues have high moral standards, but is based on realistic considerations.

You must know that once this bronze palace collapses, it will inevitably cause quite a stir.

They haven't figured out the current situation in this underwater space yet. Who knows if any noise will bring about other troubles.

If this is true, it is obviously not a good thing for everyone who is already in deep trouble.

Just the group of deep-sea golden-eye snappers outside is enough to give them a headache, and there is really no need to add new troubles to themselves out of thin air.

Fortunately, they did not need to ensure the integrity of the bronze utensils, so this problem was not difficult to solve. (End of this chapter)